#Curious about how all this is gonna play out

[producedbysohyun]

Shark Week

Squid game x reader hcs

Summary: How the people in squid game would react to you being on your period (all separate)

Includes: Thanos, Se-mi, Dae-ho, Myung-gi, Jun-ho, Hyun-ju (non!squid game au)

Warnings: We are pretending for this one they aren’t all in major debt 🤗, a little suggestive on thanos’s part, If you’re scared of periods don’t read I guess?? 😭

a/n: this goes out to all my people who have to deal with periods! We are in this together 😔✊

Thanos

Ya you’re out of luck with this one 😔

Probably the worst person to have with you during your period

Definitely trys to rap his way into making you feel better but just fails miserably

“I know another way to make you feel better 😏”

“No”

“Ok 😞” *walks off with yet again another failed attempt*

If you asked him to go out and by you pads he would probably come back with those small cotton pads for your face

I mean he’s trying 😭

The type to ask “are you on your period” whenever you’re in a bad mood and is met with a slap every time

Doesn’t know what else to do so he probably just goes even more broke buying a bunch of food for you

(“With what money” we all yell in unison 🗣️)

Tolerates watching your “stupid” shows that you like just to make you happy but ends up being really interested

Se-mi

One of the best people to have with you

Deals with her period really well so she doesn’t really understand your pain but she gets the other things

Cuddles you all day!!

Literally turns into your slave

I feel like she would tease you about something and then accidentally make you cry because you’re overly sensitive

She feels so bad and you better believe she’s gonna watch what she says for the remainder of your period

You guys watch shows all day and just eat junk food

*stares at you dying in pain* “is it that bad?”

*starts crying*

“What- nooo baby I’m sorry” *cue her kissing all over your face*

I’m in love with her

Dae-ho

*sigh* I love him

Dude has four sisters so you are in luck

He definitely knows what to do

Gives you so much cuddles

He’s probably extra clingy to you during this time but if you tell him you want space he definitely respects it

If you’re having cramps he’ll give you tummy rubs 😔

I need him so bad wjdvjwwjwdjwkwj

Lowkey gets a bit freaked out when you start having mood swings

So he’s definitely careful with what he says not that he could ever hurt your feelings anyways

Is there to comfort you when you start crying over dumb stuff and NEVER makes fun of you for it

Gets you all your favorite snacks!!!

Ugh I need him

Myung-gi

Lowkey avoids you at first

Confused pt.2

He gets the hang of it pretty quickly tho

“Are you on your period” pt.2

Slapped pt.2

Poor boy didn’t even mean it in a bad way he was just genuinely curious 😞

Secretly looks up what to do

You guys binge watch shows together the whole day while cuddling

Try’s not giggle if you start crying over the show

And if you see him laughing it only makes you cry more

“No no Jagiya I’m sorrrryyy”

*Kisses your face till you stop crying*

Besides the laughing part he’s not a terrible person to have 👍

Jun-ho

Gives you your space

Kinda just lets you do your own thing but if you specifically need something he’ll do it for you

He’s up for giving you cuddles but you gotta ask him cause he doesn’t wanna do anything to upset you :(

Weirdly calm about the whole thing

Sends you texts asking how you’re feeling throughout the day as he can’t be there with you the whole time due to his job

Very very patient when you have mood swings

Buys you food pt.3

Overall not too bad

Hyun-ju

She definitely knows what to do

Very educated

Cuddles pt.4!!!!!!

Does everything she possible can to make you feel better cause she hates seeing you in pain

If somebody upsets you she will personally go and deal with them herself girl doesn’t play around

Constantly checks up on you asking if there’s anything she can do

Literally never makes you cry

She’s so gentle with you 🙁

10/10 person to have when your on your period

a/n: I hope you guys enjoyed! This was a lot of fun to make!! Please send in requests because I don’t know what you guys want to read 😔

[suhtorus]

first day.

fluff‐parents au. ₊˚⊹ ᰔ preschool teacher!nanami. our little sunshines go to school ! for more info/context, read nanami's part in the masterlist :)

little sunshines au

nanami stands by the gates, observing and greeting everyone with a smooth 'good morning'. he's already making mental notes about each kid, their behavior during drop-off, and who their parents and siblings are.

there are lots of new faces, but most of these new alumni are related to kids he's already familiar with.

he sees the gojo sons walk in with matching 'Nemo' backpacks, and the youngest, with his red-rimmed eyes, clutches his brother's hand tightly.

a crier, he notes.

but before he can keep watching them, he feels a little one hug his legs with all their might.

"nanamin! meet my babies!"

with a small smile and raised brows, nanami crouches down to yuuji's height. he notices a boy and a girl who look incredibly alike, staring at him with curious eyes.

"hello." he waves at the twins before turning back to yuuji. "are they your cousins?"

"they're my babies!" little yuuji yells excitedly, running over to the kids and grabbing the girl's hand. "uncle 'kuna says I'm not their uncle! but I am! and-and cho–"

"good morning." megumi greets nanami politely, interrupting yuuji's rambling. he has a small girl holding his hand—his younger sister, nanami recalls as megumi pecks the top of her head. "my baby."

nanami can't help but let out a chuckle. "oh? you come with a baby of your own, too?"

the itadori twins can't keep their eyes off of the zenin toddler, the extroverted girl already showing them the glittery nail polish on her fingernails.

"why don't we put those backpacks away?"

nanami faintly hears the geto twins chatting with tsumiki right outside their classroom while the gojo kids chat between themselves. and after realizing he has almost the entire preschool surrounding him, he rises back to his full height and offers them a gentle smile.

and that's how nanami kento starts his day, with a small army of kids that look like baby ducks following after him.

ten minutes earlier.

GOJO FAMILY

"why is he cryin'?"

your five-year-old tilted his head in confusion while your youngest clung onto you desperately, his wails catching the other kids' attention and threatening to start a chorus of crying children.

"baby, mama promises you'll be veeeeery happy at school." you wiped his tears, smiling and ignoring the lump in your throat. "you're gonna make new friends, you're gonna play, eat yummy food. and when I come back, you'll tell me aaaall about it!"

you were met with a pout and baby blue eyes staring pleadingly at you. so you decided to try a different approach.

"let's make a deal." you grabbed his hands and pressed a soft kiss in his palms. "if you stay here and behave like the good boy you are, I promise to take you to the aquarium."

he perked up instantly, even with his little chest heaving with hiccups. "fishies?"

"yup, we can go see the fishies."

without a second thought, your son wiggled out of your grasp and walked away, only waving his little hand behind him as he joined his brother.

"buh-bye!"

ZENIN FAMILY

"daddy?" your daughter's eyes met your husband's in a classic puppy eyes look. "go with me?"

"no, princess." he brushed her soft hair, his voice surprisingly tender while he crouched down to her eye level. "daddy can't go with you."

she remained silent, playing with the fabric of his shirt between her little fingers as she seemed to be pondering what to do next. your husband braced himself for the tantrum that for sure would follow, something he learned to expect when she didn't get her way.

"okie. bye, daddy!"

his jaw dropped and he swears he could feel his heart break.

ITADORI FAMILY

"nanamin is the best teacher!" sukuna found it both impressive and irritating how yuuji could talk about everything and anything. even as he struggled to climb down the car and put his gigantic backpack on, he wouldn't stop talking. "we dwaw a lot, and we... and we, uhhh, we use cwayons. and we–"

"colors!"

your son yelled excitedly, his cheeky smile making him look like an exact mini version of sukuna.

"nami?" your daughter tried the name on her tongue while allowing you to guide her to the gates. her eyes watched yuuji rush to a man, and it clicked instantly. "nami..."

"someone has a crush already~" you murmured towards your husband, gushing over the interaction of your little girl and the kind teacher welcoming them.

but sukuna had already made up his mind.

"fuck no."

GETO FAMILY

"I don't want him to go to school."

your husband's sudden words made the three of you turn to look at him. each twin had their hand on yours while suguru had the baby attached to his chest thanks to the baby carrier.

"like, ever." suguru continued, patting the baby's tummy and smiling proudly. "I'll teach him everything he needs to know, and he'll be my pupil."

and at that moment, your son's face scrunched up in disgust, bursting into a crying fit five seconds later.

"I don't think he agrees."

[inkzectz]

in your Bigger than the sky animation benrey starts out as barney? that seems so interesting lore wise? i would love to hear about what you were thinking when you animated that askdhfjlagh and the sweet voice and dreading stare? no clue what it means but curious as hell

ok im gonna go a little crazy on this because this is my biggest/favorite bc ever.

In the full vods they refer to benrey as “Barney” for the first while, it’s kind of unclear why, from Wayne’s perspective it seems he just didn’t know his name and defaulted to the character models name, and gir and Holly said they thought the joke with benrey was he was Barney but wrong, and they kept calling him the wrong name, so bipple, booper, Bentley, but eventually benrey, the name said by scorpy, stuck.

All this to say, it’s a BIG hc of mine that he was intended to be Barney (in universe) but due to being self aware was able to break off from this character he was meant to be. it’s kind of implied within the series they all have fake memories of who they are, being AI they are supposed to sort of act a certain way to maintain the immersion but at the end of the day, nothing before the game booted up really happened.

And benrey knows this, benrey knew from the beginning nothing was real, that he wasn’t human, how it ends, that no one actually dies, the works. I also headcanon that he became self aware during the AI model training stages, that the guy in charge of training his AI as Barney, broke him causing his self awareness and he was just launched into the beta game fully aware of the circumstances of his existence. I don’t think he was fully aware of how everything in game worked though.

but this to me is why he seems to constantly be changing his view of Gordon, antagonizing him one moment and then being friendly the next, his feelings about him are complex, he knows from the beginning he isn’t actually Gordon Freeman, but a guy just playing half life. Being a security guard, he’s programmed to protect Gordon with his life, but he knows this. He knows what’s compelling him to care for Gordon isn’t himself but lines of code he’s bound to, and this is why he antagonizes him. But that’s a whole different rant on its own lol

That sequence at the beginning of the bigger than the sky animatic was supposed to be a false memory, something he was supposed to think happened, but the version of Gordon he remembers isn’t real. This idea of ‘Gordon’ is a concept that only exists in these fake memories. (This is also why I think he never calls Gordon by name throughout the series, because he knows it’s not actually him (besides that one time but it doesn’t count bc it was for a bit lalala I can’t hear you))

there wasn’t much thought into the details of that part, like the coughing into the hand with the sweet voice, I really just put that bc I thought it looked dramatic and cool 😓

BUT on the topic of this big ass hc of mine, it actually is super important to a upcoming project im working on, and I realized throughout the story boarding it might need some explanation because it also has a lot of flash backs to some fake memories.

Sorry this got super rant-y I tried to keep it as short and simple as I could, I love hlvrai, I think about it literally every moment of my life and have so many hcs

[slxtarchive]

𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 … jake finds himself a little insecure about him and his importance in your life to which you find a way to reassure him he’s the only one you want

⍟ … you and jake sat in the car as the moonlight of the night sky poured through the windows. the soft glow making each other faces barely visible.

the car was parked on a peaceful overlook of the city of LA, the city lights twinkling in the distance. the radio was lightly playing filling the car with various melodies.

for the most part is was quiet and peaceful, not like any other time. you spoke up feeling curious. “you’re very quiet tonight.” you stated the obvious. you turned to look at him noticing how he seemed miles away, lost in his thoughts. “hey, what are you thinking about?”

jake spoke up hesitantly. “i don’t know… i just, sometimes i feel like i don’t know what im doing, when it comes to you know — us.” he was fiddling with the string of his hoodie looking down not willing to make eye contact with you. “like… like i wont be good enough for you… like im not good enough for you.”

you tilted your head at his words wondering how long he’s felt like this. “hey look at me.” your eyebrows were furrowed reaching out and taking his hand in yours.

jake lifted his gaze, his cheeks flushed nervously wondering what you were going to say.

“we don’t have to have everything figured out jake.” you caressed his cheek. “and i like you just how you are. every day i find myself so grateful that the universe decided to bring us together.”

his eyes looked down feeling his heart thump against his chest. “you mean that?”

you laugh lightly, “of course i do.” you moved his chin up to look at you. “i don’t know what im doing either but all i know is i want to make you always feel you’re enough for me. to show you how much you mean to me.” your voice got quieter the more you thought about how to show jake how much he truly means to you.

a shy smile made its way onto his lips as the weight of your words lifting his spirit.

the way he got all shy around you had you all giddy inside. “you know i’d do anything for you jake, right?” you leaned closer toward him fixing your position.

jake gulped noticing that gleam in your eyes he’d admit he loved to see. “yeah.” he whispered suddenly feeling overly aware of how warm the car has become.

“good.” you stated shortly looking down at his lips, noticing how he nervously and slightly bit his cheek. “i like taking care of you… showing you how much you mean to me… and i like when you let me.”

you were practically purring in his ear as you got closer to him over the center console. his breathing hitched as you got closer, having a feeling he knows what your next move was — and he wasn’t complaining.

your hand made his way to your face tilting his head so you were looking at each other. you placed one single kiss on his lips earning a tiny whimper from him. you grinned lightly, “gonna let me show you how much you mean to me?”

hesitantly he nodded, wanting nothing more than your skin on his. you licked your top lip slightly before blinking slowly at him. you raised a brow, wanting words from him. he understood and spoke up. “yes… yeah. i trust you.” he was breathless already, which gave you more confidence.

you trailed your hand down his chest to his waist then on his belt, clinking it apart, and loosening it. the metal clashing together the only noise in the car besides jake’s heavy breathing. “let me take care of you.” you spoke softly, in a tone to help him relax.

he nodded, whimpering lightly as your head reached in his pants and landed on his painfully hard cock. you tapped his thigh, “up.” you said lightly. he obliged lifting his hips so that you could tug down his jeans and boxers.

once you did that, you were able to free his dick seeing how red and leaky his tip was. you wasted no time, wanting to pleasure him as soon as you could. you leaned down licking the pre cum off his tip causing his head to tilt back. you noticed how inconvenient his position was so you took matters into your own hands and reached to the left of his seat. you clutched one of the mechanics to move his chair back, then the back of his seat down so he was facing more up.

this way, he was able to lie a bit back while you pleasured him. he enjoyed it and so did you, watching how he struggled to look at you as you showed him how much you cared for him.

first, you wrapped your right hand around the base of his cock squeezing before moving up with the same grip. you did that a few times wanting to coax him to relax. low groans fell from his lips because of your actions.

after that, you moved your hand to the base again before leaning your head down and taking his tip in your mouth. you made sure to make your mouth into an ‘o’ to prevent your teeth from making contact with him.

then, you continued your actions. bobbing your head up and down, repeating this action until he couldn’t control when his pretty noises would fall from his mouth.

his hand instinctively made its way to your hair tugging on it slightly. you pulled your mouth off him. “ah ah, no touching or ill stop, okay?” you licked your lips. he let out a strangled sigh. he moved his hands to the side balling them up in fists. you grinned lightly, “good boy.” you praised.

his eyes clenched shut as your mouth wrapped around him once again. “fuck… please. mhm — so close.” you wanted him to beg more so you slowed down your actions, knowing if you kept the same pace he’d be finished in seconds. “n-no… please don’t slow down. i… i’m so close. please… please let me cum.” he begged you, his eyes opening frantically as he looked down toward you with pleading eyes.

you playfully frowned. “but i don’t want this to end so soon.” your hand made its way to his cock stroking him painfully slow. his eyes fluttered shut and mouth fell open. “look at me.” you demanded but got nothing in return.

you stopped your hand, letting it sit wrapped around his cock. his breathing stopped before he opened his eyes. “no… i’m sorry please. please…” he gulped harshly, starting to sweat.

you tutted, “gotta listen to me if you wanna cum, yeah?” you slightly bit your lip — not overly exaggerated. “look at me, the whole time. wanna see how you fall apart under my touch. can you do that for me, baby?” your left hand went to his chin.

he gasped and nodded. “fuck… m’yes mommy. i understand, just please… im so so close. i’ll listen… i’ll do what you said.”

oh, he was such a pretty mess. you thought to yourself.

you nodded, “okay..” you sang out before you started moving your hands again.

the eye contact you were making was intense. his eyes blinked slowly as the pleasure he was feeling before returned. you picked up the pace of your hand getting impatient, you just wanted to see him fall apart under your eyes.

you twisted your hand then moved up and down before using your left hand as well. then you decided to use your mouth for a few seconds wanting to get him there closer. after using your hand you went back to staring at him only to see him staring back at you with an open mouth.

you kept eye contact with him as you brought your hand up and spat on it before wrapping around him once again. he groaned at the action, sending him over the edge.

as you picked up the pace, his thighs shook and he let out one final moan. his eyes rolled to the back of his head as he was getting hit by that wave of pleasure. you leaned your head down wrapping your mouth around his tip letting him coat your throat.

beads of sweat made their way down his forehead as his chest slowed down, recovering from his orgasm. you swallowed his come before pulling your lips off of his tip with a ‘pop’.

he opened his eyes to see your face with a satisfied smile. you got on your knees and leaned forward toward his face capturing his lips in a passionate kiss. your hands grabbing both of his cheeks.

when the kiss ended you moved back a centimeter to look into his eyes.

his eyes moved between yours before whispering lightly. “you mean as much to me as i mean to you. please… let me show you.”

your heart raced at his words knowing jake has never really been this confident enough to initiate something between you and him.

you pressed your lips together before nodding. “let’s go home first.” you whispered.

© slxtarchive

[wake-me-up-inside-imagines]

Hiii! Can I make a request for Charlie? I read your pregnant darling and im curious how it would play out when his s/o is giving birth. I love your fics btw and im a huge fan of your oc's!

Awe, thank you so much, I appreciate the support! And sure thing for the request, I hope you enjoy!

Yandere! Mafia Boss With An S/O Who’s Giving Birth

Technically GN! Reader because pronouns aren’t used but reader is pregnant so…presumed afab reader

Warnings: Reader is giving birth, pregnancy, medical stuff, needles, Charlie is Yandere but doesn’t really do a whole lot of insane stuff in this one, mentions of death and stuff going wrong but nothing bad happens don’t worry

(Also, I mentioned this in the pregnancy post but I’m gonna do it again here; In this scenario, reader is with Charlie willingly and he’s just Yandere for other reasons. I don’t fw the idea of a kidnapped darling being pregnant, that’s a hard limit for me even though I write darker content).

Divider credit goes to @konatasoup

Charlie’s spent the entirety of your pregnancy worrying about the day you’d finally give birth. He was excited of course, he can’t imagine not being overjoyed, but the prospect of anything going wrong absolutely terrifies him. What if there’s a complication with your pregnancy? What if the baby isn’t as healthy as his doctor says they are? What if you get severely hurt during the birthing process? What if you die? What if-

He tries to surpress his worries, he really does, but as the day draws closer, he can’t help but dwell on them. He does his best to distract himself with prepping everything you might need at the hospital and more importantly, sticking by you every second he possibly can, protecting you from any outward threats he can think of. If something’s gonna go wrong, it’s not gonna be because he failed to keep you safe. Whatever is in his control will be dealt with, you can bet on that.

When it comes time for you to give birth, he’s absolutely frantic, and doing a terrible job at hiding it. Sure, he’ll reassure you he’s fine, but his frantic scrambling to get everything in the car and his nearly erratic driving prove otherwise. You’ll have to spend as much time reassuring him as he does reassuring you, because that man is not calming down any time soon.

However… he does make a pitstop to get your favorite food before you enter the hospital. He’s been told that it might be a while before you can eat again and he’s not about to let you go hungry, so whatever you want, he’ll get (despite his nerves). As long as you aren’t in a ton of pain and ok with him getting you food, he’s happy to provide for you.

Once you get to the hospital, he’s borderline harassing any nurse he can find, demanding you be taken in as soon as possible. He only slightly relaxes once you get into the labor room where you’ll be taken care of, but even then, he’s still shaking wildly, asking every single nurse and doctor what they’re doing to you as they’re doing it. You can’t blame the guy though, he has no idea what’s going on, and he loves you too much to play around with you and your child’s health.

He’ll hold your hand throughout all your contractions, no matter how hard you squeeze. He would really prefer you get an epidural because it kills him to see you in any amount of pain, and you better believe that you’re gonna get it as quick as possible if that’s what you want, but if you want to have the baby naturally, he’ll respect the decision, letting you grip him for dear life throughout the pain. He knows contractions are part of the process, but it still freaks him out to see you go through them, even if you and the nurses tell him you’ll be fine.

Once the baby starts really coming out, he’s on the verge of passing out. There’s nurses everywhere, you’re clearly in pain as you push, people are talking, machines are beeping, there’s a chemical smell overpowering his senses, you’re squeezing his hand for dear life-

Aaaaandddd there he goes.

He passes out right next to you, but he comes back after a second or two, groggy but alert. He might pass out again later, but for now, he focuses all his attention on you, reassuring you that you’re doing so well, and that he can’t wait to meet your child. He’s extremely lightheaded the entire time you’re pushing your kid out, but he does his best to stay focused, too anxious to purposefully allow himself to slip away.

Then he hears your kid crying, and he’s sees a fleshy blob get carried away to be cleaned off, and the biggest rush of relief hits him so hard he starts letting out a couple tears of his own. His child’s here, they’re here and you’re both fine. Nothing went wrong, everything’s ok, and he’s a father now, a real father. He has a kid!

While the doctor’s are making sure your baby is all right, Charlie focuses all his attention on you. You’re exhausted, as expected, but you find enough energy to smile up at Charlie, and he can’t help but smile back. He squeezes your hand reassuringly and pours out soft praises, reminding you how much he loves and you and how excited he is to be a dad.

Charlie spends the rest of the hospital visit absolutely giddy, almost vibrating with his excitement and joy. He watches you hold your kid with the biggest grin on his face, holding out his finger for the baby to grab onto as the two of you coo over them. He can’t keep his eyes away from you two, his gaze landing between your happy face and his baby’s face, trying to soak in every detail, until it’s permanently burned into his memory.

And then you pass the baby to him, saying he should get a turn to hold your kid, and he just melts. He tries to be as gentle as possible as he cradles the tiny human he helped create, absolutely petrified at the prospect of dropping them but beyond jubilant that he finally gets to hold the kid he’s been waiting to meet for so long. He doesn’t think he’ll ever be able to let them go, he’s only known them for a little bit, but he already loves them more than anything in the world (other than you).

Charlie doesn’t really know what the future holds, especially considering his job. But he makes a vow right then and there that no matter what happened, he’s gonna keep his kid as safe and happy as possible, even if that means shielding them from his career as much as possible.

He looks over to you, baby in arm, and smiles. He’ll keep his family safe. He swears it on his life.

I hope you enjoyed!

[martineisling]

I’ve been wanting to draw these guys together for the past 3 years

[gristlegrinder]

i heard that the shining blade’s back, baby

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

Me, when Sebastian joins my party for the first time: Okay, this time I'm not going to forget about you, Sebastian. I'm going to make an effort to use you a lot this playthrough so I can better understand you.

Also me, immediately forgetting about Sebastian while finishing Act 2 and making it halfway through Act 3 before I finally notice his Faith quest: ......................Oh. Right. My bad.

[cerealforkart]

I just caught up on One Piece and I’m ready to make my report! My verdict is… it’s actually really good gang. 1000+ chapters of weird found family vs. the government in a pirate setting with some really cool and intriguing world building and an incredibly charming cast of characters, literally could not be more up my alley if it was trying. Big fan, so excited to see how this final act plays out over the next five years!

[stevethehairington]

full trailer making me LAUUUUGH so hard its trying to be SOOOO dramatic and then you have lines like "22 million killer bees" and "its a beenado" and the cherry on top of ending it with "i can feel it coming in the air tonight" as a bunch of killer bees fly... through the air. ITS SO UNSERIOUS IM LAAUUUUGHING SO MUCH.

[weirdbabs]

anyway i dont really care about the new dragon age game but the only bringing 2 companions w you sounds like its gonna suck. youre going to be essentially forcing players to never bring out a companion w the same class as them unless they dont mind being unbalanced

[bklynmusicnerd]

I definitely think the anvil of Trina telling Ava that she hasn’t betrayed her like her mom did in the gallery is gonna come back around once Nik is back and the truth comes out. I think if it came out before they became official it would have been a blow, but not as big of a blow to her now that she’s now even more attached to Spencer.

As a Trina fan, I can honestly say the slow set up of potential drama between Trina and Ava over her role in Nik's disappearance, stresses me out far more than any paternity question. I see the groundwork being laid but I'm still not sure how it's all gonna turn out.

Trina and Spencer are probably going to come back from this trip extremely protective of each other. But Trina and Ava have been a solid unit in their own right that precedes Trina and Spencer. Ava's marriage arguably collapsed in part because of her fierce loyalty to Trina. Spencer's feelings on Nik are complicated, and he seems to finally be pivoting to really wanting to know where he is.

If Ava's role in Nik's disappearance comes out, Trina will obviously be disappointed, but Spencer will be outraged (don't expect him to remember his patricidal phase honestly either). The fallout could be really incredible but very stressful for me as a Trina/Ava fan.

[pillowspace]

Croissant time loop 😭

Tip: you can microwave stale croissant for 15-20 seconds and it will become soft and warm and nice. Cut it open, put butter in it. Peace and love

[infizero]

i love movie sonic but that boy is NOT an experienced adventurer or fighter and i cannot wait to see him get his ass absolutely HANDED to him by shadow

[dotsunflowers]

it is fun having new lone star content again

[curlicuecal]

playing science telephone

Hi folks. Let's play a fun game today called "unravelling bad science communication back to its source."

Journey with me.

Saw a comment going around on a tumblr thread that "sometimes the life expectancy of autism is cited in the 30s"

That number seemed..... strange. The commenter DID go on to say that that was "situational on people being awful and not… anything autism actually does", but you know what? Still a strange number. I feel compelled to fact check.

Quick Google "autism life expectancy" pulls up quite a few websites bandying around the number 39. Which is ~technically~ within the 30s, but already higher than the tumblr factoid would suggest. But, guess what. This number still sounds strange to me.

Most of the websites presenting this factoid present themselves as official autism resources and organizations (for parents, etc), and most of them vaguely wave towards "studies."

Ex: "Above And Beyond Therapy" has a whole article on "Does Autism Affect Life Expectancy" and states:

The link implies that it will take you to the "research studies" being referenced, but it in fact takes you to another random autism resource group called.... Songbird Care?

And on that website we find the factoid again:

Ooh, look. Now they've added the word "some". The average lifespan for SOME autistic people. Which the next group erased from the fact. The message shifts further.

And we have slightly more information about the study! (Which has also shifted from "studies" to a singular "study"). And we have another link!

Wonderfully, this link actually takes us to the actual peer-reviewed 2020 study being discussed. [x]

And here, just by reading the abstract, we find the most important information of all.

This study followed a cohort of adolescent and adult autistic people across a 20 year time period. Within that time period, 6.4% of the cohort died. Within that 6.4%, the average age of death was 39 years.

So this number is VERY MUCH not the average age of death for autistic people, or even the average age of death for the cohort of autistic people in that study. It is the average age of death IF you died young and within the 20 year period of the study (n=26), and also we don't even know the average starting age of participants without digging into earlier papers, except that it was 10 or older. (If you're curious, the researchers in the study suggested reduced self-sufficiency to be among the biggest risk factors for the early mortality group.)

But the number in the study has been removed from it's context, gradually modified and spread around the web, and modified some more, until it is pretty much a nonsense number that everyone is citing from everyone else.

There ARE two other numbers that pop up semi-frequently:

One cites the life expectancy at 58. I will leave finding the context for that number as an exercise for the audience, since none of the places I saw it gave a direct citation for where they were getting it.

And then, probably the best and most relevant number floating around out there (and the least frequently cited) draws from a 2023 study of over 17,000 UK people with an autism diagnosis, across 30 years. [x] This study estimated life expectancies between 70 and 77 years, varying with sex and presence/absence of a learning disability. (As compared to the UK 80-83 average for the population as a whole.)

This is a set of numbers that makes way more sense and is backed by way better data, but isn't quite as snappy a soundbite to pass around the internet. I'm gonna pass it around anyway, because I feel bad about how many scared internet people I stumbled across while doing this search.

People on quora like "I'm autistic, can I live past 38"-- honey, YES. omg.

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tl;dr, when someone gives you a number out of context, consider that the context is probably important

also, make an amateur fact checker's life easier and CITE YOUR SOURCES