Velocichungus

autistic, australian, artist, born 1992 https://linktr.ee/velocichungus

[velocichungus]

Hi, I’m Kass.

This is just so I can easily access tabs.

[luna-azzurra]

No one, and I mean no one, is 100% cool all the time. Not in real life, not in fiction. And frankly, I’m tired of characters who strut through life like they’ve never sneezed in public or sent a risky text and immediately regretted it.

You want readers to relate to your character? Then give them something cringe. Let them get too excited about a dumb video game, or have a weird phase where they’re obsessed with historical fencing. Let them quote movies at the wrong moment, or cry at dog food commercials. Hell, let them wet themselves if the scene calls for it (not that I’m speaking from experience. lol).

Being a little bit of a loser is the most humanizing trait you can give a character. Perfection is alienating. A guy who’s always smooth, always hot, always wins is NOT romantic. Give me someone who panics during a first kiss and knocks teeth…

[heartnosekid]

antlered flutter flies (toxonevra superba) | this_mama_fetz on ig

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

{Words by Anaïs Nin, from The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4 (1944-1947) / Cynthia Cruz from diagnosis,The glimmering room}

[seat-safety-switch]

You can tell a lot about the health of a civilization by their warning signs. Places with a lot of dumb folks will have very broad, very dumb warnings in public. "No feeding the birds." "Stop swimming in this drainage pond." That kind of thing.

Advanced civilizations have very precise signs. They've covered the bases of their regular, run-of-the-mill idiots, and now they're working hard to cover that other end of the bell curve: the talented idiot. When I was in Germany last time, there was a big warning sign that consisted of a 76-letter-long word that means "stop bothering this particular goose, Sven." I don't know who Sven was, but the goose looked pretty calm. It worked.

Now, I have a secret to tell you. You can just make your own signs. There's no law against it, except perhaps "littering," and the municipal sign factory doesn't have very good security. If you show up there past close and put in the door code that you shoulder-surfed off one of the employees returning from lunch a week prior, you have all night to fuck around with their sign-printing machine, making the most official-looking placards you can think of.

Is this wrong? I don't think so. It's a public space, and being able to put up an aluminum sign that says wacky crank shit is your right. For instance, just last week, I banned pickup trucks from parking by the playground. The cops figured out something was going on, because they didn't get any calls for toddlers getting backed over for a couple of days and sent a patrol truck to investigate. Took my sign right down.

What I discovered after that is that nobody keeps records of what signs are supposed to be there. Why would anyone put up a sign for no reason? They cost money, after all. The city is now suing the shit out of that officer for stealing the "no trucks" sign, thanks to an anonymous tipster who called in the theft. Guy wearing a reflective vest came by and put like four more of them up after the lawsuit made the news, just out of spite. I'm not entirely sure if he's actually a city worker; we ran into each other at 3am at the sign factory and just grunted. He was working on some really crazy signs about not feeding a particular swan. Probably German.

[bogleech]

This whole sequence in jurassic park is so incredibly funny to me now as an adult because it reads so much like a power fantasy written by the lamest most annoying dinosaur guy ever. A child, for some reason, heckles a dinosaur fossil. Totally something children do. And specifically ridicules the dinosaur by saying it looks more like a bird, which he finds stupid. BUT WAIT!! The badass middle aged paleontologist is here to give such a based and awesome lecture about his favorite dinosaur it owns the shit out of that punk ass ignorant child. Just obliterates him on the spot. And everyone clapped.

[comedygoldatragedy]

Having rewatched this movie like... a month ago, or so, I felt like the immediate aftermath of this scene really drove home that the 'badass middle aged paleontologist' is acting like a dick here. Immediately after this his fellow paleontologist points out how he's putting on this cringey tough guy facade because he's insecure and awkward around children (and also technology, and also most 'new' things) and he should really work on that. The entire rest of the movie is about that.

I think you could accuse Jurassic Park of a lot of things, and it's not a flawless film by any stretch of the imagination, but I would not list a lack of self awareness as one of its flaws.

[bogleech]

No, I know this, it's just that there's little explanation for why that kid is even there, and the way he makes fun of velociraptor looking like a bird wasn't even relevant to most audiences at the time - it still wasn't widely established that dinosaurs were feathered and we didn't yet have the debate over whether that still looks "cool."

There are countless ways the same character traits and information might have been conveyed, but they wound up conveyed through a little boy your average palaeonerd might invent as their archest internet troll nemesis.

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

really enjoying all the videos Muslims have been posting of their cats looking like this

when the humans are up at 4 am for suhoor

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

[fatsexybitch]

🔪 knife stop 🔪

Take a knife or two to complete any tasks you need to finish soon. Reblog to give your mutuals a knife for any group projects you may be working on

[thememedaddy]

[defectivegembrain]

"I don't know where the stereotype that autistic people can't lie came from" it came from an overgeneralisation of the reality that a lot of autistic people struggle to lie

"I don't know where the stereotype that autistic people can't understand humour came from" it came from an overgeneralisation of the reality that a lot of autistic people struggle with understanding many forms of humour

"I don't know where the stereotype that autistic people can't date/have sex came from" do we have to keep doing this? The generalisation is wrong but it's also wrong to deny it has anything to do with the realities of how autism works for many people.

[bobbi-bee]

Something I think people who don’t live with chronic illness don’t understand is that there is a big difference between resting to get better and resting to avoid getting worse.

[jacindaelena]

Apartments in New York ‘At Home with Books’, October 1995

[snailspng]

Snail shell PNGs.

[grrrls-against-the-patriarchy]

IMPORTANT!!!

I’ve only seen like one person talk about this and it’s super important that this gets out there

Multiple punk symbols and sayings have been added to the FBI’s domestic terrorism guide

Things included are

The symbol for anarchy

ACAB and 1312

The three arrows pointing down in a circle

Eat the rich

Those are a few but it also mentions anything anti-fascist and anti capitalist

So if you live in the US please be careful

Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide Part 01

Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide Part 01

[coffeegardens-misc]

images from the document for context:

[addersmire-moved]

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[depsidase]

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading