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trashshouldnt
mamoru

stop using hospitals as horror settings

mamoru

fun alternative: cruise ships. cruise ships exploit workers and can pollute as much as a million cars on a daily basis while dumping endless shit into the ocean and endangering all passengers on board because the on board air quality rivals some of the most polluted cities in the world while being a breeding ground for disease. cruise ships deserve to have negativity associated with them

markrial

also all crimes commited aboard a cruise ship is under the juristiction of whichever country they’re registered to once they’re a certain distance away from land so you have the added bonus of the crimes being very unlikely to be properly investigated (due to usually being physically so very far from the actual police whose juristiction they’re under)

mamoru

terrifying!

xcekait

On top of THAT cruise ships tend to have their own morgue, as people tend to die on ships all the time. Good for those spooky scenes.

bananonbinary

plus u can just like…leave a hospital. good luck escaping a killer or a monster or a curse or w/e in the middle of the fucking ocean

sketchyfletch

As an ex cruise ship employee, let me give you some stuff to work with!

Water tight doors! You get a special training video on interacting with these correctly because they will literally cut you in half if you try and go through them while they’re closing!

Freezer vaults for food in the sub decks - you can only get into these with the correct code and they have very thick walls. Good luck if you get shut in one of these just after the last round of checks bucko

There are cameras everywhere…except in the crew cabin corridors. Also there are no windows down there because unless you’re an officer, you live below the waterline. Day and night have no meaning because everything is in the same slightly unsettling yellow light.

Don’t piss off the guys who deal with the rubbish. They have machines down there that can crush metal barrels

As well as morgues, cruise ships usually have one basic operating theatre with all the attendant horrifying equipment in it

One cigarette thrown carelessly in the wrong place WILL start a fire that will gut half the ship.

When we’re pitching side to side, the anchor swings out and then back in, striking the metal outer shell with a noise that shakes half the ship

People disappear overboard more often than you’d really want to be a thing

A lot of cruise ships now have theatres on board (usually towards the front) with all the potential for dark corners, creepy costumes and electrical calamities you could want.

And as op says, you can’t really escape a ship in the middle of the ocean. Particularly during a storm, as then you can’t even evacuate to lifeboats unless the whole ship is going down. On the upside being on board during a storm means most guests hide in their cabins and the staff walk around like drunks, which would likely throw off a skilled murderer’s plans.

shenaniginstigations

Takes notes

You also have the bonus of a corporate overlord who doesn’t give a shit about anything but profits and can be reliably counted on to downplay any disaster in an attempt to avoid publicity.

naamahdarling

Norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships show just how fast a highly contagious virus spreads, how hard it is to avoid catching it due to surface contamination and food transmission, and how disgusting the ship rapidly becomes. Unnavigable with filth. (Seriously I won’t go into it but accounts are sometimes horrific.)

If you want a zombie virus outbreak or something like that, a cruise ship could create up to NINE THOUSAND infected. (Based on the capacity of the current largest cruise ship.)

bixbythemartian

  1. so, you can also rent cruise ships for private events, so if a rich weirdo wants to do a ghost hunting party, you’re set. (thinking house on haunted hill). Or a ghost hunter convention on a haunted ship!
  2. it’s super easy to get turned around on a cruise ship, according to my friend who has been on one. The halls are very samey- some ships have systems to designate what side of the ship you’re on, and the numbers should indicate deck, but if you’re drunk…
  3. (some people decorate their doors so they’re easier to find, although I imagine that some cruise ship lines frown on this kind of thing.)
  4. point is, a chase scene? thinking you’re almost to your room but whoops you’re on the wrong side of the ship/wrong deck? or maybe taking a while to realize you’re being led in circles… but by what?
  5. you can use seasickness as a plot point- staying on deck is good for someone who’s seasick, so maybe the character sees something they otherwise wouldn’t whilst trying to tame their seasickness. maybe they miss some mass-spreader zombie event because they’re sleeping off seasickness meds. seasickness is actually great because it can be debilitating but usually wears off in 24 hours, so you can have someone be pretty sick and then bounce back and be running in terror with relative ease.
  6. decommissioned cruise ship for sale. the rich weirdos strike again. (journalist following rich weirdos on their creepy cruise ship social experiment/crypto thing/cult thing, perhaps, at least one of which I know was attempted)

honestly, there’s so many possibilities

bunjywunjy
zoologicallyobsessed

We need to better educate kids on the importance of animals that are typically hated because otherwise you end up with adults who think hating wasps is a personality.

aromantic-eight

Trufax: hatred of wasps is so widespread that it’s prevalent among biologists as well. An entire field full of people getting excited about species that nobody else has heard of, and many have collectively decided that wasps don’t need to be researched, even though they’re threatened by the same things that are threatening bees, and disappearance of wasps will spell bad things for the number of pests found in gardens and farms.

tinysaurus-rex

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I have a friend wasp named Queeny. She built her nest on a really inconvenient area where I often dump my birds’ uneaten seed or shake towels out. She would come out angrily and buzz at us, ready to defend her home from the strange giants.

Queeny didn’t know that it was our porch she built her home on, she saw a nice ledge and decided that it was a suitable spot to begin her life as a lone female.

So instead of removing the nest and poisoning her with bug spray, you know what I did? I moved the area where I dump my things and started feeding her. I would tap three times on the railing before leaving a treat like fruit, honey, dog food, or pesky beetles I find in my garden, then move away to give them lots of space. At first she would buzz out, wings spread and ready to fight, but after doing this for just a few days…she stopped!

Now when she comes out, it’s slowly and non-threatingly. She tilts her head at me before gingerly inspecting the offerings. She doesn’t threaten my mom any more either, she’s learned that we mean no harm. We’ve started using that ledge to shake sheets out and dump bird seed and she doesn’t mind at all! She just watches quietly.

She even has a family now! Five daughters and one lad- a husband or son, not sure which lmao -who greet us the same, she must’ve taught them that we’re not enemies (or they just grew up used to us). They even protect my garden, since Queeny’s family has grown the invasive Japanese beetle population has plummeted! They really are delightful neighbors.

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worm-lungs
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idk who needs to hear this rn but suffering is not noble. take the tylenol

wahoo-shem

One time when I was younger I was refusing to take headache medicine and my mom said “the person who invented that medicine is probably so sad you won’t let them help you” and now every time I find myself denying medicine I just imagine the saddest scientist making those big wet eyes like “why won’t you let me help” and whoop then I take the medicine

nonbinary-witch-sam

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scientist when you don't take the medicine they developed to help your pain

fandomsandfeminism

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As long as you are taking a SAFE dose of it, then it's *good* for you. Pain is bad for the body. The inflammation from prolonged pain can worsen chronic issues and make it harder to heal.

Ibuprofen is best for pain that has inflammation, while acetaminophen doesn't help with inflammation but is more broadly effective on other types of pain. As long as you are taking the recommended dose, you can even take them TOGETHER, since they have different mechanisms of action.

You do need to be aware of how much and how often you are taking any pain medication. Overdoses can be very painful (even lethal.) And if you are in chronic pain often enough that you need more than the safe dose, then you need to look into other medications to manage that pain.

(Also, if you are specifically taking Acetaminophen/Tylenol for your go-to pain management, getting some NAC and taking that with it reduces the risk of overdose AND may strengthen the effect.)

bemusedlybespectacled

One other thing: NSAIDS (ibuprofen, aspirin, and naproxen being the three big ones) can cause digestive issues with chronic use, including stomach ulcers. That doesn't mean "don't take them," it means "if you're at the point where you're on them all the time, every day, constantly, you should talk to a doctor about either reducing that risk or switching to another medication that doesn't have those side effects."

robboybot

Additional notes for pain meds: if you have pre-existing conditions like auto-immune diseases that are inflammatory, digestive based illnesses causing pain (crohn's/colitis/related), and other chronic illnesses PLEASE ask a doctor or fellow community members what medications actually work and what might make your illness worse!

I have autoimmune disease that causes inflammation in my digestive organs and learned from a specialist that taking NSAID's actually makes it much worse, and can increase the already damaging effects of my disease. Many people unfortunately don't know this and cause worse damage taking the wrong medication.

unfortunately, also in my experience, most emergency doctors jump to using NSAID's for pain unless you explicitly tell them you can't have them because they're not familiar with inflammatory/digestive illnesses and their reactions to them.

make sure you research what's safe for your condition, because a lot of times doctors need to be told explicitly by you or a specialist if you have intolerances to specific pain meds. Obviously not everyone can afford a specialist, which is why communities of people with similar illnesses are very helpful; they've saved me many times!

submalevolentgrace

katelyndanger asked:

I'd there anything that you'd like a prosthetic limb to be able to do? Like something that's not on the market but you could slip on to accomplish a task and then easily remove before it gets cumbersome?

submalevolentgrace answered:

I’m sorry i sat on this ask for so long, it’s been very difficult to write an answer to this question that i feel is both honest and useful, but here’s my best attempt at answering with what i consider to be an okayish amount of context…

I’m assuming you’re asking because this post of mine blew up and got a lot of attention, and it looks like you’re a maker that’s keen on designing things to help disabled people and that’s great! there are a lot of areas where products just don’t exist but are of great help or need to people, and filling that gap is really really great! lots of people have lots of different needs, and many disabilities and situations can be helped with technological solutions, much of which need more development, both professionally and more grass roots.

but when it comes to my situation, ie upper limb amputee, i cannot stress enough: the problem is not prosthetic technology, the problem is other people, and ableism.

what i want people to focus on is that i can do almost everything i need to for myself without a prosthesis, using just my elbow, my nub (the soft squishy end of my residual limb), and a taking my time. a bit more awkward, a bit slower, more trips to the fridge and back, but i can do it. the things that i can’t do myself, I’m lucky enough to have people to help me and happy to do so.

but what people actually focus on is prostheses, people love prostheses… so let’s talk prostheses!

I have a myoelectric prosthetic “hand” - a big robot gripper that i can control with intentional nerve signals picked up via electrodes inside the socket that sits over my forearm; telling it to open and close on command, and controlling how fast it does so. the initial reason i wanted one was for soldering, because electronics is an on and off hobby i wanted to continue. I’m sure you know that through-hole soldering is at least a three handed job even for the regularly limbed, so i thought i needed it for that at least, and figured it would be handy (hah) to just wear all day for any task i might want two hands for.

well, in the four years of training and rehab and practice since… I’m fairly confident i don’t actually need it for soldering, let alone anything else. my elbow grip and dexterity is good enough i can easily hold and aim a spool of solder without my prosthesis. i sometimes put it on to take out the trash, but that’s just a time saver, it takes less trips and is faster than slinging bags over my nub arm. it has a little led flashlight in it that’s useful at night outside sometimes? and as alluded to in the original post, it’s got a small tip that can press little buttons that my nub can’t, and that’s the role i most often reach for it to fill.

but myo prostheses are a hassle to put on, often taking several attempts to get positioning right, it’s hot and sweatty, there can be pressure sores, and it’s real heavy in a way your shoulder never really gets used to. these are not really technological issues that need more research or smarts to solve, they’re pretty fundamental limits of trying to attach any kind of medical devices to the human body. if i really had any big necessary use case for absolutely needing two hands, I’d go back to physical therapy and re-train to use a body powered prosthesis; the ones that secure with nice soft leather straps and use your opposing shoulder to control hook grip with tension wires. technology that hasn’t changed in several centuries because we kinda already perfected it… it’s low tech, reliable, has built in proportional control and feedback, and never features in science fiction because it’s just not cool enough.

so why do i still bother? why keep my prosthesis, maintain it, have the socket padded so it keeps fitting, continue the slightly painful muscle control exercises instead of letting them atrophy and the damn robot hand sit on the shelf forever?

the problem is other people, and ableism.

when I leave the house in my natural body, nub on display for all to see (under an arm warmer because perpetually cold stump is a problem seemingly every amputee has to deal with)…

people stare. they notice me from a distance, no matter what i wear, how i carry my body. but it’s not just staring. it’s glaring, it’s disgust, it’s fear, it’s dehumanisation. i have people recoil in horror, cross the street to avoid me, pull their children close to their bodies as if they might start dropping limbs if they get too close. people have stopped me in the street, from behind, demanding to know “what happened”, I’ve had to get off trams at random stops to escape little old ladies insisting i disclose my highly traumatic medical history and that I’m being rude and uncooperative for not “educating” them on “such a fascinating curiosity”… or best yet, the one all my wheelchair using friends know inside out: forceful unwelcome “help” from strangers without even a hello, yet alone an ask. i once had a man leap to his feet and begin thrusting his hands towards my crotch because i wedged a water bottle between my thighs to unscrew the cap and he decided i was clearly incapable of doing it myself… and this isn’t even getting into the ways that medical professionals treat me differently.

i go outside in my natural body, and I’m treated as a freak.

you know what happens when i go out wearing my prosthesis? children smile, adults mind their own goddamned business, leave me alone, and at absolute worst I’ve had a total of two people in four years talk to me about it, politely introducing themselves before saying “that’s neat, how does it work?”…

because fiction and futurism have given people so many deeply ingrained fundamental ideas about prostheses and amputation that I am treated more like a human being while wearing a bulky robot claw with electrodes pressed into my skin, than when i dare to exist as i now naturally am.

this is also borne out by the hundreds of notes on my original post declaring we need to invest more, research more, design more, so that prosthetic technology is better and “works” and is cooler… and literally nobody asking why a piece of technology was designed in such a way that i needed to use my nose, needed to hold two buttons down simultaneously half a meter apart that are barely fingertip sized, when either of them being a toggle would work - a firmware fix that would take 30 seconds to implement if anyone actually thought about the real technological needs of limb different people, instead of scifi fantasies about improving prosthetic technology until its “indistinguishable from the human body”, as if that goal should be self evidently desirable.

the actual technological solution to this situation, by the way, is a bracelet with a chopstick glued to it.

so.

*deep breath*

I’m sorry this was long and angry, I hope you can sense that my anger isn’t directed at you, the question asker, but broadly at everyone and the way society perceives amputees/limb different people… and I hope anyone who reblogged my original post also shares this, because damn did tumblr miss the point of it!

to finish off, I’ll give you the snippy snarky bitch response i originally had in consideration, before I decided to spend several hours on paragraphs of furiously slow one-thumbed attempt at shifting my audience’s perception of prostheses… because legit it’s great that you want to know how things can be improved for disabled people through technology! it’s just that in this one particular case…

if you want to design some technology that would be most helpful to me but is totally absent from the current market, I’d like a portable pocket sized device that projects a psionic field to make ableds mind their own fucking business and just treat me like a human being when i go outside :3