#bicera

[biceratops7]

HOly fucking SHIT-

Guys I just had a complete Shellstrop style “holy motherforking shirt balls” moment at work about Donnie’s unusual speaking patterns. You know, when he does this:

This tendency to narrate his actions in the third person or verbally say onomatopoeias in place of the sound is uh… well it’s autistic right? Look it features in literally every compilation but no one knows why other than “vibes, sometimes it just be like that 🤷”

But NO. No it NOT be like that. I finally know what this fucking nerd is doing, hear me out…

… he’s scripting.

Think about it. You know what else describes action, emotion, and sound in purely words? Books. He has these little speaking quirks, yah, but if you actually zoom out and see the whole picture, Donnie talks like he’s a narrator. This makes a SHIT ton of sense considering we already have textual evidence that he engages in scripting behavior (more specifically some possible echolalia. See: saying “New York! What a Town!” in any situation something kind of abnormal happens after he hears Splinter say it with the exact same infections and everything.)

And we also know from the mystic library that Donnie actively seeks out and enjoys reading. So it stands to reason an autistic 14 year old who likes to be left alone to work on complex machines a decent amount and takes pride in his intellect would model the way he communicates off of written media as opposed to tv or his brothers. He could fill his social tool box with lines from Jupiter Jones and Lou Jitsu movies, but he may think it would give him less of a chance to properly express his capabilities.

Books are also the only form of media that can literally just tell you flat out what a character’s expression or emotion is supposed to be without it being awkward, which would be really appealing for Donnie. What solidifies this for me is the fact that at least once he verbally says “sad face emoji”, which could not have come from a novel or textbook. But we often do flagrantly use emoticons as tone indicators, and Donnie is constantly on his phone.

I think he’s definitely aware that this is not a regular way of communicating, but he’s clearly also self aware of his issues in getting his emotional meaning across and receiving input back. So it stands to reason he would accommodate this in a way that, yes, makes him sound odd, but is at least effective.

Now for my final little “I’ve connected the dots. I’ve connected them” moment, I headcannon that Donnie learned to read before he fully got the hang of speech. Aside from… literally everything I just said, he uses sign language to tell the squirrels to blow up his treehouse in that one episode. But he does the sign for “make” a bit incorrectly (there should be a slight twist in his upper fist), which leads me to believe he was probably taught baby sign out of necessity rather than being fully proficient in asl. This is fairly common for autistic children with speech delays.

[kitsunesakii]

Y'all the friend that I've been sending these to is gonna disown me for sure

[biceratops7]

In light of it still having less than 200 views, I just need everyone to know this video straight up rerouted my brain and significantly influenced how I view Stede as a character 🫠

[biceratops7]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! Get to know your mutuals and followers✨

Hot fuckin’ dog! I love these things!

1. My fiancé

2. My fiancé and I’s characters

3. Good omens

4. Our flag means death

5. “Lark of my Heart” by Eliza Rickman

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Y’all PLEASE help, I need to know what the hell that piece of music that plays when Ed tells Stede “when you cut loose you really cut loose” is. You know that short little piano melody? It’s absolutely beautiful and I can’t identify it for the life of me. It doesn’t appear to be included in the ots, so I deduced that it must be an already existing piece like gnossiene no. 5 or the Dias Irae. Much appreciated, bless 🙏

[biceratops7]

Gay Heaven is for Real

my mom just had a 7cm brain tumor removed and since she's woken up she's been talking nonstop about this dream she had about going to an art gallery full of colourful paintings by a 'homosexual artist' named klimsdorf who was ethereal and wise, both young and old... at first she was convinced he was a real person but after failing to find him online she's accepted he was a figment of her subconscious mind and is now determined to bring him to life via painting his portrait herself. she's 67 and has never drawn in her life. and now this. blorbo from her tumor

[biceratops7]

THIS. THIS THIS THIS.

[biceratops7]

Double correction: autism and learning disabilities such as dyslexia can make captcha tests flag many humans as robots. The TRUE measure of humanity is the burning desire inside all of us to press all the little bubbles down on a fast food cup lid.

"love is what makes us human" actually it's 'select all images with boat' but go off I guess

[biceratops7]

My autistic ass getting overstimulated and badly cramping in the July heat cause my parents loved family bike rides. Never again! Woo hoo!

People make a lot of good "thank god I'm not a kid anymore" posts about like school bullies or homework or puberty. But actually my #1 top of the "thank god I'm not a kid anymore" list is the fact that I can leave the event when I want to.

Any event I'm at! I can say "okay well I'm tired I'm going home goodbye." Could not do that shit as a kid. If you're a kid it's like yeah you will sit here at your brother's soccer game in the cold for the next 1.5 hours. You will sit here at your sibling's football practice. You will stay at this BBQ until the whole family is done with the BBQ. You are stuck at the mall until mom finds the pants she needs. You are stuck at the grocery store. No we don't know how long. You are stuck at band practice. It's running late but you're not allowed to leave. You are stuck at the party that the adults said you're leaving soon but they keep talking to these 2 people who showed up late. What the Fuck.

And that shit is on top of having homework.

[biceratops7]

I thought this was the hour somewhere between 6 to 9 when you’re alone in your house and must get ready for work or school, but then the foreboding silence begins to overtake you.

I thought it would be an hour of listening to screaming and looking at pictures of draculas, but it was so much for frightening than fathomed

[biceratops7]

Visors with some sort of extension feature for short people so I don’t almost crash my car feeling like I’m driving off into the blinding light of Heaven every 7 pm too, that’d be great

stop putting touchscreens in cars and get to the features people actually want: oscillating vent fans, visors that move automatically to block the sun, and the ability to fire red koopa shells at people who change lanes without using their turn signal

[biceratops7]

I’m pretty sure this is how my partner and I blueprinted our entire comic/ animated series plot and character arcs

esoteric form of roleplay where instead of actually roleplaying you just make up characters together and discuss in abstract how they'd interact and how their story would go

[biceratops7]

Perfect reaction meme

I don’t want to find out about world events anymore

[biceratops7]

Um, tongs??

[biceratops7]

And for fucks sake don’t vote third party or write someone in. I’m tired of hearing all these posts and videos telling people to do that because of Biden’s refusal to stop funding Isreal. That’s COMPLETELY unacceptable, but living in a fantasy where a third party ever wins any presidential election and ending up dooming everyone to a leader who would do FAR worse damage will help no one.

okay guys but in all seriousness the trump attempted assassination is going to rally the right like crazy. voter turnout will be going up. it is more crucial than ever that you SHOW UP AND VOTE IN THIS YEARS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.