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a while back you mentioned having written ~40k of a steven moon knight fic as well as some of a frenchie fic? i was just wondering if those would ever be posted/shared or if they will stay in google docs superhell forever (also love your work!! your star wars swap au i particularly enjoyed as well as the tma evilcon + associated fics) best of days to you !!
Look at this evilcon fan over here. Deep fucking cut.
Ah, yes I have. The 40k fic was written for Marvel Trumps Hate, and I didn't post it due to some vaguely complicated but not altogether important reasons. The Frenchie fic was the unfortunate victim towards me very abruptly falling out of MK, lmfao. I think all of my fandoms have The One Abandoned Fic that I was working on when I just Got Over the fandom (Human Relations sequel, so cruelly abandoned....).
Kind of a shame, since the Frenchie fic was not bad and just got kinda roadblocked at the end. I've tossed around maybe finishing it when MKS2 comes out and I inevitably get sucked back in. I don't want to post the MTH fic on AO3 right now (maybe in the future when MKS2 comes out and I get sucked back in etc) but there's honestly no reason not to show you...I think...looking back over this, I think I may have decided that the fic's sense of humor was just too insane. It's very.......uh.....
Uh, ok, just between you and me and other people reading this then. It's a fic about a normal guy who thinks that schizophrenia makes you immortal and autism gives you superpowers.
I'll put it in a follow-up post. In the meantime here's the first few scenes from the Frenchie fic. I really do wanna finish this one day....
âA phone call?â
The jackal barked in elderly confusion.
Steven leaned back in his chair, scratching his stubble. Jake was insisting that they experiment with facial hair and it was best to let him have these little victories. âWell, under the human American law each citizen is entitled to a phone call if they get arrested. Thatâs probably what he means.â The jackal barked dismissively. âHave you tried telling him that?â The jackal barked again, aggravated. âI see. Quite a pickle. Well, I donât see any harm in giving him the call. Weâd have to warn him that this is a faux legal system and that heâs not entitled to any lawyers, but perhaps he could tell his wife he wonât be home for dinner? That would be nice.â
The jackal growled.Â
âWe could be nice,â Steven said reproachfully.Â
The jackal barked again.
âIf you really think about it, nothingâs stopping us. Masters of our own fates and whatnot, right? Well - yes, yes, I know the gods are the masters of our fates, thatâs not quite - look, sir, thereâs no point in worrying a manâs wife unnecessarily, is there? How would your wife feel if you disappeared off the mortal plane?â The jackal hung its head, and Steven sighed as he stood up. âIâll lend him my mobile.â The courthouse only had landlines, and even then that was iffy. Magical ancient Egyptian constructs still struggled with 4G. âBut if he messes about with my Twitter then weâre adding another thousand years onto his sentence.â
Situations like this were why Steven still showed up to work. This zoo often struggled at little things like this without him. The place had gone to the jackals while he was gone - literally, they had taken over many administrative positions - and it would take months just to clean up the wreckage. Steven didnât mind - nothing made him happier than a good little routine. Ten to two, that was his preference. Downright inhumane to make a man work any longer than four hours a day. He had even scheduled a deli or restaurant to visit for lunch each day of the week. And Marc and Jake were not allowed. Steven only zone. A manâs office was his castle. Besides - if they knew what he got up to all day they might complain about it.Â
The two were deeply asleep - Jake because he found Stevenâs entire life dull as dirt and Marc because all of the mandated socialization they were doing lately really took it out of him. Steven found it delightful. Jakeâs friends were really nice once you got to know them, and you could reliably get a pained expression out of any of them once you told them so. Marc found their whole thing exhausting and if Jake wasnât entertained he wanted to die, so around noon the two slept like Alexander the Greatâs mummy. Might as well build them little tombs. That was cute. Steven knew exactly what his own tomb would look like. He was practically a pharaoh and everything - maybe Khonshu would make sure he got one? No, Khonshu didnât care about them nearly that much. Boy, but wouldnât that be nice.
He gave the Bast statue guarding the elevator its usual nose pat, he smiled and waved at the lumbering shabtis, and he stopped and said his usual âhello how are you howâs Nephthys Osiris talking to you again yetâ to the Set statue as the jackal gave him the stink eye for holding them up. Kindness was key, Mr. Jackal. Steven believed in positive Steven-god relations. He lived in hope that the other gods would model good behavior for Khonshu and eventually sway him into becoming less of a dick.Â
The ibis perched adorably in a little booth checked his identity as it picked up a little visitorâs badge with his beak and dropped it into Stevenâs outstretched hand. It pecked at the computer keyboard a few times, accomplishing nothing other than mangling the G and H keys, and a series of papers ground out of the ancient fax machine. Steven cautiously reached over and fetched the papers, scanning them. They were details of the prisonerâs case, which made Steven feel a bit like one of the Forbidden Lawyers. The jackal led him down the winding paths of the jail as Steven fumbled in his pocket for his glasses, squinting down at the pages.Â
âWell, this doesnât seem too nasty,â Steven announced. âIâm sure we can get this sorted out. Certainly not a problem for our Jake, eh?â He looked at the jackal out of the corner of his eye. âEh?â The jackal did not respond. âRight?â
Steven made the executive decision that this was a bureaucratic issue and therefore not a Marc or Jake issue. Theyâd just over-involve themselves and pretend they knew anything about the fake legal system. Marc and Jake were like baby brothers playing video games with you on an unplugged controller. They needed to feel like they were doing something or theyâd throw a hissy fit.Â
The jackal didnât have to stop and point out the prisoner. Steven could hear him from all the way down the hall: empathetic, pointed, and incessant French patter. The man sounded like he was arguing against a parking ticket, which displayed a disappointing lack of cognizance as to the severity of his situation and the high likelihood that he was about to experience extrajudicial horrors beyond his imagining.Â
Poor guy. Imagine being from France.Â
For the first time in Stevenâs life his shaky French that he could not actually remember learning but that Marc and Jake did not know actually came in handy. As he got closer he could more or less puzzle out what the fast talking man was saying to the two unamused and unswayed jackals. Could the jackals speak French? It had to be some magic thing. The only animals around here who could actually talk to the humans and explain to them what was happening were the baboons, and they were never polite about it.
â - one little call! That is it! I will never darken your doorstep again, I swear it. One phone call - and, maybe, letting me go! We can talk about it, letâs talk about it! You and I, we are reasonable men - jackal, I am a reasonable man and you are a reasonable jackal - unless you are a woman? Are you a woman? You are still a jackal at any rate. You are a very reasonable gendered jackal, and I am innocent of all crimes - and even if you are a nongendered jackal, I do not judge, I have friends of all kinds - if you give me one phone call I may call one of my friends and he can help, I am certain he is friends with very many of you people -â
The man cut off the second Steven walked into view of his cell. The cells were very basic, with only a cot and a toilet and one wall of metal bars. He was standing up against the bars, fighting with the two unamused jackals standing against the cement wall in the hallway. The manâs head jolted away from the jackals and fixed on Steven, forgetting his captive audience entirely. His slicked back hair was frayed and mussed, gelled strands sticking up every which way, and his blonde mustache twitching in surprise as his eyes widened.
Steven was sympathetic. Human prisoners were always shocked to find a real bloke around the place.Â
He waved a bit awkwardly, his reading glasses flopping in the air. In shaky and awkward French, he said, âBonjour! My name is Steven Grant. And you areâŠâ He shoved his glasses on, squinting down at the intake form. âJean-Paul Duchamp?â He pronounced it âJean Paul Dew-Champâ, and judging from the manâs twitch he had mangled it. Oh well. âRight. Do not worry, everything will be fine. You wanted a phone call? I have a phone for you.â
The man stared at him. Steven silently suffered this. He knew he was attractive.Â
Finally, the man said in accented but thankfully perfect English, âI have changed my mind. May I speak with you in private, Monsieur Grant?â
The three jackals barked simultaneously. Steven rolled his eyes. Honestly! He knew he was the Avatar of Khonshu now, they didnât need to be like that! âI donât think thatâs allowed. For security reasons and all. Not that thereâs anything you could possibly do to me.â A grizzled jackal with one eye barked. âEmotional - hey! I would have you know that my Myers Briggs said I was the resilient type!â Steven considered the matter for a second. âOh, but I did have a bad horoscope today. Maybe youâre onto something. Do we have any augurers on staff?â
âExcuse me,â Jean-Paul butted in, increasingly wild eyed, âDo you care to explain what is going on, Monsieur Grant? Because the only explanation Iâve received so far was from paperwork on papyrus and a rude baboon.â
Why was he saying his name like that? The French were so weird. Steven leaned down slightly to whisper in the nearest jackalâs ear. âAnd he must have been really bad if a French guy is calling him rude.â The jackals cackled. Jean-Paulâs eye twitched. âNever fear, Mr. Duchamp. Iâm sure we can get this whole thing sorted out before supper. Letâs review the details of your case, shall we?âÂ
âWhat case?â
âOh, youâre in an ancient Egyptian courthouse for ancient Egyptian crimes,â Steven said vaguely, sliding on his reading glasses and flipping through the pages again. âYes, the Egyptian gods are real, no they are not aliens, you better believe in ghost stories Ms. Swan youâre in one, etcetera. Alright, alrightâŠI seeâŠah! There we are! Charged as accessory to one count of tomb raidingâŠoh, just a little asterisk here, letâs see what thatâs all aboutâŠyou stole from a childrenâs hospital!?â
âI did not know that is what we were doing!â Jean-Paul cried. âSomeone tells me to fly a medical helicopter, I do not ask questions! If I made a habit of interrogating every one of my clients I would not have a great deal of clients, monsieur!â
âOrgans from a -â
âIt is called professionalism!âÂ
âItâs called evil!â Steven said, appalled. The jackals barked in agreement. âI have to say, Mr. Duchamp -â
âItâs doo-shamp. And John-Paul. Mon frere.â
Oh wow, oh no, sorry for the French microaggression. Honestly. âIf it wasnât for the fact that you betrayed your clients the second you discovered what they were stealing and refused to pilot them away you would be facing the same punishment they are. Itâs quite karmic. Do you know what Egyptian canopic jars are used for?â Jean-Paul looked a little queasy. âExactly. Do you still want that phone call, Mr. Duchamp? Youâll receive your sentence from Thoth with or without it.â
âThen why give it to me?â Jean-Paul asked waspishly.
Steven shrugged. âI wouldnât want your husband to worry.â
âRest assured, I am quite single.â Jean-Paul stuck his hand out through the bars. âGive it here.â
Steven pulled up the phone function on his mobile and passed it to Jean-Paul, ignoring his thoughtful expression. He tried to convey âmess with my phone and Iâll mess with youâ through rigorous eyebrow tilting, but he knew he was very bad at it.Â
Jean-Paul stepped back, swiping on the mobile. It did not look like he was punching in a number. Steven abruptly became anxious that he was snooping on Stevenâs mobile. He had remembered to delete his text history with Layla, right? Right?!
He typed something on it before looking up, holding it up oddly to show Steven the screen before passing it back to him. âI changed my mind. No need for a call. Thank you for lending me your phone, monsieur, but it was unnecessary.â
The screen was open to the notes app. Steven abruptly felt like they were passing notes in class. Except not quite, because Steven was the Avatar of an Egyptian god and the other party was in jail for magic crimes. The note read -
marc what is the plan
Oh. Oh!
Steven looked up, and now he could clearly read the manâs irritated âwhy are you looking surprised, this is a matter of utmost secrecyâ eyebrow twitch. âGoodness, Iâm so sorry. The egg is really on my face here, Iâm so embarrassed.â He looked down at the jackal next to him, who twitched its ears attentively. âI think thereâs been a misunderstanding. It seems -â
Steven stopped short.Â
This man knew Marc. He now knew Steven. Marc really, really, really hated it when this happened.
Marc had spent the vast majority of his life masking. His family had been big believers in the ânever talk about it and pretend it doesnât existâ school of mental illness, which had resulted in a great deal of very terrible problems. Marc did not learn from any of these problems and continued to hide the DID from everybody he had ever met up to and including his own wife for a depressing yet impressive length of time. Steven hadnât really agreed with the wife decision, because it was a slightly huge aspect of their lives that was very much Laylaâs business, but Marc believed in privacy. Steven couldnât fault him for that.Â
It wasnât anybodyâs business if Marc didnât want it to be their business and they were not Marcâs actual wife. Jake spouted off about shame and internalized ableism, which was undoubtedly true, but nobody was really entitled to his health information. He had the right to self-disclose when he wanted and to who he wanted. Steven only wished that this reasonable desire did not lead to sitcom-esque hijinks as they all switched mustaches and pretended to be each other. Sometimes literally. Jake had his whims.
Marc wouldnât want this random pilot knowing personal stuff about him. He was probably just some colleague he had worked with one time and never saw again. And Steven was very dedicated to helping Marc and making his life easier, just like Marc was dedicated to helping Steven and making his life harder. Jake was dedicated to being a bully.Â
Being involuntarily outed was traumatic for Marc. The last time it happened he fell asleep for four weeks and plunged Steven into a Jake induced nightmare. What if he went back to sleep? What if he never woke up this time? What if he left Steven alone with Jake forever? He couldnât take that chance.
Marc didnât have to find out about any of this. No point in stressing him out over nothing.Â
In a stunning show of cunning, cleverness, and subtlety, Steven looked down at the jackal next to him. âActually, can I talk with Mr. Duchamp in private? Thereâs some things we need to discuss.â The jackal asked what. âHuman things.â The jackal asked why it had to be private. âTheyâre private human things.â Steven paused a beat. âLike periods. Weâre going to talk about our periods.â
The jackals knew enough about humans to know that periods were private human things and not enough to know that cisgender men did not get periods. They gave him dubious looks anyway, but when Steven mimed yanking a crescent knife from his chest they obligingly filed out. The grizzled one-eyed jackal turned around and gave John-Paul a gimlet âIâm watching youâ eye, but John-Paul just sniffed and looked above it all. French people sure were good at looking snooty.
The second the jackals turned the corner and disappeared from sight Steven took a deep breath and changed.Â
He straightened, folding his expression into a deep scowl. He tilted his head forward in Marcâs faux intimidating fashion and affected Marcâs terrible Chicago accent - which was just as fake as Stevenâs very real to him British accent, thank you very much! Jean-Paul straightened too, eyes widening again.
âWhat the hell?â Steven demanded. Ugh. It was hell on the throat to talk like this. âHow did you even get yourself into this mess?â
âMe? I am the one in the mess?â Jean-Paul stabbed a finger at Steven, who scowled deeper. âWhat was that? What is this? Why are you working for an ancient Egyptian courthouse under a false identity?â
âItâs a long story,â Steven snapped. It was really easy to avoid questions as Marc. You just had to be mean. âAnd itâs none of your business.â
âAt this point I think it is very much my business! Jesus, Marc!â Jean-Paul exhaled deeply, rubbing his forehead in a forcible attempt at zen. âWhat is this, some sort of op? Are you undercover?â
âI said it was none of your business!â
âThis is why you donât run the ops,â Jean-Paul said. Steven was offended on Marcâs behalf. âI am impressed at your acting skills but not at your subtlety.â
âThe usual, then,â Steven said wryly. âIâm impressed with your talent at getting arrested.â
âI get it, I get it. Marc Spector twenty, Jean-Paul fifteen. I swear, Marc, only you would get yourself in these predicaments.â
âYouâre the one in the predicament. Iâm doing fine.â
âMy predicament is your predicament.â Why would that be true? He said it so casually, as if it was a given fact. Quite presumptuous of him, in Stevenâs opinion. âAt least now I donât have to waste a hope and a prayer that you would pick up your phone this time. How are you going to get me out of this one? They have a giant baboon! Have you seen the baboon!â
âThe baboonâs very understanding about my medical needs, so watch it.â Wait - had he wanted to spend his one phone call on Marc? Why? They were talented, cool, and altruistic, but⊠âLook, Iâll do what I can. But the gods arenât exactly easy to argue with. Iâve tried to get them to overturn a sentence before and it failed miserably.â
âThatâs the first time Iâve heard my friend try to do things the legal way.â Jean-Paul folded his arms. âJust bust me out. Isnât that more your style?â
What a suck-up. Marc didnât have friends. Steven smiled anyway, brittle and thin. âDonât worry, Jean-Paul. Iâll do everything I can to help you. Just please try and understand the position Iâm in.â
Jean-Paul stared at him. Steven forced himself to look the other man in the eyes even though it made him uncomfortable. Marc always stared down people he didnât trust.Â
âSo, uh,â Steven said, âI better call the jackals back -â
âPlease admit you do not know who I am.â
Steven froze. He opened his mouth, then closed it.
Jean-Paul sighed. He kneaded his forehead again, shoulders slumped, but something about the gesture had changed. My predicament is your predicament - what did that mean? âWhy didnât you say - non, non, you would have no reason. Marc, please listen to me.â He looked solidly at Steven, and Steven found himself looking away. âItâs Frenchie. Iâm your friend. We met in Afghanistan and weâve worked together ever since. Youâre having another amnesiac episode. This happens to you sometimes and it is nothing to worry about. Do you believe me about this?â
Steven opened his mouth. He closed it.
He couldnât help it - he hunched his shoulders, clutching at his sleeve and drawing away. âI donât have friends. Youâre lying.â
âCall up Layla and ask,â Jean-Paul said. His voice was even and steady, and it struck Steven oddly. The man was literally in a jail cell about to be Egyptian tortured and he was comforting Steven? Looking out for him in a mental health episode? Did the world contain two Lukes? âDo you know Layla? Your wife? Now thereâs a thief for you. I am but a humble pilot in comparison.â
That cinched it. Marc would never tell anybody he didnât trust about Layla. Much less about what Layla really did for a living.
But Marc didnât trust anybody. Marc wasnât supposed to trust anybody. That was Marcâs whole thing. He only trusted Steven and Layla. He only trusted Steven and Layla and - Frenchie? What kind of nickname was that? That was so stupid.
Marc was really bad at naming things. Movie poster, pilfered ID. Frenchie. Jeez.
Steven put it down. He let his shoulders hunch back into their natural slouch, bent his voice back towards its natural tilt, and dropped the mean expression. Despite himself, he groaned.Â
âMarcâs going to kill me!â Steven wailed. âHeâs going to go to sleep again and leave me with Jake!â
Jean-Paul recoiled, surprise turning into shock. Wow, wow, big surprise. Marc or Jakeâs friends freaking out over Steven. Stop the presses.
âHeâs gonna blame me for this, you know,â Steven cried. Not whined. Nope. âThis is why he doesnât trust me with anything. As if itâs my fault that his friends keep getting arrested? Maybe I should get a little more recognition for being the only one without delinquent friends. Honestly, I donât know why we canât keep better company sometimes. A book club? A Dungeons and Dragons group? Anybody who doesnât punch people for a living? Is that too much to ask?â
âHm,â Jean-Paul said. âYour dissociative episodes have grown stranger.â
âWhat were they like in the military?â Steven asked, morbidly curious. âMarc didnât even mention amnesia episodes. He can be right frustrating, you know.â
Slowly and carefully, Jean-Paul said, âDo you remember the manic episodes?â
âWeâre bipolar?â Steven asked blankly.
âThat is what I thought. I do not think I was correct.â
Wait. âDid you think Jake was a manic episode?â
âJake?â
âThe other one,â Steven said helpfully.
âAh. Yes, I think so.â Jean-Paul paused - not as if he was uncertain, but as if he wasnât sure how the words would be received. âI understand DID is a very difficult disorder.â
Something tugged at the back of Stevenâs mind, then yanked. Steven felt himself fall backwards, and something else surged in him -
*
Frenchie stood in front of Marc, right in every way, wrong only in the eyes - only in the way he was looking at Marc -Â
Cautiously, he said, âSteven? You look dazed.â
Dazed. That was what heâd always call it. Whenever Marc zoned out and left his body, whenever Frenchie caught him wandering listlessly around camp with no memory of having even left bed - you look dazed, Marc -
âDo you ever get tired of your front row seat?â Marc asked hoarsely.
But Frenchie just smiled - a little cockily, a little kindly. âThe view is quite good.â
Marc couldnât do this. He never could, he could never do anything - but he couldnât do this. Humiliation crushed him, Frenchieâs affection and acceptance its strange shadow. The shadow was worse than the weight. It was the shadow he couldnât handle. He couldnât handle this.Â
He turned on his heel and left, leaving Frenchie alone in the cell with no promise of rescue and no aid given, and he found himself walking faster until he turned the corner. The jackals were still huddled like a football team growling thoughtfully at each other, and they perked up when they recognized Marc. He ignored them, walking through the crowd until they leapt away.
Marcâs walk turned into a run. A drum beat rocked his head, pushing hard at his heart. The beat threw him forward, turning his run into a sprint down the winding cement halls. His desperation reached out and thought of a word, and once he thought it he just couldnât stop.
Jake. Jake. Jake! Jake, I canât do it again - Jake - !
*
Marc woke up face first in Jessica Jonesâ hair clutching a bottle of Jack.
He yelped, jerking away automatically and falling off the couch with a heavy jolt. The bottle jumped out of its hands, landing on the stained wood coffee table with a heavy thump and rolling against a bulwark of beer bottles.Â
Marc bolted upright, ignoring his pounding head to take inventory of his surroundings. He relaxed the second he registered where he was. Heroes For Hire apartment. Morning. Luke Cage was passed out in an armchair, sawing wood. Colleenâs bra was draped across the back of a couch. Did these people do anything other than party?
Jessica flopped over, squinting blearily at him in the morning light. Cars honked outside and traffic blared, the sound cutting harshly into his throbbing head. Jessica waved a hand limply at him. She mumbled something that Marc could somehow translate into âwhatâs your problem?â.Â
Nothing. No problem. Not right now, not here. Marc climbed back onto the couch, pushing Jessica aside to reclaim his spot. Amazingly, they were barely even cuddling - their couch was one of those IKEA types that you could just keep adding onto, it was fucking ginormous. He left the bottle of Jack on the table, whiskey slowly sloshing in the glass. Jessica went back to sleep immediately, her warm breaths pressed against his back.
The sunlight faded into night, then nothing.Â
*
â - and thatâs why I wouldnât fuck Mr. Fantastic unless Sue Storm was watching.â
Marc bolted upright.
âI left Frenchie in prison!â Marc cried.Â
âMan, what kind of weird dreams are you having?â Danny asked. Marc could hear his voice from behind the couch, accompanied by the rattle of silverware and the hefty scent of bacon. âI can interpret it for you if you want. The prisonâs probably a metaphor for -â
âYour psyche,â Colleen intoned.Â
âThatâs a bit on the nose, donât you think?â Luke said.
Marc rolled off the couch again, slouching his way to the breakfast table and collapsing in his chair. Somebody put a bowl of cereal in front of him and began shoving it in his mouth. Everybody went back to ignoring him and resumed their conversation about the most fuckable superheroes.Â
âMonica Rambeau at the top,â Misty said, for what sounded like the five hundredth time. âVery top. Except my girlfriend.â
âIâm the last heir of a samurai clan, not a superhero.â
âVery top. Monica Rambeau.â
âDo you think the Avengers have these conversations about us?â Danny asked Luke. âLike, they have to, right? I donât think theyâre above it.â
âThey have mimosa brunches. Man, you know they do. I donât want to know what the hell they say about me.â
âOne time Hawkeye flirted with me and I snapped his bow over my knee,â Jessica reported. âItâs about controlling the narrative, Luke.â Marcâs hand reached out and swiped bacon off her plate, cramming it into his mouth. âWatch it, asshole!â
âMorning, sleeping beauty,â Luke told him, half-amused. âWho do we got today?â Marc glared at him balefully, but he held up the ASL finger sign âMâ anyway. âGood to see you, Marc. Youâre the early bird, huh?â
âJake was complaining about you yesterday,â Jessica told him gleefully, as if she was snitching on her classmate to the teacher for saying the b word. âHe told us all about your intimacy issues. Is it true that you yearn for acceptance, yet are terrified of receiving it?â
âAnd why,â Marc gritted out between clenched teeth, holding his spoon at a vicious angle, âis Jake always telling you my goddamn business?â
âHe likes to vent.â
âThen tell him to shut up next time.â
Misty scraped up eggs with her knife primly. âFive times a day seven days a week. Never listens.â
âFive people live in this apartment, there is no such thing as your own business,â Colleen said, dead-eyed. âI havenât had privacy in a year.â
âItâs not that different from the monastery,â Danny said philosophically. âSmaller, though.â
âDrunker?â Misty asked.
âNot really.â
âDamn. Guess you had to do something without television.â
Marcâs grip on his spoon tightened so hard that his bones creaked. âThen you can just go tell Jake -â
Tell me yourself.Â
âShut up, Jake! You can all tell Jake that next time he decides to overshare -â Hissy fit ten minutes after waking up, new record. âI wouldnât throw a hissy fit if you stopped doing shit just to piss me off!â You are an egomaniac. âThat is so rich.â
âStill weird,â Misty decreed.Â
âYeah, still weird,â Colleen said.
Luke cut into his hash brown. âIâm just glad that theyâre all talking again.â
âTotally glad that Jakeâs back to his healthy, regular state of talking to himself,â Colleen said. âMaybe soon heâll become normal and only serial kill on weekends.â
âI know none of you care about my personal drama,â Jake said flatly, âbut would a little respect be so outta line for youse?â Jessica mumbled something around her egg. âDonât talk with your mouth full, woman, have some self-respect.â
âSteven and I were talking about going to the zoo and looking at the sloths,â Danny said brightly. âDo you still want to do that? I want to see them so bad. All we have back home are sloth bears but I donât think theyâre the same animal.â
âSloth bears?â Misty asked.
âThey mostly eat termites and ants, really,â Steven told her, ânot nearly as scary as youâre imagining. Quite adorable. But nothing really beats sloths on the cuteness factor.â
âSteven! Good to catch you. When do you want to go to the zoo?â
âOh, boy, maybe Sunday? Do we have anything on Sunday?â
I was going to get drunk.
Same.Â
âLooks like Sundayâs free!â Steven paused a beat, a smile fixed on his face. âYou know, fellas, I canât help but feel as if weâve forgotten something.â
We forget stuff incessantly, Marc said, tired. Frenchie was always dragging me out of bars I didnât remember walking inside.Â
Thereâs an alternate explanation for that one.
See, thatâs what I thought, but Frenchie never thought so.
âFrenchie!â Steven cried. He jerked onto his feet, sending his plate rattling. âWe left Frenchie in prison!â
Danny reached out and patted Steven on the forearm. âItâs okay, Steven. It was just a dream. The French canât hurt you.â
âNot if theyâre in prison, anyway,â Misty said.
Luke, the only one who ever remotely was on topic, put down his fork and looked at Steven. âWhoâs Frenchie? Since when do you know other people?â
âHeâs my best friend,â Marc said. He scrambled away from the table, faintly registering that he was wearing Jakeâs outfit. He and Steven had their own changes of clothes in the guest bedroom, heâd have to take a minute and change. They hated wearing each otherâs clothing. It felt so invasive. Jake hated polyester, Marc hated wool, and Steven hated layers in non-freezing temperatures. âDamn it, what kind of friend am I!â
Jessica squinted at him, sipping her orange juice. âWait, you have other friends? I thought we were your only friends.â
âHeâs my friend, not Jakeâs. Youâre Jakeâs friends.â
âIâm not Jakeâs friend,â Misty said.
âJakeâs my friend but I donât like him,â Colleen said.Â
âJakeâs my friend and I like him,â Danny said eagerly.
âNo comment,â Luke said.
But Jessica just continued squinting at him - as if she could read something between their three faces, unremarkable individually but painting a clear picture together. âThis is what stressed you out so bad yesterday, yeah?â Marc shoved the chair back into the table, averting his eyes. âWhy donât I come with you? Like, buffer zone?â
A part of Marc did want her to come. He didnât know if that part was Jake or Steven or himself. He never knew where to put himself anymore, how to partition out his life into the good and bad. How to fit together Jake and Layla, how to give Steven the reins on the courthouse work, how to fit into the Heroes For Hire in a space carved for Jake yet welcoming of anybody.Â
It was so easy. It scared Marc.Â
âI can handle my own army buddy,â Marc said gruffly. He bent down and kissed Jessica on the cheek. âIâll call.â
Marc swept out the door, ignoring Jessica calling âYou better!â behind him.
#my writing#my asks#so much of the fun of the frenchie fic was marc x HFH dynamics it was so good#and frenchie himself ended up being such an interesting character. what an ass.#trivia: i wrote this THEN l2urh when i got writer's block#and frenchie's thing there was honestly just a speedrun of his arc here.#'steven's based off layla but jake's based off frenchie' was the most based decision
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im so intrigued abt the name tell me abt jabberwocky please
YAY OKAY!!
Jabberwocky is a character i made for a superhero roleplay run by a friend of mine. Some people in this world have "Marks"- superpowers caused by a solar flare a few generations ago, displayed in the form of a tattoo/birthmark-like marking on the skin.
Jabberwocky's mark, "Alice in Wonderland", allows her to manipulate the size of her body and any object she touches. There is no known limit, and she CAN do it at will, but she also shifts unintentionally depending on her emotions. This can cause her to become GIANT or SUPER TINY if she were to get, say, really angry/excited, or really scared, respectively.
There's an extra layer of complexity to this because Jabberwocky has level 3/"high support needs" autism. She's cognitively/intellectually disabled and has very little understanding or control of her emotions! She's also fully nonverbal and only uses AAC to communicate (she cannot reliably write/type, either. Struggles with language)
The location they're in is a fictional continent with its own autonomous city-states (that'd take me a bajillion years to get into). The city-state Jabber was born into, however, sees Marks as extremely scary and dangerous, so they're kinda heavily criminalized and it's illegal to even USE your mark in public. But the thing is Jabber can't help it, her mark activates without her say any time she feels like. Emotions. So she's labeled a Villain and constantly got arrested for public mark usage until she ran away and joined a cult in the mountains that worships the sun and moon. But uh. The moon exploded. So the whole cult is super freaked out and increasing recruitment efforts, leading Jabber to become a missionary for them.
I'm playing her as a duo with her little sister, Tyche, played by a friend of mine :o). Jabber is 23 and Tyche is 19. They're best friends, very very close!! They love each other so dearly and they make me so happy to write. My girls...
uhhhh the premise of this RP though is that all the characters were recruited to this top secret paramilitary project to try to make the Land better in the middle of all this extreme political unrest and bad shit. Jabber is not there by choice, she was arrested and handed over as a deal. But if she completes the project they'll free her, so. Yay(??). Her sister did join by choice because she's a hero, and that coincidence is what reunited them!!
... THAT'S SO MUCH! thank y ou for your interest in my strange little lady. She's very sweet and also doing terrible awful cult recruitment because she thinks this is a good thing. I love her
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Thinking about the ableism toward Jouno in the BSD fandom and it genuinely pisses me off so badly I want to hit people. Iâll be perusing the tag and looking at stuff and then Iâll see some random pop ups for AO3 and get shit like this
Now I donât 100% know the context of this screenshot, for all I know this fic could be about him before he lost his sight, but either way it got me thinking and thinking got me angry and being angry means i need to complain. Jouno is already pretty shit blind rep, Iâll be honest. Heâs the basic stereotype of âblind character has super senses because theyâre blindâ but can we give blind people literally ANYTHING else??? jesus christ. Iâm pissed how BSD writes his blindness so as per usual I had to attempt to fix all of that myself, but attempting to fix it and removing it entirely are NOT the same and one is VERY MUCH SO WORSE. Again, not talking about this fic specifically but other ones Iâve seen that do this, or those âJouno if he could seeâ edits. Spoiler alert, blind people can open their eyes.
I dont know why BSD and every other piece of media is so adamant on not giving visually impaired and blind characters white canes and just giving them "super senses" to get around it. Itâs incredibly stupid and abelist to portray stuff like this. Disabilities are not super powers and thank GOD they didnt make that his ability but they still gave him that aspect and I guess it can be excused with SOME lore stuff like maybe he got really good senses from his surgeries but it just sucks that it happened that way at all? And then they don't even touch on how horrible having incredibly hightened senses to the point you can HEAR blood would be?? can you imagine hearing everyone internal organs around you 24/7 EVERYDAY? No one talks about that at all. That would be so fucking overwhelming its genuinely insane. Jouno is such a dear character to me, but genuinely when I remember him in canon without any of my headcanon explinations itâs just really sad that all I can say about him as representation is "well.. it could be worse".
I know thereâs going to be at least one person saying âtheres good blind rep in other shows though!!â Yes! I know! Iâm super glad about that! But ignoring the bad ones doesnât help much. You need to point out the issues to get good results. Recently, and by recently I mean about 17 hours ago, I watched/listened to the first episode of Daredevil, once with audio descriptions, and then after I watched without AD and had captions. Iâm super glad that things are more commonly getting ADâitâd be a bit pathetic if the show with a blind main character was not accessible to blind peopleâbut even with Daredevil, Matt still falls a bit into this stereotype.
Donât get me wrong, seeing a character with a white cane has me absolutely elated, but from the single episode Iâve seen and what Iâve heard, he apparently also has some sort of super senses, and I know in the first episode he can hear heartbeats. I think super senses as a power is fine, but itâs just the fact they always give it to the blind characters. I, myself, am not blind, nor am I really visually impaired, I just wear glasses. However, as someone with a special interest in disabilities and also as someone that is disabled in other ways, seeing disabled rep fall into stereotypes over and over just really bums me out sometimes.
I think Daredevil is great so far from this one episode, Iâll probably be looking at more of it, but that is definitely just one gripe I have with it. I think Charlie Cox putting a bunch of effort into the role with the method acting and talking to people in the blind community and just all of that is amazing, I love to see that in anything, itâs just urrghh that itâs so hard to find a blind character that doesnât have some kind of insane superpower senses with things. It reminds me of when characters with autism are so frequently portrayed as geniuses or their autism is only acceptable if it helps the neurotypical cast with âgadgetsâ or something. I dunno. Hard to explain, itâs 11 at night and Iâm tired. Just donât be ableist in any fandom or in real life. I shouldnât have to even point out why this shit is disgraceful.
#bsd#bungou stray dogs#bsd jouno#jouno bsd#bsd jouno saigiku#saigiku jouno#saigiku jono#bsd jono#jono saigiku#ableism#fuck ableists#fandom critical#fandom criticism
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Please, please, PLEASE talk about Talia..... I love her and I want to know more about her.... tell me about Bi-han's Cringefail wife whom he loves.
GODDD I LOVE LOSER WOMEN. I love their Ken/Barbie dynamic. Very much " Bi-Han has a great day everyday (lie) but Talia only has a great day when Bi-Han looks at her"
Bi-Han, Tomas, and Kuai Liang try EVERYTHING to teach her how to fight, but she's a natural flop.
This golden retriever of a woman is such a klutz and gets her ass beat by baby Lin Kuei. She gets distracted by their little uniforms.
VERY MUCH MOM OF THE GROUP; MOM FRIEND. Johnny called her "mom" by accident once and Kenshi NEVER let's him live it down. I like to think she's his bestie.
When he looks at her he's reminded of the nice girls who let him sit with them at lunch because the boys didn't want to be seen with the "theatre nerd" and its just NICE.
Talia's superpower is making friends. Even BARAKA likes her. Liu Kang picking other champions or disciples? He goes to her like "What Are The Vibes " and she's like a bloodhound
She took care of Mileena and Kitana when they were babies; Mileena sometimes gets so sad she's taller than Talia now. Doesn't mean she won't ask for uppies. Also; Step-dad Bi-Han would be so goddam funny.
But I'm completely enamoured by the image of Bi-Han being so fiercely protective of her.
PTalia, to him, represents true strenght for loving people and the world despite having every reason not to. And there's something in him that will freeze the world before her spark is killed off.
Also; Talia not being able to fight yet protecting Bi-Han anyway? Very much a " Dw I'll protect you" (is 5'3) and "I know you will" (is 6'2) dynamic. God I love them.
Plus; Johnny being like " so what flavor of autism is she" and Bi-Han being confused as fuck. "What did you call her "
#bi han#mk#mk1#canon x oc#johnny cage#lin kuei#mortal kombat#writing#dk how to tag this#mortal kombat 1#sub zero#bi han x ofc
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hiiii happy!!!! how do you feel abt jason's adhd? in my opinion, the books didn't really do a job illustrating it. how do you think it would manifest and affect him? i'd love to hear your opinion âșïž i love you!!! đđđ
Personally, I think of Jason as being autistic versus having ADHD. We know through Frank that having ADHD and dyslexia (both of which Frank does not have) is not an exclusive requirement to being a demigod. On top of that, Rickâs use of ADHD is not⊠great. My sister has been diagnosed with ADHD since she was five â she is very much the inattentive subtype, and I think Rickâs use of ADHD as a superpower of hypervigilance does sort of exclude people who primarily experience inattentive symptoms.
But those kinds of symptoms are not easily rewritten as âbenefitsâ (which. yeah. Itâs a disability), so I get why he didnât include it. I remember reading a while back that when the books were first published, rewriting ADHD as a superpower/benefit to kids who had it was a common narrative, so, like, okay, but also. Itâs been two decades.
But anyway. Jason. Yes! In general:
He gets easily distracted by different tasks, but to other people it just looks like heâs multitasking
He forgets to take care of himself a lot, forgets to eat, shower, drink water, sleep, talk to people and be social, etc
Auditory processing issues. During long speeches he starts to zone out because the sound eventually merges into all the other background noise heâs trying to filter out (wind powers and wolf vigilance amplifies the sound of everything) so he often encourages people to just get to the point and be upfront, and gets frustrated when people wonât. Also canât stand people who talk in monotone (which is ironic because I think Jason doesnât inflect or shift his voice very much)
Leo definitely uses his voice in various tones during conversation, so while Jason is like âoh my god, please stop talking in circles I have no idea what youâre sayingâ, itâs a lot easier for him to listen to Leoâs rambling monologues because he doesnât speak in one or two tones
If it doesnât interest him, the conversation can start to blur together as well because he struggles to focus on whatâs being said. Fortunately, just because of how CJ and New Rome are structured, most topics at hand are things he likes (ancient Rome, gods, politics, etc). Unfortunately, Jason doesnât really have strong human connections and his position as the golden boy of Camp Jupiter, champion of Juno, son of Jupiter, etc, etc, etc distances him from a lot of people so casual topics, like video games or TV shows, rarely get brought up to him in the first place
The onslaught of sensory issues makes it hard for him to focus. Heâs taught himself how to filter things out, but itâs a constant practice to do and gets very tiring
Object impermanence â if he canât see it, it doesnât exist. Luckily for him, he doesnât own a lot of things, but for things he has to keep tucked away in a drawer (like clothing), he slaps labels onto the container/drawer. Everything else, like the couple of misc trinkets he owns, he keeps out and obvious
One of things he does to help it avoid blending into the background is using sharp colour contrasts. So if its important â like medication or something, he might use a bright yellow basket on top of a black dresser or whatever because the yellow stands out so sharply itâs hard for the basket to blend into the background and so he remembers to take his meds.
Another thing is moving location. So he might move the basket from one side the dresser to the other and back again every so often
Heâs pretty good at maintaining habits and routine (autism), but also if something happens that throws off the routine it takes months to get back on track and it is the worst thing ever, it is grueling and he hates it. Habits and routine are not innate, they are a constant active conscious choice he makes every day
Making plans can be difficult, even in battle or on quests when strategy is key. He can get tripped up on the small details and overlook the larger picture, or be so focused on the larger picture, he doesnât see the small details. Because people have been so reliant on him for strategy, heâs more or less managed to get away with looking competent, but itâs always a competition with himself to remain on task, instead of narrowing into something that doesnât matter
People will often comment on how fast he can get things done but its literally that he gets things done fast because sometimes he waits too long to do the thing (procrastination) and now heâs got like five seconds to the deadline, OR he has a burst of focus and gets that thing done as fast as he can before the executive function dips
He does get bored easily, so he'll flit between task to task, but itâs really that he needs stimulation, needs to be doing something, and if heâs not doing something, heâs losing his mind, and because he lacks a core sense of identity, he flits from task to task to find something that interests him (but thereâs so little that does because he does not know who he is and heâs just mimicking people and itâs not the same)
Emotional dysregulation
He gets lost in his own head a lot. Part of it is just standard dissociation, but the other part is that his brain is always on, everything is firing at all cylinders, there is no quiet, itâs just noise and reminding himself of things he needs to get done on repeat, 24/7, loud as can be and he can't turn it off or lower the volume. His brain is full of bees and they won't stop buzzing
As a result, he probably has pretty bad insomnia
I think he has a lot of trouble getting stuff started. Body doubling encourages him to get started on stuff, and heâs never not been surrounded by at least one other person, so when he starts living alone in Cabin One after The Lost Hero, he is so confused that he canât seem to force himself to pick up his shirt off the ground. And it just stays on the ground for days. Until he runs out of clean underwear and has no choice but to pick it up to get laundry started
He doesnât own enough stuff to be fully disorganized, but if he does, heâll have the most organized areas in his room ever, and then his closet is a mess because âwell I donât go in there a lotâ
I think he tries to keep a spreadsheet/list of items he owns that he doesnât use very often, but he still has doubles of a few things. Also so many batteries. Heâs constantly like âI donât think I have enough batteriesâ and then he buys the batteries and comes back, goes to update the list on the back of the door and itâll be like âyou have batteries. Stop buying batteries. There are too many batteriesâ and then he throws the batteries in the box thatâs overflowing with batteries and forgets they exist again, but then, when he does need the batteries, it takes him so long to find the box
He would self-medicate on coffee if he didnât hate the taste. He also doesnât like soda. Or chocolate. So, you know, RIP to him. Heâs rawdogging life. At least Leo can inhale caffeine like his life depends on it
He has the waiting mode problem, where if he has something scheduled at a certain time, it doesnât matter how much time he has until that thing, he just. Waits. For the thing. Like he could get so much done in that time, but he canât. Again, body doubling has helped, but living alone makes it so much harder
Reward systems donât work with him. He doesnât get the same sense of satisfaction that a neurotypical would after getting a reward after task completion. So when he absolutely needs to get something done but his brain is like ânah we gotta sit here and stare at this wall for seven hours while dissociatingâ, he just ends up screaming at himself a lot
Jasonâs probably in a burnout so intense that if he took a minute to rest, his body and mind would shutdown for like three years.
He forces himself to get things done and screams at himself the entire time, and it hurts in a way he doesnât understand but he has to do these things because thereâs no other choice and people are relying on him.
Since heâs been groomed for leadership since day one, heâs never really had a chance to breathe that the other kids would get, so even when he finally has the chance to rest, itâs like his mind knows how unsafe that would be because shutting down completely would never be safe for him (trauma!!) so he just refuses to rest, which involves a lot of him getting lost in his own head or hyper-focusing on something (like spreading recognition of minor and forgotten gods) instead of. You know. Breathing
I think a lot of his issues with ADHD become more present after TLH when the quest is over and heâs alone. CHB has structure, but its not as narrow as Camp Jupiterâs routine and structure, and Jason lives alone, operates his own schedule, doesnât really have other people to remind him of things, etc, etc, so the sudden shift makes him start to spiral a bit in his fears of incompetence.
Itâs not that heâs incompetent, heâs very competent, but his problems were never as evident because other people had his back as he had theirs. Heâs kind of like people w/ undiagnosed ADHD or autism who leave their support systems for university and suddenly school and life is the most difficult thing in the world, when before it was a lot easier
Timeblindness does affect him a lot, especially when he's doing something he enjoys. He wears a watch everywhere. And has a lot of backup watches
A lot of these probably overlap with autism but like, lol, I do primarily view him as autistic.
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What is ORV actually about? I assumed that it was like... A modern psychological thriller with a bit of queerbait, but now I'm seeing your posts and reblogs tagged ORV that are all kinda surreal and fantasy type stuff, I feel like I saw the word isekai a couple times? So what is ORV actually?
ok i have been sitting on this ask for a few days bc i. have no idea where to even begin trying to explain what orv is about
here's a post by tumblr user ot3 that does a better job of explaining orv than i ever could. below the cut is MY attempt at an orv summary
"what is orv actually about?" this is a wonderful question. i don't know. i did nothing but read this novel for 2 weeks straight and i could not for the life of me tell you what orv is "about"
the thing about this book is that if you're reading it, it makes perfect sense. the events are linear. there is a bunch of mindfucky bullshit BUT it all happens in a relatively straightforward way. i understand orv perfectly. but at gunpoint, could i put the events in chronological order? no. pull the trigger
ok. orv is about a salaryman named kim dokja who has the most uninteresting boring life in the world. this is a lie. he does nothing but go to his job he's about to get fired from, eat convenience store kimbap, and read webnovels. he reads a specific webnovel (twsa) that has been updating daily for 13 years straight. he has been reading it since he was 15 through his entire adult life
twsa is about the apocalypse, starring protagonist yoo joonghyuk. the day kim dokja reads the last chapter and eagerly awaits the epilogue to be published the apocalypse happens. exactly like in the webnovel. now armed with a .txt file of twsa and his autism superpowers he navigates the apocalypse trying to reach his ideal ending
orv, for lack of better term, does not take itself very seriously at times. frequently, even. at least half of the major plot points are comprised of complete bullshit. every few chapters i had to put the book down and go "no fucking WAY is this actually happening" but it was! it was happening every time! its hysterical!
orv is also extremely meta. every time you think "ok it cannot possibly get more meta, this is it, this is the peak" ur wrong. u are wrong every single time until the very end of the epilogue. it can ALWAYS get more meta. orv is 100% the most meta thing i have read in my life
on top of all this, pretty much anything you can think of has happened in orv. "orv is a book about everything" while an exaggeration, this is true. it really fucking is. it has everything in it. you know that poem by shel silverstein, "everything on it"? that's what reading orv is like
it tackles many serious topics (such as: loneliness, the desperate desire to connect with other people combined with the inability to allow yourself to be loved, finding the things that push you to keep surviving) and many topics that are. not that (such as: "what if a dumpling had a face how would that work", "what if gay people were insane and not even friends", "what if a guy was so autistic his brain started eating people", "what if a monkey was actually 4 monkeys" and more such things. wouldnt that be fucked up)
orv definitely. yeah. surreal and fantasy type stuff is a very appropriate descriptor. a modern psychological thriller is... also appropriate i suppose. "a bit of queerbait" is NOT appropriate because orv is built on queerbait but not in the sense of it being baiting. in the sense of it being canon but unsaid. like its not canon. but it is. its canon and it is constant. there is an archangel that ships said queerbait she is a proud yaoi supporter. this is a real thing i am not making up
on top of that insane queerbait. there is insane polycule bait as well. like i need you to understand that while its not "canon" in the traditional sense of the word it IS real and it IS on screen and it IS as explicit as it could actually be without it actually being, you know, explicit. it literally makes me feel insane
ISEKAI. RIGHT. im not really familiar with isekai as a genre so take this paragraph with a grain of salt but orv is more of a reverse isekai? the fantasy world comes TO the "real" world. however there are in fact multiple isekais-within-the-isekai later on. multiple types of them even
anyway orv is also heavily based on the theme of stories and like. god i hope you've read ot3's post because im sure they explained it better. its a very theme-heavy piece of media where the rules of the world aren't based on logic but based on how they can further the themes. its very intricately constructed and like
it will blow your mind. god. i dont even know what im saying anymore. its good is my point it is so fucking good. orv changed me. it is a very hopeful piece of media and i am sure that rereading it will devastate me even harder than it did the first time
TLDR: orv is an insane long book about literally everything and at least half of those things are complete bullshit but are incredibly integral to the plot. somehow. it is very worth reading and will change ur life forever
#orv#asks#uhdudhudshu i just used this as an opportunity to infodump im sorry. again ot3's post definitely explains orv WAY way better than i did
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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 donât 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.
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BARKBARK I LOVE TRANS HCS im not trans myself but when i see how happy they make my trans friends & my partner???? TOSSES THEM AROUND LIKE CANDY u get a trans hc! u get a trans hc! WE ALL GET TRANS HCS
also may i say. adhd/autistic phantoms ? good shit
also ur mention of how trans goro is more common than trans akiren makes me wanna pop off about infantilization in fandoms and how it ties into misogyny, trans-misogyny and nsfw content and its characterizations and just fjbvkfnb. im a social sciences major and i LOVE discussing infantilization in the context of sex and gender and disability i love that shit. anyway idk where i was going with this but tldr i love ur characterization of goro <3
OHHHHH ANON YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU JUST STARTED.....
prefacing this by saying: i have adhd. although i haven't been able to be properly diagnosed (with the things hooked up to my head etc etc) thanks to america's stunning healthcare, i am like.. 99.999999% sure i have it. my therapist, who i used to see regularly, agrees that i probably have it.
NOW. i'm sure we all know that futaba sakura our favorite gremlin girl ever exhibits some clear symptoms of autism. i don't need to get into it because there's a million and one analyses out there about her behavior, but i will say that i both love/hate how atlus depicted her. on one hand i love that the group just.. accepts her for who she is, i love that they don't try to change her, i love that they don't fall into the "ooh you're so smart though so your disability MUST be a superpower!" trap, and that they mold around her to suit her, and not the other way around.
THAT BEING SAID.....
i have SUCH a bone to pick with how they decided to go about her 'healing' arc. the phantom thieves give her a week--a WEEK--to readjust to society. and yeah i guess that while you could argue that she's just had her trauma supernaturally lobotomized out of her, it doesn't change the fact that she's... still gone through it, you know? just because she learned to stop hating herself for things out of her control doesn't mean her social anxiety disappears in a snap. she turns out alright by the end but the extremely pushy nature of the thieves to get her out of her shell ALWAYS rubbed me wrong. taking things slow and one step at a time is wonderful, and i'm glad they decided to go about that approach instead of just throwing her to the beach like they originally wanted, but they still should have taken it... slower. one week is HARDLY enough.
also, i fucking hate how they constantly talk about her while she's in the same room as them, as if she can't hear what they're saying. they said things like, "oh she's pretty normal, huh" and "she can hold a conversation just fine!" and while their behavior isn't one completely out of the ordinary for dumb teenagers to exhibit, it still really, really pisses me off that they do it wiht her in the SAME ROOM. im sure it wasn't meant to come off this way, but i always got the feeling that they attributed her 'quirkiness' to her not understanding how groups worked at all, which is why they were so open about discussing HER MENTAL HEALTH without including her in the conversation.
okay i'm done with futaba--quick hcs im throwing out there: ryuji has adhd, yusuke also has autism, mishima has autism, goro has ocd. boom bam bop, you've been hit by the 'tism beam.
PLEASE DO POP OFF ABOUT THE INFANTILISM it's honestly such a gross sight.... the amount of times ive seen goro depicted as some small, feminine twink is genuinely staggering, and it's always left such a bad taste in my mouth because i KNOW it's because his character, at least for the majority of the plot, is polite and soft spoken.
not to mention how incredibly fetishizing it feels. i won't get too into it, but the amount of shuakeshu ive seen where one is drawn/written as larger than life/confident/suave and the other is meek/skinny/easily embarrassed? ohhh my god. please. akiren isn't some smooth jerk who makes goro blush with a well-placed quip, and goro isn't a crazed yandere who shuts akiren away from the rest of the world. they're both fucking losers who don't know how to process their feelings for the other because of their very, very embarrassing rivalry. stop degrading one to fit your perfect mlm narrative.
sigh i didn't mean for this to become a social commentary or anything, but .. lo and behold... here we are. i'd love to hear your thoughts on my takes, anon, and i'd love to hear the thoughts for anyone who read thru this too! while i do have adhd/am trans i can't speak for those who fall under the autism spectrum or for cis gay men, so if you'd like to correct me in my thinking PLEASE go ahead and do so, i'd love to be educated on topics i don't fully understand. have a good one <3
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đ„ Pick one aspect of your story that you are particularly fond of. Anything at all. and
𧿠Whether you actually get there or not, what are your hopes for your OC's future? !! -wildfaewhump
Oh my these answers got long. Putting them under the cut!
đ„ Pick one aspect of your story that you are particularly fond of. Anything at all.
I am fond of the lore around supernatural abilities that I have! Even if its more... implicit and implied rather than ever explored outright lol. Maybe one day.
The first ideas spawned from two places: a) the concept of empathy being like... a positive evolutionary trait. And then following the thread of okay, so if empathy is a step forward in evolution, then what happens when that steps forward, or when other "gut feeling" things step forward, or mutate, or spin out of control. And, b) a slightly reactionary thing to when people go "neurodivergence is a superpower!" "survivor instincts are a superpower!". Because like... no, lol, but also if those things were like a superpower, would it actually help anyone? Could you actually do anything with a superpower if you're already disenfranchised, locked out from support, isolated from community?
Cass can feel what people want (see: fawn response on steroids) and even change what they want and control, but does that actually help him to find care and connection? Does that actually get him what he wants? Lou is hyper aware of the emotions of people around her (see: hyper empathy in ND people), and even trace and manipulate memories through those emotions, but does that help her understand people or does it just make her frustrated and cold because connecting with anyone is overwhelming? Harley can (kind of) predict the future, (and don't autism and trauma backgrounds both make us so so good at predicting patterns), but does that actually help them to lift themself out of the situation they're stuck in, or does it just leave them bracing for impact and frozen?
I think it's interesting conceptually, crunchy in pratice, and I fuckin' love chewing on it. Would hate to ever actually explore it in the text itself lmao, but I'm really proud of it as a take on supernatural abilities and how they might manifest and intersect with the way we know brains do things in our world.
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𧿠Whether you actually get there or not, what are your hopes for your OC's future?
I've said a few things about this before but I have a relatively clear vision of (at least) Cass and Josiah's future! Cass ends up working in early childhood education (pre-school age). I kinda like the idea of him maybe getting into some volunteer advocacy work at some point, because he figures out its a constructive place for his anger and sense of injustice to go, but also maybe he just runs one of those like rage yoga classes for kids.
This happens before present timeline, but is also one of those headcanon-y things that just never comes up: Josiah used the pay-off he got from the Facility to buy a small block of apartments* and gets an income from being a landlord, he lives on that during times it's hard for him to keep a day job down. Cass and him eventually live in the top floor apartment of that little block.
For a while, Josiah continues to do trade work, mostly as something to do during the day because he's never not worked, and he kind of likes laboring.
I like the idea of Cass coaxing Jos into making baking a full time thing. He wouldn't want to run the front of the shop but I can see him opening up a little cafe where he gets to bake his goods, maybe cook a few meals, and has someone chirpy in the front to deal with customers. I reckon he'd like that.
*(he got upset when he found out that Lou and Mal were being kicked from the place they loved because the landlord was selling and realised he had enough in the bank to make an offer, so he did and didn't tell them until like six months later.)
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Autism has a HUUUUGE range of presentations and with that, a huge range in how it impacts people's ability to do normal things.
I'm sure it's good that the language has evolved and people don't really use "high functioning" versus "low functioning" anymore, but it has bugged me how this super diverse diagnosis ends up with a really reductive singular label in the discourse.
Like, someone who is a little particular about what they eat and how they dress saying "autism is my superpower! I love being neurospicy :)" feels honestly kind of insulting and minimizing when I went to school with boys with such bad social skills and impulse control that they would just undress in the middle of class or attack classmates with whatever was at hand. That's to say nothing of people who are completely nonverbal or have more severe disabilities that stem from severe autism.
I think a weird drawback of some of the modern conversation around autism and its acceptance has actually made it harder for people to talk about the hard parts of it. I'm sorry if that's something you're going through.
YEEE its so goddamn frustrating like dont get me wrong obviously i have low-support needs compared to most ppl on the spectrum but with the current social openness of diagnosis i find myself comparing myself to nt people AND nd people now and still feeling shitty đđ i know u shouldnt compare yourself to Anybody but hehhghhhh its hard
#i still appreciate the openness and conversation around ASD acceptance but as expected the most NT-passing people get the most fanfare#and end up guiding the convo and setting standards#and its like oh ok even though im probably in top 10% of ADL ability i dont feel like it cuz in life i only see the top 0.1%
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Some more random qhestions
What's your favorite animal
What's your favorite mythical beast (think dragon, sphinx, phoenix)
Would you want to be someone else instead of yourself?
Some more personal ones (you don't have to answer these)
Have you delt with mental health issues before?
Have you been diagnosed with autism / ADHD?
Do you sometimes wonder what is the meaning of life?
Some more light hearted ones. (And also hamster)
If you could have a superpower, what would it be?
Birds or reptiles?
What did you want to be as a kid?
How much wood can a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood (trick question, a woodchuck couldn't chuck wood)
What's your favorite animal
"I love animals in general, as they're so precious! Though, my favorite animal is a red fox. They're very noisy, and cheeky and playful XD besides that, I'm a huge cat person lol and I currently own two cats!
What's your favorite mythical beast (think dragon, sphinx, phoenix)
"Man, you're gonna think this is either crazy, or awesome. I've got a few favorites, but they're kinda niche. The Kirin, the Nuckelavee, the Ningens, Wendigos, the fae, and of course, Paddler who lives in Lake Pend Oreille (Pronounced Pond or lay. Yeah, i know its pronounced really weird, pretty sure its French). If you don't know who Paddler is, he's basically like another loch ness monster, who lives in a different place. You might wanna look some of these creatures up if you're curious, but be warned, some of them are pretty scary in appearance. Then, if I absolutely had to give a basic answer, is a faerie dragon allowed? They're so precious!!"
Would you want to be someone else instead of yourself?
"If you asked me that a year ago, I would have said yes. Though, right now, I'm quite content with being myself ^^"
Some more personal ones (you don't have to answer these)
Have you delt with mental health issues before?
"Yup. Some pretty serious ones actually. I had smiling depression for a very long time, among other issues that were pretty bad."
Have you been diagnosed with autism / ADHD?
"I have not been officially diagnosed, though I have done an insane amount of research, and can confidently say that I'm high sensory, and have ADHD ^^ Not sure about autism, pretty sure not, but we'll see in a few years when I eventually have the time and money to get diagnosed lol"
Do you sometimes wonder what is the meaning of life?
"That is something I used to wonder a lot about when I was younger, but as I grew not as much. I think, life just makes more sense to me now. In a way I suppose."
Some more light hearted ones. (And also hamster)
If you could have a superpower, what would it be?
"That's a tough one!! There are so many superpowers!! Um, maybe have a perfect memory, like PERFECT, or the ability to shapeshift. I'd probably use it to constantly change my hair color lol."
Birds or reptiles?
"I have to pick?? Lol ok ok, if I have to choose, then snakes. They're cuddly danger noodles ^^"
What did you want to be as a kid?
"You're gonna laugh XD I wanted to be many different things. Among those is a farmer, a professional artist, a martial arts instructor, and, wait for it... A cashier who is also a fairy princess lol. These are all from varying ages XD"
How much wood can a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood (trick question, a woodchuck couldn't chuck wood)
"He would chuck as much wood as a wood chuck could if a wood chuck could chuck wood!!!"
Thank you for the questions!! These ones were such fun to answer!!!
Also, is that your hamster?? Its so cute!!! I just wanna *Pets the precious thing*
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Just some queer disabled writing thoughts
I love queer-focused stories. I love coming outs and gay pining and identity uncertainty.Â
I love disability stories, where people get diagnosed, get help, find themselves.Â
However, I am tired that they are so often the only stories queer, disabled characters get. Their journey, their narrative arc, is their queerness or their disability. And while we need those stories, we also need stories where their queerness and disability are completely, entirely incidental to the narrative journey theyâre on. A factor, sure, but not the whole story.Â
Not to make it about myself, but make it about myself. For example, this is why, when outlining my story with an autistic heroine, I agonized over her ability. My first instinct was to do the lazy thing: give her heightened senses because of her autistic sensory issues. But quicky I hated that. I hated contorting her disability into a superpower when her disability didnât make her magical. Her magical powers happened elsewhere, and it felt cheap to act like autism made her a hero. Her autism makes her human while her traumatic transformation complicates it. So, I made her power invisibility. A person comfortable with making themselves as small and unseen as possible. It has some ties to her autistic identity, but also just being a traumatized teen with a superpower like no one else she knows. People love to give her attention but she just wants normalcy.Â
And her story? About figuring out who her family is while trying to hunt down the family she lost. Her autism plays a role, but it isnât her only story.Â
Itâs just exhausting to feel like so many stories end at diagnosis and disability. Real people with those things keep going. They struggle, survive, suffer, fall in love, marry, have kids, advance their careers, break hearts... they are dynamic people with so much life in them than just their labels. Those labels are so important to parsing their identity, and its why those kinds of identity stories are so important. But it isnât all the stories queer disabled people can tell.
As a kid, I didnât want my identity story. I needed it when I was a teen, but before I knew who I was, it wasnât what I wanted. I wanted stories where people that felt like me, looked like me, were heroes fighting dragons and going on grand adventures and being heroes and villains and complicated, loved people. They are queer and disabled and those things are features, but not the main story. Thereâs so much more space in the world for more than that.
And thatâs what Iâll write, because those stories are important, too.Â
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Itâs Crazy Man, Bunny Teeth, and Super Rad for the ask game? ^o^)/
- @sheepie-self-ships
itâs crazy man! w/ neuvillette: âwhat was your first date with your f/o like?â
for the first official date him & sacha went to the opera together,, sacha, who formally sang in a chorus, was fascinated by the style. it was at the edge of its seat for the whole performance!
neuvillette is no stranger to watching operas, so he got them one of the best seats in the house and was mostly amused by sachaâs interest
they donât talk throughout the performance, mostly using body language and bursts of eye contact to communicate feeling or thought; theyâre not in tune, not soulmates, just two guys who grew up more formally than most
^^ they both prob know fan language, lol
anyhow, the opera quickly becomes their fav date spot. they typically go for a light meal before or after watching a performance :)
bunny teeth! w/ jfk ( clone high ): âwhat is your f/oâs favorite thing about you?â
heâs enamored by my autism.. iâm only half joking
jean-michel ( jm for short ) is my 2nd s/i for clone high and the one i pair with jfk,, he is autistic and i think jfk fucks with it.. lol
but for serious, probably jmâs artistic skills and dedication to it, heâs always drawing or creating something and itâs like heâs not only living up to his clone fatherâs reputation but in some ways exceeding it in the clone high verse ( heâs known!! online heâs rlly popular ) ( he doesnât show his face in any videos though but ppl @ school know itâs him :p )
jfk canât claim to be THAT dedicated to any hobby and i think he rlly admires jm for that
he desperately wants to model for jm & has probably not so jokingly offered to nude model for him just to get closer to him and flirt,, he flirts with jm the same way he flirts with every other romantic interest heâs had
jm is kind of oblivious to romance ( autism ) ( self projection not saying EVERYONE with autism is oblivious ) and i think he thinks of friendships a lot more so itâs only once he becomes comfy as friends that he considers jfk romantically
anyways yea prob his dedication to his craft,, jfk admires that a lot. and his smile but thatâs for another day.
super rad! w/ jesse pinkman: âif you and your f/o had superpowers, what would they be?â
amelia wld be like word girl and for her that would be 100% a dream come true. if i had to limit it to one, probably super hearing or strength
but i rlly think sheâd be like word girl with multiple powers that, unlike word girl, sheâd have loose control over
jesse pinkman wld have super speed umm I love speedy heroes I think theyâre always the cutest. the super speed cocky ish maybe a little flirty but goofy and charming and maybe a little immature but u know. ok u know the archetype yâall know what iâm talking abt. donât make me list names.
if he didnât have super speed i honestly.. gah canât even imagine it.
he would try to speedily sneak up on amelia and sheâd go âi heard you coming..â
imagining them as the incredibles now.. them being two married super heroes.. TOO SILLY! ABORT MISSION!
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Food aversions and radical changes in preferences, as Iâm currently living it
Written around 7:33 on a plane today.
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Regardless of whatâs happening, I will aim to describe my health as holistically (in a narrative way) as I can.
For the past 2 years or so, Iâve been consciously unmasking my autism and adhd as much as possible.
I am burnt out, and Iâm tired of lying to myself while performing⊠life.
But thatâs only a part of the puzzle for me.
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Today Iâm going on a solo trip for my mental health and self fulfillment. Iâm also figuring out whatâs going on with my body.
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Usually on planes, I ask for âginger ale, no ice.â Apart from Dr. Pepper - ginger ale is one of my other comfort pop drinks. And itâs my go to drink for flying .
And besides Iâve just been perpetually nauseated and while there is no proof really that ginger ale helps that much because of its sugar content, it helps mentally.
Today, ginger ale tasted like vomit. What the actual fuck??? I tried some from another can - disgusting. (Should I collect more data? Was it just these particular cans???)
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Earlier today, when visiting with my brother, I asked him to order things I knew I would like - I ate out of a need to nourish my body in some way (including mental nourishment).
It was easier to eat with another person - harder to eat alone it seems.
Itâs been so hard to eat since the beginning of this month. And the fatigue that happens is so cyclical with it (if I donât eat, Iâm fatigued; if I do eat, Iâm fatigued - really high amounts)
I just started a course of antibiotics last night (X-safe antibiotics) - and like okay? Iâve been on and off antibiotics for MOST OF MY LIFE - I know what the nausea from that feels like - this is not that. This isnât an allergy either.
Besides I have been feeling nauseated for weeks.
Iâm so sad about this because I love food. I love eating.
Itâs also weird because (only using this as a comparative example) when I was with my ex-spouse, I was nauseated in a very different way (I chronically threw up nearly daily for an extended period of time due to a mix of chronic pain and overdoing recreational and medical cannabis - it was a huge problem - I was perpetually stressed and manipulated and blah blah (see my other posts).)
THIS DOES NOT FEEL LIKE THAT.
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I can smell things so much more acutely. Almost like a cursed superpower. Iâm so glad Iâm masking (physical face mask!) because it limits how much I smell.
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All the while my breasts (so conflicted about them from a trans/dysphoric perspective) and lower abdomen ache and pound. (Also in a different way than the usual period/PCOS/IC/endo way⊠similar, very similar, but so different)
Iâm also sad because I need to re-do AND intentionally figure out my entire nutrition plan. Sigh.
THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS I MUST DO. And Iâm trying my best to ask for help but I do *feel* like a burden even though I know Iâm not. If it were my friend, I would help - so I know that this is ok.
I havenât looked this up but is there any guidebook for newly unmasked autistics who may or may not be dealing with an unplanned X (lol sorry I know itâs obvious - I wonât get direct confirmation until later) who already have multiple pelvic and reproductive chronic health issues?!?!
*laughcry* even with all my knowledge, even with me working at an institute specifically for reproductive health, even with everything⊠itâs like a fucking mystery.
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And I wish my mom was actually the type of person who could help me out, because⊠I fucking need a familial mentor who has gone through this to help me EMOTIONALLY. But she barely has any empathy even though I love her. And we arenât talking. I did see her, in all her beauty, today when she dropped my brother off⊠we didnât speak according to my boundaries.
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AND OMFG THE PERSON NEXT TO ME JUST GOT COFFEE AND I CANNOT HANDLE THE SMELL
coffee
It smells so bad
I used to love the smell of coffee
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*tries not to meltdown and visibly be a frazzled queer coded autistic on a full flight*
*goes to bathroom and breathes*
#chronic health#chronic illness#vagueposting#vague posting about health#changes in food preference#healing#neurodivergence#queer#self love#prose#sense of smell#nausea#nauseated#audhd
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tell me about your ocâs they sound cool :3
OKOKOK SO! i have many oc universes but the one i was talking abt is my (eventual. i will make it someday i promise) webcomic Into Orbit!! its about four teenagers in the year 2009 whoâs town is getting invaded by aliens and wacky hijinks ensue :)
^^^this is the only piece of (some of) the mcs i have on hand, there are more but im on my phone rn đ
the one at the bottom is jaz phuong!! she/her bisexual grunge enthusiast who has dreams of owning a motorcycle, but unfortunately she is Fifteen Years Old and cannot drive one. truly a tragedy. however she makes due with wearing a motorcycle helmet roughly 60% of the time (has gotten into detention several times refusing to take it off.) she can come off as gruff and intimidating at first, however she just has autism and social anxiety and doesnât know how to talk to people. she is the coolest one here by far tho. and also my favorite to draw. i love her <3
going clockwise, the next character is theo rivera!:3 he/him token cishet (however he is ace and gnc!! so still a win for the gays) and jazâs reluctant friend/bestie/boyfriend depending on where you are in the story. hes a silly goofy mischievous little boy with a bad temper that he tries to keep under wraps. when heâs in a really bad mood, though, he sneaks out into the junkyard next to his house and smashes shit with his trademark Baseball Bat Never Once Used To Play Baseball (tm), which will absolutely not ever get him into trouble what are you talking about. he rides on the bike pegs he insisted jaz attach to her bike and they are so incredibly important to me do you understand
next up is shelley âshelâ bloomberg, he/him worlds most cringest boy (its a feature not a bug). heâs grayromantic and gay, but he doesnât know it yet so shhh!!!! hes a massive alien fan, local believer of every cryptid ever (he WILL show you "proof" if asked), avid xfiles watcher and scifi enjoyer. basically hes a huge nerd and we love him for it. usually he gets made fun of (*COUGH* SYLV *COUGH*) for his interests, but its lucky he knows his stuff, seeing as their town is about to get invaded by real-life actual aliens!! can most likely be found on call with his brother alex, playing his scuffed (absolutely NOT pirated he would never do such a thing stop lying) copy of the sims 2, or looking for extraterrestrial life using his handheld telescope. or just looking at space bc you know. space cool.
finally, we have sylvia mahji, she/her the most beloved of girls in the whole wide world. unlabeled sapphic who is POSSESSED BY AN ALIEN!! UH OH!!! well its really more of an unwilling symbiotic relationship but still UH OH!! dont worry her and her alien parasite become buddies (or more... hmmm.........) as time goes on. and she gets alien superpowers. hell yeah. she often ends up being mean to people in an effort to fit in, however all she really wants is friends :( her and theo used to be besties above all the resties but they started drifting apart at the beginning of the story, something to be discussed over the course of the plot. also she and shel are neighbors and have a rival relationship, like they hate each other so much for literally no reason. can you tell i like rivals to friends relationships. oH YEAH AND SHES FUCKING CRACKED AT BASKETBALL GIRL IS BALLING FR
other characters include: spacegirl!! the aforementioned alien parasite of sylv. she, although her name would make you think otherwise, is not a girl but an alien. i dont have a design settled on for her, but i do know that i want her to be humanoid, and she's got a green and pink color scheme :) when she takes control of sylv's body (because she can do that. forgot to say. eyah) sylv's eyes turn green and other eyes open up all over her body because cool :thumbsup: she came on the same spaceship the invaders coming to earth are from, but she just wants to see earth and have fun!! and maybe prevent her evil tyrant alien leader from taking over another world!! who knows!!
another important character is alex flores-bloomberg, shel's half brother, scene kid, and all around goofy guy :3 transmasc he/him, really just here to cause problems and get myspace followers. shel's father absolutely hates him and that fact is only partly because he stained his entire bathroom with hairdye. he's two years younger than the rest of the cast, a point that will be constantly used to make fun of him. i love him dearly. you get it.
uhh eyah thatsit :3 i could go on about them forever and everr so if anyone wants to know more about a specific character(s) or the plot or whatever pleasepleaseprettyplease ask!! ^_^
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