Hey, so I’m super excited that Dracula Daily is a thing, but I feel like I should warn people that one of the main characters in the novel is a guy that runs a lunatic asylum, and his scenes might be kinda hard to read for anyone who’s been through psychiatric abuse.
I would appreciate it if people reblogged this post and didn’t tag it with spoilers or put trigger warnings on it, since it’s important that this warning is seen by the people who need to see it. Thanks!
I love how everyone is sharing everyone else’s Blaze Sponsored Cats. Like “Oh look someone loved their little guy enough to pay money to share them I too shall share them with my followers.” And they are 100% right. I do want to see the little guy.
Honestly this reblog made me tear up a little bit?
I actually haven’t seen any other Blaze Sponsored Cats yet (I was never under the illusion it was an original idea), but I love that it’s happening.
God I love tumblr.
[ID: picture of op’s cat laying their side. They’re gray, have green eyes, and have blue and yellow tags on their collar END ID]
Thank you so much sincerely for adding the image description. It’s something I try to do when I have the energy, and sometimes I forget but I’m working on it, but I was too caught up with the glory of the blaze.
(re: your tag, I promise it wasn’t a ploy, it just popped into my head as I was putting the post together and DEM’S DA RULES)
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it is so funny to me that we basically got the show we had been screaming about for years, but not because a writer made a calculated move. he actually didn’t realize he was doing it.
yeah dude he’s straight. he has a wife. he had no idea any of this stuff.
Lmao I read “I see myself represented on camera” and my brain went *record scratch*. Dude is somehow enlightened enough to make the show we’ve been wanting for so long by accident AND simultaneously disconnected enough from queer media discourse that he was surprised by our reaction. I don’t know how to reconcile this.
yeah, i honestly don’t know why we aren’t talking more about this. like when I watched the show, i just ASSUMED he was gay/queer. and even after i found out he had a wife I was like, he might still be bi/pan.
but now i’m like 98% sure he’s basically straight
discovering that he seems to have done all of this justbecause is causing me no small amount of…i really don’t even know what to call it. i truly cannot wrap my brain around it
And he’s never even tried to write a romance before. He just tried to write two people who make each other complete and it made the romance feel effortless
This really is the kind of thing we’ve been needing: straight people who set out to write queer people as people, first and foremost. Even if the show had been middling at best, this would still be a lovely example of what we need more of, in opposition to the reactionary shit we sometimes hear about how OnLY qUeEr pEopLe sHouLd eVeR wRiTe qUeEr pEopLe and similar artistic segregationist fuckwittery
Do people actually think that Taika Waititi is … *straight*?!? Yeah, he’s been publicly married/partnered with women, but … like, I’m married to a man, but that doesn’t mean *I’m* not bi (queer, whatever). My queerdar REALLY needs re-calibrating if he’s actually a cis straight male.
I am an ER nurse and this is the best description of this event that I have ever heard.
FEMALE HEART ATTACKS
I was aware that female heart attacks are different, but this is description is so incredibly visceral that I feel like I have an entire new understanding of what it feels like to be living the symptoms on the inside. Women rarely have the same dramatic symptoms that men have… you know, the sudden stabbing pain in the chest, the cold sweat, grabbing the chest & dropping to the floor the we see in movies. Here is the story of one woman’s experience with a heart attack:
"I had a heart attack at about 10:30 PM with NO prior exertion, NO prior emotional trauma that one would suspect might have brought it on. I was sitting all snugly & warm on a cold evening, with my purring cat in my lap, reading an interesting story my friend had sent me, and actually thinking, ‘A-A-h, this is the life, all cozy and warm in my soft, cushy Lazy Boy with my feet propped up.
A moment later, I felt that awful sensation of indigestion, when you’ve been in a hurry and grabbed a bite of sandwich and washed it down with a dash of water, and that hurried bite seems to feel like you’ve swallowed a golf ball going down the esophagus in slow motion and it is most uncomfortable. You realize you shouldn’t have gulped it down so fast and needed to chew it more thoroughly and this time drink a glass of water to hasten its progress down to the stomach. This was my initial sensation–the only trouble was that I hadn’t taken a bite of anything since about 5:00 p.m.
After it seemed to subside, the next sensation was like little squeezing motions that seemed to be racing up my SPINE (hind-sight, it was probably my aorta spasms), gaining speed as they continued racing up and under my sternum (breast bone, where one presses rhythmically when administering CPR).
This fascinating process continued on into my throat and branched out into both jaws. ‘AHA!! NOW I stopped puzzling about what was happening – we all have read and/or heard about pain in the jaws being one of the signals of an MI happening, haven’t we? I said aloud to myself and the cat, Dear God, I think I’m having a heart attack!
I lowered the foot rest dumping the cat from my lap, started to take a step and fell on the floor instead. I thought to myself, If this is a heart attack, I shouldn’t be walking into the next room where the phone is or anywhere else… but, on the other hand, if I don’t, nobody will know that I need help, and if I wait any longer I may not be able to get up in a moment.
I pulled myself up with the arms of the chair, walked slowly into the next room and dialed the Paramedics… I told her I thought I was having a heart attack due to the pressure building under the sternum and radiating into my jaws. I didn’t feel hysterical or afraid, just stating the facts. She said she was sending the Paramedics over immediately, asked if the front door was near to me, and if so, to un-bolt the door and then lie down on the floor where they could see me when they came in.
I unlocked the door and then laid down on the floor as instructed and lost consciousness, as I don’t remember the medics coming in, their examination, lifting me onto a gurney or getting me into their ambulance, or hearing the call they made to St. Jude ER on the way, but I did briefly awaken when we arrived and saw that the radiologist was already there in his surgical blues and cap, helping the medics pull my stretcher out of the ambulance. He was bending over me asking questions (probably something like ‘Have you taken any medications?’) but I couldn’t make my mind interpret what he was saying, or form an answer, and nodded off again, not waking up until the Cardiologist and partner had already threaded the teeny angiogram balloon up my femoral artery into the aorta and into my heart where they installed 2 side by side stints to hold open my right coronary artery.
I know it sounds like all my thinking and actions at home must have taken at least 20-30 minutes before calling the paramedics, but actually it took perhaps 4-5 minutes before the call, and both the fire station and St Jude are only minutes away from my home, and my Cardiologist was already to go to the OR in his scrubs and get going on restarting my heart (which had stopped somewhere between my arrival and the procedure) and installing the stents.
Why have I written all of this to you with so much detail? Because I want all of you who are so important in my life to know what I learned first hand.
1. Be aware that something very different is happening in your body, not the usual men’s symptoms but inexplicable things happening (until my sternum and jaws got into the act). It is said that many more women than men die of their first (and last) MI because they didn’t know they were having one and commonly mistake it as indigestion, take some Maalox or other anti-heartburn preparation and go to bed, hoping they’ll feel better in the morning when they wake up… which doesn’t happen. My female friends, your symptoms might not be exactly like mine, so I advise you to call the Paramedics if ANYTHING is unpleasantly happening that you’ve not felt before. It is better to have a ‘false alarm’ visitation than to risk your life guessing what it might be!
2. Note that I said ‘Call the Paramedics.’ And if you can take an aspirin. Ladies, TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!
Do NOT try to drive yourself to the ER - you are a hazard to others on the road.
Do NOT have your panicked husband who will be speeding and looking anxiously at what’s happening with you instead of the road.
Do NOT call your doctor – he doesn’t know where you live and if it’s at night you won’t reach him anyway, and if it’s daytime, his assistants (or answering service) will tell you to call the Paramedics. He doesn’t carry the equipment in his car that you need to be saved! The Paramedics do, principally OXYGEN that you need ASAP. Your Dr. will be notified later.
3. Don’t assume it couldn’t be a heart attack because you have a normal cholesterol count. Research has discovered that a cholesterol elevated reading is rarely the cause of an MI (unless it’s unbelievably high and/or accompanied by high blood pressure). MIs are usually caused by long-term stress and inflammation in the body, which dumps all sorts of deadly hormones into your system to sludge things up in there. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let’s be careful and be aware. The more we know the better chance we could survive to tell the tale.“
Reblog, repost, Facebook, tweet, pin, email, morse code, fucking carrier pigeon this to save a life!
I wish I knew who the author was. I’m definitely not the OP, actually think it might be an old chain email or even letter from back in the day. The version I saw floating around Facebook ended with “my cardiologist says mail this to 10 friends, maybe you’ll save one!” And knew this was way too interesting not to pass on.
Female heart attacks are much different, and most people don’t know it!
This is so much more helpful than the fucking lists that basically describe everything that happens during a really nasty panic attack and then tell you to go seek help as if you don’t have an anxiety disorder that does this to you on a regular basis and can afford to go to the emergency room.
Auto-reblog.
Many women have silent heart attacks as well, where there are no symptoms at all until BAM! Then it happens.
As a formerly (mostly) healthy person who is now dealing with post-covid heart issues, this was tremendously helpful to read. Reblog, save a life.
Important for all genders so you can recognize other symptoms in yourself and others.
Dr. Walden paid me a visit. Nobody was hurt. He’s on his way back to the hospital. Well, that’s good news.
Revisiting how the SV writers handled this stuff is like watching a bunch of frat boys get drunk on tequila and stagger out onto the interstate to play in traffic.
weird beatles fans fucking hate paul mccartney and want to see him suffer
you said it garfield!
Sorry guys, this is <i>fanfiction</i>, specifically Hurt/Comfort. And the First Law of H/C is <i>You Always Hurt the One You Love</i>. Beatles fans *love* Paul McCartney … and want to see him suffer.
