#big fucking deal

[wild-flowerhoney]

the pjo fandom pisses me off with this 'omg apollo made mpreg a thing bc his daughter has two dads!!' bs

men can get pregnant in real life. that's a completely normal thing that happens and has a completely normal explanation. what the fuck even.

[cleoselene]

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!!!! LADIES/AFAB FOLKS !!!!

So my mom recently went to her doctor to see about getting compression socks for her lipedema. She has a really mild case, stage 1, not in pain. The doctor she saw not only knew what lipedema was, but he did the water-assisted liposuction locally, and even more: INSURANCE COMPANIES ARE BEGINNING TO APPROVE LIPOSUCTION TREATMENTS FOR PATIENTS WITH LIPEDEMA.

Not endoring this particular surgeon but the information about the about-face from insurance companies is there. Was just the first useful link I found.

I am going to make an appointment with my mom's doc. I don't know if I am willing to do surgery and if I do it I might do it only on my arms which bother me more than my legs honestly (compression garments work for the legs, NOT the armis)

SO IF YOU HAVE LIPEDEMA AND YOU HAVE BEEN FRUSTRATED THE TREATMENT IS NOT COVERED BY INSURANCE, IT SEEMS THE TIMES, THEY ARE A-CHANGING!

11% of women/AFAB people have lipedema. it is genetic. It has nothing to do with diet or exercise. LOOK INTO IT!! Especially if you're a bigger person who has noticed you don't carry your extra weight the same way most people do: my stomach is the smallest part of me relatively, but my arms/legs/butt are too big and my arms and legs suffer severe pain and easy bruising.

[tomorrowusa]

Yesterday (March 23rd) was the 14th anniversary of President Obama signing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law. It enabled tens of millions of Americans to get previously unobtainable medical insurance – especially those with pre-existing conditions.

Republicans derisively dubbed the ACA "Obamacare" in order to disparage it. But rather than making the law look bad, their nickname gave Barack Obama permanent credit for something enormously popular. As then Vice President Joe Biden told President Obama at the 2010 signing, "This is a big fucking deal!" – and it still is.

Republicans have tried countless times to repeal Obamacare. Donald Trump campaigned in 2016 on killing it and and replacing it with something "better". Of course he had no other healthcare plan to replace it with.

Now Trump is running again and still wants to abolish Obamacare. If you have been helped by Obamacare or know someone who has, let people know that keeping the orange pus ball with bad hair out of the White House is the best way to ensure your health for years to come.

Fact Sheet: Celebrating the Affordable Care Act

[biarritzzz]

I'm so bored with tales of motherhood.

It's amazing how many self-indulgent articles there are these days about how motherhood is so hard but it's so rewarding but it's so hard though.

All these boring mommies writing the same fucking shit about how they're exhausted and omg I just want a day for myself but I love my kid too and I feel guilty but I need a break but I love being a mom, like totally. Oh really? Well you could have read the countless of articles and think pieces about this same boring topic that all the other mommies churned out before you and decide not to breed. THAT would have been interesting and original for fucking once.

And not once does it occur to them that they had a choice. That they made a choice. That they chose to create another life, all because they felt like it. And now we have to hear about it.

[aretarers]

mantra when you fuck up is "i'm in my early 20s it's literally not a big deal"

[girlsgungore]

why does she have to be so fucking strict

[captainkirkk]

Concept: Peter actually got bitten by a totally normal spider. It's just a coincidence that his mutant powers were awakened around the same time

[stars-and-birds]

Dana’s last ‘fuck you’ to Disney

He/they collector

Genderqueer/bi-gender papa king

TWO girlfriend kisses

Onscreen mlm kiss

Implied aladarius

a happy ending to the bi/enby couple

A happy ending to the aro/ace character

And

Death to the white Christian puritain

[red-mercer]

I see J stands for "turn-based" now and forever, thanks t-fox

[greykolla-art]

Guys! Can you believe I was gonna just CASUALLY watch Hazbin Hotel???

But it’s way too good. The writing is so tight, all the characters are interesting and layered, ALL THE SONGS:🔥🔥🔥

Alastor is such a Cheshire Cat! Not a characteristic I see often, but it’s always good! Gimme more immediately.👏👏👏

[sufficientlyantique]

I organized a closet today.

It's been accumulating "I can't use this anymore" fabrics and clothing, and has been staring at me every time I'm in my bedroom.

So it's kind of a big deal, now it's done.

Squee!

I've been up and down in weight for quite a few years, currently on a down swing. As I've gotten too big or too small for clothes, I've put them in the closet, on their very own shelf. Plus, I sew and do clothing repairs (thanks, mom, wherever you are!), so scraps and unusable leftovers go on the special shelf, too.

I had enough energy and focus to check each item, bin it as either to be sold, to be given away, or to be turned into rags. I tried a few things on that didn't fit me when they went onto the pile, and found a few pairs of pants and several shirts that fit me again. That was nice -- they're timeless designs and it's great to have some new old clothes. The fabric and clothing scraps immediately went under the scissors and seam rippers, so I have a nice tall pile of new to me rags. Yay, me. And the give aways went into a special laundry pile for my next laundry run so they'll be clean for the local thrift store and my favorite charities.

Plus I found a few items that should not have been in the pile, including a really nice ultra light rain jacket, a branded track jacket in great condition, and a high quality dress shirt. Good finds, all.

Accomplishments like this are mundane. Quotidian. Rarely discussed, remarked upon, or documented. For me, though, it's a BFD. This "simple" task was a six year endeavour.

[whump-in-the-closet]

give me whumpees with scars they can't hide. Not by a scarf, long sleeves, or even a mask. Give me whumpees whose hair has gone white with stress, give me whumpees whose hands shake and are always unsteady, give me whumpees with amputated limbs and scars that split their features. Uncomfortable scars. They aren't aesthetic they aren't pretty they just are. And then let them deal with hushed "oh god"s and the stares and the whispered conversations behind their backs. Let the recovery break them in ways not even the torture could.

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

A lot of you underestimate how prevalent British bias is not only in F1 but across sports generally, and even in other industries.

Max saying he has the wrong passport in the paddock is an accurate statement. Do you think he, Seb, or Michael would've been half as vilified by the British media if they had a British passport instead? Would Fernando? Do you think Yuki would get half as much shit about his radio "conduct" if he was British? Because it's the British commentators who consistently have issues with it, and say shit like it's "unbecoming" for a driver to speak that way, ignoring that 1 it's not his first language and 2 IT WAS ENGLISH PEOPLE HE LEARNT THAT LANGUAGE FROM. Sometimes people misspeak, but Yuki has always taken accountability and apologised if he has and if he caused harm. Martin Brundle did not get nearly as much backlash from the media when he misspoke and called an Asian driver a slur while commentating. He also never apologised for it.

Alex, one of the four Brits on the grid but who drives under the Thai flag, has said that the commentators only call him British born when he does well. He was completely excluded from the Silverstone publicity about the home crowd heroes, whereas George, Lewis & Lando were heralded, not only on race weekend, but for weeks leading up to it.

Alex's statement also reminded me of this Richard Harris quote, "When I'm in trouble, I'm an Irishman. When I turn in a good performance, I'm an Englishman." Genuinely, if I took a shot every time a British organisation/person claimed a talented Irish person was actually a Brit, I'd have died from alcohol poisoning years ago.

Hell, I see George wearing the poppy pin this weekend in the lead up to remembrance Sunday. Do you know the amount of shit James McClean gets every year because he refuses to wear one? And he has very valid reasons for choosing not to wear it, yet he's torn to shreds every year by not only random people on the Internet or on the streets but by commentators and the media too.

Because of how this sport became mainstream and because no one challenged Bernie Eccleston's monopoly on broadcasting rights back in the day (people were given the opportunity to buy a share of the broadcasting rights; the idiots said no), this sport has prioritised the British voice/perspective for decades. I know the other broadcasts are just as biased for their home team/drivers, but the British one is the biggest one, as it's the main broadcast for better and more often for the worst. It's the broadcast with the most reach and influence. Their bias has to be challenged eventually if this sport ever hopes to properly expand and grow. The British bias is so difficult to miss once you start noticing it.

[bixels]

tarpit site.

[mourning-at-night]

jace i don’t feel good was so funny but also made me so sad. like that’s a teenager with a strawberry squishmallow keychain and a tamagotchi and she doesn’t feel good and she's tugging on a teacher’s sleeve about it. a teacher who should have been responsible for protecting her in the first place and didn’t. who is manipulating and using her and her friends to help fulfill the desires of a wrathful power-hungry egomaniac. porter and jace it’s on sight >:(

[juney-blues]

when you're part of a group with structural power over another goup, you really do gotta just learn to say "i am not exempt from 'fuck 'em' when relevant" whenever someone expresses frustration with you or people like you.