One time my rabbi told us, “imagine you had a box with a little bit of god in it. What would you do with the box?”
So we were like ?? “We’d protect it and keep it nice and clean and polished” and he was like “your body’s that box. Stop eating markers”
Every time I come across this post the last sentence smacks me in the face
oh this post’s back
i cannot explain how much kristen needs to change her marketing tactic
she keeps going around and saying that cassandra is the goddess of mystery and doubt and the night, but thats not quite true. cassandra is the goddess of finding safety in the unknown. of not being afraid of doubt.
she is the belief that even if you don't know where you are or what to do, if you are lost and alone in a dark forest, there will be something on the other side, and all you have to do is get there. Cassandra is the goddess of staring into the cold, uncaring void and feeling a warm hand clasp your own, of a whisper in your ear saying youre going to be okay. you aren't alone. it is going to be scary and hard and uncertain, but you will never be on your own because i am here with you. you will never be lost because i know where you are
@lovewishconserve I don't go here but I assume something either very exciting or very tragic happened?
I haven't watched the episode yet but I did hear that something gay happened -- definitely exciting!
usamericans do really love making posts about parking lots. i met god in a parking lot. fighting my ex in a parking lot. it's like their main biome
the site where most of the Salem Witch Trial victims were hanged is now in a parking lot
(well, the back of a parking lot)
(specifically a Walgreen's parking lot)
(it's somewhere in that clump of trees. there's a marker but this is the best photo I could find that illustrates both Trees and Walgreens Parking Lot)
IT'S LIKE OUR MAIN BIOME BECAUSE THE WHOLE GOT DAMN COUNTRY IS SLOWLY BEIN' PAVED OVER AND IT'S LIKE 90% OF THE PLACES YOU CAN ACTUALLY FUCKEN GET TO BECAUSE THIS PLACE IS BUILT FOR CARS MORE THAN PEOPLE
"Parking space takes up 27% of central Columbus, Ohio." Is a sentence that makes me feral, esp considering how much is already roads and highways.
Listen I was walking down the street in Houston last week and a sudden lil downpour started and within 2 minutes my shoes were in like 3 inches of running water bc we paved up a whole bunch of damn bayous and wetlands that are supposed to absorb this shit usually like
We can’t forget the damn parking lots 🥲
All of this delights me to no end.
…I’m actually speechless.
I wasn’t looking for any information about railroads and now I’m left with that + knowledge about spaceships, Roman chariots and one (1) unexpected but welcome joke.
I am now trying to figure out how to share this (the age-appropriate parts) with my middle school history students. What a great chain of facts!
WHAT
Pusheen is married?!?
PUSHEEN HAS BABIES?!?!?
SINCE WHEN IS PUSHEEN A GIRL
an absolute queen. her birthday is febuary 18th
she's Irish
I know it's unintentional, but my brain just connected something with how fhjy Kristen has been saying about every girl she doesn't like that they have a dog's name, in the aftermath of breaking up with her werewolf girlfriend who is named Tracker
normal: feeling tired at the end of a long day
not normal: feeling tired regardless of what you’ve done that day
normal: waking up tired every now and then due to stress or lack of sleep
not normal: waking up tired most mornings
normal: getting a little tired after standing for long periods of time
not normal: not being able to stand for very long without tiring out. being stood up drains your energy
normal: being tired more often during times of peak stress and lack of sleep, but otherwise fine
not normal: being tired/exhausted consistently for over 6 months
normal: melting into the sofa after a long day, and then struggling a little to get up
not normal: being too exhausted to move, to eat, to talk, or to do anything a person might be expected to do in an evening
normal: not liking to get out of bed in the morning
not normal: having mornings where you physically cannot get out of bed, or struggle greatly to get out of bed
the key thing is that it is not normal for you to spend most of your time being too tired to do daily tasks, and it is not normal to exist in a constant state of exhaustion. if possible, you should seek help if you’ve been experiencing fatigue for a while
so when straight people ask me why I say I’m “queer” or “gay” instead of sharing my actual identity as a panromantic demisexual non-binary sapphic queer I just tell them “ok look, when you’re talking to someone who isn’t local and they ask you where you’re from and you either say the name of the largest city nearby or ‘town name, suburb of large nearby city’ so they can get some geographical context of where you’re located right, bc they’re probably not going to know the name of the little town you actually live in.”
but if you’re talking to a local you can say the name of your actual town bc they have a greater chance of knowing where/what that is.
ok well when I’m talking to a straight person I start with queer bc chances are they aren’t as familiar with the context of all the little towns in that big queer city and need gps (gay positioning system) to find me.
if I’m talking to another queer person and I say I live in a suburb of gay city in a town called panromantic on the demisexual side of the tracks which is in the county of queer and I live off the intersection of non-binary and sapphic, they’d probably be able to find me with little to no problems, make sense?
Also because my exact address in Queertown is usually nobody's business.
Sorry to make an MCU joke in 2023 but
Bagadnu,
Dibarnu dofi
YAI LAI LAI LAI LAI
YAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI
YAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAAAAAAI
He'evinu
v’heershanu
Tafalnu Sheker
Kizavnu
La’atznu
Maradnu
Niatznu
Sararnu
Pashanu
~rashaaaanu
shiiiichatnu
teeh-tah-nu
But through prayer and righteous giving, we can transcend the harshness of the decree
Happy New Year! May you be inscribed in the book of life!
i feel like gilear would wear a “i am kenough” sweater
Fig would buy it for him
This is the national dance of the Philippines, called Tinikling
nothing has been more important to my being queer than when i went to my first pride parade, got seperated from my group, had a panic attack about it and was sitting on the side of the road holding a tiny genderfluid flag and freaking out. then this six foot five drag queen in four inch heels appeared from literally nowhere and sat down next to me. i, this scared-shitless trans bi kid at pride for the first time, very nervously told her she looked pretty and i told her my name and that i got lost and didn't feel like i should be at pride and she held my hand and said "oh, honey, everybody deserves to be here, especially you. pride is for everybody who's ever gotten lost, who's been scared of who they are or where they are. you think we never been scared before? pride's for you, honey, because you're scared. you don't have to be proud right now, but you're gonna be one day, honey, i'm sure of it."
i found my group soon after that and i never saw that queen again but to this day i am convinced i met an angel.
so yeah. pride is for you. pride is for all of us.
so by far the biggest improvements i’ve experienced as an autistic person have been from changes in environment. not from me changing behavior, not from me learning to imitate neurotypicals, not from me becoming ‘less autistic’ (not a thing). it’s been from me getting accommodations that i needed all along.
a lot of things allistics define as autistic wouldn’t be problems if they would stop using neurotypical behaviors and needs as the baseline for “healthy.”
I need things you don’t. You need things I don’t. The world belongs to both of us, and there’s room for us both in it.
One thing that's occurred to me recently as I continue to question if I fall somewhere on the autism spectrum, is the fact that I grew up in NY, I live in NYC, and I have lived in the state of NY, within the reach of NYC for almost all of my life. The reason this is important is because New Yorkers, NYC folks especially, are extremely direct. We thrive on an ask culture (contrast with guess culture) -- this is also why so much of the country thinks we're rude. But as someone who is maybe possibly a little bit autistic, I forking thrive on ask culture. It wasn't until I started making friends from other parts of the country and hearing them talk and talk about their experiences that I realized that so much of the US is so gosh darn vague in communication -- and it drives me insane, literally it makes me feel like I'm losing my mind. In NY, people generally say what they mean and mean what they say; it's not rude to directly ask for things; and-- as I'm learning bc this one I didn't specifically grow up with just bc of small suburban town bs-- people are generally happy to explain what they mean if you ask for clarification of something. In the rest of the country? It's a guessing game that I don't know how to play.
So all this to say, autism being a product of environment makes perfect sense to me. Bc if I could just stay in a little bubble of New Yorkers and ask culture, I never would question if I'm neurotypical or neurodivergent -- I'd think I was neurotypical, bc this is a world I can navigate with ease, and it's only when I leave that I realize that most of the world is much much more challenging for me to move through.
i didn't have "i'm broken" teenage asexual angst i had "i'm literally being the only reasonable one about this concept and the rest of you are behaving like fucking freaks" perception issues
