i'm a writer irl (can't say who because my agent would put me into a blender and press go) and honestly the funniest and most humiliating incident of my life was the time my finished manuscript triggered a plagiarism flag with the publisher for two lines of prose in my literary fiction novel...
.... which was word for word similar to a paragraph in a certain explicit work on FFN starring elrond and his batsman from the hobbit films, aka that one elf that looked like he ate panic attacks for breakfast (i forget his name but it's Figwit II) where the lord of imladris bends said twink over his writing desk and gives him the battering ram treatment.
and if you think i had to sit in front of one if the biggest publishing companies in the world and admit that it was, in fact, me who wrote the fic where the lord of imladris bends said twink over his writing desk and gives him the battering ram treatment in order to avoid being wrongly flagged for plagiarism, you would be absolutely correct.
(yes they published the book)
This takes a lot of courage in a lot of important ways good job OP
the phrase “i love men’s tits” lives in my head rent free unfortunately im a lesbian who is largely neutral about men’s tits so i rarely have cause to say it. i’m saying this hoping to inspire those of you who do love men’s tits to express that love
see this is exactly the type of energy I’m looking for here
official boob post
Love it when he’s got boobs. Titties. Absolute honkadonkadoodles.
look I'm not gonna pretend I know anything about electronics, but sometimes a plug is so big it blocks another socket, and I'm always like "who the fuck do you think you are"
Le manoir des Légendes … Art nouveau creation by Thierry Lechanteur
i mean this in the gentlest way possible: you need to eat vegetables. you need to become comfortable with doing so. i do not care if you are a picky eater because of autism (hi, i used to be this person!), you need to find at least some vegetables you can eat. find a different way to prepare them. chances are you would like a vegetable you hate if you prepared it in a stew or roasted it with seasoning or included it as an ingredient in a recipe. just. please start eating better. potatoes and corn are not sufficient vegetables for a healthy diet.
Need it to be easier?
- baby carrots (good dipped in ranch)
- Celery sticks (add some peanut butter or cream cheese for extra flavor and protein)
- Broccoli (good with ranch, cheese, or salt/pepper/butter)
- Canned peas (you can microwave in a microwave-safe bowl. Good with salt/pepper/butter)
- Bell peppers (cut into strips, good with cream cheese)
- Canned green beans (can be microwaved in microwave-safe bowl. Good with salt/pepper/butter)
- Hummus (good with crackers or tortilla chips)
- Salsa (good with tortilla chips)
- Guacamole (good with tortilla chips)
Need it in something?
Can't see it:
- Hummus
- salsa
- Guacamole
Can see but disguised flavor (can usually be found store bought or done at home and use different veggies):
- Dressed up ramen - just toss in some random veggies in ramen of your choice. Pretty much everything I've tried goes fine with it.
- Chicken pot pie
- Vegetable soup (with so many together it's hard to taste any specific one!)
- Chicken noodle soup
- Sweet and sour pork (haven't tried it but chicken should be fine in place of pork)
Texture problems:
Need it soft:
- Hummus
- Salsa
- Guacamole
- Cooked carrots
- Avocados
- Beans (personally I prefer black beans and canned baked beans)
- Peas (make sure to cook well, great value brand has the softest peas I've tried)
- Cooked broccoli (note: it does smell bad while cooking)
- Cooked asparagus (note: also smells bad while cooking)
- Cooked zucchini and squash (good together but can be eaten separate)
- You can also puree most vegetables and eat with a spoon or use them as a dip
Needs to be crunchy:
- Raw carrots
- Raw celery
- Raw bell peppers
- Salad (remember you can put whatever you want in it! Even if that means no lettuce)
- Most veggies are okay raw, and are usually very crunchy
Veggies google says stay crunchy after lightly cooking:
- Snap peas
- Brussel sprouts
- Cabbage
- Water chestnut
- Bamboo shoots
Broad texture tips:
- You can change textures by eating raw, cooking, chopping, pureeing, etc
- You can separate different textures to use in different ways (ie using broccoli tops in a soup and eating the bottoms raw)
It also really helps to think about why you dislike a vegetable. I found that I am scared of green foods so I like to use those veggies for ingredients in things they are well hidden for. I've also learned that watching something while eating helps because then I'm not looking at the gross green things. When possible, I also like to get help hiding it (ie using cream of celery soup in my chicken and dumplings).
Remember that vegetables are important because they contain nutrients that other foods don’t contain. NOT because they are low calorie.
Eating vegetables slathered in pork fat is always better than not eating vegetables. In fact fat will help you absorb the nutrients. Get those nutrients in your body by any means necessary.
Don't fall into the trap of thinking that you HAVE to eat vegetables raw or steamed or some other diet-culture-approved way.
The buttery, honey-drizzled vegetables you will actually eat are WAY better than the plain steamed ones you DON'T eat. It's not like the butter and honey take AWAY the vegetables' nutrients. They don't.
Headlines across eight years. Who you vote for really does matter. None of these headlines delve into the Boar's Head listeria outbreak because I can only post ten photos in one post. But the slaughter house self regulate headline? Yup, that's why.
𝔰𝔫𝔬𝔴𝔶 𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔭𝔲𝔰 ❄️
“omg peoples mental health is so bad they don’t shower??” girl some people have such bad mental health they kill themselves
my rule of thumb for this, for any behavior that you look at and go, "god, how can you not (X)?" is to ask myself: well. how bad would it have to be, for me? how bad would it be before i would stop doing that thing? how bad would i have to feel?
what would have to go wrong in your life, and how wrong would it have to go, for you to stop bathing? to stop eating? to let the garbage pile around you until you can no longer see the floor?
how bad would you have to feel, and for how long, before you would stand on the street screaming at anyone & anything? beating your fists on your head and crying? how bad would it need to be?
do you think there's some fundamental difference between you and people who suffer until their lives are unrecognizable to you? can you face the knowledge that if things went badly enough, you would be just like them? just like them? just like
Not socialist in a “I won’t have to work” type of way but socialist in a “I’ll still be working but I won’t be worried I won’t make the rent” type of way. In a “billions won’t be hoarded by one person” type of way. In a “janitors, fast-food workers, child care workers, preschool teachers, hotel clerks, personal care and home health aides, and grocery store cashiers, will live comfortably” type of way. In a “the sick and elderly will be cared for” type of way. In a “no child should work” type of way.
In the "my illness won't condemn me to an early, ignominious death" kind of way.
In the “no one gets seconds until everyone has firsts - houses, utilities, etc” kind of way.
it’s okay to be tired of being strong and brave. it’s okay to be annoyed at how much energy hanging in there takes.