#TEXT IS PAIN

[spoonyruncible]

By Christ, this is so annoying. I cannot imagine being more dull than this. Training yourself to manage difficult texts can be a hard exercise, this much is true. There is a pride moment when your eyes cross and you're tired but, by Batman you are going to figure out your latest struggle and unlock your next level of comprehension. It's not meant to be punishment, tho.

Maybe, instead of torturing yourself, you should stop and think, as one of my favorite thinkers recommended, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is." Maybe the sun is warm, maybe your blankets are soft, maybe the washing machine a room over is making a soothing hum, perhaps a wayward spider has set up shop in the corner and you have enjoyed witnessing her work. Read the text again and think of yourself in the place where you are and how important this text you love is, how beautiful it might look from a distance. Then realize how much more beautiful it looks from your rare angle. Only after this reverie is complete should you return to the text, eyes fresh.

I despise the rise of exclusively video and audio content, I can barely stand it. All I wish for is nicely written pieces I might digest in the method I have become accustomed to (writing with maybe some captioned pictures). The world is so loud. But to say to people who enjoy videos, "STOP BEING LOUD AND FAST AND AUTOPLAY AND DOING THINGS YOU ARE ACCUSTOMED TO! READ BOOK!" is just as wrong as all the well meaning folk who desire for me to watch a video about an article I could have read in literally a 10th of the time. If I want to enjoy audio or video content I have to teach myself to think, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is." I can relax and appreciate it as a unique medium that provides things print cannot. (That being said? If you send me a 10 minute video of an article that I could have read myself in 3 minutes? You're dead.)

i dont see why i cant start a trend, so here goes. lets try to build back our attention spans. lets try to focus on just one thing for as long as possible. lets not watch those "asmr for people with adhd" videos where they fuck up adhd folks even worse. lets resist the urge to reach for our phones when watching a movie. lets read the articles we reblog, even when theyre boring. i know its hard, i have adhd too, but its worth it. i also know that this hard work doesnt always seem super impressive to other people, so id love for yall to tell me in the tags or replies if youve done something, no matter how small, for your attention span. you deserve to feel like youve taken back some of what social media has ripped from you

[nondivisable]

I need to say something and I need y'all to be calm

if it isn't actively bad or harmful, no representation should be called "too simple" or "too surface level"

I have a whole argument for this about the barbie movie but today I wanna talk about a show called "the babysitters club" on Netflix

(obligatory disclaimer that I watched only two episodes of this show so if it's super problematic I'm sorry) (yes. I know it's based on a book, this is about the show)

this is a silly 8+ show that my 9 year old sister is watching and it manages to tackle so many complex topics in such an easy way. basic premise is these 13 year old girls have a babysitting agency.

in one episode, a girl babysits this transfem kid. the approach is super simple, with the kid saying stuff like "oh no, those are my old boy clothes, these are my girl clothes". they have to go to the doctor and everyone is calling the kid by her dead name and using he/him and this 13 year old snaps at like a group of doctors and they all listen to her. it's pure fantasy and any person versed in trans theory would point out a bunch of mistakes.

but after watching this episode, my little sister started switching to my name instead of my dead name and intercalating he/him pronouns when talking about me.

one of the 13 years old is a diabetic and sometimes her whole personality is taken over by that. but she has this episode where she pushes herself to her limit and passes out and talks about being in a coma for a while because of not recognizing the limits of her disability.

and this allowed my 9 year old sister to understand me better when I say "I really want to play with you but right now my body physically can't do that" (I'm disabled). she has even asked me why I'm pushing myself, why I'm not using my crutches when I complain about pain.

my mom is 50 years old and watching this show with my sister. she said the episode about the diabetic girl helped her understand me and my disability better. she grew up disabled as well, but she was taught to shut up and power through.

yes, silly simple representation can annoy you if you've read thousands of pages about queer liberation or disability radical thought, but sometimes things are not for you.

[just-spacetrash]

the 'what if you played it a little risky' post literally Changed my life but i cant fujkign find it in my blog because its. a tiktok screenshot

[murielsbottombitch]

why is it so hard for able bodied people to believe that doctors are sometimes just incompetent? you realize doctors are people, right? people that can be bad at their job. that happens sometimes. they don't know everything because there's a piece of paper on their wall that says they're smart, actually. they can sometimes be wrong, actually. they can sometimes cut corners and take the easy way out, actually. they can sometimes hate their job and make that their patients problem, actually. doctors aren't all saints who do everything right the first time. please stop invalidating disabled people when they complain about their terrible treatment at the hands of medical professionals. please stop putting the feelings of doctors over the lives of their patients.

[moresandmanstuff]

[bugganox]

[imchoccy]

2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

[sunfloralchaos]

Happy July, happy disability pride month

[beans-beneath-moonlight]

Why'd they have to drop him fifteen times 😭

[nedlittle]

genuinely i think it's important for adults, especially in the plague times, to play pretend in our day-to-day lives. when i rub my back down with tiger balm so i can sleep without pain, i imagine i am a valiant knight tending to an old injury i received from a dragon. when i go to the store to pick up eggs and milk, i am a lone cowboy riding into town on a mission. when i turn my collar up against the wind i am a femme fatale who's killed 4 husbands and is scoping out a 5th. when i stomp around in the snow i am a doomed polar explorer. if being a little bit silly about my walk to the pharmacy helps me remember that life can be full of joy and whimsy, then so be it.

[starcrossedstarfishes]

[nifinof]

Bocchi’s VA Yoshino Aoyama doing her glitch scream

[divorceblogger]

this show rules sorry

[shaylogic]

In the comics, Edwin's bones are originally hidden in a chest in the attic he was killed in. He stays in the attic. He returns to it from Hell.

In the show, he returns to the attic from Hell and meets Charles. He reads to him as he dies, sitting on what appears to be a chest?

I don't wanna get really morbid, but. . . uh. . . do you think. . .?!!

[moresandmanstuff]

[demigods-posts]

imagine learning percy got the curse of achilles. and knowing it's sole purpose it making the bearer invincible. and this man. who's skin you already couldn't lay a finger on. now not even a scythe could pierce his flesh. and then one random tuesday hearing him shriek in pain. and doing a fucking double take at that. before realizing he's has a subtle blush growing on his face. and his girlfriend is standing next to him with a smug smile.