I Want To Hold Your Hand And Watch The Sun Set

It’s funny how people with varying understanding of disorders and illnesses respond to diagnoses because without a Doubt the biggest demon I’ve ever faced in my life is OCD, but it’s so misunderstood and dismissed in pop culture that people don’t really get that so I say I have OCD and people are like “k” but then they find out I’m autistic and they’re like “wow that’s so crazy I never would’ve known wow how does that affect your life”

And it’s just literaly like

My autism: that ice cream tasted too sweet, flap your arms around for a couple seconds

Me: okay cool

My OCD: what if you’re a serial killer

Me: I’m not

My OCD: Fair. But what if you have a rare sleep walking disorder where you kill people in your sleep and you don’t remember and one day the law will catch up with you

Me. Wow that seems reasonable now I’m gonna have a panic attack thinking about that possibility

My OCD: wait. What if I told you that you can avoid a panic attack AND ensure that you’ll never Sleep Murder anyone?

Me: omg how

My OCD: you can never wear the color green again

Me, throwing out all my favorite shirts: understandable thanks for the hot tip

stonefemblues

femme doesn’t mean “trying to look sexy to anyone who sees them”. butch doesn’t mean “doesn’t care about their appearance”.

sissy-butch

+ femme doesn’t mean “innocent and stupid”, butch doesn’t mean “violent and angry”

squeaky toy noises

oh god no

giving me the tools to animate was a mistake

THIS IS THE LAST ONE I SWEAR

batinred

a lot of y’all out here making posts about how much you support enbies but will invalidate them if they don’t fit the mold.

the mold is white, naturally androgynous, non aligned, short hair, really skinny, afab, actively transitioning, identifing as trans, binding, pansexual or asexual, listening to indie or alt music, has a goblincore aesthetic, and maybe dyed hair.

let me clarify, if you fit this mold as a nonbinary person, you’re valid and you’re nonbinary. i’m not saying you aren’t.

i’m just saying if this is the ONLY type of nonbinary person you support, you’re enbyphobic.

nonbinary people can be poc, lesbian, gay, bi, amab, binary aligned, not transistioning, not identifying as trans, fat, and overall not fit your “ùwú enby space babey” aesthetic.

let nonbinary people exist the way they do.

stop treating our identities like things to be discussed or debated NO MATTER WHAT SIDE YOURE ON. nonbinary people are nonbinary and are valid, end of convo. our validity was NEVER up for debate. periodt.

if you take away one thing from this, let it be to LISTEN TO NONBINARY PPL.

- sincerely, a very pissed black autistic nonbinary butch lesbian with she/her and they/them pronouns

terfs/gender critical people and transmeds/truscum, don’t even BREATHE near this post.

nonbinary people can add on but binary trans ppl and cis people should only spread.

colourmeastonished

Open letter to people who think scottish accents are funny

Since I’m currently ragin about the scots language being ridiculed on this godforsaken website how about a fun wee anecdote about silly scottish accents?

In primary school (elementary school for plebs fae other countries) I didn’t use much Scots dialect cos I was brought up watching english telly and my parents used mostly standard english vocabulary despite being Scottish themselves. But in the village I grew up in a lot of the other kids had strong ayrshire accents and used a lot of local dialect (i.e. they spoke Scots which is often politically and socially defined as a language of its own, but there are still regional dialects).

One of my strongest memories of primary school is of a girl in my class saying something along the lines of ‘miss, a ken the answer’, which translates to, ‘miss, I know the answer’. The teacher stopped the lesson and asked the girl, ‘what was that?’ and the girl repeated herself, ‘a ken the answer, miss’.

The teacher then said, ‘you don’t ken anything, you know the answer. Repeat after me: Miss, I know the answer.’

So the girl, mumbling and embarrassed by being singled out, repeated the sentence and the lesson continued.

This wasn’t an isolated event, this happened whenever a kid used Scots vocabulary. And it wasn’t just one teacher, it was all of them. Kids who weren’t even double figures old yet were shamed out of speaking their own language and using words unique to their local dialect.

Scots is a language. It has its own vocabulary and grammar and regional dialects like any other language. It has historically been associated with the working class, and the uneducated and therefore in the UK it is ridiculed and denigrated.

When you make up ‘scottish twitter’ style posts, or caption ‘scottish pokemon trainer’ screencaps with made up words that sound silly and sound close enough to what you think of as a ‘scottish accent’, you’re ridiculing our language and our culture (pro tip: we never ever say ‘fookin’)

It’s OK if you didn’t know, god knows our history and culture is ignored outside of our own damn country, but going forwards can you please stop turning us into a caricature and misrepresenting our language for shits and giggles?

I’m not saying you can’t enjoy scottish tweets and posts written in Scots, we have a great sense of humour, just don’t make your own unless you’re Scottish or I’ll come tae your houses and batter yous

deadpoetsstuff

it's so cute when someone is talking about their passion and what they are genuinely interested in, i love how their face starts glowing, their eyes have this sparkle and they just keep rambling on about it with excitement.

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knuckle

@white allies: because i see constant self-deprecation based on your whitness, here’s a detailed explanation of why it’s not helping us (or you).

if you continously go on about how horrible white people are, you may rot your own brain into thinking that these shortcomings are a natural state of being rather than a manufactured supremacist system which is simultaneously widespread, evil, and capable of being dismantled.

recognizing that you have the same human compassion capabilities as everyone else, regardless of how alienated from them you have become, is the first step toward becoming a better person capabable of helping other people (of color).

don’t mirror the way that PoC talk about you as an oppressor class. the context is different, and the mindset that you develop from it is different.

don’t fall into a mindset where you (act as if you) are a morally compromised being for being white. the ultimate end of antiracism is to denaturalize racial hegemony, including virtuous moralization of the “oppressed”

evaluating your engagement in racism & the benefits you receive from white supremacy is only one piece of this process. the other piece is interacting with other people (of color) as if they are indeed the same species as you.

so instead of demoralizing yourself, look at your actions to determine if they are compassionate. academic stuff aside, this is often a good litmus test for racism; even the unintentional you will soon realize was often a failure to conceptualize how your actions would affect others- not a failure by some innate aspect of your race but by the normalized lack of consideration whiteness may afford you

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new critical thought: is the celebrity that everyone is calling a ““fashion icon”” really that fashionable or are they just skinny and rich?

ytphobia-deactivated20210908

*swings my bat at the hornets nest*

LITERALLY EXACTLY WHAT BELLA’S WEARING!! EXACTLY THAT!!

@robertjosephmaccready these tags are *chefs kiss*