Thoughts on stuff

Queer & neurodivergent thoughts on things and stuff

[deadsince1973]

Signs you're watching a C-drama

(from The First Jasmine, episode 10)

[bannertanks]

[ghosthierophant]

[uncleromeo]

if you don't do anything else today,

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.

[witchofanguish]

There's a somewhat-unstated division in social progressive circles that goes "being socially inept for autism reasons is fine, but being socially inept for regular reasons is bad and mockable." And then in practice everyone assumes it's for regular reasons when it comes up

[kitachett]

I headcanon that during He Xuan's time in Tonglu, after several years of being alone, the giant Xie Lian statue basically became Wilson from Castaway for him lmao

[supertaliart]

Post-it Brother-in-law Bonding!

[puppydogwhitaker]

autistic adults (yes, even ones with high support needs) deserve medical autonomy and the freedom to explore romantic and sexual relationships.

this episode showed becca advocating for herself successfully. she demanded honest communication that made sense to her (not falsely minimizing the time frames for when her case will be revisited). she asked for her medication to be administered to her in her preferred way (crushed pills). she maintained her right to privacy until she was sure she wanted to speak about it with her sister.

i’m happy they’re showing becca as an adult with romantic connections, coping strategies, and self advocacy skills. it’s something a lot of shows fail at. they either portray autistic people who don’t require many accommodations as a way to justify autistic people’s existence or they infantilize them as these people that are almost forever children. as always, applauding the pitt for the levels of nuance they give marginalized groups in a society that rewards flat characters that are non-challenging.

[socialistexan]

Same exact playbook, down to the "but it was based on a lie."

[socialistexan]

It's kind of amazing how much this is the identical strategy. Focusing on the distress and harm of parents over the trans or autistic person themselves. Pathologizing the condition treating it as an epidemic, including calling it a social contagion causing a worrying "explosion" of diagnosis because it is "trendy."

Ignoring the experts on the subject while also appealing to "common sense" and dismissing all research that contradicts them while also appealing to "basic science."

Plus it's all the same quacks and actors behind previous medical and social moral panics saying them same things in the same ways and no one seems to acknowledge that.

[demonprincex]

she says in the article that she was inspired to think this way about autism after she started reporting on detransitioners. Her Twitter mentions are filled with prominent voices in the detrans terf movement. This isn't just similar, It is quite self-consciously an extension of the same movement.

[socialistexan]

She is also an advocate in favor of the Trouble Teen Industry, working with known eugenicist (and guy who talks a little too much about age of consent laws) Richard Hanania

[byjove]

I never thought I would be siding with the pope’s involvement in politics and cheering him on. I will say that.

[byjove]

[i-merani]

[justherefortheasianshows]

Um you might want to be a liiiiiittle more specific on your definition of “discreet” and “head-on confrontation” when talking to someone who literally sneaked into an enemy camp disguised as one of their soldiers, single-handedly set fire to the place and then beheaded their general before showing off the severed head to civilians back in his city 👀

[talea456]

Duan Xu: So I should meet him head off or…???

[ampervadasz]

Unmute !

[grootpoepjeplasjehoofd]

That’s a gunfight in a Looney Tunes cartoon

[mckitterick]

thanks, @tenspookybugs !

[prismatic-bell]

If you can’t hear this, it’s like a cross between a pinball machine and every silly “gunfire pew pew” joke you’ve ever run across.

[merakasoor-deactivated20240412]

Thank you @athenasdragon

Here’s the link if you don’t want to search for this in the notes!

[contrivedchaos]

On a completely unrelated note, the guy in the video who threw the rocks, Cory Williams, is responsible for this ancient Internet relic known as the Mean Kitty song.

[brightlotusmoon]

Reblogging for first the ice ping, which I remember, then reblogging for the shock that is remembering Sparta The Mean Kitty.

[dduane]

Just adding in passing: this is why folktales in cultures that coexist with glaciers so often feature tropes suggesting that the glaciers are haunted by something—routinely, the spirits of the unquiet dead. And from the dead (or whatever else is up there, buried in the ice) come all kinds of weird and uncanny noises…

[muffinlance]

Oh so it’s GHOSTS having the gunfight

[importantdogimages]

[blumineck]

Happy Ides of March, folks!

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[vollzeitherz-deactivated2026012]

as you get older, you start realizing that you are not always right and there’s a lot of things you could have handled better and many situations where you could have been kinder and all you can really do is forgive yourself and let your mistakes make you a better person.

[meangirlnurse]

people keep coming up with fancy microidentity qualifiers to refer to "bisexual women who are interested in women," and i would like to humbly suggest that maybe we should actually address the underlying assumption that, at default, "bisexual women" are exclusively involved with men

[meangirlnurse]

same people often seem to be wringing their hands over the best way to refer to "bisexual women who aren't 'sexually available' to every man in eyeshot" and i'd like to humbly suggest that this is a weirdly sexist and biphobic set of assumptions to hold about bisexual women at default

[machinot]

Scientists have found that if you get 8 hours of sleep and are still tired during the day it’s because your soul is cursed and your body doesn’t think you deserve happiness. There is no cure or treatment