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i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

I'm not dating or married or related to anyone I live with, and our household of four adults can't get any kind of financial or food or housing aid because we count as three separate households despite our semi-blended finances and living together for a decade. There are laws that have been proposed (at least, I don't know if any passed) that limit housing to nuclear families.

Happy pride month, here's Neo with a sticker I got from a local pride event I attended a while back (my first one!)

Ferb lived with his biological Mother or who he would refer to as "the woman who he had the upmost displeasure of living with." Ferb was happy being with his Dad until he and his Mom separated when he was 3. She was emotionally distant from Ferb and nagged him constantly about not talking or making eye contact when she wanted him to. Ferb says he used to find Matilda very relatable (the character AND the story) It wasn't as violent but his life definitely felt like Matilda between all the teachers and ABA therapists acting like Ferb's autism was something to challenge and fix. Training him to speak like he was just a dog. More than anything he was pretty lonely and bored. He read books pretty advanced for his age and listened to music that other people considered "queer" as in both meetings of the word. Summers in England where very rainy, humid and dark. The sun was hardly out. When it was out he was happy his Mother let him go to the ice cream truck to buy an ice cream lolly. Sometimes he wouldn't even ask he just had his own change saved up for a sunny day like this. Summer was usually a dull time inside from the rain.

Phineas used to be an only child until his adopted sister Cadance came into the picture when she was 8 and he was 4. They used to share a room together. Candace is a trans girl who socially transitioned at a very early age. Phineas was passively aware she was different but ultimately didn't care. Phineas seemed to have endless amounts of energy and was constantly bored. He tended to annoy his sister on purpose to her annoyance. When she refused to play with him because she was playing with girls her age it often left him alone in his backyard with his imagination and no one to share it with. His sister told him he talked too much. He was a lot as a kid. He wasn't an easy he kid. He wanted constant attention. He had no volume control. His brain seemed to be constantly buzzing with thoughts he had to share with everyone all the time. He wasn't lonely, but he wished he had a brother to play with.

Ferb was more than happy to FINALLY leave the UK to live with his Dad and his new family. There's some things he misses about living in England but living with his Dad in America was a trillion times better. Phineas was screaming with excitement that he was getting a new brother. His mother repeatedly told him that Ferb is a very sensitive kid and that he needed to he gentle and careful with the him.

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-Ferb lived with his biological mother for a brief time in his life before living with his Dad and new Mom at 7 years old

-Ferb got diagnosed with autism as early as 4 years old and didn't say his first words until he was 5. He felt very isolated from other kids. He often just kept to himself and entertained himself at home with punk rock music vinyls his mom had.

-He was often pressured by teachers to talk at 3-4 years old and the pressure made it harder to speak so he just didn't speak at all. His first words were pretty much forced at 5 years old in speech therapy. He had some experience with ABA therapy and didn't like it at all. He never spoke to his bio Mom at home and it often made her frustrated.

-When he moved in with his Dad and his new Wife the environment felt completely different from his old home in the UK. Linda and Lawrence (also autistic) already knew Ferb had speech issues and were significantly more patient and respectful to Ferb.

-The first time Ferb willingly spoke was a couple weeks after he moved in. Phineas told Ferb goodnight like he usually did and Ferb said it back. Phineas did give a big reaction (to not startle his brother) he just smiled wide at him before going to sleep.

-Ferb will occasionally uses ASL to communicate with his family but with limited signs. Not because his family isn't familiar with ASL, but because Ferb has limited speech most of the time. When he can speak he he just talks.

Ferb is most comfortable talking with Phineas and was able to have bigger conversations with Phineas alone in their room. But even then there's never any pressure for Ferb to talk. He speaks more around his family at home.

Outside of the house he's pretty mute. Definitely mute around strangers. He gets more comfortable speaking as he gets older and again gives into the pressure to force himself to talk at school when absolutely necessary.

If Ferb is under alot of pressure or overwhelmed he cannot talk or speak, not even with any AAC. It has to be waited out

I tweaked Ferb's teenage design a little because I think his canon one is too posh I guess?? I kinda headcannon that he's a bit of a punk and a goth. Specifically the British kind of punk. He has a half shaved head here.

Queer headcannons:

I think Ferb knew he was queer at a pretty early age and people around him generally could tell too. He was an autistic queer kid. Ferb had always kinda knew he felt attraction to boys and had little crushes on British singers like David Bowie or Robert Smith. He didn't know he was asexual until later though.

Phineas always thought it was pretty cool that Ferb was so expressive and okay with being different. He always felt a little plain next to his brother but it didn't bother him that much. Phineas loved to learn about Ferb's favorite musicians and basically discovered bisexually and pansexuality through Ferb.

In my Doof Dad AU Doofenshmirtz decided to check out Phineas' back after Phineas had been in pain for a couple days and IMMEDIATELY recognized that his shoulders were definitely uneven. Then he called Linda so they could set up a doctor's appointment for Phineas

Practice drawing Ferb