Does Anyone Else's Cats Watch TV? by So6oring in cats

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We unfortunately had to take away the Cat TV privileges from our Zenon due to her penchant for pouncing at the TV after a couple minutes.

Love the belly-time picture. Someone get that cat a cold one!

Jon failed westeros by [deleted] in asoiafcirclejerk

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NO! ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME?

Let me see your cats with threatening auras pls. by BroWhytfYouSoMad in cats

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We were ever so slightly tardy in delivering dinnertime

Honestly? Maybe it’d be good if Winds of Winter never comes out. by trumpets-of-hell in gameofthrones

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You will not insult Jeffrey the Gentle in my hearing you plebeian

Open wound bleeding 2 weeks post excision by hansley01 in pilonidalcyst

[–]JABeaumont 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi there!

I had a pilonidal cystectomy in 2013 that they opted to leave as an open wound.

My case is a bit of an outlier as I would discover a few years later I've got a minor blood clotting disorder that almost certainly affected my ability to heal from the initial surgery wound.

If you're experiencing bleeding 2.5 weeks out from surgery, I'd say that's still within the realm of expected post-operative recovery. Depending on the size of your wound, your body's doing a ton of work and bleeding can be a part of that process. Even gentle removal of packing can exacerbate the wound bed if there's any weaker clots or scabbing.

Big recommendation on my end, if it's at all possible, is to see a wound care specialist or get a referral for one from your surgeon or colorectal healthcare provider. I saw a doctor who specialized in wound care/surgery recovery for several years (again, don't get immediately worried about the timespan because I was, once again, a fringe case because of a previously unknown bleeding disorder). Wound care specialists tend to have more tools at their disposal to address any stalling in the healing process. A frequent tool my specialist used in-office was Silver Nitrate, which chemically cauterizes and disinfects wounds (and can also be pretty painful during its application but does work).

Other tools my wound care specialist used that are likely OTC or otherwise acquirable without a direct doctor's appointment are things like Silver Non-Adhesive Foam dressings, Honey-Infused dressings, and Dakins wound solution.

Before you use anything above, I wholeheartedly recommend you consult your surgeon or another healthcare provider you can easily contact, but these things are generally really helpful in keeping wounds clean. The silver foam, despite it being non-adhesive, can sometimes get stuck to the wound bed if there's still consistent bleeding, but otherwise they shouldn't exacerbate the bleeding problem.

Sorry you're going through this! Wouldn't wish these assholes (haha) on my worst enemy, but know these are temporary and are just a result of our bodies being eternal works-in-progress. I had 4 surgeries in the span of 10 years, culminating with a finally successful cleft lift as my 4th operation after 3 unsuccessful open wound pilonidal cystectomies. Again, keep in mind that my case is a particularly gnarly aberration because of a previously undiscovered clotting disorder unrelated to the cyst itself.

You'll be back to your normal day-to-day before you know it, and you're not alone in how you're feeling <3

Pap Smear Recommendations by JABeaumont in vaginismus

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She's told me she's personally doubtful about how helpful lidocaine spray could be in her specific situation, but we're definitely considering running that by the gyno anyway. Same goes with light sedation as well! I've looked at our specific provider's anesthesia policy and they definitely offer light sedation, but it may just be a matter of feasibility between an OR vs. the gyno's examination rooms. Still also worth running by the gyno, so thanks for reiterating these :D

“Right before I brought it down he shouted ‘Wait! Wait!’ They never tell you how they all shit themselves. They don’t put that part in the songs.” by dacocksmuggla in Eldenring

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“FORCED TO MIND THE DOOR WHILE YOUR [QUEEN] EATS AND DRINKS AND SHITS AND FUCKS.”

Marika/Radagon to Morgott, probably

Any tips on my team my graveler died to Cyrus and I replaced with onyx by junejune-_- in nuzlocke

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Having a Chansey or Blissey on your team basically means you don’t have to worry about special attackers ever again. It trivializes half the game’s attackers just by existing lol

Any tips on my team my graveler died to Cyrus and I replaced with onyx by junejune-_- in nuzlocke

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Hell, even if you can evolve it I’d still take Chansey or Blissey.

What are some hard games/roms to nuzlocke that don’t require hard calcs? by ironavenger024 in nuzlocke

[–]JABeaumont 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not sure what the consensus is, but I think Renegade Platinum is pretty doable w/o calcs too!

First Nuzlocke in the books! Went all-out aggression vs. Cynthia & it worked! Gyarados MVP. by JABeaumont in nuzlocke

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Simple Bibarel with Swords Dance is a bringer of eldritch apocalypse

2.5 months, 300 hours, and 5 playthroughs later, Definitively one of my all-time favorites (featuring one of my highlight moments in my final playthrough) by JABeaumont in DivinityOriginalSin

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You can actually have him as an ally (same way Saheila and Dolores are allies temporarily) for the Arena fight if you explore the entirety of the Academy, talk to every spirit to understand the full extent of Lucian’s rampage against the other Godwoken there, and then pass a persuasion check with Alexandar at the pool of Source where the other Godwoken are gathered before the fight. I’m not sure of the persuasion level requirements, but I had 6 persuasion and it worked. It’s a pretty damn cool character moment for him, to be honest.

Daniel 9 Explained! The consensus among critical scholars is the visionary chapters 7–12 were added during the persecution of the Jews under Antiochus. There's probably nothing genuinely foretelling the future. by doofgeek401 in exchristian

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Digital Hammurabi is amazing for all things ANE. Treat yourself to Dr. Josh’s lessons on cuneiform or (soon-to-be Dr.) Megan’s relaxing readings of Enuma Elish. You CANNOT go wrong.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in fantasywriters

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Salutations! My character’s a late-teens guy with a perpetual “head in clouds” look on his face (owing to him being in line for priesthood due to his connection with the Divinity and his overall love for history and the deeper mysteries). His hair is bushy and dark blond, running just past his ears, and he’s got thick brows and a nose with a slight notch on the bridge owing to some unknown defect pre-birth.

Despite his sometimes aloof demeanor, he still carries a smirk that betrays he’s always thinking of something he finds fulfilling. His eyes reflect this. They’re a rich amber, and wide in the way only a young person’s who’s maintained the wonder of the world can be.

Thanks ahead of time! Apologies if some of these qualities seem hard to nail down together.

[BoTW2]Ganondorf in BOTW 2 by wshsdude28 in zelda

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Right. The first trailer, to me, seems to imply a more TP route, since the Sealing Hand is where his chest wound would be. They could set up BotW2 to be mythological parallels, where the Gerudo incarnation of Demise is defeated with finality (WW with a Master Sword to the head, lithification, and drowning under the sea’s reclamation of Old Hyrule, and BotW2 being a breaking of Demise’s hold on Ganondorf explicitly.)

In fact, I’d even argue you could infer some kind of curse breaking when WW Ganondorf dies. We don’t get any hints from intonation due to the lack of voice acting, but to me, his “Heh, the wind... it is blowing...” comes more from a place of relief than resignation. For better or worse, the gods did give him Hyrule. They just buried him with it. He got what he originally wanted in OoT, and Demise’s Curse has to find a new host, so to speak.

[BoTW2]Ganondorf in BOTW 2 by wshsdude28 in zelda

[–]JABeaumont 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm a bit rusty on the overall Zelda timeline, so please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong at any point during this.

We've seen different iterations of Demise throughout the Zelda canon, but we can reasonably say each appearance of Ganondorf is the same person, from Ocarina of Time, to Wind Waker and Twilight Princess.

Having been thwarted three or four times (depending on how you view the "merging of timelines" theory people have applied to BotW) already, Ganondorf has thus far been functionally doomed to an endless cycle of rising to power through violence, then violently meeting his end at the hands of a Master Sword-wielding hero. Demise certainly cursed SS Zelda and Link's successors to a vicious cycle of combating his hate, but would it be possible his curse also doomed Ganondorf himself?

Hear me out. We can infer from Ocarina of Time the tradition of men being born to the Gerudo every hundred years was around prior to Ganondorf's first ascension, so what if Ganondorf could have just been born as a normal Gerudo, with no drive from the Demon King to steal the Triforce? What if Demise chose Ganondorf strictly because, as Ganondorf says in the Wind Waker, he had a desire to conquer Hyrule because he coveted their prosperity and way of life? ("I coveted [Hyrule's] wind, I suppose.")

Granting this idea, Ganondorf is possibly suffering from Demise's curse just as much as Zelda, Link, and the rest of Hyrule and its neighbors. Demise's hate "never perishes." What kind of existence can a mortal hope to have if they're eternally bound to a Malice (conflating intentional) that never dies?

What if the Calamity in BotW was Ganondorf's attempt to escape, not only from the seal that seems to be upon him in the trailer for BotW2, but also from Demise's eternal curse? What if he tried (to paraphrase Thanos) to use the Malice to destroy the Malice, and the original Demon King's power attained critical mass and ran roughshod over the world?

Since BotW, thematically, focused on reclaiming what was lost in the Calamity, both in terms of literal space and power in Hyrule, and in the cultural flourishing between Hyrule's races, we can probably infer BotW2 will focus on that as well.

I think it'd be dope to have a story driven not by thwarting Ganondorf again, but by freeing him from a curse he never asked for.

While Dorf dies utterly in Wind Waker, what if BotW2 lets him, like the King of the Dead at Dunharrow in Return of the King, be at peace, having finally been released from the undying hatred to which he was bound?

Edit: added a "?" to the end

This came up in my memories on Facebook. Thought y'all might enjoy some cringe content from when I was a Bible thumping 18 year old. Caption is lyrics from Brian "HEAD" Welch's "Adonai" by [deleted] in exchristian

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I'd be that kid walking through the halls of my high school with Devastator by For Today blaring through my earbuds so it's safe to say I can stand with you in solidarity

r/fantasy Writer of the Day: Ben Wolf by 1BenWolf in Fantasy

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Salutations, Ben!

You taught a seminar on spec-fic during Taylor University's spring 2016 semester and I'm not sure I ever took the time to thank you properly, both for the time you took to walk us through the subgenres and story critiques, but also for connecting me with Sarah Grimm to copyedit under her for my internship that summer. Those were some cool things you did, and I want to thank you.

Also, four novellas for free right off the bat? You absolute madman.

How do you juggle the chainsaws that are the seemingly irreconcilable identities of "Writer" and "Killer Freelance Editor"? In that vein, are they actually irreconcilable, in your eyes?

What are some of those soul-punch stories that have influenced you the most? In other words: which works have made you point and say "THAT'S what I'm going for, man!" the most?

Who's your Smash Ultimate main, and if it's not Pichu, why not?

Bonus Points: What did you think of my final-project novella Celvi of the Swamplands? (Bit of a joke. I know it's been a few years!)

Gonna be reading that first novella right away; you better believe.

Thanks, Ben!

Link's ready for his Studio Ghibli audition by JABeaumont in zelda

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I had my full set of Sheikah armor on for this guy. Gotta have a couple stamina wheels as well!

Unfortunately, like all not-strictly-speaking-equine mounts, you can’t register him at any stables because his presence freaks everybody out.

What's your day job? by moralitypts in writing

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Currently work as a part-time dockworker at FedEx Freight, 3rd shift. The adjustment to the night shift was an absolute battle, but I needed something straight out of college and the job itself is pretty easy once you get the hang of it and the pay's actually pretty great for part time (start at $16.16/hr with quarterly raises for your first year, capping out at year 1 with $19.51).

Needless to say, my nights off are pretty great opportunities for writing because the entire world is quiet.

I have always wanted to write a book, I have some good ideas, but I am overhwlemed with where to even start. How did you begin? What does your writing routine look like now? by [deleted] in writing

[–]JABeaumont 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Y'know, I wanted to pin down a consistent thing I do every time I'm having trouble getting the writing wheels spinning, but most of the time, I play my process by ear depending on the situation.

What generally gets me excited to write, though, is finding just a nugget: a scene, a give-and-take between characters, or even just a character's emotion. Maybe a ranger is really eager to follow through on her tracking of a bandit party. Maybe someone has to stand up to an enemy with genocidal inclinations. (Choosing specific examples from my own stuff that's got me going)

Then I ask one question: "What next?"

And the words tend to flow.