Queen Bee

‘tis the day, etc etc

The way most autism literature describes "literal interpretation" is often not at all similar to how I experience it. Teenage me even thought I couldn't be autistic because I've always been able to learn metaphors easily.

In fact, I love wordplay of all kinds. Teenage me was fascinated to learn all the types of figurative language there are in poetry and literature.

But paperwork and questionnaires are hard, because there's so much they don't state clearly. Or they don't leave room for enough nuance.

"List all the jobs you've had, with start and end dates." What if I don't remember the exact day or month? Is the year enough?

"Have you been suffering from blurred vision?" Well, if I take off my glasses the whole world is blurred, but I'm fairly sure that's not what the intake form at the optometrist is asking.

Or the infamous (and infuriatingly stereotypical) "Would you rather go to a library or a party?" What sort of party? Where? Who's there? I work at a library. Am I currently at the library for work or pleasure? Does it have a good collection?

It's not common figures of speech that confound me. It's ambiguity, in situations that aren't supposed to be ambiguous.

I’d divorce him too lmao

Do you guys ever think about how Vetinari believes that all people are inherently evil, but then he does things like:

Giving people others would deem irredeemable second chances (Lipwig, the other thief too, he even regretted the death of Lupine Wonse, the guy who summoned a dragon and tried to kill him); spends time with ppl who see only the good in everything (Carrot, Leonard); treats and values ppl like individuals and actually cares about them (that scene in Jingo where he tells Vimes that it’s good that people didn’t get killed in the war).

So I thought,

What if he doesn’t want to believe that everyone is evil. What if he had arrived to that conclusion just from his actual life experience with the assassins and guild leaders, because that’s all he had seen other people do. But he tries to spend time with good people and give criminals second chances because he wants to be proven wrong. To be proven that his philosophy is actually wrong and “there is some good in the world and it’s worth fighting for.”

So…

Per the design of the opening credits Breaking Bad is abbreviated as BrBa, which is bromine-barium…

This should mean that Better Call Saul, which is abbreviated as BCS, is boron-carbon-sulfur. Or, you know, it would be if this show had anything to do with chemistry.

Neither one makes sense as a chemical compound anyway.

Leonid Pasternak  (Ukrainian, 1862–1945) - The Torments of Creative Work

The most typical of the typical days in a writer’s (my) life

"just turn on the computer" "just create a file" bold of you to assume I won’t turn on the computer, open PowerPoint, create a file, type in the title and then procrastinate on actually making the presentation by choosing the background color and the fonts for half an hour

This looks so funny, I can’t… I love them so much

Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill recreating the Star Wars poster

Reblog if you're black tumblr.

You don’t have to be black, it just means you support us, you stand by us and your for us.