trainwreckqueer

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there's a fine line between being wary of manipulation and becoming completely paranoid because you get very close to the realisation that pretty much all human interaction involves doing things we hope will lead to a result we like

Have a nice bird and have a better day

Missing the Evil Within :( anyone have fun fic recommendations? And by fun I mean I wanna cry lol

I’ll never forgive Microsoft for shutting tango gameworks down!!! Give me evil within 3!!!

I wanna be you….

today i gathered sticks and sorted them into piles :D

heard someone say archive of our own should install a "dislike" button and I thought I should say this: no, there's absolutely no need for archive of our own to install a "dislike" button.

why? because archive of our own isn't tiktok or youtube or twitter/x where users can monetize their content. archive of our own is a nonprofit site run by fans for fans, which means every content — every fanfic — you see on archive of our own was made out of pure love and passion from the artists/authors.

ao3 authors write because writing about these characters is their happiness and passion. they write for themselves, but they were generous enough to share with you their creations.

they're not "content creators" the way tiktokers or youtubers or instagram models are. they don't "make content" for views and engagements that can be monetized.

so no, you don't get to "grade their works" unless they specifically and directly ask you to.

you don't get to "say what you dislike about their works" unless they specifically and directly ask you to.

you don't get to "dislike" works that are not made specifically to please you in the first place. you're just a guest in someone's house, a house in which they let you in because they were kind, you don't get to roam around their house and say what you dislike about their furniture. you don't get to roam around their house and say you "dislike their house".

of course, you can have your opinion about the house its host invites you in. but if it's a negative one and you find yourself not liking the house, the polite things for you to do is excuse yourself and leave without telling them you dislike their house.

and just because you personally dislike the house doesn't mean the house is "ugly" either. the house you dislike could be a favorite, most luxurious place to many others.

my point is, don't be entitled by wanting the rights to voice your disapproval of things that you get to enjoy for free. don't be entitled by wanting the rights to voice your disapproval of things that were made out of love and passion — things the artists made for themselves for fun.

it makes you look like an entitled jerk with main character syndrome. the universe does not revolve around you.

now repeat after me: don't like don't read. no one forces you to continue reading a fic you don't like. quietly leave instead of being rude to authors who write for free because writing is their source of comfort.

people are so used to contents that were made because it's a trend / contents like tiktok that were made with the main purpose of reaching high engagement and making profits that they forget sometimes things can be made out of love and be made just for fun. sometimes things are supposed to just be for people to enjoy, and if some people don't enjoy them, then they can simply leave without being unnecessary unkind.

When writing about carrying ppl, carrying someone bridal style is all well and good, great for ships, fun and romantic coded. It’s a classic. HOWEVER fireman’s carry? Funny as fuck, plenty of opportunities of “oh lord my face is like.. right next to their ass” jokes, goofy as hell to cause it’s just throwing someone over your shoulder like a sack of potato’s, ALSO great for thrupples cause you can carry two folks at once if ur strong mhm mhm.

Sobbing violently

LETS GO LESBIANS (I know gem is bi and pearl is ??? But still) LETS GO LESBIANS!!!

my favorite

This has similar energy to 3rd life with the “No Kill Pass” and it makes my heart HURT

wait i lied this is worse wtf do u mean 'why did u take mumbo away from me' Grian Minecraft

Beautiful and haunting!!

Blessed are those who listen, sacred are those who watch. The eyes and the ears will soon disappear to the face of the winding-down clock. Gone is wit and riddle, gone is the bird's best friend, gone is the angel the forest entangles and they leave the dog to ascend. The sight and the stars and the moon and the sea and the sun will welcome the top. The white forest grows and the first watcher knows how their hearts will tick-tick then stop.

Say it louder for the folks in the back!!! As an ace person it’s always sad when ppl overly simplify asexuality to “they don’t fuck” and not address the nuances way every ace person experiences or doesn’t experience sexual attraction!!

the issue with shipping aro/ace characters isn't putting them into relationships, it's the fact that no one adds how their sexuality impacts the relationship at large. And how it'll always be different from your average romantic relationship in some way.

This beautifully and accurately reflects the burnout gifted kid experience. Turns out a psychologist clocked my adhd at a young age but because I’m AFAB and ‘gifted’ they put it down on my sheet as, I quote, “watch out for adhd” which I only found out after getting my diagnosis, nearly a decade later after **I** did my research and **I** brought it up.

i feel like before you complain about how "former gifted kids are always acting like they're oppressed because everyone doesn't treat them like they're special anymore," i think you should probably try to understand the common timeline that a kid getting funneled into the gifted program follows.

usually, a child starts getting funneled into gifted tracks around preschool-to-kindergarten. typically, what will happen is a kid will show socially unusual interest in and affinity for a basic life skill that also happens to be taught in school--usually either verbality, reading/writing, understanding and manipulating shapes, or basic numerical concepts, or some combination of the above. they might start talking fairly early, for example, or start reading complete sentences earlier than their peers, or show a lot of unusual interest in basic arithmetic. they might get IQ tested, they might not; this is pretty irrelevant because IQ both has almost no correlation with any measure of "intelligence" other than the IQ test itself, and is an extremely poor predictor of academic success.

based on this, the parents are encouraged to push this child into academic settings earlier and at a faster pace than their peers. once in grade school, they'll be funneled into the gifted track. often, they'll have to "test in" to the gifted track, but they tend to weight what the kid is showing an affinity for the most when "testing in." what the gifted track looks like is different for every school, but generally the common factors are more work, assigned at a faster pace, and dealing with concepts that their "typical" peers are not taught until a year or more later.

this is where the most common timeline becomes important, and diverges from what i think a lot of people's perceptions of gifted kids are. the kid fails. the kid does not have some kind of magical universal affinity for every aspect of academia. in fact, the kid has, in the context of their neurotypical peers setting the standard by which they have to live up to, significant deficits in areas other than the one they showed interest in at a young age. for example, maybe they started reading incredibly early, but once they get to grade school, they start failing every math test. they write numbers backwards and copy them from the board in the wrong order. they get basic arithmetic wrong.

here's the thing: the gifted kid program accidentally self-selects for developmentally disabled children with academic splinter skills. splinter skills are incredibly common in people with developmental disabilities; frequently, they don't get perceived as such because they're very often completely nonacademic (and may not be perceived as a "skill" at all, particularly in the context of more profound developmental disabilities--someone learning to use AAC very quickly, for example, is still perceived as a deficit no matter how quickly they do it, instead of a skill in developing communication methods with significantly less support and interaction than those who learn to communicate verbally). developmentally disabled people with academic splinter skills are significantly more common than abled people with an uncommon affinity for all areas of academia, or abled people with splinter skills.

once a kid starts failing, generally the timeline splits off into two possibilities, mostly dependent on how supportive their parents are, how well-funded their school is, and what psychiatric resources are available in their area of the country. option one is that they just keep failing, and get punished more and more violently over time for their perceived "stubbornness." they are perceived as obviously capable of doing the work the gifted program is assigning them, since they were tracked into the gifted program to begin with, and their grades in this other specific subject are stellar, so obviously they're just lazy and need to be whipped into shape via punishment.

the other option is that the kid's developmental disability is clocked by a teacher or counselor, or even their parents, and enough strings are pulled to get them evaluated by a school psychologist. then, they'll get dual-tracked into the gifted program and the special ed program, with classes divided along where their splinter skills and deficits lie. the special ed program is not actually a good place for disabled children and is incredibly traumatizing to be in.

either way, they come out of school with a significant amount of trauma. legitimate trauma. from being a disabled person in the public education system, which fucking sucks and is an awful experience i wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

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Good morning! I’m salty.

I think we, as a general community, need to start taking this little moment more seriously.

This, right here? This is asking for consent. It’s a legal necessity, yes, but it is also you, the reader, actively consenting to see adult content; and in doing so, saying that you are of an age to see it, and that you’re emotionally capable of handling it.

You find the content you find behind this warning disgusting, horrifying, upsetting, triggering? You consented. You said you could handle it, and you were able to back out at any time. You take responsibility for yourself when you click through this, and so long as the creator used warnings and tags correctly, you bear full responsibility for its impact on you.

“Children are going to lie about their age” is probably true, but that’s the problem of them and the people who are responsible for them, not the people that they lie to.

If you’re not prepared to see adult content, created by and for adults, don’t fucking click through this. And if you do, for all that’s holy, don’t blame anyone else for it.

Can someone edit Scar’s 3rd life skin on this please 😭

my only toxic gamer trait is that i won't wear ugly armor just because it has better stats. i need to slay both on and off the battlefield.

A well deserved win! I still wish Scar won because he is my favourite himbo but GG and joe hills sweep!

YIPPIEEEE

The fact that Scar lost by 0.18% of the vote-

Like I'm just impressed it was THAT CLOSE

GGz Joehills supporters

I think this might actually have been our closest race. Absolutely hard-fought.

No clue this happened but this is epic

Happy Valentines <3

Hannibal (2013-2015) is a love story

Hannibals cookware prolly

I've had this one in my drafts since spring of 2021 and I have no idea why I never posted it. Anyway

Pun on "manhandle"

Sharing is caring! Your pancreas is mine!

Future Grian cosplay?

I am just hoing to say this, ZombieCleo is NOT a Tumblr sexyman. She is too traditionaly sexy. If this was just a sexyman contest she would have my vote but this is a Tumblr sexyman contest! So, Joe Hills is the most Tumblr sexyman, Scar is also worthy of being a Tumblr sexyman, but not as much as Joe.

You raise some compelling points and I expect to see you out there making banners and powerpoints when the polls are posted.

Tee hee unconventional relationships go brrrr

Holy fuck ya lamb has polls now

PESKY BIRD PIN. I don’t know who the art is by, this was a gift from a friend. If anyone knows tag them because their Grian is very cute

"[ blank ] can't be a sexyman because they are too traditional sexy! "

Quick reminder that we are all thirsting for guys that canonically look like this

/lh

I WAS SOBBING AND THEN It WOULDN’T LOAD THE NEXT CHAPTER ALMXWKXKEKS

Edit: hng typos but ao3 seems to be fixed now woop

I literally just reached the last chapter…

Why must you hurt me like this ao3?

I love ponytown it’s very fun and everyone is nice :)

Harassing Grian on pt lol

More scars joined and then pearl showed up

Grian gives string bean energy even tho he’s short as shit, bdubs is Just A Little Guy™️

I'm doing another one