childfree shules my beloved
i can't believe this happened to me today, im going to be bragging about this for the rest of my life.
You know, when I see fictional characters who repress all their emotions, they're usually aloof and very blunt about keeping people at a distance, sometimes to an edgy degree—but what I don't see nearly enough are the emotionally repressed characters who are just…mellow.
Think about it. In real life, the person that's bottling up all their emotions is not the one that's brooding in the corner and snaps at you for trying to befriend them. More often than not, it's that friendly person in your circle who makes easy conversation with you, laughs with you, and listens and gives advice whenever you're upset. But you never see them upset, in fact they seem to have endless patience for you and everything around them—and so you call them their friend, you trust them. And only after months of telling them all your secrets do you realize…
…they've never actually told you anything about themselves.
Adding onto this: characters who are so deeply repressed that they don't even realize they're not fine, or at the very least not supposed to be fine. Characters who do tell you about a situation they're in that should be bad, but instantly laugh it off saying they can handle it (spoiler: they can, in fact, not handle it). Characters who laugh with you and listen to all your woes and much later you learn that they were actually going through something at least equally bad at the time, but they wave it off and don't want to speak of it. Characters whose main coping mechanism seems to be "don't think about it" on endless loop.
Basically, the fictional embodiment of the "this is fine" dog.
If you dont have anything strange to say, dont say anything at all
this is so tumblr coded, i cant even
I remember people in high school burning through 3 cell phones a year, so I'm curious: How many mobile phones have you had in your lifetime?
1-3
4-6
7-9
10+
And lemme know your age (if you feel comfortable!), and when you got your first phone in the tags!
If these options are scuffed I'm sorry, I genuinely have no clue how many phones people are "supposed" to have had (hence the poll)
sorry I haven't been in touch I've been having a character arc
"and that's taking up all your time and energy?" like u wouldn't believe my guy
what a shame doctors don’t prescribe vacation to secluded seaside towns like they used to
wait wait wait i have literally the best picture ever of my cat, bob
b e h o l d
her storytelling skills are killing me
@isalisewrites so... Baptism horror/comedy story?
god I really wish people weren't so fucking judgmental and cruel towards diabetic people who still eat a lot of sugar. partially because it's not their business, and because how much they clearly don't understand how diabetes works.
In case you didn't know, diabetes is when, for whatever reason, your body doesn't have enough insulin. Both types of diabetes can be caused by many things- genetics are the largest deciding factor, but it can also be influenced by things like autoimmune and diseases stress (and things that cause stress, like poverty or being a minority). It is a myth that you can give yourself diabetes by eating sugar, and a myth that you can stop it by dieting.
Type 1 happens when your body can't make enough/any insulin, and type two happens when your cells become insulin resistant and there isn't enough going around.
But what is insulin, and what does it do? Insulin is a hormone your body produces to aid in absorbing glucose (sugar) in your blood, allowing it to enter your cells and provide energy needed to live. This means that when there is no insulin, or insulin resistance is high enough, your cells can't absorb glucose. This is essentially the same as starving, because your cells aren't getting any energy. This causes not just a blood glucose to rise (which itself can cause damage to your body), but also makes you body slam the hunger button and craving for sugar- because it wants energy as fast as possible. Going through this repeatedly (a constant occurrence for many diabetics) is also super stressful on the body, and prompts it to want to gain weight as a survival strategy against starving.
So yeah no shit diabetic people often crave sugar and are often fat- their body is desperately trying to make sure they survive ✌️
non diabetics super encouraged to read and rb btw just please don't derail or be disrespectful