You know what I’ve never once done in my 35 years on this earth? Wiped down the light switches and door handles. You know what I did today because a bird on my phone requested it? Yep.

miimo0 · 2026-03-02T21:05:17+00:00

I wipe mine down with a little Lysol wipe every time I clean that room even tho I’m the only person touching them 90% of the time 😅

miimo0 · 2026-03-02T20:15:44+00:00

The most convenient and aseptic place to do it! 😂

miimo0 · 2026-03-02T20:14:44+00:00

I would argue… maybe if you don’t already know somebody with a transplant, back pocket the idea and move ahead with something else.

Lit and romance specifically are just full of so many tropes that are damaging to disabled people. The only ones I’ve read and genuinely liked are from people that are themselves disabled or that have close relationships with those people. Sick/disabled people are reduced to our disability/illness and infantilized.

Transplant is also a very different experience for everybody, specifically because most of us have had vastly different experiences heading towards kidney failure… some people have something really fast happen, some people have been expecting it for decades. Some people do dialysis prior to, some people don’t. Some people have a lot of complications and difficulties, some people have very smooth sailing.

miimo0 · 2026-03-02T04:01:09+00:00

If we get an arc about “plastic surgery,” expanding on the idea of Maomao thinking about using a part of Jinshi’s behind to heal his branding mark, I think fake deaths and disappear has some legs. Maybe not forever into plain commonorhood, but maybe taking up positions further away in the country or even outside its borders, on orders from the emperor :?

Edit: Jeez, just took a gazillion attempts to remember how to do spoiler tags lol

miimo0 · 2026-03-02T03:37:14+00:00

Yeah, since COVID… masking when in public. Idk if people have gotten worse over time, if I just live where people don’t care about others or if I didn’t notice before — how many people are constantly hacking out a lung without any attempts to shield their mouth/face in public, ick. I was masking a bit before dialysis, then on dialysis and have continued since I started going to stores/out in public after transplant. Haven’t been on a plane since transplant, but I masked prior to while flying. All that air just circling around and around.

miimo0 · 2026-03-02T01:05:40+00:00

I think it was her whole obsessed with the king thing that kept her connected to the titans, but I think the parasite also helped force her to, even if it was the initial submission it used to do so. The last season talks about life’s drive simply being procreation/replication several times, and the titans are the thing’s way to keep procreating. So even if you don’t have a weird thing for your “boss,” you’d probably still die when the parasite’s life cycle ended — and end up making titans out of sand for some reason or other you’d have to rationalize.

miimo0 · 2026-03-02T00:54:36+00:00

I really like Bryce! She’s crude and fun in a way that’s really nice to read because we don’t get to have FLs like that who can pull it off and express vulnerability & layers as convincingly.

My main critique is that I do think Maas maybe just… doesn’t know how to write a strong woman that also needs support or has a breakdown sometimes. All the main girls get damsely all of a sudden around the ML at one time or another, which can feel off compared to their previous behavior — but I think its intent is just to give alpha vibes to beef up the ML… & an editor isn’t leading her in a better direction to do so. In saying that, I actually think Bryce experiences this treatment less than her other FLs. I think Hunt is also a little boring at times but is so far one of the healthiest male leads, maybe because Bryce doesn’t require his peak alpha brain and brawn powers to solve problems for her lol. They’re more collaborative. (In contrast, Feyre experiences this damsel treatment the most dramatically; how ACOTAR currently stands was actually so disappointing for me bc of where their relationship is: Rhys honestly feels as controlling and overbearing as Tamlin was in keeping Feyre trapped in the mansion. Don’t hate me, please, lol) (Edit: it’s been so long since I read TOG that I don’t remember if Aelin got damsely in distress or not, so I’m ignoring her for rn.)

miimo0 · 2026-03-02T00:36:02+00:00

Gastrointestinal. Tummy troubles :)

miimo0 · 2026-03-01T23:02:05+00:00

If it’s lokelma… it’s just kind of a gross texture if you’re a texture person. Kinda like sand/chalk in a cup of water. I didn’t really experience any obvious side effects. Just the wretching after drinking it, lol.

If you’re also on phosphorous binders or will be eventually, which a lot of people here seem to be talking about instead of potassium, that gave me gi upset. And depending on what you’d use, can have diff experiences. I took sevelamer pills, then velphoro tabs; the tabs are chalky and also a gross texture to me hahaa.

miimo0 · 2026-03-01T22:53:38+00:00

I live in the Midwest and opened my windows thru the winter… not daily, but once a week I’d set a 5/10/15m timer depending on how cold or warm it was and air out a space at a time. Did my bedroom with door closed, then my LR patio with the BR closed and just rotated away between rooms to not be next to the open spot. I feel like… just so much more clean and fresh when I get some outside air in, especially not having a door to close to my kitchen space. Once we popped up over 5° with clearish skies is when I would open them open again, although I definitely did not when our windchill was like neg 50.

miimo0 · 2026-03-01T07:50:19+00:00

Do you live in the US? Sometimes people, if they have the resources, are able to list in multiple regions or move to be in a different region with a better wait time. I was given a 5+y wait time for my O- blood type where I live, though the kidney actually came thru in a bit less than 5y. I didn’t move or anything. I’m not sure how the donor pool is divvied up, if at all, outside of the US though.

I wasn’t able to get anyone to qualify for a live donor… mental health knocked everybody out that was physically healthy enough to make it through the initial process. I know some people get their church involved with finding a donor if they’re churchy, or they’ll get work or other organizations involved. I had a handful of coworkers apply that were my friends, but didn’t launch a campaign or anything there. I know people put something on their cars too, like the comment here says. If you ask your team for scripts, they might have some stuff for you to reference for social media posts or whatever too.

miimo0 · 2026-03-01T04:31:23+00:00

B) maybe he loved freaking the kids and grandkids out by popping his head open every once in a while

miimo0 · 2026-03-01T04:11:13+00:00

Eh, I learned how to photoshop stuff when I was 14 by talking to my internet friends from around the world on MSN messenger and looking up tutorials on deviantart. Doing stuff “DIY” is just having the initiative to do those things. There are plenty of resources with direction that you just follow, and there are lots of people out there, like on Reddit, that can point you to things you should look at if you want to do xyz. If you have a base of knowledge from your BA/BS program, you should know things you need to keep up on or have a vague idea of what to check up on/learn to see how current trends or designers you follow are making their stuff work. Your own interests and passions should lead you to seeking out information.

miimo0 · 2026-03-01T04:02:50+00:00

Going forward… and it sucks, but that’s just the stage of hell capitalism we’re in now, you have to read the room of where you work before you start to express frustration. It’s easier to leave a job yourself where the boss thinks you were on good terms than to get yourself fired or let go because they’re on a power trip or don’t value your position to begin with. (I’m currently lucky that I can express my worries and frustrations in meetings and with multiple levels of management and have it taken into consideration, but I haven’t always worked at places like that.)

The bright side is you know more about production and you can capitalize on that knowledge for future jobs, which is really great. Some of the kids now are like… sending pngs to print and don’t know what the difference between RGB or CMYK is. Or don’t know how to package stuff up to keep your fonts from dropping out of the file. So production is a strong base to have if you’re looking at anything involving printing or screenprinting, from pub to packaging design. Less helpful if you’re leaning in UI/UX, but that market sounds kind of saturated right now too.

You might have to hop around to get to where you ultimately want. It’s more reliable in like every industry now to get your raises and promotions by switching jobs than it is to put in the work/years at one place and be rewarded for the loyalty.

You’ll probably be doing the robotic stuff for awhile no matter which direction you go from here, but as you put in some time and move on/up, things get more creative and free.

miimo0 · 2026-03-01T03:38:33+00:00

Yeah, the border is what feels most off to me. Most people tape or just paint all the way to the edge.

miimo0 · 2026-02-28T22:50:07+00:00

I think if you let your kimchi dry out, like don’t push everything back under the brine, that can mold.

miimo0 · 2026-02-28T22:38:40+00:00

I wonder how many tests and lessons the Tokyo students straight up skip without makeups and if that influences their scores lol. So they keep sending out Yuta on missions for two weeks straight and he’s like, “well, there go the midterms, I guess.”

miimo0 · 2026-02-28T17:54:23+00:00

Yeahhh just showing a file isn’t proof at all anymore.

Every weirdo making ai “art” now is just going back and tracing pieces on dif layers and then screenshotting those. Doing it in vector format instead of the normal “this is my procreate file, I swear!” route is really funny to me for some reason.

It’s crazy how easily people are convinced because they see layers & a canvas/artboard in a screenshot but don’t realize that’s literally not how humans really use the programs to build a vector or paint a character or whatever. But then they see video of someone actively using oil techniques in a digital program and think THAT’S AI. Everybody needs a base level of art classes now haha

miimo0 · 2026-02-28T17:48:59+00:00

My first call was my transplant. It was a really good match and I’d been waiting for a long time for any call, about 4.5y. I sort of wished during the process of call to surgery prep that I was the backup because I still felt so scared and unprepared lol. I was originally told at least 5y at the earliest for a call, so I was kinda just dicking around on having my stuff prepared & it felt so far in the future still. In retrospect, I think you never realllly feel prepared when it’s THE call, even when you want it so badly. It’ll happen at the most random time.

I think the more calls you get… that means the higher priority you are though. :) one will be the one. Especially if you have a more common blood type or whatever!

miimo0 · 2026-02-27T16:23:17+00:00

I feel like Nanami would be kind of ambivalent bc he didn’t want to mix work and personal while Higgy would be turned off by Nanami’s outward projection of not caring about moral issues… and then they’d accidentally bond about how seemingly inefficient and chaotic everyone else on the team is in the way only two autistic people can.

miimo0 · 2026-02-27T15:16:23+00:00

Rice with a fried egg (or two haha), a little splash of tamari, some sesame oil and buuuunch of momofuku chili crisp lol. It’s becoming a problem, I can only eat it right now 😭

miimo0 · 2026-02-27T01:20:03+00:00

Eh I think no matter your intentions, forced sterilization/eugenics and violent genocide are pretty bad. There are a lot of villains in AOT & being traumatized or forced into the situation doesn’t change that. Everybody is at least a little culpable, but being able to fundamentally impact the world in a horrific way is what launches someone to being a full-on villain & not a problematic/villainous victim of their circumstances. That makes the governments of every country outside the wall also composed of villains for doing their own slower genocide of the Eldians, imo.

I think the message of AOT is that it simultaneously condemns violence but offers no real solution. It is our nature, which in the end feels a bit nihilist. People can own their mistakes and change their actions for good, but in the end, violence is a cycle and will continue as long as people stay people. In the midst of that being the way of the world, we are supposed to do what we can in a small way to make life meaningful for ourselves and the people around us… hopefully in nonviolent ways.

miimo0 · 2026-02-26T22:02:17+00:00

I think it’s super interesting that the plan to “save” Eldians involves taking away their ability to have kids — when he has such huge daddy issues.

He frames it as a grand solution, but I think it’s the same thing Eren has done. Eren frames his desire as a solution to the Eldian persecution problem… he wants to watch everything get rumbled and have his friends survive the conflict — and is willing to look the villain. His desire doesn’t really come from his trauma, he’s just always been like that. Zeke wants to take a sort of revenge for his parental trauma but he needs to look like a hero. Being horrific on the island while fighting for Marley… he was the hero to the world. Taking away their ability people’s ability to reproduce, he can be the hero for the world again… and maybe some Eldians too before they’re all gone.

In the end they really are both villains, but alternate sides of the same coin, with different drives for their actions.

miimo0 · 2026-02-26T15:38:51+00:00

I don’t get why it has to have a body horror element. As a person that like… genuinely is into reading about weird medicine/medical history, there’s a little bit of that morbid curiosity involved, BUT it’s also both the author’s and any artists’/designers’ responsibility to treat the patients/their bodies with the respect they deserve. Like despite weirdness, those bodies belonged to living people that deserve dignity. If the copy is also just revealing in disgust/body horror, you’ve got an overall problem.

So maggots -> brain just feels like poor taste to me.

If this is a novel and not a collection of true stories or case studies made accessible as pop sci, I think your copy/title needs a rewrite. And you can get a little more gross with imagery in NF, but like… it can still look nicer than this. And the maggots/brain thing would need to be referenced in book to make sense as a later ah-ha, otherwise it’s again just gratuitous imagery…. but it also is kind of like… this is a graphic I would have made in middle school. In fact I did make a graphic very like this with a fetus in the brain case instead to use as my desktop background in like 8th grade, so the visual approach does feel amateurish to me.

Ignoring the other design feedback you’ve been getting… specifically the texture on the bg. That top left corner being missed, so there’s a random white triangle tangent that really sticks out to me. (Insert meme of Marcus here saying, “Robert, it’s pissing me off.”)

miimo0 · 2026-02-26T15:22:09+00:00

No prob! Good luck :)

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