I know damn well all this stuff happening to me is the result of a brain infection doing brain damage.
It is NOT getting worse with time, threatening to suck me into a vortex of destruction.
In fact, as it cyclically recurs in largely the exact same forms I’m used to, it’s milder each time, and I can see an intermediate horizon past which I barely notice it anymore.
Pretty much every Long Covid patient I’ve heard of under general, neurological, or other specialist medical supervision says that the doctors at best diagnose and analyze the body’s recovery as and to the degree it happens, if not actively chase unhelpful treatments
If there were something doctors could do, I would not be a priority candidate for it. I am in the “will recover fine on his own” triage tranch.
It would’ve been nice to be a medicoscientific source, but I’ve already progressed so far without observation I wouldn’t be too useful as a case study anyway, and this is not exactly a rare disease that will be scrounging for patients to investigate.
Instead I think I might be more useful as a more humanities-oriented example. All of you, when you hear of “someone with long covid”, you now have me as a reference example. (Compare Twitter, where the usual catastrophizing=engagement dynamic centers quite different examples)
“And they call themselves the ‘Horny Hippies,’ and they drink this green stuff that they call ‘pea cum,’ and then they go out and they buy little brass rings and they go around and they tell everyone on the subway: 'Did you hear the news? The president, he has a taint problem.’ And then they go to the club where they’re not even wearing clothes, and then they just start playing music from a record that they have in the bottom of their sock drawer. So, you know, that’s how people know about the taint problem,” he said.
I read this sentence and laughed out loud in the middle of the morning, which was nice
when we try to befriend cats we mimic their meows and get down on the ground to their level and try to gently coax them to interact with us right
that horrifying entity mimicking human noises at us maybe just thinks we’re cool and wants to pet us?
had to draw it
a few people pointed out that they probably wouldn’t understand what they were saying and just mimicking whatever sounds they happen to hear so I wanted to add this
Apparently Portland's murder rate in 2022 was higher than Chicago's murder rate in 2014, and also Multonomah county, Portland's county, lost 2,200 people in 2022, a continuous trend since 2019-2020.
Yeah, I hear it’s bad in the hundreds, and the areas closer to the river were moaning about the homeless these past few years, but I’m in the sweet spot in between where the neighborhood has just steadily continued to get better
Wait it’s Friday? Yeah, the memory issues are really back if I’m missing days again.
Okay, haha, now I’m discovering platforms where over the last few days I’ve been starting private conversations with users that go to some absolutely nuts places, it’s been a while for that one. I don’t see anything on here, but sorry if I’ve been weird with you
always remember gay men are the reason we dont have to pay for public bathrooms in canada
WAIT HUH??? IM CANADIAN????? WHY HAVE I NEVER HEARS ABOUT THIS UNTIL NOW??????
two gay men got arrested for fucking in a public bathroom but they argued since you had to pay for it it was a hotel and it was fine. their defence worked and we dont have to pay for bathrooms anymore
Ok guys I know we want to celebrate victories in queer history but
1. Googling “Canada gay sex pay toilets” just brings up a bunch of reblogs of this post
2. There does not seem to have been any sort of norm of public toilets in Canada charging money to use in the 20th century
3. I am neither Canadian nor a lawyer but I find it extremely hard to believe that there is any jurisdiction on earth where charging money to use a public toilet makes it legally constitute a hotel room and therefore OK to have sex in.
little known fact but the funniest thing you can do in improv is say no
That’s not true.
It is so fucking not true
Not only is it hard to play in a scene where your partner is not collaborating on your ideas it is just uncomfortable to watch
You CAN say no in improv but the fucking difference is hearing someone go “We planned this together, how could you betray me” and responding “no we didn’t, nuh uh that didn’t happen” vs “Together? I did all the planning, I executed it, your contributions were worthless!”
Both people said “no we didn’t plan this together” but one gave their partner more characterization and a place to take the scene and the other left their partner on the back foot and having to scramble.
Saying no in unhelpful ways usually just leads to a boring scene where people argue meaninglessly, but saying no too much even in a helpful way also leads to scenes where people just argue. Likely much more pleasant scenes to watch and be in but still not as good as it could have been if the players were building off of each others ideas more.
Also, people want to see resolution!!! Scenes get less funny when you drag them out and you should try to find a good end point which usually involves some sort of compromise or solution. Ending a scene is hard, but if you work towards something together instead of trying to navigate around something together it’s usually easier.
“Yes And” is the funny little phrase but it is also a very important concept and mindset about collaborative storytelling and valuing others ideas. You can’t come into improv and reject all your partners ideas but it’s also unhelpful to not give back anything to build on. I live and fucking die by yes and, I’ll name every shark and punch it in the goddamn face for “Yes And.”
