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Do y’all think siblings in medieval times would look at the little beasts in illuminated manuscripts and point at each other like ‘ha! ‘Tis thou!’

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i just mentioned this to my dad and he immediately grabbed a pack from the bald of our cupboard, read the backstory on the packet, and started munching on it.

a single andes chocolate mint from the olive garden can fully nourish an adult human for up to 96 hours

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i'm an incredibly picky eater, but one of my staple meals is pasta in a tomato sauce. i managed to bring the veggie count up from 1 (tomato) to 3 by just making my own sauce.

every one or two weeks, as meal prep, i caramelise onions, roast and peel peppers, then blend them until smooth with a bit of water. i can freeze the resulting sauce in an ice cube tray or keep it in a jar in the fridge for up to a week. when i come to cook i add an equal amount of that and the tomato passata, and it's even tastier than the tomato alone.

it's fairly easy, so long as you can cut onions without touching your face and have the mental fortitude and patience to caramelise. peeling the roasted peppers is the messiest part, but so satisfying if you get a long, clean peel.

i also add a shit ton of fresh basil and garlic, and sometimes some fresh chilli, which apparently don't count as vegetables, but they grow like them, so surely they still have some of the same nutrients.

i've tried hiding other veggies in pasta sauce too- celery, carrots and butternut squash so far. they're not for me, but might work for others. it's the same principle- toss in oil, roast in an oven or air fryer until crisping, blend to desired smoothness.

since doing this, i've felt a noticeable improvement in my energy levels and experienced less brain fog. it also tastes so much better and makes me feel like a proper cook.

okay so if you need more veggies/fruit, protein or fibre (bc most people do NOT eat enough) in your diet but you struggle to do so, hear me out:

look up recipes (especially snack recipes) that are child/toddler/baby-friendly

i can guarantee there is a woman with a cooking blog out there who has found away to pack a bunch of vegetables into a surprisingly delicious little snack for her kids. this process has never failed me when i feel like i am not eating enough fruits and veggies. my entire flat is eating spinach muffins at the moment, which doesn’t sounding particularly appealing to most people and yet somehow. they’re delicious.

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Armand :3

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float on mama

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One of my controversial takes is that I kind of hate the term "rejection sensitive dysphoria" wrt adhd because it's so clearly the same thing as being anxious and insecure in relationships w trauma based disorders but people talk about it like it's just an intrinsic part of your brain that you're simply Too Sensitive & not, like, a consequence of every neurodivergent person alive being bullied as a child. Like that thing of how there aren't any non-traumatized autistic people to study

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the spanish carry on edition posts by @confused-bi-queer reminded me of when i read the polish translation of carry on, and while i generally consider it to be one of the most shit translations i've ever read, there was one thing that i actually preferred in polish. when baz talks about his mom calling him "little puff", in polish they translated that as "okruszek" which literally means "little crumb" 🥹 it's commonly used to describe itty bitty babies and puppies and it is just so cute!!!

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Excluding the crucial fact that office jobs pay you an income….if staying home to raise children and do chores and bake bread was really so much easier and more joyful than working in an office on some objective level, why aren’t men doing it? Why aren’t they chomping at the bit to be ~leisurely house husbands~ to a working wife? Why aren’t they stepping up to depend solely on someone else’s income in exchange for round-the-clock domestic labor, if it’s really as blissful and their propaganda suggests? Curious.

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i don't think terfs realise that this means the police can now refuse any woman, including cis women, their right to be searched by a female officer, if they think the woman is trans.

back when i had short hair in school, i was often called "young man" by teachers and mistaken for a boy. short hair, that's all it took. even when classmates would laugh, the teachers wouldn't be able to figure out why. i looked enough like a boy.

so if you're a cis woman with short hair, or a flat chest, or broad shoulders, or a square jaw, you could be denied your rights. unless you're willing to somehow prove you're cis, that is. i'm sure we can all imagine what that would entail, and it would be just as invasive as being searched to begin with. and even then, the police could just say that they think you've had gender reasssigment surgery and search you anyway. but hey, it's not as if cops have a history of sexually assaulting women or anything...

protecting women my arse.

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trans rights protests ranging from edinburgh, glasgow, and london.

trans women, men, non-binaries, and intersex. we love you and we'll fight for you.

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i don't think terfs realise that this means the police can now refuse any woman, including cis women, their right to be searched by a female officer, if they think the woman is trans.

back when i had short hair in school, i was often called "young man" by teachers and mistaken for a boy. short hair, that's all it took. even when classmates would laugh, the teachers wouldn't be able to figure out why. i looked enough like a boy.

so if you're a cis woman with short hair, or a flat chest, or broad shoulders, or a square jaw, you could be denied your rights. unless you're willing to somehow prove you're cis, that is. i'm sure we can all imagine what that would entail, and it would be just as invasive as being searched to begin with. and even then, the police could just say that they think you've had gender reasssigment surgery and search you anyway. but hey, it's not as if cops have a history of sexually assaulting women or anything...

protecting women my arse.

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I’m angry with myself for not feeling up to properly fighting back on the Supreme Court ruling on trans rights, but I do keep seeing the words “feel safe” and it’s stabbing me in the brain a bit.

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SOUND ON.

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what were your almost names ur parents could’ve given you. i was almost: kevin, hazel, griffin, forrest, alison, jamie

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nothing quite so emotionally fulfilling as serenely scrolling through the critical/negative tags of media I don't like 💞