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Going off topic from what I usually have on this blog but I have Strong Feelings™️ on this.

So I don't really talk to anyone outside my immediate family about this, ever, for obvious reasons, but I'm prediabetic. I have/had a healthy diet and while I don't get professional athlete levels of exercise I at minimum walk an hour a day to/from work, am on my feet for a good chunk of the day when I get there, and I do weightlifting at the gym 3-4x a week. I don't even have a license, let alone access to a car, so everywhere I go is on foot and when I'm not at work I do be goin places. Still on the road to type 2. "Oh just eat less junk food" do you know what I had to cut out of my diet after diagnosis? Bread. Potatoes. Noodles and pasta. Bitch I can't have rice. There's an entire laundry list of fruit and vegetables I gotta keep to a minimum too. Grapes, mango, carrots, y'know, "junk food".

Prediabetes is asymptomatic and the only reason I even found out in time to potentially stop it developing into full-blown type 2 is that there's a strong history of it on my father's side of the family. I've been watching for it, because I figured it was basically inevitable.

It's a complicated condition. Can it be linked to weight? Yeah. It's also linked to genetics, other illnesses, stress levels, microbiomes, even other medications you're on can have a massive impact on your insulin sensitivity. And even if it was just as simple as "well you're a big fat fatty sooooo" that's ignoring the whole massive and prohibitively complicated interlocking structure of socioeconomic and other external factors involved in why somebody might be fat.

You hear the same shitty discourse around certain mobility aids. We all just love to hate fat people for daring to exist in a body the dominant culture doesn't find aesthetically pleasing and we moralize it as a way to feel justified in that.

Bottom line is "you did it to yourself" is a comfortable lie you tell yourself because it lets you wrap yourself in the cozy assurance that of course it'll never happen to you. I hate to break it to you my friend but chronic illness and disability is coming for us all sooner or later. Your perfect health and your able body are temporary states, no exceptions.

Fun facts but they currently estimate somewhere around 1 in 3 adults in North America are prediabetic. Out of those adults north of 80% have absolutely no idea. Like I said, it's asymptomatic.

"you did it to yourself" ok babe but when's the last time you checked your own levels?

damn people rly hate type 2 diabetics don't they

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(Foolin' around with a few things. Didn't turn out quite like I was hoping for, but I had fun so whatever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

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Nobody:

Absolutely no one:

Not a single soul on this Earth:

Me: ... What if he had a fat ass.

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Go home dude you're drunk

(If u wanna see his hog you're gonna have to head over to my bsky.)

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@jennyforeigner how could you just leave this gem buried in the tags

Back on my bullshit!!!!

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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He's a wizard. I know it.

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I like to imagine Yasha is a pretty skilled fighter but also the list of people who have absolutely rocked his shit on the way there is not a short one

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Me and my perfectly ironed frontal lobe still struggle with figuring out how multiplayer setup works but add me if u wanna I guess?

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Gin Dad's fight was such a fuckin' banger hot diggity damn

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Oomf's hunter, belongs to @jiggleb0ners :^)

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Back on my bullshit!!!!

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@rapidmorph3's hunter Quill, for funsies.

Trying a couple new brushes, trying to get a better handle on more atmospheric colour palettes. A bit of an experiment, but one I'm pretty happy with, I think.

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POV u are being challenged to a turf war

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Quillan, interrupted mid-carve and not looking particularly happy about it for @rapidmorph3!

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A do-over of a piece from a couple years ago that I liked conceptually but the execution was straight cheeks. Much happier this go-round.