So I've seen a lot of talk about pain scales. How there should be a special one for chronic pain patients or people who say they're 11 out of 10, etc.
The thing with pain scales though, they are supposed to be about the bodies reaction to pain. A pain scale is supposed to be about how to appropriately treat a patient. So if a person is a 10 from something you'd be a 6, their pain still needs to be treated in accordance to how it feels for the patient (in a perfect world). Your 5 may be another person's 9 but that's beyond the point. 10 is still the peak for the worst pain possible you can handle. Pain where you black out and can't speak. Where you go into shock. Where you can't do anything but lay there locked in agony. That is the peak for anyone period because that's where the body taps out. There shouldn't be extra numbers for chronic pain patients or anything. It defeats the purpose of pain scales. A good pain scale is about physical reactions with the body.
No pain scale is perfect but doctors need some way to gauge how to treat a patient. This one is the one I prefer the most because it is about the body's physical reaction to pain and the treatment for it.
mia fey might have died today but she will forever live on in my heart
Little Sinosauropteryx is gone, thanks~
People say that phoenix learned being a bitch mostly from mia. And while that may partially be true, i think he's had it in him the whole time. Imagine the first time Phoenix makes a bitchy comment about something in front of Mia and she thinks "... this might work even better than expected"
One ironic thing that I love about the hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy is that Douglas Adams apparently was determined to write and create a sci-fi story that showed the future positively, to avoid it being like the depressive prediction of the future that blade runner portrayed. That being said, the first hitchhiker book starts with the main character's house being bulldozed to build a bypass by the council, then immediately after this happens, the entire earth is also destroyed for a space bypass by an intergalactic council
Mia went to college and Immediately started struggling. Because while the Fey's had educated her a great deal they were happy to neglect anything that didn't fit there bubble of a world. She asked what world war two was and got Screamed at for being a ww2 denier, because who Hasn't heard of it?
She spends Hours on top of her already overwhelming schoolwork studying all the 'basics' they never taught. (Or blatantly taught wrong) she goes to a party with lots of alcohol and a room thick with weed smoke and one guy puffing out rings like he's motherfucking Gandalf (a reference she does not yet understand) says "you were in a cult man."
She was in a cult.
Mia gifts Maya some accurate history and science books. Maya, who wants her sisters approval and attention SO bad devouring them and relaying everything she's learned. It makes her feel so nice that Mia calls her every week and pays such close attention- asks questions and clarifications and everything! - despite how busy she is.
Meanwhile Mia's taking desperate notes to Maya's impromptu lectures because she will NOT be seen as a uninformed hick again. She's Mia fucking Fey goddamn it.
Your supervillain nemesis is little more than goofy comedy relief, always coming up with clunky machines and insane, nonsensical schemes. When a new dangerous villain appeared, your nemesis utterly destroyed them, and then continued on like nothing happened.
Every time I'm around mosquitoes I start thinking about how people made the entirely correct connection between places with a lot of temperate stagnant water and the spread of malaria, but didn't quite connect all the dots - this place has stagnant water, this place has people getting sick with this same illness. Clearly it's the stinky water causing this, maybe it smells bad and the bad air is causing this. It's unhealthy to breathe the outdoor air at night, people who are out at night or don't shutter their windows tightly when the sun goes down are more likely to get sick because the bad air gets in.
The missing middle part was mosquitoes. Mosquitoes breed in standing water, and mosquitoes spread malaria.
I think this kind of thing would make a fun worldbuilding exercise. Have something in your world that does function the way people think it does, but they're completely wrong about why that happens. Or they've gotten the right connection, but backwards.
Holy rites that ward off evil but the Pure Substance is actually just antibacterial. Birds whose call is an omen of an approaching dragon, but these birds actually just have some symbiotic relationship with them. Half-elves that seem predestined to turn to dabbling with dark and lethal magic, but actually they just have a stronger tolerance of The Thing That Kills You due to hybrid vigour. Everyone knows that tigers never attack holy women because of a pact between their gods, but actually it's because a tiger is an ambush predator and the priestesses' headwear vaguely resembles a human face from the back, and the tigers can't quite tell whether she's facing away or towards them.
*reading my own writing* wow this really does cater to all my specific needs
hi guys!!! cripple is a slur!! being disabled is not an inherently bad thing!! people with brain fog aren't bad people or friends!! people with chronic pain should get accomodations and safe places to express themselves!! disabled people shouldn't be afraid to use mobility aids!! you shouldn't kick out someone's cane or crutches!! being neurodivergent is NOT the fucking same as being diaabled!!