a lot of people define cuisines by what they see in restaurants, but another way I like to understand people’s food heritages is “what food would your mom make for you when she’s sooooooo so tired, but still has to feed her kids?” (or whoever did most of the caretaking) that question indexes Staple

other questions I like (change terms as appropriate):

• what food would your mom make for you if you’re sick? (indexes Bland)

• what food would your mom make for you when she’s just feeling so happy to see her kid? (usually indexes Fancy/Effort)

sometimes I wonder if PCOS isn’t more widely considered an intersex condition because that would make being intersex even more common and people would have to reckon with that with PCOS it’s less nonconsensual medical interventions like surgery, but there is a common experience of medical neglect due to ideas of how a uterus should function wrt gender (i.e., be fertile only)

the idea of “last wilderness” is inherently colonial ever defining a frontier

western medicine is just beginning to recognize that inflammation exists and gut health is a foundation of all health, and meanwhile thousands of years of chinese medicine are like “to reduce fire in your body, eat cool foods” me ben affleck smoking at the pain of trying to eat more cool foods and cut down on stuff that 上火

my navel hangs a full 4 inches lower when I don’t focus on pulling in my core and straightening my back. that’s an 18° increase in spine curvature, if I did my trigonometry correctly corsets improved my pain but apparently my spinal curve is so severe that that’s probably what *actually* snapped steel, TWICE

ughhhhhhhhhh using physics and chemistry knowledge to think about bodies and how low air pressure precedes storms and also worsens inflammation because your body has more room to expand and put pressure on joints let me be a taut high-pressure meatskin blood balloon with properly elastic joints

I got so much food from panera!!!!!!! I am SO HUNGRY … :C they forgot one of my sandwiches

OH IS THAT WHAT… I thought.. body was just tingly I didn’t realize… PAIN wow I’m trying to summon one single brain cell to get pain cream and the thought of getting up to get my target delivery later feom just the front door feels unbearable

*grins* read InTheWatchful.City

https://twitter.com/HiddenBookcase/status/1665475299042000896

you want bonus prompts? YOU GOT BONUS PROMPTS (though for both challenges anima isn’t like, super visible, but æ is on there)

well, I managed to cry, which was nice. whole damn chest was in too much pain before to even make room for eye water first the body pain and then the emotional pain. ugh

cozy horror is when the mauled girl you see when you get sleep paralysis tucks you in under a weighted blanket and reads you a bedtime story in a raspy voice that sounds like radio static cozy horror is when the eldritch creature you summon affirms your gender: prismaticapress.com/prismatica/202…

the pain scale, but it’s logarithmic like an earthquake magnitude scale ≤3: hardly perceptible
4: was that a pain?
5: hm, perceptible, structural damage may be occurring
6: oh shit, infrastructure is getting fucked up
7: ah fuck, now there’s fires too
8: holy shit this devastation will take ages to recover from
9: I am losing a limb
10: I am crater

I’m mad that my parents spent my whole childhood warning me about all the ways I could get sick and fuck up my body while ignoring the ways I was already sick and my body was already fucked up. it made me not want to tell anyone about pain and assume it was my fault my dad would punish me with sit-ups so I assumed the back and core pain was because I was weak even though I did like 100 at a time

you’re supposed to look at the horizon when you walk??????????????? forget hand-eye coordination. eye-body coordination, my posture instantly improved when I did one simple trick of LOOK AT EARTH’S FUCKING BUILT-IN LEVEL

https://twitter.com/sqiouyilu/status/1663263622754349057

ughhhhh omg of course I had no core strength and of course my tummy and bowels and urinary tract get upset, my back is tilted so much that the entire bowl of the hips is tipping my fucking guts out, stretching out my back is putting my organs back in the right place 😑 it’s gonna take some time to get used to the proper way to align myself but ughhhghghhhggh thank god I took art classes from a young age and did some anatomy classes on my own so my brain can remember “HIPS ARE NOT A FLAT PLANE, whole structure with sacrum is ORGAN BOWL”

I survived work and to reward myself I am going to sit down at the buffet and do the math on barbie architecture did not realize that when I go to work at like, a 3 on the pain scale, and leave work feeling like I’m at a 7 and about to start passing out… that that… is probably not… what everyone who works retail feels… I was sort of flabbergasted that a coworker said her feet don’t hurt

reading that people with ankylosing spondylitis have a hesitant gait bc their legs are stiff and they can’t see the horizon—I thought it was normal to be afraid and look at my feet for fear of falling?? 😩 my dad even remarked on this when I was a kid! kept telling me to look up! chest tightness is a symptom and I just!! thought!! it was anxiety!!!!!! but I’m always baffled I can’t do a push-up despite lifting paint all day—it’s bc my chest is so tight!! I couldn’t position things properly EVER!! even for school fitness tests… ppl just said I was weak

“thirty-seven wives and you still cannot read the room when a woman needs attention” djsjjsDKDKKFLSKSJSVDJ “yeah, they know what a fucking siren is, come on” I love this show so much

man, I’m so glad I realized my collar could be contributing to pain, it required a lot of synthesizing knowledge to work out I initially got the stainless steel version when I was like… 40 lbs heavier, still on the wrong meds; at the time it fit properly around my neck and the weight gave me a physical sensation of grounding bc if I was tense, I could feel it against my neck to remind me to breathe

cant believe how much easier it is to sweep a floor when I’m not in pain. I thought I was being lazy! since my manic episode in december 2020, the outer wall of my bathroom window has been broken

it’s all tiny shards of tempered glass, and no window screen, so every time I opened & closed the window, shards would drop in & cut my foot

I finally cleaned up the glass today 🥳

I was about to “well actually” but turns out it was a specific brand of paint (rosco) that must use a less common colorant to achieve saturated pinks, typically it’s very hard to get pantone-level saturation in a paint, as pantones are inks and paints have different formulations

https://twitter.com/PopBase/status/1664671152198017024

headline is slightly misleading, but by omission