Yesterday the 12th of May was Fibromyalgia awareness day. I'm a little late uploading it, but spreading awareness is being done nonetheless. Lots of love for my chronic pain people!! <3

[Art description: An infographic titled, ‘I Have Fibromyalgia.’ consisting of several panels on light purple backgrounds with dark purple frames. Descriptions follow.

1. An uncoloured drawing of OP, a thin genderflui person with short hair, a NASA hoodie, and forearm crutches. Text floating around the person identifies him as ‘me’ and the crutches as ‘my babies „Jessie & James“.’ The title and subheading read, ‘I have Fibromyalgia. And since it’s Fibro-awareness day, I thought it’d inform on my disabling condition.’ 2. The panel title is, ‘What is Fibromyalgia and what are its symptoms?’ The art shows OP lying on its back with red coils drawn to show pain. An arrow points to the person with text that says, ‘His ass is (in all caps) not (end caps) getting out of bed.’ The panel text reads: The term „Fibromyalgia“ means „pain in muscles and fibrous tissues“ (tendons and ligaments etc.). The condition itself is chronic and causes widespread pain and stiffness throughout the body. This is also accompanied with chronic/generalized fatigue as well. It has even been studied that Fibromyalgia causes neuroinflammatory mechanisms in the brain, helping the further understanding that Fibromyalgia isn’t (in all caps) just (end caps) pain, but actively affects the persons nerves and/or nervous system. (Source: Research published in a 2019 issue of „Brain, Behaviour and Immunity“) 3. Large text reads: Fibromyalgya comes with a variety of symptoms that affected people experience, but here are the main ones: - pain and stiffness in joints, muscles, all over the body - Generalized/Chronic fatigue - Depression and anxiety - Insomnia, sleeping issues - Cognitive disturbances like „Fibro-fog“ - Migranes - Issues with IBS and/or bladder . . . And much more. The panel art shows OP from the hips up, with more red pain squiggles drawn on her entire body. 4. Large text reads, ‘Fibromyalgia occurs in about 2-5% of the general population, affecting 1 in 20 people globally.’ Art shows 29 stick figures, with one coloured differently. In the lower right corner is a drawing of OP in its hoodie pointing to the stick figures. 5. Large text reads, ‘I received my Fibromyalgia diagnosis this year after probably years of not knownig what my struggles were caused by.’ The art shows OP in his hoodie from behind looking away from the viewer. 6. Large text reads, ‘But even with a diagnosis, I was judged.’ The art shows OP grimacing at a set of three jagged yellow speech bubbles that say: It’s probably just the weather! Have you tried going outside more? It isn’t even (in all caps) real (end caps). 7. Large text reads, ‘Countless amounts of Blood tests . . . That always returned negative.’ The art shows a butterfly needle attached to a long tube. 8. This panel is in inverted colours, with purple lines drawn on black. The text reads, ‘Dozens of hours spent in bed . . .’ The art shows OP lying in bed with her hands folded over its chest and an unhappy expression. 9. Large text reads, ‘My pain and fatigue made it hard for me to function normally, resulting to the use of mobility aids.’ The art shows a wheelchair and a pair of forearm crutches. 10. Large text reads, ‘Accepting my condition, which will permanently affect me, wasn’t easy. And it still is hard to grasp. But deep down I’m glad to know that my struggles are real, that I can seek out help, that they aren’t imagined. The art shows OP smiling and making a hand heart as text next to him says, ‘your struggles are real!’ and ‘you’re not crazy or sensitive!’ \End descriptions]

I have a lot of feelings on how indigenous groups who didn’t build permanent structures like cities aren’t seen as being as sophisticated as ones who built large cities, without accounting for the fact that maybe it’s in our values systems to leave as light of a footprint as possible and it’s important that our structures are easily taken down or fade with the passage of time because it’s easier on the landscape, but ya know.

This made me think of the story one of my Coast Salish acquaintances tells of how her family would travel from the Puget Sound up Mt. Rainier every year and, sure, following herds but also they had berry bushes and trees and prairies (with camas is the one she always talks about but I'm sure other foods) that were in the care of specific families so they also followed the plants through the year. They cultivated and cared for them, not just coming to gather and move on to the unknown. They came back and to the same places, the same plants and trees every year.

I think a lot of people mistake what a huge connection that is to land and territory. They hear "nomadic" and dismiss it without realizing. It doesnt mean you dont have roots in the area. It means your roots are so ingrained in the area outsiders dont even see them there.

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Worldbuilding tip for aspiring fantasy authors! Give that swordsman a bigger ass

That is the exact reason I made this post, hell yeah

Waving Palestinian flags, wearing traditional Palestinian garments, or if we're being honest, just being Palestinian, is now officially "too political" for Eurovision.

Literally, all Saade did was wear a keffiyeh around his wrist—while being Palestinian—and that was enough to get a statement from the EBU, and have his opening performance scrubbed from Youtube.

If you're not already boycotting Eurovision this year, then what the fuck is wrong with you?

Below are two statements from Saade. The first one, giving his reason for participating, was posted a few days ago, and the other was in response to the EBU accusing him of 'compromising the non-political nature' of the Genocide Song Contest:

Reminder again to BOYCOTT EUROVISION 🇵🇸

woods_of_wonder on tiktok | source

ID: two gifs of a person holding a walnut shell, with a hinge attaching the two halves together. they open the shell to reveal a small owl that might be carved from wood, nestled in a small amount of moss inside the walnut. the person closes the shell again.

Video of me trying to write the number 3 in professor layton game for 1 minute

Watching my toddler figure out how to language is fascinating. Yesterday we were stumped when he kept insisting there was a “Lego winner” behind his bookshelf - it turned out to be a little Lego trophy cup. Not knowing the word for “trophy”, he’d extrapolated a word for “thing you can win”. And then, just now, he held up his empty milk container and said, “Mummy? It’s not rubbish. It’s allowed to be a bottle.” - meaning, effectively, “I want this. Don’t throw it away.” But to an adult ear, there’s something quite lovely about “it’s allowed to be a bottle,” as if we’re acknowledging that the object is entitled to keep its title even in the absence of the original function.

Ever since I wrote this post, barely a week has passed where I haven’t seen new notifications for it, as more and more people add their own stories about kids and language - and that’s delightful. But when I check my activity tab, because I never gave this post a proper title, my notifications show me instead a fragment of the opening line - Watching my toddler figure out how to language… - and it always makes me laugh, because time has passed, and he’s not a toddler anymore. When I originally wrote this post - on my phone, in the car, on December 20th, 2016 - my son was 3, talking about a plastic bottle of chocolate milk we’d bought him at a service station stop on a drive to stay with family; lo these seven years later, on March 5th, 2024, he’s 11, playing Roblox with his friends while listening to music from Hollow Knight on his laptop. Yet this snapshot of his toddlerhood remains, unchanged, as though he’d never aged all - and while there’s something lovely about that, as dates on tumblr are so often opaque, I thought I should also offer an update :)

Do you know this queer character?

Castiel is Queer and Agender or Genderfluid, and uses varying pronouns based on presentation!

So i'm working on a project that involves looking at people's opinions on public transportation, and something that keeps coming up is that a lot of people like the idea of public transportation but ridership is at the same time low, so I wanna figure out what stops people from riding.

If you could reblog this for bigger sample size that would be so so appreciated

reblogging since there's about a day left on this thing

BDS added this section to their boycott page and I think people really need to read it:

please remember, pushing unorganized boycotts without carefully fact-checking every company in the list can be actively HARMFUL to the boycott movement.

hope you don't mind me adding: here's a list from the website about which companies to target our boycotts at right now:

1st oc: hi im just a normal highschooler im kinda depressed but i swear im not a mary sue

30th oc:

black and brown bloggers will describe a racist phenomenon in a slightly jesting way and white people will very openly flock to the notes proudly saying “i do that!!! xD”. No shame at all. Appalling, really

It’s really a white pathology thing isn’t it? White people don’t get checked on their racism, but when they do, they see it as a personal attack. The lack of self awareness.

BDS added this section to their boycott page and I think people really need to read it:

please remember, pushing unorganized boycotts without carefully fact-checking every company in the list can be actively HARMFUL to the boycott movement.

hope you don't mind me adding: here's a list from the website about which companies to target our boycotts at right now: