I AM A PANGOLIN

I’m not a brave man. I’m not a violent man. But I am a man who knows my strengths, and I’m prepared to use them.

So if I encounter any ICE agents in my neighborhood, I will smile and waive and as soon as they make eye contact I will engage in the most aggressively friendly chitchat ever witnessed on my block.

I will ramble on and on about whatever pops into my head. I will ask them about their day, their hobbies, their home life, and their personal backstory until I find a common area of interest, and then I will crank my smalltalk game UP TO ELEVEN.

I will force them to look awkwardly at their wristwatch DOZENS of times without taking the hint. I will ask seemingly simple questions that do not have ANY simple answers. I will pretend to wrap up the conversation with, “Anyway…” and then segue DIRECTLY into another topic.

Because every minute an ICE agent wastes chatting with me is a minute that they’re not targeting my neighbors and disrupting their lives.

I’m no superhero, but I do have a super power, and I’ll use it to fight oppression in any way I can.

Love you, Dave

@flavoracle I’m not a brave man, and I suck at small talk, but I would say I can be violent, what should I do? Because I’m not brave enough to act out but I wanna help

I mean, I’m not gonna ask anybody to engage in violence, but if you’re looking for something to do, what about this? 

Get a copy of the song, Cotton Eye Joe. Carry around a big, loud speaker. If you ever see ICE show up in your neighborhood, start playing it at full blast. 

Best case scenario? You can motion for them to come over your way and challenge them to a dance off. (Probably not likely, but it never hurts to dream.) 

Worst case scenario? They think you’re weird and like Cotton Eye Joe. 

Likely scenario? If you’ve let your neighbors know ahead of time that hearing Cotton Eye Joe means ICE is in the neighborhood, it may give them the head start they need to avoid harassment. 

Now you might be thinking that picking Cotton Eye Joe is a really random choice, but consider the following reasoning: 

Would this actually work? Honestly, I have no idea. I’m no expert in active resistance. But I figure it’s worth putting out there. And who knows, maybe it could catch on. 

Stay safe everybody. 

‘Fit’adn’t 

The tags that @anautisticaquarius added to this thread are just too good to stay hidden, so I took a screenshot to share with the rest of you :)

sometimes, people don’t understand that we are hated for being autistic. “But I don’t hate autistic people!”.

That’s right! Because you don’t know how autistic people are.

You know, people never bullied me for being autistic. Because neither me nor they had the terminology. Nah, they punished me for being weird. And what made me weird to their eyes? I spoke weird and often stumbled, and I spoke like a grownup anyway, and I wouldn’t shut up about Ancient Greece. I moved weird too, because I was (am) really clumsy, and I didn’t have any friends. I was boring and didn’t catch jokes (made at my expense) and I didn’t look them in the eye, and so on and on.

If you asked any of the people who bullied me for years whether they hate autistic people, they’d say “no!”. Because they don’t hate autistic people, but oh boy do they hate weird people. Perhaps they don’t hate autistic people, but surely they hated me for being obviously autistic.

I’ve been trying to explain this concept to a lot of people. You did a really good job summing it up.

ive seen people online claim to support autistic people and then kind of mock/ostracize others for not immediately picking up on all the unwritten online social rules

An important thing to be mindful of.

Whenever you’re feeling sad, just remember that you are Chica’s favorite. 

So i went on a date to a haunted house and made friends with the girls behind us. As we’re going through, one of them is holding my hand and a guy leaps out and separates us. I panic as my date is pulling me along, I reach back for her and grab her hand in a group of three other performers and start getting out if there. After a bit I look back to check on her and I discover I’m holding the hand of a six foot tall zombie creature and not a 5'2" girl.

Cue the most terrifying realization of my life.

I had basically kidnapped this performer from his section and abandoned the girl and her friend behind us.

Yes, I screamed. My date thought it was Hilarious.

Yes, we found the girls. Turns out when I grabbed the performers hand, he grabbed theirs so our group wouldn’t be separated. So there was just this zombie in the middle of our group line for like fifty feet

This is like a Scooby Doo bit I love it

Story

Normalize apologizing to children.

Normalize doing right by children.

Normalizing telling children YOU were wrong

Normalize listening to children when they see the solution to a problem.

Yes I love this entire post

Every time you use a baby voice when you talk to a developmentally disabled/neurodivergent person, you owe us a gift card to our favourite restaurant and an essay about why you’re unable to communicate with us respectfully.

i want

to be able

to consume comedic content

without being constantly braced for a “joke"

in which people like me are the punchline.

why is this so hard for people to understand?

the best part of the hunger games is when prim gets called and katniss is screaming about it NOT MY SISTER and then peeta gets called and he has like 50 brothers and they’re all just like sucks dude…

Kudos to fanfiction writers for writing about all the trauma and emotional and mental turmoil that the original content creators dont acknowledge when putting characters through hell

This has evolved to one of fanfiction’s major assets in my eyes. To every author that cares enough about the characters in their stories to examine trauma, but also the slow, tedious processes of healing and recovery: your stories mean so much to me and other persons with mental health problems. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Whoever is reading this, please don’t talk bad about anyone behind their backs. The feeling of worthlessness and disappointment that many experience from this will always linger.

Very much quite possibly almost maybe completely my favourite dwarf family idk

fanfiction is so wild cause im like…..ugh im not in the mood to read a book…..i’ll just read an 82k word fic instead……

Look…. To start a book… You have to make room in yourself for new characters and worlds. Do I look like I have the emotional energy for that? Do I look like I can trust like that right now? Just show me the things I already know pay good returns on my investment, except I also want to read something new so I guess they can be in a coffee shop this time.

This - this is it, you’ve put it into words

if you wake up much earlier than normal you feel secret emotions

#one time i just woke up at 7 am and stared at the sunrise for like an hour #dont know what emotions those were but they sure were a lot!!

If you stay up late enough, you feel those same emotions, but the bad version of them

hey all!! I made a kinetic typography video of @thatsthat24's video: Selfishness vs Selflessness.

it's my first one, so some parts could definitely be better!!

I LOVE this scene. I LOVE kinetic typography. This is so well done. It perfectly frames the emotion and feeling from this scene. Well done!

Oh my gosh I love this so much

Aaaaq

Someone’s probably already done this, but alignment chart of “realistic” cgi or cgi that tried to stay as close to the original as possible. I don’t not take constructive criticism

the best thing about cows is that they’re never annoying on the internet

IF YOU’VE NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE, I FEEL SORRY FOR YOU HONESTLY (x)

reblogging ‘cause it sounds like a background music in a fantasy novel/movie.

It really does. This is gorgeous.

Put. This. On. Spotify. Right now.

Oh my god play this at my funeral

Put it in the background of the fantasy movie I create one day.

Death of Rats

I think one of the most important things I learned in recovery is that my body is meant to experience things. I’m meant to go out and have fun, taste new foods, go to meals with friends, anything like that. I’m not supposed to look perfect all the time, that’s not the intention of having a body. Having a body allows you, your soul, to do things, to experience things. I’m not going to skip out on that new cultural food because it has calories - I’m going to try it, maybe I’ll enjoy it, maybe not. Either way, it’s an experience, and a memory my soul will keep forever.

Humans aren’t meant to look amazing. We’re meant to feel amazing.