callmebliss:

wolvesdreamofnewdays:

callmebliss:

callmebliss:

I know I said I didn’t want to see Urgent Care any more but we seem to keep meeting by accident.

TL;DR is that a kids hardcover picture book fell from a height on my toes while is was raised up on them and my middle toe turned blue was shaped wrong.

The radiologist has to take a deeper look, but the doctor says on initial examination of the x-ray there doesn’t look like a break. Buddy-taping, hard flat shoe, rest, ice, elevation.

Conveniently I already have a cane at home? :-p

oh bliss, what shall we do with you?

Nice things.

I wish you came to my urgent care. Though I feel like none of us would bat an eye. Typical urgent care visit here! Complete with waiting so long, comparatively, for a gd radiologist that you wonder where they wandered off to.

queenofzan:

iatrogenic:

queenofzan:

so i have been spending less time shitposting like my life depends on it lately, and that’s because i’ve been busy reading the emperor’s edge (and some other books but mostly the emperor’s edge series) by lindsay buroker

i love them and they’re very good and y’all should read them so i have more people to talk to about them

the main characters are a gang of criminals seeking redemption

• amaranthe, the ex-cop with ocd who got framed and run off the force for the crime of being found attractive by the emperor, who is improbably good at talking people into things even when those things are just terrible ideas
  
• “books”, an ex-drunk whose family is all dead who used to be a professor and now does things like “take notes on real estate scams” and “lecture the other characters on morality” and “never give a straight answer to a question that could be answered by a history lesson”
  
• maldynado, an ex-noble fop who was literally recruited out of an escort house while wearing only a loincloth despite being the best fencer in the city, who is so transparently doing the “all i care about is booze and women” routine to cover up his Pain it’s honestly funny
  
• akstyr, a young ex-gang member who nearly got stoned to death for being a witch, because as we all know magic doesn’t exist and that’s why it’s illegal
  
• basilard, a mute ex-slave from a pacifist background who harbors Intense Guilt about having to kill in a kill-or-be-killed scenario
  
• sicarius, not an ex-anything, just an assassin, who wants the emperor to like him, but is not willing to do things like “change” or “learn” or “speak more than three words at a time”
  

they’re a beautiful weird found family, bonding over things like counterfeiting schemes and nearly being mauled by monsters and stealing dirigibles and making fun of each other

also the worldbuilding is really interesting i know it says steampunk don’t believe it, it’s like. good steampunk. the entire reason it’s steampunk at all is because lindsay buroker didn’t know shit about horses and one of her betas was like “horses don’t work this way” and she was like “FINE THERE ARE NO HORSES THEN” and then decided this meant at least one world power would have to develop a transit system not based on horses and opted for steam powered trains, it rules

also there’s another series set in the same world that stars a very clumsy linguist being kidnapped by an imperial power to translate a foreign language no one knows and it’s the best book that’s ever happened to me, she keeps getting distracted from escape attempts by wanting to translate this thing

there’s a bit more to the horse story than that though this is a 100% excellent summary, and it WAS meant to be steampunk all along, as encrypted (the side series’ lead, which i actually love more than the main series and i have written over 400k in tikaya fanfic) shows – ‘steampunk’ being accurate without being the stereotype. 

(hilariously, i had to be told ‘it says high fantasy but don’t believe it, it’s like high fantasy but it’s actually good’ so this is CLEARLY also one of those terms that has to be put in proper context. annie’s audience isn’t into steampunk, mine – and i – is/are not into high fantasy.)

as in, it fits the literal definitions of steampunk without being what everyone EXPECTS, which is … victoriana. none of that. that, combined with “it’s like steampunk leverage and is heists and found family” is what finally got me to become one of the EE BNFs, from having my SO try to get me to read it and having no interest because he explained it badly.

everyone who loves EE manages to love it because of some ridiculous shit happening. in related news, the entire series is some ridiculous shit happening. however, all of my followers/friends ALREADY KNEW i loved these books i just saw this and had to reblog it because any and all love for my loves.

trying to talk about the emperor’s edge without being like “but the best part is THIS SIDE STORY” is so difficult. all i care about is tikaya tbh

she made me write a 200k long AU that still is nowhere near fucking done because she’s the loudest voice in my head i didn’t create i have ever had in my life.

goddamn tikaya.

(shannon was talking about trying to talk you into our rp before and now i feel like i should just be all, YOU COULD COME PLAY WITH TIKAYA?)

queenofzan:

so i have been spending less time shitposting like my life depends on it lately, and that’s because i’ve been busy reading the emperor’s edge (and some other books but mostly the emperor’s edge series) by lindsay buroker

i love them and they’re very good and y’all should read them so i have more people to talk to about them

the main characters are a gang of criminals seeking redemption

• amaranthe, the ex-cop with ocd who got framed and run off the force for the crime of being found attractive by the emperor, who is improbably good at talking people into things even when those things are just terrible ideas
  
• “books”, an ex-drunk whose family is all dead who used to be a professor and now does things like “take notes on real estate scams” and “lecture the other characters on morality” and “never give a straight answer to a question that could be answered by a history lesson”
  
• maldynado, an ex-noble fop who was literally recruited out of an escort house while wearing only a loincloth despite being the best fencer in the city, who is so transparently doing the “all i care about is booze and women” routine to cover up his Pain it’s honestly funny
  
• akstyr, a young ex-gang member who nearly got stoned to death for being a witch, because as we all know magic doesn’t exist and that’s why it’s illegal
  
• basilard, a mute ex-slave from a pacifist background who harbors Intense Guilt about having to kill in a kill-or-be-killed scenario
  
• sicarius, not an ex-anything, just an assassin, who wants the emperor to like him, but is not willing to do things like “change” or “learn” or “speak more than three words at a time”
  

they’re a beautiful weird found family, bonding over things like counterfeiting schemes and nearly being mauled by monsters and stealing dirigibles and making fun of each other

also the worldbuilding is really interesting i know it says steampunk don’t believe it, it’s like. good steampunk. the entire reason it’s steampunk at all is because lindsay buroker didn’t know shit about horses and one of her betas was like “horses don’t work this way” and she was like “FINE THERE ARE NO HORSES THEN” and then decided this meant at least one world power would have to develop a transit system not based on horses and opted for steam powered trains, it rules

also there’s another series set in the same world that stars a very clumsy linguist being kidnapped by an imperial power to translate a foreign language no one knows and it’s the best book that’s ever happened to me, she keeps getting distracted from escape attempts by wanting to translate this thing

there’s a bit more to the horse story than that though this is a 100% excellent summary, and it WAS meant to be steampunk all along, as encrypted (the side series’ lead, which i actually love more than the main series and i have written over 400k in tikaya fanfic) shows – ‘steampunk’ being accurate without being the stereotype. 

(hilariously, i had to be told ‘it says high fantasy but don’t believe it, it’s like high fantasy but it’s actually good’ so this is CLEARLY also one of those terms that has to be put in proper context. annie’s audience isn’t into steampunk, mine – and i – is/are not into high fantasy.)

as in, it fits the literal definitions of steampunk without being what everyone EXPECTS, which is … victoriana. none of that. that, combined with “it’s like steampunk leverage and is heists and found family” is what finally got me to become one of the EE BNFs, from having my SO try to get me to read it and having no interest because he explained it badly.

everyone who loves EE manages to love it because of some ridiculous shit happening. in related news, the entire series is some ridiculous shit happening. however, all of my followers/friends ALREADY KNEW i loved these books i just saw this and had to reblog it because any and all love for my loves.

queenofzan:

hazeymarie:

Starseer doctor. Space station POW camp with a mysterious disease floating around. People hitting people with fire extinguishers in hasty escape. What more could you ask for?

I mean, it was also written by @iatrogenic and edited by me, so you have that claim to fame of saying you know people.

Go on, add a book to your collection, you know you want to.

did you know that one of my friends is such a fan of this book series i’m reading right now that she literally wrote a spin-off book, and had my cousin edit it? TRUE STORY MY FRIENDS ARE GREAT (so’s fallen empire btw)

it’s important to add that the author of the original series basically press-ganged me into it with affection, and I beta-read the originals, meaning I did make a significant enough contribution to the main series that I knew what I was doing (most of the medical science and cyborg physiology is my work and I’m super proud of how well it has performed). 

also that a Starseer is a form of psionic. mine specializes in micro-telekinesis. 

people do hit others with fire extinguishers, and I learned in that process how hard that word is to type/spell correctly. 

This assignment is driving me up the wall. It’s taking forever to finish, I have abbreviations in my notes I can’t remember what they mean, and I want to be done writing medical journal critiques so I can move on with my life to end-of-semester projects I care about more.

Like the 20 page one that i now have a day and a half to write because of this one.

I work great under pressure, don’t get me wrong, but this is incredibly frustrating. Especially when I have inadequate brain meds because of my inability to get a psychiatrist appointment. Which is not the same thing as getting a psychiatrist – technically, I belong to a clinic, but their hours and my hours don’t correspond so whenever they have the appointment line open I can’t call.

(after many questions in which these options were presented in exactly this order)

4. Which of these is a fake term I just made up
A. Health behavior
B. Illness behavior
C. Sick role behavior
D. Healthy remittance

scottscontracting:

CDC Admits 98 Million Americans Were Given Cancer Virus Via The Polio Shot

1. The CDC has admitted that between 1955–1963 over 98 million Americans received one or more doses of a polio shot which was contaminated with a cancer-causing virus called Simian vacuolating virus 40 (SV40).  
2. The CDC quickly took down the page, along with Google, but the site was luckily cached and saved to symbolize this grand admission.
   

To further confirm this unbelievable admission, 

1. Assistant Professor of Pathology at Loyola University in Chicago Dr. Michele Carbone has been able to independently verify the presence of the SV40 virus in tissue and bone samples from patients who died during that era. 
2. He found that 33% of the samples with osteosarcoma bone cancers, 
3. 40% of other bone cancers, and 
4. 60% of the mesothelioma’s lung cancers all contained this obscure virus. 

This leaves the postulation that upwards of 10–30 million actually contracted and were adversely affected by this virus, to be deadly accurate.

Source: WRITTEN BY: EVILNEWS MAY 25, 2016

InvestmentWatchBlog.com

this was in the public health tag, and I was going to write a rebuttal or some shit but right now I just can’t really stop giggling in my head? other blog will get a better reaction than “…. hahahahaha what” when I am up to public health writing speed again but at the moment I’m just going OKAY WTF.

best part is that OP doesn’t even really care, they’re an SEO blog that wanted to get into the anti-vax tag. and I don’t even care that I’m helping the SEO thing right now because i don’t even know how to respond to this one.

(not just what’s in the cdc page, I know all about the SV40 ‘scandal,’ but the bad stats in the post. if you don’t know about the SV40 thing and want to, snopes has a really good writeup that’s exactly what I would say if I had the energy but better worded)