If you don’t have chronic pain, you can’t say shit about opiod prescriptions. I’ve just about punched nurses at my job at the hospital because they always attack the issue through such an able bodied state of mind 🙄 You DO NOT KNOW what it’s like to not be able to get out of bed because you’re actually crying in pain without your medication. You DO NOT KNOW what it’s like to not be able to shower because of how much pain your in.
I’m not even slightly exaggerating when I say if I had my medication taken from me, I would take my own life. To live in such unbearable mental and physical pain day in and out, would be a fate worse than death.
Not only this, but it doesn’t do shit to actually combat the opioid abuse epidemic. It’s hurting people for no fucking reason at all.
My mom is having trouble getting her meds now because of this. She’s been on painkillers for years on an as-needed basis because, get this- she needs them. Her shoulders dislocate so often that me and my sister would just go ‘oop, time to put mom’s shoulder back in’. She has back and knee and hip problems, and chronic nerve pain. And no one is giving her the pain medication she needs to function because they’re afraid she’s abusing them. She’s 75. I promise she’s not getting high. If anything, she under-medicates.
The US government pisses me off to no end because it’s like they’re trying to whack a pinata but only hitting bystanders, and they don’t seem to give a flying fuck that they’re hurting people and not hitting what they’re aiming for.
My partner can no longer get more than a week’s worth of her painkillers because of this unless she gets them from a chronic pain specialist. Yeah, THOSE are easy to find. Luckily she has one now through the worker’s comp case, but when they cut her loose from that when we reach the end of treatment options, she will have to find a new one, or get a week’s supply at a time.
Her disorder is rare and barely understood, and the BEST treatment option is, “50% chance this reduces average daily pain from an 8 to a 4, 25% chance it makes it worse, and 25% chance it does nothing. Oh, and 100% chance that it will get worse over time no matter what.” That’s it. And these people are supposed to scrounge and hoard their painkillers now? It doesn’t even take steps to address the cause of addiction.
Also, wow, realizing lately that some mutuals may want to stop following me.
Just unfollow me. I don’t care that we’ve been mutuals for like 8 years. Get off my dash. I will not engage with petty, self-righteous callout and purity culture. Fuck that shit.
If people writing, drawing, consuming FICTIONAL subjects like incest, underage sex etc (unlike other dark things you can soak in to your chin in any piece of popular media like ever created) makes them demonic and horrible in your eyes? Get. OFF.
Incest between two consenting adults? Don’t give a fuck. They probably shouldn’t procreate, but what the fuck, idiots clearly procreate all the time, so pissing some more in the human gene pool? Won’t make much of a dent.
Underage sex? Abominable in real life. When pixels are concerned? Fictional characters? Don’t give a fuck. Doesn’t turn me on personally, but as a plot device it’s no worse than other forms of abuse, or torture, or murder, and we as a species can apparently tell fiction from reality there, so… (Wasting resources that could be spent taking down actual pedophiles hurting actual children by giving fictive people legitimate victim status is the single most stupid and contrary thing I could imagine, and then some.)
Non-con? Abuse? Hurt all the way? Yes, please.
I’m a broken motherfucker, and you’re not taking away the few tools I have left to deal with life’s shittiness just because they don’t appeal to you personally. Get off those fucking high horses and go preach somewhere else.
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I’ll just second the people above here. If people writing “problematic” fiction is a problem for you then this is not the right tumblr for you to follow. Shoo.
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…says the incestuous robot writing queen over here. Don’t like, don’t read/follow. Simple as that.
I really miss those crisp fall mornings, when you wake up and look outside and the leaves are dancing in the wind. There’s something about it, knowing that its cool outside, but being overwhelmed with a sense of warmth & coziness. The way the leaves crunch under your feet as you walk home. That grey-almost gloomy, but welcoming sky, just before an autumn rain. The way every room, smells of pumpkin or baked goods. The creepy movies on tv. It’s almost as if we enter an entirely different culture, with the way things around us shift in those autumn months. Oh, how I miss you, fall.
half of fic research is rereading the fandom wiki four times for obscure character info and the other half is googling shit like “when did we start using drywall in home construction”
I know that basically almost nobody is reading this, but, maybe…
I’ve recently started a little one-person action of commenting on whatever I can. Basically, if a work has less comments than my best-commented story (120) and I can think of ANYTHING positive, I write a comment. If I can’t and I still like the story, I leave at least something like “Very nice work!”
(I admit, I fail sometimes, but I try!)
If you see this, maybe spread the message? 🙂 Kudos are nice but comments show engagement with the story.
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