"Assume you're not actively/consciously making a certain expression" is...hmm.

When I'm in a place of safety, my face shows all my emotions, all the time. If it's just me and the Magical Flying Husband, I'm very emotive. If it's just me and friends, much of what I think or feel will be obvious on my face.

When I'm out in public, I tend to have a pleasant neutral mask (unless it's time to throw down), because that is safe. Small, brown, female, married to an East Asian guy, living in the South...emotions are information, information is vulnerability, vulnerability is a place to stab.

I'm allistic, but I am not neurotypical.

Assume you're not actively/consciously making a certain expression or hiding your emotions.

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Portalicious 🚪 Concept painting from 2020 for a project that ended up never happening.

Oil on canvas board, 8 x 10". This sketch and the concept are both available, feel free to msg if it strikes your fancy

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goat fight. non-negotiable.

before the poll, a quick definition of terms:

"mutual" - you found this post from a mutual (on their blog or your dash) "following" - you found this post from someone you're following, but who isn't following you "random" - you found this by scrolling through someone's blog, who you don't follow. this includes people following you "For You" - you found this on the For You page "recommended" - you found this in a "Check out these blogs" popup, or a "recommended" post when looking at a different post "other" - you found this post some other way. comment how? "reblog ✅" - you're going to reblog, queue, or schedule this post "reblog ❌" - you're NOT going to reblog, queue, or schedule this post

with that out of the way:

I’m so emotional about dinosaur stuffed animals,,, there are these creatures, extinct long before any of us were alive, but we found their bones and their eggs and their footprints. And we made drawings and models of what they could’ve looked like. And we made them into stuffed animals so we could hold them. We made them soft so we could love them. I’m sobbing

I thought I encountered a corpse, once. The new roommate in the house where I rented a room turned out to be very deeply in the throes of alcoholism, got drunk, came home and fell asleep in the kitchen. I came down for breakfast and saw him slumped, purple and motionless, beside the old refrigerator. I didn't even gasp, I froze in horror. Real, blood-running-cold, all the air from my lungs, hair standing up sort of moment. Then I said his name a couple of times, and I leaned close to try to see if he was breathing but I couldn't detect anything. I stumbled back up two flights of stairs to the attic bedroom I shared with my boyfriend, and made him come down to poke the guy, because I was a coward and did not want to touch a corpse.

Guy was totally still alive, just had some sort of circulation problem.

But yeah, I didn't scream or gasp, but gasping is the closest option to the sort of choked silent thing my body did automatically.

we still get immediately shoved out of our immersion in tv shows or films when The Girl find a dead body and immediately shrieks - we just don't find it realistic because we're pretty confident most people would gasp rather than shriek (i.e. sharp inhale rather than sharp exhale) and it also feels unnecessarily (and predictably) misogynistic too, as men encountering corpses almost never do the same on screen

also of course please do tell us if you've actually encountered a corpse unexpectedly, because tumblr is absolutely a place where some people have done this thing and we love a good anecdote

suddenly imagining "burst into song" as a potential response

Shocking how many people don’t know that hens lay non-fertilized eggs and think the yolk they’re eating is a baby chicken

I’ll never forget the time I was sitting with this guy, nice kid, didn’t know him well, I think we must have had a bottle of wine or some questionable hashish or something, and in response to an awkward silence I just started talking and ended up going on a long meandering rant about how ugly American robins are. I’m talking a full monologue. I had an intro and conclusion. It was pointlessly vehement. I have never been so mean or loquacious about anything in my life.

Consider my horror when this perfectly nice guy wordlessly lifted his shirt to reveal a full-torso prismacolor tattoo of his spiritual soul animal, the American robin.

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someone with a major in literature and/or poetry tell me what's so poetic about this that it captivated me because i have no idea honestly

if Broadway doesn’t want bootlegs floating around then they need to get their act together and make legal recordings.  you can say all you want that theater is meant to be enjoyed live, but the fact of the matter is not everybody can get to NYC to go to a Broadway show.  not everybody can afford to take the time off of work and buy a plane ticket to NYC and buy a night in a hotel AND get the ticket to the show.  people want to see the shows, that’s why there’s a bootleg market in the first place, but it’s unreasonable to expect that everyone has the time, money, and ability to make it out to the one place in the world to see something on Broadway, especially if it’s a limited engagement.  so record that shit, slap some subtitles on it, and sell it so we can buy it legally.

if Broadway doesn’t want bootlegs floating around then they need to get their act together and make legal recordings.  you can say all you want that theater is meant to be enjoyed live, but the fact of the matter is not everybody can get to NYC to go to a Broadway show.  not everybody can afford to take the time off of work and buy a plane ticket to NYC and buy a night in a hotel AND get the ticket to the show.  people want to see the shows, that’s why there’s a bootleg market in the first place, but it’s unreasonable to expect that everyone has the time, money, and ability to make it out to the one place in the world to see something on Broadway, especially if it’s a limited engagement.  so record that shit, slap some subtitles on it, and sell it so we can buy it legally.