Following Up On The Last Post, My Mind Turned, As It Inevitably Must, To Tom Hiddleston Looking So Handsome

TILDA SWINTON Tim Walker ph. for W magazine (2023)

Thinking scenes from the film Crimson Peak

[muttering feverishly] I need to chase that man around my gothic manor in a silk nightgown

I am torn between completely ignoring everything going on and obsessing over it. I cannot find a middle ground. I feel like all mainstream media is now being censored and so am finding alternate sources like Substack and Discord. Reddit seems to be under the gun now and important subreddits are starting to disappear.

So I am putting this article forward for you, my followers, and to keep it close. No, I could not read the entire thing. My anxiety level became unbearable and I had to stop.

I just went through an 8 month process to finally get off Lexapro and I am not going to allow this administration to put me back on it!

Quietly losing my mind over the fact that Elon Musk has straight up orchestrated a coup of our executive branch and like....I don't even know what, if any, system we have in place to fix this. Like... He's just taken control of the money and locked out the actual appointed officials. What the fuck.

Bukovac Vlaho - Portrait of Dr Stjepan Miletic - Czech Republic and Slovakia School - 19th Century

Portrait of David Lyon painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence, circa 1825. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Spain.

I get these in the form of ocular migraines usually a while after some strenuous activity. They are not usually accompanied with a headache, though sometimes a real whopper of a migraine follows.

Person with migraine aura today: Ow ow ow my head hurts and all I can see is TV static :(

Nineteenth century doctors describing migraine aura with the manic horror of a lovecraftian horror protagonist:

At first it looked just like the spot which you see after having looked at the sun or some bright object; I thought it might be an eyelash in the way, or something of that sort, but I was soon undeceived when it began to increase…

When it was in its height it seemed like a fortified town with bastions all round it, these bastions being coloured most gorgeously... All the interior of the fortification, so to speak, was boiling and rolling about in a most wonderful manner as if it was some thick liquid all alive. (Hubert Airy, 1856)

"And I'm trying my best to stand up for you in every way I can." 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

JONATHAN BAILEY as FIYERO in WICKED (2024)