#forget about eye contact

[silv3reyedstranger]

you know what’s so fun about being a lesbian majoring in english and french?

ok so it’s like this. you see a woman and suddenly words don’t exist. not in english. not in french. nope nada zilch.

and hindsights even funnier because wow you totally had a crush on half of your english and french teachers in secondary school…

funny how you chose english and french to major in, eh?

[critterishere]

(Throws this on the road) here’s a dude facial structure study drawing thing🧚

[nebulaedaniel]

starting a rumor that phil is like medusa, but instead of turning people into stone he just makes them lose all thoughts

[beaft]

if i can be sappy on main for a moment:

last night i was having a bit of a brain spiral - "why are my social skills so bad, why can't i hold a conversation like a normal person", etc - so i reached out to a friend of mine to talk it through. and they told me, the first time i met you we were at a party where i didn't know anybody, and i was really anxious, and you made an effort to include me and make me feel part of things, and it turned a potentially unpleasant evening into a nice one.

and holy shit, this meant so much more to me than if they'd said "don't be silly, you're great at socialising!" (which would have sounded like a lie, whether they meant it as one or not). it made me feel instantly better because i had this sudden realisation of, hey, you know what, maybe it's not about being the most charming or funny person in the room. maybe everyone's secretly a little nervous and looking for reassurance. maybe it's not all about me.

[hotdogmchiggin]

Ma there’s a weird fucking dog outside

I drew spice from @hoofpeet’s replacement ingo au because he’s just a spicy lil guy :) very creachure. Very good.

Bonus: He’s thinking 😈evil thoughts😈

[simandy]

Summer trip mode is: on

Still images under the cut:

[imaginaryanon]

wore contact lenses instead of glasses today and almost burst into tears when i saw myself in the mirror. like. i want to be that guy. i'm so fucking tired of glasses & the way they distort my fucking face

[iseetheisland]

You know what? Me having trouble keeping eye contact isn't even potential evidence I'm autistic after all because I just realized part of the reason I auto-avoid it is because of how many people in my life have taken that as consent to try and kiss me so what the fuck is up with that???

I'm not the one who needs to be trying to explain and understand over here when I was trained to be this way

[lakecoded]

okay honestly. and i promise i will stop thinking about the deeply mediocre film argylle after this. but people have been talking about how confusing and how meta it is. but it isn't even that weird or meta????? like grow up! watch weirder movies

[news4dzhozhar]

[mismatchsocks]

nothing to offer but quotes from nbc hannibal/the blooper reel

[bmpmp3]

and unfortunately i am like the equivalent of one of those true crime girlies but like, with white collar crime and corporate scandals. except instead of getting paranoid about random people minding their own business being serial killers coming for me, i just keep telling every tall skinny whiteboy friend about how much financial crime they could get away with if they put on the right posture and confidence.

[2percentsugar]

it keeps making me fucking mad when my autism is not like an interesting fact i know about myself & my internal life but actually a disability that impacts how i move through the world & how people see me

[salsflore]

been almost 3 yrs and i am still struggling with the whole mikachi first meeting thing. bye

[loutrem]

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[gas-stxtion-a]

@oceanoecielo said: 67, for the loaded character questions, for jerry!

[loaded questions - open!]

67. What is one thing people always get wrong about you?

Jerry smiles good-naturedly as he considers the question, cigarette perched between two fingers. "Well, I'd say people don't usually get things wrong about me most of the time--I mean, I try to be a pretty open book usually." It's a pretty obvious lie, and it's not even one he makes much of an effort to hide.

At first, he seems content to leave it at that, but he reconsiders rather quickly as his expression grows more serious.

"If I had to pick one thing," he muses, "it'd be that a lot of people seem to think I'm harmless." His smile returns, a little sharper this time, as he takes a drag from his cigarette, and it remains firmly in place as he breathes out a cloud of smoke. The whole time, he doesn't take his eyes off the person he's talking to.

"Y'see," Jerry says, "I'm pretty stupid, and I know that. I'm not gonna pretend to be something I'm not. But I'll admit that I play it up a bit sometimes to let people think I'm too stupid to be a threat. 'Cause they almost always do--people don't usually take me seriously or recognize that, if I really wanted to, I could wreck their fucking shit."

Just as quickly as it arrived, the eerie seriousness in Jerry's tone vanishes and his grin is as goofy as it was before.

"Either that," he says, "or they assume I'm just high all the time. Which, y'know, isn't totally wrong because I do do a lot of drugs. But I don't do them at work! At least, not most of the time."