i cant believe there are really people with family group chats. like if your family has a group chat and yall legit talk regularly and send memes and stuff that’s a different genre of reality i cant conceptualize.. ur family might as well be from a teen tv show im sorry it just sounds like pure fiction
I wrote a winnix fic that’s more or less a PWP with feelings. Whoops.
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You groan, sinking deeper into the bath. Water splashes over the side, making the white tile of the bathroom slick under the golden claw foot tub as you dramatically sink down.
“This is embarrassing, Dick.”
“Lew,” his voice is soft, and you glance over at him, and look at Dick Winter’s profile against the gaudy striped blue wallpaper that came with the apartment you share.
“It’s not embarrassing.”
Alternatively: Lewis is having a hard time with his sobriety, and needs Dick to ground him.
A friend asked the other day what percentage of people I went to youth group with “deconstructed” and what percentage remained evangelical. As I thought about it, I realized that for the most part it was the kids who took their faith the most seriously who eventually walked away.
Those of us who tearfully promised that we would follow Jesus anywhere eventually followed him out the door. The Queer kids, more than anyone, learned exactly what it meant to work out our faith with fear and trembling.
They told us to read the Bible and take it seriously and then mocked us for becoming “social justice warriors.”
Now they’re warning us not to deconstruct to the point of meaninglessness.
But they took a chisel to God until he fit in a box. They “deconstructed” the concept of love until it allowed them to tolerate sexual abuse, celebrate white supremacy, and look away from kids in cages.
Some of us got to where we are because we took it all to heart. We took the most foundational elements of our faith to their natural conclusions. Folks who deconstruct evangelicalism aren’t drop-outs; they’re graduates.
“Your
kids are not leaving the church because you didn’t train them enough.
Your kids are leaving the church because you trained them well enough to
develop a sense for truth and justice. You let them read the words of
Jesus - and they got it. And they’ve recognized that the church doesn’t
seem to be interested in those words. They’re not leaving because they
don’t know the truth, they’re leaving because they do.“
Not just sertraline, any SSRI or SNRI. Serotonin syndrome can kill you. When I was younger and on a lot of medication, a dose of cough medicine landed me in the ER. Always check potential interactions here before taking anything with antidepressants, even if it’s over-the-counter.
hm so psa bc i didn’t know this, it’s not common knowledge, and flu season is around:
apparently you aren’t supposed to take dextromethorphan (a common cough suppressant. it’s in stuff like cough syrup, mucinex dm, tylenol severe cold) with sertraline (aka zoloft, the antidepressant) bc it has the risk of causing Serotonin Syndrome, which is not as fun as the name suggests. i’m not a doctor but like, avoid drug interactions bc they can be serious.
