Mostly Sunny

Even with technology today, we are still a bit limited by biology. If you want kids, build the life and health you want, as much as you can. Kids don't always come in the timeline you expect so roll with it. Teen parent? Yes it will be hard. Shitty co parent? Yes it will be hard. Broke? Over 40? Hard hard it is always hard. Set yourself up as best you can and really try to think about who you are reproducing with (I know, life throws curveballs).

Retirement: yeah I know so many of us under like age 60 feel this won't ever happen. But eventually, we will feel tired or sick or old and having a nest egg is a huge help. Young and broke sucks. Old and broke sucks harder. Research your options and start putting some away as soon as you can in your working life.

He was so sick for so long and its a miracle he lasted long enough for you to understand what he needed to survive and build an enclosure for him to survive in

It look a lot of scientist and doctors but he’s healthy and happy, you took careful work to make his enclosure as enriching as possible and he seems genuinely happy!!

Then one day, this fucking thing washes ashore. It’s nasty and putrid, but still you want to study it.

There is something that is at the very least VERY similar to your squishy alien friend.

Your alien friend is excited, he wants to see the human or kinda human thing he wants to talk to them

But it’s covered in fucking ooze, you dont know what diseases it could bring in! Your squishy alien friend JUST got better!!!

But no, squishy alien is clawing at the walls of his enclosure he hasn’t had actual full human contact in years

You forgot your alien friend is an extremely social creature and physical contact is super important to them

Rocky finding cat memes to compare his leaky space blobs to.

Also detailed image of simon after being dropped in the soup :)

and like. do we have to keep gently phrasing things to protect naturally-thin people's feelings. in my life it has never been fashionable to be fat. "fat" is still a bad word. there has never been institutional power pushing people to gain weight; no trillion-dollar industry to "fix" skinny people. a larger body type has never been over-represented in models, influencers, celebrities. sure, people might say "i'm worried for your health," but they do it with respect and gentleness, like they're talking to a scared deer.

every single fucking time i talk about this, i have to be so careful with what i say, in case i offend even one skinny person. it is just true that skinny people have social capital across many cultures. there is a reason you almost never hear someone say "i wish i was fat," but you will constantly see people say "I wish i was thin." and yet inevitably some skinny person will tell me: i thought you wanted body positivity. it is the same fucking attitude as when a cis man says "when you say men have power, well, i've been bullied for being a man. i thought you believe in mental health awareness. don't you know men have a higher suicide rate?"

two things can be true at once: your experience being bullied for being thin was terrible. and people with larger bodies probably have it worse.

i have been big and small. i know many other people who have been big and small. trust what i'm about to tell you: being small is much easier. the world is kinder to you. people treat you better. honestly, this pattern occurs pretty much regardless of gender - my guy friends have confided that they'd rather be bullied for being thin than be bullied for being fat. if you're skinny, the pressure might be to gain weight, sure, but it's often to do so in a way that keeps you skinny - to gain muscle, specifically.

thinness is seen as innate and natural, genetic. whereas carrying any fat - that is a moral failing. it is assumed to be related to your character, your personality. i have seen people equate it to discipline, to hygiene. that bias is why we need to talk about this.