I realize now,, I may be very susceptible to praise..
A few days ago, I had a sudden spike of notes where I obtained 64 in one hour (definitely the highest anyone's ever gotten, obv), and now I haven't gotten one since midnight, and I feel needy. (I am not begging for notes, but I now realize, I may have a slight eagerness to please.)
Flags for transmasculine boys and girls. For transmasc individuals who either feel like boys or girls.
BASED ON THIS FLAG
PT. Transmasc boy, Transmasc girl. Flags for transmasculine boys and girls. For transmasc individuals who either feel like boys or girls. BASED ON THIS FLAG. [Link]. END OF PT.
Transfem girl, Transfem boy
Flags for transfeminine girls and boys. For transfem individuals who either feel like girls or boys.
BASED ON THIS FLAG
PT. Transfem girl, Transfem boy. Flags for transfeminine girls and boys. For transfem individuals who either feel like girls or boys. BASED ON THIS FLAG. [Link]. END OF PT.
One of the funniest/dumbest literal thinking autism moments of my childhood happened when I was in 2nd grade. I was going to a new school so I was made to do a bunch of assessments to see where I placed in different subjects. I was most excited for the reading one cuz at my old school I was the best reader in my class, and I wanted to show off.
The lady testing me hands me this little short story and asks me to read it aloud.
And for some reason that I still don't understand to this day, a bunch of the words randomly had like lines or dots above the vowels. Which idk seems like an unnecessary and confusing thing to include when testing a 7 year old. Like you're gaslighting them into thinking theres extra letters in the alphabet. So obvi I ask what the symbols mean cuz I've never seen them in this context. She sorta brushes me off and says, word for word, "those mean you just say the letters name"
What she undoubtedly meant was: "on those words, the letter highlighted will sound like what its called. O with the line sounds O and not uh or ew or whatever"
What I understood was "Just Say the Letters Name"
So anyways i proceeded to read the story aloud, stopping suddenly every other word to pause cuz I wasnt supposed to say bow i was supposed to say o. I know for a fact at one point I just said a word and then stopped and repeated the sentence with just the letter so she HAD to've known I'd misunderstood her. But she said absolutely nothing. I remember walking outta there feeling like a complete idiot, and feeling so embarrassed when later they told my mom my reading skills were an entire grade behind where I should've been. But also looking back at it like wtf how could theyve possibly gotten an accurate understanding of my reading ability under those conditions.
Happy FruitBats🦇🍒 day and Happy Anniversary to my wonderful sweet darling wife @hypocriticaltypwriter
Already One year of being best friends and yet it feels like we’ve been friends my whole life🥺…
God I sometimes don’t know what to say because I feel like words are not enough to express how much I appreciate and love you…
Thank you…gosh! just thank you for being such a supportive and caring friend! for being there for me when I needed it and for making me such beautiful thoughtful gifts. I always admire the person that you are, so kind and hardworking, always bringing a smile on peoples faces, one of the sweetest and kindest souls I’ve had the honor of meeting…i couldn’t ask for a better friend💕🥹
I treasure every little moment and every little memory we have together, my days always become so much brighter when I spend them with you, even if it’s just for a small moment, you’ve never failed to put a smile on my silly face. and I can’t wait to spend many more years and make lots of new memories with you🫶
I think what the current nostalgic era of Gilmore Girls fandom misses when it romanticizes Dean building Rory a car (to the point where his fangirls ignore every other aspect of his controlling behavior and barely contained rage because he did this one thing) is that this gift, much like Logan giving Rory an expensive purse she didn't really want or need, is more about what the giver gets out of it than what the recipient does. Rory was never into cars or showed any real desire to have one. Unlike most teenagers in sleepy small towns, the youth of Stars Hollow don't really spend their time driving around aimlessly and walk to wherever they need to go. For everywhere else outside of Stars Hollow, Rory can get there easily by bus or by having Lorelai drive her. I don't think we ever saw her driving the car, she still seems to take the bus everywhere, and once it's gone nothing in her life changes. She was happy to have the gift because Dean put a lot of time into making it (just as she was happy to get the purse because Logan attached significance to the gift) but she didn't really cherish using it.
(The only teenager who is really, really attached to his car is Jess, who cherished the freedom and independence it offers him, grieves when it is taken away, and is willing to brave the wrath of everyone he's hurt to get it back. Dean and Rory don't yearn to escape at this point in the way that he does).
However, because Dean spent so much time on this gift, he has it to lord over Rory's head. It's another reason to demand every second of her time and attention and justification for his anger when he doesn't get it. It's another reason why Rory will eternally owe him her affection and why nothing she does will ever be good enough for him. Richard was right about the car all along: it was extremely inappropriate for Lorelai to allow Rory to accept it because of what Dean's going to expect in return.
What's significant about Logan giving the Birkin bag is that he picks up right away that Rory doesn't really notice the significance of the gift but isn't angry. Rory sits him down and tells him she loves him, but she doesn't want to put him in the position she was in and doesn't expect reciprocation if he's not ready for it. This doesn't save their relationship but it does seem to be a tiny step forward for her: she's through with the tit for tat routine she went through years earlier. So I guess she did learn something, after all? Don't tell the showrunner.
[ID: a rectangular flag with 10 stripes, the 4th nad 7th being spiky. the colors from top to bottom are: very dark red, dark red, red, muted white, light red, light red pink, muted white, red pink, dark red pink, very dark red pink. the flag also has a pink red bleeding heart symbol with a smaller red heart on it and the symbol has teeth around the top and bottom. End of ID]
˗ˏˋ hypercanni ´ˎ˗
[pt: hypercanni end of pt]
— term for people that have stronger cannibalistic desires than a normal allocanni person or experience it the most. NOT a gender !!! —
— COINED BY ROACH
—REQUESTED BY: me (bearer of the term curse)
—TAG : @gengernoway @radiomogai @the-cannibal-archive
[pt: coined by roach end of pt]
[pt: requested by: me (bearer of the term curse]
[pt: tag : @gengernoway @radiomogai @the-cannibal-archive]
[ID: a drawing of a grey simplified cockroach drawing with wide fish eyes and a speech bubble with text in it saying "read our iwc, can't stop you from using the terms but i'll block!" end of id]
girlmaeli : a trans woman who's connected to manhood, the way that they're a girl/woman is through the lens of manhood/being amab. They're not a man but their woman gender/what being a woman to them is shaped by being male/amab or something similar.
boymaeli : a trans man who's connected to womanhood, the way that they're a boy/man is through the lens of womanhood/being afab. They're not a woman but their man gender/what being a man to them is shaped by being female/afab or something similar.