I probably shouldn't, but I'm gonna.

This is the place where I embrace futility. By which I mean I post frozen takes about pop culture and politics.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Pork sausage is just inverted pig

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There is a special place in heaven for people who explain inside jokes to clueless outsiders.

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A doctor (I want to say Bunsen Honeydew?) suggests to Miss Piggy that she try Ozempic and she karate chops him through a wall.

[isaidimafuckingstar]

i wonder if im known for anything as a mutual

[teaboot]

We need weight loss ads now more than ever. Trump has reinvigorated the Fat Liberation group. The obesity epidemic is at its highest point ever. We need weight loss ads now more than ever.

Lol was this you

Seriously bruh, if you wanna make a case about nutritional defecits and the declining vitamin and mineral content in agricultural produce, the overall failure of public school physical education to provide any productive and meaningful instruction on personal health and correct methods of exercise, the ever-increasing cost of healthy foods, and the frankly shameful rate of child hunger and food waste all collectively contributing to poorer health in persons of ALL body types, I'm happy to play ball, but if the beginning and end of your platform is "there are more fat people than there used to be and being fat is bad so promoting eating disorders and drug abuse is good actually" then you are straight up wasting everyone's time

"Uhhh but everyone was skinny in 1920 look at this "fat lady" who was in a freak show at the circus lol and look how average she would be now" do you have any idea how many vitamins and other supplements we have had to insert into the food and water supply to combat widespread malnutrition in the last several decades

You realize how many people had teeth rotting out of their heads before we put fluoride in drinking water

Jesus fucking christ, google "B12 defecit"

The population was skinnier because we were constantly on the precipice of dying from shit like low zinc, you absolute dingbat

People being 'fatter' than we used to be is a GOOD thing, combating genuine weight-related health issues with a constant barrage of image-critical ads and the promotion of eating disorders in scientifically proven to be harmful and ineffective bullshit, and the fact that thinness as a beauty standard has been pushed to such extremes as intentionally infecting oneself with viruses and parasites amd chemically and surgically-enforced starvation over the past several hundred years only proves that this is not a natural default but a heavily-reinforced and artificial standard

[plaguedocboi]

Hey also just from a biologic perspective “humans are naturally skinny” is incorrect. “There weren’t fat people in the past” is an absurd idea cultivated by modern beauty standards that focus on returning us to a “natural” but completely false ideal. If you want proof, there are groups of people alive right now who live the same way that our ancestors did. There are hunter-gather tribes in the Amazon, Africa, Australia, New Guinea, and probably lots of other places around the world, and if you look up pictures of them, they are not skinny toned supermodels. They look like regular people and encompass the same array of body types you’d see at a local supermarket.

Humans having variable metabolisms within the same population is not just normal, it’s fucking awesome. It’s one of the things that made us so adaptable and able to spread across the world. It is quite literally integral to our success as a species. If a drought hits in your small hunter-gatherer community and kills off all your prey, you know who’s going to survive? The people who metabolize fat slower and thus can survive longer without food. That’s why humans are fat sometimes. It’s insurance against uncertain futures.

(And, in fact, people who have immediate ancestors who went through periods of starvation are more like to hold onto fat. If you starve yourself to be skinny, your grandchildren are more likely to be overweight. Diet culture is directly linked to more people being fat. So. There. Source:)

Study Shows How Effects of Starvation Can Be Passed to Future Generations

Evidence from human famines and animal studies suggests that starvation can affect the health of descendants of famished individuals.

[avalonjoan]

Love that you’re making it clear exactly what physical demands this job has, but could you possibly, potentially, phrase it differently?

[bebx]

I should be allowed to use fuck if I know as an appropriate and professional response to a work email

[prokopetz]

I imagine you as being no older than 25, but your personal chronology doesn’t really make this possible or realistic. Can you do something about this?

The curse of having been a kid who was seen as "mature for his age" because he was just really good at copying the register of the adults around him is that you're basically stuck sounding ambiguously twentysomething forever.

[snototter]

An adult male fantastic least gecko (Sphaerodactylus fantasticus) in Guadeloupe

[snototter]

i'm actually not sure why sphaerodactylus are often called least geckos but i have to assume its just one of the least amounts of gecko you can get

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

That thing's bones must be so fucking small

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I promise I will stop grimmposting eventually.

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Further reinforcing my "hexenbiests are dnd hags" theory, males of the lineage (Zauberbiests) are rare, have slightly different powers, and are more actively vicious.

Now it is worth noting that Zauberbiests do still have magical abilities unlike hagspawn. But even so I maintain my suspicion.

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Oh wow it's so much worse than I thought. The spooky vodou man is Baron Samedi. Yes that one. In this telling he's a blowfish monster who used his abilities to basically make enslaved Haitians into berserkers to help throw off their oppressors.

And now he's working for European royalty apparently for the sheer enjoyment of making zombies and being evil.

At least the actor is having fun. But good grief.

[prokopetz]

You'd think "don't use a fictional creature as an allegory for oppressed minorities and as a horde of vile automatons that it's always okay to kill in the same work at the same time" would be a no brainer, but roughly 70% of all works featuring goblins and/or robots demonstrate otherwise.

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Annnd spooky black man making zombies with vodou. Jesus christ guys are we just doing a racist stereotype speedrun?

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Rosalee thank you so much for being the only one in the main cast showing a shred of concern for Juliette. I think you two should run off to Seattle together and never look back. You can set up a medical practice with her vet work as a front, combine your expertise, maybe avoid cops in the future.

Maybe Monroe can come too if he behaves.

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Well, Nick, you officially owe your should-be ex-girlfriend an apology for being such a little baby over the magically induced amnesia and the love spell between her and your boss that followed, none of which she wanted and all of which happened because of her proximity to you. You got whammied by some magic girl on a case and immediately started upending your entire life.

Seriously I hope if Juliette ever speaks to you again she neeeever lets you live this down.

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Did Adalind Schade do all those awful things? Yes. But the guy who ordered her to do half of them is on team hero now so maybe some of that plot amnesty can go to the woman who was raised as a weapon and thrown out on the street when she lost her powers AS A DIRECT RESULT of carrying out those orders. Maybe a certain prince should take a little fucking responsibility for the people he employs to do his dirty work.