Mystery Corner

I used to think I was a uniquely manipulative and deceptive (and secretly evil) person because I always had to lie or withhold information from people in order to get my needs met, but it turns out I was only adapting to surviving in a neurotypical society where information warfare is the norm.

It's standard nature for neurotypical people to constantly change the truth for their own ends, and they don't think twice about that because they intuitively learn that it's something you're just supossed to do, even if people tell you at loud that honesty is a virtue. Meanwhile I had to slowly uncover that lying was the only way to prevent people from taking advantage of me or to not be seen as 'behind' because I was honest about the amount of work i actually did, and so many other things. I thought I was secretly scamming everyone, but really I just stumbled into the expected way neurotypical people do things out of pure necessity.

ok crying a little because I’ve been wanting to make this for SO long and I was finally in a place to do it.

no photo because I got the broccoli-sauce order wrong and didn’t put enough cornstarch in there so it looks sad but the flavour is so good and the beef itself is like…damn so good.

*does a little it-tastes-good dance*

notes for later: more broccoli. but a steak like I did this time, it was so worth it.

buy some shaoxing wine.

also recipe tin eats says to use chinese five spice so I want to try that next time

i like how websites are completely useless now

Swimming rabbit

@xkcd-for-that

I am too caught up in the first two-thirds of the first sentence to care about the gross negligence of civic duty or whatever going down below.

This is how the court works in Ace Attorney

▼ WARNING

@uhh-fina

just remember, one day you're going to open tumblr and the crabs will be raving like they never have before

bingo

Kat Rosenfield, What We Sacrifice to be Seen

Gretchen Felker-Martin, What's the Harm in Reading?

Elena Scotti, We Have to Save Books from the Book People

ngl, I needed this word.

How are disabled and interracial illegal???

Interracial marriage was outlawed for the longest time, and disabled people lose government benefits when they get married so they cannot have reassurance that they will continue to LIVE if they get married.

Story time: my mom is white, dad is black. They’ve been together twenty four years, married for twenty three. When my parents were dating they did it on the low TO KEEP MY DAD SAFE.

My mom’s parents said “We don’t care who you love.” At that point she’d only ever brought home white guys. She brought my dad home-her mother called her a nigger lover and damned the relationship as much as possible. Her father grew around his prejudices after I was born but never apologized, just wasn’t a blatant fuck.

The day she introduced my father to her family was the last time she spoke to her mother for over twenty years. When I was getting sick and she called and asked her mother and grandmother if anyone in the family had anything strange happen similar what I was going through they told her “it’s because you married a black man. You made your bed, you lie in it.”

Cops pulled them over all the time and asked my mom IF SHE WAS OKAY AND IF SHE NEEDED HELP BECAUSE MY FATHER-A BLACK MAN-WAS DRIVING A 100 POUND WHITE WOMAN AROUND. HE WAS HARRASSED AND THREATED WITH ARREST.

My father ended up getting into a fight in self defence because some entitled hick decided he didn’t like seeing a black man and white woman in the bar together. Thankfully other patrons helped my father but he still couldn’t go to the er for his injuries. My mom patched him up and they were terrified the cops would take him away.

THEIR BEST FRIEND GOT LICENSED TO MARRY THEM SO THEY COULD ACTUALLY TIE THE KNOT BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE WOULD AND CITED JIM CROW ERA LAW AS TO WHY.

When shopping with just me my father wouldn’t hold my hand if there was a group around. Why? I’m far lighter than him and people had stopped and asked him “whose child is that?” Or “little girl where’s your parents?” and were stunned when I grinned and pointed at my dad and proudly proclaimed “my daddy’s right here.” You know where else mixed kids couldn’t hold their parents hands? Apartheid South Africa. We live in fucking FLORIDA.

So yeah. Some history for you.

This post was made in October 2018. The above poster’s parents met in 1994. We were a generation removed from the Civil Rights movement and this was happening.

heart - shaped scallion found In pho . reblog for good luck & yummy soup 500000 forwver

Can't risk passing this up <3

Top LEGO photo this week posted on r/studshooters: u/unearthed_bricks

A BUDDY

Top LEGO photo of the week posted to r/studshooters: u/SKABRAM-builds

HE SO TINY

I'm gonna carefully approach him and feed him tiny lego animal feed <3

This is a FRIEND and BOY <3

Wow a terf hashtag? That's crazy. Who could have seen this coming. I can't believe there's transphobia in my wildly misunderstood and rapidly-appropriated transphobic movement in a country whose politics I don't understand. Better wave away this lack of understanding by wiggling my hand awkwardly and going "ehhh they're Behind us so some transphobia is okay actually"

you know what always bothered me? that woman who had a baby with her transfem wife and then went on reddit to complain about her wife ‘breastfeeding’ the baby as a way to bond knowing the abhorrent transmisogynistic response that would come from the internet.

everyone was so quick to say she’s perverse for doing that and it would make them soooo uncomfortable which is funny because at the same time when i was pregnant so many mom groups shared and encouraged their babies to use “dad” as a natural pacifier and a way to increase bonding in the early days. like…. it’s transmisogyny. it’s okay for a cis man and a cis woman (even one with implants and who chose not to breastfeed) to have the baby latch but god forbid a trans woman wants to bond with her child the same way. it’s pedophilic and unnatural all of a sudden and there must be a hidden agenda.