Due to this post about migraines, I realized that, between a combination of MCAS, the cost of groceries, and general executive dysfunction, I'm likely not getting much protein. So, I decided to sit down and work out how much protein I'm getting a day vs how much I need.
According to the Mayo, the average adult should get between 50–175 grams daily, depending on body mass.
How much am I getting?
6-12 grams.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that's not good 😐.
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[cws: non-detailed discussion of both fictional and irl SA/CSA/abuse dynamics, apologia for the previous, homophobia, fetishization of wlw, and anti rhetoric.]
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having a lot of thoughts about the wider fandom's treatment of the various abuse dynamics present in sdmi--supposedly in the name of being anti-abuse--and how instead it's propagated deeply anti-survivor/abuse apologist sentiment and behavior through where they choose to apply that rhetoric, and where they choose to look the other way.
(first off, if you're someone who does not and has not done this, thank you from the bottom of my heart. second, this is not at all exhaustive of my feelings on the subject and there will probably be more posts about these dynamics and people's behavior toward them in future. as you can imagine by the length of this post that is saying something lmao)
one of the reasons i feel as strongly as i do about the way both canon and fandom have historically been about pericles, pericky, and shitting on anyone who likes them because it Normalizes Abuse(tm), is that their fans are pretty open and emphatic about the fact that it's Fucked Up. it's why we find it compelling. it is vanishingly rare that we don't.
meanwhile, velma is the UwU Cute Sassy Lesbian Icon whose relationship with shaggy was Cringy and Immature (and mutually so 🙃) at worst, when it directly mirrored such visceral aspects of my experience with CSA that i almost threw up rewatching the second episode.
and that's not even getting into how normalized it is for women to abuse men in a relationship, in broad fucking daylight in front of other people, and how men are supposed to Always Want It and it's an insult if they don't, and how the vast majority of CSA--which it overtly is in shaggy's case, he is implied not to be an adult yet--is perpetrated by other kids.
and it's also not getting into the fact that the ~cute lesbian relationship~ is almost certainly going to end up with the other queer girl in the show also being abused, because abusers are not Magically Cured by True Queer Love's Kiss. how it is incredibly difficult for survivors of abuse in a wlw relationship to be acknowledged or get support because then they'd be a Traitor, or people would rather maintain the feel-good fuzzy feelings wlw exist to give them, or they're closeted and it's not safe to let people know they're in a relationship with a woman. how queer relationships, especially between women, are fetishized as cute pure healthy fairytale romances and not dynamics involving real people who might harm each other or be harmed and need help.
and that's not even getting into the fact that mlm are seen as inherently predatory to an extent that the majority of other queer identities are not. how older queer men grooming boys is a classic homophobic stereotype used to justify violence toward them, up to and including lynchings, and how that is the abuse dynamic everyone in the show and fandom latched onto to revile as the Disgusting Evil Predatory One while giving everything else a pass. how mlm have a long history of forced institutionalization and psychiatric torture and abuse, and the Predatory Gay Man is subjected to decades of--you guessed it!--forced institutionalization and psychiatric torture and abuse, which is framed as what he deserved and where he belonged. how he's supposed to be unattractive (and the majority of the people who do this shit lean hard on that), while people are way more likely to give Charming Attractive Aesthetically Pleasing abusers a pass.
this is just..... normal, to the fandom. it's treated as completely normal. and i think that's a whole lot more fucking harmful than finding emotional catharsis in exploring an abusive dynamic that would not fly in broad daylight irl in a million years.
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Waking up every day knowing that the CIA during the Cold War were fully ready to make the first nuclear attack and didn't care about the thousands of innocent American and Soviet lives that would be lost and how it relates to everything happening today and such a thing happening today would more than likely result in the end of the world, knowing that capitalist assholes are using AI to weed out creative job markets that are my sole saving grace in life, knowing that more and more states are trying to push for legal identification to be on the internet which would result in me having to fully get rid of every account I own for privacy sake, and knowing that if none of this changes I'll either end up mentally dead in a shitty apartment until I die of old age or become homeless with no chance of having a stable income.
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I've got a terrible habit of missing people before they're even gone. When you don't live in the same building as us, and we don't get lunch together, or see each other in class...will you still visit? All I know is that I'll think of your smile every time I find Orion in the sky, and that I'll miss the shape of your nose and your hair even though you never try. The first snow of the season will remind me of you. And red bikes. And when the cafeteria has sloppy joes. I miss it even as you're right down the hall.
I know you won't want to live with us because you love your family, but it hurts to remember that. Because three of us are wannabe runaways, and you're not. But I worry. I want to write and draw about it without worrying it's an omen. I wonder which of us is really being left behind as I watch you climb a tree. I worry you'll burn yourself out without realizing when we're not there to catch you. I worry you'll never get better at letting people take care of you. I worry your breaking point is in sight.
I know it's my abandonment issues sneaking up on me again, but I'm not sure what I'd do if our original trio didn't make it. I don't know if you know that I still remember the night our original trio was formed. If it broke I think I'd break with it.
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Me: Never writes unhappy endings
Also me rn: What if I just bled over the page till it was covered in nothing but pain and sorrow?
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