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I think Jack's mother from the musical Into The Woods is one of the most relatable characters in media. Her character introduction in the opening song is her singing:
"I wish...
I wish my son were not a fool.
I wish my house was not a mess.
I wish the cow was full of milk.
I wish the walls were full of gold-
I wish a lot of things!"
Me too mama. Me too. I wish a lot of things.
This. This may be the single most UNHINGED thing that has ever shown up in my mailbox. Every single thing about it is just - I don't even know where to start ridiculing.
I would have thought that the set of people who believe in the Rapture and the set of people who believe they're going to be the ones "saved" would be . . almost exactly the same set. Like, who believes in the Rapture but thinks that they, personally, will be left behind? And need a . . Time Ark . . to save them? What is positive survival. Is there a corresponding "negative survival"?
So many questions.
This was obviously written by aliens pretending to be religious humans in an attempt to obtain willing study subjects. Why else is the Time Ark shaped like a UFO?
accepting the whole autism thing has actually brought me so much calm, because when I was kid everyone seemed instinctively repulsed by me and I never understood why. ESPECIALLY the adults! which is a little fucked, because who are you supposed to go to about bullying if the teacher is participating? and even my family members seemed disgusted by me on some level, so I was like a cartoon parody of a human being where my closest friends were my pet rats. but reading studies on autism now, and learning about the double empathy problem, and about how neurotypical people ARE repulsed by autistic people in an uncanny valley sort of way and DO dislike them upon first encountering them (unless, ironically enough, they’re told that they’re autistic) - that’s actually been so cathartic. especially now that I’m older and have an okay-ish handle on masking, and so am no longer live in a nightmare world where literally everyone in my life seems icked the fuck out. I don’t have to discount my early memories. I can be like ohhhhh yeah that’s just something that happens. I didn’t do anything particularly bad and it’s not that I wasn’t trying, I was just born with the cursed sigil on my forehead. like ohhhhh they were reacting to the curse, ohhh okay, cool cool, that’s actually fine. I’m actually alright with that.
it also helps to look at old photos, because it’s like jesus christ, that’s literally just a little kid. like nobody that small should think that they’re that hated
This is HUGE for me, because it explains over 50 years of confusion I've had surrounding my attempts to be social. That INSTANT dislike I frequently encounter, which may be overt or much more subtle. I've tried to describe it to friends and family and met with a lot of pushback; people who already know and like me either don't believe me or argue that I'm misinterpreting.
This. Is. Huge.
I checked here to read more about it:
https://www.simplypsychology.org/autism-double-empathy-problem.html
@pangur-and-grim thank you from the bottom of my hypothetical heart for posting this.
I'm not autistic but I do have ADHD, and this is absolutely my experience with...pretty much everyone I've interacted with in my life. I am in my late 30's and I have 4 people who are not family who have interacted with me by choice for over 3 years. 4 people in almost 40 years on this planet living in 5 different cities who aren't repulsed by "that weird girl".
Thank you for shedding light on this OP. Maybe I'll find it cathartic in the future. For now, having been ghosted by 2 people I thought were friends for the last couple months, it just reaffirms my decision to stop trying to make connections. Because connections hurt.
@ahedderick since you love the felines so much I thought you might appreciate my Singing Cat, Chanterelle. You don't see her in the video, but the melodious mewing is her. I have never heard a cat like her before.
Picture since she's not visible in the video.
Meadow, end recipient of thousands of generations of evolution geared toward grace, stealth, and predatory excellence, just got stymied in her attempt to kill a sock on the floor by a drawstring (formerly attached to pajama pants) winding around her fluffy, idiotic head and temporarily blinding her. By the time she managed to fight her way free of the malevolent magenta cotton drawstring, she had lost her will to play with the sock.
Leaving me looking on, shaking my head. Meadow, you are a fail cat.
Good times. If you’re wondering if she improved with age . . she has not.
Just yesterday this beloved idiot
Attacked my toes while I was taking a nap on the couch. So naturally my toes twitched and I made a startled sound.
Her response was to jump three feet in the air off the arm of the couch, miss the arm of the couch in her landing, and flail spectacularly in the attempt, claws making velcro noises in her desperate attempt to not meet the ground. She finished by coming around the corner and looking at me as though this was entirely my fault.
Off to College
Last weekend, for Reasons, my husband had to take K back to college on Sunday night instead of her driving her own car back. That meant that I had to go get her this weekend, but we decided for me to go Thursday and have a fun overnight trip. The spider was a surprise, tho.
A couple summers ago K starting keeping little jumping spiders as pets. She had small terrariums for them, and had a good time feeding them and watching their antics. The first two she caught lived nice, long lives (for jumping spiders) but time did catch up to them last fall.
There has been a juping spider living in a corner of my kitchen windw for a while, now, and removing the random flies that always seem to spawn in the house and then bumble their little lives away in the window. The severe cold snap, however, eliminated all flies. Wednesday, I found the spider sitting in the middle of the table. Clearly stressed, probably starving, definitely should not be moving away form his window habitat. I sighed, found one of the terrariums, and shooed him slowly into it.
Thursday, after K and I had dinner, we stopped by the Petsmart in her college town and bought crickets; large ones for the gecko and a couple tiny ones for Spider. When she tipped one into the terrarium he pounced on it instantly. Hungry, hungry little guy. By this morning he had put up a tiny web and was sitting quietly in the terrarium. Possibly meditating on the warm, comfortable paradise he had been plunked into.
On a human level, it was a lovely visit. I helped her with a whole LOT of flashcards relating to red blood cells and anemia, and learned many new words. Also got to see the pathology lab and several slides of cow and dog blood, and we had a nice walk around campus. Good to get away from the farm every now and then.
Her dorm is SO cozy and nice. I'm slightly jealous sometimes.
Little guy, thriving. Typical feeding schedule for this type of spider would be one cricket per week. He has eaten three since last Thursday evening. He's probably caught up, now!
"Traveler", who nearly starved to death living in a kitchen window during the cold snap, just molted. He is thriving in captivity. K tells me that he went from a tiny guy to being the biggest jumping spider she has kept. Which seems surprising for one molt, but I suppose I've never learned much about the subject. Like a Marylander, I thought of it in terms of soft-shell crabs.
we are the daughters of parents who should not have had kids
Tumblr, my beloved...
What. The Actual Fuck. Is this bullshit.
We're censoring cleavage now?!
...
I find myself deeply, deeply offended that this exists, particularly in light of women's rights being stripped from us at every turn, all the "but what was she wearing" in SA cases as though that's more important than the behavior of the assailant, the "manosphere" whining about a "loneliness epidemic" among men who treat women like objects (GOOD! LEARN HOW TO TREAT OTHER HUMANS LIKE HUMANS AND MAYBE OTHER HUMANS WILL WANT TO BE AROUND YOU!), and all the other policing of women's bodies everywhere that causes stress, illness, and death. This is just another drop in the ocean of "women's bodies must always be hidden" but I guess I just never expected it to show up on my beloved Tumblr.
For those who are wondering what exactly you are looking at, this is an advertisement for...I guess some tools. Artman it looks like. And Temu, from the boxes in the background. The little orange present on her chest disappears if she's hiding behind the toolbox.
This sends the message that cleavage should be hidden, that cleavage is shameful, that a woman who shows her cleavage is 'bad', etc. This is NOT okay. WOMEN HAVE TITS, DEAL WITH IT.
@staff please tell me this was an auto-load ad oversight and no one actually saw this and approved it. Because if someone saw this and didn't think this was harmful, they need to be educated.
Holiday flexibility
Websearching "origami bat" like a perfectly normal person thank you very much.
(Small niece has decided that Valentine's Day is a holiday that requires bat. And, you know what . . . )
Today's the day on which we put the "bat" in "Valentine's Day"
err.
whatever.
I know that classical origami is unadorned, but by-damned if I don't want to paste a bunch of tiny heart stickers all over this. Hmm.
Paper with heart patterns on it?
Also, Batentine's Day. Valbattine's day?
Valenbat's day. Yes.
I know that I'll certainly never be someone they'd build a memorial for, but if I could get one, I'd like to get one of those park bench statues that are sitting on the bench. Specifically of me sitting casually looking towards the other seat at an angle, looking intrigued with a "surprised but not disappointed" kind of a look on my face. Kind of a "huh, won't you look at that."
I want that specifically so people can make it a meme to post pictures of themselves showing me stuff. Like memes off their phone.
Or maybe things that they are proud of but don't have anyone else to show them to. Like your school graduation papers, this cool knitting project you finally finished, your baby who's never going to see their grandparents.
And I also want a clause that they will absolutely fucking never put those anti-homeless things of any kind on my damn bench. So if there's ever someone who's got nobody else to keep them company, they can at least spend the night with me.
A treat for me
Me, having finished my Christmas shopping early, as I usually try to do; what if. books. for me. oooh, there's a deal on a twelve-pack of Briggs. hmmmm.
I adore sassy coyote as well. I also greatly appreciate Anna from the Alpha and Omega sister series. Lots of crossover there.
I have not yet read Winter Lost, her latest book, but that will be happening during this winter break. 2 weeks of no work and no school, yes please!
Reference as to why new book is not on the shelf properly. It is An Event to fit new books. My husband and I do not have a problem. Not one bit. Eh hem.
Doesn't look like a problem to me! Ah, but now I want to browse and borrow. Those are very nice chairs, too!
I've never ordered myself a whole STACK of books at once like this. The Squee I squoed (squid?) when I opened this up!!
I haven't read anything new by Vernon/Kingfisher in a while, so I started with Jackalope Wives. Still squeeing happily.
Oh Excellent!
Have you read the Alpha and Omega sister series? They actually fit in with the Mercy books' timeline! There is even some crossover with the characters, although they're not necessary to enjoy the Mercy books, but they do expand things a lot. The main characters of those are Charles (yes, the Marrok's big scary Charles) and his mate, Anna, who is a rare Omega wolf.
You can see how they fit here:
Just more stories and lore 😊
I am also quite curious...Jackalope Wives? Intriguing.
Jackalope Wives is a book that knocks you down, kicks you in the ribs, and then offers you a perfect tomato* sandwich. It's good, and I will reread it someday. NOT a comfortable, cozy read, tho!!
'* but watch out! For enchanted mockingbird stealing your tomatoes! For that will only be the start of your problems.
Sounds like I need to add it to my (already extensive) wishlist. I swear, if I won the lottery I would build myself a house with this floor plan:
A treat for me
Me, having finished my Christmas shopping early, as I usually try to do; what if. books. for me. oooh, there's a deal on a twelve-pack of Briggs. hmmmm.
I adore sassy coyote as well. I also greatly appreciate Anna from the Alpha and Omega sister series. Lots of crossover there.
I have not yet read Winter Lost, her latest book, but that will be happening during this winter break. 2 weeks of no work and no school, yes please!
Reference as to why new book is not on the shelf properly. It is An Event to fit new books. My husband and I do not have a problem. Not one bit. Eh hem.
Doesn't look like a problem to me! Ah, but now I want to browse and borrow. Those are very nice chairs, too!
I've never ordered myself a whole STACK of books at once like this. The Squee I squoed (squid?) when I opened this up!!
I haven't read anything new by Vernon/Kingfisher in a while, so I started with Jackalope Wives. Still squeeing happily.
Oh Excellent!
Have you read the Alpha and Omega sister series? They actually fit in with the Mercy books' timeline! There is even some crossover with the characters, although they're not necessary to enjoy the Mercy books, but they do expand things a lot. The main characters of those are Charles (yes, the Marrok's big scary Charles) and his mate, Anna, who is a rare Omega wolf.
You can see how they fit here:
Just more stories and lore 😊
I am also quite curious...Jackalope Wives? Intriguing.
A treat for me
Me, having finished my Christmas shopping early, as I usually try to do; what if. books. for me. oooh, there's a deal on a twelve-pack of Briggs. hmmmm.
I adore sassy coyote as well. I also greatly appreciate Anna from the Alpha and Omega sister series. Lots of crossover there.
I have not yet read Winter Lost, her latest book, but that will be happening during this winter break. 2 weeks of no work and no school, yes please!
Reference as to why new book is not on the shelf properly. It is An Event to fit new books. My husband and I do not have a problem. Not one bit. Eh hem.
Doesn't look like a problem to me! Ah, but now I want to browse and borrow. Those are very nice chairs, too!
I would absolutely let you browse and borrow, but unfortunately Oklahoma is a bit far for a library run. Would be fun to chat books with you.
Thank you! This table doesn't normally look like this, which is why I took the picture (I got voluntold I was hosting Thanksgiving this year). This table is usually covered in dice, mini's, battle maps, and character sheets, which is why we bought it and the chairs in the first place.
A treat for me
Me, having finished my Christmas shopping early, as I usually try to do; what if. books. for me. oooh, there's a deal on a twelve-pack of Briggs. hmmmm.
I adore sassy coyote as well. I also greatly appreciate Anna from the Alpha and Omega sister series. Lots of crossover there.
I have not yet read Winter Lost, her latest book, but that will be happening during this winter break. 2 weeks of no work and no school, yes please!
Reference as to why new book is not on the shelf properly. It is An Event to fit new books. My husband and I do not have a problem. Not one bit. Eh hem.
Starting a new post for Naclyoho, because the old one got long. One week, more or less, working relentlessly on this room (including a bunch of Stuff not in these photos.
The wall was pretty yucky behind that hutch. Bless my little step ladder; I scrubbed it from top to bottom. This morning K and I moved her bureau and vanity into the room. After we got them set up (the vanity is behind me) she decided the Vibe was wrong, so we swapped the bureau and the desk. The furniture is clean (and polished). The wall is clean. The floor is clean. sheesh.
This mirrored shelf that my father made for me when I was a teen is also clean. We're not sure where to put it, but it's clean.
So His room becomes Her room, and now Her (former) room needs a bit of reorganization.
I love the mirrored shelf. I would put pretty rocks in it and add it to my wall:
Not the greatest picture of everyone, but you get the idea.
Starting a new post for Naclyoho, because the old one got long. One week, more or less, working relentlessly on this room (including a bunch of Stuff not in these photos.
The wall was pretty yucky behind that hutch. Bless my little step ladder; I scrubbed it from top to bottom. This morning K and I moved her bureau and vanity into the room. After we got them set up (the vanity is behind me) she decided the Vibe was wrong, so we swapped the bureau and the desk. The furniture is clean (and polished). The wall is clean. The floor is clean. sheesh.
This mirrored shelf that my father made for me when I was a teen is also clean. We're not sure where to put it, but it's clean.
So His room becomes Her room, and now Her (former) room needs a bit of reorganization.
I love the mirrored shelf. I would put pretty rocks in it and add it to my wall:
Not the greatest picture of everyone, but you get the idea.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who does this lol
