for ease of finding our stuff, here are some links and useful tags!
"#my art" for all our visual artwork
"#my music" for when we post our tunes
links:
patreon
we're now on patreon! there are a ton of cool art and music-related benefits including a monthly art poll, access to all our art a month before it goes public, music and art WIPs, discounts on commissions, early notice when commissions open, and more! link above!
taller than the redwoods on bandcamp
our "studio" (bedroom) recorded album, taller than the redwoods, is available for digital download as well as purchase on CD or cassette! ten original songs centered around clawhammer banjo!
"however we can.." (subrosa session) on bandcamp
our pay-what-you-want solo acoustic live session album, "however we can..." is up on bandcamp as well! CDs available! 100% of proceeds go to SubRosa, a very cool community space and infoshop.
our neocities: show dates + sundry updates
get updates on gay eldest daughter shows, merch, and music through our neocities page! perpetually under construction lol.
streaming links:
twitch | picarto
other blogs we run:
@gayeldestdaughter our main current music project. mostly a folk/lo-fi rock/folktronica kinda thing
@weedstrogen extra spicy sideblog
@verynormalartist our second art blog for stuff we don't wanna put on main
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you will not see any actual improvement to the rate of disordered eating in the general population until you address fatphobia and improve social and material conditions for fat people and especially fat women enough that fatness isn't a looming spectre but unfortunately the lives of young women are considered a largely acceptable cost to not have to do this
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"Spiral Coast" (2009-2014) By Lieko Shiga. Scanned by me."
"Spiral Coast" began as a project focusing on the rura traditions of the coastal Kitakama community. Unfortunately In 2011 an earthquake and the following tsunami buried the small town, taking 60 lives and even Shiga's photo studio, along with most of her photos. And so, Shiga continued her project by capturing the aftermath of the tsunami in the following years. Focusing on their rebuilding, mourning, and the ultimate impact of the natural disaster."
Y’all know that I’m into ancient Roman history and I do a lot of research on it but even though I should be used to it by now sometimes I read an anecdote about how an individual slave was treated and I’m hit with the realization that like a third of the population was living like that and I just need to put my head in my hands for a second
Emperor Hadrian randomly stabbed a slave in the eye in a fit of rage and he was supposedly unusually sympathetic to slaves.
There’s other instances of people randomly punching slaves that they didn’t even know because they got in their way or something. This was just normal behavior.
And slaves didn’t rebel en masse because if even one slave committed an act of violent rebellion it was common practice to kill every slave and former slave in the household.
People only took notice for posterity when these mass executions got into the hundreds of people. One of the few recorded for the history books is of over 400 people being killed because one guy stabbed his enslaver.
Like how many people throughout history were beaten to death because some rich asshole was angry and there was no legal or social consequences for doing so? We don’t know.
When you study ancient history you’re reminded that slavery has never once been kind or justified. It just takes on different forms of evil in every time and place that it infects.
Hey friends! If you get diagnosed with sleep apnea and you have health insurance (even shitty health insurance) don't worry! It's a condition that's relatively easy to manage, even if you're poor, and I'll walk you through it.
Pre diagnosis: if you have a neck circumference greater than 16-17 inches, it raises your chances of being diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea. This means that you stop breathing for periods of time during your sleep, resulting in poor sleep quality and over time has the potential for more serious issues. Obesity is a risk factor, but you don't have to be heavy to have sleep apnea. If you sleep with someone, they probably already know if you have sleep apnea (it sounds like snoring with periods of not breathing, and then coughing/choking). If you sleep alone, there are recording apps you can use overnight that highlight any instances of sound for you to listen to in the morning.
Diagnosis: Once you suspect sleep apnea, you can bring it up to your PCP as a concern. They'll refer you to a sleep specialist, and they'll conduct a sleep study. Depending on your insurance, this can be at home or in a lab. If they conduct it at home, they'll send you a small machine attached to two pads that will go on your chest and a finger pulse oximeter. This will collect your data throughout the night about your REM cycle, your heart rate, and your oxygen. (I can't speak for the lab sleep study, but I had no copay for the machine) The specialists will examine the results and then send you a prescription for a CPAP machine, mask, and tubing.
Your insurance will rent out the machine to you for a premium every month. The machine will monitor the amount of time you wear it and send this information back to the specialists and the insurance. You are required to wear it for a minimum amount of time every night and a minimum amount of nights each week. If you fail to meet these requirements, your insurance can deny coverage for the machine, which for most people means they won't be able to afford it and they'll be charged for the full price. If you go on vacation, have an irregular sleep schedule, or have a difficult time adjusting to wearing a mask, these can all contribute to not meeting the minimum hours. The amount that my insurance quoted me for the first 6 months was $1200, and after that amount of the minimum requirements of 6 hours 5 nights a week were met, I would then own the machine.
Don't freak out! You don't have to do all that.
Call the sleep specialist and ask them to send you a hard copy of the prescription for the CPAP machine. They will try to get out of this. My office told me twice that if they sent me the prescription then the insurance wouldn't cover all the supplies I need. I had to be persistent and call back and ask for them to send it again. Once they email you the prescription, buy a second-hand machine off Facebook marketplace or craiglist (you might even be able to find someone offering one for free on a Facebook buy nothing group, or you can make a group post searching for one). It took me a few months of searching to find one I could afford, but there's a good market for them, either from people passing away or upgrading. They retail new for 400-1200, so people can get away selling them for a couple hundred bucks. I lucked out and found an excellent bipap machine, but you don't need a fancy, modern Bluetooth CPAP. Any old working machine will do.
Do not use second hand masks or tubes. These can have gross bacteria. Clean the entire machine with disinfectant, inside and out. Consider replacing the water chamber if it came with one. I bought all of my masks and tubing new on a CPAP supply website, which cost about $100, but they're mine forever. You can find people selling sealed, unused bulk supplies on FB, etc.
CPAP vs BIPAP: a BIPAP is just a slightly fancier version of a CPAP that offers two different air pressures for both inhalation and exhalation. It's okay to wait a little while after getting the prescription until you can find a machine you can afford (you've had untreated sleep apnea this long, you can wait a little longer), but after you get a junker, you can always upgrade to a better one in the future and treat your condition.
Using the machine: look up a manual online for your specific model. Look up a YouTube video for how to plug in your prescription. There's a whole bunch of settings, and options to store the data it collects in a USB/SD card.
Buy distilled water. Don't use tap, bottled, mineral, or spring water.
Different types of masks: there are masks that cover your nose and mouth, masks that cover only your nostrils; different types of headgear that go around your whole head or just your ears, and you might find different types more or less comfortable. The tubing is universal.
It's less loud and less uncomfortable than you think to adjust to. I suggest taking some Benadryl the first night just to get used to sleeping with something on your face. The quality improvement might be so significant that you won't mind the lifestyle adjustments. You can even buy small models of cpaps that are meant for travel. If you don't have hundreds of dollars to throw at insurance, it's better to buy one outright so you own it and no one can take it. You're supposed to replace your tubing/masks every 3 months, but if you take care of your equipment and clean it, you can probably stretch it a little longer.
Feel free to ask/dm/reply if you have any questions! Go forth and sleep better!
This is a really good guide, the only thing I'd add is that you are supposed to replace the water chamber every six months as well, just because over time it becomes harder to get bacteria out of the chamber, and it can get tiny cracks and so on. As with everything else, if you take care of it, you can make it last longer.
Also, the reason that it's important to use distilled water is that it is completely clean. You are not going to stick a brain-eating amoeba up your nose, and you're not going to have as many problems with things growing in the tubes. Do not fuck around with this. At all.
The disinfectant which was recommended for me was simply vinegar -- the acid in the vinegar will kill pretty much anything if you dilute it in some very hot water and soak your tubes, masks, water chamber in it. Then wash it with a plain soap - I use regular-degular blue Dawn - and set it out to air dry on a towel. I hang my tubing over the shower curtain rod so it drains. If you do it when you get up, most everything will be dry by bedtime.
I fucking hated most of the masks until I found the memory foam ones, but there have been recalls on some brands of those, so make sure you are checking recall lists if you're buying bulk stuff so you are sure you're not getting crap offloaded on you that'll have you inhaling memory foam bits. Yikes.
Okay, I guess I had a couple of things to say. But yeah, this is a good guide.
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"Why are my parents suddenly trying to be my friend now that I'm an adult??" Is crazymaking but putting together "oh, because children aren't seen as fully human so they're acceptable to abuse in a way that I'm not anymore. It was never actually about me as a person it was about children being property" may or may not feel Better. Makes sense though lol. Lmao. Everyone get more youthlib now
Like once you really understand Being A Minor as an axis of oppression & look at things through this framework a lot of really jarring things about the transition to adulthood start making sense. Like. Damn you guys told me there was something fundamentally wrong with me but it was just because I was a child this whole time? The fuck?
