Month: July 2018

bettsplendens:

Sims 3 is on Steam for like $3 now, so I’m gonna try playing that. Let’s see what happens.

Made randomized Sims. Made one of them a bookworm who likes the outdoors and fishing, made the other one a gardener. Gardener lady, after going to the supermarket, decided to go out back and go dumpster diving. Got seeds! Also somehow got furniture. Fishing dude fished until dark and then got scared because it was dark. 

guppys-n-platys:

Some Astyanax jordani we saw while being in France. Super interesting fish!

July ‘18

These are a variant of Mexican tetra that were originally discovered in a cave. They’re born with eyes, but if raised in the dark, their eyes scale over and become useless. They actually make good aquarium fish! Just not with other fish, as they bite anything they run into in case it’s food and they’re a bit too bitey. They also move a bit oddly because they’re completely blind, but they don’t seem to realize. 

glumshoe:

pleasedontanalyzeme:

glumshoe:

failure-artist:

glumshoe:

sometimes you just gotta [clenches fist] lick your own elbow

i heard once if you do that you can change your gender

been there, done that, altogether not all that exciting

I used to be able to do that but then I realized I was pulling my shoulder visibly out of it’s socket to do so

I can’t tell if I’m dislocating my arm doing this or not. Probably not, right? I’d feel pain if I were…?

Hyperflexible people frequently do not feel pain on having a joint dislocated. It does gradual damage over time that can add up to cause massive trouble, but it doesn’t hurt at first. Makes it very dangerous for hyperflexible people to do anything with an inexperienced chiropractor or martial arts practitioner because it’s far too easy for someone else to pull a joint way out of line without the joint owner recognizing. Think of it like a rubber band- if you stretch it really far once, no problem. If you do that enough times, sooner or later it snaps.
(this is for both your future use and for everyone who reads this, my mom is in her 40s and is having a lifetime of overextending hypermobile joints catch up with her. Her tibia and fibula need regular repositioning and taping to put them back in place, and she can’t walk on uneven ground. She doesn’t even have especially bad hypermobility.)

ekjohnston:

darthmelyanna:

cdrshiphard:

theopinionatedartist:

skeletree:

hungrylikethewolfie:

inkdot:

This weekend I was told a story which, although I’m kind of ashamed to admit it, because holy shit is it ever obvious, is kind of blowing my mind.

A friend of a friend won a free consultation with Clinton Kelly of What Not To Wear, and she was very excited, because she has a plus-size body, and wanted some tips on how to make the most of her wardrobe in a fashion culture which deliberately puts her body at a disadvantage.

Her first question for him was this: how do celebrities make a plain white t-shirt and a pair of weekend jeans look chic?  She always assumed it was because so many celebrities have, by nature or by design, very slender frames, and because they can afford very expensive clothing.  But when she watched What Not To Wear, she noticed that women of all sizes ended up in cute clothes that really fit their bodies and looked great.  She had tried to apply some guidelines from the show into her own wardrobe, but with only mixed success.  So – what gives?

His answer was that everything you will ever see on a celebrity’s body, including their outfits when they’re out and about and they just get caught by a paparazzo, has been tailored, and the same goes for everything on What Not To Wear.  Jeans, blazers, dresses – everything right down to plain t-shirts and camisoles.  He pointed out that historically, up until the last few generations, the vast majority of people either made their own clothing or had their clothing made by tailors and seamstresses.  You had your clothing made to accommodate the measurements of your individual body, and then you moved the fuck on.  Nothing on the show or in People magazine is off the rack and unaltered.  He said that what they do is ignore the actual size numbers on the tags, find something that fits an individual’s widest place, and then have it completely altered to fit.  That’s how celebrities have jeans that magically fit them all over, and the rest of us chumps can’t ever find a pair that doesn’t gape here or ride up or slouch down or have about four yards of extra fabric here and there.

I knew that having dresses and blazers altered was probably something they were doing, but to me, having alterations done generally means having my jeans hemmed and then simply living with the fact that I will always be adjusting my clothing while I’m wearing it because I have curves from here to ya-ya, some things don’t fit right, and the world is just unfair that way.  I didn’t think that having everything tailored was something that people did. 

It’s so obvious, I can’t believe I didn’t know this.  But no one ever told me.  I was told about bikini season and dieting and targeting your “problem areas” and avoiding horizontal stripes.  No one told me that Jennifer Aniston is out there wearing a bigger size of Ralph Lauren t-shirt and having it altered to fit her.

I sat there after I was told this story, and I really thought about how hard I have worked not to care about the number or the letter on the tag of my clothes, how hard I have tried to just love my body the way it is, and where I’ve succeeded and failed.  I thought about all the times I’ve stood in a fitting room and stared up at the lights and bit my lip so hard it bled, just to keep myself from crying about how nothing fits the way it’s supposed to.  No one told me that it wasn’t supposed to.  I guess I just didn’t know.  I was too busy thinking that I was the one that didn’t fit.

I thought about that, and about all the other girls and women out there whose proportions are “wrong,” who can’t find a good pair of work trousers, who can’t fill a sweater, who feel excluded and freakish and sad and frustrated because they have to go up a size, when really the size doesn’t mean anything and it never, ever did, and this is just another bullshit thing thrown in your path to make you feel shitty about yourself.

I thought about all of that, and then I thought that in elementary school, there should be a class for girls where they sit you down and tell you this stuff before you waste years of your life feeling like someone put you together wrong.

So, I have to take that and sit with it for a while.  But in the meantime, I thought perhaps I should post this, because maybe my friend, her friend, and I are the only clueless people who did not realise this, but maybe we’re not.  Maybe some of you have tried to embrace the arbitrary size you are, but still couldn’t find a cute pair of jeans, and didn’t know why.

This post is one of those things that I will reblog every time it appears on my dash.  This is so important, and no one ever tells you about it.

I almost didn’t read this but then I did and I’m really glad that I did.

Super important

I wish someone had told me this when I was a 4th grader crying in the dressing room because I had to wear “misses” aka adults clothing.

It is honestly amazing what a tailor can do for your clothes, and even more amazing what a custom garment can do for your shape.

There’s a clothing website called Eshakti that tailors everything for you for, like, an extra $9. I fit one of their standard sizes, so I just tell them my height and get perfectly fitting clothes that way. Every dress I’ve ever ordered from them is the best fitting thing I own (and all but the super-fancy strapless purple dress I bought for a wedding has pockets). They also make jeans, which I will some day take advantage of, because: tailoring.