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If you enjoy my outlook on things, you might enjoy my writing.
My brand is ~spec fic and/or smart sensuality~
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Reblogged queelez
“How does it feel to be a role model? It feels cool. I don’t know whether I really think of myself as a role model. I just kind of live my life, make my mistakes, try to learn from them, and that’s what I do. And that’s what I think we should all do, we should all just live freely and learn from when we’ve stumbled or whatever we can learn from. So if that’s the vibe I’m putting out, then yeah, happy for that.”
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This is actually my first time seeing video of Susan Crawford and she's younger than I thought and also kinda cute.
I don't think it was just the celebratory Spotted Cow talking, she was wearing a cream suit for her victory speech and it gave me a Catherine O'Hara in Home Alone vibe and let me be frank, the reruns of that movie are a high point of my Decembers for numerous reasons, the funny hijinks falling lower on the list each year.
And Crawford was smiling quite a bit and has a nice smile.
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idk if it’s funnier to imagine that comics!chas knows john is bi but just refuses to engage w it for reasons (bc of self-loathing and/or general homophobia) OR if he just. plain hasn’t noticed bc idk he’s got his own shit going on & john just never brings it up
^ This is my stance for Netflix Geralt and Jaskier's bisexuality.
#I enjoy the show a lot (and will even argue it's better than its detractors say)#but as of Season 3 the Evil Emperor guy is more openly cool with queer people than the series protagonist#which is very funny to me#and by 'funny' I mean - no wait these tags aren't a therapy session. Get out#The Witcher
Reblogged mariacallous
Cory Booker fasted and stood all day and all night and spoke till his voice nearly gave out for his constituents. And Republicans can't even show up to town halls. The contrast could not be starker. Let Senator Booker be an inspiration to us all. "The power of the people is greater than the people in power."
Reblogged mariacallous
Did Elon just set $22M on fire?
Nothing makes me throw up more than Wisconsin elections. How do y'all live up there in the most purple of purple states?
Reblogged bemusedlybespectacled
By the way, you can improve your executive function. You can literally build it like a muscle.
Yes, even if you're neurodivergent. I don't have ADHD, but it is allegedly a thing with ADHD as well. And I am autistic, and after a bunch of nerve damage (severe enough that I was basically housebound for 6 months), I had to completely rebuild my ability to get my brain to Do Things from what felt like nearly scratch.
This is specifically from ADDitude magazine, so written specifically for ADHD (and while focused in large part on kids, also definitely includes adults and adult activities):
Here's a link on this for autism (though as an editor wow did that title need an editor lol):
Resources on this aren't great because they're mainly aimed at neurotypical therapists or parents of neurdivergent children. There's worksheets you can do that help a lot too or thought work you can do to sort of build the neuro-infrastructure for tasks.
But a lot of the stuff is just like. fun. Pulling from both the first article and my own experience:
- Play games or video games where you have to make a lot of decisions. Literally go make a ton of picrews or do online dress-up dolls if you like. It helped me.
- Art, especially forms of art that require patience, planning ahead, or in contrast improvisation
- Listening to longform storytelling without visuals, e.g. just listening regularly to audiobooks or narrative podcasts, etc.
- Meditation
- Martial arts
- Sports in general
- Board games like chess or Catan (I actually found a big list of what board games are good for building what executive functioning skills here)
- Woodworking
- Cooking
- If you're bad at time management play games or video games with a bunch of timers
Things can be easier. You might always have a disability around this (I certainly always will), but it can be easier. You do not have to be this stuck forever.
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before you make that post about "the crisis facing men and boys" or "preventing redpill radicalization" stop and check in:
is your proposed solution
- increased labor of women and girls
- women and girls enduring more abuse for the benefit of men and boys
- women and girls suppressing their emotions (fear, anger, resentment, etc.) and limiting their speech
- blaming populations of women (e.g. trans women, women involved in sex trades, racialized women) for the actions of men and expecting these women to endure punishment for men
- focusing on maintaining manhood and masculinity while reducing the discomfort men feel about holding this position; framing men's feelings of insecurity as the central issue to be addressed when it comes to violent misogyny
if so:
your "solution" to behavioral patterns emerging within patriarchy is more patriarchy.
instead:
try to imagine literally anything else.
Reblogged thedinosaurprince
we do need to revisit the wording of "you can't have your cake and eat it too" because i don't think it clearly enough conveys that it's more that you can't simultaneously retain a cake and also get to consume it (which would render you cakeless). for years i was like But why not....it's my cake....?
this fucking problem is how they caught the unabomber
hey you should uh. elaborate. for my own personal satisfaction
the unabomber was pedantic about idiomatic phrases like "have your cake and eat it too" and rephrased it to "eat your cake and have it too" (which to be very fair makes sense). fast forward to when he starts writing manifestos. he uses the phrase word for word in his pedantic style and his brother (who has been keeping his eyes on the unabomber shit for obvious reasons) notices the phrase and is like "oh fuck that's my fucking brother no one else fucking says that" and calls in an FBI tip