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"Read Banned Books" a new full page cartoon essay published in The New York Times Arts & Leisure section today.

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Honestly Monk was SUCH a good show for me to see as a young teen I'm ngl. Like yeah, it's not an overly accurate representation of OCD and I'm sure there's things that probably didn't age very well, but OH MY GOD can you even comprehend how amazing it was to get to see a canonically disabled, ND, and, more specifically, PROFOUNDLY ANXIOUS badass main character when you're a freshly diagnosed autistic & anxious young 12-13 year old with the only real advice from a crappy psychiatrist being to "learn to step out of your comfort zone or consider beginning prescription medications."

To get to see "do it scared" depicted in cinematic action in both heroic and relatively mundane contexts. A touch-averse, routine adhering, socially awkward, sensory issue having character as a SMART AND COURAGEOUS PROTAGONIST!

Hell, it was pretty amazing (for me at least) to see a character use those disinfectant handwipes every episode! I have severe food allergies and I have to carry a pack or canister with me for when I need to eat in town or when I've had to go into a grocery store and now that there's a pandemic and food allergies are rather more of an understood issue it's not all that weird a thing to have, but at the time it was definitely yet another step apart from peers and by god was it awesome to see a (again, smart and awesome) character use them too, even if it wasn't for quite the same reasons.

There's things that took longer to germinate too (and tbh still are).

That you don't owe people being "normal and easy". Yes, you have to be cognizant of their needs, boundaries, and how your behavior affects them, but it's still okay to need help and to do things in odd ways and have unusual needs.

That sometimes you're going to fail, do things badly, not be able to be as reasonable as you logically know you should. That logic can't always beat fear even when it should, and that it doesn't make YOU a failure, it means you have to try again another time or try differently.

And that sometimes people aren't as good for you as they seem, no matter how much history you have, and it hurts, it truly does, but sometimes it leads you to connect, by pure chance, with a compassionate stranger, and time will make the disparities between them clearer to the point that when you look back you don't know how you ever thought they were your ally just because they put up with your problems

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Not feminist as in "women should be included in the draft" but feminist as in "being drafted is a violation of bodily autonomy for any gender".

The draft should not exist. Drafting people into the military is a violation of human rights. You should not be able to force someone to risk their life. If you can't find enough people who care about a conflict to keep it going then it simply shouldn't keep going. You can't even force someone to donate a kidney using government power, why the fuck can you force them to donate their whole body and life to a cause they don't agree with or don't care about?

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One day you think: I want to die. And then you think, very quietly, actually I want a coffee. I want a nap. A sandwich. A book. And I want to die turns day by day into I want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friends, I want to sit in the sun. I want a cleaner room, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else, I want to live.

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my mom’s trans allyship is on another level

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adhd will have you fighting for your life to do beloved hobbies that bring you nothing but joy

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kevin really got a hot-classical-music-goth-gf by simply mentioning being a virgin and he got to be in a band huh?

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Charley, in a high voice, holding Barbie: Hey, Ken! I was thinking about going back to school and starting a career!

Wally, in a deep voice, holding Ken: Nonsense, Barbie. You’re staying home and having my kids.

Rhonda: What the fuck are you guys doing?

Charley: Playing systemic oppression.

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Ooooooh boy you know that necklace Boss Sun gave to Eileen was symbolic of him trying to put a choker on her and silence her into submission.

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Shrek the Third (2007) dir. Chris Miller

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Blazing Saddles (1974) // Dir. Mel Brooks

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I’ve just completely deviated away from The Fall of The House of Usher and that’s normal. ADHD, what can I say?

My current hyperfixations are the PJO tv series on Disney, anime cooking shows (started up Toriko again slowly but surely after Delicious in Dungeon on Netflix,) and The Brothers Sun since I went to college with Sam Song Li and he’s just an all around good guy and I am committed to watch him succeed.

I also have a HUGE TBR list on Libby that I’m trying to finish before grad school starts in a few weeks.

My Libby list:

The House in The Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

Murder at Half Moon Gate by Andrea Penrose

My Killer Vacation by Tessa Bailey

Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey

Anxious People by Fredrick Backman

As well as: Witch Week, Conrad’s Fate, Mixed Magics, and The Pinhoe Egg by Diana Wynne Jones.

Then I have 9 more books on hold as well. I am so happy I’ve started reading again, but my hobbies definitely take up time.

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THE MUMMY RETURNS (2001) dir. Stephen Sommers

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Don't get me wrong, I love the dreamy fairytale-ness of the Ghibli movie version of Howl's Moving Castle, but the book. The book. Sophie, first off, being so incredibly set on being the boring un-gifted un-adventuresome eldest daughter (as is right and fitting for an eldest daughter to be) that she doesn't notice she's working magic, like, constantly? And when a witch shows up like "hey girlie you are fully working SO much magic that I'm feeling threatened, so like I'm gonna put you in the old lady dimension ciao," she's like well. That was weird. Anyway I guess I better go find something to do as an old lady. And she reasons that this famously evil sorcerer who eats young girls' hearts is probably safe for her now cause like. She's old. What's he gonna do to me. And proceeds to bully her way into becoming his cleaning lady. And Howl, known flaky whimsical fuckboy extraordinaire, is like sure okay I guess that works for me. And just as well because it turns out he's also a fucking bottom who kinda digs this strong stubborn lady who's steamrolled her way into his life, kinda weird that she's disguised as an old woman but w/e he's not gonna question her life choices and like it's not actually a problem for him, and by the time Sophie's figured out that oh crap oh shit she's actually kinda into this flighty asshole, what am I gonna do, he'd never return my feelings in a hundred years, Howl's basically accepted that they're mostly married. And also how can you top "my extremely powerful and slightly fey wizard is just a Welsh grad student who wandered into a portal one day" for a character concept. You can't. It's the perfect book really

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hurr hurr I'm a human body hurr hurr I'm gonna solve all my problems using mucus

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why was there a bottle of wine in camp in the first place?? dionysus can't drink and all the campers are under the legal age. is it just. There. to taunt him? does chiron pour himself a big glass to be a bitch whenever mr d wins too many card games?? 😭