Alyssa

Star lover, avid writer and musician, have a poetry blog, hmu if you like music, stars, writing, anime, or marvel :)

[manymistypes]

-beth pecora

[waysideshrine-deactivated202107]

[melissablogs-deactivated2018010]

Friendly reminder that 1200 calories is the recommended amount for a 5 year old

[rambirb-deactivated20221115]

this hit me.

another fact is that 500 calories isn’t even enough for a new born.

why did I go so long convinced that going over 500 in a day was the end of the world?

[naamahdarling]

Another friendly reminder that the United States used 1,000 calorie diets as torture for political prisoners and justified it using the diet industry.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/17/bush-torture-memos-commer_n_188190.html

In a footnote to a May 10, 2005, memorandum from the Office of Legal Council, the Bush attorney general’s office argued that restricting the caloric intake of terrorist suspects to 1000 calories a day was medically safe because people in the United States were dieting along those lines voluntarily.

“While detainees subject to dietary manipulation are obviously situated differently from individuals who voluntarily engage in commercial weight-loss programs, we note that widely available commercial weight-loss programs in the United States employ diets of 1000 kcal/day for sustain periods of weeks or longer without requiring medical supervision,” read the footnote. “While we do not equate commercial weight loss programs and this interrogation technique, the fact that these calorie levels are used in the weight-loss programs, in our view, is instructive in evaluating the medical safety of the interrogation technique.”

Another another friendly reminder that the Minnesota Starvation Experiment subjected adult men who were VOLUNTEERS to 1,560 calorie diets and the psychological effects were so profound that one volunteer cut three of his own fingers off and could not remember why.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Starvation_Experiment

These men were volunteers who knew exactly what they would be going through and when it would end, and who believed they were doing it for a good and moral reason (the research was used to help rehabilitate victims of starvation and famine at the end of WWII).

And these are the things we are expected to engage in FOREVER to stay at a “healthy” weight.

Reading about the Minnesota Starvation experiment was my wake-up call.  It was what kicked me out of my eating disorder.  The guy missing three fingers, whatever his name was, he was the last straw for me.

Scared me so fucking bad I stopped restricting my food that day, and never went back to it.

[naamahdarling]

Just bringin’ this back around like I sometimes do.

[to-dance-beneath-the-diamond-sky]

Wow. This really hit me hard.

[radicalduck]

EAT

[bigmouthlass]

Fun fact– calorie restriction exacerbates symptoms of pretty much *every* mental illness.

[crazy-pages]

Anorexia has ~16% mortality rate, slightly higher than acted upon suicidal ideation. It’s more lethal than actively trying to kill oneself and this is why.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[boazpriestly]

This “God Creating Things” series by @lonnieiiv on TikTok is HILARIOUS!

[killorbekillian]

God: Now listen to me Gabriel, these are going to be really fun because some go on pizzas.

Gabriel: Yeah, okay, okay.

God: You like that? And then some will make you see things.

Gabriel: …’Kay?

God: And some, Gabriel, some just… kill you.

Gabriel: [Long pause] You doin’ okay, pal?

[elodieunderglass]

I love how he turns off the stove to give this the attention it deserves

[dancinbutterfly]

OKay so, when Morgan Freeman retires, we need to hire Lonnie cuz, uh, he’s got it

[official-lucifers-child]

his voice his voice his voice, and his ACTING skills oh my gods, the RANGE, the little actor in me is shaking with happiness i love this so much

[cundtcake]

translation: “My sheep! [bah! bah!] You are my life. [bah! bah!] Walk behind me…[bah! bah!] Sing (after me).”

[boomerang-always-comes-back]

This is too adorable

[cakejam]

this lemur didn’t seem pleased that i was taking photos of him

[actionables]

so done

with you and your rude shit

[faxmachineart]

Not a topic for debate.

[sprmint-bkgsoda]

[lebritanyamor-deactivated202601]

the accuracy

[dontwantthenextcommanderiwantyou]

“The community that is not embraced by the state will burn it down to feel its warmth.” - My African-American proverb

[nativenews]

[gkojax]

[last-to-the-orgy]

[soft-star-kid]

An older man asked me if we had hand sanitizer, when i said no he called me incompetent and forcefully pushed his cart of groceries at me (hitting me with it) before he left the store. I just had to smile and tell him to have a good day. I'm 19. Cops should be able to do it too.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[idareyoutotakealook-deactivated]

And I haven’t even seen Justin Timberlake on my dash yet.

[avengers-princess]

[thebestoftumbling]

Corgi on a Carousel

[everquest92]

HIS NAME IS MEATBALL

[ryandevon]

This is the cutest thing omg

[theonlylivingboyinnewyork]

I love this.

[cycirish]

Can’t not reblog Meatball the Corgi, plus the music!

[animatedtext]

[deepestbite]

.｡* looking for new mutuals

please like/reblog if you post about any of the following:

mr robot

svu

tblacklist

hannibal (+hannigram)

marvel's agents of shield

twenty one pilots

marvel (comics/mcu):

bucky barnes/ seb stan

steve rogers/ c. evans

stucky!!!!

nat romanoff

stephen strange

(+ sam wilson, wanda maximoff, carol danvers or loki)

I'll be checking out whoever interacts with this post.

[catchymemes]

Illustrations of Homophones

Credit to: Homophones, Weakly.

[alexaloraetheris]

It gets even funnier because I read ‘homophones’ as ‘homophobes’ and it took me a second to realize my mistake.