#I guess I'll tag original tag too?

[sciderman]

I swear I have read your big post regarding Peter Parker's neurodivergence and why it is best to avoid labelling him, but he definitely has a weird brain

Can't find it and feel kinda sad about it cuz I deeply related to it

i know exactly which post you're talking about and i can't find it either! i've raked through my archive, and it's just - nowhere to be seen. i think tumblr eated it (it happens.)

really, tumblr's search functionality is so so useless, i don't know what to tell you. there are plenty of keywords i can search to find it that post, but the search functionality actually just does not work!

undiagnosed audhd-addled peter parker, my darling, my light, my life, my everything.

i think peter parker's such an interesting creature to write, because a lot of people will point to a certain behaviour about him and say "this is an autistic thing, right?" but a lot of those behaviours are actually, in my head, tied to certain traumas in peter's life too.

people say "oh, the food thing, peter's a picky eater because he's autistic" and yes, absolutely. but also it's tied to his trauma with his parents.

peter gets overstimulated, and yes, it's an autism thing, but also he was bitten by a radioactive spider and his senses are dialled to 11.

it's a similar case i've found for myself, too – where a lot of friends i have kind of diagnose me because i have autistic traits, but actually - i'm hesitant to claim the label or pursue diagnosis because, actually, i know where these certain behaviours come from, and they come from certain traumas. there are events i can pinpoint in my life and say "yep. that's where this behaviour comes from."

so - i think there's a lot of overlap between trauma and autistic traits. the brain is very complex! i think the reason for that overlap is maybe as simple as the fact that people with autism and people with trauma are both doing the same thing - developing behaviours to protect themselves or soothe themselves. so - i think it's nice to be able to see a character like peter parker, who may or may not be autistic, but recognise behaviours in him and see yourself in him.

people who go undiagnosed for whatever reason - people who are really good at masking - so good, in fact, that they have no idea they might be on the spectrum - everyone and anyone at all can look at peter parker and recognise themselves. because i think we discredit the thought that every single brain does the same thing! develops certain behaviours in order to survive. every brain has that same software - we've just all been faced with different hardships that we need to overcome, and that's were all the differences come in.

autism is a spectrum, i guess - everyone falls into it to some degree. and i think events in your life probably push you along on it. but i don't know, i didn't study brain science. probably what i'm saying is very stupid and uninformed. of course there's brain chemistry involved. but i know people in my life living with autism and certain events in their life have exacerbated certain behaviours or made coping with it a lot more difficult. so maybe trauma is a catalyst.

[queenglibofglobs]

I hate to OC post in the main tag but WOY is held up by like four people and maybe I wanna be a part of that. This is my character.

PREDICTABLY she is the same species as Wander but I don't like the Star Nomad stuff. That was a story told by a young girl with a penchant for fanfiction in-universe. She does not have insider knowledge of who and what Wander is.

The term I've went for (Subject to change!) is Prrmin. She and Wander are Prrmani.

Please excuse the very weird Wander, I haven't drawn him nearly as much as I ought to.

I don't really know how to summarize her: she came into the galaxy, immediately sussed that Wander had been there and was probably still around, but walking between galaxies is exhausting when all you have is a helmet and magic boots that let you walk in space through autotelekinesis.

She doesn't want to be his friend. She's sick of being confused for him in every galaxy he's been in. She's embarrassed about the whole "being a draft dodger of the war that wiped out their entire species when he was a little kid" thing.

I tried to make her look like Wander but have a different weight to her, with big boots, a stockier body, and no giant hat. He's described as "buoyant", she should be "grounded". She believes in stuff like "earning her keep" but also "putting on your own oxygen mask first"

and this doesn't mean she's more "realistic" than Wander either- more like... more scared. Like, take Wander, minus the hat, minus Sylvia, times the weight of the knowledge that the only reason you're a do-gooder is that you're incapable of taking a life even to save your home. She's not THAT angsty in practice, I'm just saying.

[pa-pa-plasma]

you just made the scientific discovery of the century & you want to tell everyone & your kids are first on that list but you can't find them. you manage to get a hold of your daughter & she says everything is fine but her voice gets tight when you try to mention your work & she sucks in a breath & says she won't keep you from it any longer than she already has & doesn't say bye as she hangs up the phone. you have a sinking feeling in your gut & you really want to get back to what you were doing but. something's wrong. where are your kids. why was your daughter not surprised when you told her. why was she so quick to hang up on you. your husband has the same type of mind & that's probably why neither of you can ignore this odd turn of events & so you decide to track them down. the research can wait. after all, the spook got away somehow afterwards. it's not like you have anything to go through but data & recordings.

[restinpeacesensei]

suggesting something,,

[chayscribbles]

✨️THE CHAYNEMATIC GALA 2024✨️

the voting results are in!

and i've gotta say. a Girls With White Teeth Sweep was not something i expected. anyways, here are the winners for each element, and we're on the the final round of voting for the gala's best dressed!

full series: water | air | earth | fire

[hrokkall]

Saw a post the other day asking how P03 is able to see; my best guess is something like this.

I actually inspected P03′s 3D model for this which I don’t usually do (and then I proceeded to draw it off-model anyway. Whoops) but even outside of its hypothetical camera-vision, there’s a few other things of note:

P03 seems to have a lot of large vents (or at least things that look like some sort of ventilation/cooling). Two major ones on the chest, three on the top of the head (with potentially another on the side of its head), and one on the underside of its base (though that one might be for the hologram projection it uses to float). My best guess is that it’s because his factory is built right by the water where there would be a TON of moisture in the air. For that reason, some of them have got to be exhausts to make sure all of the air circulating in his torso is dry. That or he just overheats extremely easily I guess, but I’m leaning towards the humidity explanation (or it could be a combination of the two).

Its “eyes” are somewhere on the front of its face; whether it sees through a camera or just through the eyes on the screen via video game magic is up for debate, but it turns to face the player when they stand up so its vision probably isn’t on the sides of its head or something.

Similarly, P03 has some sort of sensitivity to touch (he reacts to Leshy’s hands gripping his monitor before Leshy says anything). I don’t think any “touch sensors” would be externally visible though.

Presumably (based on the ending to Act 3) P03′s head isn’t just a monitor, there’s vital systems in there as well (otherwise tearing its head off wouldn’t do anything to disrupt its upload/its ability to function). My best guess is that his power supply is in his chest so it would be the equivalent of just... unplugging your computer while it’s trying to preform updates.

The wire it uses to connect to the modules to update cards in Act 3 seems to come from either its neck or its torso, but in act 2 it’s very visibly on the side of the head. Granted the act 2 sprites are all pretty different from the Scrybes’ 3D models so that’s not an outlier.

The range of motion in P03′s arm seems pretty similar to a human arm; he has a ball-and-socket joint on the shoulder and a hinge joint on his elbow plus separate segments for the “wrist” and “hand”. The only thing it probably can’t do is twist its forearm.

I don’t have any idea what either of the cranks do. The head crank moves when it changes its expression so it might have something to do with its display, but the arm crank is only shown doing anything on the G0lly Uberbot hologram. My best guess is that P03 used to have a lot more built-in functions but ended up removing them in order to operate faster so a lot of the buttons and switches on it are just vestigial leftovers. (The idea of the arm crank being able to function as a hand-crank motor in a pinch is really funny though. Spin it a few times when P03 is out of power and you can generate just enough battery for it to tell you to fuck off then go back into sleep mode again).

I have no idea how the levitation works either. It’s cool and that’s why it works. No need to get more complicated than that.

[eight-pointed-star]

looking at you politely before he eats you

i might add details (gold and white individual feathers, some blood specks 🤭) later but for now here he is

my musings on chimera fingon (and siren maglor :3) in the tags of the original post and the reblog (spoilers ahead)

[looneluxxe]

27/02/24

Time: 4hrs 31mins

An old OC i'm bringing back, related rambling below the cut!

So there's an old OC that was very near and dear to me which I got rid of over teen internet drama in... 2016? I was really scared of ever drawing this guy again despite not being guilty of anything for years but now that I'm older and graced with the wisdom associated with being 21 instead of 14, I've realised that it was all really stupid and you know what? I'm bringing this guy back.

In some ways that event may have been a good thing, because in trying to fill the hole Freefall (I know, ironic name) left behind I got 5 new OCs out of it, 3 of which are top favourites of mine that live rent free in my head.

It's a pretty rough drawing, there's a lot of things I screwed up but can't be bothered to fix lol. I wasn't really planning to do much with it, but I ended up doing some basic shading for funsies

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

everything's coming up roses

[esoteric-champagne]

superheroes have to start somewhere

[can-of-slorgs]

Local owlbear, what she gonna explodee✨

[ineffable-gallimaufry]

tried to do a little tracing piece of the fallen angel by alexandre cabanel with grantaire because.... idk apparently tracing helps your art?? anyways, yeah 👍

[doedipus]

a large amount of time I've been spending on -untitled undefined scope original fiction project- since the last time I posted about it has been trying to develop the protagonist concept I came up with last summer or whatever into like, a character that would feel real and era appropriate.

it's fun research to do. naturally a lot of the details I assigned to her are things that I already think are cool, so it's been a lot of fun trying to trace her traits back through the relatively recent past, getting reminded of how much things have changed, or where the gaps in my intuition are, and then doing a flurry of reading to get a sense for exactly how someone like her and the people around her could have happened and what her life was probably like leading up to her present day. hopefully this results in some good good verisimilitude.

[whypolar]

An explainer

Any version of either of these characters would either ignore me or pop me like a grape if I attempted to speak to them. It's fine.

[sarcasticmudkip]

Hello octopathers I spent all of last night and this morning impulse crafting a Debuffer/BP Support Thief OC with imposter syndrome

[stargazinglesbian]

that moment when your wip is actually looking cool and good and you're loving drawing it and just LOOKING at it is enough to make you want to start jumping up and down and screaming