we all need to start appreciating peridot stevenuniverse more for what she did for us. it would be easier to say what she DIDN'T do honestly. she's autistic. she's silly. she's sad and little. she's an overworked i. t. guy. she's a saturday morning cartoon villain. she's aroace. she's gay. she yelled at her boss and immediately had a mental breakdown. she's both a victim of and perpetuates the oppressive society she was raised in. she has to unlearn her conceptions of other people's worth and her own worth so she stops hurting other people and hurting herself. she achieves this in part through robot fights. she's hyperfixated on a canadian soap opera. she draws shipping charts. she's nonbinary. she can never go home again. she doesn't want to go home again. she went from believing literally anything was a weapon that could be used to harm her to farming and making art and music with her best friend in a barn. she's like 3 feet tall. she has a twitter account where she talks in all caps constantly. she's green and her hair is a triangle literally what can't she do.

I need to emphasize for anyone who still hasn't seen Steven Universe that these aren't headcanons. Pretty much all of this is either explicitly canon or might as well be, including the ones that might seem contradictory (they aren't).

(Also what are you doing, go watch Steven Universe.)

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So today I learned there was someone, Steve Mann, who walked around in the 90s livestreaming their life wearing gear like this

The streams (of photos) looked like this

God I need a throwback found footage film from a POV like this so bad

The whole 90s lineup of the MIT Wearable Computing Project

Neal Stephenson coined people like this "gargoyles".

Hey so if "I hope you get exploded with hammers" or whatever is enough to get not only get just one account permanently deleted but to get every new account you make permanently deleted, wiping an entire person past present and future off of the site, does that mean that all harrassment meeting and surpassing the same comically low level is now retroactively a permabanable offense, and therefore every fucking terf on this god damn site that's ever left even a single hate message should have their entire existence past present and future wiped from tumblr? Just checking if there's a transphobic (and transmisogynistic) double standard or not @photomatt, since you're so convinced that tumblrs transphobia is just misinformation

what does it mean if people keep tagging my personal posts harry dubois

Even your replies are Harry du Bois coded I'm so sorry

Doctors to trans people: are you really sure you want these hormones? I don't think you are. I don't believe you. There are risks, you know? It will change your body. Tell me your entire life story and I'll decide whether you've wanted this for long enough. Oh you didn't know when you were 5 years old? Yikes, ok. I think I'll need you to jump through all these hoops and then we can maybe consider it in...100 years

Doctors to fat people who literally didn't ask: have you heard of this surgery that'll mess up your digestive system, just absolutely fucking mutilate it? Mess with your ability to eat and drink normally? Potentially fuck up your ability to absorb nutrients? Yes, and you don't want it? Are you suuuure? Are you really sure? I'm going to bring this up 1000 more times just to be sure also there's this diabetes drug...

i've posted about it before but bariatric surgery has a terrible record of poor outcomes and complications. it works for some people but almost always leads to vitamin deficiencies at best. very unethical medicine imo

Since I learned about those complications, I have suspected them to be a contributing factor at least in the neurosomatic collapse that derailed the writing process of Eric Burns-White (@demiurgent) for much longer than any just deity would permit.

woman realizes that her tendency to procrastinate is not simply because she’s lazy but also due to a deep-seated fear of failure that has been fueled by everyone in her life who has not given her the space to make mistakes

any other autistic people get overwhelmingly upset when someone makes a promise they don’t keep? especially if it’s repeated broken promises from the same person. even if it’s something really little.

to me promises are a for sure assurance, not a “i’ll try to do it,” so it feels like i’m being personally hurt/ignored/etc. when someone makes a promise to me and then doesn’t keep it

Yeah that's why if someone asks me to do something I'm not sure I have time/energy to do I don't promise I can do it. I go "sure, I'll get to it IF I have the time/energy when I'm done with my other stuff"

If I can help it, I'm not gonna promise for sure I can do something if I'm not sure I can. I might at work if I have to but I try not to lie even at work cause it's too hard for me to remember my lies. So I try to be honest whenever I can

Jesus H. Literal Christ literally fucking a literal football.

Having a traumatic childhood means you cannot talk even objectively about your basic foundational experiences without it being "venting", even if you're not actually venting. You just straight up have a huge chunk of your life you can't talk about, full stop, without it being trauma dumping.

And it not being socially acceptable to talk about your own childhood is super alienating. Sometimes people want to know why, and any answer you can give them is going to be off putting.

It's to the point I get irritated when something I said is framed as venting when I'm literally just talking about my life experiences, doing my best to keep emotion out of it.