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Again this is my personal take on color! It really depends on the situation and what you personally value, and in the end practice is your best friend.

links:

genice’s color practices

color palette challenge (one iteration of it; there’s lot of people who made them)

(not mentioned, but helpful)

Patrick (H) Willems’s video essays on color in film; specifically his ones on

Wonder Woman and Marvel

I thought he had one on John Wick too but I can’t find it. If you like saturated colors though, check that movie out!!

Oh thank god, someone put it into words.

- Chasing people who don’t want you

-Making up lots of stories and worlds

-Overtalking whenever there’s someone to talk to

-Excessive reading

-Daydreaming

-Clinging emotionally to others

-Being the ‘disposable’ friend in the group

-Excessive baths

-Talking to oneself

-Obsessive friendships

thanks! i use woocommerce for my store because there’s no monthly fee and it’s very customizable, but i am not connected to a larger marketplace so i don’t gain the benefits of an existing user base to drive sales – instead, i drive all my traffic thru my own social media, which i am lucky to be able to do. additionally, although there are no monthly or listing fees with woocommerce (everything is based off wordpress, which is free), you have to buy an SSL certificate every year in order to take card transactions and you probably want to buy a theme for your store (these can range $50-100 or more and some are better than others, i recommend buying one with lifetime support because otherwise once wordpress does a big update the theme may break). also, wordpress is notoriously kind of a pain to code so keep that in mind. you also have to pay one time fees for certain plug ins for things like running special coupons.

i used to use storenvy but i no longer recommend it because they were charging me marketplace fees despite my not using the marketplace and they also started charging customers additional fees per purchase, which is ridiculous. also, you have to pay for automatic downloads of digital products or send them out manually and that is dumb.

i know many people who use etsy and i have used it in the past but i stopped using etsy because i found many people ripping off or stealing my work there and etsy did nothing to remove the listings or penalize the sellers even after i and others reported the fraudulent listings. i’ve heard recently that this has changed and i’m glad to hear it! etsy doesn’t have monthly fees but it does have listing fees and in my opinion the interface is hideous and has basically no customization. but it has a huge community that may help drive traffic to your store if you can work the algorithm and it has the best shipping calculator out of any store platform. additionally, the listing fee you are charged goes towards subsidizing commercial shipping and you can print postage from etsy instead of needing to do that at the post office or pay $25/mo for shipstation (what devin and i use to print postage). devin always recommends etsy for people new to selling online.

i have friends who use bigcartel, shopify, squarespace, and tictail but i’ve never used any of them so i can’t provide any feedback – tho i’ve heard tictail charges both a monthly fee and a listing fee so i wouldn’t recommend selling there. bigcartel, shopify, and squarespace all have monthly fees and they all look good.

My femme wife: [who has also taken 6 hours] Okay babe I love you I’m ready and your highlight is poppin severely but you need to blend that contour in a little bit

Do not support Autism Speaks, they treat autism like a disease and a burden and talk over actual autistic people when we disagree with them. Instead consider supporting organisations run by autistic people, such as the Autistic Self Advocacy Network and the Autism Women’s Network!

Support #RedInstead not #LightItUpBlue. (#LightItUpBlue was started by Autism Speaks while #RedInstead was started by autistic people as an alternative).

Don’t use the puzzle piece to represent autism (again, Autism Speaks does this - implies autistic people are a “puzzle” needing to be solved). Many autistic people prefer to use the rainbow-coloured infinity symbol!

Don’t tell autistic people to use “person first language” (i.e. “person with autism” as opposed to “autistic person”). Let them decide how they wish to describe themselves!

Autism has most likely always existed, it just wasn’t recognised until the early 20th century. Also no, autism is not caused by vaccines.

Remember that autistic children become autistic adults. Autism is stereotyped as being a children’s disability and resources are often tailored exclusively to autistic children and/or their families, completely ignoring autistic adults.

The terms “low functioning” and “high functioning” are generally considered to be outdated in addition to being problematic in that they are often used to deny autistic people resources/self-agency (i.e. “you’re too high functioning to need help!” “you’re too low functioning to know what’s best for yourself!”). Autism is a wide spectrum which doesn’t have just a “high functioning” and “low functioning” end but rather several different areas which we may or may not struggle with (e.g. sensory processing, social interaction/communication, organisational skills, etc) which can even differ depending on our mood, stress levels, etc. 

Please don’t use “autism”/”autistic” as an insult (or r*tard/r*tarded).

Please don’t tell us how we “don’t look autistic”. That’s not a compliment.

Please be patient with autistic people if we’re having trouble understanding what you mean or having difficulty accomplishing certain tasks. We’re trying our best!

Ask an autistic person you know about their special interest(s)!

Listen to autistic people when we talk about our experiences!

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