tender etheral thursday afternoon

I'm Alex and I'm just happy to be here

[1800bruce]

Today I turned 35.

[brucespringsteen]

its always like be careful this song might become a memory. this cologne might become a memory. this brand of beer might become a memory. i time travel all the time

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

(with tears in my eyes) we have to post more perverted things now. because we never know which perverted post will be our last ...

[valtsv]

the author's barely disguised open wound splattered livid and filthy across everything they create

[hickeywiththegoodhair]

“why are you, as someone in their 30s, still on tumblr” oh so you think you’re gonna be normal when you’re my age? you think you’re gonna be CURED?? you think the witches’ curse will have been lifted by then?? cmon now

[youvsyou]

I was here first why should I have to leave

[ijustwannafallunderyrsawteeth]

maybe y'all didn't notice but fat people who don't hate ourselves sure did notice that people were obsessed with shitting on fat people in the late 90s and early 2000s (conservative political time) and now are again (fascist political time), coincidentally while the market for weight loss has become a 90 billion dollar industry due to glp1s.

you are not immune to propaganda. it makes some people a whole hell of a lot of money for you to hate fat people and fear becoming (or staying, I think like 70% or something of the US is fat) one of us.

[ijustwannafallunderyrsawteeth]

a lot of the fearmongering over fatness comes from studies directly funded by the weight loss industry...i think people don't really realize or think about the fact that research can absolutely be influenced and skewed by its funding. there is also research that shows that an amount of the negative health outcomes for fat people come from anti-fat bias. if you go to the doctor with concerns and the doctor simply tells you to lose weight, your problem is neglected and you may not even bother going to the doctor with the next problem.

every fat person you know for the most part probably has a story like this, of medical neglect. many of the stories i've heard personally are when the complaint or the doctor wasn't related at all, like being told to lose weight at the ear nose and throat doctor or at the dentist. it's straight up just bias. it's such a thing that in the show Shrill it's portrayed, when Aidy Bryant goes to the gynecologist and her doctor suggests she get gastric bypass.

the studies on health and fatness are simply not that black and white and there is basically no research that shows that more than an incredibly tiny minority of people can lose weight and keep it off for more than like 2 years. bodies have set points that they gravitate towards, it's not a personal failure. this also is how the weight loss industry succeeds so well - repeat customers.

some of the harm associated with fatness is also due to weight cycling, which is very hard on your body and is even worse if you get off a GLP1, which according to a recent study causes weight to be regained at a rate that is 4x faster than without taking a GLP1.

you don't have to hate yourself. you don't have to hate other people for their body type either. it makes me so sad to see the thinspo tag going around again in 2026 a lot like it was back in the day.

some resources to learn more here:

https://www.reuters.com/article/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/feeling-fat-may-be-worse-for-you-than-being-fat-idUSTON079061/

The Healthiest Weight Could Actually Be 'Overweight', Huge Study Finds

A study spanning almost four decades and involving more than 100,000 adults in Denmark found that those with an 'overweight' body mass index

there's so much crazy shit once you go down the rabbit hole. for example, BMI was not invented by anyone with a medical background. it was never meant to measure individual health.

[ijustwannafallunderyrsawteeth]

U.S. Weight Loss Industry Grows to $90 Billion, Fueled by Obesity Drugs Demand

The U.S. weight loss industry reached an unprecedented high in 2023, estimated at $90 billion, largely driven by surging sales of the widely

Body fat supports your health in surprisingly complex ways

Evidence is mounting that our body fat supports everything from our bone health to our mood, and now, research suggests it also regulates bl

[ijustwannafallunderyrsawteeth]

just gonna reblog this forever because i love fat people and we deserve fuckin basic human dignity and respect regardless of our weight

[1800bruce]

Whenever I doubt my own queerness, I just have to visit my best mate who has a house and kids and invests in crypto and takes care of their in-laws and feel that wave of ickyness pass through my body when I realise just how much I don't want that kind of life, how their life is run by miniature dictators and yet they still love it. this is the life they always wanted and they've got it which is great but also, I'm sitting over here going 'is this all there is until we die?'

I feel ill thinking I've got another 20-30 years of working before I can rest.

[duallpa]

JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS (2001) dir. Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan

[valtsv]

"came back wrong" sure yeah that's cool i guess "came back suicidal" now you're talking

[valtsv]

came back imprisoned by obligation to bear responsibility for the love and grief that others feel for you. came back painfully aware of the horror of existence. came back to a life you cannot bear to live anymore, to a body you cannot bear to call yours.

[1800bruce]

Eggplant and cauliflower: supreme vegetables

[byjove]

there is this controversy going on on TikTok where a girl made a video about how she is unemployed and disabled due to currently going through cancer treatment and how the loss of SNAP benefits was going to effect her. and the MAGA crowd found her and ripped her to shreds because she was a young “healthy-looking” girl with dyed hair. the most baffling part was all of the people saying things like “My dad had cancer and he worked EVERYDAY until he died! No excuses, you lazy bitch!” which is soooo wild. it is crazy how many members of the conservative ‘blue collar’ crowd love to brag about being fucked over and killed by capitalism. that is not a flex, quite the opposite, if anything that is insanely pathetic and sad. maybe your daddy would still be alive if we had socialized medicine and better sick leave policies but no, he worked himself to fucking death and you want a 20 something young woman to die the same pathetic fate. we need to start telling these people ‘that is so sad, I feel sorry for you’ instead of pretending this is in the scope of good work ethic. because it’s fucked up the things they’re going through and patting themselves on the back for. maybe if they felt less proud of being fucked over by the system, they’d work to change it.

[thenablade]

You need to realize these people can’t be saved because they don’t want to be saved and want everybody else to suffer the way they/their family did. Best to let them suffer.

[byjove]

No? I think that attitude is how the left got its reputation as elitist and against the everyman in the US. If someone is told from birth their only value comes from the labor they can provide, they’ll believe it and they’ll externalize that belief. That person who is working themselves to death has a family, has children who will be excited to repeat their father and grandfather’s cycle of being exploited into an early grave. You have to keep trying. I’m saying this as someone from Appalachia. ‘Best to let them suffer.’ is antithetical to worker’s rights and human rights in general.

[byjove]

These people will be like “I’m about to be the 3rd generation in my family to die an early death after working in a coal mine my entire adult life.” and these heartless ghouls will be like “Well, you deserve it. You’re nothing.” which is exactly what their bosses tell them.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[singing-bowl]

thinking about how ursula k leguin said "what goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives" and how everyday i wake up slightly different and i can feel myself shed the skin of who i used to be slowly, slowly, until i look back and can scarcely recognise who i was... but also she is still a part of me, part of the leaf litter and the humus, supporting me as i send new roots down and new leaves stretching up to the sunlight

[bmasiac]

Richerd Nadler

[1five1two]

'Woman and cat'. Peter H. Harskamp.

[darkbloomiana]

[neenarchive]

they're hiring me at the extra virgin olive oil factory as the oathsworn knight who protects the chastity of the olives