That Time In High School When My Computer Died And I Was So Deeply Distraught I Legit Wrote An Entire

someone sent me a photo of a cat that looks like an honest to god toddler (albeit a toddler who resembles a gnome)

Y'know, whenever people want to talk about why aspec people ‘count’ as an oppressed identity, they tend to go for the big stuff like corrective rape and conversion therapy. And like, we should absolutely talk about that stuff. Obviously those things are terrible and important and we need to raise awareness and deal with them.

But I feel like people often gloss over how… quietly traumatising it is to grow up being told that there is only one way to be happy— and that everybody who doesn’t conform to that norm is secretly miserable and just doesn’t know it— and then to gradually realise that, for reasons that you cannot help, that is never going to happen for you.

You’re not going to find a prince/princess and ride off into the sunset. Or if you do, then it’s not going to look exactly the way it does in fairytales. You’re not going to get a ‘normal’ relationship, because you are not ‘normal’, and everybody and everything around you keeps telling you that that’s bad.

You see films where characters are presented as being financially stable, genuinely passionate about their work and surrounded by friends and family, but then spend the rest of the plot realising that the real thing they needed was a (romantic and sexual) partner, to make them ‘complete’.

You absorb the idea that any relationships you have with allo people will ultimately be unfulfilling on their side, and that this will be your fault (even if you discussed things with your partner beforehand and they decided that they were a-okay with having those sorts of boundaries in a relationship) unless you deliberately force yourself into situations that you aren’t comfortable with, so as to make uo for your ‘defects’.

You grow up feeling lowkey gaslighted because all the adults in your life (even in LGBT+ spaces. In fact especially in LGBT+ spaces) are insisting that it’s totally normal to not be attracted to anybody at your age, and then you go to school and everybody keeps pressuring you to name somebody you’re attracted to because they can’t imagine not being attracted to anybody at your age.

And then you get older and realise that one day you’re going to be expected to leave home, and that one day all your friends are going to be expected to put aside other relationships and ‘settle down’ with a primary partner and you don’t know what you’re going to do after that because you straight up don’t have a roadmap for what a ‘happy ending’ looks like for someone like you.

(And the LGBT+ community is little help, because so many people in there are more than happy to tell you that you’re not oppressed at all. That you’re like this because you don’t want to have sex, and/or you don’t want to have any relationships, that your orientation is some sort of choice you made— like not eating bananas— rather than an intrinsic part of you that a lot of us have at some point tried to wish away.)

Even if you’re grey or demi, and do experience those feelings, you still have to deal with the fact that you’re not experiencing them the 'normal’ way and that that’s going to effect your relationships and your ability to find one in the first place.

If you’re aiming for lifelong singlehood (which is valid af) or looking for a qpp, then you’re going to have to spend the rest of your life either letting people make wrong assumptions about your situation (at best that your relationship is of a different nature than it actually is, at worst that the life you’ve chosen is really just a consolation prize because you 'failed’ at finding a romantic/sexual partner) or pulling out a powerpoint and several webpages every time you want to explain it.

This what being aspec looks like for most people, and it is constantly minimised as being unimportant and not worth fighting against— even in aspec spaces— because we’ve all on some level absorbed the idea that oppression is only worth fighting against if it’s big, and dramatic, and immediately obvious. That all the little incidents of suffering that we experience on a daily basis are not enough to be worth bothering about.

I mean, who gives a shit if you feel broken, inherently toxic as a partner, and like you’re going to be denied happiness because of your orientation? Shouldn’t we all just shut up and thank our lucky stars we don’t have to deal with all the stuff some of the other letters in the acronym have to put up with (leaving aside the fact that there are many aspec people who identify with more than one letter)?

So you know what? If you’re aspec and you relate to anything I’ve said above (or can think of other things relating your your aspec-ness that I haven’t mentioned) then this is me telling you now that it’s enough. Even if we got rid of all the big stuff (which we’re unlikely to do any time soon because— Shock! Horror!— the big stuff is actually connected to all the small stuff) we would still be unable to consider our fight 'over’ because what you are experiencing is not 'basically okay’ and something we should just be expected to 'put up with’.

No matter what anybody tells you, we have the right to demand more from life than this.

“Attempted to take a cute video of my cats licking each other, and then this happened…” 

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*pauses mid-sentence as the little hamster that lives in my brain abruptly gets off the hamster wheel to go drink water from it's little upside down water bottle*

a dragon finds a clutch of goose eggs and attempts to hatch them

ohhh noooo people are doing PiRaCy…. how could this pOsSibLy be prevented…… such a terrible crime…… i’m reblogging this for totally legal reasons….

the fact that people actually pay for all these different shitty streaming services and i keep hearing shit like “oh they’re gonna have [movie from like 2005] on Disney+ so guess I’ll suck some capitalist dick!” ……..piracy is RIGHT THERE either use a pirate site or stop complaining about how expensive it is to give money to 15 different leeches so you can watch all your favourite movies (if you’re lucky and they have them which they often don’t) when you could just hit up fucking Google and watch it for free

a dragon finds a clutch of goose eggs and attempts to hatch them

This line>>>>

Now that the new season is looming, here are some predictions I have for Hermitcraft season 9!

- Mumbo is going to go completely ballistic. The man couldn't kill anything for a whole season, the minute he gets a wooden sword no animal mob or player will be safe (either that or he'll kill one thing and then have a crisis but my bet is that one thing will be Grian)

- First player death will be Joe Hills and it'll be him falling into a ravine

- Either that or Iskall is going to kill someone without meaning to again

- There's going to be some dispute between two people who want to settle on the same mountain and they're going to turn it into a hilariously drawn-out comedic rivalry because of course they are

- First shop is going to be either Grian or Impulse

- On that note idk how likely this is but a Grian and Impulse business empire would be SO overpowered please I want it

- Hilarious disparity between people who mesh season 8 in with season 9 and have a canonical path of travel between the two vs people who don't even mention it at all (read: Zedaph and Etho being Blissfully Oblivious)

- Cleo is going to punch Joe. That's not even a prediction at this point that's just a universal constant

- Place your bets now on which happens first: Mumbo makes a cult or Scar makes a pyramid scheme! I'm betting one or the other in the first ten episodes, bonus points if it's neither and Etho does both

I'm saving this to reblog a few weeks in and see how many Apollo's bullseyes I can get, feel free to add on!

Strut.

I have exciting information for you! Bird bones are not entirely hollow, rather they are filled with large air pockets. I find the result both delightful and terrifically unsettling!