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The Bowery Presents
almost home
noise dept.
cherry valley forever
Mike Driver
taylor price
Jar Jar Binks Fan Club
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
YOU ARE THE REASON
d e v o n
if i look back, i am lost
Kiana Khansmith
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TMBGareOK. The Official They Might Be Giants tumblr
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oozey mess
Product Placement
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@tf--arrow
°•*⁀➷ Hello! °•*⁀➷
🏹My name is Arrow, and this is my selfship side blog, which was previously @b-arrow-er
🏹This is a place where I post about F/Os and occasionally post selfship works I've written.
🏹I also sometimes post writing or ramblings about different tropes. Found family content is a favorite and will be discussed frequently.
🏹F/O list and DNI under the cut.
Stuff my older brothers have said recently, out of 10
•"If anyone makes you uncomfortable, let me know, I'll fistfight them." 8/10, made me feel a lot better at that event because I knew he would genuinely get into an altercation if he thought it was needed.
•(immediately following the previous one) "Actually, I'll be standing right behind you and I'll surprise punch them in the face before they can finish talking." 6/10, funny but seems like it would be a bad idea.
•"I would lie to a judge for you." 7/10, I know he's being genuine (even though he really shouldn't be), but was not needed in that context (mentioning I was looking for a personal reference for a volunteer application).
•"Turns out I am allowed to drink at this party." 2/10. He, in fact, wasn't, bought a drink without asking our eldest brother who was in charge of us that night, and got in trouble.
•"What's a kill deer bird?" 9/10, I love when people ask me about birds and he immediately followed it up with sending me pictures of a baby killdeer. However, while I appreciate being my brothers' point of info for birds, I am not google, and they sometimes send me these messages at inconvenient times (see below), which is why this isn't 10/10.
•"What you know about western meadowlark?" 6/10. Same brother as above, called me during chem lab and when I texted I was busy he kept texting me saying it was important, then when I stepped away to call him back he said this and hung up. Only above 5/10 because later when we saw each other he told me about the western meadowlark he had seen which had prompted the call.
• "The front of the building is the side facing the road!" 5/10, part of an amusing but very long argument about which side of the event center we were at was the front, with me arguing it was where the front door and the sign were and my brother disagreeing since that side wasn't where the road was. Had no fruitful end but was fun. 5/10 because he was wrong about this statement.
it's all Fun and Games to neurotypicals until i pull out my AAC and then no one is laughing anymore.
respect people who aren't always going to be able to speak.
respect people who rarely use AAC.
respect people who use AAC 50% of the time.
just because i am able speak sometimes, does not automatically mean i can speak 100% of the time.
many autistic people need people use simpler words when talking to them
many autistic people need tasks broken into tiny steps to understand how do something
many autistic people need positive feedback in way that other think condescending
many autistic people childish and have childish interests
many autistic people have to always be supervised never alone because of risk of hurt self or get in dangerous situations
many autistic people have violent messy big meltdown, even in public
many autistic people struggle with speech always will maybe rest of life (non verbal, semi verbal, demi verbal etc.)
AND most of these autistic people higher support needs + level 2 & 3 autism, don’t forget or ignore us. can’t say “that not true just stereotypes” when it just symptom and sign of higher support needs higher level autism.
you want to raise awareness for lower support needs level 1 autism and yes good ok!!!! but not this way where throw HrSN level 2+3 autistic under bus.
- winnie
"quick meal for when you're low on spoons!" *involves chopping vegetables* *uses a stove* *includes condiments* *involves letting something set/rest/simmer* *requires multiple kitchen items that will need to be washed* *estimated prep time: 30–45 minutes*
Can we stop using "still lives with their parents" or "unemployed" or "doesn't have a drivers license" or "didn't graduate high school" as an insult or evidence that someone is a bad person? Struggling with independence or meeting milestones is not a moral failing.
Maybe if I just work harder, this empty cup will pour again
Maybe the cup needs a bit of time to rest and refill?
Maybe the cup needs to lock the fuck in???
[no beers in] do you think im ever going to belong somewhere
Pop art Pushpin table lamp with cork base by VisualGram. (2004)
I’m kind of miserable and it feels permanent but its whatever
Eva and Grace’s dynamic is so important to me. They’re in love platonically. Like, that’s not a common dynamic. She put the way he likes his coffee into the ship’s computer. He follows her around like a puppy. In the book, she cracks jokes with him and him only. She cares about his opinion. He was the only one she asked about the coma gene, wondering if it was worth it.
He’s her best friend, and she doesn’t even know it. They’re so close, that in the book, people think they’re sleeping together, and poor Grace is so confused because he thought that was his platonic work wife, wdym people think we’re sleeping together, that’s my person that I crack jokes with and then she glares at me because they’re not funny.
She’s softer with him than anybody else and is only ever vulnerable around him. We see in the movie, he’s the only one who ever gets her to smile, and sometimes even laugh, and then she serenades all of them, but mainly him, and he stares at her with those big, shiny eyes so lovingly, and she points at him when she sings, “everything’s gonna be alright”, and then she gives him those eyes, so loving.
And then she’s trying to stop herself from crying when she’s sending him away because, against her will, he’s become her person, and somewhere along the way, she’s become his, and they will have forever ended this relationship on bad terms, and nothing can fix that.
It’s a platonic tragedy. It’s a platonic love story. This is something we don’t get often, or, like, ever, and it’s deep and it’s tragic and it’s sad.
But even after, Eva’s still taking care of him. Packing clothes she knew would bring him comfort. Programming the ship to know how he likes his coffee. And Grace is still watching out for her, speaking to her directly in his video logs, with that same lopsided smile he used to throw her way.
He uses Rocky’s sign for goodbye, and she uses it back, and how did this book and movie give us such a deep platonic friendship because, guys, this NEVER HAPPENS.
Eva and Grace, the platonic male/female friendship of all time.
Stratt: "...you don't have a family, you don't even have a dog."
Grace:
One of the reasons people headcanon Grace as aromantic is the unfortunately realistic scene where they go "you don't have a family or a loved one" as if that's enough of a justification to send him on a suicide mission. As if not having a family makes Grace inherently less valuable and means he should be more willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good.
Grace wasn't sad and lonely, he was happy, he had a good life, he very much did not want to die. They have to do a looney tunes chase sequence and drug him because Grace was *very* unwilling to be the sacrificial lamb. Humanity's savior was dragged kicking and screaming into the role and called selfish for daring to be a coward, as if most of us wouldn't be.
And then he befriends Rocky, who never demands a sacrifice from him, who willingly prolongs his journey home so Grace can go back to his. Rocky has a mate back home and his species depends on his return, and still risks his life to save his squishy human friend. And Grace returns the favor.
And thus the power of friendship saves two planets.
"I hope you won't mind if I think of you as a friend."
thinking about Hatchling discovering Grace & Rocky's story hundreds of thousands of years after it happened when there are no more Eridians or humans to tell it :')
happy 20 year anniversary of Neil banging out the tunes!
though every rat is special, it's a wonderful and unusual thing for their accomplishments to be remembered and cherished by so many people so many years later. we're all so fortunate to know about the rat who banged out the tunes!
thank you to all the people who sent me reference photos of their beloved rats for this piece!!! credits under the cut!
The trope where people don't recognize each other because it's been so long since they last interacted and they've both changed so much that they're basically strangers UNTIL one of them does their Signature Thing™ and the other just stops dead because oh. It's YOU. All at once it's so clearly you
Anyone who likes minigiants and is looking for a fic to read, I highly recommend It's a Girl's World: Liam and Sloane by PerpetualSarchasmMachine on AO3. It's got some of the best world building I've read in a G/t story, with a cute polyamorous love story to boot. It hasn't been updated in a few years, but what's there is a delightful read.
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