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But today was definitely better. It helped that I timed my 800mg bomb of ibuprofen (prescription strength!) just before I left for work this time, I think. It's improving lol

This is definitely the worst flareup I've ever had, I think. I've never had leg and hip pain *this* severe due to sciatica, but woo boy this is REALLY bad. The kind of pain where you can't think of anything else, all you can think of is "hurts hurts hurts please stop"

You know the sciatica flareup is Really Bad when signs of improvement is having a day at work that's like "it still hurts, but it's more annoying than so agonizing it makes me want to amputate my leg"

Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success

baby Cricket curled up on a pink soft sack chair that is entirely too large for her

hey. don't cry. cricket on a big fucking thing. ok?

I think the biggest damage to the art community was the obsolescence of gallery sites (y!, deviantart, etc) and the rise of scroll-by social media, like twitter and even tumblr. Art is not ''content'', you shouldnt need to post art every day (or every month!) to be relevant. This mindset sucks.

In a way I think Auron would also fit the bill here for being into primal play on a more advanced level than the others, because he gets so into that aggressive dragon-hoarding behavior and intense scent kink stuff with Rhett, being reduced to his big scary pet monster... 🤔

Oh yeah--the Sentinels all have predatory hunting instincts under those very human masks that make them more bestial than all that decorum would make you think...but Śalinnis definitely takes that prey drive and primal play thing to a whole other level ahaha (Valus thinks it's *very* hot though)

They should do this every year. If you wanna have that kind of money, every year you fund $3,000 checks to everyone else. You'll still have more money than 900 people could ever spend in their lifetimes.

(Also feel like this type of weapon--because this is clearly a *weapon*--would not hold up in court as something a civilian should be using for """less lethal""" self-defense...I could see this thing popping up in lawsuits)

Like kids with nerf guns get shot by trigger-happy cops, what makes anybody think "oh I know, I'll make it gun-shaped so I look like the way more dangerous aggressor!" is a clever design choice lol

Lmao oh my god

Filed under "stupid shit marketed as "self defense" where if a cop rolls up to find out what the fuck is going on after you use it on someone, and sees that person on the ground and you holding that gun-shaped weapon, you're getting shot"

A gilded palace with towers and everything lol

Meanwhile part of the white house will still be just a sad pile of rubble with a bulldozer sitting outside. It's the new Wall

tumblr post by user sapphling from August of 2023 reading: "sitting anti-kink posters down in front of a wrestling match and explaining kayfabe to them with the patience of a preschool teacher" "You see that one? He's called the "heel." He looks mean and says a lot of scary things, but it's not real and he's actually very nice. When he says "I'm going to break you in half" you don't have to be scared because it's pretend. These two talked about this beforehand, and now they're playing pretend together. Can you think of any other situations that might be like this? Then they have screenshotted tags left on their post by another user reading: "crying screaming and throwing up when you tell me the undertaker didn't REALLY die and come back to life all those times" sapphling follows that with "no that part was real"

Yeah, you look at America in the now and look at how the British Empire once was and don't have to stretch the imagination much to see how the apple doesn't fall far from the tree geopolitically lol

I was starting to think the whole "I'm a German IMMIGRANT" thing sounded particularly defensive lol

Funny how they never corrected any of us for assuming they were white though. Whiteness isn't just a skin color anymore

You don't hear about how stupid politics and backwards right-leaning fascism is on the rise in several dominantly white European countries because they're just a lot quieter about it and don't beat their chests and blast their stupid horseshit on the world stage via a concert-sized boombox 24/7

Our politics are extremely stupid right now because the guy in charge is a blithering demented moron who wants to make a mark on the world before he dies, but we're not really unique in that regard if you pay attention to the politics in other countries. Ours is just *obnoxiously* loud

My rule of thumb when it comes to dealing with foreigners shitting on the US and being armchair quarterbacks about how we should fix it is that you shouldn't be screaming in my face about how my house is on fire and I'm not doing enough to put it out, while your own house is also on fire lol

You've given nobody here any indication that you're arguing even remotely in anything but bad faith yourself just to yell at all of us from your European high horse, but also--why are you still here lol

Alternatively, you can keep posting and making a jackass out of yourself in a Native man's mentions about how much you, a white European, don't give a flying fuck about foreign genocide because it has nothing to do with you personally

Like if you don't wanna talk about this stuff or face how racially charged our politics are, you can just *leave*, hun. You don't even have a horse in this race

Okay. You're the one who jumped into talk of American politics, where racial identity and reparations actually *do* have a very important bearing on our modern political parties, but please keep implying that being a white European absolves you of having to ever conceive of that concept lol

You didn't answer the question lol

Out of morbid curiosity, would you be this dismissive of "identity politics" and so determined to die on this hill if the person you were arguing with was black? Or would you maybe check your rhetoric with a little more introspection/respect?

I haven't looked it up to see what they sell, but I'm assuming it's either bear mace or tasers

Every time I see one of those Byrna commercials all I can think about is how it appeals to those conservatives who seem absolutely convinced they are the main character who risks getting violently attacked like John Wick every time they leave the house lol

Yeah I mean I'd think most "normies" see the shounen stuff first if we're being honest lol. When normies think of anime most of them still jump to DBZ and Naruto, not hentai--I think that's more of a terminally online thing

Some of those near misses felt like such a tease! Like aaaaggh you almost had it lmao

Oh yeah, I'd say those are my comfortable ceilings too--like I read things like Parasyte and Berserk, along with the typical Junji Ito fare, and always felt like the stuff I read that went beyond those were just too gratuitous/barfy to be fun. This is *just* barfy enough lmao