AZymph

Hi y'all! Apologies for posting this on the main instead of in the Questions section, but I was hoping to catch a bunch of lead-free crafters.

What are we wearing to prevent burnt hands? Nitrile worked for lead for me, but I'm going lead free and have quickly found I'll need a new plan.

Surgery 3 weeks ago, the tape is coming off enough now to see the shape of my scar.. Is it normal to absolutely hate it?

I didn't want a monoscar for one (but I had huge breasts, so I expected that possibility), and for two it looks very.. rounded. I asked for straight lines and hard angles. I want to cry. I pushed this surgery off and pushed it off in fear of something like this. Right now the scarring is super raised in spots, but that's not unusual for my body and that at least should settle down. My plan was to someday tattoo over the scarring with cyberpunk-y power lines, but they'd have to be hideous thick to cover this rounding, I dunno maybe this is the post-op depression finally h

So: I had my top surgery, and was wondering if anybody here has any tips for fixing the years of damage from having to have my shoulders and neck so far forward beforehand. I would love to do PT, but that's not in the financial cards for a while and I'd like to get started sooner than later.

I'm now officially on the flat side! The ice vest we bought for summers is a godsend, highly recommend one of those, even if you just use the panels out of it since they're super flexible. The day before surgery I spent hydrating hardcore, and carved & painted some pumpkins, which turned out amazing! I'm excited to see how my melon carving went ;) bu I won't see that until next week.

Also, respect to all of you that wear binders all the time. I was too big to bind before, so I'm not used to it and holy heck I want it off already lol.

I'm so excited!!! My consult finally happened after months of waiting, and I got a date soon! Early October, I'll have ghosts of boobs for Halloween this year! XD

Just saw a post by a woman who had a rare hour away from her spouse and children. She used that hour to eat a meal in silence at an inexpensive fast food place and said it was heaven. Then that she felt guilty for it afterward.

I feel so bad for her, that isn't living, it sounds like she never gets any time for her, that all her time is as a caretaker.

I was wondering if we could get an automod set up for rule one? I'm seeing a marked increase of people who clearly didn't bother reading the rules at all. If there are question marks in the title it could auto-flag and reduce the issue and wasted mod time.

Looks like this may be a sneaky new color? I don't even see it on the color chart! Open to being corrected though! https://fiestafactorydirect.com/collections/foundry

I have a bit of an odd one, more a medical curiosity than an actual problem, I am prone to near-fainting when I get blood work done poorly. It's especially bad if they miss my vein and try to dig for it. A normal blood draw with a good phlebotomist I just get a bit lightheaded, but if they miss & dig for a vein I tend to get dang near full faint: tunnel vision, pale pallor, and have been known to throw up on severe occasions. Is this just simple vasovagal syncope or could there be something else going on to cause this? It's always way worse for fasting labs in my experience, though that could easily be partially due to the fact that I'm usually less hydrated for those.

Thank you!

Every single one showed only a blue screen.

I'm trying to remember the brand that made a really good inexpensive bottled cocktail, I want to say it was Mango Martini They made a lot of other flavors and it was a relatively large bottle, frosted glass, and originally I found it at Walmart.

I may be misremembering these parts: Uptown might be part of the name of the brand? Price was somewhere near $12-15 Strawberry & chocolate flavors?

Thank you!

My favorite, most consistent podcast wrapped up and I'm sorely missing it! Does anybody have any recommendations for similar? (and either plenty to catch up on/finished or very consistent updates? Part of what I loved about BookBurners was that I could rely on it updating unlike a lot of what I'd fallen in love with over the years that just.. vanished)

I also enjoyed Wolf 359, The Strata, Modes Of Thought In Anterran Lit, White Vault, End Of All Hope, The Leviathan Chronicles (and Rapscallion Agency), The Magnus Archives/Protocol, The Night Shift (sorely missing that one too, S2 hopefully soon?)

I particularly tend to like cyberpunk, dystopian future, magic, or modern fantasy.

Thank y

My original carefully booked flight for reduced squashed time was of course cancelled. Now I am stuck with two, longer flights that frankly I'm going to need some tips for how to not be in shoulder pain my entire trip.

I'm not as small as Id like to be, and do plan to lose as much weight as I possibly can before the trip to help, but my shoulder width is too large for the microscopic plane seats, leaving me crunched one direction or another for the duration of flying. I've booked window seats for that extra inch of space, but with an extra few hours of unwanted travelling time added it's going to still hurt.

Any tips? Much appreciated.