#but like idk its part of why i Personally dont like it

[lilcowzia]

hi sorry rhis post is old atp. ut "people dont eat just to get fat" yes?? people do?? i literally medically choose to overeat in several situations in order to gain weight. several ppl i know are on weight gaining diets. mostly bc we were malnourished as kids and NEED the weight gain to have like. healthy bodies. there are people out there who literally do choose evry day to gain weight for WHATEVER reason!!!!

i was kind of surprised at how many ppl took issue with the post tbh, it just seems like it is common sense that there are ppl who would choose to be fat. i think part of the issue is that a lot of the "fat activism" that becomes popular focuses on the medical research that suggests intentional weight loss attempts fail (in the long term) nearly universally which as led to the medicalization of fatness slowly shifting to "fatness is a chronic disease" i.e, something you suffer from. disease in this case meaning absolutely nothing. on its own, this shift is kind of (?) good, since it at least acknowledges that human bodies functionally really dont want to lose weight, but in reality, what it means is that people who consider themselves to be progressive or whatever can cling onto the idea that fat ppl are fat bc they can't 'help' it. (this may be especially important to them personally if they feel that their own fatness/weight struggles are a 'failure' of some kind), which is... often true, but not actually super relevant to fat liberation bc it literally does not matter why a person is fat, fatness is morally neutral its literally fine to be fat no matter the reason, its not something you need an excuse for. fat ppl dont have to dislike being fat. they dont need to crave thinness. honestly, idk why it bothers ppl, but oh well, ramble over

[sassykinzonline]

sometimes its actually alarming HOW uncritically the naruto fandom looks at the text like because something isnt "shown" in canon/on-screen (it usually is, but just implicitly) people think it means it couldnt have happened and therefore making sweeping statements about the character like "theyre just weak" or "they make no sense"

as usual im going to focus on naruto (😌) heres an example but it applies to many others (itachi, gaara, neji, hinata,...me)

here are some things we know about naruto:

he is inexplicably talented at taijutsu despite having no mentor

he created sexy jutsu for attention from older men (he craves a father figure)

he is rather repulsed by affection aside from certain people

he relies on shadow clones to outnumber his enemies and protect him from damage, as well as acting like diversions (he only later on seems to learn to use them practically as well, and he doesnt use them as an actual team iirc)

he represses his memories and life severely if they cause him distress or negative emotion, and when he doesnt do that it causes him to lose complete control of himself in anger

some of these things are basic signs of a child who has been abused in multiple ways (particularly verbally, physically, and sexually), but also just logically how is it possible that naruto became proficient at taijutsu when he didnt train with anyone and had no teacher to correct him? why would it be important to naruto to have, what are essentially, human shields? why does naruto freely tolerate physical abuse he receives while others openly complain about it? why would that lead to naruto eventually wanting to defend/protect everyone in tandom with ANOTHER orphan who feels the same? why would WE not be able to have a clear directly depicted answer to this as a reader?

idk to me personally there are a lot of things people say are "headcanons" are just things they logically put together based on subtext, and theres a reason why a vast majority of people who read the same text come to the same conclusion. it seems like this is a lot less common in manga form (i dont read manga so i wouldnt know, i understand different mediums have different communication norms but some things are just literary basics), so its the first time ive encountered this "why does everyone believe in [some idea not said in plain english]? it's never said anywhere!" logic...it doesnt need to be. there are certain clues and patterns youre supposed to be able to draw conclusions for based on common life experiences (archetypes/universal symbols).

if you can do these above steps and come to a conclusion, and a plurality of people come to the same conclusion, it was probably intentional on the author's part. if the author explicitly states its not intentional, then sure, but that doesnt take away from how/why the story is impactful because the author may not even realize theyre doing it. an easy example i can think of is tsunade's fear of blood, where its meant to symbolize death, but in her case also ends up symbolizing love wrt her relationships with naruto and jiraiya. and thanks to blood gaining this symbolism through tsunade, when you see uchiha tears of blood, you instantly make those same connections. then you think back to gaara screaming about having never seen his blood (coming from his forehead where that tattoo of his is......), then the eventual resolution of that being an inversion of the symbolism the manga establishes when he battles his father during the war.

more than anything though i find it kind of concerning that adults sit around laughing at obviously what is meant to be traumatic. as if there arent people in your life who sit around with these same experiences and signs, with something they havent told you about because theyre afraid youll laugh at them.

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

so im listening to the potd audio commentary and jodie's talking about covid restrictions and filming flux and how the restrictions were more intense at the start of filming (was that end of 2020/start of 2021?) and she says "by the time we finished, we could hug" and damn they took that opportunity didnt they

[andoutofharm]

i have a special kind of annoyance for people who say fall out boy (or any band!) look “sad” or “bored” because they’re standing still while playing or have a serious expression like. just say you know nothing about them and also have zero respect for neurodivergent people and/or people who’ve had surgeries that restrict their movement and go

[sinfuego]

Tbh, nothing has made me sympathize more with Kipperlilly Copperkettle than her anger issues.

Cause anger is an emotion we feel when we're missing something. When we need something and can't get it. It's a balm to make us feel better when things don't go our way.

When things aren't fair.

[gifti3]

i wrote a really small thing related to this post! I've been getting back into OIs so i came up with this arranged marriage scenario in a Victorian setting for Asmo and MC and have been chewing on it for the past several days lol I think I'm gonna come up with more stuff for this later but I just wanted to post this for now φ(゜▽゜*)♪

The weather was nice out today so you decided to go for a walk around the estate garden and rest in a somewhat secluded spot. Unfortunately, someone had managed to find you. How did the two of you keep running into each other in place so vast?

"Sooo….." Asmodeus leans into your space to look at the pages of you book. "What are you reading?"

"…A book."

"…Well yea, but what is the book about?"

You hold back your sigh and answer instead. "It's just about something I took interest in recently…"

Asmo stares at you for a moment. "You know, I'm starting to realize something about you."

"You are?"

"Uh huh," he nods. "At first, I thought you were a cagey person, but you're just really socially awkward you know? You kind of remind me of one of my brothers."

You close your book without making note of the page you were on. "I'm going back inside. Goodbye."

"Wait, I didn't mean it in a bad way!"

You sigh. "Are you sure? Cause you've been pretty rude to me several times before. So I'm having a hard time believing that."

Asmodeus makes a face. "It was an observation?"

"Okay. Can you just…let me read please?" The request came out harsher than you intended but maybe you were feeling a little defensive.

So what if you were "awkward". You weren't expecting to talk to anyone when you came out here.

Asmodeus huffs and leans back on his hands. But he doesn't leave…. for some reason. Maybe he was bored?

You flip through your book trying to find what page you were on.

"Page seventy six."

You look over at Asmo who has already busied himself with inspecting his nails.

"Thanks."

[ganondoodle]

(forces myself to stop playing stardew so i can get some progress done on my art projects- daydreams the entire first arc of my original story stuff -again- for 2 hours)

[nyanspirals]

hm the thing north americans should understand when non english speakers complain about websites or the internet in general being very usamerican is that like. its like that everywhere online. everything is for you... its all built with you as the default in mind ... every other nationality has to carve in a little.community for themselves but theres not any website online thats like. for south americans. or for koreans. or for mexicans. etc like you get the idea. there are only communities within default US websites. that gets frustrating when youre not usamerican

[lesbianhughie]

hi i dont think enough people talk about hughie lashing out at butcher in 2x03 with his whole “get your fucking hands off me” and then when butcher backs off and leaves him there he CRIES??? HE CRIES. BUTCHER WHEN I FUCKING GET YOU

HES SO SAD. HES SO FUCKING SAD AND HE WASNT BUILT FOR THIS!!!! HE WAS SUICIDAL!!!!!! AND HE HAS BEEN THROUGH SO FUCKING MUCH!!!!!!! AND BUTCHER IS AT FAULT FOR LIKE A GOOD 80% OF IT!!!!!! FUCK!!!!!!!

[xamaxenta]

Kind of whelmed

[emptylotfiasco]

wanting to have sex with a character literally makes EVERYONE STUPID!!!!!!!

[tiredstressedemotionalmess]

i havent had a assignment in school in almost a month. my last day of classes is this coming wednesday. i do not have to take any finals and i have straight A's. bearing all this in mind, tell me why THREE SEPARATE TEACHERS have decided to give us projects with LESS THAN A WEEK LEFT

[that-jack-kline-bestie]

so fucking upset. i looked up what's considered concerning weight loss and got a statistic. i looked up the same question but specified teens and i got a bunch of articles about how to lose weight. what the fuck

[oatbugs]

the forest looks like heaven today i woke up feeling the heaviest weight at the top of my heart

[heirtotheempire]

What really stood out to me the most this time around was how Anakin was portrayed. I doubt this is what they were really going for, but I choose to believe that even in death he pretends the Clone Wars is still happening. He was a war hero, he was happy, despite the horrors happening around him. It's like he is happy to let the galaxy suffer if it means he can live in the past. He ignores what he became, and failed to recognize his mistakes.

His death in ROTJ and murder of Palpatine (ignoring what the sequels say) isn't what redeems him. Changing his ways and committing to a better mindset would help him become better. But, even in death, he romanticizes his 'glory days' and forces Ahsoka to relive it.

If you view the environment as Anakin's creation then the fogginess of it could imply he doesn't even consider the others around him, the whole world is focused on him in his eyes.

Of course at the end of that sequence it's implied it was a test and Anakin was just joshing around. But I like the idea that hes still the same insecure little egomaniac that he was in life. It's an interesting way to view him.

[vala-dreams]

Y'all ever realize that you're not actually shy and for some reason your whole life everyone called you shy and introverted and your mother berated and compared you to your father for it but you're???? not even shy????????

Like I talk so much to my two friends and I dump information about shit I like or know about to other people and I can refuse to take flyers from people handing them out on the street I literally talk so much,,,,,like I'm not shy why did everyone tell me I'm shy I feel like I would talk to so many more people if everyone hadn't told me I was introverted