#I’m too autistic for fandom culture /j

[onepieceautism]

I was today years old when I realized the order of the names in the ship name meant… 👀

I’ve just been using whatever sounded best 🧍

[pilk0id]

intro post so that i dont have to cram everything into my bio 🦕

da basics: i’m sophie, my pronouns are she/her, i identify as unlabeled (bc i’m still questioning my sexuality), i’m from texas, and i’m 19 years old! nice to meet you :3

warnings n stuff:

‼️ i am autistic!! if you feel so inclined, please use tone indicators whenever possible :3 i can usually pick up jokes, sarcasm, etc. but some tones are a little trickier for me.

‼️ i do not post NSFW on my page, nor do i draw it, so this page is relatively safe for minors! this is both personal preference bc i want my page to be safe for everyone, and bc its lowkey weird to look at idk 😭

‼️ i am a full time college student so artposting (and posting in general tbh) does tend to get really dry during semesters

‼️ DNI list:

homophobic, transphobic, TERF, racist, sexist, etc. (the basics ig 🚶)

proship (loud get out sound effect)

anyone under 13 (terms of service)

autism speaks apologists and supporters /srs

if u dont like seals and horses /j

my interests!!! :D

my special interest has been the ricky gervais show and its associated media & people since 2017! we haven’t been fed in literally years so any interaction about them / fanmade content is so so so lovely :3 my fav is karl (if that isn’t glaringly obvious), but i love steve too! i only like ricky’s stuff pre-2006 ish (extras being the cutoff) because… yuck

my other interests / hyperfixations include:

metalocalypse (i do not like the music of dethklok tho so uhh…….. awk)

breaking bad and better call saul

madchester and britpop music and culture, more on that later (ask me about my pookies)

adult swim in general - shows like aqua teen hunger force, the venture bros, king of the hill, etc.

the 1975 (probably my fav “current” band)

i actually love sports very much, especially bc of college :3

my fav people / characters (both real and fictional):

karl pilkington obvi

stephen merchant

ricky gervais (to a certain extent……..)

charles offdensen (metalocalypse)

saul goodman (better call saul)

jesse pinkman (breaking bad)

jarvis cocker

damon albarn

wheatley (portal 2)

simon (rain dogs - char in my PFP)

rainbow dash (mlp:fim)

george harrison

fav music:

the 1975

the smiths (tomodachi life super all time fav) and their associated solo work

oasis

blur

pulp

suede

the beatles

gorillaz (my first ever real fandom 🤍)

the stone roses

the psychedelic furs

radiohead

random fun facts about me :3

i do colorguard full time in the fall

i collect records and i am the proud owner of the blue album

i am currently on my 2nd relisten of RSK on XFM + the podcasts and audiobooks

i own every single karl pilkington book

i’m trying to start a DVD collection, but right now the only real “valuables” i have are ATHF volume one, the office full series, arrested development full series (?), and a random frisky dingo i got from my dad 🚶

i can’t drive

i do all my art using procreate :3

i have not used the term “smerchette” to describe myself since like 2019

ASK ME ABOUT MY REDBUBBLE SHOP!!!!!

ok i think thats all for now bye :3

[va-mp3]

𓆩♡𓆪 𝔄𝔟𝔬𝔲𝔱 𓆩♡𓆪

hello there! i'm vamp, and i post pictures of my maximalist room and outfits! i use she/they pronouns and am a queer demigirl from None Of Your Business-ville, USA. i would prefer to remain anonymous so i will be blurring my face in all of my photos. please respect my privacy. this is also not my main account! my main in big-pink-comfy-couch. i’m autistic and have adhd and ptsd. i’m something of an unintentional shut-in on my way to recovery!

i grew up on fashion dolls and related media: barbie, to trollz girlz and bratz movies (mom thought i was too young for the dolls when they were popular lol), to monster high and ever after high. my bio brother's girlfriend got me into my first anime, sailor moon, and j-pop when i was about eight or nine, and my favorite game growing up was style savvy for the DS. my childhood was influenced heavily by hyperfemineity and the power of what we loosely define as "girlhood", as well as alternative subculture. video games, western cartoons, and the older teen and young adult figures in my life at the time were my introduction to goth, emo, scene, and rave culture. over time, my style and way of decorating have grown backwards almost, becoming a mirror of all the things that i admired in the late 2000s to early 2010s.

much of my aesthetic revolves around my love of that nostalgia, and the things that bring me joy. i’d describe myself as “creepy cute”. i live in a pastel goth (or bubblegum goth, as my parents call it) dreamscape. i refuse to be anything but sweetly spooky and uncomfortably femme.

i remember the girls in my books and cartoons and games having the coolest rooms, and the coolest hair, and the coolest clothes, and I always said that one day, i was gonna be just like that. and now i am <3. i fulfilled my dream of dressing like an irl monster high doll lol.

this blogs serves to let me share all these hobbies I enjoy, document my progress in building my art and merch collections, as well as my jewelry and wardrobe, and talk about plus size alt fashion, fandom, and collection-based hobbies. :3

[koalas-koalas-everywhere]

Regarding Vulcans and autism

Since why the hell not make it a series with recognizable titles that will make it easy to look up and create links for if I ever make enough of them for it to be worth it. Disclaimer: it might be hard to understand what I’m getting at without reading the other posts since this isn’t supposed to be, like, a comprehensive analysis on how one is like the other.

Thing is, as an Aspie woman, I can see perfectly well how Vulcans expressing nothing but neutrality gets twisted in reception and interpreted as smugness/disdain, and autism (or at least Asperger’s, I am sorta more knowledgeable about one than the other) does tend to include self-awareness issues that leads to feelings of superiority and/or inferiority, and with the most recognizably “autistic” (either explicitly or through coding) being the Sheldon Coopers and the BBC Sherlock types, the assumption that anyone like them in some ways will follow in others (heck, might be why pop culture has accepted Holmes as an asshole at all, since he wasn’t that bad in the stories but he WAS smart and eccentric and every once in a while disdaindful of the people whose jobs he did better than them) is not unexpected.

The problem’s not really there because I actually have faith that we could have talked about it and raised awareness of not only this case, but also made people question why seeing a smart(er), seemingly cold but all-around just neutral characters or races made everyone raise their hackles to such a degree, assume that they’re actually mostaken about their skills (literally have seen people go “but what if Vulcans only think they’re some of the best scientists around bc they’re supercilious assholes and it’s just not true”)and wrong about life in general. Don’t get me wrong, I do get the impulse ever since Star Trek (2009), but, well, that’s just the thing, that’s where the problem is. Because we could have talked about it in fandom and be friends about it, but now there are TWO official canon sources that depict the Vulcans as intolerant, xenophobic, racist, ableist hypocrites, and not only is it harder to argue with actual canon telling you that you were right about your worst assumptions, but now you’ve seen them be actually WORSE than you first thougt, and to your faves, and in such a way that none of their positive/redeeming qualities (say, being all of that stuff sorta kinda messes up the whole IDIC thing, but it wouldn’t be so bad if they weren’t doing it out out of malice, but out of ignorance and genuine misunderstanding, and if the only members who were shown to be sorta kinda decent weren’t at least partly from a different species (u.s., uh, I mean, us) and/or implied to have been influenced by a different culture) were shown. In fact, those good qualities, such as their pacifism, reverence for life, belief and respect for diversity, their curiosity and constant push for knowledge that probably wouldn’t let them just let a kid fall by the wayside becuase he was dyslexic (“there is no other wisdom, and no hope for us, but that we grow wise”), their deep attachment to their morality that’s even more important to them than to be liked by the other members of the Federation COUGH COUGH AUTISM MUCH COUGH COUGH were the first to be dropped in favour of what’s anathema to all of this, the last one in particular was turned on its head so it wasn’t that they used their logic to arrive to the most compassionate and fair choice, and it had to be logic since emotion would resist a sacrifice in a way logic won’t, making logic the compassionate choice (as they saw it, I don’t think it’s universally true, but also not universaly false), but that they were mich more willing to let people suffer and to look the other way and not be affected at all because, I don’t know, they mistook logic, which is a tool, with efficiency, which is a goal, I’d guess.

They lost the best things about them because freaking J J Abrams decided to make movies about a franchise he didn’t even like and then, even though all of it could have stayed in a parallel universe were, as many have proposed, Vulcans were worse because the Kelvin accident led people to know what Romulans looked like earlier so THEY were worse and everyone was just an asshole to each other, but then Discovery took a leaf out of his book and used his version of Vulcans and even changed old characters to fit this new version better (Sarek doesn’t disagree with Starfleet because of its bellicosity [you can’t even argue that he still disaproves of violence because he spent the worst part of the war following General Cornwell around and idk commiting mind crimes] or because he sees it as a rejection from Spock [since he says he’ll keep his distance because it’s what Spock would want and what the fuck even was that?] and he’s a cold bastard who’d take a child to a completely different culture than the one she’s used to purely for superficial beliefs and even then he’ll still prioritize his more Vulcan son, Amanda doesn’t think Vulcan’s is a hard but better way [and honestly she wouldn’t be justified to] so since she can’t be staying because of her children since they’re being mistreated, she must be doing it because of Sarek which is just so feminist, you guys, and ok, I better change topics before this becomes an “everything that’s wrong about Disco with a sidenote of everything that’s not objectively wrong but I still didn’t like”, but also, Vulcan brains can literally lobotomize themselves while dealing with trauma, don’t you think they’d take mental health seriously?) so now it’s canon in the original universe, too. Even with Enterprise (which, to be honest, I haven’t watched, I’ve only learned what was going on with Vulcans from Memory Alpha and the recounting might hace left events and/or the essence and implications of the plotline out), the tomfoolery was supposed to be Romulans infiltrating the government and twisting Surak’s teachings, all of this is supposed to be how things vecame after they got his katra back and went through the Reform.

And this got long, but the thing is: it’s not just about the Vulcans. It’s about the fact that some of the worst assumptions made about them were recognizable at least by this one Aspie as, among other things, a neurotypical’s response to an autistic trait and a long history of negative autistic coding, and now they’ve been confirmed by canon, so instead of having a nice discussion and maybe a bit of disk horse about this, we’ve gotta deal with the fact that now some people feel legitimally repelled by and resentful of Vulcans (insofar as any emotion applies to fiction) because they are now the bigots and oppressors - now it’s not a one episode race of black&white and white&black people ridiculously pointing at the obvious differences between each other, but Vulcans who have said and done bigoted things many people have been exposed to during their lives, and if they were ever willing to give them, and by extension us, a chance, now it’s ruined. I am not, of course, saying that if you hate Vulcans, especially now, you’re ableist, or that making them the Asshole^tm will turn people ableist. Just that it would have been nice to see people like me who didn’t end up justifiably despised.*

*Especially through character assassination, couldn’t you have at least made them unlikeable from the start?

[thatlittledandere]

Yus bih time to talk abt faves

Um... I’ve been putting this off and... got tagged by four people;;; @floweryuu, @zoeynightly, @mystofthestarsand and @unfortunatelycake really thank you all honestly I’m real flustered rn;;;

Anyway Rules: List Your 10 Favorite Characters from 10 Different Fandoms (in No Particular Order) then Tag 10 Other people. And I can already feel the anguish of having to narrow it down

BUt let’s start with the obvious, number 1. Ibushi Arima - Boueibu

He’s my husband and I love him lots but you should know this if you’ve been following me for longer than like two weeks lmao

2. Yoosung Kim - Mystic Messenger

Were it not for the laws of this land I would have married him too but alas, I live in a country of monogamy. He’s our adorable boyfriend. 

3. Suzaku Kururugi - Code Geass

Let’s continue with the family, Suzu-chan may be an idiot with his motivations all over the place and have a fantastic negative character development but he’s my darling eldest son and I will protect him #SuzakuApologistSquad (here you see him laughing and having a grand time with his cute girlfriend and they live happily ever after and nothing bad happens ever the end)

4. Tooru Nayuki - Starmyu

The younger son Tooru took my heart with his caring nature and super-cute pink cardigan lowkey mom-ness and I had to adopt him. I hope my sons get along...

5. Peridot - Steven Universe

My lovely space daughter may have her occassional problems with Earth culture and social customs Peri is autistic pass it on but she tries hard!! And is so passionate about things I’m proud of her

6. Karamatsu - Osomatsu-san

Ok Ososan is my number two fandom atm but had to get the family first, ok, the blue son of a bitch is just as shitty as everyone else  in this godforsaken show but he’s cool and not afraid of showing it when he cares and j u st wan ts l ov e pl s gi v e it to h im

7. Haruka Tenoh - Sailor Moon

Before Ibushi came along I was all about this dorky racer lesbian and tbh she’s still hot af and a style icon and a cinnamon roll that doesn’t want to kill you but has to For The Greater Good (has the Greater Good ever resulted in anything good is a question we need to ask more)

8. 9th Doctor - Doctor Who

Until recently Doctor Who was like my number one thing- ok it was number two immediately after Boueibu came along but anyWAY my enthusiasm isn’t anywhere close to what it used to be have I ever told you doctor who, sherlock and harry potter where the reasons i joined tumblr i have a dark past but my fave Doctor is the underappreciated baboon that made me question everything the moment I realized he kind of resembles my dad a lot *cough*

9. Neville Longbottom - Harry Potter

Oh my sweet baby jesus golly gosh Neville is the Lord and Savior and tbh maybe the prophecy should have been about him instead I want him to receive more love and appreciation

10. Riza Hawkeye - Fullmetal Alchemist (and Brotherhood)

The gender ratio here sucks;;;; anyway gotta have Riza she’s the reason I’m gay. No seriously, I was in the process of Realizing Things when I started reading FMA and Riza had a big part in me confirming that yup I definitely like girls also

Anyway I don’t know who’s done this already so I’m gonna tag @kuudessilma, @crazy-grrrl-on-the-computer, @vikturi-is-mine, @angry-jewish-magical-girl, @happy-kanato, @koolkitty9, @angelluckovich, @wildelectrictype, @president-frankenstein and @kissanpiru