Ani Laurel

"Just because I'm right, doesn't mean I'm being helpful" is a vastly underrated thought process that I strongly encourage others to get comfortable with

Hey op thanks for fundamentally rearranging my molecules in some helpful way this fine evening

You can upload videos as fanworks (hosted elsewhere iirc), so presumably people can upload themselves telling a story, a poem, a song, etc in various sigh languages

Sometimes I wonder how far back certain autism stereotypes go. The image of the autistic video game prodigy pre-dates the invention of video games in the form of the autistic pinball wiz. What was it before pinball? Did popular media in the 1800s have an archetype of Guy Who Can't Make Eye Contact But Whips Ass At Billiards?

For some reason I wanna say poker

Nah, it's gotta be something that involves some sort of physics-based fuckery. We still have the media stereotype of the autistic cardsharp, and it's firmly distinct from what I'm talking about.

Imagine somewhere out there there's a whole body of lost media about autistic croquet masters.

skittles comes to mind, british pubs have had skittle alleys for centuries (we literally lived above one for seven years in a 300 year old pub, nice sound)

If you are looking for a great book on autism, I highly recommend Neurotribes by Steve Silberman. That being said, one of the first big autism community that he could find was late-1800s sci-fi short stories and comics nerds.

hard to swallow pills dot jpg. the reason people don’t like when you infodump about your uwu favorite things isn’t because they don’t like hearing about deep sea ecosystems or anime blorbos or whatever it may be. it’s because talking /at/ someone is selfish. have you asked the other person any questions? do you care what they have to say? would you willingly listen to them infodump the same way or would you (be honest) stand there and wait for your turn to talk? people not responding well to your tedtalk on the thing you like isn’t because they’re normies who hate ‘nerd stuff’, it’s because you have substituted conversation for verbal masturbation. hope this helps

typecasting sucks unless it's Charlize Theron playing an emotionally unstable woman in an action thriller in which case it fucking rules

do you think two pennies is still enough for the ferryman or has inflation driven up the fare

if he makes me use an app I am simply not crossing the river Styx.

Pearl-clutching over shipping is dumb, but y'all have GOT to stop calling everything that's retrogressive "fascist".

I mean censorship is literally a nazi and fascist tool, so I wouldn’t know what else to call it

Wish more people understood that the tools of fascisim are never going to be obvious. They are always going to be quiet, little things that SEEM innocuous. Like purity in Fandom. But it comes down to Thought Policing, which is the number one tool in the fascist toolbelt. I'm sorry young people have been so brainwashed that they can't see the loss of freedom outside the scope of Fandom, but it is a direct reflection of the values a certain part of society is trying to push, and harassing people over their LITERAL THOUGHTS is one of the first rules in the Nazi Handbook.

Increasingly of the opinion that the root of all evil is just thinking that you're better than other people. There's nuance to this, but as soon as you subscribe to this view, you've decided that the rights of others are biddable.

i saw a post on twitter by a european saying americans are fake for their random compliments to strangers and their general cheery demeanor and like no. no no no you don’t understand. if you get a random compliment from an american on the street about your outfit or whatever, that is 100% genuine. we mean it. we aren’t lying we are making a small but fleeting connection with you because our lives are shitty but the human condition is enduring. oh god i’m clutching my chest

If you get a compliment from a random American on the street, know that they tried their best to keep from saying a peep to you but they literally could not hold it in. They HAD to say something.

The other day a tiny gay man in a hurry bumped me on the Metro escalator and said "Sorry, great dress by the way" and then he stopped at the top of the escalator and turned around and said "AND a great hat. THAT is how we do summer!" and SPRINTED for his bus and I coasted on that for the rest of the day.

this website is always finding new and exciting ways to prove this image true

hey boss can you show me where the forklift's self-destruct is so i can keep it from falling into the hands of enemy warehouse crews?