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@lalitrus

Love when writers do an insane amount of unnecessary research for their fics. I follow an author that did like 8 months of intense research into 14th century Scotland so they could write smut about it, and guess what. It was some fucking incredible porn AND I learned about old Scottish politics

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IT FEELS LILE

i have three responses to "how is your writing going"

1) it's not

2) it's going

3) i am ENTHUSED. i have been BLESSED with the POWER of the MUSES. i am an UNSTOPPABLE FORCE OF CREATION i am the MOST ULTIMATE OF ALL WRITERS

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Pie chart showing the proportion of time each answer is used:

existing is enough bud. you have already proven love is real by being here. GREAT JOB. everything else is extra credit

i went to a tiny counterserve diner once and accidentally poured sugar instead of salt all over my hashbrowns and was eating them sadly anyways. the waitress took them away and started making me another one and I tried to protest, but she just snorted and said "we're not catholic here". now every time i'm doing something painful out of obligation i think about how that is not repenting, this body is not a catholic establishment, there is no nobility in suffering.

do you ever wonder if your choice of blorbo is random baby chick imprinting, or in fact a deep physiological profile that reveals all the things you need therapy for

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No, I don't wonder

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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."

Nope. I mean it is safe to take them together. Like, if it's a very mild pain, sure, take just one. Especially if you have a sensitive stomach. (Ibuprofen, with food and water, for pain + inflammation. Acetaminophen for anything else.) But if it's already pretty bad? Take the recommended dose for both at the same time. (With food and water. And NAC and a multivitamin if you have them.)

Acetaminophen can safely be mixed with Ibuprofen (OR naproxen OR aspirin.) - check stuff like cold and flu meds because they often already have one of those mixed in and you don't want to double up the wrong ones.

Ibuprofen, aspirin, and naproxen all work directly on the site of the pain itself and can be dangerous when mixed together. But they also reduce inflammation effectively as a result. Acetaminophen actually affects how your *brain* perceives pain signals - making you less sensitive to them. (Weirdly, this means that some studies have shown that acetaminophen can also temporarily reduce feelings of emotional pain and empathy???? Brains are weird.) Because these mechanisms are so different, you can layer them and get a boosted effect.

Remember- pain is bad for the body. Once you know the cause of the pain, it isn't doing you any more good, and it in fact is bad for you. Do what you need to do (safely) to get rid of pain.

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Looks like NAC is (or at least was) restricted by the FDA. It might be hard/ illegal to find for sale in the US.

But yeah. I've had multiple doctors advise me to take a full dose of acetaminophen and a full dose of ibuprofen or naproxen for serious pain with a known cause and a treatment plan in place. Over a long enough period, it could probably do some damage. But the goal, in my experience, has been to allow me to get on with my life or at least get some sleep until my body can heal or the doctor can get me some more permanent assistance. And it works.

You can definitely buy NAC in the US. It's on Amazon. I saw it at Target yesterday.

There was some discussion last year about whether NAC could be sold as a "dietary supplement " (since is also has FDA approval as a drug). Which made some retailers stop selling it for a bit.

The final ruling on that was that the FDA would basically allow NAC to continue to be sold as a supplement as long as companies weren't making dubious "non-compliant health claims" about it. So it's definitely still available.

But yes! Acetaminophen can absolutely be safely mixed with the NSAIDS at the correct doses for occasional pain.

You can even buy both ibuprofen and acetaminophen together in a single tablet in some places. Advil sells it as Advil Plus, and I’ve also seen it under the name Combogesic. It’s got a lower dose of both, but sometimes I find it more effective than a single dose of either.

Enriched uranium sword with a lead sheathe that is rumored to slowly kill its owner in exchange for god killing power.

League of knights with similar blades all sheathe their weapons in the mechanisms of a dilapidated castle, their power bringing arcane mechanisms to life and unearthing secrets long buried and lost.

Two selfish combatants duel with these cursed blades, their final mighty clash laying waste to both warriors and their surroundings in an apocalyptic storm of divine fire that sees the land poisoned and cursed by the gods for decades.

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“Hark, Lord Bollemer, ye shall taste the steel of my Cursed Blade, and thine doom willst finally be upon you! Ready thyself!”

This place is not a place of honour

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Self reblog because I realized this is exactly where one of my favorite BCS short stories falls: “The River Does Not Run” by Rachel Sobel. Audio version here.

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messy redraw of an older thing + trying to get back to drawing all of them bc im cycling back to animorphs for real!!!

not unfollowing a mutual who hasnt posted in 9 months out of loyalty and love like a widow still setting a place at the dinner table for her husband who died in the war 

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They’re lost at sea. They might come back.

i see a convo w a character ai and i keep scrolling

listen im seeing tags about people agreeing that ai bots can be really inaccurate and i want to point out that this is NOT about that. the ai bot can be as accurate as you want it to be i still get mad at em.

its not about how good they do at emulating a character, its about that they aren’t a person making creative choices and i hate that. i want to enjoy my characters with other people. hold my hand and tell me all about why you think your blorbo is autistic or likes your favourite shitty band. i love you. if a bot randomly shuffles those opinions out idc if theyre even the same ones im exploding it with my mind.