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[mbelyakova]

i really wish people would stop declaring that adhd traits include “lack of object permanence”

object permanence refers a child’s developed ability to understand an object still exists even when it’s out of sight

having adhd does not mean that you think objects disappear when you don’t see them

it just means you might have trouble keeping track of objects when they’re out of your sight

i see adhd blogs with large followings spreading this “lack of object permanence” nonsense. it’s misinformation! stop doing it!

[mbelyakova]

after being pleasantly surprised by the david ward mental wellness wednesday post on my feed (thx @mrswhymrhow), i just have to say something about “i am in eskew.”

i only recently got into it. i finished it and am re-listening for the innumerable details i’m sure i’ve missed the first time. i haven’t posted about it before.

(cn: fatphobia mention)

that episode that starts with the psychiatrist is my absolute favorite, because it really helped me deal with the onslaught of fatphobic advertisements as the diet industrial complex engages in a post-quarantine feeding frenzy. i’ve listened to that one over and over.

the episode has nothing to do with fatphobia, but (not enough context for spoilers) what happens to david regarding the railway bridge is really exactly what those ads feel like to me. the fatphobic ads are inescapable, they’re abusive, they use deeply personal manipulation tactics, they induce shame and panic, and they physically harm people. if you buy what they’re selling, their products and regimens will fry your metabolism to hell, even if they appear to temporarily “work.”

i know the invocation of ad tactics in the episode is intentional, but it’s the utter bluntness of the metaphor that got to me. i no longer have a visceral reaction every time i see one of those stupid fatphobic ads. my brain translates all the garbage into a single, repeated word: an absurd directive that i can comfortably ignore.

[mbelyakova]

bullying someone until they have a mental breakdown or worse isn’t fucking activism.

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grimdark is lazy, unimaginative storytelling

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can't log out of this site for one fucking day without some old meta parody meme becoming real smdh

[mbelyakova]

last night i had a dream that i understood the eeby deeby meme

[mbelyakova]

those viral videos of thin, conventionally attractive white women making weird and/or disgusting food are fetish videos

please don’t spread them around to a general audience. there’s an icky non-consensual aspect in the way these are designed to go viral

[mbelyakova]

at least once a week on here i see an earnest, well-meaning disability advocacy post in the format of an unbroken wall of text-based eye-strain.

[mbelyakova]

leaving ea’s pricing fuckery aside for a moment, i haven’t been this excited for a sims expansion in a long time

finally

chickens

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CANCEL STUDENT DEBT YOU COWARD

[mbelyakova]

zoom cat lawyer got milkshake duck’d in record time is a string of words that shouldn’t make sense, and yet

[mbelyakova]

i got used to that guy's face not being plastered everywhere anymore and now when i see it in a news article or unexpectedly hear a clip of his horrible voice i react like it's a screamer video

[mbelyakova]

it’s always wild to be a queer woman or enby and see a woman in an old movie or tv show from when you were a kid and realize

OH SHIT, WAIT, I HAD A CRUSH ON HER ??

because compulsory heterosexuality didn’t let your brain even register that it was a crush when you were that age. so it was just a fixation that you didn’t know how to explain to yourself

[mbelyakova]

any other digital painters find sketching much, MUCH more difficult than blocking and/or rendering?

[mbelyakova]

Extremely cool* that Korean-language media outlets are reporting on hate speech via witness statements from Atlanta while comparable English-language outlets are quoting the cops verbatim and shrugging. (Enormous content warning for that link.)

*fucked

[mbelyakova]

Is it me or is strobe lighting becoming heavier and more prevalent in kpop MVs? They really need to have warnings. I love Purple Kiss’ debut song but the MV is one of several in the past couple months that I’ve had to turn off because my god, the flashing...

Anyway, dream collab: Purple Kiss’ Swan, (G)I-DLE’s Minnie, ex-LADIES’ CODE’s Sojung, and LEEBADA. Vocal eargasm.