Someone said that what a neurodivergent views as CONTEXT,
a neurotypical will usually view as an excuse,
and when I tell y'all this hits me SO HARD 😫
"You're just not working hard enough"
"You're just not paying close enough attention"
"You're just lazy"
"You're just not very thoughtful"
"You're just not respectful of other people's time"
"You're just selfish"
"...SO STOP MAKING EXCUSES!"
And all the while, I'm just trying to provide context on how I got from A to G
THE ACCURSED is my first ever solidly YA fantasy novel & I am SO excited to share this adventure with you!
Teen heroine Elfled is the only "unBlessed" member of her family--never a problem until they flee political persecution. Without magical skills to see her through, Elfled has only wits & hopes in her fight to resist the forces driving her squarely into Evil's lair.
@courtcan seconded. Wouldn't go near that first guy. 2nd guy ... well i wouldn't go near most guys BUT i can appreciate that yeah, so much better looking now. ;)
And it would take a series of books to unpack it all.
So keep in mind: a microblogging platform is not the tool with which to do these concepts justice. Yes, MUCH OF WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SAY IS MISSING NUANCE.
BUT.
The thing is that nothing is going to save us.
Not AI. Not the right president. Not the self-recusing of that Supreme Court justice. Not more money. Not more jobs. Not better jobs. Not those drugs. Not that relationship. Not sex. Not alcohol. Not academia.
Not fitness. Not eating right. Not excellent health. Not the right books. Not that car. Not that bike. Not that boat. Not that set of clothes. Not that reconciliation. Not that therapy. Not that medication. Not that doctor. Not that gender affirmation. Not that school.
Not makeup. Not sex. Not exercise. Not religion. Not unbelief. Not weighted blankets. Not shoes. Not comic books. Not jewelry. Not accessories. Not pets. Not travel. Not buying a house. Not that curriculum. Not that gadget.
"The Gospel is, life is shit and you don't have the answers. And that's good news.... What is the meaning of life? ...Part of the meaning of life is to be able to set that question to one side , to be able to live with not having the answer....
"If I believe that the world is meaningful, that we'll end up playing harps in the sky for eternity, but I do not love, then I cannot help but experience the world as meaningless...
Well y'all, this past week I have seen my first #cybertruck in the wild. And this morning I saw my second cybertruck in the wild.
Swell.
They look just as boxy, ugly, out-of-place, and pretentious in person as they do in pictures.
First in #OklahomaCity, second in #EdmondOK, which is separated from #OKC by one street. So there is the chance it was the same vehicle. I sincerely hope so. It just pains me to think that there might be two such complete, unadulterated fools in this area.
@mastodonmigration The first one I saw was parked, so no driver. This morning I couldn't see much of the driver other than they appeared to be a woman. And I also wonder what the motivation is there. Maybe they just really like brutalist styles?
#HarrisonButker "isn’t nearly the talent...Colin Kaepernick once was, but he should be treated the same: blacklisted, and this time it would actually be justified. ...[T]he 28-year-old Chiefs kicker spent 20 minutes espousing the greatest hits of bigotry, antisemitism, misogyny, homophobia [and] anti-diversity.
"...The trope he’s pushing? It’s the same one Nazis used during the Holocaust, arguing that the murders of 6 million Jews was punishment for the murder of Jesus by their ancestors...
"...I am so tired of people telling us at the center of these dehumanizing rants that we need to respect everyone’s opinion,” she said. “No. We don’t, and we don’t have to tolerate it, either.
“You are not allowed to go out of your way and belittle, degrade and depict groups that don’t look like you as subhuman. That’s not an opinion. That is hate. Plain and simple.”
“This wasn’t a case of foot-in-mouth. It was a well-prepared speech. Women listening in the audience, rather than being rewarded with a diploma on graduation day, were made to listen as he promoted the role of homemaker — not as an acceptable choice, but as their duty as a husband’s servant.”
I wonder how she feels about her son's outdated, misogynistic, frankly-makes-me-concerned-for-his-wife worldview.
It is the Year of Our RBG 2024, and I simply cannot anymore with these Handmaid's Tale fetishizers.
NO ONE should act surprised that we women can't trust men who haven't actively proven themselves allies again and again over time. As someone else said, A BEAR wouldn't tell a college grad she belongs in the kitchen.
@courtcan
I haven’t paid a lot of attention to this, but it’s hard to miss. I would just like to mention one thing that seems to’ve been missing from the narrative, which is that this is a football player here, someone who’s taken an inordinate number of hits to his head in the past few years, which suggests he may already be suffering the beginnings of CTE, and nothing he says should be taken seriously. Unfortunately, it fits a narrative that suits some politically, so it’s news. He’s wrong.
"When asked...if someone wearing a mask for health purposes in public would be violating the law, a legislative staff member said it would, because the bill repeals the exemption."
If you never before realized that our health is a political matter...and that wealthy politicians literally do not care whether we live or die...you have overslept and now is the time to WAKE UP.
"an mRNA cancer vaccine developed at the University of Florida successfully reprogrammed patients’ immune systems to fiercely attack glioblastoma, the most aggressive and lethal brain tumor" through "...use of a patient’s own tumor cells to create a personalized vaccine...."
FUCK CANCER. And let's see anti-vaxxers reject this one.
When you take the lyrics "would he devote that Sacred Head for such a worm as I?" into your very core as a 5-year-old, it takes A LOT to get shut of that unsightly baggage as an adult.
Even "Amazing Grace": "...how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me...."
Really? I was a child. A baby.
A wretch?
Reprobate & miscreant are some of the synonyms. I was to learn those as well.
@courtcan I feel this so much as a recovering catholic. I'm recognizing how much most religions rewrite themselves to infect & exploit people with toxic shame. To make sure an enforce narcissistic hierarchy. To constantly compare yourself to the very people in your own community, and either look down on each other for a lack of performance or resent each other for having more energy to do more for the church.
It's exhausting and manipulative, and fighting against this narrative isolates you.