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kaesaaurelia:

saul-tortellini:

boringsl0th:

autistic-evil-xisuma:

people always talk about evil clones like oooh a dark mirror oohh what if you saw what are cruel person you were/are capable of becoming. and well yes but what if you were the evil clone. what if you looked in the mirror and what you saw was so bright it blinded you. what if you had to know exactly how good you could have been.

I genuinely had a nightmare about being pulled into an alternate reality where the version of me was apparently better and cooler and happier than me in every way (like, starting with the most mundane things – in the dream my parents were different, kinder people and I had a spouse who left notes signed with a revoltingly cutesy nickname – to absolutely insane shit like Better Me having several Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and BEING A SUPERHERO) and it was really awful because I spent the whole fucking time trying to avoid being murdered by a supervillain and getting my actual lack of accomplishments and loneliness rubbed in my face.

Genuinely cried when I woke up. But I thought about it a little more and a. I don’t really want to have to fight supervillains, I have an anxiety disorder and a body that is constantly preventing me from doing basic shit like stairs! and b. Better Me, as far as I could tell, didn’t have any creative pursuits, I assume because she didn’t have time, and she didn’t have a dog, which is one thing I want way more than a romantic relationship, and c. speaking of romantic relationships that bitch didn’t even have UST with her archnemesis – he was just some angry guy in a mask who wouldn’t listen when I said I wasn’t gonna fight him – so, like, what’s even the point???

Anyway, I take my little comforts where I can.

axollyon:

nothingdoingcomic:

ALT

Nothing Doing no. 35

this really happens btw. this is from my parents and it is the greatest shirt i own

ALT

imkeepinit:

anexperimentallife:

uncanny-tranny:

uncanny-tranny:

I think so many people are so deeply alienated from themselves that they have no clue how to exercise their free will and autonomy. For some, this alienation runs so deep that they are afraid of their own autonomy and humanity. It is completely understandable why one would have those feelings, but it can be worrisome.

I want to help others who feel this way, so here are small things I have done to exercise my free will:

• Add “guilty pleasure” songs to playlists and actually listen to them (I have a ton of late 1990s-early 2000s music I listen to now proudly that I never listened to in the past out of shame)
• Getting the décor item, bath set, bed spread, ect. in the patterns you like, even if it’s “childish” (I got a dinosaur-themed wastebasket from the kids’ décor section and I adore it)
• Taking a new route to get to a place you go to often
• Eat dessert first
• Celebrate well, and often
• Collect things that are “odd” or don’t seem like an “acceptable” thing to collect (somebody on my “for you” page collects dandelion crayola crayons and it was so cool!!!!!!)
• Incorporate one new piece in an outfit you wear frequently (e.g., a new chain, a necklace, ribbons, bracelets, ect.). Challenge yourself to add onto the outfits if you feel up for it.
• Sing along to songs without worrying that you sound “good” or your intonation is completely accurate
• Read a book from a genre you weren’t allowed to read as a kid (comics, thrillers, mysteries, anything!)
• Walk without having a specific destination or goal
• Pick up a new craft without expecting yourself to master it or to ever be “good” enough. Get your hands messy.

I don’t want to shame anybody for not feeling as though they have free will or that they are exempt from exercising it. However, I wanted to give ideas so that you might read this list and find your own ways to express your intrinsic autonomy and will. You deserve to be a person, to feel alive, not just living. That is what our lives are for.

Here’s another one:

Going to places alone and learning to enjoy your own company. Being able to reliably deal with being in spaces with the assurance that you belong there on your own without needing someone else to make up for your presence is so moving.

inklingofadream:

onethirdofimpossible:

Hello friends, there’s a dogwhistle I’ve seen used a couple times on tumblr that I want to discuss.

Fellow neurodivergents especially, please listen– towards the end of this post I describe how some in our community have been using it without knowing what it means.

A fairly common antisemitic dogwhistle used amongst alt-right circles on the internet is being a “noticer,” “noticing patterns,” “pattern noticer,” etc. I’ve seen this from a couple Tumblr blogs I follow reblogging memes and such that use this term but don’t provide any context about what sorts of “things” they may be noticing.

Here’s the meme that I saw a blog I’m following reblog last night.

Seems pretty harmless, right? It’s a meme with a cute cat.

In alt-right circles, what they are referring to “noticing” is the conspiracy theory that Jews control the world/“noticing” evidence of an imagined globalist (read: Jewish) world order/etc. If you see a meme that uses terms like “noticing patterns” that doesn’t elaborate what those supposed patterns are– just leaves you to fill in the blank yourself– take a look at the types of things OP might be posting. The alt-right has an idea that it’s forbidden to talk about who might be behind the “conspiracies” they talk about (again, the target is frequently Jewish people) so lack of context is often a red flag.

I sent the blog who reblogged this an ask informing them that the meme was a dogwhistle. If you see someone reblog something like this, check what they’ve been posting. If this seems like an isolated incident, the person probably reblogged it not knowing what the term actually meant. That’s why dogwhistles are so effective– to the average person they look harmless if you don’t know what to watch out for!

Let’s take a look at how alt-righters use this term.

Here’s an alt-right definition of it from Urban Dictionary.

Oh boy, this one gets a bigotry bingo for all the dogwhistles used here. If I miss any, feel free to comment. Here are the ones I found:

-Noseticing: Noticing plus nose, based on the stereotype for Jewish people to have large noses.

-“those who cannot be named”/skirting around saying Jew: again the idea that it’s forbidden to talk about who they think is behind their conspiracy theories.

-“world events and agendas”: idea that Jewish people have a Globalist agenda etc etc

-Degeneracy: Nazi term to describe the behaviors/people they find undesirable.

-Early life: refers to the section in a person’s Wikipedia page. If a person was brought up Jewish, it’ll usually say so there.

-Oy vey: a Jewish exclamation of exasperation that Nazis have unfortunately co-opted when talking about Jewish people.

Here’s probably the most obviously antisemitic meme I found.

The title and first bullet point include the “noticer” term. This meme also talks about a “group” who controls wealth. Who might the poster be referring to here?

Here’s a Twitter account with many similar alt-right terms. Explicitly identifies as a Nazi and ethno-nationalist, etc etc.

A couple other pages. I clicked on them to see if I could find any more examples but the first seemed pretty blank and the second… Well, I don’t have a twitter so I couldn’t view.

Let’s unpack these a little. The first one has “13 outta 52,” a statistic used among white supremacists to depict Black people (especially African-Americans) as “savage”: 13 referring to the percentage of America that is Black and 52 referring to the alleged percentage of murders in the U.S. that are committed by Black people. “109 countries” refers to the idea that Jewish people have been expelled from 109 countries during history. (Which isn’t entirely true. Some “countries” in this count are actually cities, regions, etc.) Some white supremacists may use the number 110 instead to suggest that it should happen again.

The second one has a blurb alleging a global sterilization effort and concerns of fertility. This is likely in connection to pro-natalism for white people. If Nazis want a so-called “Aryan nation,” they’re going to want white people to populate it, and so they encourage white people to have babies for their cause. Nazi Germany employed this tactic as well, even awarding “Aryan” German women who had four or more children for their contributions to the Nazi cause.

The reason why I’m emphasizing that context matters is that some neurodivergent people have seen this and co-opted it into neurodivergent circles. As a person who is Jewish and autistic, this is pretty alarming to me. I’ll show a couple examples from Tumblr:

And

I’ve left out the URLs of the OPs because I want to give the benefit of the doubt– they both explicitly refer to being a “pattern noticer” in terms of neurodivergence. And it’s easy to see why introducing this term to ND folks would be an easy way to get a dogwhistle passed off as harmless! Since autistic people often have analytical minds, we often make connections that others might not be able to see. But unfortunately, using terms like this only makes it much easier for antisemites to fly under the radar.

Stay safe and let’s keep Tumblr free of this shit.

[id: first image: ASCII art of a cat in a bed with text over it reading “every day i notice patterns. and then i go to bed”

second image: screenshot of the Urban Dictionary definition of “The Noticing” reading:

“The Noticing, also spelled Noseticing, is a movement. It is the awakening to the truth. It is the ultimate red pill. The bottom of the rabbit hole. The unplugging from the matrix. The realization, the revelation, the noticing that every single time, that it is those who cannot be named that are responsible or behind every bad company, movement and organization.

The Noticing is when you have special pattern recognition aka "noticing” abilities. When you can spot the common denominator in all world events and agendas.

The Noticing has been largely spurred on by the Streisand Effect.

And when you become aware of The Noticing, share your finding with the #thenociting so others can see the truth and help to notice even further.

Gary: Oi Tone, ever notice when you see someone or a company pushing the degeneracy agendas and you go smash their wiki early life, that there is always a certain similarity/pattern?
Tone: yeah bro, every single time. #thenoticing
Gary: oy vey, The Noticing.“

Third image: Wojak meme edited to have blonde hair and beard, blue eyes, and hand at chin, as though consumed in thought. It is labelled "The Chad Noticer” and has a series of bullet points reading, “Notices things and uses pattern recognition to create an accurate worldview; astutely observes anti-European sentiment originating from same group over and over again; ability to recognize who 40% of billionaires are despite being 2% of the population; increasing his noticing activity results in even more things to notice.”

fourth image: Google result for a Twitter account named “NatsocD- patter noticer” with an icon of Pepe the frog playing chess. The description reads “friendly neighborhood national socialist redpill dealer Proud white man, ethno-nationalist, won’t check my privilege” before being cut off.

Fifth image: Google result for pattern noticer dot com [not doing anything with the slightest chance of turning into a link, no thanks] with the title “Always Object: Pattern Noticer” and the visible description “Everything is an offer, no one forced you to do anything, 13 outa 52, 109 countries, noticer of patterns” before being cut off.

Sixth image: Result for a Twitter account called “Chronic Pattern Noticer” and a description that reads, “I have never been more convinced there is a global sterilization effort to reduce fertility Both in reduction of sperm count and convincing women their” before being cut off.

Seventh image: Cropped tumblr post with the text, “‘mike is beating the useless allegation in s5’ mike has spent four entire seasons Noticing Patterns & Making Connections. if you think he’s useless that’s on YOU actually,” with the tag “he’s a certified Pattern Noticer (some might call it neurodivergence)”

Eighth image: Cropped tumblr post with the text “they call me pattern noticer on account of all the patterns i notice” and the tag “autismcore” /end id]

cornedbeefhashtags:

radatav:

You ever see a post that just looks like someone swinging an incredibly high resolution bat at an impossibly busty hornet’s nest?

daedricprincessorigin:

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thewhumpyprintingpress:

This is a friendly reminder to never, ever publish your book with a publishing company that charges you to publish with them. That is a vanity press, which makes money by preying on authors. They charge you for editing, formatting, cover art, and more. With most of these companies, you will never seen a cent of any royalties made from sale of your book. A legitimate publishing company only makes money when you make money, they will never charge you to publish with them. If a company approaches you and says “Hey, we’ll publish your book, just pay us X amount of money,” tell them to go fuck themself and block them.

Remember, kids: money should only ever flow FROM your publisher TO you.

Here’s a very well-maintained resource by the SFWA (Science-Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association) that lists contests/editors/small presses/etc. with predatory behaviours:

WRITER BEWARE® - SFWA

About Us Mission Who we are, what we do, and why. Includes information on how to contact us. Overview and Site Map What you’ll find on the W

SFWA

Go forth and publish safely!

@selenite0 has a full presentation about shady publishing contracts, this might be something to add to that

bluebandedagate-reblogs:

proteusolm:

Crazy to think that seagulls existed before french fries.

Medieval seagull struggling to fly away with an entire purloined potatoe