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Deferred pain is honestly one of the strangest things the human body does. Because a spot isn't designed to feel pain (like the sinuses), your body expresses that pain elsewhere (your face). Fascinating yet annoying stuff, lol.

I find it really fascinating how the body functions and reacts to things. It's a little gross, I'll admit, but it's pretty fun to kinda dissect myself that way. I hope I managed to tell you something new! Posts will be a little slower from here on, but I'll keep you posted. Sleep well, folks.

Depression is known to reduce your generic pain tolerance, which is why you may be prescribed antidepressants in place of painkillers for chronic pain. It's really weird, but has to do with manifestation of subconscious belief in physical condition. Like phantom sense! A story for another day.

That's honestly a lot of why one might throw up when sick. But, that's only one symptom. Body aches are a little weirder.

Weakness and body aches go hand in hand, as a lot of the energy in your body is going toward removing the sickness. But, interestingly, there's another layer to it.

The body is a lot like a really complex machine, but it works on certain rules. Phlegm is just used snot filtering out contaminants to your lungs, then dumped down your throat to be digested. The stomach knows better and demands to spit out heavily contaminated stuff when you're sick, vomiting.

So, my body picked a REALLY bad time to get violently ill, lol. We're moving house in the next couple days (the timetable was REALLY tight) and I can't keep food down. But! It's improving fairly quickly and I'm keeping down fluid now, plus I'm a little better set up this time. A teachable moment! 🧵

For now, though: y'all have a nice night. I might not be able to post as often as I'd like in the coming week, but I'll see what I can do. Stay awesome, folks.

IF I do get this job, though, it means I can finally start driving my stuff in the right direction. Less "make do" and more do what I want- ultimately, a net boon for producer and consumer both. Maybe I can pay an editor to do lightweight trims or clips, who knows. We'll see.

More relevant to you guys though is I'll be able to wire into my router, which means overall more stable internet. That issue has been plaguing my pc since before I moved to Twitch. Pretty sure it's from me accidentally kicking my antennae. Or the cats, no idea tbh.

The new place isn't anything fancy, but I'm looking forward to living somewhere a little less slummy. And I'll have a door this time! Gonna figure out what that means in terms of allowing cats in my room during streams, but VR will definitely be easier to move around in without tripping over them.

I promised good news today, now I shall deliver- we managed to secure the new place, and I feel like I did pretty well on my job interview today! The new house was a hurdle in returning to streaming, which I plan to do next month. Looking forward to that, lol. A small thread. 🧵

This is why I talk about just getting along- people's true motivations behind a lot of things are a lot simpler than one might think. I think "loving" and "being loved" are things we can all agree on.

Shot the sherrif. Didn't shoot the deputee, though.

This also coincides with pastry cravings I used to have a lot more back in high school. I'd get fiendish for sugary pastries, which makes a lot of sense considering I was a LOT more active back then.

Just thought it was neat. Stay posted, important news coming tomorrow.

Alcohol breaks down into sugars during the filtering and processing stage, which is why it makes you really need to pee after (excess sugars are discharged through urine). My body realized this, and that it was a significant source of sugar, and linked it to the offbrand Mtn Dew I usually get.

For a good while, I've been trying to figure out a craving I've been having, something having to do with soda or beer- specifically Jack Daniels, because I like their 5% ABV beers. It only dawned on me today that they have something in common: sugar.

Probably one of the most FASCINATING things about human biology is the existence of the craving. Your body, instinctually and subconsciously, knows what's in your food and how much of that you need. And then it uses Pavlovian training to make you go get that thing it needs. It's crazy.

Fair! I'm glad you found something you like :D

Noted, thanks! I was never super into the genre myself, I can respect them but I just don't jive with the medium. Though I keep crossing wires with the word tonkatsu, which I'm pretty sure is a kind of food lmao.

Lmao, yeah. It's on a friend group server, so when folks are showing off their legendary and shiny mons I just rolled up with that Pawniard like "I got the rarest thing here." The other three went quiet, took a hard look, "... He's not wrong." 🤣

What is tokusatsu? Not a word I see very often.

OH I UNDERSTAND NOW LMAO! Not good news or bad news around here, just news. Been spending maybe too much time on a Pokemon modpack for Minecraft though lol, been collecting the ones with broken animations. T-posing Pawniard for the win!

Maybe that just means that I'll have to make sure to add a survival game to my stream rotation when I return :D I've had Enshrouded installed for like six months now, maybe we'll give it a try next month? We'll see then. For now, job interview soon, can't wait to see what comes of that!

But that sense of discovery and collection is something I really get sucked into, always has been. I haven't kept up with Pokemon in like 3 or 4 generations, so there's all sorts of neat stuff I'd never heard of... even if they kinda did go the Yugioh route in terms of new weird one-off mechanics.

Been playing a bunch of Cobblemon recently, and it's reminded me of a certain feeling I haven't had in a really long time. I used to dork around in Pokemon Black on the DS, and it was really cool seeing a bunch of creative creatures dotted about. Can't tell you a lick of the story, though. (short 🧵)

🤭New kinda content for me, eh? This weekend was pretty fun, a good break from the stresses of moving house to come.

I owe them a lot. Wouldn'tve lived long enough to even finish high school without them.

What about y'all, though? Do you have pets? Have you noticed patterns like that as you've had them? Give them a boop for me, lol.

Good night, folks. Sleep well.

Those that have been around for a while know I have a few cats, actually 5 of the beans. Love the little shits to death, lmao. But, they take care of me just as much as I take care of them. There's been at least a few filter events they've helped me push through in the last 9 years or so.

Back on topic- cats absolutely DO have good noses, and can smell those pheromones we release. That's why theres stories about, like. A cat that would lay with someone in a hospital the night before they would pass. They can smell our stress pheromones, and may act on that information.