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148.5cm roughly translates to 4'11".

[booooooorbsie]

hey it’s me kat! somewhat updated pic of me <3

[booooooorbsie]

i’ve been using this site for years and i have not had a chance to say hi to my mutuals. hey what’s up. i love u guys

[booooooorbsie]

and to all the ppl i used to talk to but have not talked to in a while. hey what’s up. it’s me kat or atoshre. i rly miss everyone. hope u guys are good.

and and to my new followers, you guys are cool too. 

[booooooorbsie]

i’ve been using this site for years and i have not had a chance to say hi to my mutuals. hey what’s up. i love u guys

[heshe]

Ok I’ve had it *makes a stew*

[pointnclick]

enough “chicken soup for the soul.” how about some chicken soup for the hole

[woodrider]

that’s just regular chicken soup

[pointnclick]

not gonna lie i forgot mouths existed

[waxworm-moved]

oh boy i cant wait to get my own pair ot Ray-Ban sunglasses for only 24.99

[waxworm-moved]

[trainedchimpanzee]

omg why do white ppl love cheese so mu-

[100-manslayer]

I actually didnt know that

[grifalinas]

The answer is apparently “because we’re actually able to eat it”

[systlin]

Interestingly, what actually happened is that people who settled in Northeastern Europe came to rely heavily on milk products, particularly preserved milk products (cheese) from kept livestock as a source of protein and fat through the long frozen winters in the area. Those who could eat cheese lived, those who couldn’t starved. So, we adapted to keep producing the enzymes that let us digest lactose past infancy and into adulthood. 

Other cultures (particularly in warmer climates with shorter winters) that had more varied sources of fat and protein throughout their lean seasons didn’t need to develop this adaptation. 

Give this a few thousand years to simmer, and various European cultures developed hundreds of different types of cheeses that were integrated into cuisine in just as many ways. Using/loving cheese has been handed down to the descendants of those Europeans, and hey presto you have the map above. 

[grievousgrimalkin]

Imma be a downer and add an important note that milk has been wielded, intentionally or not, as a really awful tool of colonialism in North America.

This map doesn’t show it, because it’s post-colonial, but Native Americans, to this day, are also largely lactose intolerant (1) as dairy of any kind wasn’t part of the Native diet after early childhood, so their bodies simply don’t produce the lactase to digest lactose after they have been weaned.  When colonization hit and indigenous kids were forced into white institutions like the boarding schools that were designed to eradicate Native cultures and lifestyles by instilling “good white Christian values” into the Native children, they were made to drink milk as part of the diet they were forced to follow (2).  This obviously made them unbelievably sick and more prone to serious illnesses like tuberculosis and measles that often swept through the schools.

Even to this day, Native folks have a higher propensity toward lactose intolerance: around 80-100% of Native Americans are lactose intolerant (3). This still causes issues, especially in education. Dairy products are an inescapable component of school lunches most everywhere, and milk is often the only beverage served to students with free or reduced school lunches (4).  A 2009 study of 4th graders showed that well over half (68%) of Native students in public school were eligible for the free or reduced lunch program (5).  Being all but forced to drink milk or eat dairy when lactose intolerant (since options like juice or water aren’t readily provided through his program) and then being made to sit in a classroom while fighting severe gastrointestinal issues puts Native children at a severe disadvantage educationally, compared to their milk-drinking peers.  This line of reasoning also definitely extends to children of other minorities with high rates of lactose intolerance and high rates of students living in a low income family who rely on school lunches for a good deal of their daily nutrition, like black students (74% on reduced lunches (5) and 60-80% lactose intolerant (3)) or Hispanic students (77% on reduced lunches, 50-80% lactose intolerant).

It’s just one of the nasty ways the system is stacked in favor of even low-income white folks like me, so I’m gonna do my bit to call it out.

Sources:

http://web.ku.edu/~aihd/health/lactose_intolerant.html

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/651.html

https://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/documents/NICHD_MM_Lactose_FS_rev.pdf 

Personal experience on reduced lunches as a student. 

https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010015/indicator2_7.asp

[the-shanpai]

Wow

[peoriarhetoriapeoria]

Similarly, when food aid is delivered dry milk is a heavy component, even if the population isn’t a dairy culture.

[sidnugget]

¿

[h0odrich]

i speak spanish let me translate: ?

[texasenchantment]

The fact that I’m legally an adult is hysterical

[grainadloafs-deactivated2021101]

debra messing not understanding how dating works has been the highlight of my day

[squided]

Me sitting in my room for the 7th day in a row

[ubercharge]

????

[ubercharge]

[cherryholley]

lemony snicket: authority figures are either ineffectual or villainous

me, age 9: that seems unfair and unlikely lol

me, age now: ohhh my goood, lemony was trying to tell me

[ayyeeequality]

There are ONLY FOUR genders

😒Bitch😒

😈Bastard😈

🥺Baby🥺

and

🤡Clown🤡

[owlcitytweets]

[beyond-authority]

Update!

[the-great-void]

Mr. City

[timetrees]

#mr city was my father please call me owl

[nihongogogo]

‘For years, there’s only been one passenger waiting at the Kami-Shirataki train station in the northernmost island of Hokkaido, Japan: A high-school girl, on her way to class. The train stops there only twice a day—once to pick up the girl and again to drop her off after the school day is over.It sounds like a Hayao Miyazaki film. But according to CCTV News, it was a decision that Japan Railways—the group that operates the country’s railway network—made more than three years ago. At that time, ridership at the Kami-Shirataki station had dramatically fallen because of its remote location, and freight service had ended there as well. Japan Railways was getting ready to shut the station down for good—until they noticed that it was still being used every day by the high-schooler. So they decided to keep the station open for her until she graduates. The company’s even adjusted the train’s timetable according to the girl’s schedule. The unnamed girl is expected to graduate this March, which is when the station will finally be closed.’

[thecosmosowl]

[jotaillustrator]

[im-the-princess-now]

Baby girl graduated

[thenatsdorf]

Enya, as intended. (via lilmissshitpaws)

[encyclopydia]

I’m so confused as to how this was filmed

[sephonenorth]

They taped the camera to the drum, then Had it spin, and held the cat through the hole. It makes it look like the kitty is spinning, in reality, it’s just the camera.

[pati79]

Sublime

[horreurscopes]

jessica rabbit is literally a sex symbol though she can't be asexual?

she is in romo with a rabbit because he makes her laugh and aside from using her looks to get things out of people she literally never once shows interest in anything or anyone sexually through the entire movie and is clearly appalled when anyone makes advances towards her like there is canonical evidence that jessica rabbit from the classic motion picture who framed rogger rabbit is an asexual character  

[harocat]

I am here as fuck for this. Jessica Rabbit for new asexual icon.

[drdadster]

“She can’t be asexual because she’s hot tho”

[commandertrevelyan]

“I can only see her as a sexual object so I can’t imagine her not wanting to have sex with me.”

[skottichan-deactivated20240228]

I’ve always remembered the line “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way” as Jessica’s admission that while sexualized, she isn’t inherently a sexual entity.

I mean hell, literally, her line before is “You don’t know how hard it is being a woman looking the way I do.”, to which Eddie responds; “You don’t know how hard it is being a man looking at a woman looking the way you do.”

I think that’s pretty damning evidence to her asexuality. The whole plot point with Jessica is how everyone is either convinced she’s sleeping with every human and toon around, or why does she stay faithful to Roger.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit does a great job at satirizing Hollywood/American culture and ideals when it comes to appearances. It also does a great job at hiding some really well thought out challenges to how we look at others in plain sight.

I completely believe that Jessica Rabbit is an asexual romantic (hetero/bi/pan/etc not sure, and to be honest, I don’t know if that part is important, as she’s married to the toon she loves).

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I LOVE this headcanon <3

[pixiebutterandjelly-deactivated]

This is important!

[luxarcher]

This headcanon is just so perfect I had to draw it

#JessicaRabbitForAsexualIcon

[filledepluie]

YES

YES

YEEEESSS

[eliciaforever-deactivated201906]

I haven’t seen this post in a thousand years and it’s gotten EVEN MORE EXCELLENT.

[celeloriel]

Also? She and Roger walk off into the sunset at the end of the movie, and her line is “C'mon, Roger, let’s go home. I’ll bake you a carrot cake.”

And I’m sure there’s some innuendo one could take from that but if you read it as delivered, Jessica’s happy ending is a domestic evening with her partner.