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I think being 42 is needing to take a nap when you have more than one thing to do in the day.

And then you usually cancel the second thing.

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"Did you get a new haircut while I was gone?"

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All that time existed for but one purpose, so that one day, we’d find each other 🤍

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“Besando Una Estrella”

I thought we all needed a little more RebelCaptain today… I finished this a month ago, but wanted to space my drawings out a bit. This was inspired by many fanfictions. Everyone, please keep writing about this beautiful ship! Bravo, writers, bravo! You keep me happy and provide lots of good inspiration. This is for you!  

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The conspirators 💙

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General Jyn Erso

Full piece under the cut

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Source: @diegothemenace

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PEDRO PASCAL Vanity Fair

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PEDRO PASCAL Everyone wants a piece of Pedro Pascal | Vanity Fair

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they have a point though. you wouldn't need everyone to accommodate you if you just lost weight, but you're too lazy to stick to a healthy diet and exercise. it's that simple. I'd like to see you back up your claims, but you have no proof. you have got to stop lying to yourselves and face the facts

Must I go through this again? Fine. FINE. You guys are working my nerves today. You want to talk about facing the facts? Let's face the fucking facts.

In 2022, the US market cap of the weight loss industry was $75 billion [1, 3]. In 2021, the global market cap of the weight loss industry was estimated at $224.27 billion [2]. 

In 2020, the market shrunk by about 25%, but rebounded and then some since then [1, 3] By 2030, the global weight loss industry is expected to be valued at $405.4 billion [2]. If diets really worked, this industry would fall overnight. 

1. LaRosa, J. March 10, 2022. "U.S. Weight Loss Market Shrinks by 25% in 2020 with Pandemic, but Rebounds in 2021." Market Research Blog. 2. Staff. February 09, 2023. "[Latest] Global Weight Loss and Weight Management Market Size/Share Worth." Facts and Factors Research. 3. LaRosa, J. March 27, 2023. "U.S. Weight Loss Market Partially Recovers from the Pandemic." Market Research Blog.

Over 50 years of research conclusively demonstrates that virtually everyone who intentionally loses weight by manipulating their eating and exercise habits will regain the weight they lost within 3-5 years. And 75% will actually regain more weight than they lost [4].

4. Mann, T., Tomiyama, A.J., Westling, E., Lew, A.M., Samuels, B., Chatman, J. (2007). "Medicare’s Search For Effective Obesity Treatments: Diets Are Not The Answer." The American Psychologist, 62, 220-233. U.S. National Library of Medicine, Apr. 2007.

The annual odds of a fat person attaining a so-called “normal” weight and maintaining that for 5 years is approximately 1 in 1000 [5].

5. Fildes, A., Charlton, J., Rudisill, C., Littlejohns, P., Prevost, A.T., & Gulliford, M.C. (2015). “Probability of an Obese Person Attaining Normal Body Weight: Cohort Study Using Electronic Health Records.” American Journal of Public Health, July 16, 2015: e1–e6.

Doctors became so desperate that they resorted to amputating parts of the digestive tract (bariatric surgery) in the hopes that it might finally result in long-term weight-loss. Except that doesn’t work either. [6] And it turns out it causes death [7],  addiction [8], malnutrition [9], and suicide [7].

6. Magro, Daniéla Oliviera, et al. “Long-Term Weight Regain after Gastric Bypass: A 5-Year Prospective Study - Obesity Surgery.” SpringerLink, 8 Apr. 2008. 7. Omalu, Bennet I, et al. “Death Rates and Causes of Death After Bariatric Surgery for Pennsylvania Residents, 1995 to 2004.” Jama Network, 1 Oct. 2007.  8. King, Wendy C., et al. “Prevalence of Alcohol Use Disorders Before and After Bariatric Surgery.” Jama Network, 20 June 2012.  9. Gletsu-Miller, Nana, and Breanne N. Wright. “Mineral Malnutrition Following Bariatric Surgery.” Advances In Nutrition: An International Review Journal, Sept. 2013.

Evidence suggests that repeatedly losing and gaining weight is linked to cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and altered immune function [10].

10. Tomiyama, A Janet, et al. “Long‐term Effects of Dieting: Is Weight Loss Related to Health?” Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6 July 2017.

Prescribed weight loss is the leading predictor of eating disorders [11].

11. Patton, GC, et al. “Onset of Adolescent Eating Disorders: Population Based Cohort Study over 3 Years.” BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.), 20 Mar. 1999.

The idea that “obesity” is unhealthy and can cause or exacerbate illnesses is a biased misrepresentation of the scientific literature that is informed more by bigotry than credible science [12]. 

12. Medvedyuk, Stella, et al. “Ideology, Obesity and the Social Determinants of Health: A Critical Analysis of the Obesity and Health Relationship” Taylor & Francis Online, 7 June 2017.

“Obesity” has no proven causative role in the onset of any chronic condition [13, 14] and its appearance may be a protective response to the onset of numerous chronic conditions generated from currently unknown causes [15, 16, 17, 18].

13. Kahn, BB, and JS Flier. “Obesity and Insulin Resistance.” The Journal of Clinical Investigation, Aug. 2000. 14. Cofield, Stacey S, et al. “Use of Causal Language in Observational Studies of Obesity and Nutrition.” Obesity Facts, 3 Dec. 2010.  15. Lavie, Carl J, et al. “Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: Risk Factor, Paradox, and Impact of Weight Loss.” Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 26 May 2009.  16. Uretsky, Seth, et al. “Obesity Paradox in Patients with Hypertension and Coronary Artery Disease.” The American Journal of Medicine, Oct. 2007.  17. Mullen, John T, et al. “The Obesity Paradox: Body Mass Index and Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Nonbariatric General Surgery.” Annals of Surgery, July 2005. 18. Tseng, Chin-Hsiao. “Obesity Paradox: Differential Effects on Cancer and Noncancer Mortality in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.” Atherosclerosis, Jan. 2013.

Fatness was associated with only 1/3 the associated deaths that previous research estimated and being “overweight” conferred no increased risk at all, and may even be a protective factor against all-causes mortality relative to lower weight categories [19].

19. Flegal, Katherine M. “The Obesity Wars and the Education of a Researcher: A Personal Account.” Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, 15 June 2021.

Studies have observed that about 30% of so-called “normal weight” people are “unhealthy” whereas about 50% of so-called “overweight” people are “healthy”. Thus, using the BMI as an indicator of health results in the misclassification of some 75 million people in the United States alone [20]. 

20. Rey-López, JP, et al. “The Prevalence of Metabolically Healthy Obesity: A Systematic Review and Critical Evaluation of the Definitions Used.” Obesity Reviews : An Official Journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 15 Oct. 2014.

While epidemiologists use BMI to calculate national obesity rates (nearly 35% for adults and 18% for kids), the distinctions can be arbitrary. In 1998, the National Institutes of Health lowered the overweight threshold from 27.8 to 25—branding roughly 29 million Americans as fat overnight—to match international guidelines. But critics noted that those guidelines were drafted in part by the International Obesity Task Force, whose two principal funders were companies making weight loss drugs [21].

21. Butler, Kiera. “Why BMI Is a Big Fat Scam.” Mother Jones, 25 Aug. 2014. 

Body size is largely determined by genetics [22].

22. Wardle, J. Carnell, C. Haworth, R. Plomin. “Evidence for a strong genetic influence on childhood adiposity despite the force of the obesogenic environment” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Vol. 87, No. 2, Pages 398-404, February 2008.

Healthy lifestyle habits are associated with a significant decrease in mortality regardless of baseline body mass index [23].  

23. Matheson, Eric M, et al. “Healthy Lifestyle Habits and Mortality in Overweight and Obese Individuals.” Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 25 Feb. 2012.

Weight stigma itself is deadly. Research shows that weight-based discrimination increases risk of death by 60% [24].

24. Sutin, Angela R., et al. “Weight Discrimination and Risk of Mortality .” Association for Psychological Science, 25 Sept. 2015.

Fat stigma in the medical establishment [25] and society at large arguably [26] kills more fat people than fat does [27, 28, 29].

25. Puhl, Rebecca, and Kelly D. Bronwell. “Bias, Discrimination, and Obesity.” Obesity Research, 6 Sept. 2012. 26. Engber, Daniel. “Glutton Intolerance: What If a War on Obesity Only Makes the Problem Worse?” Slate, 5 Oct. 2009.  27. Teachman, B. A., Gapinski, K. D., Brownell, K. D., Rawlins, M., & Jeyaram, S. (2003). Demonstrations of implicit anti-fat bias: The impact of providing causal information and evoking empathy. Health Psychology, 22(1), 68–78. 28. Chastain, Ragen. “So My Doctor Tried to Kill Me.” Dances With Fat, 15 Dec. 2009. 29. Sutin, Angelina R, Yannick Stephan, and Antonio Terraciano. “Weight Discrimination and Risk of Mortality.” Psychological Science, 26 Nov. 2015.

There's my "proof." Where is yours?

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Fix-it week day 6 ☆ how they live after the war

HAPPY BEACH TIMES

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rebelcaptain fix-it week

day 6 - how they live after the war

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REBELCAPTAIN FIX-IT WEEK Day 4

Scenario: how they work together on missions…

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Not an official entry into the event this week but I will be posting on the free day! :)

(sorry I have a 7-day in a row work week, sob)

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There’s a lot that drives me fucking insane about this, starting from the fact it’s stupid and also continuing through the fact that it’s STUPID, but it also really highlights to me how out of touch season 2 seems to be with season 1 of its own show? Cause like we’ve already been here in the sense that Mon mothma clearly thought this was the case! She thought she’d have her special baby girl and then she’d be there happily ever after yaddah yaddah yaddah

and then like.

We had.

1.25 seasons proving how deeply this was Not the case. Even the first quarter of season 2 was about how this was Not The Case.

because leida mothma was one of the scariest parts of season 1. Leida mothma was a ticking time bomb. Leida mothma was a girl who grew up under the empire and took in its values - as many children would do, and not because they’re inherently evil or fascist but because they are Children- and who her mother could not save. Leida mothma is not the symbol of hope. She’s one of the worst and most hopeless moments this series could ever produce.

and I think there’s a deep fucking - and I will say fucking male gaze-y- view to this, that a cute little (nameless) baby Boy is the ultimate symbol of Hope, you see, but the girl who is already trapped in the narrative - who shouldn’t be infantilised as an infant but at 15/16 absolutely still IS a child - is like this sacrificable chess piece for the rebellion? Is this little teenage bitch who didn’t love her mother enough? Who knows. But Leida is a child, mark it down, and she’s a girl whose mother couldn’t save her from a fate that, following what actually comes from child marriages, almost certainly cannot save her from rape and pregnancy and loss of her bodily autonomy - and I think the andor writers kind of dissent want to acknowledge it because holy hell is that dark, Batman! But I also think they Knew, on some level, because they fucking named a teenage girl after a mythological woman who as raped by a god - the most powerful gps in the pantheon - and then forced to birth children themselves caught by war. I don’t want more shock value gender-based violence but I do want them to fucking acknowledge that if there’s a child marriage plot line that a massive part of why child marriage is such a crime against humanity is that it does often immediately entail rape and forced underage pregnancy like. It does. If they wanted a fucking baby plot line it should have been leida with a red headed toddler in a fancy nursery with the imperial emblem on the floor and Mon who can lead the rebel alliance but do nothing to save her own grandchild from the empire. It should have been leida ambiguously missing and a shot of that three year old right back at the start of the story where Dedra meero was, in an imperial kinder home.

so yeah I hate this plot line and I think it’s stupid and gilroy is stupid for it, and I fcukinf hate making bix whose already been tortured and sexually assaulted ALSO be the one to have a surprise wartime pregnancy and end up back on the hell farm planet she was assaulted on? - but I also hate it because it completely jarrs with season one and characters and themes already introduced into the narrative? Like they didn’t need to do a new baby plot line! Cassian already had a baby! Her name was Kerri, and given he was implicitly situationally forced to raise her from infant hood the loss of her was already this massive trauma in the shape of a missing child! And they didn’t need to do a plot line about how having a biological child is the ultimate sign of Hope that feels “legit” when they’ve spent 1.25 seasons showing this with Leida Mothma who is still a child!

and I fucking fucking hate the whole imposition of a nameless little boy over the two difficult, existing, breathing (well. Kerri maybe or may not) girls, ages 6 and 16, who might actually exist and might have names and might fucking Need something from the characters, might Need something from Cassian or Need Something from Mon mothma, and be proof of the fact that both are imperfect human beings !

Like the whole idea of the nameless perfect single-shot baby over the difficult living children is literally something so deeply wound into the actual fascist propaganda of family and childbearing and natalism that upholds these images to raise the number of people in the workforce while being incredibly violent towards actual living children especially girls that it makes me scream

Anyway.

no surprise hope babies we have no need of hope babies season 2 should have been cassian and mon’s parallel unshakeable grief and failure at their failure to save the girls who in different ways were their daughters and that they don’t ever talk about but who hang over the story like a cloud and a knife that should have been the fucking parenthood plot line

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INTRODUCING REBELCAPTAIN FIX-IT WEEK

WHAT THIS IS: a Rebelcaptain fan-event centered around fix-its as a theme. because they deserve their happy ending, don't they? special shoutout to Ebby for encouraging me to do this, and Stell for coming up with many of the prompts.

SCHEDULE: the event will run from June 16 to 22

RULES

✩ the obvious one: your creation has to center around Jyn and Cassian, and their relationship.

✩ any type of fanwork is welcome! fanfics, fanart, gifsets, graphics, metas, rec lists... you name it.

✩ since it's a fix-it event, all creations where it's possible should take place after Scarif. this means two things: Jyn and Cassian should survive Scarif (the rest of the rogues' fates are up to you), and all creations should be canon to the movie (besides, of course, the ending). that means no different first meetings, no Galen or Lyra lives AUs, no canon divergence, etc. missing scenes are allowed (for example, if you want to imagine they kissed in the elevator, we just didn't get to see it, and now they're agonizing over what that meant, that's alright). anything other than the movie's canon is up to the creator's discretion. if you'd rather not use the novelization, Andor, Rebel Rising, or any bonus materials as a basis, that's completely fine.

✩ since the post-Scarif requirement is hard to enforce for things like gifsets, the rules are a little laxer in that case. just try to go for some feel-good vibes, and avoid the heartbreak!

✩ no sign-ups required, anyone can participate. if you see a prompt you like, and you want to make something for it, go ahead!

✩ angst is allowed, but since it's a fix-it event, your creation should have a happy or at least hopeful ending.

✩ we wanted to give you guys some variety and options so we provided several prompts for each day - a scenario, word prompts, and a song. you only need to use one of them for your creation, but if you wanna be adventurous and combine all of them, be my guest!

✩ late entries are fine! for example, if you started making something for day 2 but couldn't finish it until day 5, post it anyway! (just make sure to specify it's for day 2.) I know we all have busy lives, and I know these events can be stressful sometimes because of the time constrict, and I don't want that to be the case here. this is a low-stakes, low-pressure event. the purpose of this week is to encourage more Rebelcaptain-themed creations, whenever it's ready 💜

✩ any rating is allowed but tag appropriately! if any triggers appear in your work, don't forget to list them.

✩ I'll be using the tag rcfixitweek for organization. feel free to tag your creations with it too so we can all find each other's works!

✩ I will, roughly a week before the event, create a collection on AO3 for those who might want to put their fics in it. it's not mandatory, it's just so we might easily browse everyone's entries. I'll make a post about it when it's live and update this post with a link as well!

UPDATE: the ao3 collection is now live!

✩ any other questions, thoughts, ideas? let me know!

PROMPTS UNDER THE CUT

✩ Day 1 (June 16)

scenario: how they escape Scarif

prompts: without words/promise

song: Francesca - Hozier

✩ Day 2 (June 17)

scenario: how they finally admit their feelings

prompts: lucky accident/surprise

song: Dust to Dust - The Civil Wars

✩ Day 3 (June 18)

scenario: how they fare on Hoth

prompts: stolen moments/traditions

song: Human - dodie

✩ Day 4 (June 19)

scenario: how they work together on missions

prompts: fresh start/dance

song: Slow Show - The National

✩ Day 5 (June 20)

scenario: how they celebrate on Endor

prompts: follow to the ends of the galaxy/mirror

song: Heaven is a Place - Amber Run

✩ Day 6 (June 21)

scenario: how they live after the war

prompts: somewhere to belong/growth

song: Constellate - Fleurie

✩ Day 7 (June 22): free day! any scenario, prompt, song you can think of that we didn't? go for it!

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See, the thing about conforming to an idealized, unrealistic, unattainable femininity is,

you don’t have to.