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get in loser we’re living past the end of our myth
a lot of you probably knows Belphie's story, but I'll summarize just in case.
Devon Rex cats are better for people with allergies (less shed fur + less Fel d1 protein in their saliva), so on February 16, 2024, I went the breeder route and put down a deposit. before Belphie even opened his eyes, he was mine!
every Friday, the breeder sent me a new photo. I had a broken leg, and was basically rotting in bed at that point, so it was the best part of my week. then, at 12 weeks old, I BROUGHT HIM HOME!
at first, he was so alive! like a wind-up monkey that never shut off. he dangled from the wall-hangings, savaged my feet as I walked, and used my elderly cats as jumping poles to do cool acrobatics over. but all this gradually faded.
first, he stopped playing. then he stopped climbing. then he stopped moving much at all. my vet ran tests on him and found multiple pathogens (calcivrius + mycoplasma), but the medication didn't help - he kept declining.
on September 17th, I woke up to find him swollen like a balloon. we finally had an answer: he had Feline infectious Peritonitis, aka FIP. before 2017, this would've been a death sentence. he would've kept bloating until he drowned in his own fluids. and before 2024, I would've been forced to inject him with black market drugs. but thankfully, South Tower Animal Hospital in Fergus, Ontario was doing a study on the oral medication! we drove two hours, enrolled him, and left with the GS-441524 pills.
and he went from those photos above.....to this:
I thought Belphie would die as a kitten. I'd accepted that he would never grow up. but now he gets to LIVE!
and all for the low cost of $7,553.....ahhhahaha........god.
that + a recent home disaster has wiped out my savings, but I still need to pay for Belphie's medication. to remain in this study, I need to do bloodwork monthly until Feb 2025, and he'll need daily pills until March 2025.
I've put a risograph print + enamel pin set up at greerstothers.shop. I hate asking for help, but if you'd like to support Belphie's continued treatment, please consider checking them out!
nervous breakthrough
the anesthetic apparently hasn't fully worn off yet
saw this video of this woman shaving the hairs off her hands and fingers that were so impossible to see that she literally used some kind of "hair identifier spray" so that she could see them well enough to shave them off
My hot take is that you have to be patient with people who are trying to be better allies. And by that I mean don’t bother correcting them saying “pregnant women” instead of “pregnant people” if they haven’t even been introduced to the concept of trans men having periods. If you make someone feel like they’re a bad person for breaking a rule they were never taught, they’re going to give up on trying to be better. Becoming a good ally is not an impossible task. Becoming a good ally in one night absolutely is.
And it’s easy to get into the mentality of “I figured this out at 13, so there’s no excuse for this adult’s ignorance” but we KNOW that on a psychological level it’s not only harder to learn new things as you get older, but it’s also significantly harder to UNLEARN than it is to LEARN.
Do what you need to do for your mental health. You don’t have to be the person who guides your bigoted relative through years of meandering progress. But if you are trying to help someone, you have to be patient, really, exhaustively patient, or you could end up doing more harm than good.
And none of this “don’t reward the bare minimum” bullshit. If someone is making an effort to use they/them pronouns but only does it right 15% of the time, you will get a lot farther by acknowledging that 15% instead of yelling at them the other 85% of the time.
In my experience one of the first hurdles bigoted people are subconsciously stuck on is the idea that being “politically correct” is just something you do to avoid making people angry, rather than something you do to make others feel safe and respected and loved. Don’t reinforce that.
Sincerely, a hot-headed queer girl (with a well-meaning mother from Jackson Mississippi) who spent ten years learning the hard way that yes, you really do catch more bees with honey than vinegar.
do i even need to say it
If you’re typing “how to cast a light spell” into a smartphone then I think there’s a simpler solution to your problem
Ive seen people be like in modern fantasy like "oh the pritagonists can just look up spells on their phone how do you solve that"
Imma be honest most people who go on recipe websites and book every recipe they see don't even use them lmao why would with be different
sorry but can we please accept that human beings are not particularly sexually dimorphic or do i have to live in the culture war until i fucking die
it’s genuinely wild how hawaii’s independence isn’t like, a huge and widely recognized issue. that’s one of the US’s biggest and most glaringly memorable crimes and it just continues on and on instead of being righted in any way. like holy shit how is hawaii still a state. it’s downright fucked that people just casually live there and visit there to this day in 2024 knowing full well that, at the very least, it was a sovereign nation that the US conquered by force in the late 1950’s. there are people alive now who are older than hawaii’s statehood. idk it’s one of those things that just baffles me. stop going to hawaii, leave them alone
the things that are reported matters. the language used matters. what is left out of the story matters.
I’d like to be a sparkling basil lemonade but I think realistically I’m more like an Arnold Palmer in a can
if i were a drink i’d be cherry vanilla coke
shower gel label: immerse your self in this new “Me Time” luxury fruity tooty. abandon all sense of identity and dissolve Your memories into this soothing chemical broth One billion melons are in this tube… use them wisely
Another way of looking at it: these companies are using your compassion, your ability to humanize and empathize and create bonds with things that aren’t human, as a means for profit, manipulation and theft. I think it’s really cool that humans can feel connected to non-living things— stuffed animals, toys, fictional characters, a pet rock, etc— but that lovely little part of being human is being twisted into something dangerous. I’m sorry you’ve been used like this, I’m sorry you feel attached to something that does not care about you but is programmed to make you think it does. But you have to stop letting them manipulate you.
i hate how they market alexa as a ‘member of the family’ like that’s SO fucking blatantly insidious and terrifying also if i wanted an untrustworthy/cold/emotionless machine in my life i’d just talk to my fuckin father
Addicted to my phone's auto-responses.
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Hey, Tumblr. You like non-stereotypical depictions of autism? What about ✨ neurodivergent protagonists ✨ ? Yes? What about asexual neurodivergent protagonists that go on chapters-long rants about their special interests? You want gay characters that are important to the plot too? Then I've got the book for you! The author is gay!!! American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis, is
Emma Stone in Poor Things
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