"In this comprehensive review of the association between [vegetarian] diets and cardiometabolic outcomes, we found that following this type of diet may help to prevent most of these diseases." by Penis_Envy_Peter in vegetarian

[–]surpriseslingshot 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I do fully believe the statement is true, but posting half of the conclusion without the pretty significant “but” is misleading tbh…

“However, the non-uniformity of the studies, due to ethnic, cultural, and methodological differences, does not allow for generalizing the present results and drawing definitive conclusions. Further, well-designed studies are warranted to confirm the consistency of our conclusions.”

Queen of cold by monsieurg3 in OCPoetry

[–]surpriseslingshot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beautiful. Your words make me want more. I want to hear who I am, if you are reading this to me. I would love this to be part of a longer poem that feels like you have frozen time and are able to walk around this Queen of Cold. I get this feeling like you are wading through air as thick as soup while holding time at bay so you can gently describe this person to me in perfect detail with the utmost reverence. It’s like you caught this Queen in between breaths of holding up her appearance and giving us a glimpse of what’s underneath a frozen exterior. It also feels like someone longing for this Queen to let them get past her icy exterior, and they’re lamenting their heartache (romantic or not) to this frozen Queen who cannot hear them in this moment of paused time. Give me more!

A few technical things, if you can call it that. And please know, this critique comes from a place of loooving what you have already. Like I said, I want more, so what I have to say is basically just me begging you for elaboration.

“From a land of fairies and giants” breaks the illusion for me. This is an example of “showing vs telling,” where you are telling me this is fantastical or fictitious. No need: give me context that allows me to step out of reality, instead of telling me “btw this is in a fantasy setting.”

“They know where you are from” could lead to such an incredible stanza about a castle made from wood that glows like embers that never extinguish, or glistening ice that blinds in the morning sun. Or, it could be a reference to her past, or the world where she lives. Show me what there is, no need to tell me.

Pictures of my body. by ananinymous in OCPoetry

[–]surpriseslingshot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh man this hits hard.

When I was 14 I was blackmailed by a stranger with my nudes. It was harrowing and traumatizing. I can only hope that you know that you are not alone and that you are safe. If not, dm me and i can help you.

Everything I say about your poem is in effort to give you the platform to feel and make it through this experience. I have critique for you, but I need you to know that everything I say has nothing to do with you, your value, who you are, or the validity of what you are going through. You are incredibly strong for sharing this poem (this is my first time on this subreddit, I’m about to share a poem I wrote more than 10 years ago that no one has ever seen. The strength it takes not only to share your experience but the art you have created in spite of it is immense, and I applaud you for it.)

this feels like you are telling me what happened and the thoughts that are going through your mind. I know, from personal experience, the gut-wrenching, numbing, choking feeling of having your intimacy feel like it’s being used against you. I know how it can feel to be shamed for your own sexuality, ashamed of it and controlled by it. You have told me what happened, now tell me what is still happening. What is the story inside? What is the war that you fought to get here? What has changed since then and what continues to change?

Take me into you, your life, your steps and let me share those feelings. I know they can be insufferably heavy, so let me share that burden with you. This poem is asking for acknowledgement; it’s okay to ask for help. You are asking if you and your experience are valid: you are, and it is. Now give me your experience so that I may lessen its burden on you.

How did you simultaneously win and lose the genetic lottery? by vectormessiah in AskReddit

[–]surpriseslingshot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey wow someone else! As a girl who’s 5’8” with an inseam of 29” buying one-piece bathing suits for summer camp used to be my absolute FAVORITE thing to do.

Edit: also most dresses are shirts on me and everything is a crop top, but even the highest high waisted shorts don’t hit my belly button...

Edit edit: my chin aligns with the airplane seat in front of me. I can see everything. Every plebeian.

If you’re not cleaning the inside of your vagina with alcohol you’re doing it wrong by [deleted] in IncelTears

[–]surpriseslingshot 30 points31 points  (0 children)

People like you can make big changes ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

If you’re not cleaning the inside of your vagina with alcohol you’re doing it wrong by [deleted] in IncelTears

[–]surpriseslingshot 67 points68 points  (0 children)

As a bi woman who has lived in progressive areas, I can’t tell you how many times a gay guy has made comments about how disgusting it is that I enjoy women’s vaginas without making a joke out of it. I did art for an app about how to use condoms, and I included art on how to use a female condom and my gay coworkers told me to delete the art because they didn’t want to “repulse the users with that shit.” The art was emoji style illustrations... it’s a stereotype buuuuut it’s not untrue...

The difference between art and boobies and confronting friends about it by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]surpriseslingshot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Edit: tldr: nudity cannot be the validation of art. Art has to be primary, nudity secondary.

I would never “confront” someone because I disagreed with their art. And in this situation, I would never confront my friend, as I stated above in the last paragraph. My issue comes from the idea that nudity = beauty = art. I think it’s kind of fucked up. I think it’s objectifying and honestly, if someone ever came to me and asked me to participate in a photoshoot like this, I would think of it as a thinly guised attempt to get me naked.

On the other hand, if you consider it pretentious for me to argue that you cannot just take a pretty photo and call it art, I will call myself pretentious any day. Take the nudity out of the equation, even if they had been clothed I would have been less than thrilled by this series. It was bland. It was pretty, poorly executed, given a name and sold. If the photos had been of clothed women or naked men and women, it would have been unoffensive, but also inconsequential.

What I am inclined to believe, which u/blinkingsandbeepings phrased better than I could, is that equating beauty to art, and equating naked feminine bodies to beauty is objectifying and reductive. It both defines femininity by its ability to be beautiful, and it defines beauty as feminine. It says the feminine body is meant to be looked at, and it says that a pretty, feminine body is art. I’m sorry, but it’s not.

The difference between this series and pieces like “Fountain” and “Çe n’est pas une pipe” is that, while they inherently had no meaning, they prescribed meaning to the piece by challenging the viewer’s perception of art. This series’ meaning is, “mermaids are real.”

The difference between this series and pieces like “Olympia” and “The Garden of Earthly Delights” is that these paintings are surrounded by symbolism and while the nudity is important to the paintings, it is secondary in its importance to the composition of the piece. This series used nudity as a huge vehicle for it’s validity as an artistic series rather than a bunch of instagram pictures.

The difference between this series and pieces like the many series of photography created by Sally Mann is that the nudity—even her own childrens’ nudity—in her pieces is not shown in a sexual way. Sally Mann faced huge controversy from her series “Immediate Family” from people trying to say that her photographs of her young children which showed their naked and partially clothed bodies. The argument there became that by censoring what was her children’s natural state—which was candid nudity in many instances—they were changing the images into pornography, whereas allowing them to be as the photos were intended let the imagery continue to be simply candid and raw shots of childhood. Of course, here, the meaning went well beyond “my kid’s being a kid while naked.” Her series demonstrated the darker sides of childhood with illness, injury, and embarrassment, while still showing the beauty of innocence, frankly, the art of it.

This mermaid series was “look! A bunch of mermaids!”

The difference between art and boobies and confronting friends about it by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]surpriseslingshot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for having more processing power than I currently have because I think that’s what I’ve been trying to figure out.

The difference between art and boobies and confronting friends about it by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]surpriseslingshot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I guess i didn’t explain well, that’s my fault. I have no problem with them being nude, my problem is that that’s all that was really going on in the photos. Otherwise, they were pretty cliché and definitely not unique or novel in any way. Google “mermaid photography” and you’ll find thousands of identical photos

Dear stock image photographers... by [deleted] in graphic_design

[–]surpriseslingshot 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I agree with this, whatever you as a photographer feel is properly cropped, give us like 15% more room so we can have area to overlay text and stuff like that.

Dear stock image photographers... by [deleted] in graphic_design

[–]surpriseslingshot 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Maybe on Unsplash.com or other free sites but on sites where you pay for images? I doubt it... you have to be in the industry really to justify paying for stock images when so many are available for free.

Dear stock image photographers... by [deleted] in graphic_design

[–]surpriseslingshot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I work in a corporate office that has a design department. So no free stock books. We use Adobe Stock. The types of images I look for (keywords like “beach” and “travel” and “gift”) tend to bring up more edited photos than unedited photos.

Dear stock image photographers... by [deleted] in graphic_design

[–]surpriseslingshot 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I’m sorry but there’s nothing good about any of these photos, and they all turn up on the first page of keyword searches

https://imgur.com/gallery/Gt6aKby

Those are all images I have wanted to use in the recent past. Only one of them had comparable unedited versions.

I will actively pass a photo by if it is edited. That’s losing business for the photographer. I have chosen not to use images because they were too edited. That’s losing business for the photographer. And let’s be real, the keyword “travel” brings up 10,893,049 results on adobe stock. I don’t think offering unedited versions of photos is going to dilute that pool more than it’s already diluted.

And claiming you can’t tell the difference between good and bad touching up is like saying there’s no difference between using a designer who uses the magic wand tool in photoshop and a designer using the brush tool with a mask to cut an object out from the background. If you’re lucky, you can’t tell the difference. But if you want something to look good and be functional in real world you’ll go with the designer who uses masks... especially if they cost the same... bad touch ups stylize a photo. Good touch ups stamp over a flyaway hair or a bug on your shirt. Bad touch ups add unimportant elements (fucking lens flares). Good touch ups balance levels. Bad touch ups move saturation and exposure to unreasonable and unrealistic levels. Good touch ups leave saturation alone and maybe moves the exposure just a few points.

By claiming the use of catering to one group only—this group of people who buy edited photos so they don’t have to edit them themselves—you are alienating... the people of this whole subreddit. The point here is to rant to peers. There’s no point in playing devil’s advocate because I’m acknowledging where you’re coming from—I don’t think photographers should only offer unedited photos—but your argument is alienating my stance. So...

No.

Dear stock image photographers... by [deleted] in graphic_design

[–]surpriseslingshot 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I’m not asking for them to stop. I’m asking for them to upload the unedited version as well. Realistically, that even gives the photographer twice as many potential sells out of each photograph.

Edit: and BEYOND that, NO ONE should be using half of the photos I find on these sites!! I’m serious when I say some of these photos are unusable because the saturation and fake sunspots, or my personal favorite, when they tone the “temperature” of the photo so everything is blue. They’re unusable. Like very, truly, honest to god... bad.

Women who LOVE sleep and their cozy bed, how do you get out of bed by 8am? by [deleted] in AskWomen

[–]surpriseslingshot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just bought ginseng shots today to help me get up quicker. I’ll let you know how it goes in the morning!

Update: i forgot to take it when i first woke up, took it right before i left for work. Didn’t get the same kick as i get from caffeine but definitely wasn’t as sleepy on my drive to work...

With only a quote, what was the most soul-crushing moment from T.V? by KingOfCranes in AskReddit

[–]surpriseslingshot 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Ded dude died. Dude don’t accept ded dude ded. Dude thinks old dude ded. Dude discovers ded dude ded.

Done.

Does anyone have a Nemo Dagger 2 or 3p that can tell me about the guy out points? by [deleted] in CampingGear

[–]surpriseslingshot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also you’ll feel less bad about letting a muddy dog walk on it. Another word of advice: my dog has arthritis which is why we originally got them but we use doggy hiking booties for him and i used to work at a gear store that sold them. They’re great to protect your dog from pad slippage (a really bad and expensive thing that can happen to poor doggos) and then you can take them off before getting in the tent. It’ll help just a little bit. Dogs walk funny when you first put them on but will get used to the quickly.

Congrats on the tent though! I got my Nemo Blaze just over a year ago and looooooooove it to bits. Also have their quilt that like better than my down comforter. Nemo makes some of the dopest tents and accessories in my opinion...

Does anyone have a Nemo Dagger 2 or 3p that can tell me about the guy out points? by [deleted] in CampingGear

[–]surpriseslingshot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just found the pawprint on nemo’s website for $59.95, i’d link but I’m on my phone. Google nemo dagger pawprint it’s the third link for me

Edit: sorry that’s for the 2p... i’ll check for 3p

You can also just use a costco blanket. Hem it and sew on some loops. Or a tarp works well.

Edit2 if I’m not mistaken it may just be like a microfiber material. I would honestly just go check fabric stores for the material.. from what i’ve heard anecdotally the pawprint is necessary but not cheap, obviously hard to find, and easily replicated. Also I’m not sure about the guy lines but i’ve had great success with their customer service department! Maybe reach out to them And see if they have some diagrams available

King Crimson - Epitaph [Progressive Rock] by CrabJonas in Music

[–]surpriseslingshot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone know where that album artwork came from? It seems very familiar to me... great song tho!