Friends… It’s Finally Here… We Must Gather To Talk About Cattoru

attempted realism a while ago + the sketch version bc i liked it better

be gay, commit crimes

First years getting to know each other thoughts

ADHD/Autism Duos: Round 1, Side B

Matchup 6:

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.

Prison is the most obvious choice. It's more direct about its queerness; it spits in everyone's faces that yeah, we exist. Its directness has the power to anger homophobes because it's so obvious and unequivocal that it's about queerness.

But I think we should vote Mama. There's the argument that the queerness in Mama is subtextual, or that it was named queer by the fans, which automatically makes it less queer than Prison.

But isn't that the point? We made Mama our own song. We claimed it because it made us feel seen, it comforted us, it gave us something to identify with. And community is so important. I love Prison just as much as the next person, but we made Mama our own. It's personal, intimate, individual.

Prison is a song whose queerness is explicit. Mama is a song whose queerness is subtextual. Both meanings are very important: the former conveying being out and proud, the latter conveying the very real queer experience of having to hide yourself for safety, and the desperation that comes with it.

Really, one could make a solid argument for both. But my vote goes to Mama for the song that spoke to and provided comfort for so many fans. It feels a lot more impactful, a lot more meaningfully queer for me.

Anyway leave it to me to vomit multiple paragraphs of MCR song analysis under a fucking tumblr poll, but perhaps that's what tumblr is all about.

happy birthday my dearest

a fashionable date between classes and missions 🔨🌹🗡️

Nobamaki in my fave collab outfits! (pic under cut)

Leelah Alcorn’s blog was deleted and posts about her are being removed. Don’t stop spreading this. Reblog everything you can, post everything you can. 

These are her pictures

here are some of her drawings

this is her note

Don’t let this die.

Not this.

*Sometimes YouTube videos are mainstream media, so if you regularly watch YouTube videos but only ones that are breaking 3M+ views, I would count that as mainstream entertainment media.