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So uh, this is pretty innocuous if you don’t know Comet’s history and really, REALLY creepy if you do. It’s been brought up on the blog before but I’ve gotten a LOT of new followers since then so let me summarize for you:

Basically Comet is a sentient horse who, through weird planetary magic, can occasionally turn into a human (because apparently he used to be a centaur and that’s definitely how centaurs work - they’re werehorses right? Yeah, DC is up on their mythology). He can’t control when he does it and he can’t control turning back into a horse either. However, during his time spent as a human, he actually dated Supergirl, who was unaware that her new boyfriend was her horse because he didn’t see fit to fill her in. Comet was massively in love with Supergirl even after he turned back into a horse and was pretty fucking creepy about it because, well, she was still riding him around, y'know?

He also had the hots for Lois Lane at some point, I’m not too clear on when that happened but Wikipedia mentions it.

Basically, Comet is a really extraordinarily creepy character and if you know that, there’s no way to read this entry innocently. Which is why I just ruined it for all of you.

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I’m like 80% sure that entering a horse with superpowers into a horse show in the first place is cheating. I’m 100% sure that flying in a horse show is cheating. Comet is a filthy fucking cheater and all of his prizes are ill gotten.

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Fucking farm animals are probably better at math than I am

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sometimes i feel like the “autistic children don’t do pretend play” thing is an inaccurate interpretation. what’s always seemed more likely to me, both in my own experience and my experience working w kids, is that autistic children don’t do pretend play in the same way as allistic children. 

from the outside, my pretend play looked like me lying on the ground and stacking doll furniture and spent more time arranging the boxes that legos came in than playing with the legos themselves, but from my perspective, i was building cities and designing houses for imaginary fairies. one of the kids i worked with this past summer would play by spinning objects around while yelling – which made no sense to me until his dad told me that he was really into the beyblade cartoons, about spinning fight robots. while i don’t know for sure, it seems pretty dang likely that he was acting out beyblade battles. another kid would mix together colors of crayon and paint on paper, which doesn’t look very much like “pretend play” from the outside, until she told me that she liked to imagine that she was a “color teacher” teaching imaginary playmates how to mix paints to make new colors. 

basically, i think it does all kids, autistic and not, a real disservice to limit what “counts” as pretend play just to what makes sense from an adult perspective. saying that autistic people don’t know how to pretend, honestly? just reeks of dehumanization

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i'm especially mad because someone in the notes was saying that the autistic community "needs to work on" being less "selfish" and participating more in mutual aid when like. those invisible social barriers are real and we didn't build them.

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“Further behavioral studies have shown that children and adults with ASD process faces differently than controls: Participants with ASD rend to process faces using a feature based approach (i.e. attending to parts of the face, such as the mouth, nose, or eyes), whereas typically developing individuals process faces as a whole.”

Wait, allistics are able to look at entire faces at once? Like can look at the eyes and mouth and forehead and nose all at the same time?

This explains so much about why people expect me to recognize people by face

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for a long time i just kinda assumed there were cameras and one way mirrors everywhere making sure i was "acting normal" and that if i didn't "act normal" i would "get yelled at" or "be executed" depending on how deranged i was on a particular day.

which like. if you're coming at this from an allistic perspective, is totally paranoid delusional and insane.

but if you're coming at this from the perspective of my parents and therapists turning everything in my life into a Teachable Moment on How To Be Normal, and the fact that my mom did used to watch my childhood therapy sessions on the other side of a one-way mirror...

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not to be all disability superpower differently abled shit or whatever but whenever i see allistic people talking about how terrible and wrong it is that autistics focus less on social stimuli and more on other types of stimuli, either via eye gaze studies or asking autistic people what we notice first in pictures, it's just. i don't want to be allistic actually. i don't want to not notice the patterns in the stains on the refrigerator door even if it means i miss what someone is saying to me, or not be able to stand for twenty minutes captivated by the echo of my fingers brushing against the bannister (i am stroking the bannister at the bottom of the stairs over and over). i want to get better at communicating, and i want to be able to manage myself more effectively, but i don't want to lose "attention to detail" or "hyper or hyposensitivity to sensory stimuli"

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Allistics really just don’t believe us about sensory issues. Like just because they can’t hear the door hinges humming or water sloshing around the refrigerator or feel what’s so awful about the texture of jeans or ketchup or fake fur. They don’t believe that for us it’s the equivalent of wearing sandpaper or having a jackhammer in our ears

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yes autism is a disability that affects literally every aspect of my life and causes me a lot of pain sometimes, but i fully reserve the right to say that autism is poggers and if you're allistic well then i feel bad for you

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jsyk, you don't have to have a singular, lifelong, all consuming, totally unqiue special interest to be autistic.

you just have to be generally perseverative, or get stuck on things for longer than a neurotypical would. so like one way that manifests is a lifelong singular interest in something like snakes or famous peoples' birthdays, but that's not the only way to get stuck on a topic. some autistic people, especially autistic people with concurrent intellectual disability, get really into particular comfort objects that they carry around with them everywhere. for some people (hi) it's needing to follow a particular set of routines every day, and getting stuck on it if they change. like i get really, really upset, to the point where i can have a meltdown if i can't use the right set of spoons, bowls, and cups for my breakfast in the right order. for some people, transitions in general are hard, so like the change from a conversation about a trip to ikea to a conversation about bears is impossible, and they can't move past the first conversation.

the type of special interest that fandom people on tumblr talk about is one way to be autistic, and it definitely isn't an uncommon way! but it isn't the only way perseveration manifests, and there's a lot of other autistic experiences

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hc Justin Law wears his earbuds because the kishin's madness makes him hear voices

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The smoke in my lungs, the fire on my tongue The stumble in my step, the long gap between breaths

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You know what really pisses me off about the Americans can't seem to wrap their heads around other countries having different weather thing is they will literally make posts about how to care for different states when they have abnormal weather patterns. Like just say you don't actually believe other countries are real

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it’s so funny being british and complaining about a heatwave online because within seconds you can guarantee that your post will be swarmed by responses akin to ‘well EYE live in the arse crack of the equator and my house is an active volcano and every day my skin burns to a crisp and every night my skin regrows only to be blistered straight off again come the morn!’

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It's baking hot in the UK right now. Which of course means we have the usual American's questioning why we are always complaining it's hot.

Maybe because our homes are designed to keep the heat in not release it.

Maybe it's because our infrastructure basically collapses anytime it goes over 25 degrees.

Maybe it's because it's fucking humid and sticky all the time.

Or maybe, rather than asking why we always complain about it, come and experience a British summer yourself rather than hiding in America and constantly commenting on another country you have no knowledge of.

Just a thought.