#i was debating whether to delete this

[beanheadsoup]

Breaking my shell by posting for the first time on here

[countriesgame]

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If you have curiosities or facts about Canada you'd like to share, tell us and we'll reblog it!

[rockethorse]

I decided Calcinidae Bay needed a nice romantic restaurant for Valentine's Day, and so I present La Rose de la Rivière, or "Rose of the River". It's modern French fine dining. Bookings are essential.

The spacious indoor dining room, for parties of varying sizes (and significance).

The kitchen, notable for its windows which invite guests to observe the well-oiled machine of its dinner service, a little like the real-world French Laundry.

After dining, guests may move upstairs to Cupid's Bar and pair a digestif with some delightful conversation in one of its many intimate nooks.

And of course, since the Rose is famous for its views of the giant slab of floodfill blue river, there is ample outdoor seating when the weather is amenable.

Since this is Calcinidae Bay, this is, naturally, a shell challenge, with a little surprise -

Ta-dah! 💘 Isn't it the cutest? The original shell challenge is by RoseSkyPlays on the Gallery for The Sims 4 and I thought the little cupid heart shape was really sweet. I had fun figuring how to use it; the tip of the arrow is a very exclusive little windowed seating area in the bar, and the "tail" makes up the restaurant's sign.

Hope you all had a happy Valentine's Day however you choose to celebrate (or not)!

[iamthemaestro]

gender rant in tags

[shroomerr]

erm hi ehe uh have a dump of all of my doodles over these past few weeks of my sp oc ft some of the other characters (im drowning in assignments you guys someone lend a hand oh god I’m drowningbllsdhdsbja)

[basementstalker]

Listening to your voice over and over, trying desperately to sear the sound into my brain. I've never heard something so lovely, truly. I've been blessed, thank you.

[chainsawch]

*squishes ur paws* @toxycodone

Happy pride month to thistle and venery, I support gay wrongs only

[monsterbisexual]

claw machine - sloppy jane

[specialagentartemis]

I get what ur saying but equating special interest (as an autistic term) to "personal interest reading" and like, a quirky little interest feels kinda... off. I truly mean no offense by this, but I'm getting a degree in cultural anthropology, which is my special interest. Like, it feels dismissive to say those things when plenty of autistic people are pursuing degrees in their special interests.

Obviously not all of us are, obviously a lot of autistic people do just research it in their free time, but your phrasing very much feels othering and as though you think academic field of study and special interest are mutually exclusive.

You know, last night when I turned off reblogs on that post I also made a tumblr post that said “what’s the over/under that I wake up to an anon asking me why I hate autistic people and think they can’t get degrees” and then I deleted it because I thought it was too mean. And yet here we are and what did I wake up to find.

I admit, my phrasing in that comment was flippant and irritated and did not acknowledge the breadth and depth of what a special interest experience is, because I was responding to one of dozens of people who were doing exactly what was annoying me in the first place on my post: acting like the only reason someone would get an academic degree is because they are autistic, and degrees are inherently synonymous with Special Interest.

Good for you that you are getting an academic degree in your special interest! That’s great. I’m glad for you. However that was not even slightly the context of the scenario I was talking about in my original post. And it would be nice if my knowledge about Archaeology was not assumed to arise from my biologically innate special-ness (which was also assumed). It would be nice if people on Tumblr would stop talking about expertise as if there were two kinds of people: autistic people, who are naturally biologically gifted with knowledge, and Neurotypicals, who are incapable of having interests or passions or knowledge. It would be nice if people would stop armchair diagnosing strangers based on one interaction. It would be nice if tumblr could respect people for research, experience, and dedication, without assuming that it’s only legitimate if you have a biologically unique Special Interest and casting suspicion on anyone in academia. It would be nice if we could stop assuming that simply being autistic and having a special interest automatically makes you an expert if that kind of experience and rigorous research isn’t there.

I have an internet friend whose special interest is dogs and dog training. I don’t trust them about dogs because they’re autistic, I trust them about dogs because they have years of experience raising and training and learning about dogs. Regardless of whether your interest is a Special Interest or not, experience and dedicated research (whether in a university or on your own with rigorous checks that you’re actually learning things that are true) are what makes your knowledge legitimate, not whether you were born with the correct type of brain. Bioessentialism isn’t cool even when it tells you that you’re the Better kind of person. Especially then, actually.

It’s also very funny (derogatory) to me that this is the website that CONSTANTLY passes around PSA’s to the tune of “Your selfish ex isn’t a Narcissist just because they’re selfish! You don’t have OCD just because you like things to be clean! Being nervous before public speaking is not the same as having an anxiety disorder! ADHD is more than just getting distracted!” And then turn around and go “if you are interested in/knowledgeable about something that means you’re obviously autistic.” And see no contradiction and get mad when I make a frustrated post about it.

Some people have Special Interests AND a degree in them. It’s pretty common and that’s great. Some people have special interests and do NOT have a degree in them. That does not make you any lesser of a person but you gotta show your knowledge is thorough and accurate in other ways, then, if you want to be taken seriously as an expert. There are absolutely experts who have autistic special interests and no formal degrees but you still gotta show your work rather than taking it for granted. Some people do NOT have special interests and DO have a degree. This does not mean they are actually secretly autistic or that their knowledge is lesser than someone with a special interest. Some people do NOT have special interests and do NOT have a degree but have experience and expertise in other areas. That is also fine, and believe it or not, happens. You may observe that there is not a direct correlation here.

This isn’t about balking at being compared to autistic people, as someone else in the notes accused, and this isn’t about saying “academic field of study and special interest are mutually exclusive”. I did not in fact say that. I just did not want my academic field of study reduced to an internet teenager’s armchair diagnosis which is the situation that the original post was about and a lot of people on tumblr enthusiastically agreed with.

[tootditoot]

You see the end goal was to draw my fav characters holding hands, but I am somehow better at illustrating cats lmao

[ghostofthepresent]

would anyone gaf abt a romantic/non-platonic shiguang analysis or not

[heartbinders]

PHEW. Okay. I'm nowhere even close to all my icons being redone, but all the most active muses are. What do we think?

[youngerfrankenstein]

Almost worried because if ONE does Megatron’s fall to evil poorly there are a myriad of ways it could be bad. But if they do it well I’ll have to listen to people talking about how none of it was his fault and the good guys are all meanies and he was right actually and then I’LL become evil and start killing people.

(Then again people somehow (???) still do this for Anakin and not only did the prequels suck horribly but his fall entailed a bunch of CHILD MURDER. So I guess the lesson is that how responsible a character is for their actions correlates directly to how much you like them.)

[breitzbachbea]

France is so beautiful to hide the ugliness inside. honhonhon It's a pety bitch and we love him

Motherfucker made a deal with the devil for sure ... Though now I am wondering if that is a thing in French culture/folklore, like, do we have some prominent devil deal story over there? Getting sidetracked.

But YES, we love him for being petty! He is capable of both being a genuine romantic and kind soul and also the MOST MASSIVE BITCH EVER who wants to see the world BURN for his entertainment and ego. Love that for him. I mean, look at this poll for my latest AU FrUK subplot. Card-carrying messy bitch who lives for drama.

But I will seriously say that he is not uniquely ugly on the inside, most Hetalia characters (and indeed most characters period) are super sucky in some ways and genuinely cool people in others. I am as francophobic as the next person, but his beauty is not hiding more uglyness than Turkey's or Spain's beauty - or any of the Nordic's or Russia's or China's, depends on who is your type.

I mean, in the AU scenario I linked alone, there are like. At least three major cases of Everyone Sucks Here. Yes, François' prioritizing drama over his best friend's future, bc all the pettyness got her basically fiancé to sleep with someone for blackmail and he is not doing shit to stop HIS future husband from making another friend's life hell for the petty bullshit. But Gavin MacAllister being hellbent on not letting François marry an Englishman that Fran clearly doesn't seem to abhor, seems determined to have a fun marriage with, is also just. Ugly as fuck behaviour-wise. And Arthur trying to make everyone else pay more than hell for bothering him... Honestly, if he hadn't pissed off Gavin and my Irish boys before François based on snobbish reasons, Arthur would be the least of an asshole, because Gavin's being an entitled prick and François is encouraging it. He is not uniquely terrible, really not, so ... not that much beauty required, really. Hima just hates me specifically by making a Frenchman this heavenly handsome.

[murderofsomeone]

secondhand embarrassment is literally the worst feeling ever. like someone will come up to me like "hey look at this really old writing I did lol" and I'll have to look at them like "if I read that I will actually straight up explode and die on the spot" which isn't a thing you should ever tell to anyone ever

[tears-of-xion]

Going to be taking a break from social media for a few days!