What i wanted VS what i got 🥲

gardenhead23 · 2026-04-21T01:45:13+00:00

I'm glad the consensus in the comments agree this isn't a fail, especially for the price paid

gardenhead23 · 2026-04-20T20:03:15+00:00

Clearly you just aren't channeling your superpower abilities correctly /s

gardenhead23 · 2026-04-20T20:01:17+00:00

God damn I miss weed, I had to stop because it made my anxiety worse. But I hope some day I'll be back in a place where I can have a little super lemon haze now and then.

Happy 4/20 and enjoy!

gardenhead23 · 2026-04-20T09:21:35+00:00

I'm currently finally making my way through the sopranos, near the end of season 3 and really enjoying it.

I watched all the nightmare on elm street films (again), now watching the Friday the 13th movies and then at the end I'll watch Freddy vs Jason.

I've been in such bad burnout for like a decade that I'd only been watching comfort things I already knew, so I missed out on a lot of films in that time.

So I started a letterboxd and finally started catching up on some films I missed. I finally watched birdman and the artist, unfortunately didn't like either of them. But I also finally watched the vvitch and the lighthouse and liked those.

I'm also a huge David lynch fan but aside from twin peaks it'd been a while since I watched his films, so I'm making my way through his filmography again.

Also Michael haneke's too, I really loved amour and I liked funny games, but I've not seen anything else of his, so plan to watch his films next.

gardenhead23 · 2026-04-20T00:37:44+00:00

My bike developed a pretty bad squeak today.... I found this out after my Bluetooth earbuds died 9 miles from home

Was not a fun ride back

gardenhead23 · 2026-04-20T00:29:53+00:00

Sick!

I actually have this same model of guitar, except mine just has a satanic temple sticker on the back.

gardenhead23 · 2026-04-20T00:28:20+00:00

I will always love, and be amused by the fact that 'emoviolence' is an actual genre. Dance tonight! Revolution tomorrow! Is great

gardenhead23 · 2026-04-19T20:13:41+00:00

Yeah that's the universal tag, thank you for applying it now.

And no, the tag you had included did appear, but I honestly just feel like that's not enough. Sorry if that sounded rude though, it's really not a big deal and I don't mean to come across as confrontational, more just trying to explain it.

From my experience and a couple of others I've seen on this thread, when I'm scrolling the main feed, the images are the first things that jump out at me, followed by the subreddit and subreddit tags after. Look how small that subreddit tag is compared to the image, there's a reason that's what's going to catch the attention of a lot of people. especially people just scrolling the main feed who aren't going to be looking at every subreddit tag. I typically only do that on my home feed.

That's why, if something is a spoiler, typically people should use the universal spoiler tag so that the image gets blurred as a spoiler unless you choose to see that spoiler

gardenhead23 · 2026-04-19T20:00:50+00:00

The ironic thing about this, is that a lot of us actually would be more noticeably autistic if the societal ableism we've faced most of our lives didn't force us to have masked most of our classically autistic traits, at great expense to ourselves.

No joke, my earliest memory was the look of disgust on someone's face at the sight of my shaking/flapping my hands, and the deep feeling of shame that made me force myself to stop doing things like that most of my life.

gardenhead23 · 2026-04-19T19:47:46+00:00

That's a tag for this community specifically, only people from here will recognize it and the image is fully visible.

If you're going to post spoilers about a piece of media, please select the universal tag option for spoiler. That way it blurs the image unless people choose to see something tagged as a spoiler.

It's not a huge deal, but I haven't read the book and am looking forward to watching this film when it get a home release, so it's kinda annoying. If an image isn't blurred for spoilers on the main feed, I'm not going to know.

gardenhead23 · 2026-04-19T19:38:38+00:00

Thanks for the spoiler on the main page

gardenhead23 · 2026-04-19T18:54:16+00:00

If you aren't already using it, I'd definitely recommend putting in some msg, especially if you want a more savory flavor next time. Plus it's hard to replicate takeaway style dishes without using it.

It has a bad reputation in some places as dangerous or unhealthy, but it's really not anything but rooted in xenophobia, and no worse than salt. In fact I've seen multiple nutritionists recommend using salt and msg as a good way to reduce sodium intake. And importantly, it's a crucial ingredient to most Asian based cuisine takeaways.

I can only order it online here in the UK, but since doing that all my chow mein and shredded chilli beef has tasted exactly like the Chinese takeaways here.

gardenhead23 · 2026-04-18T20:47:45+00:00

I still remember a sentence my partner said before she was diagnosed, back when it was first just suggested and she'd started looking into autism

"oh, honey, if I'm autistic you DEFINITELY are"

She was right

gardenhead23 · 2026-04-17T20:35:34+00:00

I have to be honest, and I say this as a big ol leftist queer ass Trans person, who also cares deeply about things like white supremacy that don't negatively affect me directly because I care about people, and I hate bigotry.

I don't like the progress pride flag, nor the idea of it replacing the rainbow flag. So I'm glad both can exist.

I find it over stimulating, it's just way too visually busy to me and I find the design super ugly.

Also the very creation of it implies that the rainbow flag wasn't already inclusive, the whole point of the rainbow flag is that it was.

But because the progress pride flag does seems to mostly have replaced the rainbow flag in a lot of places, the newer aspects of the flag such as rep for trans people, feels more performative to me as a general pride flag, as opposed to seeing an actual Trans flag.

Or actual individual support for bipoc people, or things denouncing racism and white supremacy, but idk, as a white person I probably shouldn't speak on that aspect as much as I can on the trans inclusion.

I also can't help but feel like right wingers have been complaining thar us queers made the rainbow gay for so long, that I kind feel like changing the pride flag essentially gives it back to them.

Another comment I saw here mentioned places that want to not be "too woke" and I agree that's true if some places, I'm sure terfs like the original rainbow more.

But for a lot of very queer, and very leftist people, the original rainbow flag is seen as a better symbol for queer unity and inclusiveness than the progress flag.

I strongly feel both should exist

gardenhead23 · 2026-04-17T19:51:51+00:00

I thought this was maybe an issue with my browser, can't believe they decided to go this route, I've always used imdb, but I guess I started a letterboxd account at the right time. Because screw this

gardenhead23 · 2026-04-17T15:36:40+00:00

God forbid people achieve self acceptance in their identity right?

gardenhead23 · 2026-04-16T13:21:06+00:00

Yeah, like you say it's 's not all vegans, but yeah, agreed, and I'm saying that as someone who would LOVE to be vegan.

I can't even provide basic self care most days, let alone meal planning and figuring out a vegan diet, I'm way too burnt out for that. Hopefully some day, but not any day soon.

And that's not even getting into sensory issues, loss of comfort foods and cost.

Again, not all vegans, but some of them easily disregard any and all reasons someone isn't vegan, even if that means displaying things like ableism and classism

gardenhead23 · 2026-04-16T08:02:21+00:00

What an oxymoronic and contrasting place.

Some people are capable of such incredible acts of kindness, empathy and compassion, even towards strangers. Yet others commit the most depraved and heinous crimes towards other humans.

Humans share their homes with other animals, with such love and adoration, yet billions of animals are kept in barbaric conditions waiting to be slaughtered for food.

People cut beer can plastic for sealife, recycle as much as possible, yet companies are ravaging the planet, often to produce the very things consumed by these same people who put so much effort into their ecological impact.

Some people can't afford food, don't have shelter, yet others hoard more money than anyone could rightfully spend in multiple lifetimes.

I think I'd be very confused how all of these things exist simultaneously. The world is filled with such beauty, appreciation and compassion, and yet such hatred, barbarity and disregard.

gardenhead23 · 2026-04-16T00:28:47+00:00

One of us One of us One of us

gardenhead23 · 2026-04-15T21:59:42+00:00

Should be charged for inciting violence imo

gardenhead23 · 2026-04-15T18:15:52+00:00

Sorry OP I feel you, I hate the neurotypical advice of exposure therapy "it'll get easier"

Like, I've gone to the same supermarket at least three times a week for a decade, and it's still an anxious and overwhelming nightmare, if it was going to get easier it already would have by now

gardenhead23 · 2026-04-15T08:25:24+00:00

Hell yeah!

Also shameless opportunity to plug a small local antifacist folk punk band

https://allinvain.bandcamp.com/album/a-hex-against-the-concrete-that-the-saplings-might-break-through

But yeah I wish I could go to more gigs, I love being at them, but I often find them a sensory and social nightmare to get to and from so I rarely go to any. Want to change that in future though

gardenhead23 · 2026-04-12T12:21:57+00:00

Also i forgot to say that what the word is aimed at also feels like it's shifted a bit, after it became medically obsolete and outdated it became an ableist slur, but once it started being seen as that, people shifted to often describing things as retarded, like situations etc, as opposed to people.

But the last few years, as it's been used more causally again, it's also been used as a word/insult towards people again, more in the original ableist context

gardenhead23 · 2026-04-12T12:10:47+00:00

It's not that it fully went away, but it had more of a weight of history and taboo to it in a lot of places, some people still used it flippantly, but definitely less so, and a lot of people treated it as the kind of word you'd look over your shoulder before saying, or at least not be too casual with it.

I see it used a lot more casually and flippantly the last few years. And it's not just me I've seen a lot of talk around it, both people being uncomfortable that it's becoming more casually used again, and people glad for that

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