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autistic child of the 90s here, raised in the Bay Area, elementary had Macs at school, family PC at home (and then personal Macs later, then PCs more common at schools).

⭐️ "one or the other" makes less of a difference than solid exposure to both (or more) ⭐️

exposure to multiple systems encourages you to realize preferences, which leads you to reflect on how your brain actually works as opposed to how others say it should work. hint: they quite literally do not and cannot have access to all the inner workings of your brain, so they can pretty easily be wrong.

there's things i love and hate about PC, and things i love and hate about Mac. what i use depends on what i'm trying to do.

at the end of the day, they're just tools, and the best tool is the one that actually works for you for [x] specific task. and sometimes multiple ones can work!

"Mac vs PC" is literally a distraction that sows destructive division among us (at best it's just a waste of time). it's crazy how much my mental health has improved from learning to spot this.

LPT: (1) learn to spot false binaries forced upon you, (2) reject them by default (until you can evaluate them for yourself).

ok i'll shut up now

EDIT: the LPT originally said "reject any false binaries forced upon you (until you can evaluate them for yourself)" but i realized i skipped over the v important step of learning to recognize false binaries so uh yeah i wanted to specify that

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Mark Vomit (2020)

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i was talking to my very smart friend a while back (who loves watching a lot of bad/B movies) and he mentioned that he'd just seen the. worst. movie. he'd ever seen (and he's seen... probably thousands), so i asked what it was!

he said the name of my favorite movie.

(ok well, it's in my top 4 on Letterboxd). i got mental whiplash and went whatttt?? it is literally amazing and i am going to begin describing how.

and then he said someone literally wrote an entire book on why it's so terrible

so now i'm working on a script for a video essay to expound in great detail upon my quite frankly airtight reasoning for enjoying it so much (who knows if it will see the light of day tho...).

still working up the courage to read the book but my guess is they went into watching it from an entirely different way that i do when i experience any form of art. i'm not trying to convince anyone it's like... great art, as in, exemplifies excellence in filmmaking sophistication... but that's... not what the movie is trying to be, so like... why would i judge it according to that?

[sidenote: i'm really glad getting a fancypants art degree didn't ruin my ability to enjoy "low" or "bad" art. i'm convinced it's a skill that everyone would benefit from.] enjoy what you like, even if you know it's "bad." BUT pls don't be afraid to dig into (a) what makes it "bad" art, or (b) the nuances of why you like it, why the form and content checked all the right boxes in your brain to make it light up with enjoyment. if you can figure out how to share that with others, those are literally practical instructions for them to learn how to enjoy aspects of your favorite song even if it's terrible, or at least to appreciate more fully what it means to you 💛

dammit idk how to turn this into a shitpost i didn't intend to share genuine thoughts here hmmmmm... welp ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Showing your favorite song to someone is so embarrassing lol what if I get a bad grade at my own taste and interests....

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letterpress postcards by Pottering Cat, Japan

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maybe it doesn't quite have the same effect reblogged... go scroll through the entries and one of them'll getcha, i swear

knock nock whos there? me stupid

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me casually remarking to several university professors last week about how much i love "you're such a fuckass" as an insult after one of them brought up Donnie Darko and said apparently the filmmaking process was a clusterfuck from start to finish

love the term fuckass. like this thing is so absurd and annoying it is kind of buttsex

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LPT: blow your nose

first of all why didn't anyone tell me how much my quality of life would improve if i just blew my nose first thing when i wake up in the morning—is that what being neurotypical is like?? just magically knowing you need to blow your nose and doing it???

i am 30 somehow.

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welcome