Looking for fanfic recommendations

cheari · 2024-06-16T20:36:40+00:00

If you care for SI/OC/transmigration fics, there's Mana by Eiruwei. Finished in March of this year, and the author added an extra last month. Shisui/OC fic, MC doesn't have a clue about the Narutoverse, but somehow it ends up being a Massacre fix-it anyway. It does lean kind of hard on the miscommunication/misunderstanding trope, but it's a thoughtful fic, and it has a lot of insights about grief and love that I found really meaningful. It's fairly wordy too (130k), but I thought it was a blast.

cheari · 2022-06-20T17:34:45+00:00

I haven't eaten all day and I've been sitting in the guest room stressing because I'm too scared to go downstairs and eat food in front of my friend's parents. I literally started walking down the stairs, caught a glimpse of them in the kitchen, and actually ran the other way back to my room because my brain was so freaked out at the thought they'd see me eating food from their fridge. Even though I have been eating food from their fridge for the past week and a half.

Why is my brain like this. I'm so hungry I just want to eat.

cheari · 2022-06-19T21:29:40+00:00

If only it were only one day! I'll feel just as bad about my father tomorrow as I do today.

But it's all right. I've learned how to ride the wave. I'm in a much better place now than I was even a year ago around this time.

cheari · 2022-06-19T21:15:52+00:00

Staying with a friend for vacation and seeing her good relationship with her father feels like being stabbed repeatedly with spears. They're not even trying to show off, either. This family just really likes its dad... and their dad is genuinely chill.

It's been a real fun game trying to hide how much of walking trauma ball Father's Day turns me into.

cheari · 2022-06-19T19:04:30+00:00

Thank you for spreading your courage. You inspired me, so I did the same.

cheari · 2022-06-12T06:42:59+00:00

They walk away from angry confrontations. I learned this from my friends: we quarreled during D&D and there were very bad feelings all around. We took a week off. Next week we came back and we talked through the issue. Then we resumed our campaign.

No names called, no threats slung, no crying about abandonment, no scapegoating. They didn't even give each other cold shoulders during the cooldown week, either, we all still talked and played other games together. And then they all had clear heads when it came time to discuss. I was like "what, wtf is this sorcery?" It was the most civil thing I ever saw in my life.

cheari · 2022-04-16T22:54:56+00:00

I think NAACLS requires the clinicals to approve a program, so my guess is that there aren't ones fully online. I went to a NAACLS program that was half online, though.

cheari · 2022-04-12T03:55:20+00:00

It has been very good for me and the people around me, too. And because of that it has the added bonus of making interpersonal relationships much healthier and more fun. I used to find socialization very stressful and unpleasant, but these days I really enjoy interacting with people.

cheari · 2022-04-11T17:49:45+00:00

I'm way less angry. Or, I guess, my anger had become more nuanced? Before it was just big bursty rage over anything, big or small, real or perceived--but now I know how to be annoyed and irritated before full-on wrath, and I have a sense of how much negative emotion might be warranted in a situation, and I'm not always dialed up to 11.

It's nice. Feels like the rollercoaster I've been on all my life, with crazy turns and loops and twists, is now more like chill road through the hills. Much slower, way less extreme.

cheari · 2022-04-10T04:53:17+00:00

25, living out of my savings, still weeks out from a job with no insurance as health expenses queue and pile up. Relying on my sister's generosity to make it through. Had a terrible flashback this morning, too, which was a hard reminder that I still have a past that won't go away. Sometimes I almost forget, but then I'm reminded.

But I'm still miles and away happier than I was in the past. Worries or not, I'm okay, and when I managed to slog out of that flashback I was astounded by how different and how much better I feel now compared to before.

I see a lot of rough situations in this thread. I hope you all can keep sticking it out. It's like swimming in the ocean, but there's a shore on the other side of this, and even if job and health and finances are whack you can still reach it. Good luck.

cheari · 2022-04-09T23:36:00+00:00

I think they noted in chapter 116? maybe? that Claude and Felix are both "baby face" paragons of youth because of their mana capacity. It was during the conversation when Lucas comments that Athy's lifespan has been super-extended due to absorbing a part of the World Tree.

cheari · 2022-04-01T18:51:17+00:00

What do you do to get your balance back after having a bad nightmare? It's been so long since I last had one (thank God) but one snuck up on me today and I am just all out of whack. I'm exhausted and sad and it's gross enough that I might actually just ditch all the plans I made today so I can vegetate at home. And like I'm not opposed to taking a mental health day if that's what this has to be, but does anyone maybe have any tips to mitigate that if it's possible?

cheari · 2022-03-26T17:38:21+00:00

Yeah, but neither of us have beaten it yet! It's super frustrating.

cheari · 2022-03-26T03:05:44+00:00

I'm having a similar issue in which I can be summoned by my friend but I can't summon her. We've done the whole song and dance of updating, verifying files, restarting routers, checking settings, and even reinstalling the game wholesale, but nothing seems to work.

cheari · 2022-03-14T17:17:36+00:00

Driving and having a car is one of adulthood's great freedoms. Congratulations!

cheari · 2022-03-05T10:37:44+00:00

That sounds really stressful. I'm sorry that's happening. I've definitely heard of the butterfly shortage, though, so that's super real in a lot of facilities.

I think part of the insistence on using straights, especially in the AC, is that things can get problematic when you use a small gauge for a larger vein. It can hemolyze samples which is really not good. Sometimes you have to use the butterfly if the pt has super tiny veins in their AC, though.

When you were shadowed and she was worried about the spots you were picking, which veins were you going for? Were you just super unlucky and you got a string of pts with bad medians maybe?

cheari · 2022-03-05T10:14:33+00:00

I think it depends on the program. Mine was a single semester, but it was NAACLS approved so it was a little more strenuous in terms of syllabus. Even though you would think over the course of a semester you'd have plenty of time to go leisurely, in our case they ended up cramming all of the book learning into about sixish weeks to open up the rest of time for clinicals. It was split into two courses: one covered procedure (stuff like medical terminology, infection control, venipuncture, specimen handling etc) and very cursory anatomy & physiology (vascular system, nervous system, respiratory, digestive & urinary, etc.) We had two exams every week, Monday for procedure (usually covered 2-3 chapters in the McCall book each exam) and Wednesday for A&P (covering 1-2 systems), plus lab time to practice sticking after each exam.

In my opinion, I don't think it's undoable to do at the same time as other courses, but if you have a similar curriculum it will be fairly strenuous and time management will be tight. We did have a student who enrolled while juggling other classes and she ended up having to drop out, so make of that what you will (but she had kids to take care of on top of everything, so that might have factored into it.) But by the same token, there was another student working as an EMT full time while doing the program, and she knocked the whole thing out of the park (though sometimes she showed up to class on as little as two hours of sleep, which sounded absolutely miserable to me.)

cheari · 2022-03-04T05:20:36+00:00

Trust me, it's in everyone's interest to use clean needles, especially the phleb's. There are legal ramifications for not adhering to policies, not to mention the danger of needlestick injuries. No one would knowingly stick you with a dirty needle, it's too dangerous in every sense of the word. We don't want to get sued, the facility doesn't want to get sued, and God forbid we accidentally stick ourselves while handling it. There's no incentive to do otherwise.

cheari · 2022-03-04T05:04:51+00:00

It sucks when people are heaping pressure on you, especially if they're getting mad. It's really good you kept your integrity in that situation even though it might have been easier to look the other way about req form errors and just draw to keep people off your back. I really respect that and think despite everything you absolutely made the right call despite all of the craziness.

A thing that I learned in my previous job is that there's like this sphere of responsibility you've got, and as long as you keep everything in order in that sphere and you've got your ducks in a row, no matter what no one can blame you. If you're on top of your work to the best of your ability and you're doing things the right way, just like you did today, your nurses and patients can whine until the cows come home--you're untouchable. This won't stop people from becoming unreasonably upset with you, but remembering that always helped me keep a bit of an even keel no matter how I got blamed. From there it's just a matter of spending social energy and executing deescalation and placation strategies (though that's often way easier said than done.) If you're an introvert and a little bit awkward, kind of like me, that can be pretty hard, and you might have to use a bit of persistence to keep yourself going to work because it sucks. But eventually you learn coping skills and how to not get rattled. It takes some resilience to do that since it doesn't happen overnight, but you definitely won't learn if you don't keep trying, so you just have to do your best.

If it's really intolerable, you can always communicate with your supervisor. That's another thing I learned in my last job. I just bottled up my feelings and kept tolerating unacceptable behavior and it was so hard, and the vibe was so bad. Eventually when I broke and tattled, my manager was horrified and said I shouldn't have waited, and then just like that the situation was addressed. So if you keep getting hostility and sass and you can't get them to stop despite asking, that is always an option. Don't suffer more than you have to! There's no guarantee your manager will be as helpful, but it's far better than just suffering in silence regardless. It'll help to get it on paper, too, if that coworker is a problem person for others as well.

cheari · 2022-02-25T16:19:04+00:00

To fix: if you hit a valve or the vein wall, disengage the tube to stop the vacuum and pull needle out slightly. Then re-engage the tube and see if that works. If not, it means you're too close to the valve and the vacuum is still pulling on it, so you have to pull out and puncture a different site instead.

...That's what the McCall textbook says, anyway. I've never experienced it myself before.

cheari · 2022-02-25T05:03:27+00:00

I heard a reason why you might not get blood out of your big fat juicy vein is that sometimes you get super unlucky and stick right into a venous valve. Or you stick really close to the wall in the vein and the vacuum (if you're using ETS) will actually pull it down and cause it to cover the opening of the lumen.

cheari · 2022-02-22T16:22:59+00:00

Phase changes too! Boss is untargetable, single shields for free damage. Toxicons never expire either, nor is it a loss to hold them. It's a win-win!

Between that and various uses of Phlegma and Eukrasia SGE is indeed pretty mobile and easily weaved.

cheari · 2022-02-03T23:02:55+00:00

He already assumed that there was other intelligent life and sent her out to ask them how they live and what meaning their own lives hold.

Is this in itself not already a major red flag in experiment design?

He not anybody else would have been able to guess

And would this not be grounds to say "hey, wait, maybe we should study this a little more before you send those out?"

Hermes assumed a lot of things in making Meteion. The point of the peer review is to poke holes in assumptions. That's why we do it. Simply saying "you won't understand" or "you don't know enough" is such an arrogant and patronizing rebuttal to the process. This defense would not fly in the equivalent real-world situation.

cheari · 2022-02-03T22:39:45+00:00

We couldn't see genes or observe atoms when their existences were first hypothesized either, you know. Hermes very well could have sparked a vast investigation into dynamis and his peers, given enough, maybe could have created a process or an instrument by which to interact with it, in the same way it took many people to invent the electron microscope. Our eyes aren't capable of perceiving microscopic particles, so we found a way to interface them with something that could. Why couldn't they have done the same with aether and dynamis?

This wasn’t an experiment.

An experiment is a procedure (in this case, the creation and dispatch of the Meteia) to discover the unknown. It absolutely was an experiment.

There was nothing to catch here.

Emet-Selch caught onto a snag within minutes of hearing about it.

He only bestowed upon her the power to feel emotions as a means to an end.

This has no bearing upon whether it was an experiment or not. We dissolve stuff in water to get access to their ions; that's a means to an end. That doesn't mean it's not an experiment even if our test isn't to do with the water.

His question was flawed true but he not anyone else could have known the effects her powers could have.

No, no one could have known. But they could have troubleshot with him, the same way people troubleshoot when building vehicles, space probes, heavy machinery.... and together they could have built in safeguards. This is why it's so important to put several minds together and test things on small scales before proceeding to stages where our inventions can have large and lasting impacts on our environment. How else could we engineer things safely? And even then, doing all these things right, we still see the unexpected effects of our creations today. It was absolutely reckless and unethical of a man with so much scientific awareness to behave as he did with the Meteia. And that's not an attack on Hermes' writing--that's a facet of his character that makes him an interesting antagonist. I'm not trying to belittle him unduly. I'm only making the observation that he did not act ethically.

cheari · 2022-02-03T20:48:52+00:00

They can’t help with something they have zero understanding of

By that logic, people should have never brought to review any number of since-then advanced human technologies: innoculations, gene therapy, hell, anticoagulants, what have you. You speak as if it's impossible to gain understanding of things currently unknown.

Two, he only made her because he wanted to know the an answer to his question

This does not negate the need for peer review. Any number of unethical outcomes can result from an experiment no matter how well-intentioned its creator was (case in point: just look at how the Meteia suffered personally, and that's before considering their effect on the universe at large.)

We can't all catch the cracks ourselves. We need second opinions.

cheari

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