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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995) dir. Ang Lee
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thebibliosphere · 4 hours
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ah, my favourite troupe.
Bruce wishing Tim and Damian still hated each other because they are fucking menaces when the work together
(Thanks to @ashermiss for the commission! If you want a commission, I'll be coming out with a commission sheet soon :))
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thebibliosphere · 5 hours
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When my TN is flaring up badly, or I throw a kidney stone that gets stuck, I have to pace too. I hope tomorrow isn’t too bad
Ugh, so sorry you know the feeling too. The migraine isn't gone, so I'm still moving. I'm moving a hell of a lot slower because other parts of me are starting to give out but I'm just... I don't want the pain that's waiting for me when I stop.
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thebibliosphere · 5 hours
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Responses to this and people going, "What the fuck do you mean you used to do 4 times that when you were healthy?!" in my inbox are making me realize that I've likely been answering ADHD questionnaires wrong.
I just never thought about it, y'know? Moving helps me think, that's just the way I--oh yeah. No, I see the connection now.
Unfortunately, when asked if you present with outward signs of physical hyperactivity, there's no box to tick that says, "Apparently, I used to zip around like my arse was on fire before my genetic disability metaphorically kneecapped me with a crowbar," but I'll take this into consideration, the next time I try to get assessed for meds.
brb working out how many steps 8 miles is for someone of my height because this time five years ago, I was so ill I only managed about ten to twenty steps a day before I had to lie down again.
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thebibliosphere · 6 hours
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23814 steps.
I cannot stress enough that I am going to be in so much pain tomorrow. But that's like *squints*... someone do the math for me. How much of a percentage increase is that?
Because that's a big leap in capability.
brb working out how many steps 8 miles is for someone of my height because this time five years ago, I was so ill I only managed about ten to twenty steps a day before I had to lie down again.
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thebibliosphere · 6 hours
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brb working out how many steps 8 miles is for someone of my height because this time five years ago, I was so ill I only managed about ten to twenty steps a day before I had to lie down again.
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thebibliosphere · 6 hours
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Look if there is absolutely nothing else you take away from the nonsense I am posting, it's this: Make Art.
Make art, with whatever you have. Use scrap cardboard and tape and build something; doodle in your notebooks, make a beautiful dinner, grow a plant, write, paint your nails. Learn to whittle, to knit, to cut straight lines, to sew, to cook, to run at a problem and not solve it the first time. Learn to try again.
Make things the wrong way.
If it works, do it again, better. If it doesn't, do it again, different. Draw badly. Look at the way the light hits something and try to figure out the colors it makes. Watch the way strangers walk and how the weight of them shifts in motion.
Creating art--beautiful things, ugly things, silly things--is not something that you should be leaving to people who are better at it or can afford the expensive materials or have a deep message or whatever. Do it anyway. Do it worse, do it cheaply, do it just for the joy of doing it. The work itself has merit. The work itself is rewarding. Make art.
And pet your cat.
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thebibliosphere · 7 hours
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One of the fun quirks of my dysautonomia-induced migraines is that occasionally, I turn into a hammerhead shark in that if I stop moving (i.e., I don't keep my blood pumping via movement), I die the pain gets unbearably worse.
If you're thinking, "But Joy, doesn't movement make POTS episodes worse?" you'd be correct, and therein lies the sucker punch of having two (2) different types of dysautonomia fighting for dominance over your nervous system. (*despairing jazz hands*)
Anyway, today was one of those "guess I'll die" days, and despite being in massive amounts of pain, I couldn't stop moving because the pain would get worse every time I did, so I just... kept moving.
I just checked my fitness watch out of curiosity, thinking that surely I'd met my 2-mile marker, which is what I try to do every day as part of my physical rehab, and um. I walked 8. I walked 8 miles.
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I am going to die tomorrow.
Reaching the "I want to twist my own head off" phase of this migraine.
At least Ao3 is back up. Small mercies.
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thebibliosphere · 7 hours
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thebibliosphere · 9 hours
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As a disabled person who's loved LEVERAGE and LEVERAGE REDEMPTION since the beginning - for the characters but also the whole ethos of performing acts that help people against crap systems, it's wonderful to be reminded that it springs from reality.
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thebibliosphere · 9 hours
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I spoke too soon. This is the phase of the migraine where I want to twist my head off and the Ao3 servers at going in and out intermittently.
Reaching the "I want to twist my own head off" phase of this migraine.
At least Ao3 is back up. Small mercies.
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thebibliosphere · 13 hours
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Reaching the "I want to twist my own head off" phase of this migraine.
At least Ao3 is back up. Small mercies.
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thebibliosphere · 14 hours
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thebibliosphere · 16 hours
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What do you do when you hear your best friend's hand in marriage is the grand prize in a tournament? You steal your brother's armour, cut off all your hair, and enter in disguise to rescue her. Obviously.
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When Lily Barden discovers her best friend Johanna’s hand in marriage is being awarded as the main prize at a tournament, she is determined to stop it. Disguised as a knight, she infiltrates the contest, preparing to fight for Jo’s hand. But her conduct ruffles feathers, and when a dangerous incident escalates out of Lily’s control, Jo must help her escape.
Finding safety with a local brewster, Lily and Jo soon settle into their new freedom, and amongst blackberry bushes and lakeside walks an unexpected relationship blossoms. But when Jo’s past catches up with her and Lily’s reckless behaviour threatens their newfound happiness, both women realise that love must always come at a cost.
Content warnings:
ATPS contains mention of past emotional and physical abuse, and some mild violence.
It also contains explicit on-page sex scenes.
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thebibliosphere · 16 hours
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That is interesting! And also might explain yesterday’s sweet tooth craving in advance of today’s (unexpected) migraine.
Side note: chocolate and cheese may actually be a migraine trigger for some people with histamine processing issues or some type of mast cell disease, as both chocolate and most cheeses are considered moderately high in histamine or to be histamine liberators.
I don’t have an IgE allergic reaction to either, same with foods like tomatoes or pineapple, but eating them will result in a colossal migraine because of my wonky mast cell response. I get other symptoms too, of course, but migraine is a very common mast cell dysfunction symptom and not one often looked at by migraine researchers. (Understandably. It’s barely looked at by anyone outside of oncologists and immunologists.)
It’s something to do with how histamine affects hypothalamic activity which in turn can affect the severity of migraines.
So yeah, chances are doctors are recommending outdated info that doesn’t quite line up for common migraines, but if you have other symptoms of mast cell dysfunction, the chocolate and cheese could be a trigger due to histamine processing issues. The more you know 🌈⭐️
the chocolate trigger thing is a myth??
Thank you for asking. The short of it is yes.
Chocolate as a posited migraine trigger came out of migraine journal studies. Basically, people suffering from migraine were asked to keep detailed journals of their lives, including what they ate, and this was compiled and trends were picked out.
One thing they found? People often ate chocolate before reporting a migraine attack.
There were two things going on here, though it took years for people to come to this conclusion. The first is that migraine prodrome can include sugar cravings-- so people who were already well on their way to a migraine attack were craving chocolate, ate the chocolate, and then reported the migraine. The second is that stress is a trigger of both migraines AND sugar cravings. Thus for someone had a rough week, the stress induced both a migraine attack and a desire for chocolate.
Later lab studies in which people who suffer migraine were given chocolate, or cocoa, or small doses of caffeine similar to what's found in chocolate, etc etc found that there was ZERO evidence for chocolate triggering a migraine. No component of chocolate triggered a migraine in sensitive people, even people who reported chocolate as a trigger.
So really, eating chocolate is a symptom of migraine, not a trigger of it.
These same food diary studies also led scientists to (briefly) believe that alcohol might PREVENT migraines. Why? People who reported fewer migraine attacks drank more alcohol. The actual finding here? People who have more migraine attacks don't frequently drink alcohol because jfc who wants a drink when they have a migraine (also migraine fucks up social lives). Alcohol, unlike chocolate, DOES trigger migraine attacks.
So these are the kinds of limitations of food diaries when you are trying to figure out what triggers your migraine attacks, and also why doctors emphasizing food triggers, especially chocolate, get a side eye from me.
That said, there is ample evidence that when people feel in control of their health, they tend to feel better. If you believe that chocolate triggers migraine attacks and you feel like limiting chocolate helps you, I'm not going to tell you to stop.
But if your doctor handed you a pamphlet with 20 year out of date information on migraines that included the idea that you had to stop eating chocolate and cheese (no evidence for cheese, either, eat your heart out), I'm here to say your doctor is at least 8 years out of date with the literature.
TLDR; chocolate fine, alcohol bad, doctors lazy, science progresses
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