Who am I?

My name is Electra. My pronouns are

a) they/them

b) he/him

c) she/her

d) all of the above (please mix it up)

(My tumblr app keeps following random people for me for some reason. If i followed you and we have nothing in common this is probably why)

I am 30 I have had this account since i was 15 and won’t stop now cause I am very stubborn.

I am genderfluid(tme), white, chronically ill, and autistic/NVLD .

My interests are a variety of things. I’ll post art, animals, politics(broadly anti capitalist), social issues , and fandom shit.

I tend to hold interests for years so I rotate through the same few things a lot.

I am disabled and stuck at home due to long covid. I have limited energy and get cognitively and physically exhausted from minor tasks. I post a lot about covid for this reason. Full time inside cat (mostly housebound)

bluesky

Fyi am not “proship” or “antiship” but a third option.

Cat insta

thingsiwannareblog:

unification:

so now that the dust has settled… they grew healthy human skeletal muscle tissue and exposed it to serum from people with ME/CFS and long covid which caused a significant reduction in contractile strength and increased tissue weakness and fragility.

transcriptomics showed mitochondrial dysregulation, metabolic alterations including disruption in calcium homeostasis (like i been saying) and altered tissue remodelling

Metabolic adaptation and fragility in healthy 3D in vitro skeletal muscle tissues exposed to chronic fatigue syndrome and Long COVID-19 sera

Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and Long Covid-19 (LC-19) are complex conditions with no diagnostic markers or c

PubMed

This wigs me out because there was nothing wrong with the muscle tissue initially. The ME/CFS or long covid blood did freaky bad stuff to it??? Interestingly the mitochondrial damage would seem to be downstream of whatever makes our blood wrong? (I used to think mitochondrial dysfunction was the root cause)

Is the blood wrongness detectable in any way? Is this a lab test for ME/CFS now? Put someone’s blood in the little grown muscle contraption and 48 hours later you can clinically prove that they have ME/CFS???????????

And what does this mean about our bone marrow, since that’s where our blood is made? Is our blood made wrong, or does something hinky get added to it later??

I have so many questions but this is so promising!

murkyburakh:

don’t let big plague stop you from yearning

shamebats:

shamebats:

If you see the quote “I refuse to share my body with a man who wouldn’t defend it politically” or any variation of it floating around the internet — it was Kat Blaque who originally said it and she would really appreciate it if people gave her proper credit for it but it’s gone viral on a lot of different platforms and most of the people sharing it don’t know it’s from her or choose not to credit her on purpose.

Like I just know terfs are going to be parroting it pretending it wasn’t said by a black trans woman about herself & her life.

I know people mean well but it is a bit frustrating when people say “get well soon” about a chronic condition. Its not meant badly and i guess people don’t know what to say but. “I hope you/they are feeling improvements soon” i guess would be better

skinside:

ishimarukiyotaka:

Being covid conscious kind of feels like everyone decided throwing their trash on the ground is fine and not unsanitary and if you say “umm that’s gross” they act like you are abnormal and should be institutionalized

it’s literally just this meme

Legitimately!!!!

lesbinewren:

lesbinewren:

crazy how every time a female character gets cliche misogynistic writing we have to explain to people again that fictional characters are not real and do not choose things for themselves.

it’s really this at the end of the day tbh

Being covid conscious kind of feels like everyone decided throwing their trash on the ground is fine and not unsanitary and if you say “umm that’s gross” they act like you are abnormal and should be institutionalized

fincharts:

It was quiet in Thanatica