#How do you function

[semperama]

The people in the tags of that "come/cum" poll saying you can't use "come" as a noun because it's confusing...............read better.

[alyjojo]

[forcebookish]

when people who hate any sort of fictional conflict define basic trope terms it's so funny. just saw someone trying to define whump with the absolute weirdest fucking wrong answer ever (it's a fetish and all amputee sex?????). god being a "freak" who likes seeing and writing characters be put in dangerous, emotionally damaging, and perilous situations (most stories) is so much more normal than whatever the fuck y'all got going on

[coffinsister]

I'm weird and I always get a little thrown off when fanart has Ashley with massive mommy milkers because on one hand it is like canon and on the other how was she starving for three months after all of that she should be skin and bones

[sentienceisoverrated]

FUCK AI

Do you know what we need?

Self-turning sheet music

[lavenderfeminist]

No regrets or anything but I think this website rots you from the inside

[painisntn33ded]

im so lost rn, i have no one on my life actively telling me how stupid and horrible i am. I literally don't know what to do with myself when im not apologizing for my existence and begging for forgiveness every day.

[imabiteurankles]

how are people so well kept together no seriously how

[terradyction451]

Running on NEITHER of your parents' ANYTHING and wondering HOW THE FUCK THEY SURVIVED LONG ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU

recognising your parent's mannerisms in yourself and physically feeling psychic damage occur

[tayter-tot-64]

why is humaning so hard

[aspenshade888]

me: I want to fall asleep besides you every night for the rest of our lives

my boyfriend: I go to bed at 3 am

me: I want to see you at some point every day for the rest of our lives

[noxith-sky]

I will never understand how people can skip meals

[fictionadventurer]

How did Treasure Planet manage to come up with the greatest aesthetic in all human history? Victorian elegance plus space-age flair, with just enough dirt and grime and wear and tear to make it feel real? A combination of traditional and computer animation that perfectly embodies the movie's blend of old and futuristic? How does it get any better than that?

[inkskinned]

even 2 years ago people still said autism with a whisper. it was also how people sometimes whisper lesbian, like they're afraid of uttering a slur. autistic was either an insult or it was something terrible, a horrible burden only select people endure. "select people" were usually 9 year old boys and skinny white men.

they are not hispanic young adults with a dog and a life and friends. i can make (sustained, calculated, painful) eye contact. with certain people, i don't even have to count how many seconds i am holding their vision - i can just look at them. i can wear clothes that bother me, i will just have a worse day than usual. i might cry about any changes to my schedule - but change is scary! this is normal!

when i was 16 it was OCD. i mean that was the thing everyone said. i totally have ocd. they would arrange 6 colors of gel pen in rainbow order (no worry for indigo feeling left out) and they'd be "so ocd" about it.

if you struggle with intrusive thoughts, be careful at this next paragraph, but. at 16 i developed a compulsion that involved self-harm. my ocd was convinced i was simply forgetting that i'd hurt someone terribly - a thought that persisted for no clear or delineated reason.

at some point i will probably write about how the idea of "morally pure thoughts" was hell for me and others with ocd, but this was the odd dichotomy for many of us: they liked our "aesthetic", but were genuinely repulsed by our lived experience. "intrusive thoughts" now means "cutting your hair in the sink" instead of talking yourself down from believing horrible things. "so ocd" is a label without any true understanding.

it's something i've talked about before - in multiplicity - but i firmly believe in the veracity and necessity of self-diagnosis. i think it saves lives and it saves tragedies from occurring. as someone raised in a house that wasn't safe, self-diagnosis was, for many years, the only viable option. 15 and honestly googling: am i depressed or are there demons affecting my behavior.

but it is not genuine self-diagnosis anymore, most of the time. it is a strange, blanched version of that whispered word autism. now certain traits are constantly seen as "autistic" - any passing intense interest. any flubbed social interaction. people say it while laughing - a touch of the 'tism.

and i like the acceptance! i do. i like that people are talking about it. i like that if i self-identify, more people speak up and say me too, bitch. but there is something-else quietly happening, the way it happened to OCD. the quirky, "fun" parts have been washed and sanitized and removed of all suffering. now it is just something that makes you "a little bit silly."

it took me 27 years on this planet before i learned to make friends. something about me just seems incredibly odd, i guess, some kind of radiation monitoring. someone once (in a way that was almost friendly) told me i am doing the right things, but in a way that's off-putting. i have scoured myself raw attempting to be charming.

someone on tiktok does a deep dive into their particular passion. the top comment says "what kind of autism is this lol". like we are a breed of animal. like it has no influence on our experience. like our life is a fresh breeze, an open meadow.

more often for me, life was a drowning.

[choccy-milky]

sometimes you gotta lure your overly-studious ravenclaw gf into spending time with you 🥰 📚 ( from 'Every Teardrop is a Waterfall' by Kat_12739 on ao3, GO READ IT!!! the first story is about seb falling sick and still pushing himself/not admitting he's sick until he ends up in the hospital, the second story is about the birth of seb and clora's daughter and seb's reaction to clora almost dying in childbirth, and the third is about dealing with a fussy newborn lewis😭🥹THEY'RE SO GOOD AND SWEET AND SOMEWHAT SAD (not to mention beautifully written) so go check it out!!💖💖 )

[pigin-is-so-rad]

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