#tw pandemic

[mistergreatbones]

Jason dying at fifteen and then coming back as a jaded adult who’s still stuck in the past and unable to move on. He’s just like me fr (I was fifteen in 2020)

#tw covid #tw pandemic #jason todd

[dhampiravidi]

kool-aid: the zenith of society

It would be just her luck to be in one of the biggest cities in the US when the world ended. Everyone knew about the Colorado town that had fallen ill & then there was the chemical spill in the Mississippi, but people forgot about the 1st & of course, the government claimed to be fixing the 2nd tragedy. Next, the country fell sick. When other countries reported that their citizens were showing similar symptoms & dying, it became clear to the public that there was a problem. It was like all the other international crises: conspiracy theories, celebrities making social media posts, public service announcements...

Until certain people got powers & 75% of the world had died. All of a sudden, the global panic that already existed skyrocketed. Los Angeles definitely was impacted, seeing as how there were fires, looters & screaming everywhere. The hospitals were filled to capacity. & Jas needed food. She & her roommates had been sharing their last few snacks & bottled water (thank goodness they'd stocked up when they had), but then it turned out that Adrienne had been sneaking out to see her boyfriend (despite their quarantine agreement). Suddenly she was sick. Nancy followed soon after, since they shared a room. Jas tried her best to stay in her room, unable to fly out to see her parents (not like LAX would be safe anyway). Two days later, she realized she was hydrokinetic when she took a shower.

Anyway, Jas had packed a backpack with bottled water, a small First Aid kit, two books, a handheld notepad, all the cash she had left & her phone charger (actual cellphone held in her sweatshirt pocket). She had read about some kind of government or volunteer (unclear which) convoy going around, trying to help survivors by providing clean water, transportation & food. It was supposed to be going through the city, a 20-minute drive from her apartment.

Well, after getting into a car crash that sprained her non-dominant wrist, she had to walk alongside the freeway. She ended up in whatever area, tired but proud of herself. & all of a sudden, someone was poking a switchblade in her face, demanding her stuff. Jas froze, tears streaming down her cheeks as she quietly pleaded with them. Her powers couldn't help her; what were a few tears supposed to do?

@meepiedeepie

#jkw: thread #apocalypse rp #tw pandemic #pandemic tw #meepiedeepie #toxic relationship tw #tw: toxic relationship #cult tw #tw: cult

[kronoose]

Just thinking about how much community and like actual entertainment I've gotten from podcasts and hating that I put off actually listening to any for so long

I originally started wtnv the month the pandemic started then with nothing to do while I listened and getting drove insane by Spotify ads I dropped it until last year then I went buck wild for podcasts and have listened to 3 (wtnv TMA dndads) in full twice

I'm currently also working through cry havoc but I'm behind

#dungeons and daddies #welcome to night vale #the magnus archives #cry havoc #tw pandemic

[criminalmindsgonewrong]

throwback to the "we have been notified that you have been in close contact with someone with covid" texts

#what a time what a time what a TIME #tw pandemic #tw covid

[give-soup-please]

been thinking a lot about that tumblr post, the one about how even when friends move on from each other, their influence can still be found, like the person who taught their friend a specific way to roll sushi and all that. and how echos of friendships remain even after you stop seeing them on a regular basis. and it got me thinking about my cafe order tonight.

hot chocolate, with two extra pumps of vanilla and two extra pumps of peppermint. it's tooth shatteringly sweet, practically a hot desert in a cup. but it was the kind that my friend used to order around the holidays. I remember thinking her order was silly until she offered me some of hers, and it was transcendent to a 13 year old with a sugar obsession.

she and i haven't spoken in a long time. not since the pandemic started. She's still alive, but- a lot of friendships were transformed in 2020. there were plenty of people, (and i know i'm not the only one who did this), who we swore we would stay in contact with. but, life got in the way, and a lot of us sheltered in place both physically and emotionally. a lot of us withdrew into ourselves, and i don't know anyone who hasn't had a dramatic shift in their friend groups as a result.

all that to say, that even though she's no longer in my life, i still love her. and that's the thing. the love i feel didn't go, it transformed. it's no longer, 'oh-my-god-that's-my-best-friend', but more of a comfortable nostalgia for bygone days. an affection for who we were at that moment in time. i don't have a lot of mercy on my past self, because he made a lot of mistakes, but back then she and i would gossip for hours about celebrities, and tv, and our crushes. i think about those times, and something in my heart gets lighter instead of heavier.

I don't know, sometimes i get the feeling that love never really goes away. Once it's created, it never disappears completely.

so- for the people who haven't heard from old friends in a while- it's more than likely that we still love you. and we still think about you. and we smile at the fond memories we created together. we also grimace because the drinks we used to have as kids now cause tooth pain. still, it's worth it.

#soup rambles #nostalgia #tw pandemic #why did i write this? you tell me #i don't have time to question my own writing- someone else will have to

[masquerading-man]

Me: *has medical anxiety and ocd (im 99% sure)*

The universe: you know what would be funny…

Me:

The universe: *has a global pandemic*

Me: :’) ok

#contemplating mental health today :/ #tw covid #pandemic #tw pandemic #tw medical #medical anxiety #ocd #tw vent #vent #jj chats

[welcometoqueer]

I, who has congenital anosmia, find myself getting annoyed by all the people who talk about their loss of smell and/or taste since the start of Covid-19

Like I’m sympathetic, I also had Covid-19 (multiple times), it sucks and no one should have to experience it

but

I feel like people only started paying any attention to anosmia once it could/did affect them and even then they just complained about it like it was another of life’s mild annoyances, as though it’s not disabling.

Hell, most people I’ve talked to since the pandemic started didn’t even know anosmia was a thing and thought you could only lose your sense of smell by contracting Covid-19. Literally none of the people I’ve talked to knew it was something you could be born with or have for most of your life, they literally only thought about it as an unfortunate symptom until I explained it.

It’s just ughh…idk, makes me depressed and annoyed when I realize how few people outside those with anosmia actually know (or truly care if they do know) about the impairment.

Have any other anosmiacs experienced these feelings? Please tell me I’m not the only one

#congenital #anosmia #anosmatic #anosmic #tw pandemic #tw covid #idk if im making sense #please tell i’m not the only one #we need more awareness #just in general #is anosmia even a disability? #it’s certainly an impairment #and disabling #i’ll tag it just in case #impairment #impaired #disability #depressing #annoying #sensory disability

[morgynemberisagenderfluiddaddy]

Random fact #4

My vampires are FUCKED UP. They've got a little bit of a zombie, rotting corpse vibe. The idea was that vampirism is a symptom of an infection (kinda like 28 days later in a way)

Fact #4.5

I made up and wrote the virus long before the covid pandemic, and when the pandemic hit, I genuinely considered changing it, and was close to starting a second draft before I was STRONGLY advised not to.

#the pandemic was fun wasnt it? #izzy speaks but i really shouldnt #writing stuff #book stuff #tw pandemic

[little-peril-stories]

Happy STS, Kate!

Writing about a world other than our own involves choosing some elements of our world to include and others to leave out. In your writing, do any such elements stand out, like a real topic you put in your fictional setting, or a significant everyday detail of our world which doesn’t exist there?

Did anything work its way in without your intent, e.g. sayings or traditions or units of measurement you didn’t consciously include, but noticed later on? If so, did you remove them or leave them in place?

- @verkja

Thanks so much, @verkja, for the ask! Happy STS!

Hmm. My main stories (TPOT, TQOL) on here take place in our world (just heavily fictionalized) and my Tumblr fantasy, TCC, doesn't have much of a developed world at all, so I guess I'll draw on my non-Tumblr novels to answer. :)

In that... well, I "accidentally" included a pandemic in the past. I say "accidentally" because at this point I've written this damn book so many times I don't remember when I added/decided on/changed things. All I know is that at one point, the character had a birthmark and then later it became a scar, and it was from an illness, not an injury, and the illness was widespread, and hell if I know whether I made that decision before or after COVID.

In terms of mundane things? Workplaces and educational institutions are pretty organized in my world, and very based on real ones. My main character has a job (in a workplace with very clear rules, expectations, hierarchy, and structure), which she got by attending what we might call a vocational school and which differs from the more "formal" or "academic" universities that are also present. So I borrowed those concepts from real life.

Sayings? I'm still battling with whether to include "okay" to this day. And I had to consciously monitor which curses I was using - were they too reminiscent of our world? I meant to invent some original curses and. uh. forgot. [just checked the manuscript and apparently I used 'damn' seven times but nothing else.]

I included "miles," which is funny because I'm Canadian and don't understand miles at all, but I also don't think the metric system really works in a fantasy setting. 😂 I only used "inch" as a verb.

If I included anything unconsciously, I haven't become conscious of it yet. 😁

#happy sts! #storyteller saturday #covid mention #pandemic mention #tw covid #tw pandemic #verkja #thanks for the ask! #worldbuilding

[i-may-be-an-emu]

Honestly the 20s will go down in history, its only been 3 years and we've had a plauge, climate change, political crap, stupid AI stuff, and natural disasters and stuff go down. Like no.

#tw pandemic #tw covid #Tw AI #tw ai art #tw climate change #tw politics #tw natural disaster

[polarisbibliotheque]

Little update ^^

Well, well, who'd've known, yours truly is reckless and got Covid "-.-

I blame Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard and my constant love for going to concerts after such a long time in this godforsaken lockdown :)

(my Dante side is showing)

Anyways, I'm isolated in my room now. I'm making this lil' update so I can tell you people: do take care of yourselves - but if you are in a risk group, take care of yourselves in double, please.

A year ago, my sister and my dad got Covid - they felt almost nothing. They just got really grumpy and locked in their rooms, waiting for the day of their sweet, sweet freedom. Apart from that, they felt only like a mild flu, nothing much.

As some of you know, I've an autoimmune liver disease - which puts me in risk group. I could barely get up yesterday - I slept the whole day, got up at 7 p.m, had fever the whole day and through the night, couldn't eat without feeling miserable and slept until 2 p.m today. My whole body hurts, my head also hurts really bad, I couldn't properly work on my artist tasks for the week, and I am so so so tired I think I'm gonna faint sometimes.

But worry not, I'm already feeling a little better today. I think the worst day was yesterday. Hopefully by next week I'll already be ok regarding this.

I'm just writing all this because seriously, we all react differently. I was so scared to get Covid and everyone kept telling me like "oh, it's ok, don't worry, if you get it you'll feel like a flu and in 2 days you're good" - I've been feeling like this for 4 days now. I'm really sick and miserable.

Point being: my reactions to this are VERY different than everyone else's and I'm not being too over the top when I'm still wearing masks and taking care of myself when going out.

Don't let anyone make you feel bad for taking care of your health too. It's better to look like a weirdo than being sick like this, trust me ;)

My mom, in the other hand, is taking relentless care of me and is the one single being in this household to seem not to get sick. I say she's like Highlander, nothing can touch her.

Seriously. The woman ate a dead oyster in her youth and only felt a little sick in a flight home. She is the toughest being I've ever seen in my whole life. She got an Extreme Unction from a priest who thought she was going to die when she was like 12 years old and, lo and behold, the woman persevered.

Greek half-immortal heroes know nothing compared to my mom.

I do think Eva is pretty much like her in that department, no demonic or human disease could touch her

All in all, everything is fine. I'll take this isolation time to draw like a mad-woman, be more serious when studying languages, learning to play the guitar properly and writing more stuff to you guys.

I'll keep you all posted! And remember TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES DESPITE WHAT THE WORLD THINKS OF IT!

#polaris speaks #life update #covid #covid 19 #tw covid #tw pandemic #pandemic #I'm putting all these in the tags so people who don't want to see pandemic related things don't have to read it #I do hope it works #but yeah all in all don't worry about me #I'm miserable but fine HAHAHAHA #it's not like I haven't been sick for the past 4 years almost #I'm just really disappointed at myself #I'm feeling like a foolish reckless woman who should've known better #(yeah yeah my Vergil's showing) #nevertheless I'll be here more I think #'cause I'm stranded in my bedroom now #*empty smile*

[loveyourlovelysoul]

These recent years have been (and are) pretty tough: pandemic and viruses, lockdown, wars, repressions... it has been (and still is) difficult to live in such a complicated worldwide environment. Many of our triggers and fears have surely found a good ground to come back to surface and try to bug us and play with us: all the stress related to living, working, maybe having social interactions, and sticking up to society's standandars despite all that is going on around, is literally sending our mental and emotional health to places. For this reason, I think we all need to be a little kinder and understanding of ourselves, and others too. It's not easy to go on like this. I hope you all recognize you've been (and are, everyday) doing a great job. You're enduring a lot and you totally deserve accolades. Hope you remember this every second of your life.

#words #healing #positivity #self love #important #positive thinking #healingjourney #thoughts #love yourself #self healing #life #life lessons #tw war #tw illness #tw pandemic #tw repression #my congrats to y'all #self care #self help #self worth #self esteem #mental health #recovery

[romeoandjulietyouwish]

omggg that would be awful, cause things were especially rough for all health care workers, he misses his girlfriend, he misses his sister, he still vividly remembers the day things got worse and he sat in his car and called keyleth saying he didn't think it would be safe for him to come home tonight.

The only good thing, is that he has Pike with him. And she misses Scanlan and Grog more than anything too. He probably could tell that things were starting to get hard and bad, and there just came a point, even before quarantine, that he knew he couldn't risk it to go home, no matter how badly he wants to go home and let Keyleth hug him and tell him everything will be alright.

#modern au #critical role #vox machina #vaxleth #lis makes hcs #tw pandemic

[scarecrow-brainrot]

I kinda finally made a drawing!

They both wear their masks in public <3

#this is an extremely self indulgent drawing but I don’t care lol #*cougb cough* coping mechanism who?? #they’re both smiling under the masks btw <3 #Ed was sooo hard to draw but somehow came out looking 10x better #ainos’ fanart! #Ed #Oswald #tw covid #tw pandemic #tw medical #nygmobblepot

[cannibalsamruby]

Feel free to rb, I'm curious what my fellow college dropouts' reasons are, if you're up for sharing!

#poll #college #university #college dropout #university dropout #tw pandemic #mental health