Here's some facts and doodles about Gorm's arms that I couldn't fit anywhere really. xD
His arms are very flexible and dexterous. Able to twist, shorten and extend quite a bit; they can stretch twice as long as their resting length. So if you think you're out of reach, you'd better go three times the distance.
Like an octopus, the suckers have a touch-taste ability. He uses them to explore the enviroment, find food etc. The present humans figured out to use an extremely bitter spray to deter a grabby arm. The bitter taste will have the arm recoiling and also send a "EUUUWH nasty!" signal to his brain. It's a very effective, harmless, way to not be grabbed. Unless he really wants to pick you up, then he'll just do it with his hands. You can spray all you want on those.
His "hair" isn't really hair. It's more like finstalks, containing muscle tissue so he can move them around a bit. But they mostly move on reflex, like when he's startled or scared. His "eyelashes" aren't made of hair either. xD
Also he's venomous. But he rarely use it as it's a bit of an overkill.
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is the exarch a black mage! I mean he’s like. He was a paladin when I did a trust with him so I bet he can do Many Things (old man) but he was doing black mage activities with me and that made me happy. and definitely did not help ch’ari feel less embarrassed at being praised like five times in a row.
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Honestly all the hints I'm getting about the Sunshine Court I don't think Jean will be better than neil in fact I think he's going to be worse, you telling me all that time he spent in the nest he is not going to be like:
Jeremy: are you ok?
Jean: I think I broke a rib, Should be okay to play tho.
Jeremy(very concerned): WHAT
Jean: what?
Or it could be even worse, He faints on the court and they find out later that he has a broken rib 😭😭
(it's sad to think about because I think he's just going to try to power through any injury he gets since he's so used to playing in pain)(and he's used to nobody caring)
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I just saw your post about how testosterone has helped your disability tremendously, which if I remember correctly is hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (but maybe I’m wrong). I’m agender and have been considering early menopause to help with my abundance of menstrual health issues, but if t helped your hEDS too that makes me really want to consider it further. If this is too private you absolutely don’t have to answer it but I’d love to know more as a fellow disabled person.
It's POTS actually :) though POTS is highly comorbid with hEDS and I *am* hypermobile, to a degree that I made my physical therapist wince with how easily I can assume positions that should noooooot be possible without pain when I was in recovery due to my car accident. She actually asked me if I have EDS and I said well I have POTS so... not officially but is it possible sure I guess.
So no, I do not have hEDS. But also yes I might have hEDS. Schroedinger's diagnosis.
No, testosterone helped my POTS symptoms disappear to almost nothing. This is at least partially because POTS does not get along with estrogen ans menstrual cycles, and taking testosterone lowered the estrogen in my body and also stopped my menstural cycle. Don't get me wrong, I still have some symptoms, but they are dramatically improved. I can do all sorts of things I used to not be able to.
There is... a bit of debate whether I have POTS at all. But I do have MCAS and, as said, I'm hypermobile, so very likely yes POTS is very likely. But with my NCAH diagnosis, it's equally possible that I *do not* have POTS, because NCAH also causes weird changes to your vasovagal response and your autonomic nervous system. In other words, do I have POTS AND NCAH... or do I just have NCAH?
Personally I don't really care because adding testosterone fixed the symptoms way better than anything the POTS meds were doing so w/e, if it works it works.
It's "makes you intersex and sometimes gay disease but also you faint a lot and your body *really* sucks at handling stress disease". To be fair the classic form of CAH can just outright kill you if not well controlled. Nonclassic CAH by comparison sometimes still tries really hard but is less likely to do more than give you some serious medical trauma.
So like. Am I fainting because my body doesn't know how to handle stress which triggers a response of my autonomic nerve and because my adrenal glands are too busy making androgens to give me some fucking cortisol to communicate with my autonomic nerve, the thing guesses wrong and I hit the ground as my body attempts the biology version of "have you turned it off and then back on again"? Or am I the unluckiest fucker on the planet and I have two annoyingly underdiagnosed but much more common than we thought disorders which both hate estrogen and make me faint a lot?
Or, bonus, since POTS joins PCOS in the "disorder named for a symptom that's not even diagnostuc criteria and no one actually knows what causes it" family, is what we're calling "POTS" actually a group of symptoms that has a wide range of causes and my cause for my own symptoms IS NCAH? Who knows 🤷♂️
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