In case you thought I toned it down while I've been gone: the other night we rubbed noses while making soft bird noises at each other for a solid 10 minutes before it even occurred to me to be grateful anyone on earth can tolerate my saccharine bullshit

Alas

Little hat with ribbon optional but strongly encouraged

It's like they're trying to make your book required reading in AP world history classes 100 years from now

Also I held the letters these people wrote back from the front before I was 10 years old, this is very literally the origin story of my family, I grew up squinting at their cursive handwriting on a regular basis hearing about this constantly, it's one of the least shitty things about my family lol

It's cringe to care but the people who care about Confederate history are (alas) dramatically more numerous and generally more enthusiastic about making this their whole fucking personality so I occasionally indulge.

Gorgeous!

Responsible*

I feel like we're always too busy trying to get these jackasses to stop chewing on the infrastructure to have the "autistic kids aren't a problem in the first place" conversation...and like that's a feature not a bug.

It's response and correct to refute their bullshit but I'm also very tired.