#how are we tagging this.

[faewingedd]

woah! it's that loser girl!

[jettaiah]

hedwig and the autistic experience

i have a lot more thoughts about misericorde than i can rightly put into words, but there's something really comforting about stories where our protagonist has to learn to be a person among other people at an adult age, and i think that has a lot to do with me being autistic

(mild misericorde spoilers)

there's really something uniquely alienating about being an autistic adult, especially one who did not have many friends growing up. and i think this lines up with hedwig's experiences pretty well; while children are expected to mess up and act out, adults have higher standards assigned to them. she's simultaneously held up to standards she doesn't even understand, while also being compared to a child for her naivety.

the sisters, for the most part, try to be gentle with hedwig. but often they forget themselves, because they cannot imagine the position hedwig is in. she has a completely different way of functioning to everybody else in the world and she has to learn how to cope in a world that isn't made for her. again i feel this has some parallels with the neurodivergent experience, being around people who simply don't function the way you do, who have different brains, and who can only attempt to understand.

hedwig's basically having to learn every social rule at once, with people who can't understand what she's going through, AND while having to do a job. for people who lead a normal life, at this stage they'd already be masking or they've learned ways to adapt to the world - but in hedwig's case she never had that opportunity. it's hard to really articulate all of this but i think this the best way i can do it: some autistic people did not learn to blend with neurotypicals as well or as quickly as others, for a variety of reasons, and turn into autistic adults who stick out.

as one of those autistic adults, i really like hedwig.

all this to say: i don't think hedwig is autistic, or intended to be written as such! her experiences are part of being an anchoress. but they do parallel my own, i think, and i am grateful for her existence. hope you find peace, hedwig. i am rooting for you!

[stemmmm]

bad youtube clickbait thumbnail that reads "I think I just had a therapy session with a DEMON???"

[bacchuschucklefuck]

couldnt draw my thang for mid-autumn so treated myself to a calne redesign instead

[transannabeth]

if you opened discord’s april fools day loot boxes how long did it take you to get all the items? it took my friend 18 boxes but me 65 and i want to see how bad my luck is

[quixoticprince]

Guys I don't think this kindly stranger is all that nice But yeah, if Medic confessed about stealing their souls in the next pages I don't think anyone would really care

Based on this post thread

[sabertoothwalrus]

does science experiments on you (homoerotically)

[wilkoakdraws]

Transformers "More Than Meets The Eye" comic has recently torpedoed me down the feelsy space car robots hellhole, an therefore i present a sketchy collection of Lost Light crew as homo sapiens. I had SO MUCH fun coming up with the designs! Now off to actually learn how to draw robots i guess

[dormatheus]

Later the lamb would just think that the real thing is nicer than the gaunlet idk

I gave up so fast holy shit

-💊

[voltaical-art]

do you guys ever think about how Wyll is introduced as an archetypal fantasy hero, but then it turns out he’s a warlock, who made a pact with a devil. Do you ever think about how Ansur is described as this fantastical dragon of myth, but then when you find him, he’s turned into an undead monstrosity. Do you think about how when Wyll does the right thing, he is punished to become more monstrous. Do you think about how as Wyll’s warlock powers grow, his spells get more horrific. Do you think about how Ansur was killed by his closest friend. Do think about how Wyll was cast out by the most important person in his life. do you guys ever think about Ansur and Wyll.

[hinamie]

in spite of everything, I had fun <3

[official-time-loop-posts]

Thank you to @sleepnoises for making the original poll & for giving us the idea to to this :)

Sorry if we couldn’t get your favorite on here, we were limited to only 12 options (11 if you don’t include the “other” option).

[cj-the-random-artist]

Is this my best comic ever?? Nope. Do I think I characterized either of these two particularly well in this comic?? Not really. Did I spend an unreasonable amount of time on it to the point that it would be a waste to not post it?? Yes, yes I did.

I really committed to this one, spent a lot of time on those backgrounds and treated myself to ample suffering with the perspective, which is not my strong suit but I am happy with how it ultimately looks. Yay perspective and background practice!!

(Tbh I shouldn't talk like I think this one sucks, I think I've just been staring at it for so long that my brain has decided it's not good and it's actually way better than I think it is, and honestly I am quite happy with it. The artistic process really is something, isn't it?)

The inspiration was basically me reminding... myself... to take breaks sometimes... by drawing for several hour stints during my only little bits of free time. Which totally tracks. Probably. But I've been rolling around in my brain this idea that Lambert is a very uptight people pleaser and anxious workaholic, but Narinder, at least since adjusting himself to the circumstances (which probably took at least a century, maybe two) has discovered the joys of self care, and has made an active effort to chill tf out. This has not made him any less terrifying to the cultists (save for Lambert's closest disciples), nor has it made him friendlier to really anyone but Lambert (and maybe his siblings), but he sure has found some serious peace of mind. That said, I can't place what his motivations are here. Perhaps he is secretly concerned about Lambert's sanity, because he doesn't want them to turn into what he was, or maybe he's just trying to steal away some quality time with his one and only friend, but regardless of the reason, I spent too much time on this for nobody to see it, dang it.

That said. Enjoy this silly little comic that I spent way too much time on, and I hope this silly comic brings you some joy today.

[chirrups]

when in doubt, dog it out

[chiptrillino-art]

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sooo... @ranilla-bean wrote a fic The Iconoclast beta read by @faux-fires but before rana and i got to talk lots about sout eats asian clothing and khmer cuture and... i stat down... drew the first one... and the other two. enojoy?

[goldsnek]

'Sup! Started making a longer Radioapple fancomic, takes place some time after S1 ending.

CW :canon divergence,violence, pre-relationship, 7 deadly sins mention

I'll be posting 3 pages each time! page 4-5-6