boots beneath taylor's bed

Knee-high socks that have a giraffe print foot, giraffe from the neck up going up the side of the sock, and the giraffe is wearing a red scarf

Y'all I was gifted these socks by someone who is not a Taylor Swift fan/does not know any of the lore. And I just think it's so funny 🤣

Black Mirror episode Be Right Back. Martha is holding her hand up to the clone-Ash and has a blue manicure

Opalite MV where Taylor and Domhnall are holding hands, Taylor with blue manicure

And also the nails

Wanted to circle back here...

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Wi$h Li$t lyrics on Spotify And they should have what they want They deserve what they want Hope they get what they want

I just rewatched that episode and ohhhh my gosh 😳

One thing that stuck out to me was that her sister stopped by & saw men's clothes in her bathroom & said she was glad that the main character was moving on. When main character didn't know what to say, sister said, "You deserve whatever you want"

My brain just synapsed omg is it a nod to Black Mirror? There's already the bathtub scene with Domhnall which definitely is, so I think it's very possible it could be.

This thread is really in no particular order other than when my brain made connections and sustained the attention span long enough to pull the images and lyrics together lol

Opalite simply transforms Your Problems... (Girl looking at her trash can that is full of trash. A wasteland, if you will)

...into Your Paradise! (Girl sitting on a heart shaped throne/pedestal, wearing an evening gown like she may as well be a pageant queen. She is being offered a bouquet of flowers by a man, perhaps a big pretender. But for them, this is their paradise!)

Girl accepts flowers from guy. All this, brought to you by the STATE OF THE ART CHEMICAL (love) POTION

Opalite simply transforms Your Problems into Your Paradise! Using our STATE OF THE ART CHEMICAL POTION

My town was a wasteland
Full of cages, full of fences
Pageant queens and big pretenders
But for some it was ✨Paradise!✨
My boy was a montage
A slow-motion, love ✨POTION✨

HONEY, I rose up from the dead, I do it all the time...

I'm sorry, the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now. Why? Oh, 'cause she's dead.

Look what you made me do. I had to use Opalite.

Ok I immediately thought of that! I was like wow, what a role reversal for this one.

Another thought... in black mirror, the only reason his clone ended up in the bathtub is because the *actual* him was dead...

Taylor about to spray herself with Opalite

Taylor disappearing after spraying self with Opalite, ultimately leaving the rock behind

Rock and Cactus married in a small, intimate ceremony after meeting through Opalite.

Cause he took me out of my box
Stole my tortured heart
Told me I'm better off
But I'm not
I'm not
I'm not.

Empty box from "MY BEST FRIEND!" rock

✨He was my best friend✨
Down at the sandlot
I felt more when we played pretend
Than with all the Kens
✨Cause he took me out of my box✨

Taylor about to spray herself with Opalite

Opalite! The revolutionary fix for your problems!
🤝
Once I fix me, he's gonna miss me
Once I fix me, he's gonna miss me

Lookin' backwards might be the only way to move forward... 👀

Either way, I feel for you & am sorry you're dealing with that. I hate being put in that kind of position, too. Plagues me every time I have a client no-show who gets upset about the no-show fee. It's in the practice policies, reviewed at intake, in all the appt reminders. It's as clear as can be...

Yeah that's rough. Seems like it'll be a big learning moment for them. Maybe they won't have learned about the films from the class, but hopefully they'll learn a valuable lesson about how to manage their time and being clear on the expectations of things that they agree to/commit to doing.

And ofc I realize my typo only after I've posted, despite reading it through like four times before I posted lmfao take my degrees away

I imagine there are some students that have school paid for by parents or scholarships or something, but I can't imagine paying that much for school and then not attend. Like when you break it down by cost per lecture? Oof. At least in the US lol

I've been watching Cheers all the way through for the first time, and even having reached season 11, I am still equally amazed by each season having 26ish episodes

TaylorSwiftStyle post of Taylor's outfit from beginning of ME! music video. She is wearing a dress with black v-neck sleeveless top and white tulle skirt with colorful flowers (in shades of pink, purple, yellow, white, and peach) interspersed around the waist and down the skirt

Britney wearing dress with long-sleeved peach-colored top with lavender sparkly design across the front and at the ends of the sleeves. The skirt of the dress is tulle in shades of pink, purple, yellow, and peach, with leaves (appears to be poison ivy, but don't quote me on it) interspersed throughout the layers of tulle, running from the waist of the skirt to the hem.

Wait WHAT?! I had never seen that before!! The skirt on Britney's dress makes me think of the skirt/dress from the start of the ME! music video, too. Mostly the leaves on hers vs the flowers on Taylor's

I'm sure none of that is new info for you, but I just really feel for you. That's so frustrating 😞

Oh oof. I admittedly don't know much about ME/CFS, but even with just a quick search, it seems pretty clear that exercise is actively unhelpful. Like I didn't even have to dig to find that. Even the NHS has it clearly on their ME/CFS page that GET is not recommended 😭

But it absolutely doesn't help. Just one more way in which the insurance and healthcare systems are problematic af

I think one of the things that is a HUGE barrier is that in primary care settings in the US, if someone has a BMI above the "healthy" range, adding the corresponding diagnosis code and a related intervention (e.g., lifestyle counseling) increases insurance reimbursement... Obvs not the only reason,

It's such a mind fuck when you can present them with all the evidence in the world that the weight-centric approach is both harmful & unsustainable, including research explaining various mechanisms the body uses to fight against weight loss, & they're still like BUT BUT BUT lose weight 🫠

Weight Neutral Providers Lead List

Mary Lambert also collaborated with some others to compile a list of providers that have provided non-stigmatizing care.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Ugh this is so fair. It's so hard to find medical providers that can be trusted to provide quality, non-stigmatizing care 😞

In case you're interested, ASDAH has a directory for HAES providers that you can filter by provider type.

asdah.org/listing/

Turns out prescribing weight loss doesn't fix everything and isn't free of its own risks to health? And also makes patients less likely to seek both preventive medical care and care for things that are easily treatable at the time but left unchecked could hugely impact future health status?

"but there are clear associations between BMI and health" like I'M SORRY WHAT HAPPENED TO CORRELATION ≠ CAUSATION?! Maybe those associations are at least partially because they don't actually appropriately assess patients, so the actual issue goes untreated with a prescription for weight loss?

UGH this stuff pisses me tf off. Doctors do SO MUCH HARM. It baffles me how many doctors don't even consider that they could simply provide the same testing and interventions for people based on their symptoms alone, regardless of their size. They miss so much when they pin everything on weight.

I'm realizing after typing all of my other comments that idk if I actually answered the essence of what you were asking 🤣 You are absolutely not the only one!