#fluids

[copperbadge]

My body is leaking. I am strongly of the opinion that the human body should not leak.

(When it started being noticeable and thus a problem, I did think "bet you wouldn't be leaking if you were still masking" and laughed to myself.)

Gross medical details under the cut....

I've been trying Clonidine as a medication for emotional regulation in ADHD, and I didn't initially have an allergic reaction to the XR patch, but when we raised the dose I started getting skin irritation under the patch and when we dropped the dosage again it persisted and then got worse. I only wore the 7-day patch two days before I had to take it off, and despite cleaning and medicating the site, the skin under it blistered and then split before I noticed because it was on the outside of my shoulder which is not a place I look at much. It's been leaking for the three days since.

I've been covering it with a gauze pad and securing the pad with a large wound dressing that seals all the way around, but overnight the leak got the better of the dressing and I woke up when it started getting my pillowcase and the tank top I was wearing to bed wet. Which is why I'm posting this at 2am while I wait to feel sleepy again.

I have extra-absorbent bandages coming this morning in the mail, and the wound itself is fine -- it's pink and healing and I apply hydrocortisone cream whenever I change the dressing. The "exudate" (fun vocab word of the day) is clear, as it should be. There's no infection, just an overactive histamine reaction. There's not even a smell. It's just gross and wet.

Cannot recommend springing a leak, it is neither fun nor convenient.

[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

LIGHT SEEKER

by Tooth Wu

[whatcha-reading-today]

Fluids | May Leitz

I both loved and hated this. I loved how this story was written and found the desperation and depravity deeply uncomfortable. And that depravity was so nauseatingly written that I also hated it. To be clear--I EXPECT to be disgusted in gross splatter punk books and want to paint this as a positive. A disgusting, horrifying positive. I actually read this on a long train ride in Japan and full disclosure was nauseously looking out the windows at the scenery so I wouldn't feel so disgusted. That's great!

My only negatives are some typos but none affect the flow and artistry of the writing style.

Full disclosure, I learned about this book because I've been a fan of May's YouTube channel since she had the talking skeleton. If you are a fan of NyxFears I would recommend reading this book. It is exactly in the realm of brutal that May would recommend on her channel.

Also, I have to mention that the GoodReads description includes that the writing is stream of consciousness, which is true but is so similar to how May talks in her videos, that you can read it in her voice. For me this was a huge benefit because I find her both so engaging (grossly engaging, affectionate?) and so fucking funny.

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Read in: October 2024

Format: E-book. This was available at my library on Hoopla.

[tortuga-stims]

A Sonic the Hedgehog themed stimboard to remind you to stay hydrated!!

Gif sources:

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Image descriptions: 9 square images in a 3 by 3 grid, with all except the center image, which is static, being moving gifs.

1: A hand holding and then spinning a piece of ice shaped like a fidget spinner, with three round prongs extending from a circle.

2: A hand swirling a blue drink and ice cubes inside a clear plastic cup.

3: A hand holding a small plastic water bottle with a label that says “I’M A LI’L COOLER” with an illustration of two water bottles with faces wearing sunglasses inside a cooler.

4: An opaque reusable water bottle with a black to blue gradient covered in various stickers of Sonic characters being run under a stream of water from a sink.

5: A static image of Sonic Adventure 2 key art of Sonic wearing his SOAP shoes appearing to be mid-run. It has been edited so he is holding a reusable water bottle. The background is a blue water texture.

6: A European hedgehog lapping up water from a light pink container outdoors at night.

7: A glass partially filled with ice having water be poured into it.

8: A reusable cup with a straw made of clear plastic decorated with a pattern of classic Sonic’s head, rings, and blue stars, being filled with a blue drink.

9: A rainbow colored collapsible silicone water bottle being collapsed and expanded repeatedly.

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[teddie-bear420]

Fluids by may leitz (spoiler warning)

I’m in love with horror and this one was almost up my alley but the extreme nature of this book I couldn’t really get through it (I’m a big baby lol) so instead I scraped the internet for spoilers and synopses of this book cuz I love the content that nix fears/may leitz makes!

I suggest if you like trucked up nasty stories with evil girls you should buy this with your dollars!!

Dahlia is lavender and Lauren is pink, I wanted to evoke the colors from the first edition cover. I love to draw shy girls and evil girls so this is a match made in hell, I feel like dahlia would wear lots of layers like jackets and blankets to cover up and letting her hair grow hella long cuz she doesn’t look at herself much :(

Also idk if they ever give each other presents but I like the idea that they swapped accessories when they finally got together cuz… 💅💅💅💅y’know

I listen and watch may’s stuff all the time, so as a tribute to evil murder lesbians that destroy themselves and each other, here is Lauren and Dahlia as I interpreted them! Dahlia makes me so sad, I want nothing but the best for her and I’m glad she made it out alive!!

Sorry for the ramble I just needed to get this off my chest and out of my system!!

GO SUPPORT MISS MAY PLEASEEEE

[xponentialdesign]

Barrel Wave

[smashorpassobjects2]

[mayleitz]

I have new shirts available for both of my books

You can find purchase links here:

Duo pack:

Fluids:

Girl Flesh

[thechurchofsplatterdaysaints]

[bioniclelakai]

Makuta Vonteka!

"You are loyal, aren't you?~"

[shibara]

Here, have Arthur getting to know Yellow's tentacle dick in depth (with some encouragement from John, for good measure).

This is, of course, a censored version. You can see the original here on Pillowfort or here on Bluesky~

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Somewhere around when I started to throw shadows on the initial doodle I thought this would be a grand opportunity to do a study in thick fluids (mostly studying Calm's art, an absolute master at fluids rendering, imho), hence the amount of goo in this piece. 

I'm pretty happy with the end result, I've learned a ton, and we all got a very messy Arthur out of it :D

[tranquilsanatorium]

Pink IV fluid

[random-modded-minecraft-items]

Spawn Fluid Fox Bucket Create Mechanical Spawner by oierbravo_mc

[materialsscienceandengineering]

A suspension ( 2 ) ( 3 ) in chemistry is a heterogeneous mixture of solid particles in a liquid, in which the solid particles are large enough that they will eventually settle out of the liquid (at which point it will no longer be classified as a suspension). Suspensions do not count as distinct phases. The particles in a suspension are often defined as needing to be larger than a specific size, usually 1 micron or 1000 nm. If liquid droplets or fine solid particles are present in a gas, the suspension is known as an aerosol.

[isomorphismes]

“the Yang-Mills equations are nonlinear, therefore there is little hope of finding a closed-form solution.” Such a statement seems plausible. Linear differential equations with constant coefficients are the only differential equations for which a general solution is given in closed form. As often occurs in life, however, the exceptions to the rule are sometimes more interesting than the rules themselves. Let us digress from quantum physics to the motion of water, where British shipbuilder John Scott Russell noticed a solitary wave in a canal in August 1834. Neither Airy nor Stokes accepted this observation, yet in 1895 Korteweg and de Vries found an equation for a wave travelling in shallow water in one direction: u̇ + 6•u•uₓ + uₓₓₓ = 0. The KdV equation is easily solved by restricting from two independent space-time dimensions (x,t) to a single dimension x−λt — a frame matching the speed λ of a travelling wave.

Mikhail Ilʹich Monastyrskiĭ, Riemann, Topology, and Physics