Hiya!

What does the tag "post in the toast" mean? I've seen you use it lately and I'm a bit confused

It's honestly very dumb, please don't judge me. But I needed/wanted a better tag to keep track of all asks so that I could find them easier if I ever needed, which is what this is. As for why it's "post in the toast"...well, I may have been sleep-deprived (i'm always sleep-deprived) and thinking about how at Hogwarts, owls frequently drop post into the students' breakfast. It rhymed and I thought it was funny. That's literally the story.

“What do you mean he’s scary!! Look at him!”

— taking artistic liberties to scrunkle the face of @shepherds-of-haven’s Blade Bronwyn - a man with 0.6% body fat lol

i genuinely don't understand when civs are like "well obviously I WOULD NEVER do sex work but i still support you" like why did you have to preface it? i know you're not cut out for my job babe believe you me that's not even a discussion (also no one asked) but why do you have to preface your support with a firm separation of You from Us. like when you hear that back does that sound supportive or does it sound weird and off putting?

so many of you talk about the cruel adults in your childhood that negatively effected you and caused lifelong insecurity yet you're still perfectly fine with being that mean stranger to any kid that has the misfortune of existing around you and thats just really gross !!!

truly i feel like ai is just gonna make us stupider i was complaining about writing an email at work and i got told to just ask chatgpt to write it for me

JUST REMEMBERED THE FIRST TIME I EVER GOT DUMPED. CRYING…

sometimes i think that i should be putting him in more complex compositions and dynamic poses and cool outfits and color palettes and pretty rendering and detailed backgrounds and more characters and story-driven comics and personal meaning

and then im like. that's the fucking devil talking. dailyeca is and always was supposed to be a low maintenance blog where i draw an eca a day and this eca can be the most scribbled motherfucker in da world but as long as there's a daily eca then i've succeeded. when i have time to add cool shit i can absolutely do that but even if he's just a sketched up bust shot at 11:59, i'm doing enough because that's just dailyeca babey.

I swear I've gone through every emotion known to man.... (And then some) today...

sorry i keep seeing posts abt this and its making me laugh a little to think about because. i really hope ppl are not looking at my blog that gets <5 notes per text/art post usually and thinking "oh no they must be so sad that theyre getting ignored :("

i am just frolicking in a field of dandelions and daisies over here and occasionally a little butterfly floats past and lands on me (someone likes/reblogs a post of mine) and it makes me happy but i never expect it. and now i wonder if theres ppl watching me frolic and looking at me with big sad eyes and shaking their heads going "oh no... that poor lonely soul... they must be so sad they're not getting more butterflies in their field..."

i promise you that i am having a grand old time over here HFDSGJKL i am quite honestly happy as a clam with what i've got. in fact sometimes i almost wish i could have a smaller following and i only have 50ish followers at the moment, some of which have gone inactive already HFDSHGDJKL like do i enjoy the attention that i get sometimes? yeah of course, it's great, it feels good, it's cool that other ppl are interested in what i post enough to give it a like or occasionally a reblog. but i'm never expecting it or looking for it fdsjkl, it's genuinely just a bonus to me !!!

(i do however enjoy reblogging other ppls stuff and want to do that more, i just have ... Le Maladie Chronique HFDSJKL. WAIT HOLY SHIT YALL I JUST GOOGLED THE ENGLISH TO FRENCH TRANSLATION OUT OF CURIOSITY TO SEE WHAT IT ACTUALLY IS AND I GOT IT RIGHT. I WAS JOKING. THAT WAS A JOKE. I MADE THAT TRANSLATION UP WHEN I TYPED THAT OUT AS A JOKE. OH MY GOD HELP. me when i guess french correctly just off the cuff holy shit HFDSJKL the only thing i got wrong is it's a feminine word/phrase/label/whatever and not a masculine so it'd be "la" and not "le" but if i'd been actually seriously attempting a translation i would've guessed that bc it follows the same pattern as other feminine words in french LOL)

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sic-semper-hominibus

the less/more thing is definitely part of it. the bigger part is that what there is implied to be less/more of is brokenness; "functioning" serves as a euphemism for humanity, with so-called "low-functioning" people being regarded less like people and more like pets. essentially, it's the same distinction hans aspberger made between people with his syndrome, who he thought could be rehabilitated to benefit nazi germany, and autistic people, who he sent to the camps

the support needs framework takes an entirely different focus; rather than how "severe" someone's autism is (read: how much of a problem they are for the people around them) it centers the autistic person and what they need in order to live the life they want

on the surface, the difference is a subtle distinction between "how much accommodation do you need" vs "how much of a hassle are you" but the underlying attitudes are very different

i am autistic if that affects your reading of my response

Last reply first, for clarity for anyone else who wants to respond, I am open to both autistic and allistic voices. I’ve heard the idea that functioning labels are bad, but levels are necessary and non-problematic from enough autistic people that it’s not that I’m not like, I need to know what Autistic people think. It’s more like, I need to understand why the people who do think that way are thinking that way if that makes sense.

So essentially, and feel free to correct me if I’m misunderstanding, the issue that functioning labels has, that support needs does not, is the language of functioning is tied closely to eugenics, and the language of support needs has better connotations, by being “person-centred”

super long post sorry i just upped my dose of vyvanse so i have a lot to say. anyways one strange phenomenon i find on tumblr although it really shouldnt be surprising by now i suppose is the fact that people seem to believe that everything has an objective answer. and like yeah of course this is the Nuance is Dead website but its still strange to me like ive been making many polls recently on things im genuinely curious to see differing opinions on, because theyre on inherently divisive topics that i really dont believe there's any "right" answer to (the 'is it weird when gay people sexually fantasize about converting straight people' being the biggest one but also that one i just made abt adhd and autism), but the replies to a lot of those polls have people seeming to talk as if there are objective measurable ways to prove a 'right' and 'wrong' answer on topics that ultimately dont affect all that much. questions like that will always have different reactions from different people, even people who generally agree on most big topics, because everyones life experiences and individual opinions will give them different reactions and morals to minute topics like that and its not like you can make legislation or policy about something like that no matter how strongly people might feel in one direction or the other so it ultimately comes down to your own opinion/sense of morals and curating your own experiences.

but people seem to speak about everything as if its another "should you be conservative or not" where the "difference of opinion" is basically whether or not you can recognize easily proved facts or if just straight up do not want minorities to have rights. and the consequences of having the wrong opinion result in real and tangible actions with massive impact (legislation). i think people got so exhausted about people treating issues like that as if they're "ambiguous" when there's a really obvious answer for everyone that isnt a bigot that they started seeing every single issue as if there must be a "correct" answer as well, but the reality is that for the vast vast majority of things there isnt anywhere close to an objective answer, even within the popular leftist moral compass.

there is no "correct" answer to lgbt discourse. yes even that discourse that youre thinking of right now. there is no "correct" answer to the morality of liking some media, or having some sexual fantasy. like, when it comes to things that i and all of my friends feel very strongly about, like some of those fantasies or lgbt discourse, i can and will shame or judge or debate or distance myself from people who disagree with me, because i have every right to. recognizing that morality is subjective doesnt mean i can't care. it just doesnt mean i think im objectively "correct". im going off of my own sense of morality, yknow? which is fine! we don't really have any choice but to do that in order to make progress. but i still AM doing that and i can recognize that because i think its important to, and doesnt undermine my own morals.

so i suppose its just a bit strange to me when people act like theres objective answers on things like that when like, you can never objectively prove morality because it's inherently subjective. even the basic question of "do you want to help or harm other human beings" gets muddied, because for as much as it might seem evil (and i honestly think it's evil as well), someone can truly and earnestly define "morality" as a based on helping yourself first and alone with no regard to other humans. i think everyone has every right to not want to associate with people who have certain opinions/do certain things, or even to associate with people who associate with them. its extremely easy to curate who you associate with in this day and age. but its still extremely strange to me when people talk about morality as if it is objective. i understand why, i do, i'm not really criticizing anyone for it especially since this is all about how things are worded and you cant always be like 'but remember this is subjective!' in every argument so i get it. but i think if you're reading this and realizing that you haven't been thinking of morality as subjective, it might be time to start. not because i want to defend anyone, really, but because understanding and recognizing that morality is subjective is a prerequisite to being able to change other people's minds and move the world towards your own sense of morality

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Why do I keep trying to be friends with people in real life? They always let me down, but somehow I'm always the bad guy. It's gotta be me, right? It has to be. It has to be a failure somewhere on my end.

Map map

My first thought was "meep meep!" from that roadrunner and coyote cartoon, though I haven't seen anything to do with either of them in years. Is meep meep the roadrunner's actual name? hang on. Apparently it's name is Road Runner. Which like. Fine. But i'm always going to think Meep Meep.

My second thought was Dora the Explorer. Wait I just looked up The Map and?? The Map has a twin sister in one episode and one episode only? He has a nephew?? What has been going on in Dora since I stopped watching back up hold on.

I'm getting way off track but today was the day I learned Dora's last name. I didn't actually know she had one. I knew that her name (Dora) comes from exploradora, which means explorer (feminine) in spanish, but who knew this exploradorita had a whole last name?? It's Márquez btw. Her name is Dora Márquez.

Also I forgot about her Dora and Friends look and it's just so strange to see. Like excuse me where is the silly little adventure girl from my shows. What have you done to my blorbo. Why is her hair long why does she have earrings. I know it's her preteen look but something about it is just like...that is not my Dora.

Map gets turned into an app??? Hold on. back up. I haven't even watched this but now I'm like. I'm being drawn back into dora I gotta find out what they've done to my girl. It says Dora and Friends includes more complex spanish though, so that's a plus! Wish I'd had that as a kid.

Nonsie I'm going to stop before I get completely off track into a Dora the Explorer loop. I might have to watch that live action Dora now. My mind is reeling so much just happened in so little time. I'm. huh.

map map to you too, I suppose!

you see michael would show love in his gestures. in his willingness to do things for adam in the way he just says things like “you’ll be my guide” out loud with no hesitation etc. in the way he would be the type of sap to take adam’s hand and kiss his knuckles you know what i mean. and adam by comparison shows his love in a way that could seem more. distant somehow? it’s more rooted in spending time with him and talking to him and listening to what he has to say than it is any sort of visibly romantic gesture. and it’s like he DOES love michael just as much as michael loves him it’s just that he seems to show it more in terms of giving michael his undivided attention and offering himself as a person to talk to and a shoulder to lean on than just. saying grand sweeping things out loud like michael does. and i’m saying all this to say that i DO think it would be possible that adam would have a lot of regrets when it comes to postcanon because he would be thinking about all the things he should’ve came out with and said instead of keeping it all in and he thinks that he’ll never get the chance to say it except michael comes back and adam WANTS to say it but i think he’d choke on it. because he just isn’t built for that type of expression! and getting to the point i think that the first time he actually manages to tell michael he loves him without the words getting stuck in his throat he does it with like a whole area of space between them doing something with his hands without looking at michael at ALL. the same way he did when he asked michael if he was going back to heaven yknow