moringottos:

moringottos:

Save Our (sea)Bird!

Most of you are aware now that Bird – also known as @thulimo – is having a major surgery on October 12th, to remove an 11 inch tumor and possibly an entire hysterectomy. It’s scary, mostly because we don’t know yet if it’s cancerous or not, and the oncologist is gong to have to take the tumor to pathology during the surgery to find out.

Because of the ongoing uphill battle with our insurance, the only place that would accept our plan was in a different city, so the medical bills and expenses are piling up fast.

As a result. I have set up a GoFundMe.

This is to help with the expenses and bills from the surgery as well as knock out some of the older bills that are still hanging over our heads. Every time I think we have it paid down, a new bill arrives for bloodwork or tests or another appointment copay. The GoFundMe will probably not cover the cost of the surgery, with our deductible, but it is a start.

Bird deserves a chance to get better without having to live in a constant and perpetual state of stress because of money. She’s going to be out of work for a week before surgery and six weeks after. I’m going to be taking off a few days to be there for her surgery, and for a few days after to make sure she’s got everything she needs to recover. An 11 inch tumor is nothing to sneeze at; it’s attached itself to her uterus and her bowel. This is a major surgery, and the recovery process is going to be rough. There is also waiting to hear if it’s cancerous or not, and dealing with that answer when it comes.

So yes, I am asking for help. I don’t like asking for help. I know we all need help in one way or another, and like Bird, I prefer to be the one helping. But here I am, begging you to help me take care of my wife. She deserves a chance to get better, to feel better, to recover from this and go back to being the beautiful, bouncy, lively Bird we all know and love. This entire ordeal is taking a serious toll on her. She’s going to need 24 hour constant care during the weeks after her surgery, and every single cent helps me to provide that care for her.

If you want options other than GoFundMe, I have a ko-fi, and we have a shared Paypal that you can contribute to, if you’re not crazy about GoFundMe.

I’m also offering tarot readings from my Marigold Tarot deck (with pictures!) if you donate $10 or more. I’m open for fic commissions as well, $1 per 100 words.

Look, everything helps. If you can kick in $1, that helps, and I am immensely grateful that you’ve bothered to even read this far. If you can’t help, consider reblogging this. You can read more about Bird on the GoFundMe page, and maybe consider sharing it on twitter if you have one (or FB, I won’t judge).

Thank you.

UPDATE 9/28

This morning we hit the halfway mark for the GFM goal, which is absolutely incredible. I do not have the words to properly express my gratitude, or how much I have been crying about all of the love and support and generosity from everyone so far after only two days. I’ve posted an update on the GFM page itself but I thought I would repeat it here: in the event that we exceed the goal – because I really do not know how much the surgery is going to cost out of pocket yet but we do have a $7,000 deductible — all leftover funds will go to  @thulimo​’s aftercare expenses, making sure that she gets to follow-up appointments, medications, and whatever else she will need post-surgery. I intend to keep everyone updated as everything happens.

Also, I wanted to share something with everyone:

I’ve been trying to compose a proper thank you for hours now, to everyone, and all I can come up with is: people are good. People are inherently good, and every bit of support, from encouragement to donations to reblogs and retweets is proof of that and more. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for everything so far, and everything to come. When this is over, hopefully I’ll have found the words to truly express how much I love all of you, how much Bird loves all of you.

Thank you.

incorrect-dragon-age-quotes:

Inquisitor: What are you looking at?

Iron Bull, taking a Buzzfeed quiz to find out what holiday candle scent he is: Porn.

softbutxh:

mlkjr:

korolevx:

korolevx:

the idea of consuming two conflicting things that promise to do the opposite of each other has always been hilarious to me. there’s a liquid shot-based sleep aid called 6 hour sleep and as soon as I saw it i immediately imagined mixing it and a 5 hour energy together for a 1 hour nap

mix NyQuil and DayQuil to create Quil

what does Quil do

All the time all the time

bumbleboi:

My human anatomy teacher was talking about bone healing and when you break a bone it typically will heal stronger

So I look him in the eyes and say “so what you’re saying is I should break every bone in my body until I become superhumanly powerful?”

And he looks back at me and says, with the softest voice he could muster, “please do not no”

fgsshinyhoard:

So, while watching Game Center CX, they came across a very unusual game that I cannot find any records of.

Not much is known of this game since naturally it was never sold outside of Japan, perhaps maybe not even outside of Tokyo, but what we do know of it is this:

– The main characters are Isamu (the bear dude) and Condor (a drag queen trying to expose a serial killer in Tokyo’s gay district)

– It was made and funded by the gay community, programmed together by the bartender of a gay bar.

– It had a rather unusual time limit where the main character, Condor, had to solve the case before 5am or else their beard would be too unshaven and they would become exposed out of shame.

– and lastly, most impressively, it was a game that can only be played at night.

An internal clock in the cartridge would prevent the game from booting up unless it was after dark, since that is when most businesses open up in Shinjuku-Nichome.

I’m just stunned nothing of this exists from what I can find, but Game Center CX opened a little window into Japanese gay culture that I found really interesting.

wet-monsoon:

wet-monsoon:

imagine disney making a lilo and stitch live-action remake and then claiming Diversity Points with “two newly-revealed lgbt characters” and instead of it being pleakley and jumba its two of the aliens that show up at the council meeting with no speaking lines

i’m at the edge of my fuckin seat here, lads

osterfields:

osterfields:

i’m always so happy about seeing mlm feeling comfortable about publicly crushing on tom holland, bc he and the rest of the mcu spidey cast/crew have made sure they feel safe in the fanbase. like seeing tom at photo ops doing cute romantic poses with guys the same way he would with the girls, that’s so refreshing. seeing guys show up to the spidey set wearing “mentally dating tom holland” shirts and the cast takes pics of his shirt and give him thumbs up for it?? good ass shit there. it might not seem like a big deal to everyone, but it really is.

i’m getting some messages asking for “proof” of this so, here’s some con pics of tom with some male/masc fans doing romantic poses, and one of him holding up the trans pride flag:

here’s the male/masc fan wearing a “mentally dating tom holland shirt” happily posing for the cast/crew when they asked for pics of him in it, this is from remy hii’s instagram:

and here’s a question that jacob batalon and laura harrier got during the “homecoming” press tour, when doing an answertime on tumblr’s stardom blog:

and then when later asked about it in an interview jacob added this:

on top of that, “far from home” will have two trans male actors playing some of peter parker’s classmates. the mcu spider-man franchise is a safe space for lgbt+ fans.

orciny:

madxstitcher:

shinypurplebuttons:

endoshan:

gstringofsuburbia:

billie joe armstrong is like…the definition of chaotic good. a prime example of this is the fact that one time at a green day concert this guy in the pit was harassing a young girl so billie stopped the show to help her. however, his way of doing so was to jump into the audience, dropkick the guy directly in the face, and then fight him in a crowd of screaming fans

This is missing the best part – when he saw the guy, he tried to be like “Dude, stop” and when the man didn’t stop pushing the girl around he screamed “Fine! You wanna fight? I’ll fucking fight you, then!” and leapt directly into the crowd

There’s a reason Green Day was my favourite band in high school, and Billie Joe Armstrong is it.

Always reblog bisexual chaotic goods