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[haveyoureadthisdcfic]

Authour: @incogneat-oh (incogneat_oh)

Subfandom: Batman

Media: Comics

Relationships: Ensemble (Bruce Wayne & Tim Drake, Dick Grayson & Tim Drake)

Year: 2011

Summary:

Robin nearly kills a man on patrol. This is a story about repercussions.

Submitted by anon

Submitter's comment:

This fic analyzes some of the mind-games Bruce played with Tim when he was just getting confident being Robin. It has an extremely well-done conflict, as well as great family dynamics between Tim, Dick, and Bruce. All around 10/10. I once forgot the title and the memory of Tim staying at Dick's apartment haunted me for over a year until I found it again -- now I want others to be able to read it and enjoy!

[knickynoo]

Well, I was sufficiently enabled for the idea, so here it is: ✨Alex P. Keaton's Top Neurodivergent Moments✨

The funny thing is that the amount of time I put into scrolling through my encyclopedic mental inventory of Family Ties scenes, compiling these moments in a list, making gifs, and finding past gifsets/analysis to link back to makes creating this post one of my most neurodivergent moments. Good for me.

These will be organized by season (easier for me than trying to rank on a scale) and are in no way ALL of the moments. I'd need like...15 posts for that. Also, tumblr only allows 30 images/gifs per post, so I'm going to include links to past posts when possible.

ENJOY!

• Alex gets his first-ever failing grade and immediately decides to quit school

Exactly what it says. Alex strolls into college all bright-eyed and confident and ends up a broken shell of a guy just a week or so later. The prototypical Gifted Kid from the moment he learned to speak, Alex cannot handle anything less than perfection. Getting the first F of his life shatters his entire self-image, and he wants to drop out of college entirely.

• Alex's friend Doug announces he's getting married, and Alex spirals into despair. As one does.

The entirety of the "Best Man" episode is one big Alex displaying neurodivergent behaviors moment, honestly. There are a whole lot of Alex-centered plots that are set into motion because A Change happens, and he just cannot deal with it, and this is one of the best examples. Alex is so distraught at the suddenly altered dynamic that he wanders the house like a lost soul—sad and confused and needy. He walks in on Steven's shower just to give him a hug, offers to go shopping with Mal and play dolls with Jen, and also draws up a seven-year contract for his other friends to sign to ensure they stick to their regularly scheduled card games, lest they also run off to get married and destroy his life.

• Alex P. Keaton: child development expert

When faced with the news of another sibling on the way, Alex has some very nurturing advice at the ready for when the baby is crying.

• The Keatons all laugh at a funny story. Alex is not amused.

This is one of my favorite Alex scenes of the series. Uncle Rob shares a memory of the time Steven was young and got in trouble because he started rebelling against the system and refused to write his name in the designated spot on his school test papers. The family shares a hearty laugh. Alex, king of black-and-white thinking and lover of rules, is deeply upset.

I love him so much. He genuinely cannot see how they're enjoying such a story. The Name Spot is for names. And his father dared to write in the Not For Names Spot?? Jail for Steven.

He's so ridiculously autistic.

• Alex's favorite childhood toy

It was a cardboard box. I can't quite put into words why this sets off my ND radar, but it does. Maybe it's the being attached to unusual items thing that's common with autism? The intense fixations that make other people go ????

The Alex and Ba-ba plotline provides some wonderful Alex Lore.

• Mr. Mustache

Yeah, those intense fixations? In the "Fool for Love" episode, Alex grows a mustache and legitimately cannot speak about anything else for the several days that follow. He's asked to present a speech at Mallory's homecoming dance and centers his entire speech around his mustache. He's unable to have a conversation that doesn't involve mustaches. It's incredible.

• Everything in "Matchmaker"

Alex is so sweet in this one. After Mallory comes home crying after a bad date, Alex promises to help her find a great guy. Unfortunately, putting someone who struggles socially and with processing emotions in charge of your love life isn't exactly a great fit. Alex uses the power of science to craft a formula to find Mallory's perfect match (he isn't), then tags along on their date and helps foster a very natural environment (it isn't) for the relationship to flourish (it doesn't).

The episode ends with a great scene between Alex and Mallory that shows just how well Mal understands the inner-workings of her big brother's head.

• Divorce is tough. Alex has some advice.

The Keaton kids are shocked to learn that their Uncle Rob is divorcing their Aunt Maureen. As Jen and Mallory reel from the information, Alex helps to reframe things.

He then pulls out the Special Interest Card and compares the divorce of their aunt and uncle to a "failed merger, not unlike the breakup of the phone company—although obviously less emotional. Nothing more than a natural fluctuation in the marketplace of love and marriage."

And the thing is, he IS impacted by the news. He just hasn't the slightest clue how to actually process it. So, a simple failed merger it is!

• You had one job

Mallory needs some croissants for a fancy get-together she's having with her poetry class. Alex helpfully offers to go pick them up.

Now, I debated about this one because there's part of me that's like, "Hmm, did Alex purposely do this to annoy Mallory?" Is this just a jerk move? But you know what? It stays on the list because the whole "I personally don't like this thing and struggle to see how anyone else could. Therefore, I will get the thing I like" is (for me) a relatable aspect of being ND.

• Every single second of "A, My Name is Alex"

For real, though. This episode is a deep dive into how Alex became the person he is, and it is FILLED with "flashbacks" of an intensely neurodivergent child whose issues were made worse by the people around him. (Mostly teachers and peers. Steven and Elyse did their best with him, but I do also have some critiques of the way they parented him). Anyway, he represses his emotions to the point of a meltdown

And then there's this

Full coin gifset here. Also, I made posts on the full episode, which can be found here and here.

• "Alex has a weird body"

That's Mallory's explanation to Andy as to why Alex can't help her when she needs someone to model one of her latest clothing creations. She says Alex's head is too big for his body, and those words, unfortunately, find their way back to him. In a mini plot reminiscent of the mustache one, Alex proceeds to obsess over the comment.

And I mean, I think being told your head is too big for your body would make anyone insecure, but it's the way Alex handles it. He's unable to have regular conversations for a while because he can't stop fixating on the size of his noggin'.

Both of the "Read it and Weep" episodes fit in this list, to be honest

• An accurate statement by Lauren

I've got to include this because it really does neatly condense a lot of who Alex is

So true, bestie.

And then, to wrap this whole thing up, there's all of this

And this is just what I can fit in this here post without going over the limit lol. Obsessed with the way MJF played Alex.

Thanks for reading ✌️

This is me with Alex, btw

[the-gateway-to-madness]

@thesadpuffin

Behold, your very own high school radio station kids to play around with or ignore as you please. If this school does not have its own radio station, please assume they found a way to make their own, because these imbeciles absolutely would.

Shisi concepts:

17

Favorite color: seafoam green

Favorite drink: Sprite

Favorite food: any fresh bread, but especially sourdough

Would be from Kakariko

ASMR girl energy

Very quiet and calm

The one in charge

Aroace or just casually disinterested in drama, idk/idc which (both probably)

DJs Mon-Wed-Fri after school

The only neurotypical

She weightlifts. I didn't think of this until after drawing her, so she looks slimmer than she should, but it fits her so I'm adding it.

Torenn concepts:

16

Favorite color: teal

Favorite drink: Fanta lemon

Favorite food: Fish, shrimp, and crab (he doesn't like lobster)

Would be from Lurelin

Works and repairs all the tech involved

✨️autism✨️

A little nervous, follows the rules well enough to keep their station from being shut down by the school

Long n skinny with no muscle so his clothes are all baggy to be long enough

Flawless deadpan

DJs Tues-Thurs after school

Kyta concepts:

16

Favorite color: Purple

Favorite drink: fruit punch

Favorite food: chicken cordon bleu

Would be from Hateno

Knows a wide range of music

DJs on weekends because she's the only one willing to, and also runs the music for things like sporting events (she likes to play dramatic music when Revali goes out on the field, because she thinks it's funny when he gets mad)

✨️adhd and autism✨️

Has a running joke with herself about how many hair ties she can carry on her person

Refuses to wear the skirt

Ships Zelink. Torenn and Shisi don't get it

Gremlin energy- talks on live radio like she's making tumblr posts, her only concession to the rules is not swearing (she thinks it's funnier to use stuff like "fiddlesticks" and "horsefeathers" on air and watch Shisi and Torenn cringe, anyway)

"and today on friendships that just seem really nice: that one sporty dude whose hair is better than mine- Lonk, I think, right? And Zeeta! ... Link and Zelda, apparently. Torenn is making faces at me- oh there he goes again. Uh. Link and Zelda, if you're listening- which I bet a dollar y'ain't- sorry about the lonk and zeeta thing."

She sings, and also sews! If she ever managed to meet Link and Zelda she'd make them matching flannel frog plushes with each others' eye and hair colors included in the color schemes.

Further concepts:

Torenn and Kyta are childhood friends

To this day they say they faked papers and parental permission and got married at 14 as a joke. Everyone is still stunned they pulled it off

They did not. They both refuse to let anyone find out it's a hoax though.

They are really dating! A year so far and going strong.

Shisi is the only one who knows the truth about the whole shebang. She finds it pretty dang amusing, for the sole reason that Kyta and Torenn do too.

Shisi and Kyta share a love of sewing. Shisi taught Kyta to quilt and use a sewing machine and Kyta taught her to make plushes. After hearing the rumors about Zelda they would probably get her favorite colors from Impa and make her a nice quilt with fleece backing to cheer her up.

Shisi plays guitar, harp, and ocarina (>:])

Torenn can draw really well

They call their listeners their study buddies and go out of their way to occasionally throw in ridiculous songs for people to get up and stretch and dance to

Alright my bad night last night has caught up im out of ideas

i did make a playlist for these idiots' radio station tho

[aerodaltonimperial]

the junglecorpse story primer

so i've been pretty obsessively cataloguing everything between them in my last year or so of being in AEW fandom, and since they are my Hyperfixation™️, i thought i would put together a little primer for the people who may not have been spending every waking thought thinking about the chemistry these two end up having with each other and how their story has played out. there's some videos in here that are fun watches and hopefully this adds a little bit to the knowledge bank!! (i love wrestling so much lol)

2019//

as far as we can tell, their first time ever wrestling was in 2019, which is what we like to call "the lost 2019 bar match," on february 24, 2019, at the high hat in los angeles. when we say lost, we literally mean lost. i would cut off my left arm to get a video of this damn match-up. the only video we have is a short bit from when they were hitting each other with empty water bottles, shown here. (tumblr won't let me embed these links without crashing.)

there's also one photograph of this match, posted on instagram, by a wrestling photographer:

according to cagematch, darby won this match. given how many people in that crowd have phones out, i cannot BELIEVE that we haven't been able to hunt down the rest of the videos, but here we are, crying into the abyss that we can't find this. someone has it. name your price lol. i'm very open to negotiation.

2020 //

the only thing that 2020 had in it was another "lost match," this time from the jericho cruise, so we hate jericho even more for refusing to video the matches there so we can see them when we do not have $5k to go on this trip. but this one is just a 3 v 3 match, where private party and darby beat jurassic express (jack, lucha, and marko). probably not life-changing, but i still want to see it, as a completionist.

2021 //

by 2021, they had both been in aew for several years and were settling in. darby had the TNT belt, and jack was working up through both the singles division on his own, and the tag division with luchasaurus. surprisingly, they never matched up on their own! but in april of 2021, aew asked twitter to pick darby's next opponent for the TNT, and twitter chose jack. this is where things get interesting.

darby makes a promo talking to jack about the match that gets posted on darby's twitter here and reposted to aew's twitter here. (the link doesn't work to the video anymore, but don't worry, i backed it up on my yt account because i knew twitter would implode eventually.)

this is the first time, that we can find, that anyone has gone after the "if you stop being such a goodie two-shoes, you could be great" angle with jack. this promo actually pre-dates christian cage even joining AEW (he would join in the next month or two)! but this thread remains pulled alongside jack's next several years of kayfabe stories, so it's worth pointing out that darby may have been the first person to use it.

video link to youtube

jack makes a follow-up video for this and it gets posted on aew's twitter, and as luck would have it, that tweet no longer exists. i'm not sure where it went, to be honest. it wasn't much except "i've proven myself" and "my record is great now." it's worth noting that neither of them tag the other in their promos, which makes me laugh. darby calls jack "jungle jack," which also makes me laugh.

they have their 2021 match, which is amazing, and don't worry, i also have that video link, so if you'd like to watch it, the full thing lives here. after this, darby loses the TNT belt to miro, and jack wins the battle royale after throwing christian cage out of the ring. important story beats for both of them.

2022 //

in 2022, they end up on the same side of a 6 v 6 match that i'm assuming was kind of just random match-ups, on june 1st at the kia forum. we've watched it, because of course we have, but it wasn't anything particularly interesting haha. however, in january of 2022, jurassic express wins the tag belts. they hold them until that summer, when they lose them, and christian turns on jack. lucha then also turns on jack. jack's heel turn gets majorly delayed due to christian's injury that takes him out through the whole end of the year. at the end of 2022, junglehook starts up after hook comes out to save jack from getting the shit beat out of him (this is the start of his heel turn).

2023 //

and then we get to 2023, the year that i was watching and promptly lost my mind, because we got the pillars storyline! right before this, jack beats christian in the coffin match, which finishes that particular aspect, but it butts right up to the pillars stuff. i've waxed poetic for like 4k about how jack was supposed to be a heel in the pillars story, but everything got delayed due to christian's injury, and they had to run him as a face for this because too many people were involved, and that's not really the point here, but it sure makes a lot of the decisions made in the pillars story fucking unhinged as shit lol.

i've made a video for the junglecorpse moments in the pillars storyline that is here if you have 23 minutes to experience the absurdity of what they chose to do here.

but abridged version is that jack and darby have to team up for the pillars tag match, and don't seem to get along well. they run a full thing where mjf asks jack to betray darby (so they lose) and jack gets up in his face, and then darby walks in to see it. after this, darby comes out for jack (and sammy comes out after) to save him from LFI killing him after jack beats rush.

prior to their tag match, they run this promo with the two of them, where darby references the lost 2019 bar match (DOES HE ALSO SIT AND THINK ABOUT IT FOR HOURS??? LIKE I DO???) and also mentions that they would probably be friends if they weren't wrestlers, which is worth holding onto lmao.

in the actual pillars PPV 4-way at double or nothing, they run a large segment of jack having the belt and a clear shot to take darby out with it (and win) and he doesn't end up doing it. they make a big thing out of it. this is insane given that a month later, jack turns on hook at forbidden door 2023 and eventually takes the FTW off him. i wish to speak to whoever thought this was normal. he couldn't cheat to beat darby, who he supposedly doesn't even like, for the world championship, but can betray his best friend for an unsanctioned belt a month later??????? this makes me insane. don't touch me chompie.

also worth mentioning is jack tweeting this during the storyline, with nothing else attached to it. merry early christmas to me. (jack tends to post a single photo for important story beats, with no text on it. he's done this for quite a number of things within the last few years. weird that he did that here, when they had one tag match together.)

2024 //

and that bring us to this year! jack is back in AEW after his unjust and sad-making time out. anarchy in the arena happens at double or nothing 2024, and jack and darby spend 75% of the match beating each other up alone backstage. jack hits darby with the bus, darby sets jack on fire. it's lovely.

if you haven't seen the video that leaked of jack preparing for the fire spot in the early part of 2024 with a stunt team, it's worth watching. (no sound)

darby is out again to recover since i don't know how he managed to get clear for AITA in the first place, and then he comes back with an obsessive single-mindedness to call out jack perry by beating up brandon cutler. jack then also beats up brandon cutler in the strangest mating rituals i've ever fucking seen lmao. INTRICATE RITUALS!!

that's all i've got right now, but hopefully this ends up being a decent overview of all the stuff i tend to reference in my fics. 💚💚💚 sorry tumblr won't let me embed these videos in here, but it kept crashing the draft, so i had to revert them all just to links. homophobia.

[baejax-the-great]

[First, I was rereading "Agua Caliente" and I remembered a song that played a lot in my childhood (and I had kind of forgotten) bc the lyrics somehow matched the Patrochilles dynamic in this fic. This is kind of funny bc I would never in my life associate sertanejo (it's a type of country music, I think? Idk I've never heard country, but the aesthetic is kind of similar. Anyway, it's pretty popular here) with shipping an ancient Greek couple in modern AU, but ok. And I went to listen to this song again and now I'm listening to it on a loop, so thanks for that.]

Now the real question! It's perhaps a strange question, but do you plan what you write? Like, before you write, do you have the whole structured idea in mind? I could have sworn it was like that reading the fics, but then some notes on Ao3 and certain things you say on Tumblr started to make me reflect that maybe you don't plan as much as I thought… in that case, how do you manage to connect everything so well without looking like something was left out/without prior planning??? It's magic, technique, luck or actually do you plan?

Sorry if the question is a bit "???" but I'm REALLY thinking about this! I used to write fics years ago and I was in the "won't plan" group and as expected the fics came out obviously unplanned (but that was ok with me bc it was just to pass the time and I didn't expect it to be an engaging story or anything), and here's why this ask exists: it's precisely bc I was in the “won't plan” group that I'm really intrigued by the possibility of you NOT planning bc it just doesn't seem that way reading your fics...

The short answer is that I do plan what I write, but probably not enough.

I rarely start writing a fic with an entire idea. Often it's just a vibe. But I won't start posting a fic until I know exactly what the conflict is and how it will be resolved.

This was easy in ATG, for example, because I'd already written the resolution before I even decided to write the fic. Structuring it by Patroclus's age also helped, because I could make an outline with the stuff that needed to happen and then jam stuff I wanted to happen around it. That "Stuff" could be really specific--obviously Pat had to graduate school and Achilles had to go to the Olympics on specific years, and it was also like, this section should have them fighting. This section should have them getting along, but Achilles is hiding this big lie so there should be a weird tension.

In Sunset, it took me longer to figure out the conflict/resolution. Sure, I knew that Achilles was going to cry on a Chicago street corner and get naked in Pat's kitchen, but why was he there? How did he get there? I had already written Achilles settling in to Pat's place and the scene where he gets into the lake before I decided on Aphrodite being the key to explain this whole thing. Then I knew Pat had to die. But a lot of the stuff that happened in the middle was sort of on a whim (particularly Achilles getting on the wrong L train-that was definitely just an impulse I had while finishing that chapter). Tecmessa's chapter was also a later addition, and a deeply self-indulgent one, hah.

Agua was the least planned of these three, and in some ways it was because the idea was a lot simpler. After three years, Achilles runs into Patroclus again and they reconcile in some way. I knew exactly how Patroclus would feel about the whole thing (relieved, guilty, upset, wounded, hopeful, upset about feeling hopeful). My original plan was just to set up Achilles in his shop and his new life doing his best and have him run into Patroclus at the beach, and eventually they'd go to the desert. I wrote parts of their meeting first, and then I started writing the beginning and ended up scrapping most of that. I realized I was going to have to do a lot more writing for poor Achilles. My lack of planning here did cause some difficulties--I had like three versions of that date he went on with Pat with different endings. One involved Pat in the hospital, lmao. Zag and Meg coming to stay with Achilles were kind of whims, and I had meant to have Hypnos show up for "his turn" and have Achilles send him home because no, these were not team-building exercises, but then I forgot 😩.

The reason that I need to know the conflict/resolution at the start is because I do think all the scenes in a fic should relate to it in some way, either by building up the conflict or setting the groundwork for a resolution. Even for the impulsive scenes I add just for fun, I think about how they can do this. For example, Achilles getting lost on the L allowed me to build up Pat's unreasonable anxiety, show that Ajax was also feeling it to some extent, and end in Pat saying "fuck it" and just giving in to making out with his hot, ancient boyfriend. It was also something that happened to a friend who was visiting me from out of the country and didn't have a working cell phone. That moment of watching him through the window of the L as it slowly pulled away is just etched in my memory.

In Agua Caliente, almost anything could relate to the resolution, because the resolution was "Achilles having a life," thus it didn't require as much planning. Zagreus's apartment getting flooded (something that happened to me in grad school) showed Achilles attempting to be flexible with some success while allowing himself to become closer to Zagreus, which led to a point of connection with his kids. It also made it easier to explain why Achilles was doing Zag's delivery that day when he ran into Pat. There were only a couple things that truly needed to happen in AC for the fic to make sense, and that was a resolution with Achilles' kids and then with Patroclus, of course.

I do get loose threads sometimes, side conflicts or things that didn't end up going anywhere, and those things tend to annoy me until I figure out a way to resolve them or make them otherwise relevant. Or I don't. Or sometimes I realize I need to add something/someone into the fic, and it would have been smoother if I'd added it in an earlier chapter so it didn't seem like a convenient thing I'd just thought of to solve a problem. That's always annoying to me. But whatever. It's fanfic. That's the risk of posting while you write.

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My Wangan Maxi Tune Career Returns 2024 Edition [Timezone Trinoma, SM City North Edsa, and Quantum Arcade, SM City San Lazaro] - Part 8 (Recorded: Jun 23rd & Jul 4th, 2024)

Hey, hey! It’s me! 😁 And welcome back for another installment of "My Wangan Maxi Tune Career"! I returned in 2022, and now I'm continue it, this 2024. Yes, it's been a while. I haven't shared my WMMT's play progress in this current year, with the last record I posted was on May 31st, 2023 (Pls, go check it out in the "previous" section) before it went into troubles. And by that, I'm talking about my PC desktop problem. *sigh* 😫😔 Nevertheless, I have now SO MANY photos and screenshots that need to be uploaded on my current social media sites right away before I move on to my current update.

Once again, If you haven't seen my "first & second half" of "Part 7", then please check out my "previous" down below (w/ highlights).

IMPORTANT NOTE(S): Once again, no #OnThisDay throwback post for this date. Only for exclusive to the super secret blog(s).

So, without further ado, let's continue with my "Part 8":

[Jun 23rd, 2024; Timezone Trinoma] 📷📲 - 1st & 2nd Image(s) ↑:

• Okay so, I was supposed not to played Wangan Maxi Tune because I have some things to done, but I thought to myself "the heck with that"! 🙂🤷‍♀️ Let's play it for at least once! 😄 And what better way than picking the current winning streak, Riya Speedster and her trusty "TRUE IMPREZA" car! 😁🐰🇯🇵🚘

Riya 🐰🏎️ [wearing Teenager Hoppy and Teenager Catnap's clothes combined]: Awww yeah! Spot, you take a passenger seat beside ME! Because its TIME FOR ME to shine the SPOTLIGHT! See how I did there?! 😁

Spot 🐶🏎️ [wearing Teenager Dogday's attire w/ Teenager Dogpressed's jacket]: *Sigh* Oooo joy, yeah... 🙄

Riya 🐰🏎️ [wearing Teenager Hoppy and Teenager Catnap's clothes combined]: Hmph... (Sour-pup 🙄😒). Nonetheless, before I go to racing I picked up a new window sticker, an interesting design am I as his. 🙂

Spot 🐶🏎️ [wearing Teenager Dogday's attire w/ Teenager Dogpressed's jacket]: Mine's the 'Circle', while you have the 'Tribal'. Though, that doesn't make YOU ✌ 'The Tribal Chief' ✌, Ri.

Riya 🐰🏎️ [wearing Teenager Hoppy and Teenager Catnap's clothes combined]: You made your point, twin bro. But let's moved on to my single 'Online Ghost Battle' match! 👻🚗😁

Mixed Image(s) [Timezone SM City North Edsa] (1st & 2nd Wangan Navi Screenshots, w/ 3rd to 6th Images)📷/🖼️📲:

Spot 🐶🏎️ [wearing Teenager Dogday's attire w/ Teenager Dogpressed's jacket]: Just one? 🤨

Riya 🐰🏎️ [wearing Teenager Hoppy and Teenager Catnap's clothes combined]: Yeah ONE! C'mon, we can't stay longer you know. Our parents wants us to go home after our race tournament, remember? 😮

Spot 🐶🏎️ [wearing Teenager Dogday's attire w/ Teenager Dogpressed's jacket]: Yeah, yeah sure! I'm getting tired, anyway. So, let's get over it before we go home. 🥱

Riya 🐰🏎️ [wearing Teenager Hoppy and Teenager Catnap's clothes combined]: You bet, twin bro! Here are my three random ghost opponents at the Hanshin Expressway loop Line (Osaka Area); three 760HPs 🇯🇵🚘 🇯🇵🚘 🇯🇵🚘, and one 740HP 🇯🇵🚘. 😃

Spot 🐶🏎️ [wearing Teenager Dogday's attire w/ Teenager Dogpressed's jacket]: Huh, you put a one bar margin I see. 🤔

Riya 🐰🏎️ [wearing Teenager Hoppy and Teenager Catnap's clothes combined]: Yeah, and so does the two opponents! Anyway, I put it a lot of fight, for what otherwise a good normal race. Although, I was gonna lose one opponent, until I pushed a little bit closer to get the BIG W! 😁🥇 So, I won and I got a new rim! 😄

Spot 🐶🏎️ [wearing Teenager Dogday's attire w/ Teenager Dogpressed's jacket]: Well, I'm impressed... 👏

Riya 🐰🏎️ [wearing Teenager Hoppy and Teenager Catnap's clothes combined]: Try not to be sarcastic, twin bro. Don't worry, you might want a chance to get YOUR SPOLIGHT, soon. Eh, Spot? 😊

Spot 🐶🏎️ [wearing Teenager Dogday's attire w/ Teenager Dogpressed's jacket]: Mmmm... I guess... *rubbing his right bicep with his left arm* (He's feeling exhausted 😩)

Riya 🐰🏎️ [wearing Teenager Hoppy and Teenager Catnap's clothes combined]: *soft pat* That's the spirit! 🙂 So yeah, it was fun so that's all I could say! 😁

[Jul 4th, 2024; Quantum Arcade, SM City San Lazaro] 📷📲 - 1st to 3rd Image(s) ↑:

Me 🇵🇭: Thanks so much for your recent Maxi Tune share, Ri. As for me... Um, I'm only here for a quick Wangan Terminal Scratch-off, and that's it. There's nothing new about this 'Neon' marker, and this said marker will be added to my unused IMPREZA GRB car instead of my current 350Z car; by any chance, of course. 😊🟦🇯🇵🚗 By the way, you'll see it down the road, very soon for my said IMPREZA car. (pun intended) However, I have some of my recorded footage that I've saved, in the near future once my custom PC was back in function, that is. 🖥️🔧 So, overall, this is a short one but I'm still working on another topic to tackle next. ⌨️💻

Well, that’s all for now. More Wangan Maxi experience, coming up soon.

If you haven’t seen my 2019 Wangan Maxi Tune 6 & Wangan Navigator app (on the alternate blog), then I’ll provide some links down below. ↓😉

My Wangan Maxi Tune 6 Experience:

My WMMT6 Progress (2019): Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5, Part 6 , Part 7, Part 7½, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14 [Final] (The Last WMMT6 Update)

My Wangan Navigator app (2019): Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14 [Final]

My WMMT6RR Progress (2022 - present): Part 1 [Nov 19th, 2022], Part 2 [Nov 19th, 2022], Part 3 [Nov 19th, 2022], Part 4 [Final] [Dec 28th, 2022], Part 5 [first half], Part 5 [second half], Part 5 [third/final half], Part 6 [first half], Part 6 [second half], Part 7 [first half], Part 7 [second half]

Also check out my previous Maxi Tune installments:

• WMMT5DX - [CLICK ME! #1], [CLICK ME! #2], [CLICK ME! #3], [CLICK ME! #4 (The Last 5DX Update)]

• WMMT5DXPlus (All in chronological date) - [CLICK ME! #1], [CLICK ME! #2], [CLICK ME! #3], [CLICK ME! #4], [CLICK ME! #5], [CLICK ME! #6], [CLICK ME! #7], [CLICK ME! #8], [CLICK ME #9], [CLICK ME! #10], [CLICK ME! #11], [CLICK ME! #12], [CLICK ME! #13], [CLICK ME! #14], [CLICK ME! #15], [CLICK ME! #16], [CLICK ME! #17], [CLICK ME! #18], [CLICK ME! #19], [CLICK ME! #20], [CLICK ME! #21], [CLICK ME! #22], [CLICK ME! #23], [CLICK ME! #24], [CLICK ME! #25], [CLICK ME! #26], [CLICK ME! #27], [CLICK ME! #28], [CLICK ME! #29], [CLICK ME! #30], [CLICK ME! #31], [CLICK ME! #32], [CLICK ME #33], [CLICK ME #34], [CLICK ME #35], [CLICK ME #36], [CLICK ME #37], [CLICK ME #38], [CLICK ME #39], [CLICK ME #40], [CLICK ME #41], [CLICK ME! #42], [CLICK ME! #43], [CLICK ME! #44], [CLICK ME! #45], [CLICK ME! #46], [CLICK ME! #47], [CLICK ME! #48], [CLICK ME! #49], [CLICK ME! #50], [CLICK ME! #51 (The Last 5DX+ Update)]

[kuunibal]

I wanted to talk about my darling, if that's alright. I can never get enough of talking about him. I'm actually autistic/adhd and he's been my biggest special interest since we've been dating. My friends and family have all gotten annoyed with the fact he's all I talk about.

He's asleep next to me as I type this. I love hearing him breathing, I always check up on him too. He just moved in less than a week ago. I'm so happy, I'm filled with joy. I feel like my friends and family all judge me for how soon it is. I just got divorced (married wayyy too young) the beginning of October last year, and started dating him the end of October. We've been dating a little less than four months now.

But see: he's a yandere too. He's already planning his proposal to me. And he created a tumblr just to follow my blogs and reblog yanderecore posts he tags me in. He has notifications on and stalks my blogs, and goes through and likes every post I make ♥️ He always tells me that he doesn't need anyone else because I'm all that matters, that he'd do anything for me, and that I give his life meaning and purpose. He's said that I'm his first love and if I ever leave him he'd never move on because he knows for a fact that he'd never love anyone like he does me so what's the point of trying. I have to always stop him from spending all of his paycheck on buying me gifts if I accidentally say I want something where he can overhear me. He will also pick up my jackets in front of me and start smelling them and carrying them around to hug. If we go out in public he always has to be holding my hand. And: he always prefers to leave at least one hickey on me, preferably as visible as possible, so everyone knows I'm taken.

I love all of it. I love that he does that, I love how jealous and possessive he is, I love that when I reblog yanderecore posts for him he kisses me and tells me that he loves it. He loves that I'm also obsessed with him. I told him that since I need to travel for a week coming up I'd bring some of his shirts he's worn and use them like a pillowcase and he blushed. I told him that I'd die without him, I'd just wither away, my purpose is to be his and to be his housewife and dote on him. He loves all of it. Except he refuses to let me take on more than 50% of the housework no matter how much I whine and insist. He also bought me a journal for Christmas with my name and birth flower engraved on it, and I've been using it to practice writing pages of my first name and his last name for when we get married. He finds it so cute and said I should start using it as my signature since technically they won't check if my last name matches on most documents ♥️

We just bought a bunch of prints of photos of us together and kissing and have already hung some of them up. I also got him a picture of me for his wallet he immediately cut it out and stuck in his wallet for when he has to be at work and misses me. We've also discussed what our wedding will be like, we're saving to buy a house together in the future, what we'll name our kids, and what our future matching tattoo will look like ♥️

I've always been kind of an obsessive lover but never like this. And never this reciprocated. I'm over the moon. We're completely soulmates. He's already met my family and they think he's great, he's so kind to everyone and always fussing over me. And I'm the only person he's ever dated to meet his family. They also like me, and appreciate how much I've fixed his depression. According to them before we met he was constantly depressed and grumpy and antisocial. And now he's bubbly and never stops talking about me.

My darling means the entire world to me ♥️ He's snoring so sweetly right now. He keeps putting his arm or leg over mine in his sleep too. I'm madly MADLY in love with him. I need to get up to finish some chores while he rests but it's so hard to rip myself away from his side. He's going to buy my engagement ring soon, and I've been telling him since the end of December that whenever he asks I'll say yes. When we go our I always rub my ring finger and feel like something is missing, like I left something at home. Even though in my past relationship it was terrible and I purposely never wore my wedding ring.

Anyways: thanks for listening. I need to try and pry myself away to feed our furbabies and come back to bed asap. Mutual yandere love is the best thing I've ever experienced and my darling is the best thing that could have possibly happened to me

This was honestly so heartwarming to read, thank you for sharing! I am happy for you and your darling, and I’m glad that you were able to leave your previous unhappy marriage and find someone who brings you so much joy into your life. Congratulations!

[sketchyspooks]

My story's Tumblr @staticseasons

I'm moving up in the world.＼(^^)／

My side blog when I shitpost @cheapcreeps

Guidelines when interacting with me

No nsfw dms or sexual messages in general, that crap makes me extremely uncomfortable. Please do not use my model in tier lists with smash or pass, or judging via's boobs size. It's really really weird and degenerate behavior. Please don't sexualize me in any way, I prefer if you don't. Thank you very much. This will be a automatic block from me, if I catch you doing this. I'm deliberately setting a boundary, please respect that.

Don't flirt in dms, I'm not interested and I'm not looking to date anyone currently. I just want to vibe and chill for the time being. I'm taking time to heal and advocating my needs more often. I have a history of bad relationships, I would like to not add to that. ( I'm joking here. )

Please, don't talk about politics ever. Politics rots the mind and soul. I am apolitical for a reason and I will scold you if you mention politics in my dms. ( I already had someone do that in my DMs this year, yeah I'm kind of sick of it. )

I had enough people whine about their politics views. My entire high school experience was plagued with political talk instead of teaching. It felt like I was getting indoctrinated instead of properly taught well.

I got to see the real ugly side of people because of their biases and prejudices, specifically towards men and asians. This experience has shaped me into the person I am today. And why I'm so jaded and cynical when it comes to politics because these were supposed to be my teachers. The people I was supposed to " learn " from. I have no interest in being a underling for their political fights.

Please don't insert your options like they are fact. No every man is a monster or a creature to fear. They are human just like us women. I don't subscribe to this black and white thinking. What does make assumptions or painting someone as the bad guy solve? Nothing, all it does is isolate people and dehumanizes them. Heck, in some cases it causes a reinforces their beliefs and keep them in their echo chamber.

If you want people to hear you out, you can't have a negative or condescending attitude. Give them basic respect and try to see eye to eye with them. People don't want to be feel like they're preached at or lectured, no matter what topic it is. You got to find a middle ground and make compromises. Sure, it might not be what you want but it's a start. It's a lot better than having screaming matches to see you can scream their political views the loudest.

On the internet people go to the extremes, it's never the middle ground. Life is full of nuances and not every situation has a one size fit all solution. Life is simply just more complicated because there's many factors.

Not everyone is your enemy nor a bad person, please show some empathy to your opponents. Who knows they might have more similarities with you than you think. I'm not saying this will fix everything but it's better that name calling.

After all what's more human than the artist of suffering? As many as we don't like to admit it, tragedies can happen to anyone at anytime. The grim reality of things is Grief, Poverty, Abuse, Trauma, etc. Point is everyone has their own stuff they are going through and just because they ain't publicly posting it online doesn't mean it doesn't exist. You're making an ass out of yourself for assuming people's lives and what they go through. People suffering through injustices all the time, why must we kick them while they're still down? Why demonize and dehumanize them?

I think what sickens me the most with all of this is the lack of humanity that people have for one another. I swear politics brings out the ugly in people and makes them worse. I hate both parties equally because both are hypocrites and inconsistent. Anyone has the capabilities of being hateful and racist, it doesn't matter which political party they are from.

It is a broken system that doesn't work with its citizens. The very people the system is trying to help.

You don't have to agree with my opinion. I respect that you have a different opinion to me and I want nuance. I don't want to creative hive mind or Echo chambers. I encourage you think for yourself and form your own opinions. Think, I beg you. Don't subscribe to what's the popular opinion is. Question your reality and your surroundings. You never know who is lying and trying to make you out to be a fool. Being skeptical pays off sometimes. Stay safe out there my friend.

Please don't dm me about political issues ever, it's only going to make me ignore you. I will ban you if you mention politics, My streams are not the place for politics. Please leave me out of it.

Please don't ask about my personal life. I am a private person because of my safety and mental health. I know people would treat me differently if I give said information to the internet. The internet does what it does best and I rather not give out information that people can use as ammunition. One thing is for certain people will torn down something or someone before understanding them.

Please don't label me as a different sexuality than my own. It's disrespectful and rude, you don't know me and you can't make those decisions for me.

Failure in respecting my boundaries will get you blocked, banned and muted. You get one warning and that's it. I am being very clear and upfront with how I want to be treated. Anyone healthy person will have no problem following these requests. The toxic ones well I'm not so sure~

So if you feel like a outcast, welcome. You're in the right place. Just know you are valid and you're here for a reason, no matter how much the world tells you otherwise. It is okay to be different and go against the main stream. Be normal and generic is overrated, embrace your quirky and weird self.

[bishiglomper]

I went and visited my tarot friend. We talked for a solid hour. Well. She talked. The poor woman is starved for social interaction. Like mom said; she's the most introverted extrovert we know lol

She kept apologizing but I'm just the happiest camper listening to people yap ( ´∀｀ )b

We talked about her kids a bit. One is out as Ace. "I don't know if you know what that is but"

Me: *shyly raises hand* Yeah, I.. I am too..🖐 ( ´∀｀; )

She said her kid said she wondered if her mom was. And she's like "Well, honey. I had you." Like I've had sex.

Of course I was like "actually, that's a common misconception....." 👀

And she was telling me how her kid gets the whole "you just haven't met the right person" "who says that to someone??" (Bless her) but then said something that made me point out that there's sexual identities and then there's romantic ones.

So like. We need to talk about these in depth. 👀

Also her kid is "dating". A kid that's been around for years. Friend doesn't know how to refer to them, as a boyfriend or what lol.

She was telling me he'll ask her kid to come over and she'll bring her sister. Like honey. Your SO probably just wants you.

I'm like lol that's something I would do. At least until I was comfortable enough to be alone.

But this was one of the things shes glad her kid has someone to understand her. And put up with her OCD and anxiety

You don't know how many times I wanted to go "That's the autism"

So many times.

Every time I see her.

Even the things she herself experiences.

She was telling me how she LOVES seeing her friends. But. Only one at a time. No new people. and we have a hard time reaching out. To go see them. And that she's a magnet for the weird and unique.

She overthinks so much.

Her BFF is going through it but she's not sure how to reach out. So she made a little handmade zen garden. And a matching one for herself so when her friend uses it, she can think of her. And she's overthinking the gift, not wanting to be weird. To her BFF.

I love her so much, she's so precious.

I was telling her about tumblr. How all the queer and neurodivergent people are here. She would like it.. but I feel like it may be too much. She's a little sheltered.

She said "yeah, I think that's one (kid) said no to. That I'd be overwhelmed."

Like. Yes.

My sweet friend. She must be protected at all costs

But also I think I'm going to start a collection of Autism vibe posts because tumblr was HUGE in identifying my own neurodivergency so.

It's more helpful than traditional literature.

Because we seriously need to have a talk. 🤭 This whole fae family be on the spectrum.

[a-heart-thats-healing]

Things... Things have happened.

Okay, so it's been a minute, like usual. There are a few women to update you on. Before we do that, we need context.

It's December 23, 2022, but we all know that I consider it the night before until I actually fall asleep, so in my books, it's December 22, 2022 right now. It's raining (quite randomly) at 5:00 AM, which makes this the most opportune time to write. It has been some time since I have actually written on tumblr and that's because I was expecting to export the blog to a site that was more stable. That hasn't happened yet. Because there has been so much time since the last post, let's try to update you to the best of our ability.

Valerie: Where to even begin. It's been over two years since we have spoken. I am doing my best to not reach out to her. She doesn't need me in her life. She just doesn't. Doesn't make it any harder to write and delete messages to her. I have gone onto Instagram to write a message to her, but always delete the entire thing without sending it. It's honestly embarrassing how often I have done this. I need to stop before I hit send by mistake, for example, trying to catch my phone as it's falling (because I'm clumsy) and then *BOOM* sent. I keep seeing things that remind me of her: her literal first name popping up everywhere (autocorrect, dating apps, people following my socials), mannerisms that people do, reminders from a unexpected photo or sentimental item that I thought I had gotten rid of. Trying to forget is impossible. ______________________________________________________________ Continuation 5:55 PM, Dec 23, 2022

Now, after rest, a clear mind, and not being intoxicated, let's continue this. I'm not going to continue writing about Valerie after that intermission as I've been trying to distance her from my mind, as hard as it is. Let's talk about what has been going on with dating since the last update which was on March 21st, 2022. There have been dates, there have been interactions, and there's been a lot of personal growth. Let's speak about the romantic interests I've had, but I probably won't touch on everything since there have been quite a few months between then and now. I'll write in the order from most recent to the oldest. Squeekers: So, Squeekers is someone that I matched with on a latin dating application. I definitely wasn't expecting to start talking to her, but she's a very pleasant surprise. We started talking last week starting on Saturday, December 17th. She's not my typical romantic interest because she is about 10 years younger than me. When I saw her on the dating app, I just looked at her profile pictures (thought she was cute), read her profile (thought it was funny), and decided to swipe on her based on that. She was traveling on a trip up north when I got her telephone number. Since we've been talking, there's been a lot of topics that we've touched on. Some of the biggest things we've spoken about are the 1) age gap (life differences, how that would affect introducing each other to family, and a lot of jokes), 2) being open and vulnerable about things that have happened to us, and 3) already some hurtful experiences. Let's dive into each of these.

The obvious elephant in the room is the age difference between us. She's a lot younger than women I tend to speak to, which means that there are some things that we just don't see eye-to-eye on and cultural differences. Some of these differences are things I don't quite see the appeal to, but I'm trying to not be so critical because I tend to compare dates to my idealized perfect partner. Onto family, I think that would be a big hurdle for us to overcome because I just don't see either of them accepting the relationship. It could be very impossible to convince either family that this would be a good thing. There have been some funny jokes about our ages. She has been calling me old man and I like to play around that I'm geriatric and going to need my walker. I don't mind the age difference and she doesn't either, but it'll take a lot of work to get through it.

A day or so ago, she told me that she thought we should just be friends. I started getting defensive and withdrawing like I do many times whenever someone rejects me. I started being an asshole by saying that I'd been talking to other women (which I wasn't lying about), which caused her to also get defensive and say to go talk to them. I ended up telling her about my childhood trauma. I didn't want her seeing me, but she decided to FaceTime me anyway. I was crying because of...

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Flash forward to March 10, 2023

I've been talking to Squeekers for some time. She's just not the one for me, by a long shot. There's so much that I just downright don't like/want for a partner, but she's at least fun to have a casual friendship/flirtationship with, but I can't imagine it going any further. Since talking to her, I've been on a lot of dates, but it's getting difficult to find any time for myself that isn't being taken up by women trying to date. I'm just trying to keep things casual until I find someone that I'm 100% into. I've had a few women that have rejected me, but that's really all a part of dating. Of course some of those people are ones that I wish I could've continued with, but honestly, this just gives me more time to work on myself until I find someone I can't live without. BTW, currently in Honduras to see family and there has been interest here and I've gone on a quick casual date here as well. It went well I should be seeing her again tomorrow during the small gathering (today since its 4 AM). Let's see how it goes.

[valkerymillenia]

please make a post about bruce wayne being autistic

I already have, for several years now I've been saying that Bruce Wayne is neurodivergent and most likely autistic, but I don't think I've made a very detailed post specifically here on Tumblr so... Might as well?

With the arrival of "The Batman" and Pattison giving us a Bruce Wayne portrayal that most definitely reflects a neurodivergent Batman the way he should be, more and more people are starting to adhere to the autistic!Bruce headcanon and I'm all for it but many still argue that it's not canon to the comics, I beg to differ (and I'm hyper focused right now) so let's make a post about it, shall we?

Proof that canon Bruce is very likely in the autistic spectrum

For starters, Bruce canonically has PTSD (and anger issues that come with it) and OCD. He also suffers from acute anxiety and depression but none of this takes away from the fact that he's been autistic-coded for decades and not just in the comics, in fact, I'm going to be talking about the character across several types of media.

Also, remember that autism is a spectrum and every person is different.

Let's start with this actual panel from "Batman: The Imposter", it's a recent (2021-2022) black label comic but it's relevant since it features the point of view of a therapist/psychiatrist on young Bruce.

But now, let's get to the rest.

Brucie is excellent at mirroring, masking and generally BS-ing people!

As an adult he uses scripting a lot and his detective skills to pick up cues from people and act as they expect of him. Very good at playing pretend, not so good at real relationships. He reads people through factual data, analyzing micro-expressions, posture and words like a puzzle rather than naturally understanding social cues. (Additionally, he actually has fun playing different characters like Brucie or Matches.)

He's extremely empathetic (my god, so much hyper empathy) but also struggles with alexithymia.

He feels so much empathy that he literally cannot stop caring, he cares so much that he tries to protect the city with his bare hands, throws money at a million causes and will always go the extra mile for people (such as, for example, offering a Wayne Ent. job to an underage prostitute to get her off the streets).

He feels all this compassion but can't quite express it, he has a lot of trouble being emotionally demonstrative and picking up the right social cues, vulnerability does not come easy to him and neither does abstract expression.

He uses a flat tone, he's monotone and generally expressionless when he's not trying to fake a reaction or emotion, so he comes off as disconnected and disinterested and that causes friction with people like Dick and Clark.

He tends to express himself more in actions than words precisely because verbal expression is hard for him (unless he has time to plan out his speeches or is being very blunt).

Examples:

When Dick tells Bruce he's dating Babs and Bruce just grunts and shows no reaction, Dick misinterprets as lack of interest but Bruce actually just has no idea what reaction is expected of him.

He's incredibly blunt and to the point, he says exactly what he means and sometimes comes off as very confrontational, he doesn't go through the trouble of lying to make people feel better (I don't want to think about the Ric arc but... the Ric arc). If he has to lie to play a part or mask, he will often resort to sarcasm.

When he wanted to adopt Tim he was so bad at putting his intentions in words that Tim couldn't understand him and Bruce had to ask Alfred to explain/show him.

He hates small talk with a passion and goes out of his way to avoid it, he says what he has to say and leaves, if he wants to know how someone is doing he will go check/spy on them rather than simply ask (literally does this with the whole family). This also extends to Batman's habit of just disappearing mid-conversation once he feels he has as much info as he needs.

When Bruce gets engaged (and I'm referring to the almost-wedding with Selina in this case) he has trouble telling his kids and best friends about it because he doesn't understand why it would be important to them and doesn't know how to say it.

When Bruce is proud with Damian's efforts reigning in his violent tendencies early in their Batman and Robin partnership he had this interaction with Alfred- A: "Did you tell Damian you are proud of him?", B: "Of course.", A: "What exactly did you say?", B: "I said I found his efforts commendable.", A: *sigh* "Couldn't you just say you are proud of him?", B: *visibly confused* "Isn't that exactly what I did?"

When he and Dick have that rough patch where Dick leaves and stops being Robin (right before he becomes Nightwing), a lot of that bs is because Bruce can't properly express himself and pushes Dick away instead telling him that he's letting him go for his own good.

When Jason comes back as Red Hood and is so pissed at Bruce for not killing Joker to avenge him and for replacing him with Tim? Bruce could have told Jason that he did in fact try to kill Joker to avenge him but was stopped by Superman (and a whole lot of other bs) and he didn't replace him with Tim, he rejected Tim and Tim stalked him and made himself Robin against Bruce's wishes. Would this explanation had helped with Jason's anger? Probably not but Bruce didn't even think to try because he didn't know how to express himself and that bullshit spiraled out of control.

Clark: "I know you didn't bring me back because you like me." B: "I don't...not like you."

Another canon interaction- B: "Family is...good." Jason: "What are you trying to tell me?" B: "I just told you." Dick: "He's telling you he loves you." B: "Isn't that what I just said?"

Hyper empathy- he pays for the Graysons' funeral and takes Dick in literally out of empathy, he sees himself in this boy and he thinks the most rational reaction to this is to adopt the kid, and he does it again with Jason.

SO. MANY. ENGAGEMENTS. He's so bad at expressing or even understanding emotion that when he falls in love he does it HARD and is really bad at expressing it so he just jumps right to the ring. Granted, this is a product of writers re-hashing the same classic climax and drama tropes with love interests over 80 years of history but I went through the comics and counted, Bruce was engaged at least 9 times (11 if we don't nitpick too much).

(I have a hundred more examples but this is getting long as it is.)

Real emotional expressions are rare and that makes them stand out, they can also be extreme and/or inappropriate.

Some examples of his extreme emotion reactions could be adopting the kids so easily, or punching people as a first instinct when he gets mad or overwhelmed, even when it's unnecessary (I could give a dozen examples of this one but my favorite is during the Court of Owls nonsense when he discovers the Owls put an electrum implant in Dick's tooth and rather than explain this to Dick while they are having a calm conversation about the CoO, he just pauses to punch Dick in the middle of the conversation in order to knock the fake tooth out, talk about a drama king).

Lack of social skills.

He doesn't even try to be social as Batman (and we've established that Brucie is a mask), and often misses certain jokes or sarcasm and has a very skewed sense of humor (often finding things funny that others don't or saying amusing things totally unintentionally).

His grunts or just outright refusal to answer certain things. Vocal stims. He seems to actually go non-verbal from time to time.

He has a lot of complex feelings but often doesn't understand them or know how to show them. Canon Dick, Clark and Jason don't often 'get' Bruce and become very frustrated by his lack of communication and his avoidance of emotional topics.

One of the reasons he connected so well with Cassandra Cain before Rebirth is because he doesn't have to talk to her, she can understand his feelings purely through his body language and that is clearly a massive relief for him.

When he's alone with Selina he shows a very soft romantic side but even there he has trouble knowing the right thing say or what is expected.

As an example, the proposal comes to mind- B: "marry me." S:"no" [some time later] S:"ask me again, but this time ASK, don't say it at me." B:"will you marry me?" S:"yes".

(Also, literally all his repressed reactions to the break up after she left him at the altar.)

He has canonically had meltdowns as a child in the comics (and shutdows in the "Gotham" show). It can be argued that some of his extreme (often violent) reactions to certain things as an adult could also be called meltdowns.

Rejection sensitive dysphoria. I think this one is really obvious, the man would rather block out anything emotion-related than face rejection, it's often a big trigger for his depressive tendencies.

He has "special interests".

Batman started as a symbol (let's not forget he has a bat phobia) but he became obsessed with all things bat-related, obviously. But he also has more specific and personal interests- detective work (he will make up puzzles if there's nothing to solve or he will actively look for trouble if everything else has been handled), making gadgets, dinosaurs, Grey Ghost, Zorro comics, classic lit, etc.

He hyperfixates on his interests and hyperfocuses on specific tasks A LOT to the point of injury and forgoing basic needs. A good example of his hyperfocus is how he handles specific Batman cases.

He info dumps! Enough said.

He has told Gordon that he "doesn't change his routine" and there was a whole panel about the importance of routine for him, including doing the same rituals every night. When he has to take a break from patrolling due to injuries, more than once it's been shown how it's almost physically uncomfortable for him to have that routine interrupted even when there's no specific case to follow up on.

Sensory issues!!!

Bruce has shown to like quiet and darkness, he's shown in some forms of media to be sensitive to bright light, he prefers to avoid crowds when he can, he has a massively high pain tolerance, he has a specific type of clothes he feels comfortable in and doesn't deviate from them (not the bat-suit but rather his damn turtlenecks).

He is a picky eater and likes very spicy food and sweets (autistic people either prefer bland foods and certain textures to avoid overstimulation or they go for very strong intense flavors precisely because they need the stimulation, Bruce is the latter, Alfred often sways him with sweets and it's official that his favorite food is spicy mulligatawny soup). In fact, he's such a picky eater that he has stubborn eating habits (like forgetting to eat entirely) and doesn't see anything wrong with feeding young Dick nothing but chips because it's "what Dick likes".

The entire design of the bat-suit could be connected to sensory things: his cape is very heavy, which could be connected to pressure stimming (it's so heavy that when Dick becomes Batman he complained and had to have a lighter cape made), if you really think about it his cowl is designed in a way that can filter out excessive stimuli (lights and sounds) and help him focus on specific things, etc, etc.

As a kid he connects better with adults because of his intellectual level, but as an adult he connects a lot more easily with children and teens.

This is shown both with people he rescues and with the people around him, there's a reason he connects and works so well with the young Robins but starts having communication issues with them when they grow up. (It's not mentioned often but a typical trait of people in the spectrum is that they tend to have problems connecting with people in their own age group).

Outside of life-or-death situations he often avoids physical contact as much as possible, even with people he cares about, and sometimes even when he's clearly touch-starved he doesn't usually initiate contact.

It seems to depend a lot on the level of trust he has for people. If a person he trusts initiates it he gets awkward but enjoys it, Dick is a good example; if a person he's not close to initiates contact he often shows annoyance or discomfort. It requires a high level of intimacy for him to initiate contact but when he does he's extremely affectionate (scenes with Selina or any of the his kids come to mind).

He likes making lists, files and hoarding information.

There's a scene where someone apologizes because the info they gave wasn't helpful at all and Bruce's reply was "I know more than I did 10 minutes ago. I like information." He also keeps very extensive (and often invasive) files about people he knows and has his famous contingency plans for every superhero he knows.

He's very methodical and organized about these things (like his case files and reports) but...

...he's a naturally messy person as seen by the state the manor and cave fall into when Alfred is not around and has difficulty taking care of himself, not because he's some sort spoiled rich man-child but because he underestimates his own needs and limits. EDIT: this is executive dysfunction. Both Battison and comic Bruce seem to need prompting for basic things like taking a shower or cleaning up after themselves as they seem to forget their own needs.

When he's not masking, he has a very atypical body language, such as his skulking and looming, avoiding eye contact, his evasiveness, the way he can stay inhumanly still for long periods of time if he needs to but is also extremely impatient and often doesn't stay still (I remember a panel where the cave computer takes 8 seconds to process some data and Bruce still complains it's too slow and needs and update, much to Clark's confusion).

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I have more but this list is so long already and I'm tired.

I also had some comic panels but I don't have the patience to find them and pick out them out (tumblr has a 10 picture per post limit anyway). Might edit this later if I find any. If anyone knows the different sources, comic issues or has the different panels and gifs, feel free to add them.

SMALL EDIT: Martian Manhunter also claimed that being in Bruce's mind is very unpleasant. This could easily be because of the amount of trauma or intrusive thoughts from OCD but it's also very possible he was talking about experiencing the world and likely sensory overload from Bruce's perspective.

[snake-and-mouse]

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

There really is no vibe that can match young Hanguang-Jun meeting this mouthy little upstart from Yunmeng Jiang and almost immediately going "ah yes, there he is. The man I shall one day marry."

Except like, it's not romantic. He's so annoyed. This whole having a soulmate thing is terribly inconvenient. Xichen why is this happening to me

1,056 notes - Posted May 9, 2022

#4

Part of the vibe of Jun-ho I love so much is that not only does he get really offended and protective whenever someone talks shit about Young-woo or the idea of them dating, he also is like ???? I'm confused why wouldn’t I date her??? She's amazing??? He legit thinks she's just the coolest cutest best person and he enjoys her existence so much like a cat that's obsessed with watching a fish tank. He just doesn't get why people can't see how amazing she is and why he would want nothing more than to have as much of her attention as he can steal from lawyering and whales

1,427 notes - Posted August 14, 2022

#3

So like everyone has been everywhere already about how amazing Porsche is as a bisexual character who is manly and masculine and a very tall fit dude and yet he's allowed to be emotional and vulnerable and cute and flamboyant and sweet and in general kinnporsche never treated him like he needed to be one way or another to fit a certain mold as a man (or a man in a gay relationship that is the bottom which is also a whole can of worms)

But can I just say specifically how much I love that they made it really clear that when they have sex Porsche likes being picked up. He likes being picked up and held, he likes being in Kinn's lap, he likes Kinn actually physically lifting him up, they show this multiple times, and I don't think I've ever seen it shown you don't have to be a physically small man to enjoy having your partner do things like that. Just... god I love Porsche.

1,525 notes - Posted July 18, 2022

#2

Nothing will ever beat Lan Xichen being like either Wangji has decided to be less of a gay edgelord or Wei Wuxian has literally beaten the laws of nature and death itself. And one of those is far more likely than the other.

1,917 notes - Posted October 9, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Wei Wuxian being an idiot and not noticing he's gay but still using MXY's reputation as a cutsleeve to play gay chicken and fuck with people

VS.

Xie Lian being a fuckin weirdo and abusing his reputation as celibate because sure, telling people your dick doesn't work is totally normal Dianxia

VS.

Shen Qingqiu being constantly enraged that God (who he knows personally) made his husband's dick so big that sex is just a COMPLETE HASSLE

FIGHT

2,382 notes - Posted March 9, 2022

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[nightmare-foundation]

Hi just found your blog and I am ASTOUNDED at the insane number of OCs and AUs you have planned in detail I aspire to be like that it's amazing and I am lost for words. I may not know the fandoms they are from but one doesn't need to be in the fandom to appreciate art. If you need to, you can take this ask and info dump anything you want. If you are still carrying on with the Overthrown Ozpin AU that'd be preferable haha, but please go all out on anything you want. No questions in particular from me. Also would it be ok if I were to write fics for that AU if anything catches my eye?

hi!! i was,, not expecting an ask let alone smth so sweet?? i'm so glad you like my stuff, particularly the overthrown ozpin au!! i have put a LOT of hard work into the overthrown au in particular, since i've been developing it for over a year, so it's a project (of sorts) that i'm very proud of!! really i have nothing but time on my hands and an endless imagination, fueled by my adhd and autism, sooo that's how i'm able to make these au's and oc's LOL. and honestly, what i've posted on tumblr is just barely the tip of the iceberg of the shit i've made since i rarely post what i make on tumblr. also, if you were to write fics for the overthrown au i think i'd actually cry. like, if you do you may as well be asking for my hand in marriage LMAO. careful, you won't be able to get rid of me :)

and about infodumping!! honestly i really love infodumping about the overthrown au, and honestly it has so much shit going on in it that i could infodump for literal DAYS. not kidding, i infodumped to cara-kira for two days and i still missed a lot of shit. not that i can remember what they were given the fact that there's that much info (seriously, a friend of mine, snom, made an entire google doc and it's 12 pages long, and it doesn't even include everything or up-to-date info). i've been developing this au for over a *year* and there's still shit that needs to be given detail lmao (mostly bc i fixated on oz and oscar). but i'll happily infodump!! here's the link to the last post i infodumped on about the au, there's lots of info! i'll just share random facts here

-in the overthrown au, because of how much ozpin drinks and smokes, his voice gets incredibly deep and scratchy. a close match to his voice is smaug mixed with corpse husband lol

-the overthrown au takes place over ~17-18 years

-ozpin's exile lasts for 2 years, ozpin's reign of vale lasts for 5 years, ozpin's reign of vale and mistral is another 5 years, add vacuo and it's another 5 years, plus one more year for atlas

-oscar is a ram faunus in this au, with his trait being ram horns! this isn't known about until he's around 10 years old though, since his biological parents aren't known, and that's when his horns start growing in

-oscar was also born far later than in canon, not long before vales takeover

-ozpin has COUNTLESS scars from all kinds of wounds from all kinds of sources. burn scars, stab wounds, bite/claw wounds, you name it, he has it

-ozpin's goal isn't only to get his task done and to unite humanity, but to also spite the gods and finally achieve a permanent death

-ozpin has two wyverns; one he found and tamed during his time with roman, and the other that came from the mountain like in v3. however, the first wyvern is smaller and younger (able to be ridden far easier), and the second one is ancient, twice the size of the canon wyvern (possibly larger), and shockingly intelligent, able to understand human language and string together sentences. ozpin uses the larger wyvern to create a sort of living ship by hollowing out the black flesh, leaving behind organs and bones and replacing the rest with metal and dust. it takes a long time to build it, and it's a terrifying sight to behold

-vale plus the other kingdoms get turned into what's known as The Oz Empire. it's a very dangerous place, being a totalitarian fascist police state, not to mention the guards and the grimm that patrol regularly

-when it was shown just how unbelievably powerful oz is (given he took over vale in a single night), lots of scientists and other rich important people went to vale, believing they'd be spared if not on the enemy side

-the scientists, engineers, etc helped to create the empire's own airships, vehicles, weapons, armor, etc, building several factories throughout vale and the other territories

-oz sort of just,, threw together his army. at first, it was a mish-mash of unwilling huntsmen (professional and students), white fang, and robots. after scientists and whatnot started making things such as airships and armor, it more or less assembled itself with oz doing minimal work

-oz's outfit changes over time just like everyone elses, going from a torn and battered version of his old headmaster outfit, to being more military-esque. this is accompanied by the grimm from his grimm arm spreading over the right half of his body

-oz takes the maiden powers back for himself, and being inspired by how cinder fights, he's an incredibly skilled fighter with his magic

-despite the fact that oz is possibly the strongest fighter on remnant, he still has weaknesses to exploit, such as his arrogance, health issues, temper and his trauma

-oz tends to easily twist things around to mean something else entirely, i.e. being able to twist a crown of roses into treason, and he tends to project a lot onto people

-depending on his mood that day, he'll either be shockingly merciful or have no mercy at all. it doesn't matter what you did unless you hurt him personally

-oscar, despite being 15 (at the time of atlas), is an extremely skilled fighter, and is very good at hiding (because of his training/abuse from oz). his weapon is a glaive named Thus Always, the first half of the saying Thus Always to Tyrants (a small rebellion against oz)

-when oz accidentally revived qrow and glynda (which was a one time thing), it turned out that he could control them using orders, despite them being perfectly conscious. they're also immortal, but they can be killed

-the Oz Empire is a capitalist hell, and the classes are pretty clearly divided. though, everyone is miserable because of the police state, and oz simply not wanting them to be happy

-there's actually an infantry that rides sabyr's into battle. yes this is an actual thing

-most of beacon was changed a lot, and after the takeover, it resembles more of a gothic castle, with green banners embroidered with oz's emblem everywhere, and green torches lit with oz's magic. the entire place effectively looks like the beacon vault because of this

-the actual beacon vault was changed and expanded to be dungeons and a laboratory, meant for dr merlot himself to experiment on SEWs and prisoners to make human-grimm hybrids

-two of these experiments succeeded, creating The Lion and The Panther. the lion is twice the size of the hound, made personally for oz. it has a whip-like tail with several ends, and it has a roar that can effectively paralyze you. it somewhat resembles manticores. the panther on the other hand is the same size as the hound, if a smidge smaller, and it was made for oscar, and built for speed, agility and stealth in mind. whenever oscar tries running away, it tends to be the one to catch him if oz doesn't

-as more of the grimm from oz's arm spreads, he gets more grimm abilities, such as controlling them with more ease and summoning grimm hands with glyphs

-because of oz's alcoholism, he's actually completely lost the ability to see color, and to him everything is in various shades of gray

-oz's hair gets longer over time; he basically never cuts it unless it starts to become a liability in battle

-there's actually a nurse oc who takes care of oscar after training and beatings, and her name is Taffy Hollyhock! she's a red panda faunus with a large fluffy tail, and wears mostly pink. she used to be a huntress before she became a nurse (she wanted to help people more closely), and her semblance lets her 'shut off' specific emotions, which is incredibly useful as a nurse. when she turns those emotions back on, though, they come back full force and hit her hard. she's a sweet, short, chubby lady who loves oscar like a son, and would absolutely commit murder for him. just because taffy is short and chubby and soft doesn't mean she isn't a total badass. she's a girlboss incarnate

-mercury and oscar are actually pretty close, and have had years to develop their brotherly bond

-watts and oscar are also fairly close too, not that watts would admit it. he's something of an uncle to oscar that helps heal his wounds

[imasimpforstevengrant]

Why do we like this clown so much?

Change the "we" for "I" and you get an usual tag I use whenever I post my content in Tumblr. And it sounds funny at first but whenever you start diving into that phrase, the deeper it becomes. So, I finally have decided to share my thoughts about this strange but wholesome attraction to this deeply flawed character. It's not something I usually do since I don't know how to write down my feelings properly and also in english so please forgive any typos (I'm from Chile so don't be surprised lol).

So...Why do we like this clown so much?

Why was it that a character precisely designed to scare and to disgust the fuck out of us ended up unchaining a series of feelings that shouldn't have taken place in a beginning?

Let's take a look at the background: Joaquin Phoenix was cast as Arthur Fleck/Joker in 2018. The first image of him as the aforementioned character revealed a deeply disturbed man. We knew the plot. A man driven to insanity after a brutal history of abuse, creating concern in people if the upcoming film would inspire real life violence. Incel violence and mass shootings, more specifically.

(the image in question)

As 2019 arrives, the two trailers generated so much hype that media needed to fuel its concern about it. Since it wasn't your typical comic book film, media basically bombed our minds making us believe this film was going to be a total disaster, an excuse to cause harm to others among other nonsense, as if the film would justify everything Arthur would do in the film, eventually. As the release date is closer, the film receives thunderous applause and unanimous praise from critics. At this, fans rejoiced and expressed impatience to watch the film.

October 5th.

People left the theaters amazed, shocked and genuinely moved by the inhuman treatment Arthur received in the film. The fear media tried so desperately to infuse in us with all the incel bullshit and such turned out to awake one of the most positive, best feelings in humans:

E M P A T H Y

The word that so gloriously cleared away any dark thoughts or actions not only proves media was wrong but it turned out to ridicule it in way nobody will forget: Hundreds of people advocating for mental illness, calling out to the kindness that could change a person's bad day and questioning how politicians and rich people are indifferent to social problems proved how much as a society we have changed in comparison with the one shown in the film.

However, since we are on Tumblr, I'll get straight to the point and try to explain why the fuck does this clown has us dying out of love and compassion (and lust).

I. Background.

As nurturing as we women are for a biological matter, we see a man deprived of a good job, is on seven different medications, working like a slave to sustain his ill mother, putting aside his own health and well-being to look for her, struggling to make his dream of being a comedian despite everyone stepping on him, underpaid and treated like a freak for a disorder he did not ask to suffer, which makes it impossible to be indifferent to all the horrible ordeal that eventually will reach the limit of what he can tolerate without going insane. It is impossible to not say or think, at least, that someone (even if it's just one person) should stand for him just as it is impossible not to feel the need to throw ourselves at him to shield him from people who hurt him or simply offer him our shoulder whenever he has had a bad day, specially when he learns he was sexually assaulted by his step father.

This horrid behaviour terrifies newer generations because they get a taste of what being a social outcast was like more than thirty years ago in comparison with today, where there's more acceptance and treatment for mentally ill people like Arthur. We see in him someone who could have been saved with a proper education and emotional support instead of descending into madness as a criminal. Others simply saw themselves being treated like him at some point in their lives and couldn't help but put themselves in his shoes.

II. Personality.

TRUTH BE TOLD:

There's something called "attraction by proximity". It is the explanation to the eventual love you feel whenever someone doesn't catch your eye at first terms of physical attraction but his/her personality does attract you. This happens to be the base of this situation. His shyness, introverted nature, tenderness and innocent desire to make people laugh and put on a happy face awake some kind of tenderness we cannot resist. This combined with the gloomy background increases our understanding (but not justifying) of the bad decisions he'll eventually take during the course of the film. This traces a line of harsh, almost hurtful contrast of the violence he shows later on the film. Once again, it is not justified in any way but it is certainly understandable.

III. Appearance.

Arthur Fleck is unconventionally attractive.

This happens to be a plus for most women. He is out of the male beauty standards (no abs, not too muscly or particularly tall), which makes him even more unique. It is precisely the fact that he's not a model one of the reasons women love him. He could easily be your man next door or your colleague or the guy you always see but never dare to talk for fear to bother him Because it's about proximity. Arthur looks like your common neighbour. He's not meant to be your typical desirable male protagonist at all.

... And yet.

Jesus Christ, he's so fucking hot I can't even---

It's not about how beautiful his green eyes are, his long slender fingers, his hair or his smile only. It's the charm behind it.

Another "magnet point" is the way he dresses. I know he's impoverished and his wardrobe tend to be repetitive but it is so unpretentious, so simple that is hard to not fall for. The modesty of the shirts, ironed trousers reminds us of a mature man deeply withdrawn into himself, love starved and longing to be seen and loved by others, like a war veteran who still fights the most important war: with himself. Is someone who needs to be listened and understood.

AND OF COURSE WHAT'S NOT TO LIKE ABOUT IT?

He's also brought back the old gentleman outfit, white shirts, red/yellow vest, red suit and elegant dancing moves and the retro style of the film boosts this attractiveness.

People keep comparing him with the previous interpretation of Joker (Leto's) whose costume appealed to young women with a tattooed, gangster, mumble rapper crazy-guy wannabe which didn't connect with the audiences (young people in general). This supposedly was to match or even have a sexy, tormented and desirable villain like Marvel's Loki. We all know how that story ended but it's the link for the next point below.

IV. Transformation

This is a particularly strong point considering how much we loved to watch the process of this weak, powerless, forgotten caterpillar into a beautiful and visible butterfly that will gracefully stir its wings for everyone to see its colours.

When Arthur transitions to the Joker, it's so cathartic to see taking revenge on those who wronged him (even when we're not supposed to root for him) like seeing his shyness fading away into a vivid confidence when dancing half naked in the bathroom, or witnessing him making way to make his name known to people in Murray Franklin's Show:

Adding to this newly gained confidence, there's another turn on: the way he walks.

At the beginning, his pace is hunched and limping, displaying his submission to violence, which makes the viewer more satisfied to see his broken yet beautiful soul turning the past pain of his existence into art: he lets music guide his moves as a way to tell the world he's a new man by cutting most of the sick, evil roots that harmed him, that he's invincible, that no one can stop him. Watching this cathartic display of euphoria was the most iconic scene in the film, following his speech at the TV and the inevitable meltdown that caused Murray's death.

Going to further appreciation, even his clown make up is beautiful. Why? Simple. The combination of colours, shapes and the intimidating glare just embellishes even more the character.

The dark blue triangles in his expressive eyes makes the light green colour to highlight, specially in dark backgrounds, giving the impression he's piercing your soul whenever he stares directly at the camera. Same can be said about the red smile and emerald green hair. They boost an already intimidating look.

The cold and warm colours paint a picture of a man full of intense emotions, mirroring it in a simple yet masterful artistic way.

Another interesting point is the way Joker dresses. Usually we had almost every single live adaption of this character in purple coat, hat, etc. But this particular version is not following any comic, which gives more freedom to creativity and once again, out of the standards of what we could have expected.

Red is a colour related to passion, action, love, strength, motivation and excitement. As for yellow, it indicates freshness, happiness and enlightenment and finally, green. Green is renewal, growth and regeneration. Colours that represent a new stage in his life, a mirthful chapter at last. We finally get to see our battered, always humiliated protagonist (or hero) descending into madness, but finally free from his repressed man who held his soul captive like a bird to fly away, to never come back. An insanity that despite being his downfall, turned out to be his ticket to freedom as he walks to the light in Arkham Asylum dancing at the end.

Ladies and gentlemen: behold the film nobody asked... But the film we fucking deserved.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk

❤️💚💛

[hexagonification]

In which I ramble on and on about stardates

Mainly because I've been wanting to make original posts for a while now (On that note, starting now I'll be tagging my original posts as #hexagonification, since Tumblr doesn't have a filter for that like Pillowfort does) and partially because I was inspired by elephant-in-the-pride-parade's recent stardate posts.

I wonder if I'll lose followers for doing this….

For starters, I won't be addressing the arbitrary and non-sequential stardates seen in DIS (prior to season 3), SNW, and Short Treks set in the same era (2256 to 2259-ish, presumably eventually up to 2266). I'm of the opinion that they're deliberately arbitrary as a little continuity nod of sorts to TOS, which had many episodes produced and aired in different orders. Look at the list on Memory Alpha and compare episode numbers, production numbers, and original airdates (you can ignore the remaster dates--they went in whatever order they wanted with those). It's all over the place.

Additionally, this site handily has a bunch of stardate converters, including everything I discuss below (except for reference stardates, but you can figure those out pretty easily). I definitely recommend keeping it handy as you read.

Andrew Main Pros:

System includes TOS and TNG-style dates

Very thorough and thoughtfully put together

While a bit cumbersome, the issue system does add past/future-proofing. A stardate for right now in 2023 wouldn't read as a huge negative number like it would in other systems.

Cons:

The issue system (i.e. TOS: "Charlie X" takes place on [19] 1533.6, TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint" is [21] 41153.7, and so on. The issue number is bracketed. In short, 19 is the TOS era and 21 is TNG) is a bit cumbersome and doesn't exist in canon

Last updated in February 1997, before DS9 or Voyager finished airing. To that end, the system doesn't take into consideration that VOY: "Homestead" explicitly takes place on the 315th anniversary of First Contact, April 5 2378. The stardate listed in the episode instead translates to November 13 2377 instead.

This system puts TMP in 2271, while startrek.com said in 2019 that it's in 2273 instead. Memory Alpha recognizes the ambiguity and just leaves it at 2270s, while Memory Beta goes with 2273.

Season 3 of Discovery established that stardates will eventually reach 6 digits (ostensibly in 2423), whereas TNG-era stardates here are distinctly capped at 5 digits.

Richie Kennedy Pros:

System includes TOS and TNG-style dates

No issues and no resetting. Stardates begin at 0 and increase continuously, albeit at different rates as the eras go by. When SD 9999.9 arrives, it just ticks over to 10000.0 and continues on its merry way into the TNG era.

Cons:

SD 0 being January 6 2266 (happy -243rd anniversary) makes it seem like stardates weren't invented until Kirk's five-year mission had already begun in 2265 (the stardate given in TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" would be in October 2266 in this system). But DIS and SNW have established that they've been in use at least as far back as 2256, or possibly even 2155. (First Contact in the mirror universe is cited as being on SD 0141.7, but that may be a Terran Empire stardate independent of prime Federation/Starfleet)

As a result of the accommodations made to make Homestead's stardate work, dates in later shows/years don't always match up with the year they're supposed to take place in. More on that below.

TrekGuide (specifically their TNG system; the TOS one isn't very useful outside of a few years and the contemporary one kinda does its own thing)

Pros:

On-screen evidence is taken into consideration to figure out how the system works.

Cons:

Only covers the TNG era--dates from before 2323 read as negative stardates

Andreas Schmidt Pros:

Elegantly consistent. The first two digits indicate a year (41… = 2364), while the rest indicates progress into the year, with the decimal adding additional precision down to the second (…153.7 = February 26, 6:06:02). Changing the 41 to 42, 43, 44, etc results in a mostly identical date. (Except for the year, obviously. The exact time can vary too, presumably due to leap years)

Seemingly the system used on Memory Alpha, at least as far as extrapolating years from stardates goes. It's also worth noting that the TNG portion of Main's system is consistently very close to the Schmidt system (within issue 21, anyway).

Cons:

Only covers the TNG era--dates from before 2323 read as negative stardates

This system would suggest the events of TNG: "Family" take place on January 5, 2367. Nothing in the episode indicates it's cold out (the final draft was made in August and the episode aired in October, so filming had to be between those months), so this system's consistency doesn't reflect how actual stardates work. I don't doubt there are other such discrepancies found when comparing the apparent time of year in a stardate and the apparent weather on Earth in a given episode.

FASA's reference stardates Pros:

A reference stardate can be easily translated into a contemporary date and time (officially they only record down to the hour, but nothing is stopping someone from adding extra digits and going down to the second). It's basically Franz Joseph's YYMM.DD-style stardate with extra steps. You could even say the Kelvin timeline's YYYY.DD-style evolved from either or both of them.

Cons:

Very old system invented in 1979

Reference stardates are used basically exclusively in the Spaceflight Chronology book, which was considered canon at the time but is now almost entirely ignored. Notably, the years in which things take place are almost never in line with modern canon--though the offset is occasionally pretty consistent. In particular, the TNG era years are either 61 or 62 years earlier than they should be. While a reference stardate can be converted into a contemporary date, it will almost certainly not match up with modern canon. Attempting to set up offsets for each century can occasionally get within a few years of the correct date, but it's honestly a fool's errand.

By the time TNG was picking up steam in 1989, Paramount took the Star Trek license from FASA, since they wanted more control and consistency over the lore.

Like with the Kelvin stardates, they're very Earth-centric, taking Gregorian calendar dates and rewriting them to look sci-fi-y. Something something "homo sapiens-only club", anyone?

There has been talk on Twitter among people involved with the current era of Trek about a "unified stardate formula" (This Reddit post has links aplenty). In summary, Erin Macdonald (current science advisor for Star Trek) painstakingly did a bunch of math, put together timelines and charts, and cried more than once along the way to put together a new stardate formula unlike any of the online converters out there. And as a result, the years and stardates for Lower Decks (and possibly other shows in the TNG era) don't quite match up like they would in the Schmidt system. Brad Winters has said Lower Decks is still "firmly in 2380" (as of November 2021, or between seasons 2 and 3), despite the stardates ticking over from 57- to 58- apparently between seasons 1 and 2.

Someone has speculated the new …000 point is instead Federation Day (which doesn't have a concretely canonical day, but the closest date to canon would be October 11, appearing in a prop made for Generations but not actually appearing on screen.) David Mack has also said there's no reason a season finale should coincide with New Year's Eve, which makes sense. TrekGuide's system came to the conclusion of 918.23186 stardates per year, and the TNG portion of Kennedy averages between 955 and 958 stardates per year, depending on the year (not immediately sure what the correlation is there--it's not leap years. The TOS and movies portions have different intervals, but they have an arbitrary but noticeable shift like that too).

In my opinion, the ideal system would be one that blends the seamlessness of Kennedy with the starting point of Main ([0] 0000.0 is January 4 2162; Memory Beta says stardates began being used in 2175 or 2176), while ensuring stardates in the ballpark of 7410 to 7414 are in the year 2273 (ideally August, since Memory Beta says the events of that movie take place then), with maybe some adjustments from TrekGuide for good measure. I suppose it's possible Erin Macdonald's system does just that, but it's equally possible hers takes another approach.

In conclusion, Erin Macdonald has said that a converter using her formula "will be out for everyone hopefully soon…" on November 12 2021. So far, I don't think anyone has said anything else about it, but I'm definitely looking forward to whenever it comes.