Thanks for your reply.

I think you are correct. Daenerys is calling for radical change, though happily for both of us, it won’t involve fire.

I’ll research dracaena propagation and get to work!

Thank you for the thorough answer. What a change with your mother’s dracaena!

I’ll go check how to propagate Daenerys. I feel it is the most approachable solution but I don’t know how to do it…

… I’ll also check some websites to find more dragon-related names.

First of all, thanks for the clarification at the end. I’ve been targeted and insulted so many times in the old site, I very rarely engage in conversation here unless it is overly… “sanitised.” So I appreciate your words, from a sleep-deprived person to another.

Now, I think we’re pretty much on the same page. I’m not denying that Christian kingdoms expanded south or that power shifted over time. It is more about the suitability of a term that suggests there was this originally unified Christian peninsula that everyone was just “taking back,” but that doesn’t really match how messy and complicated things actually were back in the medieval days.

That whole framing was created much later, and fascists jumping on it doesn’t give it extra points on my and many historians books – but I don’t think it is about policing language, and more about being fair to history.

I think it isn’t so much invalidating the event itself but the name of the event. It was an expansion or a conquest.

I believe what historians mean is that the term was heavily promoted by the fascist regime as an ideological tool to show how unified the peninsula had been for centuries under the Christian faith… Which wasn’t true.

As far as I know and understand (not an historian!) before the conquest of the peninsula by the Muslim and the establishment of Al-Andalus, there was no unified… Anything. The mythos of “Christians getting back what was ours” was a powerful propaganda tool for fascism, so it is fascist rethoric at play more than anything – and (as much as I understood it from recent readings on the matter) politically and socially speaking, this term was not a thing before the 19th century.

Thanks for posting!

It is becoming more and more common to challenge and revisit the term “reconquista”, as it is closely linked with nationalism, Islamophobia, and the Franco regime.

Wikipedia has a nice explanation of this in this article, under Legacy.

“They express their gratitude and end the conversation” which I believe is a synonym of “quest completed, here’s you reward!”

Wonderful.

The Solid Snake method of conversation has taken on meme status in recent years, as players noticed the Metal Gear icon simply repeated the last few words of anything anyone said to him as a question. As was discovered by ‘Hakkix’ on Reddit, you can do the same to game the NPCs in Where Winds Meet. If someone asked you, say, to “Find the buried treasure chest,” you’d respond by saying, “The buried treasure chest?” and so on. Eventually, the NPC gets so confused that they express their gratitude and end the conversation. Whether that’s due to confusion or exasperation is unclear, but the effect is the same.

My skin breaks very easily, so I got the prescription for the oestrogen cream to help strengthen it. The moisturiser is helping enormously with the itching too. Got two recommended and both are keeping me as sane as this whole thing allows…

I thought once a week was too little too! I’ve gone undiagnosed for a year so I expected it’d take a longer treatment to stabilise the LS, but my gynae set me up on a four-week one where I gradually scale down from twice a day to twice a week, after having tried once a week and finding out it was too little.

I think what you mention about the dermatologist could be key here. I won’t say my gynae doesn’t have a clue what she’s doing, but I think she may be underestimating my current situation…

And you are completely right. It is an ointment and not a cream!

Thank you again. I’m trying to stay positive and be kind to myself, but it is hard when your immune system is constantly throwing curveballs at you.

Thank you for your words. I read it a few days ago – and hundreds more… Found some fantastic information from a big university hospital here, too.

I am thankful there’s so much written about it, but thus far nothing has made a difference – apart from one thing: no more leggings for me…

I’ll make sure to update!

Thank you for your kind words. I’m running out of hope. This whole thing is triggering my PTSD like few things do. I really wish for a better response from my body soon.

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Thank you 🫂

Thank you so much for taking the time to write this.

I myself have just started having a more active sex life after years recovering from some awful experiences, and this feels like such a slap on the face. My partner is really patient and shows more kindness to me than I do myself. It is simply so hard to find any kind of strategy when your body is working against you in these awful ways.

I am so glad you’ve found a rhythm and your main trigger. I suspect it is emotional distress for me, which probably means I should finally look into mindfulness after postponing it for ages…

I’m using the steroid cream, an oestrogen cream, and a moisturising cream. Honestly, I put fewer creams on my face than I do down there… No biopsy for me, though. I find that odd because my gynae seems capable and yet fumbling around at the same time. I’ll definitely suggest it on my next appointment. Thank you for the reminder!

Do you have to apply the steroid cream every week? I’ve read about people who are now more stable and only need it during a flareup, and it sounds like a dream. I was doing once a week with not super good results, and I’m now doing an intensive treatment due to a flareup last week, and it all feels so hopeless.

Again, thank you so much for your reply. It makes me feel less alone.

I think the link to the Feminism community is missing an exclamation mark at the beginning. My app treats it like an email when I click on it.

Teapot to make a brew for…

“Maybe straighten your hair. It’ll look more professional.”

Oh! How so?

I thought the fact they decelerate very gently would help with this. Is it because there is less “prudent driving” among EV owners?

Oh interesting. By “self-service” you mean “self-praise”?

I think the worst profiles I’ve found are the ones that list who they don’t want – which, surprise surprise, is often an independent woman who’s got a personality and decision making skills.

I’ve found more than one insulting feminists and a guy who stated in capital letters “MAKE WOMEN GREAT AGAIN.”

All in all, a lot of yikes. It is a hellscape out there. Stay safe.

Haha I feel this is a love-it-or-hate-it scenario.

I’m on the “love it” train. Dehydrated durian is so addictive!

It definitely is – but for me the key is in the “less”.

I cannot be angry all the time. It is a very loud emotion that consumes everything else, affecting my mental and physical health.

I cannot fight for anyone or anything in such a state.