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I’m proud to identify as morosexual. I’m attracted to dumbasses and dumbasses exclusively. A guy asked me what the Spanish word for tortilla was once and now I dream of kissing him under the moonlight

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rb with whether people assume you’re older or younger than your actual age

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it continues to be really fucking weird to talk about the conception of "nonbinary means cis woman lite" as primarily a sleight against CAFAB nonbinary people, without ever even sparing a thought to how fucked it is that transfeminine & other CAMAB nonbinary people are denied any space at all to explore their identities/play around with presentation/try out new pronouns/do anything other than adhere to a very strict and exact performance of womanhood if they don't want to be degendered or misgendered as "genderfuck men" by others in their community, to the point that their obvious epistemological erasure is maintained and reproduced even by those who criticize "cis woman lite" behavior (but only ever because it's Kind of Mean to CAFAB enbies, who presumably make up the only nonbinary demographic worth acknowledging here)

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I haven’t been on tumblr for quite as long as a lot of people but over several years I’ve noticed this interesting gradual sorta,, shift in the general culture? that it went from this mostly depressed, nihilistic outlook where people would regularly joke about hating themselves and being hopeless and depressed, to a wave of vehemence of “STOP hating everything actually the world is Good and you deserve love!!!” type posts, to now, where those aggressive ‘PSAs’ have faded away and instead I regularly see people romanticizing simple things like stars and hot tea and rainy mornings, and waxing poetic about their friends, and just trying to put love out there. and I don’t know exactly what that means (someone who knows more than me could probably say something smart about generational expression and trauma or popular perception of mental health and whatnot), but I do know that it makes my heart very full to see people learn to love the world and themselves by extension, and a whole userbase adopting healthier coping mechanisms, and therefore teaching the younger users to do so as well. I might just be following different people, but I really do think we’ve grown. everyone has grown. five years ago it wasn’t unusual for the next post on my dash to be a scathing commentary on why nothing matters or an anon ripping into someone they barely knew or someone complaining about how pathetic their interests are. now I have mutuals who get excited and spam reblog art of cows and friends I see tagging each other in pictures of frogs and strangers writing paragraphs about how much I matter. it makes me happy. idk. just an observation I wanted to make. I think people are good and everyone’s just trying their best at the end of the day

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I wasn’t crazy about this piece so I wasn’t intending on publicly posting it again, but it keeps getting stolen every five minutes so I figured I’d put it here so people at least know who to attribute the original thing to lmao

[Digital illustration, Procreate App, 2020]

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I LOVE YOU WINRY!!!!! i love you winry. winryyyyyyy

maybe its finally time to watch fma brotherhood

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a monster party 🪄

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wait, what were we going to do?

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young man. what is that you have found.

I said young man. you picked it up off the ground.

I said young man. you should put that thing down.

I don't think! that! you! should! eat that!

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People talk all the time about autistic people not understanding others but there's also the accursed autistic "saying exactly what you wanna say, straight to the point, very little nuance & then people misinterpret it because they assume there's a hidden nonliteral meaning" phenomenon

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one of my favorite twitter accounts that is defunct now is it was this account called like Crazy Optical Illusions or something and they would just post popular optical illusions but edit them so they werent optical illusions anymore and they would just pretend and people would be very confused / angry in the comments

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during my brief foray into psychosis i was toeing the line of the classic "i'm in a secret unethical psychological experiment" delusion but i got too caught up on how you need informed consent from participants of a psychological study and it would be super illegal if they didn't get that and there was no possible way they sneaked it into some other paperwork bc i was diligent about reading anything i signed. Was like sorry to my psychotic disorder but i happen to know the institutional review board would nawttt be happy about that their federal funding would be revoked so quick...

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Teeth weak as fuck why can't you be like bones

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thinking fondly of this meme I made for a coworker years and years ago

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how everything is feeling

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i don’t know how to explain to you people that no matter what a country’s government is like i do not and will not support the US indiscriminately bombing that country’s civilians and i don’t know why that’s a controversial take tbh