What's a queen to a joker, tell me?

[sovay]

I got to say, everyone seems to have more exciting experiences on drugs than I do. All that ever happens to me on steroids is I lose my appetite.

(spatch's opinion on the situation comes with cat pictures in comments.)

I have now gotten out of the house for a walk for two days in a row and while I still feel generally crummy—there have been phone calls with doctors—I feel better for feeling crummy in the open air with cloud-sliding autumn sunlight and leaves just starting to turn. I took some pictures of the GLX construction that had rather more of an air of industrial decay, which I shall try to remember to post later. Have some links.

1. N. K. Jemisin is among this year's MacArthur Fellows, which is just really cool.

2. I like the fact that languages exist that I don't even know about. Then I want them to stay in existence. For example, I just learned about Saraiki from Atlas Maior and Ali Pervez Medhi's "Nazuk."

3. I almost never remember to watch music videos even for songs I like, but Noga Erez’s "You So Done" is embedded in a beautiful little fragment of tech-noir. I am also enjoying the protest and solidarity of Yanna's "Marcaperu."

4. It is completely nuts that one of the grandsons of the tenth President of the United States just died. (The other is still alive.)

5. I am seriously considering watching Sinister (2012) and Sinister 2 (2015) on the sheer strength of this gifset, i.e., James Ransone's face.

I can't in good conscience wish for a kid to be named after him because I think it would be unfair to the kid, but I am not exactly grieving that Stephen Miller has joined the ranks of the Rose Garden superspread. I am not neutral about any of these people, but I take him personally.

Comments

[sovay]

They did give me back my appetite and make me feel a lot better (not in a manic way, in a "not dying" way), but they were by far the single hardest drug to get off that I've ever been on.

Because of the positive effects or for other reasons?

(I hope they, like everything else, give him trouble.)

I hope Stephen Miller dies. Apparently he comes from a nice Jewish family in LA and they're all baffled and horrified by him. Maybe he's a changeling.

He is one of the very few living people I have ever literally cursed.

[rachelmanija]

They had horrendous withdrawal side effects. Every time I reduced the dosage by even ONE MG, which is an absurdly tiny amount, I'd get splitting, all-day headaches, insomnia, and flu-like symptoms.

[tree_and_leaf]

A friend was on the steroids they've got the President on last year (not Covid, obviously), and while they did save his life, he had a similarly dreadful time getting off them.

His face also swelled up alarmingly while he was on them (he looked distinctly pumpkin-faced), and I feel like Trump deserves that side-effect a lot more than he did. And of course it would fit well with his preferred foundation shade...

[sovay]

And of course it would fit well with his preferred foundation shade...

He's actually been an awful color in some of the recent photos I've seen—more so than his usual face, which I find difficult enough to look at.

(I hope your friend is doing all right.)

[tree_and_leaf]

Thank you, friend is pretty well now, although living with heart damage (from the original condition, not the steroids), so very nervous given the pandemic. But he's back to being able to go birdwatching and take decent walks in the countryside, which are pretty much his favourite thing to do, so all in all, he's been quite lucky.

I agree Trump looks dreadful - mind you, Johnson still looks ill almost six months on, and while he might or might not have been sicker,* he is younger and was probably in better (though not good) health to start off with.

* Johnson was definitely sick enough to be on ICU, but his people were also significantly more honest about what was going on. Which doesn't speak for the Trump administration, given that the Tories are a set of mendacious fuckweasels.