What an autistic person says: “How long is it going to take?”
What they mean: “I want to know whether to activate my short term waiting mode where I just wait and do nothing else, or activate my long term waiting mode where I occupy my mind with something else. I fully understand that both are possibilities, and I have no problem whatsoever with either one, but I want more information so I can best adapt to the situation.”
What neurotypical people hear: “I am impatient and demand that everything I want happen right now. Please scold me and publicly humiliate me for it.”
loooooove how in Tha Real World lotsa mistakes dont have consequences. whoops, booked the wrong item! time to just… remove it from the list and book the right one! whoops, sent an email when i should’ve called! got a mail response that everything’s fine but i should please call next time! whoops, lost my passport! gotta go get a new one at the civil office!
like it does not matterrrrrrr so many fuck ups can just be fixed with only the cost of time. fuckin school test mentality is a scrouge upon the earth and upon mental health. most mistakes can always be righted, and after that you just move on with your life. who give a shit
keep popularising the body neutrality movement gang i wanna see how the makeup and weight loss industries try to capitalise on ‘i literally do not give two shits about how i look’
take a look at what the fashion industry did to grunge and you’ll know that they absolutely can
what did they do? /gen
alright, buckle up bc its time for a bit of a history lesson:
basically the whole idea behind grunge was “fuck consumerism, fuck capitalism, fuck beauty standards and gender norms and the fashion industry. do not give a fuck about what you look like or, alternatively, intentionally look like shit. refuse to buy into beauty standards and refuse to participate in fashion trends and literally just wear the cheapest, comfiest, most practical clothes you can get your hands on (preferably second hand so as to say fuck you to corporate) and then wear those clothes until theyre literally falling apart. dont obsess over hygiene; not everything has to be squeaky clean.”
and since the birthplace and capital of the genre was seattle (a northern lumberjack town), the clothes that were cheap, comfy, durable and practical around there were flannels, beanies, and big, second hand blue jeans. docs were notoriously cheap at the time, and so were military surplus boots, so thats what the bands wore, essentially. in protest against fashion, beauty standards and capitalism.
then people started wearing the same clothes as the bands and then (as with every counter culture before them) the fashion industry decided to create a cleaner, less subversive version of that. so they started selling the anti-fashion, anti-consumerist look as consumerist fashion.
fast forward to 2014 and you see people wearing an all brand new outfit consisting of black skin-tight jeans that you cant move in and that are ripped before theyre sold and dont last more than a year, $500 docs, expensive “flannels” that are too thin to be warm, a $100 beanie and on-fleek makeup that cost more than those bands lived off of at the start of their careers, took hours to apply and finally a paper thin nirvana shirt sold for 50 bucks and worn without any idea what anything but “sounds like teen spirit” sounds like (which isnt a grunge song btw; its a satirical pop song made to mock the kind of music that it is). all of it bought from hot topic or H&M and made by child slaves in china or taiwan. so, like… actually the complete opposite of what grunge is supposed to be. completely against the values of the subculture. it would literally be more grunge to wear dirty sweatpants and a second hand baseball cap than the shit being sold today.
so, yeah. grunge is supposed to be “i literally do not give two shits about how i look” and yet… and YET……. the fashion and beauty industry totally butchered it.
like, no one even seems to know what grunge even is anymore. this is how they destroy countercultures: they tried arresting hippies and noticed it didnt work. what did work was stripping the movement of all values, making it fit corporate beauty standards and selling its empty, powdered husk of a corpse to the masses until it means absolutely nothing. they did it with the hippies, they did it with punk, they did it with grunge and they’ll do it with any new subculture that dares challange and oppose capitalism.
the hunger games films tore out the books teeth. like it does the series such a disservice when it stands for nothing, says nothing, passes no judgement.. katniss speaks so plainly in the books about what she thinks of the capital. of what they do to her and her family and the districts. of the different worlds she witnesses as she’s straddled between 12 and the capital.. she calls it barbaric. she calls it disgusting and wrong and horrifying, over and over, and the films were like how do we market this teen romance.
like these…… are unmarketable to a production company. as they should be
Reblogging again cause they also did such an injustice to Haymitch. In the movies he’s just a silly drunk hehe, but in the book it explains how much trauma he’s been through, he’s not just a winner of the hunger games he’s the winner of the year where they had Twice As Many Tributes. Twice as many people had to die, twice as many people he had to kill or witness being killed, not just one other person from his home but three of them died by his side (it’s been a long time since I’ve read the books but I’m pretty sure one of them was Katnisses aunt and Haymitchs friend, and I think also where the mockingjay pin came from?) like no wonder this man is constantly drunk, bitch went to hell and back and now has to prepare kids every year to go to their deaths.
It also does injustice to Finnick, he’s also basically a silly little himbo and slut except for like one scene. But he won the games at 14 years old and then was basically sex trafficked for the rest of his life afterwards (esp while under 18). Everything about him was a facade to protect himself.
But back to Katniss it really bothered me in the same point as the original post about how bland she is, it’s not just about the capitol. There’s like barely any signs of how she feels about that lady from D13 so when she gets killed it feels like just a play for shock factor rather than the surprising but completely understandable course of action. Actually honestly there’s so many characters I could go into but I wasn’t planning on writing an essay today so I’m gonna stop myself here
