#autistic mystery

[wasabi-gumdrop]

local ladies man’s signature move totally useless against autistic monster enthusiast. more on Kabru’s fumble era at 6

[linktoo-doodles]

i'll strangle you or i'll kiss you on the mouth

[time-woods]

EMOTIONAL WIN ! ! the bug lets his emotions make decisions for once !

[brandyschillace]

FOUNTAIN PENS!

Found a jewelry box at antique store… perfect for my pens and inks. Not all of which are pictured. Obviously.

[thesunshore]

it’s so funny to me that a major plot point of the original pokemon mystery dungeon game is like “hey, so… we had a town meeting about you (without you) and we all decided we don’t like you so you have to leave now. get out.” bc like, that’s basically what it’s like to be autistic in any given workplace lol

[vavialdavi]

I recently rewatched Scooby-doo! Mystery Incorporated and all I can think about is how similar those two are

We love our tall blond autistic kings and their interesting hyperfixations

[mrsdylancarter]

[bags-of-regret]

If I was smart enough I would properly dissect the Pines family parallels and how it corresponds with how the Stans treated the twins, specifically how they treated the twin that wasn’t like them.

Stan understanding the bond the two have and encouraging them because thats what he misses, while Ford pushes Dipper away from Mabel because thats what he had at the time with Stan and thinks Dipper needs the same. Once Ford rekindles with Stan is when he grows closer to Mabel.

Stan being rough with Dipper because thats how he treated Ford, while Ford takes longer to bond with Mabel because he sees how much she’s like Stanley.

Both project themselves and the other onto the twins(Ford more so than Stan). They love and care for both of course, but seeing their brother in one of them hurts deeply in opposite ways. Stan is angry but longs for his brother while Ford can’t stand him but still loves him.

[rivercule]

They hated him for his autistic swag

[thisispersonal]

EDIT: Now in color!

one of Stan’s attempts at playing matchmaker, once again he underestimated just how oblivious his twin is willing to be. Stan probably tells him later what was going on and Ford’s just like “don’t be silly men can’t date!”

text: “oh?” ”well well well, fiddlenerd, are you sweet on my brother?” “Stan! I, um, I mean-“ ”don’t worry fiddlesticks, I like ya, so I’m willing to help ya out here! Just do as I say…” “hey ford you got a minute?” “Oh fidds, hello! What do you need?” “you’ve got this!” “Ok!” “ford are you a cat?” “What-“ “cause I’d like to spend all nine of my lives with you!” “Oh fidds, you know, i feel the same way!” “you are my one and only best friend after all, I couldn’t imagine spending my time researching with anyone else!” “oh yes, friends, totally, hahaha!” “dios mio ford wtf”

[muninnhuginn]

The thing is that the dynamic between John and James does sound genuinely fascinating from the glimpses we get of it.

John says that James was always better at (social) stuff. James did go out and become a police officer, marry Lucy, and just generally have more of a "normal" life, but it's clear that Lucy thinks John and James *aren't* as dissimilar as John believes. James may have been better at masking, but he clearly didn't have an easy ride either. Still, John is envious of his brother and feels like James is what he *could* have been if he'd been able to venture out into the world. The fact that both brothers had crushes on Lucy only serves to hammer that in.

On the other hand, John is an incredibly successful puzzle solver and spending most of his life in his house in no way detracts from that. The murders he solves appear to be beyond the capabilities of James going by the reactions of everyone else. There's an argument to be had about how much is difference in solving vs being tied in by procedure and social niceties, but either way, John gets accurate results much faster than James ever did. Even if John does very much ignore behavioural factors as he attempts to simplify each crime scene to a "puzzle to be solved".

There's also something to be said for how James' coworkers didn't clock he had been replaced. How none of them even knew he *had* a twin brother. Obviously, there's an element of it being down to the writing in that the game couldn't be given away too quickly, but it does speak of a more distant relationship with his coworkers (perhaps aside from his former partner). And there's the voicemail where James says (though given the context, this can't be taken as 100% true) that he was the one most like their father, in his choice to run away. It was a hint to John, but it only worked as such because they had so little that tied them together in the first place. They grew up together, shared their childhood, and yet, they hadn't spoken in years. Makes me wonder how much of it was neither wanting to be the first to reach out. On John's side that makes total sense (James is the "social successful" one, after all) but James' side is much more a mystery (though, "they're more alike than they seem" comes to mind).

Of course, both of them were impacted by their father leaving as he did. It's spelled out several times that John and James reacted differently. John turning inwards (only pushed further by his bullies and discovering his love of puzzles) whilst James focused outwards (to become more socially successful). But we find that John doesn't want to lose the social aspects once he's found a place for himself. That James is able to go almost entirely non-contact with his family despite knowing the impact his own father had on his family. The one stuck in his house ventures out as the one surrounded by family escapes it all.

All in all, John and James are pretty interesting characters even if we only know one of them secondhand.

*However*, when we actually *see* James in person, my main thought is "that's a second David Mitchell"

[yardsards]

when taz amnesty first came out, everyone interpreted indrid as a 2010s style tumblr sexyman. when in reality he was a 2020s style tumblr soggyman ahead of his time

[brandyschillace]

Librarians Unite for Representation

Public Library Association slogan this year ‘Free People Read Freely.’ Together we unite against book bans and promote representation.

[oceanwithouthermoon]

"me and the bad bitch i pulled by being autistic" but its saiki in literally any pairing

[myersesque]

so i've been rewatching this show lately,

[johnsspacesuittight]

discovered the Sherlock and Co. podcast randomly on Spotify yesterday (hey sometimes the algorithm’s not so bad) and my god is it beautiful perfect everything to me, I mean Sherlock is my one definite special interest so it’s hard to go wrong with anything even adjacent to that, but when you then have Sherlock pretty immediately list all his diagnoses importantly including ADHD and Autism I was pretty much as happy as I can be, literally spent a good chunk of my final year of uni being frustrated at all the ways people elect to just not acknowledge Sherlock’s autism/variable diagnoses nor sexuality despite like clearly making choices about how to portray him/writing some very undeniable traits for him, so I don’t think I can even express just how much I enjoy canonically autistic Sherlock