Made these for @hollowtones stream fanart! This game is so fuckin good, just makes me want to play more.

Jia Shin: Not About Angels » 2023 JGP Hungary

I wasn’t Surprised by Oxford since it was Phyllis Logan on Phyllis Friday!

Playing guitar while thinking about her bcs she's an inspiration and she'll always be ❤️‍🩹❤️

had a dream where tracy and I were working on a movie set together... this was my first dream about an f/o that I can remember!

You're so sweet Nana I don't know what I did to deserve you!💖💜💙

catalysts, protectors

She's never going to see this but this girl is my platonic soulmate and makes me understand what Anne of Green Gables meant by a kindred spirit. She decided she was going to get me groceries so I wouldn't come back to a house without food after the holidays, she got me flowers as a surprise at the same time. She bought a little accessory for the car so we can play music in there because the cables are messed up, and it works like a dream and I can finally listen to music in the car again. She just showed up at my door earlier with more flowers and chocolates and was that hyper you get when you are giddy from wholesome mischievousness, and told me she wants giving chocolates and flowers to your friends to be more normal and that it shouldn't just be for romantic relationships because friends should be appreciated too (I agree). She invites me over for meals and watching shows with her family so I don't feel alone. We call each week even if we can't meet in person due to being sick, just to check on each other and make sure we both know we're there for each other. She calls herself cynical and yet you can see this vibrant love for the small, sweet joys in life, and in the way she bursts with color as she tells her stories. She'll rattle off lyrics to songs at the drop of a hat, and craft lyrics for new ones in the next breath. She picks up her guitar and even when she fumbles a note or two, she laughs it off and continues strumming in a key she picked because the rest of us can sing along with it too. She truly exists, in her own wonderful way. I haven't known her for most of my life but I know I'm going to love her for the rest of it.

"I roll back, exhale, ghost without a wail

Something isn't right, someone pass the wine

Oh, you're sweet like a milk of the plant

Oh, and soft like silk to my hand

Something isn't right, perhaps another time"

so one of the things that's so horrifying about birth control is that you have to, like, navigate this incredibly personal choice about your body and yet also face the epitome of misogyny. like, someone in the comments will say it wasn't that bad for me, and you'll be utterly silenced. like, everyone treats birth control like something that's super dirty. like, you have no fucking information or control over this thing because certain powerful people find it icky.

first it was the oral contraceptives. you went on those young, mostly for reasons unrelated to birth control - even your dermatologist suggested them to control your acne. the list of side effects was longer than your arm, and you just stared at it, horrified.

it made you so mentally ill, but you just heard that this was adulthood. that, yes, there are of course side effects, what did you expect. one day you looked up yasmin makes me depressed because surely this was far too intense, and you discovered that over 12,000 lawsuits had been successfully filed against the brand. it remains commonly prescribed on the open market. you switched brands a few times before oral contraceptives stopped being in any way effective. your doctor just, like, shrugged and said you could try a different brand again.

and the thing is that you're a feminist. you know from your own experience that birth control can be lifesaving, and that even when used for birth control - it is necessary healthcare. you have seen it save so many people from such bad situations, yourself included. it is critical that any person has access to birth control, and you would never suggest that we just get rid of all of it.

you were a little skeeved out by the implant (heard too many bad stories about it) and figured - okay, iud. it was some of the worst pain you've ever fucking experienced, and you did it with a small number of tylenol in your system (3), like you were getting your bikini line waxed instead of something practically sewn into your body.

and what's wild is that because sometimes it isn't a painful insertion process, it is vanishingly rare to find a doctor that will actually numb the area. while your doctor was talking to you about which brand to choose, you were thinking about the other ways you've been injured in your life. you thought about how you had a suspicious mole frozen off - something so small and easy - and how they'd numbed a huge area. you thought about when you broke your wrist and didn't actually notice, because you'd thought it was a sprain.

your understanding of pain is that how the human body responds to injury doesn't always relate to the actual pain tolerance of the person - it's more about how lucky that person is physically. maybe they broke it in a perfect way. maybe they happened to get hurt in a place without a lot of nerve endings. some people can handle a broken femur but crumble under a sore tooth. there's no true way to predict how "much" something actually hurts.

in no other situation would it be appropriate for doctors to ignore pain. just because someone can break their wrist and not feel it doesn't mean no one should receive pain meds for a broken wrist. it just means that particular person was lucky about it. it should not define treatment.

in the comments of videos about IUDs, literally thousands of people report agony. blinding, nauseating, soul-crushing agony. they say things like i had 2 kids and this was the worst thing i ever experienced or i literally have a tattoo on my ribs and it felt like a tickle. this thing almost killed me or would rather run into traffic than ever feel that again.

so it's either true that every single person who reports severe pain is exaggerating. or it's true that it's far more likely you will experience pain, rather than "just a pinch." and yet - there's nothing fucking been done about it. it kind of feels like a shrug is layered on top of everything - since technically it's elective, isn't it kind of your fault for agreeing to select it? stop being fearmongering. stop being defensive.

you fucking needed yours. you are almost weirdly protective of it. yours was so important for your physical and mental health. it helped you off hormonal birth control and even started helping some of your symptoms. it still fucking hurt for no fucking reason.

once while recovering from surgery, they offered you like 15 days of vicodin. you only took 2 of them. you've been offered oxy for tonsillitis. you turned down opioids while recovering from your wisdom tooth extraction. everything else has the option. you fucking drove yourself home after it, shocked and quietly weeping, feeling like something very bad had just happened. the nurse that held your hand during the experience looked down at you, tears in her eyes, and said - i know. this is cruelty in action.

and it's fucked up because the conversation is never just "hey, so the way we are doing this is fucking barbaric and doctors should be required to offer serious pain meds" - it's usually something around the lines of "well, it didn't kill you, did it?"

you just found out that removing that little bitch will hurt just as bad. a little pinch like how oral contraceptives have "some" serious symptoms. like your life and pain are expendable or not really important. like maybe we are all hysterical about it?

hysteria comes from the latin word for uterus, which is great!

you stand here at a crossroads. like - this thing is so important. did they really have to make it so fucking dangerous. and why is it that if you make a complaint, you're told - i didn't even want you to have this in the first place. we're told be careful what you wish for. we're told that it's our fault for wanting something so illict; we could simply choose not to need medication. that maybe if we don't like the scraps, we should get ready to starve.

we have been saying for so long - "i'm not asking you to remove the option, i'm asking you to reconsider the risk." this entire time we hear: well, this is what you wanted, isn't it?

this is the falin touden post gather around and look at her majestic beauty. i need you too look at her. please. i am begging. you need to see beautiful wonderful girl.

Wonderful Precure starts February 4th!