Courtney

19|Female|Ace Minecraft|Music|ADHD/Autistic

[biathelstan]

mayuge day!

[trickztr-deactivated20220912]

Friendly reminder that fan-made content (fanart, fanfic, fanvids, etc) are:

extremely time consuming. Remember someone actually took time out of their life to create that, time they could’ve used to, idk, sleep, for example

entertainment you’re consuming for free. I can’t stress this enough: you’re enjoying someone else’s craft for free. You paid exactly zero money to look at/read/watch it.

S H A R E D  with you, not made for you. This is the most important point: someone created that, put it online and you found it. No one forced you to consume that fanwork, you C H O S E  to do it. 

Whenever you feel like leaving a mean comment, anonymous hate or make a ~clever post about how ‘lol look at all of these overused tropes every fic writer crams into their fics’ remember you’re being a dick to someone who shared their work with you. You’re not being funny, you’re not being edgy, you’re not being brave for calling something out - you’re being a dick.

[spacelazarwolf]

in case any edgy gentiles are thinking of claiming that it’s just the Chronically Online Jews who are concerned abt today’s “day of hate”, that it was all just talk and we’re overreacting, a 95 year old jewish man who came to the brunch i worked today told me that what’s going on now reminds him of what things were like in the 30’s. he is not the first older jew i’ve heard make these parallels. in fact, it’s pretty common to hear from people who have holocaust survivors in their family that those survivors have been noticeably more anxious these past few years. i’ve talked to several jews in their 60s and 70s who have all said something along the lines of “i’ve had to deal with more antisemitism over the last few years than i ever did when i was growing up.”

this is not an online problem. it is a real world problem. get on board with fixing it, or get out of the way.

[thelastlightningbug]

bill nye has fucking snapped. if you say the words “chinese hoax” he’ll personally teleport to your location, set you on fire, and tell you that “oh no boo hoo you can’t stop being on fire because it costs too much money to not be on fire guess it’s just not worth extinguishing you”. he’d stab an oil company exec with knife hidden under his light blue lab coat. that man has gone off the civility rails, he is absolutely living, i admire him fully, we stan 

[jayska-nxl]

Bill Nye has what feels like a valid anti-hero/supervillain origin story. Young, optimistic scientist dedicates his life to educating children about science, but then watch as those same kids grow up to ignore science and continue to destroy the earth. So in a fit of rage/act of desperation he activates Super ScientistTM mode and becomes his superpowered persona and starts killing billionaires in ridiculous over-the-top fourth grade science fair experiment related ways.

Tbh, I’d help him

[aces-to-apples]

Reblog to become Supervillain Bill Nye’s nameless henchperson

[citizenscreen]

Fred Astaire, Cole Porter, and Eleanor Powell on set of Norman Taurog’s BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940.

[cosmos-dot-semicolon]

HQ versions of Club Penguin’s OST!

If you somehow haven’t heard of the Club Penguin High Quality Audio channel yet, please check it out! The two people working on it have basically been hunting down the highest quality audio versions of all the songs in-game (and in any tie-in games), so you can hear them without the compression that comes with Flash.

Hell, they’ve even found stock music that the original owners have lost. Have you heard the full version of Maximum Wave’s bass and drums? It’s fucking amazing and I’m actively annoyed you never hear it in Cart Surfer proper:

[cripple-punk-dad]

Ok so at this point I've had two people roll up to me in manual wheelchairs, well, one of them was somebody pushing somebody who was nonverbal at the time, but it still counts. They asked me why I had zip ties around my tires.

It's winter where I'm living and we have really bad snow. And the snow plow people are really bad at their jobs probably because there aren't snow plow people who clean sidewalks. As a solution I got to thinking about how I could increase the traction on my wheels. And the most redneck thing I could think of was taking a bunch of zip ties and tying them around my wheels. They last surprisingly long, and work surprisingly well. It's basically the same premise as chains for your tires during the winter.

I chose to space them out pretty evenly so there's about one for every spoke. You could probably do more or less depending on how many you want and how much traction you get but I wouldn't go more than three per spoke. I realize that it's a bit later in the winter, and I probably should have made a post about this sooner, but I came up with it about a week ago. So please share this, even if you're not disabled, because there are tons of people I know who are stuck in their houses because they can't get around in the snow. A pack of zip ties costs about $5, which compared to $200 knobby snow tires is a big save, and if you want to invest you could get colored zip ties.

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

masks and helmets that hides someone's face in such a way that they become the face themselves my beloved

these are all creatures to me

[underwhelmingalchemist]

The fact that maia arson crimew, the trans catgirl therian who leaked the 2019 TSA no fly list and posted it online, has a link on its pastel pink uwu aesthetic website to her own Wikipedia entry that contains hyperlinks to the articles for 'United States grand jury' and 'criminal charges' is purely iconic.

No notes maia. You're doing great

[vigilantsycamore]

Things fascism is not:

a learning disorder

a form of psychosis

a cluster B disorder

a developmental disorder

Stop armchair diagnosing fascists with heavily stigmatised mental health conditions, and stop calling fascists ableist slurs. If you do this shit you're part of the problem

[rykhafirehand]

I’d like to add: fascism is a conscious decision to embrace (and amplify) the worst impulses that are part of the human psyche. Emphasis on the conscious.

It’s done with the full knowledge of where in their brain these impulses come from, but rather than recognising that they’re dangerous and trying to avoid them, fascists decide to build their identity around them.

That’s why they’re so obsessed with what’s ‘natural’ and what’s ‘unnatural’, ‘perverse’, ‘degenerate’; they need an excuse to justify their decision to let the monkey brain take the reins.

[chloelum]

Just some of the sweet treats I love that are made with lemons 🍋💛

[disconnectivetissue]

i think it's important to remember that the "low/mid/high" in "low/mid/high support needs" describes the type of support you need, not how badly you need support.

[monachopsis-11]

People always talk about how childhood autistic traits can be troubling and problematic for people (especially allistic parents) but how about ways childhood autistic traits can be helpful and convenient for parents? I’m putting some examples below from my childhood.

- my need for routines was helpful to my mom and made her life easier

- my ability to hyperfocus on interests and solitary activities allowed my parents to attend to my sister

- my preference for being with adults who were more predictable made me easier to handle

- I had a very strong internal sense of right and wrong that made me easy to reason with as long as I was given a reasonable explanation

- my difficulty expressing my emotions and internalizing them instead made me seem low maintenance

- compared to my sister who is very reactive my atypical responses weren’t noticeable

- because I was so independent I was easy to leave alone and overlook

- because my traits weren’t disruptive to my parents I was just seen as ‘mature,’ ‘smart,’ and ‘an old soul.’

- even though I was only social when people interacted on my terms I didn’t avoid people so I wasn’t seen as antisocial

- I talked so much that if I had a day I was struggling no one noticed because they were just used to me being chatty

- I had a decent early childhood before things got really challenging so my meltdowns weren’t bad or often at that age

- by the time I was at an age where those things would stand out I was more prone to disassociation and then having a meltdown when I was alone so they didn’t know

If anyone has any childhood autistic traits that were convenient to their parents and overlooked because of it please let me know in the comments! ⬇️

[cosmicdayglow]

One thing that bothers the fuck out of me when I tell people I’m autistic, and they say the old “really? I couldn’t tell! You don’t seem autistic,” is that they COULD tell. They could tell that I’m intense and have no volume control because they’ve pointed it out. They could tell that I dont have a great understanding of social cues because they laugh when I miss them. They could tell that I stim because they’ve told me to stop fidgeting. So they COULD tell, because I DO “seem” autistic, but to them, they just saw my autistic traits as personal failures and never as things that I simply couldn’t help.

[byehellsitelmao-deactivated2023]

people talk a lot about direct bullying in school but never like, when you're isolated because you're "weird" and the hushed whispers where they look over at you and point then crack up laughing. when everyone avoids you for being too blunt or having interests in "kid stuff"

so, ig shout out to everyone who wasn't bullied to their face. i was, but the majority was being an outcast

[byehellsitelmao-deactivated2023]

hey, op here in case this blows up

this was written specifically about my experiences being autistic growing up, but this applies to anyone who was a victim of bullying

if you were isolated or bullied because you were out of the closet, or had a disorder that wasn't autism, for your race, religion, etc

shout out goes to YOU TOO

bullying sucks and anti-bullying campaigns don't work when people don't take hateful bullying seriously

[tawnywings]

this is potentially really important:

I have someone staying in my hotel tonight that made me think that this would be worth sharing here.

If you are running away/trying to hide from someone that is frightening, abusing, harassing you, and you find yourself staying in a hotel to avoid being found, there’s an extra precaution you can take.

When you check in, ask the front desk clerk to put you as “Unlisted”. They’ll know what you’re talking about. What this means is that as far as anyone other than you and the front desk clerks are concerned, you’re not there. If someone tries to call for you and your room, “I’m sorry. I don’t have anyone registered under that name.” Same thing goes for it someone shows up at the desk. “Unlisted” means you’re untouchable.

Please, please, if you find yourself in trouble and seeking refuge in a hotel, do this. It’s really quick, easy, and painless for the front desk clerk to do, and they are not going to judge you for it. 

[crustai]

Tip from a hotel receptionist: (I work for the Green and Blue ending in Express- hotels will vary but this is generally a Thing hotels do.)

If you tell the front desk you do not wish to be contacted, they can and will put a note to everyone else who works there that unless you SPECIFICALLY say that a certain person is allowed to call/come up to your room, they will not let ANYONE near your room- ID will be checked for that person for your safety. If someone asks for you by name that isn’t allowed to know you’re there, the staff will simply say “There is no one here by that name.” If they press, the staff will insist no one is there and they need to leave. Also, housekeeping will be informed of your desire to be left alone and will announce at the door that they are housekeeping, for your peace of mind.

A good tip is to have someone else drive you to the hotel if you’re able- that way your harasser cannot find your car and wait by it for you. Also, if you CAN, stay in a hotel where all the room are indoors- usually smaller indoor hotels do not let non-guests past the lobby, especially if they ask for someone/someone’s room number. Third floor helps, too- at my hotel, we usually put people who are hiding from abusers on the third floor at the end- since you can’t enter the side doors without a key and the elevator is in the middle of the hotel. Always check to see if the outside doors are key-access only, and make sure you know where the elevators are, and see if you can get a room closer to the more secure area! 

Also, if you know their car, or the car of anyone they know and might use, tell the receptionist, especially if you think they may come looking for you. Tell the receptionist what it looks like. If you see it, or if they see it circling the hotel or in the parking areas, they can and will call the police if you need them to. I myself have called the police to chase off an abuser who wouldn’t stop circling the hotel. 

Sadly, this is not an uncommon thing, and since I started working at a hotel, I’ve seen my hotel shelter no less than six people fleeing from abusers/stalkers etc, but everyone at the front desk was accommodating and protective- just let the staff know you’re at risk, and they’ll do everything they can to keep you safe.  

[life-on-the-spectrum]

I used to work in hotels for like 10 years, and if you’re running from an abuser, DEFINITELY tell the staff. If the series of hotels I worked at are any indication, a lot of the desk and housekeeping staff have been exactly where you are and know exactly what you’re going through. We were trained to protect your privacy and safety, and most of us would take that shit PERSONALLY when it went down. 

Make a special point to tell the night shift desk worker, though. If there’s going to be one person who’s accidentally left out of the loop, it’ll be them every time. That said, the night shifters are usually also prepared to deal with just about any bullshit and con that your abuser will offer. We have seen it all. 

[sakutarousadventure]