The bemused blogs of a Southern Belle

I am southern. I believe in a cold glass of iced tea on a hot summer day. I believe in beauty. I believe in finding beauty in all the things around you. I believe in love and devotion, even when it's to a celebrity, a movie, a book, or a tv show. I believe that you can fall in love with fiction, and the characters it creates. I am just a southern girl, prone to crushes on boys in books....or on tv...or in the movies...and Wil Wheaton, if you ever read this, know that you are #1 on my crush list. :)

[icanpaintanelephant]

i identify with this lady because i too, would find any excuse to hug antoni porowski

[tinglingpeter]

[Cries in Japanese]

[tanrak]

when Jonathan Van Ness said, “we live in a world that celebrates conformity. choosing to love yourself is so against the grain of what we’re taught, honey. you’re a rebel, honey, if you choose to love yourself. let’s all be rebels!” I FELT THAT

[protect-and-love-animals]

Autumn finally is here!

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

List of the Hell’s (de-)motivational posters:

PLEASE do not LICK THE WALLS

This office has gone  0  11  2  days without anyone saying  “The Road to Hell is Paved With Good Intensions″

Clean up after youself, your mother doesn’t work here. YOU DON’T HAVE A MOTHER

WE HATE YOU

The Devil Finds WORK FOR IDLE HANDS TO DO - so LOOK BUSY!

TO AVOID INJURY don’t tell me how to do my bloody job! 

For More Efficient Service just rip out your own throat with a stapler

GIVE UP NOW

CHEER UP! REMEMBER – The Worst IS yet to come.

You DON’T MATTER

In Case of Fire, Send grateful memo to the Department of Infernal Flame

To illustrate the torture existing in Hell, Neil Gaiman created motivational posters for the walls. ‘I had too much fun with these,’ he says. 'The hardest part was just persuading the art department that I was serious about getting them to forget everything they had ever learned about design.’ - Good Omens Companion

One of the oddest things was in Hell. I wrote a number of de-motivational posters for the walls of Hell. And the art department couldn’t get them ugly enough. Eventually, the production designer, the amazing Michael Ralph did possibly the most sensible thing that he could have ever done, which was to ask the youngest art department intern to do them and tell him that we encourage the use of lots of different fonts, and Comic Sans wherever possible. And we got these very badly designed posters, and they were exactly what we wanted. - Neil Gaiman (x)

[mischief-night]

[fondlylupin]

Ways to say, I love you. ⁠— Crowley version

[su-barbbie-a]

“These songs are for my big Black girls. Everyone can enjoy them, but I want to help us. This music is medicine and I’m trying to get it to my sisters. It’s so exciting to me to finally be at a level where I have exposure to my Black sisters, my big sisters, my Black trans sisters. It’s not about being poppin’. It’s not about being famous or fashion. It’s about being better and making sure that this world can hear us and respect us.” - Cuz I Love You (April 19, 2019)

[catchymemes]

[rumpledspinster]

Warming her tootsies.

[intergalacticleg-deactivated202]

me acting like ive did nothing wrong ever

[xcathenny]

he bake the beans

[shesnake]

David Tennant in Much Ado About Nothing (2011) dir. Josie Rourke

[timemachineyeah]

Ugh that post has gotten me thinking about fat acceptance in a way I haven’t in years. I’ve read more studies about weight and health than probably any other topic I’ve ever researched. And every time I see someone wail about health I am just like

Did you know that in post-mortem examinations there is zero correlation between weight and levels of arteriosclerosis and related diseases found?

Did you know that people with an overweight BMI have the longest life expectancy, that those with an “ideal” and an “obese” have about the same life expectancy, and that being “underweight” raises mortality rates more than being “morbidly obese”?

Did you know that losing weight and then gaining it back is worse for your heart than remaining at the weight you started consistently?

Did you know that 95% of people who lose weight do gain it back, and there has never been a single documented weight loss program that has been demonstrated to keep the weight off for five years or more in the majority or even a significant minority of people? Like, telling people to lose weight isn’t much use if we don’t know HOW to make that happen.

Like I have read The Obesity Myth by Paul Campos and Rethinking Thin by Gina Kolata and Big Fat Lies by Glenn A Gaesser (Ph.D!) And Fat!So? and several other books that I don’t own and so don’t remember all of their names I spent like four years reading every single study coming out and looking at the methodology and noting which ones had huge holes or terrible methods and which didn’t (the holes were almost always in the pro-weight-loss studies) and like

Big Fat Lies has 27 pages of bibliography. 27 pages worth of scientific citation. The book content itself is only 197 pages. That’s a page of references for every 7 pages of book. Reading the book is just reference after reference and study after study. Most of these doctors (like Linda Bacon, author of Health at Every Size) started out the same way. They wanted to use the scientific method to find a real weight loss program or health solution that worked and could be proven to work, and so studied everything they could about weight and fitness only to find out that we didn’t need weight loss in the first place. That all the studies calling for it were lacking or nonexistent. That weight and underlying metabolic health have very little relation. That the history of our relationship with health and obesity has little basis in fact and a LOT of basis in capitalism, politics, and fashion. No, really, the association between weight and health was first proposed by insurance companies looking for ways to charge people more by claiming risk. They also charged tall and short people more. And people with different skin colors. When they got in trouble for charging people for things they had no control over and had no bearing on their health, they set out to prove that weight was controllable and that fat was unhealthy to make money. 

These are also a lot of the same people who went on to invent the President’s fitness program, so if you went to public school you probably already hate them. 

Anyway, if you want a place to start reading about the issue, this article is a pretty good launching pad. 

[heavyweightheart]

This casual rant is like a primer on weight science. Amazing. I second their book recommendations, and would add to the list Body Respect by Drs Bacon & Aphramor, Body of Truth by journalist Harriet Brown, and What’s Wrong with Fat? by UCLA professor of sociology Abigail Saguy.

[sandreeen]

Shoma Uno on dressing up as a girl: “It would only be embarrassing if you only do it in a half-hearted fashion. When you put that much effort to it, it doesn’t feel embarrassing at all.”

[flawlessgentlemen]

Sebastian Stan photographed by Michael Schwartz for Style Magazine (2018)

[yesterdaysprint]

Barnard Bulletin, New York, November 22, 1938

[mortalityplays]

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[cis-jester]

Same

[repmarktakano]

This remarkable line of questioning from Congresswoman Suzan DelBene demonstrates just a few of the ways that the GOP tax plan treats corporations better than people.

Under the Republican plan, corporations are still allowed to deduct state and local taxes. Workers are not. Corporations are still allowed to deduct business expenses. Teachers are not. Corporations are still allowed to deduct more than $10,000 in property taxes. Homeowners are not. Corporations are still allowed to deduct moving expenses. Families are not.

And this is on top of a $1.5 trillion corporate tax cut.

Let’s be clear, this is not a “middle-class tax cut.” Working families get the crumbs and the super-wealthy get everything else.

[brunhiddensmusings]

citizens are now second class citizens, because the personhood of a corporation comes first