me, trying to write someone drinking space whiskey without knowing what whiskey tastes like: maybe i’ll just describe what whiskey shouldn’t taste like.
Rex found it hard to be annoyed about his personal misfortune when he got to drink something that didn’t taste like it’d been scraped off the underside of a still in someone’s garage.
On the other hand, when would he get another chance at whiskey that hadn’t been fermented beneath a speeder with a leaky coolant line?
“Last thing I drank was beer that could’ve been used as engine lubricant. It was slippery. First two rookies to taste it puked in the gutter. I’d order the rest of the battalion to quit letting Fives procure alcohol if I thought I could enforce it.”
me, a person who should not be allowed to write: nailed it.
This is fucking delightful and so much more evocative of the BS he has to put up with.
Luo Li Rong’s
figurative sculptures evoke movement and intrigue, whether it’s the
artist’s feminine, graceful figures or her otherworldly creatures. The
China-born, Belgium-based artist has received several high honors,
including commissions for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. A statement
talks about the varied influences of the sculptor.
“In Belgium she remains true to her principles,” Art Center HOres
says. “She continues with her work and concentrates on the techniques of
the sculptors of Europe from the Renaissance, Baroque and other
periods. Her sculptures dazzle the viewer with their beauty,
craftsmanship and above all femininity.”
The artist is a graduate of the Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Because I feel like it’s going to come up a lot: readers may recognize the sculpture of the woman with the flute. Images of the statue were mistakenly seized upon by men on Twitter, who believed that it was the creation of a white man, and thus, they stated, it was evidence of how nobody but white men can make art. This was a magnificent trainwreck that gave onlookers much joy, as, obviously the artist is Luo Li Rong.(A brief recap here: https://www.someecards.com/news/so-that-happened/ivan-throne-twitter-alt-right-sculpture-luo-li-rong/ but it’s also been viral on Twitter and Tumblr for a year.)
HOWEVER, Luo Li Rong’s art is clearly much bigger and more important than those silly comments by pissants, and her work speaks for itself. There is so much to appreciate in her use of things like gesture and texture. It’s so nice to see these beautiful and interesting examples, and to really get to grips with admiring the way she dresses/accessorizes, which is also important and deserves our time.
BUT ALSO: omg those faceless furred entities with colorful arms and legs. Fuck me. Those are what is getting me. I am fuckin RESONATING with the very first one. It genuinely looks like a living being made of improbable materials IN ADDITION to being a rare and valuable #horrible thing with arms. Good art. Good Art
People have no idea what I do to try and help the planet. They have no clue the lengths I go to to live in an environmentally friendly house and to minimize my impact on the earth.
I even wrote a god damn article about environmental activism vs performative activism in the Zero Waste movement, and gave examples on how to live a more eco-friendly life.
It’s ugh, it’s whatever. People are going to complain no matter what. At least I’ll be hydrated while they do it.
Are y’all five and can’t drink from a glass without a straw?
I have profound nerve damage in my face and throat that prevents proper muscle function. I also have cfs and other muscle problems. I recently discovered that using straws helps to alleviate some of the pain and difficulty out of being able to drink fluids, because it puts less strain on certain muscles. This means that for the first time in over two years, I have been able to finish a glass of water without choking. So no, not five. Just very fortunate to be alive.
Have a good day, and I hope life is kind to you.
Truly unfortunate. Get a washable reusable metal straw.
As I have explained many, many, many times in the last 48 hours, this is not a feasible option for me, or many disabled people like me.
If you would like to know more, here is an informative video with captions to explain it:
Please watch it.
can people PLEASE stop being condescending fuckwits and actually fucking pay attention to what disabled people say about this topic, especially given, YES, how absolutely fucking performative this straw ban is
My face is having uncontrollable spasms. Great. It hurts really, really, really bad.
I think part of why I have trouble explaining pain to the doctor is when they ask about the pain scale I always think “Well, if someone threw me down a flight of stairs right now or punched me a few times, it would definitely hurt a lot more” so I end up saying a low number. I was reading an article that said that “10” is the most commonly reported number and that is baffling to me. When I woke up from surgery with an 8" incision in my body and I could hardly even speak, I was in the most horrific pain of my life but I said “6” because I thought “Well, if you hit me in the stomach, it would be worse.”
I searched and searched for the post this graphic was from, and the OP deactivated, but I kept the graphic, because my BFF does the same thing, uses her imagination to come up with the worst pain she can imagine and pegs her “10″ there, and so is like, well, I’m conscious, so this must be a 5, and then the doctors don’t take her seriously. (And she then does things like driving herself to the hospital while in the process of giving birth. Probably should have called an ambulance for that one!)
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”.
I hate reposting stuff, but I’ll never find that post again and OP is deactivated, so, here’s a repost. I can delete this later, i just wanted to get it to you and I can’t embed images in a chat or an ask.
This is possibly why it took several weeks to diagnose my fractured spine.
Pain Scale transcription:
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.
0 – I have no pain.
It’s also really important to get this kind of scale to people who have chronic pain, because chronic pain drastically lowers your perception of how “bad” any kind of pain actually is, and yet something like this pain scale is extremely user friendly.
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.
Hugging is like my number one comforter. If I’m breaking down the thing I need is warmth, security and stability. If I’m breaking, someone has to hold me until I can hold on to myself again. My point is that I want to see people in anime hug more…
I just got a car and started driving again so I was thinking about some safety things for D/deaf/HoH drivers. One huge concern is the possibility of being pulled over and encountering the police.
I have a magnet similar to this on my car in case of that situation
I also keep a notepad and pen in my glove box with my insurance card and registration. I keep everything is in one place so I won’t have to reach around and look like i’m searching for “something”
cleaning with ADHD is a nightmare. it’s an endless cycle of finding a half-finished chore and stopping the one you were already working on, then remembering that something else needs to be done and getting started on that, then finding half-finished chore and
i have the solution! i call it ‘junebugging’.
have you ever seen a junebug get to grips with a window screen? it’s remarkably persistent, but not very focused. all that matters is location.
how to junebug: choose the location you feel you can probably get some shit done on today. be specific. not ‘the bathroom’ but ‘the bathroom sink’. you are not choosing a range, you are choosing a center; you will move around, but your location is where you’ll keep coming back to. mentally stick a pin in it. consider yourself tethered to that spot by a long mental bungee cord.
go to your location. look at stuff. move stuff around. do a thing. get distracted. remember you’re junebugging the bathroom sink and go back there. look at it some more. do a different thing. get distracted. get a sandwich. remember you’re junebugging and go back to the bathroom sink.
nt’s will go crazy watching you, and if they demand to know When You Will Be Done you will probably have to roll them in a carpet and stuff them up the chimney. you’re done when you feel done, or you’re too bored to live, or it’s bedtime, or any number of other markers, you get to pick. but the thing is, by returning repeatedly to that one spot, you harness the ‘hyperactivity’ part instead of wasting all that energy battling with the ‘attention deficit’ part.
not only will the bathroom sink almost certainly be clean, and probably the mirror and soap dish too, you might’ve swapped in a fresh toothbrush, a new soap, you might’ve unclogged the drain – you will probably also have cleaned or fixed up several things in the near vicinity, or in the path between the sink and where you get the fresh toothbrush, or maybe you did your grocery shopping cuz you were out of soap, or maybe you couldn’t find a clean hand towel and ended up doing laundry.
this is good. you got shit done! it wasn’t necessarily Cleaned The Bathroom in the way nt’s think of it, but screw ‘em. things are better than they were.
plus you worked off enough energy to be able to sleep. which is not small potatoes when living the ADHD life. 😀
Don’t let the adorable name fool you—this is some Seriously Good Advice. May be useful for brain fog and depression, too!
this works best for me when i pop between rooms doing tasks in one area. so i’ll put away my clothes in the bedroom. there were some kitchen towels in the laundry, so i go to the kitchen and put those away. while i’m there, i put away some stuff on the counter. i find something that belongs in the bathroom. go put that away. while i’m there, pour some bleach on everything. back to the bedroom, find another task, continue until i get tired.
if your friend gives you a small object and you forget to take it out of your jacket pocket it becomes a protective talisman. when you next wear that jacket and your hand closes around it inside the pocket you will Know
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