my newest pet peeve is when someone comments something like, “we didn’t wear all of those products in the 90s!!!!!!!” on a 90s makeup look tutorial. yeah, no shit, everything looked flawless because the low camera quality was its own blurring filter. to mimic that look in a hd video short in 2024, you are gonna have to use a lot more on your face. side by side, they do actually look extremely similar.

I am sick to fucking death of men who leave little puddles of piss on the toilet rim and floor in shared toilets. get your fucking act together, I do not care that your prostate is playing up with age, none of that stops you from cleaning up after yourself and being a decent, respectful colleague/cohabitator. who fucking raised you, dennis? they’re weeping. weeping!

I know it’s all like write what you know and that, but I hate when tv shows start these masturbatory self-referential hollywood storylines about tv shows and movies being filmed and theatre productions and boring ass plots about directors and showbiz, yes I’m talking about OMITB, yes I know that’s arguably been an element of the show since the beginning, yes I am referring to a DOZEN other shows that have done this, no I don’t have to watch, yes people are entitled to make the art and entertainment they wish, yes I can appreciate writing from experience, I just don’t CARE goddddddd, I do not care, fine, dissolve your storytelling into the wankiest industry insider jokes for your colleagues and studio buds to chortle over but Big Pleb over here has zero interest, it doesn’t mean anything to anyone outside of the bubble you end up in when your career has developed to such a point you no longer associate with anyone else, it’s so boringggggggggggggggggg

part of me wants to start painting or drawing just bc I feel like my short-sightedness would be an unbelievable advantage in breaking down complex real life scenes into basic shapes and colours, and if I’m gonna have less than optimal eyesight, I might as well make it work for me. why get bogged down by the details of what’s in front of me when I can just lift up my glasses for two seconds 🙃

I love having long hair but the thing that astounds me every time I think about it is that like, genetics aside, how fast my hair grows aside, it’d still take years to get it from like, chin-length to the waist/elbow length I currently have it at. years! literal years! and all it takes is ONE aggressive brush stroke when I’m stressed out in the morning and in a rush and pissed off, to cause breakage that’d start that cycle again albeit for only a few strands of hair. like, years to grow, one instance to break. like when I completely babied the frizz out my hair over the pandemic and then it was cute and smooth to do heatless hairstyles with little elastics, which I knew was not a good idea lmao but I had fun which is the most important thing. anyway, now I’m back to my signature lil halo of frizz. years! it’s such a piss-take.

I cannot express how obsessed I am w the cold brutality of c.p. cavafy’s The City. that poem said fuck you. all your hopes. and just to make myself clear: FUCK you.

stunning scenes, lads.

I mean, valid criticisms, blah blah blah, but I do sincerely hope people continue making youtube videos for years and years to come. it’s been really lovely checking back on the channels I used to watch when I was like, 19 at uni, and seeing how these real life people just a bit older than me (though the difference felt bigger then lmao) are now navigating their 30s/40s. it’s a different beast for sure and I get maybe the relatability is skewed, but. I’ve never felt the pressure and sense of comparison with getting older that so many people talk about, and I think it’s bc I’ve always consumed media created by people just that little bit older than me. always something to look forward to. nothing nicer than seeing people in their 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, making sincere content. I think it’s really special and I feel lucky to have access to that when I’m not in the mood to watch a revolving door of 23 year olds act like they’re two years away from becoming unfuckable hags.

weight loss /// calorie counting /// diet ///

hey! I'm sorry to hear you're not in the best place right now. it can be a really frustrating process and it does get you down, but I hope you have the support you need.

I don't mind talking about it at all bc I'm proud of my weight loss and therefore INSUFFERABLE lmao but I should preface this by saying all the usual disclaimers about how I have no medical authority lmao, everyone's body is different, blah blah blah, what works for me might not work for you, blah blah blah, like I am truly not giving any advice here - I don't take that as what you're asking for, just an honest account of what I did to lose weight (and what I'm doing, as I'm still going through this process)?

the main thing for me was what I'd call "gentle" calorie tracking; the usual advice is to like, plug your stats into an online calculator and eat in a deficit amounting to missing one meal's worth of calories per day, but those generic calculations were so off because of my thyroid condition (i.e. my average daily maintenance calories were actually well above what the calculators told me I needed to gain weight) plus they're just...generic? lmao, like, they work on averages, they do not account for everyone's weird shit. so I came up with my own system:

there's honestly so much more - months and months and years' worth of habits and specific processes, but I feel that's the most practical overview. I do wanna stress though: I did not cut out a single food I enjoyed. I still eat and have always eaten chocolate and crisps and burgers and whatever, I just began pairing them with nutritious foods. over time, my tastes and appetite changed, but my approach has been specifically to avoid forcing myself there, adding new foods and habits rather than expressly taking away the things I enjoy, and letting my body and its inclinations slowly develop a hankering for a new, healthier lifestyle.

I did not go from eating fast food every lunch time to craving salads overnight; that is some bullshit lmao. I went from eating a large burger and fries regularly for lunch, to getting a large burger and medium fries with some watermelon after, to getting a medium burger and medium fries with a bigger portion of fruit, to a medium burger and small fries and fruit, to eventually eating more hearty salads with other protein sources and delicious fats because I'd gently trained myself to just genuinely enjoy it. and it takes a long time! if I didn't feel like it, I'd eat what I wanted and try not to sweat it, and just give it another go next time - one meal, one bite at a time. it was really fucking hard at first and I did not see significant weight loss for months, but it was a real trust the process thing.

for what it's worth, I've never tracked my calories out either, because I have not found or been arsed to find anything I trust that reliably gives me this information. I don't believe typical devices (my phone, fitness watches, those screens on exercise machines at the gym) are accurate enough to be worthwhile and I want to focus on exercise for reasons other than weight loss, plus the vast majority of caloric deficits come from reducing intake rather than increasing expenditure, so I just focus on my diet and that's it. it also helps to find motivation for those new habits other than weight loss; eating more protein and vegetables helps in a roundabout way, sure, but I'm more inclined to make an effort because protein helps combat some of my hair thinning from my conditioning, and eating a good amount of diverse veg helps with my IBS symptoms.

it really is just one day at a time, and I hope you're well and know you're not alone in finding it really hard. I just didn't want to make it any harder on myself than it already was, and had to be. x

natural for some does not mean easily achievable lmaoooooo. I cannot believe we’re so far gone in the world of cosmetically enhanced celebrities that people see women like megan thee stallion and tyla and think, yeah, all women could have a body like either one if they just dieted and hit the gym. “I’m sick of the IG baddie surgeries, what happened to all the women who just look like meg and tyla?” mate, I know there’s plenty out there but they’re not a dime a dozen either lmao.