The Best Piece Of Advice I Ever Got Was Not Meant As Advice, But As An Edict. If I Was Going To Threaten

The best piece of advice I ever got was not meant as advice, but as an edict. If I was going to threaten people as a joke, it had to be so far out of proportion with what happened that it would be obvious I was joking. This changed how I expressed frustration with others. It then changed how I expressed frustration with myself.

Not “I’m going to hit you” but “I am going to buy a tuna sub from the gas station and hide it under the seat of your car”

Not “I’m going to kill myself” but “I am going to walk into the desert and let the scarabs take me”

The other side then happened. When I mess something up, instead of saying it’s bad and perpetuating negative thoughts, swing hard the other way.

Not “this art is terrible” but “this shall be framed and mounted on the wall in my museum exhibition as testament to the suffering I had to overcome”

Have been doing this since high school. It was my drama teacher who asked me to please stop scaring the actors. The other half of the edict was that I had to say it in a polite tone, and end it with either please or thank you.

Life changing. 10/10 Mr Muëller. Highly reccomend.

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11 months ago

There are two basic arguments for shutting the fuck up about cishets at Pride.

First: What if a trans kid asks their parents to show their support by attending Pride with them? What if a lesbian can only attend pride if she gets a ride from someone and the only person willing and able to drive her is her straight brother? What if a bi disabled person can't attend a large outdoor event without hands-on assistance from their straight partner? What if someone just wants to bring their fucking friends? What if, contrary to popular tumblr discourse, most queers don't inhabit perfectly pure social bubbles populated only by other queers? What if it's none of your business?

Second and perhaps more important: If you think you can tell that someone is CIS, let alone HET, by LOOKING at them, you are a cop and an idiot.

1 year ago

Top-Tier Villain Motivations

They will be safe. It doesn't matter who else or what else burns as long as They will be safe.

I will be safe. The hunger and the cold will never touch me again.

Fuck any bitch who's prettier(/cooler/better-liked/better at making dumplings) than me.

Yes, Master

Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. LOVE ME!

I know the terrible things these so-called "heroes" will do if I don't stop them (<- is absolutely wrong)

I don't want a better future, I want a better past!

No other way to get performance art funded these days

4 months ago

when i say "romanticise the ordinary" i don't mean "hide all aspects of your life that do not fit under some kind of aesthetic" but rather "strive to find beauty in all the little things because i promise you, happiness can be found everywhere"

1 year ago

Challenge to white activists: make your activism about more than just counting the bodies. Share Palestinian art, culture, cinema, cuisine. Palestinians love life. Show the world their life.

There are Palestinians in the future.

1 year ago

peak half assed inclusivity that speaks to reality

good on Lego for making a physically disabled Lego dude

[Second image description: a photo of a Lego™ model coffee shop with the wheelchair-using figure on its back, awkwardly jammed against the coffee shop table. description ends]

absolutely incredible accidental commentary by making him not fit in any of the buildings

[First Image description: a close-up photo of a  Lego™ figure in a plastic molded Lego wheelchair. end description]
1 month ago
Reminder that the Nazis came for the disabled first. 

Making lists is not a red flag, it’s a fog horn. https://t.co/bSCmJPodgN

— Nathan (נתן) 🌹 ⬱ ✡︎ ⚣🌂❌❌❌🎗️🍉 (@NathanL0lz) April 22, 2025

Anti-vaxxer extremist RFK Jr, the US Health Secretary, is now actively trying to collect medical records of folks on the autism spectrum. First, he used dehumanizing and infantilizating language to insist people with autism won't 'pay taxes and live a 'normal life' which we all know is ableist bullshit and is literally a precursor to genocide. This man is a monster.


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A Brief Moment Of Rationality From The Bird Place.

A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.

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