#sick veterans

[arkieve]

the jegulus tag is a nice place to hang if you can ignore the randos screaming at you for being a fascist, nazi sympathiser. very cool art and headcanons, very neat.

[freakbullet]

he has his doctor who moments :]

something from like a year and a half ago. silly stuff's always good for practice!

[naamahdarling]

You know what? You know what I think?

I think that if we lived as we were meant to, in larger intimate ("extended family") groups and with more shared labor and time to do it (UBI NOW) people like me would not feel so useless and burdensome because there would be people around to help and to do what neurodivergent people can't while making valuable space for the neurodivergent to do what they ARE good at.

The way we live right now, all right, the way we live right now forces units of two adults to be able to do EVERYTHING or PAY to have someone come do it for them. I have to do the housework. I have to do it! But I am having to do a million different things and most of them I am not good at. I suck at them.

I wouldn't feel like shit, okay, if I had more than one other person around who was not a child and who could do the things I can't, like do the yard and cook and do repairs and basic maintenance; and someone else to split everything else that I like but is too much for me. It would free me to do what I am good at and enjoy. Cleaning, as in the sink and toilet, the windows, the blinds. Taking out trash. Folding, hanging, and sorting laundry.

But because all the shit I can do often relies on other shit being done first, and I can't do or have trouble doing those things, the shit I can do often can't be done. And even the shit I can do, I can't do ALL of it. So I can't keep up, and things get very bad.

We aren't meant to live like this. We are not meant to live like this.

That thought hurts so much because being able to flee the birth family is integral to survival for so many people. I'm so afraid that living in larger family groups would create more opportunities for, say, queer kids to be isolated, rejected, bullied, and abused. But if we gave people enough money to survive, and stopped considering children the property of their parents with no system in place to help them escape bad situations except a system that is often just as bad, just different.

I'm aware that communes and collectives aren't all that successful and are kind of a joke. I don't mean that. I mean a fundamental shift to multigenerational families where taking in "strays" (which my family did) is also normalized so people escaping abuse into existing households was accepted, with these families centered in maybe a couple of different larger residences so not everyone has to buy and maintain their own fucking washing machine and vacuum cleaner, and so people can benefit from large group meals that yield leftovers, and so child and elder care can also be centralized.

Then disabled people and the neurodivergent and sick and injured people, and pregnant people, and grieving people, would not have to either labor through all those stressors or consign themselves to living off an unlivable pittance or being put under legal guardianship.

I'm not saying anything new. People live like this in other parts of the world and maybe it sucks and I am wrong. But I'm just really mad right now because I can either do laundry or clean the sink but not both, and I really think we could improve society somewhat by making it so I did not have to choose one without sacrificing the other.

[sher-ee]

NEW

Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFA) blasts Donald Trump for his disgusting comments about the Medal of Honor:

“These asinine comments not only diminish the significance of our nation’s highest award for valor but also crassly characterize the sacrifices of those who have risked their lives above and beyond the call of duty.”

[dailypearldoodles]

Pearl but as a Sky COTL person(i think their called moths)

Day 342

Just the newbies are called moths by the fandom! Canonically theyre children of light, but people usually call them skykids or skids for short

Have a moth Pearl and Grian :3

[biollyante]

do you think Yuu ever asks Kalim's dad for relationship advice. because he's the only one who could possibly understand the scale of what Yuu is going through

[crowemoji]

I wasn't made aware of this update until I saw posts about it on here because god forbid they give a notification when there's a big update like... getting rid of activities, groups... EVEN THE EDITOR CHAT.

BRO. I used that shit to take notes about my stuff. Why would you get RID OF THAT.

I don't know if the comments are safe from the purge but if not you guys are going to have to communicate there lmao (I say 'you guys' because I don't have people to talk to on Quotev anymore, which doesn't matter to me).

Anyway, I'm moving to Ao3 to write my stuff. If you can't tell, this Tumblr account isn't new at all, so is my Ao3 account. Honestly, writing there makes me feel more professional for no reason.

Oh Food Jesus... I'll miss ya buddy.

Hello to everyone else who's migrating to Tumblr like a flock of birds. Hello, fellow birds (because my name's Crow ahahaha... ha... I'm not sorry).

[littlestickfish]

[justsomedrawing]

[rafole]

tag

[mxbitters]

if only my dead great uncle could see what i’m currently doing to his old army jacket lol

[roboticutie]

You cannot resist the whole of the military industrial complex, especially the US American sector, without holding compassion and sympathy for veterans.

[raethethey]

i cannot for the life of me fix anything

[starfishinthedistance]

I talk to many people who say things like "oh I have trauma but I don't have PTSD", but then when I talk to them a little more I realize that they most likely do, they just can't recognize it as such due to how lacking PTSD awareness is, even beyond the whole "it's not just a veteran's disorder" thing.

The main reason they think they don't have PTSD usually has to do with flashbacks and nightmares, either they have one but not the other or have neither. But here's the thing, those are only two symptoms out of the 23-odd recognized symptoms. Flashbacks and nightmares are two of the five symptoms under Criterion B (Intrusion), which you only need one of for a diagnosis. The other three symptoms are unwanted upsetting memories, emotional distress after being reminded of trauma and physical reactivity after being reminded of trauma (i.e. shaking, sweating, heart racing, feeling sick, nauseous or faint, etc). Therefore you can have both flashbacks and nightmares, one but not the other, or neither and still have PTSD.

In fact, a lot of the reasons people give me for why they don't think they have PTSD are literally a part of the diagnostic criteria.

"Oh, I can barely remember most parts of my trauma anyway." Criterion D (Negative Alterations in Cognition and Mood) includes inability to recall key features of the trauma.

"Oh but I don't get upset about my trauma that often because I avoid thinking of it or being around things that remind me of it most of the time." Criterion C (Avoidance) includes avoiding trauma-related thoughts or feelings and avoiding trauma-related external reminders, and you literally cannot get diagnosed if you don't have at least one of those two symptoms.

"Oh I just have trouble getting to sleep or staying asleep, but I don't have nightmares." Criterion E (Alterations in Arousal and Reactivity) includes difficulting sleeping outside of nightmares.

"But I didn't have many/any trauma symptoms until a long time after the trauma happened." There's literally an entire specification for that.

Really it just shows how despite being one of the most well-known mental illnesses, people really don't know much about PTSD. If you have trauma, I ask you to at least look at the criteria before you decide you don't have PTSD. Hell, even if you don't have trauma, look at the criteria anyway because there are so many symptoms in there that just are not talked about.

PTSD awareness is not just about flashbacks and nightmares.

[televinita]

the HELL do you mean I have work in the morning still

[tomorrowusa]

Just when you think you’ve heard the absolute worst about George Santos, it gets even worse.

Stealing $3,000 which was meant to provide medical treatment for the service dog of a disabled veteran is pretty loathsome.

In May 2016, Richard Osthoff was living in a tent in an abandoned chicken coop on the side of Route 9 in Howell, New Jersey, with his beloved service dog Sapphire. A veteran's charity gave the pit mix to Osthoff, a disabled veteran who was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy in 2002, he told Patch.

When Sapphire developed a life-threatening stomach tumor, Osthoff, now 47, learned the surgery would cost $3,000. A veterinary technician took Osthoff aside and told him, "'I know a guy who runs a pet charity who can help you,'" Osthoff recounted.

His name was Anthony Devolder, and his pet charity was called Friends of Pets United, the vet tech told him.

Anthony Devolder is one of the names that Long Island Rep. George Santos used for years before entering politics in 2020.

[ ... ]

Osthoff and another New Jersey veteran, retired police Sgt. Michael Boll, who tried to intervene to help Osthoff in 2016, told Patch that Santos closed the GoFundMe he set up for Sapphire after it raised $3,000 on social media and disappeared.

"He stopped answering my texts and calls," Osthoff said. 

Sapphire died Jan. 15, 2017. After being out of work with a broken leg for over a year, Osthoff couldn't afford the dog's euthanasia and cremation, he said.

"I had to panhandle. It was one of the most degrading things I ever had to do," he remembered.

Yes, Sapphire is dead and Santos’s political career should be as well. Instead, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy has awarded Santos a seat on the House Committee on Small Business and one on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

It’s likely that Santos knows absolutely nothing about science. And considering what a liar and swindler he is, it’s insulting to small businesses in America that he should have an increased say regarding legislation that affects them.

Embattled Rep. Santos awarded seats on Science and Small Business committees

McCarthy is totally lacking in scruples. He supports con men like Donald Trump and George Santos because he is so desperate to have a title. And it’s an empty title at that because of all the power he had to give away to MAGA extremists to obtain it.

Worm excretion probably has a higher approval rating than George Santos at this point. GOP House members will be judged by their support for Santos remaining in Congress.