extensive list of identifiers: AFAB • they/them or he/him • OCD, Social Anxiety, Depression, ADD, Insomnia, BPD ‘tendencies’ • grayspec, pan, gender-questioning / nb? • white/latinx american • liberal • sexual assault survivor • inclusionist • intersectional feminist • sex/kink positive • born in 01.
If a sitting president threatens to hold government employees hostage and shut down the government for years because the other branches of government won’t give him absolute power, then he should be fucking impeached.
You can also help them understand by mixing kisses with rubbing your cheek/nose/forehead over the top of their head, their cheek, or down their shoulders, just like cats rub against each other and humans to show affection. Also gently bonking foreheads to imitate the ‘I love you please pet me’ headbutt. Brushing & scratching at itchy spots for them imitates the grooming that cats who live together in colonies do for each other. Basically just try to find hygienic ways of imitating cat social behaviors, short of actual licking, lol.
My cat will touch her nose to mine & rub her cheek across my face, which allows me to plant a kiss on her cheek. When she’s sitting in my lap, she’ll tip her head back until I lean down and kiss or nuzzle the top of her head. I’ve even found her occasionally trying to imitate the “mwah!” sound of my kisses, where she’ll nuzzle my face and make little chirping “mah! mah!” sounds. Cats are pretty smart little social creatures; they’ll figure out how to speak your language, especially if you put in the effort to speak theirs.
don’t listen to this coward, grow up and lick your cat
Anonymous asked: shipping minors and adults, abuse, etc is completely different from exclu//sionary rhetoric, i'm really disappointed that a blog i thought was a safe place is reblogging "all ships (implicitly including p//edophilia and inc//est) are okay uwu" bullshit, unfollowing
Reminder that all ships are okay! Ship Thor/////ki, ship Edward/Bella, I don’t give a fuck because it isn’t the content creator’s job to teach you what’s acceptable behavior! Dark fantasy has always existed and banning it will only alienate those who want a harmless way to engage their thoughts!
When I compare an/////ti and exclu/////sionist retoric, it’s because both groups call everyone they don’t like pedophiles and abusers! It’s because of the proclaims of “think of the children” that end up lashing out against vulnerable groups, whether it be queer people or survivors who use dark ships to cope! It’s because none of this so called activism actually makes any positive difference in the real world!
Instead of throwing a fit if you agree with anon, just quietly unfollow and/or block me. I’m sorry that you feel disappointed in my opinions, but as I’ve said before, as someone who analyzes media in a university setting, an/////ti rhetoric is a joke. If you sound like a conservative PTA parent trying to ban books from the school library, maybe that should be a clue that something is extremely wrong with your thinking.
If you want to talk about this with me, come off anon so we can keep the
messages between us because I don’t want this blog being cluttered up
with off topic posts.
theres something that feels very colonial/imperialist about superfood fads
the idea that a rare and exotic grain or berry from some pristine Ecuadorian mountain or a salt slab from “the himalayas”(those are all mined in Pakistan) will suddenly cure you with their magical benefits is all pseudoscience. eating more fresh produce is definitely good but the “magical nutrients” of those superfoods are no different than common produce, and there’s no food that makes you slimmer that’s not how calories work, its snake oil. and it causes damage from overfarming and making a once staple food in a community inaccessible when its value soars, leaving them open to predation from food giant.
anyways i’m just tired of Bethany from facebook bragging about “discovering” the health magic of some new plant from cambodia or whatever, but in reality it’s advertisers making this shit tantalising to justify an insane price markup of a superfood and playing to that colonial mindset that things from a foreign far away land used traditionally by its natives is instantly mystical and cool so you want it. frankly it reminds of the victorian’s egyptomania craze when people believed in the health properties of mummies
I used to write mini-cookbooks. One month, I decided the theme would be superfoods, and I started looking up lists of superfoods. And then trying to figure out what qualifies something as a “superfood.*
It is basically every fucking unprocessed food. All veggies, all fruits, all grains and nuts and seeds, all meats.
Even milk. Even potatoes. Even rice, as long as it’s not white rice. Even wheat, as long as it’s whole wheat.
They’ve all turned up somewhere on someone’s list of superfoods you just HAVE to try. And then the person goes on about all the vitamins and minerals and amino acids in there. All the protein, or the fiber, or the nice healthy fats.
Literally, almost every damn thing you can eat is a superfood.
And yes, definitely, if they can somehow be described as Ancient or Exotic or both, they get a thousand times the attention. Because that plays into all these racist biases, and there’s somebody behind the scenes marketing the shit out of that.
And when you can’t label it as Exotic and Ancient? The reason that people can write big ridiculous articles about all the incredible health benefits you would never have imagined were in The Lowly Sweet Potato or The Humble Apple is that they’ve spent decades telling us that everything is bad for you.
That being fat is bad, (which it is not), and that eating will make you fat – unless you eat and do only the specific, temporarily-approved things that they’re currently making money by promoting!
It’s fucking decades and decades of telling people that certain foods will make you good and approved of and gorgeous and finally have self esteem lose weight and certain foods will make you bad, disapproved of, stared at and insulted and unattractive fat. Because that is what sells – but you have to keep changing the story if you want to keep making money off this stuff.
When you take a second to say “OMG there are sooooooooo many nutrients in this one weird fruit?!!!!!!!!!????! DOCTORS HATE US,” it’s ridiculously easy to sell as a “superfood.” Because people aren’t used to thinking of food, overall, as healthy. Or as fuel.
The message for so long has been “there are a few isolated things that it’s okay to eat, like tofuorganiccaroblow-cal (insert current fad here)!” that we totally believe them when they tell us that nutritionally dense foods are a rarity that everyone should freak out about.
