This Time I Get To Be Jesper And Nina

the moment I start referring to asking if I can leave rehearsal early to work on things for the show at home as "asking for the day off" you know I should be getting paid

I'm really proud of this guys, go follow my writing/art blog too if you want

ta-da! here she is, my girl Char the superhero who definitely does not think breaking laws is fun

the fact that that meme is literally how I get any important news nowadays just reaffirms something I noticed a little while ago

humor has been everyone's coping mechanism for the last two generations

at some point when they were growing up the millennials decided to laugh instead cry and it just hasn't stopped

Happy third anniversary to Tumblr's emergency announcement system

bruh

what the crap man

- one of their players

Me as a DM: my players can have a little bit of pre campaign misinformation, as a treat

I don't trust you anymore

Hey if you wanna be an evil DM roll D20 every turn and add 10 and make that the BBEGs AC for that turn of combat

i think that… approximately 100% of the time, parents, teachers, etc… have this misconception that neurodivergent kids & teens don’t know anything about how to handle their neurodivergence.

for years, i suffered through people making suggestions of things that were things i had done, and either weren’t worth the effort or they actually made things worse. i told them this, and if i was still having any issues with the same problem they’d say something about “well if you’re not gonna listen to any suggestions…” when I did. they’re the one who didn’t listen when i told them that doesn’t work for me. They assume that because I didn’t try it in front of them (which is often impossible), I never tried it. I tried doing my homework as soon as I got home. I tried doing my homework at the table, I tried working where I was comfortable. I tried listening to music, I tried working in silence. I tried using a planner, I tried setting reminders on my phone, I tried. I tell people that I have executive functioning issues and they say that I have to work on it like I haven’t been doing that as long as I’ve had to do things and it’s so much better than it was before. I’m as able as I am now because I’ve spent 18 years working on it.

One of my friends has ADHD, and at one point when her grades dropped her parents took her phone, despite her telling them that the only way she can focus on her homework is to listen to music, for which she needs her phone.

I was in a study hall with another friend, who also has ADHD. Sometimes, they would be able to focus and do their work. Others, they would end up being entirely unable to and would do other stuff. The “instructional support” person would start bothering them about it, insist that they try. As if they hadn’t already done so.

I am tired of watching people assume that neurodivergent people aren’t trying, or we haven’t tried. We’re always trying.

I am under the impression that in this, like in some other instances I won't name here, my own family may use a slightly atypical noun

so we're preparing for auditions for our first show in my theatre class rn (everyone has to audition for the grade, whether you want to be in it or not)

anyway, we're split into groups to practice our monologues with/to and cuz the teacher trusts me (this is my 4th year doing it after all) I'm with 3 newbies

well one of them likes to sass back when I tell him what to do, I mean he'll do it but I think he doesn't think I should be bossing him around

I am the stage manager

he's gonna need to learn to listen and to respect me real quick

I love that I can be Spot and Crutchie

the newsies as things my friends have said

jack: "I'm just simultaneously too stupid and too smart."

katherine: "do you feel like I called you out? good 'cause I did."

david: "guys I got manipulated by a six year old the other day."

les: "what if, after high school, I just became a clown."

crutchie: "last time I wore my bandana, everyone kept asking if I was in a gang. I just like bandanas, calm down."

race: "you best call me Tom, because I'm about to do some foolery."

spot: "I don't want to be endearing. I want to be feared."

growing up there was this one Walgreens my family and I would go to all the time because it was within walking distance (or rather, what my family considers walking distance, we walk a lot) so we became friends with quite a few of the workers

once I took my mom's card and went to buy her a present (Christmas, her birthday, I don't remember) while she waited for me by the doors. we were so well known that when I went to check out the lady at the register put in my mom's phone number without even having to ask

Starving to death this morning because ive been to the new local cafe twice this week already and if i go a third time ill look desperate.