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I was so very productive in digital art class and made these soda ripoffs, enjoy

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210. Podcast

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Sometimes in TOS Kirk's shirt is randomly this weird greenish shade and maybe it's the lighting or maybe it's that he put his shirt through the wash with a blue one.

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I was about to pen “My moleskine is the new tumblr” in my little black book but I lost control of my hand and drew a complicated mandala that started an energy fire

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Holy shit, y'all.

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How does one hate a country, or love one? […] I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply?

— Ursula K. Le Guin – The Left Hand of Darkness (1969, p. 212)

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I’m so happy I got this shot earlier holy shit

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Oh my god

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Snowmen melted under pressure

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okay so i just realised (thanks to hank green) that the whole petrichor / smell of rain thing isn't just a fantastical poetic concept but is actually something real people experience in the real world, and one in ten people can't smell it at all, and this must be what it's like to find out you're colourblind

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Me: I have accepted my disabilities and myself as a disabled person! I can live the life I want within my new parameters!

Also me, two days later: actually, I think I am just faking and those limits I accepted are bullshit and i should just live like other people. i do not need to pace myself or use my mobility aids or other accommodations.

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Some people apparently going "Oh Elon didn't know he was doing a nazi salute, he is autistic you know!" Like the guy isn't a grow ass man and the riches man on earth and head of several companies.

I'm gonna break my policy of being an island amidst the chaos for only two reasons: time sensitive information like the raids, and this, because it pisses me off on a personal level that people are trying to claim that autistic people are just naturally prone to doing fascist salutes.

I am an autistic woman with autistic siblings and autistic friends. I have never, in my life, seen an autistic person spontaneously do the Nazi salute. Stimming does not work that way. The only way that is a stim is if Musk does it all the time to the point where it's a basic gesture to him now, which a) we've seen zero evidence of and b) would say a lot about his fucking character if it was.

If we saw that on the street, nobody would doubt what it was. But because Musk is rich and famous and politically powerful, you have people bending over backwards calling it a "Roman salute" (bullshit) or claiming that he said "My heart goes out to you, thank you" right before he said it (he didn't), or that it was an accident and he's super sorry about how this is invoking the flames of white supremacists (he's not. He thinks it's funny.).

Let me tell you, if I, an autistic woman, made a Nazi salute on accident, I would die of embarrassment and apologize, and then fling vicious insults at any white supremacists who tried to co-opt it. The fact that Musk hasn't proves that he, at the bare minimum, doesn't think that doing a Nazi salute is anything to be ashamed of, and at the maximum, that he snuck one in because he knew his little wannabe Minitrue officers would cover it.

In any case, fuck him and fuck his white supremacist fans. There is no Nazi or Confederate or racist resurgence, your movement is dead and your monuments are broken and your heroes are rotting in hell. Come for my Jewish and non-white and queer and disabled brothers and sisters and siblings, and I will send you to join them.

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TV Tropes calls it the Unspoken Plan Guarantee: “The chances of the plan succeeding are inversely proportional to how much of the plan the audience knows beforehand”. If your audience knows the plan, the plan is going to go wrong so the tension is “how do they adapt to this”. If your audience doesn’t know the plan, the tension is that you don’t know if something is going wrong or right. If you want to eat your cake and keep it too, you give them a plan, the plan goes wrong, and then we reveal a secret part of the plan so the plan you thought went wrong was actually going right. It applies to a lot of stories, but heist movies are fun in that since a) they have to lay it all out and b) they have to succeed in some way, you don’t know if it’s option one or option three until the credits roll.

the best movie genre is heists where everything goes slightly wrong but in the last 10 minutes they show in flashbacks that actually everything was planned and they meant to break every bone in their body then go to prison or whatever