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I see your baby skunk, and I raise you this baby lemming. (Source: https://ift.tt/2JF4UhY)

A personal letter to the shaved-bald man in the blue suit and fancy watch: when you text about “a guy in a weird coat sewing something with a needle” while sitting next to me on the train, I can read it.

It’s cross stitch on Aida cloth, by the way. Glad my coat catches your attention; that’s what it’s there for.

“Maybe he’s going to rob a bank,” his friend texted back. I died laughing, to his texting confusion, and he won’t know why unless he’s looking at MY phone.

Also don’t throw stones in a glass house, you look like a hitman on his way to work.

wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva

Man, when I was like 16 I got so sick of being made fun of for being the fat kid that I took an axe down inna woods, chopped down a tree, and started doing log-lifts all the time. I got strong as fuck, but I didn’t lose no weight. I actually got bigger.

Same thing happened when I got into fighting. I got even stronger, and I got *fast*, man, and nimble, like a cat. Still chubby.

Body-building culture is a bunch of crap, my dude. Functional muscle is not necessarily toned or lean. You can be swole as hell and still be heavy. And that’s cool.

Embrace your inner barbarian. And when fatphobic little gym twinks try to body shame you, you should DESTROY THEM with your MIGHTY AXE

littlegreydove

Can comfirm, i am Quite Fat ™ but i still hit my punching bag hard enough last week make it touch the ceiling and broke a finger in the process

systlin

You know, I train with (martial arts) a bunch of dudes, and a few bodybuilders have showed up over the years.

And every damn one of those huge shredded motherfuckers has the endurance of a fucking newborn puppy. Fifteen minutes into warmups and they’re panting for air like like they’re about to die. I’ve sparred them and every one of them telegraphs their moves about two weeks in advance, and are slower than my dead grandpa because their huge useless muscles get in the damn way.

Now. I also work with a couple of guys who are not weightlifters. They do, however, do very physical jobs and are Big Dudes. Picture this sort of build.

No abs to speak of, a bit of a tummy, and those motherfuckers can pick up one of the weightlifters and throw them.

And they’re fast. Like, unfair fast.

Bodybuilding culture is bullshit. Embrace your status as a giant barbarian and if anyone gives you crap throw them off a mountain.

weedeledledledle-deactivated202

This is true for all humans, too!

At my heaviest (well over 300lbs) I still ran an 11 minute mile (pre-disability). And even when I was at my most active, and training intensely, I was never hardbodied despite working out full time. Functional muscle for me looks like horse legs and a big muscular butt with a soft tummy and big arms.

I’m built like a Celtic Warrior Goddess and I will never have a flat tummy and toned arms and that is fine by me because I could snap a grown man in half.

systlin

Yes!

Have you seen olympic powerlifters?

This is Sarah Robles, on the USA Olympic Powerlifting team.

Skinny? No. Could pick me up with one arm? Absofuckinglutely.

avishabilis

Sarah Robles was once in an auto accident. She braced her arms against the steering wheel & by main force held it back from smashing her in the chest.

She fought her car & she won.

systlin

wHAT

Holy shit I love her even more.

That would shatter my arms like glass.

questionlife

I opened the door and only Arthur came inside. It’s raining. I couldn’t find the other cat. She’s usually the first to come through the door, so I got slightly worried.

Until

defydamage

That cat is the coziest it’s ever been and it’s not leaving except for food.

luciadelbray

im still super fuckin salty that 2 of my instructors for my psych degree specifically mentioned not wearing makeup and feminine clothes as a sign of “deteriorating mental health.” specifically, that if a woman walks into your practice, and you’ve never seen her before, and she’s not wearing makeup or dressing up or shaving, then she’s going to be a “difficult case” and when she starts to do these things it’s a sign that therapy is progressing well.

especially since when i was at Rock Fucking Bottom ™ i was over-performing femininity as a) a way to dissociate from myself, my trauma, and the dysphoria i was experiencing and b) a last-ditch effort to get Approval, Validation, and Attention when i felt like i was unattractive and worthless. don’t let anyone tell you that “psychology used to have a misogyny problem and issues with pathologizing gender nonconformity, but it’s solved now because more women than men are earning psych degrees!!” because the problems are still very much there, they just change forms every couple of decades.