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it is weird that celiac stuff has become part of the 'culture war'. because it's literally just a medical thing.... I get super anemic unless I cut a certain protein out of my diet, because it bulldozes the villi in my intestines. but if I post about it, right-wingers send me gore images. I guess you can't expect shitty people to be logical, but I've even heard lefty people make fun of gluten stuff, and it's like why are you mad about this??? why are you pissed off that I'm eating bread that doesn't taste as good so that I can have blood in my body? it's so morally neutral.

ms-demeanor

I'm sorry, I know you weren't actually looking for an explanation but I always have a rant about this locked and loaded.

As far as I can tell the reasons that this happens are:

The interpretation of disability accommodation as wokeness - a lot of the same people who are shitty about food limitations are also shitty about sign language interpreters and ramp requirements (also building regulations relating to the latter) because they view any accommodation as capitulation to a group they think should "suck it up and deal with it" (quietly exist without named or obvious accommodations). The conversations around peanut-free or milk-free classrooms to accommodate children with allergies are similarly unhinged and possibly more horrifying.

Conflating specialty diets as a result of proximity in the popular consciousness - you're a lot more likely to see something described as "vegan + gluten free" or to see vegan/vegetarian/g-free options grouped on menus than you are to see keto/vegan/gfree options so the "lefty" animal-free diets get grouped with gluten-free (it's also interesting that there are right-wing diets, and I wonder how many of these people remember when you used to be able to find "atkins-friendly" symbols on casual dining restaurant menus)

Gluten free diets became a fad fifteen years ago; tons of people read "Wheat Belly" and stopped eating wheat as a weight loss hack and when they went back to eating wheat because it's actually pretty difficult to get around a major staple grain they didn't experience any negative consequences; people saw this and basically think that it's a trend, that people are faking medically necessary diets as part of a fad. When questioned about this they always go "but, I mean, it's okay if you REALLY need to skip the wheat because you have a condition but most people are doing it because it's popular" when g-free diets haven't been a major trend for quite a while now. TO BE QUITE FAIR, I think that things like "Gluten Aware" cookies and beer and such, which contain a little gluten but not NO gluten contribute to this perception (these have annoyed me forever for two reasons: 1. They make people without celiac think that a little gluten is fine for people with celiac, which it is not; 2. fucking commit, companies. *I* want the cookies and beer and it's deeply annoying that these business will go to the lengths to create products with minimal gluten but won't actually make g-free foods - this is often because of the risk of cross contamination, they won't claim to make g-free things because they won't work with a dedicated g-free facility)

Anyway, in conclusion: it sucks, I'm sorry.

The fun flipside of this is that I've seen people who are more right wing become aggressively pro regulation and pro accommodation when they or their family members have to suddenly take on the individual burden of making up for a society that doesn't include them by default.

ms-demeanor

US specific:

Is your ham made with vinegar? Does your ham have the generic word "spices" on the ingredient list? Does your ham include "smoke flavoring"? Does your ham include caramel coloring?

Because malt vinegar has gluten in it. "Spices" may include wheat products in a mix. Smoke flavoring may be made with barley flour. Caramel coloring may be made with wheat or barley syrup.

If the label says "gluten free" that means that the "spices," caramel coloring, vinegar, and smoke flavor are certified to contain 20ppm or less of gluten.

If the ham is cured in any way, it may include gluten. If the ham was marinated, it probably includes gluten. If the ham was prepared in a facility that processes wheat in any way, it might be cross contaminated with gluten.

There's a company out there called "Gluten Free Water" that makes water in plastic bottles, poking fun at the idea that too many things have a gluten free label. I fucking hate that company. Because that company is functionally saying "lol, people are so sensitive and over the top about this, let's be a little silly and laugh about how crazy people can be with their 'gluten free' nonsense."

Did you know that there are sustainable food containers and straws that contain wheat? And that you don't have to label them? There are definitely people with celiac who have been sickened by biodegradable plastic straws in their "obviously water is gluten free there's no risk here" water.

"It's over-labeled so it looks trendy" just means you don't know how foods are made or what foods contain gluten. Gluten is ridiculously common in foods in general, and also in packaged meats.

Your ham has to say gluten free because it distinguishes it from the hams that do contain gluten, which is a fucking lot of them. And you're annoyed that your ham has to say gluten free and I'm annoyed that I'm standing in the grocery store calling a ham company to figure out where they source their caramel coloring so I can figure out if the damned ham is safe to eat.

"lol, oats don't have wheat in them, are people so stupid that they have to be told what is and isn't wheat? why does this oatmeal have a gluten free label?" Cross contamination; gluten free oats are not grown near wheat and are not processed in facilities that process wheat.

"lol, rice doesn't have wheat in it, why is this rice labeled gluten free, all rice is gluten free" Cross contamination; the rice isn't processed on equipment that processes wheat.

"lol why does this turkey breast say gluten free, it's just fucking turkey" read the ingredients on your "just" turkey, lots of packaged meat is packed in broth, some of which contains modified food starch, which may contain wheat.

"lol why are these strawberries labeled gluten free? they're fucking strawberries" WAX, BUDDY. SOME FRUITS ARE COATED IN PRESERVATIVE WAX FILMS BY THE MANUFACTURER AND SOME OF THOSE FUCKING FILMS CONTAIN GLUTEN.

I think that part of the reason that people are so irritated by g-free labels is because it exposes them to just how vast and alienating their food systems are.

"Ham should just be meat from a pig, maybe with sugar and salt; what on earth is happening that there might be wheat in that process? Nothing in that process should involve wheat." And then you might have to think about it for a second, might have to wonder what "sugar" and "salt" mean when someone is producing a million hams to be delivered thousands of miles away. It's not just sugar and salt; it's preservatives and nitrates and batch cooking and getting corn syrup instead of sugar and getting smoke flavoring instead of smoking the ham and turning your "whole food" into all the ingredients that make up the ingredients that make up the ingredients.

A "gluten free" label says "you can eat this" to somebody with celiac disease, who has already pounded their skull against the shittiness of the medical system and the food system.

But to someone who doesn't have to worry that their food is going to disable them, a "gluten free" sticker on ham takes a known quantity and turns their sandwich into a hyperobject that contains animal agriculture and industrial additive production and shipping pollution and the ongoing assault on regulation.

If it doesn't have the label, you can just eat your lunch. If it does have the label, you are haunted by the specter of RFK junior imploding the FDA.

Turns out that everyone in the US with celiac is already constantly haunted by the possible implosion of the FDA because food regulation is an up-close and personal part of our daily lives that most people would rather not think about.

chazzaroo47

As someone with corn based issues my sickness levels are a recession indicator.

I can tell when companies are cost cutting because they start using corn sugar or maize starch as a bulking sweetener and it makes me incredibly fucking ill. Are they kind enough to put a "new recipe" label on it? Sometimes! Only fucking sometimes. A bunch of times I discover it when my stomach is trying to exist my body in aggressive, stabby maneuvers. It sucks.

And people will literally laugh at it and pretend it's no problem that they don't know why every yoghurt in the shop has cornflour in it rather than real fruit. Or their meat is all preserved with corn to make it look good for longer.

People have no idea what is in their food unless they have to have.

And even that can end up down weird pipelines of "crunchy mums" and conspiracies about plastic rice. It's so tiring man.

vaspider

Oh man, I fucking hate the "unlabeled new recipe" bullshit. I am so grateful that my wife is ever-vigilant and realized that our old go-to brand of molé sauce no longer had the tiny text reading "gluten-free" where she was used to seeing it on the front of the jar, because they'd changed their recipe and put wheat flour in it.

She literally clocked the change in the label — it wasn't marked as changed, she just noticed that the "gf" label was gone — and that was enough for her to flip the jar over and check.

I gotta say that the most infuriating recipe change I've had to deal with was when a company started using "barley syrup" instead of their previous HFCS, which is how I suddenly started sweating and whimpering from drinking frozen lemonade.

"Lemonade is always gluten-free, it's stupid for them to label that shit!"

lmao ok bud

Anyway, solidarity. This shit sucks.

slashfilled-mind

As someone with no allegies, do you know how often these labels bother me?

Never.

Because I don't have to pay attention to them. They don't matter to me. I pick up a package and I do not have to read it to know it's safe.

The warnings are there for people who need them, and they do need them. I don't need them. They don't get in my way, they don't stop me from being able to eat it, there is literally no downside to them. There are very strong upsides to having them for people who need them.

Anyway, people who complain about this are assholes and food labels should be mandatory.

terracyte

moment of quiet

heatherwitch

Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.

unamccormack

I used to set this one for second year undergraduate creative writing seminars on writing science fiction on a double bill with Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild" and no-one here gets out alive.

regionalpancake

!!!! Today is the only chance we’ll ever have to listen to this absolute banger of apocalyptic fiction on the very day the story is set 😲✨

Nemoy’s voice is PERFECT in this!

(A content warning if you do listen - the dog dies, though it’s not super graphic)

regionalpancake

I paused the robot vacuum so I could listen to this 1950’s story predicting the robot vacuum.

wholeheartedsuggestions

you deserve a life you aren’t constantly recovering from

leneemusing

some angst idk y’all i like crying

“ i don’t want you here. just go. ”

“ you ‘didn’t mean to hurt me?’ yeah you did. like it or not, i know exactly who you are. ”

“ why won’t you even look at me? ”

“ i’m not angry at you. i’m angry with myself for trusting you. ”

“ i wish you’d stop trying to destroy yourself in some misguided effort to feel worthy. ”

“ i know it’s not fair to say this, but i don’t have anything without you. if i don’t have you i have nothing. ”

“ you can’t love me. not the way i need to be loved. ”

“ i’m broken. and i don’t need anyone to try to feed me white lies about it. something inside me is broken and it isn’t just going to be put back like it was. ”

“ sometimes being broken isn’t about trying to put things back together like they were before. it’s about picking up what pieces are left and building something new. ”

“ okay, so you’re a monster. so am i. lets be monsters together. ”

“ because of what they/you did i’m damaged. ”

“ what the hell is wrong with you? ”

“ what the hell is wrong with me? ”

“ i can’t fix you. you can’t expect me to know how to fix you. ”

“ yeah, i’ll be here. i’ll be here when you’re ready to stop running. ”

“ my world is just falling apart. it’s like everything is just crumbling around me. i don’t know what to do. i just want it to stop ”

“ you’re the only thing that makes sense right now. everything else is just— the world is so loud. and the only time it feels quiet is when you’re here. ”

“ i don’t know how to talk about shit okay? it’s too hard. but i do care. i need you to trust me that i care. ”

“ stop punishing yourself. you wanna make up for what you’ve done? get off your ass and do something about it. ”

“ whatever it is you think was going on between us, you’re wrong. ”

“ it didn’t mean anything to me. ”

“ you should move on. i did. ”

“ i feel like i’m one bad day away from becoming everything i’ve fought against. ”

“ stop pushing me away. i’m not going anywhere, asshole. and as soon as you get that through that thick skull of yours, the better. ”

“ i don’t need you in my life. i don’t want you in it. ”

“ i can’t trust myself. if i let myself get comfortable enough, when i try to be happy, people get hurt. ”

“ people like me don’t get to have peace. ”

“ i’m not the person you want. i know you think i am. but it won’t take long for you to realize this is a mistake. ”

“ you want the truth? the truth is when i love people it burns inside me like a poison. it infects every part of me until it feels like they’re in my goddamn soul…and then i fuck it up. and it’ll destroy us both. ”

“ i’ll always choose you. that’s the worst part of it all. i’d choose you over and over, even though i know you wouldn’t do the same. ”

“ you never had to be perfect. you just had to stay. ”

“ will you please just stay for once. just. don’t walk away. ”

“ if i loved you less, i might be able to talk about it more. ”

“ just tell me something real. tell me something i can remember no matter what happens to us. ”

“ when you look at me, i feel seen. i feel like you see past everything i’ve always surrounded myself with to try and protect my heart. no one has ever looked that deeply at me. ”

“ how can you uncover so much about someone, make them let their guard down and lay themselves bare to you. and then just throw it all away? ”

“ if you walk out that door don’t bother coming back. ”

“ why are you so afraid of trusting this— trusting us. what’s making you hold back? ”

“ will you still be here? will you stay even after you’ve seen all the ugly parts of my heart. ”

“ i don’t care how willing you are to die for me. i want you to fucking live with me. live for us. ”

HURT/COMFORT

[ DISCOVER ] for one muse to find the other crying alone.

[ COMPANY ] for one muse to sit with the other so they don’t have to be alone while they’re upset.

[ EMBRACE ] for one muse to suddenly hug the other one for their own comfort.

[ OFFER ] for one muse to suddenly hug the other one to comfort them.

[ SETTLE ] for one muse to comfort the other and end up cuddling.

[ SHOULDER ] for one muse to rest their head on the other’s shoulder while they comfort them.

[ CARRY ] for one muse to find the other injured and carry them to safety.

[ SECURE ] for one muse to carry the other to bed after they fell asleep.

[ STRUGGLE ] for one muse to resist being hugged but then break down and crumble against the other.

[ CLEAR ] for one muse to wipe the other’s tears.

[ BREAKDOWN ] for one muse to ask the other if they’re okay prompting them to finally stop bottling things up.

[ BRUSH ] for one muse to run their fingers through the other’s hair while they open up or cry.

[ NURSE ] for one muse to tend to the other while they’re recovering from injuries.

[ TRUST ] for a scenario where sender’s muse is the only one receivers muse will let close.

[ COAX ] for scenario where receiver’s muse knows they’re the only one sender’s muse will let close.

[ CALM ] for one muse to subdue the other during an outburst.

[ CLARITY ] for one muse to help ground the other back in the present (i.e. after nightmare, breakdown, battle etc)

[ PREVENT ] for one muse to stop the other from going too far during a fight.

glittermilk-rp

Reblog this if you admire the person who reblogged this before you.

papersteeth

We're tired aren't we?

meowmeow-7777

sora-no

So Jason is a pedo predator but also an enabler and also isn't a mentor despite the very many materials we've got so far suggesting that he's going to be A MENTOR actually. But also in dynamic duo he's the bad one who's joining a gang despite him being the literal opposite of it in the original story but I guess you have to deal with that because it's just an elseworld and how dare you complain. Like ? Some of you just want Jason to be this horrible person so much so you could justify your hatred towards him because he actually isn't half as bad as you like to pretend with your exaggerated fanon. Just say you hate him and stop spewing lies jesus

startersofroleplay

Various Uncharted Sentence Starters

“Are you sure you can hang with me? I’m kind of a big deal.”

“Don’t worry, I got a few tricks up my sleeve.”

“I’m sweating like a hooker in church!”

“If you’re good maybe I’ll show you my other tattoo.”

“I’ll lead. You’ll follow.”

“I’m assuming you favour substance over style.”

“I’m feelin’ it. You feelin’ it? ‘Cause I’m definitely feelin’ it.”

“Kitty got wet!”

“Know what you’re gonna like about me? Everything.”

“Look at me. I’m blushing.”

“Man, this is like trying to find a bride in a brothel.”

“Man, what kind of Black Ops bullshit is this?”

“Oh great, next thing I know you’ll be putting that gun to the back of my head and telling me about the rabbits.”

“Oh man, I’m so tired of climbing shit.”

“One request: don’t waste my time.”

“So, after all your bitching about the cigar, now it comes in handy, huh?”

“That’s my blood. That’s a lot of my blood.”

“There’s a guy above you, there’s a guy above you! … There’s a guy below you, there’s a guy below you!”

“This all looks a little hinky.”

“Three goddamn bullets? How the hell did you do this with three goddamn bullets?”

“We don’t get to pick our start in this life. Real greatness is what you do with the hand you’re dealt.”

“Yeah sounds terrible. Take his wallet.”

“Yeah, good luck pal, that’s almost impossible to—oh, you did it. Nice.”

“You assholes are going to make me miss my train.”

“You brought a hooker to church?”

“You can trust me. …probably.”

“You couldn’t find your ass with both hands… and a map.”

“You know, one of these days you’re really going to have to start carrying your own matches.”

“You’ll find that I’m someone of simple tastes. Wine, literature, headbutts.”

“You’re not proposing, are you?”

kunaigirl

I'm only gonna bring this up now because IDK I just thought of it but quick PSA, with how popular early internet aesthetics are getting again, PLEASE remember to include seizure warnings when applicable. This is extremely important.

As someone who grew up in the early eye-strain geocities days of the internet where blinkies, blingees, cranked bright contrast/saturation, and stamps/flashing avatars were EVERYWHERE, just keep in mind how incredibly unsafe it was back then for those of us with epilepsy.

I distinctly remember there being SO FEW websites that were safe for me to use/interact with because of that, and don't even get me started on errors and pop-ups. You can have all the fun you want bringing back the aesthetics that you enjoy, but please don't bring back all the rampant ableism from that era along with it. Ok quick PSA done :]

((Rewatching X-Men 2000 and it reminds me of my X-Men verses for Eren and Marco…..I want to get around to the verse pages being made. But dear god do I have such low motivation to do that.))

#ooc #someday #not today