Chaotic Evil and short

(Genderfluid/Aromantic/Asexual/Autistic) AAA Battery Marine biology major (fish hyperfocused) I'll always be a safe space if you need one

[dangerbabegang]

What to do if you suddenly find yourself homeless

FOOD

Find your nearest food bank or mission, for food

grocery stores with free samples, bakeries + stores with day-old bread

different fast food outlets have cheaper food and will generally let you hang out for a while.

some dollar stores carry food like cans of beans or fruit

SHELTER

Sleeping at beaches during the day is a good way to avoid suspicion and harassment

sleep with your bag strapped to you, so someone can’t steal it

Some churches offer short term residence

Find your nearest homeless shelter

Look for places that are open to the public

A large dumpster near a wall can often be moved so that flipping up the lids creates an angled shelter to stay dry

HYGIENE

A membership to the YMCA is usually only 10$, which has a shower, and sometimes laundry machines and lockers.

Public libraries have bathrooms you can use

Dollar stores carry low-end soaps and deodorant etc.

Wet wipes are all purpose and a life saver

Local beaches, go for a quick swim

Some truck stops have showers you can pay for

Staying clean is the best way to prevent disease, and potentially get a job to get back on your feet

Pack 7 pairs of socks/undies, 2 outfits, and one hooded rain jacket

OTHER

first aid kit

 sunscreen

 a travel alarm clock or watch

 mylar emergency blanket

 a backpack is a must

 downgrade your cellphone to a pay as you go with top-up cards

 sleeping bag

 travel kit of toothbrush, hair brush/comb, mirror

 swiss army knife

 can opener

[spork-of-humanity]

Reblog to literally save a life

[hipsandheartbreak]

if there is a Dollar Tree near you, they have entire food aisles

Planet Fitness also has $10 memberships. you can shower and they have free food days! pizza night 1st monday every month, bagel tuesday the 2nd tuesday every month.

[himynameisrollin-deactivated201]

Save a life reblog

[kukachoosays]

i am so glad that i renblogged this however so long ago. i saw this post and shared it with others in mind, but now i am the one who really needs this. id like to think of this as good karma i guess

[comrade-jiang]

also a good list if anyone ever needs to run away from home for whatever reason.

[a-mel0n]

reblog if you’ve had an online friendship that’s lasted more than 2 years

[mrmooriecesalty]

Five years in September.

[knitmeapony]

I love seeing a meme and being like oh, tumblrs going to love this one

[i-preen-for-oikawa]

Peer reviewed tags.

Reblog today and you, too, can maliciously comply with facts of science.

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

#nope#not a parallelogram so therefore not a rectangle so therefore not a square#nice try

THANK FUCK

[ewaneneollav]

repeat after me: people don’t notice the little details. i’m going to get away with it. people don’t notice the little details. i’m going to get away with it.

[mili-milo-process-graveyard]

They're on a lunch break (soup again).

I haven't seen the newest season of X-Men 97 because i am NOT getting a disney+ subscription, but I imagine it's pretty good. Here's a comic dedicated to Scott Summer's enfatuation with soup and Kurt's oddly cat-shaped sillouhette.

[mrmooriecesalty]

I had a lot of free time once, so I offer the marking patterns for the X2 design of Kurt in png form

(they were blue so I could see them on a white or black background as is usually the case with pngs on my device. please enjoy)

[mrmooriecesalty]

Anyway, since tumblr changes the names (they were originally named based on where they go) they are in order: full chest, chest without sternum, middle forehead, chin, nose, face with nose, face without nose, under the ribcage stomach area, shoulder and down the arm, ribcage, sternum

[fiollaigean]

i cannot emphasize how necessary it is to have a buddy to participate in fandom with. completely elevated experience. don't have a buddy? find someone you like and message them and be their friend. gush over every sketch and drabble and insane headcanon they have. live life to the fullest.

[mrmooriecesalty]

earlier I was trying to talk to someone who was uninterested and not participating in the conversation about my fandom hyperfixation and all I could think the entire time was "I'm so glad my other friend participated when they weren't inherently interested" and as soon as I told the uninterested person kindly goodbye, I went to talk to my other friend, because talking to them is a better experience and less demotivating

[ordinarytalk]

Recovering from autistic burnout as a high-masking adult:

To recover, you literally need to manually learn skills that most people learn as a toddler

You need to learn what makes your body uncomfortable, and what to do to fix it

If you are high-masking, that usually means that you have learned to ignore every distress signal your body sends unless it is a distress signal that a neurotypical person would recognize. People have likely been unintentionally gaslighting you about your lived experience your entire life

If you feel bad or panicked for no reason, stop and try to pay attention to your body. Are you tense? You are likely feeling physical pain somewhere. If you've been gaslit about your pain your entire life, you might not be able to identify it.

Go through a sensory checklist.

SIGHT: Try closing and covering your eyes. If this gives you relief, the lights are probably too bright. You may also need differently-colored lights

SOUND: Cover your ears. Does this give you relief? If so, you may need earplugs or noise canceling headphones. You may also benefit from a neutral or pleasant background noise, like soft music or brown noise.

TOUCH: Are your clothes uncomfortable? Your chair? Your body? Do you feel greasy, like you need a shower? Do you need softer, sensory-friendly clothing?

TASTE: Do you need to brush your teeth or tongue? Would chewing on something help?

SMELL: Is there a strong or unpleasant smell in the room? Do you need to clean or empty a trash can? Would an air purifier help? Would a pleasant smell like a candle help?

INTEROCEPTION: Are you hungry? Thirsty? Tired? How is your posture? Are any of your muscles tight or sore? Scan your body slowly from head to feet, tensing and loosening each group of muscles. Going for a walk or doing a series of quick stretches may help a lot.

Learning how to do this stuff is not intuitive, if you've had an entire lifetime of gaslighting telling you that everything hurting you isn't a big deal and you're being dramatic over nothing.

This takes time, it takes work, it's not intuitive, and it's hard. Most people forget how hard it is, because they learned this as toddlers.

If you want to recover, you need to relearn your whole body. And get over your idea of "normal" and just wear the damn sunglasses and put on the headphones. If people stare, fuck em. You're disabled and they can deal with that.

[whatbigotspost]

What a great post! So helpful.

People often ask me about my unmasking journey and express surprise to hear that such a big part of it has been 1) accepting I must avoid light/the sun and 2) wearing clothes I can stand.

I’ll play it jokey and say it like “well it took me far too long to realize that my former wardrobe made me want to jump off a bridge.” Or “turns out my old underwear was anti-autistic.” Or “for whatever reason when it’s too bright, I can’t think.”

It sounds silly to some people. It’s very hard for the average allistic person to understand how severed I was from what my physical person was feeling. It served me to be disembodied to survive for a long time. Until it didn’t.

[headspace-hotel]

eliminating all polyester blends from my wardrobe (and polyester in general) changed my fucking life

[kitty-c4t]

ive also never smoked in my life and the first time i drew one of my ocs smoking i drew it backwards too. solidarity

Ayooooo

Good for us. Cooler than smoking imo 😎✨️

[mrmooriecesalty]

I don't smoke and drew it wrong once but my smoking friend bullied me until I fixed it

[ghostroclus]

I really want one of those Miku open mouth ita bags but with Present Mic. Please tell me you see the vision

[mrmooriecesalty]

I see the vision and I like this so much better than the miku ones.

You could put letter pins in there to make him scream YEAHHHH

[muntzerism-diggerism]

[3000s]

tumblr giveaway

reblog to win one of that

[byjove]

I never thought I would be siding with the pope’s involvement in politics and cheering him on. I will say that.

[byjove]

[qqueenofhades]

Pope says he has 'no fear' of Trump after scathing criticism

The US president accuses Leo of being "weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy".

[laropasucia]

[persianmom-deactivated20251026]

what will it be, boss? the comfort of misery or the pain of change?

[wizard-of-interesting-failure]

[redarmyscreaming]

[writers-solace]

I don't think Tolkien is a good fantasy writer because he scored the highest at some objective Best Fantasy Book Test that every fantasy writer has to take, I think he's a good fantasy writer because he created a world based on things that he was interested in. I feel like a lot of fantasy writers think that they need to create a whole language for their world because Tolkien did and obviously his books are the best so they have to emulate him, but Tolkien did that because he was a linguistics nerd. I think the lesson to be learned from him is not that you have to include elves and deep history and new languages, but that you have to write endlessly about the things you are a huge nerd about and use those things to create your fantasy world

[mrmooriecesalty]

Unfortunately, the friend I am writing a fantasy series with is a huge nerd about maps and languages (he does not know a second language while I do, which I find to be in the realm of silly) and I am not, but we are putting it in the books anyway

[chongoblog]

ITS APRIL 13 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

FETCH ME NEIL

[chongoblog]

[chongoblog]

HAPPY BIG TWENTY NEIL

[redstonedust]

you ever notice that some people seem to think its only acceptable to have hobbies as an adult if you have autism. like okay yeah sure special interests etc etc its not an unreasonable thing to link together but also if you cant enjoy toys and games over the age of 20 i think youre the one missing out. get a lil whimsy in your heart.

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Official joy and whimsy post