repressed homoeroticism

dustin | he/him | fucking barista

[neenarchive]

covid sucks man i miss when you'd be at a gallery or museum and someone who knows shit would randomly talk to you for ages about the exhibit

[neenarchive]

me, head empty, standing in the museum looking at a painting: huh freakie lookin

lady about to give me her whole art history education for free:

[ruinedchildhood]

[k-uwaiti-deactivated20210813]

don’t ask me “wyd” u know i’m at home deteriorating

[kabaks]

we really do always win

[lesbianredpanda]

✨ They're also nonbinary! ✨

[snappydoodle-deactivated2022051]

Sometimes you gotta make yourself drink water and sit in direct sunlight, like some kind of wilted houseplant

[romcommunist]

“id send you this post but u are dead to me” is such a strange feeling. im retreating to the woods

[anguam]

When you stumble across a meme that perfectly fits the niche of someone you no longer talk to…. like we have parted ways for good reasons but i’m still left with the knowledge that this would make you laugh. What do i do with that

[eclogues]

doesnt my professor realize that i dont want to do this assignment bc im sleeby...

[seblaine]

what do people do if they’re not obsessed with anything

[the-autisticats]

What’s Visual Snow Syndrome (VSS), and why do so many autistic people have it?

I learned about this the other day, when I posted about palinopsia (visual trailing/afterimages) being common in autistic people, and a couple of our followers told me about their VSS. I did some more research, and discovered that I also have it.

Visual Snow Syndrome is a neurological condition that interferes with visual processing. It’s caused by hyperactivity and hyper-excitability of nerves in certain areas of the brain that process visual information.

The core feature of VSS is constantly seeing tiny, fuzzy “feedback” in the environment. It’s kind of like seeing the world through a staticky TV screen. Some people’s visual static is larger than others. Mine is relatively fine-grained, but it gets bigger and more obvious in low lighting.

Some of the other symptoms of VSS include:

Palinopsia (visual trailing/afterimages)

Photophobia (sensitivity to light)

Increased and enhanced ectopic phenomenon, such as floaters, phosphenes, and Scheerer’s phenomenon

Seeing glare, starbursts, and halos around lights

Difficulty seeing at night/in the dark

Seeing random flashes of light and/or color, without cause from the environment

It’s common for people with VSS to experience comorbid migraines, but VSS is not the same thing as migraine aura.

So, why do autistic people often have VSS?

It comes down to the fact that VSS is caused by the hyper-excitability of neurons in areas of the brain that process visual information. A core feature of autism is hyper-excitable neurons, especially in areas of the brain that have to do with sensory processing. So it makes sense that autism would often inadvertently cause VSS.

Here are some illustrations of visual phenomenon that VSS causes, in case you want a better understanding of what the world looks like for me and many other autistic people.

Visual snow/static:

Palinopsia/image trailing:

Scheerer’s Phenomenon (tiny bright moving dots):

Starbursts around lights:

Floaters:

I hope y’all have learned something :)

I’ve found it very intriguing to realize that the way I see the world is more unique than I once knew!

~Eden🐢

[jazzybot4]

Um.

[eimearkuopio]

"oh, I definitely don't have that part of it" she says until she scrolls down and finds out the world doesn't look like that to everyone. (I don't have the image trailing, and I'm not sure about the one below it, but all the others yes)

[tehnakki]

I was recently diagnosed with BVD but I didn't realize all these other visual effects were connected to adhd (also recently diagnosed).

[thebibliosphere]

wHAT

[the-memedaddy]

Meirl

[the-chanel-boots-deactivated202]

so in psychology class we got to learn why foot fetishes are so prevelant! basically your brain stores the structural information for your body generally in the correct order (i.e. the info for your ears is stored next to the info for the head, which is stored next to the neck, etc.) BUT. The info for the feet is stored right next to the info for the genitalia and so sometimes these two sections of information can overlap and make you wanna lick some toes

[puff-to-tuff]

thanks, i hate it

[maxinbc-deactivated20210518]

[omgamazingwtf123-deactivated202]

Normally when y’all post this kinda shit it’s blatantly incorrect, but I’m angry to say that this one is absolutely factual

[biohazrd]

girl help there is not enough enrichment in my enclosure

[whitepeopletwitter]

[drawkill]

How to make a pumpkin head

Since I defs didn’t want to carve a real pumpkin to put on my head and get nasts pumpkin insides all over my hair I decided to paper mache one. Unfortunately there was no good tutorials anywhere so I will share my trial and error knowledge.

First I got some supplies: 1 Punch balloon (they’re rounder and larger they regular balloons), some paper mache stuff in a bag, cardboard, a glue gun, paint, sculpey clay, tape, some news paper and some water and flour mixed together.

I then put at least three - five paper mache layers of newspaper with flour water on the balloon. I also measured my head and left an opening at the bottom. (NOTE: Don’t put tape on the balloon and try to peel it off after you’re done paper macheing, RIP)

After that’s all dry I put glue gunned some cardboard onto it to give it some pumpkin like ridges.

Then I filled the gaps between the cardboard and the newspaper with the paper mache in a bag stuff. Wait for it to dry. (Note: Don’t pop balloon until the paper mache in a bag stuff is dry cause it holds a LOT of water and your paper mache project will sink, RIP) After that I popped the balloon and lightly dampened the top with a sponge and water until it was wet enough to slowly press down into more of a pumpkin shape.

After it’s all dry I taped a stem I made out of card board on the top and put another layer or two of newspaper mache over top.

More drying wait time (you can use your oven on the lowest setting to make it dry faster) then I sanded it down and cut out a face with an exacto blade.

I added a little bit of backing behind the face on the inside with the paper mache in a bag to give it more of a 3D look which wasn’t that noticeable but oh well, it kidna worked… After all that stuffs done I painted it all white otherwise the newsprint would bleed through and make my colours not as bright, I also added some sculpey clay to the brow area to give it some more emotion in which I used an iron to dry it with cause it was too late to put it in the oven with paint all over it (Note: Put clay on before painting).

I sprayed it with a sealer before painting colours on it cause I find acrylics do weird things sometimes. After it was all dry I begin to paint.

I also painted the inside a red and added a kinda head rest thing on the inside since when I pushed the top down it made an uncomfortable point at the top when putting it on your head. Then once it was all dry I sprayed it with some more sealer, added some cool stuff like stitches with some ribbon and blood which I used nail polish for a shiny effect and put in some lights which weren’t very effective when my head was in the pumpkin but that’s okay, it still looked cool.

And that’s that!

Hope this helps some people, Enjoy!

[mamamidnight]

chaoticghost

[icegeist]

Yes!! Now heads will be rolling!

[autisticjoy]

idk what it is about sitting in chairs and having both feet on the floor but it’s so uncomfortable and awful and i’ll never willingly do it if there’s literally any other option

[bobertlutece]

this whole thing is way too good to be giffed you need to expirience it 

[lizatonix]

There are so many things that are TOP quality about this. The business with the mic rope. The bounding across the stage like an excited puppy or a newsie. The Voice™️ that is so synonymous with John, you know, the voice of a guy who sells ice cream at the soda fountain in the 50’s. The analogy itself.

It’s all so beautiful, such peak humor and content.

[mulaneysbutt]

Emmy Award Winning™️

[pharaohamunsadji]

I FOUND IT AGAIN.

[pomrania]

Here’s the “horse loose in a hospital” bit. Good news, it has closed captioning.

[theawesomeraccoon]

“I DONT REMEMBER THAT IN HAMILTON.” OMG

[impossiblerebelblaze]

God I’ve heard so much about this guy and this is my first time actually watching one of his bits. He’s as funny as y’all make him out to be tbh

[fangirlhaley]

This is my favorite video ever

[nonlinear-nonsubjective]

I’m going to be talking about this for the rest of my life. Because this? This is one of the defining pieces of culture from a time when life went from bad to worse. Everyone knows this sketch. Almost word for word. This four minute bit is carrying us through these times, and is probably the only piece of media to come directly from politics that is genuinely joyful.

You simply cannot talk about this era without mentioning the horse loose in a hospital. It defines the entire experience, and does it hilariously.

[angiethewitch]

I fucking adore this man

[getchapapes]

i love john edmund mulaney with my whole entire heart, and you may quote me on that

[your-tires-are-too-cold]

i just realized that this is going to be something that people look at in like 50-100 years when talking about this era of american politics and people are going to be interpreting it and its probably going to be on someones fucking dbq like no no one outside of this time period will every ever be able to grasp just how accurately this describes Everything

[enbies-and-felonies]

THAT’S WHERE IT COMES FROM

“that’s what I thought youd say you dumb fucking horse”

[neongreentoxicity]

HORSE IN THE HOSPITAL

[caffeinated-nightowl]

OHHH SO THAT’S WHAT THAT WAS ABOUTTTT

[math-is-magic]

Reblogging this in honor of the horse being sent to the hospital.

[punkconcert]

John Mulaney, a true ADHD icon

[somewhat-honest-abe]

I love how he gave this bit at an autism benefit because it is also a heavy Autism Mood™

[xxhorsmaxx-deactivated20260511]

STOP…

FUCKING STOP…