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so bad news is i’ve had vertigo the past 3 days that has made me want to throw up from driving/reading anything on a screen/moving too suddenly. this has been shit for many reasons but number one is my phd written exams are next week and almost all my sources are stored as pdfs… which now make me naseous to read.

good news is i went to the doc today and they gave me a meclazine prescription and figured out it’s fluid behind my eardrums causing it

slightly bad news is i’m not supposed to have caffeine while I’m on the sudafed to fix the ear problem.

good news is my profs have been angels and given me my exam questions a week ahead of time to prep and have said they like my outlines (cooked up while nauseous)

bad news is that while i am no longer naseous i am now too tired from the meclazine to write more.

someone make this all stop 😅😭

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sukimas

a part of adult life you never really realize as a child is the constant need for bowls in so many different sizes. you're always doing something and going "man i wish i had the right size bowl for this" no matter how many bowl sizes you have

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common myths about migraines (AKA if you get headaches regularly, please seek treatment for migraines)

"i don't have migraines because while i get them several times a week, it's only when i am hungry or dehydrated."

those are probably migraines. thirst, hunger, sleep disturbances, or any disruption to routine are common migraine triggers.

"my headaches are specifically barometric related, i get them when the weather/altitude changes."

those are probably migraines. barometric pressure is a common migraine trigger.

"i get headaches all the time but ibuprofen gets rid of them so they can't be migraines."

that's not true. ibuprofen works great at relieving migraine pain for many people.

"my consistent headaches are tension headaches. i feel them originate in my neck/shoulders."

those are probably migraines. muscle tension is a common migraine trigger.

if you are regularly getting headaches (once a week or more), you are likely getting migraines. in fact, a good rule of thumb if you're consistently getting headaches is to treat them as migraines until you can rule out migraines. that's how common "chronic headache = migraine" actually is.

migraines are a neurological disorder wherein pain is one symptom. pain is often the MAIN symptom, and the most noticeable symptom, which can make diagnosis tricky. other symptoms of migraine include:

  • fatigue
  • nausea/vomiting
  • digestive issues
  • visual disturbances (auras)
  • sensitivity to light and/or sound
  • mood changes
  • brain fog/cognitive changes
  • ringing in the ears
  • dizziness/vertigo
  • numbness/weakness on one side of the body

this list is NOT complete, but is a starting point. i really like the comparison to a hangover. if you generally feel hungover when you get a headache (without having consumed alcohol), that's a classic migraine presentation.

so many people suffer from migraine and don't even know it, so they aren't able to advocate for themselves to get treatment. there are great new migraine treatments on the market! if you're able, please seek treatment for your migraines. a better quality of life is possible.

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draconym

Let us suppose that the "average" horse would have equal proportions of all these parts. The degree to which each part in this poll deviates from the "average" size (20% of total) will determine how large or small that part of our horse will be (i.e a horse with only 10% in Legs will have legs half the size of the average horse).

I will draw a picture of the horse we make!

Thank you for your patience, tumblr. I have been at work all day but now I am home and ready to build this horse you asked for.

First, let's pull up the poll results alongside an average looking horse. I have calculated the size of each part of our horse in relation to Average Size.

Next we will adjust our horse's components according to the specifications.

animated gif of the horse sketch being manipulated and resized
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Finally, let us properly assemble these parts and see how it looks.

And there you have it. Great work team. No notes.

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otterloreart

wait this is such a perfect use of my pony model

-> ponyy model with armature

-> edit and add hair

and the beautiful reveal

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vaspider

If I had to guess, over half the people who are like "oh we don't want sexual stuff at pride" are people who've been told there is public fucking at pride by people intentionally misleading others. I know when I first heard about the discourse I thought the two sides were "people should be allowed to fuck publicly at pride, there shouldn't be any kids there bc it shouldn't be family friendly" and "pride should be family-friendly bc there will be kids there" and my initial reaction was "wait people fuck at pride? Yeah that's wrong, I think pride should be able to be attended to by queer kids and teens".

I then learned that the people who presented the two sides in that way were being misleading and went "wait wtf??" (I also learned that "family-friendly" was not, in fact, synonymous with "okay for kids to see", but was actually a dogwhistle.)

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So, like, there is something to be said for the fact that 'sex in public' is a fact of life for unhoused people and for the history of queer people, and I don't want to be like 'hey any kind of sex in any place that might be vaguely considered public should ruin your life.' That's the kind of thinking that ends up with a woman thinking she's alone on a deserted beach masturbating, not realizing a family is within eyeshot up the beach, getting her arrest video posted by the cops to shame her, and dying by suicide because people harassed her endlessly. (This was recent.)

But that said, no one is whipping out their dick at Pride. The issue is that, to some people, any display of queer sexuality is considered basically the same as two dudes rawdogging on a pile of dicks.

And yeah, sure, Pride should be for a lot of people, but also, Pride started because a bunch of kinky queer adults said 'yeah, we deserve time and space for us,' and making it okay for queer kids and teens should not result in the expulsion of those who created it in the first place.

I fully support the creation of additional and alternate Pride spaces for kids and teens, but under no circumstances should that come at the cost of pushing out the people who got us there in the first place.

But yeah, there are people who are being super fucking disingenuous about this and I'm over it.

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I guess for the sake of true clarity I should note that there are plenty of places where people do technically "have their dicks out" at Pride. That's pretty common in Seattle, where public nudity for non-sexual purposes is totally legal. Every so often at Seattle Pride I'll just turn around and hey, there's a penis, but it's ... just there, being a well-behaved floppy dick. I have yet to see an orgy break out at Pride.

And there are deliberately and specifically nude events in Seattle, as opposed to incidental nudity at Pride, so the fact that no one is clutching their pearls about the nude cyclists at the Fremont Solstice Parade is telling.

That's a great point.

I grew up vacationing in Provincetown every summer. I saw all sorts of kinky shit that I didn't understand. I saw whole asses on display. I saw drag queens coming and going from both bathrooms.

It was fine. My brother and I turned out fine.

My parents didn't explain that anything was or could be sexual. "They’re playing dress-up, I guess." "He must like the pants. Why? Well, he probably thinks he has a nice butt and wants people to see it. Yeah, it's pretty funn--NO YOU CAN'T ASK TO TAKE A PICTURE WITH HIM SHH." "Oh, they dress like that for fun. They probably use whichever bathroom has the shorter line haha!" And it was just no big deal at all.

Parents, it's not your job to prevent kink at Pride, it's your job to figure out what to say to your kids so that it's to big deal. You can explain more as they get older if you want, but that's up to you.

I don't keep drag under the kink umbrella, I should clarify - they just both fall under "things people insist parents will be unable to explain to their kids," and the thing is, parents don’t need to explain it. The magic word is "fun!" Do you know how easy it is to brush things over with kids if you use the word "fun?" It's for fun! They're doing it for fun! They must think those clothes are fun! They're having fun! Kids will accept "fun" as an explanation for almost anything, no further questions. And it's a perfectly valid one in this situation, too! They really are doing it for fun.

(I'm pretty sure if we said it was weird, our parents brushed it off with a "some people are weird, who cares though" sort of attitude. It was, once again, fine.)

Oh, man, Provincetown. Sometime when I'm not so tired, I should tell y'all about the summer we ended up in P-town for the day when I was like 17. My parents were not aware of Provincetown before that day.

I saw more when we accidentally crossed paths with some dudes from Portland's Naked Bike ride while my mom, some of her coworkers, my sister, and I were on a "Weird House Tour" then I've seen at pride. it was mostly just surprising bc we'd forgotten it was also that day.

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otteroflore

wheres that post abbout that european guy saying americans are fucked up because we havent seen our grandmothers tits when you need it

Well I can't find the post, but here's a screenshot if someone wants to transcribe it

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