u/blueskiesandaerosol

Don't know how to do multiple flair, so CW: IWL

I've been fat my whole life. My mom was fat, my dad is thin. My older brother has yo-yo'd but usually on the bigger side. My mom was constantly dieting and she never lost much weight, despite being an active lady. She took me along for the ride with many of those diets in tm childhood, to my detriment. But, in my 20s, I really developed a good relationship with my body, in that I wasn't CONSTANTLY trying to change it. I've been basically the same size for many years now, after the gain that many folks have in their early 20s. I truly bieve in fat liberation! In a way, being fat feels like part of my heritage, and I feel that living fat and happy would be a service to my ancestors (or at least the memory of my mom). There are things I LOVE about being fat, like that I float in water completely effortlessly!

At the same time, I'm in my early 30s now and there are some things I wish were easier. I wish flying and roller coasters were more comfortable, that I didn't roll my eyes at patio chairs with arms, and that I had more options when clothes shopping. But most of those things are not problems with my body itself, they're problems with the environment my body interacts with, if that makes sense.

I don't struggle with over-eating (if anything, remembering to eat consistently is the struggle for me--I have poor interoception when it comes to that), so I don't think the "food noise reduction" component applies to me. I haven't been to the doctor for a little while so I don't know for sure, but I've never been told I need to lose weight for labs reasons. My BP last I checked was slightly elevated but not high. So I don't know whether I actually have any real medical reasons to be on a GLP-1. But the weight loss component is appealing to a part of me.

I've never been small, but I find myself wondering if even being a bit small*er* could make some things easier/my life fuller. But another part of me rebels against that thought because I really do like my body itself--it's the way my body fits into the world and the way other people see it that is sometimes inconvenient-- so shouldn't I live proudly in a bigger body and fight for better societal conditions for fat people?

Then there is the skepticism I have about them being a relatively new thing. I worry there are things we don't know about the consequences, that will be found out 20 years from now and end up being a massive public health crisis as we discover the long-term negatives.

Anyway, has anyone else wrestled with similar considerations? I'm interested in hearing from other folks on how your thought processes went.

I have a 24" Ashford 8-shaft table loom, which I do enjoy but am often frustrated with. I don't have issues with needing to work the levers by hand, but I have to advance the warp very often and the shed is not very big so getting shuttles through can be a pain. I'm dreaming of a floor loom like the Baby Wolf, but I also am wary of buying hobby equipment if I if won't actually feel like a big upgrade/make me more inclined to engage in the hobby. I mostly like to make towels, and improvised fabric to sew into bags. But, especially when I have sections of plain weave, I'm just so bored and annoyed by advancing the warp every 2 minutes & fighting the shuttles that it makes me not want to weave 😞

Is the difference in the experience in these areas significant? Or am I grass-is-always-greenering?

Edit: Thank you everybody for your thoughts!! Sounds like I need to start saving up & watching the buy/sell groups

The world I'm playing in had a very cool village near spawn that was split between the top and bottom of a big hill near a river. I did a bunch of work to get multiple staircases between the two levels to make sure they could reach all of it and wouldn't get stuck on the cliffside (for the most part). I popped into creative mode so I could use the dirt path block, since I read something about them preferring to keep to those paths.

After a while, they totally abandonded the lower area and part of the middle. The villagers that once had jobs near the river and in the building on the middle-left of the screenshot are seemingly now just normal guys and never go down there anymore. They do still use the middle-right portion with the church. I had to add a bunch more beds up top because so many were just wandering around aimlessly at night, or standing around next to beds where other villagers were sleeping!

I've gathered that now that I've placed more beds, they'll have all "claimed" their spot up top, and I know I could remove their beds & force some down the hill and re-place beds there, but how can I prevent them from abandoning half the village again in the future? And are there any better strategies for vertical transport that they would use autonomously? Also open to mod suggestions that would help with their AI in this regard

https://preview.redd.it/htdbgd0gs0yg1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=d564289567c2f6546aad2871e9779fd9e3a36bf1

Edit: Oh also, I'm playing on Java 1.21.11, if it matters at all