my favorite example of transferable skills in fiction regardless of how realistic it is are people who work with textiles (sewing, tailoring, etc.) being asked to help stitch a wound or perform surgery. oh you can mend a hole in a shirt? mend a hole in this guy then. it’s basically the same thing just with more blood and screaming.
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customer: wow, these stitches are so neat! where did you learn how to do this?
former mafia boss who abandoned the life of crime after realizing one day that he had a talent and passion for sewing: don’t worry about it
I think my favorite bit i do with customers is when white women are like ‘i dont know what to getttttt’ and i hit them with the ‘you should be bad~ 😈’
Saying ‘you should be bad!!’ In like Gay Voice to a white woman at starbucks has like the same psychological impact as going like ‘who’s a good boy?’ To a dog. It makes them so excited in a really endearing way.
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ospreyonthemoon: Im assuming you work somewhere that sells like, food or something?
liizardwiizard: @fortidogi i work at home depot and one time jokingly said that to a contractor and he looked at me and went and added like $500 more in wood to his cart lol
Actually, I think girls in middle school and high school should still feel comfortable having fuzzy pillows and lava lamps and glitter pens and sequin tops and a colorful wardrobe and whatever else they think is pretty or cool. Maybe we shouldn’t, like, try to beat the personality and life out of the youngsters, neither should we expect them to act like anything other than their actual age.
People wonder why kids are so obsessed with video games when I see grown adults telling *elementary schoolers* that they’re too old to play with dolls or play food or train sets, or that they’re being “ridiculous” for pretending to be animals or Frozen characters. I’ve met so many kids who are completely ashamed that they want to play with my toys when I offer because it’s for “babies” despite desperately wanting to.
If you are autistic, have you seen a canonically autistic character or an autistic-coded character treated poorly by a fandom? (This can mean generally ableist takes, traits being portrayed as ‘scary,’ infantilization, etc.) Please only answer if you are autistic (professionally diagnosed or self-diagnosed).
Please reblog for a bigger sample size - this is part of the same project as my earlier polls! (For extra data, please feel free to mention the character(s) in question in the tags if you’ve experienced this!)
PLEASE DO NOT ANSWER THE POLL IF YOU ARE NOT AUTISTIC. This is specifically for autistic people’s testimonials.
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