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people bitching about the usage of "too modern" words in fantasy or historical fiction is sometimes justified, but ultimately I think it's a waste of time because

according to the dates given in the Oxford English Dictionary, if you wrote a book set in 1897, you could have your characters say "fuckable," (1889) "sexy" (1896) "uncomfy" (1868) "hellacious" (1847) "dude" (1877) "all righty" (1877) and "heck" (1887), but not "wiggly" (1932) "moronic" (1910) "uptight" (1934) "lowbrow" (1901) "fifty-fifty" (1913) "burp" (1932) "bagel" (1898) or use the word "rewrite" as a noun (1901)

Some more words where the date of their first known usage just Doesn't Sound Right:

Fucked up (1863) is much older than fuck you (1943) but older still is the now-obscure fucked out (1862) which means what it sounds like—exhausted from too much sex.

That last one doesn't exist anymore because as a species we just added more stamina.

Also the name Tiffany. Tiffany has greek origins, but a surge of names in the late 1900s makes it feel more modern.

I don’t know how old the word itself is, but “cunt” as slang for vagina was being used in the latter half of the 16th century.

obviously dietary requirements aren't a joke but my grandma sometimes runs errands for her church and i asked her what she's up to today and she said extremely seriously "ive got to track down the body of the gluten free christ, julia"

Captions shouldn't be censored. If the video says fuck or cum or cunt the captions should say the fucking word.

Unless it's a slur! No one needs to see that.

If they say a slur in the video, the captions should reflect it. The disabled are not little babies who have to have life sanitized for them.

okay but I feel like ur forgetting that slurs don't just apply to the disabled... children don't need to be seeing the n-word or other racial slurs??

but children DO need to be hearing it? are you actually reading the post here?

Here's how it works when subtitles are done properly:

Audio: Let's BEEP go! Subtitle: Let's (censor tone) go!

Audio: Let's fucking go! Subtitle: Let's fucking go!

Removing swears and slurs from the subtitles without removing it from the audio is implying that deaf/HoH people need babying, unlike their hearing friends and family sitting right next to them. Which is frustrating.

The point of subtitles is to give the same experience to everyone watching, regardless of ability—not to be a more palatable version of what's being said.

Different point but related, "speaks in foreign language" is not acceptable either

There are over 7,000 languages in the world, "foreign language" does not narrow it down. Disabled people deserve to know what is happening without being babied or the subbers being fucking lazy

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i mean this in the gentlest way possible: you need to eat vegetables. you need to become comfortable with doing so. i do not care if you are a picky eater because of autism (hi, i used to be this person!), you need to find at least some vegetables you can eat. find a different way to prepare them. chances are you would like a vegetable you hate if you prepared it in a stew or roasted it with seasoning or included it as an ingredient in a recipe. just. please start eating better. potatoes and corn are not sufficient vegetables for a healthy diet.

I'm way more of a Plant Enjoyer now that I cook for myself sometimes (and lets be real, now that plants are my SpIn lol), but "sternly admonishing disabled people to try harder to do something their disability severely affects" is less than 0% helpful

My food aversions are relatively mild, and I still have episodes where I start gagging while eating a food I like because my body just decided to violently reject it.

Personally I've found that grain salads are awesome because you can chop up vegetables really fine and mix them with some chewy rice or whatever and its great and not repulsive at all. Or really any kind of stir-fry with rice or farro or other grain in it

This might be a long shot, but if vegetables are consistently intolerable for you, you might want to try sourcing them from a farmer's market or something like? I say this because 1) different cultivars of a vegetable can be really different and be way less offensive in texture, and 2) often it's not the vegetable itself that's the problem, but rather the fact that it's not fresh and is getting wilty and gross

Experimenting with new veggies and fruits might be daunting, but you can find people offering enthusiastic samples at farmer’s markets, for the ones you eat raw. Ethnic grocery stores are also a great place to check out. It can be harder to find small quantities of a new vegetable at those grocers tho, compared to a farmer’s market, but the pricing is better, for those of us like me who tend to be a bit too cash-strapped to drop a lot of grocery money at a farmer’s market.

That said, the farmer’s market is best for one thing in particular and that’s: if you’re able to explain to somebody selling veggies there what it is about a type of vegetable that usually bothers you, they might have a suggestion for how to mitigate those qualities in cooking, or an alternative variety of that vegetable with less of those traits.

I’ve walked straight into a stall and asked straight up what the best sauce tomato was at a Farmer’s market stall, and the guy pointed me to another tent where they had a variety of very arched and skinny striped roma tomatoes I’ve never found anywhere else, and they rocked my world. Farmers at the market are very genuine in their enthusiasm for their own produce, as well as those of others at the market who’s produce they’ve bought themselves, and it can be an excellent resource.

If you hate regular tomatoes at the grocery store because they’re too acidic or sour, you might try some heirloom tomato varieties other than red--yellow ones are particularly lower in acidity and sweeter. Also heirloom beefsteak tomatoes like cherokee purple have a much nicer bite to them, very meaty, but smooth and also lower in acidity than a bright red tomato.

If the bigger grocery store red tomatoes are too grainy in texture (I get this with a lot of fast food tomatoes, as well as standard fresh grocery store red tomatoes, and it will make me gag) then try smaller to medium sized types or tomatoes on the vine. Aldi has a cheap variety pack of colorful cherry tomato types that are all lower in acidity than regular tomatoes.

Hate big purple eggplants that your mom always tried to feed you? Go to your local asian supermarket, try the small white and/or light purple thai ones or the long skinny chinese ones instead; they’re less bitter and they have a less stryrofoamy texture.

In the diversity of your local asian supermarket, there will also probably be at least one type of green out of the many that you will love in a stir fry with some butter or flavored oil. I’m particularly weak to pea shoots myself, especially with a bunch of garlic. Or just stirred around with a little coconut oil and salt. Mizuna is also highly underrated as an ingedient in omelettes. If brassicas are too sulfuric, and peppers are a texture nightmare, then stir-fried pea shoots might just be for you.

Also, replacing mashed potatoes with mashed peas is not a bad idea for changing up your sides a little to get more vitamin diversity; they still taste good with a big pat of butter, the texture is much the same, and if it’s too green-tasting by itself you can always throw in a little of your preferred seasoning. As the Brits and Aussies can attest, it goes beautifully as a side dish with any main that includes a savory gravy.

Diversity isn’t just for our neurology; dietary diversity is what our species was made for, and without it our bowels can suffer.

I had to draw something worthy to celebrate the Final Fantasy's serie first canon gay couple! FF16 was an absolute delight!

Here's Dion Lesage and Terence!

FINAL FANTASY XVI ↳ coming june 22nd

Clive Rosfield and Torgal.

me: i don’t want to see jellyfish so i will blacklist the tag #jellyfish

people with no common sense: je11yf1sh, je11¥fi5h, j*llyf*sh, je//ÿf!sh, j3ï||yf¡sh, gel lee fisk

result: cannot account for the sheer amount of possible ways to alter the word jellyfish

conclusion: i have to see jellyfish now.

Once again, tumblr is not tiktok, tag properly.

We’ve entered our Ineffably High Renaissance Era with this amazing Season 2 art from Rory Kurtz.

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING POSTER! :)❤❤❤

The aliens are gonna be so confused when humans first board their ships and start doing this, and by GOD I hope at least one of them is going to have a camera when it happens.

IT'S FINALLY HERE! The true full size of my "do you love the colour of the sky HD remake director's cut" tumblr post

This ended up being 2 3/4 inches wide by 36 FEET LONG. 

The 2 3/4 inch width was chosen because that's the same width as a pretty average phone screen, and I wanted to know how physically far you have to scroll to get past this post.

also dont tell my boss that I got into the art gallery before we opened just to set up this rainbow CVS receipt looking motherfucker. in my defense i literally couldn't find any other location that was long enough to show this off

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reblogging this because the og post is suddenly getting a bunch of notes and i want everyone to see just how long this motherfucker is in real life

that is impressively long omg

also you all should be so grateful I never reblogged that post because WOW

As a medical professional and a medically complicated human this is very important to me

That’s not wrong.

These are both true

Both are very very true.

These are both true, but more importantly, not mutually exclusive!

Say a patient comes in with chest pain. First time they’ve ever had chest pain. They say they googled it, and clearly they have cancer now!

…no. That’s the first example.

But say a patient has chest pain, they’ve had chest pain for 10 years, every previous doctor has checked for all the obvious causes, and nothing changes.

That’s a completely different scenario. In the first example, the patient doesn’t know what they’re talking about. The condition is new, their knowledge is limited. That’s why we have doctors. But in the second example, the patient is the expert, and the doctor is the one who’s new to the situation. The patient has done all this before, and is very familiar with the pain (condition, etc.) that they have. The doctor is not the one with 10 years of experience. They need to listen, because the patient actually has something they don’t know to add to the conversation.

These two things are not mutually exclusive, they are not the same scenario, and both doctors and patients (but mostly doctors) need to learn to tell the difference and know when to talk, and when to listen.

This is also *highly* relevant to anti-vaxers.

There is a reason that the entire section on dysthymia in my psychology textbooks is basically “this person has been living with this for years longer than you will ever have researched it. help them facilitate their own coping strategies.”