An Anxious Mind in a Beautiful World

Writer, artist, Christian, revolutionary

[sleepyeye17]

Trump says he thought the image was of a doctor. Look there’s a reason doctors don’t dress like that. Because if I went to visit grandma in post-op and saw a man in a white robe and red sash leaning over her I’d FLIP. “DONT WALK INTO THE LIGHT, GRANDMA!”

[sleepyeye17]

Seems someone struck a nerve.

[sleepynegress]

The Discourse on The Twit App About The Tourette's Outburst of the N-Word is ASS....

Thank goodness, we don't have a character limit here. No one Black should be subjected to an n-word slur if it can be prevented. And this situation is especially heinous because it was a multifold preventable violation...

For those who don't know, a nominee with Tourette's had an outburst stemming from that condition while both MBJ and Delroy Lindo were presenting. He yelled out the n-word loudly. Alan Cumming later did an absolutely terrible but sadly common variety of apology wherein he used the phrase "if anyone was offended" and thanked the audience for being patient and understanding about this condition. So, here we are at a two-fold teachable moment. Please, watch this video explaining Tourette's first (because TBH I ended up down a rabbit hole of hyperfixation learning about it) :

I think the key part of this video is her explaining that it is neurons misfiring. In other words, that man could not stop that from happening any more than you could just choose to stop blinking or breathing. The condition is literally about blurting out the worst things at the worst possible situations. Like call of the void without the choice to steer you vocal cords away. There was an anecdote about a Black person with this condition terrified of yelling "I have a gun!" around cops, which would make it more likely for those neurons to fire that way....It is socially debilitating and dangerous. ALL THAT SAID... As a disabled person who has worked with disabled people for a good chunk of my life... I KNOW both alternative accommodations and assistive devices exist. BAFTA did not provide either. For example, if you are a deaf person who is trying to watch Bad Bunny's halftime show, you can/should have easy access to... ASL interpreter, Celimar Rivera:

Because Tourette's outbursts harms in multiple ways, (both the person with it and those unwittingly harmed by the words blurted out...) ...An alternative sound-proof space option for him to remain on the premises, free from fear of his tics coming at the expense of his and others' sense of safety and humanity, and *still be present for the show*, -should have been provided (they procure them easily for pageants, for example). Since it happened, BAFTA should have had a script prepared just in case, with a proper apology DIRECTLY at those affected, Black people who were present and especially Jordan and Lindo, with zero waffling and a proper scrolling card explaining both the condition and where to read up/donate. And finally, there is NO REASON it should have aired on TV with a two-hour delay. I have mentioned the discourse being horrific... The aspects that are most disgusting to me are those touting ableism, while using this incident to basically puppeteer a disabled man's expression of that to be racist and silence Black people hurt by that (the way outright nazis are piggybacking off people shouting "ABLEIST!" so they can attach their "YEAH SHUT UP!! YOU FUCKING! [insert racist slur here]...") Also, the wilful ignorance about the condition stubbornly pushing intent, even when explained that that is NOT what is happening. Again. The entire nature of the condition is that you blurt out the absolutely worst possible thing and it is NEURONS misfiring, meaning you don't get to hold it in or choose not to say it. In the end, both BAFTA and the BBC failed spectacularly for both racism and ableism (in not being prepared nor having accommodations and compounding it by re airing it). But, like I said teachable moment. *smh* If Nazis have your back? STOP and ask yourself if you're the baddies, instead of the savior from ableism. If you're insisting that a named neurological condition is voluntary?? Again ask yourself, if you're the baddies.

I hope we all learned something today. P.S. I chose not to name the person with Tourettes, though he is tagged because the mob is already forming and I wanted the attention centered on the fact that the condition is not about who he is. I wanted it to be 100% about Tourettes being a condition all kinds of people can have and centering the need for ALL SPACES to have disability accommodations.

[wulfhalls]

ok. whatever. thats cute i guess.......

[sleepyeye17]

Emerald Fennell said that “Wuthering Heights” is trying to capture the feeling of being young and reading the book for the first time. And I do understand that. I read it at 14 and was completely wrecked. But the truth is that Kate bush perfectly captured that feeling in 1978 and nobody else ever will. Why do we keep trying?

[dailyakotsk]

PETER CLAFFEY and DANIEL INGS as SER DUNCAN THE TALL and LORD LYONEL BARATHEON ↳ A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS (2026), dir. OWEN HARRIS ⤷ 1x01 "The Hedge Knight"

[versains]

Aegon V Targaryen: Easter Eggs

[rasputinaillyanna]

[sugurugetos]

AERION TARGARYEN — S01E03: The Squire LYONEL BARATHEON — S01E01: The Hedge Knight

[sleepyeye17]

I write historical fiction, so I thought tutoring APUSH would be fairly easy. Sorry, I can tell you what the soap smelled like in 1980s East Berlin, I can tell you that the mud of the Western front has a gritty texture and metallic taste, but I can't tell you the first thing about the creation of NATO.

[dimension20daily]

Dimension 20: Gladlands (Trailer)

[t1r3dr3pt1l3z]

They are so sweet guys. BUT ITS NOT 100!!

[clohobrainrot]

"My friends, they kind of are my family, and now they're yours too!"

[sleepyeye17]

[nightsewnn]

[crispynosferatu]

Even though some of the writing feels sloppy and I've been yelling at my TV for the entirety of this final season, s5 of stranger things has been fucking awesome to watch tbh

[loveyazy]

Stranger Things (2016-2025) 5.07 || The Bridge