Des

professional napper. Cat mum. gym goer. she/her. *views are my own*

[𝓐⭑ @ayogiovanna]

Gen Z normalized "bed rotting" as self-care, but ADHD bed rotting hits different. You aren't relaxing. You are actively trapped in a mental prison of task paralysis where you want to get up and do your hobbies, but your brain’s ignition switch is completely disconnected. You're literally stressing at a 10/10 volume while lying completely still.

[agnes ☽ @folkloreemind]

i wish spotify had a "songs you forgot about for some weird reason but trust me, you still love them" button

[ً @artfuIchaos]

pets are such lifesavers. sometimes all you need is a little soul that follows you around just to remind you you’re not alone

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Liam Neeson's wife died from a fall on a beginner ski slope. Most people don't realize the most dangerous thing you can feel after hitting your head is fine.

Natasha Richardson stood up laughing at Mont Tremblant in 2009 and sent the ambulance away. The paramedics turned around without ever seeing her. Four hours passed before a hospital admitted her, and by then the bleed was unsurvivable.

Doctors call it the lucid interval. Her fall fractured the skull near the middle meningeal artery, which began bleeding into the space between the skull and the brain's outer covering. The brain has no pain receptors. While the pooling blood stays under the volume your skull can compensate for, you feel nothing. You joke with the ski patrol. You decline the ride.

Then compensation runs out. The clot forces the brain downward toward the brain stem, the part that runs your breathing. Symptoms only appear once the pressure is already critical. For Richardson that was a headache back at her hotel, roughly two hours after the fall.

The cruelest detail: an epidural hematoma is one of the most fixable emergencies in neurosurgery. A surgeon drills into the skull, drains the clot, seals the artery. Caught inside the window, patients frequently walk out of the hospital days later. ER doctors have a name for the cases that aren't caught. Talk and die syndrome. Between 20 and 50% of epidural hematoma patients get a lucid interval first.

And the bleed is arterial, meaning it pumps at full blood pressure into a closed box, while the nearest neurosurgeon was 80 miles away in Montreal.

If you ever hit your head hard enough to see stars, feeling okay for the first few hours proves nothing. That's the exact stretch when the deadliest bleed in the book feels like a bump.

[sixty @sixtyvari0us]

he’s mine now.

[𝐬 🇬🇧⸆⸉ @redelitist]

“Why are they so quick to point out it’s a white male?!”

Probably because you fucking lunatics would start getting drunk, rioting, committing arson and pushing all sorts of deranged misinformation if they didn’t.

[Des @dspxna]

I am def being punished for somethin

[asha @excusemehahn]

the l word

[dingbat! matty @lobaverse]

oh professional poker player jennifer tilly the woman you are

[blue @bluewmist]

telling your brain "i know you don't wanna do the thing and it'll be very uncomfortable for you at first but you can do it buddy. it'll be fine" is actually surprisingly effective. it sounds too simple but that fuckass organ WILL listen to you if you treat it with kindness lol

[goma @soigomaa]

It all comes down to the absolute refusal to study the female body, test products and medications on females, and give women medical care instead of diagnosing everything as "anxiety" and throwing chemical castration at it.

[shay 🍉 @holthyde_]

An interracial relationship that's not only queer but lesbians?

Like you guys aren't understanding how important this is.

[Wiffleball @CorkballOne]

Has anyone referred to the Noah Kahan pooper as “Stink Season” yet

[kiesha @kiesha9i]

Me, talking to my cat: idk | just feel really sad lately
My cat: hey buddy, you know what would cheer you up?
Me: please don't show me your butthole
My cat, already turned around: this is MY butthole

[Des @dspxna]

I feel, fucking awful

[Des @dspxna]

Sigh