learning that self depreciation isnt cool and just makes the people around you uncomfortable unironically improved my mental health a lot. like if you just stop saying negative shit about yourself you will genuinely like yourself more and other people wont be repulsed by your attitude and you will have more friends. it’s true.
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new candidate for worst reblog on my oppenheimer post. god forbid anyone feel bad about anything ever.
actually i think you SHOULD feel bad if you choose to see oppenheimer anyways. that should be the price of entry. i genuinely don’t care if you go to see it but if people whose families and communities were affected by the real life thing have had to see oppenheimer memes and nuclear bomb jokes everywhere for months i think the very least you could do is be forced to reflect for the length of time it takes you to read a tumblr post about it and to feel just a little bit bad about your own complicity
literally every single reactionary response to barbie or oppenheimer criticism is just at its core people freaking out about ever having to feel the slightest bit of discomfort about the media they consume. the be all end all moral bar for anything is just “is this something i personally enjoyed” it’s fucking bonkers. like literally my entire post was about the structural issues in hollywood and the united states more broadly and was intentionally not individualizing responsibility (even on nolan himself!), but you know what. sometimes you should feel just a little bit bad about stuff actually
[ID: screenshot reading: interesting. though i think no one should feel bad if they choose to see oppenheimer anyway. End ID]
some historical bisexual photos!
reminder for this pride that bisexuals have always been a part of queer liberation, we have always existed and we always will <3
actually you know what that’s exactly it i would rather someone add 5 parantheticals after every sentence than use tone indicators it’s 1. accomplishing SO much more in terms of clarity 2. extremely funny to look at depending on how they’re used
observe:
“is this real? /gen” — i thought /gen meant “general” for ages. i would not be able to understand this on first sight a few years ago and is thus ineffective
“is this real? (genuine question)” — i fully understand this without issue
“is this real? (genuine question) (can’t tell) (very realistic) (looks real) (scary) (photoshop?)” — is not only incredibly clear it’s also very funny to read all of these thoughts stapled together while also in their own parentheses. it’s also the most useful because now i can actually address all parts of what they are asking me with as much specificity as BOTH of us need
straight people should have to wear “VISITOR” badges when they go to gay bars
WHY are hets so mad at this post I thought you didn’t want to get hit on at gay bars here’s a solution
God could you imagine how mad geologists must have been to slowly watch the “hey all the continents kinda fit like puzzle pieces :)” guy get proven right
It was a woman that did it!
I love girl talk, especially when it’s complex geological theory
Needless to say, looking up recipes to help with my autoimmune issues is going FANTASTIC and totally NOT making me want to commit arson
Honestly, if you can stomach it reading about that experiment is a pretty big, sobering wake-up call that will stick with you for a long time.
I mean, setting aside that calories are kinda a flawed science in the first place, 1,500 calories was once the projected baseline for STARVING WAR AND FAMINE REFUGEES ON THE VERGE OF DEATH and it’s genuinely enraging to see people today act like that’s all the average healthy human needs, ESPECIALLY after reading about what sticking to that amount did to those men.
This isn’t normal, it’s putting yourself through a simulated FAMINE for no fucking reason, and thinking about all the people who do this to themselves makes me so fucking angry I could cry.
Please, believe me, you deserve better than this. You don’t deserve to starve. You deserve food and love and to be cared for, not to suffer needlessly under a fake famine disguised as a health plan.
The thing that’s stuck with me the longest about the Minnesota Starvation Experiment is how it showed that starvation messes you up psychologically big time too. During the rehabilitation phase of the experiment one of the test subjects cut off three of his fingers with an axe and when they went WHY THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT???? He wasn’t sure. In an interview later on he said ‘As of 50 years later, I am not ready to say I did it on purpose. I am not ready to say I didn’t.’
Please eat.
Oh yeah that part is def the one that sticks with me the most. They were in the RECOVERY period and they were still so messed up from starving that one guy just straight up maimed himself and had NO IDEA why, realizing THAT’S what starving can do to a person is pretty good at reminding me that if I’m hungry I should fucking eat something, and god does it make me so worried and upset any time I see a person happily talking about how they’re sticking to a 1,200-1,500 cal diet, like it borderline registers as someone bragging about self-harm or drunk driving at this point. I can barely remain civil but I know challenging it won’t really achieve much. Even the most reasonable people I know will sit there and happily insist the adult human body only needs like 1,200 cal to function every day.
And like those guys in the experiment were at least eating carbs!! The people I know and see are all over low carb and sugar and fat and everything, keto and paleo and vegan, ways to sate their sweet tooth without actually eating anything bcs their bodies are so ravenous for sugar they can’t think about anything else and that’s normal and not a sign that something’s wrong, all protein, all meat, gluten free and dairy free even if they don’t have a medical reason for it, fuckin’ juice cleanses and shit all in effort to lose the last like 10-20lbs that they are sure will fix them like JESUS when will enough be enough???
Anyway sorry for the rant I have just been raised around people absolutely drowning in diet culture and it legit makes me so angry and sad and augh a million other things. And to everyone reading, as always, please if you do nothing else, just eat.
that post about how its impossible to satirize masculinity without thousands of men earnestly idenitifying with it isn’t wrong but ive also seen enough women cheer on the most rancid shit as long as its got a veneer of femininity to it so idk i think it might just be a human thing
equality win: men and women both bad at media comprehension !!
for every Taxi Driver there’s a Midsommar
This is just my 2¢ as a nonbinary person but I genuinely think that cis people’s gender is just as constructed as trans people’s. Cis people love to accuse us of having making up genders or artificially modifying our appearance but….the entire makeup, fashion, diet, workout, and haircare industry exists so that cis people can maintain the illusion of two entirely distinct genders with no overlap.
Everybody is constantly doing drag, all the time
Ursula the Unicorn
Ursula was very well loved by her little girl. Ursula’s family’s mom wrote that she “was won at a carnival game, so her materials are probably not top quality. However, she has been loved to pieces (almost literally) by my five year old over the past three years. This includes my daughter using her as a pillow every night and carrying her around by the horn all the time.”
Here is the first photo of Ursula I saw:
As you can see, she was a bit droopy and had lost the original glow on her horn and hooves, but she was still pretty stable. I proposed a spa and recovering her horn and hooves in new fabric. Her family agreed and Ursula flew in. Here she is in her bubble bath:
She’s getting nice and clean and don’t worry, she’ll be plump soon! You can also see a bit of the glow on her hoof and horn, but we still planned to recover them as the fabric was quite thin.
Here’s here heart being made and installed with a bit of her original stuffing. I have special unicorn fabric for their hearts… mostly because I saw the fabric and couldn’t resist. :-)
Once she was mostly stuffed, it was time to find new pink glowing fabric for her. That took a bit of doing. She originally had sparkles, which were long gone, and a perfect match in color and sparkles was nowhere to be found. Here are the three options I found (the one on the left has sparkles… don’t know if you can see them):
Her family opted for the panne velvet in the last image… a really close color match with some shine.
Surgery proceeded and soon Ursula was ready to fly home:
She flew straight home to Indianapolis and into her little girl’s arms. I got a photo of them…Ursula was being squeezed very tightly around the neck, so it’s a good thing she got plumped up! And the feedback from the five year old? “They did such a good job!”
“Saying i love you every minute lessens the meaning” um to YOU….freak.
I just know that when Romeo and Juliet premiered two ye olde girlies in the pit at intermission were like didst thou see the sparks betwixt Tybalt and mercutio… aye and not from their swords alone!
i don’t know how to tell you people that you should care about racism not because you’re invested in media created by people of color but because you care about people of color period
