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So, okay, fun fact. When I was a freshman in high school… let me preface by saying my dad sent me to a private school and, like a bad organ transplant, it didn’t take. I was miserable, the student body hated me, I hated them, it was awful.

Okay, so, freshman year, I’m deep in my “everything sucks and I’m stuck with these assholes” mentality. My English teacher was a notorious hard-ass, let’s call him Mr. Hargrove. He was the guy every student prayed they didn’t get. And, on top of ALL OF THE SHIT I WAS ALREADY DEALING WITH, I had him for English.

One of the laborious assignments he gave us was to keep a daily journal. Daily! Not monthly or weekly. Fucking daily. Handwritten. And we had to turn it in every quarter and he fucking graded us. He graded us on a fucking journal.

All of my classmates wrote shit like what they did that day or whatever. But, I did not. No, sir. I decided to give the ol’ middle finger to the assignment and do my own shit.

So, for my daily journal entries, over the course of an entire year, I wrote a serialized story about a horde of man-eating slugs that invaded a small mining town. It was graphic, it was ridiculous, it was an epic feat of rebellion.

And Mr. Hargrove loved it.

It wasn’t just the journal. Every assignment he gave us, I tried to shit all over it. Every reading assignment, everyone gushed about how good it was, but I always had a negative take. Every writing assignment, people wrote boring prose, but I wrote cheesy limericks or pulp horror stories.

Then, one day, he read one of my essays to the class as an example of good writing. When a fellow student asked who wrote it, he said, “Some pipsqueak.”

And that’s when I had a revelation. He wanted to fight. And since all the other students were trying to kiss his ass, I was his only challenger.

Mr. Hargrove and I went head-to-head on every assignment, every conversation, every fucking thing. And he ate it up. And so did I.

One day, he read us a column from the Washington Post and asked the class what was wrong with it. Everyone chimed in with their dumbass takes, but I was the one who landed on Mr. Hargrove’s complaint: The reporter had BRAZENLY added the suffix “ize” to a verb.

That night I wrote a jokey letter to the reporter calling him out on the offense in which I added “ize” to every single verb. I gave it to Mr. Hargrove, who by then had become a friendly adversary, for a chuckle and he SENT IT TO THE REPORTER.

And, people… The reporter wrote back. And he said I was an exceptional student. Mr. Hargrove and I had a giggle about that because we both knew I was just being an asshole, but he and the reporter acknowledged I had a point.

And that was it. That was the moment. Not THAT EXACT moment, but that year with Mr. Hargrove taught me I had a knack for writing. And that knack was based in saying “fuck you” to authority. (The irony that someone in a position of authority helped me realize that is not lost on me.)

So, I can say without qualification that Mr. Hargrove is the reason I am now a professional writer. Yes, I do it for a living. And most of my stuff takes authorities of one kind or another to task.

Mr. Hargrove showed me my dissent was valid, my rebellion was righteous, and that killer slugs could bring a city to its knees. Someone just needs to write it.

This is the first time I’ve seen this post but I know I’m gonna love reading it every time it shows up on my dash

we all laugh about the bubble opera, and it is, frankly, quite stupid, but it's also a scene in which anakin - entirely of his own accord within the scene - kneels at palpatine's feet by the side of his chair until he's bid to sit next to him. i just want everyone to think about how that behavior is either something anakin instinctively does as a memory from his childhood or something palpatine intentionally cultivates. anakin is doing this in public. the implication is that this is typical of him and no one notices that this is fucked. i mean holy shit

me writing a sentence

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!

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Well fellas. We lost a legend. Rest in Peace, Mr. Brandt, you fueled a generation.

ocean’s eight is a good, fun, well acted movie and the fact that male reviewers are giving it rotten reviews just show how women led films have to meet unrealistic expectations to not be considered a failure. the movie isn’t rocket science but it was never intended to be, it’s just a good time at the movies and it’s the kind of film men get to make over and over again and nobody hangs the future of male cinema on its sucess or failure. the treatment it’s getting is unfair and misogynistic. in this essay i will

#i got to watch beautiful women steal things for two whole hours#it’s all I’ve ever wanted #and every mean reviewer can eat my entire ass ( @bebeocho)

Honestly we really need to stop being weird about older adults who are virgins.

& not even purely in a "I'm sex repulsed &/or ace &/or not into the idea of so I willingly didn't have it" but also in a "I'm 80, I would've loved to have sex, but it takes two to tango & no one wanted to have sex w/ me-" and in a "I'm 60 & I wanted to, but I had anxiety so bad I just didn't put myself in a situation where I could've" way, etc. [But yes also the people who are like "I'm a virgin because I never wanted to have sex"]

Someone made a post about having their 40th birthday & still being a virgin & someone commented about how it was heartbreaking... [The OP talked about all their other achievements they reached & how they were happy - just never had sex btw. They weren't lamenting about how they never had sex]

You don't need sex/sexual intimacy to be happy. You don't need romantic intimacy to be happy. [Obviously having those may add happiness, but like you won't live a sad depressing empty life if you're single forever &/or never have sex]

via @123i321 you can't just leave that in the tags

[Image descriptions in order: two tweets by Joseph Mullins @josephmulli... The first says "Today, nobody showed up to my 8.15am class.

0 students of about 40. Sitting in the empty room, I email them, trying to disguise my hurt feelings.

2 mins later, I get a reply: "Professor, we think you might be in the wrong room." So anyway off I go to live in a hole forever.

The second says "My wife really wants me to mention that I was sleep deprived because I got up at 4am to play Dungeons and Dragons with my friends in Australia."]

[Tags that say #Sad professor in a room alone #Students no love me? Why students no love me 😭 #All 40 in the other room #Where our beloved professor? Why he not here? He ok?!]

All I can think about is the ENERGY in the room with the students when the first one looked at their email... absolutely incredible.

i think that… approximately 100% of the time, parents, teachers, etc… have this misconception that neurodivergent kids & teens don’t know anything about how to handle their neurodivergence.

for years, i suffered through people making suggestions of things that were things i had done, and either weren’t worth the effort or they actually made things worse. i told them this, and if i was still having any issues with the same problem they’d say something about “well if you’re not gonna listen to any suggestions…” when I did. they’re the one who didn’t listen when i told them that doesn’t work for me. They assume that because I didn’t try it in front of them (which is often impossible), I never tried it. I tried doing my homework as soon as I got home. I tried doing my homework at the table, I tried working where I was comfortable. I tried listening to music, I tried working in silence. I tried using a planner, I tried setting reminders on my phone, I tried. I tell people that I have executive functioning issues and they say that I have to work on it like I haven’t been doing that as long as I’ve had to do things and it’s so much better than it was before. I’m as able as I am now because I’ve spent 18 years working on it.

One of my friends has ADHD, and at one point when her grades dropped her parents took her phone, despite her telling them that the only way she can focus on her homework is to listen to music, for which she needs her phone.

I was in a study hall with another friend, who also has ADHD. Sometimes, they would be able to focus and do their work. Others, they would end up being entirely unable to and would do other stuff. The “instructional support” person would start bothering them about it, insist that they try. As if they hadn’t already done so.

I am tired of watching people assume that neurodivergent people aren’t trying, or we haven’t tried. We’re always trying.

Fucking this

Also: after thirty-mumble years of living with autism, I CAN in fact usually tell right away when trying - trying AT THAT PARTICULAR TASK, AT THAT PARTICULAR TIME, IN THAT PARTICULAR WAY - is going to be useless. Just like someone who’d been living with chronic pain for an equal amount of time would be able to tell the difference between a “I can manage if I’m careful and conserve energy” day and a “not going to happen” day. 

It’s not being “lazy” or “defeatist” or “not showing the right attitude”. It’s being unwilling to throw good energy after bad in order to satisfy some NT person’s need to make sure we’re “trying hard enough”. 

I cannot tell you how helpful posts like these have been for me as I’ve been on the sidelines trying to cheer my depressed, ADHD, possibly neurodivergent child through life. I *know* he’s trying. It doesn’t always look like it, but I know he’s giving it everything he has. Sometimes that results in an hour of work on an art project with glorious progress, sometimes it means a shower, sometimes it means being ready for something on time, sometimes it means a day of playing kirby games. Whatever it is, and no matter how ‘easy’ it might be for me, it’s very obviously heavy work for him. I wish I could do some of the lifting for him. All I can do is acknowledge his effort, regardless of the outcome.

Like, it’s one thing to remind me of a treatment I had completely forgotten about trying. It’s another to demand I try things I know I’ve already explained won’t work.

And it is indeed heavy. It’s exhausting. I tell my physical therapist and my pain clinician that sometimes I wind up sleeping all day just because the fatigue is overwhelming, and they just keep gently and kindly telling me that it is okay to rest, that my recover times will be completely different from neurotypicals and even other neurodivergents. They don’t think I’m self harming, they don’t think my insomnia is threatening, they know I’m the type of person to wake up at four in the morning to write something and get caught up in an hour of writing.

That’s all I want. To be assured that I’m not going to be punished for not fully performing my duties as a functioning member of society.

Also people will accept that things are harder for you but conveniently assume that you’re never really trying hard enough. Like your disability is always exactly just bad enough that some of your problems are unavoidable but not as many as you’re claimimg. It’s always ‘well, surely you could do a bit better if you tried harder’ like what you’re doing isn’t already the result of trying harder.

And of course, people will also underweight the negative impacts of trying too hard: exhaustion, paralyzing anxiety, indecision, burnout, and so forth….

I am not dead! Just haven’t been using Tumblr to post work lately. Moving forward, I will probably just be putting full illustrations up on the blog which means updates will be pretty slow. In any case, I wanted to show this piece I did for @bat-famzine! I’m so so late revealing it here, but there ya go. The zine itself came out so beautifully, I’m honored I got to be a part of it :)

Teen Titans/ Teen Titans Go! parallels  | Robstar closing the door.

Nailed it.

can we just discuss how the colorists forgot to color starfire’s top purple in the second gif

So that means starfire stood infront of robins door with her tits out and robin was like “hmm i got to do this thing first” and closes the door on her

Truly he is Batman’s disciple.

OH SHIT. LMFAO!! 😂😂

Delhi Queer Pride 2017 🏳️‍🌈

Seeing asexuals there makes me want to vomit thanks

same

Lgbt people in traditionally not-lgbt-friendly countries: fight for acceptance, love, tolerance, and perseverance over hatred

Y'all goblins: ok but

BLESS THE ASEXUALS THERE AND FUCK THE TWO CUNTS ABOVE THE PERISH PIC

BLESS ALL OF THESE PEOPLE, INDIA DIDN’T STRIKE DOWN ITS LAW THAT CRIMINALIZED GAY SEX UNTIL 2018, THIS PRIDE TOOK PLACE BEFORE THAT, THESE PEOPLE WERE BRAVE AS FUCK

Reblogging for this last comment – we respect the brave LGBTQ+ folk here!

Y’all ever notice how aphobes always say stuff like “GUHRR YOU WERRNT AT ALL THE DANGEROUS AND IMPORTANT HISTORY SO YOU CANT BE HERE NOW HUGN” but when aspec people ARE at important events putting their neck out alongside the rest of the community to fight for acceptance, aphobes are disgusted with that too

Like. Y’all are just proving the only reason y’all don’t want aspec people in the community is that y’all just hate us lmao.

They wanted to vomit because seeing Asexuals be brown people at a brown Pride event in a brown country subverts and unspools so much bullshit they wrap themselves in.

Enough to give a bitch serious vertigo.

Today I called a girl homophobic as a joke and she almost started crying

She said “my neighbors are a lesbian couple! I’m the least homophobic person you’ll ever meet”

I said “Kelsea I’m really sorry I hurt your feelings but I need you to know that homophobic people can have lesbian neighbors” and she just got even more distraught and said “I’ve been inside their house and I wasn’t even afraid or anything”

AFRAID OF WHAT??

She entered the Home of Phobia and wasn’t even scared

I need people to stop blaming the death of movies on “quips”. A quip is just a funny line of dialogue. That’s all. Like I just saw a post talking about quips and the death of movies and brought up Pirates of the Caribbean as an example of a better movie and yes it is but also that movie is FULL OF QUIPS. I just rewatched The Princess Bride. It’s all quips. Every single line. And it’s a masterpiece.

Movies suck when people don’t care about the art they’re making. That includes them not caring about their quips. Which is why a lot of comic relief dialogue ALSO sucks now. But the problem isn’t that funny dialogue exists.

#it’s not the quips it’s the complete and utter fear of showing any kind of sincerity#honestly it’s almost the equivalent of saying ‘no homo’ after a moment of being genuine

The Princess Bride is almost all quips, but it’s all sincerity. Every aspect of the plot is ridiculous and yet no movie dialogue has ever gone as hard as “I want my father back, you son of a bitch”

people recognize the problem contained within Whedon-style quippyness without knowing the term for the actual issue so they say “quips” when they mean “bathos”

another problem with quips that’s a little harder to analyze and explain is the quips are all in the author’s voice, NOT the characters’.

steve rogers, natalia romanoff, james barnes, tony stark, pepper potts, and bruce banner are people from radically different walks of life, and should therefore have extremely different styles of communication, despite all off them nominally speaking the same language (english). they should have different senses of humor, different senses of where the boundary lies between irreverence and insult, different boundaries, different sore spots, different goals as well as different methods of communication.

the fact that all these characters banter the exact same way, i.e how joss whedon thinks is funny, is incredibly shallow and grating.

steve grew up as a challenging little shit, who was also very small and poor, and he did it in 1920′s-30′s brooklyn new york. he regularly got his ass kicked. tony stark is also challenging and provocative, he’s a shit stirrer, but he grew up rich as all fuck. no one was beating the piss out of him in a dirty alley. tony has grown up surrounded by sycophants, rich enough to get away with whatever amount of bad behavior he wants to pull; steve grew up poor and disabled in a society that openly advocated for the death and degradation of the weak and unfit. why the fuck would they enter a conversation the same way? why would they deliver a snappy retort the same way? natasha romanoff is a spy, she’s manipulative, she’s always watching to see how a joke lands, she’s always conscientiously tuning herself this way and that to get results. she doesn’t have the luxury of casual defiance, or unthinking obnoxiousness, or even standing by her principles and pissing off someone she hates. again, why would she be tossing off little asides the same as tony, or even the same as steve?

the princess bride is sincere, and the characters still banter in their own voices. fezzik is cautious and methodical, inigo is weary and incredulous, vizzini is desperate to impress everyone with his own intelligence and in so doing often sounds like a complete twerp, buttercup is so incredibly pissed off she doesn’t have any brain cells to spare for joking around, and westley is here to ruin everyone’s day. and it works! the characters have great banter because they’re striking sparks off each other, not meshing like identical cogs in a machine.

humor is about subverting expectations, about breaking up patterns, about confrontation and absurdity. you can’t get that from a blandly uniform pulp.

I have never heard anyone summarize Westley’s character so perfectly in a single line

Never forget:

Pedro Pascal: Starring in two successful shows at the same time and may join the MCU soon. Career is thriving.

Gina Carano: Movie with Ben Shapiro makes only $804 against a $70 million budget in the domestic box office.

She gave up Star Wars for this.

Aqueon manufactures these 0.5 to 0.7 gallon betta fish aquariums and advertises them as ideal long-term environments for fish.

Do you think Aqueon should stop misleading consumers by making these under 1 gallon betta bowl kits?

Betta fish need at least 5 gallons, a filter, heater, and lots of places to hide and explore.

These kits force betta fish to endure low-quality, non-stimulating conditions their entire lives while making consumers believe that they are providing their betta with an ideal home.

Please fill out the "contact us" form on the Aqueon website and ask that they stop manufacturing these under 1 gallon Betta bowls.

https://www.aqueon.com/about-us/contact-us

Or send them a direct message on Instagram (@aqueonproducts)

Aqueon's tagline is "it's all about the fish" 🤔

www.bettaworldforbettas.com

Goldfish CANNOT live in bowls.

They are meant to grow 1ft to 1.5ft long, and live AT LEAST 20 years. Look at this contrast photo between a baby goldfish and an adult

Now, goldfish need, preferably, a MINIMUM of a 29 gallon tank, with 40+ being ideal, especially for multiple. These guys could also out shit an elephant, so you need to be very vigilant about water changes and have a good filtration system (water changes should NEVER be more than 30% of the water, unless dire circumstances. Even THEN, you NEVER want to drain 100% of the water)

"But don't they grow to the size of their tank?"

NO

Their OUTSIDE growth is stunted to an extreme degree, but their INSIDES keep growing until THEIR ORGANS RUPTURE. IT IS A VERY SLOW AND PAINFUL DEATH FOR THESE GUYS.

The myth that they can be kept in bowls can be traced back to ancient China. An emperor wanted to show off his very opulent goldfish to his party guests, but he couldn't exactly bring them all out to his pond and just point out the fish to everyone. So, they were scooped up into bowls and displayed that way before they were dumped back in their pond.

NEVER put a goldfish in a bowl. They very literally cannot survive.

"But what CAN live in a bowl?"

Plants. That's it. Maybe a couple tiny snails that hitched a ride on the plants. Not even betta fish. Sure, they can SURVIVE, but the quality of life will be abysmal and they will STILL die far before they would have otherwise had they been given proper care.

2.5 gallons is the MINIMUM suggested size for the average betta, with 5+ gallons being ideal. For example, here's my setup. It's 3 gallons.

All the plants are live, and don't be intimidated by them. Most don't actually require any extra care! They also help keep the water parameters a bit more stable since they feed on nitrates.

Oh, yeah, remember that nitrogen cycle thing you learned about in high school that you never thought you'd use for literally anything? THE ENTIRE AQUARIUM HOBBY RUNS ON IT. Even a rudimentary understanding is good enough, you don't have to know the nitty gritty.

Please please PLEASE do your research before purchasing ANY living thing.

If anyone has specific questions, feel free to dm me!!!

I work at a pet store, and I thoroughly enjoy teaching anyone that's willing to learn!!!

EDIT: PLEASE reblog this, I want as many people to see this as possible