emotionally volatile variety show fangirl

by Christian Hunker

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To The Person Who Walked Past The Window - Jordan Bolton

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ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to be a stressed adult male protagonist splashing water on his face in the bathroom

take me to art museums and make out with me

But they said to not touch the masterpieces

Well somebody’s gotta pin the artwork to the wall

This is Johnson, those idiots are fucking in the east wing again.

Prison guards: Iroh? Escape? Ha! That weak, senile old man couldn’t escape if we rolled a red carpet to the door!

Iroh alone in his cell:

I saw the video and thought "that guy looks like Jack Black", then I scrolled down to read that. Yup, sure was Jack Black. Also yes, the above is actually true, his mother Judith Love Cohen did indeed help create the abort-guidance system that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts.

Wait does this mean people are unfamiliar with this iconic post

Treknow, Cornwall, England by eyecapturethecastle

yesterday i was taking a guest’s order and they were staring at the menu and the question they asked stunned me into silence and has been burned into my brain for life and i will present it to you verbatim today. they looked at the menu and turned to me and asked “so like, the more we get, the more expensive it is? is that how it works?”

Sign at the Ithaca, NY Sciencecenter.

They have no natural predators. They ARE the natural predators. 🗡️🐇

Last call for for VIOLENT LAPINES 🐰⚔️ 

These November Exclusive buns are leaving the shop this Friday - check out the store to get this print before it’s gone!

❗Highway patrol asks that travelers report suspicious hitchhiker activity while the recent wave of disappearances are under investigation.

the idealized version of my tomorrow self will fix this

not again

I was thinking "nah, why would they? not the right vibe" and was going to just assume the answer was no, but...

...I was very surprised to learn that in fact, they did. (close by, that is)

terfs keep mentioning the % of autistics who are trans/nb and that we're 'brainwashed'

and because i'm an asshole, i decided to look into why so many autistic folks are trans/nb. it's not an inaccurate statement, at least the first half, but terfs lie through their teeth so i decided to get to the scientific root of it.

the answer blew my fucking mind.

the study on gender and autism i found said two very specific things about autistic people: we are more mentally resistant to things like social conditioning and binarism. we like our secret third things, y'know.

an excerpt:

“The finding that non-binary identities are most elevated seems to support hypotheses focussed on autistic resistance to social conditioning, which are consistent with existing evidence of the same effect with respect to self-description of sexual orientation. Perhaps elevated rates of trans identity in autism might result from a rejection of the binary cisgenderist norm, which combined with a below-typical concern for social norms could promote the disclosure of the identity.”

94% of autistics surveyed for that paper identified themselves as non-binary.

other studies have found autistic people have higher levels of critical thinking, and require more evidence to maintain or convert to a belief system (hence why many of us eventually fall away from religion) than allistic people.

which means, at least from my perspective, that:

a) the 'brainwashing' terfs are accusing the trans community of inflicting on autistic folks would likely not even work if they tried.

b) the current binary definition of gender flies directly against embedded autistic modes of thinking to begin with.

you cannot brainwash someone into thinking something they already believe.

This essentially suggests that autistic people are likely to be NB because we are in fact resistant to the relevant brainwashing.

As an autistic person with a weird gender this lines up with my personal observation, which is that autistic people are not really prone to follow social norms that don't make sense to them or provide them with any benefits just because.

There is an immense amount of cis allistic anxiety about this, because they like to think adhering to the gender binary is in the same natural-law category as "don't kill someone for pissing you off" or whatever, and it completely isn't, and our collective refusal to play ball makes something in them angry.

The typical allistic reaction to autists behaving unusually is to insist on controlling them, or treat their social "failures" as deficits of parental, workplace, partner, state, societal control. The idea that autistic people are "brainwashed" into being trans and nonbinary is in fact projection by people who want to brainwash autistic people to follow their stupid fucking rules, and are existentially terrified that they can't seem to get it to work