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I don't usually add comments to my watercolors when I post them, but this one needed an explanation on the color changes. Every time I try to light one of my pieces for posting, the lighting always seems to distort the actual colours used. This time I experimented by only lighting the top photo, and not the bottom.

I would say the bottom is definitely more accurate in colorwise.

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Shamura and Narinder

ENG: Shamura and Narinder shared a much more special bond compared to the other Bishops. However, because they were so close, they trusted each other far too much, which ultimately led them to inflict the deepest wounds upon one another.

샤무라와 나린더는 각별했던 사이였죠. 하지만 너무나도 각별했기에 서로를 너무나도 믿었고, 결국 서로에게 가장 큰 상처가 되버렸습니다...

⬇️⬇️TW⚠️: Blood (피 조심)🩸🧠

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How to use Em Dash (—) and Semi Colon ( ; )

Since the ai accusations are still being thrown around, here's how i personally like to use these GASP ai telltales. 🦄✨

Em Dashes (—)

To emphasize a shift / action / thought.

They're accusing us—actually accusing us—of using AI.

To add drama.

They dismissed our skills as AI—didn't even think twice, the dimwits—and believed they were onto something.

To insert a sudden thought. Surely they wouldn't do that to us—would they?

To interrupt someone's speech. "Hey, please don't say that. I honed my craft through years of blood and tears—" "Shut up, prompter."

To interrupt someone's thoughts / insert a sudden event.

We're going to get those kudos. We're going to get those reblogs—

A chronically online Steve commented, “it sounds like ai, idk.”

Semi Colons ( ; )

To join two closely related independent sentences / connect ideas.

Not only ChatGPT is capable of correct punctuation; who do you think it learned from in the first place?

Ultimate pro tip: use them whenever the fudge you want. You don't owe anyone your creative process. 🌈

URGENT! GOFUNDME FOR MY FRIEND, SHE LOST HER JOB, SHE'S RISKING TO LOSE HER HOME AND CAR

Hi everyone!

I am writing this on behalf of my close friend, a trans woman living in Italy whom I have known for over 10 years.

She has always worked tirelessly to remain independent—taking on low-paying gig work and piecemeal jobs without any family support system. Unfortunately, trans women face immense discrimination in the Italian job market. After months of precarious employment that drained her savings, her latest job as a waitress was abruptly cut short after just an 8-day trial.

She is now facing an urgent crisis with no safety net left.

I am managing the campaign page, but GoFundMe deposits all funds directly into Luna's bank account.

Proof & Receipts: To ensure 100% transparency, we will post receipts for all paid bills (groceries, car insurance, condo fees) directly in the Updates section of the GoFundMe page (with personal address details blurred out).

Identity Verification: I am fully available via DM to provide proof or answer any legitimate questions to verify this story.

What the funds are for:

Condominium fees, to avoid legal action and layoffs: €400

Car insurance: €600

Food expenses: €200 per month for the next two months.

If anyone knows of or operates a business in/near Viareggio / Versilia (Tuscany, Italy) in hospitality or food service, or remote work, Luna is an experienced, honest worker eager to get back to work immediately.

GoFundMe Link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/aiutiamo-l-a-non-perdere-tutto

Thank you so much to anyone who can donate, share, or offer words of support!

#emergency #gofundme #trans #transgender #layoff #laid off #job loss #donation #home loss #loss #trans emergency #lgbtq+

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Sad little guy 👦

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Being accepting of autistic people includes being accepting of "weird" or "annoying" people who you don't know are autistic, BTW. We don't just spawn into existence with a list of diagnoses tattooed on our foreheads. If you claim to be accommodating of autistic people, but then get pissed off when someone shows a symptom of autism because your default assumption is that they're just an allistic person who's annoying you for no reason, then you aren't actually all that accommodating of autistic people.

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Ableism refers to systemic or interpersonal harm directed at people because of an impairment. Some claim impairment, whether or not related to their plurality, but most who criticize it are particularly criticizing the ones that aren't claiming impairment.

"I hate that your brain works differently" is a strawman. Nobody is saying that. You know this.

“We don’t know everything about the brain” is not an argument but it is an admission of lack of evidence. Yes, neuroscience is incomplete. That does not mean every proposed explanation is equally plausible. The most plausible explanation for the creation of autonomous identity states with agency, affect, and co-consciousness is structural dissociation. You want to propose another mechanism, "we don't know everything" is not a hypothesis or a proper defense for lack of evidence.

But a separate mechanism can't be proposed when you claim that a million mechanisms can produce functionally equivalent fully autonomous parts in the way seen in structural dissociation. If BPD, autism/hyperfixation, schizophrenia, genetics, daydreaming, creative writing, imaginary friends, acute adulthood trauma, willful creation, and the alignment of the stars can produce headmates, what mechanism would explain it? You can't just claim that a thing can happen scientifically, then when someone's like "how do you explain that in a way that doesn't overlook decades of research on dissociation, attachment, and trauma?" look at said research about the human brain and go "well we don't know enough about the human brain. Now you're just being ableist about it."

I think the pattern of weaponizing the language of oppression is very telling especially when the opposition consists mostly of people who either experience a CDD (which tends to be disabling), have proximity to it in some way (post-integration, family member, etc), or advocate for the rights of those who do. The logic is backwards, you can’t be ableist for saying that a disability-specific mechanism requires the presence of the disability.

What I hear in this argument is, "if you're defaulted to being oppressive and abusive by opposing me, then I can't be wrong".

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So I think the reason the "autistic strong sense of justice" discourse is bugging me is because it's taking this characteristic as a Discrete Autistic Trait that we can talk about within the confines of that conceit. Even the posts criticizing it have accepted at face value that this "trait" is a thing, even if they want to label it something else.

And the thing is... that framework was always on thin fucking ice. First off, I don't agree with making sweeping statements about autistic people even when they're positive. But secondly, when you decide to pivot toward talking about it as a negative, suddenly we're veering dangerously close to anti-autistic ableism again. "Oh, autistic people don't have a 'strong sense of justice', they have inflexible moral values!" Cool so we're right back to blaming autistic people for Uniquely Doing Morality Wrong again.

Fuck that.

Here's the thing: Autistic people do, in fact, have a heightened sensitivity toward perceived injustice. There's no special magical reason for this. In fact, I would question how much of it is uniquely due to our autism at all! Because what's being left out of the conversation here is that we are fucking traumatized.

Being autistic is an experience of having a dozen coexisting disabilities - sometimes minor, sometimes very impactful. Motor issues, memory issues, social issues, sensory issues, you name it. And when you navigate the world like that, you are essentially experiencing ableist microaggressions on a daily fucking basis. Sounds are too loud. Lights are too bright. People constantly expect you to have certain skills and get offended when you fail to demonstrate them, but when you ask for help attaining those skills, accuse you of feigning incompetence just to cause problems.

Here's something that autistic people actually struggle with: picking things up subconsciously. Reading subtle or unspoken cues, especially social cues. Learning without explicitly being instructed. But you know what we do pick up on? Being mistreated over and over for problems that are entirely out of our control. Figuring out that there are invisible rules EVERYWHERE, like the fucking Jurassic Park electric fences, that will hurt us every time we brush up against them.

And that causes hypervigilance. A state of being constantly on the alert for situations where you're being harmed, or led toward harm. Now here's the problem: as I've already said, autistic people are REALLY bad at picking up social cues. And even when benevolent allistics try to explain things to us, they often do so from such a fundamentally allistic perspective that they assume things that are directly harmful to autistic people are actually helpful and good, and tell us as much.

The end result of this?

Is moral paranoia.

Now of course, autistic people do still have an ability to perceive and examine our own moral beliefs. We are, after all, human. But when you spend your whole life knowing that other people's minor slipups often happen at someone else's expense - specifically yours - it becomes very easy to assume that minor slipups are unforgivable, that people just need to be trying harder, after all, isn't that what they demanded from you all those years? You can do it, you just need to apply yourself!!!

So yeah.

"Rigid and inflexible" my ass. "Strong sense of justice my ass". It is hypervigilance. It is a constant state of feeling like we can't trust ourselves to make compromises in our own beliefs because the second we do, some allistic person will swooce in to tell us that we made the wrong compromise, and we should have known better. And then being rightfully pissed off that they let themselves get away with all kinds of other slippages, even though those slippages often cause us immense hurt, because "it's not that big of a deal" and "we're too sensitive".

So let's have the fucking conversation. No, autism doesn't give you a "strong sense of justice". But growing up autistic does give you trauma, and it does give you hypervigilance, up to and including moral scrupulosity OCD. Autistic people have a heightened awareness of the double standards that the people around us hold themselves to, excusing their own mistakes while disproportionately punishing ours, and develop maladaptive strategies for trying to avoid that pain and assert our place in society.

Also? We are, in fact, disabled. A decent chunk of the shit y'all try to pass off as "~autistic stubbornness~" is literally us trying to set ground rules that make it possible to navigate life within the constraints of what we're actually capable of. I won't pretend that all of these rules are actually as helpful as we think they are, but that's because we're imperfect human beings, not because the conventional way is innately superior.

When you have problems trying to do certain things, and people around you routinely deny those problems even exist and insist that you just have to "do it the normal way", you don't have a lot of options when it comes to finding real solutions. But you do have incentive to double down on your own dodgy alternatives, because the "fix" that everyone is trying to push on you would in reality just make things worse.

So yeah, by all means, let's have this conversation. But we can do it without the armchair psych definitions of autism as Terminally Stubborn Disorder. We can have it without constantly echoing the ableist idea that Actually, Autistic People Are The Problem. Not because we can never be the problem, but because our capacity to be the problem is caused by our existing as plain old imperfect people, not our autism.

One final note: Obviously, the main reason autistic people like to cling to the "strong sense of justice" narrative is that, within the context of a narrative that constantly assigns us intrinsic personality flaws, this particular claim gives us something to like about ourselves. It's a way of feeling like "no, actually, being autistic DOESN'T make you a bad person! It makes you a GOOD one!"

This is obviously, and deeply, problematic. If you want to feel good about yourself, and really, truly hold good moral values, then you've got to do the work. This is a process that can be extremely difficult, since it requires you to open yourself to the same kind of criticism that has traumatized you your whole life, but that doesn't mean you're free to avoid it. Ultimately, we cannot keep living our lives within the constraints our trauma has created for us. We have to teach ourselves how to accept criticism without internalizing blame or guilt. To set and enforce boundaries without making other people into "the bad guy". And to take accountability without lashing out at others or wallowing in self-pity. (There are online resources that can help with all of this! Plenty of therapists have put up information online that people can make use of. You can look up something like "how to avoid internalizing guilt" and find functional advice from qualified people.)

I will not pretend that these things are easy, but they are necessary. Autism is not a shortcut to being a good person - there are no shortcuts to that. If you feel strongly about justice, and take pride in that aspect of yourself, then the best thing you can do to honor that trait is to put it into practice, rather than demanding that the world fit itself into your existing sense of rightness.

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I’m gonna do the mild ableism comparison stuff but with scfi stuff.

“Why yes Greg I get you saying that I don’t let the alien slug consuming my brain define me was ment as a complement. But, given it’s taken over and consumed most of my brain function I don’t exactly agree with that sentiment.”