#digestion aid

[worldwide-blackfolk]

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[thegikitiki]

Natural, Faster Healing...

Curad, 1975

[jusiri]

Love when I finally manage to convince my brain to get up and start doing the things I need to be doing just to turn around and have my stomach over-rule that decision

[freakinflipflop]

So does anyone want to hear about a BOTW/TOTK Home Depot AU? Haha who am I kidding of course you do.

So @teehee-vibes and I have been talking SO much about BOTW’s champions bc we both care them so so much

And it was late and I had just gotten home from 3 days of driving with my family for a road trip so I was SO so tired. And I was thinking about real life/store owner AUs and what types of stores would be the most canon-compliant. Bc you know, you can make something fun out of anything, but it’s always extra fun to see how you can shape AUs around canon.

And I had come up with the idea of Link running an oddities/exotic goods business that he stocks with stuff from his international adventures, and moved on to Revali next (bc he’s my favorite :] rito so so cool)

I thought archery store at first but like. That feels so much more like Harth (and Teba?)’s thing, so I was like gotta find something different. and all I could think was. he has the whole wind thing. he sells fans. control the wind.

so yeah I sent that to TV and promptly passed out

Woke up the next morning to a response from TV saying “Can’t believe Revali monitors the ceiling fan section at Home Depot”

And then we fleshed out an entire Home Depot AU around it. Including:

Current and next-gen champions all have their own jobs in the store corresponding with their talents/abilities/vibes in the games

Revali gives Tulin a phone and signs him up for Twitter at age 10

Revali frequently livetweets about coworker interactions (especially about Teba knowing about nothing other than the woodworking section)

Link, the store’s janitor, yearns for a position in the garden department

Kass invented the home depot theme

Link also knows how the entire store runs but is relegated to janitor work by their boss

Their boss is King Rhoam

He forces Zelda to work in the electronics section and keeps her from her true passion (power tools)

Ganondorf runs a SECOND, COMPETING home depot (or Lowes) and forces all of the OG champions to be transferred to his store. Link, who knows how the whole store works, has to train the new champions to take over the old champions’ jobs. The old champions are doing a shit job on purpose at GanonDepot. Revali vaguetweets about his boss.

Link puts anything in his mouth. he gets less consequences to this than he should. (bit started when we talked about his garden department dreams and how he can perfectly tell soil’s pH but only by putting it in his mouth)

Riju and Tulin both get jobs at the Home Depot after the OG champions are transferred through the power of nepotism and lying on their resumes. Riju feels bad about it. Tulin Does Not.

Anyway yeah I can and will post more about this. This is only a taste of the WONDERFUL AU that has consumed me and @teehee-vibes‘s DMs for like a week and a half. Revali also works in paint mixing as well as the fans btw

Edit: check rbs for some screenshots of TV and my conversations about this AU lmao some are worldbuilding-y most are shitposts

[aid-daily]

Hi there

Would you like some tea? This isn’t a trick cross my heart

-Foxloredaily

Uhm. I would say yes, even if it is a trick, but I don’t have a digestive system.

[redvelvetwishtree]

[ghoulsencyclopedia]

Bay Leaf

Associations:

Open Mindedness

Learning

Manifestation

Innovation

Learning

Self Awareness

Protection

Cleansing

Divination

Properties:

Anti Inflammatory

Antibacterial

Respiratory Aid

Digestive Aid

Stress Reducer

Heart Health

Correspondences:

Sun

Cancer

Solar Plexus, Third Eye

Yellow, Green

Feminine

[sl8bqqa8]

I used to have a bad habit of snacking on these cheap powdery chewable antacid tablets cause they just sorta tasted good to me.

Obviously you shouldn't misuse any medicine no matter how mundane lest you experience negative side effects (in my case neutralising my stomach acid a tad more than necessary made it more uncomfortable to digest tough foods).

But as I sit here, stomach hurting, feeling like I might throw up, I now deeply regret eating nearly 400 of those tablets over the past year because my bottle is empty :(

[ali3nboyfriend]

oh i do not think my stomach liked me taking all those pills at once

[daylightisminetoconsume]

apropos of nothing, I think this is what Gunmar's heart looks like.

[f4ngf4g]

time for my own disability rant...

it feels like able bodied people go through phases of disabilities to respect / represent. this is especially huge to me as someone who's been focusing on artfight lately & seeing people's OCs - disability is treated like a fad. don't you know forearm crutches are soo in season rn?

in reality i know it's because that person on TikTok did pose references with forearm crutches. and I'm glad they did! it's a good resource! but it makes it so abundantly clear how lazy some artists can be, from amateur to professional. if the resources/ the references aren't readily available and easily digestible, then they don't get used.

it's the same how in movies or tv, if you ever see a disabled character, they're most likely a cane or wheelchair user (I'm not counting temporary crutch users here because if i did, it would dominate). they're still usually elderly, though, so still not the best rep.

i have never seen a character use the mobility aid i do. on artfight, there are a total of nine characters that use the same mobility aid as me (and two of them are mine - one of my OCs and my sona)

this post is jumbled and i know there's a bunch of stuff missing here but i hope you can understand what I'm trying to say. people are so incredibly lazy when it comes to disability representation, that they pick the simplest option (wheelchair = legs don't work, cane= old) or they take a different route and pick the "easiest to find" resource and use it without doing any extra research. there are so many mobility aids & disability aids in the world and i would love to see them all represented respectfully and with research but apparently thats too much to want

[bughead-in-the-comics]

From Gator-Aid, Little Archie #146 (1979).

[dragonbleps]

Thinking about how horrendously a vampire bite must itch afterwards (not to mention bruising, depending on the teeth)

I think vampire bite aftercare should be more of a thing, using things like heat and cold to reduce the itch and swelling and bruising. Topical pastes/ointments/etc wouldn't really be applicable due to the open wounds. The dabbing of blood and the bandaging of wounds, checking regularly to make sure no infection crops up

[screambirdscreaming]

Something I am constantly unpacking for people irl, when they start to get weird about "gluten stuff", is that "gluten problems" encompasses several WILDLY different issues. The pervasive public perception that gluten issues of any type are "fake" or that people are "bait and switching" them about what things do or don't cause problems, is often due to people conflating these different issues.

So one: food allergy. This is actually something I've rarely heard of with regards to wheat or gluten, although I'm sure some people do have this allergy. BUT a lot of people seem to expect gluten problems other than wheat allergy to behave like food allergies they're familiar with: rapid onset of hives or anaphylaxis after consuming allergenic food. I've heard people outright claim their friend was "faking gluten problems" because they didn't have an overt allergic reaction to drinking a beer. The friend in question had been surprised and dismayed to learn beer in general had gluten - the people accusing them of faking took this as further evidence of faking, and not a cause for concern over how bad a night their friend might be about to have.

Two: gluten digestive intolerance. This is the broadest category of "gluten problems", as far as I know. This one is roughly parallel to lactose intolerance, or to the FODMAP thing - for whatever reason, be it lack of enzymes or gut bacterial composition or both, your gut has a rough time breaking down some specific protein or sugar and you get gas, cramps, diarrhea or constipation, etc etc. Feels bad guts time. This is not something that's usually medically diagnosed for gluten, it's more in the realm of people (often people with chronic gut problems that are not being medically well managed) trying things and fumbling towards diets that make them feel less wretched. Of course, this is also where the diet industry marketing bullshit comes into play. Diet changes that make some people feel better get spun into narratives about "wheat is poison!" or overt weight loss scams. People who are rightfully disdainful of things like weight loss as a marketing concept, or the perennial reinvention of the "foods which are poisoning you" list, get pissed about this in ways that they then take out on people who are modifying their diet for any reason. Which, I gotta say: don't do that. Yes, the diet industry is evil and the marketing sucks. But even setting aside that most people I know with long-term food-limiting diet experimentation are doing it in a desperate attempt to self-manage undiagnosed gastrointestinal disease - being shitty to people about their diet choices doesn't help anything. Sorry! Even if they straight up fell for the marketing bullshit, mocking them about it is not the way to go. You're gonna have to learn how to criticize predatory marketing without shitting on people who fall for it! Or on people who are doing the thing being sold for their own reasons!

Ahem. Anyway. "Gluten intolerance" as a broad category often means people are aiming to eat less gluten, not none. This is consistent with the model of "doesn't digest very well" - the gut can handle a little bit of trouble, but not too much. And of course this will vary from person to person, depending on severity or on how much other gut trouble they have going on. But in general, for this category of people, micro-contamination is usually not a concern.

AND THEN there's celiac. This is an autoimmune disease, which means the immune system is attacking and destroying the bodies own tissues and organs. What's odd about celiac is that gluten acts as a sort of "sleeper agent activation phrase" for the immune system going rogue. If there is a gluten molecule present - in any amount! Any at all! - the immune system starts attacking your own body. The only way to get it to stop is to make sure there is no gluten, at all, anywhere.

Obviously the management for this is pretty different from if you get indigestion from too much gluten! This is the disease where people really need to know what's gluten free, as discussed above, down to the level of "has it run through machinery that also processes wheat sometimes." Gluten is a very sticky molecule and very difficult to remove completely from surfaces. If you have a cutting board in your kitchen on which you sometimes cut bread, it is not safe to prep food on for a person with celiac, no matter how you wash it. Hence the concerns about separate processing facilities, etc. This is also where you find out that gluten is used in an ENORMOUS number of applications, as a non-toxic (to most), water soluble sticky substance. It's in pills as a binder. It's in cosmetics, papers, glues.... A range of things that will make you feel like your brain is unraveling to track down and eliminate. Unfortunately, many people will also take this necessary thoroughness as a sign of delusion. (And they won't handle it with any of the compassion that people who do have delusions deserve, either.)

Also, while even trace amounts of gluten can cause catastrophic damage by reactivating the autoimmune attack, this process happens on a delay. There is usually not any short-term, detectable reaction to contacting gluten for people with celiac. This is one thing that makes it harder to actually track down things with trace gluten content that could be causing problems. But it's also another factor that makes people jump to "faking" - as with the girl with a beer, people think it must not be real if you only get upset when told about the gluten.

In my experience, people broadly conflate gluten intolerance with celiac, and then get pissy when people with each of these (different!!) conditions tell them different information about whether trace amounts of gluten are ok or not. And then get mad at both cases for not looking like a straightforward food allergy. (Probably, if you do have a straightforward wheat allergy, people find a way to be rude and dismissive of that too, tbh.)

Anyway. If people are telling you about their specific personal dietary needs, treat that as an exact and unique case, rather than conflating it with stuff you've heard about vaguely similar conditions. In this way, most "contradictions" about "made up conditions" disappear!

it is weird that celiac stuff has become part of the 'culture war'. because it's literally just a medical thing.... I get super anemic unless I cut a certain protein out of my diet, because it bulldozes the villi in my intestines. but if I post about it, right-wingers send me gore images. I guess you can't expect shitty people to be logical, but I've even heard lefty people make fun of gluten stuff, and it's like why are you mad about this??? why are you pissed off that I'm eating bread that doesn't taste as good so that I can have blood in my body? it's so morally neutral.

[smilegurudentist-blog]

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