….and that is why being separated from our food’s origins and not knowing anything about botany is what is wrong with the world today goddamnit.
I bet some people would eat castor beans too. Or yew. Or just fuckin’ snack on some hemlock because it’s natural, man.
Fucking incredible.
LIKE IT TAKES SOME FUCKING EFFORT TO GET A CHERRY PIT OPEN FUCKING W H Y
Question: Is it the same with plums? I used to do that occasionally when I ate dried and seasoned Asian plums as a kid.
Yes.
Plum pits do not contain as much as cherry, but they do.
Do not eat stone fruit pits, people. Or bitter almonds.
They all have cyanide in them.
Oh boy, apricot kernels. The amount of people I see lauding those as a “cure for cancer” is… demoralizing. I can’t find it right now but I believe there was a mother in the past few years who was taken to court for child endangerment/neglect for feeding those to her very young child as a cancer treatment.
I saw this horror last year, and yelled for an entire hour.
To be fair, I bet if you die of cyanide poisoning the cancer won’t kill you.
I have been wanting to use these photos for months.
The recommendation is to only eat 3 in one hour. because that is just the most filling snack and of course they will stop at three.
Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
Just because it’s food for another creature doesn’t mean it’s fine for you.
Best case scenario it’s like grass which is basically neutral- it’s generally not going to kill you but there’s no nutrition for humans in it, and enough will probably make you sick.
Worst case scenario it’s something like belladonna berries which taste sweet but will kill you stone cold dead.
Same for the wrong kind of mushrooms, other berries, leaves and barks. Before consuming, CHECK. If you can’t check, don’t put it in your mouth.
Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
I’ve been saying this for so long, oh my gosh.
^^As a toxicologist, I approve this message.
Friendly reminder that the laws on supplement labeling in the US are super lax and haven’t been updated since 1994. That’s nearly 25 years ago!
Oh hey, forgot to mention I tweeted @ apricotpower on twitter about how their product is poison and they blocked me. You should all tweet at them too.
2/2 what do you think i should do? i’m definitely not telling my mom since she is all kinds of religious and don’t to forbid either because i don’t want her feeling guilty over it or “forbidden fruit is always the sweetest” sort of situation. help
First, take a deep breath. Odds are pretty good that if she’s looking for fanfic of an age-appropriate thing she’s a fan of, she’s looking for age-appropriate type fanfic, the kind that she herself would write. There’s a good chance that if she didn’t find that kind of thing within the first two minutes of searching, she gave up and moved on to something else and fanfic is now “ugh, not interesting” in her brain.
True story: I was sixteen when I deliberately read slash for the first time, and my reaction to the explicit Sentinel porn I clicked on was “huh, there’s a ‘lube’ step in gay sex” and then I just didn’t read slash again for about three years. It wasn’t what I was looking for and so I just… wasn’t interested.
Little kids have a mind-boggling ability to just ignore or miss the stuff that is beyond them. My nieces (age 9 and 11) watch a TON of YouTube, which means they see all kinds of weird things in ads and search results; when there was a horror movie ad that kept popping up, my then-8-year-old niece who was freaked out by it would just… back-button out of the video or pause or run out of the room. She knew what she didn’t want to see and she didn’t see it. So odds are really really good that if an eight-year-old actually is reading fanfic on an ongoing basis (and she might well not be) then she’s finding stuff at her own level and reading that. (There is way, way more of it than you would think.)
And if she has enough unsupervised/unfiltered internet access to do those searches without your mom already knowing? Then, yeah, sooner or later she is going to see stuff that’s not age-appropriate. And at some point, no doubt younger than you think she should, she will be looking at stuff about sex and other adult topics–because she’s curious, because she’s looking for some reflection of feelings she has, or stuff she’s heard from other kids, or stuff that happens to her or someone she knows.
And, let’s be real, fanfic or even Actual Porn are not the only places she could and probably will find stuff that’s aimed at an older audience–I mean, God knows there’s enough awful stuff in the news. The amount of information on the internet about real life rapists, child molesters, murderers, etc. is … plenty, and from some angles a lot more disturbing than totally made-up stories about fictional people even if the made-up stories are more anatomically specific. To say nothing of what she could find in, say, a library.
So I think you’re 100% on the right track in not wanting to either rat her out or try to hand down some Thou Shalt Not edict. Because, yes, the effect would only be to make her feel guilty about what she’s reading–and, especially, to make her feel like she’s the one who’s done something wrong if she ever reads something that she finds scary/upsetting/gross/disturbing. And if you’ve already told her she Must Not read something like that, then she will specifically feel like she has to hide that from you.
I think the best thing you can do is just talk to her about it. Kids are generally pretty accustomed to adults Just Knowing Stuff so she’s probably not going to be super freaked out if you casually mention that you noticed she had been looking for fanfic–especially if you don’t act like that’s anything to freak out about.
I would, especially, tell her that you read fanfic too! And fanfic is neat sometimes! And ask her if she found what she was looking for, or found anything she liked. Ask her to recommend stuff if she did! Then you can take a look at it yourself and get an idea of what she’s reading–and it’s not creepy snooping, it’s just sharing an interest! You have a thing in common to bond over!
If she didn’t find what she was looking for, you can either let the conversation go there, or if she seems like she’s still apt to go looking for more, you can offer to help her find stuff she’ll like–at which point you can vet things for her and give her direct links to the G-rated no-archive-warnings-apply stuff, and you become someone she can ask for help with this.
And you can also mention to her, as neutrally and non-judgmentally as possible, that some fanfic is weird or scary or not very well written–not Bad in a sinful sense, but maybe bad in quality. You can ask her if she’s run into any like that! If she says yes, it’s probably going to be a rant about how somebody wrote, idk, Minecraft fic that BROKE THE RULES and you CAN’T DO THAT IN MINECRAFT, THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS or something. But if you give her that vocabulary, and make it clear that that’s a thing she can talk about with you, then that vastly improves the odds that if/when she ever does read something creepy or disturbing or whatever, she will know that she can come talk to you about it.
When kids have an actual real-life trauma, the strongest predictor of whether they will be okay afterward, psychologically, isn’t what happened to them. It’s whether they’re listened to and believed and supported afterward by the people they trust. Same goes for reading something that might give her nightmares or weird ideas about sex or awaken baby proto-kinks: if it’s something she doesn’t have to feel guilty about or keep a dark secret or puzzle out alone (or with the help of other kids who don’t know any more than she does), if she has an adult she can talk with about it, she’s probably going to be just fine.
I haven’t really checked on reviews on Love Hoop: Overdrive until a few days ago, but today I went back to check and it has reached 50 reviews! I am so happy to see that the sequel is getting so much love (no pun intended), and this story in general has become so special to me. And I read every single review a few days ago – and the recent ones – and I want to say a big thank you for your respects on Michi (joker2113). I still miss her and always will, but most importantly, I hope she knows how much I love and appreciate her. She was my first ever fan and online friend when I started writing so I always felt like I owed her so much.
But I want you all to know that I love you as well, and trust me when I say I appreciate every single one of you <3.
i hate being that person who comments on posts but i just want u all to know that i watch this video all the fucking time every year once it hits september bc nothing gets me more pumped for christmas than this person rocking out w/ their mom while their mom windexes a countertop
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