#dont give discount

[gildedproblems]

If it was a good convo I would do this just to be a dick

After all I'd have made sure I thought they'd laugh it off with me after, otherwise I have to say sorry and buy them an icecream or whatever

I also own an EU disability card which is a way to prove you actually have an (invisible) disability which can be usefull in some cases like during lockdown there was a one-person-per-family shopping rule but I would be allowed to bring a second person to help me with whatever I need.

With this card comes a list of locations like movie theaters or parks that will offer discounts or free stuff to card owners, but they never fully fleshed out the system so everyone basically gets access to everything (on paper technically I can join the wheelchair diving club) and this gets funny side effects like when I got a discount for the zoo with a free activity book for autistic kids.

But the funniest locations to me personally are the ones where they offer me a free ticket for my 'companion'. They clearly have a specific type of disabled person in mind but hey, they're offering so I'm taking it! So I visit these places with a friend and we split the price of the remaining ticket. But this is where the fun part comes, actually informing the ticket workers of my card.

Let's use the example of my visit to the Gravensteen, a medieval castle in Ghent. The ticket guy is standing outside and does this explanation about some stuff that is being fixed in the office hence why he is standing in open air. So at this point we have had a completely normal conversation with this guy. But then we buy the actual tickets and I hand over my card, to prove we're allowed this discount of course.

And the second he sees my picture on the card, this guy, who again, had a completely normal conversation with us up this point, lowers himself down to me (he's not much taller), puts his hands on his knees and goes "SO ARE YOU READY TO VISIT THE BIG CASTLE? I HOPE YOU HAVE FUN!" at which point I was just staring back in bewilderment and not saying anything so he just gave me a sad smile, seemed to resist the urge to pat me on the shoulder and let us in.

We are all too familiar with the infantilization that comes with being disabled but it's becomes extra absurd when it happens min-conversation. He already is aware I can keep up with a regular conversation. The only thing that changed is that he now knows I'm disabled and not even what kind. and the fact that he did the embodiment of this meme was just the sherry on top

Anyway I'll take the autistic coloring book next time please

[xxplastic-cubexx]

what other silly little antics do you think charles and erik got up to in that cube besides play chess because my money's on book discussions. like them book clubs with suburban moms where you drink wine and talk about books you read except theres no wine i dont think thats permitted in the plastic cube prison and theres not even a club its just two old men

[iratusmus]

worlds most normal bratty teenagers & middle aged man

[munchboxart]

All of the charms are finally here!! The yellow floppy charms turned out the best honestly 🥺 unfortunately, there might be some delay with the yellow floppy disk charms because the clasps haven’t arrived yet (I ordered them a month ago) but I’m doing my best to get them soon!

[nordfjording]

i may not afford a house but i did just spend 140 us dollars on new hiking boots + walking shoes worth 470. so there.

[swordi001]

Has been said a thousand times over but "You'll find someone eventually" is just such a stupid phrase

Not only because of the complete erasure of anything on any spectrum (which im used to by the allos by now tbh)

But also because no, i don't want love. Nor sex. Not only do i physically not desire it. When i tell you that i say it for a reason

My current plan for life (which is probably VERY optimistic but im done going through all my life negatively) is get a decent paying job, exist, at some point if i ever have enough printed capitalism paper open a bakery/coffee shop/restaurant with a cosy, warm atmosphere, okay prices, good quality food and customers who genuenly like to come to my shop because they enjoy it.

Happy ace week yall

[bug4932]

YEYEAH!!!

[mistylacrimosa]

Okay but raggedy long-haired captain Archer does things for me.

[s0fter-sin]

god the way ghost's voice drops when he tells soap, "you'll need to improvise to survive"

before that, everything he says is steady but when he acknowledges that soap'll have to do something outside his skill set, something he intimately knows to be difficult, his voice wavers

and soap does the same thing

when he's calling out for ghost on the radio, he's tentative, testing the frequency, then he's desperate; "ghost, this is 7-1, do you copy?”

then when ghost answers, he smooths out his voice; he hides the pain, the fear

they both try to hide things from the other to reassure them that they're alright, that they'll both get out alive

[caramelmochacrow]

inyuose siblings yay! (i only got a few things abt them done)

[kylejsugarman]

"i bet the next girl of the year is going to be gay or trans!!" american girl doll hasn't even made a girl of the year who wears Glasses.

[britneyshakespeare]

i can't believe how much this company apparently does not want my money

[abirddogmoment]

Happy national best friend day!

[gibbearish]

Hihi there. I came from an ‘am I trans quiz’ that I’m pretty sure was made by you. It’s weird- recently, I’ve been thinking nonstop about how much I would want to be the opposite gender. But I haven’t felt like this at all until just recently. I mean, sure sometimes I think about it, but it’s not at all like it has been up until now. I’ve wanted to look a lot more like the opposite gender. Like, yknow, different hair styles and different clothing styles and such.

Is this like a phase or something, and will I get over it?

those last two questions unfortunately are something i will never be able to answer, until it either comes to pass, or it doesnt. i can't tell the future. what i can tell you, however, is that something being a phase does not discount it from being a valuable use of your time, nor does leaving that phase mean you were wrong in the first place. it just means that your desires have changed, and that's fine! like, think back to any phases you had in your childhood that eventually passed over - perhaps dinosaurs, perhaps greek mythology, perhaps emo/scene, you get the gist. does the time you spent in those phases feel wasted? have the lessons you learned, the perspectives you gained abandoned you? or are they now simply one part of the tapestry that is you?

it may be a phase, it may not, who's to say. certainly not me. the only one who gets a say in that is you. you are allowed to say "this might be a phase, but i'm going to do it anyways, because it would make the version of me that i am now happy."

do not live your life in such a way as to leave behind a perfect corpse for others to marvel at. live for you. live now, and live happily. and if the life that would make you happy is one of a different gender, well, then, go on and live! and if some day you do change your mind, decide that the life you chose no longer suits you, that just means it's time to enter the next phase. thank this one for spending time with you, for teaching you the lessons it did, for bringing you comfort when you needed it, and move on to the you that you want to become. marie kondo that shit and live your best life. i believe in you

[francy-sketches]

I'm gonna have to work on my final project non stop for like a month straight bc I procrastinated on it too much fuck my stupid baka life

[rubiatinctorum]

not one of my ex jobs sending out a "hey we're canadian remember please don't forget we're canadian" email lmfaoooo