EVERYBODY SHUT UP
MY VERY BEST FRIEND KAY ( @cardboard-sorceress ) MADE A LITTLE ZINE ABOUT ALL THE WEIRD TYPES OF LOVE YOU ENCOUNTER AS A QUEER PERSON AND ITS THE CUTEST THING EVER AND EVERYONE SHOULD GO CHECK HER OUT BC SHES SO COOL AND FUN AND TALENTED AND FUNNY
ILL LET HER DECIDE WHERHER SHE WANTS TO POST HER POEMS BUT OMFG I APMOST CRIED READING THEM
HEY
Y'all don't forget to go watch the Blue Beetle movie!! I just saw it and it handled Jaime Reyes' story very well and is definitely worth the watch.
For those worried about the writer's and actor's strike, please keep in mind neither WGA nor SAG-AFTRA have called for consumer boycotts. In other words, enjoy as many movies as you'd like. You will not be crossing a picket line!
This sure is a collection, but I am not sure what it is
really crazy how much i’ve imagined this fic. like it’s soooooo imagined you wouldn’t even believe. not writing it though
Yeah you're right. It WOULD be pretty fucked up if you were a swan but you were raised by ducks and you grew up never seeing another swan or even knowing that such a thing as a swan even existed so you just thought you were a duck with something super wrong with it.
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The Frame Up Job (S05E10)
- Obviously I thought I'm not going to like this one because I find Nate and Sophie irritating, especially as a couple, but Sterling absolutely saves it. I love Sterling so much. I think after Eliot/Hardison/Parker, Sterling has to be my favorite character.
- Also I was looking up if this is the only time we get Sterling twice in one season (no) and the leverage wiki points out Sterling is one of the only characters with their own theme music (anyone know who else has one?) and I'd never consciously noticed but yeah, that's what I want in an ambiguous nemesis/grudging ally, a real dramatic entrance theme.
- Nate saying cold/warm as Sterling was searching was delicious.
- The sub-plot about the personal reason for Sophie's interest was tedious as even on first watch I think it's easy to guess the conclusion. But I actually don't hate the sub-plot about whether Nate believes she didn't steal it and then trusting her against the odds, I found that a fun pay-off with Sterling doing a classic "let me get this straight" moment.
- I mean, it's no Rundown Job and obviously suffers because it's compared to it, but to my surprise it holds its own in this season. Won't skip on future rewatches.
scary obama be like: Uhh let me be fear
shoutout to not being fourteen years old anymore
fuck being 14 years old!!!!! dont worry if you're 14 right now!!!!!!! it can only get better!!!!!!!!!!!!
I saw this on FB today and I wanna try and express something about it. Like, you know the curbcutter effect? Where when curbcuts are put in it benefits everyone (bicyclists, people with baby strollers etc) and not just disabled people?
There is also whatever the opposite of the curbcutter effect is. And this is that.
This isn't just anti-adhd/autism propaganda... this is anti-child propaganda.
Kids have developmentally appropriate ways that they need to move their bodies and express themselves and sitting perfectly still staring straight ahead is not natural or good for ANY CHILD.
Don't get me wrong, I was punished unduly as a kid for being neurodivergent (and other types of kid will ALSO be punished unduly for it... Black kids come to mind) and thus UNABLE to perform this -- but even the kids who ARE able to perform this type of behavior are not SERVED WELL by it. They don't benefit from it.
This is bad for everyone.
The idea that bc some kids may be capable of complying with unfair expectations, those expectations don't hurt them... is a dangerous idea. Compliance isn't thriving. Expectation of compliance isn't fair treatment.
The image above expresses the attitude towards children I grew up with, in a fairly conservative United States suburb in the 1990′s. Expectations for children’s behavior were strict, and when children failed to meet them, their parents were blamed publicly and privately, to a traumatizing degree.
When I went to the Kids R Us, Toys R Us, even the supermarket I constantly heard parents yelling and nagging at their kids over virtually nothing, and telling them not to cry. Kids had their own segregated food (unhealthy, tasteless fast food and pizza), clothing, and activities (full of plastic junk toys and meaningless crafts that would get thrown out the day they were made).
Parenting advice was everywhere, in grocery checkout aisles and doctor’s waiting rooms, with the format “push button, receive behavior” and the goal of making kids do what you wanted easily, without conflict. It drove my mom frantic that it never worked for neurodivergent kids like hers.
In school, we had to get permission to go to the bathroom. I’ll never forget nearly wetting myself for a half an hour waiting for the kids with the passes to return. I learned that even my most basic basic bodily needs were unimportant and unacceptable.
No one seemed to think kids were actual people, and the segregation and contempt pissed me off even when I was young enough to use a kid’s menu. The anger and hurt are still there, under the surface.
And yes, I was one of those kids who couldn’t focus on busywork or stand in line for a long time. I’d wander off to dance or draw or I’d just let my imagination wander, “zoning out.” It’s the same old story everyone in neurodivergent communities hears ad infinitum.
Meanwhile, I was told, and I believed, that school was designed for all the other kids, who seemed to do what was expected without struggle. Many of them even seemed content with school and life. It made me feel even worse about myself. I didn’t understand that they were suffering, too, until I saw my generation and then Gen Z going through the resulting mental health crisis.
Somehow, I never realized that strict expectations that require kids to go against their own needs, that teach kids their basic needs don’t matter, are a reverse curb cut effect.
“Even kids who ARE able to perform this type of behavior are not SERVED well by it...the idea that because some kids may be capable of complying with unfair expectations, those expectations don’t hurt them, is a dangerous idea.”
Yes. All kids deserve better.
Neurodivergent ones are just the canary in the coal mine. Things that hurt neurodivergent kids, tend to be bad for everyone.
Thank you for pointing this out, OP.