i'll break your bones with all the love i carry

self portraits definitely aren't... easy for me. every one i do is a reminder i'm never going to look the way i want to. this one i kind of detached myself from the image of me, if that makes any sense lol, and tried to just have some fun. the expression and the little star doodles are probably my fav parts!

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ways to support me under the cut

some frosty token portraits of trovus and dannika from last month's rime of the frostmaiden post on patreon!!

what's your favorite ttrpg campaign that you've ever played? let me know! 🙂

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ghost aka m'ghostie aka ghostie-goo, my spelljammer character! i don't have a token of her with her new look so i made one :)

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if you'd like to support me, links under the break!

some frosty token portraits of trovus and dannika from last month's rime of the frostmaiden post on patreon!!

what's your favorite ttrpg campaign that you've ever played? let me know! 🙂

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if you like what i make here, i encourage you to consider supporting me via my patreon and/or my ko-fi! it means a lot! 💚

a doodle of my character from a monday night dnd game, gwyneira, a kalashtar moon druid struggling with her feelings for a vampire prince lol. enjoying winter while it's here but def longing for spring with that honeysuckle bush!

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Last night I was talking to my boyfriend, and I couldn’t think of the word ‘library’, so I said ‘book ranch’. He thought it was hilarious and started making up alternative names for ‘librarian’.

“Cowbook! Like cowboy! No…Readcher? Like Rancher? No, fuck this is hard…”

and just now I heard him yell “BOOKAROO” from the other end of the apartment in the most triumphant tone of voice i’ve ever heard

“Howdy, pardner. Name’s Tex. Biblio Tex.”

Certified Library Post

since when did snapple start dabbling in elemental elixirs

In light of the Panera lemonade thing, I feel like now is a good time to remind people that caffeine has an effective dose that is much closer to overdose amounts than most other drugs (including illegal and heavily stigmatized drugs), that caffeine overdoses are both common and under-reported, that not being able to get through a single day without a drug that was not prescribed to treat a medical condition is not normal, and that the sort of capitalist grind culture that normalizes all of this is bad, actually.

Caffeine headaches are a withdrawal symptom. If you get caffeine headaches when you don't get your coffee fix, you are addicted to caffeine.

Heart palpitations and feelings of impending doom are overdose symptoms, and tolerance can vary enough due to external factors that a high level of caffeine that's fine for you one day could be dangerous for you on another. If you get "panic attacks" and if you regularly drink more than one cup of coffee per day, tell your doctor about your caffeine habits, because those panic attacks may be misdiagnosed caffeine overdoses.

I'm not anti-caffeine – in fact, I'm not anti- any drug. I think adults can make informed choices about their own health, and I think that they should be allowed to do so. But the key to that is the informed part, and an awful lot of people consume genuinely risky amounts of caffeine without knowing any of the risks. In law school, I polled my friends, and discovered that a shockingly high percentage of them had had what were likely caffeine overdoses without realizing that that was what they were, or that they were dangerous. Having a little bit too much coffee and then spending all afternoon feeling like you're close to having a heart attack isn't an everyday occurrence, and it shouldn't be treated like one! Some of these same friends had abused stimulant medications like adderall and ritalin as productivity aids, and I absolutely guarantee that if they'd had the same level of symptoms from an accidental extra dosing of those drugs, rather than of caffeine, they'd have gone to the hospital. But Starbucks and Panera don't hand out adderall and ritalin, and people don't think that merch about adderall and ritalin dependency is cute or quirky, or that an adderall or ritalin habit is indicative of being a hard worker.

I love a cup o' joe in the morning too, but caffeine is a drug, y'all. Stop treating it like it's not.

For the sake of clarity, the maximum dose of caffeine in an adult is about 400 mg a day, though that will vary by individual depending on how sensitive you are to caffeine, and how fast your body metabolizes it; if you're sensitive to caffeine, you need to aim lower, but it's a bad idea to consume more than 400 mg of caffeine in a day. Also, if you're a teenager/kid, it's recommended you don't consume caffeine at all, but come on, no teenager's gonna listen to that. But I'd recommend hanging around a 200 mg per day dose limit if you're a teen; puberty's takes a lot of energy, your body's under plenty of daily stress, the last thing you need is to flirt with a caffeine overdose.

In mild caffeine overdoses, symptoms include anxiety, fast heart rate, nausea, headaches, and dysphoria. ...Not the gender kind, I mean like just generally feeling Bad. So if you've had a lot of caffeine that day, and these issues happen, it's time to stop now.

And if you really fuck up and take a massive overdose, then you're at risk of seizures and death; that's a concern at around 1000+ mg. You don't need to take it all at once, just over the course of a single day; let's say you start the morning with four cups of coffee, then drink a few cans of pop during the day, and go to Panera in the afternoon and have two cups of that charged lemonade... and now you've got a lethal amount of caffeine in your system.

I mean sure, the charged lemonade is safe to drink if you're an adult with a solid caffeine tolerance, but only if you have one, and only if that's the only caffeinated beverage you consume that day.

Honestly, I don't know what the fuck Panera is thinking, what's the point of selling such an overly caffeinated lemonade while not advertising the high caffeine content? Makes no goddamn sense.

That being said, plenty of energy drink brands these days are pushing high caffeine content as a selling point, so watch out for those. In general, read the labels before drinking, and mind your daily caffeine intake. Seriously, people can die from this even if they're perfectly healthy. Don't fuck around.

Finally, if this has you worried and you're thinking "Oh fuck, i should stop drinking caffeine", that's fine too; a fair amount of the reason why we're so chill about caffeine is because the withdrawal is a cakewalk compared to other drugs. There's no health risks to a caffeine withdrawal, it just feels shitty. Caffeine withdrawal gives headaches, anxiety, difficulty focusing, fatigue, and depression. It'll kick in between 12-24 hours after you stopped taking caffeine, and will last 2-9 days, though the worst of it will be in those first two days. Just stay hydrated, take ibuprofen for the headaches, and try to get more sleep, and you'll be able to get through your shitty withdrawal week without too much trouble.

But if you don't quit, you're probably still fine. Just... yknow, actually check the caffeine contents of the stuff you're consuming, and make sure you stop for the day the second you go over 400 mg.

I surely can't be the only one in this

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remember when dash drama looked like this

you too can piss off both the catholic church and cisfeminists at the same time by saying this one simple phrase: joan of arc is part of trans history

and also piss off france's far right! (fn/rn)

(and even piss off british terfs twice at the same time)

ghosts new design vs her old one from back in april! she's underwent a lot of changes but she's still her feral, identity-crisis havin lil self :) (also she lost her hand priveleges in the first one don't worry about it)

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