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All i want is to be is Bouba in a world full of Kiki

i used to be Kiki too but i’m definitely hella Bouba now

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It's darkly fascinating to me that there are blogs on here entirely dedicated to just bashing fat people. I come across them now and then when they comment some bile on my posts. Imagine spending time on that? Imagine going on tumblr (or elsewhere for that matter) to spread hate and nothing else. These people's brains must be such grim places to live. Like... I get annoyed and sad at first when I read their comments, but whenever I sit with them for a minute or two I just feel sorry for them honestly. If it feels that important to be mean, I doubt you're at peace with yourself.

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there is not a single GI illness i can think of in which weight loss is a mandatory diagnostic criterion.

weight loss can be a symptom of many GI illnesses, but so can weight fluctuation or weight gain, especially as many conditions mimic the effects of food insecurity or yoyo dieting, and therefore make the metabolism slower and the body hold onto more weight long term.

weight loss can indicate malnutrition and malabsorption, but it is very possible to be both fat and malnourished, especially if other medical factors may be contributing to a person's fatness.

and yet, many doctors refuse to consider GI illnesses in a fat patient, or will diagnose them, but then refuse to treat them. i was denied any medication treatment while hospitalized for gastroparesis, despite being only able to keep down clear liquids, because my BMI was still high. i was refused a nutritionist referral, because, and i quote "you've clearly been managing your nutrition just fine without one" based on my old primary care doctor's observation, without any blood tests or food journal.

being thin is not necessary to be malnourished, especially due to chronic GI illness.

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This is your daily reminder:

Spending all the money you don't have to show people you love them isn't actually how to show people you love them, because capitalism lies.

Christmas doesn't need to have anything to do with presents, at all.

The demon you summoned is having the zoomies with the Christmas lights.

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anyone: “I have to pee”

gays:

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i'm aggressively wanting a more masculine, ambiguous looking body and face but like. as soon as i want to be more masculine sometimes the urge goes away and i want to be more neutral or i want to even be more traditionally feminine or even look alien or not have a face

pangenderfluid things...

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A brief FAQ to my novels:

1. They’re structured like a Noh play 2. I put the booklists in the back to show my work 3. No I’m not going to answer questions on the mechanics of time travel 4. No there is no tragic ending 5. The point is the happy lesbians, dammit

When in doubt, refer to #5.

Now, any other questions?

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got this idea from someone.. thanks! ❤️🙏

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(slides in at the very end of femslash February with extremely niche content) yeehaw 😌🏳️‍⚧️

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Ugh

My brain's gonna melt from watching very thin teenagers call themselves "big back sigmas" after [checks notes] eating any kind of food 😑

The fatphobia of the younger generation is almost identical to the fatphobia when I was a teen in the late early 00s, i.e., really fucking toxic.

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Okay, I'm gonna put a controversial opinion out here.

I see a lot of people in the fat liberation community focusing on health. A lot of people don't seem to have fully deconstructed the fact that health does not make you morally superior, but more importantly, have not deconstructed health as a whole.

In a world that moralizes health, especially in relation to food and weight, we have to constantly doubt what we are learning about this concept. Can we trust the scientists who made Ozempic to tell us about how inferior fatness is? Can we trust the journalists writing about the "obesity epidemic" to recommend these so called health-boosting foods? So much of the modern concept of health is based off of systemic biases, and ones that we're blind to at that.

My opinion is, health is an incredibly vague, and often unhelpful concept. It is largely uncontrollable, let alone with food and exercise. You cannot diet, exercise, meditate and stretch your way out of marginalization, denial of medication, mobility aids, or surgery. And this is only talking about the people who have the privilege and/or ability to act upon these things.

My recommendation is to instead focus on the individual experience as a neutral one; "I have trouble walking" "My weight affects my ability to breathe" "I cannot process this information". Healthism is not only fatphobic, but ableist, and these two things go hand in hand.

This relies on a social framework of little to no fatphobia and healthism to begin with, but guess what. We can forge that world.

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So I just found this blog and I have to say, if the "fat acceptance movement's" goal is to get rid of all the skinny girl clothes in stores, congrats. Only one of the major stores at my mall stocks clothes in my size, the majority of the sizes being L+. It took 2 days of shopping to find shapewear that was my size and fit me. I'm stuck shopping in the kid's section because the only clothes in the adult section are L-XXXL. Can't we have an equality of the sizes instead of fighting over dominance?

Oh my gosh there's a store in your mall that stocks your sizes in the adult section though you admittedly can shop in the kids section in pretty much all the stores? The only actual fucking plus size store in my mall doesn't carry sizes in-store bigger than what you can find at a JCPenney's where you are limited to a tiny selection of the frumpiest frumpy mumuus that every frumped. I get that you're SO MAD that more stores carry plus sizes now (over half the population is "plus sized" btw but far less than half the stores and nearly none of the cute boutiques carry plus sizes) but don't worry, most are "online only."

It must be so very hard indeed to have the option to buy a myriad clothes in person that fit over your body even if you would prefer to buy them in a different section of the store. It is indeed the same thing as fat people not being able to buy anything that fits over their body in physical stores. I'm glad you brought this very much equally oppressive issue of very thin adults unable to find less than a large in more than one store (I have by the way never in my life of going to malls all over the US and Europe ever had a problem finding a boatload of XS, S, and M, so you must be in a very special plus-size-friendly bubble-region of reality, indeed).

-ATL

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Noticed something while reading og New Mutants.

Doug looks a lot like Josh.

Okay yes all white blonde boys with the Bieber haircut would look the same in a Marvel comic book. But I think the resemblance adds a lot considering what they have in common. They both dated Rahne.

Josh's relationship with Rahne was a terrible choice and I think the writers even agreed they made a mistake there. I can see what they were going for, and I support messy romances, but it was a poor choice overall that was a terrible direction for Rahne as a character.

But while reading New Mutants I can now see where the relationship is coming from. It's possible Rahne sees a lot of Doug in Josh, and that's why she ended up in that messy relationship.

Because when you look at it from her perspective, this student of hers resembles the one boy who died saving her. And she didn't even notice he was dying until it was too late.

And naturally Rahne would blame herself for his death. It resulted in her becoming obsessed with trying to save him in the danger room.

And knowing how childish and emotional Rahne is, for her to project her desire to be with Doug onto Josh wouldn't be too much of a stretch.

Can't remember if Doug was mentioned in the 2 Academy X books. I'm probably making shit up here. But I do think this is the best explanation for their relationship happening.

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You know bisexual rep is pretty bad when this is the one time in fiction that I can think of when a bisexual man is presented as very visibly feminine, and it's for one issue of a comic.

Prodigy you deserve better. Marvel are cowards for not letting you be more fem and more bisexual

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