Saw a thread on Twitter of “gifts to give a person with ADHD and autism” that was full of stereotypical and quite frankly patronizing items, so here’s a list of I (autistic individual) want instead as a gift
Money
Fourteen billion dollars
Free coupon to kill somebody with my teeth
Suitcase full of money
Cool looking rock
Scratching post for me to sink my claws into
An albino elephant
The head of Jeff Bezos mounted on my wall
Uncooked rice
A cup full of blood
100k in cash
On the 12th day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 100k in cash Cup full of blood Uncooked rice Albino elephant Scratching post (for me) Coupon to kill somebody with my teeth COOL LOOKING ROCK fourteen billion dollars money money money new pair of socks And the head of Jeff Bezos mounted on my wall.
Support your local libraries and the small businesses that are actually making the products you want. Fuck Jeff Bezos and the systemic, universal worker abuse, gaslighting, and brutality they live off of.
this seems like a good thing to bring around as people holiday shop
I love that whenever a middle eastern country is in peril the united shithole states of fucking america suddenly becomes a bastion of lgbt rights that all other countries must live up to or they deserve being bombed
i know the quest of educating people never ends, but it does kind of bum me out that even in the year of 2023 we need to go out of our way to explain the simplest concepts to people. “you should give a fuck that a whole country is being genocided” seems like a relatively easy to understand sentiment, and yet you will still have people out there coming up w a thousand and one reasons for why it’s none of their concern. it blows my mind every fucking time. we really do need to teach people to care about other people and that is insane to me. like what basic human rights do you need to be spoon fed next??? should we also be pointing out that poor people are also people
This is an Onion article title from like. 2013, idk the exact year.
actually, that reminds me - here is an informative thread from @/respond_crisis on instagram that explains some arabic words/phrases that have been continuously, and often intentionally, mistranslated and misinterpreted by the west:
hello tumblr user. in front of you stands a confident and outspoken character. your challenge today & forever is to consider the possibility they may simply have self-confidence and are not just faking to secretly cover up massive insecurities. good luck
“the average fandom person cannot imagine a truly confident person” is a working theory I came up with years ago and every single day on this website my conclusion has proved more & more correct
Man I’m so horny I should be (realizes putting myself down for expressing sexual attraction contributes to a society of sexual repression and need to start to do so without shame) sucked
“You’re not the main character” also applies to thinking that you’re so uniquely horrible that everyone you meet is deeply invested in judging and hating you. That’s just as much of a cognitive distortion as believing that you’re the center of everyone’s admiration. I promise you that other people got their own lives to live and their own struggles and flaws to cope with.
Shout out to the Tall, Fat, Wide, and deep voiced trans women who get disregarded and discarded because we can’t and won’t fit into a Shitty, Little Gender Box For Your Pleasure
This goes double for the trans women in our own community who discard and disregard us for the same reason
AND DON’T FORGET OUR BLACK SISTERS AND SISTERS OF COLOR
PSA: Just a friendly reminder that whenever you start a creative project, you will invariably hit a phase where the Thing™️ appears horrendous and you start asking existential questions. But if you keep working, it invariably passes and starts to resemble something less like the devil’s vomit. Doesn’t matter if it’s art, writing, or what–this happens repeatedly. Carry on.
Like, he’s your main character’s lover and he’s named Sir Greatinbed? Sir Fucksalot?? Sir Sexhaver??? He’s the main gay love interest and his name’s Sir Longshlong??? 10/10 no notes oscar nomination in the mail
This is why fat shaming can have tragic consequences.
If this sort of weight-based medical bias happens to any of y'all, politely tell the doctor (during your visit) that you want them to write in your file that they are refusing ordering tests for you because of your current weight. This usually causes them to order the test anyways because they do NOT want a malpractice suit. Remember: You want to make a paper trail to hold them accountable.
It really makes me sick to see people giving money to penny weeklies when Franklin’s expedition STILL has not been found 😭 There are good men out there trapped in unimaginable temperatures and literally all that’s needed is a little more funding for another rescue mission yet all you guys seem to care about are your vulgar little stories…
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the franklin expedition is dead as hell
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Disgraceful thing to say but I’d expect nothing less from a M*lville fan
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👨🏻❤️💋👨🏻 hartgrindisreal
Sorry for posting so much about Tom Gradgrind/James Harthouse from Hard Times lately. It turns out that I was getting arsenic poisoning from my wallpaper? Anyway I took a seaside stroll and I’m normal now. Check your walls y'all
#whyyy did i assume they were committing unlawful actions together like where did i even get that from lol #hard times isn’t even that good by dickens standards tbh
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Just painted this
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RIP Napoleon… you may have been unable to conquer Alexander’s Russia but you sure as hell conquered Alexander’s bed
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HERITAGE POST
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How does this have less than 100k notes you could literally not avoid this post back in the 20s lol
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poets just aren’t dying young in mysterious water-related incidents like they used to :/
#as useless and degenerate as i find ‘the living poets’ and i’m glad we’re finally moving on from them #i have to agree with op in this respect
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I finally got a daguerreotype of myself ^_^ Porcelain urn for scaling
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i think i hauve consumption
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They found oil in the ground??? WTF. THIS IS LITERALLY THE WORSTTTT. FUCK MY LIFE FOR REAL THIS TIME
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I swear this website has 0 reading comprehension skills. Darwin NEVER claimed we “evolved” from apes like if one of you guys actually bothered to open his new book you’ll see all his arguments are backed up by evidence. He actually makes a lot of sense
#sure there’s nuance like i don’t fully agree with all of it #but his general theory of natural selection seems pretty sound imo
Of course these are the finalists lmao this website is so predictable. Anyway vote Heathcliff if you dont i’m going to assume you’re a phrenologist
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It’s not problematic to acknowledge the fact that Heathcliff was a brute like he literally killed dogs in case you forgot. Anyway #rochestersweep
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I love the implication here that Rochester never did anything cruel either. He literally locked his wife in the attic and lied to Jane about it 😭 like that was a pretty significant thing that happened
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And? God forbid women do anything
#why’d you have to pit two bad bitches against each other #anyway i’m not attracted to men but still went with rochester #bc in terms of living quarters thornfield hall > wuthering heights easily
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Not the Russian tsar dying immediately after hartgrind became canon
#i know dickens hasn’t technically confirmed it yet but like. SOMETHING was strongly implied ok #see: my previous post #dickensposting
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LORD HELP ME. THE BODY LANGUAGE. THE WAY THEY’RE LOOKING AT EACH OTHER. AHHHHHH
#this installment!!! im– #dickensposting #i can’t fucking cope #dickens wants to KILL us he wants us DEAD….
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Hi guys sorry I haven’t been posting lately it’s been so difficult getting to California 💀 I’m finally here now though just need to find a pickaxe and soon I’ll be digging! :-) wish me luck lol
speaking of game currencies at one point (10+ years ago) i was prototyping a browser MMO where you ride around space in giant cosmic creatures you tamed. for the most part the player race was humanoid but with some hinted-at avian ancestry, which means you’d shed some feather-like material every day - and because the supply of these feathers (my design docs from back then refer to them as “shiny little tags”) was slow but steady and scaled with population they just used that as currency. that’s them in the top-left:
lore-wise you’d come across wealthy NPCs who stopped bothering to collect theirs and would instead grow these dense natural feather coats as a status symbol. i think you generated 1*your level with each daily login? it was based on the idea of taking “time is money” literally but i don’t know if it’d make sense as a game economy. also maybe a little gross in retrospect. they were called chronons
parents are so crazy because they can say the most fucked up shit to you when your brain is forming and it sets the tone for your whole adult mind set and then they forget about it the next day
Please remember that you do the exact same thing. Let’s give each other some grace and hope that we can work to heal each other.
i’m guessing at some point someone in charge must’ve been like “if there’s swords in the game then the currency is gold. if there’s spaceships the currency is credits. if you do otherwise i will kill you”
i haven’t played starfield yet but out of curiosity i had to check
“your partner isn’t responsible for your wellbeing”
“go tell this to a therapist”
“omg stop traumadumping” (after hearing a mild complaint)
can you guys hear yourselves? we are human beings. part of being in relationships (including friendships) with each other means looking after each other. we are responsible for each other. I look after your emotional needs when you need it, and you look after mine. sometimes things will be difficult and sometimes they’ll be outside my paygrade, and I’m allowed to step back from that. but you have to stop acting like it’s some massive toxic imposition on you to have to listen to someone talk about their feelings
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