okay i should probably say something on tumblr and not just twitter but LMAO okay quick dave update. on wednesday i got my uterus yanked for multiple reasons. surgery was laparoscopic and went totally fine so i was set to go home on thursday, except for one teensy weensy issue which is that apparently i am completely resistant to oxycodone.
so after the anesthesia wore off enough to let me feel the pain, i went “take me back” and spent the night in agony as the ER nurses discovered that no, it wasn’t just “you don’t have the right dose”, it was “you are one of a very small percentage of people who just tank this narcotic completely” and were held up by doctors approving things.
eventually they got me on a narcotic that actually worked, but bc i was admitted they did some routine blood work that turned up an elevated white blood cell count after surgery so i stayed until saturday when my blood cell count was back to normal. i’m home now and doing well, took my first Big Boy post-OP shower and am long off the narcotics, but boy oh fuckin boy was that an experience
I see a lot of talk about how neurodivergence evolved and stayed in the gene pool because it was somehow ‘useful’ to our ancient ancestors. While I don’t necessarily disagree with this theory, I would like to propose an alternative. A theory that we already have physical evidence for. Humans just love each other and care for each other. Don’t you think that a species that cared for it’s people while they recovered from broken bones, or nursed their elderly well beyond their ‘usefulness’ would leave a member out because they didn’t make eye contact, or couldn’t stay focused on a particular task, or whatever other trait you associate with neurodivergence? I really don’t.
Sure, maybe it was useful to have someone around who didn’t mind making arrowheads all day, or who knew absolutely everything about all of the local flora and fauna, or who keyed in on every little distraction. At the end of the day, though, these people weren’t kept around because they were useful, they were cared for because they were loved.
can’t believe some of you tried to say undertale was cringe as if it did not raise the bar for rpg style games AND have a banging soundtrack AND multiple endings AND a good story AND unique mechanics
memeing sans was good tho it’s what he would have wanted
men were just built different in the 70s & 80s idk if it’s the chest hair or actors not being forced into inhumane training regimes for movies but everything was so much more lush like those are free range organic male tits not the factory shit with chemicals in it