Gotta Reblog Sargent's Whenever They Appear On My Dash.

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.

Another Jonathan Bailey Wicked fan girl post

JONATHAN BAILEY as Fiyero Tigelaar, “Dancing Through Life”

JONATHAN BAILEY as FIYERO in WICKED (2024)

Cecilia Beaux - Man With The Cat Portrait Of Henry Sturgis Drinker 1898

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)

This is how it was for me too. I sacrificed my family, health and personal life for years. Then COVID hit and I found out that the company did not prioritize me in the same way that I did them. I crafted my exit plan then and was retired within a few years.

It took me most of a year to relieve my body of the work stress and loosen my joints that were in a permanent state of hunched over a computer.

Now in my second year of retirement, I have started going to the gym and taking classes. There was never time for that before. There was always a crisis.

The Ladies Alexandra, Mary, and Theo Acheson

John Singer Sargent

1902

William Morris Textiles circa 1880