#the joys of dsylexia

[greenflamedwriter]

So in your brain who is your related to who and who is older when it comes to the mxtx trio?

🔫 Give me all your thoughts.

Hmm- from context it would seem as if TGCF would be the oldest since their story line spans over thousand of years ago and they reunite and they see cities come and fall and be named something different. Then MDZS since they have established sects that have been around for a long time, especially in reference to the Wens who have a disciple tour and WWX ends up saying "Ah wrong you're misinteprating your Grandmasters teachings." So that implies a long time thats past, then you have SVSSS which feels younger since Shen Yuan is from out modern world died and transmigrated TO ancient china.

So in order from youngest to oldest it would be TGCF-MDZS-SVSSS.

OR if you meant that the MXTX trio has a family dynamic and they were related well-

I would say Hua Cheng is giving the vibe of an wise old guy because of experience, but the vibe I get is more like Grunkle Stan. And Xie Lian is Like Eda from owl house has a tragic story but is still funny and roles with the punches both seem older and wiser.

Then you have the talented trouble making teenagers, coz even Lan Zhan acts all prim and proper which is why its more funny if he acts out or bites people like Reymond Holt from Broklyn nine nine he can do something looks at the younger duckling disciples as he's dragging WWX away tied up in his headband and go, "And no one will ever believe you." and they're crying at the injustic thats its true who will believe that Huanguan-jun is a horndog? Pretty much the young married couple still in their honey-moon phase. Then you have the kids, both Binghe and Qingqiu and in comparison to the the other couples does feel a bit like a playground of hair tugging and "Shizun pushed me!" "Binghe pulled my hair!" esp since most people watch the tomfuckery then after they come out as a couple its like "Oh-"

So it'd be- TGCF as the grandparents, then MDZS as the parents, and SVSSS as the young kid/teenagers just learning about themselves and the world.

[historic-old-guard-lover]

Do you headcanon any of the old guards as neuroatypical / mentally ill / disabled / having a learning disability besides the obvious PTSD they acquired through their lives ?

I love these kinds of headcannons! I definitely subscribe to the social model of disability (ie. people are “disabled” because of how society throws up barriers, not by their impairments themselves). The previous link is an article on it, and here is the Wikipedia page. The social model or social construction of disability is meant only to be a starting point and suggest deliverable tools to mitigate the marginalization of disabled folks (changing attitudes, encouraging flexibility, providing social support, and creating accessible information and structures); it is a direct contrast to the medical model of disability which assumes that the disabled person has an inferior quality of life that medical interventions and “cures” can alleviate to allow them to be “normal.” A quick aside: Peter Singer’s eugenicist philosophy work is entirely based on the medical model of disability and belief that disabled lives are inherently worse than abled ones. I’m sure you didn’t submit this ask for me to give a Critical Disability Theory 101 lecture, however.

I made a post about it forever ago here spitballing some possible inspiration for disabled headcannons (these are all quoted, I’m only plagiarizing myself) that I’ll expand on:

austitic!Nicky, ptsd!Nile which I feel like have been circulating {I vibe with neurodivergent Nicky on a spiritual level and literally any version of this headcannon brings me joy} {but yeah, literally every member of the old guard has struggled with PTSD at some point, Anon}

anxiety!Andy who needs to pick up more and more stress management tools as life evolves {panic attacks do not make her any less of a qualified, strong leader for the team}

adhd!Booker who can work at a forgery for six straight hours but can’t make it through a two hour stake-out silently {I just really like the poetics of his best skill being technically a disability, what can I say?}

deaf/HoH!Joe who can master languages but may have trouble communicating in crowded places {which I’ve read in at least on fic called never take the stars away from me}

multiple sclerosis!Quynh who prefers the bow and arrows because wielding a sword is harder with her tremors {because we just write-off people with motor disabilities as non-athletic which is the worst}

blind/low-vision!Lykon who prefers close-quarters combat because with a few swipes to help him judge he can grapple someone to the ground in three seconds flat {based on my irl friend who did high school wrestling and keeps challenging me to a showdown}

cane/chair-user!Copley who was denied field work by the CIA and pivoted to cyber-security {and before anyone goes “unrealistic, he walks in the movie!” may I remind you that people don’t *always* rely on their mobility aids for many reasons and I don’t want to get into the mobility aids inspiration p*rn discourse}

I didn’t think about learning disabilities, mostly because I group them under the large umbrella of neurodivergence and took them as apparent choices. Given that we don’t even have the historical context of rigid schooling systems until Booker’s life at the earliest, it’s very possible that the older members wouldn’t even know that they have what we call “learning disabilities”. Quite frankly, if you talk about Andy, who predates all written languages by at least a millennium, without some struggle reading or writing (dsylexia and dysgraphia), it’s unrealistic to me.  I think the fact that we call these neurodivergences “learning” disabilities really says a lot more about the way we structure education than it does about the people who have them. 

[chirpycreations]

#Memento Mori

So, I guess this is my story. I wanted to write this during the stream but my dyslexia forbays me from being able to write and listen to two completely unrealed things at the same time, and I couldn't bring myself to pull away, so here it is, nice and late ^^;

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Well, I was late to the party like most things in my life. I found the channel at 16 days to go thanks to MatPatt's theory.  I haven't watched all 369 videos. My last count put me at 100 and something, maybe 150 ish. I did concider pulling an allnighter the night before to watch all of the remaining ones but I chose against it in the end. I'm happy with the memories I have and not seeing all the videos, because those videos I did watch I'll treasure forever; bing watching them while despritly trying to finish my Level 3 Design board for school. 

Working away on Clipstudio paint, and in the corner of my eye laughing, crying, rolling my eyes at the chaios that was unfolding while my wrist screamed at me, my head hurt....I was so sure I was going to burn out again like the two years prior and not manged to finish, but you're videos gave me the strength to do the impossible.  If you guys could make over 365 videos in a year, I could finish x2 A1 pannels worth of art and...I did. To a good standard too. I won my schools Top Visual Artist award yesterday at prize giving and top of my Design class.

At first I saw the channel as nothing more than a bit of shit posting, so I wasn't too bothered. A bit of random nonses (It took me soooo long to convince my self to watch cooking with Sex toys, but it was one of the greatest laughs of my month if not longer). The last few months have been hard on me, my family have been waiting 4 and half years to get NZ residency and missing all the Uni application dates and schollarships has had me quite down the last few months listening to everyone around talking about there future plans while I can't progress with mine, because my GOD have you seen international fees???Anyway, your shit posts really helped bring a smile to my face while I was struggling, especailly the halloween stuff: I loved the edward sissors hands, it was the first one I watched and I still love it- so plan and utterly dumb. I'm doing better now. It's still hard, but I really think your videos have have helped me so much. 

 I think the video which hit hardest for me and acutally helped me to really understand what the channel was about was the hypnotist one with the lemon.  What the lady said to both of you really, really hit home hard for me- I'd be lying if I said I didn't cry my eyes out. 

Ethan, your story hit home for me because I also went through that as a kid. I was bullied so badly as a kid. Told I was nothing, would be nothing- I have dsylexia too, and I stunk in school for the longest time; bottom of every class, made to take lessons to learn how to put a wooden alphabet together forward and backwards in YEAR 6 (I was 12 and could do so just fine, but the teachers obviously didn't think so). I've been reserved, shy, had the most crippling self of steem issuse for all my life and only in the last few years since moving to NZ I've started to recover and regain some of that confidence I lost; had broken.  

"If there was a little girl inside who hurt, who had a discomfort, imagine sitting next to that younger version of you that was in pain or hurt and let her know that she's safe. That little girl looks up to you, trusting you to keep her safe: You're safe." -Unus Annus, 294:11:34:20

It really hit me so hard because I needed someone to tell me this as a kid, hold me close, tell me everything would be ok when I thought my world was crashing down and listing to these words I saw my current self giving back what she needed. And now when I'm scard, doubting myself I see her, I see both of them, current me and past me holding hands and me giving her the support she needs. I have a illustration I made on my desk with the quote, as a reminder when times get tought and that little girl forgetts she's not alone anymore.

Mark, your story also hit home with me too.  Like I mentioned, I have dyslexia and for me english -mostly writting- has always been a major problem which had held me back, like a brick chained to my leg and I have to hike up this moutain with it. I still remember disnictly this one time in science I lost out on a high mark because I couldn't spell auoghaous (oesophagus- still can't XD) and my teacher wouldn't believe that was what I had tried to write. I was so bitter about that for the longest time, I still am, 6 years on and still remeber it like yesterday. Anyway, the reason your story hit home is because it reminded me of my old english teacher and what she did to me. Made me into the person I am now. I was in Year 8 (14 years old) and at a parents meeting infront of my dad she said, "you're daughter will never ger higher than a 5- in english. This crushed me so much, because a -5 is avarage for a Year 6 and at this level I should have been getting 5+/6 (like everyone else in my class) - fucking dyslexia. It's like a brick wall of titainium when you're a kid.  

I don't know what happened but something in me snapped and I was determained to prove her wrong. I had that teacher for 2 years before I left to NZ (from the UK) and never ONCE did she give me a mark higher than 5- (mostly because the Brittish system require good spelling to reacher 5, something which again, my dyslexia was against and at the time computers weren't a thing in my school as a resorse for dyslexic kids like myself). It sucked, but I kept trying to prove her wrong. I studied, practiced, revised hard and then in my last exam, an external she didn't mark I got a 7+ for reading and 7- for writting with an 8+ being the highest. I proved her wrong.  I proved a lot of people wrong. I kept working hard and now I'm near the top of every class I take. You're story reminded me of myself and why I keep pushing myself. Why I continue to drive to achieve the best I can. Be the best person I can. 

I know this is long, so before I wrap up I wanted to say thank you. You're channel has not only helped some of my old traumas heal, but I also have a much greater appreciation for life which I guess is crazy concidering I was only apart of it for 16 days, but...it really has made an impact to me. I don't think I ever relised how valuble life is. How important every second is. Death and moving on has always scared me. Moving to NZ and leaving everything I knew and had behind has been one of my biggest trumas for the last 4 years, learning to let go and move on- I use to hate change- ,but now I think I can accept it and move on. I've just finished my last year of high school, I have to make this drastic change in mylife again, moving on, going to uni one day, but I'm ready for it. "Death gives life meaning"; the end, moving on, give the past meaning and means being able to except and be ready to imbrase the future that's coming. Whether in the next few seconds, minutes, hours, weeks, months years... I really do feel better prepared for it. 

I hate the end, I've been writting a story now for 3 years and I've been scared of how to end it, I've been avoiding it because I love the characters. I don't want them to go, to end, but now. I think I'm willing to acept the fact that maybe it's time I let them go. Write them the end they deserve and move on. Nothing last forever, all great story are great because like the channel it's the ending which gives them meaning. 

So...thank you guys, Mark, Ethan, everyone behind the camera. You're work has really made a possitive impact in my life, escpecally the hynpotist video, so thank you. I'm going to start treasuring every second, making every millifractal of a second count. I've been torn for the longest time between a stable career in science, or a dream career in art. And I'm gonna go for it. I'll take the risk, the gamble, shoot for the stars and if I miss I miss. Atleast I can say I tried to do what made me happy and when I do succed it'll be even more rewarding to know I did the impossible. So thank you, I'll treasure every memory and the page of quote I have from todays live stream. 

 “Every second is a chance to turn your life around." 

"When you get those ideas in your head say YES! You never know how you're going to suprise yourself."

"Death gives life meaning."

"Don't cry because its over, cry because it happened."

"Don't take any second for granted, don't waist any moment."

"It's easy to live life in wants and desires, but it's making every second count that matters. Do what makes you happy, use every second wisely, you'll never get that time back."

And my own personal quote, because I want to give back the wisdom you've shared with my own: 

"Memento Mori - Remeber death. Embrace it, don't fear it. Live life to it's fullest and take every opportunity that comes your way, because death is a promise, not a bargain. Life the life you want, so you can move on without regret. "

"Life tough and scary, 2020 for sure, but regardless I smile. Laugh in fears face, it happens. Laugh at the problems in life, they happen. Laugh at how close life comes to and continues to fail at killing you. Fill every moment with joy and positivity; we all need more of it in life."

"Bad days are like cloudy skies, they come and go. The weather can get stormy, but the sky will always clear eventually, the sun will shine again."