I am STILL trying to learn to enjoy exercise after the horrors of PE. Elementary school PE was all other students yelling at me during team sports and throwing things at my face. In middle school, the mental anguish of being a fat bisexual girl in the locker room and people stealing my glasses so I couldn't move was…

This! Someone I don't know well gave me a Starbucks giftcard for Christmas (even though I don't drink coffee...) so I went to try to use it only to find they no longer have a menu? It was so utterly baffling. 

That seems like such a low weight to be a size 16/18? Like I’m about 5'6, 230lbs, a 38 in waist, and I’m a size 16/18? Really serves to underscore the point that body composition is wildly variable

Its just odd to me how different the designs Savagex makes for straight sizes vs plus sizes, especially when it seems to serve no purpose. I do actually think the plus range is pretty half assed, if I'm being honest.

Yes, her book is very reasonable and flexible! I, too, am a book lover. I was a book hoarder before I read her book. I got rid of hundreds of books and i still have a few hundred. Her approach about keeping the books that bring joy and that will be used and reread really changed how I approach my book collection.…

I feel like coffee is the drink for people who have scorched all of their tastebuds off already. It's so intensely bitter and acidic, like drinking wet cigarettes. 

In all fairness, all of the parts of Texas I’ve been to have been like this, except San Antonio. But I’m a Texas-averse New Mexican, so that might be coloring my perception.

Yeah, I never cared to track my period when i was on hormonal bc, but the one annoying side effect of the copper iud is that when my period starts, it *really* starts. I also like knowing roughly when I'm ovulating because I tend to get mean, spend happy, and weirdly intense about cleaning

I was a vegetarian for a long time and my hometown has mostly Mexican restaurants. All but one of them gladly substituted beans for meat in tacos, burritos, sopapillas, etc at no extra cost. The other one charged $5 to sub beans, so I really feel like its not surprising that they’re the only one of these restaurants…

Deerskin is such a rough, good read. I happened to pick it up when I was processing my own trauma and it was so painful and comforting 

Tam Lin is one of the best! Janet is such an interesting heroine

I’ve always been a fan of the reading of Bluebeard with Beauty and the Beast. That combination really seems to provoke discussion about the fraught relationships between women and men in a patriarchal system.

From what I understand, their wide visual range and long lifespan can make them very useful as seeing eye animals

Wellness marketing has shifted the insults I get about my body from “fat=ugly” to “fat=you’re gonna die soon and you deserve it!”

I read it and loved it, though it is a bit of a hagiography. It was a masterfully written biography. I just finished “The Knife Man” about John Hunter, who definitely seems like an intellectual predecessor to Lister, though he is far less likable (and it is the most graphic of anything I’ve read yet).

I read The Ghost Map several years ago and I’ve been devouring medical histories ever since. It’s so approachable, and honestly not that gross compared to a lot of other medical histories. 

This! Eating it makes me very ill and putting it on my skin gives me a rash that turns into deep, painful cystic acne. I spend so much time reading ingredients lists

A trio of coyotes attacked and injured my 75lb boxer mix just feet away from the house inside the yard, I can’t even fathom letting a small pet have unrestricted access to all of the outdoors. There's an endless parade of “lost (dead by coyote) cat” flyers. 

I’ve tried some of their stuff and I’m not particularly impressed by them at this price point. But I LOVED their concealer. Its so easy to just throw on and takes no effort to blend. Unfortunately, my skin has become really reactive to avocado oil, so now it just gives me a painful rash so I’ve had to toss it out. 

I haven’t met that many outdoor cat people (since my city has coyotes and large predatory birds—finding the shredded remains of a pet cat seems to cure a lot of people of that mindset) but the ones I have met seem go wholeheartedly believe that keeping a cat indoors is cruel. Or, that's what they tell me when they…