Send Me On My Way, Drawn From X

hey writers if you want to make a metaphor for racism, please maybe remember that racism is literally based on nothing. Africans weren’t enslaved en masse because the Robo-Musa threatened to destroy the world, they were enslaved because it was economically rewarding and politically convenient. If at any point your allegory for racism includes “so <oppressed group> did this major catastrophe and” then you have not only missed the point but you are literally reinforcing the ideas that racism have let racism self-perpetuate (that e.g. black people are naturally dangerous and violent and must be contained or begrudgingly accepted by the Nice White People)

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Stimming!

What is stimming?

In it’s most simple form, stimming is a repetitive body movement that self-stimulates one or more senses in a regulated manner.

What types of stims are there?

Visual Stims

Flapping hands, blinking and/or moving fingers in front of eyes, staring repetitively at a light, pressing on closed eyes to create visual effect [pressure phosphene], …

Auditory Stims

Snapping fingers, tapping on objects, listening to the same song on a loop, rolling Rs, “cat noises”, repeating words, putting hands over ears, singing, clicking tongue, humming…

Tactile Stims

Scratching, rubbing the skin with one’s hands or with an external object, pinching the skin, putting thumb inside fist, sucking thumb, rubbing hands/feet together, petting preferred textures, tying knots/twirling string, twirling/stroking hair…

Vestibular Stims

Moving body in rhythmic motion, rocking front and back or side-to-side), spinning, pacing, walking in circles, walking on tip-toes, jumping up and down…

Taste Stims

Licking body parts, licking an object…

Smell Stims

Smelling objects or hands, smelling other people…

Rhythmic Stims

Tapping on surfaces/objects/self, clicking fingers, making repetitive vocal sounds, bouncing legs, foot tapping, hand flapping, clicking pens, …

There are a lot of other stims as well that don’t necessarily fall under the category of “repetitive” such as pressure stimming, which are still just as valid. Basically if what you do serves the purpose of the stim, you can call it a stim.

Why do people stim?

People stim for all different kinds of reasons. They may stim when they are happy or excited, when they are stressed, as a part of their normal body language, as a way of communication, as a punishment, as a response to something internal or external, as a compulsion, to focus, to self soothe, etc. Stimming can be a coping mechanism, but it can also be so much more! No matter what reason someone has for stimming though, it’s important to remember that all stims are natural and normal.

Who stims?

Anyone that find stimming useful, whether consciously or subconsciously, can stim. That includes neurotypicals, but mainly stimming is seen as something that neurodivergent people do and it occurs most frequently in:

autism spectrum

Tourette’s

schizophrenia

OCD

people that experience mania/hypomania

people with ADHD/ADD

etc

Where can I find stim toys/jewelry?

Stimtastic

TherapyShoppe

AutismShop

SensoryUniversity

OfficePlayground

RuthDoodlle

Link, Zelda, Urbosa, and hot elf mommy Sonia- sketch dump

r_1_t_z_4_u on ig

I just really really love at the end of Furiosa where she is beating the shit out of Dementus and she's demanding for her childhood back. Because obviously there is no material way of getting those things back, but the reason they're gone is because of him. It's the fact that he doesn't remember her until this encounter makes it so much more painful.

It invokes the feeling of when someone in your life has caused you irreparable damage that you carry for the rest of your life, and they don't remember it at all. But YOU remember. And it changed the way YOU see the world and how you exist in it. But to them it was nothing. They get to forget your face even though it's SEARED into yours. They forget almost EVERYTHING about you but you don't get the luxury of forgetting them back.

That scene was just *chefs kiss* because it fulfilled that part of me that WISHES this could've happened. To be able to confront those people and MAKE them remember me.

whether it’s pornography, politics, celebrity worship, fiction, fandom, a specific community, etc. you have to recognize when the online experience you’ve built for yourself is fucking with your head. you have to be able to decide whether you like the person you’re turning yourself into. 

THAT SURE WAS A FUCKING RIDE HUH

( armor rattling joints clacking and scraping and sword [ ancient blade, cursed, blood sacrifice ] dragging against the ground [ asphalt ] )

Still not over the deltarune cowboy outfits tbh

would u guys care for some snoopy drawrings?