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You find a perfect human skull while picking flowers one day, so you bring it home and use it as a flower holder. But seemingly overnight, the flowers become one with the skull, making it a new body.

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Things People Don’t Mention About Top Surgery or Mastectomies

  • There is reluctance to do the surgery if you live alone, even if you have a good support system. One of the most stressful things was the hospital constantly asking about who would be looking after me, picking me up, etc. I really felt the bias towards people who are married and against people who are single. I don’t think it was intentional but it was definitely there. That being said you will definitely need a robust support system of some kind to get through everything in the first 4 -8 weeks or more after surgery. 
  • All your pill bottles will have safety caps and you won’t have the strength to open them on your own without a lot of struggling.
  • There are soooo many medications. Take them as prescribed and when they say take the level of pain meds you need to manage your pain, do it. I got opiods and ibuprofen. If the pain is bad 5-7+ on the 1-10 scale take the stronger meds. Pain can slow healing by causing stress on the body.
  • Drains are a pain in the ass. Every hour pushing the hoses so they don’t clog. Major drag but they are very important and if they get clogged it can cause issues
  • Sleeping sitting up, prepare for this. Lots of pillows or recliner or something. Practice for a week or more before surgery to get used to it. 
  • Sleep as much as you need. Don’t feel like you should stay awake or whatever because you are supposed to or it is day time or whatever. Listen to your body.
  • Drink lots and lots of fluids. You may think you are drinking enough but you probably aren’t. The fluid in the drains and the medicines and peeing all the time and sweating from the tight wrap. You need to replace all of this fluid. I think I have been up around 80+ oz the past few days.
  • The month before and a month after surgery eat a high protein and higher calorie diet. It will help with surgery and recovery. You need the energy and the protein to recover. 
  • Cut out added salt, caffiene, alcohol, and nicotine before surgery and during recovery. All of these can increase fluid retention, slow healing, or be dangerous with the meds.
  • Your chest will feel very strange. At first you can’t feel anything and then the skin feels tight everywhere and still strange. The recovery process feels real weird. Your whole torso feels kind of bizarre and new.
  • Ask all the questions. No question is stupid. It’s trauma to your body ask all the questions. YES all of them.
  • The tube (intubation) from surgery irritates the throat. Coughing from this sucks so damned much because of the binder and the chest tightness and what not. Find lozenges (Both cough drops and just candy) that you like. I say candy because too many cough drops can upset the stomach and you don’t need that after anesthesia and with all the meds. Also get popsicles.
  • Take everything out of packages you can before surgery. They are damned hard to open. Those paper cartons holding the apple sauce and snapping apart pudding cups and pulling apart pill blister packs.. ugh I should have taken them apart before the surgery.
  • Scissors are your friend and every package is an enemy. Seriously, get a good pair of scissors for packaging.
  • Also, skip 2 liters of pop, gallon of milk, etc. They will be too heavy to pick up after surgery. You can be more independent if  you get smaller size things.
  • Timers are your friend. All the phone timers forever. Also, handwritten or some other chart type to keep track of drain cleaning and taking meds. You will be sleepy and forgetful the first few days. Use other things to help you keep track.
  • Take stock of how your lights go on and off. Can you reach them while pretending you are a T-Rex. If not, especially ceiling fans and that, put long strings on the pulls so that you can operate them while you can’t raise your arms.
  • Also check your doors to make sure they don’t stick. You won’t be able to tug hard on doors or drawers or whatever.
  • Get yourself some treats. Food related or clothing or whatever. Treats will help.
  • Before surgery plan out and prepare at least a week of meals. Be sure to include some that are easy on the stomach like crackers, rice and chicken, etc. Just in case you have stomach upset from the anesthesia or meds. Gentle foods include starches and chicken/tofu that is low fat and low spice so that it is gentle.
  • Soft fuzz free and easy to get on clothing is essential. I went out and got a couple of those shorts and button down shirt pajama sets. Life savers. Also, get a size or two bigger than usual to accommodate drains and padded bandages and things. 
  • Strange pains, you will probably have them. 
  • Be sure to do the arm exercises as directed by your surgeon and watch your shoulders hunching. The shoulder hunching is from the chest tightness but you don’t want your back to start hurting. Try to sit up as straight as you can.
  • Pump action soap dispensers will be too hard to use the first few days.
  • Weeks before surgery, start teaching yourself how to do things without your arms; like standing up, getting into and out of bed, squatting, getting up from chairs, etc. Practice doing things with your elbows next to your chest like a t-rex; getting food and drinking, brushing teeth, taking meds, etc This will be very important

I am sure there are more but I thought some of you might benefit from the things I have learned so far from going through surgery.

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I can speak about at least three of those problems:

1: The pharmacy can put twist-open caps on. If you ask for them, we can do it. I would never mind cracking the bag open and fixing them myself.

2: For cough drops: If you are, like me, someone who hates minty-ass cough drops: There’s 2 more kinds besides mentholated. One type uses pectin to lube up your throat. The other kind uses benzocaine and it fucking rules. That- and throat sprays- will numb your throat. obviously do not use if you have a -caine sensitivity lmao.

3: The pain meds. Take them on the schedule. I’ve found that pain meds work better when you pre-game that shit. Slam those things like you’re in the back of your dragula.

4: personally? For a couple days after getting all my wisdom teeth out (highly suggest i am not doing that shit more than once at a time) I ended up drinking meal-replacement shakes. It’s not optimal, but being able to just chug and be done was nice. Obviously top surgery is more…intense… but the same thing holds true: Keep a few bottles around because you can and will be too tired to actually acquire meal-shaped things.

TAKE LAXATIVES WITH YOUR OPIATES

I know no one wants to talk about poop but it took me like a week to shit after mine because I forgot to take laxatives and it was brutal

Fun fact. Most orange pill bottles, if you turn the cap upside it screws on normal. It’s not child free anymore. I’ve never found one that didn’t do this.

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bonni

I just saw a gifset that split the word "beautiful" into 3 gifs and I think this one may be the new t hanos

You’re laughing. She has a urinary tract infection and you’re laughing

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lewvithur

ok most of these I can get the original context, but who the fuck is this fruitier looking matpat and why does he have calcium in his bones

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irlwakko

no clue but this guy has it too

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shilohtx

pitter patter putter patter *you look down and see this*

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mrsketchy

I trust him

Okay but this is exactly what I love.

The above image is a historical artifact. Colima dog. It dates back to circa 100 BCE-300 CE. (x)

And, around two thousand years later it was originally shaped with care, painted with love, and adored… someone draws it. Draws it using a new technological device that allows modern people to shape things with care, paint with love, and even move them -on a screen, glowing.

And the said person decides to share it with the world. The whole world adores it.

I love the connection between past and today. We were humans back then, and we are still the same.

Cute dog :)

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Anonymous asked:

How bout an AU where literally every sect is eldrich? They're all eldrich in different ways and each sect's true forms freak out the other sects.

All the great sects are actually some sort of shapeshifting monster, thats why their all so much more powerful and beautiful then the lesser sects, but they all think their the only one made of monsters and they need to keep it secret.

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Half the room exploded into screams and drawn swords.

Jiang Cheng gaped at Wei WuXian, fallen into his true form in a fit of incandescent rage.  He’d said he had it under control!  He said his temper wasn’t being effected by the Demonic Cultivation!  Jiang Cheng had known he was overstating his control, but had been too busy to do more than trust Wei WuXian’s judgement.

Watching the gelatinous parts of Wei WuXian’s body collapse on themselves in the open air and the long, ribboned stingers in them sprawl across the floor as his more muscular tentacles began to strain under the weight of his body without water to buoy him up.

Muscles tensing and skin itching with a surge of his own true form, Jiang Cheng darted looks around the room, struggling to decide what to do. 

It was only himself and A-Jie and Wei WuXian left now, since the massacre.   A few of Wei WuXian’s enormous eyes turned to him as his variegated purple and black skin flashed a coded warning of pale blue bio luminescent language.

Fingers shaking around the hilt of his sword, Jiang Cheng closed his eyes with a shaky breath. 

He couldn’t risk A-Jie.

“The Yiling Patriarch has become a monster!”

“A demon come to eat our bodies and souls!”

“Kill it!”

Jiang Cheng’s eyes snapped open when no moaning cries from Wei WuXian or hideous screaming of men being torn apart and devoured began.

The lesser sect leaders and their men had clustered closer to the walls and door, shouting toward the leaders of the five great sects to lead the charge.

Typical.

But….the Jins, Lans and Nie were not moving.  Instead, they all still sat frozen at their dining tables, staring at Wei WuXian with indescribable looks.  Jiang Cheng’s fingers shook, but puzzlement began to dawn through the terror.  Shouldn’t righteous cultivators immediately leap to destroy such a monster, appearing before their very eyes?  Why weren’t they doing anything?  Though there were many here he’d call coward easily enough, there was no man that should have so completely frozen.  Especially now that Wei WuXian had been transformed long enough it should be blatant even to someone unfamiliar with his form that he was weakened and struggling.  His skin was flickering in panic as the thick suckers on the bottoms of his tentacles clung to the floor hard enough they turned white.

As most of the lesser cultivation clans began audibly expressing such questions, one screamed about the glory of his own clan and lunged forward.

He didn’t make it.

With a crash of smashing wood, a fast-moving white mass flung itself across the room and between Wei WuXian and the cultivator. 

Jiang Cheng joined the other cultivators in dumbfounded silence as the nameless cultivator was torn in half and thrown back hard enough the two halfs embedded in the wall and failed to fall.

Not wilting on the floor like a fish out of water, the creature took up about the same space Wei WuXian should have.  Instead of something familiar though, it was white and appeared to have no solid body, only endless rows of serated teeth and smooth, suckerless tendrils that knoted around itself in the center and ceaselessly moved; stretching and writhing around the floor as a tentacle might.

“Lan Zhan?” Wei WuXian’s voice echoed painfully around the room, tones meant to travel through water cutting through the air powerfully enough to make blood begin pouring from the ears of most of the room.

Not a single cultivator from one of the four remaining great sects though, he noticed.

“Wei Ying.” Lan Wangji’s voice was a rippling, shimmering thing, full of starlight and bells that made the lesser cultivators begin to smile guilelessly and walk forward a step before regaining themselves when he spoke no more.  Jiang Cheng himself had to shake his head a bit to push aside thoughts of how lovely that voice was.

Lan Xichen scrambled up and put himself between his brother and the rest of the room with a determined look and a glare at the cultivators now screaming for Lan Wangji to be killed.

“No one will kill my brother for being what he is.”

“Or A-Xian.” Jiang Yanli put herself beside him.

There was a long pause, then Jin ZiXuan slowly stepped forward, biting his lip as his eyes darted over the increasingly pathetic puddle of Wei WuXian on the floor and Lan Wangji’s hulking mass over him.

“A-Zuan!” his mother called tersely, but he ignored her.

With one lingering look at Jiang Yanli, Jin ZiXuan’s expression firmed and, in in a ripple and some sound of ripping skin, feathers and scales and claws burst into being where he’d once stood.  Smaller than the other two monsters in the room, but still dwarfing any ten men.  Jin ZiXuan’s body looked like a twisted mess of muscle over exposed bone, plate-like scales dotted over the most vulnerable parts of him, feathers and fur mixing in a strange ruff around his neck that framed the gruesome, skeletal head.  His mouth opened and Jiang Cheng caught sight of extra jaws and rows of teeth in patterns that made him wonder how he swallowed.   His gaze quickly dropped away from the gaping empty sockets Jin ZiXuan’s eyes should have rested in when he felt a lancing headache begin.

A couple dozen lower cultivators dropped dead on the floor.

Eyes shifted among the leaders of the five great sects as the rest fled screaming and the room fell silent.

Jiang Cheng met Lan Qiren and Lan Xichen’s eyes levelly as she slowly approached his sister’s side.  Jin Guangshan was hid behind his fan, not quite hiding the strange bulge and ripple of his muscles as if his body longed to shift.

Nie Mingjue hadn’t looked away from Lan Xichen. 

Rounding his dining table, Nie Mingjue’s form rippled in a surprisingly gentle heat-shimmer of a change.  Between one step and the next, he gained his height twice over, body elongating and warping and growing strange horns and unsettlingly sharp edges, like a blade given life, but stretched over the bones of a man by someone who’d never seen a man before.  Then turned him somehow inside out.  Jiang Cheng couldn’t tell where his mouth ended, or if it did at all

After a moment of meeting Nie Mingjue’s gaze, Lan Xichen silently changed into a nearly identical mass of white, muscular limbs as Lan Wangji.

“Well-” Jin Guangshan tried from his throne-like seat.  “Well….”

Impatient as ever, Jiang Cheng was the first to get fed up with the stalemate.

“Wei WuXian, change back before you dissolve complete, idiot.”

“Jiang Cheng~” Wei WuXian whined, writing uncomfortably as he tried to heave his mass together.  Lan Wangji’s many limbs circled around and gently scooped and curled around the tender, gelatinous parts of Wei WuXian and carefully pushed him together.

“Lan Zhan~  Thank you!” the nearest wood column holding up the ceiling cracked under the force of his happy voice.

“Wei Wuxian!” Jiang Cheng snapped, exhasperated.  “I’m not paying for any damages you do.”

“Yeah, yeah.”

With a low, mournful moan that didn’t sound right out of the water, Wei WuXian collapsed and tucked in on himself until his human form was standing, somewhat winded, where his true form had been.  Lan Wangji stroked a dozen tendrils over him before similarly collapsing back to human form.

“Alright then.” Jiang Cheng nodded, satisfied Wei WuXian wasn’t going to crush under his own un-bouyed weight, then turned back to the other sect leaders.  “So.  We clearly have much to discuss.”

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It fucks me up that humans can't actually feel wet

We can feel temperature and texture so we can "feel" if something is wet but we don't have actual humidity receptors

Which explains the phenomenon of handling clothing that's been drying on the line and going "is this wet or just cold I can't tell"

I hate it and it fucks with my head

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well i guess it's always good to make sure i'm not in an echo chamber when it comes to interpretations of my fave characte- *ventures outside my circle of mutuals* OH JESUS CHRIST WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE

#sometimes. the echo chamber. is in fact. a panic room. (via allgremlinart)

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