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And then at some point you're all in the middle of doing stuff and you make that remark again, and your host just goes "yeah it's illegal here too, we're just straight-up breaking the law rn."

equine -> horses

bovine -> cows

murine -> mice/rats

porcupine -> porcupines

wolverine -> wolves

marine -> marmosets

saline -> salmonella

cosine -> cosmonauts

citrine -> citrus

combine -> combs

famine -> your fam

bromine -> your bros

palpatine -> your pals

alpine -> alps

christine -> christ

asinine -> asses

machine -> the speed of sound

landmine -> explosions

migraine -> migrants

trampoline -> tramps

dopamine -> dopes

medicine -> the Medici family

praline -> prey

masculine -> mascara

feminine -> femurs

latrine -> latissimus dorsi

fettuccine -> fetuses

poutine -> sadness

turbine -> turbans

engine -> england

supine -> soup

valentine -> valence electrons

why is nobody talking about the fact that 2 of the most unhinged shows on this website are about men with the last names of HOUSE and HO(L)MES and have objectively become a place of comfort despite its insanity because. as a dysfunctional family we here at tumblr dot com find solace in pathetic little meow meows

Like consider the opposite: Characters of non-human races treating their human companions like frail little old dogs. Worrying about small wounds being fatal - humans die of small injuries all the time - or being surprised that humans can actually eat salt, even if they can't stomach other spicy rocks. Being amazed that a human friend they haven't seen in 10 years still looks so young, they've hardly aged at all! And when the human tries to explain that they weren't going to just unexpectedly shrivel into a raisin in 10 years, the longer-lifespan friend dismisses this like no, he's seen it happen, you don't see a human for 10 or 20 years and they've shriveled in a blink.

Elves arguing with each other like "you can't take her out there, she will die!" and when the human gets there to ask what they're talking about, they explain to her that the journey will take them through a passage where it's going to be sunny out there. Humans burn in the sun. And she will have to clarify that no, actually, she'll be fine. They fight her about it, until she manages to convince them that it's not like vampires - humans only burn a little bit in the sun, not all the way through. She'll be fine if she just wears a hat.

Meanwhile dwarves are reluctant to allow humans in their mines and cities, not just out of being secretive, but because they know that you cannot bring humans underground, they will go insane if they go too long without seeing the sun. Nobody is entirely sure how long that is, but the general consensus is three days. One time a human tries to explain their dwarf companion that this is not true, there are humans that endure much longer darkness than that. As a matter of fact, in the furthest habited corners of the lands of the Northmen, the winter sun barely rises at all. Humans can survive three weeks of darkness, and not just once, but every single year.

"Then how do they sane?" Asks the dwarf, and just as he does, the conversation gets interrupted by the northland human, who had been eavesdropping, and turns to look at them with an unnerving glint in her colourless grey eyes, grinning while saying

Okay, after having to explain this to several doctors at the hospital, and then shocking an AuDHD friend with it, who also did not know, let me write it here:

A lot of people with ADHD have paradoxical reactions to certain medications!

This goes especially for pain meds and anaesthetics.

This basically goes back to how our brains deal with certain drugs. You know how ADHD medication is stuff that to normal people will make them more active and everything? And how it actually makes us more mallow? And how a lot of ADHD people self-medicate with caffeine, when they cannot get medication, as it allows them to calm down? Yeah, that is also part of this.

But also goes for other meds that are made to affect the brain in certain ways. As I said, pain meds and anaesthetcs are part of that.

As one dentist put it once: "You need so much painkiller, it would knock out an elephant." Which, yeah. I just need a lot higher dosis.

And with anaesthetics? Well, I was under general anaesthesia 6 times in my life. Three of the times I woke up during the surgery. Two times I was about to woke up and they tried to keep me under, resulting in near death experiences. The one time that was not a problem was a super short surgery, that lasted only a few minutes.

And one time I had a surgery, where I was not supposed to be under complete anaesthesia but a medication that should make me sleepy. Yeah, it had the opposite effect.

And this really is common with people who have ADHD.

So, please. If you have ADHD and are in a situation that you need serious pain meds or anaesthesia, say it.

Insects, corpse flies, the buzzing. Their swarms blacken the skies, more horrifying than their migrating meals. The deafening cacophony of constant buzzing, the horrid noise of the living who feast on the dead who feast on the living. The buzzing.