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So I found this and sent it to her. Because this is what they want to know: how badly is this pain affecting you? Not on a scale of “nothing” to “how I’d imagine it’d feel if bears were eating my still-living guts while I was on fire”. 

10 - I am in bed and I can’t move due to my pain. I need someone to take me to the emergency room because of my pain.

9 - My pain is all that I can think about. I can barely move or talk because of my pain.

8 - My pain is so severe that it is difficult to think of anything else. Talking and listening are difficult.

7 - I am in pain all the time. It keeps me from doing most activities.

6 - I think about my pain all of the time. I give up many activities because of my pain.

5 - I think about my pain most of the time. I cannot do some of the activities I need to do each day because of the pain.

4 - I am constantly aware of my pain but can continue most activities.

3 - My pain bothers me but I can ignore it most of the time.

2 - I have a low level of pain. I am aware of my pain only when I pay attention to it.

1 - My pain is hardly noticeable.

For example, if someone asked me how much pain I’m in at any given time, I’d say hardly any, and yet I’m apparently at a chronic 2.5, and it only goes up from there depending on the day. 

10: can barely move; can’t talk

9: can barely move; can talk

8: can move, but can’t do much more than watch TV

7: can watch TV and play a game on my phone simultaneously

6: can do work on my computer lying in bed

5: can get around the house, but definitely couldn’t go out

4: can run a light errand

3: can get in my 10,000 steps, making my fitbit happy

2: can do three or more activities in a single day

Mental Health Pain Scale transcription:

MILD

1 - Everything is a-okay! There is absolutely nothing wrong. You’re probably cuddling a fluffy kitten right now. Enjoy!

2 - You’re a bit frustrated or disappointed, but you’re easily distracted and cheered up with a little effort.

3 - Things are bothering you, but you’re coping. You might be overtired or hungry. The emotional equivalent of a headache.

MODERATE

4 - Today is a bad day (or a few bad days). You still have the skills to get through it, but be gentle with yourself. Use self-care strategies.

5 - Your mental health is starting to impact on your everyday life. Easy things are becoming difficult. You should talk to your doctor.

6 - You can’t do things the way you usually do them due to your mental health. Impulsive and compulsive thoughts may be hard to cope with.

SEVERE

7 - You’re avoiding things that make you more distressed, but that will make it worse. You should definitely seek help. This is serious.

8 - You can’t hide your struggles any more. You may have issues sleeping, eating, having fun, socialising, and work/study. Your mental health is affecting almost all parts of your life.

9 - You’re at a critical point. You aren’t functioning any more. You need urgent help. You may be a risk to yourself or others if left untreated.

Hi everyone!

We’re checking in with another update. We’re pleased to announce an official release time! Cinderella Phenomenon: Evermore will be releasing Tuesday, December 22nd at 6 am EST. Rest assured that we’ll post an official release update once the game is out as well, so keep an eye out on our social media accounts for that!

On that tangent, we’d like to update you on our STEAM situation. Unfortunately, we’ve been having difficulties getting the Evermore STEAM page up because of unforeseen complications. Rest assured the game will be available on itch.io for $9.99 on its release date, and will be the same price on STEAM once the game page is up. We apologize to everyone who wanted to play the game on STEAM when it released; we’ll keep you updated as to the release status as that information becomes available to us. Right now we do not have an estimated time of release, but it is likely the game will be available in January 2021.

Thank you all for your patience and understanding—just a little longer until you can again visit Angielle!

Stay safe and healthy!

Somebody is going around claiming that women’s clothes stopped having pockets so that we wouldn’t be able to carry witchcraft supplies

Her source?

“A women’s historian said so!”

(Which is true- in a fiction book. An alternate universe fiction book. An alternate universe fiction book about suffragist witches. With absolutely no claim that that element is taken from any real historical belief)

(Specifically an article that quotes that passage from said fiction book, with, again, no claim that it’s true. And this coming from an article that calls 18th-century pockets “little” and claims women were “still pocketless” in 1903- a time when large pockets were the norm for everyday skirts. Even THAT writer can properly contextualize fiction)

she DELETED ALL COMMENTS ON THE POST POINTING OUT THAT IT WASN’T TRUE

this woman is A GROWN ADULT PUBLISHED AUTHOR and she can’t take criticism of a FREAKING TWEET

Make Do and Mend: Darning

OMG DIAGONAL!!!

To keep it S–T–R–E–T–C–H–Y–!

Friendly reminder that Queer is approved by 72.9% of the people, and the groups who don’t prefer it’s use as an umbrella term are straight people, exclusionists, transmeds, truscums, sex-negative people, and sex work critical people (x).

Friendly reminder that aros and aces are excluded only 9.2% / 8.1% of the time respectively while being included  78.9% / 81.2% of the time (x)

Do you love me NOW, fandom??? Because I love you.

Scene request from an anon.

Comes a god who needs no introduction, but will probably get one anyway, since most people looking upon his glory for the first time react either with uproarious laughter or with an indrawn breath and the querulous demand, “What the hell is that?”

Gil doesn’t care.  Gil’s church encompasses the only known marine animal to be capable of photosynthesis.  The opinions of a few dry bipeds matter about as much to him as the opinions of a clam, and everyone with any sense knows that clams don’t have good opinions about anything, except for maybe sand.

Gil knows exactly what he is.  Gil is the small god of hidden potentials and beautiful things, the theater kid forced to hide his sequins before the gaze of a disapproving father, the gifted carpenter who can’t own her own hammer without her older brothers taking it away.  Gil sees beneath the masks and the draperies people use to hide themselves, and he knows what’s really there.  And he loves it.  Every misfit, every malcontent, he sees them all and loves them all and hopes they will all, eventually, be allowed to find their own way home.

And when the people who would keep his faithful small make their own frightened voices large and demand, “What the hell is that?”, Gil is more than happy to remind them that the law of tooth and claw looms largely in the sea, and even the nudibranch—pretty painted princess of the benthic that it is—is a fierce predator in its own right, capable of swallowing creatures larger than itself entirely down in a single gulp.  Gil will keep, protect, and defend what’s his, and if some of those same dry bipeds have a problem with it, well.

That’s their problem, isn’t it?

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Artist Lee Moyer (13th Age, Cursed Court) and author Seanan McGuire (Middlegame, Every Heart a Doorway) have joined forces to bring you icons and stories of the small deities who manage our modern world, from the God of Social Distancing to the God of Finding a Parking Space.

Join in each week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for a guide to the many tiny divinities:

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Hey all, a little Social Media PSA if you have the Facebook App on your phone. 

With the last update, Facebook began tracking something called ‘off-Facebook Activity’ which keeps up with all apps and browsing you do off of Facebook and collects that information with the purpose of targeting ads… which means they’re selling it to ad agencies. This includes access to any banking apps on your phone and your spending habits. 

 Not only is this a major breech of privacy that Facebook didn’t have to tell us about when they updated the app, it’s, of course, automatically turned on. 

From Facebook, go to the Menu by clicking on the three horizontal lines on the top right of the screen.

Scroll down to the bottom and select the Settings & Privacy drop-down menu.

Then select Settings (the first option under the drop-down).

This will take you to a screen showing multiple headers with lists of links under them

Scroll down to Your Facebook Information and select Off-Facebook Activity.

The next page has a short explanation of Off-Facebook Activity. Click Manage Your Off-Facebook Activity after the What You Can Do header.

This will take you to a screen with an option to Clear History (which I recommend). To actually turn off this feature, you will have to click the three dots at the top right of the screen and select the Manage Future Activity option that pops up.

This will take you to a page explaining in more detail what they’re doing. Select the Manage Future Activity at the bottom of the page.

THEN you can finally select the toggle to turn off Future Off-Facebook Activity. 

A new study released by the Entertainment Software Association has revealed that adult women now occupy the largest demographic in the gaming industry. Women over 18 made up a whopping 36 percent of the gaming population, followed by adult men at 35 percent.

“Women aren’t true gamers! They play Candy Crush!”

“Women aren’t true artisans! They are crafters!”

“Women aren’t true artists! They have hobbies!”

“Women aren’t true chefs! They are cooks!”

I am so tired of this bullshit.

Sorry, male gamers of Reddit and 4Chan, but Angry Birds only came out five years ago. Unless you want to try to argue that women have just been playing Bejeweled for the last 13 years, the math just doesn’t add up.

And while the total audience for mobile social games is now bigger than ever, the audience for computer and video games is now an even 50-50 split between male and female genders.”

Day dress ca. 1870-74

Court suit ca. 1800