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Sometimes u just gotta nuke it | Jym, 19, knows how to read | they/she

[firefox-official]

tips for dealing with bullies?

be a better bully

[firefox-official]

out-bully them

[firefox-official]

i don’t mean this like “justice” or “punch em back” i mean just be a better bully. make them feel inadequate about their bullying skills. the fucking nerd

[prokopetz]

Pre-canon fic.

Post-canon fic.

That-little-bit-in-the-middle-that-canon-skipped-over fic.

Needs-to-keep-its-voice-down-because-canon-is-sleeping-in-the-next-room fic.

Peering-over-canon’s-shoulder-and-making-weird-faces-when-canon-isn’t-looking fic.

[prokopetz]

You-can’t-prove-it’s-not-canon fic.

[aenvittorielle]

holy fuck, why is this so true :"D

[the-greatest-kaspy]

@theoutcastrogue

[titkoks]

i really didn’t think it could get worse, and then-

[hell-aint-a-bad-place]

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[killfridge]

LMFAOOOOO

[lifeofcynch]

OH MY GOD.

[kryptidkhaos]

Not to be a downer but pls dont use "hyperfixation" if you dont have ADHD! Same goes for autism and special interest

it's on? my about page?? that i have adhd???

like you really just,,,, automatically assumed? that i was using the word incorrectly??

[renthony]

Ah, tumblr, where a man can get accused of appropriating his own neurodivergence.

Though, quite frankly, even if you didn't have it listed in your bio, I'm tired of this shitty toxic tumblr culture that pressures people to list all their disabilities on their profile to avoid getting called a faker.

[vaspider]

Forced disclosure is fucking toxic, and people with ADHD aren't the only people with hyperfixations, nor are people who are autistic the only ones with special interests.

Plus, let's be really clear: those terms are accessibility anchors for diagnosis. If you have a special interest, you may not be autistic, but if you realize that you're going from special interest to special interest, and that you really do have special interests rather than just liking stuff, maybe you're autistic!

And since ADHD and autism have stunning under-diagnosis rates, especially among Black and brown folx, CAFAB folx, otherwise-disabled folx, and a ton of other intersections, making those terms common and commonly-understood and not rigidly policing their use actually helps people figure themselves out.

I wasn't diagnosed as autistic until I was 35, and I just got my ADHD diagnoses & medication this year, at 43. I don't know if I would ever have gotten the assistance I needed, or started working on my own accessibility without much help from doctors, if I hadn't been surrounded by a community that helped me understand myself by using those terms.

Seriously, though, Forced Disclosure is toxic, stop gatekeeping useful terms, no one owes you (anon) an explanation of why they're using terms like special interest or hyperfixation.

The only one being a 'downer' here is you.

[leebrontide]

Putting on my “I am a for real therapist who makes diagnoses as part of my daily job routine” hat here.

FIRSTLY, Vaspider is right about everything.

Additionally, diagnosis for autism is a checklist. A CHECKLIST. You meet a certain number of criteria and you get a diagnosis. There’s no magic or deep algorithms involved. There’s specialized language, and nuance to standards, which is why professionals are helpful, but at the end of the day, if I’m diagnosing an adult or adolescents with autism, it’s based first and foremost on their own SELF REPORT. As in I say “hey do you experience X?” and they say “yes, and it causes things to be hard for me”. This isn’t rocket surgery.

The criteria for diagnosis has changed within your lifetime. It’s changed during my career. These diagnostic criteria are not carved in stone and frankly the conversations about what gets included in the DSM and what doesn’t are laden with politics, power moves and other less-than-scientific forces.

All this to say that someone might genuinely, legitimately struggle with a number of ADHD or autism traits and not meet diagnostic criteria. That doesn’t mean they don’t HAVE them, it means if I want the insurance company or employer to pony up some support I need to come at it from a different angle. We can still work on those issues IF those issues are causing harm to the client in question. (I honestly do not give a shit whether their parents or whatever think special interests or hyperfixations are annoying. They can go suck eggs.)

So NO, you can’t reasonably say that only ppl who jump through the correct gatekept hoops get to use those words, because those are NOT the only people who have those experiences. Pretending otherwise hurts a wide array of people and makes accurate care even more difficult to access.

/end soapbox

[vaspider]

This is all very good but I do have to say I especially agree with the 2nd paragraph.

[valtsv]

the one experience that unites all 90s and early 2000s kids is experiencing at least one work of fiction with a deceptively adorable illustration of cute animals on the cover who live in societies with an established political system, hierarchy of leadership and culture and are driven from their homes by human activity and/or engage in violent conflicts with other animals in similar communities that lead to many of the characters’ brutal deaths, which are described in graphic detail and which left you briefly emotionally traumatized by being confronted with the concept of your own fragile mortality before you were 10

[valtsv]

the 4 horsemen

[valtsv]

it has been brought to my attention that this was an ENTIRE GENRE of children’s fiction for some reason

[jadedaceofspades-deactivated202]

You forgot An American Tail

[dreamyblackchild]

Expectation: “Yay, cute talking animals going on fun adventures and learning about friendship!”

Reality: “These cute talking animals are going through a lot of traumatic shit. The world they live in is dangerous, the stakes are super high and these small critters deal with war, death, betrayal, and oppression. Have fun reading, kids!”

[captainmera]

trying to get your story together like:

[captainmera]

Explaining your story to a willing ear:

[captainmera]

“I really like your story! is there more?”

[captainmera]

“I like this character, is there more about them?”

[captainmera]

When they ask “What happens next?” and you haven’t figured it out yet.

[captainmera]

When you have figured things out but you haven’t written/drawn anything yet, and trying to figure out how to:

[captainmera]

When you only write and draw things out of order and everything remains in the drafting stage:

[cuter-than-a-corgi-butt-deactiv]

When you publish something and someone else points out a continuity error:

[willow404]

I feel WHOLE post on a mental and emotional level

[dankmemeuniversity]

[sickktransitgloriamundi-deactiv]

@alexwritesfiction @euphoniouspandemonium

[alexwritesfiction]

i will hate u forever.

[valtsv]

*acquires a new hyperfixation* great! this should keep me going for the next 2 months or 24 hours

[sleepy-bebby]

Cat dimension

[notoriousmasc]

character customization screens are like “you can alter your character’s body type!” and then it looks like this

[viking-archer-official]

video game companies be like “we offer a diverse array of skin tones for a wide array of character types”

[999999999999996-deactivated2023]

[thunder-fuck]

Cryptid sighting

[thekanucklehead-deactivated2025]

Baby Yaga

[morepopcornplease]

everyone pitch your new awful Disney Villain backstory

mine is Yzmas parents were mauled to death by the Emperor’s Royal Llamas and that’s why she hates Kuzco and llamas

[dearratroi]

Clayton from Tarzan wants to hunt gorillas because he went to a zoo once and his brother fell into the enclosure and had his limbs ripped off

[raevenlywrites]

The enchantress from Beauty and the Beast was a furry and she was just waiting for his 22nd birthday so she could swoop in all "there there I will love you even as a Beast" but Belle beat her to it (less a terrible prequel but theres still time to make it a pretty fucked up sequel I guess)

[allisonmckenzieart]

There’s a party at the Magic Kingdom! Let’s hit the dance floor!

Part 1

[allisonmckenzieart]

There’s a party at the Magic Kingdom! Let’s hit the dance floor!

Part 2

[afloweroutofstone]

Getting a chance in this new article to talk about something I think about too often: Disney World is, literally, by definition, a dictatorship

[hangingfromchandeliers]

that “if youre over 24 and still on tumblr it means mental illness has won” post is so funny. rip to you all but i’ll still have hobbies and interests when im in my 30s