#mo rants

I have seen so many complaints lately about your favourite writer not posting enough or you don't have enough fics to read or you don't read anyone except the handful of writers you like.

STOP

Alright friends, it's time to talk about my biggest LITG pet peeve. It happens all the time, I'm reading a Lucas villa fic or scrolling through Tumblr and I see it: "doctor Lucas". My brain immediately checks out, alarm bells blaring.

I want to be clear here, I'm not policing headcannons or what you can or can't do in fic, especially AUs, the entire point of AUs is to mix things up like careers or backgrounds, etc.

What I am saying, is that canonically, Lucas is a physiotherapist.

For some reason, of all the physios we have (Summer and Jack), Lucas is the only one that's often referred to as a doctor. Maybe it's because he works in a hospital, or maybe somewhere along the line fanon warped him into something else. But as an acute care PT, nothing will make me click out of a post/canon compliant fic/etc faster than "doctor Lucas" or having him do something wildly out of scope.

For one thing, the US is the only country that requires a doctorate for physical therapy. That being said, I can count on one hand the number of times someone even knows I have a doctorate, and I have never been called Doctor outside of the academic setting.

So what does a hospital physio do?

Preserve mobility: let's be real, sick people don't want to move, but lying in bed all day makes you lose strength and range of motion fast

Transfers: how do you get to a chair now that you suddenly don't have left leg anymore? How can I make moving less painful for you following major abdominal surgery? How do you move when you have new precautions and can't bend your hip past 90 degrees?

Gait: Do you need a walker now? A cane? Do you have weight bearing restrictions and need to figure out how to walk with them? Is your gait pattern unsafe?

Stairs: Are there stairs at your house? How can I make them safer for you and the person who's going to be helping you? What techniques can I teach you to help decrease pain and increase safety?

Balance: 99% of people in the hospital are at an increased risk for falls, how can I decrease that? What can I do to improve your balance?

Discharge recs: Where is the patient going after the hospital? Are they safe to go home or do they need rehab? Do they need any equipment to be safe at home? 90% of the time, the rehab department is the one making those calls.

Communicate mobility needs to staff and family: Most of the time, I'm the first one getting someone up. Do they need 2 people to sit on the edge of the bed? Does their right knee buckle when they walk? This is important information that the people taking care of the patient needs to know for everyone's safety.

We see patients post stroke, waiting on transplants, post surgery, after getting the transplant, chronically ill, etc. Patients on vents, with lines and tubes and drains all over the place, even with open surgical sites... they're all appropriate for therapy.

What physiotherapists definitely don't do:

Perform surgery or scrub up or observe or do anything even near the OR.

Give or adjust medications. I'm expected to know what medications do and look out for associated symptoms, but the most I can do is message the doctor and tell them what I'm observing.

Work with a crashing patient. It happens, you're in the middle of a session and a patient codes. Call the code and start performing CPR. But as soon as anyone else arrives, the therapist is the least qualified and least important person in the room. And if a therapist hears a code called, they're getting the hell out of the way to make space for the appropriate team to arrive.

Call time of death. Yes, patients die. Unfortunately, that's just how it goes. And yes, sometimes you come in to work only to learn that the patient you were working with yesterday passed away. But most of the time, if a patient is that close to dying, they're not appropriate for therapy. They're not dying in the therapist's arms or anything like that.

Use physical therapy as a stepping stone to become a doctor. There's not a ton of overlap tbh. I'm sure it has happened, but it's not like a PT degree is a degree that gets you into med school.

Listen, I LOVE my job. I get peed on, puked on, pooped on, etc. There are rude patients and emotional days and difficult conversations that need to be had, but at the end of the day I'm proud of being able to help people in need. You don't get into physical therapy if you don't love it. The pay isn't all that great and sometimes it's a very thankless job. Burn out rates are high, especially in the hospital setting. But those who stick it out are those who can't imagine doing anything else.

You have no idea how happy I was to see a character with my job who actually responds well to questions about it, so you can imagine how frustrating it is to constantly see my profession being overlooked or misinterpreted in the fandom.

It’s a little disheartening to feel like in order to mosey through this fandom and just enjoy the food, I have to block people that are actively expunging negativity like a recently decayed raccoon corpse just because those individuals feel like trying to ‘stick it to the straights’

the Guardian wrote one damn article about how quinoa becoming popular changed the economics of food and farming in the Andes and maybe that could cause problems?

and now fucking everyone is like "oh yeah quinoa is Problematic you shouldn't eat it."

even though there's actually evidence that while like any change there's people who benefit and people who are hurt, the growth in quinoa exports is in general a net good

Tbh I don’t care about pleasing

long post incoming, tl:dr thank you julie and the phantoms for giving music back to me.

i watched julie and the phantoms for the first time about a month ago at the suggestion of a friend, and immediately fell in love with it. is it a little cringey that my latest adhd hyperfixation is a show made for teens? probably. but i’m having fun so who cares. anyways.

i did a rewatch last weekend after not having seen it for a few weeks. the second julie started singing “wake up,” i fucking bawled.

i was about julie’s age, a junior in high school, when i quit piano lessons. i had been playing since i was 8, the woman who taught me was so instrumental in developing my passion for playing music. music was my first and truest love; i loved playing, performing, writing. it was my truest passion. when i quit, i was in the midst of severe undiagnosed/unmedicated depression, and i couldn’t keep going anymore. i had given up the one thing in life that made me want to still live. quitting piano will always be the biggest regret of my life.

i sort of kept my skills up when i went to college, but i hadn’t gotten involved with anything in the actual music department. my dream when i was a kid was to major in music, which then got kicked down to a minor, which then never actually happened. i had stopped performing, stopped writing, and barely played either piano or my guitar. it wasn’t until now, where i’m stuck inside my apartment with nowhere to go and working a job that i hate, that i realized how much i missed music, and how angry i am at myself for giving it up for so many years.

watching julie lose her connection to music, just like i did when i was younger, and then find it again gave me hope. i might be older than julie, it might have been longer than just a year where i’ve been without music, but watching my experience played back to me was a wake-up call. maybe not all hope is lost for me, maybe i can still find my connection to music again.

Lucifer- a brooch, which was mentioned during the party at the end of chapter 18/19?? They also have those matching necklaces they bought during his birthday event but she usually saves hers for special occasions and wears the brooch very often

Mammon- def bought a pair of earrings so she’d wear one and he’d wear the other, also the matching rings from his birthday event??

Levi- cute little ankle bracelet with little sea shells and fishes charms (discrete and would show when they went swimming 2gether)

Satan- a ring! nothing too flashy, probs a simple silver band to match his gold (these two will be the death of me with how domesticly cute and old married couple-y they are and I haven’t written even anything in depth yet lmaooo)

Asmo- I almost wanna say Mo would get a little heart tattoo to match the ones in his demon form, but I think that wouldn’t be immediate since she’s a bit squishy w pain plus it would be a huge show of how much she loves him. So instead, to begin with, Asmo gives her a hair side clip that has a golden scorpion attached holding a small red rose in its’ claws (She lowkey almost cried when she saw it bc it was so pretty ngl)

Beel- I almost wanna say they’d get one of those BFF charm necklaces like, from Claire’s that has pizza or cookies that connect together but poor thing might actually eat it asgklshkldf So instead he buys three lightweight bracelets for himself, Mo, and Belphie to wear, each with little heart charms attached. (This works for all of them bc Beel needs something light for workouts/sports, Belphie doesn’t want something that would constantly bother him, and Mo loves how cute and simple the whole idea is)

Belphie- A̶ ̶c̶h̶o̶k̶e̶r̶ ̶ lmaooo jking, see above^^