the gimmick blogs are like tumblr’s rogue gallery. yes we’ve got some heroes, yes we’ve got some villains, but more importantly if you look over here you will see some freak who devotes all their time to counting the number of “t’s” in a post
T Count: 15
Letter Count: 198
Your T Percentage: 7.58%
Average T Percentage: 6.95%
You used the letter T 1.09 times as much as average!
YOU EXIST???
Sometimes you create a guy and it turns out they already exist
can i talk my shit again. yall love fat people when theyre like 200 lbs and “somft” but can we get some positivity posts for people who are like 400 and having trouble getting off the floor. who have tried everything and cant drop more than 20 pounds. yes fat people are beautiful and awesome but can we talk about 4/5x more instead of just xxl. for the love of god. can we talk about those of us who cant get merch of our favorite creators bc it only goes up to 3x.
CAN WE TALK ABOUT STILL FINDING YOURSELF PRETTY AS A FAT PERSON. CAN WE TALK ABOUT BEING 375 AND CUTE AS SHIT BUT EVERYONES FUCKING PUT OFF BY YOU. CAN WE TALK ABOUT THAT. IM FUCKING. THIS IS PERSONAL TO ME
Yes. Exactly fucking this. We live in a society. Larger fat people are treated like toxic sludge despite being cute and wonderful and funny and (not even needing to be all these things I’m just saying, yanno, larger fat people are WORTHY FUCKING HUMAN BEINGS THE SAME AS THE THINS OR LESSER FATS)
Hello everybody with summer fast approaching here is your regular reminder that:
Everyone needs to wear sunscreen
SPF 50 is pretty much the best protection you can get, an SPF higher than that will have the same effect
Melanin does not protect you from skin cancer
Tanning is caused by exposure to ultraviolet radiation
Spending the majority of your life receiving regular large doses of UV radiation without any skin protection is a good way to get skin cancer
Don’t use tanning beds, and don’t go sun tanning
Wear your fucking sunscreen
Okay, people are clowning in the replies, so let’s try this again:
Sunburn is an uncomfortable short term problem caused by being out in the sun for too long without sunscreen. Some people are more susceptible to it than others. Melanin does protect you from sunburn, so people with dark skin are less likely to get burned, but also sometimes people just have a natural resistance to sunburn (or lack of resistance) - I’m white as hell, and literally the only time in my life I’ve gotten a sunburn was when I spent a whole day outside in a swimsuit without putting on sunscreen when I was a kid, and all I got was a minor burn across my shoulders. Never experienced that whole ‘peeling’ thing y’all are talking about, sounds super gross and uncomfortable tho. Rip to all the rest of you but i’m different.
Skin cancer is fucking cancer. It has nothing to do with sunburn, apart from both being caused by a lot of unprotected sun exposure. If you have skin, you are at risk of getting skin cancer. I have little to no risk of getting sunburn, but I still wear sunscreen, because I am protecting myself from fucking skin cancer.
If someone is basically immune to sunburn, then that’s awesome, but we still need to use just as much sunscreen as everyone else. Because we can still get skin cancer. Immunity to sunburn is not a sign that you can go easy on the sunscreen. And honestly, if you’ve got dark skin, you should probably be extra paranoid about applying sunscreen, because the majority of information on recognizing skin cancer is meant specifically for recognizing it on white skin. If you’re black/brown, it will probably take you longer to be diagnosed if you get skin cancer. And cancer is one of those things that you want diagnosed and treated very quickly, so you should be extra motivated to not get skin cancer in the first place.
Everyone needs to wear sunscreen. Wear your fucking sun screen.
any advice for someone who seams to be allergic to all sunscreens? I want to use sunscreen and be safe, but every option i’ve used has given me rashes that get worse the more i use sunscreens. I’ve tried normal, for kids, for infants, for sensitive skin, hypoallergenic, and even a few different kinds from those hippy stores that use ‘all natural’ ingredients, every time after about 24 hours of use i start itching and getting rashes, i’m tempted to get a doc app about it but not sure what they could do either, its getting very distressing for me, i use a parasol but it’s not always a usable solution
I looked it up, and the Cancer Council basically says stop using any sunscreen that gives you a reaction, use the other protective measures (wear a hat, stay in shade, etc), and try to see a dermatologist about it. If you haven’t tried it already, apparently sunscreen that uses zinc oxide and/or titanium dioxide as the main ingredients haven’t been reported to cause any allergic reactions, so that might be worth a shot.
But just generally I’d say your best bet is to just… make sure you know the warning signs of skin cancer. It’s not like you’re guaranteed to get it, you’re just at higher risk, and it’s not too dangerous if you catch it early enough. There isn’t even surgery if you’re diagnosed quickly enough; they just slap some numbing cream on the bad spot, laser it off, and you’re good to go. So if any new moles or weird patches of discoloured skin pop up… see a doctor immediately.
Apart from that, I wouldn’t be too anxious about it - the main point of this post is more shutting down the myth that if you can’t get sunburn, you don’t need sunscreen. Because there’s a lot of people who don’t burn, and genuinely don’t know that there’s still a reason to wear sunscreen.
(Which is why I also keep getting so annoyed when people derail this post to whine about their sunburns, like yes it’s unfortunate that they’re uncomfortable, but they don’t need to be told to wear fucking sunscreen, they know there’s consequences to not doing it. And them acting like sunscreen is only for preventing sunburn just reinforces the idea that if you don’t burn, you don’t need sunscreen.)
Like as an alcoholic I HATE the fatphobia related to any form of treatment. The idea that I should stop drinking cause it’ll make me lose weight, the way doctors will point out my “beer belly” before they talk about my liver or my kidneys or the social aspect of my drinking problem, the way people only care about my drinking problem cause it makes me fat. You don’t care about me as someone who’s struggling with addiction.
I encourage non alcoholics to like and or reblog this because it’s a unique experience of fatphobia you don’t understand if you’ve never tried to get help for a drinking problem.
Housekeepers and Janitors Need Praise As Unsung but Very Much Important
Remember when the NRA told doctors to “stay in their lane” RE gun violence and #thisismylane trended as a result?
One of the tweets I saw was a surgeon who’d taken a picture of her OR, having just finished surgery on a young man who’d been shot. Blood. Everywhere.
This bloke retweeted her, mentioning that he worked as a cleaner in a hospital and had had to clean up stuff like this and worse.
Surgeon replied to him (and went up *greatly* in my estimation) and, despite living in different countries, thanked him for his hard work.
I can’t find the tweets sadly, but hers went something like;
“Without a clean and sterile operating room to work in, my team, our skills and the best medicines in the world are next to useless. You are doing invaluable work, without which my work would be impossible.”
WITHOUT PEOPLE DOING THE CLEANING, SOCIETY WOULD GRIND TO A HALT WITHIN DAYS
Digital illustration of a fat woman sitting. She’s wearing leggings and a tank top. There’s flowers and text that reads, ‘ your body may change, but your worth does not’
It should 100% be illegal for companies to make you give them your payment information when you sign up for a free trial version of their product. It is not necessary and there is no good fucking reason for them to do it. It’s blatantly just so they can steal forgetful customers’ money.
oh hey, thanks for reminding me to cancel a free trial i had going on.
Reblog to save an unnecessary charge cause it also reminded me to cancel a trial lol
If you had shown me this site in 2005 I would have asked you if had checked your virus software lately, because this looks like a bad one. I would have clicked away so fast it would give you whiplash. Looking at these sites now, I have to convince myself that they aren’t virus laden sites and fight against the pavlovian urge to just navigate away.
I navigate away anyways because fuck them, there’s usually a better site (though they are dwindling quickly). I still can’t get over how the internet “as intended” today looks like a malware ridden fever dream from 20 years ago. This is every story I’ve ever read about an empire that used to be great and has now fallen into turmoil.
Beloveds, there is a wonderful website that gets rid of all that crap<3
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You know I wish fatphobia was less pervasive. Even among people who consider themself as progressive, it’s rampant. So quick reminder. No it’s actually not easy to stop being fat, and it sucks that we are treated differently for something we really can’t control. Shaming a fat person for being fat, and shaming them for not having the “willpower” to become skinny- is bigotry. And if all you talk to fat people about is weight loss and dieting- congratulations! You’re being a dick! Stop.
ALT
