Feral Katniss Rights

My favourite kind of poll is ones where OP clearly made a VERY incorrect assumption

shut up

I've always had chronic fatigue. I remember being twelve, and an adult mentioned how I couldn't possibly know how tired they felt because adulthood brought levels of exhaustion I couldn't imagine. I thought about that for days in fear, because I couldn't remember the last time I didn't feel tired.

Eventually I came to terms with the fact that I was just tired, and I couldn't do as many things as everyone else. People called me lazy, and I knew that wasn't true, but there's only so many times you can say "I'm tired" before people think it's an excuse. I don't blame them. When a teenager does 20 hours of extracurriculars every week and only says "I'm too tired" when you ask them to do the dishes, it's natural to think it's an excuse. At some point, I started to think the same thing.

It didn't matter that I could barely sit up. It was probably all in my head, and if I really wanted to, I could do it.

When I learned the name for it, chronic fatigue, I thought wow, people that have that must be miserable, because I am always tired and I cannot imagine what it would feel like if it were worse.

Spoiler alert, if you've been tired for a decade, it's probably chronic fatigue.

Once I figured that out though, I thought of my energy as the same as everyone else's, just smaller in quantity. And that might be true for some people, but I've figured out recently that it absolutely isn't true for me.

I used to be like wow I have so much energy today I can do this whole list for sure! And then I'd do the dishes and have to lay down for 2 hours. Then I'd think I must gave misjudged that, I didn't have as much energy as I thought.

But the thing is - I did have enough energy for more tasks, I just didn't go about them properly.

With chronic fatigue, your maximum energy is obviously much smaller than the average person's. Doing the dishes for you might use up the same percentage of energy that it takes to do all the daily chores for someone else.

If someone without chronic fatigue was to do all the daily chores, they would take breaks. Because otherwise, they're sprinting a marathon for no reason and it would take way more energy than necessary. We have to do the same.

Put the cups in the dishwasher, take a break. Put the bowls in, take a break. So on and so forth. This may mean taking breaks every 2-5 minutes but afterwards, you get to not feel like you've run a marathon while carrying 4 people on your back.

Today, I had a moderate amount of energy. Under my old system of go till you drop, I probably could have done most of the dishes and wiped off the counter and then been dead to the world for the rest of the day.

Under the new system, I scooped litter boxes, cleaned out the fridge, took the trash out, cleaned the stove, and wiped off the counter and did all the dishes. And after all that, I still had it in me to make a simple dinner, unload the dishwasher, and tidy the kitchen.

It was complete and utter insanity. Just because I sat down whenever I felt myself getting more tired than I already was.

All this to say, take fucking breaks. It's time to unlearn the ceaseless productivity bullshit that capitalism has shoved down our throats. Its actively counterproductive. Just sit down. Drink some water. Rest your body when it needs to rest.

There will still be days where there is nothing to do but rest, and days where half a load of dishes is absolutely the most I can do. But this method has really helped me minimize those, which is so incredibly relieving.

Works for focus too.

If you're doing a big task that takes all your attention and bores or exhausts you, take lots of breaks to do something fun or relaxing.

I changed the ball joints on my truck over the weekend, which is a big, complicated job with steps that have to be more or less in the right order to make it work. I worked about 50% of the time, then did fun things for the other 50%. My truck now has new ball joints, and I managed to get it done before I had to drive to work today.

If I hadn't scheduled breaks, I would have lost focus and either given up or made mistakes that required tons of extra work.

So yeah, take lots of breaks.

sorry i cant hang out i forgot how to mimic human like behaviour

Grumble grumble…

That trope where ship AB parallels an older ship CD but A parallels C's aesthetic but D's actions/role in the dynamic and B parallels D's aesthetic but C's actions/role in the dynamic

That's the good shit right here. More of this please

A strange alien doctor stands near the unconscious body of Padme Amidala. “It appears she has lost the will to live.” A older man with a limp hobbles closer with the aid of a cane. “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” says Dr. Gregory House.

-Keeps Padme on life support despite DNR, somehow this ends in him getting punched by Obi-Wan

-Immediately starts putting her on every treatment known to man

-Walks over to Wilson’s office, which is the only part of the entire ship that just looks the same as it does in the show

-Homoerotically complains about how stupid Jedi are, then makes a bet with Wilson on whether Obi Wan is gay or the father of Padme’s twins (Wilson wants House to believe people can be faithful)

-Padme almost dies again. Turns out the treatment’s not working

-“if the dark side nearly killed her, maybe it can save her”

-House uses force lightning to restart Padme’s heart

-Gets brought into Cuddy’s office and told off for using an experimental treatment, and the power of the dark side, in her hospital

-House is taken off the case and foreman is put in charge of the case

-Padme is unexpectedly doing better, but Cuddy refuses to tell House or else he’ll be using the dark side to save all his patients

-House watches on as Wilson tries seducing a relieved Obi Wan while he paces in the lobby. Doesn’t seem to work

-House interrogates Obi Wan about his relationship with Padme, insinuates it’s Obi Wans Fault. Gets in a struggle and once theyre seperated it’s revealed he ripped out some beard hair

-Padme is getting released from the hospital but crashes again with obvious signs of infection. Everyone blames the dark side of the force

-is put in intensive care again, everyone thinks she’s going to die, House is brooding.

-House meets Bail Organa and talks to him, Bail mentions how he was so worried about her the last time she was in a hospital, and this seems much more hopeless

-“what time she was in the hospital?”

-House marches in as they’re about to pull the plug, rolling Padme’s unconcious body over to point at dark spot on the back of her neck

-Foreman looks disapointed, “it’s a bruise house, her husband nearly snapped her neck.”

-“Our princess’ boyfriend here failed to mentioned she was scratched by a Nexu on Genosis years ago. Nexu claws are known as a vicious poison.”

-“it would have killed her years ago”

-“unless a small chunk of claw stuck in her back, working into the muscles near the nape of her neck for years. The little prince of Darkness chokes her, pressure and muscles spasming lets it work into a blood vessel. It’s why the force lightning only was a bandaid, it vaporized what was in her bloodstream but broke up the rest of the claw and let it enter in her bloodstream. Start her on dialysis, she’ll be fine by tomorrow afternoon.”

-Next day Padme’s wheeled out of the hospital with her two children, bittersweetness. House watches from balcony before going back to his office

-Wilson enters with his shirt unbuttoned and a few bruises on his neck, declaring, “the Jedi is gay. I win.”

-House holds up a paternity test, “he’s bisexual, it’s a draw”

@exteenpopstar

#love the implication that house is force sensitive and decided to become a dark side user for medical malpractice reasons (via @gravity-loves-me)

I’m HOWLING this is the funniest thing I’ve ever read

Microwave: either stand and wait or get up again when the thing goes off in five minutes. You have chronic pain or just had surgery or are just brutally fucking depressed or devoid of executive functioning that day, so this is an issue.

Delivery: get up once. It's more bearable and saves you spoons you could maybe use to stand and brush your teeth or something later.

Microwave: you have used the last thing in the fridge/freezer and can't go to the store to get more until tomorrow or the next day.

Delivery: you still get fed.

Microwave: harder to prepare food for several people because the inside is small, does not typically yield leftovers.

Delivery: food for everyone, could yield leftovers.

Microwave: food texture can be terrible, soggy, tough.

Delivery: preserves the small pleasure of crisp, well-prepared food.

Microwave: have to cook several times a day, which is a chore from frozen.

Delivery: you can order food to last you all day, and get larger and more calorically dense meals. (If I can only manage one meal, yes. I do in fact need it to be full of calories. A 450kcal microwave dinner isn't enough to live on.

Microwave: relies on you having a fridge/freezer.

Delivery: sort of relies on you having a doorbell, I guess?

Microwave: on average, quality is unappealing.

Delivery: wide range of appetizing foods, including healthy foods.

Microwave: just you.

Delivery: you might see another human's face and pass a few words. Boyfriend did delivery. Don't laugh. People get fucking lonely. Yes. That is very sad. Meals on Wheels type programs that deliver regularly are a major source of socialization AND safety checks for shut-ins.

Microwave: you suddenly need a different kind of food than you have -- you might need soft food because your mouth hurts, plain food because your digestion is iffy, soup because you've been ill and aren't up for much more, etc.

Delivery: order whatever you like.

The smallest barrier can be enough to make me skip a meal or two or even three. People HATE that, they HATE the idea that disabled people are "weak" and "lazy" but I cannot emphasize enough, NOBODY WOULD CHOOSE THIS.

Laziness, in the way temporarily nondisabled people apply it to sick and disabled people, doesn't fucking exist.

Don't judge or question what people eat, when, how they prepare their food, where they get it, none of that.

Just because you cannot imagine a reason for something sick or disabled people do doesn't mean there isn't one. If something seems baffling or absurd or whatever, just be glad you aren't operating under conditions that mean you have to understand it.

Pre-prepared meals are usually incredibly high in histamines, which can be a huge issue for some disabled and chronically ill people. Histamines develop in food over time too so often you'll need to mostly eat fresh stuff prepared that day. Not everyone can do that for themselves, so sometimes delivery is the only option for that.

hey. to the fat person reading this who wants to transition or is transitioning. make your transition goals fat like you. please. the things you aim to gain from transition can be gained while fat. you can be/express your gender and be fat. there is nothing wrong with that, no matter what anyone says. i promise.

let yourself exist. let yourself be happy. you have just as much of a right as every other person in this world to do that, especially as you transition. it's okay. you're going to be alright, and you're also going to look fucking awesome. you already look fucking awesome. it's your body. own it.

It’s real, it’s coming, IM SO EMOTIONAL—

THIS TIME NEXT YEAR!!!

there HAS to be a reason for this

A Squirmle and her young.

‘The grave of the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke in Novodevichye Cemetery in Moscow is surmounted by a stone on which is engraved a rest beneath a fermata with a triple forte noted at the bottom: A very, very loud extended silence.’

- John Biguenet, Silence (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), p.49.

The fermata suggests the indicated notation (in this case, a rest) is to continue at the discretion of the conductor. When the chosen conductor arrives, Alfred Schnittke will rise again.

"ummm you know the writer only included that because they have a FETISH right?" is always so funny to me as a disparaging comment, because imagine if people spoke that way about nonsexual interests. "the lord of the rings? didnt the author only write that because he was interested in linguistics? thanks, i'll pass" "yeah, i used to love spongebob as a kid, but i can never see it the same after finding out stephen hillenburg is a marine biologist :/"