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2026-6-3 Post-Cholecystectomy Referred Pain

Learn about referred pain, it can save your life.

2026-6-3 Post-Cholecystectomy Referred Pain

Learn about referred pain, it can save your life.

2026-6-3 Post-Cholecystectomy Referred Pain

Learn about referred pain, it can save your life.

2026-6-3 Post-Cholecystectomy Referred Pain

Learn about referred pain, it can save your life.

2026-6-3 Post-Cholecystectomy Referred Pain

Learn about referred pain, it can save your life.

ICYMI: CLAYFACE (2026) ~ DC’s Boldest Body-Horror Transformation Yet https://popgeeks.com/clayface-2026-dcs-boldest-body-horror-transformation-yet/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Clayface #DCMovies #BodyHorror #HorrorMovies #SciFi

ICYMI: CLAYFACE (2026) ~ DC’s Boldest Body-Horror Transformation Yet https://popgeeks.com/clayface-2026-dcs-boldest-body-horror-transformation-yet/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Clayface #DCMovies #BodyHorror #HorrorMovies #SciFi

ICYMI: CLAYFACE (2026) ~ DC’s Boldest Body-Horror Transformation Yet https://popgeeks.com/clayface-2026-dcs-boldest-body-horror-transformation-yet/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Clayface #DCMovies #BodyHorror #HorrorMovies #SciFi

More Caelum, also from 2023. Now with a somewhat more solidified design.

He's doing fine.

#BGHookeArt #BGHookeOC #OC #Art #DigitalArt #Sketch #Anime #Horror #BodyHorror #Eyes #EyeContact #Scopophobia #ClipStudioPaint #NoBot #NoAI

CLAYFACE (2026) ~ DC’s Boldest Body-Horror Transformation Yet https://popgeeks.com/clayface-2026-dcs-boldest-body-horror-transformation-yet/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Clayface #DCComics #HorrorMovies #SciFiThriller #BodyHorror

Much gratitude to Cynthia Gómez, author of MUÑECA and THE NIGHTMARE BOX AND OTHER STORIES, for this blurb for Caleb Sierra's THE WETWORKS MIRACLE. If you're looking to get your hands on one of the strangest books you'll ever read, WETWORKS is available from us and your favorite indie bookstore. "The tree-cattle are lowing to be milked." 😱

#TheWetworksMiracle #CalebSierra #CynthiaGomez #EcoHorror #BodyHorror #WeirdFiction #SurrealHorror #SmallPressBooks #LatinxHorror

The Wetworks Miracle is out next week! It's a quick and brutal read, a delightful mix of weird horror, biopunk, and portal fantasy. If you're curious about one of the weirdest books we've ever published, check out this review from Chasing Shadows: https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2026/06/30/book-review-the-wetworks-miracle-by-caleb-sierra/

#TheWetworksMiracle #BookReview #HorrorBooks #BodyHorror #EcoHorror #WeirdFiction #SpeculativeFiction #SmallPressBooks #Bookstodon

#NowWatching “The Bride of Frankenstein” (1935) on 4K UHD Blu-ray from Universal Studios

Get it: https://amzn.to/4vHLFuI

Directed by James Whale
Starring Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive

Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.

#4K #4KBluray #4KUHD #bluray #blurayCollector #PhysicalMedia #ad #horror #BodyHorror #monster #gothic #tragedy

2026_2_16 “Botox for Migraine” Injection Set #2, and 5 Hour Drive to/from Appt

https://www.illmarks.com/2026_2_16-botox-for-migraine-injection-set-2-and-5-hour-drive-to-from-appt/

#2 #art #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #bodyart #bodymapping #chronicIllness #chronicIllness #chronicmigraine #disability #disabilityart #DisabledArtist #eds #healthcare #heds #longCovid #longcovid #mcas #medart #medical #medicalArt #migraine #MillionsMissing #neurology #POTS #pwLC #pwme #queer #QueerArt #QueerArtist #SciArt #SciComms #trans #transArt #TransPride

Symptom: Social Security Disability Rejection

61% of Social Security applicants are denied after their first application. I am now on the second appeal, when 49% of remaining applicants are approved, and have hired a lawyer (disability lawyers are only paid if they win your case).

I set a new goal on ko-fi, in order to get more illmarks pieces into the world. The fundraising would cover framing two Med Art Advocacy pieces, and submission fees + professional scanning for the Mütter Medical Museum, a Senior Living Center, a Health Care Center & 3 other shows.

If you are able to comfortably, please buy me a ko-fi. We’re 1/3 of the way to the goal!

https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-social-security-disability-rejection/

#artmuseum #BetterFutures #bodyHorror #chronicIllness #chronicIllness #chronicPain #crowdfund #disability #disabilityart #disabilityJustice #FederalGovernment #kofi #longcovid #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #pwLC #pwme #redesignSystems #socialSecurity #SocialSecurityReform #SSI #systemsFailing #TransformativeFutures #UniversalBasicIncome #US #usa #ushealthcare

just released a new zine: 10 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A VOID 🖤

exploring queerness, surreality, body horror, and dissociation. grab it here: https://mkzariel.itch.io/10-ways-of-looking-at-a-void

also, digital copies of BOY APPARITION are out now: https://www.vinegarpress.org/store/p/boy-apparition-by-mk-zariel-digital-only

#QueerZines #ExperimentalPoetry #TransArtists #BodyHorror #Dissociation #IndieZines

2026-1-7 Worst POTS day ever

https://www.illmarks.com/2026-1-7-worst-pots-day-ever/

#anatomy #art #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #bodyhorror #cfs #chronicIllness #CovidIsntOver #Dysautonomia #FediArt #illustration #ink #longCovid #longcovid #mastoart #me #mecfs #medart #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #Patient #PatientLed #POTS #potsie #publicHealth #pwLC #pwme #SciArt #SciComms

Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis – „Everything everywhere all at once“ (2022)

Ein Multiversum auf Speed – und Michelle Yeoh, die mit stoischer Ruhe durch alle Dimensionen stolpert. Ein Bagel verschluckt jede Existenz, eine Steuerbeamtin als Wrestling-Ikone des Behördenalltags, und die Daniels, Kwan und Scheinert, lassen die Genregrenzen so fröhlich explodieren, dass Hollywood alle traditionellen Regeln vergessen musste. Absurd, anarchisch, liebevoll und zutiefst menschlich zugleich, ich liebe einfach alles an diesem Film! (ARD, Wh.)

Zum Blog: https://nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/michelle-yeoh-jamie-lee-curtis-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-2022/

2025-8-11 My migraines are triggered by drinking water

https://www.illmarks.com/2025-8-11-my-migraines-are-triggered-by-drinking-water/

#art #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #chronicIllness #chronicMigraine #chronicPain #disability #disabled #longCovid #longcovid #mastcell #mcas #medBlog #medart #medicalArt #medicalBlog #migraine #MillionsMissing #neurology #pwLC #pwme #sciBlog #SciArt

2025-8-9 I almost went in to anaphylaxis from drinking water.

https://www.illmarks.com/2025-8-9-i-almost-went-in-to-anaphylaxis-from-drinking-water/

#allergy #art #autoimmune #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #chronicIllness #immune #immunology #longCovid #longcovid #mastCell #mastcell #mcas #medArt #medBlog #medart #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #pwLC #pwme #sciArt #sciBlog #SciArt

2025-8-9 Is this MCAS anaphylaxis, anxiety, or anaphylaxis from anxiety?

I almost didn’t want to share this one, because I’m in a bit of a nervous state, and I was worried about the people who think people with Long Covid are psychological malingerers, etc. When I had to leave work, and filed for US Social Security Disability, I kept my Generalized Anxiety Disorder out of my initial application, afraid of getting the dreaded “just anxiety,” dismissal that many complex chronic illness kin are familiar with. (I was later told this was a bad move, and to definitely include all mental health and neurodivergence things, which I did for the ongoing process.)

Even as I’m having less anaphylaxis risk, it’s taking time to recover psychologically. I told my therapist how I felt like I backslid over a decade in mental health work overnight from the first recent anaphylaxis episode. She kindly said that while I might feel as scared and threatened as I often did back then, that the trigger was different. I was not feeling that anxious about an email, I was feeling that way about a literal life and death situation, one which I still don’t fully understand the triggers of.

A decade ago, de-stigmatizing mental healthcare was really important to me too. Now, I’m especially aware of how much these issues intersect, so heck yeah, publishing the medical art about anxiety.

Lastly, I wanted to include few examples of the ways in which these issues intersect. These are absolutely the tip of the iceberg.

• Mast Cell Activation Snydrome (often MCAS for space, in my art) can trigger so, so many pyschological symptoms. Mast Attack has a great overview of the topic, and while I haven’t been able to read the study fully because of the severe brain fog, Prevalence and treatment response of neuropsychiatric disorders in mast cell activation syndrome caught my eye.

• Anaphylaxis, or near anaphylaxis, has many symptoms in common with anxiety, from chest tightness to clammy skin, and “a feeling of impending doom”. While MCAS is not allergies, All Things Allergies has an easy intro to anxiety & anaphylaxis, and here’s a study The impact of anaphylaxis on the quality of life and mental health of adults.

• Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome co-occurs with many mental health issues, and I really appreciate how this article lists suspected mechanisms, misattributions, and related factors.

• Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, or POTS, is a form of autonomic dysfuntction (when things your body normally does automatically stop behaving normally), and is a part of my Long Covid. It involves a high heart rate, and often symptoms like room spinning or lightheadedness, trembling or shaking, shortness of breath, and poor bloodflow. POTS is often misdiagnosed as anxiety, and The Disabled Ginger wrote about it here.

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.

Moreover, there is a peculiarly modern predilection for psychological explanations of a disease, as of everything else. Psychologizing seems to provide control over the experiences and events (like grave illnesses) over which people have in fact little or no control. Psychological understanding undermines the ‘reality’ of a disease. That reality has to be explained.

Susan Sontag, illness as metaphor (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977), p. 55.

p.s. mental health is physical health and physical health is mental health. you got a literal brain in your body and all of your body is involved in everything that you do. please take care of yourselves and each other. <3

https://www.illmarks.com/2025-8-9-is-this-mcas-anaphylaxis/

#allergy #anaphylaxis #anxiety #art #autoimmune #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #chronicIllness #gad #generalizedAnxiety #immune #longCovid #longcovid #mastCell #mastCellActivationSyndrome #mastCellDisease #mastcell #mcas #medart #medblog #medicalArt #medwriting #mentalHealth #MillionsMissing #pwLC #pwme #SciArt #sciblog #sciwriting #symptom

2025-2-12 Starting imatinib for resistant mast cell symptoms.

https://www.illmarks.com/2025-2-12-starting-imatinib-for-resistant-mast-cell-symptoms/

#art #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #chemo #chronicIllness #chronicIllnessArt #disabilityArt #gleevec #glivec #imatinib #invisibleDisabilities #invisibleIllness #invisibleIllnesses #longCovid #longcovid #mastCell #mastCellActivationSyndrome #mastCellDisease #mastcell #mastocytosis #meCfs #mecfs #medart #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #nausea #pwLC #pwme #SciArt #scienceArt #tki

Symptom: Icicle Stabbing Spondylitis

https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-icicle-stabbing-spondylitis/

#anatomical #anatomy #anatomyArt #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #chronicIllness #chronicPain #chronicillnesss #chronicPain #climateArt #climateChange #disabilityArt #disabilityart #longcovid #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #pwLC #pwme

Symptom: Derealization

https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-derealization-2/

#bodyHorror #bodyMapping #chronicIllness #derealization #disabilityArt #dissociation #longCovid #longcovid #medicalArt #mentalHealth #MillionsMissing #pwLC #pwme

2025-1-22: Fire & Ice

https://www.illmarks.com/025-1-22-fire-ice/

#bodyHorror #chronicIllness #chronicPain #disabilityArt #Dysautonomia #GI #GIpain #ibs #longCovid #longcovid #mcas #mecfs #medart #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #POTS #pwLC #pwme #SciArt #temperaturedysregulatiion

Symptom: Coat Hanger Pain

I only learned about this term very recently, from yumpsuit on the Fediverse. Thank you so much for letting me know about it!

I am almost disproportionately thankful to have a handy description for letting people know what I’m feeling, as well as how to look for ways to try to mitigate the pain. Reading about Coat Hanger Pain resonated deeply, in a way similar to how I often feel when I get a diagnosis: a feeling of relief, connection, community, and hope.

Many people who have not been chronically ill see a diagnosis as a negative. Indeed, many disabled people are never told their diagnoses, and are never told they are disabled. This needs to change, because as Granite and Sunlight explained:

Many people are disabled for a long time before they get a diagnosis which explains what is happening to them, and there is a resistance in the medical profession to giving long-term diagnoses, especially for young people and for women with chronic conditions which lack good treatment options, because of an outdated belief that labels are limiting and they don’t want people to ‘see themselves as disabled’. The fact they are already disabled, already struggling, is why disability justice advocates are trying to help medical professionals change their approach to this. Most people just want answers and context for what is happening to them – not having a name for it doesn’t mean it isn’t affecting their lives. Diagnosis gives people access to context, support and community who can help a person manage the condition better, but these are not built into the medical response to disability. Despite these delays, the person is still disabled all that time, and still needs access to the support and adaptations which can help them live good lives managing their conditions.

For more information about this, I recommend Brianne of No End In Sight’s TEDx Talk, Disease Begins Before Diagnosis.

https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-coat-hanger-pain/

#art #bodyHorror #chronicIllness #chronicPain #coatHangerPain #coathangerpain #disabilityArt #disabilityJustice #Dysautonomia #eds #heds #longCovid #longcovid #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #neis #NEISvoid #POTS #pwLC #pwme #spoonie

2024_10_4

https://www.illmarks.com/2024_10_4-aching-beneath-my-shoulder-blades/

#advocacyArt #bodyHorror #chronicIllness #disabilityArt #disabled #longCovid #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #postViralIllness #pwLC #pwme

2024_9_28 Unsure if sore throat is caused by new digetive supplements, or?

https://www.illmarks.com/2024_9_28-sore-throat/

#art #bodyHorror #chronicIllness #chronicIllnessArt #disabilityArt #inkArt #longCovid #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #mixedMediaArt #pencilArt #pwLC #pwme

Symptom: Shame
for not living up to my past standards and abilities

https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-shame/

#art #bodyHorror #chronicIllness #disabilityArt #longCovid #longcovid #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #pwLC #pwme

I kind of feel like all body horror artists have chronic pain themselves or know someone close who does.

#spoonie #chronicIllness #chronicallyIll #longHaulers #bodyHorror #art #assertion #unexaminedAssertion #yoMommaSoPained #theyVentArtAboutIt #butSRSly #still #goToTherapy #getTherapy

Die Ewige Grenze

“Im Stall Pestgruft lebte eine Gruppe von Materiersöldnern, die sich selbst “Die Erleuchteten” nennen. Sie werden angeführt von einem Magier mit dem Namen Grüner Marvent, einem ambitionierten Schleifer mit einer langen Liste von Dingen, die er tun möchte. Er will die Herrschaft über Pestgruft erlangen (jeder kann einem das sagen), aber er hat sein Augenmerk nun auch auf Sigil gerichtet.”

“Marvent hat herausgefunden, daß der ständig schwelende Konflikt zwischen den Bünden der Schlüssel zu seinem Erfolg ist Er glaubt, daß er die Bünde für seine Zwecke gebrauchen kann, indem er Agenten plaziert, denen die Bundmeister vertrauen. Er versuchte mit Bezauberungen und Beherrschungszaubern solche Agenten zu platzieren, aber die meisten wurden entdeckt, und nur die bei den Toten und der Schicksalsgarde überlebten.

Marvent erkannte, daß er Agenten benötigte, die wirklich an die Sache glauben, für die sie einstehen, die aber den Spieß drehen, wenn es ihnen befohlen wird. Und so ersann er den Plan, Leute zu benutzen, die niemand vermissen würde (die Übergeschnappten und Fusler des Stocks) und sie den Bünden beitreten zu lassen. Die armen Schlucker wissen nicht einmal, daß sie für Marvent arbeiten; sie glauben, daß sie gestorben sind und nun eine zweite Chance haben, um ihr Leben in den Griff zu bekommen. Schließlich ist der beste Agent derjenige, der nicht weiß, daß er einer ist.

Marvents engster Mitarbeiter, ein Magier, der Schattenkerl genannt wird, durchstreift den Stock und „tötet“ die Übergeschnappten, deren Verstand vielleicht wiederhergestellt werden könnte. Sein Schleifer bei den Staubmenschen, Toranna die Graue, achtet darauf, daß jeder Fusler oder Übergeschnappter, der in die Leichenhalle kommt, in der Feuerebene bestattet wird. Doch anstatt zu verbrennen, kommen die Körper in einem verlassenen Ifritpalast an, der Marvent als Basis in der Feuerebene dient. Dort bannen Marvents Leute die Scheintodzauber des Schattenkerls, so daß die Übergeschnappten wiederbelebt werden.

Durch ein zweites Portal in der Zitadelle des Feuers werden die „unprogrammierten“ Übergeschnappten, die nun wieder bei Verstand sind, in den Unteren Bezirk in Sigil geschickt. Die Schlucker geben vor, kürzlich angekommene Materier zu sein und suchen sich einen Bund, um ihm beizutreten, genauso, wie es ihnen befohlen wurde. Marvents Plan ist nun schon seit einigen Monaten in Aktion und bis jetzt hat ihn noch niemand durchschaut.” Die Ewige Grenze, Einleitung, p2

Für dieses Klassische Abenteuer ist eine Konvertierung zur Regeledition 5e verfügbar. Das Abenteuer selbst ist nur noch im Gebrauchtmarkt erhältlich

Diesen Beitrag vorlesen:

https://www.dnddeutsch.de/die-ewige-grenze/

#ADD2 #Bodyhorror #DieEwigeGrenze #dmsguild #Einleitung #Konvertierung #LRichardBakerIII #Planescape #RolandStrube #Sigil #TSR #UweKörner