Nina

| Nina | 28 | butch lesbian | she/they | scorpio |

[apolladay]

Would you rather have 50% MORE or 50% LESS body hair than you do currently?

More

Less

I am at a comfortable level of human hairiness

Voting ended onMar 21, 2024

[daily-spooky]

[exyrpf]

People worrying if their fic is too self indulgent like....... that is the point of fanfiction. You are supposed to indulge . Every fic is self indulgent

[3000s]

learning that people want you in their lives is a skill you can develop if it does not come naturally

[3000s]

it feels fake but your friends miss you sometimes

[3000s]

the reason you've been hanging out with your closest friends fairly regularly for the past 12+ years is because you have fun together

[3000s]

people who don't like you that much will not stay in your life for over a decade asking to hang out and inviting you to things and texting you

[toshootforthestars]

(source)

[zigdirty]

Some very humbling information here that I have not actually heretofore seen.

Spread the word.

[ktempestbradford]

Spread the word.

And wear your damn masks.

[heavyweightheart]

Research has shown that pleasure affects nutrient absorption. In a 1970s study of Swedish and Thai women, it was found that when the Thai women were eating their own (preferred) cuisine, they absorbed about 50% more iron from the meal than they did from eating the unfamiliar Swedish food. And the same was true in the reverse for the Swedish women. When both groups were split internally and one group given a paste made from the exact same meal and the other was given the meal itself, those eating the paste absorbed 70% less iron than those eating the food in its normal state.

Pleasure affects our metabolic pathways; it’s a facet of the complex gut-brain connection. If you’re eating foods you don’t like because you think it’s healthy, it’s not actually doing your body much good (it’s also unsustainable, we’re pleasure-seeking creatures). Eat food you enjoy, it’s a win-win.

[jenroses]

what

no seriously

what?

[robotlyra]

PLEASURE IS A NECESSARY PART OF HUMAN HEALTH, BOTH PSYCHOLOGICALLY AND PHYSICALLY

[aleatoryw]

this is why you should be eating your chips with salsa and guac instead of beating yourself up for not eating a salad with tomato and avocado (unless you are a salad bitch like me then enjoy both of them!)

[killjoy]

here’s a recent systemic review of all the research done on the subject

[daroos]

for those of you wondering if the studies cited above are legit and if so where we can read about them, here’s a link to one of the (more than a dozen!) papers written on the topic of nutrient absorption and how you eat your food:

Iron absorption from Southeast Asian diets. II. Role of various factors that might explain low absorption - PubMed

Previously reported levels of iron absorption from common Southeast Asian meals composed of rice, vegetables, and spices were too low to be

[nehirose]

hey look, additional info!

[h01vd4l]

[canadiancodebreaker]

[ashleyloob]

what's the most cancelable shit y'all do when ur not online

[predatory-lesbians]

sometimes i like to acknowledge nuance

[semiotextiana]

what im learning is that you cannot avoid your way into a life you enjoy

[unbossed-deactivated20251218]

[tchaikovskaya]

im really not trying to be mean here but this one tag from a reblog just so colossally missed the point i cant let it go unacknowledged

the whole message of this post is that the clothes are being made regardless of whether anybody is going to be purchasing them. they’re made in sweatshops, shipped to the other side of the globe, put on racks in thousands of stores, and whatever doesn’t sell is dumped in the fucking desert to make room on those racks for the next shipment.

“buy secondhand only” in response to this is such an egregious misunderstanding and it’s doing the exact fucking thing that is implicitly being criticized by this tweet, which is that individual consumer choices are totally disconnected from the global production of consumer goods and therefore moralizing about making the Correct choices and imploring people to go to fucking goodwill instead of tj maxx is meaningless

[orpheusilver]

peeling those sour rainbow gummy strips into long thin strings and putting them into cheap energy drink to create something im calling battery acid spaghetti will update once ive finished it

[orpheusilver]

dont do this

[babblingbranches]

[cryptcollector]

I really hope its not too bad bc i actually love both components.

[cryptcollector]

it forms a dry skin at the top made of the sour pellets. not a great start.

[cryptcollector]

tastes really good actually. i also feel like i am about to explode.

[cryptcollector]

do not do this.

[jenjensd]

Unanimous consensus: Do not do this

Other people: Hold on I’m about to do this

[jenjensd]

[therenobee]

Oh boy, a bunch of stone spikes standing in a barren wasteland. I'm certain this is a place of honor, and that many highly esteemed deeds are commemorated here. A place of value to be sure!

[gallusrostromegalus]

Posts we're going to have to show the aliens to explain ourselves as a species #45469890

[fernacular]

Some people on this website wholeheartedly believe a cat will only try to bite its’ owner if it’s under traumatizing levels of stress.

I assure you cats will bite for a variety of reasons up to and including “fun and me time”

[spideyiron]

this is a list of all and every anti tony stark user on this site. this screenshot is really tall. the size is 500x27000.

here is the picture. have fun blocking these toxic blogs. just zoom a couple of times and you should be able to see all the blogs!

[powerfulwizard]

Tony Stark is an obnoxious character obviously written by straight men who have know idea what a charming man is like, and he is also bourgeoisie scum who deserves the rusty blade of a guillotine.

[jasper-rolls]

we used to have real drama on this website

[valentinedagger]

heavily biased "what fandom was the first fanfic you read for" but for my specific fandom generation instead of people who are currently teenagers

power leveling shonen juggernauts (g1 naruto, bleach, dragon ball, etc)

weeaboo crew (anything that made you more of a weeb than watching dragon ball)

harry potter

superwholock

cult classic live action american tv (buffy, xfiles, star trek, etc)

homestuck

boy band rpf (anything in the span from backstreet boys to one direction)

emo bandom (mcr, fob, p!atd, of course, along with anything else in that realm)

twilight (books or movies)

lord of the rings (books or movies or extended universe)

star wars (books or movies or extended universe)

other (put it in the TAGS i am a fandom HISTORIAN i need to KNOW)

Voting ended onJan 13, 2024

addendums: cult classic tv overlaps with early supernatural seasons somewhat, i am aware, just choose based on the cultural context in which you read your first fic.

for weeaboo crew i was thinking of examples like hetalia, black butler, soul eater, etc--popular anime absolutely included but the distinction is that people who were into dragon ball weren't necessarily going to anime club every week and making deviantart stamps about yaoi, but people into ouran high school host club ABSOLUTELY were.

homestuck is in its own category because homestuck changed fandom forever at a critical time which just happened to be when i was growing up in fandom. harry potter, lotr, star wars, and twilight are in their own categories because they were such multimedia juggernauts they had entire archives dedicated solely and only to their fic that spanned multiple franchise reboots (books -> movies -> extended universes). (i acknowledge star trek technically would fit under this but at the time culturally it had more overlap with other cult classic tv fandoms.)

honorable mentions that didn't make it to the list because i had to pick-and-choose with the 12 answer limit: the final fantasy franchise (axed because i am not familiar enough with the fic scene to know if it was as iconic of a gateway drug as, like, naruto or twilight or star wars fic), a general YA lit category (YA lit outside of twilight only went mainstream slightly after this time period), the MCU (i have a hate boner for the MCU), a broader "american superhero comics" category (this would be valid as an option but i don't have the space)

[isnt]

[headspace-hotel]

It takes so much courage to admit you were wrong ever, let alone publicly, especially if you’re involved in conspiracy stuff like this. Infinite respect

[natalieironside]

I bring a sort of "But how come?" energy that parents, teachers, pastors, 2nd lieutenants, and bosses have never been very appreciative of