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can't describe how i love seeing visibly queer people in public
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I've been having such a nice time with my little online vintage shop 🥹 So many buyers share their stories with me, which I adore, and the other sellers/collectors are so supportive and fun to chat with. It's nice having people who get why it's so exciting to find this little 70's mug or that set of 60's placemats.
#a lady bought some mushroom placemats from me#for her mushroom-loving 4 year old nephew#then sent me some photos of the little guy holding some huge mushrooms and beaming#and just hearing her gush about this little dude with his special interest#warmed my heart#another lady bought two brass dachshund figurines from me#then sent me pics of her identical irl doxies 🥹#also... idk if this could ever be a full time thing for me#I am NOT making tons of money#but I could see it being that someday#and that's cool#i like the rhythm of it#the creativity in terms of staging and photographing items#the sense of community#the excitement of making a sale or finding a cool piece#the quiet moments of organizing and prepping#it feels good
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the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again
#yeehaw#1k#5k#10k#posts that got cursed. blasted. im making these tag updates after... 19 hours?#also i have been told it should say speech loss bc nonverbal specifically refers to the permanent state. did not know that!#unfortunately i fear it is so far past containment that even if i edited it now it would do very little. but noted for future reference#edit 2: nvm enough ppl have come to rb it from me directly that i changed the wording a bit. hopefully this makes sense#also. in case anyone is curious. though i doubt anyone who is commenting these things will check the original tags#1) my friend did not do this on purpose in any way. it was not intended to distract me or to hit on me. im a lesbian hes a gay man. cmon now#he felt very bad about it afterwards. i thought it was hilarious but it was very embarrassed and apologetic#2) “why didn't he use 🫵🏼?” didn't exist yet. “why didn't he use 🆗?” dunno! we'd been using a lot of hand emojis. 👌🏼 is an ok sign#like it makes sense. it was just a silly mixup. also No i did not invent 👉🏼👌🏼 as a gesture meaning sex. do you live under a rock#3) nonspeaking episodes are a recurring thing in my life and have been since i was born. this is not a quirky one-time thing#it is a pervasive issue that is very frustrating to both myself and the people i am trying to communicate with. in which trying to speak is#extremely distressing and causes very genuine anguish. this post is not me making light of it it's just a funny thing that happened once#it's no different than if i post about a funny thing that happened in conjunction w a physical disability. it's just me talking abt my life#i don't mind character tags tho. those can be entertaining. i don't know what any of you are talking about#Except the ppl who have said this is pego/ryu or wang/xian. those people i understand and respect#if you use it as a writing prompt that's fine but send it to me. i want to see it#aaaand i think that's it. everyday im tempted to turn off rbs on it. it hasn't even been a week
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lived my whole life in guilt bc i thought i was responsible for people's feelings. newly realizing that other people are responsible for their feelings and reactions, even if they make it seem like i'm the problem. a lot of the time it really has to do w them and their own emotional regulation. i can't keep thinking i'm not allowed to have space bc of other people's insecurities. like i literally refuse to dim myself. other people are responsible for their feelings just as i'm responsible for mine.
#like i'm always gonna operate from a place of kindness but i've had to deal w so many people who're bad at communication/confrontation#which led me to think i'm the problem#that i deserve to be given the silent treatment or dismissed disregarded belittled etc#that's j not true. i'm far from perfect but i think so few people deserve that kind of reaction. and my biggest revelation is i do not#even if people want to make me think i do / that their reaction is justified / that i'm a burden etc#my biggest problem is i humor people like this for too long bc it's been normalized behavior to me#does this make any sense to anyone. it's the end of the year and i'm reflecting on so many things#p
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non-verbal "I Hate It In Here" Lone Wanderer just wants her dad back.
#EDIT: I might have used an offensive/misused word when describing LW's speech abilities. I apologize for the inconvenience.#LW is non-verbal! She is able to make sounds and communicate in sign language - therefore she is NOT mute!#drawing characters in a vault suit is actually so fun#listen i never played fallout before i just enjoy reading about these characters and the story in general#fallout#fallout 3#starbsart#fallout charon#fallout fawkes#lone wanderer#if something feels off or just doesn't make sense storywise it's okay. there's a lot about it i don't know yet#fallout butch deloria
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a show doesn't necessarily have to be ABOUT queerness to BE a queer show. it's a cultural dialect that cishets don't quite speak.
edit: i gotta clarify that the shows do indeed still have to have actual queer characters in them to count
#our flag means death#and yeah i'll say#the owl house#not just in the fact they are stuffed to the brim with queer characters#or their stories of self-transformation into who you truly are#or even that they're about outsiders finding community amongst each other#though those things certainly factor#it's that the queerness cannot be disentangled from the story without costing complexity#luz has to be neurodivergent and queer. if she wasn't the story would be about someone else#am i making sense? is this microphone on?#a couple others of note are#killing eve#renegade nell#and star trek#which cannot be made straight despite best efforts#conversely heartstopper and first kill are not queer. but that's another essay.
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You don't wish your disability was worse or more visible, you wish your disability was taken seriously. Please stop confusing the two, I guarantee you would not get the support you need JUST by being more severe or more visible. Please listen to visibly disabled people when we tell you it isn't better on our side
#m/cc#mine#I tried extremely hard to word this nicely because I KNOW people don't mean bad and often even know there are unique challenges#and believe me I know the challenges of invisible disability too!!#I have invisible disabilities!#but as someone who has also been at least visibly 'off' since they were 10 I am SO SICK of invisible disabilities being hailed as like#a unique extra oppression that us lucky visibly disabled people don't have to deal with#there are challenges to invisible disabilities that visibly disabled people DON'T have to deal with!#but you need to understand that *the reverse is also true*#there are MASSIVE benefits to being able to lie about your disability for example#or not dealing with the overt ableism that comes with your disability being obvious to everyone#*I do not have the option to pretend I'm not disabled.* that is never an option I have#I walk weirdly. I use a mobility aid now. my speech and face are 'off.' I lean to one side#for a long time I wore sunglasses 24/7 and often didn't make sense. I sometimes can't speak or won't react to others#for the most part people will always know that at the very least something is wrong with me#and more obviously I have people telling me they'll pray for me; telling me I can't do things I'm already in the process of doing;#wanting to shake my hand to tell me I'm an inspiration for not killing myself; giving me dirty looks for existing in public#and yes. I'm aware that this is very much an in-community issue. I know the average abled person doesn't know invisible disabilities exist#that's why there's so much awareness happening for it#but as a visibly disabled person I get SO TIRED of constantly hearing 'I wish my disability was visible :'('#it's just 'I wish I had your disability!' but from other disabled people
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i think its so funny when people take the way donnie acts at face value even though its a horrible lie because he's a horrible liar, while understanding leo is bullshitting very well despite him actually being GOOD at bullshitting. many such cases
#personal#rottmnt#although tbf its probably because with leo its unpacked more thoroughly in the movie#donnie is not a morally ambiguous emotionally unavailable bad boy. he is very sensitive actually#he's a little crybaby /aff#and like this isnt hidden. he isnt SECRETLY sensitive or secretly caring its very out in the open actually#he's not hiding it well AT ALL AND THEY ALL KNOW IT LMAOOOOOOOO#i think donnie's perception of himself is somewhat earnest and somewhat. not? he DEFINITELY thinks he's more evil than he actually is#BGHFHDHGJFHG#i think what causes him to lash out and struggle to communicate is his inability to articulate his feelings#they are just too big for him. like its the exact opposite of robotic#he cant force himself to give a fuck but when he DOES its too much#so he yells and lashes out or he shuts down completely#honestly i think the perception of him being too sensitive being a problem makes way more sense than the perception of him being 'robotic'#when it comes to struggles in how his family sees him at least#even in little ways you can see him take it pretty personally when he's insulted#he struggles to blow things off#and i think it would also explain his tendency to like. visibly calm himself down when he gets upset? its a thing he does a lot in the show#he desperately wants to destroy that perception of him because he's trying so hard to close himself off#he doesn't want to be the sensitive one that cant take anything. it especially works in line with his shell#it was a big inspiration for canary continuity tbh. donnie should struggle with being the sensitive one in fic more#mikey is more empathetic and he's more emotional but donnie's quicker to feel offended or take things personally#BACKED UP HEAVILY BY CANON#that 'you can be honest with me! no hard feelings' - 'he's lyinggggggg'#like he's not upset with them babying him as much as he is with them genuinely finding it frustrating that he can fall behind like that#and just cannot take shit like that. so he tries to pull back and not seem as affected as he is#theyre a very cuddly family but mind you they can be actually mean to each other like that!!
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imagine percy swimming to the bottom of the ocean. not to save a group of sea creatures. not to show off his skillset. and not to prance around as the sea god's favorite son. but to join the ocean in all that it is. laying in the soft sand and watching the fish swim by. the lobsters making space for him as he rests his head against a patch of seaweed. him laughing at the irony. imagine percy making small talk with all the different sea creatures and assigning them names. him actually running into a whale he named phillip who's on his way to propose to his boyfriend. and percy wishing him good luck and offering his blessing on their union. imagine percy making small talk with the starfish about his favorite dinosaur. and explaining to the collective group what a dinosaur is and why they don't need to worry about them reaching the bottom of the ocean. just. percy immersiving himself in all that's aquatic because it's where he can be his most self.
#and it's not that camp half-blood doesn't give him that sense of community#it's just hard to feel a part of something when the other half of you calls out to the sea and you're stuck on land#sometimes he goes down there and collects trinkets for his friends and family#they call him the modern age ariel and he cringes at the idea of being his brothers son#but he continues to give them gifts because he wants to share who he is with the people he cares about#just imagine percy behaving like he's the son of poseidon in the truest form#percy jackon and the olympians#pjo text post#pjo#pjo headcanon#percy jackson#percy jackson is the son of poseidon#the son of poseidon
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"Autism isn't a disability" you tell me as my family are all considered carers for me,
"Autism isn't a disability" you tell me as i receive disability benefits for my autism
"Autism isn't a disability" you tell me as i have special needs so severe i cant even attend school
"Autism isn't a disability" you tell me as i am nonverbal
"Autism isn't a disability" you tell me as i can't regularly dress, bath, do grooming tasks without help or at all
"Autism isn't a disability" you tell me after I've spent months of my life requiring 24/7 1-1 supervision
"Autism isn't a disability" you tell me as i am housebound
"Autism isn't a disability" you tell me as i am officially diagnosed with nothing other than autism.
Maybe autism is a disability, and maybe you just don't want to accept you are disabled because of the stigma around disability? All autistic people are significantly impaired in areas of functioning, even if that makes you uncomfortable, that is the truth. And maybe you should spent 1 minute to go and read the diagnostic criteria for autism. That all autistic people meet.
Autism is a disability, and when you advocate that it's not, you are making real world harm, especially for people with substantial support needs.
They don't give disability services to non disabled people, so please, when your advocacy includes limiting services for those of us who need them the most, is it advocacy or are you just harming people who are already in positions that they can't advocate and be as loud as you.
#i hope this makes sense#rant#actually nonverbal#actually nonspeaking#nonverbal#autism community#actually autistic#nonspeaking#moderate support needs#aac#disability#autism#high to moderate support needs#moderate to high support needs#medium to high support needs#medium support needs
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some of my zutara sketches from twitter!
#zutara#atla#avatar the last airbender#katara#zuko#my art#if u ignore outsider toxicity the zutara twt community is great#theyre so familial in a sense they will stick out for their people umprompted its sweet 🥹#also I joined like maybe a week or so#and they took me in like a lost turtleduck
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how do you flirt?
stalking
#💕#𝟅𝟈𓈒 reb barks.#𝟅𝟈𓈒 reb anons.#LMAO but in srs terms i dont rly know??? im really friendly with everyone but if im flirting i think im like. very obvious abt it#ofc i dooo stalk people i love. and post about them. but romantic flirting depends on the person and what i know they like.#i want to do what they like. yknow??? just makes sense to me#yandere irl#irl yan#obsessive yandere#yan girl#actual yandere#yan blog#yancore#yanblr#irl yandere#yandere#actually yandere#yandere community#bpd yandere#yan4yan#actually obsessive#obsessive love#obsessive thinking#obslove#obsessivecore#obsessive thoughts#obsession
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I need to make Ford into a goddamn Disney Princess that can communicate with animals except he just has a special connection with the supernatural. Do you understand when I say that I need him to have a BOND with the strange creatures and anomalies of the nature in Gravity Falls. DO YOU SEE MY VISION WHEN I SAY THAT THE FOREST ITSELF IS FRIENDS WITH HIM. DO YOU GET WHAT I MEAN WHEN I SAY THAT THE MYSTERIOUS MAILBOX WOULD SOMETIMES GIVE HIM WARNINGS; AND HOW STEVE THE TREE GIANT WOULD SOMETIMES SCOOCH THINGS OVER SO HE DOESN'T TRIP WHILE HE HAS HIS FACE BURIED INSIDE HIS JOURNAL; OR HOW ALL THE CREATURES WITHIN GRAVITY FALLS JUST UNANIMOUSLY IS COOL WITH STANFORD WHILE HE HIMSELF HAS NO IDEA. HE IS SPIRITUALLY CONNECTED WITH THE FOREST IN SOME ELDRITCH MANNER BUT HE DOESN'T KNOW. DO YOU SEE MY VISION??
#sorry I was going crazy bc I read a brief passage in a fic where the mailbox in the forest and#a gnome was collaborating to communicate worry over Ford's condition <3#literally makes no sense and I cant be bothered to make my words make sense#also probably very not canon but <3#my post#sput chatters#gravity falls#stanford pines#ford pines
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cw body horror
help. they used up the vfx budget (again)
a secret third thing (eclipse) to horror sun / moon possible design for playing along (ao3 link!!)
tidbits to chew on: ☆ a protocol to shut down entertainment functions for security purposes ☆ ripped moons hat (again) ☆ birthday boy :o)
i am bad at being sneaky. i LOVE yapping. but i will leave them more vague... mwehehe >:)
instead! if u have Eclipse hcs ... then, I'd love to hear Your thoughts ^-^<3
places down the treat of the day
bonus treat round ��� parade
#fnaf dca#dca fandom#fnaf daycare attendant#dca fanart#fnaf sb#fnaf eclipse#eclipse fnaf#dca community#pom draws#pom yaps#playing along#horror eclipse#cw body horror#cw robot gore#ermm idk what else. when u draw neon tubing inside a chest it gets kinda unsettling.. oops? ^-^;;#it makes sense to sprinkle paprika(movie) here huh LMAO
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i find it insane how people can easily grasp the concept of social pressure making people act against their own interest when it comes to mentally ill, lonely and violent men
when a man shows anti-social and self destructive behaviours, people are quick to talk about how he couldnt express his feelings, or grew up in a culture where male dominance is glorified and his choices were made in that context
but when women try to criticise self destructive and toxic feminine behaviours like engaging in violent kinky sex, becoming a housewife etc all anyone wants to talk about is how ~it's her choiiice~ and never discuss the social forces that drive those choices
#i'm very tired i hope this makes sense#just my shower thoughts before i go to bed#radical feminism#radblr#radical feminist community#txt
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