The Gotham Club Crawl

Well, the day has finally come. I'm biting the bullet and ordering a new custom PC. Manny is going to retire.

Manny's been my workhorse for what must be over a decade at this point and has been Ship of Theseus'd to hell and back, but most of his current parts are ~7 years old and replacing any of them will likely mean replacing all of them now. The cooling's starting to struggle to maintain load-appropriate temperatures even while there's not that much going on and I'd rather put Manny into retirement before he completely shits the bed, that way I can keep him as a spare. It's handy to have a second machine sometimes!

That said, looking at these prices, they're about what I expected but still so much fucking money, so if you've ever enjoyed me or my work or anything I've done or made and you fancy helping out with this big expense, feel free to put something in the pot. :')

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Or there's my Patreon! That's just over here. It's very NSFW, though.

I also write! My rate is five British pence per word and although I can't guarantee that your commission will get done quickly, it will get done well. Check out my AO3 here for some samples of my work. You can also find samples of my writing in my writing tag here on Tumblr!

If you're interested in commissioning me to write a thing for you just drop me a line and we'll have a chat to figure out if I can give you what you're after. ( b ._.)b

Any and all contributions to Manny's retirement fund will be deeply appreciated in any case! Thanks so much for reading, and I'll keep doing whatever I've been doing that you guys keep showing up for.

Sorry, I don’t care that Netflix shows are delayed, I’m catching up on anime from 1989.

I'm over here re-watching Farscape for the 10th time I'm all good

I've been watching X-files with a friend of mine - we are on season 3 - we got plenty of eps left. And I still haven't finished Sailor Moon. I am in no way bothered by any of this.

I’ve got a whole stack of video games I haven’t played, I have Mt. To-Read, I need to do an Insidious rewatch, also you still need to show me Utena.

Flash: *bolts upright in bed* Shit! I’m late for school!

Eddie: *jerks awake* Hwha…?

Flash: *blinks* Oh, right, I’m in my thirties. Ha… *lies back down*

Eddie: …Aren’t you a-?

Flash: *flings himself back up* I’M A TEACHER!

Eddie: –and then he ran out the door still wearing his pyjamas.

Mary Jane: Oh my god, Peter did the exact same thing this morning!

*Meanwhile, at Midtown High*

Flash and Peter:

#reblogging for the HYSTERICAL addition omg#love the implication Eddie and MJ are on speaking terms#i wonder if Dok ever had plans for the larger cast in this au..??#Flash had Riot in this universe but maybe the Symbiote didn't bother to change his clothes lol - @kitausuret

The main Spidey cast is definitely THERE in 2043, I just didn’t pay as much attention to them as Venom corner. This Eddie takes more origin cues from the Sony movies than the comics, so he and MJ are chill. Though I never did decide who Peter actually ended up with. (MJ? Wade? Both?)

...We can just say Riot’s not good at clothes. Or thought it would be funny.

Dungeons and Dragons, but your character must be a self insert, and class is determined by your current abilities Barbarian Must have a demonstrable temper, go off I guess  Bard Must be able to play an instrument Cleric Must be involved in a religious organization Druid Must have demonstrable knowledge of, or passion for nature  Fighter Must beat the DM in physical combat (hope your DM’s a wimp)  Monk Must practice a martial art  Paladin Must have a cause that one actively supports  Ranger Must be able to fire a kind of ranged weapon accurately  Rogue Must sneak up on the DM (Hard mode: steal their dice)  Sorcerer Must have a powerful family heirloom  Warlock Must work for a powerful entity (Corporations, The Government)  Wizard Must have a College Degree or a 3.0 GPA  If you can’t be any of these you start as a commoner, and may become one of these classes when you finally satisfy these conditions.

People hate what they don’t understand. But they see what you do, and they know what you are. SON OF SUN AND KNIGHT OF NIGHT (2016) directed by Zack Snyder | written by Chris Terrio & David S. Goyer ››› Diane Lane as Martha Kent ››› Henry Cavill as Clark Kent / Superman

Its all “i love putting guys in situations” until were on a filler episode. Where are the REAL putting guys in situations lovers.

“It dosent progress the plot!!!” Have you never been on a whimsical journey that did nothing to change you as a person.

feeling a deep sense of kinship with danny here

painted posters for some of my favorite episodes as a fun experiment

today is great day to create something, to fill the void with a piece of yourself that wasnt there before and to push back against the darkness. you can create a song or painting or sandwich or a walk in the park or even a MOMENT. use this mighty power to defy the cosmic nothing

"In hindsight, I might have gone a little dark on that last one."

Olu 🧡

idk who needs to hear this rn but suffering is not noble. take the tylenol

One time when I was younger I was refusing to take headache medicine and my mom said “the person who invented that medicine is probably so sad you won’t let them help you” and now every time I find myself denying medicine I just imagine the saddest scientist making those big wet eyes like “why won’t you let me help” and whoop then I take the medicine

scientist when you don't take the medicine they developed to help your pain

As long as you are taking a SAFE dose of it, then it's *good* for you. Pain is bad for the body. The inflammation from prolonged pain can worsen chronic issues and make it harder to heal.

Ibuprofen is best for pain that has inflammation, while acetaminophen doesn't help with inflammation but is more broadly effective on other types of pain. As long as you are taking the recommended dose, you can even take them TOGETHER, since they have different mechanisms of action.

You do need to be aware of how much and how often you are taking any pain medication. Overdoses can be very painful (even lethal.) And if you are in chronic pain often enough that you need more than the safe dose, then you need to look into other medications to manage that pain.

(Also, if you are specifically taking Acetaminophen/Tylenol for your go-to pain management, getting some NAC and taking that with it reduces the risk of overdose AND may strengthen the effect.)

One other thing: NSAIDS (ibuprofen, aspirin, and naproxen being the three big ones) can cause digestive issues with chronic use, including stomach ulcers. That doesn't mean "don't take them," it means "if you're at the point where you're on them all the time, every day, constantly, you should talk to a doctor about either reducing that risk or switching to another medication that doesn't have those side effects."

Hi! I know some things about using OTC medication for pain management, because I have chronic migraines and I didn’t have anything else to treat them with for most of a year.

1: ibuprofen, aspirin, and sodium naproxen (NSAID) are good at reducing inflammation but aren’t quite as effective for pain that isn’t inflammation (for migraines specifically, I find ibuprofen and aspirin don’t help much and often give me rebound headaches once they wear off so I don’t use them for migraines. I *have* found sodium naproxen helpful for my migraines tho and I would definitely recommend ibuprofen for pretty much any pain that is caused by an injury)

2: NSAIDs all get filtered out of your bloodstream by your kidneys. Taking too much of one of them, or taking more than one at a time, will put extra stress on your kidneys. If you have kidney problems I suggest you be extra careful with these and talk to a doctor.

3: Tylenol / Acetaminophen isn’t an anti inflammatory medication but it is useful for treating most any kind of pain. It is the go-to OTC for treating migraines and period cramps specifically, they even make specific pills that combine Tylenol with caffeine and other stuff specifically for the purpose of treating those specific things (excedrin for migraine, midol for period cramps).

4: Tylenol gets filtered out of your bloodstream by the liver. Taking too much can stress or damage your liver. If you have liver problems I recommend you be extra careful with Tylenol and talk to a doctor. A quick google says that it’s safe to use Tylenol and alcohol at the same time, assuming you do not do both everyday or in excessive quantities. If you’re an alcoholic, you should avoid using Tylenol very often (like, once or twice a month is probably fine, three times a week is probably not)

5: taking Tylenol with an NSAID is safe and is a very common pain management strategy for post surgery pain (take one, take some of the other before the first one wears off so you aren’t in too much pain before it’s time for another dose of medication 1, keep going like that until you don’t need to anymore)

6: how much is too much? More than the amount recommended for you based on your age and weight in one day, or if you use them more than half the days in a month (aka if you use them 15 or more days per month). If you’re at this point, you should see a doctor about your pain management options (and hopefully deal with whatever is causing you to need pain management so often). I am NOT saying that you should not use those medications if you need pain management that often, just that you should be aware of the risks and hopefully look for other things that can help so you don’t stress your system out too much.

7: it is worth noting that quite a few of the prescription pain medications are actually Tylenol plus something else, because the Tylenol can and often does make the other thing work better than it would alone. It is entirely possible that a doctor might tell you to take Tylenol every day if that is going to be better for you than the pain.

8: Pain is bad for you. Like, even if you have a high pain tolerance and ‘you can take it’ it’s still bad because pain is a physical stress on your whole body and too much stress IS NOT HEALTHY. Your pain doesn’t need to be unbearable to be worth treating, if you have pain, please do something about it. Pain is your body’s signal that something is wrong and you need to do something about it. Sometimes, especially if you have chronic pain, the pain itself is the thing that’s wrong and the inherent stress of pain can harm you all by itself.

9: how can pain itself harm you? I would like to say that I categorically do not know all the ways it can hurt you, but I do know for a fact that pain can and WILL raise your blood pressure (which can be a problem), and chronic pain can and WILL cause depression, anxiety, and PTSD like symptoms at minimum and give you those conditions at a clinically diagnosable severity at worse (not worst, the worst is if your pain drives you to suicide, which it can and does do to people). No I am not joking about chronic pain giving people PTSD, chronic pain is inherently traumatic in my opinion. It’s basically long-term torture that doesn’t (usually) have a human deliberately causing it, but torture nonetheless.

Even if you aren’t sure about the above paragraph, it is still self evidently true that pain occupies brain space and uses mental energy that you would probably prefer to be using on something else.

Treat your pain. Your suffering does not help anyone, especially not yourself.

Since I am not above using a little gentle emotional manipulation (of saying true things to make an emotional appeal to action) to convince people to be kind to themselves: I love you, random person on the internet, and I do not want you to to be in pain, especially if you can avoid it. I am sad, right now, thinking about all the people who feel like they should tough out their pain for whatever reason, and I am not the only one. Please don’t be one the people making me sad.

So take your fucking medicine.

As a non-binary person this whole “adorable high seas romance” situation was life sustaining.

"One to be a murderer, the other to be martyred, One to be a monarch, the other to go mad."

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i feel like everyone has at least one of these so: in the tags tell me what media someone else needs to experience to truly understand the person you are today. mine is undertale and the owl house