Forget-me-nots.
Audio processing disorder is just like "you are going to be able to differentiate 27 distinct sounds happening simultaneously EXCEPT for when someone's talking to you. Good luck"
People think because my ears are so unreasonably sensitive I must also be able to "hear" them. This is false. I can hear the clock ticking though
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I’ve never seen this breed of dog as a puppy I just kind of assumed they appeared every full moon fully grown and already the size of a horse
Coming this November: Pokémon Pink Diamond™ and Pokémon Renegade Pearl™
That fact is not fun.
solongandthanksforallthemmrs
“Douglas Adams was asked many times why he chose the number 42. Many theories were proposed, including that 42 is 101010 in binary code, that light refracts off water by 42 degrees to create a rainbow, that light requires 10−42 seconds to cross the diameter of a proton.[7] Adams rejected them all. On 3 November 1993, he gave an answer[8] on alt.fan.douglas-adams:
‘The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought ‘42 will do’. I typed it out. End of story.’
Adams described his choice as ‘a completely ordinary number, a number not just divisible by two but also six and seven. In fact it’s the sort of number that you could without any fear introduce to your parents’.” - source
I love Douglas Adams so much
you need to stop saying "masculinity" when you mean "patriarchal manhood".
"masculinity" is not glorified when it's the Wrong Kind of Masculine. trans masculinity is not glorified. queer masculinity is not glorified. a woman's masculinity is not glorified. men of colors' masculinities might be fetishized, but they are not glorified.
a space is not "dominated by masculinity", it's dominated by patriarchal ideas of manhood: cis, white, straight, abled men who look and act a certain way.
you do not know what "masculinity" means and I'm putting it on the high shelf until you can show me you understand.
i’ve talked abt this before but the ideal of jewish manhood is so vastly different from white western manhood. it prioritizes studying torah and talmud, family, community, hyperindividualism is very much not a feature of traditional jewish masculinity. there are some communities where the ideal life of a jewish man is to literally study all day while his wife is the breadwinner for the family. very different from what white westerners are used to. and they do not like that. the ideals of jewish masculinity are turned into the butt of so many jew jokes. look at that guy, such a nerd, not athletic, cares too much about what his mommy thinks, he’s not a real man! and going back even further, europeans were so uncomfortable with jewish men and their refusal to assimilate into white european standards of masculinity that there is an entire trope from the middle ages that jewish (cis) men menstruated.
back before i started t and was just figuring out that i wanted to present more masc, as soon as i started wearing more masculine clothes, the way ppl treated me changed. suddenly people weren’t as friendly with me. i wasn’t given the benefit of the doubt. i was seen as more confrontational. nothing about me changed. i just cut my hair and wore different clothes. but because i wasn’t performing womanhood to white cis standards anymore, my societal value tanked.
and i cannot tell you how many of my black trans masc friends or mutuals have talked about the increased levels of violence and policing they face when they start to pass or present more masculine. just a few weeks ago a black trans man was murdered by a security guard, and afaik there was no conviction.
so when you say “masculinity is rewarded” you need to ask yourself what you mean by “masculinity.” bc it’s probably, as stated in the op, that assimilation into white patriarchal manhood is rewarded.
The “Might as Well” principle for people with ADHD means leaning into your urge to take care of needs immediately when you notice them, and take that task-hopping tendency as an opportunity to “clean as you go”.
You were probably raised to think there’s only 1 “right” way to be productive. This is false. You don’t need to (and honestly you CAN’T) become neurotypical, but you’ve probably spent a lot of your life striving to achieve success in a neurotypical way. This can be detrimental to your mental health. You have to learn what works best for YOU.
You don’t need to feel guilty for not keeping a strict routine and an aesthetically pleasing home. Your goal should be keeping your environment (minimally) livable and safe.
This principle is intended to help with chore struggles, but it can also apply to personal care, and other areas of the ADHD struggle.
- Going to the kitchen? Might as well bring as many dishes/cups as you can carry.
- Going to the bathroom? Might as well wipe down the counter while you’re in there (or for me personally, scoop the litter box while I’m there).
- Taking a shower? Might as well scrub the shower walls while you’re there (Be safe! I keep a utility sponge nearby for spot cleaning, but I don’t use chemicals during my showers).
- Forgot to brush your teeth in the morning? Might as well brush after lunch. No need to wait until the next “designated” teeth brushing time at bedtime (minimally, keep some floss picks, tooth wipes, or mouth wash at work/school).
- Stuck in decision paralysis in front of the fridge? Might as well hydrate. Drink water!
- Mount doom (laundry pile) giving you anxiety? Might as well pick one category, such as shirts, and sort them out. You don’t even have to put them all the way away, just separate them so your doom pile looks smaller and less daunting.
Please feel free to add more!!
Waiting for the microwave to beep, or the pasta water to boil? Might as well see if you can get a few dishes done. You can’t empty a full sink in two minutes, but you can set the dirty stuff soaking, or wipe and rise some of the stuff that was already soaking.
Sometimes this leads me to actually finish cleaning the kitchen, sometimes it doesn’t, either way I have a few less dirty dishes in my life.
hey have i ever told y’all about my cursed apartment building
cursed how, you say???? well, here’s the thing: no-one can fuckin see it. let me explain further
- i live in a tiny flat in a big red brick building with huge windows. it has a driveway with two columns on either side - not a thing you usually see in this area. it is opposite a bus stop and several corner shops. it is on a main, busy road. most significantly, it is attached to a church. a well-known church with a big pink sign on the front.
- all things that would make it easy to spot, right???? like if i gave that list of distinguishing features to someone along with my address then they’d be able to find my flat easily, right??? well APPARENTLY NOT
- we have never once had a delivery to our flat (outside of the usual postal service) where we haven’t been called by a lost courier
- usually, they are about thirty seconds away. “i’m by the church and i don’t know where to go from here,” they say. so we tell them, “it’s the building right next to the church!! the one you’re outside. that church. it’s the next building along. it’s opposite a bus stop and it has a driveway with two big columns.”
- without fail, they call back 5-10 minutes later, still lost.
- i have answered calls from both lost delivery people and friends where i’ve been able to see them standing in front of the driveway, from my window
- a friend of mine once drove past my building three times, while on the phone to me, getting increasingly panicked that she couldn’t figure out where she was going. she parked in a nearby road and i had to walk to her car and guide her to the driveway
- however, my flatmate and i found this place when we were flat-hunting first time, no trouble, and we don’t know what that means other than i guess this place chose us and the rent is so cheap because the estate agents were so relieved to find the first people in a thousand years who could actually see this fuckin building
- today a food delivery person called me to say he was outside the church, was told to go to the next building along, (a 20 second journey on foot) and arrived at my door 20 minutes later, saying, “sorry, i went to the back of this building by mistake. weird right???”
- this building doesn’t have a back
- it backs onto the rest of the church it doesn’t have a back where did he go
this is why you should care about the reddit strike
This is a big concern for the moderators internally too. We've checked our own subs in archive.org to see what is available and will be making steps to make materials available independently of reddit. Archival organizations are working overtime on Reddit right now because they know it might fucking implode soon.
I honestly have never seen a weapon in a RPG that is as funny to me as GUN:GUN.
A gun that does not exist, cannot exist under the laws of physics and probably exists on some sort of meta level where it gets to hack the actual rulebook you play with.
It does exactly one point of damage. Each round. Every round. There are no defence against it. It has future-proofed itself to ensure that there will never BE any defences against it. It doesn't even count as an attack.
It will simply plink away at someone for one HP every turn and there's absolutely nothing they can do about it except try and kill the mech carrying it.
Oh yeah and it's heavily implied to be sentient.
the r/curatedtumblr -> tumblr migration is so funny to me. it's like going to the zoo and enjoying it so much you climb into the enclosure to live with the monkeys
this reply evokes such an incredible image in the mind’s eye
