Hi, I'm Blues!

i saw someone claim that deactivated account wont have the numbers at the end for a little bit (i guess to prevent url stealing or if the person who deactivates wants to remake)

but i have seen no actual evidence of this. i cannot confirm it for myself, either.

that still leaves two possibilities

one) gooseworks was banned for being a trans woman, massive hate campaigns mass reported her until tumblr staff decided that because she's a trans woman they shouldn't look into her situation any further and promptly banned her, something that has already happened to countless trans women on this website

two) she was actively receiving so much hate and harassment, death threats, attacks, and violent messages, that she intentionally deactivated her own account (like she did with reddit).

It's almost certainly benign and it is operable, we have a surgery booked in for a couple of weeks from now, but it's a miserable time and they've lost a lot of their mobility and can't do much for themselves any more

We also have reasonable health care so it's not like we're now hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, but the three adults took a week off work each, we spent a few hundred on a wheel chair, a couple hundred on a walker, a couple hundred on other mobility aids, a couple hundred on takeout because the hospital is a few hours from home, a couple hundred on fucking parking, and so on. And we have to do it all again in a couple of weeks.

Which adds up to a huge hole in our normally fairly stable budget

I want to be clear that we probably don't need help, we can probably call in enough favours, eat two minute noodles for a few days, maybe borrow money to make rent, we could survive. But it's just another wildly stressful thing that we don't need whilst trying to support our newly disabled child and help them through the worst few weeks of their life

So if you can help, if you want to help, we would really appreciate it

on the way home, I encounter someone eating raspberries. I ask and they tell me that they grow their own, they got some seeds from the shop back in The Raspberry Days and kept them. They take me to a field of many beautiful raspberry plants and invite me to pick my own, they're free for all the town to pick whenever they'd like.