r/tarot mods removed this submission, calling it a shitpost, so I'm hoping I can get some real impressions from others who have used this book
I have lost a significant amount of weight and, as a result, I no longer have OSA. I have discontinued CPAP therapy after 6 years but now I have a problem with air pressure in my ears.
I have a constant noise in one ear that isn't alleviated with yawning or chewing and I cannot "pop" my ears either.
I have no idea what to do. Getting in to see an ENT, where I live, can take several years.
I'm looking to get into retro gaming and thought having a small colour CRT TV would be pretty cool. I just have no idea where I could find one in the City.
Any ideas?
xxxHOLiC and Pet Shop of Horrors are my two favorite manga of all time and I have no idea if there's anything recent or current that would have similar vibes.
Edit: Oh my goodness, everyone, thank you! It's been so long since I last read manga and I am so excited to give all your recommendations a try! I can't wait!
My supervisor also has a regular cough (being a regular smoker).
I have resorted to wearing earbuds to work and blasting music, but I worry what kind of damage I may be doing to my hearing. Unfortunately, for now, I'm stuck. There are no other spaces I could move to because our workplace is over-full with employees having to share work spaces.
Just looking to comiserate.
Something I've been noticing for a while, in online LGBTQ+ spaces and in person: gay men seem kind of absent. Not entirely, but more than I'd expect. I've been turning this over in my mind, and I have a few hunches.
One thing I keep coming back to is how much the word "queer" has expanded. It means something much broader now than it did even fifteen years ago, which is mostly a good thing. But it does mean that gay men are a smaller visible presence in spaces that are nominally built for everyone. The center of gravity feels like it has shifted, and I'm not sure gay men have moved with it.
I also wonder how much the loss of physical gay spaces matters more than we acknowledge. The AIDS crisis took so much, including a lot of the infrastructure of gay male community. Apps then pulled a lot of social life onto phones. Once things got safer and more legally equal, a lot of gay men just moved into the mainstream, and those spaces never really rebuilt. It makes sense. I just notice the gap.
Online it seems like gay men tend to gather in more specific communities organized around particular interests, rather than under a broad umbrella. Which maybe means they're not absent so much as scattered. The general LGBTQ+ spaces I encounter tend to skew younger, and toward non-binary, trans, and asexual communities. I don't think anyone is being pushed out. It just seems like different needs pulled people in different directions.
There's also something around the assimilation question that I find genuinely interesting. A lot of gay men pursued a particular path over the past few decades: marriage equality, mainstream visibility, legal normalization.
Maybe part of what's happened is simply that gay men have more options now, more places to belong, more ways to live openly. If some of that energy moved out of specifically queer spaces and into the broader world, that might just be what success looks like. I still notice the gap, but I'm not sure it's a problem so much as a sign of how much has changed.
Anyway, I don't have a tidy conclusion. It just feels like a gap worth noticing.