Is molten fuckin’ metal/rock/whatever seriously the same deal as swinging your finger through a candle??
THE FORGE GOD
this is the lidenfrost effect, his hand is soaked in water. when the water contacts the molten material it instantly evaporates because of the heat, causing a brief ‘shield’ of steam around his hand.
Remember when people were convinced that teenage girls were being kidnapped via flyers for high-turnover jobs like the knife company people, the makeup company people, and Grassroots campaigns?
When your company is such a shitfire that nobody thinks you’re real and it becomes a urban legend that you’re actually a front for kidnapping and sex work.
People were starting so much shit, getting angry at anyone saying it was a hoax and accusing them of all the evils in the world, when common sense suggested that human trafficking rings probably don’t post flyers on college campuses and outside high schools
6969 cool st is a real place, and its located in weedsport
IF YOU SEE A FADED SIGN AT THE SIDE OF THE ROAD
this is definitely a google maps easter egg, because if you use street view on google maps, you’re actually way out in the 8000s block and there isn’t a 6000 block.
I can’t decide whether that makes it better or worse tho.
Related to the remembering food exists thing, do you have any advice for what to do when your depression is making preparing food seem so hard that you’d nearly prefer to just go hungry?
A couple of suggestions:
Order a pizza, or some other form of food that gets delivered to you
Hunger feeds on itself and makes everything harder
If you’re in a state of mind where preparing food seems too difficult to be bearable, ordering food can often break that cycle
So can getting takeout or going to McDonalds
This is not a frivolous expense
And it’s not necessarily more expensive than preparing your own food. McDonalds has a dollar menu.
When you’re starving from not eating, it is not the time to worry about health food. Making sure that you eat comes first. Eating anything (that you’re not allergic to) is healthier than regularly going hungry because you can’t bring yourself to eat.
Keep stuff around that’s easy to eat and doesn’t require any preparation or only need to be microwaved, for instance:
A box of cereal
Chocolate
Granola bars
Ice cream
Popsickles
Protein shakes
Rice cakes
Peanut butter
TV dinners
Frozen chicken nuggets
It can also help to keep around disposable plates and utensils so the thought of having to wash dishes doesn’t deter you from eating
Get someone else to tell you that you need to eat:
Sometimes it’s easier to remember that eating is important if someone else tells you
For instance, if you text a friend saying “remind me that I need to eat” and they do, that can sometimes make it more possible
Get someone else to talk you through the steps of making food:
If there’s someone you can ask how to find/make food, that can be helpful
Sometimes what’s really exhausting is not so much doing the steps, as it is anticipating them, or figuring out what they are
If someone can help you through that, it can make it much more possible
If you’re like me and you’re frequently broke AND have a shitty stomach that gets even shittier when you have bad depression/anxiety and hunger, I’d recommend having a lot of fruit or fruit juice on hand. Canned fruit is good because it doesn’t spoil but if you’re able to have fresh fruit it’s a really good idea. Also I avoid ramen if possible because it dehydrates me really badly which also affects depression.
Having frozen food is really good but it still sometimes is too much to handle when depression is that bad, so I go for canned soups that you can just throw in the microwave.
This is just what works for me though.
realsocialskills said:
Thank you.
Do you have a strategy for keeping fresh fruit or fruit juice around when you’re dealing with depression/anxiety?
I’ve found that fruit juice and fruit can sometimes be useful things in getting me able to eat, but I haven’t found it possible to keep them around and not end up with a lot of spoiled yuck.
For fresh fruit, you could try the containers of fruit they prepare at the grocery store, which I like because you can get a small amount with some variety in the kinds of fruit, and it’s already washed and cut and all you have to do is eat it. They can be expensive though. Also, it may just be me, but I find bananas and mandarin oranges much easier than other fruit, because they come in convenient individually pre-wrapped packages and you don’t even have to wash them. Especially bananas, because I can keep them on the counter where I’m more likely to see them, and if they do get over-ripe I can put them in the freezer to use in baking someday and not feel bad about wasting them.
I cannot keep fresh grapes or berries but they freeze really well and you can eat them straight from the freezer. Frozen grapes are seriously delicious. Berries you could put on yogurt, ice cream, or oatmeal, too.
Vegetables are harder, but baby carrots are easy and last pretty long. Other things that are easy to eat: Oreos or other box cookies, pudding cups or applesauce cups, snack packs of tuna and crackers, or the kind of flavoured tuna that you can peel open and eat from the can, processed cheese slices, and raisins.
Another thing that can be helpful is to keep boxes of granola bars or cereal in different places in your house. There used to be days when I wouldn’t leave my room so I wouldn’t eat anything all day, until I learned to keep food in my room. Also sometimes it’s deciding on something that’s difficult, and if you have something that’s closer to you than everything else or separate from it, it’s easier to just grab that.
If you order food, I think most pizza places let you order online, which is full of magic and wonder to me cuz you don’t have to talk to anyone. There’s also things like just-eat.ca – I haven’t tried it, and it’s just in Canada, but there is probably something like it for a lot of major cities. Basically you can order food from a bunch of different restaurants, from one website.
I definitely second the part about this being the wrong time to worry about health food. It actually got *way* easier for me when I stopped thinking I should make “real food” and started thinking, you know, if it’s between eating nothing and eating only poptarts, eating only poptarts is much healthier, which basically means poptarts *are* health food in this case. Whatever you eat is an accomplishment and you can feel good about it.
(food tw, and may Tumblr someday figure out that tagging asks is a thing we should be able to do across all platforms)
I think of executive dysfunction as something that can qualify people as “spoonies,” because so many basic life things take way more energy than they should when you have executive dysfunction.
However, that doesn’t mean all “low spoons” cooking suggestions will work for executive dysfunction. Because what works for someone with chronic fatigue, vs ADHD, vs multiple sclerosis, etc, is going to be really different.
I don’t know of any cooking blogs that are specifically just about executive dysfunction, but if you do a search for “executive dysfunction” on any of the spoonie food blogs you’ve found, you might get some good stuff.
A lot of the things in those posts have helped me, especially the general idea of knowing what foods work for you when you are struggling.
At our house, we have index cards taped to the side of the fridge that have “low spoons” food ideas for each of us (things we can make or eat when we’re out of mental or physical energy, too hungry to think, etc) and that have “desperation meals” for each of us (things we can eat when we’re too burnt out for anything to sound good, or to make a decision about what to eat).
That helps a lot. Like, now we know that @rivergst can throw together a bowl of cheerios, or eat yogurt from the tub, when everything else is too overwhelming.
Or that I can heat up a can of soup and throw some extra meat in it when I can’t brain good – but if I’m too hungry to make decisions, I should cram a protein bar or some string cheese into my face first, and deal with anything else later.
(And that therefore, we need to make sure we keep the desperation foods stocked up!)
idea for a hot new silicon valley start up: i call it uNion. a revolutionary start-up offering p2p interactions that will enable integrated partnerships between creators at different enterprises and across platforms, allowing them to disrupt the old wage-labour paradigms and leverage improved bargaining models across ventures and supply chains with absolutely unlimited scalability.
@resumespeak look, someone stole your blog’s thing
@kai-skai if wrapping the idea in jargon could get rapacious capitalist techbro money to support the collective empowerment of workers, I would happily surrender my thing.
I have read about six articles covering this topic and not a single one of them has mentioned that Bernthal is Jewish.
Like NO SHIT he’s against the alt-right, he’s one of their primary targets. I am so tired of Jewish people being whitewashed in the story of their own persecution.
It’s because the Jews that were persecuted in Europe WERE/ARE White. When folks speak of Jews they’re speaking of White folk. The world don’t care about anyone else. They’ve shown time and again.
How do you whitewash something that is already White.
Also, no—Jews were persecuted on Europe specifically for being non-white. That’s the very essence of Nazism and their concept racial purity. Have you never heard of the Nuremberg Race Laws under which Jews were persecuted in Nazi Germany? The entire point to their rhetoric was that Jews were an inferior race originating from the Middle East who were a blight on white Europe. That was literally the entire underpinning of the Holocaust. They even murdered Jews who had converted to Christianity because they still defined them as racially Jewish. How do people not know this?
Read the link I provided— especially the quotes by Black civil rights strategist Eric K. Ward, who explains why understanding anti-Semitism as a racial hatred is crucial to combatting white supremacy.
Also, maybe don’t try to tell a mixed-race Jewish person that talking about Jews means talking about white folks like I don’t even exist?
P.S. Even if that wasn’t the case, “whitewash” has more than one meaning.
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