Blog O' Stuff @zira361 - Tumblr Blog

General update

Just so it's on the record, I do go on here, but I usually don't have time to post stuff. I'm gonna try to start posting stuff on here again, but it's not going to be frequent. Sorry to the friends I've made on here and don't really talk to anymore. I have not forgotten about you guys. So yeah, just a general update post. Thanks for being patient.

#personal #Update post

my requirements for sleeping at night: is the pillow cool enough? are my legs positioned so they don't put too much weight on each other? are my arms tucked in nicely and not at odd angles? can I stop thinking about the day's events? is enough of my body out from under the blanket that I won't overheat? are my toes safely tucked in to hide them from monsters?

my requirements for sleeping in the morning: is the surface vaguely horizontal and not made entirely out of hornets

#my life #tumbloob #sleep

Freedom!

I'm out of basic training!

zira361

My blog will be inactive for a few months. I don’t really have a queue up, so it’s just gonna be stagnant. Sorry about that, guys. But I’ll be back late January or early February. If you guys want me to see anything, feel free to tag me in it. Fair warning though, I don’t see everything in my tag because Tumblr is awful sometimes, so I won’t be upset if you send me an ask or whatever with something you want me to see in there. Thanks everyone for following me, liking my stuff and etc. Should continue regular blog shenanigans in about two months.

zira361

Reblogging again for the afternoon crowd, just so you guys know.

#for the afternoon crowd #military stuff #basic training #wish me luck guys

My blog will be inactive for a few months. I don't really have a queue up, so it's just gonna be stagnant. Sorry about that, guys. But I'll be back late January or early February. If you guys want me to see anything, feel free to tag me in it. Fair warning though, I don't see everything in my tag because Tumblr is awful sometimes, so I won't be upset if you send me an ask or whatever with something you want me to see in there. Thanks everyone for following me, liking my stuff and etc. Should continue regular blog shenanigans in about two months.

#basic training #it's gonna suck #but i'll get through it #personal #personal kinda #love you guys!

ninjamemeparty

Dear Suzy Berhow,

(this is an email i sent suzy a little over a week ago. to date, i have not received a response.)

Dear Suzy Berhow,

I want to preface this by saying that you are a serious inspiration to me on so many levels. I love your videos and being able to support your art when I can (I bought one of your blue morphos off Etsy! He’s gorgeous!!), and your tireless work ethic really motivates me in my own life. I can’t thank you enough for all that you do.

I’m telling you this to let you know right off the bat that this message is not coming from a place of hatred. Quite the opposite, actually. That being said, I wanted to bring up something from your newest video where you discussed all the problems you’ve been going through with your thyroid.

In the video, you detailed how your thyroid has been affecting your weight, and it totally makes sense to me how frustrating it must be to have to work so much harder to lose weight. However, I was absolutely shocked to hear how low you restricted your calorie intake. I understand that it was a “test” to see if your thyroid really was causing the problem, but going down to 700 calories a day — which is close to HALF of the MINIMUM of what someone is supposed to be consuming in a day — for close to a month is very, very dangerous.

Now, I’m not going to tell you how to live your life. I honestly can’t, because I have a huge bias in this situation: I’m 20 years old, and I’ve been battling anorexia since I was 10. I just want to give you my perspective on what you detailed in this video. Something to consider.

I’m sure you’re well aware of how the media constantly makes women, and young women, and even little girls feel awful about their bodies. Likewise, I’m sure you know that your audience consists of a lot of teenagers - mostly girls, I would imagine, but hey, boys are affected by eating disorders and negative body image too. So, when I hear you saying that you restricted yourself to 700 calories every single day for three weeks because you just weren’t losing weight, I think about your audience, the hundred thousand people you’re delivering this message to, and I worry.

I worry that some young person, who is already feeling bad about their body or believes that they, too, aren’t losing weight as quickly as they’d like to, is watching. I worry that they see you - a gorgeous literal model, with a figure they would love to have - not being satisfied with your current weight, and I worry that they might think to themselves, “Oh, well if Suzy thinks she needs to lose weight, then I definitely do.” I worry that they will try to do the same amount of restriction that you did. Honestly, I worry that they will take the first steps into developing a full-fledged eating disorder.

That’s how it happened to me.

It’s pretty clear from the video that you don’t necessarily endorse a diet of a mere 700 calories a day, but honestly, there’s a not a huge push in the other direction either. Besides you saying “That’s insane!”, there’s no warning of how dangerous a diet like that is. There’s no message of “please don’t try to replicate this, especially if you’re young and your body is still developing”. There’s really not much of anything dissuading someone who’s already feeling down on their body image from following in your footsteps.

Like I said, this is just something to consider. You have a really large audience that watches you, and I think it’s important to think critically about the kind of messages you might be sending to impressionable minds without ever even realizing it.

In any case, I really sincerely wish you all the best with your thyroid issues. The whole ordeal sounds incredibly scary and stressful, so I will definitely be thinking of you and I hope that everything ends up working out well for you. Thank you so, so much for taking the time to read this.

All the best, Maureen

#suzy berhow #mortem3r #game grumps #flapflaps #she needs to see this #calorie counting #trigger warning #dieting #diet mention #eating disorders

gnarlyninja

So for those interested, here’s the short film Alice’s Wonderland (1923), the start to a series dubbed the “Alice Comedies”, which was created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. This is the film referenced in Greg’s dream sequence in Over the Garden Wall (2014). It’s a cute little homage! You can see the similarities to Greg’s dream starting at 3 minutes in.

#over the garden wall #otgw #greg's dream #alice comedies #interesting stuff

alf-season-3

Arin

And Mark

Both had phases

This is amazing

#markiplerGAME #markiplier #Arin Hanson #egoraptor #game grumps #i hope these photos are things that they wanted out there #if not i'll delete this

bocsart

I really love that The Grumps called Markiplier in the middle of the night for help with Five Night’s at Freddy’s 2.

#game grumps #steam train #markiplier #fnaf2 #FNaF 2

meladoodle

one time when i was like 12 my dad wanted me to put a dvd in the dvd player and i was like ‘what do i get in return’ and he said ‘you can have half of the winnings of this stupid lotto ticket’ and he ended up winning 600,000 dollars and i was so pleased with myself. 300,000 dollars when youre 12 is pretty much like infinity dollars. he was so mad

mszombi

Shit, man, $300,000 would be like infinity dollars to me now.

zira361

I love how, in some of the tags people are like getting upset that "this is fake" and shit. Well no shit. If you were to click on the source, you would see that the original is $60 and $30, not fucking $600,000 and $300,000.

#meladoodle #people getting pissy about a stupid edited post #also my tone may sound angry #but really it's more sarcastic #it's not important #but it just kinda bugs me that people just roll with it and get upset with OP even though it's been edited

grosse-conne

I tried to edit this fucking gif so you can send it to the haters

waluiginumberwahn-deactivated20

i fucking love this and im using it all the time.

#waluigi #gif #tumbloob

jeanerening-blog

heads up

if i ever stop talking to you as much

its not you

there are a lot of things going on right now and idk what im doing and i often forget the fact that i have friends omfg

i still want to be close

if i ever message/text/call/ect you a lot

pls let me know bc i dont want to make you uncomfortable or bug you

be a Pal; dont let me make an asshat out of myself

ps its more than likely because i want to be close

happyhagfish

omg please read this

#both of these are me #i am sorry for both

bitterarab

Male entitlement exists, it endangers the lives of innocent women, so fuck you, fuck your incapability to take rejection and fuck your friendzone.

johnskylar

The most disturbing reaction to this is right there in the article, where his father effectively says “boys will be boys” and compares premeditation of attempted murder to “a game” that “got out of hand.”

Dude, your son is a sociopath unfit to live around other people, and you’re an enabler unfit to raise him.

#feminism #why i need feminism #connah smith #glad he's in jail

ninjamemeparty

alright. so. i was feeling good about myself and my body tonight, so i ended up watching suzy’s video because i’m a curious asshole.

it didn’t trigger me, but i’m gonna come right out and say: the “diet” suzy went on in montana is NOT OKAY. it’s extremely dangerous, and that is absolutely NOT something she should’ve mentioned outright in a video.

i literally don’t care how many followers i lose for saying this - that is not a diet. restricting calories to *that* drastic of a level is disordered eating.

when you have an audience of mostly young women - THE key demographic for eating disorders - it is absolutely not okay to promote behavior like that, or even introduce the concept. she should know better.

i know suzy said in the video that what she did was ~ridiculous or ~crazy or whatever but that’s not good enough. hearing shit like this from a role model like suzy is what makes young people develop eating disorders.

(for real, y’all. a body needs A MINIMUM of 1,200 NET calories a day. please - PLEASE take care of yourselves. restricting is so so dangerous.)

ninjamemeparty

it makes me really happy to see other fans agreeing with me. <3 you can absolutely feel free to reblog this post as much as you’d like. i want this message to get around to as many people who saw that video as possible.

i sent suzy an email voicing my concern last night. so far, no response. i’ll let y’all know if that changes.

stay safe, kids. i love you.

#flapflaps #suzy berhow #mortem3r #calorie counting #dieting #eating disorders #this stuff is dangerous