the problem with autism is sometimes you want to do something (brave) but you need someone to gently walk you through each step so you know what will happen. and people don’t like doing that

One of the things I hate about being autistic is that I'm completely unable to interact with people in fandom. It's supposed to be easier than interacting with people in real life, given that we share a special interest and we're online, but I still don't know how to approach anyone. I see people making friendships and although I know I have made some friends as well, I still don't know how to interact with them, because I don't know how to talk about the stuff that I love, and even when I do, I feel like I have nothing to bring to the table or that I'm going to come off as annoying, so in the meantime, I'm just there, hoping that they are all doing well and watching them interact with one another while I’m silently cheering in that invisible corner.

once a year I remember these bi cowboy boyfriends and I need to remind everyone about their western rom com whirlwind love story

glad to see those spreading the truth

wgat i think you look like based on your main fandom

umbrella academy: as a tua veteran i can confirm that every tua fan is either a carbon copy of Klaus, or a middle aged woman

Bigtop burger: you wear a lot of bright colors and have definitely bought into the "clown-core" craze at some point. That or you just have a thing for zombies

Scott Pilgrim: either a y2k girl or an incel who thinks he's could pull the y2k girl

psych: you are who "nice guys" think they are. You're probably a nerd and really funny

tales of arcadia: if you prefer the main series, you have like 30 versions of the same outfit in different fonts. If you prefer 3below, you're a FREAK for retrofuturism or fruitiger aero. If you prefer wizards, you're probably emo.

Monster high: you dress in a lot of nostalgic clothes. Vintage, y2k, or just stuff that reminds you of a simpler time. You also listen to living tombstone and don't care who knows it.

Ena: you're the exact opposite of those people who incorrectly assume they have niche taste. You think that everyone knows what you're talking about but realize halfway through your conversation that they're very confused.

community: you dress like abed

Psych 6x10

I know we generally characterize the spectrum of David Tennant characters from “Living Embodiment of Depression” to “Flamboyant Gay Slut” with various shades in between, but I think we’re overlooking the OTHER spectrum he operates on, which is like. “ The Single Most Sopping Wet Autism Creature In Existence” to “Guy Who Kills and Tortures For Fun.”

I love the old timey phrase "you forget yourself". bro that was so impolite like do you even know who you are rn

I feel like a lot of people don’t quite get what a butler is. The role tends to get rounded off to ‘male servant’ pretty regularly in some media, whereas actually butlers are typically not just servants but chief servants. The butler was generally in charge of either all male servants or just all servants, period, in the household of an aristocrat or other very wealthy person. This meant that butlers have often been fairly powerful and influential people, and sometimes even had a manservant or two of their own.

(Also, fun fact: Mary Roberts Rinehart, the early 20th century mystery writer who is widely credited with popularizing the whole ‘the butler did it’ trope was nearly murdered by one of her own servants, a chef whom she had passed over for promotion to butler. He came at her with a pistol, but it jammed, allowing her chauffeur time to wrestle it away and restrain him.)

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

Genuinely 90% of historical fiction would be so much better if more writers could get more comfortable with the fact that to create a good story set in a different time period you do actually have to give the characters beliefs & values which reflect that time period