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i wish i was a mermaid so i could have a nice shiny tail and a pretty seashell bra and a beautiful...

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:00:55 -0700

i wish i was a mermaid so i could have a nice shiny tail and a pretty seashell bra and a beautiful voice that i could use to entice cute boys and make them crash their ships and drown at sea so human women could rise as the dominate gender of the land

rampaigehalseyface: lifeandotheroddtales: Different Sherlock...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:56:10 -0700

rampaigehalseyface:

lifeandotheroddtales:

Different Sherlock portrayals as cats. Because I can.

House is the uncontrollable crazy cat.

Robert Downey Jr. cat is the flaunting type.

BBC Sherlock is the brooding cat.

Elementary Sherlock is the cuddly one.

Canon Sherlock is an awesome YouTube keyboard cat that Watson is always impressed by.

So pretty much all just one cat at various points in the day.

kyliesparks27: ifansmarchog: neat-whiskey-messy-bed: are...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:46:18 -0700

kyliesparks27:

ifansmarchog:

neat-whiskey-messy-bed:

are these texts from Evans?

sadly, no, but some of these are great.

are we sure these aren’t your texts?

side note: BINGLEBANGLE FOOFAWOMP

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Mon, 20 May 2013 21:43:05 -0700

Here is a thing that makes me so mad.

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:42:11 -0700

welcometobethville:

It’s not often that I get so mad at a thing that I have to go to my Tumblr to talk about it. I tend to keep politics, religion, and anger away from Welcome to Bethville! because it is very sensitive and prone to fits of crying. But over here, on Welcome to Bethville: The Tumblr Edition, we talk about all things. And when I say “we,” I’m referring to me. But saying “we” makes it feel less lonely as I type this on my couch of sadness.

So, here goes.

Whenever I go to the internet and happen across a beautifully written article about weight struggles and eventual fat acceptance and then scroll to the comments to let the “But do you know how unhealthy that is?” assholes fuel my hatefire, I notice one trend that needs to stop immediately. And that trend…….wait for it……just going to take a sip of this coffee real quick to fortify myself……is this:

You see this kind of comment in EVERY SINGLE BODY ACCEPTANCE FORUM. You guys. Thin people who nodded in agreement while reading this Dear Abby letter, I’m talking to you. This has to stop. I know what you’re trying to do, and I get it. You want a toehold in the conversation, something to connect with the author about. Like,”You’ve struggled! I’ve struggled! We’ve both struggled. Isn’t that neat?” And then maybe you’ll walk away friends with a greater understanding of each other’s lives. But I almost think that you are trying so hard to find that toehold that you (Brace yourselves, I’m going all caps now) ARE NOT LISTENING.

Now, as an aside to get it out of the way, I am not saying that thin people don’t struggle. We’re not talking about eating disorders here. I know so many people who have struggled with an eating disorder, and my heart hurts for them. But we’re going to put them aside for now because eating disorders are on an entirely different continent of discussion.

We’ll also, at this time, put aside people who are dealing with health issues that make it hard for them to gain or maintain weight. My ex-boyfriend had the Crohn’s and I once went to a support group meeting with him. The people I met at that meeting, almost all of them bone thin, broke my heart in ways I still do not understand. But we’re not talking about them either.

I’m talking about those thin people who are just genetically thin and have somehow managed to find a way to suffer from that.

Now, teasing is the worst, no matter what the how or why is for it. I’ll give you that. But it is NOT ( and I’m going to type NOT again right here for extra emphasis) hate. And hate is what makes life different for overweight and obese people. Someone saying to you, “You’re so thin! Eat a sandwich!” is not hate. It’s that person being a douchebag. Your feelings might be hurt, and that is totally valid. But at the end of the day, Angelina Jolie is still considered one of the most beautiful people in the world. There aren’t women’s magazines on the shelves that say, “GAIN WEIGHT TODAY” in an attempt to get your money. You can sit your ass in a plane or theater seat without any problem. You don’t have to struggle to find health insurance or pay more when you finally do, despite your fitness level. And a famous person calling another famous person “thin” in an interview with Howard Stern does not turn into a huge news trend with every asshole on Twitter feeling the need to chime in with about ten insulting hashtags. Being called “thin” has never once in the history of time been considered an insult. It’s just a state of being. Give that person who judged you the finger, turn around, and walk away. Society has your back as a thin person.

“But it’s so hard to find clothes in my size sometimes!” I read very often in these “But what about meeeeee?” comments. I’m sorry. I truly am. I completely identify with not being able to find clothes that fit. But there is a difference in your problem and the problems of someone who is overweight or obese. The extra small size not being small enough in the dress you want at H&M is not a struggle. That’s an inconvenience. If you really want that dress, you can buy it and take it to tailor. A woman who needs a size 18 can’t do that. She has to go to a different store, a special store. Or order online. Or learn how to sew. Do you see the difference now?

Here’s an anecdote because I have a million of them. When I was a wee high school pretty, I was a size 16. Like most wee pretties of that age, I wanted to go to prom. My mom said, “I heard about this store that is doing a big dress sale. We should go.” We went. It was a 50-mile drive. Not one…NOT ONE…of the dresses in that store came in my size. We ended up driving another 120 miles to a store that had TWO dresses that came in a 16. IN THE ENTIRE STORE. They had to special order it for me. It was not even remotely the kind of dress I wanted. It was just the one that happened to fit, and I was too embarrassed to complain. The fact that these stores did not even deem me worthy of having a dress, of being a person, is not a simple inconvenience. It’s a fucking suckfest that needed to be doused in gasoline and lit on fire.

“Well, why didn’t you lose weight, 16-year-old, Bethany?” you might be asking yourself.” She tried. And how rude of you to ask. Now, leave her alone and let her feel her feelings.

My dears. My thin, beautiful, sweet, well-meaning friends. I love you. And I want you to know that I really mean that. I spent years and years hating on you. I admit that I used to be one of the “Eat a sandwich” douchebags because I was dealing with my own self-hatred and pain. But if you are truly, truly suffering from people teasing you and not being able to find pants that fit, then open up your own discussion about it. Write an article. Write a blog post. Get some magic markers and make yourself a sandwich board. Stop trying to open up the discussion on fat acceptance and discrimination to include you. It doesn’t, no matter how hard you try. Be kind. Be understanding. And accept that not everything is about you.

With love,

Bethany

I think thin people who have comments like this should spend a day hanging out in a plus sized store. Just….standing around and listening. About 10 years ago I worked at Torrid for a short time, and EVERY. SINGLE. SHIFT, ALL DAY LONG, there were moms in there with their daughters and they would have this exact conversation:

Daughter (in dressing room): I mean, it’s okay…but it’s SO EXPENSIVE!

Mom (hovering right outside the door just dying to see all the clothes on their daughter): I don’t care about the money we finally found something that FITS!

And if you don’t think that’s some real shit I don’t even know what else to say to you. Because the clothes at Torrid are (at least they def were at the time) just barely okay, very cheaply made, generally do not fit well, and are horribly overpriced, but every day women flock to the store and spend thousands of dollars there because Torrid is one out of probably 5 total choices that they have.

tardisity: The oldest person alive was born on April 19, 1897, meaning that April 18th, 1897 was...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:34:26 -0700

tardisity:

The oldest person alive was born on April 19, 1897, meaning that April 18th, 1897 was approximately the last time the Earth was inhabited by an entirely different set of people and if you don’t think that’s the realest shit ever then you can get right on outta town.

hollyrandommm: Bill’s first episode: Seth as Anderson...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:28:42 -0700

hollyrandommm:

Bill’s first episode: Seth as Anderson Cooper

Bill’s last episode: Seth vs Anderson Cooper

infamouswhorror: i can’t even choose a favorite one omfg

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:28:15 -0700

infamouswhorror:

i can’t even choose a favorite one omfg

thecakebar: Lower-Sugar Mango Ice Cream Gluten free, dairy...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:22:07 -0700

thecakebar:

Lower-Sugar Mango Ice Cream

Gluten free, dairy free, eggless, low sugar

no ice cream machine needed (if making popsicles)

juicyjacqulyn: disruptedoriginal: macpye: thatpointlessidiot: ...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:17:18 -0700

juicyjacqulyn:

disruptedoriginal:

macpye:

thatpointlessidiot:

mysteryegg:

veggiecoldcuts:

the-more-u-know:

The milkshake: This is not limited to fast food nor to milkshakes. That ‘concoction’ is the industry standard artificial strawberry flavoring found in everything strawberry flavored that isn’t naturally flavored.

Chicken nuggets: Total lies. My sister works at the Tyson plant that provides KFC and McDonalds their nuggets. There’s no ‘pink paste’ stage. ’Reflavoring’ is an injection of mostly salt into the meat in order to give it some taste because modern day chicken is nearly flavorless. If you want to disgust people, show them the conditions of the processing plants that dismantle the chickens.

The pubic hair one: You eat more of your family’s pubic hairs cooking in your own home. You think you don’t shed once you walk in your own door?

Peanut butter: This is a cold hard truth of food mass production. There will be insects. You can never get rid of them or take them out of the process. The FDA places limits on how much can be allowed into specific foods so that food manufactories don’t get lazy and just say ‘Well we can’t keep it out.’ The FDA limit helps immensely because it makes these places try to keep the insect population down through keeping things clean.

Shellac: Oh my god this is so stupid. ’Shellac’ is an INGREDIENT. It’s a NATURAL PRODUCT produced by INSECTS. It is then PROCESSED into food-grade glaze or colorants, OR into wood and furniture polish. They don’t just take wood polish and dump it on your jawbreakers. Grow up.

Bacteriophages: The ‘phages of which you speak are used to kill the listeria virus. Listeria is a bacteria that attacks the immune system and has a one in five mortality rate. Bacteriophages? They’ve been used as an alternative to antibiotic medications in Russia and France for 90 years. That’s really disgusting and dangerous!

Coke: This is total and complete bunk. It would have been far more effective to point out that colas and carbonated drinks have been linked to weakened bones in those who overconsume them, but this is complete lies here. Again.

Salads: I think you mean propylene glycol. And again, this is bullshit. PG only causes reactions in those allergic to it. It has a very low toxicity and can only negatively affect human health if very large amounts are ingested very quickly and over a very short period of time. By which I mean ‘Find a vat of it and start drinking it and nothing else.’ Again you go for the lie instead of pointing out that fast food salads are processed and contain as much fat and cholesterol as most of the other foods offered by a fast food place.

Beef additives: This has nothing to do with fast food. This is common in MOST meats in the US. This is because the US has become so obsessed with the fat content of meat and making it ‘healthy’ that we have literally bred almost all the flavor out of every food animal breed we currently use. Flavorants are almost ALWAYS injected during processing or most of our meat would be bland and tasteless. ‘Flavorants’ typically being concentrated broth and/or salt and seasoning.

Cheese: Lies again. Only those cheeses labelled as ‘Pasteurized process cheese food’ and ‘Pasteurized process cheese spread’ match these stats. Pasteurized process cheese is simply a blended cheese made to have a sharp taste and be easily melted. Your lie here is that the 47% is referring to the cheese’s fat content, not cheese content.

This image is full of lies and misrepresented half-truths and anyone spreading this as truthful should rethink their approach.

TL;DR: just because it’s in a pretty image, doesn’t mean it’s true.

Oh man, I saw the image scrolling down and was like ‘I sure hope there’s someone underneath this saying how bullshit this infographic is’ and there was

^for the last comment.. I thought the same thing

I was actually thinking about the salad thing today. Because I’m fat, I’m expected to order a salad no matter where I go to eat, but people don’t realize that the majority of salads offered by restaurants have the same amount or MORE fat and calories and salt in them than the rest of the menu. Shit, they’ll put like 5 bite sized pieces of chicken (usually fried chicken, even) and then load the salad up with fatty/empty calorie toppings and dressing and you end up unsatisfied and still hungry even after eating 900 calories. But somehow I get NASTY looks in restaurants for ordering a big ol piece of grilled chicken and sweet potato fries.

Anyway, derailed this post but yeah I had one of those long conversations with myself today about this so it’s been on my mind.

rageandrapture: benedryl-pumpkinpatch: Butawhiteboy Cantbekhan yeeessssssssssss

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:05:07 -0700

rageandrapture:

benedryl-pumpkinpatch:

Butawhiteboy Cantbekhan

yeeessssssssssss

juicyjacqulyn: frickyeah1990s: my apartment could use a floppy...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:04:55 -0700

juicyjacqulyn:

frickyeah1990s:

my apartment could use a floppy disk coffee table.

i’d keep a dildo in there

thecakebar: Chocolate Decadence Eggless, dairy free, gluten...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:02:44 -0700

thecakebar:

Chocolate Decadence

Eggless, dairy free, gluten free

thecakebar: Cinnamon Circular Pull Apart Bread Is it normal to...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:01:41 -0700

thecakebar:

Cinnamon Circular Pull Apart Bread

Is it normal to fall in love with a piece of bread? :O

help graph here

juicyjacqulyn: kimnovaks: Marlon Brando in a screen test for...

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:28:46 -0700

juicyjacqulyn:

kimnovaks:

Marlon Brando in a screen test for “Rebel without a cause”

there was a day when I had panties

today is not that day

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Mon, 20 May 2013 20:25:49 -0700

velut-umbra: New Orleans Nightscapes I (part 1) by Frank Relle

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:20:55 -0700

velut-umbra:

New Orleans Nightscapes I (part 1) by Frank Relle

confusedtree: In all seriousness Idris Elba as the 12th Doctor would be a great casting choice...

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:18:13 -0700

confusedtree:

In all seriousness Idris Elba as the 12th Doctor would be a great casting choice because he’d kill it and we’d get to find out just exactly how many anglophiles are also gigantic racists

nightmaresinsilver: flomation: I thought I should share some...

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:01:55 -0700

nightmaresinsilver:

flomation:

I thought I should share some things I’ve collected

#yahoo paid $1.1 billion for this

freneticfloetry: Crowning Moment of Awesome. I hereby move...

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:00:45 -0700

freneticfloetry:

Crowning Moment of Awesome.

I hereby move that a third Star Trek movie be made immediately where John Cho as Sulu is Captain and basically everyone else is a lady. All those in favor, say aye.