Don't mind me. I'm just the sidekick.

If you are a lover of Robins, or just comics in general, you have come to the right place. (though im slowly turning into a star wars blog.... I regret nothing) To all those who don't know me, hello! I'm Christie, aka infinityinmirrors or poisonedbymako.

[jaubaius]

Love this professor Potato🥔🤓

[osointricate]

I now have THIS saved on my computer.

[apocalypse-of-the-fucked]

yall better be just as outraged about this as you were about notre dame

[actualaster]

This is even WORSE.

[goron-king-darunia]

To elaborate why this is worse: Art and religion are all well and good. But information can be critical. When libraries burn, information can be lost forever. Because we photograph art. We have blueprints of the Cathedral. The Notre Dame cathedral did not burn to the ground, only the wooden structures did. The entire library and everything within is gone here. Another reason this is worse? It was DELIBERATE. It was bombed. Accidents like Notre Dame happen all the time. But bombings don’t have to happen. So yeah, if you cared about Notre Dame, logically you should care about this too,

[two-thirtyy]

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Look buddy, i’m just trying to make it to Friday.

[taykoutmccleod]

reblog if its friday and you made it

[nuggsmum]

[peanut-butter-and-kelly]

It's Friday?!?!?!?!?!

[itsyaboi-ray]

So I asked nonbinary reddit this a while back:

And they really went all out, here are some of my favorite responses:

And of course, the most confusing of all to cis people:

Link to the original if you wanna see more responses! 

[ryan-sometimes]

It would be so funny if autistic people started describing allistic experience the same pathologised way doctors describe autism

[ryan-sometimes]

Symptoms of being neurotypical:

You have immobile, frozen hands that do not fidget.

Your interests are shallow.

You read into phrases past their actual meanings.

You are unbothered by eye contact and enjoy staring into people's eyeballs.

You do not notice patterns in numbers and objects even when they are logically connected.

You don't mind doing things without planning them out first.

Instead of saying exactly what you think, you expect others to infer it based on subjective social rules.

[ryan-sometimes]

Don't be discouraged if you're neurotypical. If you work hard, you too can be decent at math and accomplish the same things autistic people can!

[babyanimalgifs]

German Shepherd babysitting the Dobermans 

(Source)

[myjusticecake]

This has intense Fun Uncle energy. Get the kids all riled up.

[guerrillatech]

[confusionofconfusions-deactivat]

i love that 17th century jewish poltergeist story where the family living in the haunted house calls a catholic priest for help before they contact a rabbi, because yeah, i think that would be my call too; id be like, oh? a demon in my house speaking latin and drawing inverted crosses on my wall in sulfuric bile? then without even questioning my faith i’d call up the catholic church and be like yo father, one of your boys loose come get him

[mayflower-uwu]

“Look here pal, I know my religion, and this ain’t it. Whatever this guy is, they’re clearly from your version of things. Mind coming over to help fix things up?”

[xekstrin]

#not my covenant not my malefactor

[ayellowbirds]

Source: Jewish magic and superstition. Trachtenberg, Joshua. 

[veeaziel]

every day i am percieved™️

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

There is a reason for this though!

The original tweet summarizes it pretty well. Fanfic tends to be popular among certain types of neurodivergent people (aka people most likely to read excessively as a child, and have burnout as an adult) for the same reasons that we tend to hyperfixate–neurochemical signaling (I hope I’m using that phrase correctly). What I mean is, for people who are really dependent on changes in dopamine/serotonin/neurotransmitter levels, who have low levels or wonky neural reward systems (perhaps the most common types of neurodivergence)…people like us rely on dependable external sources of those neurochemicals. In order to function, we spend a lot of our free time trying to level out our brain chemistry using things that can reliably bring us a steady stream of joyful moments (rewards) without costing too much of the mental effort that is already in short supply. 

significantly: the investment of reading has to be balanced with a steady “return on investment”–and this return has to start fairly quickly. because again, we don’t have a lot of attention/energy to invest on tiring things. we have perpetual “low batteries” in that regard.

that doesn’t mean these stories are “simple,” or that they lack complexity or value–only that the reward has to come in short regular intervals, and it has to have a low “upfront cost.” these stories are only “easy” to read in the sense that the effort we put into them is rewarded in a timely manner. which is why fanfic stories are so perfectly formulated for neurodivergent readers–they are often beautifully written, but skip a lot of the upfront costs (of introducing new characters, of world-building, of getting the audience emotionally connected to the story elements).

the nature of fanfiction is that the reader has a pre-existing relationship with this world and these characters. that–combined with the shorter average length of fics–means that fan fics very quickly start rewarding the reader in a way that traditional fiction struggles to. that’s not a bad thing! and maybe it’s something more traditionally published writers should be paying attention to.

Fanfic, as a genre, has been uniquely helpful and accessible to many neurodivergent readers who would otherwise struggle to immerse themselves in stories. I’m glad so many of you have found a way to love and enjoy reading again! The important thing is that you are spending time inside stories you love–the way those stories are published or presented to the world is just one detail. The fact that you find joy in the process of reading (or listening!) to stories–that is what matters.

[attackofjak]

I feel understood 🥰

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

a bunch of people have reblogged this with the default “i feel called out” reaction….and i know when we say that we mean it tongue-in-cheek….but this comment sorta blew my mind & shifted my perspective up and to the left a little thank you♥

[zadabug98]

The Serotonin is stored in the Ao3

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

The Serotonin is stored in the Ao3

[guerrillatech]

[reagan-was-a-horrible-president]

Yeah, they’re gonna lift the working class right into a company town.

Only rich people would think this was a good idea.

[beaniebaneenie]

Learn your history, people!

We DID this shit- for DECADES. It was fucking awful. Companies paid people in “scrip” which was only good for use at the Company Store. So effectively, the company got your money coming and going, and they didn’t pay you at all. And the longer it went on, the less likely you were to have savings that could have helped you move away or get a different job.

I’ve already seen one ad trying very sneakily to promote the idea of “AmazonBucks”, including giving them to workers as rewards, or instead of things like healthcare, sick days, and PTO.

Here’s your reminder that scrip is fucking illegal, that company towns are always a shit idea that should stay dead and buried, and that if unions didn’t work? Every big company out there wouldn’t be fighting tooth and nail to destroy them.

#UnionStrong #SolidarityForever

[musicalhell]

You know the song “Sixteen Tons”? If you don’t or need a reminder, here’s the chorus:

You load sixteen tons, whad’ya get? Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter, don’t you call me, ‘cause I can’t go-- I owe my soul to the company store...

The song is about a coal miner in a company town--a man so far in the hole thanks to the system that even death won’t release him. It was first recorded in 1947--less than a hundred years ago.

Company towns are BARBARIC. It’s a massively exploitative system and when early 20th century workers fought back against them they were evicted, arrested, and murdered (your history reading subject for today: the Coal Wars, especially the events in Matewan, West Virginia and Ludlow, Colorado).

Don’t fall for this shit again.

[brunhiddensmusings]

a part of that song a lot of people miss is how he describes going to work literally the day he was born in the world we are rocketing towards there is a heavy implication that many teenagers should be shoved directly into the permanent  service of amazon before they even graduate highschool in the name of financial responsibility

[blackwoolncrown]

oohhh my god

so you know how the DV caloric reqs on food are like notoriously low? Well…turns out settlers in Canada starved Native children in their ‘boarding schools’ to find out what the minimum requirement to sustain life was during their ‘nutrition experiments’

this is so filthy. this is so absolutely soulless like it’s already so bad but if anything people absolutely need to know these children’s stories bc this is real colonial history.

holy shit.

[thespacephantom]

Canada used hungry indigenous children to study malnutrition

Ire follows article detailing tests on unwitting aboriginal citizens in the 1940s and 1950s.

[mon-t-real]

@allthecanadianpolitics @politicsofcanada

[theuntoaster]

To me, the term settlers carries the implication of “this happened a long time ago, in the 1800s”.

I want to clarify that this was a lot more recent than that. We’re talking the 1940s and 1950s. People from this time are still alive.

It’s absolutely horrific and something they definitely need to teach in schools more, so we can understand exactly WHY Indigenous people’s rights are such an important topic in Canadian politics

[dyskomike-deactivated20250901]

The Legacy of the Bloody British Empire and its racist Commonwealth

[1five1two]

J. R. R. Tolkien, undisputedly a most fluent speaker of this language, was criticized in his day for indulging his juvenile whim of writing fantasy, which was then considered—as it still is in many quarters— an inferior form of literature and disdained as mere “escapism.” “Of course it is escapist,” he cried. “That is its glory! When a soldier is a prisoner of war it is his duty to escape—and take as many with him as he can.” He went on to explain, “The moneylenders, the knownothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as possible."

Stephen R. Lawhead

[barbarian15]

"I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?"

-J.R.R. Tolkien

"Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imprisoned in the immediate conflict. That perhaps is why people are so ready with the charge of "escape." I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, "What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?" and gave the obvious answer: jailers."

-C.S. Lewis

[friendly-neighborhood-patriarch]

BASED KING

[popepauljohn]

[drinkyourjuiceshelby]

[mxnrique]

[bretzkysbs]

It looks pissed

[hailkingcheeto]

Enderman

[howlbear]

The fact that she's excited for Matt and Brennan to get love as players is making me cry

[Image ID: a Tweet from Aabria Iyengar reading "Oh my god THIS. I hope with my WHOLE CHEST that Matt and Brennan get to feel the incredible love of the communities they've fostered narrowed to the fine point of their PCs. I wish art for them. And fanfic. And music. And headcanon. Everything. They deserve SO MUCH LOVE."

[pixalry]

Middle Earth Travel Posters - Created by Beverly Arce

Prints available at Gallery Nucleus. You can follow the artist on Instagram.

[lemonsharks]

My ancestors, watching me dump an entire stick of cinnamon, two cloves, an allspice berry, and a generous grating of nutmeg into my tea, sweetened with white sugar and loaded with cream, while I sit in my clean warm house surrounded by books, 25+ outfits for different occasions, and 6 pairs of shoes, in a building heated so well I have the windows open in mid-autumn:

Our daughter prospers. We are proud of her. She has never labored in a field but knows riches we could not have imagined.

[sighinastorm]

I like this so much better than the idea that our ancestors would be embarrassed or ashamed of us for being “soft” or some crap like that.

[therinde-dreams]

My ancestors, watching me stuff my face with fried chicken while studying: She eats like an imperial concubine and can afford to study like am imperial scholar. WE MADE IT

[idhren]

She eats like an imperial concubine and can afford to study like am imperial scholar

[villainous-queer-deactivated202]

My ancestors watching me use my stand mixer while living in a small apartment and attending university: Thou hast kneadeth bread in FOUR hail marys??? FOUR??? And thou ist poor as a churchmouse, yet liveth in a fine cottage with four pounds butter and fresh berries in thy larder!! And two featherbeds! And thou attendeth the King’s college, as a lord!!