Giraffes. . .are Very Scary. I Was On The Safari Ride At Animal Kingdom(that's Right, At DISNEY WORLD)

Giraffes. . .are very scary. I was on the safari ride at Animal Kingdom(that's right, at DISNEY WORLD) when the car got too close to this family on giraffes that were RIGHT next to the tracks. Dad giraffe did not like this. So he ran up and down the side of the car and moved his head up and down like he was about to flip us. My poor brother was one of the people closest to the giraffe. We had to wait for like five-ten minutes for the giraffe to back off before we could move again.

A few years before that, my dad and I were on the same ride. A black rhino got REAL close to the car and we had to stop because black rhinos are more aggressive than white rhinos. That one got close to running into the side of the car.

Herbivores do NOT fuck around

why’re giraffes so violent

most big herbivores are, frankly. if you have a pretty steady supply of food and don’t have to worry about missing a hunt and starving to death, you can afford to throw your weight around more and generally be more aggressive!

that’s why the most dangerous big animals in the world are almost all herbivores.

low empathy in autism is often misunderstood. i want to explain it with some examples here to hopefully help you understand how it can affect people (this is how it affects me)

low empathy actually looks like: i don’t understand that what’s fun for me might not be fun for you. i might think i’m sharing Good Feelings with you by telling you about something i love or making you play my favorite game with me, and not realize that you’re not enjoying it because i have a hard time distinguishing that people interpret and enjoy things differently. i might be confused or upset when you don’t want to hear about something that makes me very happy, because it doesn’t make you as happy as it makes me and that’s hard for me to grasp. it is hard for me to put myself in your shoes and consider that other people might not get the same excitement and joy that i get out of these things. conversely, i might refuse to participate in something most people enjoy and come off as a “buzzkill” or self centered because i don’t understand that other people enjoy something that only makes me upset. i may be confused as to why everyone is engaging in something so upsetting or simply boring, like watching sports or listening to music that i don’t want to hear.

low empathy does NOT actually look like: i don’t understand that other people have feelings and therefore, i do things that i know are wrong because i don’t care about how my actions affect other people, or don’t understand THAT they affect other people. i am mean and rude because i don’t think it has any consequences (as opposed to being rude without realizing it, which is related to social skills, not empathy)

I think it'd be fun if one of these days when the evil overlord type is like "I Need A Queen. To Rule With" one of the little henchmen is just like "um 😳 if I may, sir, I would like to volunteer 👉👈" and overlord is just like. Okay sure you're cute aha

@neil-gaiman needs to hear about this!

I had the most bizzare dream last night. I was in a hotel/convention center of some sort, wandering around with some people. Probably characters from different shows, but I don’t remember who, just that at least one was very OOC…. 

We found a door that lead to a section that hadn’t been there before. The rooms were decorated more like someone’s apartment so we left. When we asked the staff said in an offhand manner, that it was a haunted area. So of course we went back and summoned the ghost. 

She was a very sweet old lady who hadn’t quite realized she was dead. Her whole reason for hanging around was that she was waiting for the next book in one of @neil-gaiman‘s series to come out. None of us had heard of it so we went to find him and ask about it. 

He looked very sad and said he had no intention of completing that series. It had been difficult to write and the motivation had left him a long time ago. He went with us to talk to the ghost since he felt so bad that she was hanging around for an impossibility. Once we got there, she looked so thrilled to be meet him. They had a long talk and he came up with a summary of what was going to happen. She gave him a hug and looked so peaceful as she disappeared.

This was a strong reminder to me as a fanfic writer that you never know how much your stories affect people or who may be waiting for an update. It always makes me sad when I go back to read a story and it’s been deleted. 

Also from what I have heard of Mr. Gaiman, this would absolutely be something he would do in heartbeat. I hope this isn’t upsetting to him. I know there are works I’m super behind on and at least I one I may not finish. @one-time-i-dreamt not a submission but something that I thought you might like?

If you want a good documentary series that goes over the atrocities committed by the United States during Vietnam, check out the Ken Burns documentary series on the Vietnam War. Ken Burns documentaries are about as unbiased as a history documentary as you can get. You'll learn so much about the war and its surrounding events on both sides.

Kent State University

ok but if bruce wayne somehow came upon zuko fresh out of banishment he would lose his mind.

black hair? check. bad parent(s)? check. trauma? double check.

bruce: how’d you get your scar?

zuko: my dad got mad at me for saying that killing people is wrong so he lit my face on fire and banished me.

bruce, vibrating with excitement, already pulling adoption papers from his utilility: that’s terrible. how do you feel about capes.