#spot my autistic jon headcanon

[hemi-demi]

Sometimes I think about how Jon is such a punching bag in the show and how heavily he was beaten and bullied by the people around him and the narrative and it makes me think about stuff.

On the one hand, it does make me sad. It seems as though the harder he tries, the more people kick him when he's down. It makes it all the more impressive that he kept going regardless, but especially considering my very strong autistic headcanon (not Johnny's fault, he wasn't intending this), it can be a really sore spot. I'd say in a good way, though, in a hurt/no comfort sort of way. It's weirdly therapeutic.

On the character side of things, I do understand why everyone treats him that way. Not that he necessarily deserves it (though Jon has said and done plenty to earn some shit back, he's not perfect either), but everyone around him is stuck with him and fucking pissed about it. It's easier to redirect their hatred and pain to Jon - who just kinda takes it - than Elias or literal Eldritch gods. People hurt easier targets when they can't hurt the people that are actually ruining their lives.

Then I think about it in the meta sense. It's easier for Jonny to beat up Jon as well. I especially saw this in my own writing of fanfic of the series. When you have a main character (especially if that main character shares traits of your own), then hurting that main character is so much easier to process mentally. Not that Jonny won't ruin other characters lives, but they all almost have it easy in comparison to Jon's torment.

This also seems accurate in Alex's way of seeing the characters as well, saying Martin is based on a lot of the stuff he hates about himself when he was younger while also insisting on making their lives worse. (Alex, when I catch you.) It feels like literary self-harm in a way. You're willing to hurt the character you're the most attached to in an effort to give some protection to the rest.

Idk how to end this. Jon needs more hugs.

[nightcolorz]

Poorly describing my versions of the Gotham rogues:

Joker: “yolo” in its most dangerous form, def is writing a slow burn enemies to loves fic about him and Batman. Gay and homophobic 💯 The other rogues don’t invite him to pride celebrations anymore cause he’ll keep calling people slurs “as a joke”. Him and Edward have longterm beef, like schoolgirl levels of petty drama.

Harley Quinn: would describe herself as a “girlboss” unironically while committing heinous crimes. tweeted “clowns aren’t funny” after breaking up with Joker (ended up causing a huge scandal). The OG “I can fix him” girl. Is sort of the rogues free underground therapist (god knows they need it) cause they can’t get professional help without being sent to Arkham.

Poison Ivy: Breaking News: Cottagecore lesbian commits mass murder cause her plant wilted. She’s what republicans think environmentalists are. Would get in a fist fight with that vegan teacher cause “plants have feelings too”. Has beef with most of the male rogues, supports ‘kill all men’ without realizing it’s a joke (she prefers ‘kill all humans’ but figured she had to downgrade because the Gotham city sirens are humans technically).

Cat Woman: “OH NO! It appears I’ve gotten stuck backwards in the bank vault step-Bat 😏😏😏😏😏😏, looks like I’m not stealing any more diamonds today 😰😩”. Mad respect for Selina, she just wants diamonds and bat dick, no tragic backstory or complex motivations needed. I personally like to headcanon her as wearing a straight up cat costume (ears and a tail like a true furry) cause it’s way funnier to imagine a sophisticated rich woman dressing up as a cat to steal shit than whatever bullshit DCs up to these days. Trans catgirl supremacy 💎👍

Scarecrow: That one guy who gets angry at people because “Halloween costumes are meant to be scary 🤬😡😑😒”. Doesn’t even attempt to express emotions, is the human embodiement of this emoji: 😐. His presence is more jarring than threatening, his intimidation levels are somehow underwhelming and overwhelming at the same time. The other rogues have collectively decided that he’s asexual under no assumption other than that they don’t want to imagine Jonathan having sex. Overtime Jonathan has become basically fearless (he smokes his own fear gas like vape just to feel something). Jonathan and Harley became good friends when they both worked in Arkham, their dynamic is surprisingly wholesome.

The Riddler: Didn’t get hugged enough as a child and is now making it everyone’s problem. Would hold a bank hostage to show Batman his third grade spelling bee medal. Is the only autistic rogue that gets accommodations in Arkham because he won’t stop bugging the guards. FTM trans ofc (his names Edward Nygma for Christ's sake). He ran away from home at seventeen and faked his own death (his deadname is legally dead lmao). Uses the terms “alpha, beta, and omega male” unironically.

Two Face: “Yeah, I mean, I didn’t wanna blow up the orphanage either, but Y’know the coin said-” The other rogues talk to Harvey as if he’s constantly at his breaking point, which is half true. Harv is a stone cold mf, he’s the rock that’s holding Two Face together tbh. Edward calls Harvey and Harv Jekyll and Hyde cause he’s that original. All the rogues have at least a sneaking suspicion that Bruce Wayne is batman and use Harvey as their little primary source (being ex besties and everything), until they find out Selina and Bruce are a thing of course. No matter how much evidence he’s faced with Harvey will never accept Bruce Wayne is batmam, he’s not ready to consider that one of the only positive people in his life has been duking it out with him this whole time.

Penguin: He’s the rest of the rogues chill gay gangster uncle I don’t make the rules. The iceberg lounge is like the Batman villain equivalent of The Central Perk from friends (aka: its their default place to hangout). Oswald always makes a fuss about them not making reservations ahead of them but at this point it’s just performative. Everyone’s 99% sure Oswald and Edward fucked at some point (Edward always makes a show of flustering Oswald when he needs a loan). Ossie always takes care of the others belongings when they’re in Arkham (he has a special place in his heart for Jonathan‘s crows).

The Mad Hatter: I love Jervis lmao he just really likes Alice in Wonderland and that’s a valid ass villain motivation 👍. One of the smartest rogues but doesn’t get enough credit because of how childish he is. He dresses in kids clothes, not just because he wants to but because he’s small af and can’t fit in shit. In public while the rogues are undercover Jervis usually wears a beanie or a baseball cap (he’d get spotted instantly if he wore his usual, but on bad days Jervis can’t bear to be without a hat). Jonathan and Jervis play chess a lot together in Arkham, and frequently engage in intellectual discussion, Edward tends to be a piss baby when Jon encourages him to do the same, he’s not ready to accept the reality that Jervis can match his intelligence.

Killer Croc: Waylon has a surprising amount in common with Jonathan, they share southern solidarity. He doesn’t travel out of the sewer often so the rogues will occasionally come to visit Waylon there (Edward always makes sure to complain loudly about the smell). Will show immense affection and loyalty to anyone who treats him as human (poor guy just needs a friend ☹️).

Mr Freeze: Literally just dead inside, someone give this poor bastard a hug. Victor stands as the most awkward rogue, he‘s sorta like the odd one out. The other rogues don’t interact with him that often because he’s sort of a party pooper. He’s the straight friend on thin ice, haha get it. Mr Freeze is my sisters favorite Batman villain because she thought the ice puns were funny in Batman in Robin, little does she know I’m embarrassing myself on tumblr in her glory.

Music Meister: So many of the Gotham rogues have horrible childhood trauma and Music Meister is just like “people bullied me for being a theater kid 😩😭💔😔”. In all honesty he’s iconic, in my au universe thingy I have him join the dork squad latter on and he sticks out like a sore thumb for a bit. I feel like him and Jervis would really hit it off though (mind control buddies, ha), although Jervis would always get him to sing Alice in Wonderland songs. In Arkham they have him wear a dog collar thingy and zap him when he sings, he gets bullied for that lol. anyways I’m sure I could make more of these, but it’s 2:20 am and my mind went blank. If y’all liked this I could always put more au headcanons out (I have A LOT)

[gerrydelano]

What are some of your favorite headcanons in the tma fanbase? (Mine is one my friend came up with that Eric is navajo and moved to the uk as a kid and gerry is native on his dads side because of it)

okay this is suuuuper broad and i can’t just like pluck things out of thin air all the time because head empty but i can try to round up some of the headcanons that me and ren slap into all our writing because we share a braincell uhhhh

malaysian tim (long hair or BUST + armband tattoos)

korean & jewish martin who is built like ma dong-seok

jewish & indian jon (also he’s autistic, dissociative, has EDS, uses a cane)

black, jewish, butch georgie. also she’s BIG and STRONG.

buzzcut daisy with dark brown hair + fibromyalgia/cane user post-buried

Big Basira Real. she’s grouped with martin when melanie is described as scrawny as a counterpart so BIG BASIRA REAL!

dissociative king gerry delano

i definitely have more/have seen plenty of things i really love that other people have come up with, but i’m not very good when i’m put on the spot PBBHTHTH sorry!

[ladyautie]

Autistic headcanon : Frank & Clara

The movie “Frank”, by Lenny Abrahamson, is probably one of my favorite movies of all time. I often find myself going back to it and watching it again, even though I’ve already seen it so many times. What’s funny about it is the fact that this movie has one of the characters I hate the most in fiction and it’s its main character, Jon Burroughs.

But I won’t be talking about him, at least not a lot. I want to talk about my favorite characters, Frank and Clara.

[gif of Frank and Clara from the movie “Frank”. Frank, as usual, is wearing his giant head mask. He’s pouring himself some coffee, while Clara turns her head to look at him. Frank is saying “Until now, our audiences tend to be people who chance upon us”]

Frank and Clara are both members of a music band called “Soronprfbs” (yeah, I don’t know how to pronounce it either). 

While Clara is satisfied by their modest success and doesn’t look for much more, Frank is eager to find an audience ready to love him and his band and he is sure that their music, as eccentric and original it might be, can appeal to a lot of people.

Frank and Clara are very interesting because, for me, they’re representing two sides of the autistic spectrum. Not in a “low functioning/high functioning” way, mind you. No, I’m talking about the fact that Clara is neurotypical-passing while Frank is obviously not.

From what we can grasp about their backstories, Clara was probably forced to adapt herself to society and to hide herself behind a cynical and even threatening “Neurotypical” mask, while Frank was allowed to wear a tangible mask most of his life and to act true to himself, without limiting his real personality in any way.

They both have a special interest in music and they’re both seeing beauty and creativity in the most mundane things, the things that most people will deem as “ridiculous” or “uninteresting”. 

While Clara will find beauty in the expression of pain and suffering (she literally records the main character’s scream and turns it into music), Frank is more likely to notice the smallest stuff and to awake his creative potentiel through it.

For example,  after seeing a little carpet tuft and stimming a bit with it, he composed a song on the spot about it.

[gif of Frank, twiddling a red carpet tuft with his fingers]

While Clara tends to bottle her emotions and only let out her anger and her affection for Frank,  Frank is very expressive and never hesitates to express his joy, his passion, but also his sadness, his fears and his anger. 

He’s always moving, always stimming, while Clara is a bit more static and seems to think a lot about her every move. I’m notably thinking about this scene, in which Clara tends to stay in her thoughts and as a spectator, unless she has the possibility to hit Jon (who is the worst NT character you can come across). 

Meanwhile, Frank is jumping up and down while they’re all running around and has troubles to determine when he’s going “too far” or when he’s not understood.   

Clara is more aware of this world’s cruelty and doesn’t hesitate to use violence against those who she feels are threatening her or Frank. She’s especially like this towards Jon, who is one of those NTs fascinated by mental illness and creativity and probably think that if Van Gogh had received help and treatment for his mental issues, he wouldn’t have created the Starry Night.

By the way, it’s a bit off-topic, but this movie, i think, criticizes pretty well this Neurotypical mentality of thinking that talent and creativity is linked to depression, mental issues, crappy childhood and so on. You can read this post about it : https://actuallykylekallgren.tumblr.com/post/144238994049/thetomatowriter-hirakumblr

Going back on the rails, Frank is more prone to self-injury behavior and, while he can have violent tendencies himself, he seems more decided to “punish” himself or to run away when something goes wrong than to lash out on someone else. Even when this someone is Jon, trying to take away his comfort item and pretending it’s like “Cognitive Behavioral therapy” (ugh).

I can identify a lot to both of these characters (mostly Frank, but I find a lot of Clara in myself too) and I was really invested in their story. This movie is really important for me and I’m glad to share with you this autistic headcanon. I love Frank and Clara and I hope you’ll like them as much as I do.

[gif of Frank, running and jumping outside, his head facing the camera]

[gif of Clara, fiddling a musical equipment, her eyes closed. She’s opening and closing her lips slightly, stimming by bobbing her head to the right]

As usual, those are the Trigger Warnings I can think of for this movie :

Mention of a psychiatric ward, suicide, mention of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, ableism.