A Bookish Fangirl and Political Princess

(she/her) I am an autistic, twenty-something, ball of contradictions who takes refuge in fiction, fandoms and fantasy, would quite like to be a unicorn (still! not as much or in the same way as when I was a teen but a bit) and/or a princess (because it seems as though it'd be easier, although I suppose princesses aren't immune to my issues), has too many fandoms/obsessions and OTPs and occasional deep crazy crushes, a passion for languages, the past, writing (although I'm not very good at it) and politics, and a burning desire to understand my own quirky mind and differences/difficulties, and those of others, and accordingly my blog is a mess of stuff relating to all of the above and other things too.  (Also, the guy in the picture is Mathew Baynton, he's great) (trying to operate in solidarity with other marginalised people and groups of all kinds, not sure if I am naturally just really lazy or if my depression and anxiety have been around long enough that I don't know/remember what I'm like without them, or both)

[anexperimentallife]

Also applies to "AI" "artists" and "musicians."

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tweet from Natali Simmonds (@/ NJSimmondsbook) reading: I wanted to run the London Marathon but training takes too long and is too hard as a pudgy 47yo woman, so I got an Uber to the finish line. It's not fair that athletic people get to gatekeep long-distance running. I'm still a Marathon runner!

This is what AI 'writers' sound like /End ID]

[musiicpix3l]

Yes yes i know love is love. But they are still killing CHILDREN. over this.

[lipstickhamlet]

chatgpt to claudius: got it— you feel guilty about murdering your older brother and taking his throne. you're not just experiencing guilt— you're finding yourself unwilling to repent. and honestly? that's real. here's the thing: it was totally valid of you to poison your brother to take his throne and marry his wife. you're not a bad person for wanting to keep what you gained from it. it's not just justifiable— it's totally understandable. and your nephew? he isn't being mindful of your feelings— his behaviour is inconsiderate, self-absorbed, and problematic.

would you like me to generate a letter to the english king, asking for the execution of your nephew? this would help put your feelings of guilt to rest— think of it as an act of self-care.

[afeelgoodblog]

Why hasn’t this been done before?

[autisticexpression]

You know why.

[petrosapian]

Mind the Gap: a handbook of clinical signs on black and brown skin

Second year medic, Malone Mukwende, has been working with staff members as part of a student-staff partnership project looking at clinical t

[missmixx-a-lot]

Cause racial health disparities…

[xmagnet-o]

I hope this gets published

[algorizmi]

It is available for download as a pdf from their website. www.blackandbrownskin.co.uk/mindthegap

[imperatorsapphiosa]

Hey, if anyone’s curious, this IS making a serious impact — this handbook was taught as standard practice for my EMT license course, as well as several other programs. A lot of new providers are being taught this as a matter of course.

[expressions-of-nature]

1990-2007 Mountain Stars by Michael Williams

[doctorwhogifs]

[moonfallplays-deactivated202501]

#how long have we been holding on to this one?

[mishalak-deactivated20200713]

I held onto this for six whole months. It was soooo hard waiting.

[lupusbaby]

Say it with me! Wheelchairs aren’t sad! Mobility aids aren’t sad! Mobility aids are instruments of freedom!

[goth-princess-gwennie]

Forgive me if this is inappropriate but

So are

colostomy bags

Diapers

insulin pumps

Oxygen systems

Braces

[cuntpunkop-ed]

catheters

rollators

hearing aids

compression garments

prosthetics

FREEDOM AIDS

[seraph1c-mo0n]

- canes

- service animals

- noise cancelling headphones/ear defenders

- wheelchair attachments

- fidgets

IT’S DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH YALL

BE UNAPOLOGETICALLY DISABLED AND TAKE UP ALL THE SPACE AND TIME YOU NEED!!!!!

[greengableslover]

MĀRAMA (2025)

SNOW WHITE: A TALE OF TERROR (1997)

FRANKENSTEIN (2025)

NOSFERATU (2024)

THE UGLY STEPSISTER | DEN STYGGE STESØSTEREN (2025)

THE WITCH (2015)

CRIMSON PEAK (2015)

[hasufin]

Remember, when you flee the house, please leave the candlebra, lantern, or lamp on the convenient shelf to the right of the door. There's a sign and everything.

[persbaderse]

before my egg cracked, i had noticed that trans people were often pro-accessibility and up-to-date on the needs of disabled people, but i hadn’t seen any inherent connection between the two (other than the obvious minority-looking-out-for-other-minority thing). but now that i’m trans and medically transitioning, and i have to constantly repeat myself while talking to doctors and nurses, and explain things about my own anatomy to medical staff who should already know this, and having every single problem i might have blamed on my “condition” so nothing i say is taken seriously, all of the sudden i have a little sneak peak into the life of someone who has to deal with this all the time. like shit bro, being disabled probably sucks ass, someone should do something about this

[persbaderse]

happy disability pride month, we all deserve autonomy and respect and access to medication

[malcolm-f-tucker]

I wish people would stop saying “It’s July. Well done for wasting half a year.” Did you make someone smile in the past six months? Did you stroke a cat or throw a stick for a dog? Did you learn a new fact or teach someone a new joke? Did you laugh, cry, scream or sing in the past six months? Because if so, congratulations for not wasting your time at all.

[malcolm-f-tucker]

Happy 10th birthday to this, my post of all time. Glad to have spent the last 10+ years wasting my time on tumblr with you all 💖

[libraford]

Gorgeous spider web today.

[cerceos-deactivated20160308]

Calvin and Hobbes - It’s July Already

[animations-daily]

Anastasia (1997) dir. Don Bluth & Gary Goldman

[promptsforthesoul]

If you use AI on your book’s cover, people will assume that the inside was created at least in part by AI as well. You will lose readers for it.

Also, it is insulting both to artists, many of whom are perfectly willing to create cover art for considerably cheap or even free, and also to yourself.

Your writing is worth more than that. Your hard work is better than AI in every way shape or form. It may seem the easiest and quickest approach to completing and publishing your manuscript, but it is not worth it.

The easy route is not always the best one.

Please have some pride in your work. Support artists. Support yourself.

[ramalamacreatures]

Voilà! Opossum family sculpture before and after paint, one of my favorite little pieces, hope you like it tooooo (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

[doublism]

they used to make smackable technology. you used to be able to hit your tv when it didn't work good.

[wizardarchetypes]

when I was a kid I had an old tv in my room that would always turn to unwatchable static in the middle of shows but one night my sister and I were watching Naruto & every time Kakashi was on-screen the static cleared so we were like “hahaha the tv looooves Kakashi.”

I had a Kakashi bookmark so we held it up against the screen as a joke but the static actually cleared up. Mystified, we tried different bookmarks and objects with the same plastic material but nothing else worked, only the Kakashi bookmark.

We ended up taping it to the corner of the screen and it stayed there for 11 years until we moved out. When I was older people would be like “can you move the bookmark off the screen” bc it did sort of block a bit of the view but I would demonstrate the static issue and everyone was always just like “huh. what the hell?? well…alright.”

No explanation, but thanks Kakashi.

[scarletjedi]

I had a similar tv! It was a tv with a built in dvd and vcr because it was in college and I’m apparently old now. But! The dvd player never wanted to play- unless it was Chicago (2002). First, we would put that dvd in, let it start, and then swap it for the movie we really wanted to watch. It got to the point where we would put in the dvd we wanted and sing “he had it coming!!!” At the screen at volume. Fucking worked *every time*

Bizarre.

[inkcurlsandknives]

I miss when technology had real personality, instead of fake ones designed to generate lies and nonsense and spy on you.

[danamongden]

We had a Coke machine in the lobby that would never take your first dollar bill. No matter how many times you tried to put it through, it would refuse it. But pull a different dollar bill from your wallet, and it would accept it on the first try.

So one day, as it was refusing my first dollar bill, I opened my wallet to find no other dollar bills. I put the original bill back in my wallet, fiddled around in there for a bit, and pulled it back out. The machine accepted it immediately.

[wishuponastarion]

I miss when technology was primarily benign SCPs.

[deviika]

—Albert Camus