If in doubt, I'm probably joking

bonus points if it's also stupid long

IT'S BEEN 4 HOURS. THE LAST BOSS THAT GAVE ME THIS MUCH TROUBLE WAS SONIC 4 EP 1'S FINAL BOSS. I eventually put on YouTuber's reading AITA stories to pass the time, this was awful

Trip, my dear...bad campaign. The exact same levels but with random enemies added in bullshit locations to make it "harder". On the plus side, Trip is just like if you mixed Amy with an objectively better Knuckles. She's fun to play as and her super form is busted as hell. Look at this thing just enjoying herself.

I'll probably use her if I decide to go for 100%. That said I also clipped through the wall in one level. That was...unexpected.

bonus points if it's also stupid long

IT'S BEEN 4 HOURS. THE LAST BOSS THAT GAVE ME THIS MUCH TROUBLE WAS SONIC 4 EP 1'S FINAL BOSS. I eventually put on YouTuber's reading AITA stories to pass the time, this was awful

Trip, my dear...bad campaign. The exact same levels but with random enemies added in bullshit locations to make it "harder". On the plus side, Trip is just like if you mixed Amy with an objectively better Knuckles. She's fun to play as and her super form is busted as hell. Look at this thing just enjoying herself.

I'll probably use her if I decide to go for 100%. That said I also clipped through the wall in one level. That was...unexpected.

bonus points if it's also stupid long

there’s sixteen Colorado counties that their most searched was “wolf furry”, plus thirty-odd counties (not counting either Arapahoe or any of the ones marked here as “Insufficient Data”) which may well have had plenty of searches for “wolf furry”, just fewer than for whatever they’re labeled here

and “skunk furry” searches in Arapahoe County outnumbered “wolf furry” searches in the entire state of Colorado

I just want to catch spelling errors and accidental double spaces and repeated phrases and whenever I use the wrong too/to or affect/effect and shit. But no. They've shoved AI up the ass of every grammar checking software out there and now they all fucking suck and make the most random, obnoxious, nonsensical suggestions.

I get why people keep saying this (and other versions of it like "Use Adobe alternatives" and "Use Google product alternatives."). But here's the problem: I do not create in isolation. Even my own 100% personal projects are getting sent to other people whether it's editors or printers or beta readers and unless every single person in that train is using the same products, things can get wonky.

Libre Office and Word handle formatting differently on the back end, which can completely break documents if you move them back and forth between the two. So if I write in Libre Office but my beta readers are still using Word, when I send them a manuscript for review there's a good chance things won't look right and my beta reader will not actually be reviewing what I sent them.

:| :| :|

I finally met a doctor who isn't just worth a damn, but also on my (really shitty) insurance plan, took me seriously and is actually doing something to help me

I think I've been diagnosed with MCAS. This doctor doesn't have notes published on a portal I can view, but he said I definitely have a mast cell activation disorder. Testing for it is really finicky because typically, they test for tryptase levels (an enzyme released from mast cells). Tryptase is only really released at the start of a reaction and dissipates quite fast, within about 4 hours, and you're just left with the inflammation and damage when tests come back normal and you're called crazy. It's like having an autoimmune disorder that's literally invisible to labs. (MCAS isn't classified as autoimmune, but a lot of symptoms overlap.)

Some people have gone to great lengths to make their tests positive. I'm lucky the doctor just looked at my issues, what was tried, and went "yeah so tests will probably be negative but you definitely have this".

Truthfully I had given up. I had learned about MCAS, but after a decade of googling, misdiagnosis, testing for autoimmune, adrenal, SIBO, hell I even got an endoscopy, I was ready to quit. I didn't want to go through these tests anymore for it to come back normal. This was just my life. Everyone goes through stuff, everyone feels bad, I'm not as strong as others, I'm just being dramatic, ect.

I didn't bring it up to the doctor. I felt like cancelling the appointment, but kept it because I thought at least he could do something about my damn pollen allergies. Then he came in, didn't focus on my ragweed issue, zeroed in on a few tests everyone brushed off, and was like "so this is what's going on."

It explains my severe allergies. It explains my random food reactions. Hell it even explains the joint pain in my foot and the mild headaches I assumed was from the weather.

I've been taking chromolyn (a mast cell stabilizer) for about 3 weeks now and....eh? It can take like a month to show improvement, but some people noticed it right away. I can only differentiate the side effects from my usual problems based on when they happen.

I've been having a bad week, I think I did too much, my body is retaliating and tbh it's frustrating, like. This isn't supposed to happen anymore. Yet here it is.

Antihistamines usually help with this condition, but they don't work for me. My biggest issues are gut related, so I was given a PPI and that doesn't work, either. Now the chromolyn isn't helping and it's like... did I convince myself THIS was the problem again and it's not. or is this as good as it gets

Wacom recently asked me to talk about why I make queer comics, and given there are multiple bills right now floating around in congress that are effectively "we will kill your livelihood if we get a sniff of queer" I had some pretty strong, simply feelings to relay.

Japanese: Samui desu ne?

my teachers: its like a, a little rise at the end of a sentence, to show that you are seeking a response, while not warranting the -ka particle which would make it a proper question.

me: ok. i guess i get that??

this post: its like saying “innit?” 

From the Japanese version of Sonic X, in the episode “Depths of Danger”