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Small town culture is knowing that there are Old Folks with strange nicknames but never knowing the stories behind them.
Of course, I made the mistake of asking why everyone calls this one guy Brickaday and it turns out that he worked at a brickyard for 40 years, stealing exactly one brick every day and making no particular efforts to conceal the theft. Nobody thought anything of it until years later he was discovered to have built three houses.
His boss is said to have shrugged and made some remarks about the importance of coming up with a plan and sticking to it.
I‘m trying to arrange my face into an appropriate approximation of silent bafflement and failing miserably.
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if you want to actually truly support autistic rights, you need to accept the fact that many autistics will forever and unchangeably be wildly socially incompetent, and this does not make them bad or dangerous.
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As we exit Pride month, I wanna take a moment to say one last thing. Allies? Gather round. We need to have a quick chat.
The other day, my brother said some kinda dumb shit. From the moment I came out he’s been really supportive and cool. I think he probably could have fallen down one or two nasty rabbit holes of your typical straight cis person. But he never did.
But he’s still capable of saying some dumb shit. For example, heartily defending singular they/them pronouns, and then turning right around and going “but the like… xer/xem, I dunno.”
That would have been unfortunate but understandable. So I just gently say “yeah it can be confusing at first but you get the hang of it.”
The real problem was when he responded after that “I just, I dunno.”
I had a similar problem with my lesbian cousin’s wife, who said she didn’t understand nonbinary lesbians, and then just kinda glazed over my very generic response of “you don’t necessarily need to understand it, identity just comes in a lot of different flavors” and got that same noncommittal “I dunno.”
Or my previous manager who didn’t really get people with multiple pronouns, at which point my coworker was like “I’m literally he/they” and she shut down with a shrug and an “I dunno whatever.”
Like I’m trying to walk you through this but if you don’t wanna take that first step I can’t help you.
So please, allies. If you feel yourself being supportive and following that up with a “but” or an “I dunno”? Like… think through it. Examine it. Remember that for someone, that identity is sacred. And know that it’s okay to be ignorant of something, up to the point someone tries to help you and you suddenly don’t feel like putting in the work.
Allyship is not an identity or a label. It’s a process, and you’re not done yet.
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i like the double life version of soulmates because it's not "you have one perfect fated partner you're destined to be with forever" its "you're stuck with this random fucking bozo until you get each other killed"
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Reblog this post to turn the previous user into a Creature
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rivals to lovers <3
i made a uquiz where i designate you “____ to lovers” pls validate me by reblogging & tagging with what u get
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Killercatic 🔪
A Catgender that is predator-like, sinister, and lethal. 🔪🐾🥩
May bear relation to:
Horror, gore, blood, hunting
Serial killers, villains
♡♡♡ there is no wrong or right way to identify with this label ♡♡♡ -Jes
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ARP 299
These two interacting galaxies were thought to have first passed each other around 700 million years ago (from Earth's perspective) and kicked off a massive burst in star formation as the gas and dust interacts between them.
The galaxies are 150 million light years from Earth in the constellation of Ursa Major.
In the last 15 years six supernova have been detected in the outer edges of the galaxies. This is common in starburst areas where very large O type blue giants are being formed, living just a couple of million years before collapsing again, increasing the frequency of such events dramatically.
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Love disability aids in minecraft
You always spawn in with what's essential (same reason players don't spawn in naked), and those necessities are connected to your person, so you don't lose them when you die.
Mult-modal wheelchairs allowing traversing through different terrains
Easy access to medicines without scavenging/developing them yourselves
Food sources magically transformed into alternatives based on dietary restrictions
Chat as an alternative communication function for hoh/nonverbal players
Allays able to read out chat for blind players
The ability to soulbind a service animal which follows you from server to server
Offered enchantments to dim lights/reduce noise for players with sensory sensitivities
Easy alterations in weaponry/armor based on body-type
Please add more it's so important to me
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Depression is such an effective tranquilizer that it creates a great opportunity for plot twists in your real life. I have a pretty consistent opinion of myself which is "low" and "never ending guilt and shame for reasons I don't understand."
Recently received feedback from two different editing clients that started with "Please pass along to Jacquelynn that she is phenomenal at her job" and "I was blown away by the evaluation I received."
You always hear about how depression (and anxiety) lies to you and distorts reality, but there is logically knowing that and then there is like, physical proof of it and you are suddenly Neo in the Matrix jumping out of the fucked up little tube machine.
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its so wild because i think objectively panic has one of the most insane romanticizable backstories/band lore of aaalllll time OBJECTIVELY. And then now theyre just one guy making songs for forever 21 fitting rooms. LITERALLY the most embarrassing fizzled out fall to parallel their unstoppable meteoric rise to fame of all time
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