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⬇⬇⬇ marcille 🤝 nozaki ⬇⬇⬇

#dungeon meshi #gsnk

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wenis comp

#I got the first one blazed to me this morning and I had a gut feeling it was staged #but only because i KNOW that the show fucks with you/the contestants on purpose #save tag

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for some reason people really love my luna and celestia designs so i drew them again with some little changes :-) yay!

she doesnt know how to dance btw

#mlp

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yeah Romeo and Juliet suuucks they should’ve both survived at the end and lived happily ever after instead. but of course the writer kills them both off for shock value.

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Hello,

I feel like I may have EDS, but I’m really not sure. Recently I’ve injured myself and can’t move as I did before (especially my hands). What type doctor diagnosed you with EDS? I’m looking up signs of EDS online and a many of the figures hit a little too close to home, but I’ve never been super flexible, like I can’t do the splits or anything like that.

Ooft, ouch. Sorry about the injury :(

So there's a difference between flexible (muscles, tendons) and hypermobile (joint), so it's very possible to have EDS and be hypermobile but not hyper-flexible!

I'm not considered overly flexible (I can't do the splits either!), but a lot of my joints are hypermobile, which is why I was diagnosed with hEDS (hypermobile EDS) and not cEDS (classical EDS).

I was evaluated by a specialist almost by sheer chance. I went to see her about my mast cell issues, and when she shook my hand upon greeting me, she looked down at how my finger joints flexed in her hand, looked back up a my face, and said, "Oh, this is now an ehlers danlos screening."

So that's how I got diagnosed. After years of being told I wasn't flexible enough by rheumatologists, an expert recognized that I was hypermobile instead and diagnosed me correctly based on a series of tests. Since then, I've been able to visit EDS-aware physical therapists who have all confirmed that my body is weird and needs special attention to hypermobility muscle retraining.

It can be really overwhelming trying to find a knowledgeable healthcare provider, so if you haven't already, I'd recommend checking out the Ehlers Danlos Society healthcare professional directory:

This is a curated list of EDS-aware and EDS-specialist doctors from patients around the world. Hopefully, you'll be able to find someone or at least a better idea of where to start.

Good luck with your health journey-- I hope things can improve for you soon.

#ehlers danlos syndrome

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Sending my unconditional love to addicts and people with horrible compulsions and people who are suicidal and everyone who feels utterly alone and all the psychotic people who society disdains and the homeless and people who feel lost and everyone who doesn't want to get better and people seeking vindication and people who can't let go and people who are undesired. I love you all so much.

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Because folks liked my latest pigeon comic so much, here's another pigeon piece!

I made this a couple years ago for a sadly now defunct publication called Pipe Wrench. I hope this piece helps spread more pigeon love.

#animals #comic

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thinking more about authorial insecurity in fiction... it truly is frustrating to me when an author is clearly ashamed of their own premises, or is preemptively responding to imagined criticism. this is where you get a lot of unfunny humor about how stupid genre conventions are and how Unrealistic fantastical/speculative elements are. like ultimately the reason that authors undercut and overexplain their own works is because they're insecure about audience reaction and want to get ahead of the haters by proclaiming that they're Not Cringe. this will not work because I, the ultimate hater, will eventually find them and make one million posts about how much I despise irony poisoning

#I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS LATELY #and I was telling this to my mom today too #not exactly the thing this post is talking about but very very closely related #maybe it’s just me but people seem to be afraid of the emotional moments of their story not landing properly for a hypothetical viewer #so they preemptively undercut themselves by not showing the reaction to something that happened #or making the event not as hard hitting as it could’ve been #or brushing over character’s emotional reactions to things #it’s. kinda something that’s been in the back of my mind for a long time that I couldn’t really put words to #but I did recently because I’ve been rewatching the cardfight vanguard anime #yknow. an anime that was made to sell trading cards. it it goes hard on the emotional payoffs #and general emotional reactions to things #the reason I’m rewatching it is because I remember almost everything about it from when I was 12 (I am now 20) #and the reason I remember so much is because it was memorable. because when it had something it went for it #I’m showing my parents arcane rn and I’m noticing the same thing with that #and I think I’m right bc they were thrown off by how intense that show is. which surprised me #its events are hardly more intense than anything else they watch. but it sits in the emotional moments #it really feels them

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#west coast best coast #poll

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I think an underappreciated element of Leia's character is that even after days or weeks of ruthless interrogation interspersed with torture, she still had the presence of mind to identify a feature of the Stormtrooper who barged into her cell that she could mock.

#star wars

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Greetings bugs and worms!

This comic is a little different than what I usually do but I worked real hard on it—Maybe I'll make more infographic stuff in the future this ended up being fun. Hope you learned something new :)

If you are still curious and want to learn more about OCD, you can visit the International OCD Foundation's website. I also recommend this amazing TED ED video "Starving The Monster", which was my first introduction to the disorder and this video by John Green about his own experience with OCD.

The IOCDF's website can also help you find support groups, therapy, and has lots of online guides and resources as well if you or a loved one is struggling with the disorder. It is very comprehensive!

Reblog to teach your followers about OCD

(But also not reblogging doesn't make you evil, silly goose)

#ocd

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#studio ghibli #princess mononoke #q

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#smb

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Shannon Finnegan’s (@shanfinnegan) "Do you want us here or not" (2020) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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So proud of my mother for doing her own research after I sent her that meme. A sign she hung in her car window.