#Ely Vial

[parkstone-international]

Art Nouveau - The marvels of joaillerie, bijouterie, silver, glass, mosaics and ceramics

Art Nouveau - The marvels of joaillerie, bijouterie, silver, glass, mosaics and ceramics

The text below is the excerpt from the book Art Nouveau (ISBN: 9781783103782), written by Jean Lahor, published by Parkstone International. “One can argue the merits and the future of the new decorative art movement, but there is no denying it currently reigns triumphant over all Europe and in every English-speaking country outside Europe; all it needs now is management, and this is up to men of…

[ashen-crest]

please have this low-effort meme inspired by another drawing of the meme from a reblog.

(inaccurate because you know my boy Ambrose wouldn't just willy nilly experiment on Eli for funsies without proper safety protocols but a girl can dream, right?)

[angelwiththeblue-box]

just finished gwen and art are not in love and it was such jkeu vibes i had to draw it

text free image below the cut!!

taglist: @wheelsupin-azarathmetrionzinthos @starstruckodysseys @offbookkeeping @socialtomcat @skunksintheportal @incorrect-play-it-by-ear @dapper-nahrwhale @thedragonemperess @joshkiszkashusband @depressedtransguy @genuine-possum @blueskiesandstarrynights (lemme know if u wanna be added or removed)

[eli-writes-sometimes]

Ok I love all of these characters and it's barely been ten pages

[skygemspeaks]

so i'm still thinking about a rival most vial and i can't stop imagining eli joining an adventurer party and as the new guy, he naturally becomes the errand boy

so they send him to the griffin's claw to restock on the potions they're going to need for their next job, but he comes back with way too much leftover money and everyone's like "hey eli, what the fuck did you do. please tell me you didn't steal these? come on we can't afford to get on mr beake's bad side, he owns the only decent potion shop in the entire scar"

but eli's like "no guys it's okay, i'm actually dating the owner, so i get the family discount"

no one believes him, because ambrose beake doesn't like ANYBODY, there's no way their sunshine himbo managed to woo him

so eli has no choice but to introduce the party to ambrose

and ambrose, who promised dawn he would try and be more sociable, makes small talk with the party, and at one point he jokes that, "yeah, i'll give your party discounts on all the potions you buy from me from now on, but in return you have to make sure nothing happens to my boyfriend's pretty face"

the party all get a kick out of that, and it ends up becoming a running joke for them

one time eli gets a black eye on a job and their archer starts wailing, "nooooo!! that's our money maker! quick, we gotta heal him! i can't go back to paying full price for healing potions. do you have any idea how many of those we go through per job?"

[world-of-fire-and-flight]

Book Review for A Rival Most Vial

First off all lemme tell y'all that I legit almost binge-read this book and the only reason I didn't was because it was a Sunday night and I knew I had a busy day the next day. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have put ARMV down....though I did pick up first thing in the morning and read it over breakfast. Now that we've got the facts/life of an ARC reader out of the way, let me tell you a little more about what I liked from A Rival Most Vial by writeblr's own, @ashen-crest😄

Review Excerpt (full review here):

Right from the very first chapter (or should I say "step 1" 😉) A Rival Most Vial had me hooked. Quirky, entertaining, and most importantly, full of lovable characters that had me turning the page and wanting to stay up to binge read it, Ashwick has wholly delivered a cozy fantasy romance. Not only did ARMV bring me back from the verge of a reading slump (brought on by a different yet popular fantasy franchise I might add), but it had me laughing, biting my lip, and cheering on this host of relatable characters. Ambrose, Eli, Dawn, and the whole cast of Rosemond Street merchants have an enviable dynamic, and though I wish we'd had time to do a deep dive into each and every one of them, the relationship between Eli and Ambrose is a top-tier strangers to enemies to friends to lovers arc that you could truly root for.

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Who do I think will enjoy ARMV? If you like dynamic characters, subtle but impactful/natural world building, COZY VIBES, and soft romances (aka idiots/dorks in love), there's a very good chance that ARMV is right up your alley. And that's not even mentioning the potion brewing and magical elements of the novel or the heart in @ashen-crest's writing style.

[reasonsforhope]

"Sanofi on Thursday said it’s planning to cut the U.S. price of its most popular insulin drug by 78% and cap monthly out-of-pocket costs at $35 for people who have private insurance starting next year. 

In addition to its widely prescribed Lantus, the French drugmaker will reduce the list price of its short-acting insulin Apidra by 70%. Sanofi already offers a $35 monthly cap on insulin for uninsured diabetes patients.

The company is the last major insulin manufacturer to try to head off government efforts to cap monthly costs by announcing its own steep price cuts for the lifesaving hormone. 

Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk made similar sweeping cuts earlier this month after years of political pressure and public outrage over the high costs of diabetes care. The three companies control over 90% of the global insulin market. 

... The change takes effect Jan. 1.

President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act capped monthly insulin costs for Medicare beneficiaries at $35, but it did not provide protection to diabetes patients who are covered by private insurance.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent and the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, introduced a bill earlier this month that would cap the list price of insulin at $20 per vial.

Both the president and Sanders on Tuesday directly called on Sanofi to slash its prices after Novo Nordisk announced its own cuts that day.

Roughly 37 million people in the U.S., or 11.3% of the country’s population, have diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Approximately 8.4 million [U.S.] diabetes patients rely on insulin, the American Diabetes Association said."

-via CNBC, 3/16/23

[copperbadge]

Watching Twitter implode, as an outsider who has hated Twitter for an extremely long time, is absolutely fascinating. I had a twitter account, now deleted, which I checked about once a month and posted to every few years, usually in a vain attempt to acclimate myself to a system I felt was hostile to any method of communication I was capable of. For about a year now even checking my notifications has been pointless, since I was quoted in a tweet by some corporate account that the spambots got hold of; literally all I saw in my notifications for a very long time was ads for various things attached to my name, retweeting that fucking train quote.  

I understand the importance of twitter particularly in uplifting marginalized voices and chronicling major historical events in first-person witness accounts; I know people personally whose small businesses are absolutely fucked because they depended on twitter for almost all their PR and a vast portion of their sales, and that truly sucks. It’s easy to glibly say “and nothing of value was lost” but a lot of value is being lost. 

But I also just hated everything about trying to use twitter. I can understand its importance and still hate it. I also don’t like the Mountain Goats even though they are vitally important to the emotional stability of like, half the people I know. 

The upshot of this is that I eventually had only a dim understanding of the way twitter culture evolved, since I wouldn’t go near it with protective gear on. So I was absolutely dumbfounded to read articles about the Verification badge being put up for sale and to see people saying, “Well, if Twitter’s no longer trustworthy, why be there?”

It blew my mind to realize that in introducing verification in the first place, Twitter had given its entire userbase explicit permission to abandon critical thought when they saw that alluring blue bird. Because twitter verified people, it seems a huge number of users thought they didn’t need to question anything on the site and, because of the way most social media works, the site also quickly became a series of personal filter bubbles. 

It makes the last few years make sense, in a weird way -- it’s not just that a massive chunk of culture abandoned critical thought, it’s that they were told that was okay to do, every day, every time their eyes hit the site. And Twitter is structured to offer diminishing returns on a hard dopamine hit, so a lot of people were on it a lot. I’m not throwing stones -- I’m physiologically constantly a quart low on dopamine, so I’m on Tumblr for much the same reason. And I’m not saying that anyone who is Chronically On Twitter has no critical thinking skills. But I am saying that it appears the vast majority of people who let their online critical thinking skills go slack did so because Twitter said it was okay. Twitter said, we’ll do the questioning for you. 

(Watching Twitter implode as someone familiar with the psychology of D/s relationships is....also fascinating.) 

The coverage of the Lilly tweet in particular is interesting in relation to this because it doesn’t seem like anyone is asking who made the tweet. Perhaps there’s no way to find out, but I don’t even see threats or attempts. Eli Lilly is suing Twitter and doesn’t seem even inclined to ask about the human who did it; nobody at Twitter, to my knowledge, has vowed to find and punish the perpetrator, which is hilarious given what Musk clearly wants to do to the people mocking him personally. No major media outlets seem interested in reporting on people discussing the question, let alone asking the question themselves, which indicates to me that nobody’s gone looking. If people are asking, they are not asking loudly or visibly. 

And don’t get me wrong, I don’t want us to find the person who tanked Eli Lilly stocks en route to reopening the discussion about price-gouging in the healthcare field. I wish there was a way to buy them a beer and/or a vial of insulin. But the fact that nobody seems to even be asking the question is weird -- until you remember it’s twitter, and nobody asks questions when it comes to twitter. Why would you? Twitter does the asking. 

And absolutely vitally -- where the fuck is Donald Trump? 

(Questions you never think you’ll ask.) 

Elon Musk promised to reinstate him; even if you claim staffing issues, he’s managed to kill all advertising on the site and switch off two-factor authentication, but he couldn’t flip the switch on Trump’s twitter account? Or personally offer him a new one under the aegis of the freest of speeches? Less than a day ago Trump was still trying to get the courts to give him his bluebird back. I don’t want him back on twitter, lord knows, but I’m perplexed that he’s not, because that was part of the package deal Musk was pitching. 

It’s almost like Musk knows what the bridge too far is. And nobody is asking about that either.

I hope people who come here from twitter find joy here. I hope the ship of twitter is righted so that my friends who love it can go back to it, so that the artists and writers I know can get back a vital tool for their creative self-support and the activists I know can regain a great tool for effective organizing. Twitter is a huge part of the cultural landscape and I hope it ends up okay, and I hope the staff still there can get some rest. 

But I also hope that this sharp cultural shock has been a reminder that letting someone else ask the questions means letting someone else control what answers you get.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Eli Lilly, a major U.S.-based drugmaker, has issued a warning regarding a shortage of insulin medication in Canada, which is expected to persist through mid-April.

The 10-millilitre vials of the insulin Humalog are impacted by the shortage, Drug Shortages Canada first reported on Monday.

Humalog, also known as insulin lispro, is a “fast-acting” insulin used to control high blood sugar in adults and children with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, according to Eli Lilly’s website.

“Lilly Canada has posted a shortage of the Humalog 10 mL vial on Drug Shortages Canada,” an Eli Lilly spokesperson told Global News in a Friday email. “Lilly is currently managing the existing Canadian supply of the 10 mL vial to ensure minimal disruption at the patient level.” [...]

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @newsfromstolenland

[jelzorz]

Dialogue prompts for ~injury~ with references to ia163b

The fever sets in after about a week.

It's grim but to be expected. Injuries get infected, and the one in Soren's side is large and not easy to clean. The castle doctors had done their best, but sometimes wounds grow fetid anyway, and it's just a matter of treating it as it comes.

It's better these days. Claudia returned to the castle about a year ago, and had brought with her a rather vast and detailed knowledge of medicinal plants and herbs. She has found treatments for almost everything, and she has, of course, a treatment for this.

"He just needs something to kill the bugs," she says. "He'll be okay. Just give him a couple of days." She twitches her lips at Opeli and there's something in her smile that seems to know, somehow, that this is more than just concern for a friend.

Opeli glances away. Claudia doesn't ask.

But a couple of days feels endless. It's hours of watching him sweat and shiver, of hearing him groan in his sleep and wincing at the wound in his side while the nurses change the bandages and reapply the antiseptic paste. He gags on the tonic they try to give him and throws up any food that makes it past his lips. It doesn't feel like he's getting better at all, until one of the nurses hands the tonic to her.

"You try," she says. "He responds well when it's you."

Opeli studies her, eyes narrowed, lips thin, wondering what she knows and what she's trying to imply.

The nurse holds her stare. "With respect, High Cleric," she says, "it doesn't matter to me how he takes the tonic as long he takes it. If he won't throw it up because it's you, that's all that matters to me." She sets the vial in Opeli's hand and bows her head. "I'll leave you to it."

Then she leaves, and there is no one else on this side of the infirmary to see what happens next. Opeli's features soften. She brushes Soren's hear out of his face, his forehead damp and impossibly hot against her fingers, and shifts from the chair at his bedside to the mattress.

He groans, and Opeli scoffs grimly as he shifts away from her.

"Hush," she mutters. "It's all right. It's just me."

"Eli?"

"Yes."

His eyes flutter open. It takes great deal more effort than it should but it's a relief too, to see that brilliant shade of blue once more. He rolls towards her, the bandages at his side straining with the movement.

"Don't," she tells him. "You'll split your stitches."

"Help a guy out then."

She snorts a little at that. The ward is empty, she reminds herself, but she glances around once more anyway before she eases her way into his side. He welcomes her touch gladly, shuffling into her arms until he can rest his head against the crook of her neck and shoulder.

It's so overt. So careless. But he is determined, and Opeli allows it in spite of her better judgement.

"You need to take the tonic."

"It's gross."

"It will help."

"It hasn't so far."

Opeli presses her lips together and does not argue right away. Claudia would not have sabotaged her own brother, would have done her best to get him back on his feet, but the tonic hasn't worked, not yet, and he is still sick, still shivering with fever in her arms.

He chuckles grimly. "I might not make it out of this one, Eli," he mumbles. "I gotta tell you—"

"No you don't."

"Opeli, listen—"

"Stop it."

"If I don't make it, you have to know—"

"No," snaps Opeli. "No. Stop it. Stop talking like that. You're going to be fine." She holds the vial to his lips, stubbornly, determinedly, like if she's adamant enough about it, she might will him to be okay. "Take your tonic," she says. "You can tell me whatever it is you want to say when you're better."

"Opeli—"

"When you're better," she insists sharply. "Take your tonic."

There's a pause. Then Soren takes the vial from her hand and downs it one go. "When I'm better," he says.

"Yes."

"Okay."

It's not much of a promise. It's better than nothing at all.

[rainbowbeanart]

I'm gonna rant about something that sucks because its late and I can't stop stressing about it.

I have type 1 diabetes. I was diagnosed at 9 years old. There is currently a nationwide shortage of insulin. I have been dealing with this personally for a few months now.

This is a shortened list of the bullshit I have been dealing with. Keep in mind every time I say there was a phone call, I had to call minimum 3 times and talk to 3 different people for anyone to figure out their shit.

A few months ago i had to FIGHT with my pharmacy because I had a script available until August for insulin and they insisted I didn't. I asked my doctor to send over a new script because they just couldn't fucking find it and a few days later that was through. I can get my insulin now right???

Then there was an issue with insurance. I'm on government insurance. My doctor prescribed ✨️name brand✨️ insulin and insurance said NO and completely denied my prescription. Call insurance and they say "you need to take the generic (Insulin Aspart) for a trial period until its proven it doesn't work" so days later (again) I finally have a script to fill. I can get my insulin now....RIGHT???

Its been over a week at this point. I was trying to get ahead of the game but my supplies is dwindling and i desperately need to pick up my insulin. Pharmacy says they are on backorder and won't have insulin for at least a week OR drive an hour to a completely different town. So i drove an hour and I finally got my insulin.

Next month, I call a few days in advance. Insulin is still on back order and won't be available for 2 weeks OR I can drive an hour to another different town and pick up half a months worth because that's all anyone in my whole fucking state even has???? So I drive an hour (AGAIN) and set a reminder in my phone to call over a week in advance to see if insulin is still on backorder.

Surprise! Now we are to this month and I called WELL OVER A WEEK IN ADVANCE. Insulin is still on back order and won't be available until END OF MAY. So I set up an amazon account and ask them to transfer the script. My doctor calls me a couple of days later to make sure I'm not getting scammed and want my script sent to a different pharmacy. I confirm and say I haven't been able to access my insulin from my current pharmacy. Please send the script.

Amazon lets me know a couple days ago they weren't able to contact either my provider or my pharmacy and I should try having my doctor just send a new prescription. So i call my doctor and I leave a voicemail with the nurse (because not even ONCE has she EVER picked up the fucking phone and she's a bitch and doesn't do her job and I hate her) and nothing happens. I call after hours today and am surprised to learn there is a doctor on call after hours for emergencies. The person I spoke to was very nice and said she'd mark it urgent for me and to keep my phone on me because I might get a call back from the on call doctor. I did not recieve a call back and as far as amazon is concerned I still don't have a script.

I'm okay right now. I still have two vials of insulin on hand (which lasts me about 10ish days) and I'm gonna call my doctor again tomorrow and keep fighting until someone does what I need.

But on top of all of this, not knowing if I'm gonna get another month of supplies every fucking time, I have looked at my backup options and I literally do not have any.

Eli Lilly does not allow you to sign up for their affordable insulin program if you are on government insurance.

My doctor does not have "sample vials" because of the shortage (and it would last me 6 days MAXIMUM)

And there is a specific law called "Kevin's Law" after a guy who died unable to contact his provider for a refill that allows pharmacies to do an emergency 72 hour worth fill in the case that a doctor cannot be contacted. Here's the kicker. It's active in my state! But it doesn't apply to vialed insulin because the amounts in them are predetermined and they can't take out the appropriate doseage and GOD FORBID they give you a little more insulin than you actually need.

Closest thing we've found is an RX coupon that makes a single vial of insulin, five days worth of living, $100. It is an absolutely worse case scenario.

I'm so sick and tired of all of this. My diabetes anniversary was in April. 20 years. I did not celebrate it. I don't feel like there is anything to celebrate right now.

Thanks for reading.

EDIT: Nurse finally got back to me today after a 3rd call to claim she had already sent the script on the 25th and was gonna call amazon to see what was happening. Not even a MINUTE later I get a text that amazon has it now. If you don't remember from above, I fucking hate this nurse and I guarentee she lies to my face constantly. Anyway, amazon is also out of stock, so I get to call back tomorrow and have it sent to my old pharmacy again just to see if I can make a 1-2 hour trip out of town just to get 1 or 2 vials. Wish me luck 🙃

EDIT 2: Just for anyone who finds this in the future, things are better! I got switched and approved for one of the only insulins that isnt on shortage right now, so I'm not currently struggling to access my insulin. Can only hope things stay good 🤞

[x1702x]

I did not expect Iosefka to be important, this is so cool! You need to doodle Eli and Iosefka at some point! Also since one of her trademark red-cells removed holy blood vials is in the Nightmare of Mensis, why do you think that is the case? 🤔

Eli dropped loot/j

Jokes aside, im glad Iosefka and Eli's relationship is received well lol! I did doodle them so heres a lil treat

I like to draw them very tender, it gets me soft and fuzzy...

About the vial on the nightmare, my guess would be smuggling of some sorts, but I doubt she ever dared to distribute her vials outside of the clinic?? Who knows? Maybe she did? Maybe its just random loot? I dont really know but it got me surprised when I got the vial lol

[ashen-crest]

[ID: a digital drawing of Ambrose and Eli holding hands. Ambrose wears a light blue t-shirt that says "Ask me about potions." Eli's pink shirt says "for the love of the gods do not ask him about potions." end ID]

Posted a meme on insta. People asked me to draw it. I am nothing if not generous.

[g0dspeeed]

What Does Your OC Carry?

CAPPIE DE LA COSTA

Cigarettes, an old machete, bullets, a dozen mini bottles of alcohol, a journal, a hit list, two maps of Hope County, flint and steel, gummy vitamins melted into a glob she takes bites from sometimes, prescription drugs, spare thongs, Eli's jacket, at least one raccoon at all times, three spare socks, her red ball cap, an AR rifle, porn, marijuana, a hairbrush, 11 hair ties, a crisp unopened survival guide, garbage, an iPod, earbuds, a broken water purifier, and pure unfiltered hate for Eden's Gate

RIVER PALMER

A weathered journal that's falling apart, plastic vials for nature samples, dog treats for Lady, an inhaler, sunscreen, condoms, bullets, a serrated hunting knife, leather gloves, spare socks, a picture of his family, 6 pencils, pencil sharpener, a compass he never needs, an augmented rifle, chemical compounds to test said nature samples, flare gun, a half-eaten chocolate bar, a cool rock, glowing salamanders kept in a water bottle, and his mother's love

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[eli-writes-sometimes]

@ashen-crest Just ordered A Rival Most Vial, should be coming soon, I'm so excited!!

[thoughtportal]

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Eli Lilly cuts the price of insulin, capping drug at $35 per month out-of-pocket 

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/01/1160339792/eli-lilly-insulin-price

Eli Lilly will cut prices for some older insulins later this year and immediately expand a cap on costs insured patients pay to fill prescriptions.

The moves announced Wednesday promise critical relief to some people with diabetes who can face annual costs of more than $1,000 for insulin they need in order to live. Lilly's changes also come as lawmakers and patient advocates pressure drugmakers to do something about soaring prices.

Lilly said it will cut the list price for its most commonly prescribed insulin, Humalog, and for another insulin, Humulin, by 70% in the fourth quarter, which starts in October. The drugmaker didn't detail what the new prices would be.

List prices are what a drugmaker initially sets for a product and what people who have no insurance or plans with high deductibles are sometimes stuck paying.

Patient advocates have long called for insulin price cuts to help uninsured people who would not be affected by price caps tied to insurance coverage.

Lilly's planned cuts "could actually provide some substantial rice relief," said Stacie Dusetzina, a health policy professor at Vanderbilt University who studies drug costs.

She noted that the moves likely won't affect Lilly much financially because the insulins are older and some already face competition.

"It makes it easier for Lilly to go ahead and make these changes," she said.

Lilly also said Wednesday that it will cut the price of its authorized generic version of Humalog to $25 a vial starting in May.

The cost of a prescription for generic Humalog ranges between $44 and close to $100 on the website GoodRx.

Lilly also is launching in April a biosimilar insulin to compete with Sanofi's Lantus.

Lilly CEO David Ricks said in a statement that it will take time for insurers and the pharmacy system to implement its price cuts, so the drugmaker will immediately cap monthly out-of-pocket costs at $35 for people who are not covered by Medicare's prescription drug program.

The drugmaker said the cap applies to people with commercial coverage and at most retail pharmacies.

Lilly said people without insurance can find savings cards to receive insulin for the same amount at its InsulinAffordability.com website.

The federal government in January started applying that cap to patients with coverage through its Medicare program for people age 65 and older or those who have certain disabilities or illnesses.

American Diabetes Association CEO Chuck Henderson said in a statement he applauded the steps Lilly was taking and called for other insulin makers to also cap patient costs.

Aside from Eli Lilly and the French drugmaker Sanofi, other insulin makers include the Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk.

Neither company immediately responded to a request for comment Wednesday morning from The Associated Press.

Insulin is made by the pancreas and used by the body to convert food into energy. People who have diabetes don't produce enough insulin.

People with Type 1 diabetes must take insulin every day to survive. More than 8 million Americans use insulin, according to the American Diabetes Association.

Research has shown that prices for insulin have more than tripled in the last two decades, and pressure is growing on drugmakers to help patients.

President Joe Biden brought up the cost cap during his annual State of the Union address last month. He called for insulin costs for everyone to be capped at $35.

The state of California has said it plans to explore making its own cheaper insulin. Drugmakers also may face competition from companies like the nonprofit Civica, which plans to produce three insulins at a recommended price of no more than $30 a vial, a spokeswoman said.

Drugmakers may be seeing "the writing on the wall that high prices can't persist forever," said Larry Levitt, an executive vice president with the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation, which studies health care.

"Lilly is trying to get out ahead of the issue and look to the public like the good guy," Levitt said.

Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. became the first company to commercialize insulin in 1923, two years after University of Toronto scientists discovered it. The drugmaker then built its reputation around producing insulin even as it branched into cancer treatments, antipsychotics and other drugs.

Humulin and Humalog and its authorized generic brought in a total of more than $3 billion in revenue for Lilly last year. They rang up more than $3.5 billion the year before that.

"These are treatments that have had a really long and successful life and should be less costly to patients," Dusetzina said.