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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

hey, so, i feel weird promoting this, but you know how the collective we of tumblr are always like, someone should write a cookbook that’s actually easy? i did the thing, just in time for gross summer heat/seasonal affective disorder, depending on the hemisphere, to kick in.

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Cooking is terrible, and food is often a massive pain in the ass. Eating is sometimes ok, sometimes a giant drag, and somehow still a thing that you have to do multiple times a day, which seems enormously unfair.

This book isn’t going to teach you how to cook, or turn you into the kind of person who hosts effortless dinner parties, or make you more attractive and popular and interesting. At best, it’s going to make it slightly more likely that you manage to eat something in the ten minutes between walking in the door and falling into the sweet embrace of the internet. I’m not joking—a lot of this can be done, start to finish, in ten to fifteen minutes. I resent thirty-minute meals because it feels like about twenty-eight minutes too long to spend on feeding myself.

If you’re excited to get home from work and spend an hour cooking dinner, this isn’t the book for you. If you really value authenticity, this isn’t the book for you. If you literally only eat three foods and you’re happy like that, this isn’t the book for you. If you, like me, are tired and depressed and just need to get some food into your face once in a while, this is definitely the book for you. You should buy it. Maybe it’ll help.

anyhow, you can buy it for $5 on amazon (for kindle files) and gumroad (for a pdf and epub), and any money earned goes towards things like paying my rent and buying groceries.

i’m disabled and mentally ill and a single parent, and i’d love to be excited about food, but most of the time, it’s just an inconvenient thing i gotta do to stay alive. i wrote this for people who’re kinda like me. i hope that maybe it helps someone.

[update, 6 april 2018: a couple people have asked if it’s useful for vegetarians, and the answer is yes. click here for more info.]

food cooking easy recipes self care recipes disability health i'm sorry that image is enormous but it was either use the big one or tumblr was going to stretch it to fit my dash and then not only was it still big but it was also unreadable so as usual tumblr ruins everything we post here on this hellsite cooking is terrible
blackdogrunning
cloysterbell

“I’ll tell you something, I wrote this particular scene at 2 o’clock in the morning in my kitchen and I wrote ‘age of the geek, brother’ and I started crying at my counter. It was one of those moments where I’m like, am I really writing this scene?” - John Rogers, The Long Goodbye Job DVD Commentary

i feel like we all reblog this every time just because like i saw it again and am emotionally destroyed and by god everyone else i know is gonna suffer with me anyhow this episode destroys me leverage
hbbisenieks
doberbutts

If you truly believe women can be anything, then you are going to need to accept that some women are men.

If you truly believe women can look like anything, then you are going to need to accept that some women look like men.

If you truly believe women can do anything, then you are going to need to accept that some women transition to be men.

If you truly believe that women have the right to decide what to do with their lives and bodies, then you are going to need to accept that some women decide to be men.

cadmium64

Decide to be...?

doberbutts

What's not tracking?

cadmium64

Isn't it kind of harmful to say that a queer person decided to be that way? Or is that idea outdated now and I'm being dumb?

miinaandeg

the only reason we have to rely on the idea that sexuality and gender is innate and unchanging is because the legal system in the US ties rights to things that are innate and unchanging

while for the vast majority of people, their gender or sexuality is unchanging, as most identities stabilize between age 3-5, the idea that identity (whether gender or sexuality) cannot change at all over the course of someone’s life is just simply not reality. Unfortunately, the right wing takes this fact to mean that you can successfully engage in conversion therapy - this is not true. Sexuality/gender can just change for some people over their life time. For some people it IS very much a conscious decision. 

It’s a difficult conversation to have esp in the US when all human rights rely on the foundation of an innate/unchanging status. 

cadmium64

Love learning this kind of dynamic assessment from new Tumblr friends. Thank you.

two-headed-lamb

To further build on this, the Born This Way narrative was constructed specifically to counteract the (particularly Catholic) Church's "Choosing the Gay LifestyleTM" narrative. When (Christian) bigots said we could just choose not to be queer we responded with "but I cannot choose not to be queer. I have always been this way. Are you saying God made a mistake when He made me this way?" And it was a convincing argument for a lot of liberal religious folk and got them to be allies and that was all well and good.

But the problem with that line of argument was that it conceded to the Church the right to define the question. The response instead should have been "so what if it is a choice? So what if I choose to be this way? How does that give you the right to discriminate against me?" By arguing that being queer is not a choice, we are implicitly saying that no one would choose to be queer if they could instead choose to be cishet. We are implicitly asking for their pity as humans who have been condemned by God to live a life that no human would willingly choose and to be allowed to live a life as close to cishet normality as possible as an act of mercy.

Which... Is not a narrative I will willingly accept. Whether I chose my queerness or not is immaterial to my right to experience the full gamut to human sexuality without fear of persecution based on irrational hatred or religious bigotry. So what if I chose this? I have the right to choose.

grison-in-space

The Born This Way model also tends to leave bi, pan, and sometimes ace queers in the lurch because... well, by definition, you could choose differently, right? For example, if you're a woman and you're attracted to both men and women, you could choose to act only on your attractions to men if you wanted and not lose out, right? Right?

Wrong. Of course you would lose out: you would lose your connection to a real part of yourself and condemn yourself to a life of hiding a piece of yourself. This is already a big problem for bi/pan/ace queers, who tend to be externally defined in terms of the gender of their partners rather than in terms of the identities and histories that follow an individual. Even a monogamously married person has a sexuality, a history, and a life that extends beyond their current partner. When you erase that part of a person, you cut them off from community and from their whole selves. The isolation of the closet is strangling even if your relationships are wholly fulfilling, because queerness is not a function of a single relationship.

It is not acceptable to forcibly closet our sisters, brothers, and siblings based on their current partners. The grudging acceptances won by the the Born This Way narrative are inherently hostile to all non-monosexual queers: by insisting that you would only choose this if you had no other choices, you deny acceptance to people who could choose to cut off a limb of their selfhood to vanish into unmarked heteronormativity. This narrative erases the violence and the isolation perpetuated by the non-consensual closet by pretending that passing--cutting off pieces of oneself to mimic a coercive heteronormative ideal--is essentially a privilege instead of a an expensive tool that can be used in order to survive.

Isn't that what coming out is for all of us? A choice to share and own our queerness as part of our truest selves rather than hiding it away in shame? A choice to seek authentic connection instead of compartmentalizing ourselves into a series of boxes? Everyone has choices about their queerness, whether or not they are choosing to be queer: you can choose to hide, or you can choose pride. Why should we concede to the church that our truest selves are inherently a cause for discomfort and shame?

queer stuff now and forever a catholic church hate blog not sorry
hummus-tea
maxknightley

from what I've seen, there are exactly Three Jobs hiring at any given time. they are:

  • senior logistics strategist at Hewlett Packard. $140,000 / year. requirements: three separate MBAs, fifteen years of business experience, no "ethnic" grandparents, unearned sense of confidence
  • "customer success ambassador" at Glurp. $70,000 / year, give or take, since 90% of your pay is based on commission. requirements: associate's degree, no experience, has never heard the phrase "pyramid scheme," no sense of shame
  • part-time server at Le Bon Mot. $15-$16/hr depending on level of experience. must work weekends, overnight shifts, holidays, while asleep. requirements: you will let customers spit on you.
maxknightley

I feel like I make some variant on this post once every two weeks, which should tell you how well the job hunt's going.