Slimmer Down

this was cute until i realized the fish is probably trying to not get eaten

A fish trying not to get eaten wouldn’t slow down when the “predator” slows down. It also wouldn’t constantly swim in a circle near the edge of the tank; It’d try hiding. Also a fish in a tank in a a public place that is constantly filled with people is not likely to see people as predators.

Animals, I think people tend to forget, also enjoy playing.

we should treat love as something to be built rather than found

don’t hate urself, hate the system that made u feel insecure about every single aspect of ur life

anyway be loud and obnoxious and fun with your interests. post abt nothing but them. make posts you’re gonna be embarrassed about later. draw fanart. write fanfiction. talk to your friends about aus and shit that makes you laugh. buy shit bc you want to look like a fictional character even if you’re going to be giving it away at some point in the future. let yourself enjoy things in a “cringey” way bc life is short dude and anything that brings you joy like that is worth doing as long as it’s not hurting people.

oh btw also when it comes to fatphobia one of the most insidious lies that society tells fat people is that losing weight is “easy” and “totally doable” if you just commit yourself to it. literally nothing is harder than losing weight when your body doesn’t want you to. the entire act of weight loss is based on the idea that you need to burn more than you consume, essentially that you need to be starving yourself for a number of weeks or months to get yourself down to a weight that is often unnatural for your body to maintain. the people telling these lies are mostly skinny people who have never even had to lose weight to fit into society’s standards of an acceptable person in their lives. to them, “it’s easy to lose weight” really means “it’s easy to be skinny, because i am skinny and i didn’t have to work at all to become this way.” i can tell you rn there is not a fat person alive who hasn’t attempted to lose weight once in their lives and realized it is one of the most difficult, unhealthy, and unnatural processes you can try to put yourself through. skinny ppl would do well to remember this when lecturing fat people on their supposed “health” while having to make no real effort to maintain their own size due in large part to genetics alone.

Well shit

Why is it ok for trans people to hate themselves? Why is it ok for trans people to want to be anything but trans?Why is it ok to hate your own tranness?Why is it expected for trans people to want tear their bodies apart?Why is it ok for trans people to be ashamed of who we are? Why must we hate ourselves,our bodies and identity? Why is that ok? Why is that an expectation? Why must trans people have a depression or distress with themselves to be considered vaild? Why must we suffer and be in pain 24/7 to be vaild? Why can't we love/learn to love ourselves,our bodies,our identity?

when i was a teenager it felt very revolutionary to be cruel to myself. like some kind of slow passive protest against how much everything hurt. i starved myself of sleep and food and tenderness because it felt right. it felt sharp and angry and radical and i wanted to be those things. adulthood is the realisation that the world is already working to cut into you well before you learn how to do it yourself. caring for yourself and others is the real protest

LISTEN.

soft reminder: one day you won’t carry heaviness on your shoulders. you’ll get through the day without constant worrying and stomach aches. you will heal and make your mind a safe, peaceful place to be, not something you want to escape. it’s all possible. you can make it through this.

part of becoming confident with yourself is just… posting it anyway. writing it anyway. even if you feel like it won’t be recognized, the process is just as important as the results. if you like what you do and who you are that validation will come naturally. shit won’t feel forced either.

adults, while forcing all children above the age of 5 to sit still, be silent, and obey orders for 7-8 hours a day with minimal breaks, reducing their exposure to fresh air and sunlight to almost nothing, forcing them to alter their natural sleeping patterns to increase productivity, and repeatedly telling them their self worth depends on their being able to follow these instructions perfectly for 13 or more years: kids these days are so lazy! they never go outside! they never want to do anything! clearly it’s not because of us!