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I'm so tired. I sketched a bit. Having a rough one. I figured out how to hold a squishmallow against my abdomen to pull at the incisions less. I feel like I did a lot of damage already, but I could just as easily not be doing damage at all and just don't understand these sensations yet of removing the vile thing in the first place. I hope everything is fine. The right one looks most bruised, which they said was to be expected, but the sensation of gives orc isn't.... I don't know how to explain it. It isn't right.

That's the other rub. Fibromyalgia amplifies my pain, but I'm only on day.... what, for or five, and I'm down to two extra strength Tylenol a day? And it doesn't hurt anywhere near what I've experienced before. It's....all weird. Idk.

Well, based on the email I just received from my surgeon, I have definitely overdone it. I don't know how to prevent this from happening.

#hysterectomy #endometrial cancer #endometrial adenocarcinoma #uterine cancer #fibromyalgia #chronic pain #adenomyosis

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When I asked about the situation last year, I believe, (it's hard to remember. The "zine" has taken so long I can no longer keep track of the timeframe and I think I got kicked from the server, I genuinely can't remember leaving) I was accused of not respecting a mod's boundaries, when all I asked was for answers on why the admins/moderators had more pieces in the main book, while others got pushed into the digital copy. They implied I was being a Karen when I was expressing the disappointment I was reading from so many. Their lack of professionalism for something as big as this project really left a bad taste in my mouth. I'll never work with this team again. I learned that vetting the creators of a zine is important. It was the first horrible experience I had with a fanzine, but it will definitely be the most memorable for quite some time. This project had so much potential and it was squandered.

the drops of moonlight zine nightmare

hello all, long time no post! you may remember (probably vaguely at this point) that i was participating in a Sailor Moon zine called Drops of Moonlight. you may also be aware that this zine has still not been released.

unfortunately at this point, i feel compelled to share that in addition to the long wait and lack of communication, the zine's organizers have repeatedly insulted and belittled their contributors. i've put together the following Google Doc with information detailing the general poor conduct of the organizers of this zine.

if i could go back and not touch this zine with a 40 foot pole, i sure would! thanks for reading!

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I slept in and just woke up, so here's what I've been able to figure out while sipping coffee:

Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.

The official branding is that a tweet is now called "an X", for which there are too many jokes to make.

The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn't reclaim the username first.

The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.

Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name "X" in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for "X" in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.

The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term "X Japan" is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.

Elon had workers taking down the "Twitter" name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says "er".

He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as "Xvideo". Nobody tell him.

This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.

Edit to add further developments:

Yes, this is all real. Check the notes and people have pictures. I understand the skepticism because it feels like a joke, but to the best of my knowledge, everything in the above is accurate.

Microsoft also owns the trademark on X for chatting and gaming because, y'know, X-box.

The logo came from a random podcaster who tweeted it at Musk.

The act of sending a tweet is now known as "Xeet". They even added a guide for how to Xeet.

The branding change is inconsistent. Some icons have changed, some have not, and the words "tweet" and "Twitter" are still all over the place on the site.

TweetDeck is currently unaffected and I hope it's because they forgot that it exists again. The complete negligence toward that tool and just leaving it the hell alone is the only thing that makes the site usable (and some of us are stuck on there for work).

This is likely because Musk was forced out of PayPal due to a failed credit line project and because he wanted to rename the site to "X-Paypal" and eventually just to "X".

This became a big deal behind the scenes as Musk paid over $1 million for the domain X.com and wanted to rebrand the company that already had the brand awareness people were using it as a verb to "pay online" (as in "I'll paypal you the money")

X.com is not currently owned by Musk. It is held by a domain registrar (I believe GoDaddy but I'm not entirely sure). Meaning as long as he's hung onto this idea of making X Corp a thing, he couldn't be arsed to pay the $15/year domain renewal.

Bloomberg estimates the rebranding wiped between $4 to $20 billion from the valuation of Twitter due to the loss of brand awareness.

The company was already worth less than half of the $44 billion Musk paid for it in the first place, meaning this may end up a worse deal than when Yahoo bought Tumblr.

One estimation (though this is with a grain of salt) said that Twitter is three months from defaulting on its loans taken out to buy the site. Those loans were secured with Tesla stock. Meaning the bank will seize that stock and, since it won't be enough to pay the debt (since it's worth around 50-75% of what it was at the time of the loan), they can start seizing personal assets of Elon Musk including the Twitter company itself and his interest in SpaceX.

Sesame Street's official accounts mocked the rebranding.

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lems guide on drawing teeth

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Been working on my reactive for my affiliate anniversary this Friday. I'm gonna be playing a game called SOMA. All I know is that the creators of the amnesia franchise have something to do with it. I'm both scared and excited for it to arrive already. I'll be working on lining and coloring the speaking and non speaking reactives tomorrow for stream.

#skwiggerton #art #skwiggerton draws #skedoodles #vtuber #artstream #envtuber

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Random things going on in my life~ I tried this Dr. Pepper flavor and sort of enjoyed it, I worked on a reactive for my SO so he could play games with me on stream from time to time, I was given this neck fan as a gift by my SO (he surprised me on stream with it), and I got my next journal. My first one is around half written in, and the business I ordered from is based in Australia, so it takes a minute to get here. Their merchandise is amazing. It's all book and stationary supplies. The journals have fantastic paper, too. I like to get the black pages as opposed to the lined or gridded paper. They make me feel like I'm wasting valuable writing space, to be honest.

Oh! I got this anatomical skull on the recommendation from a friend and it is too awesome. It's in pieces, but here together with magnets, so you can easily look at the different parts of the skull more closely.

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Thinking of doing a color study of these flowers I spotted at the nursery the other day. They're so freaking pretty. QAQ

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I went on a beach trip with my best friend and we decided to do a little OFMD Blackbeard X Stede Bonnet cosplay shoot!

My solo shots!

And of COURSE we had to do…. THE KISS

Cheers, M’dears! 💖🏴‍☠️💖

Stede: @chocokanra in IG

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I wish you didn’t have to go.

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997 - 2003) ⏤ 5.22, The Gift

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draculina #1 and 2 variant covers

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Tonight Belongs To You - Submitted by @iwouldlovetoeatyourtoast

#421a22 #222431 #cfa096 #6b6f70 #bc4058

#palette inspiration

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I've been pretty quiet, so here's a WIP of the reason for my silence. Gotta hit the pavement running and I am challenging myself in a very powerful way. It's been almost a year since I last picked up my traditional mediums and actually worked on something.

I'm going to put everything into this and love as much of the process as I can.

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Aw snap here we go again

It looks like I'll be posting more on here again. Expect to see art WIPs and sketches on here. For complete pieces, visit my website

#skedoodles #skwiggerton

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#artstream starting at 12pm cst. Will be finishing up #lallorona because I'm determined to get it done! Link is in bio. #traditionalartist #art #skwiggerton #mixedmediaart #mixedmediaartist

#traditionalartist #mixedmediaart #art #skwiggerton #lallorona #mixedmediaartist #artstream

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#artwip things are going slow, but they're still moving. #lallorona #weepingwoman #skwiggerton #mixedmedia #art #horror #lore

#horror #art #skwiggerton #mixedmedia #weepingwoman #lore #artwip #lallorona

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#stream is live on #picarto ! https://picarto.tv/skwiggerton I will be working on the traditional arts! #traditionalartist #instaart #mixedmedia #lallorona

#traditionalartist #instaart #picarto #lallorona #mixedmedia #stream