#briesasks

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36:which band's sound would fit your mood right now?

In the mornings lately I’ve been listening to a lot of 80s hair metal, right now I’m listening to Winger for example, I’ve also been listening to Ratt and Van Halen quite a bit.

ask me

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"I can only imagine what it might be used for" let's pretend Malcolm isn't a massive perv but is in fact following many tumblr metas about using it for trauma and/or recreation, go one make me a heartbroken mess I'm sure you could

i don’t usually answer anonymous asks anymore but it’s about malcolm so i don’t mind, i can’t make out what the last part of this means but i’m assuming you’re referring to this post,  yeah i mean i can totally roll with the idea that he’d use a holodeck for a sort of trauma self-coping, seems like a perfectly legitimate meta to me

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Please come here and do my nails. Also *e-hugs* and I hope you're doing well.

aww what a sweet thing to say! i’m doing well today so far. hope you’re well too ((hugs))

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Your profile pic is gorgeous! Side shave hair?! You've been wanting to do that for a while, right?!

Thanks!! xD yeah I’ve had the sidecut since March actually I love it

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ok no but how shit must Malcolm reed's family have been if his disastrous endings of ex girlfriends were the ones he wrote letters for??!?! feels

PRETTY SHIT MY ANONYMOUS FRIEND

PRETTY SHIT INDEED

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Hi just wanted to say that those multi colored nail are so beautiful !

oh my gosh, thank you so much! i had a lot of fun with them!

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to be fair, I agree with you that Malcolm reed could be neuroatypical; prefers being alone to being with people, always saying he's fine, creative- he made weapons on enterprise work better than supposed to, above average intelligence, good at his job THANK YOU because now if my sister ever feels insecure about having autism I can show her it doesn't make her any less than her friends

yeah just keep in mind wrt your sister that not all autistic people would have all of these characteristics like for example some people such as myself have great difficulty in professional/work environments so be aware that these things you’ve listed aren’t specifically what define him as not being any less than his peers, so basically although these are all examples of neuroatypical traits, he would be a whole and complete person even if he didn’t have some or all of them

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So it turns out the part of our brain that is so useful in absolutely every aspect of life, but most immediately useful in the keeping us out of danger bit is also our greatest stumbling block in the ability to see things as novel: pattern recognition, and one of my favorite greek neologisms, "apophenia."

ah yeah if you mean like seeing patterns in shit that ISN’T THERE then yeah that’s definitely me. i have the double whammy of ptsd and bpd that sort of maxes out the amplitude on that type of shit, basically a tiny or moderate-sized thing happens and to me it might as well be armageddon, i just wish i didn’t always jump back into glaring down at the hellmouth armed with a broadsword and winged helmet when what’s actually in front of my eyes (this time around anyway) is a lit match that merely needs to be snuffed between my fingers. i mean it’s sort of a cool perspective to have as an artist bc seeing in greater dimension than what is Really There can be good for creativity but on a day to day to basis it’s stumbling-blocky as hell

i’ll take a hyper-perceptive view of the multiverse over a drab windowless one though, no matter how useless it may seem