What do many consider the 1st #scienceFiction?
One of the first works of #horror (certainly #bodyHorror)?
#MaryShelley's "#Frankenstein"
Written as a *teenager*
A teenager who had recently lost a baby
I think that's key
Horror not from taking life
But creating life
She went to Switzerland with her lover Percy Shelley who was fleeing creditors in Britain
The summer was cold and rainy so #LordByron (yes him) proposed a #ghostStory #writingContest
I think she won
1/x
New #introduction
I am a digital #artist working in #krita, making work with a somewhat subconcious process, featuring strange ethereal beings, demons, and wizards. I am inspired by #weird #SciFi and #fantasy art of the 1970s and 80s, perhaps not unrelated to my love of #ProgRock and #HeavyMetal and #psychedelic music
I boost art that I enjoy, and I hope you will too :))
#ArtistsOnMastodon #QueerArt #weirdart #MastoArt #ADHD #Lesbian
#HorrorArt #BodyHorror #illustration #art #DigitalArt
Treatment: The ER’s Embrace
Symptom: Peripheral Neuropathy
2025-2-12 Starting imatinib for resistant mast cell symptoms.
https://www.illmarks.com/2025-2-12-starting-imatinib-for-resistant-mast-cell-symptoms/
Symptom: Icicle Stabbing Spondylitis
https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-icicle-stabbing-spondylitis/
Symptom: Derealization
2025-2-10 Fight Flight Freeze Fawn Acute Stress Response
Symptom: Disconnection
I have never felt so inhuman.
Some good gets from thrifting the other day. 10 sci-fi flicks including eXistenZ! 
#horror #Cronenberg #BodyHorror #SciFi #movies #film @horror
2025-1-22: Fire & Ice
Symptom: Coat Hanger Pain
I only learned about this term very recently, from yumpsuit on the Fediverse. Thank you so much for letting me know about it!
I am almost disproportionately thankful to have a handy description for letting people know what I’m feeling, as well as how to look for ways to try to mitigate the pain. Reading about Coat Hanger Pain resonated deeply, in a way similar to how I often feel when I get a diagnosis: a feeling of relief, connection, community, and hope.
Many people who have not been chronically ill see a diagnosis as a negative. Indeed, many disabled people are never told their diagnoses, and are never told they are disabled. This needs to change, because as Granite and Sunlight explained:
Many people are disabled for a long time before they get a diagnosis which explains what is happening to them, and there is a resistance in the medical profession to giving long-term diagnoses, especially for young people and for women with chronic conditions which lack good treatment options, because of an outdated belief that labels are limiting and they don’t want people to ‘see themselves as disabled’. The fact they are already disabled, already struggling, is why disability justice advocates are trying to help medical professionals change their approach to this. Most people just want answers and context for what is happening to them – not having a name for it doesn’t mean it isn’t affecting their lives. Diagnosis gives people access to context, support and community who can help a person manage the condition better, but these are not built into the medical response to disability. Despite these delays, the person is still disabled all that time, and still needs access to the support and adaptations which can help them live good lives managing their conditions.
For more information about this, I recommend Brianne of No End In Sight’s TEDx Talk, Disease Begins Before Diagnosis.
2025-1-19 MCAS trigger: allium smell
https://www.illmarks.com/2025-1-19-mcas-trigger-allium-smell/
