#put an end to covid

[systemrestart]

For those unaware, the deadline to order 4 free Covid-19 tests in the US is March 8th. So if you haven't already claimed your free tests, do it now!!

#covid-19 #covid #covid tests #just learned that theyre ending the program so i wanted to let others know #and this is the second round of free tests so if you ordered some back in 2022 you can order a second set now #as long as you put in the order before the 8th

[mcgeet]

#burrows end #d20 #burrow's end #burrow's end meme #d20 meme #only b+ i ever got #she also told us at the beginning of covid that half our grandparents were gonna die and that we had to get over it already #and that if we ever wanted to know the right answer to put the opposite of this one girl up front's answer #greatly dislike that woman

[starshineyellow]

Hey Americans, it’s fall 2023 and the adult Covid vaccines are STILL FREE at certain pharmacies. Even if you have no health insurance. Even if you have health insurance but the insurance company likes to whine about CVS being “out of network” for vaccinations.

Find out more FAQ stuff from the CDC here:

And find your local locations with free vaccines below. Once you’ve put in your zip code and hit “go”, on the next page, make sure to click the checkbox that says “BRIDGE Access Participant” so you know these locations have the free shots.

#text post #Covid #covid19 #covid 19 #covid vaccine #covid pandemic #pandemic #vaccine #signal boost #boost #please boost #vaccination #covid-19 #I am just putting as many tags that I can think of on this post to help it get to people #because I was unaware that the government was continuing to fund free vaccines #because the national health emergency ended in May #so finding out I could still get it for free even if my insurance wanted to be annoying was a relief #and I want to make sure others know it too

[icewindandboringhorror]

More misc. daily life pictures and such

#image commentary in tags once again since they don't allow captions anymore and I feel weird using the alt text for that -- #1 & 2 - Very bright pretty looking sky ! #2. HUGE icicle that looked like you could kill someone with it or something.. Pulled from near a gutter on the side of a building #3. & 4 & 5 - various images from a silly party I had where I pretended to be some elf king turning like 204 years old lol (also not like #a REAL party. Only my roommates were there really and we're all in the same household bubble. #just to clarify. I would never dare have a large party anyway given #my hermitous nature but on top of that.. didn't want there to be some implication that I'm having a Party while covid is still ongoing lol. #NEVER.. But I do love dressing up as some fantasy character so much.. The only thing that could ever bring a true hermit wizard #to engage with others socially is the prospect of connecting it somehow to fantasy worlds and costumes lol. One must simply dress up #as a silly 200 year old man from time to time and pretend you've never seen a balloon before in your life. etc. #6. bapy boye... feets #7. The main food that I made for the elderly elf man 'party'. which was a Deconstructed Beef Wellington (kind of as ajoke since I watch s #o many silly cooking competition shows and they always make stuff 'deconstructed' at the last minute when under time limits or whatever.) #I've wanted to make beef wellington a few times but Ithink to do it well I'd need like..an actual kitchen and a lot of time and #an oven that fully works to bake things and etc. etc. So I thought this would be an easier method. A thick steak cut round to kind of mimi #c the round tenderloin or whatever it is in a wellington. instead of the puff pastry being wrapped around - I just did star shaped cut outs #of pastry and baked them and put them on top (to go with the star theme). instead of mushroom duxelles being wrapped around in pastry #its in a little circle under the steak. and instead of mustard being brushed onto the meat I made a mustard gravy sauce type of thing #Then of course asparagus on the side.. my favorite... Though I know some wellington #also has a layer of prosciutto I think. or I saw one person use crepes. I didn't feel it was necessary to incorporate that too lol #8. bapy son helping me do a giant puzzle that took me hours and I had no idea it was actually that large of a puzzle #until I started putting it together and for some reason it made me stressed by the end instead of relaxed lol.. puzzle fatigue #photo diary

[bloodanddiscoballs]

I have a cold

#thankfully it isnt covid #but ironically i got it by going to the doctors office cause there was someone there SUPER sick #didnt really matter that i was wearing a mask and gloves #grrrrrrrrrr #but im hoping it passes quickly cause ive already got some signs that are worrying #so when they cut my spinal cord in that girst back surgery they introduced leukocytes into my spinal fluid #so i constantly present as viral meningitis #and my body has a hard time regulating my spinal cord fluid #so now any time i get any virus like a vold or flu or covid #my body has a really hard time regulating itself and my spinal fluid will start to put pressure on my brain #i end up with these odd aches at the base of my neck that kinda acts as my gauge to take it easy or let my doc know #because it can get out of control and begin to shut down my autonomic nervous system and i end up presenting like a stroke #and sometimes that also shuts off my breathing #ive ended up in a coma before for a week because i ended up with a cold #sooooo im obviously a little worried cause getting sick for me is dangerous #and im feeling that ache a bit at my neck so im making sure im not alone right now in case something happens #ughhhh very annoying on top of feeling yucky

[noneedforbloodpressure]

Because I’m apparently back on my bullshit I would fucking love it if star wars fans would actually listen to Asian fans when we tell you “no, that’s not what attachment means.”

And for the record, don’t give me some bullshit about how “well George Lucas was white and he was writing for a western audience” with the implication that therefore you don’t have to examine the source of what he appropriated - which is an actual fucking take someone said to my face. If you don’t see how breathtakingly racist that is I don’t know what to tell you. Lucas’s racism does not give you permission to be racist; not to perpetuate the same racism, and not (often, I find) to be actively more racist than Lucas ever was. You want to call yourself an anti-racist ally? Put in the work. You have a responsibility to make space for us and let us reclaim stories that couldn’t exist without us.

If you’re just ignorant, I’m sympathetic - but that sympathy ends when people actively try to educate you and you refuse to listen. I cannot count the amount of times I have had people double down and make fandom spaces actively hostile for me and other Asian fans. (People tried to doxx a friend of mine about this - ironically right as Stop Asian Hate was picking up and the same people claimed to support it with their whole chests.)

Anyways, there isn’t a concrete end to this. This is a rant, more than anything else. I don’t know what else to say other than it’d be nice if people stopped demonizing something that’s part of a real life culture and claiming it: 1) impossible to live by (wrong! Do you know how many Buddhists there are?), and 2) something people actively deserve to be killed for if they believe (because yes, that is what you’re saying when you claim the Jedi “deserved to fall”). What you’re advocating is genocide, and I think it’s plenty fair for the real life people who belong to the real life cultures Lucas used to build the Jedi to get fucking scared when we hear that.

#star wars #racism #racism against asians #harassment #genocide #for mention #alex tir talks #the jedi were good YES i mean the order YES i mean the council YES i mean yoda #people literally put their star wars opinions about the actual health and safety of a real asian person #RIGHT when covid related sinophobia was getting the most discussion #(something that hasnt ended btw!) #(taking certain forms of public transportation is a big no for me because I run the risk of getting MURDERED for being asian in public)

[bri-does-art]

a little birdy told me you have some kind of an AU for the Funtime animatronics also?

... who is this.

There are, like, only 5 people who know about this. So which one of youse is it? >:'D (I am not mad. I am very glad to have the opportunity to tease it out. <3)

I am working on an AU featuring the Funtimes, little birdy is right! It's a very different flavour than Call of the Abyss, more of a fantastical drama than a science-fiction horror mystery. It is a tale of duty and responsibility, secrets and closets, choices and consequences, healing and growth, a farmer's child and a puzzling fae, and above all, it is a tale about two lonely souls whose fates are more closely intertwined than either realize.

It is also a tale full of fae shenanigans, fun and indulgence. It's not a serious epic like Call of the Abyss, and hopefully not as huge and ambitious either. 😂 So, dropping the serious act, it's a Fae AU in which some poor unsuspecting farmer gets caught up in the Funtimes' court's bullshit and learns to navigate a new social circle that seems hellbent on keeping their newest member close. I will make a new blog just for it, as there will be more, err, kid-unfriendly elements featuring in this one - I want to be able to properly curate my audience for this AU without alienating people who follow me here and like my non-explicit stories. So, until that's done, I'm leaving y'all with this little sneak peek. :)

#might as well begin to tag this au properly -> #come along now #also kukkis i'm going 'pspspspspsps' at you #the blog is coming i promise #and so are the answers to all the unanswered asks in my inbox i promise 😭 #also this does not mean that cota is on hiatus or abandoned - absolutely NOT #i AM working on chapter 9 as slow as it is going #i've just been a little overwhelmed lately - i've been dealing with the stress of the parents trying to sell the house and move #and me having to move along with them further from my whole life because of the absolutely ABYSMAL state of the housing market as of late #i have had to vacate my home nearly every weekend for visits and along with activities and catching covid and funerals... well #writing has been put on the ice for a little while #but there's light at the end of the tunnel - i just need to find some stability again and i should be able to dive right back into it! #thank you all for your patience while i find my footing once more

[crimeronan]

pursuing a lupus diagnosis is sometimes extremely funny. lately every doctor i go to is like "okay so this is. definitely lupus. with very specific complications. but i'm not putting that diagnosis on paper because lupus is a lazy diagnosis and it's never lupus. except in your case. in which it is lupus" i know the USUAL experience is people being disbelieved by doctors for Years when they try to tell them they likely have lupus & that WAS my experience three years back, but NOW i've had a lucky combo of well-timed test results and symptoms that have led to a general attitude of "okay i literally can't find any explanation OTHER than lupus with very specific complications. but i'd be more comfortable if you got diagnosed by a rheumatologist instead" and then the rheumatologist you're referred to literally never calls you back to schedule bc they're so overbooked due to consequences of the COVID pandemic so your normal doctor is stuck managing your constellation of technically-undiagnosed symptoms, that could technically be anything, except for how. they are lupus. with very specific complications.

#autoimmune tag #if i DO end up getting a different diagnosis i'll eat my SHORTS. but it's. Extremely Unlikely at this point. #short-term lupus treatment basically cured me n i have literally every component required for a diagnosis save a specific antibody positive #which i think isnt 100% required even. especially w my positive ANA. but some docs wont diagnose without it #a podcast vi likes just put out an ep about lupus n they were listening to it like 'jesus kitkat you really are textbook' #i KNOWWWWWWW. what a wild body to live in. #this has been your daily medical oversharing. now that im covid free im feeling my usual autoimmune symptoms again #and im like. dammit. the covid was actually a nice vacation. aside from the hell.

[baiwu-jinji]

insightful overview of the post-1989 Chinese cultural and literary scene during the Reform and Opening Up era, from Mingwei Song's paper "After 1989: The New Wave of Chinese Science Fiction"

#I wonder which year future history books will put as the end of China's reform and opening up era #2018? covid pandemic? 2022? #chinese literature

[thedawningofthehour]

With half a year i meant in real life, i'm also added at least, Because I know that anything can happen, book 3 is supposed to be the shortest so at the rate we are going we can assume it will be finished by next summer at the earliest.

Unless you decide to take a break between books, of course.

Oh, that makes sense. That's roughly what I'm aiming at. I'm really hoping to get this whole thing done by the time I'm 30.

Which...is much closer than I'd like to admit.

#to preface: i do not think thirty is too old for fandom #there's plenty of well-known creators in the rottmnt fandom who are in their thirties and older #and they're great #my age anxiety is more due to covid fucking my plans up #and the fact that i now have literally nothing going for me outside of writing a ninja turtles fanfiction #and i kind of have no drive to change that because the world's about to end anyway #and this is getting way too heavy for a tumblr post i'm gonna go put my laundry in the dryer and eat pizza

[genkais-arcade]

I have Covid for the first time and I'm stuck in bed and sad :( No fever or body aches but big nausea, body chills, and headaches.

Edit: and also twitching. SO MUCH MUSCLE TWITCHING AND QUIVERING. Has anyone else experienced this? It's been wild.

#im so glad i got my booster at the end of January #but this still sucks #ive put a ton of work into avoiding this #i still minimize my time outside the house and wear masks in public - even in crowded outdoors spaces #i havent gone to a restaurant in yeara #i got it from my housemate who decided on her own with no communication that her active infection wasnt as infectious anymore #and broke the house rules weve had in place since july 2020 #im honestly so upset and this person hasnt even acknowledged me brcause theyre on vacation #sorry to vent on my fandom blog but im feeling so hurt and disrrspected and im having a hard time coping with my feelings #because i otherwise have had complete confidence and trust in thisnperson #covid 19 #not yyh

[arsonist-chicken]

Do you ever like.. get a sudden surge of love and admiration and just general happiness because of a friend, so much so that it's almost overwhelming, and you are just so, so glad you met them and hope you'll never have to let them go and get to keep them in your life forever? Yeah ❤️💖🐗🧚‍♂️🦄

#i should go to sleep #but these are the moments i wonder again if i know what a crush feels like and if i can tell the difference between periodical very strong #but platonic affection for a friend and having a tiny crush on them #oh well. in the end does it matter? #but it would still be nice to be able to tell the difference. if nothing else then to know when i actually have a crush on someone i'm not #that close to like that friend or that fond of #fucking hell god please never let me have to let them go. i don't think i've ever met someone i'm that comfortable around and around whom #it's so easy to just be myself #or rarely. maybe with two other friends i don't feel the need to hold back myself from blurting stuff out and interrupting them and #apologising and asking them to continue or just like.. say whatever comes to mind or touch electric pasture fences to see if it still stings #(it does btw but in a sensorally really nice way 10/10 would recommend) #why do amazing people often live so damn far away? last time i met a bunch of people i really got to love was almost lifesaving and #definitely mental health saving. we used to talk every day and now i barely know what any of them are up to :( covid really fucked us over #with everyone just trying to survive and stay sane. we really lost touch and now it #*it's hard to get that back because we're strewn across europe and brasil and the us and everyone's an adult with responsibilities now #i miss them :( gotta try harder to rekindle that #anyway @the universe or whatever fuckers listening: if you put me in circumstances that make me lose touch with her like with them #i'll set the world on fire. she's become far too important to me to let that happen #okay as always i couldn't damn shut up in the tags alright bye bye good night whatever my cat's purring now instead of snoring #scientists of tumblr invent a teleportation machine now. i want to lie in a park and watch dogs and read side by side and remember how good #life can be #mine

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

"I'm never going to be free of that man I've never spoken to or even seen on my dash, am I?" I'm not even involved in this but idk why you don't just say what a stupid shit he is like youd do with any moid you came across. you respond to peoples opinions on dumb posts all the time but for some reason you seem to want to defend this idiot.

...because I come across them. Because there they are, in front of my face doing man things and I comment. For some reason you and whoever else* specifically want my attention on this particular one. Which, someone said a little while ago they like the way I explain things and that's insanely flattering, sincerely, but I *try* to speak from knowledge and experience to avoid talking out of my ass.

I don't want to put the energy into gaining enough knowledge and experience to speak about this man. He is not a thought in my head until I get yet another ask mentioning him. In the nine years I have been on this hellsite, I don't think I've gotten this many asks about literally anything else. First from people demanding I defend him and then from people encouraging and later demanding that I condemn him.

My cat posts didn't get me this many asks. The story I wrote didn't get me this many asks. Poorly worded earlier posts I've made didn't get me this many asks. Original posts that made their way to the rapist fandom didn't get this many asks. TRAs haven't sent me this many asks.

I don't want to put energy into this male! Tumblr to me is my dashboard and nothing else. I follow 201 people, nearly all of them women to the best of my knowledge, and no tags at all. If someone I don't follow doesn't come up on the posts I see when I'm active, either directly on the posts of people I follow or on the "based on your likes!" I don't see them. They don't exist to me. This male should not exist to me. He doesn't exist to me apart from when you people keep bringing him up. Why you want an extra man to exist in my life is beyond me, especially here. Like I'm sorry that you etcetera are unable to let go of him, but I promise your lives will be better when you do. Pinky promise.

*I don't even know how many people are involved here. Maybe you're all the same damn person. Hell, maybe you're all him! I wouldn't put it past a scrote to do something like this--men do all kinds of shit to get female attention--but fucked if I know. Now, go on! Bring on an anon telling me I'm joining in a smear campaign against him because of those last two sentences. Let's at least vary this up a bit.

#and like...if I just go ahead and take the time to go over his blog #pick out a bunch of stuff #get into it with him #whatever #then it never ends #someone's going to bring another name to my attention #and then I won't hear the end of it until I comment on *that* individual #like... #I. don't. want. to put that much energy into men! #positive or negative #honestly this whole situation is bizarre though #I don't *know* that it's him #but I genuinely would not be surprised to learn it was #this has been ongoing since the winter holidays I missed out on #I could have been at the bar with my friends #or watching something educational with my grandparents #or collecting pizza #decent chance I never would have seen the initial post I commented on #that prompted the very first ask about an entirely unrelated male #thanks COVID #is this what they mean by long COVID? #are these my lingering complications?

[pepprs]

my mom isn’t letting my dad go back to his office bc him being out of the house stresses her out and makes her have a flare up and it’s like kind of insane. like i understand why the idea of him doing that would make her panicky and angry as someone who also struggles w separation anxiety and abandonment shit / has physical symptoms from that kind of stress (though not to the same degree ofc) but also he is a grown man. he should be allowed to go to his office and not have to shape his entire life around her needs. and she keeps guilt tripping him out of it and it’s impacting his quality of life a lot and the whole thing is kind of… hm

#purrs #delete later #also she’s guilt tripping me into coming to the stupid fucking potluck on sunday bc she needs the extra help and it’s like… what are you #gonna do when i move out. like i am a grown woman and i should be able to choose how i spend my two precious weekend days. and my dad is a #grown man and he should be able to choose where he works. like is that not a little bit insane. i get it but also….. i do think it s kind of #fucked ip that it’s her way or the highway and her needs take priority over all of ours and she’s asking us to bend to what she wants when #she wants it. like i get it bc she’s sick but it’s not fair for her to expect that from my dad especially. particularly when me and my #brother are back at work / school in more high risk environments than my dad who would be in a private office alll day. and the thing is no #one is brave enough to all her on it bc if we did it would be the END of the world. she even threw a fit on my dads bday and complained bc #the things he wanted to do were things she didn’t want to do like all the man wanted to do was go mini golfing and when that wasn’t good #enough he just wanted to go on a walk and my mom complained the whole time and also scoffed the movie he wanted to watch and said it was #boring and it’s like… wtf it’s HIS birthday??? but what do you expect from the woman who (and in fairness her friends got her these as gifts #but still) has TWO kitchen items that say some variation of ‘a marriage is when one is always right and the other is always the husband’ 💀 #i look at that little plaque every night bc it’s in front of the sink when im doing dishes and it makes me so fucking angry. like my dad is #a whole fucking person and he can be right too and he deserves to make choices and be happy and not have his wife put him down all the time. #idk. and she puts down his family all the time too and complains when he wants to do the most reasonable things for his own enjoyment that #don’t align with hers and criticizes his interests all the time and it just sucks to see. he never shows hurt or anything so idk how he #feels about it but it makes me so angry and sad and when i tell her to stop she just lashes out at me so. 🤪. like how do we get her to stop #making her needs more important than everyone else’s bc… she may be our mom / his wife / whateger but that doesn’t make her queen. no one is #(andalso this has only gotten worse bc of covid / her being sick. like this has been a lifelong thing it’s just it’s a lot worse now bc the #circumstances gave her room / forced her to have to take up more space. and it’s just so frustrating. i get it. but none of us are pawns or #dolls or subordinates or anything. there’s 5 adults here and we should all be able to make choices and not be guilt tripped by her. lol #)

[thought-42]

I opened this post an hour ago to observe how there's something deeply hilarious and deeply upsetting about Eight having had the entire Matrix stored in his head for actual years and yet never knowing that information about the Doctor's true originws was stored in there, but then I opened Eight's wiki page and went on an hour long wild fucking ride.

#anyway sorry for Doctor Who posting in 2023 but like #my guy (non-gendered) that's too much amnesia even for you; put some back #the wiki entry just. keeps going. and going. and going. #what do you mean you saved Santa? what do you mean you had a whole thing with River Song? #what do you mean you got so depressed you went to the end of the universe? (actually that tracks) #he was possessed by the Master! he became an unwilling landlord! he fought the Tenth Doctor! #the BFAs really just. kept going huh #also lost it at 'claims to be physically incapable of experiencing survivor's guilt' #i am begging you to address your mental health #The Doctor went through COVID quarantine! #dw

[loremastering]

man i love the new avatar updates for the secondborn. i love that we can display race, gender, and body types (more or less) more fluidly and diversely and that more than half the human life span can be depicted. thank you devs you have my whole heart and soul now for this game (as if they didn't already) 

#txt #they might have been a bit hasty to put it live with the number of movement bugs but oh well #been looking through the forums to see reactions cause i hate myself but the negative reactions are #disheartening and sometimes funny #mY avA tar is SACRED hOW cOULD yoU Do THIS #is the funniest by far #but i can see how sad it is to see ones race and gender being invalidated by all these arseholes :( i hope it calms down soon #excuse my rambling in on powerful post covid meds and cant stop talking #i wish the eastenr kingdoms were included too for origins but i wonder if thats gonna be an end of the year thing with umbar coming out #and for the people crying BUT ITS LORE BREAKING like #as if runekeeprs and beornings and hobbits arent running around in mini armies already