#need to get on a supplement for that

[lampregistration3000]

So like it turns out the depression was a lack of physical activity and a debilitating vitamin d deficiency, lmao

[katabay]

earlier this year I started writing a comic about the siege perilous-grail quest situation after finally finishing the didot perceval, and it started circling around kay and perceval. kay as gatekeeper, taboo anxiety vs chivalry, and perceval not doing things "correctly," arthur's enduring affection for kay. that general area. also the horror of the grail quest itself.

this is comic is part of that narrative arc, so with THAT in mind: this is an abridged scene of a longer arc revolving around kay associating camelot with a cage, perceval's associations with jewelry and knighthood and the color red, and arthur's relationship with kay.

[some other scene context: perceval has injured his hand and can't participate in the tournaments, so he's craving some kind of fight. kay is disinterested in replying to this challenge, but he's not above reminding perceval of their first meeting. it's just mean enough in a weird-intimate kind of way that perceval's like, ok so we're doing the antagonistic version of court romance rituals. he picks up hunting because kay can't leave the castle.]

on the subtext of jewelry:

Clothes Make the Man: Parzival Dressed and Undressed, M.D. Amey

on the topic of kay, gatekeeping, and taboo anxiety:

Cei and the Arthurian Legend, Linda Gowans

the whole Red Knight/Perceval Shows Up In A Dead Man's Suit Of Armor transgression-situation (which kay references through red jewelry) mentioned is told in both de Troye's and Wolfram's Perceval narratives :)

anyway! to close out all this out: the transgressions. incredible! what is camelot but a bunch of transgressions stacked on top of each other tbh.

[something-universe]

They send Vulpes out for a recon mission and he comes back with overgrown hair + acne from stress and a poor diet and then Caesar forces him to go bald cause he sort of looks like a shadow of the teenage girl he (Vulpes) never was and that’s kind of disturbing

[cerealforkart]

oooOOO the one scene I'm obsessed w. Grant telling Linc way back in like s2e7? to not be like him

Dungeons and Daddies | Episode 7: The Gofast Club

Top 10 fucked up things a dad has said to his kid on this show

[starleska]

my god. guys. just gotta scream about some medical stuff for a second. you know how i've been ill for quite some time. like really nastily ill. bizarre migraines, constant fatigue/joint pain, awful depressive mood swings? well, alongside some proper migraine meds, my doctor prescribed me vitamin D tablets. and the black cloud is gone. the fatigue is gone. the pain is gone. what!!!!!!!! 😭😭😭 this reinforces my belief that vitamin/mineral deficiencies can be extra insidious for neurodivergent folks because we're so used to ignoring our pain, and our difficulties with eating a wide range of foods/getting outside enough/breaking our routine/etc. set us up to be deficient!! 💔

to be clear, my doctor and the NHS say that folks in my country ought to be taking vitamin D supplements during the winter months anyway. it's actually mandated for everyone and i had no idea. just. enormous relief. getting my bloods done in a couple of weeks to confirm, but i wasn't expecting such an immediate effect 😳 so if anyone's been feeling unusually fatigued, sick, with disturbed menstrual cycles, migraines and moodswings, and there's no underlying cause...see if you can get your bloods checked, and consult with your doctor. especially if you're ND/get less sunlight/have a restricted diet!!!!

[tj-crochets]

So this is less of a crafting update, more of a health update, but I just had my first solid week of not needing any Benadryl in months!!!!

Like, first time since before my doc advised going off of one of my meds and then it turned out that medication was, in fact, treating something. My max record for the last several months was three days without needing Benadryl in a row and I’ve more than doubled it!!! I still have a ways to go in getting my health back where it was (and getting to the point I can craft more regularly again) but I had that Benadryl realization today and I am so so happy to have evidence that I’m getting better

[pseudophan]

i have a doctors appointment at 8:45am which like is that SUPER early no maybe not but to me it's evil. eeeevil evil evil. it's entirely my own fault as well, i just want to check my vitamin levels and also i'm several years behind on the annual iron check i'm supposed to do but ugh the effort

[miodiodavinci]

(empty look of death)

[beachhotdog]

after 10 years i have finally given in and set up a dining room table

which is just dragging the patio set inside

bonus, Little Puff as a donut

[quibbs126]

Something that makes me sad is that it doesn’t seem like the more recent Transformers series get any supplementary material to further explore their worlds and characters

Like Animated has the AllSpark Almanac, Prime has a bunch of stuff because it’s part of Aligned, but if you wanted you could probably just say the Covenant of Primus, G1 also is chock full of stuff because there’s so many spin-offs that supposedly take place in the same universe as it, and I mean there’s technically two versions of it between the cartoon and the Marvel comics, and hell even the Bayverse movies had tie-in comics explaining the origins of the war and certain characters, from what I gather

Meanwhile, as far as I can tell, neither Cyberverse nor Earthspark have really had anything outside of the shows themselves to really delve into the details of the world that they can’t get into in the show, and I think that’s a real shame

Earthspark in particular, because I want to know more details about the war and how it started, but the show won’t go into it. And I understand why they might not touch on it, because the point of the show is to explore the post-war situation of the Transformers, but can we not have some sort of guidebook that delves into this history? You could even market it as like, an in-universe guide made by the Autobots, or maybe Alex since he’s very knowledgeable on Cybertronian history, possibly even GHOST but they might be outdated at this rate (and probably biased), to explain to the younger characters the basics on the war

I personally would just really like to get more information on these worlds, and it’s a shame Hasbro doesn’t seem to be giving us that like they would prior

[swamp-world]

You should read Kimberlé Crenshaw. You should read Iris Marion Young. You should read bell hooks. You should read Kate Borenstein. You should read Angela Davis. You should read S. Bear Bergman. Ivan Coyote. Jack Halberstam. Leslie Feinberg. You should read Audre Lorde and Judith Butler. Miss Major and Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson. Yes it is a lot of work. No I have not read them all myself either. Yes it is essential. I see people naming them all the time on here only to terribly misunderstand or undercut or tokenize them. If we are going to talk about feminisms we have an obligation to read feminists. Listen to their speeches and interviews. People have spent decades before us laying groundwork definitions and concepts. We do not have to accept them as they are but to do that work to accept, reject, or modify these theories and definitions and ideas, but we do have to actually take the time to read them ourselves and not just commentary on them, or excerpts or simplified summaries, whether that's in books or online.

[thelemonsnek]

Oh while I'm here and posting stuff. I've recently gone from collecting images for my own purposes, to creating a Hisui/PLA centric archive with as much official art as I can get my grubby little hands on. If anyone has or knows about any obscure official art or merch with art on it, I'd be verrrry grateful for any help anyone has!

[image id: art of Irida exclaiming in surprise and joy, holding her hands in front of her mouth. End id]

And, does anyone have a preference on where the archive be stored? I want it to be easily accessible to the general public, while still being viable long term. My fallback for stuff like this in the past has been google drive, but if anyone has any better ideas I'd love to hear :) tbh I was considering my neocities page, given how little I trust google these days

I'd love to hear your thoughts!!

[tj-crochets]

I'm not iron deficient anymore!!! :D I just got the blood test results back and for once I had a fixable problem and it is fixed*!!!! *well okay my total iron saturation % is still a little low but the rest of my numbers are in the normal range! Even ferritin!! My ferritin levels have almost quadrupled and are now in the normal range!!! :D

[the-meme-monarch]

watching a critical analysis video on hello neighbor and having to remind myself that The Game Is, In Fact, Pretty Bad Actually and that just bc I actually know the story (thanks to Being Here since the beginning of its development and reading its supplemental material(books)) doesn’t mean the game actually makes sense as a stand alone piece

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

I need to do my daily paperwork, I need to charge my phone, I need to eat something, I need to lay down before I collapse, I need to relax before my head explodes, I need to take a shower and wash my clothes for next week, I need to do my physio routine so my body doesn't lock up worse, I need to refill my water, I need to go pee, good fucking god no goddamn wonder I can barely keep my shit together I have been awake for FOUR HOURS and I only have seven hours until I go back to bed????

[unknownunseenunheard]

Crylo Ren's backstory as presented in the sequels becomes stupider the more you think about it

Kylo: Uncle Luke foresaw that I'd kill all the other students and fall, and I found him looming over me while I was sleeping

Rey: Oh my god, what did you do?

Kylo: I brought a tiny shack down on his head then slaughtered all the other students

Rey:

Rey, to Luke: How could you make him do this?