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crybaby-in-bloom’s tumblr comeback blog wooo Pia | 25 | she/her | PH | actually autistic | graphic design is my passion | niche hyper-fixations ahead

[music-daily]

I was so confused, what should Doechii do? She didn't know about me and I didn't know 'bout Sue DENIAL IS A RIVER (2025) dir. James Mackel & Carlos Acosta

[por-siempre-the-beatles]

Happy New Year! 🥂🎊🎉

[kawaiiunii]

big big reminder that high support needs / severe autism / level 3 autism folk aren't very straightforward narrow topic too . we rather big spectrum as well !!! some us need very specific type supports than another some us need multiple caretakers ect !!! and reminder that just because high support needs / severe autism / level 3 autism person learn to do or can do a task independently doesn't mean theyre lower needs now.

i know level 3 autistic guy with severe cognitive impairment who can unload and load dishwasher by self, set plates on table for meals and wash body most well independently but with supervised in the room for safety, but that dont make his support needs and autism level lower he still cant take care of himself by own, cant go out home by self, cant shop by self, cant drive, doesn't understand stuff same level others do, still need that carer for life.

so please remember autistic people who high need level 3 severe ect not monolith too we are all different, different interests, different abilities, different ways of supports too!!

[htyfnetwork]

ADMINS

ADMIN PIA

Hey guys! Pia here. It's been a great opportunity to be part of this endeavor. I've connected with my fellow admin Finley for a while now and our mutual interest in the forum has led to this tribute page. Follow me at @themaartedossier

-> favorite batch: the 1957 batch, I felt this was the strongest in terms of how the delegates presented themselves in The World We Want and their personalities (at least from the people we see in the surviving programs) are fantastic to witness.

-> favorite delegates: this is hard because I like a lot of delegates, but my essential favorites based on who I saw in The World We Want so far (in no particular order) are as follows:

* 1954 - Johnny Antillon (Philippines), Vangala Ram (India)

* 1955 - Nakchung Paik (Korea), Minji Karibo (Nigeria)

* 1956 - Alfred Bannerman (Gold Coast/Ghana), Judith Reader (UK), Yoriko Konishi (Japan), Inge Stoustroup (Denmark), Raul Contreras (Philippines), Jay Jansen (Ceylon/Sri Lanka)

* 1957 - Sara Chatt (UK), Padmanambh Gopinath (India), Ziyad Hussami (Lebanon), Susan Rennie (South Africa), Boniface Offokaja (Nigeria), Mirka Misic (Yugoslavia), Dennis Normandy (Philippines), Pham Truong Le (Vietnam)

* 1958 - Patsy Pagaduan (Philippines), Ben Kofi (Ghana), Sharmaini (Indonesia), Arnlaug Leira (Norway), Naila Ahmed (Pakistan), KR Krishnan (India), Onder Guler (Turkiye)

* 1959 - Kaarina Honkapohja (Finland), Rafiya Ayub (Pakistan), Nalini Nair (India), John Goulden (UK), Bizuayehu Agonafir (Ethiopia)

ADMIN FINLEY

Hello everyone! This is @finleyrambles or @dic3y3lan. I am interested in this forum since december 2023 and right now, I found someone who has same interest as mine. I found every delegates cool! I edit more gifs!

-> favorite batch: the 1954 delegates, I didn't know why they are my favorites honestly.

-> favorite delegates:

* 1954 - Johnny Antillon (Philippines), Gerhard Casper (Germany), W. B Ofuatey-Kodjoe (Gold Coast/ Ghana), Eric Laffont (France), and Vangala Jaya Ram (India).

* 1956 - Raul Contreras (Philippines) and Alfred Bannerman (Ghana).

* 1957 - Padmanambh Gopinath (India), Boniface Offokaja (Nigeria), Pham Truong Le (Vietnam), and Beatrice Kairupan (Indonesia).

* 1958 - KR Krishnan (India) and Onder Guler (Turkey)

* 1959 - Rafiya Ayub (Pakistan), Nalini Nair (India), John Goulden (UK), and Bizuayehu Agonafir (Ethiopia)

[themaartedossier]

Hey, this is my project with this lovely fellow @finleyrambles whom I bonded over our mutual love for the New York Herald Tribune World Youth Forum so there will be a bunch of posts from there to be crossposted here. This is bound to be exciting!

[martspng]

happiness has to be fought for.

[zegalba]

[in-case-of-grace]

THE ACCESSIBLE DESIGN SURVIVAL GUIDE: OUT NOW!

My zine covering accessible design basics is now free on itch!

If you'd like to start making your work more accessible for everyone— check a look, download it here!

Please share this with anyone you know who makes flyers for key events like protests and fundraisers, especially! We want to make sure these things are successful— and accessible design will help with reach!

[garadinervi]

Betty Danon, Mr. Klein The Fall, (printed matter, pen, finger print, collage; from a set of four), 1978 [Lomholt Mail Art Archive, Museet for Samtidskunst / Lomholt Formular Press, Roskilde. © Betty Danon]

[belysiium]

My favorite artist’s favorite artist!

[auschizm]

Here's a post for the autistic people who can't relate to the "autism is a difference, not a disability" movement at all. The nonverbal autistic people. The autistic people who need help with basic self care like eating, going to the bathroom, getting dressed and showering. The autistic people who need full-time supervision to stay safe. To the autistic people who can't go places alone or can't go places at all. To the autistic people who can't help having violent meltdowns. To the autistic people who don't understand social interaction at all. To the autistic people who'll never be able to study, work or live alone. To the autistic people who have to follow a very strict routine to function. You're all an important and valuable part of the autistic community. You don't deserve to be ignored, excluded or sacrificed in the name of a more palatable image of what it means to be autistic

[themaartedossier]

Every single outfit worn by Emily Sanderson in A Night at the Roxbury (1999) - a short gifset with written essay as a part of something I would like to call "Underrated Fashion Moments"

aka "molly shannon is such a bae in this movie even when she was poised to be annoying, and that's thanks to her beauty and fashion fr"

In all seriousness, I felt that the film was so underrated that its excellent costume design tend to go unnoticed. You have the Butabi brothers wear their famed suits and complementary-yet-matching shirts and then the girls they were interested in have sleek and sexy black metallic numbers, and then you have Emily (played by Molly Shannon) who stands out with her choice of outfits.

A little intro to who Emily is: she's the college-aged daughter of a lamp store businessman who's very attracted to Steve Butabi (one of two sons of a fake flower store salesman), who in return wasn't totally into her. Their respective parents want to have them married so that their businesses would merge into "the first plant-lamp emporium". Now, Steve and his brother Doug want to party, get with hot women, and go inside the hottest club - The Roxbury - and matters like Emily are a detriment to their plan. Oh, about Emily - she may be a sweet girl-next-door-type, but she's very horny. And also controlling then too focused on business and appearances. Oh well...

The important thing to know is that she wasn't in the proximity of a club, so her outfits tended to be plainer than what the other ladies in the film would wear in places like the Roxbury. However, her various outfits give out cues to what her character is like: she usually wears black with hints of white and red, but whenever she works at the lamp store, she wears yellow dresses and accessories. A ray of sunshine with a hidden desire and darkness kinda gal. Also, when she was actively pining for Steve before they were eventually forced to be wed, she would wear outfits with hints of flowers as seen in the first three frames as a nod to the Butabi business. The only time she wore another color was when she had her wedding (which went haywire to say the least), and that was it I guess. Also, she did wear some silver jewelry all throughout - pretty understated compared to others. It's interesting to see how these present her eventual nature once we see her settle within the film's narrative... when you get to it.

Making this gifset has made me realize the genius behind these clothes and how they could tell subtle hints (at least I'm aware of). I didn't even realize that Mona May, who is most well-known for her work in Clueless, handled costume design for this movie until recently! Hopefully, you can consider this study on an underrated part of May's repertoire and probably as future inspiration for some cute outfits at least. And when I have more time, I could go into some more specifics for each outfit...

[themaartedossier]

a long list of current interests

just to preface what you will be seeing here, i'm currently into these (and that's counting what were fervent hyperfixations before but have since dialed down and become more of ocassional interests to return to):

K-pop girl groups (ults for now are NewJeans and Red Velvet)

Graphic design in general

Pop music - currently hooked on Charli XCX, Chappell Roan, maybe Sabrina Carpenter... so many to mention rn

Music from the 1950s to 2000s (generally rock music, disco, dance-pop, and other genres popular those times as long as i can click with them)

Autistic (and generally neurodivergent) relatable content

Saturday Night Live (more on the mid to late 90s era with the likes of Will Ferrell, Molly Shannon, Ana Gasteyer, and so on)

Costume design (and how they relate to character arcs)

Matcha lattes and related non-coffee drinks

Going out to places just to explore

Public transportation

Vintage things (especially the mid-century aesthetics that truly fascinate me)

Muji stationery with getting paper stuff that is more than what I need

The Mickey Mouse Club, particularly the original version

Kinderen voor Kinderen - that Dutch children's choir of which I tend to prefer their earlier years but there are still some bops from their current era

Gymnastics, of which i really love the 1970s-1980s era for its creativity and innovation (but today is also fantastic)

Collages (and it's a primary aesthetic to what I do for art)

Disability advocacy and justice, especially in contextualizing things within the Filipino context I live in

Emu's Pink Windmill Shows - the one with the Catrina meme and something I wholeheartedly appreciate

New York Herald Tribune World Youth Forum - remember those viral videos where 1950s foreign exchange students talk about prejudice and other topics? I've been so fascinated with that program to the point of researching it a lot

Newspaper clippings (and extracting them for personal research)

Okay that's a lot but yeah I will go wild with those topics and whatever creative means I go about them...

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This is the money Marge. Reblog for good fortune

[themaartedossier]

hello this is madness hahaha i’m back on the tumblr side of things which i haven’t been for a long time since… before the pandemic? yeah, i’m now old.

when i was active, i had three blogs - @crybaby-in-bloom was the blog i call home for personal things, @1950smouseketeers was my fan blog for the original version of the mickey mouse club, and @flourishevas-blog was my gymnastics fan account. I’ll likely make new posts for the latter two, but will have the former remain untouched to preserve my younger self. It may be cringe but feel free to look at that to see how far i’ve come.

So… here’s my new blog, The Maarte Dossier (also known as Return of the Crybaby to commemorate the connection it has to crybaby in bloom). This will be more of “a space of organized mess” where i get to be myself with the randomness i post and reblog, but it has a sense of cohesion in which it’s all about things i love and become passionate about. You’ll know when it happens, but trust me to make some good about this thing.

Over here, you will see how far i’ve gone with the design side of things (i mean i work now as a graphic designer after taking a college course that has something to do with design) and mull over thoughts about things i like. I’ll also write some things and will likely repeatedly bear on how long i write stuff. And i’ll also have some new faves on display to see how i like things that resonate with me in the present.

Lastly, i want to make this space something of a solace after handling a bunch of stress for the past few weeks. I want to find my inner love for creating and advocating (especially as an autistic person) so i guess this is a good place for these sort of things. Yay!

Hi, i’m Pia. Welcome to The Maarte Dossier. Best of luck on the ensuing chaos I guess hahahaha