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kadextra · 2 months
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Genuinely curious as someone who hasn't fully been keeping up with qsmp, how do we know qbad's gonna die?
We’ve been expecting it to happen for around 6 months :’) here’s a recap of it all for you
From the first week of September q!Bad has been suffering with a soul infection. back when all the egg kids went missing, he was grieving and lost the will to live. he let himself wither away, getting attacked repeatedly by monsters called “soul vultures” which tore pieces out of his soul. it gave him symptoms like colorblindness, hallucinations, and turned his eye blue
skip forward to the end of purgatory when the nuke exploded. he shielded Dapper with his body, and was the only person who got hit directly by the blast and lived (rip q!Maxo)
but the soul infection absorbed the radiation and accelerated. especially the nasty head wound hidden under his hood- look at his skin and you could see it start growing
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it affected his mind- since early December he’s had lapses of memory where he forgot people, places, and his own kids over and over.
but now this long and tragic slowburn is finally reaching the climax. the past two weeks since the island reset, he’s been coughing more, forgetting more, getting weaker. his kids Pomme and Dapper made him medicine which he’s been taking to keep going just a little longer. the infection has gotten 10x worse and is consuming him completely, as you can see below
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the eggs are all in despair
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but his body just can’t fight this illness anymore <\3 he admitted as much to Richarlyson in last night’s stream, after their deep discussion about death with Dapper and Empanada.
This is it, he’s dying tonight or tomorrow.
q!Bad has implied multiple times that because he’s a high-rank demon creature, when he dies it won’t be a permanent thing. it’ll be something like a factory reset- which is just as painful tbh because it’ll be the death of who he once was. he’ll be wiped blank. but there is a chance he can recover, it’ll just take a lot of time. so he’s not leaving the server, it’s gonna start a new chapter of lore for this character
That’s where we’re at now :’D
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gabessquishytum · 9 months
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Random Human AU premise: the night they meet, Hob claims he will convince Morpheus to marry him within a month. Morpheus decides to call his bluff and suggests they visit the Registrar at first opportunity so they will have a head start on the 29-day waiting period, which Hob thinks this is brilliant.
The next 4 weeks, Hob ramps the courting up to 11 while Morpheus thinks he’s playing the strangest form of relationship-chicken ever.
This is such a fun romcom concept. Hob bets to his mates that he'll "marry the next person who walks into the room!". And in walks Morpheus, the guy who he's had a crush on for the last 6 years... but he still hasn't managed to confess his interest to.
He proposes, though, because a bet is a bet! Morpheus is deeply confused but hey, it's not like he's having any better offers. He ups the stakes and they book the wedding for 4 weeks time.
Hob is DETERMINED to make Morpheus fall for him before they get married. It seems important that his husband should have feelings for him, after all! Morpheus thinks that Hob is crazy and big headed and he's determined not to fall for Hob. He fails. Miserably.
Mostly because Hob gets really sick with flu 2 weeks into the 29 day period, and Morpheus decides he might as well nurse him back to health. Cue actual feelings, Morpheus holding Hob’s hair back while he hurls, sweaty cuddles, midnight snacks and a very memorable trip to a&e at 3am.
Hob’s friends later joke that he's the only man who could seduce someone while also suffering from dehydration. Morpheus claims that he only married Hob to make sure that he doesn't accidentally die.
They live happily ever after.
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cookiep-cat · 1 month
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Infection Insanity AU
Chapter 3: Human Error
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snzyspencer · 7 days
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probably unintentional- haha that's up to you though!
Finally getting around to responding to this ask about unintentionally sneezing into someone’s mouth. I’ve been trying to think of snzarios that aren’t the typical “two people are about to kiss and one person sneezes” so have my first of hopefully a few different scenarios.
CW: Contagion, illness
Person A and Person B are in the midst of a wrestling match. B is recovering from a cold, but their nose is still dripping like a faucet.
They’re squared up with A, they can feel snot running down their upper lip, causing a tickle.
They can feel a sneeze coming, but they just have to wait a few more seconds until the match is over.
B has pinned A to the mat; A’s mouth is open, panting with exertion. The seconds seem to stretch into minutes— B barely has time to recognize that they are going to sneeze before they let out a strong, wet sneeze right into A’s face and their open mouth. Two more sneezes follow, and B is barely able to move their head to the side so these ones graze the side of A’s face, spraying the mat below them.
B swears their cold isn’t contagious anymore, but Person A and anyone who rolls around on that snotty mat afterwards would beg to differ when— after a day or two has passed— they wake up with equally dripping noses.
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bonefall · 1 year
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Herb Guide: Basic Hygiene
A quick aside for @kingmystrie​ who has a stinky Clanmate
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For the most part, a healthy warrior can be expected to keep themselves perfectly clean. Cats have special tongues with ridges on them perfectly evolved to keep their coats shiny and healthy.
When a Clan cat is long-furred, sick or elderly, or displaying signs of mental distress, the Clan will give them special attention to keep them clean. This is not just a job for the medicine cat; allo-grooming is a social behavior, close to the heart of a collectivist cat culture.
Herbs only come into play when hygiene becomes a health problem. The two most common issues are Mats and Fleas.
Mats
Time to clear up a common misconception; a mat is not a knot. A mat is what happens when a knot tangles with a bunch of other knots, wrapping up dead skin, dirt, layers of shed fur, and other gross debris into a solid mass. If a mat has formed, there’s been a breakdown in proper care!
When they do form, they are likely to form where the cat has trouble reaching, like the lower back.
Not only are mats filthy, but they can also pose a health hazard by weakening and pulling painfully on the skin below, allowing infection to take root. Mats must be removed as quickly as possible, before they become too large. Taking care of mats can take several painful, time-consuming days.
Oil made from flax seeds can be use to lubricate and loosen them, if the mat is not too large to be a lost cause. Carefully brush with claws, teeth, or a bone comb, if your Clan is capable of simple carving.
The best treatment is to carefully shave the area. A sharpened mussel shell, or a flint or stone blade will do. Take care to not cut the skin below, which could be thin and sensitive from bearing a mat.
Fleas
Aside from ticks which are treated with the infamous canonical mouse bile, fleas are another concern to Clan cats. While they’re only annoying to adult cats, they can sicken elders and kill kittens if they become a camp-wide infestation.
Prevention
Fleas can’t be completely eliminated, but Clans go to great lengths to keep them at bay. Cedar chips are used as den flooring, especially in the nursery, producing a fresh pine smell that insects can’t stand.
Mint can be planted around the camp and rubbed into fur to repel fleas and prevent them from leaping onto a patrolling warrior; but this is kept away from the nursery as mint is extremely poisonous and babies have a bad habit of putting things in their mouths.
Treatment
“barkface what do if flea outbreak bad TIME SENSITIVE“ -Kestrelpaw, desperately texting StarClan
For a VERY bad flea infestation, an herbal bath is an easy but detested solution. A large clay bowl (or, in SkyClan, a stolen birdbath) is filled with water for soaking, vinegar for killing, and a blend of mint and lavender for repellent. From there, the unfortunate warrior is plunged in, usually yowling and crying, and forced to soak for an hour.
Repeat for every. Single. Infested warrior. Even if they are WAILING LIKE BABIES.
They must be prevented from licking clean after this bath. Licking the bathwater off will poison the Warrior from the mint. Since it’s only a repellent, the mint could be optional, but WILL be included if the camp is actively infested... in spite of the soaked warrior’s grumblings.
The number one flea-killer, bar none, the GOLDEN KING of bug eradication, is none other than SALT. In addition to being a seasoning, having as much salt as possible in the medicine cat den is invaluable for controlling flea breakouts. Salt will be added to the herbal bath when it’s available.
In the Forest Territories, there was no salt. In the Lake Territories, collecting salt takes a long journey to the beach, and a patrol capable of carrying it home. As far as the Clans are concerned, salt works miracles so these trips are scheduled visits.
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akindplace · 2 years
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There are those who say sick people “don’t do anything besides lying in bed”. Don’t listen to them. They don’t understand how some illnesses and disabilities are a full-time job. You see, trained caregivers have a job for providing care for a patient.
Sometimes, you are your own caregiver. Isn’t that a job even when you are the one doing it? When people can’t pay someone else to do it, they have to be their own caregivers, providers, emotional support, all in one, all while feeling sick, on your own.
Being sick and trying to heal, trying to care for your body and keep yourself alive when you already are in pain and exhausted… that is hard work.
People who are sick or disabled are not useless. They are working so hard just to get out of bed. We could use some compassion. Our worth is not measured by work. Our worth comes from the fact that we are all human, no matter how we look, how we feel, if we’re healthy or sick, none of this diminishes your humanity, your human rights - and every human being deserves equal treatment.
Remember this: you are not lazy, you are sick. You are not useless; you are in recovery. You are not unproductive; you are trying your best to live your life while dealing with your health all the time. See the effort it takes to be you. And appreciate the things you do for yourself, be proud of you because you are still going. You are still here, still alive, and those ableist people don’t want to see any value in people unless they are making money. See your own worth. Don’t let some ableist person who knows nothing about your life determine your own self-worth. Your self-worth should come from within, and to start building it, try giving yourself credit for how much you try instead of being so critical of everything you do!
Go get your rest, go searching for recovery, try to heal, try to build your own life and your own sense of self. You have been battling these issues for so long, give yourself some credit for how much you overcame. For how much you fight. For how much you try. For the time you take to care for your health.
Appreciate how far you’ve come. Appreciate yourself just for trying, for showing up, for caring for your body and mind, for reaching out. Those achievements are not small at all. You are here. You are alive. That is already incredible. Let’s hold hands and keep going.
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mintflavouredwhump · 6 days
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"Talk to me, Caretaker. About anything. The silence is making me feel like I'm already lying in my grave."
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aleksa-sims · 1 month
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RL Story
CW: addiction, serious illness
Totally done and still sad because I saw Daniel and this stupid girl today I came home after work. Nico wasn’t home yet. I was kind of relieved about that. I wasn't sure, if I should tell him? I mean, nothing happened, but what I said to Daniel today was just not ok! It was totally unfair and selfish.
As soon as I got home, I went for a walk with N.’s dog. Back home I took a shower & I lay down on the bed. I wasn’t feeling so well. I got serv pain in my right knee and my hands also hurt. It bothered me so much, that I had to take a painkiller. After that it slowly got better while I fell asleep.
A little later N. came home. I heard him come up to the bedroom and watch me sleep. Nico has an extraordinary talent for disturbing me while sleeping. No, tbh it's really cute. Every morning before he leaves the house, he comes back to the bedroom to me, while I’m mostly still sleeping. He kisses me and tells me quietly that he loves me. In the beginning I found it hard to get used to. It's annoying to be woken up by him in the morning (5.00 am!) just because he has to kiss me. Yk? It wasn’t until he was gone (abroad), that I realized how much I missed being woken up by him in the morning.🩷 But back to that day, it was not in the morning, but in the evening.
N. saw the painkillers I had taken next to me on the bed, thinking I was sick or something.
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Nico: Hey babe.... Are you ok?
Me: M-hm... Yea, I'm ok.... Where were you? I missed you.
Nico: I said good-bye to Damien and the others. They’re going back to Italy tomorrow.
Me: Yea, without you.... You stay here, with me. So happy about that. Right now I need you with me. I've had a really, really bad day N.... And you? How is your new team? Are they nice?
Nico: Agh...well, what can I say? Germans, yk?🤷‍♀���😉 But it was ok and it’s nice to be home, not somewhere alone abroad ..... Did you see Dilek today?
Me: No, she’s sick. She stayed home.
Nico: Are you sick too? I see you’ve taken painkillers.
Me: My knee hurt again. Somehow my whole body hurts, my hands and legs... But I'm fine. 🙂
Nico: You should tell your doc. You are pregnant. Maybe it has something to do with it?
Me: Yea, but don't worry. I know this pain. It's nothing. I’ve had this pain since I was a kid. It comes and goes, but it’s not serious. My muscles and bones are just very sensitive to pain. 🫤
Nico: It’s all right, babe. But if I see you get pain again, I’ll take you to your doc. I don’t want to scare you, you know that! But you don’t hurt for no reason. Sure, it's nothing, but it’s better to get it checked out before you need to take painkillers again.
Me: Chill Nico!! I know you’re afraid I might get addicted to painkillers . But c'mon, N.! It's just ibuprofen. 😄🤷‍♀️My pill addiction is past. I know I was difficult for you back then, but I promise, this won’t happen anymore. Love you.
Nico didn’t worry about my pill addiction, but actually about the pain I had. A few days ago, my knee hurt so badly that I could not walk. I even cried. But after I took a painkiller, it stopped again. That pain I had in my muscles and bones will get really bad after delivery. Not immediately after delivery, a few months later. But I do not want to draw too much attention to this issue now. Later, when the time comes, I will explain this in more detail. These were the first symptoms of a serious illness. Since CML is not so easy to diagnose, it will take a while for me to get the diagnosis.
And about Daniel I didn't tell Nico. I was happy with N. and we’re about to have a Baby, so I decided to somehow forget Daniel and let him go. But something happened that night!😞 Daniel texted me at 1:00 a.m. I’ll see him tomorrow again. 😢
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agent-calivide · 2 months
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Having hanahaki thoughts, which is surprising because it’s a trope that’s never really crossed my mind before.
Zor catching the disease after Vitti left them, her love for them disappearing overnight while they still pine for her. They get cured, but lose all ability to love in the process, but instead of accepting it they get so fixated on it that they’re fueled by rage and a desire for vengeance
Daniel Sans catching the disease for Zor, idolizing and admiring them but feeling like he can’t confess because they must remain professional. Feeling an envy that Zor still loves their ex and maybe even holding envy for their obsession with Phoenix. He doesn’t treat it, he’s trying to research a cure that doesn’t rid him of the emotions.
Solaris getting it because Fabricator’s love for her died the day Solaris left Zoraxis. She gets cured, but struggles with depression and loneliness on a daily basis because Fabricator wasn’t just her love, she was Solaris’ rock. Her best friend. Even without the romantic love, she still lost her entire support system
Fabricator getting it when Solaris leaves, feeling so painfully engulfed by the betrayal that it morphs into a hatred. And yet, when she starts coughing flower petals, she ignores it. She hates Solaris. This must be some other disease. She never gets any sort of treatment, she simply ignores it.
Juniper getting it for Phoenix. Falling head over heels for the agent but being absolutely, cripplingly terrified of it. Wrapping the flowers in tissue before throwing them out, excusing himself from a room whenever he has a coughing fit, growing paranoid that Zor will find out he’s a traitor. Rationalizing that it’ll be fine, he just has to trick the agent into falling for him, get them to switch sides, and everything will be just fine.
Reginald forming a brutal case of it when Prism initially left the EOD. It started small, an odd tasting cough, an itch in the back of his throat as he noticed Prism getting more and more upset by the day at the EOD. Then Prism drops the EOD and cuts contact with him. It damn near killed him, reaching critical stages as he had coughing fits on the daily, having to rip the flowers out of the back of his throat to breathe. After the initial spike, it slowly faded with his feelings, and over time the disease came to a stop as his grief took over.
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gabessquishytum · 4 months
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So, inspired by my own miserable state right now (fuck the flu; but also, don't fuck it literally or you'll end up just like me): Hob coming home to see Dream wearing only tiny little pink flowery panties, and a bandana around his neck, because he's sick with fever but his body can't self regulate its temperature and he can't stand feeling warm. (Retired!Dream whose body doesn't know how to human?) So instead of fucking his gorgeous husband, Hob has to serve as a live-in nurse because Dream's got the sniffles. 😔 Hob didn't know he could have a boner while giving paper tissues to someone who sounds like an elephant blowing his nose.
Anon!!! I hope you're feeling better by now!!!
I also cannot regulate my temperature so I am absolutely 100% with Dream on this one. Sometimes you have to wear your favourite ole cotton panties and a thin cardigan and absolutely nothing else. And yes, Dream may well be the cutest and sexiest thing in the world in that cute little ensemble but he is also one giant vat of snot and he is sweating onto the pillows and everything is terrible, so Hob isn't getting his dick in there any time soon.
But that's OK. A sick Dream also means a very clingy and needy Dream, so Hob gets to have all of Dream’s attention. Dream wants to hold his hand and talk nonsense to him (in a very silly little stuffed up voice). He's so fucking cute Hob almost doesn't notice the green slime coming out of his nose <3
Of course by the time Dream is better and ready to be fucked in his pretty flowery panties, Hob has inevitably caught whatever the illness was. But never mind. Surprisingly, the blowjob that Dream gives him clears a lot of the gunk up out of Hob’s chest!
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cookiep-cat · 2 months
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Sneak peek at some art for my Infection AU I’m working on. I’m still in the early planning stages but have a lot of ideas for test tube’s role 👀
(Edited this post cuz i changed the drawing a bit. The old alt version is under the cut now 👍)
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beegoould · 3 months
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So a little bit ago I had a bowel obstruction that was caused by inflammation due to an infection, most likely from food poisoning. It took a long time to recover and I lost about 30 pounds super fast. My body looks and feels like a deflating balloon. I mean, I’ve had loose skin before after losing a lot of weight, but this is different. I feel like I’m in a Junji Ito manga. The Lady with the Slow Leak. Sometimes I jiggle my arms or legs at Jim and make monster noises. Anyway. what’s up with you?
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chewyjellycable · 1 month
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You should talk about the remnant parasite au more you really should i am wiggling my magic fingers at you and casting a spell at you that makes you talk about your interests and ideas forever💥💥💥💥💥
WAHHH it took me a hot minute to get to this ask but I am smiling big and wide and am ready to ramble about this AU. I may repeat some information from previous posts and some info might be different since I ACTUALLY THOUGHT ABOUT IT more. This will mainly be about Xylitol Nova's fall to the parasite and is somewhat of a preamble to the Cyborg stuff.
WARNINGS: Talk of Parasites, Terminal Illness
Xylitol Nova is infected with a parasite caused by his Xyl-Suit breaking during his search for XyL-Q. He seems alright for the first week or so on the ship that the Xylitol population is stuck with living in. After which, Nova begins to show small signs of infection. They're minor things. Mouth pain, eye aches while waking up, anxiety... And appearing a bit out of it now and then.
The leader "goes missing" for recovery, which essentially is him going into hiding (none of the other residents aside from Xylitol Researcher know) in one of many residential rooms on the ship while Researcher gives him the usual check-up.
Give it another week, and the symptoms have not gone away. If anything, they have gotten worse. Not to mention Nova being alone in his containment, as comfortable as it is, does not help his mental state. Thoughts of violence and destruction that once cropped up very rarely appear in his mind more often, scaring Nova much more than it should.
Researcher arrives to give Nova another check-in, getting some... odd results from the scans that they run. They run it again, and... It's shown to them that the infection that their leader has is sourced from the very thing that destroyed Planet Xylitol. The parasite is attached to Nova's heart.
Researcher emplores Nova to make an announcement for recovery, because despite all this, he doesn't want his citizens to worry about anything. Especially not after the whole disaster they've endured. Nova reluctantly agrees.
Before any more notes can be made, Researcher is spooked by the whites of Nova's eyes being blackened. They're blood-shot, but rather than blood, it's some black bile produced by the parasite.
Other symptoms that Nova experiences over time: Blood being replaced by the black bile, lethargy, an increase of violent thoughts and an increasing desire to act on those, a lowered ability to take in nutrients, replacement of existing teeth with much sharper versions, various aches and pains ranging from mild to debilitating, other parasitic symptoms...
Rather than having only Researcher working on this task, Nova permits them to have a group of medical staff (hence where Cyborg comes in). Progress is slow, practically non-existent.
The leader becomes less and less peaceful and willing to participate in tests and scans. There's a moment where Nova nearly wails his staff on Researcher but stops himself just before. The horror between those two lingers and only becomes worse the more time passes.
And though Nova becomes more intent on destroying others, after a particularly bad scuffle with Researcher, he stops attacking them. Particularly them. Testing is resisted, but Researcher isn't harmed. It's odd- as if there isn't a point to that any longer.
Researcher has the idea of throwing Nova into space or just. Killing him outright. That way the infection doesn't get any worse- though that only means the parasite would spread through the rest of space. This thought scares the hell out of them and gets them to check themself for any form of infection. And, unfortunately, the readings come back positive for the black hole's remnant parasite.
Not only have they caught the parasite, not only is the leader unable to act like himself and needs to be actively restrained in due time, but... Testing the other medical staff almost all come back positive. With no progress on slowing or stopping this parasite, the ship may very well be doomed. It doesn't help that the infection's symptoms halt any progress between staff members.
Note the Almost. Cyborg, not being a Xylitol and being made of different components and bodily composition, is resistant to the parasite. They essentially become the last hope the more the parasite spreads and the more hosts it begins to inhabit.
[WE ARE XYLITOL. YOU CANNOT BEAT US.]
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skelelephant · 7 months
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“Returning to the mirror, Fitzjames finds a bead of blood trickling down his temple. He lifts his hair, and sees blood crusty in his hairline. A frozen beat. It’s the start of the “crown of thorns,” a known sign of scurvy. Fitzjames wipes it away. For a moment, he lets it in: It’s a different kind of clock, this; one of the grimmest imaginable. And it’s begun ticking now for him.”
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abubblyboo · 7 months
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imagine being sick and your f/o taking care of you. making and delivering you warm soup in bed. propping you up with pillows. staying with you throughout the night. wordlessly cleaning up any messes you make. falling asleep in the chair next to your bed while holding your hand. gently reapplying the damp cloth to your forehead to help your fever. just…there at your side, unwaveringly, in love, ready to dedicate all that they can to helping you through this difficult time.
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mintflavouredwhump · 2 months
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A whumpee decides to visit their friend's hometown but fall sick due to food poisoning. Due to a lack of proper medical services, they're forced to pull through with just basic care and some medicine from the local pharmacy.
At some point, the whumpee is so weak with illness that one of their friends has to check their pulse every now and then to make sure that they're still breathing.
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