Benny
@mutantboy.bsky.social
Awkward Autistic. ✡️ My hobbies include reading, writing horror stories, and watching Ghosts on loop. I'm funnier in BSL.
Finished my degree. Was convinced the assessors would hate my project, synopsis, author bio etc. but the feedback was so positive it’s made me more determined to finish my novel.
December 31, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Finished my degree. Was convinced the assessors would hate my project, synopsis, author bio etc. but the feedback was so positive it’s made me more determined to finish my novel.
Eighth and final night. Chag chanukah sameach!
December 22, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Eighth and final night. Chag chanukah sameach!
Thank you! Chag sameach!
December 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Thank you! Chag sameach!
Sixth night. Shabbat shalom.
December 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Sixth night. Shabbat shalom.
Fourth night of Chanukah. ✡️🕎
December 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Fourth night of Chanukah. ✡️🕎
Second night. I frickin’ love sufganiyot.
December 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Second night. I frickin’ love sufganiyot.
חנוכה שמח
Thoughts are with Bondi. Am echad. ✡️💙
Thoughts are with Bondi. Am echad. ✡️💙
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
חנוכה שמח
Thoughts are with Bondi. Am echad. ✡️💙
Thoughts are with Bondi. Am echad. ✡️💙
I did text in late so relevant person is aware. But can't face walking in late. And don't know where I'm supposed to be. And can't ask (for various reasons related to my brain being my brain). So I'm stuck.
December 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I did text in late so relevant person is aware. But can't face walking in late. And don't know where I'm supposed to be. And can't ask (for various reasons related to my brain being my brain). So I'm stuck.
Anxiety is such an intense, awful feeling. Tried music & reading to distract myself in hopes I'll stop feeling so unwell and will be able to head to work. Made myself eat to try to feel better (stomach ache and feeling sick)/reduce the dizziness (like going down in an elevator).
December 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Anxiety is such an intense, awful feeling. Tried music & reading to distract myself in hopes I'll stop feeling so unwell and will be able to head to work. Made myself eat to try to feel better (stomach ache and feeling sick)/reduce the dizziness (like going down in an elevator).
And convincing yourself that a marginalised minority is actually some powerful entity out to control things and endanger people... and not just human beings who have very little power (like the rest of us mere peasants) and just want to live their lives in dignity and peace.
December 3, 2025 at 1:41 AM
And convincing yourself that a marginalised minority is actually some powerful entity out to control things and endanger people... and not just human beings who have very little power (like the rest of us mere peasants) and just want to live their lives in dignity and peace.
Textbook stuff, but it appeals to human nature so even intelligent and otherwise reasonable people can fall for it. 'Us vs them', rage bait, having someone to blame, and by attacking a fairly powerless and stigmatised group feeling powerful yourself and like you're doing something worthwhile.
December 3, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Textbook stuff, but it appeals to human nature so even intelligent and otherwise reasonable people can fall for it. 'Us vs them', rage bait, having someone to blame, and by attacking a fairly powerless and stigmatised group feeling powerful yourself and like you're doing something worthwhile.
Struck me fairly recently after seeing transphobic conspiracy theorist type nonsense that almost the exact same rhetoric is used by antisemites. It's all the same justification of hatred towards ppl they don't understand. Turn The Other into a (manufactured) threat and validate your own hate/fear.
December 3, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Struck me fairly recently after seeing transphobic conspiracy theorist type nonsense that almost the exact same rhetoric is used by antisemites. It's all the same justification of hatred towards ppl they don't understand. Turn The Other into a (manufactured) threat and validate your own hate/fear.
The worst bigots always dress up their bigotry as heroism. The transphobes are "protecting women and children!" (Excluding women who might not look feminine enough, or this specific group of marginalised children who are already more likely to be bullied and alienated.)
the British assault on its own citizens' rights continues. I will never forgive the perpetuators.
NEW: Transgender girls will no longer be able to join Girlguiding from today, the organisation has said
December 3, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The worst bigots always dress up their bigotry as heroism. The transphobes are "protecting women and children!" (Excluding women who might not look feminine enough, or this specific group of marginalised children who are already more likely to be bullied and alienated.)
I'm clearly going to be thinking (and feeling) about this film for a while!
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I'm clearly going to be thinking (and feeling) about this film for a while!
For misfits and outcasts in particular, I think stories of monsters (and also robots) exaggerate but make sense of our self-perception. Frankenstein speaks to the human pain of loss, the fear of not being enough, the ache of not belonging, the desperate need to understand others and be understood.
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
For misfits and outcasts in particular, I think stories of monsters (and also robots) exaggerate but make sense of our self-perception. Frankenstein speaks to the human pain of loss, the fear of not being enough, the ache of not belonging, the desperate need to understand others and be understood.
Watched Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein last night. You can tell it's a labour of love. Beautiful, horrific, gory, heartbeaking. So many thoughtful details that give us deeper insight into the characters.
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Watched Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein last night. You can tell it's a labour of love. Beautiful, horrific, gory, heartbeaking. So many thoughtful details that give us deeper insight into the characters.
Little boy I do some extra phonics work with likes to chat between every word. Today he was telling me about his dad keeping everyone awake with his snoring (he didn't know the word, so did an impression). Then he said when he's big & a dad he'll keep his kids awake by *impression of loud snoring*.
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Little boy I do some extra phonics work with likes to chat between every word. Today he was telling me about his dad keeping everyone awake with his snoring (he didn't know the word, so did an impression). Then he said when he's big & a dad he'll keep his kids awake by *impression of loud snoring*.
A little bat pup came to help us give out treats to trick-or-treaters. She liked my curio cabinet and also the magen david from the plant stand. Cutest, funniest little being.
November 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
A little bat pup came to help us give out treats to trick-or-treaters. She liked my curio cabinet and also the magen david from the plant stand. Cutest, funniest little being.
You are. You're kind, you're talented, you're interesting. People might not always recognise or value it enough, but that doesn't mean you don't have lots to offer. Not that you need to put your many positive attributes to a practical/measurable use in order to be worthwhile, of course.
October 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
You are. You're kind, you're talented, you're interesting. People might not always recognise or value it enough, but that doesn't mean you don't have lots to offer. Not that you need to put your many positive attributes to a practical/measurable use in order to be worthwhile, of course.
Look, ppl, if you scoot a little & I scoot a little we can work together to make walking down the street less shit. Instead of refusing to move at all or not bothering to look where you're going. (I also didn't take my ADHD meds today so I felt like I was literally going to expire from frustration.)
October 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Look, ppl, if you scoot a little & I scoot a little we can work together to make walking down the street less shit. Instead of refusing to move at all or not bothering to look where you're going. (I also didn't take my ADHD meds today so I felt like I was literally going to expire from frustration.)
Braving Selfridges itself to check out the Frankenstein merch was horrendous. It was too hot, too busy, difficult to find the merch, and the merch was ridiculously expensive (£85 for a t-shirt!). Braving the streets to get to the art show was also pretty horrendous.
October 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Braving Selfridges itself to check out the Frankenstein merch was horrendous. It was too hot, too busy, difficult to find the merch, and the merch was ridiculously expensive (£85 for a t-shirt!). Braving the streets to get to the art show was also pretty horrendous.
Went out and did things, today!
The Frankenstein: Creating a Tale Eternal exhibition at the Old Selfridges Hotel was great. It's made me all the more excited to watch the film!
Wes Lang's Thank You G-d art show was also delightful! Birds and skulls, what's not to love?!
The Frankenstein: Creating a Tale Eternal exhibition at the Old Selfridges Hotel was great. It's made me all the more excited to watch the film!
Wes Lang's Thank You G-d art show was also delightful! Birds and skulls, what's not to love?!
October 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Went out and did things, today!
The Frankenstein: Creating a Tale Eternal exhibition at the Old Selfridges Hotel was great. It's made me all the more excited to watch the film!
Wes Lang's Thank You G-d art show was also delightful! Birds and skulls, what's not to love?!
The Frankenstein: Creating a Tale Eternal exhibition at the Old Selfridges Hotel was great. It's made me all the more excited to watch the film!
Wes Lang's Thank You G-d art show was also delightful! Birds and skulls, what's not to love?!
London: Time and Tide photography exhibition at Art in the Docks. I collabed w/ Briony Campbell on ‘Pieces of Me’ & ‘Distance is Nothing’ (film originally for Out of Touch Festival, shown at Bloomsbury Theatre!)
Briony’s pieces are collabs w/ Autistic ppl about our experiences/relationships.
Briony’s pieces are collabs w/ Autistic ppl about our experiences/relationships.
October 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
London: Time and Tide photography exhibition at Art in the Docks. I collabed w/ Briony Campbell on ‘Pieces of Me’ & ‘Distance is Nothing’ (film originally for Out of Touch Festival, shown at Bloomsbury Theatre!)
Briony’s pieces are collabs w/ Autistic ppl about our experiences/relationships.
Briony’s pieces are collabs w/ Autistic ppl about our experiences/relationships.
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It takes 2.6 seconds for me to go from “there’s something beautiful in every human being” to “get me off this planet”
October 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
It takes 2.6 seconds for me to go from “there’s something beautiful in every human being” to “get me off this planet”