squibby

30s | they/them | dog dyke | art blog @squibbyworks

[unexplainedthings]

[opalescent-potato]

#oh no!! #his LUNCH

[mellifexfarm]

ewww

[mellifexfarm]

it grows

[mellifexfarm]

real animal now

[mellifexfarm]

officially named lint

[mycroftrh]

I think a lot of autistic taking-things-literally goes under the radar because what the diagnostic tests and shit ask about is not what that generally looks like in an adult and often not in kids either and much more importantly it’s not what generally actually causes problems in real life instead of being irritating for caretakers or funny to bullies or easy to diagnose

I have absolutely no issues understanding metaphors or idioms. When someone says their heart is on their sleeve they mean they’re emotionally expressive and openly display their feelings, not that they have a chunk of cardiac tissue on their shirt. I very rarely have issues with sarcasm. I sometimes have issues telling when someone who’s said something mean is about to say “just kidding”, but tbh I think that’s more on them than me.

BUT

My grandmother asked me “Do you know when the trash was taken out last?” and I said “I think Eliot took it out yesterday” and a few hours later she yelled at me for “not taking out the trash when I asked you to” and I was like???? You didn’t ask me????

I dread filling out forms and am crap at filling out diagnostic tests or personality quizzes because there are always questions I don’t know the exact answers to (how am I supposed to know what day I got dental surgery seven years ago?) or don’t understand exactly what they’re asking or the wording’s unclear and they could mean this or the wording says this but I’m pretty sure what they actually meant was this and should I answer what they said or what they meant, and how does everyone else just whip through the form when surely they can’t know all the answers either? Does everyone else remember the day they got dental surgery seven years ago?

I get tangled up by bureaucracy because the rules on the website say that for this you need that and for that you need the other and for the other you need something else for which you need the first thing, and I go in circles for hours or days or weeks or months or years because their stated rules say there is no way to get what I need, and when I talk to somebody else they’re like “just call them?” and I’m like “how could that help? the rules say that what I’m trying to do is impossible”

And all of that? That’s how “taking things literally” ACTUALLY affects your life as an adult. It’s not “haha you think ‘getting under your skin’ means parasites”. It’s “you have real difficulty functioning in the world because everyone else is conveying things through implication and assuming that you know that rules are flexible and questions are approximate and you’re supposed to lie on job applications, and you don’t”.

[010101]

PROVING THAT OUR REACH DOES NOT EXCEED OUR GRASP

[teaboot]

People with 3D printers who make prosthetic fingers and limbs at home are about to come out with some truly wild DUNE ass shit

[8nin]

[texts back three years later] haha not much what about you

[pamperpixie]

horny art is awesome and i think every pervert with an odd and obscure fetish who draws their own porn is a hero

[pamperpixie]

“erm this artist’s style is a little weird…im worried that they might draw fetish art in private…” ok awesome i hope so. i wish Michelangelo painted inflation vore Mario in the sistine chapel instead of boring church shit. who fucking cares !!!!

[screamingswissroll]

[bayesic-bitch]

Currently doing an Insomniac's Gambit. For those of you who don't know, this is when you mess up your sleep schedule badly enough that you attempt to fix it by skipping an entire night of sleep then going to bed at a reasonable hour the next day. Crucially, it does not work

[bayesic-bitch]

"yeah dude I'm gonna sleep in 20 minutes" -- the most "will stay up another 4 hours" guy you've ever met

[bayesic-bitch]

Okay but get this -- they'll *never* expect the rare Double Insomniac's Gambit

[blossomedsloth]

No but seriously imagine it:

You’re seeing fall out boy on a concert. Everyone is having a great time. Fall out boy seem a little excited. “We have a surprise for you guys.” Partick says. All of a sudden P!ATD come out and start singing “this is gospel.” When Brendon gets to the chorus, someone else starts singing… “When I was a young boy my father took me into the city to see a marching band.” Lights flash everywhere, and you see FOB singing “this is gospel” along with P!ATD, while MCR is singing “Black parade”. Everyone in the crowd is going wild and crying. Then if things couldn’t get any better, Dan and Phil walk onto stage and kiss, holding the gay flag.

[mammalianmammals]

Aardwolf (Proteles cristata), family Hyaenidae, found in Southern Africa

A species of hyena.

Unlike other hyenas, they feed mainly on termites.

photograph by Tambako The Jaguar

[thenopequeen]

For my next trick, I'm going the fuck back to bed

[theweight]

they’re airing the secret good sherlock episode tomorrow

[tlirsgender]

Being sensitive to changes in barometric pressure is crazy what do you mean my problem is that the wind changed direction. What do you mean it's the fuckin clouds

[contremineur]

Medieval stained glass fragment incorporated in a later window at the church of All Saints, East Barsham (Norfolk)  

image from here

[english-history-trip]

[simzart]

[flintgirl]

love and light to the dan and phil girlies that was never my bag but i was fully under the impression that they admitted to being in a relationship like multiple years ago. honestly i thought they were married

[backquote]

kitty

[thirteens-earring]

I love ace ppl bc they’re like you know you don’t have to right. And it’s true. you dontttttt have to

[thirteens-earring]

[ As long as people don’t know about asexuality—hell, forget about the label, so long as they don’t know that saying no forever and for any reason and in any context is okay—sex education, sex therapy, and popular depictions of sex are incomplete and people don’t have the relevant information to fully consent. Sexual rights should not be assumed and self-determination must never end upon entering a relationship. You can give a no with zero caveats in each and every situation, full stop. You can say no if someone loves you and you love them back. You can say no for the rest of your life. ]

Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex (2020)