the only way to tell if a man is truly gentle is if he has green moss and algae all over him from sleeping quietly, motionlessly, at the bottom of a crystal clear riverbed

@mnino has been introducing me to the Disney Fairies movies! They’re quite fun, and I gotta say:

Movie Tinkerbell is autistic.

Special interest: mechanics.

She’s a gifted mechanist in a culture that doesn’t even have them—she’s able to repair or build things that not of her fellow Tinkers can even conceive of, like the music box, and it’s shown that this just “makes sense” to her. She doesn’t even think it’s special because that’s just how she is. But, importantly, the moment she first sees the car in Great Fairy Rescue, literally everything else gets thrown out the window. Danger? Who cares! Discovery by humans? Not even on her radar. That’s a horseless carriage, Vidia! She has to see how it works!

Difficulty with social cues

Speaking of Vidia: Vidia is a terrible liar, yet Tinkerbell always believes her. Tink has no idea that Vidia dislikes her, even though Vidia is extremely obvious about it. Tink just straight up can’t read the tone. Additionally, she can’t tell that Terence is as angry at her as she is at him in Lost Treasure; she doesn’t even realize that he might’ve been hurt by what she said.

Hyperfocus and sensory issues

In Lost Treasure, Tinkerbell doesn’t seem to remember to eat during the entire time she’s making the staff. Hell, she doesn’t even leave the house. Terence is the one who brings her supplies, wakes her up, reminds her to take care of herself. And when she starts getting annoyed at him, it’s shown by making all of the sounds he makes extra loud—she’s in sensory overload.

Temper and rigid sense of justice

This one’s easy: Tink’s a hothead. However, the things she’s shown getting angry over are very specific: she has a sense of how the world should be, regardless of how it is or how other fairies see it, and when that sense is violated she blows up, goes into depression, or straight up exposes herself to a human adult and destroys thousands of years of fairy culture because he’s calling his daughter a liar when she’s telling the truth. Doesn’t even think about the consequences, just straight up attacks the guy and starts yelling.

Her sense of justice frequently conflicts with the Rules of her society, too. She needs an extra bag of pixie dust, so the fact that Terence won’t bend the rules to help her get it is a betrayal. She doesn’t think that maybe he is following the rule, because that rule doesn’t make sense to her. Same with tinker fairies not going to the mainland: all fairies should go to the mainland. Why does one caste not get to? It doesn’t make sense. Screw thousands of years of culture, it shouldn’t be that way!

Moreover, she hates when anyone messes with her stuff. Even though Terence is cleaning, keeping her space neat, he bugs the shit out of her.

The only other thing that makes her this angry? Sensory stuff.

In conclusion

Tinkerbell is an autistic fairy and I have decided to stan.

"I Don't Have a Routine"

For those who are seeking diagnosis, think they might be autistic or are already diagnosed/self-diagnosed but just confused

Routines/rituals aren't just getting up at the same time every day.

What can routines look like for an autistic (just general examples, not an exhaustive list):

To outsiders these routines/rituals seem to have no purpose but they are sacrosanct to the autistic individual. Changes must be given time, with lots of notifications and check-ups to ensure we're accepting the changes.

One of life's biggest cons is how often one task turns out to be several smaller tasks in a trench coat.

I hate that no one talks about just how distressing memory loss from adhd actually is. I always see memes that are like “haha I forgot my phone, I don’t remember where my laptop is, etc”, but no one seems to talk about how it can really fuck you up long term to just, not remember things that are completely mundane to non-adhd’ers. The memory loss is, however, so frustrating to us. I cannot physically count how many meltdowns I have had over the sheer mental frustration and torture of not being able to remember seemingly simple things

19 days stans out here getting fed like kings while TamenDeGushi stans are really just thirsty and dying huh

Listen- Leverage is such a fucking good show. You hate corporations? You hate the military? You want found family? You want wacky hijinks? You want spy thriller? You want a bisexual polyamorous triad? You want people healing from trauma together? LITERALLY this show has it all go watch it

heh... our shared mutual just reblogged that post from ME and not you. how does that make you feel

Ok this wikipedia article is pissing me off so much 

yeah i’m gonna re-write this fucker

goddamn. there is so much bias in the first paragraph alone:

this is an EXCELLENT example of the way word choice and tone can be used to create bias and transform the truth to suit the writer’s purposes.

Here’s my re-write: 

i got rid of the passive tone (which distances Profumo from his actions), and changed the photo. notice how the original writer chose a photo taken before the scandal, portraying Profumo in a respected position of power, a powerful man seated at a desk. I chose a photo taken in the aftermath. Which would you say more accurately reflects the context? 

some other changes:

“denied impropriety” like he’s some maiden aunt clutching at pearls. No, what he actually did was:

oh, and he wasn’t

he was, in fact

after lying through his teeth. now here’s my favorite bit:

what does that MEAN? what the hell does that MEAN??? oh boo hoo hooey the Prime Minister’s self-confidence was damaged, how dreadful for the poor dear. the poor sweet man…

fuck that. in fact, Profumo’s actions

of the government, and rightly so.

oh, and the young woman in question was a model, not a “would-be” model. But ultimately her profession has no relevance here–what is relevant is that a middle-aged man in a position of power slept with a 19-year-old. I wonder what motive the original author could have had, to choose to emphasize her career over the fact she was still a teenager…

Words can be used to bend anything. Pay attention to tone. Pay attention to authorial intent. Pay attention to what is included and what isn’t. Question everything. But especially question the language used to describe historical and current events. Every writer has an agenda–look for it. Above all: 

Read critically.

ko-fi / paypal

#this is not a commissioned post (it’s a ‘fuck you you bastard’ post) but i wish it was #Someone gimme 4 bucks I spent a spite-fueled 80 minutes writing to this

#spite is a renewable resource

I want to explain something that’s happening on Latin American social media.

There’s a dish called “Rosca de Reyes”, it’s a cake with slices of fruit. Inside of it, they place a small baby shaped figure that represents baby Jesus. This year, in Mexico, people were selling the cake with figures of Baby Yoda instead of the baby Jesus. So, conservative groups are extremely upset about it, and are calling it a direct attack to family values and religion. So now, Baby Yoda is considered a LGBT icon for making furious those conservative, homophobic people.

there are no words

me, 6 glasses of merlot deep, ranting on the back deck of a strangers party to a girl I met in the bathroom 5 minutes ago

i think it's actually quite easy to contain electro's power.

“Is your hotel room wheelchair accessible?”

(Stick to the end, I beg of you, nothing will prepare you for what happens, nothing prepared me, I am losing my mind...)

So I made a post about how fucked up Julian and Lucio's routes must have been for Asra, but what about Nadia? Imagine being Nadia in Julian and Lucio's routes? Imagine hiring an investigator to catch your husband's killer but instead the investigator a.) Falls in love with the key suspect in your husband's murder or b.) Falls in love with the anthropomorphic goat ghost of your dead husband who has apparently been living in your house for the past three years!!?? How do you deal with that!? How was Nadia not blackout drunk even once during either of these routes!?

Asra, back at it with the memes

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Based off this post!

Please don’t hurt me.

continuing the b99 references because i’m unoriginal lol. also the End Times have got me unemployed and in need of a little lighthearted humor. (if you have anything to spare, i would appreciate a donation to my kofi)

the b99 characters as types of people in quarantine