Sweeter Than Fiction

[while being redirected to another website] woah woah hey easy now hey stop it what the hell get your hands off me man

They say that the way you should view disagreements in relationships is “us vs the problem” and not “me vs them” and I think that to a certain extent that mindset can also be helpful when engaging in political or ideological movements

Taking feminism as an example, it’s a lot easier to see trans people and intersex people and even cis men as your allies within the movement when you view your movement as “us vs inequality and sexism” and not “women vs men”

If you’re some form of a socialist then working with people with different political ideologies than you becomes a lot easier when you view the problem as “us vs the bad system” instead of “socialists vs everyone else”

I personally at least find most problems easier to tackle once I attach this sort of mindset into it. You do not inherently in every situation need to view other human beings as your enemy. And in fact when your goal is to solve the problem and not to Defeat Your Opponent then you can get more creative with your problem solving.

Foxes disguised as monks. On the left from Japan and on the right from Denmark.

It was a global problem

Ever since I was a little girl I dreamed of everything being okay

you should not dress for other people you should dress so you can walk around staring at yourself in store windows

my daily habit of continuing on

no, actually, i can’t be friends with someone who has opposing political views. this is mostly due to the fact my views are “people deserve rights”

You don’t realize how fast a month goes by till you’re on your period again and you just think to yourself, “damn its been a month already? I could have sworn I just got off this shit like last week.”

23 years old and I just made the connection that people on the northern hemisphere have a different view of the moon than people on the southern hemisphere.

I was a whole like, 40ish years old when I went to the equatorial region for the first time. My North American ass went to Colombia and first off, could not fuckin handle the fact that while it felt like summer (80-90F, humid), the sun went down on the dot of 6pm every night and rose at 6am every morning. There I was at 7pm fully beliving it was midnight, because it was both dark and hot. Like, I'm used to early dark! but it's cold when it's dark early! I could NOT handle it.

And then, there in the dark, pitch-midnight-summer-black at 7pm, up pops this lovely crescent moon and it is

fucking SIDEWAYS

i had NEVER EVER EVER realized, despite knowing my whole life that the moon is a spherical object rotating around Earth, also a spherical object, that it would be at different angles from different spots on Earth.

It's the MOON! How can it be DIFFERENT! My poor patient partner drew me a diagram and I was like listen I know all of that but I cannot actually handle it. Nobody warned me the moon looks different.

So yeah my feeble mind was BLOWN, all y'all world travelers/residents can laugh at me now. Knowing it is one thing, experiencing it is something else, and I did NOT see it coming.

I remember being in the pagan scene in my twenties and being faintly annoyed by the omnipresent triple moon symbol: )O(

... because I'm from the southern hemisphere and it Doesn't Look Like That here. And (O) does not look anywhere near as cool.

The wikipedia article on Lunar Phases has really cool videos of the moon’s phases this year for both the northern and southern hemispheres! It’s highly detailed and shows how not only are the phases different in shadow but also that the face of the moon looks different in each hemisphere too!

Also a big fan of this diagram which shows the phases at more specific latitudes (including the “sideways” look at the equator!):

Hot take: I don't care if someone "contributes to society" or not. They are a person and still deserve human rights, food, and shelter.

looks inside procrastination -> it's anxiety -> looks inside anxiety -> it's fear -> looks inside fear -> it's shame

Direct byproduct of being neurodivergent and growing up isolated from your peergroup is having no idea when it's appropriate to define someone as your friend

Is this person I met yesterday my friend? What about this person I've been talking to every day for three months? What about this person I've known since middle school? Is friend a title I have to earn? What are the limits of friendship? Is it a static state, make-or-break, or is it some endless dance-dance-revolution style cavalcade of prompts and challenges and social cues I have to hit perfectly to keep it up? Does it bend? Does it break? I don't fucking know man I just work here.

i still remember when the dude doing my autism assessment asked me how many friends I had, and I was like "okay but how are we defining friendship?" and he just like, stared at me for a second and then wrote down some notes

how many friends do I have? I dunno some, probably more than one?

my friend told me that her boyfriend got her a super cool rock while they were on vacation together and you would not BELIEVE my disappointment when i realized she was talking about her engagement ring

*holds your head in my hands* im sorry i let you down

Here’s some fossilized coral.

"Nobody is coming to save you" WRONG! I am running late. I DO NOT have a HORSE!

Hey mom I can’t go to school today it’s a national holiday.

i love seeing a word i dont know the meaning of and looking it up ❤️ i love new word ❤️ i love u dictionary ❤️

Unrealistic

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