#jean ure

[chrysalis-the-butterfly]

The Five Types of Autistic Headcanon

1) Headcanon by (Armchair) Diagnosis

You look at a fictional character and notice behaviours that seem to fit the description of autism (e.g. difficulties in social interaction, difficulties in communication, repetitive behaviour, over- or under-sensitivity to sensory input, highly-focused interests, anxiety, meltdowns, shutdowns). Based on these observations, you headcanon the character as autistic.

Example: "Ali, from Boys Beware by Jean Ure, struggles with communication and with making herself understood. She either won't contribute to a conversation, or she'll say something random that has nothing to do with what's come before. She doesn't fit in at school and only has one friend. Ali has highly-focused interests in astronomy and in Star Trek, to the point where her sisters joke that she has a 'one-trek mind'. Unless someone interrupts her, she could talk about her interests for ages. I get massive autistic vibes from Ali!"

2) Headcanon by Self-Recognition

You recognise your own behaviours and personality traits in a fictional character. They're just like you! And you're autistic. So you headcanon the character as autistic too.

Example: "Rapunzel plays with her hair a lot in Tangled. Her model sheets describe her hair as 'almost a pacifier'. She tends to grab her hair at emotionally stressful times. I'm a bit like that with my hair - I stim with it, and it calms me down and makes me feel good. So I like to think that Rapunzel is autistic and that the stuff she does with her hair is stimming or self-soothing."

3) Headcanon by Metaphor

The character and the plot could be read as metaphors for the experience of being autistic, or being disabled in general. So you headcanon the character as autistic.

Example: "Schwi Dola from No Game No Life is a robot who wants to learn as much as she can about the human [heart]. That seems a lot like a special interest to me. Her desire to learn about that one topic causes 'errors' to occur in her programming, so she's disconnected from her cluster. That could be a metaphor for how isolating it can feel to be autistic and not have anyone understand your unique way of seeing the world."

4) Headcanon by Gap-Filling

No-one knows very much about that character. They're a blank slate. You can headcanon anything you want about them. So you headcanon them as autistic.

Example: "Hatsune Miku's personality can take any form; it just depends on what type of song she's singing. So why can't I see her as autistic? All Vocaloid headcanons are valid!"

5) Headcanon by Wish Fulfilment

You have no evidence that they're autistic. You just really, really want them to be autistic because it makes you happy.

Example: "Imagine if Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit turned out to be autistic. Wouldn't that be cool? She's already one of my favourite characters, so I like to think she's autistic. No, I can't give a better justification than that. Just let me have my fun!"

[chrysalis-the-butterfly]

This has happened to me with so many stories, both the officially published and the fanfics.

In terms of published novels, there are quite a few books I read as a teenager which have passages that still stick out in my mind years after I first read them. Gingersnaps by Cathy Cassidy. Cookie by Jacqueline Wilson. Boys Beware by Jean Ure. The Noughts and Crosses series by Malorie Blackman (especially Knife Edge and Checkmate).

Admittedly, sometimes these things stick with me because of how weird they are, not necessarily because of quality. The Strawberry Panic light novel omnibus ... for example ... has far too many ... ellipses ... than is ... necessary ... but I keep coming back to it. And I think that's because the writing, while cheesy, captures the otherworldly nature of the three girls' schools it centres on - it feels cut off from reality, a place where anything can happen, and it's silly and kind-of fun for that reason.

In terms of fanfiction, what matters is whether a story hits me right in the feels. That guarantees I'll remember it.

I was about thirteen or fourteen when I discovered the Simpsons fanfic Lisa Fitzgerald, and I think was the first fanfic that ever made me cry. It had an alternate history for Lisa, one in which she wasn't born a Simpson but became one through adoption, after being rescued from an abusive stepfather. Watching her as she tried to learn to trust others and stand up for herself was pretty heartwarming.

In fact, my favourite fanfics tend to be the hurt/comfort ones - the ones where a character who's suffered is helped to heal and grow by the love of the people around them. The Sonic Cinematic Universe fanfic 5 Times Sonic Caught Himself Before Calling Them 'Mom & Dad' and 1 Time He Didn't Hold Back by @humanityinahandbag is a great example of this.

That's doesn't mean I don't also appreciate angst in its purer form. Recently I had my heart absolutely shattered by @aparticularbandit and their Jessica Rabbit RP blogs' Timeline Canon (first half here and second half here). It starts with Jessica's origins and her blossoming relationship with Roger Rabbit, but then it hits them with a curse, and we see Jessica's desperation to save her husband, and also her temptation to be with other people, and there's heartbreak and regret and deeper themes about what true love is and what it means to be happy and what attitude to have towards life and death...

Okay, I've gushed about it enough, just read it already.

the one thing i want to be able to do as a writer is make people come back to something ive written. i want that piece of text to haunt them, i want their thoughts to be briefly consumed by this. i want this to be something they remember long after its time. thats the one thing i want to do

[princema-k]

arent u tired of being of being nice..... dont u wanna go Apeshitt

(quote in no.3 courtesy of tearay1073's comment on this vid)

[speltfields]

[concerningly sweaty] i think he'd...grow a beard in the winter...!!!!!!!!!!

[ninyard]

exy fans + twitter (championship final edition pt 2.5)

[first--lines]

“Hm!” Miss Fane's forehead puckered itself into a frown as she adjusted the weights on the weighing machine. “That's another half kilo you've put on, Jessamy.”

  —  Fandango! (Jean Ure)

[bacchuschucklefuck]

they tried to rebrand as The Criminals but riz is literally the city council's treasurer and also turns out people in their late 20s don't really name their friend groups. so now they're The Intrepid Heroes

[joejhang]

kevin and andrew are genuinely such fascinating characters to me because we have literally never gotten anything from their pov's yet they remain two of the most relevant, involved, important and main characters in this universe, but all we've really seen of them are them from other people's perspectives. like yes, we have them from the perspectives of the people who love and know them the best (jean, jeremy and wymack for kevin, aaron, bee, renee and neil for andrew) but we still don't/can't know them fully because we have genuinely never read anything from their perspective. isn't that just insane.

[panthermouthh]

“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.”

[strangeoffputtingrat]

this is jean and jeremy respectively

jeremy what is ur deal u scare me (affectionate)

[rottengurlz]

she’s like if the virgin mary smoked a pack of pall malls every day 🚬

[stinkrat-aleks]

what three marriages does to a mf

[stick-ball]

I imagine the fbi agents looked up what his tshirt meant after, which brought them the need to get drunk or a rise in salary for dealing with this.

[kevindavidday]

how fast do you think andrew clocked that jean had feelings for kevin? how pissed off do you think he was when he remembered his own stupid boy crush era for kevin?

[obviousanon]

Guys. Guys. Guys you need to see this.

Don't tell me this motherfucker doesn't like pain. Ever. Because you're never gonna win.

Logan and Wade fucked in that Honda Odyssey.

[sadboyjacinter]

"its easier to be straight" kevin day, i know ur talking abt jean. and ik ur talking abt urself!