i don’t care if it’s nazis, mormons, or a bunch of misguided autistic people. if anyone ever tries to tell you your soul is from another planet and you’re actually part of the class of impressive people that secretly did everything cool in the world but is now extinct and lives on through your broken genome, you RUN. YOU WILL RUN AWAY. YOU WILL SPRINT FULL SPEED AWAY FROM THAT.
grabs you by the shoulders listen. listen to my words. i understand the urge to make fanfiction about yourself and to find a reality in which you’re super awesome and great and everyone who hates you is wrong and dumb. i get it. you’re better than that. you can love yourself without putting other people down, dehumanizing and generalizing, and retaliating against your oppressors.
there’s no NPCs. there’s no aliens coming to save us. we’re not the next step in human evolution. our hyperconnected nervous systems give us terrible sensory overwhelm more often than they make us geniuses. neurotypical people are sentient, conscious, aware people who are capable of understanding you. we’re more the same than we are different. we’re more the same than we are different. we’re more the same than we are different.
Also stay away from people who say shit like “sexual attraction and romance addles the mind and makes you crazy and irrational and this is why being aro/ace makes you intellectually superior.” I’ve seen that a couple times times on this hellsite. Stay away from anyone who tries to convince you that your racial identity/cultural identity/gender identity/sexual orientation/neurodivergence/any other intrinsic quality makes you a member of some master race that is inherently superior to the other humans.
Only been watching The Pitt for a few days but Mel King is THE best autistic character ever written in a medical drama. She doesn’t “make connections no one else can” or “just see things differently” or any other Savant with Special Abilities stereotypical bullshit, she’s a resident physician who’s exactly as intelligent and capable as any other resident physician in the same year. She hates unnecessary yelling because it’s loud and annoying, not because she’s completely incapable of handling conflict. She usually keeps her stimming subtle enough to hide but sometimes she can’t. She loves having a furry critter to pet. She accommodates an autistic patient by lowering the lights and closing the doors because she understands the sensory nightmare of an active medical setting. She speaks in a straightforward and honest way but she isn’t an overtly rude inconsiderate asshole. She misses some jokes and takes things too literally on occasion but she does have a sense of humor and she is funny. She speaks up against misinformation and parent panic about autism and other developmental disabilities. She has emotions. She looks at a video of a lava lamp on her phone to chill. Doctor Mel King you have my entire heart
never believe anyone who tells you that corsetry was Made To Oppress Women. They don’t know anything about what we’ve lost. They don’t know about Pockets
did you know
DID YOU KNOW
DID YOU KNOW WHAT WE’VE
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Also the support! Y'all. Big boobs in proper corsets have so much less back pain.
Fandoms stopped being a fun escape from reality when people started spreading the belief that you should prioritize purity over pleasure and the art you create must be a reflection of your moral standards at all times.
part of the reason i love mean, bitchy, rude, domineering, firecracker female characters and loathe seeing them defanged is because the prickliness repels men and the defanging is ALWAYS to make them more fuckable for whatever man they have a weird sexual tension with. like yeah i don’t like the Mean Lesbian stereotype either but at least the mean lesbian isn’t shelving her career to become a tradwife after spending however many episodes/chapters/issues saying how much she didn’t want to do either of those things
i will take twenty mean women being headcanoned as lesbians solely on the basis of how fucking toxic they are before i will take ONE formerly mean woman suddenly being sunshine and rainbows in the arms of a man she should be slapping across the face
i love seeing women get character growth and interesting arcs but NOT BEING ATTRACTED TO MEN/THE MALE PROTAGONIST IS NOT A CHARACTER FLAW
and maybe this isn’t revolutionary of me at all but in addition to being perfectly fine with the mean lesbians i also just want to see more female characters who are genuinely Married To Their Work. not in that she doesn’t have time for dating but wishes she did, i mean that she genuinely gets all the fulfillment she needs from the satisfaction of a job well done and the socialization she enjoys in the process of doing her job. and it can be any kind of thing that keeps her busy, not just modern formal 9-5 employment; “passion” and “calling” also work here instead of “job”. female characters are never allowed to loiter around unfucked, especially not if the male lead wants a piece of that (and even if the male lead getting a piece of that would completely derail everything she has going on). like oh my god can just one chick win an employee of the month award and not have to immediately suffer some sort of cisheteronormative penance for it
