Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

@eightbitsamurai@elekk.xyz god i love this so much on many levels, but i'm enamored with it right now with like

just what a wonderful modern portrait it is, tying into some very longstanding portraiture conventions

like i can make you a timeline of every element of this going back to at least byzantine murals if not much further, yet it is still fresh and modern and I Love That

@rey i mean the lewd depends on how much snuff as a kink is desired

if all the ant-sonas are lining up as soon as i pick up this bottle of windex

if they would at least have the politeness to maybe give me a few more days post-surgery before they started pouring in through a hole in my bathroom and coming to bite me, that'd be cool

if they would at least have the politeness to maybe give me a few more days post-surgery before they started pouring in through a hole in my bathroom and coming to bite me, that'd be cool

FUCKING ANTS

@InspectorCaracal ok that is kind of a valid anxiety though since so much of the american healthcare bullshit hellscape is constructed in a way where just one doctor going "i don't believe you, i think you're faking. gtfo" is like a cannonball to a palace made of playing cards

I AM PROBABLY NOT HELPING THAT ANXIETY ANY but, well, as the kids say. big hat. same mood.

@InspectorCaracal honestly, valid

idk, maybe i could add it to my litany of different things on my "please give me disability" list, but i feel like it'd be such a pain in the ass to actually get that it wouldn't be terribly worth it

same with the dyscalculia, it's a heaping portion of WHELP THIS WOULDA BEEN COOL TO KNOW IN 4TH FUCKIN GRADE

i don't mean to imply that getting a new diagnosis is a bad thing, or that having a diagnosis is a bad thing, by the way

i have a bit of a tangled ball of personal feelings alongside knowing with head-smarts that dx'ing is good, it is valuable information, it means solidarity and solutions

but uhhhh my dudes, heart-dumb means that this meme is Very True

instead of taking over ms holly glaceon's perfectly cromulent personal thread even more than i already have,

i gotta admit the point that makes me go breathe into a brown paper bag at feeling a new dx drooling over my shoulder is when i go "haha no see, i'm good with social cues and such, i can't be on the autism spectrum" and then the internet just roars WELL YOU COULDA MADE IT A SPECIAL INTEREST. REMEMBER HOW MUCH TIME YOU SPENT READING MISS MANNERS BOOKS and i start sweating bullets

@monorail "oh this is just an anxiety fidget bracelet," i weakly protest, "i fidget with it 'cos of the anxiety, y'know, not anything on the autism spectrum, the anxiety," as i explode yet another innocent bracelet after wearing all the silver plating clean off it

SAME HAT. BIG SOLIDARITY. WHATEVER THE EQUIVALENT OF "MOOD" IS THESE DAYS WITH THE HIP YOUTHS

i just remembered chupa chups exist and am filled with a great desire for candy

@monorail it's like a slasher movie except instead of death it's people going "oh fuck goddammit. well this would have been fucking useful when i was, like, actually in SCHOOL and shit. ...sigh well fine, i guess i get to enjoy some new tips of coping strategies. fuck it i'm ordering this stim toy."

@monorail oh god that phrase

i feel like i've watched the majority of my friends over the years have the exact same "i don't think it's necessarily an autism thing, i do that. ......wait, shit. shit fuck" course and every time i see it i start sweating bullets while the specter of another dx looms over me, just waiting for me the next time i utter "i don't think it's an autism thing..."

@Kat@snouts.online oh, i know - does he have a guild? tbh having a bunch of guildies also helps a lot. hooking him up with a guild of friendly folks that will be like "oh yeah, i'll come run that with you" may help tons, but idk how social he's wanting to be. even if it's just one other person, it helps a lot. i know i returned to ffxiv basically because i had a group of friends yelling "red rover red rover come the fuck on over we're all disabled and don't give a fuck if you're loopy on pain meds" lol

@Kat@snouts.online i can include my own fuckups in there as well, like The Time I Thought I Was Good To Run Dun Scaith (i was not good to run dun scaith. holy shit i was emphatically not good to run dun scaith. the muscle relaxer hit me like a brick wall before scathatch. i fuckin micronapped my way through last boss No Fucking Lie i died like six times in a row IT WAS A MESS)

@Kat@snouts.online OH HE'S TOTALLY FUCKIN FINE. bring him on over to Calamity Janine's campfire and i will spin him tales of the bullshit i've seen, like mr. "i have 2 other tanks at max level, i know what i'm doing, we should pull 4+ packs in dzmael darkhold despite the fact that i'm dressed in CASTER GEAR"

as long as he is dressed vaguely appropriately he is gucci and i will gladly spout horror stories at him to help him realize this LMFAO

@Kat@snouts.online i mean i kinda get it because i actually quit playing ffxiv for a bit due to anxiety because AAAA I CAN'T REMEMBER ALL THE THINGS

then i just realized that.... it's fine lol, nobody cares

if he's really worried about it, what class is he playing? i'd recommend a dps class because let's be real, we're the most fucken expendable lmfao. healer goes down, it's maybe a wipe. tank goes down, better panic. dps dies, yeah that's just tuesday business as usual lmfao