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Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 11h

YOUR

LONG

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Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 14h

I am sorry your mother has decided to destroy you by being the coolest ever

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Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 17h

Why not just roll with it launching early Jesus Christ

Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 17h

Her dragon came from the Granny Weatherwax school of naming I see

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Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 17h

I wanna tangent here for a moment

Like, there is nothing wrong with fast food binges or other various acts of stuffing kink. If you’re wired like I am it’s both fun & very gratifying.

It’s just not how you Get Fat and that’s all I wanted to say in this thread.

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Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 17h

And I just wanna say this desire isn’t invalid! One of the fun parts of kink is the fantasy that goes into it and who among us hasn’t wanted The Substance That Packs 100+ lbs On You at least in fleeting dream?

Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 18h

My second possibly controversial gainer/fatfur opinion is that most ‘gainer shakes’ out there are far too overwrought

Like with the butter thing it’s more about a desire for The Substance That Makes You Fat than about like… the actual process of getting fat

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Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 17h

People are bad at estimating their own intake & will subconsciously default to maintaining. The body is just Like That. If you do a big overeat you might skip or delay a meal without thinking about it bc you just don’t feel as hungry as usual.

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Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 17h

This bit might sound familiar to some of you because it’s the same principle used to bulk for less kink-affirming purposes. Like, unfortunately it sounds like work because at the end of the day it is a bit of work to make sure you’re actually eating more.

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Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 17h

The other problem is that getting fat is about consistently increasing your intake, not singular moments of spectacular indulgence.

So instead of a ginormous shake that overloads your system and threatens to replace a meal, think smaller and more frequent.

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Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 17h

It should hopefully be obvious that giving yourself a case of the runs is not actually conducive to the goal of Becoming Large

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Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 18h

There are basically two problems with them, one of which has to do with digestion.

Most of these things are absolute carb bombs & also heavy on dairy so, fun fact, there is actually a downside to consuming more sugar (and lactose is a sugar) than your body can process.

It acts as a laxative

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Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 18h

That doesn’t help. The talk about how certain things are ‘distractions’ also isn’t helping.

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Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 18h

My second possibly controversial gainer/fatfur opinion is that most ‘gainer shakes’ out there are far too overwrought

Like with the butter thing it’s more about a desire for The Substance That Makes You Fat than about like… the actual process of getting fat

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Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 18h

Like when I used to have a foreman grill I’d straight up drink the contents of the drip tray after the burgers were done but the idea of downing an equivalent quantity of melted butter is just extremely unappealing

Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 18h

Like even deep fried butter has added textural & flavor elements from the fried breading that render it palatable.

The Maillard reaction is magic basically

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Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 18h

Possibly controversial gainer/fatfur opinion: eating raw butter/fats is unpleasant

I want to specify: raw. Not cooked is any way. Burger grease (unburned) is delicious. Like, there is a reason we make meat drippings into gravy & not pure rendered lard. Why cracklins exist and are fatty crack.

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Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 18h

You are arguing in favor of driving a knife into the heart of our government because you are scared shitless.

Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 19h

So many valuations based on Infinite Future Growth with a side order of ‘the biggest companies in the space are passing the same 20 dollar bill around’

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Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 19h

I work as a dishwasher at the local college and just got back a plate where the student had smeared cake icing around & scribbled a Doraemon face in.

So many questions and all of them are variants of ‘why’

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Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 20h

JJBA: Stardust Crusaders

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Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 20h

Sailor Moon

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Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 20h

Even if the character had more chest it would still be bound!

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Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 21h

Seriousness is an aesthetic choice of narrative more than anything else and it happens to be a very weak narrative at this point in time because all of its standard bearers have taken humiliating losses

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Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 21h

Everything is narratives because the human mind thinks in those terms

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Gemini @geminidrgn.bsky.social · 21h

You’re not going to like hearing this but politics has always been pro-wrestling

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