#oh my gerd

[briry18]

Chapter 6: STYX INVASION

Yuuki: ARE YOU FRIGGIN KIDDING ME?! MY NEW HOUSE?! MY BRAND NEW HOUSE THAT TOOK 6 MONTHS TO FIX?! NOT TO MENTION THOSE FRIGGIN APPLE TREES GRIM ASKED ME TO PLANT! THEY WERE FINALLY STARTING TO BLOSSOM WITH FRUIT! I OUGHT TO BASH YOU ALL IN THE HEAD RIGHT NOW! HAVEN'T YOU ASSHOLES EVER HEARD OF A FRONT DOOR? YOU KNOCK, WE OPEN, IT'S NOT THAT HARD MORONS! WHO'S YOUR SUPERVISOR!? I AM GOING TO SUE! Ace: Whoa! I had no idea Yuuki had a Karen mode. Deuce: Karen, Schmaren, she's going full on Black Widow on these metal jerks! KICK THEIR ASSES YUUKI! YEAH!!!

[alphagodith]

why did none of my fucking doctors tell me i can instantly relieve otherwise hours-long agony just by drinking a bit of baking soda in water...

WHY THE FUCK ARE ALL MY MEDICATIONS USELESS PREVENTATIVE TRASH WITH A MILLION SIDE EFFECTS WHEN I HAD ACTUAL RELIEF RIGHT HERE IN MY PANTRY THE WHOLE TIME

like i get that if you are experiencing abnormal pain you should get it checked out but IN THE MEANTIME i could have been treating myself, and even once i got seen they didn't give me jack shit for the pain!

[allen309]

SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

Just watched the FNAF movie with my friends. Extremely good. Recommend. Also, MatPat!! And a spoiler picture that I took from the movie!!

[besnouted]

i know it’s purely coincidence but since having covid i haven’t had a single gerd flareup at all and it would be really funny if it just got cancelled out

[non-un-topo]

Playing a wild game today called are antibiotics making me retain water or is it T or is it body dysmorphia

[sneggley]

Can't sleep because my acid reflux is making me repeatedly taste fish oil supplement I took two hours earlier :(

[knightdykes]

biting and gnashing my teeth ♡

[revvywevvy]

:) comffee *drinks coffee, has a lactose intolerance reaction* :( pain

............ :) comffee *drinks coffee, has a lactose intolerance reaction* *drinks coffee, has a lactose intolerance reaction* *drinks coffee, has a lactose intolerance reaction* *drinks coffee, has a-

[sweetfirebird]

Read some Long Covid stuff this morning, and the problem with Long Covid stuff is that post-viral stuff is real, but no one knows which stuff is part of this and which isn't. Or which is but less directly. Covid seems to bring out conditions in people that they might not have known they had, or had but not to this new, more serious degree. It also just seems to do weird stuff to the brain/body that is not the Long Covid of constant fatigue or brain fog or racing heart, but like... secondary or tertiary problems. (Increased risk of blood clots, stroke, heart attacks, for example. Triggering diabetes in people, for another.)

But anyway, it's all new (because novel fucking virus) and no one knows what is for sure a part of it and what isn't, and a lot of the symptoms and conditions that appear to have dramatically increased in the population... are also things that stress does to the body. And everyone, everyone but the billionaires, is dealing with MASSIVE amounts of stress right now.

I also know most of it is not going to get dealt with properly because the pandemic denial/corporate greed is too strong. It will likely get swept under a rug or just the blanket term with no/little treatment and people being told to go to support groups. (Insurance companies love support groups because they are free.)

But I would like to know, and I am sure many others would like to as well.

Just sad thinking. I don't have a point.

[astrangelittlefool]

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[9hikers]

i always get nervous about drug tests, as if tje most adventurous i've gotten hasn't been likr 2 edibles my dad got me to mqke it through finals week 2 months ago

[millythegoat]

currently sick as a dog,still hatewatching the USA but don't have the will player to do a live commentary..

still recovering from the oral gut cleansing from this midnight

[galleryofdrag]

Irma Gerd

[thebibliosphere]

Hope this isn't offensive (feel free to ignore if it is) but what illnesses do you have? I always see very detailed posts from you about different types of hyperspecific injuries or illnesses and I was wondering if you're just super well informed or have all of them.

Which is very helpful and cool for people who need the info, and I'm sorry if you are experiencing all those.

Oh, Christ. Right this is going to be a lot 😅

Conditions I have been diagnosed with as of 2024:

Ehlers Danlos Syndrome

Mast Cell Activation Syndrome

Dysautonomia/POTS/autonomic failure (they all mean a similar thing. I just have them all listed in my file because no one can decide what I actually have beyond “nervous system broke”)

Chronic Migraines

Hemiplegic Migraines

Cluster Headaches

Cranial Instability (caused by my EDS + neck injuries)

Trigeminal neuralgia

Occipital Neuralgia (caused by the cranial instability)

Binocular Vision Disorder

PMDD (likely linked to the MCAS)

Probably endometriosis but it’s unconfirmed.

Interstitial cystitis (definitely caused by the MCAS)

GERD (a symptom of my MCAS)

Pernicious Anemia (likely linked to the EDS and MCAS. I don’t absorb nutrients from my food as well as I should which is common when MCAS damages the GI tract.) which lead to hemolytic anemia in 2019 aka the “Almost Died For Real” year.

ADHD.

cPTSD

Dysthymia or “double depression”

“Probable ME/CFS” is in my file, but with everything else going on chronic and debilitating fatigue is pretty much unavoidable so my doctors are like 🤷🤷‍♀️

I had an intestinal perforation a few years ago that lead to severe diverticulitis that took about a year and a half to heal, but that’s healed now save for the occasional bout of nerve pain.

Uuuh… I think that’s it… (wait and see my spouse/friends chiming in with “you forgot about x”)

So yeah.

Chances are if you see me talking about it, I have it. I do sometimes talk about other conditions that I’ve learned about over the years of navigating my own stuff, but I will always defer to the lived experiences of others when it comes to their own conditions.

It’s a lot to deal with. Most of it links back to the MCAS/EDS/Autonomic failure.

Or as we like to call it: the generic trifecta of bullshit.

[autumnnnsun]

Now that I’ve finished reading Hortus de Escapismo and Executor’s record, I really gotta ramble about Executor for a second and kinda talk abt how Arknights handles his lack of empathy trait that I really enjoy. This isn’t a proper analysis or anything just my thoughts I wanna vomit for a sec.

So it’s implied in Executor’s record that he just, wasn’t born having empathy despite being a sankta. Or at least he just naturally doesn’t have the same levels of understanding of emotion as other sankta. The part that I really like about it is how Executor’s Record and story in general doesn’t portray that as a necessarily bad thing.

His lack of empathy allows him to think in a way that is a lot more unique than other sankta. When his partner in his record story told him to sacrifice him, he still brought his body back to Laterano. One of the reason being because of a specific sentence in the will they were enacting (“I hope all Laterans return back to their home.” Smth that most people would assume is just smth the will writer wrote for some extra literary flare) but also because he disregarded his partner’s feelings. His lack of empathy is the reason why he did something good and that is very interesting to me especially when most people tend to demonise having low/no empathy.

I also just really like how in his record story, it’s emphasised that he knows what emotions ARE. He has developed a system with his parents to recognise and visualise emotions by drawing lines that represent them. He knows what it is, he can recognise it to a level where he can think of the next best course of action when confronted with it, he just doesn’t put much importance on it nor does he bother with understanding it for the most part. Especially if it’s something that will get in the way of his job. And I REALLY like that cus it reminds me of how people irl that have low empathy will develop systems to work around it and still be kind.

I know a lot of us joke about Executor being autistic and that’s funny and I like the jokes as much as everyone else, but low or no empathy is a trait of other mental disorders and disabilities and even as someone that hasn’t been diagnosed with anything yet it still feels kinda nice to see low empathy being portrayed in a way that isn’t villanious.

In fact, Executor having low empathy kinda makes him the best person in the room sometimes especially in Hortus de Escapismo. The part where he does a warning shot at Oren and Lemuen and essentially goes “Can ya’ll STOP I’m trying to do my JOB.” And essentially manages to stop a massacre because of it is so funny but also so fucking hype bruv. I like how in the end of the event when Executor was starting to ask more questions and have more doubts and was starting to let emotions affect his actions a bit more, it isn’t framed as like “Oh mah gerd, he’s learning empathy and being more hooman!”

Instead he’s asking questions and seeking to find solutions to them in his own unique way. Asking around and adding more variables to his thought process like a computer would (which has some implications that gets my lore brain churning but hrghrghrgh)

Top it all of with the fact that he is specifically a character that is born and raised in a society that values empathy. Being able to feel other people’s emotions is what makes you a sankta. And Executor, is one of the better sanktas because he doesn’t follow that rule.

God I love Executor, go son, thrive.