nerviovago:

Whump in the Woods

This is, of course, for @brutal-nemesis’s forest day, which totally should have been called “whump in the woods.”

Anyway, we’ve got a double whammy here today, but only one of them is directly related to the forest…

Oh and Victor has a new boyfriend, Samson Buhle, MD.

Trigger Warnings – Also Tagged: blood mention, weapons, crossbows, collapsing, medication

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“Thanks for inviting us. A triple camping date was totally the best way to introduce Samson to everyone,” Victor says. He continues down the trail, holding his boyfriend’s hand. He is joined by Chaia and Maria and Kai and Juliet, both couples clasping hands as well.

“Of course. Maria and I love it here. It’s the only forest in the state she’s not allergic to,” Chaia responds. She stares down at her wife’s hands, unconsciously scanning them for hives.

A sudden noise rings out in the distance.

“What was that?” Juliet asks.

“I don’t know. It’s probably a bird,” Kai reassures her as the group turns right along the trail. To their right, a creek flows from the waterfall at the end of the trail.

“Hey, can we pause so that I can tie my shoelace?” Samson asks.

“Of course,” Victor replies. He reaches his arm out and leans against the trunk of a big oak tree.

The sound rings out again. This time, it’s noise is more distinctive. The sound is the firing of a crossbow.

“Everyone get down!” Kai shouts to the group. He crouches down and shouts into the distance, “We are people not game!”

Juliet is rushed down by Kai and Samson stays low to the ground after tying his shoe. Chaia is taken down by the sudden weakness of Maria.

“You know how I said that Maria doesn’t react to this forest? Well, I was wrong,” she says, laying Maria flat on the ground and opening her backpack. She pulls out an emergency kit containing Maria’s rescue meds, a pulse oximeter, and a blood pressure cuff. “Maria, what’s going on?”

“I feel faint and my arms are itchy.” Maria’s arms and face slowly turn a shade of bright red.

“Okay. I got you, Mar.” Chaia slides the blood pressure cuff onto Maria’s arm and clips the pulse oximeter onto Maria’s finger. She digs through the med bag and pulls out a box of benadryl. “Blood pressure is a little lower than normal, but I don’t think that you’re in anaphylaxis right now. Take this.” She hands her wife a bright pink chewable tablet.

“Wow, Chaia you are so good at this,” Kai remarks. He pauses for a moment, then says, “Where’s Victor?”

Victor’s legs remain near the tree he had leaned against, but his upper half had not lowered when the rest of the group ducked. Victor cannot duck, as his left hand has been impaled by the cross bow’s arrow and stuck to the tree. “Up here,” Victor manages, pained.

Samson and Kai rush to their feet to attend to Victor. “Oh, babe, that does not look good,” Samson remarks. “But we are gonna help you. How’s the pain?”

“Bad.”

“Can you wiggle your fingers?” Kai follows up.

Victor attempts to move his fingers against the blood-stained bark. He grimaces in pain. “Not really.”

“Okay,” Kai responds. “Chaia, do you have pain meds and an ace bandage in your bag?”
“I’ve got both.” She digs through the bag and pulls the items out.

Samson lightly grasps Victor’s right hand. “As you probably know, it’s not safe to remove the arrow until we get you to the hospital, but we do need to detach you from the tree.”

“I don’t like where this is going,” Victor replies.

“We have to do it,” Samson replies, sending a knowing look to Kai.

Kai grasps the edge of the arrow while Samson pulls Victor into a restraining hug.

“No,” Victor pleads, as Kai lightly wiggles the arrow free of the tree.

“I need to move your hand up to ensure that it stays on the arrow when I remove it from the tree, okay?” Kai didn’t wait for Victor to respond. He slowly slid Victor’s hand up the arrow just enough for him to fit his hand between Victor’s hand and the tree. Victor cried out in pain.

“I know,” Samson whispers to Victor. “We’re almost done.” Sampson gives Victor a reassuring (and more restraining) squeeze.

“On tree, we move off the tree,” Kai tells Victor. He lightly laughs at his own joke. “Get it? Like three? No? Okay. One, two, tree.” He pulls the arrow out of the tree, making sure that Victor’s hand did not come off the arrow. Once again, Victor screamed in pain.

“All done,” Samson told Victor. We’re gonna wrap it to hold the arrow in place and you can take some ibuprofen for right now. Let’s take this triple date to the hospital,” he says, watching Chaia help Maria to her feet.

v-poreons:

v-poreons:

The fact that not only did dream make a song/music video about how not taking your meds is good and will make you happier (terrible message for anyone let alone a young fan base), but also forced an animation team that basically only had experience animating Minecraft to animate something completely different from their usual style in a few weeks with NO pay and there are still people who think he’s not a complete asshole is astounding to me

Lmao (according to the notes the animators have now been paid for their work but that should have been something that they didn’t have to fucking wait for)

That’s not to mention that apparently this video is based on a real life experience he had in which he dumped his ADHD pills down the drain, and I need to talk about that a little bit.

ADHD medications are strange in that what will work amazingly for one person may have bad side effects for the next. For example, I’m lucky enough that the first meds I tried worked well for me. My younger brother, however, had to go through several different types of medications in order to find the one that suits him. Some medications, if they don’t work, will change you negatively and make you feel “not yourself.” That in no way means that all ADHD meds will be the same for you, and it certainly doesn’t mean you should abandon all attempts at getting yourself the help that you need. Furthermore, it’s not bad to have to take medication to function, and the idea that someone who takes meds is somehow suppressing themselves or no longer has ADHD is baffling to say the least.

Also, stopping medication cold turkey can have serious consequences. Never stop taking your medications for an extended period of time abruptly without consulting your doctor.

sound on for Thbbpp noise

[id: brown and cream California kingsnake sniffing a paracetamol box by flicking his tongue against it, making a quiet noise as the camera slowly zooms in]