hot take: fat girls are allowed to have standards. fat girls are allowed to think you’re ugly and gross and unattractive and that you’re not worth their time. they shouldn’t have to settle because you already have dehumanized them and determined they are worth less than you. why would any woman want to be with a person who thinks she doesn’t respect herself because of the shape of her body? fat women are not easy, we’re not freaks who will do whatever you want to feel approval. we’re not desperate. We have no reason to be grateful for you.
Emily, running up to Corvo as he climbs out of the Samuel’s boat: Corvo, Corvo, how was the fancy party??
Corvo, taking off his mask, and brushing five kilograms of glitter from his face: I don’t understand rich people.
…is this supposed to be considered weird? I don’t get it.
I think it’s more that it was an unexpected feature. I’m glad it’s there.
Yeah I actually found it while prepping for brain surgery, and was incredibly relieved that it was a built-in feature and not something I’d have to leave convoluted instructions about or whatever. It’s a bit morbid, sure, but it’s a great feature.
…an unexpected but very appreciated feature.
This is a feature designed by women who’d been in fandom for decades, and who had faced the issue of, “X is dead, and we know she loved fandom, so… can we reprint her stories? Who can decide? Her family knows fuck-all about fandom. Who was her best friend? Do they know if she would’ve liked her story to be reprinted in the Best Of OTP Fic zine?”
Running across that once doesn’t make you think about a policy, but by the time it’s five to ten times, and then you’ve seen people vanish from the internet (might be dead; might just be not interested anymore) and nobody knows whether it’s okay to collect their fic in an archive or transfer it to a new one….
Yeah, the FNoK policy is one of the awesome things about AO3.
I, an old but not that old, beg of you to vote, and to vote blue. Suck it up and vote against the people that have been ruining this country and this planet for nearly 40 years.
I have to deal with your parents and grandparents on Facebook and they are not good at all at picking people to manage a government. They ignore facts. They live in little envelopes and cannot think outside of them. They get ANGERY when you challenge their views, even though you speak their language.
I don’t want these fuckers to kill the planet. You really don’t.
they get fogged up when we drink hot beverages.
they get smudged for no reason.
we will push them up using anything in our area (i.e shoulder, whatever is in my hand, scrunching my nose up so they get pushed up, etc.).
they get knocked off our faces all. the. fucking. time.
when we change clothes we either take them off or they fall off when we pull our shirts off.
we have to clean them after being in the rain.
we own multiple pairs of them, not just one lone pair for our whole lives.
most people don’t wear them in the pool, but some have extra old pairs for the pool (like me).
some people take them off during sex, that’s fine! but some people keep them on.
they don’t get squished into your face when you kiss (most of the time. at least from what i’ve experienced and i’ve got some mf big glasses).
if we look down and look back up while you talk/to peek up at something, we will just peek blindly over the top of them.
we clean them on whatever item of clothing is closest.
some of us have prescription sunglasses and some of us wear contacts when we need to wear sunglasses.
please keep some of these in mind when you write characters with glasses cause y’all who have 20/20 vision keep telling me all characters sleep in their glasses and own the same singular pair from age 6-25 and they never clean them.
( there’s this but you missed a few iconic glasses traits – “where’d I put my glasses” (is wearing them) – new glasses getting scratched on basically nothing. where’d the nick come from? we just don’t know. – forgetting you’re wearing synthetic material and just smudge the junk on your glasses around – after doing so, proceeding to hunt down any friend who is wearing a more cottony material – getting eyelashes on your glasses – stabbing yourself in the face with the arm of your glasses – “woah are you blind?” – “how many fingers am I holding up??” – walking into a warm room from the cold and suddenly being unable to see because your glasses fogged up – going outside and everything is Super Crisp 1080p – having three pairs of glasses and putting all of them at once – “aw dude you have transition lenses? lucky.” – the non-glasses scrutinising squint – taking off your glasses and suddenly you’re a different entity entirely – if you’re too good for taking off your glasses when dressing/undressing, realising you didn’t pull the collar of a shirt out enough and subjecting to your fate )
-For female characters wearing eye makeup is pretty much useless
– the reason why is because no matter what we do, the mascara will smear on our glasses
– thinking “Oh, there’s a little smudge. I’ll just clean it quickly”, then taking the glasses off and wondering how the hell you could see with what looks like three layers of dirt on them
– giving your loved one a little kiss but in the wrong angle so their nose touches your glasses
– the look™ when you’re in your bed lying on the side with your glasses on (aka the glasses are skewed)
-sleeping in glasses fucking hurts… well, not anymore, but it used too
-if you have long eyelashes, having to push your glasses down your nose so they dont constantly rub each other, then having to push them up cuz you cant see
-WHY WONT YOU STAY ON MY FACE?!?!?!
-*they tilt crooked slightly* oh wow, And… now Im falling over
-having transitions and right after walking into a building you can’t see because they’re still dark
-forgetting where you put them then having to either ask for help or judge your entire surroundings
-dont like contacts? like cosplaying? guess what! you’re blind now!
-trading glasses with other glasses wearers to see how blind your friends are
-when there’s a smudge that just. Won’t. Go. Away.
-“hey do you have lens cleaner?”
-your old glasses become your back up pair in case your current ones break
-metal and plastic frames are very different and most people have a preference
All of this omg
Oh also I forgot to mention the nOSE PAD THINGIES
I HATE THOSE WITH A BURNING PASSION
OH MY GOD SAME, I HAD A PAIR OF METAL FRAMES AND THE NOSE PAD THINGIES THAT CUSHIONED THE ACTUAL THINGS FELL OFF
THAT AMIGOS IS WHY I WEAR PLASTIC FRAMES
some long hair-specific glasses nonsense:
if you have metal frames with nose pads that’re attached with wire, you Will get your hair tangled around those wires eventually. it’s inevitable
this usually happens if i put my glasses on my head but sometimes it just… happens
you can also get hair caught in the hinges and then pull it out of your head when you try to take them off
just in general, long hair is gonna tangle around your glasses (some frames are worse than others but it’s gonna happen eventually no matter what)
if you have your hair done up super tight, it might be hard to get your glasses on, since you usually want the arms to go right next to your skin and that’s Hard bc your hair is In The Way
if you have your hair done up at all and you try to take your glasses off, you’re probably gonna pull it loose a bit around your ears. whoops
please imagine having your hair in a ponytail but having two stupid looking loops of hair sticking out the sides of your head right above your ears. that’s my life
getting your hair inside your glasses instead of outside them is the worst!! this is probably less likely to happen if you have bangs but i don’t and i keep getting hair between my glasses and my eyes and having to take off my glasses to fix em
also:
if you’re like me and you don’t care about looking dumb or buying contacts, you can just get some smaller glasses and some Big sunglasses and wear sunglasses over the glasses. fashion
if you’re like my mom you can just buy funky sunglass lenses that clip over your glasses. same concept, just slightly less ridiculous
some people (like me) who have Less Terrible eyesight don’t wear their glasses all the time – and i don’t just mean like reading glasses, i wear mine when i go out because otherwise i have to squint to make out signage, but when i’m at home i leave em off!
if you don’t wear your glasses all the time, you can and will forget to bring them with you when you might need them (or think you forgot them and panic for 5 minutes until you find them)
doing stuff with your hands as your glasses slowly slide down your nose and just… watching them go
i have on at least one occasion had someone else push my glasses back up for me bc my hands were full and i couldn’t do it myself
Getting a new pair of glasses with a stronger prescription and putting them on and WOW DID SOMEBODY TURN UP THE RESOLUTION
I CAN SEE INDIVIDUAL LEAVES ON THE TREES
THIS IS THE COOLEST THING EVER
Alternately, I was trying not to think about it because it’s the source of like 10% of my day-to-day stress, needing a stronger prescription than you’ve got and suffering constant headaches and eyestrain but tough, there’s no insurance to cover an update for another year, if ever.
The soul-crushing terror when your glasses try to fall off your face into for example the ocean. This is probably less true for affluent glasses-wearers and those with weak prescriptions.
— needing a strong enough RX that you literally can not afford to lose your glasses. you develop a sense for knowing where they are whenever you sleep; losing them stirs a panic and nothing else can happen until they’re found.
—not all hats (beanies and ball caps) work? they put pressure on the arms in weird ways and hurt your ears or throw the frames off-balance on your face and it’s just a hassle
—taking them off to do microscopic tasks if nearsighted
• That sinking feeling you get as you realize you’re going to need to buy bifocals, next time you replace your glasses
• Having to slide your glasses down your nose and looking over the top of them to read things close up, but pushing them back up to see things far away
• Holding things further and further away, hoping you can see without having to take them off for reading small print and finally saying screw it and yanking them off with a sigh
• Also, remember, not everyone wears glasses for the same reason. You can be nearsighted (things further away are blurrier), farsighted (things close up are blurrier), or have astigmatism (the eye’s lens itself is warped and everything is blurred). You can can have more than one of these things at once… One eye can be fine and the other eye isn’t.
• Also, there’s an adjustment period with new glasses. Your eyes are still used to the old prescription, so even though these new glasses should make things as close to perfect as possible, your eyes still have to get used to the new prescription anyway
• Also, glasses break. Or bend. Or the little screws that hold them together fall out. Some people fix them themselves, others take them in to the eye doctor immediately. And trust me, nothing else is as small as those tiny screwdrivers. You won’t find something just lying around to let you put the screw back in if it falls out, assuming you can even find the little bugger since it’s so ridiculously tiny
*permanent dents above your ears where the glasses arms rest after wearing glasses every single day of your life for thirty years
Everyone in my family has a nose bump from wearing glasses.
Also, even if the prescription does not change, changing your frames can make it seem like your’s walking around in a fishbowl. And NEW BLIND SPOTS! YEEHAW!
You might also be able to see without your glasses but get headaches if you don’t wear them. I’m far from blind without mine but this morning for example I stupidly didn’t put them on before gaming and guess what? That was a bad idea.
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