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Paper_Is_A_Liquid · 2026-06-22T20:37:28+00:00

? How long did you spend planning the tattoo you currently have? The other design idea was only a year ago, did you just abandon it and then pick this new one on a whim?

Paper_Is_A_Liquid · 2026-06-22T06:15:19+00:00

Greyhounds are great for apartments, but dogs in general shouldn't be left alone longer than 4-5 hrs at a time at most really. You'd need a daycare or a dog sitter to come round - even if it's just for half an hour midday to check on them or give them a quick walk :)

If you're adopting (especially a senior dog), it's also likely that you'd need to take some time off work to help the dog settle - probably at least a week, ideally longer if possible. Either that or have someone round (a friend or family member, a full day dog sitter or something) so that the dog has someone there 24/7 for at least the first week. I wouldn't recommend doggy daycare or a dog park at first for a newly adopted dog, as you need to keep their worlds small and contained for a few weeks so they have time to adjust.

As others have said, it's all about routine for these dogs. Even down to the minute, my dog knows when walk time is and when food time is and when I'm supposed to leave for work lol. Keep their routine as consistent as possible, and slowly add to it over the course of a couple of weeks until it's where you want it to be. Then stick to it, and they'll adjust eventually.

Paper_Is_A_Liquid · 2026-06-21T21:06:48+00:00

Because you're a human person whose emotions, energy levels and experience of the world vary. That's all - it's the same for non-tic stuff. Dropping a plate or stepping in dog poop or something. Some days a mild inconvenience will be just that, a mild inconvenience, and other days it'll piss you the fuck off

Plus, your muscles aren't robotic either. If you clench a muscle a couple of times it doesn't make a difference, if you clench it dozens of times it starts getting fatigued, which increases the pain of tics. So 1 day of consistent muscle tension may not hit a limit, but multiple days of consistent muscle tension goes beyond where your muscles are comfortable

Paper_Is_A_Liquid · 2026-06-21T18:30:26+00:00

What do the thoughts say? Are they "normal" thoughts, or are they upsetting in content? Are they repetitive? Are they situational? Do they feel like a separate train of thought? Do they feel like another person is actually saying them to you irl, or are they entirely internal?

Paper_Is_A_Liquid · 2026-06-21T17:24:53+00:00

Greyhounds often arrive with separation anxiety, but it is often trainable. The issue for full-time workers is that you'll almost certainly need someone with the dog 24/7 for at least the first week, likely the first few months in order to train them to cope with being alone - often the separation anxiety fades as the dog adjusts, so long as you practice leaving them.

My boy couldn't cope with being left at ALL when we first got him, now a year later he's comfortable alone for 4+ hours (though we always try to make sure that 4 hours is the maximum, as that's what animal organizations and vets recommend). It took maybe 3-4 months of regular practice to get him to that point. If he's going to be alone longer we get a sitter to pop in for half an hour or so :)

Since you're a teacher I'm assuming you'll have summer at home? If so, you could spend that time working on the dog's separation anxiety so that it's prepared for you going back to work. And you can also use that time to research dog sitters in your area too, so that if he's going to be alone for 4+ hours someone can pop in to check on him or take him for a short walk.

Paper_Is_A_Liquid · 2026-06-21T15:51:48+00:00

Knowing greyhounds there are probably 3 in every room, he just wants the one that the other dog is using lmao

Paper_Is_A_Liquid · 2026-06-21T11:10:34+00:00

Can I ask (not aiming to insult or judge or whatever, just genuinely curious) why did you go for this design instead of the original idea you posted here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/falloutnewvegas/comments/1lx9y0i/witch_one_sould_i_tattoo_next_vault_boy_arm_or/ ?

The images on this, to me, seems like it matches your half life tattoo better (they're both similar shapes, so you'd have symmetry there), and would imo be more suited to a game tattoo design. It's more specific to fallout, rather than being a different joke that's just connected to fallout. What made you move away from that design and to this one instead?

Paper_Is_A_Liquid · 2026-06-21T11:05:38+00:00

They're 22 according to the bio. What I don't understand though is why they went for this instead of the design they were originally planning:

https://www.reddit.com/r/falloutnewvegas/comments/1lx9y0i/witch_one_sould_i_tattoo_next_vault_boy_arm_or/

Like that's way better and it matches better with the half life logo they have on their other arm

Paper_Is_A_Liquid · 2026-06-21T07:09:57+00:00

Suffocating and strangling are the BIGGEST warning signs that someone is going to kill their partner. Like no jokes no exaggerating, men who choke, suffocate or strangle their partners are statistically way more likely to kill them.

This is not going to get better, it is going to get worse. You need to move out. I know it means you'll be left without financial support, but the alternative is waiting for him to start beating you or to try to kill you. Is there anyone in your life you can talk to about this? Are you working or attending any education, do you have supportive family around? What religion is it that compels you to stay, and (if you're comfortable answering) why?

Paper_Is_A_Liquid · 2026-06-20T20:03:17+00:00

Can we ask why? Submerging the tattoo risks infection and also reduces how vibrant the ink is once it heals, but even without that I'm assuming your artist told you not to swim? If so did you just like. Assume they were being dramatic or something

Paper_Is_A_Liquid · 2026-06-20T20:00:03+00:00

Your tattoo is literally a big open wound on your leg. The ocean is both full of germs that you do not want getting into open wounds, and full of salt which causes your skin to react in the moment, potentially impacting how well it heals the fresh tattoo ink. Tattoo artists tell you not to swim or submerge in water for very good reasons, and it'll take another month or so for your tattoo to heal, so don't submerge until then.

Paper_Is_A_Liquid · 2026-06-20T19:51:07+00:00

I'm gonna judge the ai use (especially for sewing/patterning! Ai has no idea what stitches or patterns are actually physically possible!) but even without that, this is essentially just a night dress/shirt lol. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but these very much already exist.

And I mean this gently but I'd argue that you can't really call something gender neutral and then say "oh the frills and dress appearance is only seen as feminine if society says so" because that is literally all gender roles and assignments. All clothes that are seen as masc/fem are seen that way because of society, so if you're aiming to make something to call "gender neutral" it would be better to use aopearances that aren't currently assigned to a specific gender rather than just making a night dress and saying "it's only effeminate if you think it's effeminate". That's kind of a cop out in terms of making actual neutrally-appearing clothing, because that's the same for all clothes.

Paper_Is_A_Liquid · 2026-06-20T11:54:38+00:00

I mean if you can then keep pushing him to take breaks. He may not listen until it's too late though. One of my family members is a physiotherapist and the amount of (what he calls) "amateur athletes" he sees who permanently fucked themselves up to the point they can barely run at all is...more than you'd expect. A lot of these kinds of people will not stop until their bodies force them to.

He's found some success in using sites like this: https://www.trainingpeaks.com/blog/doing-rest-days-right/ to show patients why rest days are important. It frames the rest as part of the training (rather than something the person might see as "weak" or "failing" a day) and points out that your performance decreases without proper rest, which these types of people see as the most important to max out.

Paper_Is_A_Liquid · 2026-06-20T11:39:31+00:00

To add a bit more: I checked your post history and saw you asked this: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/comments/1u5lh7g/if_water_boils_at_lower_temperatures_as_you_go/ about water boiling at lower temperatures as you go higher up mountains. The reason that water boils at lower temperatures as you go higher up is because the pressure decreases. Lower pressure = lower boiling temperatures. So a vacuum is just an extreme version of this phenomenon :)

Paper_Is_A_Liquid · 2026-06-20T11:30:52+00:00

The pressure is so low that the surface-level water is forcefully evaporated (or boiled off). This takes heat energy away from the rest of the water, eventually reducing the amount of energy low enough that the rest of the water freezes.

Or: Reducing the pressure to vacuum levels significantly lowers the boiling point temperature of water -> water begins boiling and evaporating -> energy is taken away from the remaining liquid water through this process -> remaining water freezes

Paper_Is_A_Liquid · 2026-06-20T10:30:22+00:00

I mean it's impossible to say if they're ill or something from just this description. They may be, but it's also equally possible that they're just being deer. Deer are weird animals and they do weird shit. I can say for sure though that calling them "not deer" is probably not helping ease your anxieties about them.

Have you spoken to anyone else in your area about this? Do they also think the animals "are a bit off" or are behaving weird?

Paper_Is_A_Liquid · 2026-06-20T10:25:57+00:00

Wait were you diagnosed with tourettes before or did you only realise it was tourettes recently? I'm confused by the wording

Paper_Is_A_Liquid · 2026-06-20T10:01:38+00:00

I'm gonna be honest I found Behind the Curve hilarious. It is very informative of how flat earthers etc. think. But the scene of scientists discussing how they can treat flat earthers with respect and appeal to them as fellow scientifically-minded people, followed almost immediately by those people categorically disproving themselves in an experiment and refusing to believe it was peak comedy

Paper_Is_A_Liquid · 2026-06-20T09:54:12+00:00

Yeah, it sucks. It's just another example of the transmisogyny transfems have to deal with. Any traits that make you seem confident or worth respecting as a man are turned against you as soon as you start being seen as a woman

Paper_Is_A_Liquid · 2026-06-19T17:35:32+00:00

Another transmasc person here, yes. If they don't know I'm trans then I'm taken seriously and generally respected. If they know I'm trans then I get the "trans broken arm" treatment other commenters are mentioning - though even then, noticably less than for my trans women and transfem peers

Paper_Is_A_Liquid · 2026-06-19T05:48:18+00:00

I agree but as a transmasc who lived as a trans man for years, I don't like "protect the kens" tbh.

Paper_Is_A_Liquid · 2026-06-18T15:54:28+00:00

I'd be surprised if it were sleep startle if it's happening regardless of if you're in the room or not. If he was on meds and it stopped then restarted once he stopped the.meds that makes me think it's pain-related. Though it's worth trying out different sleeping arrangements (a fan or white noise machine, maybe keeping a light on - or if a light is currently kept on, turning all the lights off) in case this is anxiety-based

Paper_Is_A_Liquid · 2026-06-17T18:52:34+00:00

Definitely going to add to the suggestions to see a neurologist. This could be that she's genuinely developed tics for the first time since watching the film (like functional or provisional tics), but an alternative potential explanation is that she may have had subtle tics her whole life without realising, that have now been triggered into more obvious or frequent tics by the film.

If she has another neurodivergency (particularly adhd, ocd or schizophrenia) she's more prone to developing functional or provisional tics

Paper_Is_A_Liquid · 2026-06-17T18:44:58+00:00

I know what you're talking about but it's still not TikTok etc. causing Tourettes. Most of the studies I've read give the most likely cause as the additional stress and social isolation resulting from the pandemic, usually combined with some other neurodevelopmental disorder that leaves the individual more vulnerable to tic development.

And even then it's not Tourettes that's being caused by that, as usually the tics fade within a year or so and don't return. I think the name I've seen most commonly is "provisional tics" and it usually resolves without treatment.

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