my-neuroglia

padawan-historian

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my-neuroglia

This is overwhelmingly my feeling about every single 9/11 news article I've seen this week. It's like people dying at work (killed by terrorism) is something we should "never forget" but people dying at work (killed by Covid because the people were nurses or short order cooks or retail workers) is something we should "get over already".

We got a whole new federal agency and the Patriot Act after 9/11, but we can't even get guaranteed free shots or free tests after Covid, because it's no longer an "emergency".

scramratz

Definite banners and possible bumper stickers for the shop

feels-of-wheeles

So sick of people seeing "silly" gadgets in videos and claiming whoever uses them are lazy.

Disabled people exist.

Most of those "silly" gadgets are for us.

Just because you don't have use for it doesn't mean it's not important for someone. You may find it stupid but it may give someone freedom in a way they haven't had for who knows how long.

"Why don't you just (task that's hard for disabled people to do)!" Why don't you shut the fuck up.

Stop making fun of gadgets that are for disabled people.

transrjmacready

makaylajade-author

Being a writer is really just having this one scene in your head that you want to write and then crying about the 50 thousand other words you have to write to get to that scene

myheartismadeofstars

bpdohwhatajoy

Autistic pride post *special interest edition*

This post goes out to…

❤️autistics with special interests considered “cringey”

🧡autistics who have no interest in talking about anything besides their special interests so they struggle to hold conversations with people and absolutely despise small talk and feel self centered and lame for their narrowed focus

💛autistics who get labeled as annoying, gross, obsessive, or weird for how much they’re into their special interests

💚autistics who have a special interest in something society has deemed immoral so they feel shame around it being a special interest

💙autistics who have no one to info dump to about their special interest so they talk to themselves about it

💜autistics who get told “who cares” when they talk about their special interest

⭐️ You special interests are cool, valid, and awesome! You deserve to feel no shame about them and instead only experience joy surrounding them. I’m sorry society has made you feel like there’s something wrong with you for having your special interests. There’s nothing wrong with you and there’s nothing more beautiful than autistic joy over a special interest and no one can take that from you ⭐️

myheartismadeofstars

radiofreederry

Christ this is so fucking cool

normal-horoscopes

I haven't been able to stop thinking about this. There's so much going on here. I genuinely love the conception of gender as mystic autodeism. Gender as divine microcosm. Gender as Great Work. It's gnostic, it's alchemical, it's got notes of bacchanalian worship of the body and the inherent magic of self-discovery. This but unironically.

npdbubblygum

Shoutout to transphobes for thinking gender is this fucking badass

gayboymint

jactingjoices

we are in a media literacy crisis

jactingjoices

friendly reminder that characters don't need to be saints to be entertaining. and telling a story does not mean endorsement. art does not need to be all about morally good people.

vergess

IDK if this was meant as hyperbole but it's literally true:

Adult literacy is low.

Child literacy is low.

Information literacy has shifted dramatically in the last decade, but reputable information sources like research journals and factual news reporting have been unable to keep pace.

We are genuinely in a crisis of media literacy, with ever fewer genuinely factual resources available in the style and language used by contemporary audiences.

It may sound condescending, but we genuinely need to remind people, or worse, explain to them for the first time that art is not evidence of real world behaviour.

So, thank you, for this reminder. Genuinely.

You're correct:

Art does not need to feature exclusively morally pure characters. Art is not proof of the creator's secret, violent desires.

dilf-din

Blah blah blah “I’ve got you baby girl” blah blah blah “It wasn’t time that did it” you know what the most poignant line of this whole show was? Right after when Ellie says, “Well, I’m glad that didn’t work out,” and Joel says, “Me too.” After he told her that when Sarah died, he couldn’t see a point he couldn’t be more ready, he wanted to die, he was ready to end it, but now, sitting on this concrete wall with this kid he didn’t even want to take on a two day trip, he’s so thankful that he flinched, that he lived, that he met her, that he gets a second shot at a life with her. Ellie says I’m glad you didn’t die, and for the first time in twenty years, he is too.

alyseofwonderland

foone

I just saw a story on AO3 tagged "pet p!ay"

TIK TOK MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE IT DESTROYS LANGUAGE

digital-magus

Ok, unless something's going on I'm not aware of (extremely likely), I gotta point out the term "Pet Play" is significantly older than Tik Tok, or most of its userbase for that matter.

foone

Yeah, I'm not mad about using the term "pet play". That's a perfectly fine term. I'm mad because they didn't use that term: they used "pet p!ay", a censored version

digital-magus

Oh. Oh gawd I missed that. Objection withdrawn, that is objectively terrible.

biowho

To anybody who is new to posting on ao3, if you’re using a tag you have to use the correct spelling of that tag. People aren’t going to type in every version of a censored word to hide or look for your content

emperorsfoot

For everyone new to tumblr, the same rule applies to tumblr too.

You cannot censor your tags! Censored tags cannot be block or filtered. Censoring tags HARMS your audience, it does not protect them

friendly reminder

jrandreal

My favorite canon fact is that Alpha-Beta is still actually salty he lost the presidency to the real guy and doesn't like talking about it he's so cute 😭 Also that he prefers to be called by his *version* name and can watch all of Friends in a fraction of a second

Also, he knows that Reagan is bi :)

inside job alpha beta inside job

animentality

meggannn

scaredgirlsilly

whats that defunct land quote again? every part of the film making process is awful, but not making film is even worse? idk something like that. anywah im being completely normal about art rn ::))

scaredgirlsilly