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[the-silly-words-on-your-screen]

this is fred, the dot.

fred wants to grow into a beautiful tree, but sadly has no branches

reblog to give fred a branch

i will post fred status updates as he grows

[the-silly-words-on-your-screen]

look at him go!

[the-silly-words-on-your-screen]

he's figuring out how to tree!

[the-silly-words-on-your-screen]

35 reblogs, he's growing so good :D

[the-silly-words-on-your-screen]

75 reblogs, fred continues to grow

reminder to spread out your branches (ie. dont spam reblogs on one post), he's starting to get a little crowded near the trunk :(

[gallusrostromegalus]

At 1788 Reblogs, Fred is spreading nicely... But We Can Do Better :)

[siderealglimmer]

I would like to see the Fred again please

[the-choir-invisible]

[siderealglimmer]

Oh, ✨Fred!✨

🤩

[cantotallyeven]

This is Fred the post. Please help Fred the Post grow more. We love Fred the Post.

[myheartalivewrites]

Fashion Forward Friday

Oh hi, @everwitch-magiks thanks for tagging me in this! Brand new game *jazz hands*! Perfect timing as I spent my evening yesterday dicking about on Pinterest and Canva instead of writing.

We're entering OC territory here, but here are a couple of the pics I picked for my new main guys:

Nobody needs to try and guess who they are lol though we're obviously still in historical romance territory as it seems Foxden did not completely scratch that itch. All I can say is: shirtsleeves + suspenders combo have rotted my brain and that man will not be putting on a jacket if I have anything to say about it.

Right, here are some tags for friends! If you fancy playing, post pictures of what your characters are wearing in your latest WIP and challenge your followers to guess who's wearing it:

@porcelainmortal @cha-melodius @blueeyedgrlwrites @duchessdepolignaca03 @14carrotghoul

@kiwiana-writes @thesleepyskipper @welcometololaland @rmd-writes @caterpills

@faketrex @onetwistedmiracle @piratefalls @firenati0n @ninzied

@sherryvalli @tintagel-or-cockleshells @whimsymanaged @cricketnationrise @celaestis1

and AS ALWAYS anyone who fancies joining in, do tag me!

Have a good Friday night, everyone 😘

[celaestis1]

[celaestis1]

Sweet Little Lies Chapter 20

The fic is complete!

Alex and Henry find their happy ending.

[celaestis1]

Sweet Little Lies Chapter 19

June needs help with poetry, Nora needs help with censuses, and Alex gets his Elle Woods moment.

[obsidianpegasus-deactivated2025]

Say it with me:

I am a writer. Not a content-producing machine. I am a writer. Not a content-producing machine. I am a writer. Not a content-producing machine.

It’s okay if I don’t have time to write. It’s okay if a chapter is delayed. It’s okay if my words come out messy. It’s okay if I need to take a break. It’s okay if I don’t update every week, every month, or even every year.

My value as a writer is not measured by how fast I post. My worth is not defined by kudos, bookmarks, or comments.

I am allowed to be slow. I am allowed to rest. I am allowed to write for joy, not for an algorithm.

I am a writer. Not a content-producing machine.

And if anyone thinks otherwise, they can wait.

[celaestis1]

Sweet Little Lies Chapter 18

Emails, emails emails emails. From Alex to Henry.

And then from Henry to Alex.

[celaestis1]

Sweet Little Lies Chapter 17

Alex and Henry try to come to grips with what's just happened.

[cheese-greater-official]

*cough gay cough*

[oceaneyes1834-deactivated202312]

*cue vine voice* Oh my god, they were roommates...

[cheese-greater-official]

Cary grant and Randolph Scott lived together for 11 years in their mansion entitled the bachelor pad there are press pictures of the two of them living in a completely wonderfully domestic setting

When Cary grant has to marry as to stop the rumours of their gayness he became very depressed, him and his wife divorced 13 months later

[cheese-greater-official]

Putting more pictures here because yes

[ladyoftheharbour]

Also they reason said wife divorced Cary is bc Randolph “refused to leave” their home and Cary wouldn’t kick him out.

[theparadigmshifts]

[lamardeuse]

I’d seen some of these pub stills before but not all of them, imagine middle America looking at this and thinking they were just bachelors sharing a house holy fuck

[sashayed]

just gentlemen being friendtlemen

[keroa]

what kind of dad did/do you have

🐟 fishing/hunting dad

💻 tech dad

🎥 theater/film dad

🏈 sports dad

🍺 beer dad

🎰 gambler dad

🎮 gamer dad

🎵 music dad

🔫 guns/war history dad

🚫 no dad.....

Voting ended onSep 1, 2025

[celaestis1]

#hiking dad is also not listed #walking #mountaineering #where is dad he's up ben nevis

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

you have to explain the nearest item on your right side to a mediaeval peasant, can you do it?

yes

no

i get called a witch

barely

somewhat?

results

Voting ended onAug 29, 2025

[celaestis1]

Sweet Little Lies Chapter 16

In which shit is about to hit the fan and all of Alex's problems are about to collapse in on him at once.

[celaestis1]

Sweet Little Lies Chapter 15

Miscommunication abounds!

with the inevitable angst, self-loathing and emotional pain attached.

As always please mind the tags in the fic.

[celaestis1]

Sweet Little Lies Chapter 14

This one's got every angst trope in the book - undeclared love, anxiety, miscommunication, canon switch-up, internal anguish, the PINING

anyway enjoy

[nudityandnerdery]

[moodringsformushrooms]

that’s a good one

[celaestis1]

Sweet Little Lies Chapter 13!

June and Oscar confront Alex on his secret, and Henry reflects it's no bad thing to be young and beautiful.

[mooniicorn]

“If autism isn’t caused by environmental factors and is natural why didn’t we ever see it in the past?”

We did, except it wasn’t called autism it was called “Little Jonathan is a r*tarded halfwit who bangs his head on things and can’t speak so we’re taking him into the middle of the cold dark forest and leaving him there to die.”

[iamthethunder]

Or “little Jonathan doesn’t talk but does a good job herding the sheep, contributes to the community in his own way, and is, all around, a decent guy.” That happened a lot, too, especially before the 19th century.

[rosslynpaladin]

Or, backing up FURTHER

and lots of people think this very likely,

“Oh little Sionnat has obviously been taken by the fairies and they’ve left us a Changeling Child who knows too much, and asks strange questions, and uses words she shouldn’t know, and watches everything with her big dark eyes, clearly a Fairy Child and not a Human Like Us.”

The Myth of the Changeling child, a human baby apparently replaced at a young age by a toddler who “suddenly” acts “strange and fey” is an almost textbook depiction of autistic children.

To this day, “autism warrior mommies” talk about autism “stealing” their “sweet normal child” and have this idea of “getting their real baby back” which (in the face of modern science)  indicates how the human psyche actually does deal with finding out their kid acts unlike what they expected.

Given this evidence, and how common we now know autism actually is, the Changeling myth is almost definitely the result of people’s confusion at the development of autistic children.

[vicecommanderhijikata]

Weirdly enough, that legend is now comforting to me.

[neddythestylish]

I think it’s worth noting that many like me, who are diagnosed with ASD now, would probably have been seen as just a bit odd in centuries past. I’m only a little bit autistic; I can pass for neurotypical for short periods if I work really hard at it. I have a lack of talent in social situations, and I’m prone to sensory overload or you might notice me stimming.

But here’s the thing: life is louder, brighter and more intense and confusing than it has ever been. I live on the edge of London and I rarely go into the centre of town because it’s too overwhelming. If I went back in time and lived on a farm somewhere, would anyone even notice there was anything odd about me? No police sirens, no crowded streets that go on for miles and miles, no flickery electric lights. Working on a farm has a clear routine. I’d be a badass at spinning cloth or churning butter because I find endless repetition soothing rather than boring.

I’m not trying to romanticise the past because I know it was hard, dirty work with a constant risk of premature death. I don’t actually want to be a 16th century farmer! What I’m saying is that disability exists in the context of the environment. Our environment isn’t making people autistic in the sense of some chemical causing brain damage. But we have created a modern environment which is hostile to autistic people in many ways, which effectively makes us more disabled. When you make people more disabled, you start to see more people struggling, failing at school because they’re overwhelmed, freaking out at the sound of electric hand dryers and so on. And suddenly it looks like there’s millions more autistic people than existed before.

[grace-and-ace]

“…disability exists in the context of the environment.”

[coldalbion]

Reblog for disability commentary.

[oockitty]

That last paragraph is absolutely important.

[hazeldomain]

“How come nobody ever heard of ‘dyslexia’ until widespread literacy became a thing?”

[transificationbeem]

That dyslexia comment is genius

[darkphoenixlady]

Interestingly, Dyslexia is less common in non-english speaking countries. And almost unheard of in countries that use some sort of pictograms for lettering (e.g. Chinese and Japanese).