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ashleyspencer, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

I’ve been alone my whole life.

All I’ve ever known is being alone.

But the autistic community gave me a sense of belonging and a place where I fit in.

I know how awful it feels to be unloved and uncared for, and as autistics, the world can make us feel that way.

All I’ve ever wanted is to do my best to create a sense of community and bring fellow autistics together. And the fact I’m doing that is a dream come true.

So I’m glad we have each other.

I am truly grateful.

#ActuallyAutistic

blue, 6 months ago to boardgames

October was a good boardgame month for me 😄 My fav newest games were Beacon Patrol and Everdell Farshore.
#Brettspiele #Boardgames #bgstats

blue, 6 months ago to animals

One of Franco's passions is to lick his human's hand 😅 #DogsOfMastodon #Dogs

blue, 2 months ago to books

I'm stuck with two books. Both are from the library. I have to give back the audiobook in two days, so this is gonna be a speedrun. Good that borrowing books comes with this pressure to finish on time 😄
(Iron Flame and House of Sky and Breath, I kind of enjoy the worlds but the plot is going way too slow for my taste)
#Bookstodon #Books

blue, 1 month ago to boardgames

We wanted to play "Trade On Tigris" from our Pile of Shame so that we could sell it. But then we really liked it 😂 I don't usually like games where you have to trade with other players, but this game was fun and entertaining 😊 So it can stay and will be played again. #boardgames #Brettspiele

blue, 3 months ago to Autism

I finished "Neuroqueer Heresies", a collection of essays by Nick Walker. I cannot identify with labels that much but I like the idea of "neuroqueering" as an act "with the aim of reclaiming one’s capacity to give more full expression to one’s uniquely weird potentials and inclinations."

I also liked that Nick defines #Neurodivergence broadly, applying it to anyone who struggles within the neuronormative society.
You can read some of her essays on her website: https://neuroqueer.com/essays/

#autism

blue, 4 months ago to books

Using a book ban list from Florida, USA, as an inspiration on what to read next. Weird times.
(It's "Yes, Please" by Amy Poehler. A memoir by a comedian.)

https://pen.org/books-banned-orange-county-florida/

#books #Bookstodon

blue, 1 month ago to movies

Just watched "Swiss Army Man". I'm not that into fart jokes, which was a main thing in the movie. But the rest of the movie was actually quite ok. A guy strands on an island where he discovers a kind of magical corpse and tries to find a way home with him. Their journey is absurd and funny, definitely a very crwative movie script by the Daniels (they also made "Everything Everywhere All at Once").

#film

blue, 5 months ago to random

Trakt says that I watched 513 hours of tv shows this year. It seems quite a lot with this being almost 21 days. But I don't regret anything 😎

blue, 6 months ago to VideoGames

After 57 hours I finished #FinalFantasy16. I liked the final battles and the ending. Now I am sad that it is over. I really enjoyed the game and the story 🥺 Though the game system was extremly reduced in comparison to other FFS, FF16 will be in my top 3 (the others are 8 and 10).
#videogames #finalfantasy

blue, 6 months ago to boardgames

I tried Azul Sintra today. It's from the library.
I played for red and blue, of course blue won 😂 The game is quite nice.

Tomorrow, I'll play it with my friends and if they also like it, I will have to get my own copy...

#boardgames #brettspiele

blue, 6 months ago to boardgames

My friends liked "Azul Sintra". So I guess I have to buy the game and complete my Azul collection.
We also played "The Village". It's a very neat and rather easy game. I don't need it in my collection it but I like playing it. It's fun that the main mechanism is about your meeples dying 😁
#boardgames #Brettspiele

The Village. The gameboard shows a village where you can go to church, get married, produce stuff, go to the market or go on a journey.

blue, 2 months ago to random

Still not comfortable/used to this "new" social media situation since the Downfall of Twitter. I miss Twitter, especially the circles feature. Mastodon still feels either clumsy or too much, and certainly not like the tidbit-thingy that Twitter was to me. Mastodon feels more like a microblogging platform where every post has to have some "essence". On Twitter I posted a lot of pics, I don't do it here because of alt-text, I don't have spoons to give good alt-text for every pic. (1/2)

blue, 2 months ago to random

Currently watching Shameless where (lacking) health insurance in the USA is a huge thing. People having to pay amounts like 60.000 $ or more to survive, it's so horrible. I tried researching what kind of (public) health insurances there are but it's very confusing. I'm paying 300€/Month, a certain % of my income, and mostly everything is covered (complex dental stuff and glasses are not, this sucks).

blue, 6 months ago to animals

Those clowns 😂
#FrancoAndPanka #DogsOfMastodon #dogs #Hunde

Cassandra, 16 days ago to random

A thing that I truly do not enjoy about apparently cishetsexual relationships is how often I've found myself saying “do you have any movies with women in them?”

blue, 7 months ago to Dogs

When the outdoor swimming pools close for the winter, they open the area for a day of doggy swimming. It's lovely 🥰 Franco loves going into the children's pool, Panka is not so wild about water, but she enjoys the large area or getting sticks out of the water. #dogs #dogsofmastodon

The children's swimming pool that is occupied by many dogs having fun.
The children's swimming pool with black and beige dogs of various breeds enjoying the water.

blue, 1 month ago to boardgames

Today we tried Qwirkle for the first time, what a nice game. I love the bag that the travel edition comes with 😄 Then my first time playing Cartographers Heroes with other players, way more fun than playing alone. And of course as a finisher the Clever variants 😄 #Boardgames #Brettspiele

Cartographers Heroes. A drawing game with a fantasy medieval theme
Clever 4 Ever. A roll and write game.

blue, 3 months ago to boardgames

Yesterday we had a puzzly boardgame night with Dorfromantik and Planet Unknown 😊 #boardgames #brettspiele

Dorfromantik. Players have tiles with wood, wheat, railroads, rivers and villages to puzzle together

blue, 3 months ago to random

It's this time of the year, Carnival.... love it or hate it, I'm with the last option 😅 But at least we get a day off from work on Monday and I have some nice plans with boardgames, an art exhibition and some tasty Berliners (the pastry, not the people).

blue, 7 months ago to tea

Cleaned up mit tea shelf.
I need more tin cans and more tea 😂
But I'm gonna order both soon, as my fav teas are almost empty. #tea #tee

blue, 29 days ago to boardgames

Finally played Expeditions (the thematic sequel to Scythe) 😊 It's not as intuitive as Scythe and I was a bit confused by the card management and where to trigger the actions. But once into the game, I liked it. Quick to play (60-90min), awesome artwork and a lot of possibilities to combine your cards. Hope to play it soon again. #Boardgames #Brettspiel

blue, 15 days ago to boardgames

Had a nice Snack & Play, in the "easy going boardgames"-Edition.
We played Fantasy Realms, Qwixx, Quacksalber and Hey, That's My Fish, to cool down from the hot weather 🐧
#Brettspiele #Boardgames

Quacksalber, a game where you collect ingredients as chips and then brew a potion
Hey thats my fish. Plastic penguin figurines collect fish tokens

blue, 7 days ago to animals

Happy Birthday, Panka 🥳💙 7 years old now! #DogsOfMastodon

blue, 1 day ago to books

Currently re-reading Robin Hobb's Farseer Books (The Realm of the Elderlings). I started reading the series in 2003, the series finished in 2017.
So I kind of grew up with the characters, it is different compared to binge-reading a series in a short time. Now I am revisiting the books and the characters, Fitz and my beloved Fool just being young children, not having endured all the trauma yet. Let's see if the books will still be so magical to me 20 years later 😃
#books #Bookstodon