#june july 2020

[evilhorse]

Power Pack: Into the Storm #3

[br1ghtestlight]

this is so funny to me actually bcuz this is 100% how i talk abt my characters ages. i know what YEAR they were born and i know what rheir ages are supposed to be at the start of the story but i dont actually know when it takes place?? im really bad at math. There was a moment where rainbow was supposed to be 23 and i somehow accidentally made her 17 lmfao

[words-on-pages]

I just looked at the dates on my AO3 bookmarks and noticed that I get antsy and start looking for a new ship every 2ish years.

[wlwyearnbot]

I hate that I see everything as a hint. She's not giving me a hint.

That reel she sent about "What if we were two bugs in love and we kissed" meant nothing, she was talking about the bugs not us.

That Spotify link to the song "I Was Made For Lovin' You" after cheering her up when she had a fever meant nothing, she was just sharing her music taste.

Her Close Friends story which read "I want to go stargazing with a pretty girl" meant nothing, it was just a story it could be talking about anyone.

Her sending me a screenshot from the Legend of Korra comics where Korra and Asami are kissing was nothing, she just likes the franchise.

Her sending me a reel that says "the person who sent you this wants to have summerween barbeque" meant nothing, she's just a fellow fan of Gravity Falls.

SHE DOESN'T LIKE ME THAT WAY. I ASKED HER OUT AND SHE CLEARLY SAID SHE WASN'T READY. SHE POSTS PICTURES OF HER KISSING ANOTHER GIRL ON THE CHEEK AND THE CAPTION "LOML ❤️" SHE OBVIOUSLY ALREADY HAS A GIRLFRIEND.

STOP. YEARNING. FOR. HER.

[smallblueandloud]

also speaking of how great wip wednesday is. i have written 6.5k this month, 5k of which was fic, which is... officially already more than i wrote in the entire month of january

hot damn!!!

[sapphothetic]

mandatory receiptify check

[voidimp]

god ive had jules for. almost seven years

[izunara]

september please be kind to me i am begging you

[totheidiot]

the crush i am nursing now is so... underwhelming. like hell, it's so boring, unlike any crush i have ever had before. did he change my life? no. is he dead? no. is he my first queer crush? no. did he single handedly save me from suicide and also was my best friend at one point? no. is he the person who introduced me to my hobby and hopefully my future profession? no. is he the boy i knew the longest in my life? no. what did bro even do?? he just sat there with his thinning hair and balding genetics, the smartest in his class, a goofy laugh and smile, stubborn as hell who begs me to let him carry things because he just helps everyone. and i fell in love with him in five months time. most underwhelming circumstances in the world.

[bargainsleuthbooks]

New Book Round-Up Reviews #NetGalley Secrets of Rose Briar Hall; The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh; The Midnight Feast; Honey; Women in the Valley of the Kings; Simone Biles: Gymnastics Goat; The Gender Binary is a Big Lie #NewBooks

It's time for another Round-up of book reviews. Secrets of Rose Briar Hall, The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, The Midnight Feast, Women in the Valley of the Kings, The Gender Binary is a Big Lie, Honey, & a Simone Biles book. #NetGalley #BookReview

It’s been a very busy summer at Bargain Sleuth Central. I’ve been taking the time to preserve foods by canning and dehydrating them. (If this is something that interests you, look for a future post of my favorite canning/preserving books!) I’ve not reviewed every single book I’ve consumed this year here on the blog; I have kept up with at least a paragraph on Goodreads and hope to share more of…

[baphofemme]

holy shit i can't believe this semester is almost over

[evilhorse]

Power Pack: Into the Storm #1-5 signed by June Brigman and Roy Richardson at the 2024 Baltimore ComicCon

[fatliberation]

they have a point though. you wouldn't need everyone to accommodate you if you just lost weight, but you're too lazy to stick to a healthy diet and exercise. it's that simple. I'd like to see you back up your claims, but you have no proof. you have got to stop lying to yourselves and face the facts

Must I go through this again? Fine. FINE. You guys are working my nerves today. You want to talk about facing the facts? Let's face the fucking facts.

In 2022, the US market cap of the weight loss industry was $75 billion [1, 3]. In 2021, the global market cap of the weight loss industry was estimated at $224.27 billion [2]. 

In 2020, the market shrunk by about 25%, but rebounded and then some since then [1, 3] By 2030, the global weight loss industry is expected to be valued at $405.4 billion [2]. If diets really worked, this industry would fall overnight. 

1. LaRosa, J. March 10, 2022. "U.S. Weight Loss Market Shrinks by 25% in 2020 with Pandemic, but Rebounds in 2021." Market Research Blog. 2. Staff. February 09, 2023. "[Latest] Global Weight Loss and Weight Management Market Size/Share Worth." Facts and Factors Research. 3. LaRosa, J. March 27, 2023. "U.S. Weight Loss Market Partially Recovers from the Pandemic." Market Research Blog.

Over 50 years of research conclusively demonstrates that virtually everyone who intentionally loses weight by manipulating their eating and exercise habits will regain the weight they lost within 3-5 years. And 75% will actually regain more weight than they lost [4].

4. Mann, T., Tomiyama, A.J., Westling, E., Lew, A.M., Samuels, B., Chatman, J. (2007). "Medicare’s Search For Effective Obesity Treatments: Diets Are Not The Answer." The American Psychologist, 62, 220-233. U.S. National Library of Medicine, Apr. 2007.

The annual odds of a fat person attaining a so-called “normal” weight and maintaining that for 5 years is approximately 1 in 1000 [5].

5. Fildes, A., Charlton, J., Rudisill, C., Littlejohns, P., Prevost, A.T., & Gulliford, M.C. (2015). “Probability of an Obese Person Attaining Normal Body Weight: Cohort Study Using Electronic Health Records.” American Journal of Public Health, July 16, 2015: e1–e6.

Doctors became so desperate that they resorted to amputating parts of the digestive tract (bariatric surgery) in the hopes that it might finally result in long-term weight-loss. Except that doesn’t work either. [6] And it turns out it causes death [7],  addiction [8], malnutrition [9], and suicide [7].

6. Magro, Daniéla Oliviera, et al. “Long-Term Weight Regain after Gastric Bypass: A 5-Year Prospective Study - Obesity Surgery.” SpringerLink, 8 Apr. 2008. 7. Omalu, Bennet I, et al. “Death Rates and Causes of Death After Bariatric Surgery for Pennsylvania Residents, 1995 to 2004.” Jama Network, 1 Oct. 2007.  8. King, Wendy C., et al. “Prevalence of Alcohol Use Disorders Before and After Bariatric Surgery.” Jama Network, 20 June 2012.  9. Gletsu-Miller, Nana, and Breanne N. Wright. “Mineral Malnutrition Following Bariatric Surgery.” Advances In Nutrition: An International Review Journal, Sept. 2013.

Evidence suggests that repeatedly losing and gaining weight is linked to cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and altered immune function [10].

10. Tomiyama, A Janet, et al. “Long‐term Effects of Dieting: Is Weight Loss Related to Health?” Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6 July 2017.

Prescribed weight loss is the leading predictor of eating disorders [11].

11. Patton, GC, et al. “Onset of Adolescent Eating Disorders: Population Based Cohort Study over 3 Years.” BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.), 20 Mar. 1999.

The idea that “obesity” is unhealthy and can cause or exacerbate illnesses is a biased misrepresentation of the scientific literature that is informed more by bigotry than credible science [12]. 

12. Medvedyuk, Stella, et al. “Ideology, Obesity and the Social Determinants of Health: A Critical Analysis of the Obesity and Health Relationship” Taylor & Francis Online, 7 June 2017.

“Obesity” has no proven causative role in the onset of any chronic condition [13, 14] and its appearance may be a protective response to the onset of numerous chronic conditions generated from currently unknown causes [15, 16, 17, 18].

13. Kahn, BB, and JS Flier. “Obesity and Insulin Resistance.” The Journal of Clinical Investigation, Aug. 2000. 14. Cofield, Stacey S, et al. “Use of Causal Language in Observational Studies of Obesity and Nutrition.” Obesity Facts, 3 Dec. 2010.  15. Lavie, Carl J, et al. “Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: Risk Factor, Paradox, and Impact of Weight Loss.” Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 26 May 2009.  16. Uretsky, Seth, et al. “Obesity Paradox in Patients with Hypertension and Coronary Artery Disease.” The American Journal of Medicine, Oct. 2007.  17. Mullen, John T, et al. “The Obesity Paradox: Body Mass Index and Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Nonbariatric General Surgery.” Annals of Surgery, July 2005. 18. Tseng, Chin-Hsiao. “Obesity Paradox: Differential Effects on Cancer and Noncancer Mortality in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.” Atherosclerosis, Jan. 2013.

Fatness was associated with only 1/3 the associated deaths that previous research estimated and being “overweight” conferred no increased risk at all, and may even be a protective factor against all-causes mortality relative to lower weight categories [19].

19. Flegal, Katherine M. “The Obesity Wars and the Education of a Researcher: A Personal Account.” Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, 15 June 2021.

Studies have observed that about 30% of so-called “normal weight” people are “unhealthy” whereas about 50% of so-called “overweight” people are “healthy”. Thus, using the BMI as an indicator of health results in the misclassification of some 75 million people in the United States alone [20]. 

20. Rey-López, JP, et al. “The Prevalence of Metabolically Healthy Obesity: A Systematic Review and Critical Evaluation of the Definitions Used.” Obesity Reviews : An Official Journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 15 Oct. 2014.

While epidemiologists use BMI to calculate national obesity rates (nearly 35% for adults and 18% for kids), the distinctions can be arbitrary. In 1998, the National Institutes of Health lowered the overweight threshold from 27.8 to 25—branding roughly 29 million Americans as fat overnight—to match international guidelines. But critics noted that those guidelines were drafted in part by the International Obesity Task Force, whose two principal funders were companies making weight loss drugs [21].

21. Butler, Kiera. “Why BMI Is a Big Fat Scam.” Mother Jones, 25 Aug. 2014. 

Body size is largely determined by genetics [22].

22. Wardle, J. Carnell, C. Haworth, R. Plomin. “Evidence for a strong genetic influence on childhood adiposity despite the force of the obesogenic environment” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Vol. 87, No. 2, Pages 398-404, February 2008.

Healthy lifestyle habits are associated with a significant decrease in mortality regardless of baseline body mass index [23].  

23. Matheson, Eric M, et al. “Healthy Lifestyle Habits and Mortality in Overweight and Obese Individuals.” Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 25 Feb. 2012.

Weight stigma itself is deadly. Research shows that weight-based discrimination increases risk of death by 60% [24].

24. Sutin, Angela R., et al. “Weight Discrimination and Risk of Mortality .” Association for Psychological Science, 25 Sept. 2015.

Fat stigma in the medical establishment [25] and society at large arguably [26] kills more fat people than fat does [27, 28, 29].

25. Puhl, Rebecca, and Kelly D. Bronwell. “Bias, Discrimination, and Obesity.” Obesity Research, 6 Sept. 2012. 26. Engber, Daniel. “Glutton Intolerance: What If a War on Obesity Only Makes the Problem Worse?” Slate, 5 Oct. 2009.  27. Teachman, B. A., Gapinski, K. D., Brownell, K. D., Rawlins, M., & Jeyaram, S. (2003). Demonstrations of implicit anti-fat bias: The impact of providing causal information and evoking empathy. Health Psychology, 22(1), 68–78. 28. Chastain, Ragen. “So My Doctor Tried to Kill Me.” Dances With Fat, 15 Dec. 2009. 29. Sutin, Angelina R, Yannick Stephan, and Antonio Terraciano. “Weight Discrimination and Risk of Mortality.” Psychological Science, 26 Nov. 2015.

There's my "proof." Where is yours?

[ryansbedroom]

What a difference! One year since the rescue of the Dorsey trailer from Knight Rider has passed!

[artofalyksandr]

ALL FOR THE GAME!!

The first time I posted about the concept of doing a sports anime piece with the aftg cast was October 2021 based on this post by @impavid-ish from July 2020 (yes I did go digging for the original post.)

I posted the "sketch" version in June 2022 and told myself that eventually I'd finish it and give it the full color treatment. Well, I finally did that - two years later.

(The design is up on my Redbubble if anyone’s interested)

[takeachillpillshawty]

I did it. I actually calculated their ages to find out the years the boy would be born in. Since the game came out March 18, 2020 I decided to use that to calculate when the boys would be born. Have fun feeling old I guess.

Riddle- August 24, 2002

Ace- September 23, 2003

Deuce- June 3, 2003

Cater- February 4, 2002

Trey- October 25,  2001

Leona- July 27, 1999

Jack- October 11, 2003

Ruggie- April 18, 2002

Azul- February 23, 2003

Jade and Floyd- November 5, 2002

Kalim- June 25, 2002

Jamil- September 12, 2002

Vil-  April 9, 2001

Epel- May 6, 2003

Rook- December 2, 2001

idia- December 18, 2001

Ortho- August 14, 2003

Malleus- January 18, 1842

Lilia- January 1, 1320

Sebek- March 17, 2003

Silver- May 15, 2002