Now Let’s Speculate About This One’s Insecurities

For 2025 I want to give you all the best advice I took to heart last year which is simply “do it for the plot” bc doing anything good or bad is better than doing nothing at all and at the end of the day you’ll have a fun little story to tell and it will either be “omg do you want to hear about this crazy thing that happened that was awful” or “omg I gotta tell you about this awesome thing that happened” but like either way it’s good for the plot! Even if it’s scary or you don’t know if it will work out or not, at least it gives you things to look back on at the end of the year! You’ll learn more about yourself! Go forth and by any and all means possible: do it for the plot besties :)

Yess!! I'm coeliac and I'm on a cooking rota with my friends- they're all really good at checking ingredients and they scrub all their utensils so contamination is rare, and my contamination avoidance is the same as theirs anyway, and yet when I asked for advice online about talking to them about not using my wooden utensils on gluten stuff etc, I was bombarded by people telling me to cook for myself- I wasn't asking for them to dictate how I choose to manage my condition, I wanted a way to tell my friends why I don't want them using my stuff without offending them

I don't get hugely sick from contamination, and in my case specifically, I don't think avoiding gluten to extremes is worth the stress, not to mention cooking for myself every night etc

It's my life- I can do what I want with it. And I choose not to stress about contamination. Other people can, and I understand that, but I also believe that it's up to each individual how they manage their condition- if they don't care, that's up to them.

Just don't tell a restaurant you're coeliac and then eat gluten from your friend's plate- if I'm gonna eat something from my sister's plate, I tell the restaurant it's a mild intolerance and not to worry about contamination

When I tell them I'm coeliac, I will never take these risks- it's not fair on those who cannot deal with contamination, nor the chefs who work hard to keep my food safe when I'm just gonna render it pointless anyway- but I don't think it's wrong to take these risks if you're coeliac, some people act like it's the worst thing you can do ever

I'll deal with this shit how I want, thanks. I've found my balance. Sorry it's not the same as yours.

This may be a hot take but anyways.

Whilst we need the general public & to some extent, newly diagnosed people with coeliac disease to understand the seriousness of the condition. I wish people within our community would stop fear mongering so much.

We get it. We need to not be exposed to gluten. But also we still need quality of life. There comes a point where the harm stress does to our body, outweighs small occasional risks of exposure.

Having a ‘may contain’ food item once in while, is not that serious. It is not going to do a massive amount of damage to our bodies in the long term, even if it does have traces. Getting exposed from eating out one time, is not going to cause cancer.

Some people get extremely ill & I’m not dismissing that. Most of us want to avoid it regardless of the severity because it sucks. But what I am saying that if people want to take small risks once in a while, they shouldn’t be made to feel bad or like that is going to kill them. People should be allowed to ask ‘hey, anyone tried this may contain? Did you get sick from it?’.

I don’t know why but it’s always the ‘may contains’ that people are the most wildly judgemental about. Everywhere you eat out is a ‘may contain’. Your home is one huge ‘may contain’ if you live with people who eat gluten.

Do your best. Allow your body to heal after diagnosis &/or exposure. Figure out what risks feel like a reasonable balance for you between not getting sick/not having ongoing exposures & quality of life. Maybe this works better in places where it’s easier to avoid exposures because of better/clearer labelling laws but that’s all I can speak to & where the chaotic judgement is coming from too.

WE'RE SO CLOSE WEEEEEEE

(Notice anything goin on with those stars? Anyone?... HELLO?!)

The skrunkly

oh ok

crabs are so gentle, they can be so kind. their claws? precise little things, so careful in the sand, so careful with food. they do what they must to live and wave their claws to express their joy to the world for giving so much to them, for giving such kindness to these creatures known as crabs. please be gentle to crabs

Hey. International people.

Keep calling it the Gulf of Mexico or whatever your term is for it. Do not allow the Republican regime to label that body of water the Gulf of America to the world. The name came from a the term Mexica, what the Aztecs called themselves. It’s been called the Gulf of Mexico since the 1600s.

Keep calling it Denali. The original name before it was Mount McKinley. Don’t let the Indigenous Peoples/First Nations be erased.

It may sound stupid and petty. But it is an attempt to rewrite history and make us forget the origins. It is a literal white washing of history. This type of censorship is a beginning to greater evils.

Rose here,first of all i like to apologise for my bad English it’s not my first language,

now for the stuff I’m about to talk of I seen other people talking about it too and I’m glad it has began to be more spoken about. the infantilisation off Giyuu tomioka, it has been bothering me for a while,

1. Giyuu is not a uwu depressed baby how needs to be taken care of HES A GROWN ADULT no sanemi and obanai aren’t “evil bullies” Giyuu can protect himself, he is not defenceless stop acting like hes a baby in need of protection.

2.giyuu being “autistic coded” since I’m autistic myself I’m gonna talk about it,people for some reason like to infantilize characters that the fandom see as “autistic coded” it’s a big problem and we need to talk about it.i myself have been multiple times been infantalized for being autistic, since they see autistic people as “slow” or “kid like” they like to act like we can’t take care of ourselves. another character victim of this is papyrus from undertale, even do he’s a strong character and can take care of himself still gets infantilised, like Giyuu for somtimes not getting “social stuff”stop infantilising “autistic coded characters” pls.

3.stop making female characters “mother figures” to male characters. What I mean by that is have seen people make Shinubo a motherly figure to Giyuu, do I even have to explain myself why this is shit? First stop making Shinubo either be a mean bitch to Giyuu or a mother to him it’s annoying and out ofcharacter.Giyuu doesn’t need a *mommy to take care of him” and stop making all female characters “mommies” just because their a girl doesn’t mean you need to make them a motherly figure to all the male characters.

Well I’m done now hope this wasn’t too long

rose out,

Artemis go boing!!!

(This is my first successful attempt at full body animation!!! I'm so proud!!)