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My name is: Michelle, but most people call me Dark online.

My gender-pronouns are: They/them/their.

I am: 26 years old, a feminist, liberal, an atheist, an omnivore, and an ISFJ.

The Feminist: Intersectional, body positive, pro-choice, and sex positive.

My privileged identities include: Female assigned at birth (trans* privilege), white, able-bodied, allistic (?), dyadic, monogamous.

My non-privileged/oppressed identities include: Gender-fluid, fat, gray-a, neuroatypical, and gay.

I have: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Major Depressive Disorder.

I like: Pets & animals, animal welfare, pet care & pet care education, ~*SCIENCE!*~, anatomy & physiology, roleplaying, anime/manga, computer & video games, rock & metal music.

Hello.

 

badhoruss:

thatpointlessidiot:

[a bunch of blindly mislead idiots redacted]

The milkshake:  This is not limited to fast food nor to milkshakes.  That ‘concoction’ is the industry standard artificial strawberry flavoring found in everything strawberry flavored that isn’t naturally flavored.

Chicken nuggets: Total lies.  My sister works at the Tyson plant that provides KFC and McDonalds their nuggets.  There’s no ‘pink paste’ stage.  ’Reflavoring’ is an injection of mostly salt into the meat in order to give it some taste because modern day chicken is nearly flavorless.  If you want to disgust people, show them the conditions of the processing plants that dismantle the chickens.

The pubic hair one: You eat more of your family’s pubic hairs cooking in your own home.  You think you don’t shed once you walk in your own door?

Peanut butter: This is a cold hard truth of food mass production.  There will be insects.  You can never get rid of them or take them out of the process.  The FDA places limits on how much can be allowed into specific foods so that food manufactories don’t get lazy and just say ‘Well we can’t keep it out.’  The FDA limit helps immensely because it makes these places try to keep the insect population down through keeping things clean.

Shellac: Oh my god this is so stupid.  ’Shellac’ is an INGREDIENT.  It’s a NATURAL PRODUCT produced by INSECTS.  It is then PROCESSED into food-grade glaze or colorants, OR into wood and furniture polish.  They don’t just take wood polish and dump it on your jawbreakers.  Grow up.

Bacteriophages: The ‘phages of which you speak are used to kill the listeria virus.  Listeria is a bacteria that attacks the immune system and has a one in five mortality rate.  Bacteriophages?  They’ve been used as an alternative to antibiotic medications in Russia and France for 90 years.  That’s really disgusting and dangerous!

Coke: This is total and complete bunk.  It would have been far more effective to point out that colas and carbonated drinks have been linked to weakened bones in those who overconsume them, but this is complete lies here.  Again.

Salads: I think you mean propylene glycol.  And again, this is bullshit.  PG only causes reactions in those allergic to it.  It has a very low toxicity and can only negatively affect human health if very large amounts are ingested very quickly and over a very short period of time.  By which I mean ‘Find a vat of it and start drinking it and nothing else.’  Again you go for the lie instead of pointing out that fast food salads are processed and contain as much fat and cholesterol as most of the other foods offered by a fast food place.

Beef additives: This has nothing to do with fast food.  This is common in MOST meats in the US.  This is because the US has become so obsessed with the fat content of meat and making it ‘healthy’ that we have literally bred almost all the flavor out of every food animal breed we currently use.  Flavorants are almost ALWAYS injected during processing or most of our meat would be bland and tasteless.   ‘Flavorants’ typically being concentrated broth and/or salt and seasoning.

Cheese: Lies again.  Only those cheeses labelled as ‘Pasteurized process cheese food’ and ‘Pasteurized process cheese spread’ match these stats.  Pasteurized process cheese is simply a blended cheese made to have a sharp taste and be easily melted.  Your lie here is that the 47% is referring to the cheese’s fat content, not cheese content.

This image is full of lies and misrepresented half-truths and anyone spreading this as truthful should rethink their approach.

thank you oh my god

(Source: the-more-u-know)

saucy-mermaid:

GIVEAWAY AND FUNDRAISER THINGAMAHJIG;
Everything I’ve been drawing has been done on an iPad app using either my fingers or cheap stylus pens from Walgreens (plural because my niece keeps chewing off the felt tips….). I truly enjoy doing commissions for followers and others but the iPad app really fucks with the quality of the picture. I used to have an intuos3 a few years back. I still have it wrapped up in my closet! It’s dead now after years of use. I want to be able to use photoshop and provide higher quality art. This can also expand what I can do and help me invest in better art for others!
So, I’m hoping to do a fundraiser of sorts and to be a part of this you simply have to contribute by donation or by commissioning me for a caricature in this style for $8 minimum - if you’d like to give more for a caricature that is completely up to you!;

Usually I accept 5 commissions to work on for a 1-2 week period at a time. But for this I’m accepting as many as it takes to help reach my goal! Which might be a lot! So bring on the unlimited slots! 
*~*~* Rules ~*~*
If you donate but do not attach a note to your paypal donation stating your URL, I WON’T BE ABLE TO ENTER YOU INTO THE GIVEAWAY. I need to know whoyou are - so even if you forget you can still send me a message telling me the name attached to the donation. If there is no url attachedin a note or no further contact, I will assume you do not want to participate in the giveaway and are just donating just to be generous.
Again, to be entered into the giveaway you have to donate or commission. Reblogs/Likes of this post do not count as an entry.
Again, you don’t have to be following me. 
This isn’t a rule but I’m hoping to do other artsy fartsy stuff - Goodies and surprises! Like a raffle for every $__.__ raised or random intervals I’ll do a doodle freebie (not in the style above) to those who have contributed so far. Or maybe doodle freebies to those who have helped signal boost hardcore.
Final Contribution prize will be shipped anywhere in the world!
To Donate - simply go to my page. I have created a Paypal Fundraising widget that tracks my progress. Click on ‘give’. And just donate whatever amount you’d like ($5 minimum).
To commission me- Message me stating you are interested in a caricature for my intuos5 fundraiser! I will give you my skype info for an easier way to communicate since sometimes my inbox gets pretty hectic and last thing I need is someone getting lost in the mix! From there we will discuss details. C:
Oh and if you have ever harassed me and I just so happen not have you blocked will not qualify for the giveaway, dur. Also if you happen to have donated or commissioned me and you insult me/offend me/harass me you will be disqualified. Just…you know…saying…
AND AS ALWAYS, PLEASE REBLOG/SIGNAL BOOST THIS! I LOVE YOU ALLLLL <3
p.s. Rules may be subject to change but like…I don’t see much being changed. haha

saucy-mermaid:

GIVEAWAY AND FUNDRAISER THINGAMAHJIG;

Everything I’ve been drawing has been done on an iPad app using either my fingers or cheap stylus pens from Walgreens (plural because my niece keeps chewing off the felt tips….). I truly enjoy doing commissions for followers and others but the iPad app really fucks with the quality of the picture. I used to have an intuos3 a few years back. I still have it wrapped up in my closet! It’s dead now after years of use. I want to be able to use photoshop and provide higher quality art. This can also expand what I can do and help me invest in better art for others!

So, I’m hoping to do a fundraiser of sorts and to be a part of this you simply have to contribute by donation or by commissioning me for a caricature in this style for $8 minimum - if you’d like to give more for a caricature that is completely up to you!;

image

Usually I accept 5 commissions to work on for a 1-2 week period at a time. But for this I’m accepting as many as it takes to help reach my goal! Which might be a lot! So bring on the unlimited slots! 

*~*~* Rules ~*~*

  1. If you donate but do not attach a note to your paypal donation stating your URL, I WON’T BE ABLE TO ENTER YOU INTO THE GIVEAWAY. I need to know whoyou are - so even if you forget you can still send me a message telling me the name attached to the donation. If there is no url attachedin a note or no further contact, I will assume you do not want to participate in the giveaway and are just donating just to be generous.
  2. Again, to be entered into the giveaway you have to donate or commission. Reblogs/Likes of this post do not count as an entry.
  3. Again, you don’t have to be following me. 
  4. This isn’t a rule but I’m hoping to do other artsy fartsy stuff - Goodies and surprises! Like a raffle for every $__.__ raised or random intervals I’ll do a doodle freebie (not in the style above) to those who have contributed so far. Or maybe doodle freebies to those who have helped signal boost hardcore.
  5. Final Contribution prize will be shipped anywhere in the world!
  6. To Donate - simply go to my page. I have created a Paypal Fundraising widget that tracks my progress. Click on ‘give’. And just donate whatever amount you’d like ($5 minimum).
  7. To commission me- Message me stating you are interested in a caricature for my intuos5 fundraiser! I will give you my skype info for an easier way to communicate since sometimes my inbox gets pretty hectic and last thing I need is someone getting lost in the mix! From there we will discuss details. C:
  8. Oh and if you have ever harassed me and I just so happen not have you blocked will not qualify for the giveaway, dur. Also if you happen to have donated or commissioned me and you insult me/offend me/harass me you will be disqualified. Just…you know…saying…

AND AS ALWAYS, PLEASE REBLOG/SIGNAL BOOST THIS! I LOVE YOU ALLLLL <3


p.s. Rules may be subject to change but like…I don’t see much being changed. haha

Why Do Men Keep Putting Me in the Girlfriend-Zone?

literaryreference:

You know how it is, right, ladies? You know a guy for a while. You hang out with him. You do fun things with him—play video games, watch movies, go hiking, go to concerts. You invite him to your parties. You listen to his problems. You do all this because you think he wants to be your friend.

But then, then comes the fateful moment where you find out that all this time, he’s only seen you as a potential girlfriend. And then if you turn him down, he may never speak to you again. This has happened to me time after time: I hit it off with a guy, and, for all that I’ve been burned in the past, I start to think that this one might actually care about me as a person. And then he asks me on a date.

I tell him how much I enjoy his company, how much I value his friendship. I tell him that I really want to be his friend and to continue hanging out with him and talking about our favorite books or exploring new restaurants or making fun of avant-garde theatre productions. But he rejects me. He doesn’t answer my calls or e-mails; if we’d been making plans to do something before this fateful incident, these plans mysteriously fail to materialize. (This is why I never did get around to seeing the Hunger Games movie. Not to name any names, but thanks a lot, Tom.) Later, when I run into him at social events, our conversations are awkward and lukewarm. This is because the moment we met, he put me in the girlfriend-zone, and now he can’t see me as friend material.

I must say that I find this really unfair. I mean, I’m a nice girl. I have a lot to offer as a friend, like not being a douchebag and stuff. But males just don’t want to be friends with nice girls like me. They can’t help it, I guess; it’s just how they’re wired, biologically. Evolution conditioned our male hominid ancestors to seek nice girls as mates and form friendship bonds only with the other dudes that they hunted mammoths with. It’s true—I know this because I studied hominids in my fifth-grade science class.

So what’s the answer? Should I take up mammoth-hunting in an attempt to appeal to the friendship centers of men’s primal lizardbrains? Should I keep making guy “friends” and then prevent them from making a move on me by subtly undermining their self-confidence? Should I just give up on those manipulative, game-playing, two-faced bastards once and for all? I don’t know. I mean, I’d really like to have a true friendship with a guy someday, but it’s so hard to trust and respect them when they never say what they mean—and you never know when you might be relegated to the girlfriend-zone.

balcil:

thebestbloginthewholeworld:

c2ndy2c1d:

nat-thebaseballbrat:


“… will let it continue to operate as an independent business.”

Here you my followers. 
calm your titties~ &lt;3

Oh, good… *Sighs so loud that anyone in a ten mile radius can hear me*
So all this means is that Tumblr got over a billion dollars and they still get to do whatever they want. 

Friendly reminder that
orderlybunker:

Tumblr will remain independent
Yahoo bought it because Tumblr was getting too expensive
The only thing changing will be the one’s legally owning Tumblr
There will remain absolutely no restrictions on gifs/fics/pictures/edits/porn/terms and conditions
The terms and conditions will remain the same
Tumblr’s options were to shut Tumblr down or get funds
ThE lAyOuT iS nOt ChAnGiNg

balcil:

thebestbloginthewholeworld:

c2ndy2c1d:

nat-thebaseballbrat:

image

“… will let it continue to operate as an independent business.”

Here you my followers. 

calm your titties~ <3

Oh, good… *Sighs so loud that anyone in a ten mile radius can hear me*

So all this means is that Tumblr got over a billion dollars and they still get to do whatever they want. 

Friendly reminder that

orderlybunker:

  • Tumblr will remain independent
  • Yahoo bought it because Tumblr was getting too expensive
  • The only thing changing will be the one’s legally owning Tumblr
  • There will remain absolutely no restrictions on gifs/fics/pictures/edits/porn/terms and conditions
  • The terms and conditions will remain the same
  • Tumblr’s options were to shut Tumblr down or get funds
  • ThE lAyOuT iS nOt ChAnGiNg