#but I hate how doctors are like hmmm it doesn't matter if you are active at work if you aren't working out for an hour a day on top of that

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Long rant post bc ugh doctors and weight.

I'm happy but also annoyed. So I stopped weighing myself as much this year because fuck it, I don't care anymore. I'm overweight and always have been and I'm pretty active and always have been, so what gives?

Every time I go to the doctors they go well you need to eat less (I eat 2 meals and a few snacks a day, just want me to do 2 meals?). Eat more veggies/leafy greens! "You can cook up spinach in some oil on the stove and that would be a good way to get more leafy greens in!" I'm a very picky eater, always have been, but I've been getting better as the years go on, but I'm not frying up spinach and eating just that. I snack on carrots, sometimes cauliflower, cherry tomatoes, etc. Not leafy greens but at least they are veggies. Work out: "have you tried working out? how much do you work out each day? you need to be working out every day". Last time I went to the doctor in June she went "so have you been working out?" and I was like "well no, but I haven't really had time or energy because I've been working 12 hour days a few times a week, but I'm literally always on my feet and moving at work" she literally looked at me with the most unamused/annoyed expression and was like "so that's a no to working out" and I was a bit pissed off. I work as a floor person at a pet store aka constant walking around, regular lifting and carrying heavy bags up and down ladders/out to people's cars. I work as a massage therapist aka constant movement there. I started working at a garden center where they have me do random odd jobs (moving clay pots, cleaning shelves, watering or moving plants, etc all without air conditioning) or just stand at a register occasionally. Well my cholesterol is high. Yeah I know, it's been high for a while but I stopped eating fast food except for rare occasions now so I was hoping it would go down (I did start eating more chips however after that so....). With the results of the test she was like "you need to be eating less, smaller portions, more veggies, and you need to be working out for an hour a day, every day." and I was like fuck okay fine. So I started going on the treadmill for like.. 15 to 30 minutes a day, but stopped again because I really don't have the energy or time. I also have depression that idk if we ever got fully under control because I struggle to get out of bed unless I have to go do something which is actually part of the reason I started working at the garden center because at least if I'm working a 12 hour day or morning shift somewhere I have to get my ass out of bed in the morning. I do not have the energy to work out, especially when I'm working. But I figured I would gradually start with 15 to 30 minutes a few times a week and then get to 60 a few times a week (yeah that lasted like maybe two weeks and I haven't worked out since). However, despite not working out still and going down to one day a week at the garden center (so only one 12 hour day a week), I've lost 12 pounds since June without working out. How you may ask? I cut chips and egg yolks out of my diet. Literally that's the only real difference. I still eat the same portions, I may have a few more veggies because it's summer and we have the garden going (so plenty of zucchini and cherry tomatoes), but literally I still eat just as much sugar as I have, I still snack quite a bit (just not on chips) AND I'VE LOST 12 POUNDS GRADUALLY IN TWO MONTHS. LITERALLY THAT'S ALL IT TOOK. THAT'S ALL I CHANGED! I've literally struggled with my weight for as long as I can remember, and while I will have to see how far it goes down if I keep this up/maybe also start working out, I've always been classified as overweight. I got the short and stocky genes from my mom. My mom works out 30 minutes to an hour a day almost every day, in addition to being on her feet from 6am to 2pm plus whatever she does at home, she is still classified as overweight. This lady is pure muscle, she doesn't eat a ton, but nope she's still overweight. I hate that even at my lowest weight as a pre-teen/teen (which is about 35 pounds lighter than I am rn), I was still overweight. I'm happy I've lost weight but also am sad and frustrated because even if I lost 40 pounds it wouldn't be good enough to not be overweight.

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~CHOOSE VIOLENCE ASK GAME~

3- screenshot or description of the worst take you’ve seen on tumblr

Okay so this isn't a tumblr thing, but I HAVE to describe this absolute chaos I saw on reddit once-

Basically there was this like... mega BotW Mipha stan who was super into Mipha/Link, and somehow by the end on one reddit thread I briefly glanced through ended up deciding to headcanon that Sidon was ,,, I GUESS??? Mipha and Link's secret love child which-

H-how... does that even work lmafo. I am scared. It just CAN'T work, because Sidon is like... toddler shaped by the time the Calamity in Breath of the Wild history happens. (And Zora age slower than Hylians anyways, so for all we know he'd been alive for like 10-15 years already.) It'd certainly make for... uh, a wild AU I guess, but it was definitely a convo that I was thinking This about as I scrolled past it:

7- what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

So I don't think fandom has made me outright HATE a character, but there's definitely characters or ships that have been soured for me because of fandom tomfoolery. I think the notable ones here are...

-I kinda am like, really ambivalent about the Tenth Doctor (Also the recent Ten Take Three going on rn, who I refuse to call the Fourteenth Doctor lmafoooo) because of years of being sick of everyone being all "omggg the show just isn't as good now that Ten isn't there," and shitting on the Doctors who came after. Like, I used to LOVE him but now I'm just. Eugh. Whatever. It's almost as if I feel it's my duty to be absolutely neutral about him to balance out all the tumblr girlies screaming about how Tennant being back now is going to "save" the show or whatever.

-So very sorry, as I WANT to like it as a chronic multishipper, but Link/Sidon is a ship that has been utterly spoiled for me after all the drama that came from Sidon getting a canonical wife in Tears of the Kingdom. I simply do not want to be part of a shipping community that is that bitter when canon doesn't go their way- like, yeah we all want Nintendo to give some gd representation crumbs, but what else did you expect? Like after a certain point you really do just have to acknowledge that certain pairings are never going to happen bc of company bias and just enjoy your own headcanons for your own mental sanity. And the raging misogyny that came out of people about Yona was disgusting.

-Tragically, Fiddauthor (Stanford Pines/Fiddleford McGucket) was tremendously soured for me due to a loud fringe group of shippers who were very hostile to anyone who dared have headcanons about the two characters that weren't: they are both trans and gay. Like you dare to headcanon Stanford Pines as asexual and aromantic? You want a nonbinary Ford? You dare to headcanon Fiddleford as bisexual instead of gay? Death for you. Hate anons for you. It just got so suffocating that I had to basically drop the ship, which sucked because it was one I was SO passionate about back in the days.

8- common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

Hmmm...

King Rhoam is not a good father, nor an abusive monster, but a much more tragic, nuanced third path right down the middle where he and Zelda were close once but he decided to sacrifice his relationship with her in order to campaign for what he believed was more important- the survival of Zelda and all of Hyrule through the activation of her sealing powers. Aka I believe he had to choose between being a good father and being a good king, and in an ironic turn failed at both at once bc he simply didn't have all the knowledge he needed to make the right choices. (His wife wasn't there to provide council to Zelda when it really mattered, and he literally had NO understanding of what she needed.)

To be fair I understand why many in fandom choose to vilify Rhoam in fic, as he does provide a notable moment of antagonism in the Breath of the Wild memories, and it is VERY easy to project one's own personal "bad parent" trauma on such a character while making fan content, but I am wholly of the opinion that making him a one note "shitty father with no redeeming qualities" is perhaps the most narratively boring option as far as canon interpretations go.

17- there should be more of this type of fic/art

Gen fic. This is my answer for every single fandom I've been in. There should always be more gen fic.

Also porn that involves tentacles. This is a wholly self-serving request. Yes, I AM in fact a rapidly swinging pendulum. I want either gen fic or HARDCORE PORN and there's zero in between.