#i'm just very autistic when it comes to kids cartoons

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How come we didn't get any tickle scenes in Team Umizoomi?

(DeviantArt flashbacks)

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If you're genuinely interested in a possible answer to this question, the long answer is that it's not as socially acceptable to put those types of scenes in cartoons anymore as it was back then. If you think of kids cartoons in the 90s and especially the 80s, they had a lot of those types of scenes and no one batted an eye at it because it was seen as normal or not that much of a concern. Think of that scene from the Super Mario Brothers Super Show where Bowser has the Shy Guys licking his feet. Back then, it wasn't that abnormal or concerning, but nowadays most people can agree it was a really weird scene to put in the show. The same thing very much applies to tickling, especially with the concerns nowadays regarding grooming, consent, and kink culture being mainstream (not that tickling is inherently a sexual activity, but it very much can be sexual under certain circumstances), showrunners and producers for children's programming, especially for shows with a toddler demographic like Team Umizoomi has, have to be extremely careful. There was entire episode of Bluey centered around tickling in the context of a family game (not nsfw), but the general reception was that people found it weird. The internet absolutely played a role in modern day concerns over the content in children's programming, but our standards as a society have also changed.

The short answer is:

[crazy000567]

Ok I wanted to talk about this on my twitter but realized it will appeal to no one so its going here. Being autistic about critter character designs. VERY LONG

Pim/Charlie/Allan/Glep have interesting designs to me like they are some of my favorite character designs possibly in any cartoon cause they're all very well balanced - easy to draw, cute, but slightly ugly also. Well maybe not ugly but certainly not Conventional.

(Glep applies slightly less there, he's just straight up a cute lil guy, how plushies don't exist of him yet baffles me)

I like their slight offputting quirks, like, Allan's spine is visible, Pim's Teeth. They are just strange creatures and I enjoy that. Of course there's also the fact all of their frontfacings (maybe slightly excluding pim's) are just kinda goofy and bizarre looking.

Its just, the choices being made here are really good, okay. They're very appealing lined up, yknow.

The fact they are just kinda cute sometimes makes the expressions being pushed and the weird quirks funnier. If pim was an ugly lil freak all the time it would be less effective when he does that weird awkward toothy laugh. Which brings me to my next "Point" which is like, I really enjoy that they are some of the only critters that arent.... fugly as hell

There are some few exceptions with BG/side characters (just look at amy, shes a pretty gal) but like, most of the side critters that have gotten screentime are very very strange. Allan's landlord is a prime recent example. Look at that guy. Jesus christ.

This is not to say the uglier designs are Bad, quite the opposite, I love when they are hideous <3 But the whole thing is, if the main characters we see every episode were on the same level as them appearance-wise it would get very tired. This is probably like, entry level design stuff for a cartoon, and not very interesting to anyone lol, but with adult cartoons it feels like it can go way too hard on the ugly scale.

Onto the next thing thats been on my mind lately when it comes to critters - I enjoy that their appearances truly are pretty random. Its fun to make things like crittersonas cause like, you can almost do whatever the hell you want lol

I like that some of them just dont feel like wearing clothes, this was talked about by Michael on twitter at some point a few years back I think.

Their hair is a topic that kind of mystifies me lmfao like we see the wiry sparse hair a lot (gnarly, filmore, etc) but then there are characters like amy, pims dad and duncan that have more full human-esque hair. This makes me wonder if its like, randomly possible for some critters to get full heads of hair, or if wigs/hair transplants are a thing, or even if hairloss is just more common which results in the wiry hair later in life. Really NOT important or compelling to anyone but me but I seriously do think about this. Critter Hair Essay coming soon (i'm kidding ............. or am i?)

Also just like, the concept of what critter beauty standards or smth could be sort of interests me, but this is getting incomprehensibly long and stupid anyway, and I would have to be going into heavy Speculation Mode there. so BYE Goodbye

[autisticthings]

Why Every Character In Bob's Burgers is Autistic

Part One: Bob

[click below to keep reading; and I'm making this a series due to me not being alive rn. also also sorry for the chaos of my thoughts]

[Main points will be blue]

Bob Belcher is autistic and here's why.

Firstly he wears the same thing everyday. I know. I know, all of them do, it's a cartoon, but everyone points out the fact that he wears the same thing everyday. Nobody points out anyone else wearing the same thing. Plus, in response to them making fun of him for wearing the same thing everyday, he always says those clothes are comfy. I do the exact same thing, I wear like 3 shirts a week, they're my comfiest. Do I have other clothes? yeah, but so does Bob. Also, everyone points out how greasy and stained his shirts are, he's wearing them to their fullest. I do the same thing, I have literally 17 holes in one of the shirts I love wearing (14 of them are really small).

Secondly, he's extremely socially awkward, I don't really have much more to say for this point, he's simply socially awkward. It's just the way he talks too, he's quite monotone if he's not experiencing intense emotions. every time he's talking to someone who is not in his family, he just goes very stiff. A lot of allistics (non-autistic people) that I've met will change their voice to be more suitable for strangers. If they work somewhere, they'll mostly sound more cheery. If they're passing a stranger (and if they're a cis man) they'll raise and deepen their voices. Bob doesn't do that. He is monotone and awkward. Adding onto the way he talks, he's also blunt.

During the episode where he gets invited for a cooking segment, the one where Linda flashes everyone, he's very blunt with his commentary. Which is why everyone likes watching Gene. Bob is doing what he's there to do, he took directions to cook and stuck with them. He's also very blunt with his kids, he'll say what he's thinking. Allistics don't do that, they are so weird and filter their thoughts like a billion times before saying anything. I've been told I have to consider others feelings when speaking, but that takes energy and I don't. Bob does the same thing.

Speaking of feelings, Bob is extremely empathetic. He just doesn't show it how allistics show it. He's "soft" towards his kids and their plans and remember that cow at the beginning of the series? dw, I barely do, he wanted to save the cow. He always gives in, a lot of allistic (cis) men will stand their ground on not caring due to toxic masculinity. Bob doesn't do that, he listens. And no, I'm not trying to demonize allistic men, I'm definitely generalizing /gen.

Also, I don't remember what it was, where it was, and who it was by, but I remember reading something about how some autistic people are more hyper-empathetic towards inanimate objects. Bob plays with items a lot and will give them voices. He personifies them and gives them feelings and opinions, sometimes it seems as though he feels bad for the object if "they're being left out". This could just be a segment for entertainment purposes, but I know some autistics do this. Including Bob.

Moving on, Bob is also routine-oriented. He has routines in the kitchen, you don't really see the actual kitchen routine, but you can see him freak out if it's thrown off. He might hide it well, but he is always thrown off. Like when he was stuck in the wall or on the toilet, or when those people changed the theme of his restaurant to a tiki theme. His biggest routine is Thanksgiving.

He gets crazy about Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is Bob's favorite holiday, and he needs it to be perfect and go according to plan, and just work out. He gets worked up about this "little" thing. Every year, he needs it to be perfect. This is the little "obsessions" autistic people have. One year, Teddy asks for Bob's help because his family is coming over and he needs it perfect. Bob helps him. On Thanksgiving day, the Belchers have their Thanksgiving dinner, and Bob was complaining about how the routine was thrown off. The timing of his cooking was off by even a couple minutes. He goes over to Teddy's later in the day, and performs the same routine but perfect that time. Also, the first Thanksgiving episode where he gets drunk and is freaking out about not doing any of the Thanksgiving traditions due to Mr. Fischoedor stealing his family for the day (hope you watched this episode and I don't just sound crazy).

He just gets obsessed over a lot of little things. Such as, that Burger Game, Thanksgiving, etc.

He has intense emotions over these things that are important to him and nobody else. Not only that, but he yells a lot when getting intense. As though he needs to be heard and correct. Things need to be a specific way. Also yelling to be heard leads back to his childhood of not being heard (woah, analyzing past traumas? thought this was an autistic analysis) yeah, no, still is. How many of you autistics have been disregarded because you're too autistic passionate or weird or annoying. I doubt anyone is saying "oh, not I".

Big Bob is autistic. Autism is hereditary and Big Bob, aka Bob's dad, was very critical of him. Big Bob was blunt, stuck to his routine, and had that meltdown when Bob threw off his groove. Yes, I know this is about Bob, but Big Bob isn't enough of a big character to get his own post (sorry Big Bob). Bob made his own burger for that old guy (don't remember his name sorry) and Big Bob flipped when the guy wasn't having his usual. Hereditary. Adding onto the hyper-empathy of inanimate objects, during the first episode where Big Bob is mentioned, you can see that Bob has been playing and giving voices to his toys forever.

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Why were they both passionate about the burgers? Burgers are their Special Interests (or SpIns). Bob is so passionate about cooking, he knows what he's doing. His cooking is, again, routine, and he's creative with his burgers. He has fun with burgers, he's passionate about them, he loves them. He never stops. You just can't tell me that Bob doesn't have a special interest of burgers.

EDIT:

Bob also doesn't like parties. There's one episode where the rest of the Belchers missed his birthday and started planning a big surprise party, then realized he doesn't like surprises or parties. Bob was dreading the party, since he found out beforehand.

That's been all so far, if you have anything else you'd like me to add, feel free to leave a comment (im so sorry i sound like a youtuber), and if i think of more i'll add it.

Once I do a second person, I'll link it here.

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@tittlebit

Who should I do Next?

[l0thcat]

I keep thinking about TBB and how it ended. Or the whole season i should say, the ending was pretty good with a few flaws ( in my opinion ).

And you know, I'm not surprised, as much as i LOVE this show, I'm used to cartoons getting shit. Its been going on for far too long.

Its Disney AND Netflix. And here is a list of shows that were doing good, got told mid season its getting canceled, and a rushed ending.

Amphibia

The Owl House

She Ra and The Princesses Of Power ( 2018 )

Centaurworld*

My Little Pony G4* and G5

Steven Universe*

OK KO lets be heroes.*

Star Trek Prodigy*

Kipo and the age of the wonderbeasts.

The Mandalorian ( i know its not a cartoon but it has the same vibes as TBB ).

And probably many more. It sucks, so bad, for animation. And I'm saying this because i fully believe Disney or whoever was going to cancel TBB if it already isn't. They just didn't want to announce that.

Other notes:

*Centaurworld ; Was meant to be an ADULT cartoon and very much has left overs from that, however Netflix decided it was too MLP-esc so they made it for kids instead which ended up just being a bunch of fart and butt jokes. And then got canceled anyways so everything had to rush and wrap up in season 2. Which SUCKS because it is so beautiful when it can be and has beautiful music.

*MLP G4 is not Netflix nor Disney and while it did get multiple seasons and an ending, it had new writers during, i don't know, s6 or s7. And things slowly went backwards. And the end felt rushed imo. It wasn't a bad one but it didn't feel.. satisfying.

*Steven Universe ; i love Steven Universe, it was canceled because the creator got an Sapphic wedding AND kiss scene on screen, on a kids cartoon. But they compromised by after the finale they would get a spin off and a movie. The finale is good. Whats rushed here to me, was the spin off. And again, this is not Disney or Netflix, but Cartoon Network.

OK KO and Star Trek prodigy are also not Disney or Netflix ( which apparently Netflix is trying to save Star Trek Prodigy ) but also kicked the bucket.

All this to say ; there is a huge problem within the animation area and I'm tired of CEOs or whoever forcing creators and writers to cancel or shorten their stories.

The Bad Batch s3 is no better in my opinion. I loved a lot of scenes of it and I'm grateful for a lot of it and I'm not honestly sure if this is Disney or Jennifer or someone else but it really hurts.

Here is why it bothers me:

I'll just get this one out of the way first. Tech. Tech COULD have been sacrificed. He COULD have died. In a way that was actually meaningful. Omega got captured anyway, she was probably going to whether Tech went home with them or not. His death IS sad and i DO see them trying to honor it, i do. But its bad to me because it really does feel like "gotta kill the autistic person". Its really annoying when shows try to have an autistic character and then mistreat them ( She Ra 2018 as well but Entrapta didn't die but she does get mistreated a lot ). Its annoying and hurtful. Especially with the writers and such teasing his fans so strongly. There was no reason to. Its not a spoiler.

The TALKS in between that we missed. Tech talking to Phee about Crosshair. Crosshair learning about Tech's Death from Omega. Omega talking to Emerie about her brothers. Crosshair coming back with Omega, we don't even see them just silently watching him walk into the ship. Its just nothing. I'm sure i am forgetting some because it happened, SO much during this season.

What happened to Cody. Like its fine if he's being saved for another series but then perhaps say that.

Creators do not have to be extremely secretive about everything. Fans who don't want spoilers don't go looking for it. I'm not implying they need to spoil the ENTIRE plot, but saying Tech is dead-dead is not something to be secretive about, An hour long finale is not something to be secretive about, etc.

The other Clone X's, while they are very very cool and supposed to mirror CF99... they weren't overly needed honestly. It felt so rushed. Like I'm not saying they needed to be someome either, they don't need to. But i wasn't fearful or full of impact when i saw them my genuine reaction was "this is too much now". It was like if they DID decide to put Darth Vader in it at last second. Like i fully believe Omega was supposed to be home with Crosshair for a little longer and help Echo and Rex with the clones. And then these new CX clones were supposed to show up in s4 and be the ones to get her again.

The fans.. would have wanted.. season 4?...... i don't know why its so bad to want that. And honestly atp, i don't get why its so bad to have plot filler. Its BAD for series that got canceled or shortened, but its not bad for a series that you want more of, because then you get more time with them or more lore if you're lucky.

It occured to me there was not one flash back. Not one about the past. The most was Omega talking about how she watched CF99 be made and that it implied shes older ( and is ) than them. Could you imagine the emotional impact on us and for Omega, watching her, watch them grow up. I don't think Rebels or TCW really had flash backs either but they usually did it in other ways.

I'm not like.. a good writer, so maybe writers on here will disagree and thats okay, I'm open to that.

TLDR: I'm tired of Cartoons kicking the bucket too soon for far too long. I feel like The Bad Batch s3 also had this treatment and it isn't fair to the fans.

[ahasiw-okitowin]

LOL OKAY I'm bed bound for the next while so I have all the time in the world to answer questions!!!

questions I think would be fun to be asked

1. what are 3 things you’d say shaped you into who you are?

   -trauma

   -disability

   -SpongeBob SquarePants

2. show us a picture of your handwriting?

Here's a look at my egg/hatchling log

3. 3 films you could watch for the rest of your life and not get bored of?

   -Jurassic Park

   -El Laberinto del Fauno

   -Event Horizon

4. what’s an inside joke you have with your family or friends?

When my eldest niece was a toddler, she would play dead when she didn't want to listen to her mum. She would close her eyes and stick her tongue out, all flopped over, it was so funny that we all started doing it. She's now 12 years old, and sometimes still when someone leaves a room we all play dead when they come back.

5. what made you start your blog?

I learned about tumblr through someone I used to do some makeup work for. He was a homestuck. I painted him grey multiple times. He was also a fucking dickhead.

Anyways, I think I originally made an account so I could follow a lolita blog... I think it was fyeahlolita or something like that. I used to wear lolita nearly every day when I was managing a Claire's, the kids loved it lol.

6. what’s the best and worst part of being online/a creator?

Best thing about the internet is the connection, I've made friends from all over the world and I will never not think that's magical!

Worst thing.... predators.

7. what scares you the most and why?

Recently the arthritis in my hands has been really bad, and my hands shake all the time. This has made it really hard to use my hands! My disease has already tanked my career and taken my mobility, if I lose the use of my hands I really don't know what I'll do. That terrifies me.

Side note, in high school musical theater class we were asked "what's your greatest fear". My autistic ass decided to answer completely honestly. Everyone was saying things like "clowns" or "needles" or "the ocean". My answer was "being kidnapped and held in a basement for decades and forced to bear the children of my captor". Yeah. Didn't go over well.

8. any reacquiring dreams?

I'm guessing this is supposed to say "recurring". I occasionally have a recurring dream, I've had it since childhood. I'm a little kid in bed, and one of those big excavator things, you know the ones with the long neck and the big shovel bucket, comes into my bedroom and is trying to GET me. I hide under the blanket, and suddenly the excavator gets big cartoon eyes and says "where'd you go? Wheeeeeeere'd you go?" When I come out of the blanket it gets all scary again and then repeats until I wake up.

9. tell a story about your childhood

I'll give you a funny one. When I was 4 or 5 I decided to run away. I packed up my backpack, my mum gave me 5 bucks and a sandwich, I hugged my baby sister goodbye and off I went into the world.

10 minutes later there's a knock at the door. It's me. My mum asks "what are you doing back so soon?" I reply, with tears in my eyes, "I missed my plane".

10. would you say you’re an emotional person?

Internally, very much so. Externally I can be very emotionally reserved, unless I'm around people I'm comfortable with.

11. what do you consider to be romance?

I don't really know how to define romance, to me it's just kind of a feeling, but I have an example of a moment that felt really romantic to me!

My crush wrote and recorded a song a little bit ago. He texted me one day and sent me the link for it. I clicked on the link and listened to the song, and realized that it had no views or subscribers, so I was the first one he showed it to! Mega romantic.

12. what’s some good advice you want to share?

-Pee after sex.

-Cotton undies are healthiest for your pussy.

-If you're a youngin' and some dude 5+ years older than you is showing interest in you, RUN.

13. what are you doing right now?

Lying in bed.

14. what’s something you’ve always wanted to do but maybe been to scared to do?

I don't think there's anything I've been too scared to do tbh. It takes a lot to scare me. I think most of the things I've wanted to do but haven't were just not financially accessible to me. I haven't done any travelling, there are places in the world I would like to go to, mostly for food purposes.

15. what do you think of when you hear the word “home”?

Recently the word home makes me think of the last house I lived in with my ex husband. I definitely still miss it sometimes.

16. if you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

I wouldn't have lupus lol

17. name 3 things that make you happy

-cooking for someone and watching them enjoy it

-getting nerdy about music stuff

-picking up my Molly cat and giving her a big squeeze even though she hates it

18. do you believe in ghosts and/or aliens?

Yes, but not in the history channel way.

19. favourite thing about the day?

Sunshine on my skin

20. favourite things about the night?

The quiet

21. are you a spiritual person?

Extremely

22. say 3 things about someone you love

I'll choose my friend Sally.

-she's extremely accommodating of my accessibility needs

-she's an EXCELLENT communicator

-she has a great smile and a super contagious laugh

23. say 3 things about someone you hate

-he's not good at dancing

-he's not good at rapping

-he is a pipsqueak

24. what’s one thing you’re proud of yourself for?

This is a dangerous question for me; there is SO MUCH I'm proud of myself for. I'm proud of myself for managing to crawl out of the depression hole I was in a few months ago. I'm proud of myself for running a successful business despite being chronically ill. I'm proud of myself for learning to be confident and find a way to love myself. I'm proud of myself for having a big fat ass and ridiculously beautiful hair.

25. fave season and why?

Summer. It's powwow season and there's no cold to bother my joints or snow to make it hard to get around.

26. fave colour and why?

Generally my answer is purple and pink and rainbow and sparkles. Gay.

27. any nicknames?

Not really, people generally just use my name. Previously I've been called Kiki and Kitty in workplaces where the white people couldn't manage "Kida"

Yeah. I know.

A cute kind of nickname my nieces call me is "Mantie". It's a combination of "man" and "auntie". My eldest niece came up with it.

28. do you collect anything?

-rocks

-plastic dinosaurs

-vintage my little ponies and grand champions horse figures. I also restore them and it's really fun.

29. what do you do when you’re sad?

Recently? ABBA and crying.

30. what’s one thing that never fails to make you happy/happier?

My nieces. They're the best damn kids in the world.

31. are you messy or organised?

Organized. I can't function in mess.

32. how many tabs do you have open right now?

37. I cycle through and close them regularly.

33. any hobbies?

Many many hobbies. Beadwork, reptiles, isopods, singing, wire wrapping, powwow dancing, trying to get back into bellydance, we will see how my hips do

34. any pet peeves?

Bad manners. Being stared at. When my sister sings commercial jingles wrong.

35. do you trust easily?

No.

36. are you an open book or do you have walls up?

Bit of both. I'm generally very open about talking about trauma, disability, gender and sexuality etc. But showing the emotion behind those stories? Almost never. Only with very few trusted people. I don't like appearing vulnerable.

37. share a secret

Hmmmm..... dang I genuinely can't think of one. If I remember a secret I'll add it.

OH I've got one. When I was a kid we moved a lot. During a couple of our moves I left a letter behind to the new tenants with my new address, thinking it would be interesting to know who was living in our old house. No one ever wrote me :(

38. fave song at the moment?

Right now I'm really connecting with "Misunderstood" by Dream Theater. It's like 9 minutes long so be ready lol.

39. youtuber you’ve been obsessed with and why?

I really love Maangchi. Her videos are so peaceful and pleasant, and her recipes are genuinely delicious. I get her newsletter every month and it's DELIGHTFUL

40. any bad habits?

I chew the insides of my cheeks pretty bad. Sometimes I drink too much root beer and get a tummy ache.

HOO boy that's a lot of questions! I feel like after reading this people will know me pretty well. Thanks for asking @nimashkawizii

[thenotebookwizard]

She-Ra | A Fanboy's Tale

The odd story of how I ended up in the She-Ra fandom. Because I would have put money down on that not ever having happened, but here I am.

So, to frame this story - a few things you should know about me.

My (main) job is Professional Adult™ - which is to say, I teach life skills to folk with neurodivergence, physical disability, and mental illness. I love my job. It lets me be a disability advocate. It lets me work with amazing people. It lets me discover, explore, and understand the world a little better every day. It lets me teach things I am very good at and learn things I am not. And it forces me to examine myself a lot.

I don't watch much TV. Or many movies. Anxiety about things. Lack of time. Lack of interest. Even fewer things I watch are cartoons. There are some older cartoons I love, but I don't really watch many cartoons. Not because they're bad or aren't entertaining or I have a prejudice against the form. Just - usually - I'm not exposed to ones I like.

Or they hit on the thing that makes me really wary of TV shows and movies these days. Which is - I love unironically heroic characters. I am so tired of the gray-area, morally compromised characters. I am tired of gritty, the bad guys win, the good guys have to be bad guys to win, the antiheroes, the Walter Whites (I loathe that show. And that character. It's awful.) Game of Thrones and ASOIAF. (Terrible people. Doing terrible things. For terrible reasons.)

I have worked with some families for more than a decade. Close to two decades, in some cases. Parents who needed to learn things to teach their kids. Kids with neurodivergence who needed someone to be able to fight for them at school when the parents didn't know the right code words and the laws. Siblings and niblings and adopted clans have all asked for my help over the years.

One such family has three kids, two parents and a bunch of adopted aunts/uncles. They are amazing people. Supportive. Accepting. Creative. They work hard, play hard, and find joy in ways I never have been able to.

The oldest kid loved Stephen Universe. They wrote fic. Drew fanart.

The oldest kid is autistic. Some social rules - are hard for them. Understanding the vagaries of fandom culture was just as hard. We never did find out what they did wrong (maybe it was their gemsona. Maybe it was a fic pairing. Maybe it was a youtube ramble. We really don't know.) But they did or said something that got a faction of the SU fandom riled up at them.

This is not an indictment of that fandom. I've been in fandom long enough to know that you can't blame all for a few. These few did some real damage, though. Threats. Mockery. Told my student to kill themselves. Slurs. Online stalking. Doxxing. Threatening phone calls. Threatening letters. Glitter bombs. False allegations called into their school. To police. Their home was vandalized. Their cars were vandalized to the point they were totaled.

They had to move. Both parents had to get new jobs. My student did not graduate from their high school. They were home schooled. They did not go to college. They did not get a job. They went into residential treatment for a year and some change. They have not yet recovered.

So when the youngest kid found She-Ra and the Princesses of Power a year or two ago and dove in with a powerful hyperfixation, their mother called me up in a blind panic. She could not go through it again.

She paid me to watch the show. To explore the fandom. To read the fic. To do what I do as a fandom person online.

So I did. To be fair, I was pretty much coasting along at that point. Coming out of a breakup, a health crisis, and COVID. No real new fandoms in years. Poking at a fic here and there. Not active on tumblr anymore. One or two servers. But my skills were there - I knew how to find fandoms. Servers. Fics.

The youngest was thrilled to find out their Mom wasn't going to take their hyperfixation away. They sent me a list of fics to read. Notes on the show. Youtube videos to watch. Articles to read. Blogs to read. Posts to read. Fanart to admire.

I watched the show - and my old fandom heart woke up a bit. The show had great villains. Great characters. An unironically heroic protagonist. A love story. At least, I thought it was a love story. By the time I was through season three, I figured that there was no way they were actually going to go through with Catradora. It was based on popular media properties from my childhood.

(Full disclosure: I loved She-Ra as a kid, more than He-Man. Mostly, because I saw her show first and Skeletor creeped me out. But I loved both and watched both. I love the Dolph Lundgren live action movie and I used to read the He-man and She-Ra comics. So I wasn't uninterested in my new work assignment.)

Then season four hit, and i was devastated. Glimmer had gone the 'dark hero' route. Adora was a sad, lonely mess. And the writers had taken Catra and, in the coldest, most brutal, purposeful, deliberate way taken her apart. Taken everything away from her. When they'd already given her so little. She always lost. Not just the battle or the war, but - herself. Her confidence.

By the time I started season five, I realized Catradora could never happen, because the things the writers would have to do to fix it, redeem them all and not leave me with the normal pyrrhic victory TV shows give these days wouldn't happen. No writers were that brave. No one breaks the cycle that way and gets away with it.

I was wrong.

Glimmer was saved by Catra, who apologized. Who sacrificed herself doing the right thing. Glimmer apologized. Glimmer owned her shit.

You have no idea how important that arc is to me. They took a character who had morally compromised themselves and had that character say: I was wrong. I messed up. I'm sorry.

And mean it. She didn't do it again. She didn't go back to her old ways. She stood her damn ground and stayed a hero. Hells yeah.

Adora - the titular hero of the show, without her magic, without her sword, said: Fuck it. We ball. And she walked right up to the big bad guy with more courage and heart than anyone since Luke Skywalker staring down Palpatine and said: Give me my friend back.

She rescued her arch-enemy. No one would have blamed her for leaving Catra behind with Prime. Catra was the enemy. Catra had broken the universe to get Adora back. Catra had tried to kill Adora and her friends over and over again. Catra had saved Adora as often as she'd tried to hurt her.

She stood before the Emperor of the Known Universe and defied him. She jumped off a cliff after Catra, and then when she stood back up, she had her sword. She had her power. And she kicked ass.

(Best episode. Season 5. Episode 5. Save the Cat.)

Then the writers doubled down and had them save the universe with love - through a kiss. Not only did all of that fit the old show, it was what I have wanted from a show for a long time. Unironic, unabashed, unashamed radical belief that doing the right thing and being a good person matter.

That you don't have to compromise yourself to beat the bad guys. It's when you accept yourself, you deal in radical acceptance, radical forgiveness, and the idea that people can change, grow, get better, become more -

Then you can save the world.

So, of course, I dove into the fic. And I found out where all the fic I'd been craving for ten years had gone. It was in the She-Ra fandom. Epics. One-shots. Love stories. AUs. All of it was right there, and more and more was being posted.

I read the fics my student sent. I joined servers. I read through tropes. Blogs. Posts. Articles. I even made myself watch videos.

And when I went back to that Mom, I told her the truth: there's controversy there, but here always is. There's a fight between ships. There's a lot of pain. A lot of hurt. Because this show touched on some big things - everything from growing up queer to growing up during war and disaster. It gave voices to a lot of things most shows and media won't touch or even look at.

But it's also a fandom full of beautiful people. People finding themselves, people expressing themselves, and people using story to redefine the world just a little bit at a time.

Which is what fandom has always done. When you scrape away the layers of hyperfixation and obsession and naked want for more of what the media gave us, you find people who believe, very strongly, in something the show expressed.

Just like Star Trek, so long ago. (And, not so long ago. I love you, Star Trek Discovery!)

So, I guess with that, discovering the She-Ra fandom turned me into a Professional Fanboy, because I got paid to do what I should have already done.

[poopingonthefloor]

youu sshhould tell some headcanons u got for jack dave n henry if u want ofc

OK SURE! *glass shattering sound* (Some of these are not "headcanons" or are technically implied to be canon but im just going to list all of my specific perceptions regarding the character)

Long list down bellow. vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

-Dave and Jack both have adhdtism and borderline personality disorder. (((I also want to use this opportunity to apologize for any previous ignorance/rudeness i may have responded with before I'm a bitch but erm I am improving. so yeh also yeah i can definitely see Jack being autistic now too which i know i said i dont really see. it turns out my symptoms i projected onto him were also autistic symptoms so um...))) -Jack is a dog person, Dave doesnt have an animal prefrence but dogs suit him the best because he's dependent and sensitive and dogs love unconditionally, Henry has no feelings about animals however he dislikes dogs in particular. -Henry likes cartoon bears the best though. only cartoon versions.

-I imagine Dave as a child wasn't necessarily BULLIED by other orphans but he was treated poorly and excluded. Adult carers would try to befriend him but he was a "problem child" as a kid and didn't comprehend human boundaries (he never learned) so he made adults uncomfortable too. -I stole this one but if Dave was a cat he'd be a lykoi. henry would be a maine coon (jack is a default shorthair but i give him folded ears sometimes for fun) -My Dave was born purple (and also Henry is born pink) for reasons similar to Doggo's "why is henry's eyes evil" explanation. It's just different ways of their "evil" manifesting -- Dave's eyes are normal as a child however because obviously he isnt "evil" as a child, I imagine his soul is just weird and that he's never been fully normal. (because I'm not a fan of "x character if bad thing never happened" worlds where the character is basically just a normal person. Like its just more interesting if they were always an outcast/unusual from birth. Also it just makes more sense for Dave's character since he is never shown to be normal in any way even in the flipside LOL....also because Dave is often described as "not exactly human")

-Henry however just quickly grew to be jaded and resentful of anyone and anything living. Either from his dad or just that being his personality (but I prefer both). He wasn't outcast and he got along with people when he felt like it but he just hated everyone. -However I imagine Henry always had a childish side to him that enjoys more cartoon artistry and performance. -Henry and Dave gesture similarly when expressing excitement/enthusiasm, though Henry gestures very little most of the time. Henry either expresses exaggeratedly and cartoonishly (but comes across condescending) or not at all.

-Jack likes to watch TV but Dave does not and finds sitting still and watching pictures on a screen boring. (Though certain movies/shows are an exception) -Back when Dave still had simple desires/pleasures (before the lobotomy) he always wanted to have a pet but animals always hated him (because he didn't know how to handle them gently).

-Henry has no romantic or sexual desires whatsoever. He had a wife and child simply because Martha confidently expressed interest on him and he decided to lie to her. The only motive really involved was the societal standard of having a family/having a kid to continue his legacy (but henry didn't really need that to spread his didnt he lol..)

-Alongside that Dave is pansexual and Jack is bisexual (with a prefrence to men) but those are obvious -Dave appears stiff however can contort his body disturbingly (flexible), Jack is normal and appears in great condition for a corpse... (mostly due to makeup (nail polish emoji))

Ok thats all for now so I don't make this post longer than LONG. thank you for asking my headcanons though. ^__^ I love being crazy and sharing my opinions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[stargazinglesbian]

Very very good dump,i know think you're even cooler than i already did :D Now it's my turn!!

So similar to you,i was a tomboy autistic kid who didn't like femininity because of those things but the show didn't come out until i was already and femme.But Reggie is exactly like me when i was a kid so she's eternally having a special in my heart <3 Twelve Forever was one of the first queer cartoons i was fully invested in by myself with no prompting and i binged it quicker than i have any other show!!Todd is so goober and i loved the subtle bi poc rep with him(he's native to me🙏🏼)with 'Your dad's hot too'💀Lives in my head rent free and Esther is literally ME because she's a black pastel femme with peppy weirdgirl autism🥰She's transmasc genderfluid and bigender(boy + demigirl)to me too!!

The theme song is so soothing,the artsyle is just perfect and so shaped and i want to see practically all my fandoms and even original works in it,the lore warms my heart and feels so much like something i would write so it really fits me and feels like home as corny as that sounds and the way it tackled issues means so much to me with how realistic it all was!!!I also have a self-insert!!His name is Persea 'Percy' Brown and he's Reggie's pop punk babysitter attending college in town to become an indie game designer,the Endless Trio's cool big sis and mom friend and Buttwitch's love interest.Sorry but she's so hot and i wanna date her so bad😭The ship name is Witchsitter!!

Overally,i'm eternally grateful Twelve Forever got to exist even not as much as it should've!Also Riley's cotton candy colored mismatched sneakers gotta be one of my favorite genders

YOURE SO REAL FOR ALL OF THIS AHAOWHAKSJ

you're so real for the buttwitch crush, she was hot and everything you wrote about it feeling so comforting and homey is so true!!! as a kid i was always suchhh a weirdo but the show made me feel ok with that, and i loved it for that

the main trio is really the epitome of queer kids seeking each other out and banding together, they all deserve every good thing that comes their way 🩷🩷🩷

[applescabs]

I was tagged by my buddy @phoenixfangs so lets goooo

Are you named after anyone? I've heard this story a buncha times so I'm pretty sure my mom got my birth name from a singer. She heard it on tv and liked it a lot, back then it wasn't a very common name in my country. My names as of now are 50/50, Tom didn't come from anyone but Teddie was 100% something I picked up from Teddie p4, hahah.

When was the last time you cried? Last Sunday when I rewatched ep 11 of Bucchigiri. especially during the part where Zabu got the absolute shit beaten out of him. Finn came home right after that and doesn't understand that one of the big points of media is to reach you emotionally, so he thought it was weird that I was crying.

Do you have kids? Nah, but I'd like to some day, if fate allows it.

Do you use sarcasm a lot? Not nearly as much as I used to, because most of my friends are autistic and don't get it most of the time, so I just end up upsetting them whenever I do use it. Being sincere is much more fun anyways.

What sports do you play? None, but I would love to swim or ice skate (or, hell, do some skiing). Neither are really possible for me atm, unfortunately (do you have any idea how expensive skiing is btw. it's crazy). When I was a kid I did gymnastics and streetdance, I also played tennis briefly as a teen, but had to quit due to a lack of people in my age group playing at that club.

What’s the first thing you notice about people? I usually take note of how someone dresses and does their hair. Ever notice how dull most people's clothes are? I like seeing styles that stand out.

What’s your eye colour? Brown, it's not a particularly dark shade, but I wouldn't call it hazel (my dad has hazel eyes though).

Scary movies or happy endings? This ones a little... vague? But I guess if I had to choose... I wouldn't. I don't care about genre or what type of emotional impact it has, as long as it's coherent and entertaining in its own right. (That doesn't mean I don't care about quality btw. I literally just. watch anything and judge it for what it is.)

Any special talents? I'm a boss at packing in groceries quickly and efficiently. Not a talent that everyone possesses, I've learned (sorry Minke <3).

Where were you born? Netherlands babeyyy ✌ North-Holland to be a bit more precise. I lived next to a dyke (not that kind) so I got the real under-sea-level experience. I still live around the area but not in my hometown anymore.

What are your hobbies? Drawing, (writing?), translation and the nuances that come with it, watching movies, tv shows, animes, cartoons, playing video games, reading books, comics and manga. (and then talking about cinematography, parallels, themes, symbolism and the likes) I also collect soda cans (+ the occasional glass bottle), candy packaging, and anime figurines + other merch.

Do you have any pets? My little baby Jody (dog) who I've had since I was 7 years old! She's about to have her sweet 16 on the 23rd (that's in 2 weeks!) she's getting blind and deaf as hell but she's still lively and sweet as ever <3 And my sweet Tiger of course, who's of undetermined age (around 8/9 the vet said) and currently living with my good friend Minke and their 2 other cats (he does not like them) and dog (he is ok with her). He's not with me rn because my mom's bf is allergic, unfortunately.

How tall are you? 1 meter 59. that single centimeter haunts me. I would've also preferred an additional 10 as well.

Favourite subject in school? Art history used to my favourite in high school, and when I was in film school for a brief period I loved film history. I just love anything pertaining to the arts and it's history that involves analysing and comparing it to other time periods, really.

Dream job? I wanna be someone's househusband and make a buncha weird art on the side. Not kidding btw. But if I had to choose a more conventional dream job... it had to be something in the creative or design industry, otherwise I'll probably die of unhappiness.

tageroonie @kuwupikaa @sunflowermews @xrd @isleofair @spunktrumpetsasara and uhhh other mutuals who feel inclined to do this 👉👈

[autistic-sidestep]

uno_reverse_card.gif im cheating and using a few ideas from the meme bc i have No braincells but i DO crave that suranga lore SO--

favorite color to wear AND favorite color in general, if they're different things; favorite genre of any media AND what his favorite type of media is (music, movies, shows, etc), favorite person, AND what he thinks abt the rat king :3

k lets finally fuckign answer this

favourite colour: phthalo green! namely why it's a very core part of the argos suit. they like wearing blacks/greys/dark greens and blues, those tend to lean into the more professional/conservative look they're angling for as a mob step, but i'm sure if they weren't having to worry abt staying lowkey in civilian cover they'd love to dress up in more bright colours, jewel tones n such. as for now, most of that's reserved for when they're juno (pre-debut) and argos.

their cuckoo training's given them an aversion to opera and ballet, given those featured heavily in the functions they were meant to infiltrate as a cuckoo, sometimes as a dancer themselves. but! musicals and plays, for sure. The COSTUMES. THE EMOTIONS. tia elena probably invites sura to come with her one time and they're hooked (i want to believe wicked's in the fh verse, they'd be all over that. misunderstood outcast tarred as a villain? YEAH. post-hb it'd have even more resonance; no good deed is SO fitting cos of past-self rivalry. defying gravity, too.) then there's 70s-80s rock, esp queen (ofc the lead singer is the purrcury's namesake), sharing the same taste in music as pelayo and joes lol.

they're a classics/shakespeare nerd too, (hence why sura's puppet was named juno), and they'd especially enjoy viola's genderfuckery in twelfth night (and honestly, the mental image of argos going "it's SHAKESPEARE you HEATHEN" after quoting something from one of the tragedies at a clueless hero is too funny to pass up. they're just bringing some class to the villain scene.)

they like movies, though they do find it a little less engaging w/o the minds to read. a good few hollywood golden age, but animated ones are probably their favourite thanks to themmy. they binged a bunch of cartoon movies together, and lilo and stitch is their favourite cos of the BIG relate to lilo being a weird autistic girl and stitch being an escaped experiment that was made to be evil, but learned to love,,,,,

favorite person: pre-hb, it was a tie between ortega, tia elena (she nicknamed sura pollito, and she's the Only person sura will allow to call them that) and, as expected, themmy, in no small part due to the fact they all kept feeding sura. and he kept coming back like a stray cat lol. they made sura feel safe and loved and valued, and not just a little kid. themmy (in my hc) being openly autistic especially helped sura be less insecure about how young he came off, especially when the farmhands infantilised the regenes so much (and by extension, learning to mask and suppress his autistic traits). part of hiding his face (and lowering his voice) was so people would take him seriously, cos he was well aware how babyish he looked. it was a huge relief not to do that anymore, or at least do it less.

themmy: so what did you think?

t:

t: are you crying?

sura, sniffling and very obviously holding back tears: no

throughout rebirth, it was just mortum, largely cos they felt like the friendships they had as sidestep, being able to relax in someone else's company, this time, in juno's body. they love nerding out with her on tech stuff, critiquing peoples' suits, and just generally having someone that Gets It about just sitting in silence hanging out (mortum reads as neurodivergent to me).

it's a tie between her and chen now, to the surprise of both sura and chen, given how much friction they used to have lol. turns out that they have a lot in common (better at bonding with animals instead of people), more so than before hb, of course. (i am also pushing my autistic chen agenda, and that was part of the friction between the two was that step was trained to understand allistic inclined people. chen operates on different rules. but also given chens scepticism about the suspiciously well-trained young vigilante thing, i'll give him a pass for that too.)

rat king opinions: SURA ADORES THE GIRLS. sorta filling the void fred did, but not quite. i like to think of them as like… a telepathic equivalent of a service dog. if sura wasn't a mob step, they'd be a lot more dependent on them for interaction, but as is, they're a reliable supportive presence that sura knows will always have its back. it's nice to have another telepath to communicate with! routinely gives them mental scritches and treats for being the best telepathic rat brains in the whole world. they deserve it!!(and an added bonus, that also involves some self-care for herself. can't disappoint/let them down. it's a win/win.)

[rayatii]

You know that trope in so many kids shows where one episode revolves around a character who refuses to eat something even tho they usually haven't tried it before, and everyone else tries to convince them to try it, until they relent and decide that they like said food?

Well, kid me used to despise these episodes (and I still feel iffy about them to this day); as someone who was (and still is!) a "picky eater", I took these kinds of episodes as a personal attack, bc I could/can usually tell what I will/won't like based on smell and texture (ye typical autistic stuff), and these episodes felt to me as if they were pointedly discrediting my daily game of "try not to puke".

I understand that there is a difference between not judging anything without trying it (which is a typical kid thing; I have definitely been guilty of that), and being forced to eat something which you can sense that you will despise. But little me didn't see the difference back then, so yeah.

(I think some of that ire was directed at an episode of the French cartoon Petit Potam, that I grew up with, in which the titular character complains about eating certain stuff for lunch (including but not limited to Brussels sprouts), because he'd rather eat his favorite dessert, and his parents are constantly ordering him angrily to clear his plate. At one point, he does put a bunch of Brussels sprouts in his mouth and complains about not liking it as he chews, and eventually spits everything on someone who happens to be visiting, and is grounded for it. But the thing is, by the end of the episode I don't think the main character decides on whether or not he's willing to eat "disgusting food" or whatever (or if it does, it's very vague to me), so I find it very intriguing now that I'm thinking about it.)

I wanna do something that subverts this trope in a way; a character says they don't want to try some food bc they're repulsed by the smell and/or texture. Everyone else around them insists that they just tRY iT, and they relent. About a minute after the character in question swallows a portion of said food (which they still don't like), they start feeling queasy, and then they puke everything out. Sometimes our stomach simply does not agree; it's in our DNA.

It's mind-blowing to me that some ADULT people are apparently still not aware of the difference between two situations I talked about earlier (being fussy for the sake of being fussy VS having actual sensory issues when it comes to food), bc I'm still in the process of de-conditioning myself from the vague notion that these shows instilled in me being a picky eater/not liking many foods/not always being willing to try new foods makes me a bad person of some sort (obviously they never say that outright, but it felt this way to me all the same), and from what I've seen, many autistic/neurodivergent people are having this same issue.

[mangodestroyer]

Triggering response to triggering post.

I feel like I've been doing the finger thing on accident. I thought it was just me having one of my autistic stims and being silly. I didn't realize it is probably something I do to help me when I'm thinking about things that are a little more difficult to process (going into grim territory and such). I do tend to do weird things like that when in deep thought.

I'm also someone who has... WAY more trauma than I was ever comfortable admitting. I've been traumatized merely realizing I escaped some DANGEROUS fucking situations (sought out by predators)... I've also had my autonomy... violated. Which took me so fucking long to finally admit to myself. On top of that, I've suffered some physical abuse. And so much fucking emotional and psychological abuse. As a result, I am super sensitive to any feelings like people might be disgusted by me or rejecting me. I'm also terrified whenever I hear people raise their voices. I currently live on a college campus and people get rowdy. I sometimes jump when people start yelling and start listening in because I'm so worried someone is getting hurt. But then it turns out it's just college kids goofing off.

At the same time, a lot of my traumatic memories feel very fuzzy and like they didn't even happen. I sometimes wonder if I'm exaggerating things when recalling them. I feel like if I told people they wouldn't take it seriously. I felt the same way when having a panic attack where I started loudly whimpering/sobbing. I just imagined if anyone heard it... they probably just thought I was being weird.

I agree that those of us with trauma just sometimes behave weirdly. It's actually not uncommon for some of us who have been diagnosed with autism or related conditions to wonder if we actually have those conditions, or if trauma is making it seem like we do. Oddly enough, cPTSD and autism spectrum disorder have similarities. And people with autism can also have extremely anxious responses to things and need certain things to calm down. Both conditions can come with "meltdowns." And a tendency to feel overstimulated.

We can also have so many different ways of coping. Lately, I'm finding that I'm becoming so interested in purchasing fantasy novels and stuffed animals. I literally just want my home to look like a cozy library. I sometimes hug my Crowley snek when I'm stressed. He's always sitting next to me on my desk otherwise. I also sometimes like to listen to music and watch shows/cartoons while stoned and eating delicious food because it brings me so much fucking joy.

Yes, Crowley's expression here is hilarious and always worth a post in its own right 😊 but I thought I'd share something about what he's doing with his hand for anyone who is unfamiliar with that particular gesture, as it has a name and a purpose that goes along with a few other scenes in the series. It's also a good strategy in real life for anyone experiencing anxiety and might want another tool in their toolbox for it.

TWs: anxiety; trauma; PTSD; brief, indirect mention of SA.

For a lot of people who get something on their hands and are exploring the texture of it, the inclination would be to rub together the thumb and the index finger. Crowley's unique use of his fingers isn't just a sorcery thing, though, as what he is doing in this scene-- touching his thumb to his middle finger-- has a name amongst us humans.

It's called shuni mudra.

If you meditate or practice yoga, you have likely heard of mudras, which are different ways of positioning the hands to use the fingers to create a seal that directs prana-- aka energy flow-- in different ways throughout the body. Shuni mudra is done to generate a sense of calm and patience-- especially patience with the self. It is a hand gesture done as a way to help regulate the heart, circulatory & nervous systems and is most commonly used to counter anxiety. Like with any mudra, you don't have to do it in the midst of a yoga or a meditation session but can make the gesture just whenever you feel the need, as Crowley did in the scene above. If you give it a try, you'll probably find that it is surprisingly relaxing for such a simple gesture.

Crowley's outsized startle response to getting hit with the paint is very funny but it is also pretty typical of someone with PTSD-- especially someone who has it as a result of bodily autonomy violations, as is the case with Crowley. People who have experienced non-consensual loss of control over themselves tend to have a jumpy response to sudden, unexpected stimuli in their environment.

Even though Crowley flailing dramatically is hilarious to watch because he's so over-the-top with it, beneath the humor in the scene is also that being unexpectedly hit with something out of nowhere is a very common thing that can trigger anxiety in people with PTSD. Good Omens is very good at finding some humor in dealing with darkness and a comparable scene in tone to this is Gabriel bouncing off the walls when the angels show up at the bookshop in S2. What is very amusing "books are keen!", fly-chasing zaniness is really, underneath, unconscious anxiety manifesting, as part of Gabriel's mind knows that the angels are a threat to him and is reacting with panic at them in his bookshop safe space.

Ironically, reacting with panic to an angel perceived as a threat being in the bookshop safe space is also Crowley's S2 plot, as if he and Gabriel didn't already have more in common than Crowley is ready to admit...

But, back to the hand gesture thing...

There is evidence that things like shuni mudra are effective simply because they help to create a pause that interrupts anxious and self-critical thoughts, which then allows space for calming the mind and body. Used in the way that Crowley is using it here, it's very similar to the Five Things/5-4-3-2-1 strategy for staving off or stopping an anxiety attack, in that both pull people back into the present moment by creating a sense of concentration on something besides the feeling of panic.

That Crowley does this pretty intuitively in the paintball scene as a response to having something anxiety-inducing happen to him indicates he likely does it pretty frequently. Crowley automatically going to shuni mudra while he takes a breath and figures out what, exactly, has happened, is indicative of someone with an awareness of their anxiety and PTSD and who has and uses strategies to help manage them, which goes along with things we've seen in other scenes as well.

Crowley and Aziraphale are inhaling places and food with a clear devotion to trying to live mindfully. You don't need to have experienced trauma to do that but mindful living is prescriptive for virtually every sort of mental health struggle that exists so Crowley and Aziraphale seeing it as therapeutic, as well as enjoyable, seems likely.

In the bookshop, they have a lotus flower rug. The lotus flower has long been a symbol of trauma recovery. You might have heard of the saying "no mud, no lotus", referring to how beauty and health can be made in the wake of horrible experiences. The lotus flower originates in the mud at the bottom of a body of water and travels through it to bloom above the surface, which is at the root of it being symbolic across different cultures for things like enlightenment, purity, strength, and recovery. Its resilience and ability to literally wade through struggle to come through into the light and bloom makes it a metaphor for getting through different forms of trauma.

That Crowley and Aziraphale have this rug in their World of Carpets that is the bookshop, when combined with these other scenes, show how they're dedicated to working through their stuff together and trying to be the best trauma-informed partners they can to one another.

It's also on the lotus rug that Crowley and Aziraphale put Gabriel to perform the miracle to protect him and, when they do, their magic is done with both of them using another hand gesture-- gyan mudra, the seal of knowledge-- to complete the miracle.

I think if you take all of this together, you could make the case for either or both of Crowley and Aziraphale using yoga and/or meditation to help manage the effects of trauma. For those who think that Crowley has chronic pain, there's also that both of these things have been helpful for managing that in many people, so that might be another reason for Crowley, in particular, to practice them.

The lotus rug in the shop might not just be symbolic but also a meditation/yoga spot. Do we think The Serpent always starts with Snake Pose, just because? 🤭

[curiousskelekitty]

Hey, I'm sleep deprived and blasted on weed, let's see the reasons why I think I'm autistic

I'm awakemd super from a super high nap. And it's by the smoke and smell of incenst and can't get back to sleep until incest was out and fan on

Eye contact? Either really focused on making it and not listening or focused on conversation and eyes Drifting away

Say exact same way of hello at job

And other things

Sensitive to wet and cold so much that made it part of her image

Staying awake to make this list

Even though I'm supe r high and running on 3 hors sleep, latte, and pizza and 4 hb eggs

Adhd 

Special interest in pokemon most of 26 year life

Creative

And loves child things like video game sand toys, special plush toys

And weird sex too

Like even when child me MASTURBAGED WITHOUT KNOW WHAT IT WAS

sorry tmi 

Holy ahky I discovered something abot me that I didn't know

Wow

Anyways

Loves reading

And loud music during loud lunch during hs

Sensitive to loud noises like toilet as child

An dlole sonic

Oh shit

It late

Waited blanket for win! Special as adult

Fighting slep to write this once again

Super shy

Talked in labg with sister when 

Adhd

Goes to speech therapy 

Because I don't talk

Or maybe lisp

Idk

Imaginary friends until second grade

First friend grade younger 

No friends in my grade until MIDLE SCHOOL

I think

Sorry no remember 

This list loooooong

Writing still very clean

Nose so dry

Oh shkt Don her 

He didn't say anything about me being up

I'm supposed to be asleep

Sh

lol

Argue with my self 

Like all the time

I even fight with my ocs

lol

Autism brain go

Special cartoon likeys 

Just explained idea for video for YouTube to boo and we might collaborate

My mouth so drunk 

Suuuuuper sensitive to socks on feet at night! Even in winter

But can't walk out iputaide without shoes 

Can feel EVERYTHKNG 

Loves swimming

BUT NOT RAIN

RAIN MAKE USBWEY

sinuses dry as hell  I can feel the air coming in my nose and down my throat

Hereditary 

Also likes anime and furries

Has phases of certain likes or Dislikes

Like love reading but then don't love reading

Hating spicy for most of life

But finding a love from some as long as there's flavors 

Mexico is so pretty

Making list like this

All the time

Will hypet focus on certain things for maybe a week

And it goes in curses 

Ow though hurt for typing 

Do stretches kids

Never admitted to watching porn whe her life insists of romances 

Daydreamer

Ever since litter

First lover

Cucumber Larry

When he gets suck on by giat alien ad hero

That turned me on

AS A KID IN CHURCH

not even four years old

wft

This might be really revealing about me and my life

…

Okay

This Is where I add more to the title of this video

To warn me of the dangers

Of whatever the fuck I'm on

Could probably make this list over 200 points 

Listn3s to music at night 

Might be slightly dyslexic 

Swimming

Vocal Stimson

When found out about stimming

Showed more stimming

So mad

Just took like 1 min to fix stimmong to swimming 

Make little songs whole life

Wow hide in DC bathroom. And sing sad songs to my self

Don't really to that anymore

Ah shit it's late

I need to pee

Sleeps with toys still

Like stuffed animals

Once could not fall sleep until Carla into toybox

Only woke up because got hot

BISEXUAL AD FUCK

when I was little I was looking g in the mirror and ask if I was more otm boy or girly Gil and decided I was in the middle

If that not nonbinary as FUCK than what is

Thinking g about if the video went famous and FIL saw and reacted

Whole family know

Please be warned 

Really sensitive about certain flavores in certain tempt

Those might go on Tumblr though

Incous make a lookout of people laugh 

And no one would know

Damn thos list loomg

STRETCH TIME

often godb what if whole world kno

I could go on and on

But I think I will conclude here 

Thank you everyone for reading

Good night

LoL

You wish

I'm very empathic

I forget words all the time

Especially with age

Always had bad memory

Selective hearing

Forms who they are around eho they with

But my baby let me be me❤️

Sinsirve tk sounds

I'm probably going to talk to my therapist about this list next week

Realized made horrible ablist joke in my head and realized it and was like tf why

Intrusive thoughts

Holly fuck

I can do this

And this

And

This 

So easily 

I love animals 

Dep3ndent and independent at the same time

Anxiety 

Depression 

I'm still making the list dumbadd

My bad

Too much of a topical thing like lotion makes me feel icky 

Hated mosquitoe spray because of sticky residue and smell

Hayes perfume

Sensitive to some smells, like perfume

Body pray okay tho

And candles

Loves sweets

LOVES TO READ

Can't focus on reading

Super aware of body

Hates being touched unexpected or by stranger

Said loved all colors and didn't have official favorite color until like first grade because didn't want to hurt other colors favorite

Still doesn't have least favorite color

"Lazy"

But I'm not suppsoes to coll me that

Realistic

Made day dreams befo3e bed every night

Had one going on for about a month

Googles everything 

Okay I'll go to 200

Then I'll go to sleep

Lover of computers when little

Still love them

Have several unwritten stories to tell, including like three books and three or more wannabe books

Wrote toriko slitty fanfiction church

Drew a the time

Sonic the hedged hog fan

Loves pun so much

Made up "Copper later" for funny goodbye

Lives all her sisters

And all bet peanut

Hates pumpkin guts and still hate the feeling of them

Picky eater

May13b first 2023

Special interest in music

Went into band for school ad a trumpet and played for most of life until high school graduates but was never good at it.

That sucks

I could've learned how to song better

Now that I realize my voice is good and can be better

Hates needles 

Squeamish 

Spiritual 

Loves crystals Spiritually

Believes in a carefree, unknowing god

Two more to go

AUTISM BLAST

Weird obsession with sex since really little

Oh shkt

Just remembered something

That I never told anyone! Fucm 

I won't tell you guys

Never

Okay 

Good night

I love you

[littleboxcat]

Janine Had to have been the person to find Egon's body...

So I am not a superfan but I have been a fan of Ghostbusters for a very long time. Anyway, I have watched the first two movies so many times and I would race home after school to watch The Real Ghostbusters on TV. (partialy because I had a crush on Egon Spengler. Janine would honestly be like "Same gurl, same")

I have been re watching Ghostbusters Afterlife and something struck me but also kinda made me sad. Yes, seeing ghost Egon (Harold Ramis) and the og Ghostbusters together again made me cry like a baby but no, that wasn't what dampened my emotions.

In the scene where Cali and the kids meet Janine, She tells them She was the one to contact Them about Egon's death. She also goes on to say they were... Friends. There was a pause in that statement (this is important). Janine also states there was no money and that she had been there making sure Egon's bills were paid and take care of small things (also an important to my theory.)

I want to go back, to some cut scenes in Ghostbuster 1984, soft cannon as well as some non canonical but equaly important to character development moments in other GB media. Egon didn't sleep that much, (Apparently he could live on 14 Minutes,) and in a cut scene of GB1984 he is seen sleeping at his microscope (Janine found him there.) In the Extreem Ghostbuster cartoon, Egon didn't realy take care of himself too much (Janine had to get him to eat healthy) I'm fairly certian that when Egon is in a state of Hyperfocus, (Bc he is an autistic coded charachter, but that's a conversation for another thread) he forgets/neglects everything else. This is where Janine comes in.

I postulate that Janine still had feelings him. Hell they may have had feelings for each other but never labled it hence the pause she made when saying they were ...Friends. Janine obviously didn't live with Egon but had to have lived somewhere close because flying back and forth IN THIS ECONOMY, would have been expensive and Egon had no money. Maybe she received money from Winston but it didn't seem that way. Out of all the Crew she was the only one checking in on Egon regularly. Honestly I feel like this was a labor of love especially because he was already going over the deep end into the Gozer, end of the wold thing.

Janine was the only one of the crew who knew about Egon's secret love child, which means he shared personal information with her. I not so sure he shared his giant trap plans with her though. Egon had been living there for years. YEARS! And in all that time Janine was the only one coming to see him, taking care of his affairs/business (probably taking care of him.) Either they were super close friends or lovers. I'm leaning toward lovers. That's a lot to do for just a ... Friend.

In GB Afterlife, Phoebe mentions to Ray that Egon had only been dead for like a week. The movie takes place a week after Egons death. The town's folk said Dirt Farmer was a loner. Podcast eludes to no one ever going up to the house. This means the only person to have possibly found Egon was Janine.

Janine found Egon's limp body in the chair where he died. This is probably how she was able to contact Cali so fast. It would have taken a couple of days to pack up their life and move to Egons farmhouse...

Janine, who was most likely still in love with Egon, The only person checking in on him, making sure he ate and slept, the person handling his bills, probably making sure he cleaned up after himself, goes to his house to check on him only to find him dead. The coin she's holding in the after credit scene isn't the second coin she had (from GB 1984) but the coin she gave him for good luck because she thought he might die in the original Gozer attack. She was correct but it wasn;t the original Gozer attack that killed Egon. It was the final attack. This realization killed me inside.

Anyway what do you think? Am I overthinking this? Sorry for the long post.

[nattikay]

Kaltxì!! i'm just here to say how much i adore your art & your content!!! it brings me so much joy to see you draw the sully family, they're just so cute :") especially the newest art of jake, neytiri, neteyam and kiri - it's just so nice to see them happy together like this <33 your ocs are amazing too, btw!

this question is kinda random but i'm still going to ask, do you have any sully family headcanons (or na'vi headcanons in general)? i'm just curious, my brainrot is way too strong i can't stop thinking about them fsjdjdh

have a nice day! :] Eywa ngahu!

Aww, thank you!

Headcanons? hmmm.....I don't think I have many at the moment, but perhaps a few:

A silly one is that Balto is Lo'ak's favorite movie no I do not take constructive criticism. How did he watch the movie, dunno, the kids seem to hang around the scientists often enough, perhaps Norm introduced them to a few cartoons one day idk

The whole family is of course bilingual but stick mostly to Na'vi by default. On that note, none of the Metkayina know any English at all; everything we hear from them is translated from Na'vi for the audience.

I know it's a fairly popular headcanon in the fandom right now that Kiri is autistic; as for me I'm a little on the fence about it. On the one hand I highly doubt that she was intentionally written to be autistic. On the other, though, as an autistic person myself who also grew up as the awkward weird kid (a tearful "why am I different?" to Grace's spirit hit kinda hard)....I can definitely understand where the theory's coming from. I know people who dislike this headcanon say that just because an autistic person relates to a character it doesn't mean that character is autistic, and yes I absolutely agree with that--I relate for many reasons to many characters that I don't view as autistic--but I can see where people are getting those vibes with Kiri and can sympathize with wanting to view her that way. So.....maybe? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Speaking of Kiri, based on what we've seen in the movie and until we get further evidence to contradict it, my theory on her origins is that she has no biological father--she's a genetic clone of Grace's avatar somehow spurred into existence by Eywa. How, exactly, we don't know, but given what we know thus far it seems to be the most likely possibility imo.

...on that note, though, can we please stop calling her "space Jesus"? I get why people draw the comparison, apparent immaculate conception and divine abilities and whatnot, but unless her purpose on Pandora is secretly somehow to sacrifice her life to atone for the Na'vi's sins (which I very much doubt is the case), the connection doesn't quite work, and feels a tad disrespectful. ^^;

Lastly, I don't think Jake became a "military dad" until after the RDA returned. I hesitate to even call this one a "headcanon" so much as simple analysis given what we saw in the opening montage, where he is shown to be very warm and playful with his kids. The military side only emerged out of necessity when suddenly the family was at very real risk of one wrong move getting them killed in the reignited war. (also there's nothing wrong with Neteyam and Lo'ak calling him "sir". Like, if Jake was strictly enforcing that they only ever call him "sir" at all times then yeah I would agree, that's kinda cold and harsh, but he doesn't, they call him "Dad" most of the time; an occasional respectful "sir" when they are in trouble is nowhere near the big issue some of y'all are treating it as).

[atalana]

honestly as someone who does vibe with her i don't think anon is necessarily even wrong? it's just kind of a matter of what you're looking for in autistic rep and where you're looking for it

her acting the way she does would have felt infantilising if it was, say, in an adult action drama, but in a kids cartoon where all characters are in some way over-exaggerated and childlike in order to appeal to their target audience, it doesn't come across to me as any way out of place?

and i think when i watch shows like that i'm thinking of what my kid self would have wanted to watch rather than what i as an adult am looking for in adult autism representation, and i know the 9 year old me who had very few friends, wasn't raised in a great environment so didn't really understand yet that hurtful things done to me weren't okay to do to other people, and who spent most of her time in her room doing jigsaw puzzles, would have found a lot of needed validation in the fact that entrapta can be very flawed and off-putting sometimes but she's always given complete freedom to be herself and that doesn't come at the cost of all of her relationships with others

and i hope the same goes for kids like me who get to grow up with that

(also robot friends and tiny food. i love her)

i dont mean this as criticizm twoards anyone but since the bracket IS about autistic girlies i thought id share my thoughts but entrapta being submitted so many times was honestly kinda surprising to me because the majority of my autistic friends including myself really didnt vibe with how she was represented? i dont wanna harp on her too much because i know shes important to other people and shes far from the worst autistic rep ive ever seen but she just felt infantilized and stereotypical all the way through and at one point her "missing a social que" was literally her not knowing putting others in danger is bad? 😭

but thats just my view of her character id love to hear other peoples thoughts on her and what they liked about her! i sincerely dont mean dont mean to rain on anyones parade i hope it didnt come off that way

I empathise with much of what you're saying anon! Entrapta isn't personally relatable to me and there's any number of things to say about how she and misunderstandings in the show were handled.

But that's why only having like,, 3 canon autistic girls to turn to in media is a problem. Autism is a spectrum and Entrapta clearly means a lot to the 50+ people who have nominated her to be a part of the bracket. I'm certain she's paved the way for representation in the future, so I will be honoured to have her!