Sensory Girl Thoughts

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

Introduction Post

So, I figured I probably should write this

SO! I’m a neurodivergent dragon (/lh /not actually a dragon) and has a passion for reading, writing, fanfiction, languages, conlanging, animals, random factoids I’ll never have an occasion to use, and mythical creatures! (Hence the “neurodivergent dragon.”)

I don’t like to give out my “"real”“ name (by that i mean birth name) over the internet, but you can call me Skye because I like her (Agents of SHIELD tv show).

I made a tumblr account on accident, tbh. (I think i was trying to bypass a paywall??) But it works because I’ve been curious about joining for a while now.


Feel free to send me random factoids (especially about language or animals!) and anything conlang-related!

If you have any mythical creatures you want to share (either from pre-existing mythology or ones you just made up), I’ll gladly welcome that, too!


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DNI porn bots/NSFW accounts! Leave me alone!


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Please do NOT send me anything asking for money or links to a gofundme. I sympathize with whatever situation you’re going through, but it makes me very anxious to receive such asks and I get paranoid about which ones are real versus scams, even when there’s a verification note.

(Caps) STOP SENDING ME DONATION ASKS. I WILL BLOCK YOU.

[pt: Stop sending me donation asks. I will block you.]


Can’t believe I need to add this, but do not tag me in/for donation posts. Seriously. Just stop.

I’m starting to despite any and all charity and funding help because people won’t leave me alone.


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The userboxes below are credited to @critter-stuff (deactivated), @inclusysboxes(link), and @plural-this-user-is(link).
(Sorry about the ping! If you want me to remove it, let me know!)


Our system-specific (and rather inactive) blog is @werewolf-pack-system(link)

We also started an emoji blog (mainly for aac purposes): @wolf-pack-emojis(link)


(Also, I’m not a minor, but please treat me as one in the manner of if you wouldn’t send it to a minor, don’t send it to me. I’m very sensitive and have some religious beliefs that make it awkward for me to see NSFW or related material.)

This includes “Do not send me BDSM messages” by the way /annoyed

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Hate coming across an aspect of my identity in a trigger warning. Nothing else gets warned about specifically; just this. It hurts and makes me feel like we’re awful and disgusting and deplorable for it. I just want to exist in peace. If this has to be directly warned about (as opposed to the broad warning everything else gets), then EVERYTHING should have to be warned about specifically. Stop making people hate themselves by tw existence

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asexual-amanita
asexual-amanita

Going nonverbal is not a thing.

I’m a part time AAC user due to verbal shutdowns. I use a high tech AAC device, text to speech apps, communication cards and a DIY letter board.

A lot of people like me, who experience verbal shutdowns incorrectly label themselves as “nonverbal”. This misuse of language actually harms the nonspeaking community, and speaks over their lived experience. Nonverbal and nonspeaking describe a full time, long term state of being unable to speak much or at all.

This is not the same as sometimes being usually able to speak, but experiencing verbal loss.

Now don’t get me wrong, if you’ve been using nonverbal to describe yourself for a long time, only to realize that word wasn’t for you, it can be a big change. Even I was quite resistant at first to change my use of language.

But this is important. Nonspeaking people are so often left out of conversations, and so rarely given chances to share their opinions. But the majority of the nonspeaking community has made it clear that this is not a word for people like me, and it’s important to listen to them.

If you’re struggling to find a correct term for temporary loss of speech, here are some alternatives ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Verbal loss

Verbal shutdown

Speaking break

(Episodic) Speech loss

Communication shutdown

Losing words

fractiousrvt
fractiousrvt

I am exhausted and not-quite-migrainey so decided to instacart groceries.

In this order I requested 5 individual carrots.

I am now the (proud?) owner of 5 BAGS of carrots.

This is too much carrot

fractiousrvt

I've been got by instacart carrots again.

I chose this:

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This image appears to be of the lose carrots that one finds in the bins where you can choose your own carrots, yes? You would not expect this to be a pre-packaged bag of carrots, right? Well that's what I thought at least, so I requested 1 pound.

I received, admittedly for the price listed, a 25 POUND BAG of carrots.

fractiousrvt

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Help it reaches my knee

anonmadsci

On the year exactly????

fractiousrvt

Oh my gods i didn't even notice!

Does this count as a very minor fey curse/blessing because it kinda feels like one

halfhumanhalfasleep

Happy Too Many Carrots Day to tumblr user fractiousrvt

fractiousrvt

If this happens again next year i might cry XD

kafkasapartment
kafkasapartment

By weaving popsicle sticks together in a specific pattern, there is a build up potential energy (stored energy) in the bent and twisted sticks. When released from one end, this stored potential energy is converted into kinetic energy (energy of motion) as the sticks rapidly unfurl and fly through the air in a chain reaction.

kpopwerewolf

May I enquire into what it is at the start that is set on fire?

You know.

For educational purposes.

*pushes my boxes of popsicle sticks out of sight*

science cool popsicle sticks
luxdraconia
queersatanic

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Painting of people standing with cows, but in a style that looks like Playstation 1 graphicsALT
Painting of divers jumping into a swimming poolALT
painting of someone driving a car, a person on the side of the road looking like they're about to throw some snowALT
painting of a dog walking along a bridge. The dog REALLY looks like late 1990s or early 2000s video game graphicsALT

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yimra-deactivated20250209

What the fuck

screampotato

This is absolutely fascinating. I've now been looking at Alex Colville's paintings and trying to work out what it is about them that makes them look like CGI and how/why he did that in a world where CGI didn't exist yet. Here's what I've got so far:

- Total lack of atmospheric perspective (things don't fade into the distance)

- Very realistic shading but no or only very faint shadows cast by ambient light.

- Limited interaction between objects and environment (shadows, ripples etc)

- Flat textures and consistent lighting used for backgrounds that would usually show a lot of variation in lighting, colour and texture

- Bodies apparently modelled piece by piece rather than drawn from life, and in a very stiff way so that the bodies show the pose but don't communicate the body language that would usually go with it. They look like dolls.

- Odd composition that cuts off parts that would usually be considered important (like the person's head in the snowy driving scene)

- Very precise drawing of structures and perspective combined with all the simplistic elements I've already listed. In other words, details in the "wrong" places.

What's fascinating about this is that in early or bad CGI, these things come from the fact that the machine is modelling very precisely the shapes and perspectives and colours, but missing out on some parts that are difficult to render (shadows, atmospheric perspective) and being completely unable to pose bodies in such a way as to convey emotion or body language.

But Colville wasn't a computer, so he did these same things *on purpose*. For some reason he was *aiming* for that precise-but-all-wrong look. I mean, mission accomplished! The question in my mind is, did he do this because he was trying to make the pictures unsettling and alienating, or because in some way, this was how he actually saw the world?

xradiorental

omf i never thought i'd find posts about alex colville on tumblr, but! he's a local artist where i'm from & i work at a library/archives and have processed a lot of documents related to his art. just wanted to give my two cents!

my impression is that colville did see the world as an unsettling place and a lot of his work was fueled by this general ~malaise?? but in a lot of cases, he was trying to express particular fears or traumas. for instance, this painting (horse and train) was apparently inspired by a really tragic experience his wife had:

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iirc she was in a horrible automobile crash, as the car she was in collided with a train. i find it genuinely horrifying to look at, knowing the context, but a lot of colville's work is like that? idk he just seems to capture the feeling you get in nightmares where everything is treacle-ish and slow and inevitable.

cool but kinda unsettling
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thecrowfinder

biggest reason i make so many flop posts on here is because everything i do reeks of the desperation to make a popular tumblr post. this is deliberate, because it is what protects me from ACTUALLY making a popular tumblr post. so long as i crave it, tumblr fame will never find me. it is only when i turn away, and accept my fate of obscurity, that people will lay their eyes upon me. and it WILL be because i tripped and fell on my stupid face while i was turning

your-nonbinary-pal

time for people to do the funniest thing ever

thecrowfinder

Do not.

kpopwerewolf

I think it’s a losing battle at this point