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Hey, if you have ever listened to or enjoyed Homestuck music, do yourself a favour and listen to this.
The release of the new UnofficialMSPA album Xenoplanetarium happened a few days ago to a minimal fanfare. Do listen to the full thing, because it’s pretty great (and also I have a song on it, which I’m fairly proud of).
However, I want to bring your attention to a specific track. Please listen to Acquiesce by psithurist, the album’s theme for the Land of Maps and Treasure. Homestuck music is something of a passion of mine, and I’ve heard pretty much everything that the community has put out, including quiet a few projects that I managed myself. Keeping this in mind, I think I can safely say that Acquiesce is certainly one of the best Homestuck tracks released in the past couple of years, and possibly one of the best ever for its style, to my ear. Psithurist is an incredibly talented musician, and one of the best producers in the Homestuck fanmusic community at the moment, in my opinion.
Acquiesce has a unique quality that’s unlike pretty much everything else in the canon. It has a sort of understated majesty, and the lyrical sections give me shivers every time I listen to them. Do yourself a favour and give it a listen (and the rest of the album while you’re at it, all the tracks are great)!
Book Discussion
What were your childhood favorite books that no one else seems to know? Not Harry Potter or Percy Jackson, but the book no one else has ever heard of. Mine is Princess from Another Planet.
“if somebody becomes panicked when you accuse them of lying theyre obviously not telling the truth” shut up ugly im a survivor who got punished for shit i never did all the time of fucking course im gonna panic when im blamed for something i didnt do
since this post is actually getting attention rn i really want to emphasize this-
many of the “tells” of lying are traits commonly found in abuse survivors and mentally ill/disabled people.
stuttering, averting eye contact, panicking, raising your volume, fidgeting, and other similar traits are actions performed commonly by these groups, especially in situations of heavy stress- such as being accused of doing something we didnt do, especially if we are afraid of being punished for doing nothing.
im honestly begging people to think critically when accusing somebody of lying for small traits like these.
OP is gone and this post is apparently old as dirt but this is my first time seeing it and it’s absolutely true.
Someone put on the spot to tell the truth under pressure is also MUCH MORE prone to mixing up the facts and providing inconsistent details than a person who’s making up an excuse.
Your periodic reminder that in people who have been subject to threats and punishment for having emotional responses or ‘inappropriate’ facial expressions, panic attacks look different.
They may look like the person has become calmer and less involved, dismissive, even. Some people become intensely subservient and silent. Some become catatonic.
Panic doesn’t always involve screaming, crying, and obvious signs of distress. It involves an extreme form of the person’s fear response – which can be altered by circumstance, ability, and what they’ve learnt to fear.
Which is to say, it’s not your place to decide someone isn’t having a panic attack, when they’ve told you that’s what’s happening.
Yes, absolutely this. I get quiet and withdrawn when I’m having a panic attack. A quiet panic attack is still a panic attack.
I think there are a lot of people who have a mental concept of, and can be accommodating of, disability-related “I cannot do this” but don’t have a concept of, and are terrible at accommodating, disability-related “the cost of doing that is much higher for me than for most people”.
That’s probably for a lot of reasons. The cost of doing something is mostly invisible to other people, while not being able to do something at all is really visible. Disabled people often themselves don’t have the concept “doing this is much harder for me than for other people” and think “other people work harder than me” or “I suck” or “I hate doing that but don’t know why”. It’s much easier to evaluate and verify ‘impossible’ than ‘really costly and awful’.
And if something is easy for you, it can be really hard to imagine what it being costly would be like. I bet most people who can drive have an easier time imagining “you can’t drive”, which they can imagine like “you don’t have access to a car”, than “you can drive, but drives of more than ten minutes will usually (but not always) give you a headache and a buzzing sensation that lasts on-and-off for the next few hours, and drives of more than half an hour are so exhausting you had better be able to nap for hours when you reach your destination, and turning the radio on keeps you awake but makes you spatial awareness worse”.
This is terrible because far more disability things manifest as “the cost of doing that is much higher” than as “doing that is impossible”.
yeah, homestuck is a little progressive. You could say it broke new grounds
Billionaires have enough money to completely end hunger, homelessness, and medical debt, and still be wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. They literally have the power to choose who lives and who dies. And we’re supposed to consider them “charitable” whenever they let one person live.
queerhomestuck 