Stay Gay, Ponyboy

One of the benefits of watching psych (2006) is that in most shows with a weird protagonist you find yourself asking why are you like this but in psych you don't do that because you just saw. You just saw 10 minutes ago at the start of the episode when Henry was putting him in a trunk

OP this is EXCELLENT

Now THAT’S a self care resource! If you’ve gotten distracted by capitalism’s appropriation of “self-care” and watering the meaning down to nothing this is a super helpful guide to cut through the bullshit.

I think it's important to remember, as a rule of thumb, if you take advantage of a social service, it actually makes it easier for other people who need that service to access it. Most of the time, when these services get cut, it's because politicians will look at usage and say "see, no one is really using this thing, we can afford to trim the budget for food stamps by at least half". Whereas if you decide to step up and use these programs, even if you feel like you "don't really need it", at bare minimum it's another data point advocates can use to say "hey, look, people are using this thing, this is an important service we are providing, do not cut our funding".

We live in a world so controlled by the idea of resource scarcity that we reason "If I get help, that must be taking help away from someone else!"

almost biffed it in a fucking parking lot so time for me to repeat this. if you are a cane user in the northern hemisphere its time to get an ice spike coming in the mail BEFORE the ice forms.

i appreciate that this is still in circulation and i can see the pre-autumn wave of reblogs picking up lol. ice pick is not a gimmick its genuinely useful and can be a life saver. every year winter reaches further towards the equator and new people are finding themselves at risk of ice with no experience for how to keep safe

There was a small bicycle pride demonstration today and at the end this guy held a speech entirely about aromanticism?!?! Mostly about how it's often forgotten or unknown but how it's an identity that's part of the queer community. I've never seen aromanticism included in any of the queer events I've been to, not as a flag and not even as a footnote on websites or in speeches so I'm just... so happy about this. I thanked him afterwards (he wasn't even aro himself, just thought it was important to raise awareness). Anyways, I'm feeling good about life today. Maybe we are getting somewhere.

One time I went to a pride march and somebody was flying the aro flag near the front and it turned out that the person who originally brought the flag wasn't even aro and just didn't want us to be forgotten about and then handed it off to the first aro who came to them about it so they could use it to find more ppl like them

I'm just gonna sit over here and feel very emotional about people who make an effort to support aros

the autistic view of the world has insight and beauty in it, and we’re taught that there’s something wrong with it.

What’s fascinating is that the parents who didn’t know it was the work of an autistic kid praised it as well.

Technically, we don't know that it's an autistic kid's work, either. 5e infographic doesn't say Cadence is autistic.

"appropriate play skills" is such a horrid phrase, goddamn

people demonize autism so much that parents think their children aren’t playing “correctly”. it’s play, how could it ever be wrong?