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you know that post that's like "if thinking naruto would be proud of you for brushing your teeth gets you to brush your teeth go for it" well today i texted my friends and asked them to pretend to be wizards sending me on a grand quest to eat lunch and buy hand soap and it worked so well i put a load of laundry in and did the dishes too so. i don't know what the lesson is here but maybe give that a try
I went to the small pizzeria in a nearby village last month and asked for a calzone, and when she brought it to me the owner had a look on her face I can only describe as bitter.
Naturally my first assumption was that she was judging me for my food order (maybe calzones are too easy compared to other pizzas and she felt under-challenged as a pizza chef?), but then I looked at my calzone and the more I looked at it, the more I felt like it might have been a failed attempt at a cat calzone.
(I didn't ask for a cat calzone, just a calzone.)
If I had immediately identified it as a cat calzone I would have of course said something about it, such as "Aww that's so cute! You made it in the shape of a cat!! Thank you!" — but it was too late. I hesitated too long, and it was just failed enough that I wasn't sure it was meant to be a cat.
I think this poor woman knew her cat calzone was a failure and I wouldn't be able to recognise her effort for what it was, hence the bitterness in her eyes when she brought it to me.
I asked my friend if my pizza looked like a cat to her, and she said "Are you saying this because of the olives? I think they were just placed randomly."
no, I think they were meant to be eyes, and a cat nose. And those are the ears. Wait, I'll turn it in your direction so you can see
Friend: "It's just a pointy calzone... Maybe you should ask the chef if she meant to make it a cat?"
If I tried to make a cat calzone and the recipient of this gift went like 'hey, sorry, is this weird-looking thing meant to be cat?' I would sell my pizza restaurant and drown myself in the river.
After considering this, my friend said we could brainstorm a better phrasing—but then we ended up agreeing that since the chef didn't go 'haha sorry I tried to make a cat and failed!!' when she brought my pizza, the options were a) she didn't try to make a cat; b) she feels humiliated by her failure, and either way it's better to say nothing.
But I felt deeply curious about this unresolved mystery, so this week when I went back to the pizzeria I asked for a calzone again.
The options were now: a) the chef brings me a better, recognisable cat calzone and I immediately remark upon it and she's happy and we erase the failed cat calzone from the historical record and never mention it ever;
or b) the chef brings me a normal calzone, which suggests that the vague cat shape from last time was accidental and just another instance of chronic cat pareidolia.
(I refused to consider option c) The chef brings me another failed, hardly-recognisable cat. She just doesn't seem like the kind of person who would let that happen to her twice.)
Here's the photo of the failed cat calzone from last time, which, according to my friend, just looks like a pointy calzone with randomly-placed olives and not a deliberate attempt to make a cat:
And here's what the chef brought me this time:
THAT'S A CAT.
I knew it!!!!
And it looks so sad!! This cat calzone looks like it will burst into olive oil tears if you once again fail to identify it as the cat that it is
But I didn't; I was so ready this time. I went "A cat!!!!! It's so cute!" and the chef went like yes!!! I tried to make one last time but it looked weird :(
I said I was pretty sure it was a cat last time and apologised for not bringing it up and she said no, it's my responsibility to make it a decent cat. She also said she was glad I'd come back and ordered another calzone because she was really bothered ("vraiment embêtée") by that first failed attempt, and wondering if I'd noticed an attempt was made (and failed)
That's so relatable. It's like when you make a really embarrassing spelling mistake in a text and you're not sure if the other person has seen it and is judging you for it. Should you bring it up? Can it go unnoticed if you don't? It's the cat calzone equivalent of that. I'm so glad we were able to clear the air.
THE "RARITY" OF INTERSEXUALITY IS ENGINEERED BY A WORLD THAT BELIEVES WE SHOULD NOT EXIST.
IT IS INTENTIONAL
IT IS DELIBERATE
IT IS VIOLENCE
WE ARE NOT NATURALLY RARE. WE ARE BEING ERASED. DO NOT CONTRIBUTE TO OUR INVISIBILITY.
"But futa/herm is already a popular term-" yeah isn't that fucked up? That intersexist slurs are in common use in queer adult spaces? Doesn't that make you upset? That fetishistic bigotry against us is normal in our own community? That it's caused intersexuality to be deeply misunderstood by so many people? Is that what you were going to say? That it's fucked up that people don't know these are slurs? That it's even more fucked up that lots do know, but don't care? And that there's no reason to keep using those terms, and it won't kill you to say bigenital/dualsex/salmacian instead?
Dear furries, "herm" is a slur for intersex people.
Please stop referring to your fursonas as hermaphrodites.
Yes, even if they do fit the definition of a hermaphrodite and have two sets of reproductive organs. This isn't for the sake of accuracy, it's for the sake of making your spaces less actively hostile and fetishistic of intersex people. Referring to a sapient/humanoid creature in fiction as a hermaphrodite is in extremely poor taste.
Other terms you can use for 'hermaphrodite' characters;
Dualsex
Bigenital
Salmacian
Terms to avoid;
Futa/futanari (this is just hermaphrodite in Japanese)
Intersex (Intersex people do not 'have both parts', this is a stereotype; *if a character is genuinely intersex (DO YOUR RESEARCH) feel free to label them as such however)
I hate how slurs are just built into so many furry art sites. This shit sucks and makes it so hard for intersex people to participate in the fandom. It makes it hard to find intersex representation in furry art because most furries think 'intersex = bigenital' and thus all the tags are clogged with a fetishistic stereotype of our bodies. I hate when furries find out I'm intersex in furry spaces because they'll immediately assume I have both genitalia, or they'll ask invasive questions.
And it just sucks even more because anthro art is such a cool medium to properly represent intersexuality through! Male calico cats, cardinals with red and brown feathers, does with antlers, bucks with none, etc etc etc! There's so many cool ways you can mix animals' sexually dimorphic traits in intersex character designs! But I just. Never fucking see it! Because furries treat intersex as a porn category that only refers to genitalia we don't even fucking have! I've never once seen intersex ambiguous genitalia like what I have represented in any NSFW art tagged as intersex.
I hope that one day the furry fandom is safe for intersex people to participate in.
Does he mean anything to you
You know what's wild?
Your body- like, the one you're existing as? Your mind prison?- it's not a wholly independant entity. It's an ecosystem. You're a bog that's self-aware
Imagine if a swamp could telepathically communicate a desire for Chicago style deep dish and then just. Have it
No wonder my stomach hates me, the fish are confused as fuck
it's always "immortals always lose the ones they love!" and never "this family has had this incredible, powerful, loving figure present through generations of their lineage, all because they are descended from someone the immortal loved long ago" and i think that's a shame!!
my coffin shaped locket is the perfect size to fit one singular ibuprofen
this is surprisingly useful actually
stop wasting space and add another
tres ibuprofenitos
¿En este economía?
girl, ESPECIALLY en este economía
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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.427, fol. 57r
I don’t so much forget that I’m disabled so much as I…forget that other people aren’t.
Like, I can’t forget how tired I am or how much I’m hurting or how many things I wish I could do that I just can’t right now. Those things are actively happening to me, I’m thinking about them all the time.
It’s more like…what do you MEAN they got their entire to-do list done in one day? What do you mean they had the time and energy left over to do a couple of other things, too? What do you mean, they were sore yesterday from doing something physical, but that they’ve pretty much recovered by today, and tomorrow they won’t even feel it?
Surprisingly accurate to the original
When you are alone and have a heart attack. What are you gonna do then?
Take a 2 minute break and read this:
Let's say it's 5:25 pm and you're driving home after an unusually hard day's work.
You are really tired and frustrated. All of a sudden your chest pains. They are starting to radiate in the arm and jaw. It feels like being stabbed in the chest and heart. You're only a few miles away from the nearest hospital or home.
Unfortunately you don't know if you can make it..
Maybe you've taken CPR training, but the person running the course hasn't told you how to help yourself.
How do you survive a heart attack when you're alone when it happens? A person who is feeling weak and whose heart is beating hard has only about 10 seconds before losing consciousness.
1. But you can help yourself by coughing repeatedly and very strongly! Deep breaths before every cough. Coughing should be repeated every second until you arrive at the hospital or until your heart starts to beat normally.
2. Deep breathing gives oxygen to your lungs and coughing movements boost the heart and blood circulation. Heart pressure also helps to restore a normal heartbeat. Here's how cardiac arrest victims can make it to the hospital for the right treatment
3. Cardiologists say if someone gets this message and passes it on to 10 people, we can expect to save at least one life.
4. FOR WOMEN: You should know that women have additional and different symptoms. Rarely have crushing chest pain or pain in the arms. Often have indigestion and tightness across the back at the bra line plus sudden fatigue.
Reblogging this, because it is helpful information, BUT, with a couple of additions and caveats. First, this:
Rhythmically coughing during a heart attack increases your chances of surviving it?
And then this:
As if the thought of having a heart attack isn't worrisome enough, what would happen if you had one while all alone? Thankfully, it is quite
And yes, as you get older, these are things you actually start thinking about, and worrying about, so I always try to stay informed.
Important for younger people too!! I was in my 30's, sitting in a waiting room, feeling sorry for myself because I was the youngest person at the cardiologist's. Then a kid who couldn't have been more than 16 walked in....
One of the most dangerous mistakes people make about their health is believing that a health problem doesn't happen to people "their age".
you came back wrong and i am racked with guilt because i cannot bear to see you like this and i should have let you rest. i loved you so much that i defied death itself but i do not think either of us are happy
this is what microwaving leftover pizza feels like
stop it i was trying to be gothic
As someone who grew up with "I'm not going to praise you for doing what's expected of you; that's not being good, that's doing the bare minimum" I want to encourage you to celebrate every little thing you can. Everything that takes energy and effort should be appreciated and you're allowed to be happy about trying.
not culture but y’all might need to see this <3
if you are a disabled person of any severity and can make it through a grocery shopping trip, i am proud of you and look up to you. if you can't make it through a grocery shopping trip for whatever reason, pain, anxiety, psychosis, ADHD, autism, depression, memory or attention issues, fatigue, exhaustion, irritability, confusion, dissociation, or anything else, you have my condolences because i'm right there with you, that shit sucks ass. it's needlessly complicated and its something that abled people take for granted
of course disabled people cant go across the entire store to put an item back every time. of course disabled people may need help getting items from high or low places. of course disabled people will get lost even in labeled places because of object blindness, blindness/eye problems, bad attention span, anxiety, or other issues, of course there are who can't make it through the entire store without collapsing
these stores are designed to confuse customers and trap them inside for as long as possible to increase impulse spending, of course disabled people are going to struggle to navigate the store. i love you if you're disabled and can navigate the store, kudos to you, but i also love you if you can't. it's not easy and people take for granted how easy it is for them when others can't do it at all
