Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

people who can do winged eyeliner are basically witches who know deep magic.

people who can do winged eyeliner right THE FIRST TIME are probably some sort of higher celestial beings, and i fear and admire them in equal measure.

@Dayglochainsaw obviously you should buy a big pack of cute stickers and tell your therapist it's a gift, for them to give out to all patients (including you of course ;) )

(i'm only halfway joking honestly)

(also i've got links in here somewhere about the very cute set of shiba inu stickers i got off amazon for a good price as well)

ugh. odds are increasingly good my mom won't be home from the hospital for new years.

i wonder if i should finally take a shower and do my hair and makeup anyway. is it too vain to do such just for new years selfies when you aren't going anywhere, lol?

@Dayglochainsaw it's kind of intimidating to march in there like it's a fucken business meeting, but honestly, it's well worth it - or at least i always found it that way because i'm much more articulate with writing than i am with talking, lol

there are a lot of cute journaling ideas and stuff out there as well! may as well soften the blow with some #aesthetique. either that or i'm just way too easily bribed by stickers still, tbh.

@Dayglochainsaw idk if you're comfortable with it, but i know that when i had Serious Shit I Must Remember To Talk About with my therapist, it really helped me to write it down - and sometimes to even bring two copies and hand one to my therapist for that additional accountability

it definitely makes it more of a Big Thing, but it does mean Big Things Get Done?

given the new year and all, i should probably see about eating some collard greens

but i only like about three forkfuls per year of collards, then i'm done.

........this is why i'm poor, isn't it

@aflightybroad i think you may have been catcalled by a goose that has been turned into a human by a witch, probably as part of some punishment

@maple honestly what really made it click for me was a friend explaining that sometimes, 'queer' is a very useful word in 'i want to indicate i am non-cishet in some fashion, but i do not know how safe i am currently expressing some aspects of that'. which i can totally understand! and i am grateful to them for explaining that aspect to me tbh.

a note on my tagging for CWs:

i may be a little slow to tag for CWs, particularly as i look for ones that may be new to me but common on mastodon.

i promise this is not the token cishet being ornery or stubborn; it's me having a moment. the various medicines i take for my illnesses (including pain meds, etc) mean sometimes i don't brain so good.

i promise it's not malice, and i will always be happy to put cw on things if asked, feel FREE to do so and TELL ME if i've forgotten!

so, i will say that in tumblr i have gotten pretty used to 'queer' as umbrella term of choice. the social circle i was in was emphatically pro-queer, and as token cishet, i tried to use the language they thought most appropriate (and that i was used to seeing academically).

however! if you are following me and need/want me to cw it, PLEASE LET ME KNOW and i will do my best to cw it for you!

@zoey as token cishet, i'm so out of my lane i may as well be a wrong-way driver, but i generally abide by the rule of "always cw if the word is being used specifically as an insult, not as a reclaimed umbrella term. in the second case, to thine own conscience be true and/or see if anyone says 'i would appreciate a cw warning for that', or if you are in company of people who appreciate it being emphatically NOT cw'd.

so anyway i'm gonna just chill today, maybe grind more in the stupid anime game while blasting vaporwave, and try to not become a being of pure anxiety that begins to glitch through the floor as if i were programmed by bethesda

so my mom was scheduled for her heart cath procedure at 8:30 this morning. they woke her up to begin preparing her at 4am.

it is now 2pm, they still haven't started lol.

i'm guessing this means another day lost to stress, they might keep her overnight, and it's a good thing i stocked up on groceries.

@Tenshi@yiff.life honestly, i'm still very new to masto and i get the same feeling sometimes. i think it's connected with the like... very format of the medium, so to speak. coming from tumblr (where i could blather to my heart's content), it seems very much like a platform for jettisoning quips into the ether. but i think this can be combatted by surrounding yourself with people who are willing to make those connections and don't see them as 'impolite', perhaps? (or maybe i'm talking out my ass here)

YEAH I HAD NEVER HEARD OF IT EITHER, i went to my doctor all panicky and worrying that it was actually like idfk, fucking lupus or some shit, but nah. it's just that shit

it's not even a big deal. it's just that there is a lil yeast buddy that normally lives on your skin and causes no problems whatsoever, but every so often your immune system UTTERLY FLIPS THE FUCK OUT ABOUT IT so the anti-fungal creams are the fix to get said immune response to also calm the fuck down.

@dankwraith ....honestly if the can is intact and not bulging or distorted, and doesn't spurt out any gunk when opened, you're probably fine.

they'll likely taste ...non-optimal, but according to recs they've probably got like 3 more years in em

oh hey i might know something helpful for this

are you sure it's dandruff? bc i had what i thought was very upsetting bad dandruff into my eyebrows but it turned out that why the dandruff shampoo wasn't working is because... it was seborrheic dermatitis, which sounds far more dramatic than it actually is, and is pretty simple to knock the fuck out

you can test that theory by getting an antifungal cream on there to see if it helps (also creams are easier to wangle than shampoo around eyes tbh)