that chronic feeling

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Idk what person with chronic illness needs to hear this, but you can do things to make your responsibilities nicer for yourself. You can get an ice cream after a blood draw. You can sit down for tv time after an injection. You can pick out the bandaids that have cartoon characters on them instead of the plain ones. Being an adult doesn’t stop you from benefiting from encouragement. Go for whatever fits with your routine/abilities/budget and makes life a little better. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down etc etc

they should invent a body that feels normal to be inside of

Not gay as in happy, queer as in wear a fucking mask. Because who wants to be killed or disabled by a virus that the government’s pretending isn’t happening. Sound familiar, anyone?

Maybe you want to start masking a bit more again, but you're not sure how? Three good places to start are: + at medical appointments (and in the waiting room beforehand) + on public transport + at the supermarket/grocery store/corner shop If you can't afford masks, check out your local mask bloc at maskbloc.org Mask blocs are also great for providing moral support <3 Refresh Connections is a community app for covid careful folks (it's designed for friendship, dating and connecting with other people -- there's space for everyone) Sending so much love to you all. Let's keep looking after each other!

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gaining weight is good and being fat is good and nourishing your body is good and resting is good. fat bodies and disabled bodies and queer bodies and all marginalized bodies are good and deserve to be celebrated. your body does not have to be relegated to the sphere of neutrality or tolerance or acceptance. the world is *better* because your body is in it. the world is better because you are in it.

me: *a hopeless romantic without a single ounce of romance in her life*

Bringing this one back, while I’m reminded.

i think it's nice that people write books and it's possible to read them. often through the public library system

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