knees. also, i love ur peggy fics!
1. thank you! i have a smutty peggy fic (with natasha, and includes some serious pet play) AND a fluffy peggy fic in the works SO get excited!
2. listen. FUCK knees. the human body is so fucking dumb, we have these fucking ball sockets in our bipedal bottom two limbs and they ALWAYS fuck you up. they’re so poorly fucking designed and we??? just fucking kept them?? like too much exercise not enough exercise too much sitting not enough sitting there’s always!! too much or too little!! you having good knees is like having good teeth: hard and dependent upon luck & money!! fuck knees!!
for some background: there’s an undercurrent in my undergrad studies (bastard of sciences y’all!!) that requires a basic understanding of anatomy and evolutionary biology. public health is the intersection of MANY things, including why we are the way we are anatomy-wise. it’s few and far between, so i’ll take one class and the only thing about the human body is in relation to sexual intercourse and gender, and then i’ll take another and week fucking one it’s like OH YEAH fat people are evolutionarily sound because the way our metabolisms work is oftentimes dependent not only upon genetic variation (for which we can theorize but never really understand - e.g. some people are nightowls? for some reason? and we think it’s because some people had to guard at night vs. those that had to guard during the day and it benefits a society when not everyone with X skill is asleep at the same time) BUT also generational trauma. one study followed children born during times of famine (ww2 is the specific instance i’m speaking about) and those children were more likely to suffer from obesity and the other host of consequences of being overweight. why? because the mother had experienced stress on HER body’s ability to retain nutrients from food so when the babies were fed a “normal” diet (aka Not During Famine) they gained more weight than average because their bodies didn’t know if their next meal was certain.
tl;dr: the human body is this fantastical fucking beast that gets too much shit about weight and NOT enough shit about our knees and lack of fangs.
