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[dolorosa_12]

Still really sick with this cold (no, it's not COVID, I've had two negative PCR tests), still coughing and sneezing my way through this first week back at work, still very grateful that I'm working from home for the entire week and can thus lie down on the bed for five minutes every time it gets hard to breathe, still entirely lacking in energy.

Have a scattering of links to things that have made me think, or made me laugh, online these past few days:

I wanted to link to this pair of posts from chestnut_pod and forestofglory because I read them basically in succession, and they seemed in conversation with one another, even though both were posted independently.

forestofglory: I want more fiction to engage with the idea that we can be good members of the community of nature, and that we don't have to either destroy or leave.

chestnut_pod:Untouched wilderness is a colonialist construct and this book is a pastoralist fantasy that falls right into that exceptionally colonial trap. Oh, so the world would be better off entirely without humans? The ~virgin forest~ is the pinnacle of nature? The Primordial Wilderness™ exists and is the end-goal of human conservation activity? Nature and humanity are separate, if not antithetical? OY.

Finally, on a lighter note, an old set of Tumblr posts which create Millennial versions of Puritan names, which made me laugh. ('Millennial' in this case meaning 'extremely fannish and Extremely Online circa 2000-2015'.) Tag yourself — I'm 'I-Have-Receipts Johnson.' Obviously.

Comments

[darkmarcy]

I hope you get well soon! Being sick is so weird now on plague times, the nervousness and the testing, ugh.

Thanks for the tumblr link, I think I shall take "Badger Mushroom-Mushroom Snake Davis" :'D

[lilysea]

Being sick is so weird now on plague times, the nervousness and the testing, ugh.

Yes!

There's no known COVID in my city at the moment [altho it's only a matter of time, there's A LOT in other parts of Australia]

and every time my partner's chronic asthma/hayfever cough acts up, I feel anxious.

esp because it's not practical for him to go get a test whenever his cough flares up, he'd be testing at least every single week, 52 weeks a year....

[dolorosa_12]

Thank you — I'm definitely not 100 per cent better yet, but I'm really grateful that it's not COVID.

I'm glad you enjoyed the Tumblr link!

[kore]

I love the "is this lingering cough damage from wildfire smoke, or COVID?!" dance, I really do. (It's not covid.)

Fucking lol I'm either "I-Know-Kung-Fu Anderson" or "Healthcare-Is-A-Right-Not-A-Privilege Bradford," I can't decide.

[dolorosa_12]

I love the "is this lingering cough damage from wildfire smoke, or COVID?!" dance, I really do. (It's not covid.)

Ugh, poor you! I always get colds really badly (when I was a child/teenager/worked in childcare in my early twenties I basically had a cold for the entire winter), but because of the lockdowns and masking and no indoor socialising I've been free of them for the past year and a half and had forgotten what it was like!

I'm glad you enjoyed the Tumblr link.

[senmut]

That tumblr post cracks me up.

Hope you feel better!

[dolorosa_12]

It's really funny, isn't it?

Thanks for the well wishes.

[chestnut_pod]

Hand-Hook-Car-Door Jones, that's me.

Being sick in times of COVID is another level of nerves -- I'm sorry this cold has been so persistent; may it scram pronto!

[dolorosa_12]

Being sick in times of COVID is another level of nerves -- I'm sorry this cold has been so persistent; may it scram pronto!

Thank you. It really adds another layer of stress, you're absolutely right.

I'm glad you liked the Tumblr link!

[corvidology]

I hope you feel better soon. ♥

I'm going to have to go with: WTF-the-Fuck Preston as that pretty much expresses the last year or so for me.

[dolorosa_12]

Thank you, and I'm glad you liked the Tumblr link. WTF-the-Fuck Preston definitely sums up this past year, that's for sure.