#THEY GAVE THAT PUPPET AUTISM

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[123countwithme]

Personally, I find Julia to be a great representation of autism. But more so, how the other characters interact and how just the general storylines show her as a character and how she does have Autism but that's not completely her personality. How they handle it as a topic is very well done.

im curious, how do people feel about the autism rep in sesame street with julia? i don't really see nothing wrong with it but i'm just curious on how others feel

[gseren-art-blog]

okay NOW we get to the one i actually made next, ami (like... like mon ami? not like amy) & their two friends buddy & pal.... yeah theres puns

i made ami first but i really wanted to make a creepy puppet and like 2000s rawr XD ass robot so i figured put all the chaos munchkins together, badaboom they still have friends in the group! booyah.

high key gave the robot autism too but like in the funniest way in that it doesnt act like the stereotypical "robot" at all pal has poor volume control and asks too many questions but is the opposite of "emotionless" lolol

[dungeonmeshi-confessions]

I wanna do more kabumisu positivity following that other anon. it really brightened my day so much.

bc really I dont want to bash other ships to lift mine up!!! and I actually also really love and respect labru, and know the majority of labru shippers arent Like That, just like most kabumisu shippers arent Like That. every group has some annoying, loud, opinionated people and they dont represent the average person who likes the ship, you know? I would love to see some labrus follow suit and send in some positivity as well!!! If the positivity keeps going I will come in here and post all my fave things about labru, labru art, and labru shippers as a kabumisu. lets ditch the bitching and hold hands instead!

anyway, some reasons I really love kabumisu

- as a neurodivergent disabled person dating another neurodivergent person, this is like. THE couple to me. and like its not just about mithrun being taken care of. taking care of mithrun actively helps kabru be more mindful of his own needs. In my life, I may struggle to feed myself, but I can make breakfast if my partner is hungry. other times she may do the same for me, it depends on who is doing worse.

-they both struggle with insomnia also

-from everything we've seen, pre-dungeon mithrun wasn't entirely dissimilar to kabru (high masking people pleaser) and thats Fascinating to me.

-kabru's job seems pretty stressful (no matter how much fulfillment it brings him, its a lot of responsibility for one person!) so I feel like coming home to that one guy he can take his mask off around and not even have to try and impress must be such a huge relief. also add mithrun with cooking experience to this, making kabru a nice meal after a long day of work.

-Mithrun is actually very perceptive and sees straight through kabru's bs multiple times and doesn't hesitate to call him out. Laios isnt the only character that forces kabru to be honest. ("unless theres someone else?" "theres someone you want to tell that story to.") mithrun is also the one who gives kabru the information he's been seeking this whole time.

-I am very interested in exploring mithruns whole desire situation. what desires does he gain? I think it is probably a lot of little ones that weave together. oh also I think sometimes things may seem more mithrun centric bc in any story where he is going to end up in a relationship he is going to have a much more dynamic arc than whoever he is paired with. literally dynamic as in like. he requires a lot more growth to achieve the outcome. and there are ways to skip it or gloss through it but. a lot of these stories require that in some way you show the progress has happened.

-to me, kabumisu is more often queeplatonic than romantic. but Im aroace so that could just be my aroace glasses. ALSO kabru is vaguely aro to me. you mean the guy thats super desirable that doesnt really seem interested in anyone particular outside of pursuing friendship? that guy? (also the way he did rin omfg)

-random but I dont think kabrus PTSD is talked about enough and also like the extent of his trauma. its not just utaya/monsters/his mom dying; its being raised by a single mother, its his blue eyes, its being adopted, its being raised by an elf, etc!!!! a lot of things he does bc of ptsd get attributed to autism (I also hc kabru as autistic, and some is symptom overlap. but it is secondary to the ptsd! he is traumatized first and foremost ty) I really love kabru so much. ty for the ptsd rep <3

-also out here to say I know an amount of kabumisu content is mithrun centric. I will tell you from my pov specifically though its bc I deeply relate to mithrun (as someone who once told a therapist many years ago I desired nothing and truly meant it. she said I was like a puppet without strings. of course I saw mithrun and was like. oh.) and Im in love with kabru. kabru reminds me of all the people who gave me a reason to pull through. people who saw good in me and treated me like a person when I didnt feel like one. I also really relate to kabru though as someone with complex trauma, even if my traumas are not the same. thats why I say I think not enough is attributed to his ptsd. anyway, once I just opened a notebook and wrote kabrus name over and over again with hearts. I have never done this to mithrun. so dont tell me kabumisus dont like kabru !!!

-kabru and mithrun are both so gender. Ive seen so many variants on their gender and gender expression in the ship. some people hate this and insist they must be one way or the other. I think theyre neat lots of different ways. I love when theyre both feminine men. I love when mithrun is super masc. I love when theyre butch4butch. I love when theyre both trans. and so much more. its all beautiful. a very good variety of food. the other day on my dash I had a tallman art of mithrun with the biggest tits imaginable and the very next post he was like a little porcelain doll. keep up the good work guys. I love you.

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[narcissisticpdcultureis]

NPD + Autism + dnd player culture is genuinely crying your fucking eyes out because you misinterpreted a clue that the DM gave you for fucking months because you took it too literally and now you feel fucking stupid and like you made a fool out of yourself.

-The Puppeteer

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[youmightbeautistic]

‘Fancy Believing in the Goblin King’

My friend told me a story he hadn’t told anyone for years. When he used to tell it years ago people would laugh and say, ‘Who’d believe that? How can that be true? That’s daft.’ So he didn’t tell it again for ages. But for some reason, last night, he knew it would be just the kind of story I would love.

When he was a kid, he said, they didn’t use the word autism, they just said ‘shy’, or ‘isn’t very good at being around strangers or lots of people.’ But that’s what he was, and is, and he doesn’t mind telling anyone. It’s just a matter of fact with him, and sometimes it makes him sound a little and act different, but that’s okay.

Anyway, when he was a kid it was the middle of the 1980s and they were still saying ‘shy’ or ‘withdrawn’ rather than ‘autistic’. He went to London with his mother to see a special screening of a new film he really loved. He must have won a competition or something, I think. Some of the details he can’t quite remember, but he thinks it must have been London they went to, and the film…! Well, the film is one of my all-time favourites, too. It’s a dark, mysterious fantasy movie. Every single frame is crammed with puppets and goblins. There are silly songs and a goblin king who wears clingy silver tights and who kidnaps a baby and this is what kickstarts the whole adventure.

It was ‘Labyrinth’, of course, and the star was David Bowie, and he was there to meet the children who had come to see this special screening.

‘I met David Bowie once,’ was the thing that my friend said, that caught my attention.

‘You did? When was this?’ I was amazed, and surprised, too, at the casual way he brought this revelation out. Almost anyone else I know would have told the tale a million times already.

He seemed surprised I would want to know, and he told me the whole thing, all out of order, and I eked the details out of him.

He told the story as if it was he’d been on an adventure back then, and he wasn’t quite allowed to tell the story. Like there was a pact, or a magic spell surrounding it. As if something profound and peculiar would occur if he broke the confidence.

It was thirty years ago and all us kids who’d loved Labyrinth then, and who still love it now, are all middle-aged. Saddest of all, the Goblin King is dead. Does the magic still exist?

I asked him what happened on his adventure.

‘I was withdrawn, more withdrawn than the other kids. We all got a signed poster. Because I was so shy, they put me in a separate room, to one side, and so I got to meet him alone. He’d heard I was shy and it was his idea. He spent thirty minutes with me.

‘He gave me this mask. This one. Look.

‘He said: ‘This is an invisible mask, you see?

‘He took it off his own face and looked around like he was scared and uncomfortable all of a sudden. He passed me his invisible mask. ‘Put it on,’ he told me. ‘It’s magic.’

‘And so I did.

‘Then he told me, ‘I always feel afraid, just the same as you. But I wear this mask every single day. And it doesn’t take the fear away, but it makes it feel a bit better. I feel brave enough then to face the whole world and all the people. And now you will, too.

‘I sat there in his magic mask, looking through the eyes at David Bowie and it was true, I did feel better.

‘Then I watched as he made another magic mask. He spun it out of thin air, out of nothing at all. He finished it and smiled and then he put it on. And he looked so relieved and pleased. He smiled at me.

‘’Now we’ve both got invisible masks. We can both see through them perfectly well and no one would know we’re even wearing them,’ he said.

‘So, I felt incredibly comfortable. It was the first time I felt safe in my whole life.

‘It was magic. He was a wizard. He was a goblin king, grinning at me.

‘I still keep the mask, of course. This is it, now. Look.’

I kept asking my friend questions, amazed by his story. I loved it and wanted all the details. How many other kids? Did they have puppets from the film there, as well? What was David Bowie wearing? I imagined him in his lilac suit from Live Aid. Or maybe he was dressed as the Goblin King in lacy ruffles and cobwebs and glitter.

What was the last thing he said to you, when you had to say goodbye?

‘David Bowie said, ‘I’m always afraid as well. But this is how you can feel brave in the world.’ And then it was over. I’ve never forgotten it. And years later I cried when I heard he had passed.’

My friend was surprised I was delighted by this tale.

‘The normal reaction is: that’s just a stupid story. Fancy believing in an invisible mask.’

But I do. I really believe in it.

And it’s the best story I’ve heard all year.

— Paul Magrs

[melorambles]

this isn't going to be articulated very well, but bear with me as i get to the point. did anyone else have these assemblies in elementary school where they sat everyone down and tried to break a big, complex, important, or emotional topic into a format kids under 10 could understand? the big one i remember was about autism. there were puppets and a picture book involved.

Someone in my immediate family has what might be described as severe autism so even at 8, i felt the assembly came off as very stereotypical and kind of cringy. But, i grew up with someone who experienced the symptoms they were trying (and they really were doing their best, in an early 2000s sort of way) to portray. For most of the rest of the kids in that assembly, their only contact with someone who might be similar was crossing paths with the special needs class in the hallway.

Yes, it might have been cringy and playing too much into stereotypes and only been sort of accurate in the way something is dumbed-down to make it easier for the uninformed; but it was a starting point for the kids to understand a viewpoint and set of experiences very different from their own.

Anyway, there were definitely Choices* made with how Taash was written and portrayed. Specific to their gender: their journey of self-discovery feels a lot like those assemblies: Maybe accurate in the most textbook sense, if those textbooks are written for people who have never heard of the subject before. Lacking the nuance people familiar with the topic expect. Eager to teach their audience the Correct Terminology and Language, but also doing it in the most simplified way. (Which does feel out of place in a fantasy setting. Given Inquisition gave us a setting appropriate term for trans people, why couldn't they come up with a setting appropriate phrase for non-binary? Actually, Taash's mom is a scholar, she would have been a good person to know a word for it and be able to explain the nuances. She also comes off as neurodivergent enough to get away with info-dumping as exposition.)

In this essay I will...

explain why I feel that way because it bothered me enough I actually went and wrote this.

As someone who considers my own gender to be something between a shrug and staring at the menu when I'm not actually hungry, I was hoping for better. But Taash themself, isn't too terrible in this specific sense. Their conversation with their mother felt like watching an awkward puppet show of the display character coming out. It was painful to sit through, but not the worst way to do Representation for Beginners. The majority of my confusion with that scene was in what the writer was trying to tell us what was going on versus what was actually going on. Taash was reacting very defensively and was perceiving terminology questions as attacks on their identity. The mom came off as confused but not completely unsupportive and had earlier in the conversation admitted she wasn't the best mother to start with. It felt like the writer was trying to tell us the mother had committed some unforgivable offense by not understanding immediately and wanting a clear explanation; but I'm really not following the emotional cue with that one.

Most of the real awkwardness with Veilguard's approach to Taash's gender is in how much focus the other characters put on it. It feels very Performative. Isabella's 'pulling a Barv' scene came off as theatrical self-flagellation to make apologizing for misgendering someone into a show of how sorry the person doing the misgendering is. It's very much like that person who apologizes by saying that they're the worst person ever, forcing the recipient of the apology to comfort them. It makes Isabella's originally innocent misspeak in regards to Taash's gender, all about Isabella, which does nothing good for either of their characters. The fact that Rook (who doesn't functionally know Taash all that well) is there for all the self-discovery stuff doesn't feel genuine, like a friend being supportive. (Rook spends the whole game feeling like the HR manager of a small dysfunctional business, but that's back to the writing problems as a whole.) If they'd written Taash as an old friend or contact Rook has known for years, it'd be much less awkward to be there as emotional support/sounding board for this experience.

Most nonbinary people would like to just exist, as themselves, without people bringing up their gender at every turn (but if anyone disagrees, please explain to me how and why. maybe i'm just shy). Past a certain point, it feels like the writers are parading Taash across a stage proclaiming their Excellent Work in Representation**.

... other notes...

*A good chunk of Taash's behavioral weirdness ties into the writing choices made about qunari in general and Veilguard choosing to play fast and loose with existing lore. Qunari were definitely given more nuance with the Iron Bull, and the Qun was played more straightforwardly and with more seriousness through Sten. Please don't ask me about the Taash romance scenes. The cringe was too painful.

Also, making the Big Strong One kind of slow on the uptake, a bit judge-y on certain topics - see interactions with Emmerich and that first gender conversation kicked off with commentary about Neve's outfit - hotheaded, relatively immature-seeming, and forward about sex to the point of making people uncomfortable; is kind of an old trope that I'm a bit sick of. They subverted that with the Iron Bull so well, that not only does it fall flat with Taash, it comes off as especially cringy because we know they can do better.

"We know they can do better" seems to be the summary of Veilguard in its entirety.

**Speaking of representation, they've got Lucanis basically outright stating he's never done relationships before, only ever had the one crush and taking it very slowly with Rook in the romance option, and no one on the dev team thought to maybe look up demisexuality?

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what. the. actual fuck. okay firstly WHY ARE HALF OF THEM ABOUT BOOBS??? 😭😭😭😭 secondly which pit of hell did you dig these up from??? thirdly, wow. what is "bbg you are soup now" supposed to mean??? or, "hard boiled turtle slapper".

[insect0idfreakaz0id]

can u give us a fun facts about wandeer please.................

YES I WOULD LOVE TO

some are like "headcanons" in a way and subject to change so I'll mark those with a *

• wander likes to do arts and crafts. he has hand puppets of him & klaus and he does a lot of drawings and paintings (which he isn't that good at). he also likes to sing/dance but doesn't do it very often (partially a nod to his first design being a singing/performing robot and not a weaponized robot)

• he has a lot of random collections (?) of things. he has a wall with several cat posters on it ("hang in there" posters mostly) drawers filled with stuff, he just likes to collect things.

• (continuation of previous) he also has a wall of crosses/crucifix, other religious symbols for protection, good luck charms, etc. wander is not religious but it's rather out of superstition and having delusions related to religion *

• he has pretty long hair, it stays pinned up under the box until he takes it off. despite not really needing to wear it anymore, he still feels like he does need to / that he needs his face to stay hidden, and also that it has become part of him now

• wanders boots are from his old job. his lab coat was from Klaus, back when he was alive, he gave one to wander while he was teaching them. wander modified it to fit more tightly around the body and flow outwards because he thought it otherwise looked a little too professional; though wander has an entire outfit taken from Klaus as well (after death) and uses that one to operate. the lab coat is not modified.

• wanders box has been with him for a while. he took it with him when he left Klaus to cover his face and has kept it since then.

• he is superstitious

• he's placed bells around most of the doors in his lab/house to alert him when someone enters

• wander isn't a "dumb" character, he was built knowing most things. it's more than his mind is constantly elsewhere, he has little opportunity to do anything with that knowledge, and he is (in current state) almost always frazzled or paranoid to some extent

• he knows most languages and is fluent in a few (english, Spanish, ASL). english was his first, as that's what Klaus speaks

• wander's physical damage is all on one side because Klaus repeatedly hit wander on that side while fighting him. he did not hit the other one

• he is ambidextrous

• wanders story currently has 3-4 potential canon endings - one where he continues to live as he did in the 15 years past klaus' death, one where he stops trying to carry on in life and lays without moving until he rots/degrades (like death but he's still aware and conscious), one where he gets worse, and one where he gets better. (there are also some noncanon joke endings I've considered) *

• I've purposely not labeled wanders mental state (not only because I'm afraid people will think I'm trying to make those with mental disorders look evil, but he's a robot, so it's kind of difficult) but it would be closest to schizoaffective [bipolar type 1], and potentially autism & hypersexuality — those two weren't intentional but something I've considered *

• more of one I regularly mention, but wander has a lot of human organs that he surgically transplanted into himself. none of them are arranged correctly, most of them are upside down, as in his heart is around the stomach area and his kidneys are in his chest. he does his own surgeries and stitches up himself

• wander is strictly against harming kids. I've had a lot of people think wander doesn't like kids / that he hates them, but he does like them and will refuse to hurt them in any way & tries his best not to do so unintentionally because his childhood wasn't good, and he doesn't wish that harm on any other children. if any did decide to come to his lab, he would try to take care of them as best as he could

• wander is not evil and does not enjoy killing. he killed Klaus, but still felt bad about it. he would not kill someone purposely without a lot of reason behind it. he is afraid of people (as in humans) but still wishes for friends and company, and wouldn't hurt/kill anyone without a reason (like them threatening him first)

• it is difficult to work out wanders age because of him being a robot, but after the 15 years of sitting alone, he is 42 years old. he was 27 when he killed Klaus. (I still need to work on how to word age for robots because it's not the same as a human or living animal of course)

• wander has been through multiple divorces (3 at least)

• he is genderfluid, pansexual, and aromantic (questioned him being something like cupioromantic before but it's not final). he uses all/any pronouns (though I mostly use "he" to talk about wander because mixing them can be confusing and only recently I've changed wanders pronouns from being she/her for several years to being all/any)

• he has a favorite tool/weapon that he brings with him everywhere, and it is a saw with a red handle. (I've questioned wander being objectum before but not finalized it; though he is affectionate and caring towards this weapon in specific rather than others, I've not decided on whether it's because it's his favorite or if it's because of something else)

• his neck and arms are attached by strong magnets. they're detachable, but not by human strength *

Ummm yeah thatis kind of a bunch but he's been around about 7 years now I think about him a lot and he's the most developed so 👍👍 I hope that is awesome THANK YOU

[hermanunworthy]

To Be or Not To Be?

"With heads showing Hermie's face, the thespian could pretend that those decisions were genuine, while the theatre mask for tails could excuse their more obviously villainous behavior. Little did their new 'friends' know that they were both just acts. Thank the theatre gods for this perfect role."

Five times Two-Face is forced to follow his coin's decision, and one time Herman makes one of their own.

10.3k words, oakworthy, 5+1 things, hermie pov, pining, set during ep17-20

prologue | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | +1

also on ao3!

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As a method actor, Herman has found that the best way to be is not to be. To step into the role of another and follow their lines and actions, giving themself control by being controlled. It's easier, to pretend their actions aren't their own to make. They are merely a puppet on strings mindlessly dancing along a stage. Following a script, leaving things up to fate, taking away the responsibility of being a person from their own unreliable self and into the hands of the play they call life. Even if this leads them to danger (and lord knows it has), it's all part of the script anyway, so there's nothing they can do but "yes, and" whatever the narrative throws at them.

Before making the switch to their new school, Herman spent weeks preparing to become Hermie the Unworthy of San Dimas High (soon to be Teen High). They performed extensive research on the school and its students, particularly their mark, Normally Ly Oak-Swallows-Garcia, who appeared to be a near impossible mystery underneath the mask of Teeny the Teen (the thespian secretly aspired to be as deeply committed to a character as this kid appeared to be).

But even with their level of confidence when it comes to scheming and performing, Herman found it to be difficult to create a character all on their own. Coming up with traits and motivations that rivaled their own was a challenge; they almost wished they could simply switch places with an existing student and act just like them.

But then, it hit them. While scrolling through the official (but hardly official-looking, due to its godawful design, which for all the knew was probably designed by the mascot kid) then-San Dimas High website for the umpteenth time, they saw it. Auditions for the school play: Joker.

Now this had to be fate. They already knew they possessed incredible acting skills (as well as an extreme passion for DC that could explain the countless other tabs on their computer questioning about autism); all they needed was direction! They could enroll in the school, audition for the play, and know exactly how to be a true Teen High freak!

But alas, as Herman infiltrated the school and took on not one, but two new roles at once, it was admittedly a bit of a rough first act. They may be a talented actor, but pretending to be a character pretending to be another character is quite a challenge. How exactly were they supposed to balance the innocent background character's intentions with the star supervillain's intentions? They couldn't come across as too suspicious, as the school's rival, but they also couldn't fade entirely into the background if they were trying to get close to the school's beloved mascot.

...No, that's not right, Teeny wasn't beloved. This came as a disappointment, to see how little these freaks actually cared about the symbol of their entire community. Herman has never been never one for school spirit, so they understood their apathy, but it does certainly suck the fun out of things if nobody were to care about the treasure they plan to steal.

Well, not nobody necessarily. Upon investigation, Normally himself seemed to be the only person who really gave a shit about the mascot... or really, this school at all. Herman didn't know how to feel about that.

They didn't know how to feel about anything, as this Joker-Hermie! For example, he was definitely prepared for The Mascot Kid to have friends that he would have to make connections with (actually anticipating a larger group than this, but seeing as their mascot isn't exactly popular, to say the least, it was a foolish assumption), but he didn't expect trying to make a move on The Goth to feel so... strange, almost uncomfortable, in front of The Mascot Kid. Herman found it came more naturally to interact with Normally directly, even though they knew it made them look suspicious.

Sometimes this Hermie role actually feels more like a character study of their mark. Normally is just so... trusting, even as he's trying to be on alert for Chaparral. He makes it so easy, so fun for Herman to play with his head.

The thespian didn't like how they couldn't tell if the one having fun was the Joker, Hermie, or god forbid... themself. As much as they tried their best to put on a good show, they couldn't really decide when to make a "Joker move" or a "Hermie move". They needed to really solidify the role—and they tried to, they really did, as they donned the full suit and clown makeup, but after the Joker play was suddenly shut down, they were left with... just Hermie? They weren't entirely sure, but they did find something very un-Joker-like blooming inside of them when Normally showed such eagerness to hold hands with them during the Among Us play.

Needless to say, this was not working out for them.

This is why they believe their Two-Face coin prop is the greatest gift they could've received. With heads showing Hermie's face, the thespian could pretend that those decisions were genuine, while the drama mask for tails could excuse their more obviously villainous behavior. Little did their new "friends" know that they were both just acts. Thank the theatre gods for this perfect role.

As the hellish, molten-lava-esque pool of cheese melted away half of their silly old Joker outfit (along with their own flesh), they felt a part of their very soul burned away and shaped anew. It all became clear, their motivations finally solidifying into black and white. They weren't able to wrap their freshly traumatized mind around the fact that the process wasn't as physically paintul as it should've been, but they didn't care. They just couldn't help but feel grateful for this wondrous opportunity.

Until now, "Hermie the Unworthy" has been a laughable performance of theirs. A joke, if you will. But now, they can be what they were always meant to be: a true supervillain, a perfect amalgamation of good and evil.

[mashedcontroller]

Wanna hear my SRS headcannons.

- I bless thee with Autism

- Special interest is purposed organisms, which includes but is not limitted to slugcats, iterators, and the rot.

- so, the pearl that gave Pebbles the rot was just a really massive infodump. Suns didn't imagine that Pebbles would do anything with the pearl.

- so, yeah, they were a bit of a wreck after the whole Pebbles incident.

- they are also genuinely the most knowledgeable iterator when it comes to information around purposed organisms

- SRS is the last iterator to collapse due to their extensive knowledge of iterator superstructures and creating purposed organisms to provide Suns with the important maintenence needed for them to survive. Most maintenence is done by an editted variant of Scavs.

- most of the ecosystem around Suns' can is just random crap that Suns' made. There were some deextinction projects in there, but the revived species were also heavily modified. Because giving a Tiger a Gun is cool. But yeah, Suns' has the ecosystem of all time.

- Spearmaster is immortal. A lot of Suns' favorite purposed organisms are. Turns out that building for immortality isn't actually that hard. Like, the Mark of Communication is a significantly more complicated process.

- Suns' is primarily nonverbal. It's not something that other iterators would know unless they were close to Suns due to primarily speaking through text logs, but Suns doesn't like speaking and is rather noise sensitive when it comes to their puppet.

- Suns' city has basically be repurposed into a menagerie. When all's said and done, Suns is out here living their best life.

- Their answer to the Big Question at some point becomes "idc :)." Since, like, nothing that's still alive gives much of a fuck.

- Suns just fucking shoots Saint until they leave. Like, cat starts t-posing. On sight with that fucker lmao. No bullet hell, only gun. If we wanna be sad boi hours, Saint manages to ascend Spearmaster despite Suns' best efforts.

- also Spearmaster I'd Suns' favorite purposed organism. They were a fun challenge to design and they're also their pet scug.

[ocean--toast]

Please talk to me about Lies of P!!! What's it about? 🥰

Bestie I'm about to become the most unskippable cutscene/wikipedia page ever thank you so much for asking

Lies of P is a dark retelling of the Pinocchio fairy tale in a fairly bloodborne-esque type soulslike RPG. That's the quick and dirty version of things but in terms of like actual themes there's so much in the main story and your player character that's the Pinocchio character alone cuz like. You get to start the game off as just a puppet that just navigates through the world and kills things that you get told to until you learn to be human through collectible records and of course, lying.

And the actual plot itself has some really great things to say about loss, and grief and freedom and identity and humanity because the game acts like you are the only human-esque puppet in the world, only come to find out through several npcs both in the world and in the hotel that's your base of sorts that any puppet can awaken an ego and experience the broad range of humanity that you can. There's two character deaths that I'm gonna spoil after the cut so if you wanna read it you can but I highly HIGHLY recommend actually playing the game because it's incredibly forgiving for a soulslike and is the first soulslike ive played so I think it's pretty good for beginners (and ik you like persona, if you like Sumire or Aigis, P's arc will make you wanna chew drywall)

but with loss there's the main arc of finding out that P is made to look like or be Geppetto's dead son, Carlo, so to me there's this whole arc with legacy and identity where P would not exist without Carlo, but at the end when you can either give up your heart to bring Carlo back from the dead or keep it you kind of have to consider whether you think that means P, who doesnt have Carlo's memories deserves to be a person in his own right and it's so good. How do you possibly live up to someone that you don't know anything about? How can you justify dying on their behalf?

And there's another death in the main story that's sort of parallel to the grief that Geppetto feels about his dead son, being a lady called Antonia, and she's so sweet. Pretty close to the end game she dies and gives you a letter and one of my FAVORITE records in the game. In the letter she tells P that she doesnt care if he is or isn't Carlo, but that she was proud of the person he was regardless and after reading that and playing the record I genuinely started crying it was such a Moment

There's a million other little side quests and bosses that I could ramble about forever tho I could genuinely unstructuredly talk about this game until the sun goes out there's just so much that I still havent covered

[transredguy]

thoughts on puppet autism

that shit made me realize i had autism god bless. cus dhmis gave my grandma autism ok❗❗❗

[pizzapasta23045]

Welcome to the cave of cringe

Gentle request for all future anons! Do send asks go for it I understand wanting anonymity! I'd appreciate if you gave yourself a nickname or an/multiple emoji so I can see who is who! It would be dearly appreciated! Nothing special, even just a letter!

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[astronomical-bagel]

what are your favourite things to see in dragon designs, or in worlds that feature drsgons? im curious :}

!! Well my friend gave me the new wof ‘guid to the dragon world’ book for Christmas so I am PREPARED for this question!!

one of my favorite things ever is just to see how a dragon is suited to its environment— not just wof, but all brands!! Drakes that have no wings but are expert runners, tundra dragons with different ways of dealing with the cold— with either fur or other methods which are barely (if at all) scientifically plausible. I just like the different types and learning them all!! As of right now I’m really biased towards tundra dragons bc i really like ice wings lmao, but I also love the variety possible with dragons living in the ocean— I mean, there are so many different kinds of fish to base them on!!

Mainly in dragon designs I like to see a mishmash of different animals combined with maybe a little bit of camouflage to their environment— for instance, if I were to make my own design for ice wings I might their talons a bit more like polar bear paws, while other ice wings might have tails like seals for markings like orcas. I like variety within a species of dragon, if you couldn’t tell.

and in worlds that feature dragons, I really like it when they go over their relationship to other animals or humans!! Are other animals of the same mental caliber to dragons? Can they have conversations with with a snake or perhaps a crocodile? Do the dragons discover any methods of communicating with humans? Do they become friends? I would love it if they became friends 🥺

(in fifth grade I obsessively read the equivalent of horse girl books but for dragons. Yk, girl meets wild creature, they understand each other, girls family says NO WAY but in the end the girl and the dragon’s bond is tested in some way and the family is like NVM it can stay) (I just realized I could have shorted this my like 100 words if I just said “you know, like how to train your dragon” but WHATEBER)

And of course, I love dragon culture. How do dragons dance? What do their instruments look like? I saw someone create a design for dragon puppets that I ADORED (can’t remember the name but if you loo through my ‘bagel loves dragons’ tag you should find it somewhere bc I went on a ramble in the tags LMAO). And what sorts of religions do they have as well, and how is it affected by their environment? In Wof, the Pantalans worshipped Clearsight bc of her prophecies, but in other worlds like totk (or going to a real religion like the Buddhist pantheon) the dragons are servants to a higher power! and oh I just like dragons so much. Sometimes it gets dicey bc there aren’t too many limits on what a dragon is (me and a friend of mine once got in an argument over whether something could have a dragon or dinosaur (not smth real, just art) because we have differing autisms and we both had to just sit down away from each other bc we were so unnerved by what the other thought), but anyways I just love anything dragons and it’s so hard to define what my favorite things on dragons are because I like them ALL!! It’s more easy to say what I don’t like (overly cartoony, implausible proportions, ugly colors. Also lots of cartoonists give dragons an insane underbite for some reason?? That one isn’t necessarily a dealbreaker but it confuses me)

also a little bit ago someone asked my about my hc wof au AND I PROMISE I DIDNT FORGET I just got nervous ❤️❤️ I will talk about it more later and hopefully I’ll have art but I want to practice other dragons first bc it’s been a hot minute

thank you so much for the ask, taco, I had so much fun thinking about dragons and I need everyone to know that I love them sososo much and they are always on my mind for ever and ever

[autistic-sidestep]

questions about suranga ! why did they pick their name / do you think it fits them ? what is their gender & sexuality ? what are their (romantic) relationships like ? what is their motivation, either in general and/or to pursue villainy ?

alright let's go!

The name ‘Suranga’ when i originally looked it up while trying to name him meant something like divine? It apparently also means orange, which is funny cos of his arrogance and daring stats lol, though he was more of a bluestep when i first made him, so yeah, oddly fitting. As for why he picked his name, I think I decided it was a name someone he almost came to see as a parental figure in his pre-vigilante days would’ve given their kid, if they’d been able to have one. In some ways, that was his way of honoring them and it was the first thing that could be his (if also something residual from farm training and people-pleasing to need someone else to pick).

he could’ve gone for something more common but then again, it wasn’t a name he was intending to share with anyone else until ortega, otherwise, he was always giving fake names. whether suranga actually believes he still deserves his name, though, honestly varies with his self-loathing levels. this guy has so many complexes lmao.

Genderwise, it’s kinda a mess? At first seeing ricardo on the news gave him some gender revelations, starting to id as a binary trans guy and staying stealth with the rangers (and it was def comforting to know there was a fellow trans man on the team, even if he and sentinel were never close) but it didn’t fully feel right? Then post second escape and through puppeting yasmin he gradually realizes oh, the whole girl thing isn’t so bad when it’s on his terms (or close enough), yoink, my gender now. As yasmin he’s a lot more confident, so he basically trials things he’d never be able to do as himself through her and post-debut, he gets a little bit bolder with his own body.

i’m ultimately imagining whatever mess in books 3 or 4 happens if ace gets their body back like this:

suranga: sorry abt the whole bodystealing thing thanks for the gender tho

ace: ???

Obv with the whole maintaining two different identities thing (without even factoring in argos post-debut), the Autism™, and never really having a stable sense of self thanks to cuckoo training (plus SO MUCH TRAUMA), it’s hard to actually pinpoint what his gender is, at best i’d say something like uh, genderqueer/genderfluid?

Sexuality is similarly a very big mess. He’s definitely aspec/some kind of aroflux, and his ongoing secret crush on ricardo is a jumble of ortega being his first real friend (and not letting anyone else close enough to have other points of reference), and being a simultaneously touch averse AND touch starved mf, and also the gender confusion triggered by ric before even meeting him (‘do i want to be him or be friends with him??’) so suranga’s whole ability to determine if it’s romantic/sexual attraction or platonic feelings is very very fucked. With ortega specifically they used to be very close (he thought the world of him tbh), but with ricardo hovering since their reunion he’s trying to keep him at arms length, because he’s very aware how well ortega can read him. He can’t help but go back to ortega in spite of his efforts to stay away, partly because he wants ortega to stop and/or help him but doesn’t know how to ask, or if he can.

He’s honestly very clueless on the chen attraction thing. There’s the baggage from having known eachother back before, but also post-heartbreak he can better relate to chen (which includes a mutual hatred of stairs!) because of the chronic pain/fatigue problems he’s had to deal with, and spoon is also a big factor - he does prefer cats, and his own cat Fred in particular that stayed with elena after HB,, but getting to hang out with spoon is pretty good too.

As yasmin, he becomes very fond of mortum, but he’s not sure he’d call it romantic attraction, though they might’ve flirted a bit at the start. Suranga really enjoys the doctor’s company and respects her a lot, in part cos it’s so fun to nerd out over tech stuff, and there’s none of the baggage that comes with ortega. he’d rather not compromise that friendship by stringing her along, so I think he makes it clear at the gala on the feelings? i’m still working out his canon route, but for sure he tells mortum the truth in retri. 

Also his flirting as yasmin bleeds over into his argos persona when he fights with argent. he def likes playing with fire lol. Romantic relationships are a big ????

However, in general relationship terms, he’s pretty familial with rosie and his crew, in part cos the dynamic reminds him a lot of the rangers in his sidestep days, and old habits are hard to shake. 

Motivation tends to vary, but the underlying principles are that he’s very very tired and bitter and just wants to feel like he’s in some control of his life again/not powerless - the argos suit is in part a mobility aid, because it lets him do what he could as sidestep, and more. argos gives him a lot of freedom and at times euphoria, but also huge guilt, just as he does with yasmin. he's following the path of least resistance (fate motive), even if that’s driving himself (further) into a self-destructive spiral. at least it’s by his hand instead of someone else’s?

Basically he’s swinging between these two modes: 

He also does a lot of joking to deflect from when he accidentally lets slip he’s not doing well  (which is. all the time) which is probably best summarized by an excerpt from the Hoots scene:

Faulty logic aside, there’s a lot of anger at himself, especially his past self for his naivety and getting careless (as much as he tries to bury it, he’s still a hero at heart), but also at the Farm, but it’s not like he can really touch them. I have a soft spot for the outsider scar cos that’s the first one i ever got, and the whole disconnect from the rest of the world feels very very fitting, and coupling that with the suicidal scar (so suicidal from rebirth → outsider into retri), though I have tried him out with puppetmaster too, and maybe some parts from the hunger scar can work too?

idk if he'll actually remain driven enough to stick to being argos, but it sure is fun watching him be a trainwreck about it

this has been a (semi-coherent) ramble about suranga thanks for indulging me <3