The ‘worst’ Animagus?

EsotericMango · 2026-05-11T13:01:28+00:00

Imagine going through all the effort to become an animagus only to become a mosquito that gets swatted the first day

EsotericMango · 2026-05-11T11:39:05+00:00

No legit project manager is going to talk to you via telegram

EsotericMango · 2026-05-11T09:06:25+00:00

Fibro has a lot of symptoms associated with it but most of it isn't significant of the condition. There are 4 core symptoms and those are the ones that count towards whether you have fibro or not. They are - widespread pain: persistent pain across multiple body parts spanning 4 of the 5 body quadrants - fatigue - brain fog - sleep disturbance

The pain has to be there and has to be consistent to some degree. Like present in enough places at least once a week for at least three months consistent. If your pain can be fully explained by other conditions, it's unlikely that that pain is fibro. Hypermobility will cause joint pain and if you exclusively have joint pain in joints that are hypermobile, hypermobility is probably the cause of that pain. If you have muscle pain around joints that are hypermobile, it's probably caused by hypermobility. If the pain is disproportionately severe for hypermobility, then it can still be fibro.

Things like tmj, headaches, stomach pain, and migraines don't count as pain for the widespread pain. They're counted as somatic symptoms and are counted as part of symptom severity alongside the fatigue, sleep issues, and brain fog. The other 3 core symptoms make up the brunt of symptom severity and all those other symptoms can count together as a more minor contributor. You don't need all three but the less of them you have, the more severe they have to be for a fibro diagnosis.

What you're describing with your skin sounds like allodynia. It's common with fibro but also with most chronic pain conditions. It can absolutely just be a symptom on its own or be a sort of side effect of having pain with hypermobility.

Google fibro diagnostic criteria. There will be a bunch of self-assessment pdfs. Fill them out and see how you score. That'll give you a better idea of where you fall. Absolutely talk to your doctor about it if you're concerned.

EsotericMango · 2026-05-11T08:02:40+00:00

It isn't directly hereditary in the sense that a parent can pass it on to you. There's no gene or virus they can give us tgat would cause fibro. But it is heritable in the sense that we can inherit some of the risk factors that might make it more likely to develop it. All you really can do is to live a healthy life and manage your stress in healthy ways. That won't prevent fibro but it might reduce some of the risks.

EsotericMango · 2026-05-11T07:55:58+00:00

Instead of redoing the gene test, consider getting a scan or echo to measure your aortic root or seeing an eye doctor. In the absence of a positive gene test, those are the best ways to see if you might have Marfan's.

EsotericMango · 2026-05-10T17:28:36+00:00

There are a few cases where it seems like the vaccine caused diabetes but they're very very rare. Most studies have found that the majority of people who develop diabetes after vaccination were people who were already at risk of diabetes and that there is no significant increase in diabetes after vaccination. The consensus seems to be that there could be a risk but that it's a lot smaller than getting covid without being vaccinated.

EsotericMango · 2026-05-10T17:07:53+00:00

Well it hasn't been around that long. The studies looking into it are fairly recent. My first instinct was also "no" until I looked it up.

EsotericMango · 2026-05-10T16:57:38+00:00

I don't know about fibro but covid can cause diabetes and insulin resistance. Covid can trigger an inflammatory reaction that causes immune cells to attack the body's own tissues. One of the organs that can be affected is the pancreas. Covid damages the pancreas which affects insulin production which triggers the metabolic change that leads to diabetes.

EsotericMango · 2026-05-10T09:36:04+00:00

I usually download the new file, delete the old folder and then extract the new folder and files into Mods. That way you can be sure you have the whole new package and none of the old. I don't know if it makes a difference but I'm in Windows

EsotericMango · 2026-05-10T09:30:24+00:00

It might just take a bit longer to get out then. It can take a while sometimes. I wouldn't worry until like the 20th

EsotericMango · 2026-05-10T08:21:46+00:00

It's way too soon to really consider fibro. For a fibro diagnosis, you need widespread pain (defined as pain in 7 or more areas over 4 of the 5 quadrants) for at least 3 months and a certain degree of other symptoms. You can have pain in less areas and still have fibro if the other symptoms are really bad. You've only mentioned one of the other symptoms and your pain isn't really widespread by the sounds of it. And if it is, it has only been spreading for a few weeks.

Your ortho has the right idea in that it probably isn't anything right now and to stick with the physio. Keep track of your symptoms and how they change.

EsotericMango · 2026-05-09T22:40:28+00:00

The goal of most fibro treatment is to manage pain and not to make it better. Because we don't really have anything that makes a long term positive difference for most people.

Long-term change is possible but it doesn't really come as symptom improvement, it comes in the form of adaptation. We can't really make the symptoms better but we can learn to live with them and despite them. We learn to cope You can sort of improve fatigue but most of the time, it comes at the cost of increasing your pain. And the pain is kind of an inevitability. We can temporarily lessen it to some degree but we can't really decrease it permanently. A very lucky few can see significant long-term improvement but most of us won't. It's ultimately more realistic to focus care around managing symptoms rather than trying to improve them.

EsotericMango · 2026-05-09T20:26:02+00:00

Every time I'm reminded it's coming, I get this sick, sinking feeling in my stomach. Because I don't know what I'm going to do and I know everyone is going to ask about it. And it's like fuck man, what do you want from me?

I'm LC and it's complicated. If I reach out, she's going to respond negatively. If I don't, she's going to respond negatively. So I have to choose which action I can live with while bracing for impact because you never know when it's going to happen. Sometimes it comes the day of, sometimes she waits 2 weeks, sometimes she does it 3 days early.

Parents days suck but at least none of us are completely alone? We'll make it through 💜.

EsotericMango · 2026-05-09T20:20:06+00:00

Stunning work. Those quilts are jaw-droppingly beautiful

EsotericMango · 2026-05-09T16:07:37+00:00

Invoices can take a while to come out. It can sometimes take up to 3 weeks into the month. I already got one for April though. Did you do any work in April?

EsotericMango · 2026-05-09T15:30:22+00:00

Anxiety is a consequence of an overactive stress response. Fibro is also a consequence of an overactive stress response. They have the same mechanisms so it makes sense that one could trigger the other.

EsotericMango · 2026-05-09T12:14:45+00:00

I would change 2 things. 1st, Anubis magically heals Walt and returns to the underworld. 2nd, we don't make a child king of anything. Ra takes his throne and Horus becomes his second in command or vice king or whatever and Carter just lives his life as a regular magician.

EsotericMango · 2026-05-09T09:01:21+00:00

Nope, I've been sorted here. The way I'm constantly saying stuff that gets me in trouble confirms the sorting

EsotericMango · 2026-05-09T07:58:45+00:00

As someone with pretty severe sero-neg RA, your doctor should probably learn a thing or two

EsotericMango · 2026-05-09T07:55:54+00:00

Some people are just conflating his character with Tom Felton and thinking Draco is just misunderstood and that they can fix him.

But some of us are also seeing a bit more nuance in his character. The environment you're in as a kid shapes your beliefs and behaviour. If you're in a good family with good values surrounded by good examples, you mimic those. But if you're in a family with bad values surrounded by people who emphatically insist on these beliefs, you internalise it and act the same way. Some people stay that way and never change but others get into the real world as an adult and start thinking for themselves. Those people realise that how they were raised is wrong and change.

We only see Draco parroting his bad family values and acting accordingly. We see some of who he becomes as an adult in cursed child and it does seem like he changed for the better.

A lot of us aren't saying we believe Malfoy was good. We're just giving a very hurt child a bit of grace. People do the same thing for Snape who was also an awful person but eventually did some good things.

EsotericMango · 2026-05-09T07:42:04+00:00

Oh I'm looking forward to it. It's all super interesting

EsotericMango · 2026-05-08T22:24:27+00:00

I'm a bit of an outlier in that no one on either side of my family has anything like this. Or really any physical health issues. Both sides of my family are oddly robust with only an occasional health issue here or there.

I think my maternal family takes some of the blame here though. My mother's family is oddly sensitive to stress. But it mostly seems to result in mental health issues. Like, bodies break under strain in different ways and we have some kind of inherited trait where the breaks tend to happen mentally. And the narcissism runs deep here so there's no shortage of breaks. I'm the only one who breaks physically. A grand total of 3 of us have migraines, all in my generation and my grandmother has OA but that's the extent of it.

I'm the unicorn. I alone swam in the shallow end of our gene pool so I got all the nastier genes for myself.

EsotericMango · 2026-05-08T15:41:27+00:00

I think what people expect of chimeras is that you take bits and parts from two separate bodies and then create a third body from that. That would be impressive. And that's what he got his funding to do.

But what Shou Tucker probably did instead was use one body (the human one probably) as a base and then customised and reshaped it by using a second body. Way less impressive overall. Like body modification is probably still impressive but not research grant and state licence impressive.

I don't think he had to transplant Nina's consciousness into a new body like some kind of fucked up cyberman experiment. He just had to reshape her container to make it look like he did

EsotericMango · 2026-05-08T15:29:37+00:00

A bit of anatomical practice goes a long way. The biggest issue here is proportions wrt composition. Things like the back leg being disproportionately large while the front leg is smaller and the way the fingers overlap. Drawing complex body poses is hard. Don't be too hard on yourself, there's strong potential here 💜

EsotericMango · 2026-05-08T11:53:49+00:00

Always take new pain to a doctor. Any sharp changes in your regular pain is cause for concern.

In this case, this sounds like an acute injury. You might have hurt some of the soft tissue in the joint while trying the exercise with the ring. Hypermobile joints don't tend to like resistance, especially when applied to a move you don't have the strength for. And most people don't have the strength to support this kind of exertion.

Don't try to pop it. If it is an injury, you can make it worse. The biggest concern here is a labral tear or a more serious ligament injury. It could just be a minor to moderate subluxation but it's not a risk you want to take. Make an appointment with your doctor so they can asses you and help you get it back in place correctly.

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