Let no man ignorant of geometry enter here.

I found an article that talks about autism and ADHD. It also goes over their overlapping symptoms. I thought many of you might find it helpful.

As always, I’ll leave the link below.

Autism

The deceased, himself, is there, watching this with popcorn. It's clear that no-one but the audience can see him. He can pause the action whenever he wants to monologue, and often stops the show to tell the audience the backstory of a claim, or what really happened when someone is blatantly lying. And one time, just to call his grandmother a bitch.

He is mainly indifferent to the show, simply entertained, no longer personally touched by anything that happens in the mortal world, but once, with tears in his eyes, takes a time to monologue about how deeply he loved his wife - whom he could not legally marry, but called wife nonetheless. Once, when his own cousin questions her presence here, as she was "nothing to the deceased", the protagonist throws the rest of his popcorn in the air, as - being incorporeal - he can't throw it at his cousin.

(most of it lands into the audience. better not be wearing anything expensive in there, and if the friend who brought you to see this play didn't warn you about this part, that's kind of a dick move from them.)

In the end it turns out there is some legal way, some previously forgotten document, new evidence, that allows the dead man to be buried by loved ones, and not his legal family. Despite of the fact that he has spent the whole play insisting that the events of the mortal world no longer concern him at all, and that he doesn't care what the outcome of this will be, his spirit dissipates from sheer relief.

These two pictures are of a peahen (top photo from April 2019, and bird on the left in the bottom is the same bird in November 2019) that is currently going through a transformation from traditional hen plumage to cock plumage- which I suppose makes him a peacock now! The bird is 17 years old and while this sort of transformation is not unheard of (called “henopause” because it usually happens to older hens), it’s not usually such a stark difference. This bird went all out though!

And a blackshoulder peahen:

Who 14 years later decided nah, and swapped to male blackshoulder colors; QUITE the difference!

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And a video from a very confused man who has had this happen 5 times on his farm so far:

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These peafowl grow in and retain sex characteristics of both hens and cocks, for their entire lives. They do not lay eggs or court, the way the other sexes do. Unlike a hen in henopause, they do not transition into or out of this state- they are born to it and remain in it their entire lives.

In reality, gender isn’t really a thing for peafowl (or birds in general) at all and sex is pretty much a grey area. We assign them sexes (yes, sexes, I’m getting there) based on human concepts of it, but they don’t even have x and y sex chromosomes. They have Z and w, and it’s flipped from how humans are; the bird with the 2-same chromosomes is a male (ZZ) and the bird with one of each is a female (Zw) and we only assigned the sexes like we did because the hens lay eggs. Don’t even get me started on the bird species that aren’t peafowl that have more than 2 sexes. But they have no concept of gender or sex. If they did, maybe they would argue their males are the ones that lay the eggs. There’s no way to know; they are just animals we’re projecting human concepts on. Biological sex really does fall apart if you look at it sideways, and gender was a mistake.

In any case, at least in one sense, the initial birds in this post are maybe not transgender, exactly, but they have made a transition from one state to another that heavily involves looking like a standard female and then looking like a standard male, and some people have found comfort and joy in relating to that. That end state is not really one sex or another, if you look under the hood so to speak, and hopefully other people will find joy and comfort in that as well. Yet other Peafowl have not ever transitioned and yet have the characteristics of multiple sexes their entire lives the same way, and I hope that this extra knowledge can bring joy and comfort to even more people.

«At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book. We never destroy a book by cutting off its binding. Instead, we digitize it the hard way—one page at a time. We use the Scribe, a book scanner our engineers invented, along with the software that it runs. Our scanning centers are located in universities and libraries around the world, from Boston Public Library to the University of Toronto to the Wellcome Library and beyond. Eliza is one of our fastest and most accurate scanners. Next she will execute quality control checks and fix any errors. Then she ships the book back to our Physical Archive for long-term preservation. Now imagine this: scanners like Eliza have done this 2,000,000 times. That’s what it takes to provide you with a free digital library.» – Plus Internet Archive’s Modern Book Collection Now Tops 2 Million Volumes, by Chris Freeland, February 3, 2021

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When I wrote this post I specifically had in mind the liturgical plays enjoyed by medieval folks, especially from the 14th century onwards. These plays were once performed at liturgies, in Latin, under the direction of the priest or bishop, but later became plays that were enjoyed on the village green, recited in English, and performed and produced by players. Gradually, more and more comedic and farcical elements crept into the plays, because that’s what audiences loved and demanded.

They would tell the lives of saints and Bible stories such as the Fall of Man, Noah’s Ark and the Nativity. Because plays were enjoyed at carnivals and because religious spirit and merrymaking aren’t incompatible, certain characters became humorous and stereotyped. For example, Noah’s wife was a shrew who would smack her husband to get him into the ark, Herod was a ludicrous, blustering tyrant and poor old Joseph was particularly derided and used as comic relief, especially in the Nativity plays. Apparently, being cuckolded by God was not the way to appeal to a medieval man, though he would gain respect after the Reformation.

and joseph basically says “eh, that tree is really tall and I don’t want to. how about you ask the guy that got you knocked up to get you the cherries?”

and the tree ~miraculously bends down~~ so she can eat them

any time someone is in any kind of crisis or upheaval, offer to feed them. tell them they don’t have to choose what it is if they can’t make decisions, just ask about allergies and preferences and tell them you’re just gonna make food happen at their house.

friend having a baby? delivery gift certificate to order food to the hospital after the kid shows up.

someone’s relative passes away? offer to make them dinner.

buddy gets laid off? ask if you can order them lunch.

pal stuck in a depressive episode? offer to drive them to fucking mcdonalds, if that’s what they want.

people in crisis are tired and sad and angry and the last thing most of them are doing is thinking about feeding themselves. so if you have the ability or time or money, providing that is always, always a good move.

im gonna be honest, i love the new tumblr icon. it feels very in line with what tumblr has been doing recently (completely ignoring what every other social media platform is doing and taking a hard left into “what the fuck is that” territory).

it has absolutely nothing to do with any of tumblr’s other branding or any current design trends (that i’ve seen) and that’s honestly perfect.

i feel like this guy is the spiritual successor to clippy and i love that and i think he needs a name.