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Reply to comment by flabberghaster in I should go back to being vegetarian again by flabberghaster

If it helps, the way I went vegan was once I decided I was going to do it I looked up easy vegan recipes and practiced making them for a few months while still also eating the things I used to eat, and also started swapping the snacks I ate with vegan equivalents. After like 4-5 months I had a bunch of recipes I was comfortable with and knew what vegan products I liked, so I had one final goodbye meal at my favourite fried chicken place, and then officially "went vegan" and haven't gone back since. Learning how to make a lot of vegan food while still eating meat makes it a lot easier to eventually make the switch. I did get some pretty bad meat cravings for the first like month or two, but they do go away eventually.

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flabberghaster OP wrote

Reply to comment by cowloom in I should go back to being vegetarian again by flabberghaster

The first time, I tried to just go vegetarian all at once and it didn't take, because it felt like such a big change to make all at once. I found much better success by saying "this week, I am going to give up pork for good." Then when that felt easy I went on to "this week I will give up beef for good." And so on until I was down to chicken being the only meat I'd eat anymore. I found by tapering it like that, it didn't feel like such a radical change and it was easier for me to sustain it.

I feel that cutting out dairy is going to be much harder for me than cutting out meat has historically been. One day I might be able to go vegan but I need to work my way there or I won't be able to stick to it.

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cute_spider wrote (edited )

Reply to Happy Transgender Thursday! by cowloom

I'd like to shout out AEW Dynamite this week. After the opening match, the women's world champion Toni Storm appeared in the audience. Somebody flew a big ole trans pride flag behind her, and the security detail didn't try to stop them or take their flag or anything.

It was really nice to see the flag flying on a national broadcast!

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rain wrote

Reply to comment by flabberghaster in its been slightly over 48 hours since my immersive poison ivy experience picking berries by skookin

It’s the same allergen in both plants. Your body is reacting to the compound urushiol. It often doesn’t cause a reaction until you’ve been exposed a few times. A small handful may never react, but there’s no guarantee even if you haven’t reacted before.

What’s scary is urushiol is also found in trace amounts in some foods, including cashes and mangos. Sometimes a bad reaction to poison ivy can sensitize your body to urushiol to the point where you start reacting to the trace urushiol found in these foods.

tl;dr - poison ivy exposure can give you sudden food allergies, even if you have had no reaction in the past

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by devtesla in for about 5 years on tumblr, it was mandatory to have very strong opinions on steven universe. i never got into the discourse but i believe the anime counts as a form of vriska by twovests

I have to admit, I can't think of anything since Steven Universe. I might have grown out of it?

She-Ra was fun, and the new ATLA probably will be too, but there's a tone of maturity and sincerity that SU hit that I haven't seen again.

That said, I have watched Gumball, and it's fucked up. It's a totally different thing but I can get easily engrossed in it, and I'm often shocked by how edgy it can be. (In one episode, the main characters perform actual surgery on another character, killing him!)

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