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you deserve to never have to guess how much you mean to somebody.
Someone told my ex-dad (not a sex thing; he just disowned me) that I’m trans and now he’s threatening to come to work and make a scene, and I know I should be upset, but like. What’s he gonna say exactly? And to whom? Because imagining a haggard and likely shitfaced Pennsylvania construction worker barging through the grocery store like, “HEY!!! THAT BROAD-HIPPED 5'3” EFFEMINATE KID WITH THE CONSPICUOUSLY BIZARRE NAME WHO SPEAKS IN A CARTOONISHLY AFFECTED CARICATURE OF MASCULINITY AIN’T GOT NO DICK!!! YOU GONNA BUY SCRATCH OFF TICKETS FROM SOME KINDA DICKLESS ABOMINATION??“ is wild. What’s it going to accomplish? Or is he gonna call my manager? “HELLO, I’D LIKE TO REPORT A FRAUD IN YOUR DELI DEPARTMENT. THERE IS NOT SAUSAGE AS ADVERTISED.” What the fuck.
Odds are he’s more embarrassed of having a trans ex-kid than I am of being outed at work, so what if I go to his job and tell everyone I’m trans first? What then, coward?
Dick or no dick, this post has some of the biggest dick energy I have ever seen.
I remain calm and collected through the current storm that I face.
~Today’s Affirmation *
Like seriously I wish we had a more comprehensive sex education program in the U.S. You know how many guys I know who had no idea an unaroused vagina is only 2-3 inches deep? Or that the cervix raises up when aroused to accommodate dick? Or that if a girl is “tight” that generally means she’s not turned on and you’re shitty in bed? Or that the cervix has an entire cycle it goes through throughout the month where is changes hardness, placement in the vagina, wetness? Like, when you’re ovulating your cervix gets soft and raises high up into the vagina and your hormones get you really horny. It’s like natures way of moving the furniture around and fluffing the pillow for dick because it wants to get pregnant. And before menstruation, it gets really hard and low in the vagina. It’s basically inactivating it’s Facebook and saying “I just need some alone time for a few days”
Ladies and gentlemen, take a moment to learn about vaginas. Men, take an interest into your woman’s menstrual cycle!
U.S. Needs better sex Ed because I’m a 23 year old woman and didn’t even know all of this
Hi I had no idea about the cervical cycle.
God bless this post pls share it far & wide
Wow didn’t know any of th that
Also that there’s a time when you reach peri-menopause where you are constantly horny because your hormones are telling you it’s the last chance for baby-train, and then when you ovulate you get so bad you’d seriously consider fucking anyone.
I’m not sure if I am hating or loving peri-menopause. Seriously confused about it.
so heres a thing my mother always said to me growing up when i broke something on accident that i think is really important
and i know, from watching my friends and seeing their panic and terror when something broke, that not only were not nearly enough children told this thing, many children were punished in place of being reassured
and thats heartbreaking
so heres the words from my mom that i was always told, and theyre the same words that anyone who never got to hear them should hear now, courtesy of my mom, who has repeated those same words to many a friend of mine and now to you
if i ever broke anything, the first words out of her mouth would always be and have always been, “are you hurt?”
i would say no
she would say, “thats okay, then”
and i would ask why
and she would say “because it was just a thing- even if its a nice thing, or an old thing, or an expensive thing, its still just a thing. it can be replaced, or we can live without it. there is only one you. there will only ever be one you. you will always be more important than just some thing.”
I lend out a collection to fossils to my school’s 8th grade science teachers annually. I’ve collected since I was a kid, added more as an adult from yard sales and donations. I want kids to be inspired and intrigued. About my 5th year at my school, the teacher came to me with one of her students. The girl looked upset and sort of scared. The teacher explained that the girl’s hand had slipped and a Megaladon Shark’s tooth had broken into two pieces. My first response was to make sure she hadn’t been cut by one of the pieces, and she shook her head, tears in her eyes. I smiled at her and pointed out that she hadn’t dropped it on purpose, that the ridiculously big tooth had been fossilized and survived this long, and it would still be amazing if I had to either keep it in two pieces or superglue it.
It bothered me a lot that the kid was clearly primed by a lot of adults to deal with anger and blame when a simple mistake was made. I offered her a hug, which she accepted and finally laughed.
Story time:
My grandmother owns crystal bowls that have been passed down to her from her grandmother. Being a family with Jewish heritage in Austria, every single piece of family history we own is basically a treasure in itself. I was already an adult when she allowed me to take one of them home with me, of course only after I swore several oaths to keep it safe. I can go months and years without breaking a single dish, but lo and behold, it takes two weeks and a split second of not paying attention, and suddenly that crystal bowl, that’s worth more to my grandmother than the entire rest of her furniture, goes flying and shatters into a million pieces. I swear I watched for what felt like an hour as that thing dropped, turned around itself and finally crashed in a spectacular impact. Anyway, it’s completely beyond repair, and I’m freaking out because my grandmother will murder me. Only, she will not, because even worse, she’s going to be fucking heartbroken and so, so disappointed with me she won’t even find it within herself to murder me. But, you gotta do what you gotta do - not being able to face her while confessing, I call her, in tears, apologizing a hundred times before she finally goes: “Gigi, calm down now, what happened??” “*sobbing* I- I broke your grandma’s bohooohooowl -” And my grandmother, bless that woman, starts laughing hysterically. She’s laughing so much I think, I must have broken her, that’s it, she’s lost her marbles now and it’s my fault, until she wheezes out: “Gigi that bowl survived two world wars and the Nazis but not a month in your kitchen!” and of course I fucking lost it too at that point. That’s how I learned, that in the end, it’s really all about perspective.
Now I’m a step-mum myself and my go to reaction whenever I hear something break is to shrug and say ‘Well, it had a good run’ and then I go fetch a broom and we’ll clean up because if my grandma could laugh off a 100 year old crystal dish, I can laugh off an IKEA mug lmao
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So I was out of here this week. I had therapy on Tuesday and got kinesiotape applied, then went to the gym on Wednesday and Thursday and totally killed it. I had therapy on Friday again and that was the second to last session. Gotta say I’m pretty sad it’s over; I loved getting massages and stuff weekly. But I’m pumped to get back to heavy training. I’m starting the HST tomorrow with quads and arms.
I changed my Instagram name to eifill_fitness and updated the bio a bit. I also reached out to another potential sponsor, but haven’t heard back. Who knows. I’m excited for the new plan anyway.
I found an ask meme
I don’t expect a whole lot of takers BUT I wanted to throw it out there anyway. If you want to avoid all this nonsense, I’m tagging anything that comes out of it with “ask meme.” SO that said, here we go, ask a number from the list and I’ll endeavor to answer:
1. if someone wanted to really understand you, what would they read, watch, and listen to? 2. have you ever found a writer who thinks just like you? if so, who? 3. list your fandoms and one character from each that you identify with. 4. do you like your name? is there another name you think would fit you better? 5. do you think of yourself as a human being or a human doing? do you identify yourself by the things you do? 6. are you religious/spiritual? 7. do you care about your ethnicity? 8. what musical artists have you most felt connected to over your lifetime? 9. are you an artist? 10. do you have a creed? 11. describe your ideal day. 12. dog person or cat person? 13. inside or outdoors? 14. are you a musician? 15. five most influential books over your lifetime. 16. if you’d grown up in a different environment, do you think you’d have turned out the same? 17. would you say your tumblr is a fair representation of the “real you”? 18. what’s your patronus? 19. which Harry Potter house would you be in? or are you a muggle? 20. would you rather be in Middle Earth, Narnia, Hogwarts, or somewhere else? 21. do you love easily? 22. list the top five things you spend the most time doing, in order. 23. how often would you want to see your family every year? 24. have you ever felt like you had a “mind-meld” with someone? 25. could you live as a hermit? 26. how would you describe your gender/sexuality? 27. do you feel like your outside appearance is a fair representation of the “real you”? 28. on a scale from 1 to 10, how hard is it for someone to get under your skin? 29. three songs that you connect with right now. 30. pick one of your favorite quotes.
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
— Omar Khayyám, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
I can't remember how to write 1, 1000, 51, 6 and 500 in Roman numerals
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How to determine if a kids injury is serious or not
offer them “medicinal chocolate” if they stop crying it’s fine if they carry on crying/refuse the chocolate then it’s serious
From age two apparently^^
Oh wow I never heard this one.
German edition: offer the kid to blow away the pain. If it’s better afterwards it’s okay, if they refuse or still screaming it’s serious
Also a lot healthier than giving your kid chocolate everytime they cry tbh
It’s not everytime they cry it’s only if they get injured and you’re unsure if it’s serious because they are screaming but you can’t tell if they are overreacting or not
For things that are clearly a minor bump we give kisses instead
And before anyone thinks if a kid is screaming it’s not an over reaction
My kid fell off their bike and skinned their knee. Just skinned it that’s all and they went into full on scream/crying hysterical because it was bleeding and they hadn’t had an injury where they bled within their memory
It wasn’t so much the pain as the blood that made them hysterical.
In that case we could see it wasn’t serious but the chocolate helped them calm down and then I got them to tell me about Terraria until they were calm and their wound was dressed
It was absolutely an overreaction to a skinned knee but it was also an understandable one
Kids don’t have experience or pain tolerance we do and sometimes it’s hard to tell if it’s something that requires a trip to the hospital or not
Kids don’t have experience or pain tolerance we do
This is important….we’ve had 20+ years of injuries and can compare some pain to other pains and be like this doesn’t hurt nearly as much as this other thing that happened. Pain is an experience that’s new to kids, especially little ones. Some overreactions are to be expected
There is a good chance that whatever just happened is literally the worst thing that has ever happened to them
So my gym is open, but I decided to skip it. MetCon Monday was a fun one. I went up to the rooftop and did:
Rotating walking squats
Walking lunges
Heels to glutes
Knee high run
Moving jumps
Burpees
Shoulder taps
Hell raises
Push ups
Shoulder Ts
Animal flow’s downward dog to upward dog wave
Animal flow’s beast, I think, child pose to low runner lunge
Animal flow’s side kickthroughs
Full V ups
Toe touches
V knees to chest
For anyone into mobility/flexibility/yoga/Pilates, is definitely day check out Animal Flow on instagram/their website.
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this is the best comic ive ever seen
You’re not reading this by accident.
Everything is going to be okay.
Breathe and remember that you’ve been in this place before.
You’ve been this uncomfortable, anxious and scared, and you survived.
Close your eyes and feel the universe within you making a way for you right now.