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25⬆️ / they/them / white / autistic / slowly returning to here✌️

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Please remember that almost everyone around you is traumatized. I didn’t understand this when I was younger. I wondered why people acted so strangely and irrationally. Maybe all children wonder this. The author Robert Anton Wilson said (paraphrasing), “We have never seen a completely sane adult human.” No one makes it out of this life alive. It’s not their fault. Mercy, kindness, forgiving — these are what makes one human. They are other names for love. People break in the strangest of ways.

[bitcoitus]

“Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being." — Robert Anton Wilson

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“That’s why high school, or a crappy job, or any other restrictive circumstance can be dangerous: They make dreams too painful to bear. To avoid longing, we hunker down, wait, and resolve to just survive. Great art becomes a reminder of the art you want to be making, and of the gigantic world outside of your small, seemingly inescapable one. We hide from great things because they inspire us, and in this state, inspiration hurts.”

— One of the best articles I’ve ever read. Rookie Mag. By Spencer Tweedy. (via wildyork)

[olreid]

shirley jackson, we have always lived in the castle

[indizombie]

“From when a child is born, it’s always about benchmarks and milestones. Did they walk at the right time? Did they speak at the right time? Did they learn to read at the right time? But really, there is no right time for anything. The right time is when the individual is ready and if it benefits that person to function in that way. Disabled bodies aren’t a problem that needs to be fixed, they are a natural part of life. It’s so important for people to remember that anyone, at any point in their life, can become disabled.”

— Brooke Mott, ‘How does a disabled person unlearn ableism? This is how I learned to love my mobility aids’, ABC

[luthienne]

Maggie Anderson, “Heart Labor”

[ritikajyala]

There'll be a moment when you realise you're 27 when yesterday you were just 17; and you wouldn't be able to tell how a decade passed away and your life got divided into before and afters. The fury of youth will subdue and nothing will really change but everything will feel different when you look at old photographs and blurry videos taken on cheap mobile phones. Scents will remind you of childhood and certain friends you don't talk to anymore, hangouts will become reunions and mom's burnt pie will become the best food you ever had. And I know on some days you won't be able to show anything of those 10 years but I hope you remember to breathe, and let go of the knot in your chest. I hope you go out in the sun and live a little, because tomorrow is 37.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

[leehallfae]

“i think there’s something about being a young woman that feels very murderous. that’s what i was trying to get with a song like ‘dream girl evil.’ it can be dangerous for people to think you’re incredibly nice. when you get, ‘you’re an angel,’ that seems like such a high place to fall from. when i see messy or violent or terribly behaved women, especially young women, there’s a liberation. to not have to try and survive by being good.”

— florence welch on her song “dream girl evil”

[brechtian]

It’s an Ursula k le Guin free your mind from the idea of deserving kind of day

[beholdingslut]

andrei tarkovsky

[isolatedpixie]

[ID: Why are they all trying to make me into a saint? Oh God! Oh God! I want to do things. Stop turning me into a saint. /END ID]

[you-can-be-what-you-want-to-be]

"Immature people crave and demand moral certainty: This is bad, this is good. Kids and adolescents struggle to find a sure moral foothold in this bewildering world; they long to feel they’re on the winning side, or at least a member of the team. To them, heroic fantasy may offer a vision of moral clarity. Unfortunately, the pretended Battle Between (unquestioned) Good and (unexamined) Evil obscures instead of clarifying, serving as a mere excuse for violence — as brainless, useless, and base as aggressive war in the real world."

Ursula K Le Guin at it again, being right as always

[soracities]

Alain de Botton, Essays in Love [transcript in ALT]

[pitbolshevik]

i was literally never the same after reading the velveteen rabbit for the first time at age 5

[pitbolshevik]

this changed me as a person

[pastperfectcontinuous]

I want you to write for pleasure—to play. Just listen to the sounds and rhythms of the sentences you write and play with them, like a kid with a kazoo. This isn’t “free writing,” but it’s similar in that you’re relaxing control: you’re encouraging the words themselves—the sounds of them, the beats and echoes—to lead you on. For the moment, forget all the good advice that says good style is invisible, good art conceals art. Show off! Use the whole orchestra our wonderful language offers us! Write it for children, if that’s the way you can give yourself permission to do it. Write it for your ancestors. Use any narrating voice you like. If you’re familiar with a dialect or accent, use it instead of vanilla English. Be very noisy, or be hushed. Try to reproduce the action in the jerky or flowing movement of the words. Make what happens happen in the sounds of the words, the rhythms of the sentences. Have fun, cut loose, play around, repeat, invent, feel free.

Ursula K. Le Guin, Steering The Craft

[yuurei20]

Twst Merch Giveaway: Light-Up Magical Pen (Twst Fes version)

What: One light-up magical pen with a "Twisted Wonderland Fes" strap.

The "magestone" part of this pen can light up in seven different, interchangeable colors. These were particularly fun at Twst Fes, where the audience would change the colors of their light depending upon what seiyuu was speaking at the time.

This pen (still in packaging, seen above) was actually purchased from the Twisted Wonderland Exhibition in Yokohama rather than from Twst Fes itself, but "Twisted Wonderland Fes" is written on the strap. It is also available via Aniplex's Online Store.

Who: Anyone can participate!

Shipping is free of charge to any country except where the post office says no, which (to my knowledge) is the following places: Yemen, Guatemala, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Chad, Bolivia, Liberia, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Libya, Russia, Ukraine.

How: Please reblog this post! No need to follow or like (unless you want to!), winner to be selected by random number generator.

This same giveaway is also running on Twitter, because there are actually two pens, so there will be two winners! Feel free to participate in both, if you so wish!

When: Starting now! This giveaway ends in 24 hours at 7am on Wednesday, December 20th (Japan Standard Time).

Winner will not be announced publicly (just in case someone is looking to get a gift for someone else), so please be sure that you can receive messages! (Ghost camera bags were both successfully shipped yesterday!)

[yuurei20]

Twst Merch Giveaway: Ghost Camera Shoulder Bag

What: One Ghost Camera shoulder bag from the Twisted Wonderland Exhibition

Who: Anyone can participate!

Shipping is free of charge to any country except where the post office says no, which (to my knowledge) is the following places: Yemen, Guatemala, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Chad, Bolivia, Liberia, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Libya, Russia, Ukraine.

How: Please reblog this post! No need to follow or like (unless you want to!), winner to be selected by random number generator.

This same giveaway is also running on Twitter, because there are actually two bags, so there will be two winners! Feel free to participate in both, if you so wish!

When: Starting now! This giveaway ends in 24 hours at 7am on Monday, December 18th (Japan Standard Time).

Winner will not be announced publicly (just in case someone is looking to get a gift for someone else), so please be sure that you can receive messages!

I do not want to remove it from its packaging, but this is what it looks like! There was also a sample available at the exhibition gift shop, and it was a lot bigger than I'd imagined.

I'd thought the round parts on the front were going to be a hard plastic but they are actually a very soft rubber!

It is very cute, and as far as I know it is only available for purchase via the Twisted Wonderland exhibition (at this time).

[metamorphesque]

Missed Time, Ha Jin

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“‘Streets’ are understood to be populated by the untrustworthy, the dangerous. Young people strolling are understood to be prowling the streets and up to no good. Public space is fought over as if it were private. Who gets to enjoy a park, a beach, a street corner? The term ‘public’ is itself a site of contention.”

— Paradise, Toni Morrison