I just realized that I could share this flash game ad I saved off of MySpace in like 2005 to tumblr.

It’s so important to me. It makes me feel like I’m losing my mind even after 20 years.

this is more y2k than 1000 gifsets

"we need weirder queers" you guys couldnt even handle asexual people in 2016 (and probably still cant handle them)

[Begin ID: "Red and white shorthair cat looking up at the ceiling with his mouth open just a little" End ID]

hey...since when is there an up?

died and i came back normal. more normal than before even. such a regular guy it’s freaking everyone out. i’m ironing my shirts & doing the sunday paper crossword puzzle and the people i love won’t stop crying

When I was younger and researching the autism diagnosis criteria and symptoms, I thought “oh I couldn’t POSSIBLY be autistic.” Because when I read “takes everything literally” I thought it literally meant EVERYTHING and I was like “I don’t take EVERYTHING literally, just most things!” And I just realized the other day that it didn’t actually mean EVERYTHING and that was an overstatement.

#these tests always do shit like this#and its just like why would you phrase it like this when its specifically a symptom to misinterpret this (via @tbhliteraltrash )

ok hold on actually i rb'd this before with just tags but im going to come back in on this again

any medical diagnostic you will ever undergo does not mean "always 100% Every Time Ever you have this problem". And it sucks because they will phrase it in a way that SOUNDS like 100% Every Time including on the testing for being a person who has trouble with how specific phrasing is supposed to be.

literally the example I always use is I spent way longer without glasses then I should have because the eyesight chart diagnostic is "identify the letter", so I went 'ok the point of this is to do good identifying letters'. Then i realized

they want to know if I can see. Not if I can identify that a blurry shape is an A because of its unique outline.

So i started qualifying my answers with "blurry". Blurry A, Blurry Y, Blurry Z. Now I have glasses.

they do not make this clear. I do not know why. But you can more or less apply this to any medical diagnostic, and if it's a written diagnostic if your answer is 'sometimes' and the only answers are 'yes or no' you put Yes.

Do I have trouble getting out of bed? Sometimes, yes. So the answer is Yes.

Regrettably tests are made for and by non-autistic people and aimed at non-autistic caregivers and medical experts, which isnt how it should be, and makes it one more complicated thing to navigate. World a hell.

(by 西蒙娜的猫咪物语)

I was today years old when I realized "Acronym" stood for "Anyone Can Rationalize Obvious Nonsense You Moron"

I love this post, but I figure I'll use it as a change to do a PSA about this particular irritating brand of folk etymology: as a general rule, acronyms basically didn't exist at all before the 20th century, and even after that it's pretty rare for an acronym to get "de-acronymized" and become an ordinary word that people have forgotten the acronymity(?) of. I'm sure there are a couple more examples, but off the top of my head the only ones I can think of are laser (and derivatives), scuba, and radar. So in general, whenever you see a post of the form "did you know [word] is actually an acronym?", your default assumption should be that it's bullshit.

I can't wait until my work is published and strangers go online to argue with me about how they know my characters better than I do. That sounds sarcastic, but that's when I'll know I've made it.

I cannot impress upon you strongly enough how important it is that you obey my instructions. Do as I say and we may be able to save her. If you don’t, she will die.

PETER CUSHING as DR. VAN HELSING in HORROR OF DRACULA (1958) dir. Terence Fisher

Blood of My Blood: Permission

@animate-mush and @ibrithir-was-here, I finally finished drafting the scene! XD

As Quincey Harker first begins to fall in love with Lu Holmwood, he realizes that he should ask for her father's permission to court her. That should be an easy conversation, right?

CW: Descriptions of emotional abuse, mention of smoking

art by @BottlngSunshine

Is it about butchering black girls’ hair to keep white people comfortable? Is it about a woman visiting the same violence on her daughter as was done to her by her mother a generation prior? Is this girl just too… “different” to go into the world unaltered? Does she need to be toned down so she can succeed? Does she need to be defenseless before she is deemed safe by powerful people who would do her harm if given half a reason? Is one of those people holding those scissors?

[I.D. digital art of a young girl medusa sitting in a chair in a kitchen, crying as a woman cuts the heads off of medusa’s snakes. the woman’s head is out of frame, but her blonde hair is visible as she pulls three snakes taught, beginning to chop them with scissors as blood spurts. four snakes have been cut already, their remains lying dead on the floor as the rest of the snakes, all sporting pink bows around their necks, cower in fear. the majority of the illustration has been colored in black and deep saturated yellows and oranges, while medusa’s skin and hair are green. her pinafore has the same color palette as the background. her knees are also scuffed, bruised with orange and one of them bandaged. her cut strands of snake hair are not bandaged and continue to bleed. end I.D.]

There’s a sequel!

“Becoming Me.” by BottlingSunshine

Image ID: A digital illustration of a young Medusa woman braiding her green snakes in front of a mirror and while her eyes are covered with a sleep mask. The mirror is centered in the drawing and surrounded by the orange-pink background. She is wearing a white sleep mask with “closed eyes” on it and a black top with white lacey ruffles at the collar and cuffs. Two snake heads are seen in the mirror while the rest are out of view. The front of the vanity holding the mirror is littered with various dolls and stuffed animals with their eyes crossed out, candy, an image of eyes in a round frame that are also crossed out, nail polish in pink and black, ribbons, and a friendship bracelet plus polaroids. The wall above the vanity is pink and near-white striped and covered in small polaroids or photos taped on the wall and various portraits in yellow frames. The yellow frames show the woman as a young girl holding her arms anxiously with her head cut off from view, covering her face, or simply have dark static backgrounds. There is a sharpie on the lower shelf of the vanity. End iD

From the artist, re: the second image.

What hits me a little hard about the first image is that she had put little bows around her snakes’ necks. It was probably picture day or some other important event where she was encouraged to look her best, so she not only dressed up for herself but she also tied a little ribbon around the neck of every single snake, which depending on their sentience and cooperativeness could’ve taken an hour or more. She was so determined to look her absolute prettiest, but her idea of pretty is not the lady’s idea of pretty. The lady’s idea of pretty is most likely not to have a gorgon child at all, but she probably thinks abandoning her would make her a monster, so she doesn’t abandon the gorgon child. That would be cruel. Instead she fixes the gorgon child so that she’s less of a gorgon. She doesn’t have normal hair, but not having live snakes moving about her head on this important day is doable, so she beheads every single one, ribbon and all, as if she was doing this child a favor. Once they clean up the blood and coach her how to keep their bodies from writhing, she’ll almost look normal. Look how helpful she’s being, doing the gorgon child’s hair without being asked.

Surely the child will be grateful, once she stops crying so much.

just admiring the view