my body never punishes me for eating beef or chicken. even lamb. but i know why it doesnt like me eating pork. thats my stomach saying "this is a winsome animal. by god it solves puzzles for fun. it doesnt belong in here"

i really like what these guys got up to when they werent being so racist it makes you feel like youre developing and hemorrhhaging a stomach ulcer at the same time

YES!! well put. it really was multitonal and multigenerational in a way that makes sense for a Culture War Decade

especially interesting to me because the 60s were a period of economic luxury in comparison to the gilded age. maybe having some more money to play toys just made people go "hey, maybe we oughtta try all that stuff again. nobody had the funds for this to be fun while it was happening"

HAHAHA this ones a delight. it makes a lot of sense! i think UK+US pop culture was never more in lockstep than just after wwii. really hit a peak around the british invasion and then fizzled out mid 70s, it seems like. but for a decade or two we couldnt get enough of vaudeville revival. wonder why

while im on ellington favs. i could never choose a fav version of the mooche but heres one of the '28 versions i like a lot

im not saying it always works as prevention. but it does a really good job of making me sit with the consequences of what i just said on the internet and whether or not its the kind of thing i value, when i look in the upper left and see a bug going Lalala❤️ . i have to be an example for him

lovely, lovely, lovely. ugh!!

anyway ill deal with the institutional humiliations and grief and then ill find a way to get a boner about it so that having to live this way every day forever does not rot me from inside out❤️

there is literally no reason both the male and female model of the S.T.O.P. I cannot both have an upper abdominal window and less cinching at the waist. im not trying to wear a damn corset here im trying to correct a curvature that has ruined my life.

medical misogyny and a fundamental misunderstanding of how similar bodies actually are under all the societal paint has real consequences like "making a spinal orthotic less effective at its job because the person wearing it still needs to spread 'em when we say so, right?"

it is genuinely hard to walk and stay upright atm! my hips are working extremely hard and mostly just giving under the extra stress because they dont know what to do. im relearning to walk again and it feels very awkward and embarrassing and drag-like. it isnt normal to use my hips like this

i dont dislike it entirely-- having the chest cutout is nice, genuinely makes breathing easier. but this thing is trying to cinch my waist and force me to walk with my hips, when almost 5 years on t means im walking with my damn shoulders. im being forcefemmed by my orthotic and it fucking hurts