The Aberration

Sol / Selen | 20s | he/they | plural, queer, disabled, tired

[aberratedd]

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[aberratedd]

aight gang the askbox is open again for shiggles

we still don't really use tumblr but i like having it open because getting asks in on occasion is fun sometimes

[theprofessional-amateur]

Me when I contact IT and tell them yes I restarted and followed any instructions I could but computer still angry and IT says they are escalating this because it is an actual issue: I am getting a good grade in service desk ticket. Something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve.

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[grison-in-space]

I'm pretty sure that as much as anything this skill boils down to frustration tolerance. I see people melting down at the first sign of needing to search for instructions all the time. Teaching them to get through it becomes as much about teaching them to handle the emotional experience of not knowing as anything else.

[cuttledreams-bugs]

I deliver a friend feel free to spread it as you please

[bisexualseraphim]

ADHD at night: I could write a book. I could get my Master’s Degree. I could go to the club and come home with 12 new friends. I could get a job at that club and meet the mother of my children. I could cure every disease and use my wealth to bring world peace.

ADHD during the day: Fold laundry too hard :( Come back next week

[writing-prompt-s]

The hero is a strict pacifist and refuses to ever use violence to deal with villains. It keeps working, not because they are so great, but because the villains still remember the previous hero and are in agreement that they really want to keep the current one.

[wrenchswango]

I love chain lightening what a classic spell. fuck you and you and you and you and you and

[wrenchswango]

too many dweebs think this is about dnd, this is real life. this is how I get to the front of the line at five guys.

[aberratedd]

man some people really need hobbies huh

[aberratedd]

anyways i'm choosing not to post that one publicly and i'mma just turn off asks cuz it's not like we use tumblr much in general lol

[aberratedd]

man some people really need hobbies huh

[aberratedd]

deleted an unhinged ask we got. anon i'mma need you to grow some braincells and not immediately believe everything you hear on the internet. lol lmao.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

nearest place to your home that you can buy a food item? any food item.

less than 100m

less than 500m

less than 1km

less than 1.5km

less than 2km

less than 3km

less than 4km

less than 5km

5km or more

Voting ended onApr 25

Instant free online tool for kilometer to mile conversion or vice versa. The kilometer [km] to mile [mi, mi(Int)] conversion table and conve

americans can use this

[pangur-and-grim]

okay you have to admit, this is peak romance

[pangur-and-grim]

the ‘meet-cute’ in this book happens because the castle residents keep live demons in the cellar to eat as delicacies, and the evil alien happens to take a fancy to this one. so he basically pulls the lobster out of the tank of a seafood restaurant and starts dating it

[pangur-and-grim]

WAIT I finally remembered why I thought of the 'evil alien isekai'd into a fantasy world' thing to begin with!

I was watching a video essay about isekais, and the guy was saying that main characters tend to be generic, because presenting an everyman that you can project on allows viewers to "escape" into the fantasy. and I was thinking, that's stupid. if I ever made an isekai, I'd make the main guy the most specific least relatable person possible. and that's how Protactinium-231 the brain slug came to be

[mfshipbracket]

BONUS ROUND: Aang/Katara (ATLA) VS Kylo Ren/Rey (Star Wars)

Aang/Katara

Kylo Ren/Rey

Voting ended onMay 23, 2023

[charlesoberonn]

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[charlesoberonn]

I just looked through OP's blog and every single poll is a popular m/f ship vs. reylo (with similar results). I don't understand.

[cordezshenanigans]

There was an actual bracket, but reylo got obliterated in round one, and after the poll was done, someone suggested it would be funny to do a "bonus round" where every tournament contestant is pitted against reylo to see how many ships, if any, reylo can beat

[charlesoberonn]

I hope it's none.

[lindleland]

It is beating exactly one of them.

[beenovel]

NOTHING could have prepared me for that

[schizoscope]

i do think eventually the mentally ill / neurodivergent community is going to have to confront the elephant in the room that sometimes things are at the same time a) symptoms of your mental illness, and b) abusive behaviors.

i fully understand how frustrating it is to be met with a lack of understanding when you've done something bad because of being triggered, or delusional, or splitting, or another alter, or what-have-you. it feels unfair because that's just how your brain works, isn't it ableism/saneism to hold you accountable for being neurodivergent?

but, a lot of the time, it's not. you are not entitled to hurt the people around you just because you have ptsd/schizospec/bpd/npd/did/etc etc etc. your behaviors are not suddenly less abusive or bad just because you have a mental illness. it's nice when people are understanding and forgiving about it! it is! but you're not entitled to that. people are fully within their rights to say you hurt them, and even that they're leaving.

[unteriors]

Elm Street, McKenzie, Tennessee.

[395nm]

Fuck Meyer-Briggs whatever typology. This INTFP shit is only for redditors up their own asses to substitute for a personality. Use my new typology instead!

Your ideal environment is:

Hot/Cold

Wet/Dry

Bright/Dark

Loud/Quiet

[bedupolker]

HWBL - beach boy

HWBQ - tropical fish

HWDL - dingy club bathroom hookup

HWDQ - the swamp woman

HDBL - CoachellaBurningmanSouthbysouthwestACL attendee

HDBQ - Lizard

HDDL - Vegas babeyyyy

HDDQ - Trapped in a slot canyon

CWBL - Rowdy Lobsterman Crew

CWBQ - penguin living

CWDL - port angeles basement show

CWDQ - bruminating amphibian/hypothermic mammal

CDBL - ski resort

CDBQ - Christmas in Nebraska

CDDL - mcmurdo station rave

CDDQ - corpse

[junglejim4322]

Unironically I think the early to mid 20s age group in America has unbelievably bad consent boundaries on all levels and so much language to defend it but this makes me sound like elon musk if I say it however the commonality of someone who will be like “I had 47 panic attacks and it’s your fault” if you tell them no is insane

[junglejim4322]

I rejected someone and got called “the scariest person I’ve ever met” with so much therapy speak interspersed like alright okay alright okay alright okay

[junglejim4322]

“You just say whatever you’re thinking and I don’t know how to handle it” was verbatim part of this conversation. Also everyone hates to see an autistic bitch

[transhumanisticpanspermia]

When I was in this age bracket, there was a huge emphasis on improving consent culture via graceful rejection, and it's gone by the wayside. Which sucks.

Twice in my youth (once in high school and once in college) I was in situations where I was asking someone out and I could tell they were calculating in their heads the risks of rejecting me, and both times I said, out loud, "you can say no, I wouldn't have asked if I wasn't prepared for either answer." And then they said no. This wasn't some spark of special wisdom I had - I knew to do it because feminist conversations among my age group brought it up regularly. This isn't happening nearly enough anymore.

More recently, I was really glad when we got to "rejection sensitive dysphoria" in my IOP program and it was one of those symptoms where the therapists really emphasized how it affects others. Because it does.

Being someone who cannot handle rejection makes you much more likely to violate boundaries, and yes, that includes sexual ones. Yes, you, reader who has never hurt a fly. If you don't want to stumble backwards into sexually assaulting someone, fix your RSD meltdowns. If you keep them up it's only a matter of time. Because if you're nice enough to interact with, but are known to have RSD meltdowns, guess what happens when your friends and acquaintances need to reject you?