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to be clear i'm not saying they turn to supervillainy. they just look at their superpower-based career options and decide to go in an unrelated direction. dental hygienist. supply chain management. HVAC technician in surprisingly high demand
some of them do superpower hobbies on the weekend, but a good portion of them are just "eh. my body could technically do it but this is not fun for me?" like it's literally just excercise. why spend your free time training for a marathon when you could be crafting
a lucky few have highly marketable powers which make for extremely well-paid gig work (standard teleporter hourly pay is insane), but it's not exactly a passion driven career. yeah speedsters can make bank working production lines but that gets repetitive real fast. also that shit is tiring. yeah the agricultural industry is paying you big bucks to control the weather during harvest season but you're going to have back spasms for months after.
One time at my manufacturing job I got asked about what superpowers I would want and I concluded that the most passion driven power/job I could imagine was just knowing the precise location of all sharks. I would be unable to control them or communicate with them. But I am invaluable to conservation work, ocean photography, zoology, lifeguards, etc. I have no idea if I could or would want to profit from this, I would probably still have a 9-5, but I like to think of spending my spare time just answering texts about Greenland sharks and doing horrifying guest appearances on weather broadcasts.
Bear religion probably fucking rocks. You're a fucking bear, you're the deadliest thing on earth, once a year an endless supply of salmon just flings itself up the river to gorge on and then you nap for 3 months.
The most delicious food in the world is protected by tiny demons who can defend it from everyone except you. Your natural armor is thick enough that you can just eat the damn hive while they buzz around you. God's chosen animals right there
Regular bears tell stories of angel bears sent by the Bear God, pure white and twice as strong as any normal bear could be, who rule the summit of the Earth and kill all who stand in their path.
And they are right, those bears exist and totally do that. Humans just have fake angels as a cope.
love the idea of bears being the chosen species actually. having a near death experience and glimpsing heaven and realising it's just full of bears, no humans at all, humans not ensouled actually, humans an accidental byproduct of God's plan for bears
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May I present: Leda and the Swan Princess! It's based on this post about a swan princess who refuses to go quietly in obscurity when cursed. (If you liked this one you will probably also like my other comics which you can find on my pinned post).
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why do they put restrictions on drugs for risk of dependency when it's like for a chronic condition. like duh you're going to be dependent it's fucking chronic am i not getting something
Okay I have chronic pain so like, I get it. I really do. Diagnosis and consistent treatment are a constant battle in most medical systems because doctors as a general rule are best at Identify Problem Offer Solution kinds of medicine.
Chronic conditions by definition are not that simple, and by definition one spends more time encountering multiple doctors which means that after a bit your memories can get dominated by the 15 doctors who were either not useful or even actively dismissive instead of the 3 who actually helped (although let's face it that's often with caveats).
But that's not actually what we're talking about, that's just the background radiation.
Tl dr: suffering is not the point even if it'sthe outcome. I will explain at length under the cut.
So, drug dependency.
The thing about a lot of restricted drugs isn't that they don't work. Obviously they work or they'd never get prescribed.
But that's often a short term effect. If a drug is restricted it's because a group of experts worked out that either:
A. the side effects aren't worth the positive effects long term, (e.g. anything that takes away the pain but gives you too much brain fog to keep active, or things that build up in your liver and kidneys and start creating an unacceptable risk of organ failure or cancer) and/or
B. The more you use the drug the more your body builds up a resistance to the effects and then long term either it stops working for you or you're taking so much that the positive effects are suddenly outweighed by the negative ones.
Codeine is a good example of this. If you take it short term, it's brilliant. Kills that pain without *really* fogging you up like morphine or something.
If you take it long term it rewires your nervous system to become more sensitive to pain.
Yeah you read that right.
If you take Codeine long term it literally makes your body start to react like it needs Codeine more often even for lesser pains. So you don't just need more Codeine to make it work as it used to, you feel like you need it more frequently because your sense of pain becomes amplified.
I found that out the hard way because I had a doctor who didn't understand that about opiates. Alongside the increased pain i had depression, insomnia and struggled with brain fog so frankly it's lucky that I got out of that spiral before I ended up burning out harder than I did (3 months off work, I got Really lucky I had a boss who cared enough to keep my job waiting for me until I could get my shit together sufficiently).
The Good news is that same doctor understood her limitations and referred me to a specialist Pain Clinic and they got me onto a long term management plan that does in fact include daily medication but it's stuff that's okay to take every day so long as it's monitored and it lets me get on with my life without having to deal with side effects.
My treatment plan doesn't prevent All flare ups, but it does reduce the number and duration of my existing ones, so things are manageable.
So look, I'm not saying that you're not right to be frustrated that there's no magic Get Better pill.
I sure as heck was resentful about that and Still am some days and it's been literally 10 years since my original injury.
But if you have a chronic condition that won't literally kill you before the long term side effects of a particular drug, then the doctors are going to resist giving it to you long term.
That's what they're worried about. That's the real reason why some drugs are restricted.
It's long term risk reduction which can feel incredibly crap in the short term, and it's ironic considering that alcohol is a pretty popular painkiller that's available without a prescription and Definitely has side effects that are at least as bad in the long term as a number of restricted drugs.
So yeah I am not for one second saying that the medical system at large is perfect, and there is an argument to be had about dignity of risk and doctor/patient communication that definitely is worth exploring.
But.
Sometimes it's because doctors as a whole care more about the long term than the short term outcome.
Now.
That does not solve the suffering problem, but what *does* is forcing a conversation with your doctor about day to day management, and making it clear that if you do not have effective day to day management then you will be driven to doing something drastic that will ensure you will not have to worry about the long term.
Effective pain management is suicide prevention let's not mince words about this.
And if *they* cannot help you with that then you require a referral to someone who *can*. Demand this.
For reference when I got referred to the pain clinic my management plan went from just painkillers and rest to physiotherapy, an ongoing medication, lifestyle changes and sessions with a psychologist.
After a bit i was able to taper down to just the ongoing medication and lifestyle stuff, (reduced work hours, regular gentle exercise, specific stretches) so I can actually get on with my life, different as it is.
And sometimes i have a particularly bad flare up and I reach straight for the opiates but since I don't frequently take them anymore they do as they should without the long term side effects kicking in.
So yeah I'm not a doctor and I'm not across your specific medical background so I'm not saying I know how to manage your condition.
But if option A isn't working or allowed then it's your doctor's responsibility to give you an option B which isn't just "figure out how to cope :)".
If they've forgotten that remind them or find someone who will give you a better option that will get you through the short term long enough to start caring about the long term again.
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There's a Chinese meme that the Yellow River doesn't need rituals to present sacrifices because if it's hungry it'll come onto the shore and eat the sacrifices itself.
#some netizens also say chinese people like unification because only a powerful unified dynasty can survive the yellow river and sometimes #also the chang jiang when they decide to flood and change directions and kill and displace millions #also only large dynasties have the resources to do hydroengineering to try and control the yellow river #yellow river be like: if you don't hydroengineer you die #but if you do you might also die heehee #“we call these our mother rivers not because they are gentle but because we are too scared” tags on above post
The Great Lakes are uncaring, don't care whether you live or die, ambivalent, pay no attention to you.
The Yellow River cares. Deeply. About you, specifically. And your death. And being the cause of it. It notices you and your intentions. You've been warned. Exercise your hubris accordingly.
everyone tells me that ADHD isn't an excuse for being lazy and that there are people with ADHD who have overcome their symptoms and are successful but every day I drag around an invisible dopplegänger of myself who is horrible and listless and always complains. and he is so heavy. I'm ambitious and I'm passionate but he isn't and the problem is that to get anywhere in life I have to grab him by the leg and pull him along the whole way, kicking and screaming, and sometimes it gets exhausting. sometimes he pulls me down with him. and it gets a bit difficult to explain to people why I'm lying down on the floor in pain when they can't see him.
Wait I’m sorry parent/child incest fic?????? Why does that exist? Why do you KNOW that exists?????? What the fuck 🤢
I feel like you can sort of tell how long (or not) someone has existed in fannish spaces by how outraged they get about things like this. Like rings in a tree trunk lol. I've been in so many fandoms. At least one, but often multiple at the same time, since I was a teenager. I've seen just. Everything.
Sex pollen. Mpreg. Incest. Monster fucking. Tentacles. Pairings like Snape/Hermione that would be crazy abusive and illegal if they were real. Wild kinks. The babygirlification of all kinds of villains. So much RPF (the 'I sincerely believe they are secretly a couple' kind and the 'this is fictional but it's fun to imagine they're in love' kind.)
You learn to just scroll past shit you don't like or unfollow people or filter tags. The tldr of fandom is that humans are weird as fuck. And creative, and unhinged, and traumatized, and talented. And amazing. And every single thing that you clutch your pearls about 'well surely someone doesn't want to read/write THAT!' - someone does. Probably lots of people do. And those people are perfectly normal. In their offline lives, they're parents and siblings and they have jobs and friends and they go about their lives and they don't cause any harm. And that's the sticking point. There's this really concerning, frankly highly Evangelical idea that if someone enjoys the wrong kind of fiction, they are obviously a Bad Person. But nothing is that simple, and thought crimes aren't real, and you definitely have some thoughts or ideas that someone else would find fucked up. You don't have to like every kind of fic that exists. I certainly don't. But shaming people for their harmless fantasies about fictional characters is so boring. I saw Goody Proctor enjoying a Toxic Ship! Good for you, I'll alert the pope.
From the science side of things: yes, fantasies about taboo sex are common, and no, it doesn’t reflect what people want to do in reality, but the charged feelings stirred up by imagining taboo situations can be titillating, the adult equivalent of kids sneaking out after curfew.
“The 7 Most Popular, Powerful Sexual Fantasies” Psychology Today
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Pleased to report that after a day of this i am not longer craving caper brine and my mouth is not dry as usual. There's some good suggestions in the notes too that I want to try.
-ancient roman posca: water, red or white wine vinegar, honey, salt, herbs (coriander, mint, thyme)
-switchel: water, ginger, vinegar, sweetener, lemon, salt
When I was younger and more abled, I was so fucking on board with the fantasy genre’s subversion of traditional femininity. We weren’t just fainting maidens locked up in towers; we could do anything men could do, be as strong or as physical or as violent. I got into western martial arts and learned to fight with a rapier, fell in love with the longsword.
But since I’ve gotten too disabled to fight anymore, I… find myself coming back to that maiden in a tower. It’s that funny thing, where subverting femininity is powerful for the people who have always been forced into it… but for the people who have always been excluded, the powerful thing can be embracing it.
As I’m disabled, as I say to groups of friends, “I can’t walk that far,” as I’m in too much pain to keep partying, I find myself worrying: I’m boring, too quiet, too stationary, irrelevant. The message sent to the disabled is: You’re out of the narrative, you’re secondary, you’re a burden.
The remarkable thing about the maiden in her tower is not her immobility; it’s common for disabled people to be abandoned, set adrift, waiting at bus stops or watching out the windows, forgotten in institutions or stranded in our houses. The remarkable thing is that she’s like a beacon, turning her tower into a lighthouse; people want to come to her, she’s important, she inspires through her appearance and words and craftwork. In medieval romances she gives gifts, write letters, sends messengers, and summons lovers; she plays chess, commissions ballads, composes music, commands knights. She is her household’s moral centre in a castle under siege. She is a castle unto herself, and the integrity of her body matters.
That can be so revolutionary to those of us stuck in our towers who fall prey to thinking: Nobody would want to visit; nobody would want to listen; nobody would want to stay.
#it’s so so important to remember that representation is not one-size-fits-all#what is empowering to one person might be exhausting and oppressive to someone else#some people need stories about having the strength to save themselves#some people need stories about being considered worthy of being saved#some people need inspiration for their independence while others need validation that they don’t have to be able to do everything themselves#before you lash out against something PLEASE stop to consider:#is this inadequate and/or damaging representation?#or is it just something I don’t personally relate to? [X]
It’s been half a decade and I still haven’t found an articulation of the complexity of “representation” as concisely and precisely mindblowing as @hungrylikethewolfie’s here.
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