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Out of all the decisions made for the film, I would have to say the best one had to be when they introduced Xenk by having him serve absolute CUNT™ and then casually leaving

LOOK AT THEIR REACTIONS PLEASE!!

Excellent observation by others: the fact he took off his jacket like he was about to dive into the water or wrestle the fish but no, he just wanted to be dramatic asf for no reason and then ofc you can hear the players ask the DM if they can smash romance Xenk but they can't. Also the SHIRT?? SLAY!

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Reminder that switching to Firefox is incredibly easy and takes just a few minutes, you WILL be able to copy over all your cookies, browsing history, logins etc, as well as change the look/layout so it feels like what you’re used to.

i have the opposite of seasonal depression where im fine all winter but without fail every june i feel the deep seated need in myself to bury my head underground and not talk to anybody for weeks

by talos this cant be happening

#Don’t tell me it’s not them

calmly, silently, patiently

Like a bulb, waiting under the dirt until spring.

OCs from a Good Society and dnd hybrid game! The dialogue was actually what was said between them! Lorelyn (left) is mine and Solomon (right) belongs to @deerkick

“Your art isn’t valued by the number of notes you get” okay but. If you spent 6 hours baking a cake for a party, but no one at the party eats your cake, it’s still disappointing.

This articulates something about the different between value and validation that I didn’t previously register on a conscious level.

This is why I tell people I feel more like an entertainer than an artist.

I want to hear them laugh, chat, comment, speak, roar, cry, get irrationally angry, I need people to respond to my art and get inspired and need more.

I don’t want a note, I want a response.

Responses are very nice. I like reading over them. They make me feel fuzzy. Of course, likes and reblogs are also very appreciated, but responses make me feel a special kinda fuzzy.

That’s the thing about the “oh, create for yourself, don’t worry about other people!” attitude (that almost exclusively comes from non-artists and people who have tons of followers and routinely get tons of validation for SOME reason) that doesn’t quite work. I guarantee you, most of us already ARE creating for ourselves above all-

But we POST our creations for human connection, and that’s not a bad thing.

I’m not sure when we all got to the point where wanting validation for something you worked hard at is seen as a bad thing. That you’re pathetic for wanting.

If you think that way it’s not only toxic as hell it’s killing creators.

Creating isn’t easy. When there’s nobody to look at your work and say, “You did a good job. This was hard.” The drive and ambition disappears, then so does the work.

Give your content creators value.

Reblog content.

So much this!

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Last day!

Gentle reminder that if you play D&D or any of the sort remember to tell your DM how much you appreciate their work and efforts! Dm’s put so much of their time, themselves and their passions to try to make sure everyone has fun My girlfriend is wonderful DM and I can only describe how much her face lights up when her players tell her she’s done a great job! So please, remember to show your DMs some love!

Is Fox Mulder the most comically-brutalized protagonist in television history? Not only is he shot and beaten up on a regular basis, but the list of extreme and exotic injuries he accrues over the course of the series has got to be some kind of TV cop record. The man is mind-wiped by the military in only the second episode. For any other TV cop, that would be a career-defining event, but it’s just a day in the life of Agent Spooky.

Bro was cocooned by carnivorous insects, thrown out of a nuclear submarine into the Alaskan tundra by an alien bounty hunter, beaten up by an invisible gorilla. He was experimented on in a Siberian gulag, drowned in the Bermuda Triangle, tortured by Neo-Nazis. I wonder what getting Freaky Friday-ed by a malfunctioning UFO cloaking device does to your gonads. How much radiation has he been exposed to? Someone test this man’s hair follicles. How many mysterious bodily fluids has he dipped his finger in and tasted at crime scenes? Dear God, someone test him for HIV. Imagine being the FBI doctor who administers his physicals.

Remember when the Shadow Government was putting LSD in Mulder’s water tank? Our boy got blown up in an underground train car and resurrected in a Navajo healing ceremony, and that’s not even the last train car he would get blown up in. One time, his lungs were filled with mutated tobacco beetles. Hoss let a quack doctor give him ketamine and drill a hole in his goddamn skull. In an unrelated incident, he had a chunk of his brain stolen. He was locked in a padded cell, trapped inside of a video game, and— of course —abducted by aliens. Fox Mulder was fully dead, and then came back to life after being exhumed, and nobody even seemed that surprised when he rolled up at the J. Edgar Hoover building like nothing had happened.

Am I missing anything? How is this man still alive? His body must be like a pillowcase full of broken lightbulbs. Every time he moves, you just hear crunching.

Not to be outdone, Dana Scully was also abducted by aliens, cocooned by carnivorous insects, and kidnapped and tortured by multiple serial killers. Remember when they were both digested by a giant psychedelic mushroom? Remember when they got lost at sea on a Norwegian naval vessel that made them rapidly age like the beach from that M. Night Shyamalan movie? Name another TV cop duo who could bounce right back from that.

Our good Catholic queen was almost eaten by cannibals, had her heart nearly ripped out by a fictional character conjured to life by an edgelord novelist who moved in next door to her partner to stalk her. She was forcibly sterilized by the Shadow Government, given sci-fi brain cancer, and then impregnated with an alien bullshit baby. One time a cult strapped her to the Sloth bed from Se7en so a brain-eating slug monster could burrow into her spine.

If you got ergot poisoning from a tattoo and your one night stand tried to throw you in the apartment building murder furnace from Single White Female, it would be the single most traumatic day of your life. For Dana Scully, it wasn’t even her last 90’s sex thriller basement murder furnace. You try getting shot in the gut and evading the Grim Reaper while holding hands with a suicidal old man death-psychic and see what happens. That wasn’t even her first suicidal old man death-psychic.

A lot people focus on how psychologically messed up Mulder and Scully are, but the level of physical punishment these characters endure is so off the charts it’s hilarious. What’s-his-nuts and the other Deschanel from Bones could never.

Honestly be pretentious as fuck about the stuff you create. Do a press release for your fanfic updates. Do a Q&A about your webcomic. Make fake merch designs for your OCs. Commission "official" book covers. Very few of us will ever get to a stage where something we've created Makes It Big but even if you have an audience of 5 people plus a shoelace fucking indulge yourself and pretend!! It's the only way to live!!

me constantly releasing press junkets about my OCs like they are actual celebrities and i am their PR agent

It feels taboo as a childfree person to admit this but I actually do have concerns about who is going to take care of me when I'm old. The elder care system in our nation relies A LOT on the unpaid care labor of adult children. I just don't think that's a good reason to have kids.

"But you'll have more money!" does not completely put this to rest for me. Neither does "Buy care insurance!" Even if I can afford direct personal care, who is going to advocate for me to get it? Who is going to navigate bureaucracy for me when I'm 80?

"If you do have kids, there's no GUARANTEE that they'll take care of you when your old!" That's true, but doesn't solve my problem.

I think childfree people get very defensive about this question because its used as a kind of "gotcha!" against us, but I actually do not feel we can afford to be in denial about this reality. Based on current trends of more people in their 30s stating they intend to be permanently childfree, we are going to see a huge wave of childfree adults hitting the eldercare system at once in a few decades. Childfree people in their 30s should be advocating around eldercare NOW.

We desperately need to cultivate a society in which everyone, even the most bitter, unlikeable, miserably lonely person in the world, has a social safety net that they can rely on from the day they're born to the day they die, and that includes their elder care.

We are not going to achieve this meaningfully under capitalism. :')

I'm exhibiting at the digital TCAF for the next two weeks! You can get my latest books, including my new EXPERTISE (vol 2 of my DnD art book series) and STRAY AND FOUND, the zine about a very familiar character of mine!

You can also get a limited number of my dice bags and plushies this way too!

Here’s a look at my available books!

I'm exhibiting at the digital TCAF for the next two weeks! You can get my latest books, including my new EXPERTISE (vol 2 of my DnD art book series) and STRAY AND FOUND, the zine about a very familiar character of mine!

You can also get a limited number of my dice bags and plushies this way too!

Here’s a look at my available books!

if you ever get a doctor that says you cannot possibly have POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome) because your blood pressure is not low enough or does not drop low enough when standing, whether or not a tilt table is involved: that doctor does not know enough about POTS.

by the current and most common diagnostic criteria, POTS patients must not have their blood pressure significantly drop when upright/standing in order for it to be considered POTS. a POTS diagnosis is only supposed to be made in the absence of orthostatic hypotension. very long story short: if your blood pressure drops a bunch when you stand up or are upright, you can not have POTS. doctors who say there must be low blood pressure or a significant decrease in upright blood pressure for someone to have POTS are wrong by the very definition of POTS.

but POTS patients can have low blood pressure in general, can have high blood pressure, and can have their blood pressure increase when standing.

POTS is not: low blood pressure, or a blood pressure drop when standing.

POTS is: significant heart rate increase (tachycardia) from being upright, with symptoms, within 10 minutes of being upright on a tilt table, without having orthostatic hypotension, after ruling out certain other causes and circumstances.

Except you can absolutely have both. My test involved continuous monitoring for both heart rate and blood pressure. My blood pressure dropped sharply but then rose and stabilised within a minute or so. My heart rate graph was a totally different shape and was still rising when the test was over. Your heart rate can't be explained by your blood pressure, but if the two graphs look totally different you can absolutely be diagnosed with both. It's just not something you can do without specialist equipment.

"The current diagnostic criteria for POTS is a heart rate increase of 30 beats per minute (bpm) or more, or over 120 bpm, within the first 10 minutes of standing, in the absence of orthostatic hypotension." from dysautonomia international who handles autonomic research, advocacy, awareness, and hosts the world's largest autonomic medical conferences.

at the conferences they discuss how yes you can have every symptom of POTS except also have a blood pressure drop, and then it stops being POTS by the current definition. instead it becomes another form of autonomic orthostatic intolerance.

I'm sure doctors are happy to treat an unnamed orthostatic intolerance. They for sure don't treat orthostatic hypotension. I'm gunna stick with my hospital diagnosis that gets me meds. And that's kind of the entire issue. They fuck with diagnostic criteria, people get their diagnosis revoked without ever seeing a doctor about it (it happened. To me. Different condition.) and suddenly there's no treatment. There's no insurance, if you need insurance. There's no longer the warning on your hospital file. Worst case, you lose your meds AND you have to repay costs for treatment you got. Cost of living payments can be revoked and demands made for repayment. This shit kills. So yeah I don't fuck with changes in diagnostic criteria when they exclude people who have the symptoms and don't have a viable alternative. The same organisation that published that is the one not providing another label. Again, this kills.

dysautonomia international absolutely does address types of dysautonomia other than POTS. that is why they are called dysautonomia international and not POTS international. dysautonomia international has not changed the diagnostic criteria for POTS recently, and they do provide resources and education for many different types of dysautonomia including orthostatic hypotension. dysautonomia patients absolutely can receive care for non-POTS autonomic orthostatic intolerance, and I am one of those patients.

DI's research has been life saving.

the diagnostic criteria for POTS has been this for many years. I genuinely do not understand what you are talking about, can you show me what you mean by saying DI recently changed the criteria?

Weirdly, I had a doctor claim that DI had changed their criteria and that’s what they were following, but as someone who has been following DI for years, they literally haven’t.

I’m actually wondering if some hospitals have changed their policies in response to long Covid and the staggering number of people now searching for a POTS diagnosis, and I wonder if the exclusion is coming from there because they are being pressured not to diagnose people with POTS/dysautonomia because they didn’t have the education and resources before and they sure as shit don’t now.

I'm exhibiting at the digital TCAF for the next two weeks! You can get my latest books, including my new EXPERTISE (vol 2 of my DnD art book series) and STRAY AND FOUND, the zine about a very familiar character of mine!

You can also get a limited number of my dice bags and plushies this way too!

Here’s a look at my available books!

I'm exhibiting at the digital TCAF for the next two weeks! You can get my latest books, including my new EXPERTISE (vol 2 of my DnD art book series) and STRAY AND FOUND, the zine about a very familiar character of mine!

You can also get a limited number of my dice bags and plushies this way too!

Here’s a look at my available books!