#ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT!

[jasperyourmutt]

Take me on a walk? Take me on a walk? Take me on a walk? Walk???? To the park?? Please? I won’t chase the squirrels I will behave?? Walk? Please?

[tosahobi-if]

When do we meet ??? ? I can't wait to start terrorizing them 🫣

(ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟwouldn't you like to know, weather boy?

[icarianiscariot]

to no one's surprise: having to teach. once again. makes me want to ..................... run away.

[beingatoaster]

me: I've been writing a lot of darkfic lately and getting really grody with it. I wonder why? I haven't gotten this intense since that period back in fall 2020, when...

me: ...

me: ...when I was extremely stressed out about the upcoming election. Ah. I see.

[queenlua]

for those strange few awake & on tumblr at this hour:

shoot me an ask & some general topic of concern for you (love life, career, existential dread, etc) & i'll do a 3-card tarot reading for you

UPDATE: damn y'all bitches really love tarot huh. i've already got more than enough requests to keep me busy; no new tarot requests for now, please!

[powerpolyculeshowdown]

HOW IS YOOHANKIM ALREADY LOSING NOOOOO MY LITTLE RAT LOSERS….

listen, idk what the leverage fans are saying but i feel the need to illiterate that yoohankim have literally done everything for each other, they have saved each other countless times, they cannot exist without each other. they love each other so much they fought the cosmos together. they are if sacrifice was a love language. how can anyone compare to how much love they have for each other, to the things they’ve done for each other? they are if “i would rip apart worlds just to meet you again” was a literal thing. (they don’t actually do that i don’t think BUT ITS CLOSE) to the orv fans, we need to keep up!! -Toon

leverage fandom seems rlly big but so is orv so i think its anybody's game tbh

[lesbiancolumbo]

you may wonder why i watch food network. and honestly the answer is simple. i watch it to get the answers to life's most pervasive mysteries.... for example, will tyler florence ever take off his sunglasses on the great food truck race?

[dream-or-devil]

HOW TO INITIATE YOUR BRAIN'S SELF-DESTRUCT FUNCTION IN JUST 4 EASY STEPS!

STEP 1: STAY AWAKE FOR 36+ CONSECUTIVE HOURS

STEP 2: CONSUME A METRIC #$!@ TON OF PSYCHEDELICS (REDBULL WILL ALSO SUFFICE)

STEP 3: INPUT THE KONAMI CODE WITH YOUR EYES USING A SERIES OF BLINKS AND GLANCES

STEP 4: WAVE GOODBYE TO YOUR LOVED ONES AND ENJOY OBLIVION!!

[toppinghimismynewhobby]

👉👈 you can still practice breeding me 👀

You'd let me fuck you into the mattress to make sure you get good and full? What a good boy!

[yellowfingcr]

Is this "abundant chest" a fuckin mimic

"Well! Do you want it to be?"

[wyxamex]

Wizards can't doot you say? Well explain this!

Casts DOOT *Spell sparks in hands and then sputters into smoke* 💨💨💨💨💨

Sorry, give me a moment. . .

*tries again a few more times to no avail, pulls out calling orb again and dials proper extensions, etc.*

WIZARDS! I need your help! My DOOT spell keeps failing and we need to show this skeleton who's who!

It's okay, take your time, I have all day. All month even. If I'm lucky, all eternity! These bones aren't going anywhere any time soon. But first, allow me to show you how it's really done.

*inhales*

Get dooted! And maybe start taking notes, come on, you don't have all day!

[theverywest]

@c-f-linnie do this as a chem practical I beg

peeling those sour rainbow gummy strips into long thin strings and putting them into cheap energy drink to create something im calling battery acid spaghetti will update once ive finished it

[partiallypeculiar]

being completely unable to function without a routine is not very neurotypical of me is it

[fjotla-vithir]

I did it

I’m on BlueSky

[queenlua]

hey, nyc-based mutuals/followers:

i will be in your city in ~a week!

i will be pretty busy with work stuff while i’m there, BUT, i also like meeting strangers from the internet

so, feel free to send me an IM if you’d like to grab a drink (or non-drink, or whatever) while i’m there, and we’ll see if we can make it work~

[giantkillerjack]

Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".

[plain-text version of this post can be found under the cut]

Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"

And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".

Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.

At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.

So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!

Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!

Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!

Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.

Plain-text version:

Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".

Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"

And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".

Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.

At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.

So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!

P.S. Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!

Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!

Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.