I had this scheduled because it’s May 18th but it has an entirely new meaning this year

I wanna do one of those “if you’re lgbt put your orientation, sign and favorite tool in the tags” but I know most of The Gays have never touched a tool on their life. I’ll be left with 15 lesbians, one gay dude and a handful of bisexuals and they better all be tagging screwdrivers

Eh. Doing it anyway.

If you’re lgbt put your orientation, sign and favorite tool in the tags”

the annoying thing about adhd is that like, most of the symptoms you can’t even argue are “evolutionary flaws” or “chemical imbalances.” literally it’s just that it’s not good for lining somebody else’s pockets. being “distractible” helps people notice predators or juicy berries out of the corners of their eyes. hyperfocusing on a task until it’s done is literally exactly in line with what an alleged persistence predator would need to do to actually follow through on hunting other animals. there’s so many little things that are obviously beneficial to have outside of a fucking factory assembly line

NEUROLOGICAL DIVERSITY IS AS IMPORTANT TO SURVIVAL AS GENETIC DIVERITY, and OUR CONCEPT OF DISABILITY AND NEURODIVERGENCE IS BUILT ON A FOUNDATION OF OUR OWN MAKING

When I lived out in the woods and spent my time herding sheep and hunting bullfrogs, nobody gave two shits that I walked around barefoot and said whatever popped into my head out loud.

My hyperfocus and poor sense of time made me a hard worker, my compulsion to sort and organize random crap kept the property clean, and my special interest in native flora and fauna meant I could go out into the woods thanksgiving morning and come home with all the pricy mushrooms and herbs we couldn’t normally afford otherwise.

Who cared that I was awkward? There was nobody around except the occasional customer or temp worker, and those kinds of interactions could be entirely scripted.

Who cared that I dressed funny, had frizzy, dry hair, talked flat, and ate raw onions? Who gave two shits that I built forts out of scrap metal and twine? How did it matter that I passed time running in circles over old truck chassis’?

There were no bright lights, no packed-in crowds, no huge collections of shouty, screamy, smelly people. Nobody stared at me for more than a few seconds. Nobody critiqued my body language.

I was a bit odd, yeah, but all I knew was that I was smart and creative and better than other people at fixing problems.

I went damn near fifteen years out there not even suspecting I might be autistic. Nobody even thought to bring it up.

Now I’m in the city, and I have a hard time going into the middle of a store. I hate the mall. My eyes hurt. Ambulances and fire trucks and cars with bad brakes go by and I cover my ears and nobody else does. I’ve been told I come off as “quirky”.

My question is, though, if an atypical person is in an environment that suits them, can anyone tell?

Most folks only know who’s blind when the lights are on. If the sky went dark tomorrow, we’d have no idea.

Am I the only one still bitter about the fact that Cinderella’s gown has somehow transformed into BLUE in the collective imagination, when it’s very clearly SILVER/WHITE (and sparkly) in the original movie?

Even Disney succumbed to this in their promo materials. 

I hate it so much.

THIS IS SUCH A PET PEEVE OF MINE.

THIS HAS ALWAYS DRIVEN ME INSANE I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE

AND BECAUSE OF IT, ALL PROMO MATERIALS HAVE AURORA IN THE PINK DRESS RATHER THAN THE BLUE–BECAUSE OTHERWISE THERE’D BE TWO PRINCESSES IN “BLUE” DRESSES.  

WHEN EVERYONE KNOWS THAT AURORA LOOKED BETTER IN THE BLUE DRESS.

YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT AND YOU SHOULD SAY IT

the Cullens would have to stop going to high school bc gen z is too powerful and would sniff out their obviously bizarre immortal energy in seconds like bloodhounds and expose them as literal vampires within days

like I'm barely gen z but these teenagers are on a totally different level of unhinged funny I've seen their tik toks. the Cullens literally don't stand a chance they're just gonna have to settle one day for a small school where everyone acknowledges that those are the vampire kids. and they all agree to just not tell anyone like the crowd in the Hannah Montana movie.

Edward Cullen getting bullied by gen Z'ers in the hallways being called "sucker" because he rambled on for 30 minutes in history class about world war one until someone snapped said "ok we get it Nosferatu you were there and fucked Ferdinand himself"

I'm living for this twilight resurgence holy shit

hey mothman can you come take me far away from all this bullshit please

Meg Webster

Moss bed, Queen 1986/ 2005

20 cubic yards of peat moss formed to a queen size bed

imagine a kid named sephiroth getting retroactive dignity

IT WAS A NAME??

THE GIBBERISH THAT HAS BEEN TRENDING ON TWITTER THAT I ASSUMED WAS THE NAME OF LIKE A NEW STAR OR SPACE ENGINE OR OTHER TECH THING WAS A

N A M E ?!?!

I extend my hand like a mob boss and allow you to kiss my ring but when you lean closer you see it's one of those glo-in-the-dark spider rings you win at arcades

*godfather voice* you disrespec me... and eat my spooky spida ring, which cost me 50 tickets at funtime arcade and pizzeria... vinny, hit her with da sticky hand

Its such a rip off that flowers don’t taste good

Spoken like a woman who’s never used garlic blossom in a stirfry, had an elderflower fritter or used Calendula and Nasturtium in a salad.

I have not but im going to now

Add pics of the tasty flowers plz

garlic blossoms (allium) balls of tiny flowers, may be white to deep purple. literally just the flowering head of the garlic you use in food. it tastes like garlic. but colorful.

elderflower, the blossom of the elderberry bush. can be battered and fried. excellent with elderberry syrup or honey. tastes fruity with a tiny hint of anise. also good in teas and sweets.

Calendula, also known as pot marigold. (please, verify you’re using pot marigold, not regular marigold. calendula is actually a daisy.) tastes similarish to bell pepper, sans crunch. leaves are also edible. should be grown with broadleaf plantain:

as a poultices of calendula and plantain can be used to rapidly heal small cuts and scrapes, and are also helpful for other dermatitis. don’t use it on deep wounds though, as it can and will cause the surface skin to heal before the underlying tissues. all of broadleaf plantain is also edible. if bitter.

Nasturtium ranges in color from bright yellow to deep red. it’s peppery and very slightly spicy.

Personally I love squash blossoms stuffed with ricotta and fried in a pan. Not ideal if you also want to harvest squash, though.

I put Purple Deadnettle on a sandwich just this morning, i was out of lettuse and needed a replacement. Despite the name, its edible and only called that because it looks like a nettle, but has no sting. Its a kind of mint, but doesn't have the nice minty flavor. Mostly just tastes fuzzy. 

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humans don’t have enough ornamentation. where’s the plumage, the antlers

i could go for a good vibrant throat sac i could display as i sing in the mating season

Humans have some of the most extreme hair variation over their bodies in the animal kingdom, with hair on some parts of our body a few millimetres long and fine enough to be almost invisible, and hair in other parts a good metre long if not artificially trimmed. Part of the inside of our mouths are turned out to make our lips bright red, we have comically oversized breasts and lack penis bones to make erections more indicative of impressive circulation, and have some of the most complex behavioural adaptations to self-ornamentation for courtship seen in anything that doesn’t spend half its life collecting blue bottle caps. How much ornamentation do you want?

I’d like antlers, as previously stated

i have accidentally created a 500mb file/image of some plants

BUT i have intentionally created an 80 megapixel image of some plants:

the stem of the plant is a third of a millimeter in width, for reference, and there’s a good chance those patterns you see in the stem are the cell walls of individual plant cells (pls let me know if i’m wrong as fuck). i don’t know what to do with this info! thanks for coming

My mind still trying to fathom how Mai and Aang get along

You know when you’re writing something and then you get to these two characters that are very different, but have no reason for conflict and one is very friendly… They almost always end up in some sort of odd friendship, so this didn’t surprise me, weirdly as it may seem. XD

It seems to me that Mai dislikes boredom and insincerity, and Aang is very sincere and fun

I feel like Aang is one of the few people who can get Mai to laugh (and it pisses Sokka off immensely)

Mai’s best friend is TY LEE, the bubbliest character in the show. Of course she’d like Aang.

wait but i love the idea of sokka failing miserably to make mai laugh but then aang just sneezes and goes flying backwards or some shit and she just loses it

Mai also loves Zuko, and Aang is very close with Zuko, so I think she appreciates that.

Also Aang saved her baby brother

It’s all very sweet really

I have been saving this since last year. Happy Earth Day everyone.

literally has been in my queue for an entire year. you just can’t miss reblogging.