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lutheran seminarian. gay for jesus. fantasy writer. millennial. USA. ze/hir. Christian sideblog

[the-belldam]

Ever since I was a little kid I knew I wanted to grow up and make arguments

[lokaror]

i eat your grandads clothes

[flyingsquidzeez]

Macklemoth

[kiisaes]

everyone eat more vegetables NOW!!! and mention the last vegetable you ate in the tags so we're all on the buddy system. I'll start: bok choy

[the-belldam]

some of my favorite movies are Boys on the Side, Thelma and Louise, movies like that and the crazy thing about them is they're such good movies about women and female friendship and have such great characters with really rich interiors. and at the same time they not only don't (or barely) pass the Bechdel test but they came out around the time that comic was written!!

but today? today?? you can't even get a movie about women. forget what they're talking about you just can't have it

[juunipupu]

Knight under Everything

[turing-tested]

hotels deciding what bedding they'll use: yes okay so we have the top sheet and we have a blanket but I feel like we're missing something

intern: you should add a single blanket that has a fucked up texture that no person has ever wanted in contact with their entire body

hotels: god that's perfect. ill order one for every room in existence

[the-belldam]

something so funny and also absolutely sickening about my recovery and my marriage is that there were a few days where I could sit up and do things but I couldn't smile. which incidentally meant that I couldn't hang out with with my husband because. apparently. he can't NOT make me laugh.

[defendingwarrior]

BTS Normal Official MV (2026) BTS For You Official MV (2015)

[laurenillustrated]

American Girls! ★

I drew 10 of the original historical American Girls in my style! This was a fun little fan art series in between my other illustrations 🤭

In order: Felicity and Josefina, Kirsten and Kaya, Molly and Kit, Addy and Samantha, Julie and Rebecca.

[uptownthots]

what is a normal amount of photos to have on your phone. probably 28,000 right

[uptownthots]

DONT SAY THAAAAAAAAT

[sanrio-stud]

how many pics & videos do you have on your phone?

0-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

5,001-10,000

10,001-15,000

15,001-20,000

20,001-25,000

25,001-30,000

30,001-40,000

40,001-50,000

50,001-60,000

> 60,000

Remaining time: 3 days 19 hours

[dissociacrip]

Incontinence Is a Public Health Issue — And We Need to Talk About It

"I’ve lived with incontinence for all 25 years of my life, and I’ve yet to see my experiences reflected in any form of media."

If incontinence was treated as a human rights issue, as something many people face and need proper resources to manage, I could have had a vastly different childhood. Even now, shame and stigma surrounding incontinence has caused severe damage to my self-worth and interpersonal relationships. At points, I’ve avoided sex and dating out of fear that I’ll be left humiliated and alone again. Even in my current long-term relationship, I still wonder if and when my incontinence will be too much for my partner to look past. I know I’m not the only person who must feel this way. 25 percent of young women and 44 to 57 percent of middle-aged women (“women” is presumably used here to mean “people assigned female at birth”) also experience “some involuntary urine loss,” according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists journal, Practice Bulletin. And doctors can’t be prepared to offer long-term solutions to incontinence if they’re not even prepared to even talk to their patients about it. 50 to 70 percent of people who experience incontinence don’t seek treatment for it, likely due to the same stigma I’ve experienced for most of my life, which can lead to greater health risks. I’ve done everything I can to shorten the amount of time I use the bathroom. But the habits I’ve developed to do so actually jeopardize my health, increasing the risk of potentially life-threatening infections. To change these habits now would require another $50 per month for the extra supplies at minimum — a price increase I cannot afford as someone who does not have access to comprehensive health insurance. If I don’t self-catheterize everyday, I put myself at greater risk for kidney infection, and kidney failure down the road. But I pay for these necessary supplies out of pocket, and they aren’t cheap.

[tpwrtrmnky]

sometimes it occurs to me that while "get bottom surgery and then use a strapon" is an obvious course of action for many trans lesbians, a lot of cis people would be extremely confused by the suggestion that someone would do this.

[duchessvongooseberg]

🗣️ 📢 ‼️

[the-belldam]

Oh my god it's day 6 and my teeth fit together again let's fucking goooo guys I'm so good at recovering from surgery

[number1mongrel]

"You hear that? They're saying The Odyssey doesn't even have nobody!"

"They've got nobody in the Odyssey?"

"No I'm saying they don't got nobody."

"Nobody's there?"

"Nobody's not there!"

"So everyone's there?"

"Everybody but nobody!"

[creekfiend]

in general I find that "why did someone behave this way" is almost always answered by "behaving otherwise was too difficult and frightening for them at the time," and then you have to dig into why that is. people behave in ways that feel 1. easy for them (do not require much thought or effort) 2. accessible to them (patterns that have worked many times before) and 3. safe for them (apparently predictable outcome)

this is true even for behavior that is absolutely horrific and totally unacceptable. which can be a tough thing to accept, I think.

[the-belldam]

have we normalized playing instruments bad yet I wanna play my violin

[curlsandstems]

Have you ever seen a violinist going APESHIT?!

Be sure to check out IAmDSharp!

[thegreynightsky]

GO OFFF

[babydollbucky]

Ok so I’ve been playing for 18 years and i’m a string teacher. Can i just say how IMPORTANT it is for young kids to see a BLACK, MALE-PRESENTING PERSON playing, nae, SHREDDING on a violin? I’ve know maybe 5 black people who played stringed instruments throughout my schooling and teaching (predumably because i’m an upper middle class white woman). In districts where the population is predominantly black, funding is always low, so the instruments are crappy. Kids quit, or the program is dismantled. I’ve seen very few professional string players who are black.

Obviously there are black string players. We just don’t see them because they “don’t look like” string players.

This person is the real deal. They were clearly classically trained, and seems to have some fiddle training as well. How cool is that?

[lil-tumbles]

But also… RAD PLAYING MY DUDEEEE

[ladyofspoons]

this is the coolest guy alive actually

[creepymutelilbugger]

I think this might be the coolest thing I’ve ever seen in my life that involves a violin