Onomatopoetic Enigma

Almost none of this is mine Almost all of this, I love!

[theperksofbeingahugefuckingcunt]

adhd is so embarrassing ur basically like “I have to have fun right the fuck now or I’m throwing myself off the roof” 90% of the time and you also have very little control over this

[onemillionwordsofcrap]

This was the single most important thing for me to start understanding re: my undiagnosed ADHD, and it's the thing no one tells you except other ADHD sufferers. My brain's reward system is so broken that boredom rapidly becomes indistinguishable from a depressive episode. There's no healthy, normal ability to experience something as simply being a little dull--as soon as my brain isn't getting regular hits of stimulation, I start clawing at the walls. This is what makes working in a structured environment and initiating tasks so difficult for me, not malice or other character flaws.

[finnglas]

What makes it worse is that, if you're like me, when you were growing up, the only way your authority figures knew how to perceive this was "they're just goofing off," and therefore, would deprive you of anything remotely stimulating until you'd done your work, thinking that -- if it worked like it would with an NT kid, you'd do your work faster so you could get back to having fun.

Instead, they just pulled the plug on any tiny bit of power you had running to your necessary brainwaves and put you into longterm shutdown mode.

But then....you grew up...with only that method for coping ingrained into you. So no matter how much you may know logically, now, that you have to have the "fun/interesting/challenging" cord plugged in for your brain to have any juice at all, you feel guilty for having to plug that in FIRST instead of as a reward for doing Adulting. So you just sit there, unplugged, not getting anything done.

Or maybe that's just me.

[hummingirls]

even the most supportive and well meaning people in my life struggle to understand how painful lack of stimulation is, how immobilizing executive dysfunction is, and how i cannot feel satisfaction the way they do. the number of times i’ve been told “won’t it feel so nice to accomplish it and have it off your plate?” and having to explain that i don’t feel relief or pride when i finish a task, just exhaustion, and that’s part of why it’s so hard to even start it

[rohirric-hunter]

And let's not beat around the bush here -- it is physically painful. That's not a metaphor

[penandinkprincess]

what do you MEAN i have to complete tasks tomorrow

i already completed tasks TODAY

[d0n-d13g0]

until WHEN?

[penandinkprincess]

i've been told until the end of my life, but that can't POSSIBLY be accurate

[howdoistormspirit]

Can confirm. Source: My parents still do daily tasks, and so did my late grandparents

[penandinkprincess]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i worry we are losing touch with the True Meaning Of Halloween (avoiding the fairies)

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

celebrate a good old-fashioned Halloween with the very important traditions of:

lighting candles in jack o'lanterns (to keep away the fairies)

roasting s'mores on bonfires (to keep away the fairies)

bobbing for apples, fortunetelling, ouija boards, and other assorted divination rituals (to forewarn those doomed to be kidnapped by fairies)

haunted houses (to preach against the dangers that lurk across the veil in the otherworld, home of the fairies)

community effort to stuff kids full of candy (that if whisked away (by the fairies) they might resist the temptation (of strange fae foods) long enough to escape)

disguising your face and identity in elaborate costumes (to keep away the FUCKING FAIRIES)

[aru]

Tumblr Code.

[geekishchic]

If I ever see any of you in public, the code is “I like your shoelaces”

that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything

I’m just going to say this to strangers until i find a tumblr person

must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one tells me this now!

Remember the answer is: I stole them from the president.

always reblog tumblr identification

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

good god this just crossed my dash in the year of our lord 2023

[jeremysknoxes]

I LIKE YOUR SHOELACES??? IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2024??

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Let’s take it to 4 million, folks!

[alt-menu]

almost there!

[sociallyodd260]

TO 4 MILLION!!!!!!!!!

[snarky-wallflower]

THE ORIGINAL SHOELACES POST?? ON MY DASH IN 2024??

[campaignagainstcliche]

roger that

[a-thousand-winds-that-blow]

Image description: A Twitter thread by Seanan McGuire.

It’s easy to say “politics don’t belong in genre fiction” when your existence can be viewed as apolitical: when writing a story with someone Exactly Like You is accepted, applauded, and not greeted with cries of “self-insert” or “Mary Sue.”

Every time I write a female protagonist–every. single. time.–I get asked if she’s secretly me, having a fantastic adventure in my stead. I get asked if the text really justifies her skills and abilities.

Because I work in urban fantasy, which is often viewed as “a girl’s genre,” or, more witheringly, “all vampire porn,” I don’t always get asked why I chose a female POV. But I’ve been asked that about my Mira Grant work.

“Isn’t it distracting to make your lead character a woman?” “I mean, there was no seduction and she didn’t use her feminine wiles to escape, so why not write a man?” (real question a reader really asked with the hole in their face that makes sounds)

(My actual favorite was the person who came to a reading to ask me to re-write FEED so George was a man because “it’s unrealistic for…her…to have survived in the open when there are zombies.” Why? Menstruation.)

Other questions I have been asked by people who enjoy my work and are thus at least trying to communicate in good faith: “Why does blank have to be gay?” “Was it really necessary to make her disabled?” “Why is blank Indian?”

“This story isn’t about…that…so why is blank trans?” “Why are there so many deviant relationships?” “You already wrote a female mad scientist, isn’t this basically the same character?” “Mental illness isn’t fun to read about, why write it?”

“You know you’d have more readers if you stopped writing about this homo crap, right?” “When is blank going to be raped?” “Isn’t it unrealistic for a woman to be that good with a gun?”

It is so easy to pretend fiction is apolitical when you live in a bubble of “the default.” When a thousand books about someone just like you come out monthly, and aren’t interrogated for reasons of identity.

(And no, “this book is bad and it bored me” is not the same as “this book had too many lesbians, ugh politics.” The book full of lesbians can also be bad and boring. You don’t gotta like anything. But don’t pretend you’re apolitical.)

Fiction shouldn’t be apolitical. Shakespeare wasn’t being apolitical. Neither was Shelley, or Baum, or Poe, or anyone else. The politics change; sometimes they become hard to see; they still exist.

But as long as my very existence is enough to make a book “political,” cries of “we want less politics in our fiction” will be very transparent in their source, and very disingenuous.

We process the world through our words, and right now, a lot of people seem to think that because they get to exist as “the default,” the rest of us are being intentionally, aggressively political. Sometimes we are. But sometimes…

Sometimes we just want to be seen. Can’t we just be seen? Can’t we have adventures? Can’t we fight zombies and ride hippos and go to space and summon demons and do everything else that we’ve been letting “the default” do all along? Please?

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[awhoresjourney]

It's an election year in the States and I don't know who needs to hear this but if you value your freedom as every American should you will absolutely vote this year, and I know I'm sick of voting for old white men too, but at least this one isn't going to take away your ability to be able to vote, and rob you of your rights, rob you of your freedoms, and rob you of your civil liberties.

[mrshamill]

that's the truth. go look up project 2025. if you don't want this country to become a dictatorship, vote blue dammit.

[ofsmokenandgold]

Vote blue or be responsible for what happens next - there is no "well I just didn't LIKE the candidates" It's not a marriage proposal - just vote, because if you don't you may never get the chance again.

[blackcentric]

[thetastefulshit]

Reblog if you just wanna fuck the shit outta somebody like right now…or maybe just have them fuck you to sleep 😏

[ilovesquirters252]

True

[soft-caramel]

for pride month 2024 we're gonna nuke 10 of your mutuals' blogs and 9 of them are run by transfems 😍

[soft-caramel]

this is about the blogger you're thinking about. this is about the blogger who had thousands of followers and got nuked for no reason. this is about the one who was always kind and understanding and never did anything wrong, never broke TOS.

but it's also about the blogger you've never heard of. it's about the one on your DNI. this is about the mean one. the one you saw that callout post about. this is about the one who had maybe a few dozen followers at most. this is about the one who's not white. this is about the "problematic" one. this is about the blogger who's annoying, the one who complains all the time. this is about the one you have blocked. the one you reported.

staff only enforces the rules when they want to, on who they want to. i've had so many mutuals whose blogs were deleted just in the last couple months and all but two were transfems. it doesn't matter who "broke TOS" or not (and clearly it doesn't to staff, either) — no one deserves to get cut off from their community. stop fucking nuking my mutuals.

[folly-of-alexandria]

This was posted yesterday. They've since nuked op.

[916gawd-deactivated20190411]

Reblog if you think public libraries are important and should be maintained.

[yoko-goto]

Reblog if you think a woman can be complete without children

[cj-can-art]

Y’ALL HAVE TIME TO REBLOG THIS. IT TAKES LESS THAN FIVE SECONDS.

[nostalgic-teddyy]

We love our black trans men, trans women, non-binary people over here. You are safe here 🫶🏾🏳️‍⚧️

[wilwheaton]

“Fresh off an interview with Time magazine published this week, during which he would not rule out the possibility of violence if he doesn’t win in November — “If we don’t win, you know, it depends. … It always depends on the fairness of the election” — Donald Trump is giving himself wiggle room to cry “rigged” in a key swing state this fall.”

—

Trump Sets Himself Up For Election Denialism 2.0 In Wisconsin This Fall

I’m going to keep saying this until someone in the press does, and people who can do something about it start taking it seriously: Trump is not running a campaign to convince voters he’s their guy. Trump is laying the groundwork to use violence and corruption to stage another coup.

Don’t listen to what he says. Watch what he does.

[traumasurvivors]

Even if I didn’t have a solid plan, in the back of my head, I always assumed I’d kill myself.

Now I’m an adult and people my age have their lives in order and I’m stuck here, confused, because I never planned to be alive and I’m so far behind.

I feel like I’ll never catch up.

[traumasurvivors]

Hey all.

I want to make an addition to this. I made this post a long time ago.

I’m currently back in university, and I’ve made so much progress with my trauma. I’m in a loving relationship.

Things can and will get better. It’s not too late.

Nothing is perfect by any means. But I’m happy I’m still here and didn’t kill myself. I hope you get to that point, too 💕

[traumasurvivors]

The addition is important! I see the original post circulating a lot, but the addition is important!

[traumasurvivors]

New addition two years later. I’m still going strong!

I’m getting married. I’m still in that loving relationship.

I’ve learned that there’s no real timeline. It’s okay. And while it sucks that I lost time, there’s still so much for me to experience and enjoy.

[traumasurvivors]

Newest addition. 7 years after the original post!

I got married last month! My dog is laying on me snoring. I’ve learned to have healthy friendships and relationships. I’ve learned that I’m not alone and that even when things are hard, I’m going to be okay.

[lotrmusical]

never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱

[lotrmusical]

the reviews are in... glad everyone's enjoying song of the worm

[id: tumblr tags reading 'dude This Fucking Rules', 'holy fucking shit! that was legit so cool?', 'holy shit that is fucking metal', 'oh this fucks severely', 'yeah no this fucking SLAPS', 'yo this RULES']

[wilwheaton]

Holy fucking shit this is one of the most incredible things I have ever read. I am dead serious. I PROMISE you that you want to read this, and you're going to immediately send it to all your weird friends who you also know will love it.

[neil-gaiman]

The original link is down -- you can read it at

Song of the Worm - A Poem by Eliza Cook

Song of the Worm is a poem by Eliza Cook. THE worm, the rich worm, has a noble domainIn the field that is stored with its millions of slain

[thehmn]

I’m not knowledgeable enough about the differences between American Protestantism and Nordic Protestantism to say anything deep or groundbreaking about it but hearing the way Americans talk about Protestantism makes it sound like an entirely different religion.

To be clear I’m not religious. The only thing that passed for a religious upbringing was my Religions class in high school. Like most Danes I don’t have any strong feelings about Christianity. It’s just there, Christmas is nice and we get days off from work around Easter.

But just the sentence “Protestant work ethic” as a way to explain why Americans are so overworked sounds kinda humorous to a simple Dane like me. Protestantism is the state religion in Denmark (Evangelical Lutheran to be precise) and we have the highest number of Protestants per capita in the world and yet Americans who move over here often comment on how lazy we are. We leave work early, we have an ungodly number of paid days off (most of them religious), all parents get paid maternity leave and we will break our bosses’ arms if they try to make us work paid overtime too many days in a row. I’m not saying that to brag, it’s just to illustrate what the “Protestant work ethic” looks like in the most Protestant country in the world.

This is super interesting and I need to dig deeper into why Protestantism turned out so differently in our countries.

[skaldish]

It's a lot of things, but I think a major reason is because US forms of protestantism have their origins in the Puritans and Calvinists who first colonized here. They were considered extremist nutjobs even in their time, and it was actually for this reason they were exiled to the Americas from Britain.

My understanding of the Nordic countries though is that they first converted to Catholicism before becoming protestant.

US Evangelical protestantism is a completely different beast from what you have in the Nordic countries. Evangelicals here believe that it's their duty as Christians to bring about the end times and establish God's kingdom on Earth (See: Dispensationalism). They also believe that they are God's warriors, chosen to navigate a world of evil in an effort to save as many people as possible. They will aggressively proselytize, because they believe passing over the opportunity to try to save somebody will impact their own passage into heaven.

It's basically a cult, one that teaches its members to be afraid of examining and understanding their own lived human experience, and instead drown their cognitive functioning in feelings of ecstasy. (Their eyes look glassy and their smiles never come from a place deep within. It's eerie).

I didn't grow up with this religion—I was raised in an a-religious house in a culturally-Catholic part of the US—but I have a friend who did, and I've heard from others who also did. And I've only ever heard horror stories. They require that you kill your personality just to belong to the community.

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