Hodgepodge

i'm like a fujoshi but for dead people

i forget that "blood and gore are hot" as an opinion is relatively normalized on tumblr and NOT in real life. #SOCIALBLUNDER

Sold enough books through apple books this month to buy one burrito thank you apple books

Royal Road is a site for this, but I have no idea whether it's good on screen readers or not.

royal road is decent on screen readers unless you’re using a strange font or formatting. I often listen to royal road stories thru the built in screen reader on browser

Fantastic

the wisdom ive learnt is that becoming part of a friend group 1) takes a long time and 2) involves a lot of feeling awkward and left out at first. there’s nothing terrible about this but if you grew up chronically lonely or have any kind of trauma relating to social isolation this likely feels Really Wrong and activates danger signals. but both fortunately and unfortunately it’s just how becoming close to new people works most of the time

another thing that was not intuitive to me as someone who grew up an autistic loner: basically everyone on the planet is starved for connection all the time and almost everything people do is an attempt to reach out to another. most seemingly illogical interactions and behaviours can be explained by this. you have to take as many of these invitations as you can. even if you're wrong you still attempted to bring more warmth into the world

This is an awesome use of what is probably a master's degree if not a doctorate and I am 100% thrilled that she shared it even though it was embarrassing and she squeaked.

Thank you, adorable scientist, for making people's lives better.

As an Australian, THIS WOMAN IS A FUCKING GODSEND.

Californian (sup, fellow desert-havers) i've been using this since i saw it and it works so fucken good dude (i often have to put like 8 dogs in my car, so it's extra important my car isn't attempting to go super-nova when we get in)

these are composite bonding that i had done with a local cosmetic dentist for anyone curious!

we all know "I can't love you the way you want me to" said by an aroace person, but what about "I can't love you the way you want me to" said by an allo person to an aroace person. Like. Them only being able to love strongly in a romantic way and not in a platonic, let alone alterous way. I need to scream into my pillow