#loss mention

[werexcat]

Well, today happened to be the day. My mom, aunt, and I have said our goodbyes.

There’s nothing else that can be done, and I choose to believe that my family member gone to a better place—a place where everything is fine and good. It’s tough to swallow, and there was some drama, but everyone is hurting—to whatever degree and no one should feel like they’re hurting more than others.

I hope things settle, and we’re all able to come together when they are laid to rest once arrangements are made.

I’ve been lurking , liking things, but I still don’t feel like writing or even drawing really BUT I’m really glad today happened to be my off day so I did get that time to say goodbye.

I’ve been reading threads from you guys across the dash and laughing, so that’s been healing in its own way tbh. ❤️

[chaoticconstellation]

I’m so sorry about your Nanu. Loss can ache so much, and a year can still feel so fresh. I wish there was more I could say. However, I’m glad to read that you moved onwards and upwards from that crumb place thingy (never heard of them before but man, fuck them! what kinda callous bullshittery was that?). I’m not asking for a specific recipe but I hope you have a good day, and thank you for sharing your story (and rebellious cookie-making recipes!) with all of us.

Thank you. Loss is hard. I had actually only really become close with my Nanu in the last year of his life. Like we went from calls on holidays to speaking once a week. The language barrier was a little rocky at first but duolingo helped me improve my italian haha. After my father passed away, I felt like I needed to reach out to his dad. It helped me grieve for my father. So when my Nanu died I had felt like I lost him, and my father again. He lived a good life though, he died at 101 and had just finished beating his friend at pickle ball and called to tell me all about it.

[island-ghost-dj]

☤ - a memory of death/loss

//putting this under a read more due its dark tones and Pokemon death

"Teacup? Where are you?" Before he ever started going by the name, Honey, he was Joon Woo. Joon Woo stares out at his flower field, where the family's passive Combees fluttered by. His Cutiefly almost never left his side, so it was truly puzzling that the little one had gone missing.

At first he thinks poor Teacup got smothered in honey; trapped in its goopy texture. What a silly bug, he laughs to himself, trying to ease the nerves out of him. So he goes to check on the hives and Combees to search for them. When this takes all day and there's no sign of his Cutiefly. . . the worry doesn't end. Even the leader of the Combees, the Vespiquen, knows to not dare hurt Teacup.

When nobody on the family flower and honey farm knows where Teacup went, Honey ventures out from the woods and into Floroma Town. Cutieflies are not native to Sinnoh, surely someone in town would have see him? Surely Teacup drifted to the flower shop, lured by their hibiscus flowers as per usual?

But no. He wasn't there. Where could he be? Joon Woo's mother calls him when it's getting to dark to come home. He says he can't until he searches the woods for his bug.

So dressed in a jacket and donning a flashlight, he searches. He searches for days but can't find him. Every night that ends with him coming home empty handed and staring sadly at Teacup's bed, a china teacup with a small cushion but it's empty. It drowns his heart in sorrow. Did Teacup hate him? Did he do something to upset his precious bug?

He stops sleeping in the bed. He kept waking up half expecting Teacup to be there. He started to sleep in odd places, until one day he fell asleep in a day time nap in his flower field. At dusk, he woke up to a Duskull prodding him. Strange. Pokemon normally avoid the flower farm entirely due to how many Combees there were.

The Duskull stares at him sadly. It stares and stares, its red eye peering into Honey's defeated gaze. Then something clicks. It was Teacup. But how? And WHY.

"Take me to wh. where Teacup is-" Joon Woo says immediately after. The Duskull leads him back to the house, up the stairs and to the left and stops at his brother's room.

Without hesitation, he barges in there. The Duskull pulls something from the closet. With his heart full of dread, he opens a small box to reveal its contents.

A pair of severed Cutiefly wings.

What happened next was a blur, he remembers faintly dropping the box, trying not to vomit and scream, before he races down the stairs to find his parents but he finds his brother first.

His brother. HIS BROTHER.

H I S

B R O T H E R

"I'LL KILL YOU-"

[lemonlimetoast]

I had a dream that my ex died and I couldn't even mourn properly because I'm not in their life anymore by choice so I couldn't go to the funeral and at their grave no one really knew who I was and I felt like I shouldn't be there but I still wanted to mourn them because my grief was absolutely overwhelming

[onlytiktoks]

[fatphobiabusters]

Theres something really insidious about how gastric bypass advocates deny that essential organ mutilation is unhealthy.

"I've lost so much weight I'm so healthy" your stomach is mutilated.

"My doctor is praising my progress" your stomach is mutilated.

"I fit in so many more clothes now"

Because an essential, life sustaining organ in your body was cut up and your digestive system rerouted.

Health isn't the end all be all of value, humanity or importance but I feel like there is a huge lie here when this is "healthy" and it's just ignored.

Sorry to just bring this up out of no where but I was reminded of how little this is really talked about in bypass circles. Like, no matter what, you are now unhealthy. The spector of health continues. The Ouroboros is unbroken. Only this time it's doctor approved.

-mod squirrel

[bobbabubblez]

The only spooky thing haunting me this Halloween is my weight

[dietmineralwater]

Me pulling the weirdest positions near food so I can see the nutrition labels without looking suspicious

[mystrangeqddiction]

camera roll 1nsp0 dump !! ~ ☆

[m3ntallyg0ne]

all i want is thin legs 😭😭

[kaspermoon]

nothing feels better than seeing your weight go down

[uncanny-tranny]

I think it's incredibly important to remind folks on testosterone or folks who want to reverse patterned baldness about their options, but man, does it sometimes suck wondering how much of our insecurities about our hair stem from backwards beliefs that to strive towards beauty is not only preferable but "makes you good."

As someone with a rather masculinized body pre-medical transition, patterned baldness has always seemed neutral. Hair is incredibly important (hell, much of my own energy is spent on my hair because I like it), but the pressure to have hair, to have hair the "right way" is something that I absolutely loathe.

I'm not here to judge people who don't want patterned hair loss or baldness, I'm here to say that those traits will never make you lesser. Not only is it neutral, but it is also just as worthy and beautiful.

[crippleswag]

doctors care more about weight loss than helping a fat chronic pain patient not suffer from crippling pain 👍🏻 what a world

[withdenim]

How sad to watch him grow

[razberrypuck]

something something chat trying to tie the vote (and doing so very successfully) until g!ranboo started begging to be put out of his misery. how quickly the votes shifted to comply because keeping him alive and trapped on that fucking show against his will would be infinitely more cruel.

[bobbabubblez]

Your ED is still valid:

• never got hospitalized

• never experienced medical complications

• never cried while eating

• looked forward to eating

• never exercised

• still ate “unhealthy food”