can’t wait for the goncharov AUs of people’s blorbos to start showing up
trying to schedule around the holidays with my divorced parents. 27 dead 23 injured 1 with childhood trauma
my favorite part of tumblr is when it goes "it's tumblin time" and then tumbles all over the place
“For what was a person but the sum of all the scraps of their memory and experience: a finite set of components with an infinite array of expressions.”
—
Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem
“The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.”
— Carlos Castaneda
you've heard of ghosts as repetitions of memory now get ready for ghosts as the absence of memory
every tumblr user: despite the fact that no one views or cares about my blog, i will continue to spend the majority of my life updating it
“So much of what we learn about love is taught to us by people who never really loved us.”
— r.h. Sin
i don’t struggle with derealization. i like to think i’m pretty good at it :w
“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place because you’ll never be this way ever again.”
— Azar Nafisi
-William Wordsworth
hey. guess who just got diagnosed *dabs* with the Big Sad *whips* and has to go to therapy *nae-naes* so they don't get worse *pretends to ride a surfboard*
i don’t know if holding your own hand is a sign of loneliness or self-love, but either way i’m feeling something
wait for it
wait
“I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it – and that’s all I’ve got.”
— Sabrina Ward Harrison
“Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.”
— Unknown
people say that the new james-webb telescope images are making them feel small,, but have you ever stood next to a really big tree?
academic self-regulation explained
why are moms capable of just leeching vibe arsenic into the atmosphere when they’re pissed
Fernando Pessoa // Michel Foucault
“But you see, there is a graveyard in my mouth filled with words that have died on my lips.”
—Emily Palermo, Untitled
you could say
callous hands made mine softer,
bitter words made mine sweeter,
and cruelty made me kinder,
like i'm a bleeding-heart blooming
from trauma's soil,
but to credit my torment
is to undermine me;
you can choose to be vinegar
and i chose differently.
The hard truth about autism acceptance that a lot of people don't want to hear is that autism acceptance also inherently requires acceptance of people who are just weird.
And yes, I mean Those TM people. Middle schoolers who growl and bark and naruto run in the halls. Thirtysomethings who live with their parents. Furries. Fourteen-year-olds who identify as stargender and use neopronouns. Picky eaters. Adults in fandoms. People who talk weird. People who dress weird.
Because autistic people shouldn't have to disclose a medical diagnosis to you to avoid being mocked and ostracized for stuff that, at absolute worst, is annoying. Ruthlessly deriding people for this stuff then tacking on a "oh, but it's okay if they're autistic" does absolutely nothing to help autistic people! Especially when undiagnosed autistic people exist.
Like it or not, if you want to be an ally to autistic people, you're going to have to take the L and leave eccentric, weird people alone. Even if you don't know them to be autistic. You shouldn't be looking for Acceptable Reasons to be mean to people in the first place. Being respectful should be the default.
the next time i have to explain something in my own words i am just going to invent my own language