Critter Room

For art and stuff, She/They, all around gender mess.

[birdandmoon]

A snake story, based on an experience I had while I was in Florida.

[critterroom]

I still don’t know how Tumblr works but I should try.

[lastoneout]

sometimes I don't think I could be autistic and/or like all that neurodivergent and then other times my fiancé makes a practical and logical argument as to why we don't need a tiny colander that's too small for most tasks and that to save space in the sink/cabinets I should learn to use the medium sized one and honestly we should probably just get rid of the small one and I am filled with such an immense rush of panic and discomfort and grief that I can't even explain it properly until I am saying shit like "the tiny colander is my friend" and "using the big one just FEELS wrong, you know, like going to albertsons instead of safeway" and "next you're gonna tell me I have to use the big soup spoons instead of the little ones and I'll pass away" and I can tell while he does love me and isn't actually mad he def thinks I'm being super illogical and can't fully understand why

like yes I KNOW I am being illogical I am well aware of that...however!! If things are different I will die and if I have to get rid of object that is my friend I will ALSO die, and the only explanation I have is "I like to have things a very specific way even if it doesn't make sense or is less convenient or wastes time and space and changing it is REALLY hard I can't just go "oh you're right" and then change it just doesn't work like that" which is like.....not a great explanation I don't think but that's literally all I've got so???

and like this is legit the only thing we ever "argue" over(bcs we aren't actually fighting we're just talking) it's just him being like "hey the way you do things is inefficient and doesn't make a lot of sense, wouldn't it be easier/make more sense to do it this way?" and then me scrambling to try to articulate "that's fair, but this is the way I do things, I can't change that" in a way that doesn't make me sound dismissive or insane or something which doesn't really seem to work all that well, or like...isn't really getting what I mean across correctly at the very least

[lastoneout]

using the little colander and the small desert spoons and the medium sized plates and cups makes me happy okay!! I can FEEL the serotonin buzzing around in my skull!! I am tiny I have small hands I want to use the little dishes that are me sized!! they are cute and my friends and the big dishes are my enemies!! I know this doesn't make sense but it does hope that helps!!

[critterroom]

This is incredibly relatable. I have learned to literally just say “my brain doesn’t like it, I need to do it like this”. I have diagnosed ADHD, but I do wonder sometimes.

[sleepycatten]

PSA

Steam Support do make exceptions and allow you to update your Steam account name (login) for trans/non-binary folks.

r/transgamers - Steam Support do make exceptions and allow you to update your Steam account name (login)

257 votes and 12 comments so far on Reddit

I wanted to share the details here also.

#Steam #Valve #gaming #gayming #trans #transgender #enby #NonBinary #genderqueer #genderfluid #agender #LGBTQ #queer

[hawk-feathers]

This little bug has thoroughly stolen my heart.

[might-be-a-potato]

[bloo-the-dragon]

@crow-with-a-pencil

[originaljediinjeans]

[greenstudies]

Random pieces of advice

The world is less scary and chaotic if you lie down on the floor

Noticing different kinds of light (stars, candles, sunshine or city lights) can bring back the feeling of wonder and hope

If you can’t shower, washing your hands and face will help you feel better and cleaner

If you can’t clean anything else, changing and/or washing your bedsheets can do wonders

Fresh air and being outside in general can help with depersonalisation

Spending time around animals can help you recognise what’s important and calm anxious thought cycles

Techniques for emotional regulation in children can really help adults too

Putting random asortment of food on a plate without creating an actual dish still counts as a meal

Drink something warm

Delete that app

Treat yourself as if you were a kid. Buy yourself a toy, play around, learn about cool new things

Fast paced life isn’t morally better and it’s not good for everyone

There is no good reason to keep yourself hungry

Singing to your full lung capacity can be a great way to let out built up emotion

Tension in the face can cause headaches. Try to massage your face regularly

Nothing is as important as your health

You are a whole person on your own, you don’t need someone else to be there to deserve love and attention. Your life can be full as long as you are present

You should cry things out whenever you feel like it

Slow walks are still movement and they do count

It’s never as bad as you imagine it

Try changing your toothpaste flavor if you hate brushing your teeth

Anything can be a stim toy - one of my favourites is a heavy dragon necklace that has a complicated surfice. It’s fun to touch and hold and it’s not even “actual” stim toy

Procrastinating and feeling bad about it is true waste of time. Learn to truly rest. It takes the same amount of time but it is useful

Sometimes you have to force yourself to do the things that make you feel better

Don’t trust the thoughts you have after not sleeping for a while

Friendships don’t have to be forever to mean something

[smut-lab]

Inktober day 4: “Curse”

[critterroom]

After two years and five months on estrogen pills, I have switched to injections, and today I did my first dose. Kind of just wanted to share with someone ☺️

[critterroom]

Tbh all the bots kind of made this place feel ackward to be in, so I stopped trying and now I feel a little disconnected.

Gonna start getting rid of them.

[witchiridescent]

As an egg, I cucked way too many straight guys via their bi girlfriends. I was a terror. I'm sorry. As recompense, upon request, I will send feet pics to any of those I've cucked.

[crabanarchy]

you can’t use a portal gun to have sex with your own butt because every time you thrust your butt would get further away. You’d be like tantalus in the garden

[buy-these-potions]

[witchiridescent]

You could make it work if you placed a portal on a movable platform. Thrusting would be replaced with just moving the platform towards and away from your body

[witchiridescent]

Gift certificates for pharmacies are real and depressingly American

[critterroom]

Practicing anatomy

[critterroom]

Trying out gouache brushes and colored pencil in procreate.

[witchiridescent]

Getting lesbiab married in Skyrim feels better than being disappointed by irl family

At least Aela the huntress has my back 🤣🥲

[critterroom]

Self care painting, felt like doing something with sunset colors.

[witchiridescent]

Avatar 2: The Last Waterbender is was a good movie. It always feels good to watch fascists and evil opportunistic capitalists get shot in the chest with big arrow.

The Avatarians are profoundly cishet though. Them adhering to the same patriarchal bullshit feels typical and lazy. It’s like: of course these aliens follow the same father-led nuclear family structure, with societies lead by single men, and gender roles are easy to spot from a mile away and they’re all straight. Huge blue ppl with tails and worship nature? Audiences love it. A queer one? I don’t think so. People can’t relate to that.

Fuck yeah to anarchist whales though! And communally owned property (mostly animals) was good to see. I’m so glad this movie wasn’t married to capitalist ideology the way it is cishet and patriarchal ideologies.

Also Spider was a flat character that was only around to allow those taking advantage of him to appear more complex (racist step-mom and bio-dad) Which felt pretty shitty to go completely unaddressed.