#warning rant

[cookierunconfessionblog]

https://www.tumblr.com/cookierunconfessionblog/739473349671026688/honestly-as-a-trans-person-people-headcanoning

I can kind of relate to a degree. It kinda icks me when a character does something non-gender-conforming and everyone goes “THEYRE TRANS OMG.” Which I understand *why*, we barely get any rep these days that isn’t mockery. But to be frank, while I do understand this headcannon makes you uncomfortable (which you have every right to feel this way, If something makes you uncomfortable, it just does), I personally feel like the character could still be under the transgender label and it wouldn’t defeat the purpose of the character. Transgender people could struggle with toxic masculinity (I should know, I have experienced this before). I could be a bit slow right now but I dont see how perceiving this character as transgender could change the character.

It feels kind of strange to me when people see a female character doesn’t like wearing dresses, or a male character exhibits feminine traits and they immediately label them as transgender. I feel that being transgender is more than that. It isn’t just “I dont like wearing dresses” or “Wow I love wearing dresses.” I believe that people are watering down the word when they do this. No hate to transgender people who do relate to these type of characters. But as a transgender person, it makes me strangely uncomfortable when people do that stuff. I do not mean to be a harm, but I feel that characters could not conform to their perceived gender and not be transgender. And the other way around.

But also everybody perceives characters in a different way. Anyone has the right to agree or disagree.

(Sorry if my english is bad, by the way)

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[nova1224]

Saw this on X/Twitter never related more in my life 💀

[greenhairedfreakglobal]

if nicocado avocado can do it, so can i

[lovely-sk1n]

does anyone else try massaging their stomach down to make food digest quicker and slim ur stomach out? ive been doing it since i saw an episode of supersize vs superskinny where a girl did it

[destroyluna]

WHY ARE MY THIGHS SO FCKING FAT IM GOING INSANEEE 😭

[thatraccoonlover]

wake up

smoke

drink diet coke

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sleep

[bonescrusher]

Thinspo That Stays In My Head

[gh0stgirlv]

Am I the only one who can’t accept compliments? Like, you’re mocking me? You don’t see that I’m fat? Nothing in my body can be pretty if I’m fat.

[xqlavsl]

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[cosmicpurplefox]

Come on girl!💕

Resist that crave!💪

You deserve to be skinny!🪶

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[cookierunconfessionblog]

I don’t think people should be talking about subjects if they can’t actually use the words.

Tw// very light discussions of triggering topics (rape, suicide, murder) as it’s more about the use of the words correlating.

I’m not talking about censorship here, apps like TikTok or Instagram do absolutely have censorship, and they’ll repress topics/ totally curate their brand image through the content you see.

Tumblr isn’t like that. On Tumblr, you can use words like shit fuck murder blood death suicide etc etc and the post… won’t get flagged. In fact, most popular posts on here have “bad words” in them. I saw a post, just this morning, that was just the word fuck and it had 6 thousand notes. The only time I understand it here is like what this blog does, so people in a certain fandom won’t see it when they search for said fandom.

If you’re not censoring for the algorithm, which I can understand if, once again, you’re on a different platform, and you’re using things like unalive, freaking, or god forbid replacing one letter with a symbol, in your own private life? You should not be talking about that subject.

If you’re talking about sexual assault, using words like: r@pe, grape, r@p3, $@ or any variation of that not only makes it harder for people who get triggered by those subjects to avoid them but also doesn’t stop them from being triggered by the subject matter.

Based off actual research, and anecdotal evidence, people are more likely to be triggered by the surrounding conversation rather than the actual word itself. I’m a rape survivor and neither me nor anyone else I know is triggered by the word rape. Even if someone IS you should give them the chance to filter that out… by using the actual word.

This is NOT to say that these subjects shouldn’t be talked about, it’s to say that if you’re going to be talking about it, use your words. If you’re making a callout post, say what the person did. “This person is a groomer because they sent nude pictures to a minor.” Vs “This person is a gr00m3r because they sent nxd3 photos to a /\/\!n0r” which one feels as though they’re taking the subject seriously? Which one feels as though they’re trivializing it?

And this brings me back to my thesis statement, if you’re censoring a subject for yourself, because you can’t handle talking about a serious subject, you shouldn’t be talking about it in the first place. If you aren’t ready to talk about whatever it is in a serious manner, you aren’t ready to talk about it. “unalived” is a lot more detached than “murdered.” “He was s@‘d by his girlfriend” vs “His girlfriend raped him.”

Anyway, sorry mods I know this wasn’t Cookie Run related, but I think the fandom needs to hear it! Sorry for the long rant. :)

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[svramblrdegg]

The feeling of fasting getting easier >>>

[bleeding-hearrt]

vlada roslyakova-my thinspø

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[lovely-sk1n]

so tired

[princesspiper505]

hunger hurts but starving works

(purging doesn't work half the time and apparently only gets rid of about 25% of the kcals so restricting works better for me)

[handweavers]

something that comes up for me over and over is a deep frustration with academics who write about and study craft but have little hands-on experience with working with that craft, because it leads to them making mistakes in their analysis and even labelling of objects and techniques incorrectly. i see this from something as simple as textiles on display in museums being labelled with techniques that are very obviously wrong (claiming something is knit when it's clearly crochet, woven when that technique could only be done as embroidery applied to cloth off-loom) to articles and books written about the history of various aspects of textiles making considerable errors when trying to describe basic aspects of textile craft-knowledge (ex. a book i read recently that tried to say that dyeing cotton is far easier than dyeing wool because cotton takes colour more easily than wool, and used that as part of an argument as to why cotton became so prominent in the industrial revolution, which is so blatantly incorrect to any dyer that it seriously harms the argument being made even if the overall point is ultimately correct)

the thing is that craft is a language, an embodied knowledge that crosses the boundaries of spoken communication into a physical understanding. craft has theory, but it is not theoretical: there is a necessary physicality to our work, to our knowledge, that cannot be substituted. two artisans who share a craft share a language, even if that language is not verbal. when you understand how a material functions and behaves without deliberate thought, when the material knowledge becomes instinct, when your hands know these things just as well if not better than your conscious mind does, new avenues of communication are opened. an embodied knowledge of a craft is its own language that is able to be communicated across time, and one easily misunderstood by those without that fluency. an academic whose knowledge is entirely theoretical may look at a piece of metalwork from the 3rd century and struggle to understand the function or intent of it, but if you were to show the same piece to a living blacksmith they would likely be able to tell you with startling accuracy what their ancient colleague was trying to do.

a more elaborate example: when i was in residence at a dye studio on bali, the dyer who mentored me showed me a bowl of shimmering grey mud, and explained in bahasa that they harvest the mud several feet under the roots of certain species of mangroves. once the mud is cleaned and strained, it's mixed with bran water and left to ferment for weeks to months.  he noted that the mud cannot be used until the fermentation process has left a glittering sheen to its surface. when layered over a fermented dye containing the flowers from a tree, the cloth turns grey, and repeated dippings in the flower-liquid and mud vats deepen this colour until it's a warm black. 

he didn't explain why this works, and he did not have to. his methods are different from mine, but the same chemical processes are occurring. tannins always turn grey when they interact with iron and they don't react to other additives the same way, so tannins (polyphenols) and iron must be fundamental parts of this process. many types of earthen clay contain a type of bacteria that creates biogenic iron as a byproduct, and mixing bran water with this mud would give the bacteria sugars to feast upon, multiplying, and producing more of this biogenic iron. when the iron content is high enough that the mud shimmers, applying this fermented mixture to cloth soaked in tannins would cause the iron to react with the tannin and finally, miraculously: a deep, living grey-black cloth.

in my dye studio i have dissolved iron sulphide ii in boiling water and submerged cloth soaked in tannin extract in this iron water, and watched it emerge, chemically altered, now deep and living grey-black just like the cloth my mentor on bali dyed. when i watched him dip cloth in this brown bath of fermented flower-water, and then into the shimmering mud and witness the cloth emerge this same shade of grey, i understand exactly what he was doing and why. embodied craft knowledge is its own language, and if you're going to dedicate your life to writing about a craft it would be of great benefit to actually "speak" that language, or you're likely to make serious errors.

the arrogance is not that different from a historian or anthropologist who tries to study a culture or people without understanding their written or spoken tongue, and then makes mistakes in their analysis because they are fundamentally disconnected from the way the people they are talking about communicate. the voyeuristic academic desire to observe and analyse the world at a distance, without participating in it. how often academics will write about social movements, political theory and philosophy and never actually get involved in any of these movements while they're happening. my issue with the way they interact with craft is less serious than the others i mentioned, but one that constantly bothers me when coming into contact with the divide between "those who make a living writing about a subject" and "those who make a living doing that subject"