i just think it says a lot about the person. my favorite is a bear named theodore

I am disinclined to believe you, Tumblr user teddybearsandlightningstorms.

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butch dilfs are a fun fantasy but in real life they're always like "i would never take advantage of a younger woman" and "good-looking kid like you i'm sure you can find someone your own age" and it never works out because of their unshakeable morals

Everyone wanted to be thicc but nobody wanted to be fat. Everyone wanted the dad bod but nobody wanted to be fat. Everyone wants fat mommy milkers but nobody wants mommy to be fat. Everyone wants to be a bear but not like, an actual fat bear. You get what i’m saying

Everyone wants the mistique of fatness or use the language of fatness to denote hotness without actually being fat or acknowledging that fat people or fatness can just be hot.

"READ MY DNI" no. use your block button like an adult. i'm not scrolling through the many-paragraphs-long pinned posts of every blog i reblog something from. if you insist certain types of people aren't welcome in the notes of your posts then it's your responsibility to curate that. or choose a closed social media platform like facebook or instagram. or go and live in a barn away from humanity if you really don't like sharing the world with people who are different from you

I think that DNIs are a really clear example of the backwards understanding of boundaries that a lot of people have. Some people think it works like: "My boundary is that YOU can't do this thing I don't like"

When really it's more like: "My boundary is that if you do this thing that I've told you I don't like then I will remove myself from the situation"

The former does not work. The latter is more effective, it takes responsibility for yourself, and also it puts the power over your wellbeing into your hands and not in the hands of strangers who may or may not be malicious.

Dudes healthcare is so fake. My ADHD meds are $940 without insurance. But they gave me a website of "coupons" which straight up looks like a scam website, and I got it today for $60! Just a coupon from a random website and it was $900 cheaper. America, I am confusion!! America explain!!

For all my uninsured judys out there it's for Walgreens only: walgreens.rxsense.com

as a pharmacy technician i can share with you some websites that give you those "coupons" for your meds!

goodrx is the most well known one, but if i'm trying to find the cheapest price for a patient i compare it to scriptcycle, and use whichever is offering the best price. you just type in the medication (PLEASE make sure you're getting the right drug, dosage, and quantity) and your zip code and they will spit out some offers for you

some pharmacies may have their own discount card to compare to as well!

if you are getting a name brand medication, you can also look at the manufacturer's website to see if they offer any evouchers for you to use too

good luck out there 👍

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another one is singlecare.com, brought my duloxetine from $240 a month to $20

and there are coupons for hrt on there as well :) different options for different pharmacies

dollarfor.org saved my broke ass, it can save urs too

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saw an inspiring video that said you need to have 4 hobbies.

create, consume, cavort, commune

create: bring something to life consume: appreciate the art of another cavort: move your body daily commune: have a community to socialize with

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I think you need hobbies that do all four things but the number of hobbies needed to cover all these needs may vary. Some hobbies pull double/triple duty. Some hobbies can cause repetitive stress injuries so it's good to have a few different ones that fulfill the same need so you can rotate to get the fulfillment without the carpal tunnel.

Tumblr really is aging.

This is true tho.

Misread this as 'you need to have 4 hobbits'

also true! there’s a really famous three-volume self-help guide about that!

unless all you’re doing is liberating a single mountain from a dragon, in which case you can probably get by with just one, so long as you also have a lot of dwarves.

I feel confident enough to post these now. A collection of all the existing posters after some edits from the other post that got 13k notes! These are full size/quality. Go nuts.

You may use them for wallpapers, tabletop campaigns, whatever. Consider tipping me or buying a print or sticker on ko-fi here! If you do use them, let me know what for, or send pictures!

i’m counting at least four dead giveaways and another obvious cop

The white armband is actually used by NYPD to signify to the riot cops which people in the crowd are undercover cops so they don’t get shot. Apparently they change the color daily, but no one else is showing up to a protest with a fucking armband like that so

I made a little visual

These undercovers will try and convince you to act violently/break the law just so they have an excuse to arrest you and use violence on protestors. Call them out as cops and don’t let them fool you or fellow protestors.

no neurodivergent infighting here

Talking about the literacy crisis among men with other men is like eating a bowl of thumbtacks. Oh, so you recognize that the problem is that men don't like to read fiction anymore because it's seen as feminine and gay, and you think the solution is for publishers to stop meeting the demand currently being driven by women (the people reading fiction the most) rather than tell your sons and nephews that reading fiction isn't, in fact, gay.

And also that there is nothing lesser about being either gay or feminine.

the thing about being nonbinary is that you really do start to forget that other people have such strict walls around what is and isn’t allowed for genders. i thought we all agreed that we made that up. could you climb out of the cave real quick and feel the sunshine for a minute.

it’s so dumb to me that before I came out as trans, I’d get judged hard for being a guy with long hair that wears makeup and painted my nails. Although back then people just made fun of me for being emo and not gay. Now I cringe at the thought of being emo, but embrace the queer part of me! My how the turntables

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.

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:

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.

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.

Weirdly, I like British women’s fiction. I don’t know if you’ve seen them - books with titles like The Littlest Cupcake Shop On the Corner. Christmas At The Bookshop Bus Cafe. Wedding Cakes of Hopes and Dreams. The Littlest Coffee Shop In the World For Orcs and Fairies. Breakfast At The Dragon Tea Shop. Christmas Breakfast At the Dragon Tea Shop. Baby Breakfast at the Baby Dragon Tea Shop and Independent Women’s Soft Play Centre. Long Overdue Mental Breakdown at the -

They are largely produced by British author Jenny Colgan, with packs of ceaseless imitators snapping weakly at her heels, and occasionally people like Trisha Ashley, who used to be funny. In Australia you have Kerry Greenwood’s weird right-wing-Zionist, left-wing-everything else baker. They all have the same covers.

At any rate, they’re all books about liberated women doing pink-collar jobs that are Truly Meaningful, like owning their own bakery, combined with fantasies of property ownership and independence. Trisha Ashley used to attempt being vaguely witty, Kerry Greenwood used to attempt being vaguely feminist with it, and in an attempt to be #heartwarming Jenny Colgan will throw in some large-eyed refugees or campy trans gay people or other side characters. All pretty dire!!! but I still read a lot of them!! And in 2012 I started writing this essay, saved it as a draft and forgot. But they’re still at it. Anyway here it is:

A fascinating thing about all of those writers I’m picking on specifically is that they’ve all written a Baking Woman character - or multiple ones! - who specially goes out of her way to tell us things like :

These characterisation choices are all deliberate and are intended to paint a no-nonsense, down to earth, relatable woman. She’s the salt of the earth! She isn’t needy, and she doesn’t put up with people who are! She’s relatable!!

At the same time, their motivation for being “bakers” instead of any other useful profession is because the authors don’t have to think too much about it they can just copy and paste the same plots / it’s unthreateningly pink collar / lots of people dream of running a baby kitten wedding dress bakery chocolate shop because they make cakes for work sometimes these women truly love feeding people 🥹 they are Nourishing… for the Soul….. these women do it because they love to brighten the days of the grey-faced rat-race office women with a little pink and sugar and sparkle and sunshine… wouldn’t it be nice if the whole world just went out of their way to spread a bit more kindness?

As a result, without meaning to, Jenny Colgan and her pack of imitators have created these self-deluding, deliciously toxic, hateful-hearted, nasty little protagonists!

Every baker-character lauding herself for her magical-realism, cures-the-world, spoonful-of-kindness, supernaturally-delightful baking powers is a lazy fraud, but worse, actively deceiving the audience, because she just admitted that she can’t bake GF well. Stupid wench lol. that just means you’re a shitty baker who doesn’t even try.

Like, every single one of those bullet points reveals an unpleasant character with a rotten element. An unkind, deceitful person who “wants to feed the world” - but not if her own friends bring their own needs to the table! An unaccomplished, mediocre baker who can’t do anything challenging. In fact, a baker so bad at her job that she can’t bake without a single common protein. A person who’s openly excited to be a bully, if she can bully without consequences.

And because of the “culture war” thing, every single author has been able to blithely sail along in her belief that her little angel protagonists are justified in… being mean about medical needs? . And because the depressed, anxious, fearful, unhappy straight cis white women who buy these books ceaselessly are not the type to notice - because usually they’re also the first people in line to bully - nobody in the audience notices either! So these books are secretly about these truly hateful and evil women, who trick various straight men into bonking them, and keep the mask on with everyone, but people like you and I, who are like: “Girl WHAT? You poisoned your friend on PURPOSE? Girl???!” And getting a WHOLE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON THESE CUPCAKES OF HOPES AND DREAMS LMAO.

Anyway these authors make bank! Other authors need the electric bill paid by KoFi but chicklit writers make a wage on this kind of secret, sour politics. Even ChatGPT would hesitate before doing this!!! It’s delicious

*watching the United States economy bleed out in front of me, with awful and unknowable consequences for anyone who isn’t insulated by wealth* well, time to go to work!

Whoever runs dropouts instagram is killing me in the comments under their video announcing that the subscription price is changing

"never kill yourself" is perhaps my favourite meme these days. there will always be joy in your future and you just need to stick it out to find it

Whoever wrote that Vanguard message did so with shaking hands, between sobs & swigs of bourbon straight from the bottle.

They're right, though. Now is exactly the wrong time to make dramatic investment moves. Everybody's shit is doing the same thing; unless you need your retirement money in the next twelve months or whatever, you're better off leaving it alone and waiting for the eventual correction. Like, this is not a comforting lie, this is good advice!

Adultier adult here, having had to talk to my retirement management people earlier this week. (I hate it. It's useless. But I told them to divest me from anything that holds TSLA in the portfolio/fund because Elon is an asshole and the company's financials are shit.)

This week has caused about three percent (3%) of my 401(k) to vanish.

And that's okay.

I can't touch that money without a tax penalty (or emergency) until the 2030's. It's not paying for cat food or keeping my electricity on. This is a privilege not everyone enjoys (yet).

If you're in a position to have any kind of investments, don't do anything rash and/or bananas with important chunks of money. (My financial guy gave me this advice, too. I specifically asked about cashing out the whole fucking thing.)

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they’re banning cis ppl from sports after an investigation revealed they were annoying