What if I said I loved you?

Hi my name is Ann and I'm 17 years old.

[shoobie-doowop]

remember in School of Rock where the black girl was afraid to say she wanted to be a singer because she was fat and didn’t want to get laughed at but Dewey was all “who gives a shit, I’m fat too and so is aretha franklin but we’re still valuable and we rock” and then the girl felt better without having to be told that beauty comes in all sizes or some other bullshit. thats the kind of body positivity I’m looking for. tell these babies that they’re worth a damn without tying it to any other arbitrary ideals

[bookshelfdreams]

Also like. when she asks him why he isn’t on a diet. and you just know she has heard this dumb “tip” a million times before (“just go on a diet!” “if you really apply yourself you can easily use x amount of weight!” “you just don’t want it enough!”)

& Dewey just

there’s nothing wrong! with liking food! and being hungry! you don’t need to starve yourself to fit into some bs aesthetic! eat food!

[hoekage-deactivated20141204]

college???????? living on my own????????? paying taxes??????

[positiveseed]

We have a Youtube Channel if you would like to support us there as well!

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[goldenbirb]

this was very relatable..

[canthandlethisshitrn]

hey dont call me out like that /j /lh

[tallahasseemp3]

help

[rovernote5]

Well, this is funny. 😂

[thehmn]

Danish/Swedish solidarity.

They took in some people from a clothing store next door too. The employees could have gone home but couldn’t bring themselves to kick the customers out into the snow because some of them had an impossible three hours drive home and would have gotten stuck on the road in their cars so the employees and their boss opted to stay.

The woman who reported on the incident trekked alone through piles of snow on foot. She couldn’t bring a cameraman so everything was filmed with a small handheld camera.

They ate food from the cafeteria (meatballs of course), watched a Christmas show and football before getting to pick any bed they wanted in the store. In the morning they were served cinnamon buns and coffee/tea.

Just a cute little story to brighten your day.

[konoko]

[blushingallthewayhome]

Question for all my followers. How many of y’all are still wearing masks everywhere? And are you doing this because you’re mandated to or out of an abundance of caution?

[queerasflux]

listen. listen. the pandemic is still fucking happening. “abundance of caution” my ass. people are fucking dying every fucking day, of course I’m wearing a goddamn mask. Of course I am. I don’t want me to die, I don’t want my loved ones to die, I don’t want my asshole neighbor to die even tho I hate him. I’m going to wear the fucking mask until the plague stops happening.

[eosofspades]

[joyland2022]

I’ve been saying this for years 😭

[headspace-hotel]

Yup.

Eating disorders are underdiagnosed in men; I have believed this to be true for some time. When I was in Krav Maga the guys around me would casually talk about restricting to like 20% of the calories someone their size should be eating and genuinely wouldn’t realize it was fucked up.

[yharnamsnewslug]

Trans men have been trying to tell y'all but none of you give a shit about marginalized men.

[vstheworld]

I’ve had to tell my gym-bro coworkers that as a recovering anorexic I don’t want to listen to them fucking talk about their eating disorders. they laugh, but I’m absolutely not joking.

[kinka-juice]

You ever see the talk that goes on with high school wrestling? It’s insane. There’s also muscle dysmorphia, which is a form of body dysmorphia/eating disorder that almost never occurs in women and is prevalent in gym bros.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’ve personally met several middle aged men that jump between fad diets constantly and concern me greatly. These health nut old guys who regularly go on “juice cleanses” and jog themselves to exhaustion concern me.

[queeranarchism]

Probably part of it is also that when someone gets sick or dies from starving themselves, that‘s something the medical industry and society can sort of recognize. When someone engages in extremely unhealthy behaviors all with the goal of becoming as jacked as possible, and then that person has a heart attack, we don’t think of that as someone who dies of an eating disorder. 

[buotella]

I, Tonya (2017) Little Women (2019)  The Queen’s Gambit (2020)

[koroleva-nazyalensky]

[angeltiddies]

[guerrillatech]

[terror-billie]

"the pandemic is over when it comes to labor but ongoing when it comes to leisure"

yes exactly thank you

[borderlinevamp]

I feel like ppl in the notes are missing the point hard. The point isn’t we should be able to party, the point is that is generally exhausting and damaging to be expected to continue to work with no outlet and responsible while institutions play with your life.

[thelovers-thedreamers-and-me]

especially given that the expectation that we all go in to work in person is prolonging the length of time before we can socialize properly again

[gilletteswift89]

Want to know how corrupt the pharmaceutical industry is?

See this?

This is called Afrezza. It’s an inhaler for diabetic insulin. That’s right. An inhaler. That means no more needles. It’s only for fast acting insulin, but it could still vastly improve the life of a lot of diabetics. 

Imagine having to constantly prick yourself with needles to keep yourself alive, and then suddenly there’s a new product that could change the whole way you live your life for the better.

And here’s the thing: it works. It works really really well. People with diabetes that have been lucky enough to have used it think it’s amazing.

But sadly, it’s probably going to end up as a failure because the pharmaceutical company (a French company called Sanofi) that was in charge of marketing it didn’t care enough to actually try. Not only that, but they made it incredibly expensive so hardly anyone could afford it. Most people have never heard of it, and the way things are going, no one else ever will.

Please reblog this to raise awareness of this product and hopefully get another company to market it. It could change so many lives.

[lord0fries]

time for a signal boost

[gearboxpraexology]

#it is infuriating that ppl honestly think ‘the market will regulate itself’#like the free market is what brought us child labor#and it was regulation that ended it 

Of course a KPOP stan thinks regulation ended child labor.

[bogleech]

Yeah, lack of regulation allowed companies to just outsource the slavery, thanks for backing why we need to bury all industries in a thousand times the red tape and hold them mercilessly accountable actually : )

[anthropicscholar]

i read somewhere that “Regulations are written in blood” (specifically the blood of the people killed by the lack of those regulations.)

[bogleech]

Way more blood than that even: a great deal of worker’s rights have had to come from full blown civil warfare. West Virginia coal miners were treated so inhumanely by their bosses that they engaged in deadly shootouts over it for close to a decade. There were hundreds of deaths on both sides before the companies legally agreed to take any responsibility for the miner’s lives at all. People have had to die throughout history for there to be so much as lunch breaks or safety gear or even access to a toilet on the job, and people are STILL having to kick and scream for these basic ass necessities and human dignity from entities like Amazon and Wal Mart.

[kaijutegu]

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

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

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/introduction-to-the-west-virginia-mine-wars.htm

There’s a lot of reasons labor history isn’t taught in the vast majority of US school systems, and they all begin with a bloody, bloody dollar sign.

[hashtagloveloses]

This is quite possibly the greatest story ever told I’m WHEEZING

[whitepeopletwitter]

She has a point

[thelightofthingshopedfor]

There are two situations in which I make extremely sure I’m going precisely at or below the speed limit:

I see a cop

Some asshole is tailgating me

[firebirdeternal]

This is both spiteful AND practical, because you can’t control whether or not they give you a safe following distance for the speed you’re travelling, but you CAN reduce the speed you both have to travel, having the triple benefit of  A) increasing the likelihood that they’ll have enough time to stop without rear-ending you.  B) lowering the speed of any possible collision and thus the severity and  C) Pissing the fucker the fuck off.

[slowdissolve]

I feel so valid now

[tariqah]

Broke: Judeo-Christian

Woke: Judeo-Islamic

[madilik]

every time i see this post i think abt the time when i listened to a bunch of muslim and jewish students spent their entire 10 minute break arguing abt whether god actually cares you eat gummy bears (made with gelatin derived from pork) or not, standing by the vending machine and eating gummy bears the whole time

[shorthistorian]

Now that’s the kind of interfaith solidarity I want to see.

[partialbirthabortion]

I have now seen have a bag of plastic bags attributed to growing up in a black household, a Latino household, an immigrant household, an Appalachian household and a “white trash” household. I think it’s time to just admit that we all have a plastic bag bag

[divinity-infinity]

Some Stuff (Almost???? i dont know abt every single one) Every Culture Has

- a habit of having a plastic bag of plastic bags

- some variation of Pancake

- stabby weapons

[senshilegionnaire]

- matriarch has a danish butter cookies tin filled with buttons

[nonasuch]

all humans do is save plastic bags, dumpling, pancake, fill cookie tin with buttons, stab and lie

[sindri42]

universal human traits across every culture throughout history:

fried dough of some sort

alcohol; doesn’t matter what they got they’re gonna ferment it

mostly use spears in a fight but go to great lengths to make swords ‘cause they’re cooler

play games about throwing things

pack-bond with random predators

put a bunch of bags in another bag so you can have more bags per bag

[captainlordauditor]

fancy hats, finding repeated syllables in names cute, and narrative dance

[feministcriossant]

Please don’t leave this in the tags @paper-storm

[existentialterror]

this doesn’t have the bags but i love a chance to bring this out again, enjoy

[unknought]

A few years ago a roommate abruptly decided to move out to live with her boyfriend, and I ended up spending half a year sharing an apartment with someone I had never met before: an Egyptian girl with very limited English.

She was confused by my appearance and asked me “boy or girl?” It took me a while to understand what she was saying, but eventually she got the point across, and I told her that I was a girl. She seemed unsatisfied, and I explained that I was transgender. Unsurprisingly, she didn’t know the word.

We ended communicating by typing our respective sentences into Google Translate. Unfortunately, whatever the Arabic word for “transgender” is, it wasn’t a word she knew either. Eventually I ended up typing in “I used to be a boy but it made me unhappy so I decided to be a girl.” She stared at it for a moment then asked “You are happy now?” I said yes, and she smiled and looked thoughtful.

A couple hours later she came up to me and said “You and me, we are sisters,” and gave me a hug. “You say you are girl, you are girl.”