Learning a Lot

Writeblr of a Catholic college student. I love Tag and Ask Games, but I almost always answer them late so fair warning. Other relevant info is in my pinned post. You can call me Etta. My header says the greek word for familial love, and the title of my main WIP: "Storge". Thanks for stopping by!

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It occurred to me after seeing a few friends do re-introductions that I haven’t actually formally introduced myself on writeblr since I first joined, and since I recently got a bunch of new followers, figured it’s high time I did one of these. All relevant links are in italics to make them a little easier to spot.

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hater-of-terfs:

hater-of-terfs:

I didn’t even consider that soap could be made out of bacon grease, like when I heard “animal fat” that just never came to mind

I am once again thinking about neighborhood-scale networks of DIY and mutual aid where community wealth could be created literally for free by collecting things that people would otherwise throw away

Expecting every single person to make soap and broth and compost and mend all their clothes and repair all their electronics and upcycle all of their trash in useful ways is just never gonna work. No one has time to do everything, especially if they’re forced to have a job too

But if one person learns how to make soap, and everyone in the neighborhood brings them leftover animal fat and gets soap in return, it becomes a lot more manageable. Someone else learns how to spin dryer lint, someone else pulps and recycles paper, someone else grows food, someone else raises chickens, etc, etc, and suddenly you’ve got a whole moneyless circular economy going. Less stuff going to landfills, less money going to corporations, more prosperity for everyone

If the concept of getting free things in exchange for trash interests you, find a Buy Nothing Project or a mutual aid organization in your area and get involved!

(via jedi-valjean)

jabberwockypie:

indiestarlight:

johannestevans:

always bothers me when “improvements” to unhealthy diets are all about taking tasty things away rather than ADDING new things. like. add new tastes and new flavours and MORE NUTRIENTS and vitamins

there was some awful show on for encouraging middle class mothers to take their eating disorders out on their children and it was like “oh well, this snack doesn’t taste as good as my usual one, but it’s healthier”

so get one that??? actually tastes as good?

like this thing of. you know this food that you like and enjoy eating? why don’t you toss all that out and eat stuff you don’t enjoy as much or want to eat?

that’s unhinged to me.

like i just think the process of discovering newer, healthier foods should be ADDITIVE, where you’re exploring new tastes alongside your usual ones, slowly broadening your palate and your preferences, rather than punishing yourself for “unhealthy” food

(CW eating disorders)

god i feel so strongly about this bc i could not figure out how to strike a balance between “eating foods that make me feel good” and “not relapsing back into disordered eating habits” until i switched my mindset from “i need to remove unhealthy foods from my diet” to “i need to figure out which foods makes me feel good and add them to my diet”

examples:

moving from “i want a snack. chips sound really good, but i can’t eat chips because they’re unhealthy, so i guess i just won’t eat anything” to “i want a snack. chips sound really good, so i’m gonna eat some, but because i haven’t had any fruits or veggies today, i’m gonna eat some grapes with them”

moving from “i’m craving a burger and fries from mcdonald’s, but that’s unhealthy, so i’m just gonna eat some plain brown rice and grilled chicken even though those don’t sound good” to “im craving mcdonald’s, but last time i ate that it upset my stomach, so i don’t think eating it would make me feel good. but i think what my craving is telling me is that i need carbs and protein, so how about i make some steak and mashed potatoes for dinner?”

moving from “i’m in too much pain to cook tonight, but frozen food is unhealthy, so i just won’t eat anything” to “im in too much pain to cook tonight, so im gonna eat a frozen meal, but im gonna add some pre-cooked chicken and frozen spinach to it because i think the protein and veggies will make my body feel good”

and honestly this has been so much better for me and i feel so much better both physically and mentally than when i was just focused on “i can’t eat anything that’s Unhealthy”

I’ve also found that if I’m DESPERATELY craving sugar or want to eat ALL THE CARBS RIGHT NOW, it’s almost always because I haven’t eaten enough that day, or haven’t eaten recently enough, and my body is trying to get me to pay attention to the fact I need some energy ASAP.

So it can be useful for me to go “well, I just realized I haven’t eaten in six hours, so how about I make a sandwich and see how I feel, and then I can ALSO have some cookies if I still want some” instead of just having the cookies and feeling bad and headachey later because I didn’t have any protein or anything with it. Sometimes I still want a cookie, and sometime I don’t, but I don’t get that gross sugar bonk feeling.

(via tea-bandit)

a-french-guardsman:

Hello hobbyist sewist,

In front of you is a fabric store. You have ten minutes to find A. a fabric that you like that is NOT priced above your budget, B. literally any pattern for men’s clothing, C. find thread that is not polyester.

Your second task will be allocated one hour due to its excessive complexity; to find an available vendor to cut your fabric who is not kept busy by an old little lady who is seemingly never satisfied with the offering sold by the store, but who has been walking an employee around since this morning.

Good luck.