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Healthcare issues reflected in yaoi ✊😔

You always wanted to be a Healer. Unfortunately, your dad was an Necromancer and your mother a Demon Summoner. So your healing was a bit… unconventional to say the least.

“WHO SUMMONS ATRANOR, DEVOURER OF- OH IT’S YOU AGAIN.”

“Yeah. I have a patient with an inoperable tumor in her brain. I need you to drag it, and only it, to hell.”

“YES YES I AM FAMILIAR WITH YOUR BIZARRE STIPULATIONS BY NOW. AS YOU SHOULD BE FAMILIAR WITH THE PRICE THAT MUST BE PAID.”

“Right, here’s your goat.”

“OOH, IS THAT CHIPOTLE RANCH?”

“Yup.”

“THE CONTRACT IS SEALED.”

*Points* Former Doggirl.

they're LOUD and UNPLEASANT.

Hey. You don’t learn to learn everything in a day. Or a week. Or a month. Or a year. It’s been years, and I’m still learning. So is every trans and cis person alike. We’re all learning. You aren’t behind. You aren’t ’less.’

Happy Moth Monday, everyone!

You should be starting a recipe book. I don't give a shit if you're only 20-years-old. The modern web is rotting away bit by bit before our very eyes. You have no idea when that indie mom blog is going down or when Pinterest will remove that recipe. Copy it down in a notebook, physically or digitally. Save it somewhere only you can remove it. Trust me, looking for a recipe only to find out it's been wiped off the internet is so fucking sad. I've learned my lesson one too many times.

One of my most valuable possessions. If the house was on fire, etc. etc. levels of valuable.

My mother wrote this card.

She's dead.

But she still lives in my kitchen.

It does not need to be scary or intimidating to start your own recipe book! I have seen & heard a lot of people feeling overwhelmed or intimidated, especially because our moms and grandmothers wrote their recipes down by hand, or typed the cards out on typewriters if they were super fancy.

But if you have a basic printer at home or can access one, it's as easy as picking up some plastic page covers and a couple of binders.

This is in the same class of important to me as that recipe card above. Each one of my mom's kids got this 19 years ago as a Christmas gift:

Mom took the time to put all the family favorite recipes in this binder for us, and she took the time to make it look really cute:

But you don't have to do that. You can just do what my wife and I have done most of the time, which is to get two GIANT FUCKING BINDERS and start collecting recipes that we like or that we'd like to make. We print things out from websites and shove them into sheet protectors (you can skip the pictures, nutrition information, and a bunch of other stuff most of the time when you're printing things out to save paper and book space) and then we got a set of tabs to loosely organize them into groups. If you feel really fancy, you can alphabetize your recipes. We are not that fancy.

And in with the stuff that we've printed out from websites there are a couple of things that I've taken the time to write down in a word processor and print out, either because they are recipes that we have tweaked from the original and perfected to our tastes/machines/etc. or because they involve so many finicky steps that I needed to write every little thing down, or both. Everybody in our house is autistic, has ADHD, or both, so this lets me be incredibly detailed so there's no chance someone can say "but you didn't say -- "

I have a fourth binder which collects the recipes that I use for canning and preserving. (Only use USDA-verified recipes - I print my recipes out from verified sites only. There's a lot of bad information out there about canning and BAD RECIPES CAN KILL YOU when it comes to canning, so don't fuck around.)

It doesn't have to be difficult. A lot of the time we print out recipes and they get stuffed into the front pocket of a binder and they only make it into the sheet preservers when I get around to maintaining the binders. You can do it. I believe in you. :D

Would like to chime that a recipe journal can be a very nice present, and especially fun when you fill the first pages with your own favourites.

I've done this a few times, often with a group of people so that you can easily collect a few nice recipes for those first pages. Once with my (in-law) siblings for a cousin that moved out of her parents' home, and most recently for a colleague who was retiring that loves to cook and try new recipes (we put together a folder of 50+ recipes!)

They can be dead simple, this is a reused binder and dividers (the ones in the pocket haven't passed approval for punching)

Also using them magnets on the stove hood or a dollar store sheet pan and command strips (and pliers to fold down the handles to get them out of the way if the door

Yeah, definitely! Though I really like sheet protectors for longevity of recipe pages - a 300 pack of sheet protectors will run you like $15, or 100 for $9, and that keeps grease and liquid from getting on your recipes. And then you don't need to hole punch the sheets - the sheet protectors have that built in.

I have a stone paper notebook that I use to write down recipes. It's mildly annoying because I'm a lefty and my non-smudging pens don't work on the paper, but that's because the paper is waterproof and can be wiped down if something spills on it, so I'll take it. (It's also rip-proof!)

It takes more effort than just printing a recipe out, sure, but I get to write it down in a way that makes more sense to me, with my own adjustments and abbreviations. And I mostly only put favorite recipes in it - my favorites, family favorites, the ones I break out over and over or for holidays, the stuff I imagine one day my kid might get nostalgic about - so it's not like I'm doing that for every single recipe I'm using.

(And often, if I'm using a new recipe from the internet for the first time, I'll copy it down first on normal paper anyway - partially because our printer is a jerk and partially because it forces me to actually read the whole thing so I don't run into unpleasant surprises halfway through. Mostly, though, I'm a cookbook person.)

Thank you to This Post for reminding me that I have a few recipes I really need to add to my book!

When I was getting divorced, I photographed each recipe and put them in album on my phone.

In an emergency, many things can be a recipe book.

Both of these

I’m sorry, it had to be added

Every single discussion about a good villain/hero dynamic ALWAYS comes back to these two

An interesting part of transitioning is thinking you're a weird guy and realizing you're a relatively normal girl. But, girlie, you've got to become a weirder girl than you ever were a guy. You've got to become the weirdest girl the world has ever seen. The world depends on it. You can do it. I love you, always.

hey wait! i know you! we used to be chained next to each other in the cave! wow, so good to see you, how are ya? man. remember how we used to talk about the shadows on the wall together. gosh that was a long time ago. but hey. sure is one heck of a sun out here, right? it's good to see you.

I had never thought of the cavern as a metaphor for my understanding of gender and societal norms, but it is so obvious, now that I see it. Thanks for showing me the light. 💖

imagine a maid in your head. now have it do a little spin. you can give it a broom. now take care of her, okay?

hey wait a minute

how long is she gonna be there

You did prepare ample accommodations for her, right?

uh. . . .

[Looks around at the sparklingly clean mind space, now devoid of visible thought]

I don't know if this will help me, since it was a mess in here, or just make it so that I have even more trouble finding anything in here...

Oh, well. I'd hate to just kick her out...

you can make that "older" trans woman feel like a beautiful young lady btw. u can make her feel like the prettiest girl. like if you think a trans woman ages into never being someone's baby the moment she breaches her mid20s or, like, 5'10" and 150lbs, you do not actually like trans women as much as you think.

Literally, the whole point of the post is that these people are wrong. Be careful about viewing the entire world through the confirmation bias of your insecurities. You are likely to hurt yourself a lot, that way.

Seems like the point is not that they are wrong, but rather that they should just pretend that I am still young, when by the post's own definition, I am in fact old.

Anyone who thinks that is operating on the Leonardo DiCaprio definition of "old" and he is broadly thought of as a shallow scumbag for his behavior. You need to stop letting someone who cheats on a new partner and takes so many things from her before leaving decide whether you are old and whether you are pretty.

you can make that "older" trans woman feel like a beautiful young lady btw. u can make her feel like the prettiest girl. like if you think a trans woman ages into never being someone's baby the moment she breaches her mid20s or, like, 5'10" and 150lbs, you do not actually like trans women as much as you think.

Literally, the whole point of the post is that these people are wrong. Be careful about viewing the entire world through the confirmation bias of your insecurities. You are likely to hurt yourself a lot, that way.

Tumblr appears to have decided I need to see videos of men basically just committing sex crimes? Walking closely behind women to surreptitiously film their asses in public? This is genuinely disgusting, and is making me so uncomfortable.

Don't forget, folks, staff thinks that is fine (and will even take money to promote it) and that trans women minding their own business is the real problem!

ive found that partially treated mental illness can sometimes look to uninvolved onlookers like faked mental illness.

"someone who really has pOCD would be disgusted and horrified at their intrusive thoughts" or maybe i'm in therapy & am going by the books, being radically ambivalent to my intrusive thoughts instead of wasting energy mentally washing my paws of sin. i'm not going to perform my rock bottom for you for the sake of being believed.

earth's economy should be optimized towards the production of transbian yuri

I have read some incredibly poor stories, due to my desperate need for this. I can only hope that a growth in production will result in at least a few quality brands rising to the top.

I officially support this initiative.

Tried vrchat for the first time. Found an avatar that's just a completely normal cat and spent the next few hours wandering around meowing at people

10/10 experience will meow again

remember lego movie smear frames. remember how beautiful and genius lego movie smear frames were . are you listening to me. they used only real bricks. so it would look like stop motion. they used real bricks to make smear frames for minifigures doing gestures and stuff isnt that crazy. the lego movie smear frames

do you remember the fucking lighting they used in the lego batman movie. did you fucking see that shit. fuck

they put scratches on the digitally animated legos man.

A few examples of different LEGO movie smear frames from Google