Still not on fire! The air quality is garbage, it's smoky as hell. I'm really glad my GP changed my inhaler up, because I don't think I would be managing this well on the Seretide. Symbicort is surprisingly good. I have it in Rapihaler form instead of the turbuhaler (the dry powder version), and I think it's working well for me.
Things continue medical: I had a chest x-ray today (GP wants to make sure the asthma is just asthma), and dropped off the forms for my own colonoscopy (as opposed to the one![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lilacsigil is having next week.) I'm going public, because our private hospital is Catholic. lilacsigil doesn't get a choice because the Catholic hospital is the one her specialist works out of, but they were okay last time.
Ugh.
Baggins did some kind of soft tissue injury to his back knee, and because he's old with dodgy kidneys, he can't have his NSAID painkiller anymore. This is a bummer because it was honey-flavoured and he liked it. He's currently on gabapentin mashed into butter, to which he takes great offense, but is too sleepy to fight us off. (Also he can't bite us anymore. I would laugh but it's so tragic.) He spends most of the day stoned out of his gourd, but he's obviously in less pain, and incidentally doing less over-grooming. He put on 400g in a week too. It's not all bad.
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- Frommuccamukk
Dirtbag Catullus
AND YES DEATH IS COMING OR WHATEVER
BUT WE HAVE TIME FOR A THOUSAND THEN HUNDRED MAKEOUTS BEFORE THEN
- Viasorchasilver - a Leverage rewatch is happening, and I love the comm name so much: ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
the_rewatch_job
From the intro post, here are a couple of fandom primers, in case people who do not know the love of this show are considering it:
This one doesn't have images anymore (thanks LJ) but it does have good and non-spoilery character rundowns: Leverage: Fandom Overview
This one goes into more depth than is needed for a beginner, and it's on LJ so it has become messed up with ads, but it has lovely pic-collages:
Leverage Primer (part 1)
- Fromdine - a whole lot of animal diagrams that are hilarious when viewed out of context. (CW: one of them is Schrodinger's cat, which I find less hilarious because dead cat.)
Science Diagrams Featuring Animals Is Inexplicably Bizarre
-goodbyebird is hosting a Mandalorian friending meme. I don't watch the show (yet) but I do love some baby Yoda:
Come get you some foundlings!
-homemade2homemade is running again this year - it's a fandom handicrafts exchange. Do you think people would like handmade journals with painted pages and so on? Because that's a thing I could make and make fannishly:
Round Three starting soon!
-rthstewart will be running the Three Sentence Ficathon again, yay!! This is so much fun - you write a fic in three sentences:
Three Sentence Ficathon -- Beginning February 1
- I really enjoyed this Stumptown Fandom Primer fromenemyofperfect (I'm so nearly caught up on this show - every episode has new shippy potential. So many f/f ships!):
Stumptown!
- Via my little sister dishing me the hard facts on how eating bananas makes you more prone to mosquito bites. "That's got to be an old wives' tale," I said to her. We looked at each other and we both turned to google because we're both pharmacists who are used to debunking old wives' tales. It turned out to be an actual, repeatable effect:
Impact of Consumption of Bananas on Attraction of Anopheles stephensi to Humans
- Via The Guardian, a nice beginner's explanation to using they/them (which might be a more useful resource than smacking someone on the head and shouting "DOES IT HURT YOU TO JUST BE KIND TO PEOPLE? USE THEIR PRONOUNS!" which is how I feel sometimes.)
So your friend came out as non-binary: here’s how to use pronouns they/them
- Via my software update for Firefox (which I'm still using, because I fear change more than I want rows of tabs), and because it is endlessly entertaining:
50,000 Most Common Passwords
For example, a list of incomplete nerdery titles: spiderma, wolverin, daredevi, wonderwo, doctorwh and darthvad
- Viachinashop - angeloftheneorth is hosting a Language Café
Café des Langues | Caffi Iaith | The language Café post
Some time ago I had this idea that I would once or twice a month host a post where people could practice their languages, or encourage learners to mingle with experts. There would be a subject, and a question to get people talking, with one thread for each language.
-seasonofkink is still hosting their holiday challenge:
Welcome to the Holiday Season!
*Choose at least three (3) kinks from our long list of kinks here, and create one fanwork that incorporates all the kinks you have chosen.
- Viafail_fandomanon - the fabrics for these custom pokemon shirts are adorable! You have to select a shirt style to get to the fabric choices. I really like how the designs are tailored to each pokemon:
Original Stitch: Pokemon shirt
- I made some Person of Interest icons, hopefully so that the mostly-discord side of fandom feels a bit more comfortable posting on the Dreamdwidth discussion post for bookclub. They're just cropped and coloured bases, but it was fun to work through the screencaps and find some characters that I know are faves of people on discord, like Leon and Fusco and Mark Snow:
Icons!
(The discord is here, by the way: The Subway. It's a very friendly, not terrifically busy sort of place.)
Now I must go to bed, because I have to work all sorts of weird days this week. (Much like Baggins, I take great offense. I do not like change. Rosters should remain stable at all times. Stuff me full of buttery gabapentin, please.)
Things continue medical: I had a chest x-ray today (GP wants to make sure the asthma is just asthma), and dropped off the forms for my own colonoscopy (as opposed to the one
lilacsigil is having next week.) I'm going public, because our private hospital is Catholic. lilacsigil doesn't get a choice because the Catholic hospital is the one her specialist works out of, but they were okay last time. Ugh.
Baggins did some kind of soft tissue injury to his back knee, and because he's old with dodgy kidneys, he can't have his NSAID painkiller anymore. This is a bummer because it was honey-flavoured and he liked it. He's currently on gabapentin mashed into butter, to which he takes great offense, but is too sleepy to fight us off. (Also he can't bite us anymore. I would laugh but it's so tragic.) He spends most of the day stoned out of his gourd, but he's obviously in less pain, and incidentally doing less over-grooming. He put on 400g in a week too. It's not all bad.
Linkspams
- From
muccamukk Dirtbag Catullus
AND YES DEATH IS COMING OR WHATEVER
BUT WE HAVE TIME FOR A THOUSAND THEN HUNDRED MAKEOUTS BEFORE THEN
- Via
sorchasilver - a Leverage rewatch is happening, and I love the comm name so much: the_rewatch_jobFrom the intro post, here are a couple of fandom primers, in case people who do not know the love of this show are considering it:
This one doesn't have images anymore (thanks LJ) but it does have good and non-spoilery character rundowns: Leverage: Fandom Overview
This one goes into more depth than is needed for a beginner, and it's on LJ so it has become messed up with ads, but it has lovely pic-collages:
Leverage Primer (part 1)
- From
dine - a whole lot of animal diagrams that are hilarious when viewed out of context. (CW: one of them is Schrodinger's cat, which I find less hilarious because dead cat.) Science Diagrams Featuring Animals Is Inexplicably Bizarre
-
goodbyebird is hosting a Mandalorian friending meme. I don't watch the show (yet) but I do love some baby Yoda: Come get you some foundlings!
-
homemade2homemade is running again this year - it's a fandom handicrafts exchange. Do you think people would like handmade journals with painted pages and so on? Because that's a thing I could make and make fannishly: Round Three starting soon!
-
rthstewart will be running the Three Sentence Ficathon again, yay!! This is so much fun - you write a fic in three sentences: Three Sentence Ficathon -- Beginning February 1
- I really enjoyed this Stumptown Fandom Primer from
enemyofperfect (I'm so nearly caught up on this show - every episode has new shippy potential. So many f/f ships!):Stumptown!
- Via my little sister dishing me the hard facts on how eating bananas makes you more prone to mosquito bites. "That's got to be an old wives' tale," I said to her. We looked at each other and we both turned to google because we're both pharmacists who are used to debunking old wives' tales. It turned out to be an actual, repeatable effect:
Impact of Consumption of Bananas on Attraction of Anopheles stephensi to Humans
- Via The Guardian, a nice beginner's explanation to using they/them (which might be a more useful resource than smacking someone on the head and shouting "DOES IT HURT YOU TO JUST BE KIND TO PEOPLE? USE THEIR PRONOUNS!" which is how I feel sometimes.)
So your friend came out as non-binary: here’s how to use pronouns they/them
- Via my software update for Firefox (which I'm still using, because I fear change more than I want rows of tabs), and because it is endlessly entertaining:
50,000 Most Common Passwords
For example, a list of incomplete nerdery titles: spiderma, wolverin, daredevi, wonderwo, doctorwh and darthvad
- Via
chinashop - angeloftheneorth is hosting a Language Café Café des Langues | Caffi Iaith | The language Café post
Some time ago I had this idea that I would once or twice a month host a post where people could practice their languages, or encourage learners to mingle with experts. There would be a subject, and a question to get people talking, with one thread for each language.
-
seasonofkink is still hosting their holiday challenge: Welcome to the Holiday Season!
*Choose at least three (3) kinks from our long list of kinks here, and create one fanwork that incorporates all the kinks you have chosen.
- Via
fail_fandomanon - the fabrics for these custom pokemon shirts are adorable! You have to select a shirt style to get to the fabric choices. I really like how the designs are tailored to each pokemon: Original Stitch: Pokemon shirt
- I made some Person of Interest icons, hopefully so that the mostly-discord side of fandom feels a bit more comfortable posting on the Dreamdwidth discussion post for bookclub. They're just cropped and coloured bases, but it was fun to work through the screencaps and find some characters that I know are faves of people on discord, like Leon and Fusco and Mark Snow:
Icons!
(The discord is here, by the way: The Subway. It's a very friendly, not terrifically busy sort of place.)
Now I must go to bed, because I have to work all sorts of weird days this week. (Much like Baggins, I take great offense. I do not like change. Rosters should remain stable at all times. Stuff me full of buttery gabapentin, please.)