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There's this perception on here among neurodivergent people that neurotypical social behaviour is all fake and arbitrary. That it's a cruel, baseless game played to "weed out" ND people or to cause pain and complicate things on purpose.

This is wrong. All of those social rules and nuances ARE communication. Sorry if this is rude but it's not the NTs' fault if things don't gel- the gap goes both ways. Just because communication doesn't make sense to you, doesn't mean it's random or purposeless. Remember this post?

Every interaction in an NT conversation has purpose, and communicates something, and I don't understand why nobody ever explains this to ND people. There's information on basic stuff like facial expressions, but never what any of it actually means.

Small talk about the weather isn't about the weather. It's about how nice it is to be around the people you're talking to, or feeling out their understanding of the world, or just saying that you're both present and people and you're being people together. It's not literal. The words are, but the broad scope isn't.

A conversation is not just an exchange of words, it's an exchange of acknowledgement, attention, and emotional understanding. Of course it confuses people when their part in that exchange is met with flat affect or unembelished words. It's like looking in a mirror and not seeing your reflection.

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What we need to do is convince all the disney adults in america that high speed rail would be a preferable way of getting to disneyworld compared to driving or flying. We could maybe harness their fondness for the monorail or something, but this is a group of people that has time, income, and passion that we could leverage. If we could direct 5% of the enthusiasm they have for limited edition popcorn buckets into calling their representatives and demanding high-speed interstate rail, we could get it by 2030

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I’ve been told monorails/bullet trains are never gonna *ahem* fly in America because it would put pilots/the airlines out of business. And I’m just like “So fucking what? They had their time and fucked around and ought to find out.” But there’s just too much damn money keeping trains down in America. I tells ya, you wanna get change here in America, you gotta start eating people. Y’all eat one motherfucker, especially on live television, and I guarantee you the rest will get into line. But it’s gonna take something hellaciously drastic like that to effect any change here.

bearbrickjia

Hua Cheng & San Lang 🦋

pippuns

or: the one where shen qingqiu stumbles on a bunch of compiled evidence from qi qingqi that he is Not The Same Person as shen jiu

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theevenprime

This is universal. This comedy transcends time and language.

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Hes right

balamist

#my guy lost knife priviledges real fast

redjayson

I want a post-sunshot golden core reveal that happens because of a body swap

wwx is half-asleep and thinks he’s dreaming of what it was like having a core, because that’s his core spinning in his lower dantian just like it used to and he feels so good, he’s in so little pain, ever since wen qing pulled it out of him, ever since he was dropped in the burial mounds and shattered nearly all the bones in his body, he’s been in constant pain–

which is about when jiang cheng in wei wuxian’s body slams into the room yelling because WHAT THE FUCK WEI WUXIAN WHERE’S YOUR CORE WHY ARE YOU IN SO MUCH PAIN HOW DO YOU LIVE LIKE THIS

ft. jc frantically trying to control all the resentful energy crawling under wwx’s skin bc Jiang Cheng Constantly Has A Lot of Feelings That He Expresses Loudly Instead of Burying Them Like Certain Other People, which really doesn’t make controlling all that resentment easy; lots of sibling crying, just so much sibling crying, because they can’t exactly leave yanli out of this; jc finally getting wwx to go to the medics by dint of the fact that jc is in his body and can force him to be healed and YOU WERE WALKING AROUND WITH HOW MUCH OF YOUR BODY HELD TOGETHER BY RESENTMENT?! while jyl is making so much soup about this; and of course, jc and wwx having to pretend to be each other (bonus disastrous points if they’re about to go to phoenix mountain so they have to pretend to be each other in front of the entire cultivation world, bonus bonus points if (whether or not this occurs at phoenix mountain) jc-in-wwx’s-body of course immediately runs into lwj who takes one look at him and is like You Are Not My Beloved)

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Was I the one scrolling this post like "surely this is going to be the last one"

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Chu Wanning flipped slowly through the book, his eyes a little wet. He watched Mo Ran’s handwriting go from childish to neat to elegant. The ink on the most recent letter had not yet dried, while the earliest page had already turned yellow.

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cozy tangerine 🍊

modern AU XieLian

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vanilla extract smoothie

vanilla extract

20lb brick of pure cocaine

Voting ended onFeb 11, 2023

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I feel like I need an in depth study guide right next to me while reading danmei novels just so I can keep track of all the supporting and minor characters, what sect they belong to, what sects have bad blood between them, and key locations. Because, honestly, as I’m reading if I don’t recognize a character’s name I just skip over it and hope they won’t be too significant later in the book. Or I try and guess who they are based on the context because I can’t remember who is who just from reading their names. I’m over 2,000 pages into The Husky and His White Cat Shizun and I’m lucky if I can keep track of the people in the Sisheng Peak and Rufeng Sect. It took me reading The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation four times before I could keep track of who Jin Zixuan and Jin Zixun were (I finally had to remember that the one with the extra letter was the peacock and the other is the peacock’s stupid cousin).

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"what music do u listen to" i don't know playlists?

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"who's your favorite artist" i had a hieronymus bosch poster in my dorm room freshman year if that helps

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"but what music do u really relate to" the last time a piece of musical composition made me feel something was Brittany Spears' 2003 masterpiece Toxic and im still recovering from the aftershock i shouldn't have to explain this

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oh goody it's in words

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s is for slug

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i’m enamored by the specificity of this blog. like this is the only post they’ve ever made. this account was solely created for this special little guy. does he know?

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this is how the gambler’s den mantou eating scene went. Trust me, I was there

thearcanearts

game night at puqi shrine is cancelled indefinitely

helloitsbees

this is entrapment

helloitsbees

two equally delightful paths here:

1) a very simple and genuine “i like your shoelaces”, which tells me that you are either a lesbian or a very cool ally

2) “i like your shoelaces” followed by the pronounced grimace of one recalling their past sins, which tells me that you were a 2012 tumblr user. i now hold the power in this conversation and you are at my mercy.