Dr Ro Smith

Rhube@wandering.shop

She's just this guy, you know?I'm a science fiction and fantasy writer. I like robots and dragons, silliness and literature.Used to be an academic; may get too deep into analytic philosophy unexpectedly.I'm agender and disabled <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/MECFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MECFS</a>Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi: <a href="http://ko-fi.com/drrhube" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">http://ko-fi.com/drrhube</a> Tumblr: <a href="https://www.tumblr.com/rhube" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://www.tumblr.com/rhube<span class

Posts

Post #4068076
Bee!! #bees #insects #bumblebee #gardening #bloomscrolling #oregano
Post #4011736
First cucumber of the year! And it looks like I'll have quite a few more pretty soon! #cucumbers #food #growyourown #gardening
Post #3866540
OK, time for some picspam. My neighbour's... whatever this is... is looking really cool! It is a much deeper red IRL - very velvety - but I couldn't get my phone to pick up the deeper colours. #bloomscrolling
Post #3844020
Time to read an email message I have been avoiding. 😭
Post #3844019
So, Boots&#39; most recent message asked me to email them a photo of the &#39;faulty&#39; pens, even though I never said that was the issue. Their messaging system doesn&#39;t allow you to add attachments, so they advised me to send it to the complaints team. I&#39;m so done. They want me to email complaints? Fine. I have emailed them. Explaining the whole this again and asking now for a refund rather than just a replacement. I honestly expected them to have their shit tog...
Post #3844018
But hey, I read and answered the message I had been dreading. This is why I really need a PA, and why I have found the process of getting one just too difficult.
Post #3844017
Reading and answering that message from Boots has quite unsettled me. I&#39;ve had a relatively nice time reading in the garden with Garlic on my lap, but I am still unsettled. I had other things I wanted to do today, but it looks like I won&#39;t be able to do them.
Post #3844016
My back is, once again, killing me.
Post #3844015
Little girl, asleep on my shoulder again 💕 💕 💕
Post #3539721
Hey, it's Disability Pride Month. Support an agender person disabled by ME/CFS, depression, anxiety, and CPTSD - buy some of my stuff? I have some designs on Redbubble! Mostly abstract geometric stuff, but there's some fantasy artwork too. I think it's pretty neat! Maybe you will too! https://www.redbubble.com/people/Rhube/shop?asc=u #DisabilityPride #Art #geometric #fantasy #abstract #gifts #MECFS
Post #3428413
Look at my baby girl! Look at her beans!! #GarlicTheCat #caturday #ToeBeans
Post #3343565
Hello there friendos! Can I get some boosts? Redbubble only pays out if you make over £10 in a month. I've sold 2 T-shirts this month, which is awesome! But the artist margin on that is only £6.77. It would mean the world to me to actually get paid by Redbubble this month, even if it's just a little bit. I have a whole bunch of Pride merch, but also some of my other artwork too. Maybe there's something you could enjoy? #art #pride #lgbtq+ #geometric #cthulhu https://www.redbubble.c...
Post #3156906
Am being watched. #GarlicTheCat #caturday
Post #2846441
I would really like it if people could make the point that ME/CFS is more than fatigue without belittling the FUCKING FATIGUE. Because while all the other symptoms suck, this is still far and away the worst aspect of the disease for me. And &#39;Fatigue&#39; is a useful fucking word because it ISN&#39;T just &#39;being tired&#39;. Saying &#39;it&#39;s not JUST fatigue&#39; is not the woke, clarifying thing some of y&#39;all seem to think it is. Why are you he...
Post #2846440
Garlic found a lovely spot to have a snooze until I subjected her to the indignity of being photographed... #GarlicTheCat
Post #2846439
I must get better, for my darling little cat.
Post #2846438
Garlic is annoyed with me because I won&#39;t get up and watch her until the point she decides she&#39;s ready to poo.
Post #2537710
OHT thinks I need to &#39;calm my inner guinea pig&#39;. Because my HPA system is like a guinea pig - really nervous and easily triggered. Which, yeah, that tracks. So I will try the Tumblr method of &#39;Oh no! The tiger!&#39; but instead, &#39;Oh no! The guinea pig!&#39;
Post #2199182
Good luck to everyone voting today. May the odds be in your favour.
Post #2199181
I hope that when I call Garlic &#39;Poppet&#39; and &#39;Good Girl&#39; she knows I&#39;m talking about her and she thinks, &#39;That&#39;s me! I am the Poppet and the Good Girl,&#39; and this makes her happy.
Post #2199180
Today, I am hiding from the world. It is too much and I am too sick. Garlic and I have retreated to bed.
Post #2199179
Bleurgh. Bored, cold, grumpy, tired. Garlic is curled up cutely behind my legs, but I&#39;m still cold!
Post #2199178
Managed some reading in bed. Then Garlic made a pain of herself trying to insert herself, very deliberately, between me and the book, after it became clear that I wasn&#39;t going to follow her when she got up. Unfortunately, she was enough of a pain that I decided to read to the end of that section, and then stop. But before I did, she requested to go under the covers. So here we are. Neither of us having got what we wanted. But she does have to learn boundaries. So.
Post #2199177
Depression and fatigue have me big. Small cat has gone out to frolic. I&#39;m going back to bed. I&#39;m sure an OHT would tell me off for not just lying down on the sofa, but it is warmer and comfier in bed, even if it is upstairs.
Post #2199176
Just remembering the brand of wine in Black Books that&#39;s just called LifeCry. For no reason.
Post #2199175
Small cat curled up behind my legs now, as is right and proper. I hope they make her feel safe.
Post #2199174
Things I don&#39;t have energy for today: the email I got from adult social support that made it clear my ASCW had forgotten everything we discussed when we met weeks ago and on the phone yesterday and I&#39;m probably not going to get any real kind of support out of her at all.
Post #2199173
Feeling very Sarah Connor about the state of everything right now, but sadly not gifted with Sarah Connor&#39;s peak physical health and fitness.
Post #2042945
Frank came to see the catnip this morning and Garlic mostly ignored him. #GarlicTheCat #FrankTheNeighbourCat #cats
Post #2039002
I believe this passage encapsulates entirely what I love best about Katherine Addison&#39;s Cemeteries of Amalo series. Othala Thara Celehar is SUCH a character. One of the characters of all time, for sure 😅 Do you like cosy necromantic crime-solving? Read these books! Passage below is from about half way through the third book, Tomb of Dragons. #bookstodon