Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

@benaiah@pdx.social i might be able to kinda give some advice! i honestly am in much the same boat and am kinda working my way up

i will say that i really like japanese makeup and korean makeup since they often have more of an "accentuate what's there and keep it light" feel instead of the current "FULL COVERAGE FULL CONTOUR" thing popular in america. canmake is a really nice brand that has good tutorials on how to use, most can be applied with fingers, etc.

me: wow i wish i could see more of this person's posts more easily instead of just looking at the federated timeline

mastodon follow button: *doing a full burlesque striptease fan dance with full brass band accompaniment and on-stage pyrotechnics in an attempt to get my attention*

me: oh well nothing for it

@InspectorCaracal ok that's completely valid

but also, there are few furry versions that AREN'T more fun, just as far as activities go

more ice cold takes

- do you know you can just, like, wear a crown or tiara? there's no law against it. you can just do it if you want. nobody's gonna stop you.

- similarly you can just buy cake to eat whenever you want, even if it's not your birthday. even if it's an ice cream cake!

- understanding both of the above is basically the first step to enlightenment

- also shiny pretty things are nice to have and tasty things are nice to eat (here's where the ice cold bit comes in)

shit i've had too many hot takes this morning, i need to balance the system before it overheats! quick what are my coldest takes uhhh

- dogs are good and you should pet them

- the joy of your pet deciding of their own accord to come and sit with you and chill because they love you and wanna be with you is unparalelled

- people brushing/petting your hair is really really nice and satisfies deep monkey brain "social grooming good" instincts and should be more common as platonic affection

hot take "what are your headcanons about my fursona" is just furry for "what are your assumptions about me" B)

@J like this shit really gets you if you're diabetic, but even normal people can be like "well i do feel a little gross after that", so yeah, eat some protein with your carbs you'll probably feel better

OK I'LL STOP AWKWARDLY INFODUMPING AT YOU NOW

@J more important tho is to chuck in some protein along with any carb. protein is what your body breaks down the slowest. basically if you get your body all excited with some carbs, also give it some protein so that it also has something to do after that so you don't end up feeling hella ick.

this makes more sense in a graph hold on - i can't write on a mouse lmfao but hopefully this makes more sense

anyway here's a peak #spoonie meme to round up my Disabled Woman Yells At Cloud hour, tw for medical fatphobia/that general millieu of bullshit being made fun of

@J if you've ever felt kinda sleepy or draggy after eating, say, a bunch of white rice, or a bunch of regular pasta, or just the post-sugar-rush bluh, what's happened there is that your body went "oh shit! a lot of simple little carbs! let's pump out some insulin to get 'em in there!", then it ran out of simple carbs to do that on, and so you end up feeling super bluch.

so whole wheat pasta can kinda help moderate that and keep it more even!

@J oh hey my diabetic ass actually knows this

basically whole wheat aims to give you a more complex carb.

carbohydrates are like the first bits your body can digest and go most immediately to blood sugar. some are really 'quick' - sucrose, glucose, that kinda shit, sugar basically - others take more time to be broken down. this means your blood sugar doesn't spike up and then 'crash' as much

like from a disabled point of view, there is no change. there has been no revolution. there has been no radical thought. there has been no difference made.

it's just the same shit in a scooby-doo-villain mask and a Che Guevara t-shirt, with goalpoasts irritatingly moved.

aim to make an actual difference, not just reheating the same bullshit, putting on a sprig of parsley, and calling it haute cuisine.

at the end of the day, if capitalism says "there's a strict black and white test to determine if you're worthy of being human, and disabled people most likely flunk it, too bad"

and your anti-capitalism radical left-wing politics ALSO says "there's a strict black and white test to determine if you're worthy of being human, and disabled people most likely flunk it, too bad"

what's the fucking point lol.

i'm probably just a bitter bitch with a hurting shoulder, but honestly i am continually amazed at how some leftist groups who claim to be champions of the downtrodden are still really happy to, at best, have a complete blind spot for the disabled, and more likely cheerfully love injecting ableism into shit. often by making things depend on an entirely black-and-white morality test, and not considering how disabled folks factor in.

basically, if you're supporting the workers saying "we do not want to harm ourselves any longer in support of this shitty system", you can also have compassion and sympathy for the people who are pushed into using the system because they also don't want to harm themselves. you can also care about those lives.

you can support both at once and realize NEITHER GROUP deserves that shit system being forced on them.

do you know what i'd do if i could walk the two miles from home to bus stop, then from nearest bus stop to appointment, go to appointment, and make my way back?

NOT BE FUCKING DISABLED, THAT'S WHAT I'D DO! I'D NOT BE IN THIS FUCKING FIX WITH A TWILIGHT HALF-EXISTENCE IN THE EYES OF SOCIETY DUE TO MY FAILING HEALTH!

too much of it is just "well i would just simply not be disabled :)" which is, dare i say, not good fucking praxis

"well just get another appointment, then"

1. many specialists have waitlists in terms of months to be seen

2. many more doctors only do certain things (like procedures, etc.) on certain days

3. moving an appointment in under 24 hours often means you trigger the same financial penalty as if you had cancelled

"well just take public transport then" is also very easy to say when you AREN'T FUCKING DISABLED

for example, if i had to miss my pain doc appointment, i would:

-be without pain control entirely for a month, which legitimately would have me attempting suicide, because constant 9/10 pain with no relief leads to that as a reasonable solution.

-have to pay a 75 dollar fee

-risk being shut out of further medical services for far more than just pain medication because of my "noncompliance"

"all scabs should die" and "no scab's life is more important than the lives of the workers" is all good in isolation but it ignores the reality of these situations, in a way that is blissfully ignorant of the cruelties of the american healthcare system that disabled people find themselves trapped in

missing one appointment can often mean a heavy fee, a lack of medication necessary for life, or being declared a "noncompliant patient"