#[asks answered

[venomous-qwille]

So, I’m autistic myself, but any pro tips for writing neurodiversity in characters? Pretty please?

I just take different parts of my own ND experience and amplify them with different characters!

So for cricket, it's creating an unreliable narrator by showing the world through the lens of someone with RSD, who is constantly trying to understand/react to the people around them in a way that doesn't 'rock the boat'. Who misinterprets the signals other people send (or don't send), because they don't quite understand how others think. Cricket also immediately accepts other peoples criticisms and negative jokes as literal truth- this is both internalised low self esteem and autism. The Sight is also a metaphor for sensory overstim that comes with autism. When I have to write exposition, I try to do it in the rambling, detailed way of someone who is explaining a special interest (all crickets repair scenes, for instance, where they are harping on about restoration minutiae).

But cricket isn't the only ND character!

Harry is very autism coded, through his collection/interests you see in the setting (a lot of show not tell there) and also in how he fundamentally clicks with cricket in some areas (ND minds think alike) yet has no real understanding of how he has hurt them or the way his actions effect them- there is a lot of bullheaded obliviousness which is the ugly side of autism.

Soleil is masking 2000% of the time. I write him straight up as I was as a deeply traumatized autistic teenager. You don't see his internal world at all, he is constantly modulating/masking his voice, hiding his stims, trying to copy human 'civility', trying to perform politeness and hide his anxiety. You see him self soothe by cleaning in a few chapters.

Sunspot is fun to write because I'm leveraging the 'low Vs hyper empathy' side of ND, exploring that stuff through the way he reacts to things and his relationship with being something non human that looks the most human of all.

I could go on about the other characters, but this is the crux of it:

Try to use show not tell as much as possible

Take the opportunity to weave it into the format/the unreliable narrator

Leverage your personal experiences

Show how characters react to stuff/events/eachother and imagine how those reactions might be effected by their neurodivergence

Thaaaat's about it! I think using personal experiences is the most important one, that's always core to good writing no matter what type of character you are working on.

[ask-a-bot]

HAHA YOU FOOLS! I SNAPPED PICTURES OF YOU TWO!

I NOW HAVE BLACKMAIL! MWHEHEHEHEHHE

How dare you!

Why is it blackmail material? It's just me and Rust chilling!

[obsesssedblerd]

which jjk guy do u think is k!nkiest? 👀

geto. that guy will help you explore your kinks and introduce you to his. 🤭

[monstersholygrail]

Merry Christmas from grandma Ozz!

What do we have here...a rosary whip! You can use it on that slutty demon priest of yours, or vice versa. Here's to another year of monstrous debauchery. <3

OH MY GOSSSSHHH!! This is so amazing I wasn’t expecting this, this is so sweet!!!

Merry Christmas Ozz <33

And Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone else as well. I hope you’ve all had a good day!

God, a rosary whip. That’s so freaking iconic, I love it. I’m smiling like a fool right now, I love it so much! It would definitely be so so so perfect to use on Demon Priest and the other way around. Gotta get the most use out of it hehe

Can’t wait for the year ahead with you all :)

[disappearinginq]

24 and slow horses on the Drabble thing if you feel so inclined :)

I think I like drabbles because they let me be vague as hell. How did we get here? Nobody knows, least of all me. Another 100 words, on the nose:

“You’re not supposed to be up and about,” Catherine cautions, putting her book down beside her tea as she moves to help, but River shrinks back, holding himself up with the help of the wall, and she stills.

He looks better than he did, but that bar is so low it’s on the floor, and she fidgets for want of something to do with her hands.

“How long?” he rasps, his arm held against still broken ribs.

“Only a day or so. Please – let me get you back to bed.” She knows she can’t lift him if he falls again.

[destiel-wings]

Are you incapable of making your own post? Why did you add on to that poor persons Merlin post when they dont care about Destiel? And youre too lazy to make your own gifs lol okay. Please dont add on to posts that arent yours. So fucking lazy and annoying.

Hey, if you're the op who made the post, I sincerely apologize. If you don't want that kind of addition i can delete it, no problem.

I love merthur and i love destiel too, and I added that scene from spn to make a comparison between the two ships. It wasn't meant to take anything away from the original post, but my intention was to give it a new light in addition (as people do on this site) by drawing a parallel with another piece of media. A lot of destiel fans love merthur too and i thought the op could get more reblogs and likes on their gif this way (reaching another fandom too).

I know how to make my own posts, I did plenty of them, actually.

What i don't know how to do is gifs, and i have deep appreciation for people who make them, and it is my understanding that they like exposure for their posts, so that their hard work can reach more people.

This is why i reblogged it.

My tags on the reblog were about both ships, i didn't deviate from the original post ignoring it to only talk about another ship (which would've been rude), so i didn't think it could be offensive in any way.

[chromacryptid]

Mumbo Jumbo HC season 10 episode 23, min 24:46:

Scar: "Is he trying to bang us or smth?" Mumbo: "Definitely."

Help why did everyone act like this was a totally normal thing to say

[sweetgirl-069]

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[brawltogethernow]

obligatory ask meme curse: homestuck

Reverse Unpopular Opinion meme

Joke's on you, I'm into that shit. Homestuck was an enormous and entirely positive part of my late teens and to this day there's nothing else like it. Like sometimes you just need to step back and think about how cool Homestuck is. MSPA invented a new format that HS constantly tested the limits of, giving us a comic where some of the panels are looping gifs and some are flash animations and some are fully playable video games. It had more prose than War and Peace by the time it was halfway done. It invented the concept of blackrom. A good third of it was written in a single year-long creativity bender. The fandom was like Inklings For Gay People and is still coughing out published artists. The cast is split 50/50 by gender and also by glasses wearing status just because...math. It wielded recurring motifs and colors and shapes and phraseology like an armory of weapons. At its peak it had a canon to cosplay rate of less than one hour. It contributed very significantly to keeping me sane in high school. Reading it gives you a very specific Homestuck Accent and will haunt you with concepts and imagery forever. Homestuck!

[venomous-qwille]

Hello!☀️

There's something I don't quite understand. So we're going to be friends with each of the robots? There will be some romantic lines here, I think?

Every time I think about it, I'm like: "What😮? Like, we're going to be with all of them? How is this even going to happen? Poor Cricket."

I just haven't seen any information about this anywhere 😿 But anyway, I don't care if we can just kiss everyone!

I mean I really like the whole idea, the concept and the story! I have no experience with all this, but it certainly requires psychological and physical effort, but you are great. Good luck!!

Short answer: As it says in the fic tags, you will smooch the robots :)

Gitm is just very slow burn (Cricket has only known the bots for a week!).

Long answer: Robots aren't humans, nothing about this fic will be textbook amatonormative. Some of characters will love loudly, some will love quietly. Some of the relationships will be more queerplatonic. Some will be deeply romantic. Gitm is more like... Here is your new found family, Cricket, and you're all going to kiss about it.

[reds-skull]

Could we possibly get Soap yelling at a recruit for trying to steal Ghosts mask, with Ghost in the background like that’s my mans.

Or something you want to do for shits and gigs because you can and it’s fun

Sorry this took a while, I kinda made a mini comic because, as you said, I can and it's fun lol

Thank you for the ask! This was quite fun to make haha

[ask-a-bot]

Merry Christmas everyone!!

Merry Christmas!

Enjoy your stupid human... thing.

Optimus said-

Optimus is dumb.

Starscream! Apologise at once.

Who to?

Snf. Everyone. I for one am sick and tired of hearing your mouth.

Fine. Sorry. I hope you all have fun.

Better.

Merry Christmas!

I hope you all stay well and have fun.

Absolutely.

Yeah! Stay safe, have fun and-

And don't do anything even Hot Rod wouldn't get caught doing.

Glitch...

[rozenphox]

oh absolutely, anon ❤️

[hopepunk-humanity]

Today while at [big box retailer], an older couple approached me and my very punk-looking partner, and said "you two look like you know about video games." My partner proceeded to walk the folks around the store getting them what they needed to buy their grandkid a Switch.

Later, when I was buying sunflowers for my partner, I was struggling to break off part of the stems so they'd be short enough to fit in my backpack. A stranger waved me down and offered me scissors.

Also while I was out, a person was walking down the road putting quarters in every parking meter they passed.

As I biked home, the sunflowers sticking out of my backpack seemed to make a few people's day.

When I got home, it turned out my partner had snuck out while I was away and bought me chocolate as a surprise.

When we try to be good to each other, life can be a series of small joys.

Yes! Small joys are equally about our connections with others, as they are about the world around us.

[obsesssedblerd]

so imagine sukuna's daughter is old enough to date and for a long time, the princess rejects every last suitor because she's super picky. at first it worries reader and sukuna, but then one day, their daughter comes home with a huge bouquet of flowers, completely lovestruck, and she goes on and on and on about how she met a guy who's just so handsome and strong and powerful. she's blushing, giggling, and swinging her legs back and forth as she talks about him. so of course, you tell her to invite him for family dinner so you and sukuna can meet him. the evening arrives, and your daughter walks in with a huge smile, and who's standing next to her, you ask?

satoru gojo reincarnated. the shock is so great that poor sukuna nearly passes tf out.

LMFAOOOOOOOOO??????????? 😭😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

omfg the way i screamed in my house just now 😭 this is so fucking funny bro PLEASE 😂 can imagine sukuna nearly fainting and his & reader's daughter is just like ?????