aaauuuuugh I could have worked on this forever

wip post here / instagram

I love herrrr

She’s so…The Doctor ykwim?

You did her so much justice

overheard in the coffee shop from a middle aged gay man to his (female) friend: “are you embarrassed? about being foolish? please manage yourself better in this situation. this man is not behaving as if he is interested in you.”

“he’s evil. like jeff bezos. Do you understand.” and she’s just nodding with eyes downcast in shame

meanwhile some influencer is filming a mukbang three feet away. he’s wearing a domo hat exactly like this one but it’s neon blue and he’s slurping loudly over the idiot sandwich lecture happening nearby

i forgot to add this until now but after the gay guy was done scolding his friend and they left, their table was taken up by an aging european twink telling a wealthy-looking bubbe with increasing distress about how much cold cut meat he’d eaten the night before and the funnier she found it the more distraught he got about his nighttime deli frenzy

he was like [completely unidentifiable european accent] after you went to bed. i ate ze ham. and ze mortadella also… and. also the prosciutto. no stop giggling at me zis is not funny it was 500 grams each. i ate 500 grams of ze ham and 500 grams of ze mortadella and 500 grams of ze prosciutto and that is ONE POINT FIVE KILOGRAMS OF MEAT !! I ate so many meats!!! Stop giggling at me i am going to be fat!!!! I even ate ze cheeses!!!

Unironically I think the early to mid 20s age group in America has unbelievably bad consent boundaries on all levels and so much language to defend it but this makes me sound like elon musk if I say it however the commonality of someone who will be like “I had 47 panic attacks and it’s your fault” if you tell them no is insane

I rejected someone and got called “the scariest person I’ve ever met” with so much therapy speak interspersed like alright okay alright okay alright okay

“You just say whatever you’re thinking and I don’t know how to handle it” was verbatim part of this conversation. Also everyone hates to see an autistic bitch

When I was in this age bracket, there was a huge emphasis on improving consent culture via graceful rejection, and it's gone by the wayside. Which sucks.

Twice in my youth (once in high school and once in college) I was in situations where I was asking someone out and I could tell they were calculating in their heads the risks of rejecting me, and both times I said, out loud, "you can say no, I wouldn't have asked if I wasn't prepared for either answer." And then they said no. This wasn't some spark of special wisdom I had - I knew to do it because feminist conversations among my age group brought it up regularly. This isn't happening nearly enough anymore.

More recently, I was really glad when we got to "rejection sensitive dysphoria" in my IOP program and it was one of those symptoms where the therapists really emphasized how it affects others. Because it does.

Being someone who cannot handle rejection makes you much more likely to violate boundaries, and yes, that includes sexual ones. Yes, you, reader who has never hurt a fly. If you don't want to stumble backwards into sexually assaulting someone, fix your RSD meltdowns. If you keep them up it's only a matter of time. Because if you're nice enough to interact with, but are known to have RSD meltdowns, guess what happens when your friends and acquaintances need to reject you?

For a guy with the last name House, Doctor House is quite a homewrecker.

re-posting bc reblogs got turned off etc

starting a collection

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

reblog if your name isn't Amanda.

We’ll find you Amanda.

world heritage post

I HAVE to reblog this eleven million note post. That’s the most notes I’ve ever seen on tumblr. Also my name is Jade, not Amanda.

crazy but im not amanda

easier for the owner of LED headlights to pass through the eye of a needle than to enter the kingdom of heaven.

hey dont cry Autism Creature speculative biology

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Artwork showing the Autism Creature, but drawn and annotated in the style of biological illustrations (black linework on a white background, with plain descriptive text) instead of the usual rough cartoony style with which it is usually represented.

The heading names the creature:

This is a reference to the Autism Creature also being known as the T.B.H. Creature (which is an acronym for "To Be Honest", and in turn references the act of unmasking, or perhaps the unfiltered communication style of many autistic people).

The artwork comprises two full-figure depictions of the Autism Creature, and two smaller depictions focusing on detailed aspects.

The full-figure renditions show the Autism Creature viewed from the front and side. It is standing on four little compact paws, covered with fur, with shoulders higher than its haunches. It has a face resembling that of a barn owl's – round and somewhat concave toward the sides, features that perhaps help it to capture and focus sound. Its eyes are big, round and dark. The expression on its face is placid and gently smiling.

Next to the full-figure depictions are captions that read:

The first detail sketch is a frontal view of the head and upper chest. The creature's face is crinkled in a deliberate smile, with downcast eyes hidden by closed lids and heavy lashes. The caption next to this sketch reads:

The second detail sketch shows the creature curled up in loaf form, with legs tucked under itself. Its head is also retracted back into its shoulders and the face is scrunched up. The caption to this reads:

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hey dont cry Autism Creature speculative biology

sorry for [remembering a tumblr post about expressing gratitude instead of apologising to make the interaction more positive for the other person] i mean thank you for having a boyfriend who was so easy to run over withmy car and reverse over three times maybe four

gender affirming care should never be seen as a reward for good behavior

And no one should have to perform a trans stereotype in front of shitty doctors just to get gender affirming care