#this post was inspired by watching my american mother and american grandmother DESTROY themselves

[lastoneout]

I'm sorry, I wasn't going to respond to this originally but that last addition has broken me. I literally said in my original post up there that "you SHOULD put sugar and salt and fat in your food if that's what it takes to get you to eat it and anyone who makes you feel bad for that is a shit idiot bastard who should be ignored" and you guys are here like "well have you considered cutting out salt and sugar and fat or going paleo? you know, to be healthier?" like?? Am I missing something here?? You are not agreeing with me, you're saying the opposite of what I'm saying while adding a dash of fatphobic bullshit about american food being full of garbage and our citizens being too stupid and scared to live without our precious salts and sugars??

And like I was also explicitly arguing against doing shit like wasting your time finding low-fat oil or seasoning mixes without too much salt. Unless you have a legit health condition that makes that stuff unsafe who fucking cares. Salt is good for you. Fat is good for you. Spending time worrying about every little thing you put inside your body is exhausting bullshit. My whole point was that people should enjoy life even if that means eating "unhealthy" stuff bcs you actually do need to eat salt and sugar and fat and carbs to exist as a human being, and wanting to enjoy the food you eat isn't a bad thing. Your body needs fuel, and if it takes dumping a bottle of full fat hidden valley all over your salad to get you to give your body fuel then dumping all that ranch on it was the correct, healthy choice.

Maybe this is on me bcs you guys are far from the only ones who have missed the point but this is on another level. I'm almost impressed.

I know this is a tiny part of the wider problems born of diet culture, fatphobia, classicism, and racism but like god the idea that "healthy" food must inherently taste bad has completely ruined us as a society.

[tessatechaitea]

Doom Patrol #4

This cover is trying too hard to be incomprehensible.

Death metal bands in the Doom Patrol universe seem to have a common theme.

• Lucius is a fifteen year old sorcerer who feels like a nobody and has Daddy and Mommy Issues! Sounds perfect for the Doom Patrol! • Meanwhile, Cliff and Larry have touched the face of N'ihil (or whatever the Lord of Negative Entity Land is called) and entered into the negative courtroom where they'll be tried for their negative crimes. Man, I would be so guilty of negative crimes! • Double meanwhile, Casey and Fugg have found themselves in Space Jail (Casey's words...although they probably would have been mine as well if she hadn't called it that so quickly). There they meet the Niles Caulder Robot that Niles Caulder made during last issue's Intermission (there won't be an Intermission this issue because I've already skipped it. Niles met a dog or something. Also, he was watching Casey through his robot's eyes). They also meet Ricardo, the friend of Danny's who has been searching for him so he can warn Danny that he's about to be invaded by an Evil Fast Food Franchise. They easily escape Space Jail using Casey's new powers which she luckily discovers just in time to escape. • Back at Negative Court, Larry Trainor pleads "Make me Negative Man again." And so the court is all, "Cool! Way to be a good guy! You're a true hero, unlike some ex-racecar drivers who hate to be called by their superhero alias and are constantly going on about not being able to have a normal life, one of which might be in this room and listening to me and rolling his robot eyes.

So every time he lets the Negative Spirit loose, he'll get an extra Picard lifetime?! Awesome!

• Back in Vectra Space Jail, Casey and company discover Danny the Ambulance hooked up to a meat grinder so all of the people living inside of him can instantly be turned into fast food hamburger when he expels them. Casey finally realizes that maybe she shouldn't be upset about the way Danny created her. Although I'm still upset about the way my mom and dad created me. How dare they! I could have remained nonexistent and happy! Well, maybe not happy, but ignorant of existential terror. Well, maybe not ignorant, as I would never have existed to feel anything whatsoever. My father wearing a condom on that particular Christmas morning would have been the greatest Christmas gift of all time! • To try to bond with Casey, Danny tells her about the last time he tried to evade evil people who would exploit him and how he was destroyed then as well. All that was left that time was Danny the Brick. And that brick was saved by...oh. Oh my. I'm having the tears.

My dear, dear Crazy Jane!

• I bet they completely drop the "crazy", society being the thing full of scolds that it is today. • Danny went on space adventures with Jane until one day, they met a person who was only a white silhouette in a red cape. That person befriended them...up to a point. Eventually the friendship ended the way all friendships tend to end: one friend bashes somebody's brains out with the other friend. After that, Danny lost touch with Jane. • Casey accepts her role as the hero Space Case so that she can save Danny the World. But to do that, they need to do a little bit of time traveling. That's because Danny the World has already become burgers. • After Casey drives Danny the Ambulance away through space, it is revealed that her current nemesis is Torminox! He was also created by Danny to be Space Case's archenemy. He doesn't seem to mind that Space Case is getting away and might stop the whole Evil Fast Food Franchise thing because he has some other plan up his sleeve. It's probably super complicated. It definitely involves a synthetic being! The Ranking! +1! This version of Doom Patrol has my full approval! Although that could change at any moment! I'm one fickle motherfucker.