#i'm rotating it in my mind

[small-strong-bookish-butch]

Michael: And maybe they will discover something about the system that becomes useful to consumers in 20 or 30 years or whatever.

But right now, all we can really say is that like, yeah, try to eat a wide variety of food, try to eat fruits and vegetables. If you're super worried about your free radicals, antioxidant balance, like maybe you're neglecting your blood pressure balance, or maybe you're neglecting your cholesterol balance.

It's like, and there's probably 50 other of these balances inside of your system that like we don't know about like haven't become marketing yet."

Aubrey: "This taps into two things that are particular bees in my bonnet. One is this idea that every new scientific or nutritional finding has to immediately translate into individual practices.

And the other thing that feels challenging about this is we have gotten so dead set on a conversation that focuses on weight as the end all be all of health indicators. And I'm like, there's like so many systems in your body. There's so much that's happening.

The idea that you could focus on any one single number, whether that's your weight or your cholesterol or your blood pressure or your mood evaluations or whatever, the idea that that could be the sole reflector of an entire picture of your health and the functioning of your body is bananas."

—The French Paradox episode of Maintenance Phase

[agentperezbian]

I'm curious. Tag this with your sexuality and what your favorite M/F ship is.

[shoukohime]

babygirl the way you forsake your happiness on your relentless quest to vengeance, your complicated relationship with gender and the way you're covered in blood have bewitched me body and soul

[katsinspats]

I think my copy of the game is broken they've been doing this for 30 minutes

Crop of the Biolizard edit I did bc it makes me laugh:

[petewentz-]

Roughly 20 years apart 🥺

[rad-roche]

Paracetamol (acetaminophen) is a non-opioid analgesic and antipyretic agent. It is a widely used over-the-counter medication. The recommended maximum daily dose for an adult is three to four grams.

It is recommended, in particular, for mild to moderate pain.

[italyveneziano]

Son boy obtained

[c-tepx]

it's interesting that even in his dreams laios doesn't think that chilchuck will stay in the castle.

like even orcs are at the breakfast table with him, but not chil.

he does think about him, but I believe laios knows how much chilchuck cares about his family and union work.

and laios respects it. even in this unrealistic dream scenario.

[ladeldee]

I just like the idea that once Missa hears Phil has another "kid" he'd try and do whatever he can to help and Phil feels emotions about it

[katzenklavierr]

Umineko said

If you saw someone at their absolute worst, knew of their deepest regrets and darkest thoughts and most harmful impulses, are they still deserving of love and happiness? Could you forgive them? These are not the same question

Every person you know has multiple sides of themself, including faces you will never see, and this does not make any of these selves inauthentic

Identity is a struggle between the person you know yourself to be and the person others see you as; the line between these is not always clear

Names are tools of power

There is no wealth gained without bloodshed

There are some things in this world more important than knowing the absolute truth, and furthermore all truth is subjective and your interpretation of it is subject to change

Fiction is a conversation between the author and the audience, and it is mutual trust between these parties that allows stories to flourish

And more still. Man.

[small-strong-bookish-butch]

I started listening to Maintenance Phase likeeee 3 work days ago and I'm very !!!!!! about it

Anyway let's see if Apple sues me for typing out all these transcript screenshots

TWs for fatphobia, diet culture, abuse, concern trolling (?),

“We have sort of very conveniently, as a culture, just collapsed our definition of health into our visual assessment of our own weight" —Aubrey Gordon

"Nobody gives a shit about the resting heart rate or the LDL cholesterol readings of someone who's skinny. [...] I think people can genuinely believe thay they are concerned for fat people's health and that that belief can be rooted in faulty information and biased beliefs that they have been fed and sort of consumed pretty uncritically for most of us for our whole lives, right?

There is this sort of like, noblese oblige that happens with thin people, right? Which is sort of this belief that I have cracked the code on being thin and you have not. So it is my duty to instruct you on how to have a body that is less like yours and more like mine.

I started writing, you know, for that audience, for people who were good, thoughtful, kind people who have never really thought critically about the ways in which they think abut and interact with and treat fat people. [...] Like, how many times have we just seen a random sentence in a random artticle that's just like, 'da-da-da, fat people are unhealthy, da-da-da', right? It's one of those presumptions that sort of doesn't even need unpacking anymore. There's a lot of people who believe this because this is something we've all been told a million times. And it's actually more complicated than that. Believe it or not, it's not as simple as every fat person is unhealthy and every skinny person is healthy, and every fat person needs you to tell them that they're unhealthy constantly. 'If we shame them, then everybody will not be fat anymore.' These are things that a lot of us believe without really interrogating them. Well, I mean, that's also part of what's helped me pretty immensely in feeling okay in my body, is doing this kind of research, right? And finding that actually, those messages, those specific actual messages, are part of what's keeping us fat. And so is trying to lose weight.

"One of the most striking statistics I came across, when I was researching a big long article that I wrote about this two years ago now, I think, is that 1/3 of quote unquote 'obese' people have completely normal health markers, like they are not unhealthy, they do not have any of the risk factors, and around 25% of skinny people do have the risk factors. This is all one big scatter plot.

[...] I think about constantly is that actually the fatter you get, the less likely it is that you will become thin in your lifetime, right? For women my size, there is less than a one tenth of one percent chance that we at any point in our lives get to what is considered a quote unquote 'healthy' or 'normal' BMI, right? So we are talking about infinitesimal likelihood that this will not succeed, and all of our treatment of fat people is predicated on the idea that this is not only possible, but if you can't do it, it's because there's something wrong with you. And it's necessary. It's like, no, you have to do this thing that is almost sure to fail and is likely to make whatever you have worse.

There's something that happens when I am with a person who is willing to say the word fat. I know that they are not so afraid of my body that they will just act out of their own weird biases. If someone is willing and able to say the word fat in good faith, that tells me that they are as much concerned with how l identify myself as they are with projecting their own beliefs about fatness and fat people onto me by calling me 'fluffy' or 'more to love' or whatever. The sort of challenges that fat people face don't come from a word. They come from the ways that we treat fat people. And if we can't talk about that in a direct and honest way, we are always going to fall short in addressing sort of what fat people need.

And honestly, like, my first response was absolute terror that he had noticed [I was fat]. I was so terrified that he had said anything about my size that I felt like my whole job in the world was to get people to forget that I was fat, which is an impossible task. I had spent 20 some years hiding from my own body. That is an impossible task.

I mean, the sort of the basic presumption of every, you know, billboard 'eat five fruits and vegetables a day' poster we've ever seen in our lives is it is bad to be fat and fat people are unhealthy.

There really aren't any positive messages about like, 'Leave fat people alone' or like 'Fat people are fine' or 'Somebody else's health is none of your business.' All of us have grown up in this just toxic sludge of like being fat is the worst possible outcome for you. We have sort of been so careless with the way that we talk about fatness and fat people that we are now at the point that instead of when we talk about health risks, we're actually talking about people. And when we talk about people, we're talking about them as if they are health risks, like human health risks."

[sacrificialalt]

ID: A colored sketch of Pluto from Heaven Will Be Mine with a wide smile, though she's slightly covering this up with the Cradle's Grace sash hanging loosely around her frame. She's surrounded by messy starry and plant designs, and has both the veil of her ship-self and a laurel crown atop her head. End ID

The perfect princess of Cradle's Grace.

[lizrust]

I watched Bucciarati’s Bizarre Adventure ft. Jojo. I wasn’t really paying attention but I’m pretty sure it went like this

[shittybundaskenyer]

help i love them so much <3

[tomaturtles]

The meaning of my destiny can be changed for your love.

Kawoshin Week Day 5: Rebuild + Time loop! 💜💙

[iizuumi]

@narugen wrote the cutest HoshiMina fic that lives in my head rent free I had to draw them help