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the beautiful thing about ADHD is it can take you down many paths. within minutes you might go from checking if there's any holidays soon to discovering a national holiday to raise awareness for a little known disease and then suddenly you're spending your morning down a wikipedia rabbithole and you're rapidly experiencing the joys of learning and connecting the pieces of the universe together and entering a higher state of enlightened being. or at least having fun.

the horrible thing about ADHD is all that's nothing but a useless distraction from your REAL purpose in life: being a capitalist drone

Wednesday is aspec💜💚

my thing with vampires doesn't even have the decency to be one of those childhood obsessions ("I roleplayed warrior cats on the playground and now I have a cat fursona" "I used to think I was a wizard as an undiagnosed nd kid and now I'm all about gandalf big naturals"), this happened to me in my early teens. it's barely even an academic interest, I got there eventually but I had to deliberately shoehorn it into my major. it's not even something respectable like a kink or other sick and twisted sexual perversion. no, this is something far, far worse.

Festive gingerbread bats! With a link to the official Gothic Charm School recipe!

I've only ever seen this post in screen shots so im not sure who posted this originally on this fine ass site but i need to talk about it

Story time

As a young girl I as introduced to Star Wars by my uncle he loves Star Wars more than me and that saying something. He even LOVES the prequels... Which I admire him for.

Anyway I was brought up by my mum and dad on your traditional disney princess story i.e. Girl must find man to solve her problems and to be happy. Bless my mum she always tried to tell me that that I didnt have to do that but was like "whaaattt but cinderella had to find a prince so must I!" But heres the thing I never wanted to be the princess i wanted to be the one who did the saving but i felt like i couldnt because thats not what girls do.

Then!

Then I watch the original star wars trilogy for the first time my mind was blown (yeah yeah the bikini was a low point) BUT Here was a woman who was also a princess who was sassy could shoot a fucking gun and out talk most of the empire without trying. I found my first role model who i could truly relate to AND aspire to be like.

As i grew up misogyny became a thing i was acutely aware of (fucking high school bull shit) but i kept going back to my role model my princess and resisting the idea that i was a second class citizen just because I had boobs. I delved in the the interviews with Carrie Fisher and i grew to love her more than her character! She was a real person who told people to fuck off and did what she wanted. I love her so much

When she died it hit me hard, dispite never knowing or meeting me in person she had helped shaped me in to the woman I'm proud to be today. And now she's just not around anymore.

So when people say stuff about Star Wars in a negative way it hurts because it shaped a big part of who i am today. I'm just saying this so y'all know George Lucas did this by accident he didn't intend for Leia to be a bad ass woman Carrie Fisher acted her that way, so its not a perfect example of women in film. But sometimes you have to take what you can get. That is why star wars is my favourite films of all time forget the lightsabers and the cool bad guys in masks. It inspired an 8yr old me to love myself all because of one woman

Carrie Fisher you are an amazing woman and I love you and I'm sad you are gone

I will leave you with my favourite quote of hers that one day i will probably get a tattoo of

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What important is the action. You don't have to wait to be confident. Just do it, eventually the confidence will follow"

Now you’ve read all my ramblings please enjoy this thing I made

i love anathema

i think as a fandom we do not give anathema enough credit. first off. - my girl has a PhD at nineteen

- that's right, it's Dr. Anathema Device

- she carries a foot-long knife on her at all times

- her bike is called Phaeton. a phaeton is a type of carriage. it has two horses and an open roof

- her first word was nice, her second was accurate. her first sentence was this:

I tell ye thif, and I charge ye with my wordes. Four shalle ryde, and Four shalle alfo ryde, and Three sharl ryde the Skye as twixt, and Wonne shal ryde in flames; and theyr shall be no stopping themme: not fish, nor rayne, nor rode, neither Deville nor Angel. And ye shalle be theyr alfo, Anathema.

- she spells like it's the 1600s

- she looks 'vivacious' idek abt that one

- she drew on the title page of the Book. she DREW in THE NICE AND ACCURATE PROPHECIES OF AGNES NUTTER.

- I can't do better than the actual quote for this one:

"Other members of the family had said that Agnes made things obscure to conceal them from the understanding of outsiders; Anathema, who suspected she could occasionally think like Agnes, had privately decided that it was because Agnes was a bloody-minded old bitch with a mean sense of humor."

- she's an actual witch

- she's nineteen? like my girl is doing all that at NINETEEN.

- when she loses The Book she methodically looks for it, then chaotically looks for it, then melodramatically falls to her knees and bemoans the situation then looks around because DRAMATIC STRUCTURE dictates The Book should be there

Thanks for coming to my ted talk, Yours, an anathema fan.

Autism Acceptance Month: Autistic Headcanons

↳ Lydia Deetz (Beetlejuice)

“Well, I read through that Handbook for the Recently Deceased. It says live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself am strange and unusual.”

me aged 13: I will kill myself and everyone around me if I get another maths homework sheet 🤬😡 [gothic music plays]

me now: haha I can purchase a new beverage at any time. tee hee [gothic music plays]