#and her experiences of chronic illness

[aroaessidhe]

2025 reads / storygraph

The Undetectables

urban fantasy mystery

follows a young witch who formed a detective agency with her friends as teens, but they never managed to solve their first case (figuring out who killed the ghost who is now her best friend)

when they’re 20, the other witches have moved away and on with their lives, but she’s feeling stuck dealing with pain from her fibromyalgia

when they get a letter with a new case - the suspicious death of a human with seemingly no clues or evidence other than a haunting whistle, and they get back together to see if they can solve it this time

bi, lesbian, and gay MCs

[stardella]

Maria and her little alien brother sketchbook dump from the last few weeks

Minor spoilers for Sonic 3 ig

[the-last-butter]

HC they first met a year or two after Yelan got her vision; post fighting the in abyss but when Kaeya was still navigating his identity from Kaeya, Brother and Right hand of Diluc Ragnvindr to Kaeya Alberich, Cavalry Captain and Quarter master of the Knights of Favonius.

[violentdelightshavevioletends]

Andarna, to an injured Violet: I recently learned should rate your own pain on a scale of 1-10! Quick, Tairn, give her a scale!

Tairn: I can only rate this on a scale of idiocy.

Violet, wincing: 0 stars, would not reccomend.

[chaserainbows]

honestly i'm just so glad that my mom's okay and out of the hospital

that was THE SCARIEST EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE i literally wouldn't know what to do if the worst happened

i wanna thank everyone who supported me during The Mess you guys are the best

[pots-culture-is]

Storytime with mod 🍂☘️, I've had my cat for a long time (she's actually my childhood cat) and she's learned a lot about me. She has often been able to warn me in advance about things with my health, such as when I'm going to have a worse day with my PoTS. I'm not exactly sure how she does it.

I've had her yell at me until I sat down on my bed and pet her (she doesn't usually do this, usually only yelling so I can feed her or put her on my desk), only to discover that my heart rate was 130+

On worse days, she often hisses at me (and has batted at me, both of which are not usual behaviour) just to stay close to me. This is the same cat that used to be shy of being in the same room with a person. She literally sits on top of me to make me feel better (it works)

So yeah, service dog who? I have a self-taught therapy cat

[capetowncapers]

I love when i do physical/occupational therapy exercises and I can feel them helping and making a difference in my symptoms or pain levels yayyyy I love you therapy professionals mwah mwah mwah

[caterjunes]

i keep feeling guilty about the like. state-sponsored employment counseling/resources i'm getting. (i basically have a case manager for job-hunting or continuing education, a work-health counselor to help me balance my disability/health needs with whatever work i end up doing, and uhhhh maybe a couple others i forgot.) but then i remember of the 10 years i've been out of school i've actually been full-time permanently employed for roughly 3 of them, and fully unemployed for about 3 of them as well. and i'm like oh yeah okay. i do actually need extra support & assistance.

[cane-goth]

It can be really isolating to be someone whose disability made them drop out of school before I even got the second half of my education. I dropped out at 12 years old. I had been in secondary school for just one year. And even when I meet other disabled people who left school, all of them either left for non-physical reasons or eventually went back to school and continued their education.

Its such a specific trauma I have that no one else’s experience can really resonate with.

I was in severe pain during the most vital parts of my development.

I was completely isolated from all peers my own age and any other human that wasn’t immediate family for years. Not one single friend for the majority of my early teen years and for years after that, the only friends I had were online. I’m 20 years old now and the only irl friend I have is my boyfriend.

I have zero education past the very very very basics. I barely even have the education of a 12 year old because I was dealing with getting diagnosed and was barely in school for a few years before dropping out.

No qualifications, developmentally stunted, isolated, mostly house bound, uneducated, and still in severe pain every day of my life. And theres no one I’ve met that can really relate to what I went through.

[lagomoz]

unpopular opinion, me projecting and definitely not what the writers intended but I still don't forgive shiho and especially honami for how they treated saki.

they were her childhood best friends, ones had been by her side since very early childhood and then when saki was going through one of the hardest times in her life they just ditched her. I know the story gives us their reasons for it, but honestly those reasons are bullshit.

shiho didn't want saki to be affected by her bad reputation and the bullying, but that falls apart real quickly. shiho didn't visit the hospital at all, which, what, are the bullies hiding in the bushes? she also didn't text or call and gave saki total radio silence. how do you justify not even texting your decade+ old best friend while they're fucking hospitalized? bullying is horrible and deserves to be taken seriously, but these are high schoolers, they're not wiretapping her phone.

furthermore, it should've been saki's choice, not shiho's. the bare minimum she could've done is tell saki she didn't want to talk right now, even without a reason, but no. not a word. you can argue shiho didn't want her to worry about her, but how is never responding or showing up NOT going to worry her even more? she also should've trusted saki and not babied her.

honami's reason is even worse. nobody deserves to be bullied, and her fear of it getting worse is entirely understandable. throwing your friend under the bus to save your own skin is not. honami pushed saki away and hurt her because of honami's own problems and that's the literal definition of selfish, no matter the reason behind it.

this is coming from someone very timid and terrified of rejection or criticism myself, but if you can't stand up for your friends, you don't deserve those friends. no excuse. I just can't buy any of the other stories portraying honami as someone so kind and caring and selfless when she completely abandoned saki for her own benefit, regardless of how sympathetic that benefit is. no visits, no calls, no texts, no support, nothing.

when saki does come back to school, finally getting to experience the life she's wanted so badly, having to work so hard to just get the chance to be with her friends, they abandon her. again. honami and shiho ignore her, avoid her, and shiho even tells other students saki's not her friend WITH SAKI STANDING RIGHT THERE. that's bullying! you can't pull the bullying victim as an excuse card and then do that to your dear friend!

saki would give anything for her friends, and they spit in her face. she desperately wished more than anything to just be with them, to spend time with them. when saki's sobbing in her bed alone, hating herself and the life that she'd been given, she comforts herself with her family and friends.

friends like shiho and honami, who weren't there for her. who neglect her, and when she finally can leave the fucking hospital - we don't even know the extent of her illness, she may have never recovered/had a remission or even died for all we know - treat her even worse. she had to fight so hard for the simple dream of getting to just go to school and see her friends again, and they decided that just wasn't important enough.

saki deserves better friends

[x22817]

Channeling that high vibrational energy for three doctor appointments the rest of the week and my echo next week!

It's frustrating everything had to be scheduled so close together...but I am a little stoked to see my endocrinologist tbh. Hopefully, she'll be able to help me with lowering my prednisolone process and tell me if the amount of fludrocortisone she just prescribed is enough. With how much the fludro has helped, it has really convinced me of the Addison's Disease diagnosis. I am still really struggling with accepting my adrenal glands have shit the bed. At minimum, the endo is going to get me a full thyroid panel for the first time since my first crisis hit. I also get to see how my liver is doing with its damage.

[shabbyshoebox]

Love it when older women think I'm lying when I say that I know hot flashes,

and I get to break out the hypoglycemia anecdote where I left my jacket in the lab, went to the dining hall in a T-shirt (lovely breeze, great weather for December),

ate food,

got seriously fucking cold,

checked the temperature and it was 23°F (-5°C)

and I had to walk back, suddenly aware of the cold and hating that I left my jacket in the lab every time the wind blew

[theexhaustedmermaid]

I'm telling myself it's never too late to start.

But why do I feel like I'm falling so far behind?

[withinkandquill-aa]

[ratstranaut]

Also from what I've seen, most people can't cope with the idea that a person can be sick and never get better.

My best friend of like 6 years couldn't understand it, despite the fact that we'd talk every day. She didn't like seeing me happy while using my wheelchair because it meant I wasn't trying to walk. From her point of view it meant I wasn't trying to get better.

We stopped being friends after she invited herself into my uni acom to scream at me about how I wasn't being positive enough and how if I just tried harder and was more positive I would get better. She yelled at me about how I think it's worse than it is and I just have to push through it to get better (like full on yelling at me). It got to the point where I had to call my carer for help because she refused to leave or stop.

As fucked up as it was, she wasn't being malicious and she didn't think she was being cruel either. She genuinely just wanted me to get better. I think that's when it clicked for me that people just really can't cope with the idea that people they care about won't get better. She wasn't yelling at me for hours because she hated me, she hated seeing me hurting and wanted it to stop. She lashed out because she couldn't cope with the idea that it would never stop.

when people tell you to get well soon they genuinely do mean it. It's not necessarily that they don't know what to say to someone who won't get better. They just don't know how to believe that you won't get better. They aren't able to cope with the idea that someone they care about will always be in pain and there's nothing they can do about it.

what is it with able bodied people saying “get well soon” after you say that you’re chronically ill?? like? i am not gonna? and i once literally responded with “i’m not gonna, it’s chronic, as in permanent.” and they went like “oh well, hope you get better!” like bro 💀

[moonlit-void-to-the-far-unknown]

“I hate how they regressed Daniel after Armand turned him. Hes just so immature now”

My dudes,

If suddenly I wasn’t living with a sickness that slowly deteriorates my motor functions until I die, and I was able to feel like I did when I was a drugged up 20 year old with no worries of chronic illness hitting me again, you bet your sweet ass I would have zero fucks, I would be telling everyone to suck my dick and wear cool jackets and sunglasses.

Oh no one can touch me because my maker is a 514 year old ancient vampire who has never made any other fledglings?

I can see better than I ever have? Move like the wind? Have no pain? Have no fear of dying? Suddenly my hands don’t shake and my body isn’t in pain?

Oh everyone can suck my dick. Everyone can fuck off. I’m gonna wear my fuck you leather jacket like I did at 20 when I was a counter culture upstart journalist, I’m gonna be a cocky shit head again because guess what? I don’t have pain in my back and body, I don’t shake, I have no issues with my motor skills suddenly failing me.

I’m basically 20 years old again. I’m gonna be such a menace for at least a few years.

Ya’ll act like Louis would have been any better if Lestat wasn’t there to help rein him in.

Or Lestat? Bro broke the vampire laws the second he was turned.

Armand I’m gonna assume was no better then his fledgling is.

Let’s not forget Claudia as a fledgling? Baby girl her first hunt took down like 2 whole police officers.

Let my old man have his wild fledgling years! Let him stalk random men to drain, let him experience being young again. This is like being 18 in college. His first few years of vampire life should be wildly immature and stupid.

Because finally, his body isnt hurting. His brain isn’t deteriorating his motor functions. He can actually do things he used to.

LET MY BABY GIRL BE A MESSY BITCH OF A FLEDGLING. Why?

BECAUSE HE FUCKING DESERVES IT.

Look at this man. Pure cunty ass sass coming off him in waves. As he should be allowed, being in his fledgling prime years.