#but I like to goof! I like to do a silly hyperbolic bit!

[frmulcahy]

Ngl a lot of times when fandoms have popular jokes that are being hyperbolic about a character or something I typically go “oh haha yeah this is a Bit and we’re playing along.” But then often I find out that people are being serious and not joking. And then I’m like oh. I thought we were goofing. And now I’m concerned that others that weren’t doing the bit think I’m being serious as well.

[i-dont-know-nor-care-go-away]

I think. Words like gaslight and lobotomy and neurospicy should never have even made it online at this point. (Hyperbole) One TikTok musician wrote a song. Titled Neurospicy and it's so. Bad.

Im gonna break down why the song is bad. This is for education. Also bc im a little piss baby and I love complaing. Do not go harass her.

Disclaimers:

I am just a Tumblr user.

My opinions are whay they are because :

I am self diagnosed autistic. I did years of research. Many autistic people said "you are definitely autistic" If I don't have autism, I know I am at least neurodivergent. I know a lot about Neurodivergency from loved experience, mine and my (diagnosed ) friends. I read a lot of discourse on disabilities.

I cannot find confirmation if the creator is claiming to be neurodivergent or has a doctor or self diagnosis. I hate this song so much I really don't care if she does to be honest. Don't harass her tho.

This song is very obviously using neurodivergency for slang as adhd and autism. I'll try to use the most accurate language because it's improtsnt that people with NPD BPD and Schizophrenia and other disorders and disabilities are recognized as neurodivergent. Just a reminder that its their word/space too

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[Intro]

One, two, three, four

I might be a little spicy

A little bit neuro spicy

Isn't everyone a little bit spicy?

Spicy is better than bland

)

-Oh god. I don't want to be like "oh all these adhd people are just trying to be trendy" bc they aren't. But you either are neurodivergent or not. You can't be a little spicy. If you are questioning, do research. Don't write a song about it for clout?? Again idk if she is but still the phrasing makes me upset.

The second line is literally just "well isn't everyone a little Adhd?" Like. C'mon. That minimizes the struggle of being fucking disabled. And living with that disability. If everyone was a 'little disabled' then it would just be a human limitation not a disability?? That's like basic abelism 101.

Third line, one neurotype is not better than the other. Being neurodivergent means your brain works differently. If we start treating all autistic/adhd people like they are better bc they're cooler and smarter, most adhd/autistic people that have higher support needs will be even more left behind. It feels like those "not a disability a different ability " or "actually autism js a superpower" No. Stop. If your autism makes you smart, goof for you, but I'm not gonna let high and medium support needs people be pushed even father aside. It is ok to be disabled, and we need to accept that.

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[Verse 2]

I have trouble with boundaries

A spicy little ginger man found me

He likes that I'm a little bit rowdy

He holds my sweaty hand

)

Line one, I don't like that she says she's "a little spicy" and then immediately goes to "I have trouble with boundaries." If you can't respect boundaries, that's on you. I understand that neurodivergent people sometimes can have issues with boundaries like forgetting them or something, but it isn't a part of being neurodivergent. It's part of being human. Neurodivergent people are capable of respecting boundaries. Even if neurodivergency makes it harder to remember or respect boundaries, that isn't a silly little hehe, thats part of a disability that needs either work or some accommodation. This line doesn't have pure abelism in it, but I don't like the implications of it at all.

Second line, this is me being a hater but I genuinely thought she was talking about ed sheeran there for a second. Or a ginger bread cookie man. The phrasing of that was so odd to me

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Verse 3]

My brain and mouth don’t talk much

They don't usually sync up

So sometimes words I think of

Are louder and faster than I planned

)

Nothing bad with this I just really dislike the music

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[Verse 4]

Einstein was a little spicy

Newton was a little spicy

Darwin, Edison, spicy

Imagine if they started a band

)

Stop conflating neurodivergency / Adhd + autism with being good at shit. It's not just something that makes you good at things. It is likely that they had some neurodivergency and we should celebrate the accomplishment of disabled people. But this paired with the "spicy is better than bland" line just isn't giving. I can feel the "autism js a superpower" energy. Again I'm bitching on internet for fun but still

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[Outro]

It'd probably sound like

My doc says that I'm spicy

But even she's a little bit spicy

Isn't everyone a little bit spicy?

Spicy is better than bland (Two, three, four)

I might be a little spicy

A little bit neuro spicy

Isn't everyone a little bit spicy?

Spicy is better than bland (Wah, haha)

)

I promise you your doctor did not say you were "spicy" bc that's. Giving mal practice. The line just pisses me off bc it does. Thay isn't how any of this works.

Second line. Stop headcannoning people as neurodivergent. Not everyone js a little bit neurodivergent.

Last couple lines are just the chorus.

Even if the writer has autism or adhd I'm begging them to read one or two disabled theory books or at this point even some Tumblr posts. This creator has a pretty big platform and it's disappointing to see really basic abelist bullshit from someone who could easily find resources on this topic or hire/ask someone for a sensitivity read.

[writerbright]

bright!

favorite thing about them: i just went off about this on main but!! just how his character has evolved! he started as either a joke persona or an angst vessel, no split, but thru the work of the scp community & his prominence in both kinds of tales he’s become this sort of like, clearly broken man who speaks in total hyperbole and does whatever his impulses tell him to do, because how else will he feel in control/alive/happy in any regard? like sure he acts fun but it’s developed out of this base of cynicism and depression- he’s an amazingly complex character when written correctly and AGH i just love bright

least favorite thing about them: people who say he CAN’T have any ounce of silliness because very specifically The List is lolfoundation. like 1, you’re right in that The List is crack but he still does other bullshit stupid shit? like flirting with glass so glass calls his meeting off in routine psychological evaluations for instance, also a character can be multifaceted- they always say this in regards to anyone portraying bright as kind of silly, like, it’s okay. let the man be silly from time to time. don’t worry he is very sad too

basically ¿por qué no los dos?

favorite line: “Mikell did fatherly things like shingle roofs and load guns and work late nights at a job. ... Jack shoplifted and gambled gently and ate a worm for $2 just last week.”

brOTP: him and rights. also they used to fuck on and off

OTP: lightbulb slaps but also clight is a guilty pleasure

nOTP: honestly i can see him with a lot of people but also not with anyone. it’s just the vibes bro. i haven’t seen any popular bright ship i’ve really disagreed with tho?

random headcanon: he binge-eats & often as a goof and habitual hyperbole tends to become Fixated on certain foods. 

he kins this post. also he shuts down when people he values shows him even a little bit of contempt for how he acts. he has aspd. he’s a very shitty driver. he wears glasses even when the body he’s in doesn’t need a prescription.

unpopular opinion: major tom might be my favorite tale but i don’t like the ending. i don’t think the brights would be able to reconcile. ALSO too many play him too nice. he’s selfish and afraid to get close to people and he’s a little bitch. his death would be just, not heroic

song i associate with them: for the departed by shayfer james

favorite depiction/design of them: @van-allen‘s bright is incredible!!

[unpickingthetangles]

I live for your tags on the "How to write good" post 🌸

Thank you so much! I reread those tags a bunch last night because I got an anon asking about them. They said I ‘Missed the Point’ and I was like, “Wait, what? What did I even tag that dang thing with?” 

I realized I did goof them a bit! 

Rereading it there was a line that said “you want to crush your own voice and write something that stands out?” and realized that the ‘and’ in that sentence should have been an ‘or’. WHOOPS-A-DOODLE. Way to undercut my whole point with a typo.  

Come sit around Grammy’s rocking chair and listen to a story of Internet Betrayal. 

Firstly, a confession: I have 34 chapters of Hadrian the Scholar finished, polished, and ready to read. 400 pages, something like 100,000 words. Years of solid work. Nearly halfway done with the story. 

But then I listened to some writing advice about editing. I took it to heart, believing in doing so I was becoming a more mature, balanced writer, who could take advice and learn from it. 

And so I went back and edited, I cut, I simplified. After I was finished I took a month or two off (because life happens sometimes). When I went back and reread my pride and joy--and I didn’t recognize it. 

Oh sure, it had it’s old bones. The story was basically the same. I hit all the beats I had intended to hit. The characters were still in their places, functioning in their roles. 

The language, the voice, the uniqueness of what I had written– it was laying dead in a shallow grave somewhere and I was the one standing with the muddy shovel. Me– like in a nightmare where I meant to throw a punch only to realize too late I was holding a knife. 

The 34 chapters of Hadrian had all my love sliced away Cut. Destroyed. Worst of all? I had saved over the old copies because I had been so proud that I had had the ‘maturity’ to be critical of my work.If you think I’m being hyperbolic about this, trust me, I’m not. I washed out all my careful cultivated language, the meaningful moments of reflection about love and lost, the airlessness of certain scenes– everything that was specific to me was bleached out completely. 

I set it down– all but forgot about it out of busied pride— for two more years.  (small disclaimer: I AM A SENSITIVE SEA SPONGE OF A PERSON.)  

Then I woke up one day with this feeling of… 

Every wrong done can be undone! I’m still here! I still believe it!! I still have people to prove wrong! Including (and most importantly of all) myself! I started out with new eyes and a solid tone of voice. I began anew unafraid of being “not good enough”. This new version of Hadrian was going to have my grubby fingerprints all over it. Everyone would know that it was mine. 

I took all the sulking I did over two years and beat it into a sense of purpose. 

And a new motto: Fuck Writing Advice*

*if it smothers your own unique voice. There lays the tightrope act you have to do: knowing when advice is helpful and when advice is personal opinion stated as fact. 

For example, good advice is: “let every scene have a single, strong idea that carries it. The scene should have an emotional polarization: negative or positive. A really good scene will flip between the two from the beginning to the end of the scene.” 

And even then, that advice helped me, but what if you’re writing the next Waiting for Godot? It’s such a hard line to walk! 

Bad writing advice is, “avoid alteration” Yeah, fuck that, alteration and assonance will be the bricks of this empire, baby. Or “never use adverbs!” Honey what? No thank you, Imma going smother and cover this biscuit with adverbs. And I think will all know how laughable “never write the word said again!” is when it is done in practice. 

And even then! What if you can only write your novel in total absence of adverbs, because that is your voice? Because writing advice, well meaning or not, can be extremely harmful. Don’t believe that yet? Please reread the tale of woe hovering over John’s head. 

What my tags on that post really came down to was this, the crux of the whole reason writing advice makes me furious (typo included): 

If you want to publish a book that has been sanitized cleanly of everything you alone could bring to it, by all means, listen to all the advice you want. Hard truth of it is that may be the quickest and easiest way to publish. 

You want to write something that stands out? Something to remember?Then work hard on cultivating that voice, revise over and over again to make that voice loud and honest, and get beta readers. Because as artistic as you may be, the work should still connect with people. 

And do something different that catches everyone’s attention. 

In conclusion, please learn from me and write what you want. Make it fun, silly, serious, involved, simple, complex, deep, or just easy to enjoy. So long as you never let other people’s opinion–flying under that flag of ‘true fact’– kill your own powerful voice. 

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. T-Shirts for sale in the lobby.