More like "Mask is Magic" amiright?

Ask me about my media obsession du jour. She/her

[lowpawly]

people foolishly dismiss desserts and treats as having no nutritional value when they actually are necessary for refilling your sanity stat. to prove my point please observe the emotional stability of the next person you meet who doesnt let themselves ever eat any form of dessert

[baddbyrne]

okay not to ocpost again but the worst thing about having an oc is sometimes they become The Character to you. and you need to talk to someone about it like wow I can’t stop thinking about The Character… but in order to do so you have to like sit them down and explain everything about your oc first. and then it’s just you explaining your writing ideas. i need to talk about them the same way i would talk about any random character i love to someone.

[zsh-official]

[bodhrancomedy]

May I introduce you to my favourite Calvin and Hobbes strip which only got funnier when I got hearing aids.

[catcrumb]

[catgirl-kaiju]

I work as a janitor and I feel like I’m gonna be thinking about this post a lot on the job

[malotte00]

My art for zaun dads zine☕️

[wilwheaton]

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i used to struggle so badly as an autistic teen when i would get into disagreements with my friends and they would frequently tell me “you think you’re always right!” to which i would be like, well, yes, i do believe the things i believe and dont believe things i dont believe ergo i think i am right

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i was at the function bringing arguments to a screeching halt because suddenly im like “why would i have and express an opinion i dont think is right? of course i think im right. thats dumb”

[cheaphalloweencostume]

FOR THOSE WONDERING AS I DID FOR SO LONG, “you think you’re always right” usually roughly translates to “you think you can never be wrong” and was usually said to me when i was being straight up obstinate and refusing to consider other perspectives

[should-be-sleeping]

I was an obnoxious know-it-all as a kid who had to work on tact in situations where I could technically be right but like... wrong due to the fact that I was blatantly ignoring social expectations because I thought they were dumb. Correct answer, maybe, totally wrong approach and in many circumstances the approach is like half the obstacle. It took a lot of self reflection to get better at this but it's a skill you must hone if you want anyone to like you.

It's like when your math teacher wanted you to show your work even though you already had the answer. It's not always about the answer itself. Sometimes it's about learning other ways to do things, and being able to guide someone else through the process. We live in a society.

Which brings me to my ex, the most correct neurotyplical person that's ever existed. He was so arrested in development socially that you'd be genuinely surprised to learn that he wasn't raised by hornets on a deserted island. Baffling, truly that he had no excuse to behave the way he did (his family were wonderful, friendly people but no one had ever told him no.)

He would accuse me of being wrong about the weirdest shit, like topics I was objectively, obviously, without question better educated about (like my major) and then fly off the handle when I'd get tired of trying to explain it while being called stupid and just hand him a textbook to prove my case without having to engage with him directly anymore.

Sometimes I think he was only disagreeing because he held this strange belief that only one person on Earth could ever be right at a time. Rightness was a finite resource and he needed to hoard it like toilet paper in 2020.

If you said the sky was blue, to be The One That is Right he would try to launch into a physics debate all cocky but his science was never ever good. He didn't have a basic grasp on what colors were. Which would be fine if he wasn't trying to tell you what blue is.

Once you can endure no more and just show him the wikipedia for The Sky he'd get visibly angry and yell at you. "You can never admit you're wrong!" Sir, I'm about to join the Mars project just to get as far away from you as humanly possible. Ffs. Months in isolation in Arizona sounds like a vacation. He did not have a solid grasp on the difference between an opinion and a fact and he had so many opinions about facts.

Anyway, when I broke up with him, I emailed the teacher I gave the most guff to as a kid and apologized for acting even a fraction of that annoying in his class. To be fair to child me, I believed in the existence of exoplanets and (at the time) my teacher did not. Unfathomable to me, whose special interest was space, but I was so fucking irritating about it. Imagine having a college education and an 8 year old insists they know more than you.

P.S. I am wrong about so much. Do not ask me to use a map for navigation! Don't expect me to do any math quickly. There are plenty of topics I am not well educated in -- thing is I'll never walk into your tedtalk and debate you about them. 😂

Sometimes the problem is you must overcome the autistic urge to be understood correctly (esp. about being right) and sometimes you're just an asshole. The autism is easier to navigate.

[zmeess]

sword and shield

tip jar!

[hollanov-fics]

Please does anyone have any fics where Montreal is supportive of Shane and maybe even get ilya to play for Montreal?

Montreal Metros Go Broke For Woke

by 409_conflict

They may not have any idea how to do it, but there’s no way in hell the Montreal Metros are going to risk losing their Captain to a more accepting team. Full of determination, grit, open hearts, and absolutely no savvy, this team is going to learn how to be allies, come hell or high water. Hayden: did anyone do the optional inclusivity training last season? J.J. Boizeau: no Lawrence Olsson: no Gilbert Comeau: no Petro Andropov: no Matty Wilson: no Cam Stedlund: no Albert Schneider: no Aleks Miitka: no Georges Gagnon: no Patrice Drapeau: no Hayden: excellent, we’re nailing this so far

Reluctant Pacifists

by Theresnothingleft_3

Montreal and Boston are willing to do just about anything to actually hang out with their Captains after games. Even if it means drinking together, apparently. Or, Shane tells the truth about Ilya. It changes everything.

[endreal]

Solid medications (pills) really do be coming in two varieties - edible plastic, and smarties (derogatory)

[endreal]

Spoken like a person who truly knows what it is to have Ailments

[hypokeimena]

image description: two replies by @vegathelich, reading: it's all fun and games until the smarties (derogatory) start dissolving in your mouth because your hands don't want to work today

and you Taste It /end description

[tpwrtrmnky]

"Whether someone understands it or not, these are the consequences of the political views they're espousing" is a pretty important analysis tool for online movements because quite honestly, over half of everyone engaging in politics online have no foundations for the stuff they're saying and are just saying whatever makes them feel like a member of an in-group.

[tpwrtrmnky]

If your in-group is "the left" you're very much not immune to this. In fact, trying to do left-wing politics without even trying to build a foundational political understanding is a great way to end up as a neo-nazi with a tumblr accent rather than an effective left-wing advocate.

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

do you ever feel yourself fail a charisma check in real time

[fictionalgod]

MLP art by @onionpwder

[sluttynurse]

everyone's afraid of looking busted everyone's afraid of making mistakes everyone's afraid of looking stupid everyone's afraid of embarrassment everyone's afraid of imperfections because of the damn PANOPTICON that is current society and it's fucking STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[unheardoracle]

I love characters who are like "I'm a terrible person" but when you look closer it's more like

"I adapted to survive something and now I don't know how to stop being that version of myself."

[viejospellejos]

Entendible…