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autism and media. spoilers for criminal minds, my hero academia, and dungeon meshi.
okay so, i'm an autistic person, and i've seen portrayals of autism (both implied and explicit) and they've had.. a range of quality overall.
in explicit examples, i've seen only a few. spencer reid comes to mind first- the autistic savant with an eidetic memory and a penchant for seeming robotic. i, personally, was heavily influenced by this guy- i did (and kind of still do) enjoy criminal minds after all. however, spencer's existence as one of the first explicitly autistic characters that was seen by a wider audience. the show was insanely popular, but in the later seasons (mainly after he was sent to prison) many of his autistic traits seem to fade away. of course, he is a traumatized man who was on high alert for a WHILE, but one would expect he wouldn't lose many of his core personality traits. personally, i think these were written out since his traits weren't seen as "popular", since autistic people can offend those they love or say the wrong thing on accident and it seemed too weird.
second, my hero academia. i don't think any of these characters are explicitly autistic, but i haven't watched in a while. mainly, i see deku and tamaki as autistic (although bakugo, aizawa, and shigaraki are.... suspicious) and i believe my views on these two are mainly influenced by the rest of the fandom, so here goes. overall, i think the characterization of these two lends itself directly to their emotional or anxious nature. most media i see with one or both of them severely dumbs them down to these traits, with tamaki getting the brunt of this treatment. most don't seem to remember that both of them are strong for their age, smart, and have faith in their quirks. even if tamaki might seem pessimistic about fights, he's just that- pessimistic. he's much more inclined to believe he'll lose because if he does, he's prepared to do what he can to help whoever comes after. deku is emotional, yes, but who wouldn't be? he's a teenager who's been told over and over again that he's a failure and he'll never achieve his dream, and suddenly, he's being helped by the #1 hero to become the person that he thought was unattainable. i think horikoshi's representation of them is alright, it's just mainly the fandom that compresses them into "uwu anxious cinnamon rolls too sweet for this earth" instead of remembering they're multifaceted characters, and damaging their own interpretations of real people in the process.
in dungeon meshi, i don't know if they're explicitly autistic (however laios and falin are HEAVILY HINTED AT so.) but the representation of autism here is incredible. in the series, we see laios fuck up with shuro (and, notably, we see the fandom sweep it under the rug because laios is white) while he has real, genuinely close relationships with others (marcille is like a sister to him, and chilchuck's his best friend) so we know he is a multifaceted character. he's also tied to the tendency of autistic people to be interested in fringe interests, or alterhuman circles. he thinks (like many others) that he's weird enough to people, so he throws all caution to the wind and goes all-in on being weird. i know that when i realized i was "too weird" for others, i just stopped caring, and that's how i got into many of my favorite things- like OFF, house of leaves, etc etc. if they thought i was weird then, i don't really want to know what they think i am now, especially since i'm out here playing obscure meta rpgs or reading books that require me to flip them around.
overall, i think the representations of autistic people in media have a long way to go. there is still a critical shortage of autistic poc in media, and many representations of autism are still influenced by the savant stereotype we see with spencer reid (see: the good doctor) and there's still a variety of symptoms that haven't been shown accurately yet. i'm very proud of where we've come, though- now, i can see an incredibly accurate portrayal of myself in laios, but there's still many autistic people who haven't seen someone they can relate to on the silver screen.
#waxing to you guys#autism#actually autistic#autistic things#autistic experiences#autistic community#laios touden#laios dungeon meshi#dunmeshi laios#delicious in dungeon laios#dunmeshi#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#criminal minds#spencer reid#spencer criminal minds#my hero academia#mha deku#bnha deku#deku midoriya#izuku mydoria#izuku midoriya#bnha izuku#bnha#mha#mha spoilers#boku no hero academia#tamaki amajiki#mha tamaki#bnha tamaki
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Appleseed PDA montage to save you from reading endless pages of unimportant politics that don't amount to anything
also because I have nothing better to do, I'm bored, I'm moody, my gaming laptop is still broken so no BG3, and it's too late at night to start drawing after doing animation clean-up all day.
#Manga#Appleseed#Shirow Masamune#80s#This is literally every single one of these moments in the entirety of the manga's run#including bonus material#There's some great character writing hidden among all the infodumping and technobabble as well#But like I said before all it accomplishes is to make you frustrated#Because despite being written so well#Masamune was more interested in waxing philosophical than actually giving his characters the attention they deserve#Despite them displaying an insane amount of depth and complexity whenever they are able to#it's a very rare case where the characters are EXTREMELY well written and almost every moment they are on screen is amazingly well done#But the manga keeps demanding you listen to completely different side characters talk about politics for endless pages#while at the same time none of these politics have any consequence or relevance to the actual stories that happen on screen.#So it ends up with the majority of the manga is like listening to some guy you don't know on the bus reading the headlines of a newspaper#at you about political tension between two countries you have never heard of and will never feature in your life again#How do you write such great and well written characters and then be completely disinterested in actually putting them on screen?????
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Kenma meets his future self
#hope you guys are ready for the era of sketchy uncolored comics cause im fighting for my life rn#jk i have so many drafts but once i run out of those it's rushed sketch purgatory#too many ideas so little time as is the plight of a fandom artist#the haikyuu train stops for no one WE WILL PREVAIL#winter break can't come soon enough... anyways kenma!#im gonna be him for halloween yippeeee#it's gonna be super scuffed because i didn't want a wig and bought that hair wax shit instead AND i have super dark hair but whatever#if you're one of the real ones who reads my tags what are your halloween plans? any other haikyuuers?#kozume kenma#haikyuu#haikyuu!!#haikyuu fanart#hq#hq fanart#my art
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"It's not my fault you don't like girls" but the projection flavor leaning more towards "you're calling the practice of dating and kissing a girl 'stupid', but it's not my fault you aren't yet into partaking in all these intricate, often frustrating and yeah, sometimes even boring rituals all boys are expected to eventually participate in as a part of growing up. You don't get to rub it in my face that you feel like you have a free pass (for who-knows-how-long) to delay joining what basically feels like an after-school program our parents made us sign up for. It's only a matter of time until you catch on, and then I'll be the only one who truly doesn't know what he's doing. You don't get to give me hope by remaining unapologetically yourself against the tide for now, because I know you'll get in with the program any day now."
sometimes i think s3 Mike (along other repressed feelings) was somewhat envious of Will? how nobody (that matters) expects Will to do anything he doesn't want to (yet) and that, unlike him, Will is strong enough to not succumb to any pressure?? (oh buddy, you have no idea)
#byler#mike wheeler#stranger things#will byers#sometimes i hear “it's not my fault you don't like [insert any hobby]”. something menial. “you don't like Battleship bc you don't get it.”#mike. buddy. dating isn't an extracurricular and yet you can't help but see it and treat it that way#waxing poetics of sorts in mike's inner monologue bc the guy's a writer no? and his mind usually goes a thousand miles a minute anyway#st synapse#byler nation#byler endgame#the rain scene#byler headcanon#miwi#byler canon#byler theory
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Easily one of my favorite things about Zoro and Luffy (not necessarily in a shipping context, though *I* enjoy them in a shipping context) is the way they seem so different on a surface level - this whimsical sunshine boy captain and his big, stoic, serious right hand man - but when you actually get to know them, they’re pretty much two halves of the same weird goddamn idiot
Specifically, I love that whenever Luffy is doing / saying something totally absurd, there’s a not insignificant chance that we’re about to cut to Zoro, whether he’s two steps away or halfway across the island, doing the exact same unhinged shit, and it’s so goddamn funny every time???
#one piece#zolu#luzo#monkey d luffy#roronoa zoro#I think this IS one of the areas where the live action suffers a little#specifically because shorter time frame + less cartoony medium means you have to cut a lot of Zoro Silliness#and that makes the gag where they’re sharing the same ridiculous brain cell way harder to use#not that OPLA! Zoro is never funny but he’s usually more dry and snarky and less silly#and he IS silly sometimes! even post timeskip#my guy decided to strike a badass pose while getting mummified in wax and DEFENDS THAT CHOICE#he thinks “north’ is the same thing as ‘up!’ he uses Sogeking as a sword!#post timeskip he’s more subtle but like#he sinks a whole ship because he got lost and boarded the wrong one#Usopp’s complaining about the dumb ‘you two can carry us across the icy lake’ plan is and he’s already taking his shirt off and stretching#it’s very important that he is both Serious and Unserious
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Real fights are messy and I'm sure biting, scratching, scrambling away on your ass are all on the table and encouraged, but sparring matches in the Batcave between the Bats are probably sick as fuck when they try (aka the siblings are not bent on just beating the shit out of each other), because they're using a meld of techniques from about a hundred different martial arts, tapping into their unique strengths, and a near inhuman reading of each other (both from years of working together and experience) and an insane reflex time.
#Sorry not sorry I will always wax poetic about how fucking cool it would be to see these guys' hard earned combat experience in action#Like even if you just watch two different martial arts like jiu-jitsu and shaolin Kung fu fighters try to figure each other out and adapt#It's amazing (depending on technique and experience level)#Will share more specific and eloquent thoughts if and when I ever have them again#Batman#Batfamily#Dc comics#Batcave#Batcave shenanigans#dcu
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how does Edward respond to Bella asking "would you still love me if I was a worm?"
#i feel like it should be ''would you still love me if i was a snail''#edward: ''you would be the most effervescent snail'' etc etc#but you KNOW that man is waxing poetic either way#edward cullen#twilight#bella swan#hoa5#he is THE ''I would still love you more than anyone has loved anything'' guy#but is he also the ''a vampire loving a human isn't as far off from loving a worm as you'd think'' guy#of course he manages to find a broodworthy angle#and bella doesn't even take offense. she busts out laughing and HE spirals about it
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ppl who say one piece only gets good at Arlong Park or Alabasta or Water 7 are weak and will not survive the winter. you're telling me you didn't watch that freaky goober pop out of a barrel with the silliest grin on his face and immediately become enamored with him?? get real. and I think you're lying too because nobody hate watches that many episodes.
#“it only gets good at arlong park” ok man you sat through a whole episode of zoro stuck on a grease hill to get there though#you sat through the ENTIRE DON KRIEG FIGHT#“it only gets good at alabasta” right and watching them wander the desert for 15 episodes straight totally beats zoro stuck on a wax cake#for like 10#you watched all of drum island before you got to that; loser#they chased each other around with sleds for hours and you didn't stop watching#“it only gets good at water 7” MY GUY YOU ARE 200 EPISODES IN. BE FR#just admit you're fascinated by the goober and you wanna see what he does#admit there's an odd draw to the nonsense#be free#one piece#strawhat pirates#monkey d luffy
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Started this back in February when it was more topical but... I suppose no time is a good time for romance as far as Theo is concerned.
#doing a meme like the old deviantart days#good for the soul#theo#my draws#amaranthine#technically#i could ramble on about some of the choices here but perhaps it'd be best to let it speak for itself#also i think that's supposed to say “physical touch” but i couldn't find a font that matches to correct it#so my neurotic self had to leave the author's typo for the sake of aesthetic coherency#ok one piece of commentary: brain problems + highly repressed upbringing = where i put theo on the kinky slider. it had to be there#you should think less '50 shades' and more '50 year old guys waxing poetic about quicksand scenes in old adventure films' for that one#he's not a quicksand guy. but that's the vibe.
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Look what came through the mail today! The letters & ( •̀ω•́ )σ 3 little gremlins from letterstoear.
Just wanna say i adore the flower stickers on the letters too much, they are that much worth mentioning.
#letterstoear#nui#twst#twisted wonderland#sebek zigvolt#malleus draconia#twst grim#mod posting#okay but i love squishing the bears with my thumb; they just have the right thickness to be pressed on#i really like the flower stickers; they look like romantically artistic wax seal#the letters are pleasantly nice#i love the part where cheka personally request for an audience with yuu thru sebek 🥺🥺🥹🥹 too cute hnggh .......#sebek becoming our little mailman for our little invitation aw 🥹 for those who wanna know the context of the letter;#i requested a letter from sebek that he sent home while he was away accompanying malleus on other country duty#my other favorite part is just him simply opening the letter with 'My love'#i'm sealed 🥹 the first paragraph is written so sweetly#i enjoy reading the letter slowly outside in peaceful afternoon today; i ran it through together with sebek nui#this will be my treasured keepsake from now on 🥹; it seriously made me miss letters and wish i have someone to send this kind of letter to#it was a bit funny how the envelope sebek's letter came from is sticked with the guys from free! sticker fhsdsh 🤣😂#and me with the white haired guy like WHo are u?? fsjdsdjsd (´つヮ⊂); but it's a really nice service#the thank you letter came with such a cute and yummy folding paper; thank you for the stickers too#i feel like there's a bit whoopsie on grim's winky eye fshfh like i think the sharpie just blurs the separating space '<' supposed to have#and just combine it all together into one angry eye; and sebek bear's eyes are just a little bigger than i expected it to be#but the more i look at them i think they are just having a little individuality & still cute#i embraced it all together while knowing the fact none of handmade thing would always be the same one with the other; hehe sebek nui has fr#i kinda forget that there's this kind of clip earring fshd; because i always get the ones that work like screw from aliexpress#i know that the literal clip one would just be literal meaning of pain fsh; just like the magnet one my father once got me when i was a kid#it was painful but pretty; tho i lost it quickly bcs magnet easily get loosed once one part of it moves around when u touch ur hair or face#anyhow i had a pleasant day because of this; thank you very much ! sebek nui said 'thank you' too! ‧₊˚❀༉‧₊˚. ❀ ✿ 𖤣…
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Can we PLEASE make the f1 drivers do Mutton Bustin it would be so peak guys hear me out
Cmon. I know yall want to see Yuki Tsunoda and Charles Leclerc doing this it’s a southern tradition
#not to flex#but I was a v good mutton buster as a child#like guys literally hear me out.#ok. you put them in Kevlar vests and helmets they can wear their regular helmets idc.#u put wax on the sheep. every driver grabs a sheep and holds on#someone slaps the sheep’s ass. how long can they hold on. whoever stays the longest gets 2 points#I’m saying guys if we do this idc about getting rid of the fastest lap#are you seeing the vision#and while all of this is happening their are weird men dressed as rodeo clowns#bring back grid girls in the form of 40 yr old souther moms ready to comfort their child after theyve been stepped on by an angry sheep#guys I swear it would be so funny please also then we can bring totally uninterested 10 yr olds doing 4H to the grid 2 crush everyones egos#f1#formula 1#austin gp 2024#united states gp 2024#formulanni#f1 memes#f1 hot take#hear me out#mutton busting
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just watched zeemyth's BEDROCK.ZIP video. thoughts under readmore.
genuinely, i think this is the best video of this format ive ever seen in my life. the editing was so good that it made me worry that it was made as an advertisement. i fully thought it was a documentary about a missing minecraft player, in the same vein as CHUPPL's video about the velma dinkley forums. i played minecraft all the time as a kid (probably 11-12 years of it) and the style of veil's server just..... it was so familiar. it felt like the worlds i'd make when i would get off school. and that was so god damn scary.
the references from house of leaves are a huge part of the video, too. everything in the video is there for a reason. so i'll go over some of the main ideas of this video, because why not.
the generation of the bedrock stronghold is highly reminiscent of the house but it goes even deeper with the motifs of the doors being halved- or opened- in veil's server/the stronghold. this means nobody is SAFE there. nobody can rely on the protection of a door there. plus, the part where zeemyth had to jump off a high place repeatedly was genuinely unnerving. this makes me remember the lengths people will go to find out what they need- the feverish, irrational need to find. most notably.... caves. caves just have this aura about them that make you want to go in a litte deeper, around the corner, and boom. youre lost. also, its underground lol. i think the rooms zeemyth found represent the information you restlessly pursue, but it ends up being the kind that hurts. the end was incredible as well- he found it, but you need to find it yourself. he only gives the person who interviews him one hint-
left under the red arch.
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i'm so relieved that people like my retrobat stuff bc i can tell tumblr definitely prefers two very specific batmans: Tortured Diesel DILF and Edward Cullen But Cooler. meanwhile i'm out here like
#i mean i COULD wax poetic about how serious/grounded stories don't necessarily have to humorless and grimdark#i think someone who is 100% brooding all the time is just as cartoonish and wacky as someone who is always 100% silly#if anything it comes off as insecure. like omg look how serious i am guys!! i made batman unfunny and cruel and abusive!!#i think there's a lot to chew on with a guy who is miserable and traumatized but still at the end of the day a paragon and optimist#if he wasn't ultimately optimistic and big-hearted he wouldn't be doing literally any of this shit lbr he'd just shoot guys and go home#like look man if you wanna write the next great gutwrenching american novel maybe don't pick a single dad in a fursuit as your protag sorry#IF I WANTED SERIOUS NAVELGAZING I'D READ HEMINGWAY. WHICH I ENJOY AS WELL#shebbz shoutz#batman#dc
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every time someone on twitter calls buck buckley a dom/brat tamer 10 angels fall from heaven with their grace completely stripped and 10 puppies die
#like what r you guys talking about…#“brat tamer evan buckley!!” girl… the only thing buck buckly is “taming” is his chest hair with those bimonthly waxing appointments#buck buckley starts drooling and humping peoples legs when they so much as give him a compliment#he is not domming u…. or eddie for that matter….#buck buckley yearns to be told what to do and how to do it and to be praised when he does it right#buck buckley is this emoji: 🐶#buck buckley likes to please his partners in bed.. he wants to be good so desperately#he wants to please them so much that at times it appears that he has control. but he doesnt. he has one thought in his head:#need to be good. need to be good enough so that they stay and love me.#he wants to be told what to do#sure he could slap eddie around in bed if eddie wanted. but he would only do it cuz eddie TOLD him to do it.#like that’s the dynamic.#Enough With The Brat Tamer Buck Buckley Agenda. I Cant Take Anymore.#buck has puppy essence.#essence of pup if you will#he was running the table saying “stop!! give me my phone back!! bobby!! eddie took my phone!!!”#and ur calling him a brat tamer? enough.#evan buck buckely#evan buckley#911 abc#911#buddie#eddie diaz
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Casual face reveal because why not 😭
Also hey I cosplayed Charlie finally after like a good four months of straight up bugging 🙏🏽
#yuurivoice#charlie yuurivoice#yuurivoice cosplay#i put yellow hair wax in my hair because HAHAH GUESS WHO FUCKED UP THE WHOLE WIG-#minty realy pic#sadly he didn't want me to post his Auron cosplay so you guys get only me 🫶🏽 he looked cool i will say-
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'the gentlebeardies are saying that ed's treatment of izzy wasn't abuse bc izzy got off on it!!!' no bestie the gentlebeardies ofmd fans are saying that it wasn't abuse AND that izzy got off on it, it's two points for the price of one, you lucky old thing x
#it's not abuse apologism you guys just can't read :/#fandom critical#the izcourse#ofmd#edward teach#izzy hands#waxing lyrical
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