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can’t have seasonal affective disorder if i say that winter isn’t real it was just invented by Big Vivaldi to sell all four of his seasons

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being physically disabled means the weather gets mildly cold and you lose the ability to stand and none of your joints stay in place

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Made this

What some of y'all sound like using these words that have meanings as just another way to enforce sexism and sexist ideals onto trans ppl

There is a secret third thing that is Neither Man Nor Woman y'all, you don't have to just recreate the same thing but packaged in woke enough words that it gets past our transphobia and sexism scanners

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Whatever you're doing, wherever you are, if someone tells you that you have to let them treat you in ways that hurt you, and that you're a bad person or a wimp if you don't let them, that's a red flag and you are justified in getting away from this person as soon as possible.

No exceptions.

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I love my Tumblr feed today

(goes through an extended magical girl transformation, by the end of which I look the exact same, except I immediately shoot you with my perfectly normal gun that wasn’t there before)

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I made this, please feel free to use

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I'm very sleepy today, but just a quick reminder that "getting upset at routine changes" when you're autistic, does not just mean large changes that cause automatic meltdowns.

It can be needing to have cereal on the day you usually have eggs.

Having to take a side street because of construction.

Your shirt being dirty so you have to choose a different one, but it's not your preferred one.

And it can be a cumulative effect. You'll manage just fine with cereal, but you feel off for the rest of day. And too many routine changes can wipe you out for days

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Since we're getting into "did you know that Santa's eight tiny reindeer are a reference to the eight legs of Odin's steed?" season once again, remember: while there are some elements of Christmas (or Hallowe'en, or Easter, or...) observations that are probably pre-Christian in origin, before one believes any of that this-is-really-100%-just-a-Pagan-holiday-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off stuff, one must consider all of the following possibilities:

Our earliest known records of the cited pre-Christian practices were written down by some random Christian monk centuries after the fact, and we genuinely have no idea how accurate this account is, to what extent the apparent similarities with Christian practice are due to the author deliberately or unwittingly putting a Christian spin on it, or indeed, whether they were just making shit up.

The similarities between the two sets of practices have been exaggerated or misrepresented by Christian writers who were bent for prefiguration theology (i.e., the idea that the Bible echoes backwards in time and pre-Christian religious practices were unwittingly imitating future Christian practices).

The similarities between the two sets of practices have been exaggerated or misrepresented by Protestant writers who believe that all Pagan deities are Satan in disguise, so they think that if they can prove that Catholic practices are secretly Pagan in origin, that proves that Catholics are secretly Satanists.

The similarities between the two sets of practices have been exaggerated or misrepresented by overzealous mythographers trying to prove that all mythology and religion throughout all of human history is secretly a single unified monomyth; if it's pre-Victorian, expect shades of prefiguration theology, while if it's post-Victorian, expect a lot of stuff about the Collective Unconscious.

A bunch of 19th Century proto-Fascists were trying to construct a pre-Jewish cultural identity (and considered Christianity to be tainted by association), but didn't want to give up any of the fun rituals, so they made some shit up about how it was still okay to do Christmas because something something Odin, or whatever.

A bunch of early 20th Century Pagan reconstructionists filled in the gaps in their understanding of pre-Christian ritual with culturally Christian assumptions, then turned around and pointed at their own accidentally Christianised reconstructions as evidence that Christian practices are derived from them.

A bunch of late 20th Century self-help manual authors tried to break into the occult bookstore market by uncritically repeating any or all of the above.

Someone on the Internet just made it up.

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Help me jumblr. What was that quote that goes something like "the easiest way to drum up support for a cause is to promise people they'll get a chance to be violent against other people and the violence will be righteous? I thought it was by Sartre but nothing similar is coming up

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every writer knows the pain of having an idea that’s “too good” to write because you know you can’t do it justice

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I couldn't have said it better myself.