small and flighty

hello i am robin i am a mess of limbs and nonspecific gender, constantly flipping the ghost bird ONE MUST DEVOUR pronouns: it/they

[postillfastill]

I think the best tumblr interaction I've ever had was when i replied to some post and referred to bigots with cute cartoon icons as "picrew racists" and this other person materialized out of NOWHERE to call me ableist and queerphobic because most people who use picrew are neurodivergent and nonbinary people. I was like, "i don't think that's true and also I am neurodivergent nonbinary people, what the fuck are you talking about", and they said VER BATIM "classic DARVO tactic" and were like why don't you just call me a slur or threaten me with violence since you're such an abuser or whatever, and I was like "I WAS JUST SAYING ITS FUNNY WHEN A BAD PERSON HAS A CUTE CARTOON ICON" and they immediately DM'd me their ENTIRE LEGAL STREET ADDRESS so I could doxx them or hurt them or something since I "clearly wanted to." Like that fast, like 2-3 replies. Pure unadulterated tumblr condensed into such a succinct exchange. 🤌 can't get that anywhere else baby.

[postillfastill]

self doxxing to pwn someone you have sent but a single message to is an incredibly big dicked move tho tbh. like I mean it worked. I was flummoxed and stopped replying to them. It's like if a mugger is like stalking someone but the guy starts screaming and pissing themselves screaming DO IT DO IT AAAAAAAAH. it is an batshit but effective self defense mechanism.

[postillfastill]

tho to be totally accurate the mugger would have to not actually be a mugger and just a normal guy jogging in the same direction and they still piss themself and start screaming. but still.

[helenvaughans]

"crime" for conservatives is basically just existing in public as a person of color

[dragon-in-a-fez]

always thinking about that Oxford study that found half of adults define "young people hanging around in groups" as "anti-social behaviour"

[stantler-and-walrein]

>"anti-social behaviour"

>looks inside

>socialising

[teaboot]

>L'enfant plaza metro

>Les enfants

[treecitysessions]

Going around asking random people to hit their shit is crazy actually this is the one time I’ll side with a Frenchman

[ex-riddlecats]

i'll be honest it gets kind of annoying when ppls immediate canned response to an m/f ship is "she deserves better" because over half the people who say that then proceed to hyperfocus on some yaoi with the man involved and never give the woman a second glance. forgive me but i think she deserves better than being girlbossed off screen and never mentioned again

[kiwimintlime]

*feministly*: women should never be centered in stories because Bad Stuff™ might happen to them

[treasuredplanet]

I think that when you're overstimulated you should appear kind of grayed out and no one should be able to interact with you like a locked character in a video game

[thecaptainkindofgirl]

My dad works at Home Depot and this one customer came in trying to return a lawnmower that wouldn’t start. Another employee asked the customer if he had put any gas in it and the customer was outraged, yelling that they should have told him it needed gas (it was in the manual) and the employee told him “Well it doesn’t run on hopes and dreams, sir.” That pissed the guy off more so he called the manager all “Can you believe this guy!? He told me it doesn’t run on hopes and dreams!” and the manager just said “Well, it doesn’t.”

[kat-of-letters]

i know that “don’t harass people for being weird, they might be autistic!” is a fairly popular take on here. but as a Certified Autist, i’d like to add that harassing allistic and/or neurotypical people for being weird is also bad, and should not be done

and before you come in with “yeah, you never know who is and isn’t autistic, and you shouldn’t force people to out themselves!” i want to say two things: one, i agree. and two, even if you could magically avoid ever harassing a single autistic person, it still wouldn’t be okay to go after NTs for being weird. they’re people, janice. they’re allowed to be really invested in naruto

[blujayonthewing]

#stop playing the game of ‘who is it okay for me to hurt?’ #the answer is no one #the answer is ALWAYS going to be no one #none people is the correct number of people to hurt [X]

[snowkissedmonsters]

Also on age verification: I have been on this website since 2011. Unless you think I started blogging at age 2, you KNOW I'm an adult.

[dreamerinsilico]

#the fact that 'can prove access to an online account at least 12 years old' or even 'account to be verified is itself fully 18 years old'#AREN'T accepted methods of age verification is such a telling sign of what the real purpose of age-gating laws is:#data harvesting and deanonymization and the buildout of state-controllable ways to restrict both content and internet access itself en masse (via @shinelikethunder )

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[zxid]

collection

[zxidold]

I posted this on my art account by accident and deleted it after 2 minutes how did this go viral lmao.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Because it’s hilarious next question

[plaguedocboi]

Wait why is youtube now putting an ai button on videos that’s like “tell me what this video is about”??? Do they think we’re too stupid to watch video now?

[plaguedocboi]

Like is the pitch at this point really that we should be relying on ai to do our jobs, make our art, make our music, do our homework, do our chores, research for us, write our papers and emails and texts, summarize all our books and videos and movies into a single sentence, strap a chatbot to your physical body so it can tell you how to respond to people in real life, replace therapy and friends and partners, think for us, do for us, exist for us, and this is being sold as “convenience”? Wow ai saves me so much time! It’s so nice to have something that can live for me so I have more time to *checks notes scribbled on hand* uhh. Sit and stare blankly at a wall? I think that’s all that’s left really

[str-ngeloop]

annoying when people meet me and assume i'm new to gender stuff just cause i don't pass when i'm like ive been around that circuit eight times. i'm more advanced than you. i'm focusing on other things now

[pokeballvictimized]

I feel like every 10 sentences or so someone says to me "you look/sound/seem a lot better" like yeah dog im finally taking responsibility for my own life instead of forming codependent relationships in hopes that someone will drag me into a better life

[natalieironside]

Maybe I can convince y'all to act right by framing things in terms of social engineering. People will be a whole lot more likely to do whatever shit you're trying to hector them into doing if you're not constantly being a dick the whole time. Being niceys is a powerful social engineering tool such as all of the times I have maliciously manipulated people into fulfilling my whims using an evil sociopathic manipulation technique i like to call "asking nice and then saying thanks after"

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

I get heavily overwhelmed clothing shopping but I also get overwhelmed by like. Seams. So I do have to try things on in person.

And growing up we lived an hour plus from shopping and had not a lot of money — our shopping trips tended to be “until the clothing requirements are met”. And honestly there’s a point of exhaustion and misery where I’ll lie to myself and say requirements are met by a piece of clothing so I can leave.

Also my mom noticed this and took advantage of it — and even into adulthood would push me into overwhelm so that I’d be more biddable about choosing clothing. She explained this one weird trick to get her daughter to buy socks to my spouse, who was like “hey what the fuck?” and then repeated it to me when I was not overwhelmed. “Oh!” I thought, “that explains things!” and then donated about 65% of my wardrobe that I hated but felt guilty about not wearing.

Also I stopped clothes shopping with my mom.

Anyway! Here’s my tip for clothes shopping with like significant overwhelm issues and sensory issues and a human body and probably some trauma don’t worry about it.

Sit outside the store, think about the clothing item you’d like to buy. Set minimum standards for the item: comfort, price, appearance, quality. (Don’t sacrifice on comfort! Do prepare a generous fallback for the other options.) Set a timer for a short period of time: I usually do twenty minutes. Walk into the store, navigate directly to the appropriate area, identify several items that meet the minimum standards*. Try those items on, pick the most comfortable one.

*if there are no items that meet minimum standards leave the store, armed with additional knowledge, and either go to a different store OR stand outside and recalibrate standards. Do not recalibrate inside the store.

If at any time the alarm goes off, get up and exit the store. Check in with yourself after five-ten minutes outside about your ability to go back in. If you can’t: hey you have valuable market data! If you can: set the timer. Put five minutes less on the timer. Back inside.

If you find an appropriate purchase item within the set time, check the timer. If there’s more than like, seven minutes, you can do a quick comparison shop in the rest of the section, or go get baseline data for another clothing item you’ll need later. Otherwise, go check out.

[nudityandnerdery]

From the media that brought you "Millennials are killing [insert industry here]" articles for years and years and years, now we have....

"Hey, Gen Z, we're gonna relabel vacations into something else now and tell you how you really should be wary of taking vacation because it might impact your financial future."

This is a goddamn dystopia, we know this, right?

[rabid-transcendentalist]

[wutheringdyke]

music from 1960-1979 was invented so lesbians would have something to talk about with their fathers

[leviathan-supersystem]

hello, am dumb as shit, what books should i read? should i start reading?

I'm glad you asked. start with RL Stein's "Goosebumps" series. after that, KA Applegate's "Animorphs" series. after that, GWF Hegel's "Phenomenology Of Spirit" (this is just one book).