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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.

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

[biceratops7]

I read every single one of these as “I’m the gay” by accident and was like “fuck yah you are”

1930s “i’m the guy that” pinbacks, part 2

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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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[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

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price n bicera :)

i love them so much yall dont get it i love them so dearly i love my oc n price n they r happily married military couple with no kids n i jus love them so much!!! >W<

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Film Review: "Simon of the Mountain"

In 'Simon of the Mountain', Ela Bicera explores the ironies of Federico Luis' supposedly complex drama.

Simon of the Mountain, what is the point of all this? Winner of the Cannes 2024 Critics’ Week Grand Prize premiered as part of this year’s QCinema – Screen International. This is a film that raises more questions as to how we see the people with disability, and how we perceive even our own deficiencies. However, the film did not go beyond what it was trying to show, which is just really…

[biceratops7]

Calculators and the printing press uplifted human ingenuity and made it possible for advances in science and literature to skyrocket at a higher rate than was ever imagined. AI tries to replace human creation by putting it in and endless incestuous loop.

'People are panicking about AI tools the same way they did when the calculator was invented, stop worrying' cannot stress enough the calculator did not forcibly pervade every aspect of our lives, has such a low error rate it's a statistical anomaly when it does happen, isn't built on mass plagiarism, and does not obliterate the fucking environment when you use it. Be so fucking serious right now

[sentiencereal]

my dad paid for clipstudio for me...hello every1.. young Bicera art..i lob my ocs..

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'Mutt' review: a raw portrait of transitions and relationships

There's so much we do not know about journeys, much like this one by Feña that's been handled with compassion and care. Read Ela Bicera's review of "Mutt" here:

Mutt is a drama directed by Vuk Lungulov-Klotz that features the journey of Feña as he transitions into a man. Ela Bicera reviews this film that was part of the QCinema International Film Festival 2023. Spoilers are present. While Transitioning is a life-changing experience, it also comes with doubts, fears and worries. It’s not even the process itself that’s agonizing at times, rather it’s the…

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'Foe' (2023) review: love's final frontier we'd already seen before

FOE had earned some early buzz as it cast talented actors Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal, but does it live up to it's hype? A review by Ela Bicera.

Ela Bicera reviews ‘Foe’, the science fiction thriller starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal, directed by Garth Davis. This film premiered at the QCinema International Film Festival 2023. Spoilers are present in this review. “Till death, do us part” is the promise we say to the love of our lives in marriage. But we may have all misunderstood the other perspective of this promise, because a…

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THIS. THIS THIS THIS.

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'Women from Rote Island' (2023) review: female resiliency at its finest

"The waves are coming in stronger, and the women are roaring louder." writes Ela Bicera of Jeremias Nyangoen's film #WomenFromRoteIsland , a film that's part of the New Horizon's section of this year's QCinema. Read her review here:

Ela Bicera writes about Jeremias Nyangoen’s debut film which tackles the abuse that Women from Rote Island experience, and their resiliency to fight back. Spoilers are present in this review. Rote Island is one of the many islands located in Indonesia, known as a great surfing location with amazing coral reefs and rock formations, an alternative to the crowded Bali. Surely, Rote Island is known…

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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 🫠

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Woah, WOAH, hold the fuck up…

Not sure why this is literally the first thought I had in the morning but let’s roll with it cause I think I’m onto something here.

This scene is a parallel to the one in episode 2 where Black Pete is telling a ghost story, both stories are about Blackbeard. Cause do you remember the defining feature of the first tale?

His head is made of smoke. Something that confuses Stede the same way the hook headed man later confuses Frenchie and Roach. Hooks in particular are very childishly easy to recognize as a pirate symbol, with most people immediately thinking of Captain Hook from our fairy tales.

“But do his eyes also float?”

“Doesn’t make any sense, how does he eat?”

“How does he kiss?”

The theme of episode 6 is essentially how Ed’s been slowly stripped of his personhood over the years, something he perpetuated at first as a maladaptive coping mechanism but now the severity of this isolation is catching up with him.

It doesn’t matter that he’s in his most vulnerable state, the Dutch sailors still run in fear cause all they see is a symbol of piracy. Ed’s face is invisible. Stede and later the crew as well are concerned with things like the characters’ eyes being visible, how they eat, how they kiss, things that not only make someone human but also indicate their physical and emotional needs are met.

In their first episode together, Stede gives Ed something to eat. Then in their last episode together, Ed is able to kiss Stede when he removes the thing that defined his ghost stories and obstructed his face.