#where they took some of the autistic kids once a week and put us in a class where we were taught how to act ''normal''

[yuyu-bubu]

bitches call me meta knight because im always fucking masking (this post is about autism)

[moltengoldveins]

ALRIGHT LISTEN UP. I am ill. I am tired. And I have an Idea.

As we all know, the two most autistic movies on the planet are Top Gun: Maverick and Pacific Rim. Obviously. I’m sure there are more neurodivergent movies out there but those are the Autism Movies specifically. Plane go zoom = big robot punch, training for suicide mission = finding drift partner to destroy the breach, fatherly admiral dying of health complications = brotherly admiral dying of- you get the idea.

SO. I propose a film. A way for Warner bros or whoever else greenlit the PacRim sequel to redeem themselves. A Top Gun: Maverick- inspired movie about the squads of fighter jets that fought the third Kaiju. Not the first! Not the second! But the third.

PacRim says the second kaiju came six months after the first. It’s implied by Geiszler that the kaiju come regularly, increasing in frequency mathematically, meaning the third would have probably showed up at most six months after the second, twelve months in. that being said, Raleigh names a couple of kaiju in that first little segment, so it’s more likely that it came earlier, and that there were more kaiju before the Jaegers got their act together. The timing is unclear.

Stacker says the first jaegers were built in thirteen months. That’s seven whole months after the first where the first line of defense against these things would have been fighter jets, like we see in the opening scenes, and Raleigh says that the drift technology was inspired by “DARPA Jet Fighter Neural Systems” meaning that, CANONICALLY, fighter pilots were probably the first drift-compatible pairs of military personnel to fight the Kaiju, before the Jaegers even got out of the drawing room.

so, I propose a timeline: it is twelveish months into this war. (You could even put it on some holiday, make the anniversary of the first kaiju a big event.) When the third kaiju appears. Maybe it’s not the Actual Third, sure, but it’s spiritually the third. It’s right before the Mark 1 Jaegers are finished; funding is limited everywhere but ESPECIALLY in the branches of the military that are gonna be made obsolete by the Jaeger program, ie. The fighter pilots. Drift pairs are being picked off left and right to run Jaeger tests; those who won’t ’change with the times’ are being called ‘old fashioned’ or ‘washed up.’ The pilots who are training at this point are splitting their efforts between Jaeger sim time and flight time; none of them are really equipped to fight a Kaiju in a jet right now, but that’s ok. The Mark 1s are three weeks from completion. They don’t need fighter pilots.

Then the third Kaiju emerges, one month off-schedule, and suddenly everyone NEEDS FIGHTER PILOTS.

Literally can you imagine how cool this movie would be? (Obv the plot would be less blatantly inspired by Maverick but I’m going for the Vibes here):

You are a fighter pilot. Your partner died in a training exercise years ago; it took a while, but you’re comfortable with your new drift partner-once-rival. You’ve flown together for years doing espionage, raids, anything and everything. When he stepped back from active duty to become an admiral, he started using his leeway to keep you in the game, get you new drift partners, keep you in the air. Your former partner’s son wants to follow in your footsteps. His mother begged you to keep him out of the drift. You made a call, and it ruined your relationship with the kid, but you can still fly. You can still put your brain in the hands of someone else and soar. For a few hours out of the month, you feel a million feet tall.

Then a god walks out of the sea, and you are very, very small. You’re halfway across the world; you can’t be there in time. But you watch good men, men you know, men you trained with, go down in fiery blips as a Thing, A Great Abomination, A Hand Of God, crushes LA like a styrofoam plate. The government scrambles for a way to defeat it, and they’ve got some Big Thing in the works but in the meantime, they land on… kids. Fresh pilots, paired up with combat sessions and dance competitions and Mario Kart tournaments, shipped bright-eyed and baby-faced to your doorstep so you can train them to fight god and… lose. To fight god and lose. the odds are terrible. You know that. They know that.

Your partner’s kid is in the first class they send you. You have to teach him to fight a hurricane with a tiny piece of metal and his mind, which really just means you have to teach him to die standing. It looks like you might be on track, it looks like he has time to find a drift partner, it looks like you might be able to repair things and that disaster might not fall: it’s only three weeks till the Jaegers are finished, and the next kaiju isn’t expected for another month.

Then the hurricane arrives off-schedule, and you have to fight god yourself, or die trying.

CAN YALL EVEN IMAGINE. The sheer Tension of juggling political expectations with personal relationships and the Breath Of A Demon blowing down their necks at every opportunity. The acknowledgment that no, nobody has any ideas what these things are, nor do they have a plan on how to kill them without massive loss of human life. The third act darkest hour where everyone’s’ relationship problems hit rock bottom and you go “well it can’t get any worse” and then it does because BOOM KAIJU. The final stand as planes are getting picked off. The jets pulling off the impossible and taking the kaiju down, just as the first Mark 1 (barely holding together on duct tape and prayer, piloted by a young Stacker Pentecost) stumbles its way out of the docking bay.

the bittersweet realization at the end that they won, yeah, but they’re still obsolete now. They still pale in comparison to the power of the New Best Thing. They still aren’t Jaegers, so if they want to stay in the game, they have to become Jaeger pilots.

THIS WOULD BE AN AMAZING MOVIE. IS ANYONE LISTENING. AM INASNE OOR WOULD THIIS BE SO COOLL ASHFFHGKGKLS—

[madlysage]

my stardew valley bachelorette headcanons… again super niche and definitely just me being insufferable

leah

- grew up in the south and still has a little twang when she speaks

- loves fleetwood mac and all 70s rock

- tried to make her own wine and elliott made harvey give her a stern lecture on botulism

- a serial dater with a string of bad ex-boyfriends in her wake (she was just a lesbian all along but that wasn’t accepted where she was growing up)

- a baby gay who still gets flustered when flirting with girls

- befriended the hat mouse and is still trying to convince elliott that he’s real

- dyes her hair but insists she’s a natural redhead (her mom was one and she always wanted to emulate her)

i always picture kennedy walsh (icon that she is)

haley

- the closet is glass babe (lesbian/possibly pan)

- wanted to go to college for photography and studio art but was worried it would put financial strain on emily

- secret little crush on leah because she loves her art and her artistic eye

- her and emily were raised by a single dad who passed away unexpectedly- it’s part of the reason she has a hard time opening up to ppl

- left anonymous mean notes about clint on the town message board for WEEKS after she found out he was hitting on emily

- uses her dad’s camera: it’s very sentimental to her

perf- would def be into clean girl makeup

emily

- nobody is quite sure about emily’s sexuality… including emily!

- very into spirituality- crystals, spirits, astrology, luck etc.

- makes alex uncomfortable anytime he comes over: she doesn’t realize she’s starting contentious political debates with him

- makes all her own clothes and hasn’t bought anything new in 3 years

- writes sweet notes to shane on the bar napkins when she can see he’s rlly going through it

- wears crystals in her bras

- stole haley’s diamond earrings for a gem mediation (it did not go over well)

- makes elliott quills with her parrot’s dropped feathers

but picture the hair blue ya know: don’t cast elle fanning as a character in a fandom challenge level impossible bro

penny

- bicon

- my image of penny is Filipino… stardew needs more diversity gonna be so real

- went to college for education and got her teaching license but had to move back home because of the debt

- learned how to do maru’s hair after she complained about how long it took

- watches old movies with maru every weekend and they do a book swap once a month

- sam is the only one who will eat her cooking (but he’ll eat anything… especially if penny made it)

- lets maru come in and give guest teaching sessions in science and math to jas and vincent

-started drinking coffee just to have an excuse to drop some off to maru and harvey at work

likeeeee beabadoobee just makes the perf penny i can’t explain it’s the vibe

maru

- lesbian queen

- my autistic love

- graduated highschool early: got a full ride to school and double majored in nursing and engineering before going to nursing school (graduated early from that too ofc)

- lives off of coffee and gets a daily lecture on caffeine consumption from harvey

- is harvey’s wingman (neither of them have any rizz…)

- goes to the bar just to quiz emily on astrology

- sets up ferris beuller type traps when she wants to sneak out and not deal with demetrius

-used to sneak into sebastian’s room during thunderstorms and still does sometimes

laura harrier my love my light… just picture her with glasses

abigail

- straight but likes to makeout with girls when she’s drunk

- goes to college online (majoring in business for pierre but double minoring in classics and anthropology) - her parents wouldn’t let her go in person because she’s too “reckless”

- brought home a squirrel once and hid it in her room for weeks

-used to do competitive irish dance as a kid (seems like something caroline would make her do)

- has a huge crush on sam and will flirt with sebastian to make him jealous

- pierced her own ears six times at once and made caroline faint when she saw her

- has a tattoo on her thigh that’s she’s desperately hiding from her parents

-helped emily dye her hair for the first time

- hooked up with alex once but will never admit it

can’t explain it she just gives kiernan - with purple hair ofc

[bigstupid69]

constance hcs if u don't mind? sorry for asking (did i already ask like,, 5 minutes ago i cant remember shit)

I had to copy them down, and definitely add more stuff to some of them so I apologize for the late response.

Constance headcanons below the cut

I think she's like surprisingly strong. I had after school activity headcanons for all of the choir and I put her on the swim team and also rugby apparently?? I think that was just me being a lesbian, but anyway. I put her on the swim team since that is literally the only sport I could think of where like the literal sweetest people are at least in my school, I also just like making Ocean's assumptions about everyone really wrong. That punch in the boob must've really fucking hurt and honestly deserved.

On the note of extra curriculars, she is definitely a band kid and plays the flute in band to reflect the sugar cloud recorder solo. She's probably forced to join every club Ocean signs up for and doesn't really enjoy being there, but she took a creative writing class with Ricky and Noel and did actually really like that.

Speaking of which she has definitely written fanfics on AO3, she seems like the type to be writing a 50k slow burn romance of two like background characters in a show or movie and then never update it ever again until she comes back and writes a completely different fanfic.

I made every member of the choir autistic regardless but I believe she has persistent depressive disorder, which is just chronic depression in much simpler terms, it's not fun.

She dyed her hair different colors constantly, not just purple; she just happened to die with the purple dye. She also is just the choir's hairdresser at points, and has dyed every choir member's hair at least once except Ocean because she's Ocean and doesn't want to experience joy. Mischa went with some like awful neon blue and despite Constance knowing how awful that would turn out he was now cursed with having blue raspberry slurpee hair for a week.

She does Kandi and makes bracelets for all the choir members, as well as super intricate designs like the animal beads and stuff like that. She also did rainbow loom so much, just has so many bracelets made stashed away in her drawers.

She unironically takes BuzzFeed quizzes and makes the whole choir do them with her; she'd genuinely redirect Mischa to those "Am I gay" quizzes when he questioned his sexuality.

She seems like she's the only one in the choir with a good sleep schedule but she's just amazing at hiding her depression and declining mental health since she's been doing it ever since she was in middle school.

She definitely had a small crush on Penny when she was first introduced to the choir, because of the mysterious attitude. But the trance would immediately get wiped away as she witnesses Penny just fall down the stairs tripping over nothing.

The only ships I heavily ship with Constance is candyrapper and sugarspace, and y'know in some universe of my art she is definitely in a poly relationship with them AND Talia, and I just want the world to know my vision. (Actually this idea is now haunting me and I might literally draw this crack ship I just made up uhm-)

Gets along the most with literally everyone but Ocean. They used to have a genuine non toxic relationship in elementary school, but she was probably just looking at the relationship through rose-colored glasses since she was just a kid…

[aronarchy]

(@/eviltothecore13 on 10/10/22 in the replies of this post):

Please, please, stop saying “the homeschooling movement” as if there’s one homeschooling movement across the whole world! this post is so US-centric… there are parts of the world where the majority of homeschoolers are not religious at all. I was homeschooled in the UK after my parents took me out of school because of the abuse I suffered there. We are not Christian or religious at all.

My best friend at my homeschool group was Jewish, taken out of school by his very left-wing mother after he experienced horrific antisemitism as well as bullying for being autistic. Most of the rest of us were not particularly religious, there were a couple of Muslims, and yes a handful of people who were to some extent Christian but that wasn’t their motivation for homeschooling. My parents never hit me. My teachers at school thought they should have done.

Was it ideal? not in every way, no. It costs money, it’s not accessible to poorer families or to families where both parents are out at work all day, and seeing different people every day at various groups and classes but never seeing any one person more regularly than once a week does make it harder to form close friendships (then again, it means you don’t end up inescapably trapped with the same bully every day.)

But we were a group of people who had tried the school system, public and private, been mistreated, been traumatised, had the schools try to blame it on us simply being “bad kids,” and found our parents were our only allies and the only people still willing to even TRY to give us an education. It was a rural county. If you got a bad reputation at one school it would follow you to the next because everyone knew each other and teachers gossiped about their students.

Whereas the homeschool group and the tutors there welcomed you whether you were autistic, ADHD, dyspraxic, dyslexic, dyscalculic, atheist, Jewish, Muslim, a POC, GNC (to my knowledge no-one was out as queer, but only because we were all young and figuring it out and we were in a homophobic area in general—the environment was certainly far less homophobic than school though, and definitely none of my friends who did go to school were out as queer at that age either)

It can be horrible. If the parents don’t have the child’s best interests at heart, if they’re authoritarian, then it can indeed put a terrible amount of power in their hands. If the parents are like mine, who listen to the child and respect them as a person, who consider it their JOB to listen to their child’s wishes and do their best to make them happy, then it gives far more power to the CHILD than the school system does.

If I disliked a tutor or a textbook or anything about my education, I could discuss it with my parents and we’d find a way to change it. It is MUCH harder to do that in the school system—believe me, as someone who tried to express my problems with teachers who abused me to the school system MULTIPLE times and NEVER got the school system to fire someone or even to put me in a different class.

And you say “the homeschooling movement” when you seem to only mean the American Christian one… I’d never heard of the HSLDA before this post, they’re NOT A THING over here, apparently they’re a “Christian organisation” which immediately makes me distrust them, but homeschooling here has NOTHING to do with that movement, please stop acting as if the American experience is universal!

I suffered infinitely more from the stigma around homeschooling (from other kids: “so, why can’t you go to school? is there something wrong with you? are you [r-slur]?” “oh you're homeschooled? I bet you don’t even know the alphabet, I bet you’re stupid”—I took the same GCSE exams as every schoolkid while I was homeschooled and got all A*s) and from feeling like I had to be perfect to prove that stigma wrong than from anything to do with homeschooling in itself.

If I ever have children (which I don’t currently plan to) or ever find myself in a position of responsibility for a child, unless our school system and government has been radically reformed, I could not in good conscience send them to school to go through what I did when I was at school.

And even if under one government things improve… the next could fuck it up again… we used to have Section 28 banning schools from teaching kids that being queer was at all acceptable… imagine if that was brought back…

If an oppressive government comes into power, and the schools are suddenly teaching kids “people like you [your families, your friends, etc] don’t deserve human rights,” I think there needs to be a way for children to still get an education outside of the school system (though let’s face it, an oppressive government would quite possibly make homeschooling illegal anyway, the Nazis did).

Children should not be faced with a situation where their ONLY way to get the qualifications needed to go to university, get a job, etc is to go through an oppressive and abusive school system. They need to have the choice of whether to go to school or not, not be forced to go somewhere that abuses them with no alternative.

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[kimyoonmiauthor]

I heard there is a Myka Stauffer Documentary...

and I'm sure someone took credit for the work I did with my friends and network in the documentary because they didn't contact me. But I do want to loosely remind people that they are not helpless when you see a disgusting practice in your midst.

To jog your memory, Myka Stauffer decided to "rehome" her autistic child. I was in the middle of math hell, so I swore I wouldn't do anything about it because covid+math hell were not good things. (Math hell is calculus, BTW.)

But for a week people were reporting what "Without a Crystal Ball" was reporting without a resolution. And I looked into it and I could not sit still. Here was an ND Asian kid who was effectively missing and who didn't have a spot of government oversight. Holt didn't know where he was (the agency who was in charge of him, having taken over his previous agency that placed him), and no one knew if he was safe.

I was angry once I had time to investigate it. This influencer was milking that plight of this little boy for likes and views without presenting any solutions. In fact ALL of Youtube was doing so. Some of them were using his real name and his likeness to milk him for money. And I hated all of them for it. I thought in all of that time I'd seen the news at least ONE of them would come up with a FUCKING SOLUTION that involved the safety of the little boy in question.

People were asking people to collapse Myka Stauffer's Youtube channel and her husbands, but not one influencer was asking after the safety of the child. I knew that children can end up in sex trafficking rings when there isn't proper dissolution, etc. Since there was no social worker involved, no law enforcement and the law had not stepped in despite the public case. I looked up the local police department, found their twitter and then found the mayor and governor and started in my free time asking everyone, absolutely everyone I knew to write a letter to the sherrif and mayor about this case. I looked up the law for the state she lived in and me and an adoptive mother friend of mine launched a letter writing campaign together.

I say this, not because I want credit, but because I'm am making damned sure those influencers don't get credit for their shit behavior. I went on every one of their videos and posted the letter that me and my friend composed together to ask after the boy with the twitter account, and contacted every adoptee with any kind of sway with the letter and we as an adoptive collective worked together to make sure and get the sheriff to investigate if the boy was in fact safe and in proper hands.

Because I should iterate yet again: INFLUENCERS DID NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE BOY IN QUESTION. THEY ONLY CARED TO MILK IT FOR CLICKS AND LIKES.

And FUCK ALL OF YOU. I'm saying this as an adoptee, especially those who were adoptive parents. FUCK ALL OF YOU for not giving a damn about the outcome of that boy that you didn't inquire about his safety.

I kept on the sheriff department for weeks on end, I coordinated at the risk of failing my class. People yelled at me that it would be no use, that they were helpless and couldn't send a simple letter. People yelled at me about Myka Stauffer. I tried my best to put it out there.

And while I was at it, I leveraged that information to finally pass protections in my own state, have people write Holt about this mess and ask for protections, ask people to write to adoption agencies both domestically and abroad to ask for better protections against rehoming. Because good activism isn't just the case in front of you, it is future cases too.

So I ask you if you watch that documentary to remember any influencers that show up on that doc did not give two shits about rehoming as a core issue. The adoptive parent influencers. Myka Stauffer. And I would beg, beg influencers to use your influence to actually do the full gamut of good.

It was not my complete intention, but soon after ALL adoption agencies banned influencers from adopting for likes and clicks. To which I say GOOD RIDDANCE. Because you never reached out to adoptee advocates to see what they thought or cared to change the issue. None of you proved you were one of the good ones. It was a popular issue so resolving it wasn't your intention.

In the end, Without a Crystal Ball tried to take credit for the work that me and my friends did together. Our collation of birth parents, adoptive parents and adoptees. Because advocacy cannot be done alone. And I told her via twitter that was *our work together* and none of hers because she didn't give two shits about the boy's safety and never organized to ask after him. She only wanted likes and views and to milk it which didn't make her better than Myka herself. Because a resolution would end all of the attention she was getting. And she blocked me because she didn't want to own the truth.

So I'm saying use power and advocacy well, you can change laws, you can speak out, you should not be passive when you have the power to make change. And that's what I want you to remember when you're watching that documentary. You have power if you're willing to wield it for good and please use it well.

[colorfulyetsinful]

This is a hc timeline list for a fanfic I’m writing (it’s not even about Bruce, I just like writing lore).

No capes au, meaning no power or hero or villains. It’s hard to explain, maybe I’ll go into it more once I publish the fic.

(I’m not sure if this makes sense but I hope it makes sense)

Going one for the Kent’s bc I got plans for Clarky boy >:}

Anyways enjoy!!

Warning ⚠️

-young Bruce Wayne

-and underage drug use (it’s only mentioned)

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Bruce is basically Damian mixed with dick’s public persona

- basically he’s stand offish and a smart ass with a charming smile

Autistic coded (where Damian gets it from

Chosen not to have friends, but when Clark and Diana became his partners for a group project, he couldn’t get ride of them

Bruce and Oliver had a rivalry going on

hey didn’t realize it at first until they shared a class in 8th grade, and after that they couldn’t stand each other

Him and Harley some how became besties (kinda like how Damian and Colin are)

He scolds her for being interested in a delinquent (joker)

She comes back at him for having a on-off relationship with Talía

Him, Harley, Harvey, Edward, Pamela, and Selina used to sneak out of school to go smoke pot

(Usually on Wednesdays and Fridays every other week)

He definitely went through a rebellious stage

Cheated on his current gf (idk you pick) with Talía

Him and Talía were that toxic couple that shouldn’t be together but are

Kinda like Maddie and Nate but Bruce would never put his hands on her (he wouldn’t and he couldn’t that bitch would beat his ass)

Him and Selina are childhood friends in the sense that they met like 4 time from the age of 8-13 and fully became friends in Highschool

Talía and Bruce are childhood sweethearts

He was a band kid,,,he definitely played the trombone

Also was in a garage band bc of Eddie

He played the drums

Thought he was going to get ride of Harley after graduation

Nah they both were in the same criminal psychology major

Didn’t know how to drive until he was well into uni (he was driven around by a butler his whole life what do you expect)

Him, Clark, and Diana are drinking buddies

Him and Harley stopped being friends after she dropped out of school and ran away with her bf

Selina, Pamela, and Harley had a reunion in jail

Bruce dropped his friendship Harvey bc they both got drunk and had a fight at a club

Finally broke it off with Talía

Well she broke it off with him…he tells ppl his version tho

Lives up to his name as “Gotham’s playboy” for the rest of college

Him and Oliver (Queen) hooked up at a college graduation party

Woke up to matching rings and a marriage certificate

They were both mortified

He took Dick in around the age of 26 (dick was around 6)

Adopted him a year later

A bit clueless, so Alfred basically raised him

He really learned what patience was with Dick

Found and adopted Jason when Dick was about to turn 7 (Jason was still 5 turning 6)

Thought he was doing good bc now Dick had a friend :D

It didn’t work

Dick was ok about Jason, just was annoyed with Bruce

He lost his parents, anger is one stage of grief

“Now you know how it feels to raise a child, Mister. Bruce”

Yes Alfred is so smugges

But Jason is Bruce’s baby

Jason was such a good boy he couldn’t see how any one could be mean or say anything bad about him

He became such a family man

Him and Selina start having a physical relationship after Jason was adopted

They aren’t really dating bc they didn’t want to “be committed to anything”

Lowkey dating

He help Clark and Lois get together

He was also the best man for their wedding

Also a groomsman for Oliver

Adopted Tim and Cass a few weeks later (the judge looked at him crazy) when dick was 10, Jason 8, cass 9, and Tim 7

Told Alfred there will be no more kids after them

Haha

He helped Kate with the legal team to adopted Harper and Cullen

Since Lucius Fox and him were working long hours, he suggested that the kids have a sleepover

He regretted it later on bc too much kids in the house

But he was happy that his kiddies were talking to other kids that wasn’t themselves or their cousins

(It still didn’t help their social skills)

He also helped Harley turn a new leaf and got her back on her feet after she finally ended things with her ex

She slowly became the family therapist

Her and Bruce also fixed their friendship and now Bruce regrets Bri going her back in his life

(This is a lie, he actually missed Harley)

Was the one that got her and Pamela the apartment together

Also help both of them finish their degree and even get their doctorate

AND helped them adopt a child together

It was a long process due to their criminal record but nothing money can’t fix

Colin was that child

He’s a little shit but the girls love him

Talia and him had a special night together

(He’s not tied down so it’s not cheating 🙄)

It was back before he even had Dick so he wasn’t with Selina

But that night brought a 9 year old Damian to his foot step when Dick was 13

(Is the math mathing??)

“No more kids, huh” 🤨

“Alfred, I didn’t even know this one existed”

He thought Dick was a hard time???

Damian truly humbled him

Selina loved him but Damian was always guarded with her

He grew to accept her as Bruce’s gf

“We’re not dating Damian”

“Then why tf is she here if your not committed”

Stephanie just added herself to the family after her and Tim started dating

Bruce couldn’t get rid of her after they broke up bc she started dating his daughter

He secretly loves her but honestly she just makes herself at home

Colin is that same way but he’s been here longer then Stephanie so🤷‍♂️

Colin and Damian are besties on accident

- They met at dojo class and was the only one not scared to take Damian 1v1

He got his ass beat, but gave damian a bloody nose so, even!!

Damian is autistic coded

Bruce adopted Duke after Damian

It was the same judge every time

The judge didn’t even hold a trial bc he just wants Bruce out of the court room

“This is the last one Alfred I SWEAR”

“You said that TGE LAST TIME”

It wasn’t but it was t by adopt

He proposed to Selina on Hanukkah/Christmas party when Damian was 12

(Hanukkah/Christmas bc Bruce and Tim are Jewish and raised dick and Jason as Jewish, but Damian, Duke, Cass, and Selina aren’t Jewish)

“I’m not dating her” “we’re not doing any commitment” my ass

It’s been 10 years BRUCE

ANYWWYS she said yes

The kids + other were the wedding party

Damian was the ring barrier

Harley was the maid of honor

Clark was the best man

Other ppl from the league was invited bc Bruce did have other friends in school, but he mostly hanged out with his little group

Selina adopted the kids as her stepchildren

(She loves her little kittens)

They honeymoon in Thailand (Selina is haft Thai)

Another year into their marriage and Selina is pregnant:D

“…”

“…at least this isn’t some kid I found on the street or was from an old fling”

“So you acknowledge that there’s a problem”

They were expecting twins

Bruce is happy to have kids with Selina but some times he wishes he would have stop at Jason

(This is another lie, this man is whipped for his family)

Honestly Bruce is happy how big his family have grown since it was just him and Alfred for so long Alfred is happy that Bruce had grown into such a family man and is happy how he far he’s gone since his rebellious younger years

[sparkedblaze]

DAVEY

Look y’all gotta start telling me if y’all want canon or modern 💀

Okay so idk if Davey was based of Dave Simmons but let me tell you about him anyway 🥰🥰

I think Jack’s characterization is far closer to Dave Simmons than Davey’s. The only thing they share is a name.

But I digress

So! This is Dave Simmons!

President of the Union in the first half of the strike

Accused of betraying the strike, though I personally think he may have been a victim of a whisper campaign out out by the papers

The rumor was that he and Kid Blink took a bribe to sell papes before the end of the strike.

Though they both denied the accusation, they both stepped down from their position. Dave (I believe) became treasurer instead.

There’s no actual evidence that he actually scabbed. But they decided to step down rather than hinder the strike with disloyalty.

Newsies Davey

Mom friend. This isn’t even a hc it’s just canon at this point.

This boy is burnt out before he’s even an adult 💀My poor boy is so tired all the time please give him iced coffee and therapy

Book smart. Common sense dumb. Uses big words like auspicious but knows nothing of selling or anything about Snyder (despite living in NYC and being poor enough to need to join the newsies)

Here comes my rant about autistic Davey Jacobs:

Has no filter and even less chill. Davey is very all or nothing and I love him for that.

Doesn’t get social cues. See: Jack v upset about Crutchie being arrested. Davey: “abOvE thE fOld”

Special interest: learning. Especially about art. And hawking. And pretty strike leaders

He and Les have gotten stuck in echolalia circles. They’ll echo each other for hours on end.

Has trouble lying, and approaching people in general.

End of this autistic Davey Jacobs rant bc I could literally talk forever

He values honesty so much it hurts. When Jack scabs in 92sies. One of first things David says is “You’re a liar! You lied about everything!” And the devastation on his face in Livesies. Literal chills 😭😭

Where Jack ignores orders just to prove a point, Davey doesn’t mind following orders as long as they’re reasonable. As long as they make sense. When the strike starts, Davey doesn’t quite understand. He doesn’t get the difference in ten cents for a hundred papes. It doesn’t make any difference to him. When it’s explained to him, he’s wholeheartedly for the strike. When Jack scabs, Davey once again doesn’t understand because they’ve worked so hard. And this is the one thing Jack listens to?

Anti-violence. Even in the face of starvation and freezing in the coming winter (they don’t know how long this strike will last. He has to be prepared) Davey is adamant. Do not soak the scabs.

Is always 100% done with Jack’s shit.

Is Jewish!! I’m like 98% sure this is canon, but I am certain it’s at least fanon the Jacobs are Jewish

Say something about his baby brother and he. Will. End. You.

RYAN KOPEL IS SO RIGHT THAT DAVEY GETS A LITTLE MORE FERAL EVERY DAY.

Modern:

Davey✔️

He and Jack have been friends for as long as he could remember. His family always went around to the orphanages in New York, bringing old clothes that had been collected by the people of their Synagogue.

David and Sarah had always sought out Jack when they’d get to the Refuge. Snyder always put on a front of being a kind, caring guardian when there were visitors, but Jack told Davey and Sarah about some of the horrors that they were put through.

Their parents never believed them, because Jack (having a distrust of adults for some odd reason) always told them that he was fine and he wasn’t in any danger, and so they thought their children were making it up to try and bring their friend home. When Les was born, the Jacobs took time off to get adjusted to having a new child in the house.

In college for business or marketing to make sure he knows how to do what’s best to keep them successful.

Dave in the Life: Multiple videos a week just vlogging the domestic side of his and Jack’s relationship

Been There Done That: Joint channel with Jack. Traveling, doing wild shit, usually featuring many of their friends

This concludes everything coming out of my brain about Davey Jacobs right now

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

[equinoxts2]

15 Questions from Mutuals

@withlovefromayre​ tagged me and although I feel awkward singling anyone else out to tag, I’m happy to answer these questions. Ramble incoming!

Are you named after anyone? This is very embarrassing, but in 2014 I changed my name to one of the regions of a world where a then-favourite game site was set. Five years later, when I couldn’t take the high-tension, high-drama events that site did at least twice a year or the way the site’s staff encouraged the greedy, heartless attitude of most of the other community members, I turned my back on the fandom and have regretted picking that particular name ever since. Either way, I just couldn’t live with my birth name any longer - that never felt like me, to put it mildly.

When was the last time you cried? Last week, when I had two major emotional crises in two days. Sometimes I feel so out of place on 21st century Earth that I want to sue the universe for misincarnation or something.

The second time it happened last week, my mum took me for a walk round the park across the street to help me calm down. Nothing could lift me out of the depths of despair though - until we were nearly home and she picked a dandelion and gave it to me to blow the seeds off. Getting to be a kid again for a couple of seconds helped me to smile again, and pulled me back from the brink. I’m going to buy myself a piece of jewellery with a dandelion on it, so I can remember how much it helped me.

Do you have kids? No, I acknowledge that I’m not cut out to be a parent or a partner. I do consider all nine generations of sims I’ve raised so far to be my babies, though.

Do you use sarcasm a lot? Sometimes, when I’m with someone I know won’t take it personally, like my mum. If I’m being completely honest, I can dish it out but I can’t take it.

What sports do you play/have you played? Truth be told, I’m a couch potato. Sixteen years of depression can do that to a person, though I am trying to get more active and healthy. However, I was very active as a child and I did once win a skipping rope race at my primary school sports day.

What is the first thing you notice about other people? Whether I feel comfortable around them or not. I’m autistic and I find it difficult meeting new people, but there are some people - including my regular support workers - who I’ve clicked with almost instantly. Others, I just get... spiky vibes or something from them.

Scary movies or happy endings? Definitely happy endings. I love musicals and Disney movies - and whatever I watch, it always helps for me to have a box of tissues handy. 

Any special talents? I’ve been told I’m very insightful. I’m good at language creation, wordplay, worldbuilding and writing, with a particular flair for comic verse. I can also create and edit mods for Sims 2. One day I’d like to publish fantasy novels for children and young adults who might be going through rough times, to offer comfort and escapism and not hit too close to home by setting them in our world.

Where were you born? Whipps Cross Hospital in Walthamstowe, London. Apparently David Beckham was also born there. *shrugs* Whatever.

What are your hobbies? Mostly it’s Sims 2, reading about and creating various fantasy worlds, solo roleplaying, Plants vs. Zombies 2, and my mum and I are currently hyperfixating on another game app, Two Dots, which I discovered by accident. I also love being out in nature and have planted some wildflower seeds around the park near my home.

Do you have any pets? At the time of writing, I have an aquarium with six fish - one male and three female platies, one rummy nose tetra and one silvertip tetra who is easily the boss of the aquarium - and there’s an indeterminate number of amano shrimp in there too. It’s been nearly 18 months since we had to say goodbye to our elderly dog, Charlie, and I still miss him, it doesn’t feel right without a clueless lump of fur around.

How tall are you? 5′4″.

Fave subject in school? School was a living nightmare for me, but I did enjoy writing and art. I used to cry myself to sleep on nights before geography lessons though, because although I love learning about other cultures, I couldn’t bear hearing about wars and natural disasters.

Eye Colour: Dark brown.

[cinnamonnnbear]

Unchained Melodies

Part 2: Friends

Matthew 

Well, I fucked that up, who the fuck would ever invite a CHILD to get drinks with them. Matthew sat in the back seat of his bassist’s car. He was too drunk to drive, and the last time he did, he got a DUI. Matthew took a deep breath and looked out the window. He didn’t even know the kid’s name. “Hey Matthew,” His drummer grumbled out.

“What?” Matthew looked at the drummer, who was reading some book.

“Who was that guy you were talking to earlier?”

“Oh, one of the guys from the band Or After, they won the award WE were supposed to get,” Matthew slurred the one word on purpose; the guy he met was excellent, but that was supposed to be their award of the night. 

“Eh, they have better music than us and are more diverse? I don’t know,” The drummer shrugged, never looking up from his book.

“What do you mean by diverse?” 

“Oh, the lead singer is openly gay, the drummer is deaf, and I think the bassist is like autistic or some shit,” the drummer looked unamused. 

“I mean, the bassist is cute,” The bassist of Matthew’s band hummed. Matthew had forgotten all of their names at this point. He had nicknames for them, but that was it. He called the bassist Bloody Fingers due to one time he started bleeding on stage during a show. He called the drummer hard hitter cause he broke his drum kit once due to hitting it too hard.

“She’s eh…” Matthew slurred out, thinking about the lead singer, “What’s their names anyway?” 

“I think the lead singer is Fennick Abernathy. The bassist and drummer are Montana and William Florance siblings,” Hard Hitter huffed out. Matthew nodded; he was thinking of Fennick. He thought about his blonde hair with streaks of orange highlights and his hazel eyes. Matthew sighed and smiled before realizing what he was thinking.

What am I doing? He’s a guy, and so am I. Matthew thought, Plus, I have a girlfriend; I can’t think things like that about someone I just met. He took a deep breath and looked out the window. 

Weeks later, Matthew saw Fennick again. Matthew went to a coffee shop down the street for a date with his girlfriend, Clarissa. Matthew walked into the coffee shop and saw Fennick waiting for his coffee at the counter; next to him stood Montana and William. He listened to their conversation.

“Monnnnn, I swear this one is different!” Fennick whined to Monica, but she just shook her head.

“Are you sure? He seems like every other cracked-up rockstar,” Monica crossed her arms, “I just don’t want you to get involved in all that stuff…”

“I won’t! I swear! I would never do any of that, yknow that,” Fennick smiled at Monica; God, Matthew wished that smile was to him.

“I know…It’s just what fame does to people,” Monica sighs and grabs a coffee off the counter, “This is yours, Will.” William smiled and took the coffee.

Matthew wanted to listen in more but was up at the counter, “Uhm, just a chamomile tea, please,” The barista nodded.

“That’ll be 2.50.” She sounded bored with her life; he couldn’t blame her. Matthew took the cash from his back pocket and handed it to her, “The name for the order?”

“Matthew,” He looked back where Fennick was, and just like he thought, Fennick was gone. Matthew walked to a table and looked out the window. Where was Clarrisa? She was usually late but never this late. 

“Matthew!” Clarissa yelled with a Valley girl accent, “There you are!!” Matthew looked at her and smiled.

“Hey, sweetheart,” Matthew stood up and pulled out a chair, “Come sit down, please.” 

“No! I’m not sitting down!” Clarissa raised her voice, God she’s high again, “You’re an asshole! You hid all of my stash!” 

“Yeah, for your good. So baby, just calm down,” Matthew put his hand on her shoulder. 

“How the fuck can I calm down?! I’m done with you!” Then he felt the sting of his cheek and her storming out of the shop. 

He looked around at his surroundings, and everyone was staring at him. “Sorry for the scene,” Matthew grabbed his tea from the counter and left the shop. He began the walk home; He felt a hand on his shoulder. 

“Hey…” Not now, please, It was Fennick’s voice. Matthew turned to look at him.

“Hey, coincidence to see you again,” Fuck He knew his voice was cracking.

“Yeah, it is. Are you okay? I saw what happened there.” Fennick looked worried as if he were concerned about Matthew.

“Yeah, I am,” Matthew took a deep breath, “I should get back to my apartment,” 

“Here, Take my number,” Fennick handed Matthew a piece of paper with his number scribbled on it, “Call me if you need, okay?” Matthew just nodded and walked off. I don’t need anything from anyone, not even him. But hey, now that Matthew has his number, does that mean they’re friends now?

[survey--s]

595.

Do you know anyone who always makes themselves out to be the victim? Ohh god yes. I went to university with a girl like that - she never took ownership of her mistakes and she lost a LOT of friends because she wasn't ever willing to admit to doing anything wrong.

Have you ever wished you had been born the opposite sex? Nope, I don't think so.

What were some of your favorite books your parents read to you as a child? The Tiger Who Came to Tea, the Magic Faraway tree series and Bollygum.

Have you ever been insulted or called names by a significant other? Sure, but jokingly and seriously.

What’s your favorite movie battle scene? The ones in Lord of the Rings are all pretty good, especially the ones in the Two Towers.

Do you drink more frequently than once a week? No, I don't remember the last time I had alcohol actually - it was probably on New Years Eve.

Do you have any step-grandparents? I do - both my dads' parents re-married and my mum was informally adopted by her aunt and uncle so I actually have eight grandparents lol.

What is something popular that you refuse to participate in? The hype around Taylor Swift. <--- sure, let's go with that.

Do you oftentimes find it difficult to relate to other peoples’ feelings? Yeah, most definitely. That's an autistic thing though.

What’s a common misconception about your country? That we all have bad teeth. I actually read an article that said we have some of the best teeth in the world.

How far away do you live from the house you grew up in? It's probably a seven hour drive from here, give or take.

Have you ever been to a same-sex wedding? I've never attended any wedding apart from my own.

Who takes care of your pet(s) when you’re out of town? My sister-in-law looks after our cats normally, but I think going forward I'll be paying Sophie (another pet-sitter) because we now have Toby who needs tablets so I don't want to put that on family really. We take Archie with us but if we were going abroad I'd put him in kennels.

Do you practice meditation? No. I've tried it but it did nothing for me.

What’s your favorite Marvel movie? The only one I remember seeing is Dr Strange. I'm not really into that kind of thing, to be honest.

What was the last thing you wrote down on paper? A note for Mark last week about the dogs.

What’s the population of your hometown? Where I live now, around 7k. Where I grew up, around 16k.

Have you ever eaten Cajun food? What about Creole food? No and yes.

If you’ve had both, which cuisine do you prefer? .

Did you have a Walkman when you were a kid? I did! I thought I was SO cool lol.

What’s the most difficult experience you and a significant other have gone through together? I honestly don't know - looking back, nothing was actually that awful, but it certainly felt that way at the time.

What are your siblings’ names and ages? I don't have any siblings.

What’s your favorite recipe you’ve come up with? Uh, I'm really not that creative or inventive lol.

Have you ever worn false eyelashes? Nope.

Do you pay much attention to local news? Hmm, not really. I see stuff on social media but that's about it.

Have you ever attempted to pick a lock? Did you succeed? Yes and yes.

When did you last dust the baseboards in your home? I actually vacuumed them this morning lol.

Do you prefer Japanese or Korean cuisine? I've never had Korean food I don't think, so I'll go with Japanese which I really like.

What’s something you have zero tolerance for? Abuse of any kind, especially if it's towards animals and children.

Do you know anyone who could be described as a religious fundamentalist? I don't, but I find the whole fundamentalism thing weirdly fascinating. I love watching shows about it.

What was the last act of self-care you did for yourself? Uh, I don't know, arranged to see my mum this weekend?

What grammar mistake do you find the most irritating? I don't really care about other people's grammar, to be honest.

What will you be buying the next time you go grocery shopping? I just did an online order, actually. I'm just getting normal stuff.

Do you drink soda often? Yeah, everyday.

[asexual-abomination]

Hi 🥺 I saw requests were open? Could you maybe do platonic Phantom Troupe with the reader having echolalia? If the troupe is too much, maybe just Chrollo and Feitan? Thank you in advance 🥺

Thank you so much for this request! I had a lot of fun writing it!

I know that echolalia and a lot of other symptoms show up differently in different people, so I had to base this on my own experience, and I have a tendency to echo literally anything, words, sounds, rhythms, anything.

I decided to have this take place in a scenario where reader copies each member individually!

Chrollo

Probably the one who has read up on any and all of your symptoms, since he considers it his responsibility to be educated on your needs

When, after you happened to be sat in a meeting with the Troupe, you began muttering to yourself, he wanted to see if you were alright

As he walked up to after, hoping to speak with you, he was surprised to see you repeating a seemingly innocuous phrase from somewhere in the middle of the meeting

Chrollo would recognize this as a stim, but he wouldn’t understand immediately why you would be stimming something he randomly said

He would be a bit thrown off when your explanation is very simple, telling him that it just sounded right, felt right in your brain

He wouldn’t tell a soul, but a little part of him was proud that you found his voice that nice to listen to that you’d imitate it for fun

He definitely doesn’t mind, and even encourages any stimming in general, since he can see that it makes you happy

Machi

While most of her medical training is in more physical things, after it was mentioned that you were autistic, she decided to go and top up her knowledge of neurodivergency.

At one point during a mission, she murmured to herself to remember a safe’s code, not realizing that she was within earshot of you

Several hours after the mission was over and everyone was celebrating the spoils of victory, she overheard you repeating the code to yourself over and over again

She expressed her confusion to you, reminding you that the mission was over and there was no need for the code anymore

When your response was to tell her that the code simply sounded nice, she would probably get confused for a moment

Machi doesn’t quite understand how some random string of numbers can ‘sound nice’ but she also knows that your brain functions differently from hers

I don’t see her making too big a deal out of it, but she’d actually make a sly comment about how much you listen to her

Other than that, she happy to let you stim as you please!

Phinks

Probably not educated at all about the intricacies of your stimming or any symptoms in general, but he'll never get upset with you, since he understands on some level that it's just how you are

I'd imagine that the way you'd echo from him miiight come from overhearing him death threatening a scared hostage

Definitely spooks him when he hears you mumbling the harshest and longest string of curses he's ever heard

Mostly because you're spitting the words with the exact same tone as he did, and he thinks that you're trying to threaten him

(He doesn't wanna mess with you 😆)

When he finally figures out that you're copying him, he jumps to the next conclusion that you're mocking him

"What? Am I not intimidating to you? I sure scared that scum back there!"

"What are you talking about?"

His face when you explain yourself to him is nothing short of flustered, and he begins profusely apologizing

He gets super caught up whenever he's accidentally ableist, since he wants you to feel safe around him

Once you've cleared up the situation, he actually takes joy in seeing you copy him, and if he gets the chance he'll want to teach you how to be more intimidating

Uvogin

Another case of not really knowing what stims are, but being respectful of them anyway

I mean, man is literally eight feet tall, he doesn't care about whatever weird things anyone else might do

He roars at the back of his throat once, and that's it

When he's walking past you after a mission, Uvo's almost shocked to hear you making a vague growling noise constantly

Since he likes to lean into his animal side a bit more than others, he'll jokingly ask if you're trying to intimidate him, much like Phinks

When you explain to him to you thought that his roar was fun enough to copy, he also takes an odd sense of pride in it

He's not normally a man for any kind of subtlety, but if you actually found his roars pleasing to listen to, he'll see if he can roar at a volume that won't immediately burst your eardrums without protection or distance

If you do a lot of vocal stimming in general, especially imitation of his roars, I can see him taking you out to some mountain or cave or whatever to practice your roar for some fun bonding

Nobunaga

Okay so we know that he spends plenty of time around Machi, so she's probably explained some of the main symptoms of your autism at some point when he asked

But when he sits next to you and hears you trying to imitate the sounds that his sword makes when he charges it with his Nen, he looks at you incredulously for a moment

You may not have even noticed that you were echoing at first, so you'll probably be confused when you see him looking at you

"Oh, sorry, your sword just sounds nice!"

*Cue even further confusion from him*

Completely doesn't get how a sword sounds nice, but kind of has this "You do you, kid" attitude about it

May or may not invite you to listen to his practice and then wait until afterwards to listen for your echoes because he finds it cute

Shizuku

Okay I'm gonna be honest, when Blinky first appeared in show and made that noise, I was taken and kept trying to make the same noise for hours whenever it appeared

"Shizuku, why did you summon Blinky? Is something wrong?"

"What are you talking about? I didn't summon them?"

"Oh that was me, sorry."

Definitely has a giggle about it when she finds that you enjoy echoing her Nen ability

Will summon Blinky whenever you want to 'have a chat' with them

Very openly thinks you're absolutely adorable with it, and it's one of the first things she'll do every time she gets to see you

Shalnark

Honestly, he says everything with such a happy, upbeat tone, anything he says can be copied for fun

His laugh is the best, so you're probably echoing that

He's probably not too shocked when he hears an attempt his own laugh coming from down the hallway, thinking someone's trying to play a prank on him

But he'll be a little confused when he finds you

When you reveal the truth of what you were doing, oh god, be prepared

"Aww, you like my voice that much??"

"You do a pretty good impression of me, must spend a lot of time listening, huh?"

He WILL NOT stop until he gets to see you blush, though if he does overstep and upset you, he'll tone it back down immediately

Might not change anything especially big with his usual way of talking, but will take a moment to appreciate his own voice whenever he catches you imitating him

Bonolenov

THE MUSIC!!

Okay I know that they're mainly used for battle and injuring people's ears, but he definitely has more calm songs that he plays for his friends

When you first hear it, the tunes are so enchanting that you will be humming or whistling it for weeks afterwards

He's sitting and relaxing when he hears you attempting to hum the tune of a sweet lullaby he had once played for the Troupe

It's probably not a perfect replication, since it takes a while to learn the songs he makes, but it makes his heart melt to think that you want to try your hand at his beloved music

When he overhears you, he jumps in to begin gushing about the song you found so lovely

Asking if you'd like to hear it again -  he'd certainly love to play it for you again!

He might seem really overexcited, but he's genuinely happy that he can bring you joy with his ability

Franklin

Took me a moment to think of something for him, but after a while of thinking:

He speaks slowly and calmly quite often, so I can imagine that he can sometimes say things in very rhythmic fashion, which will catch on very quick

You're walking away from a quick chat with him, when he hears you whispering under your breath

Normally wouldn't even make a note of it, but he wants to make sure you're okay

(Definitely isn't worried about you and wanting to keep you safe)

His reaction when you tell him that you liked the way that he said something is a mix between "Oh, that's nice" and "What are you on about"

Has probably the least amount of education on stimming, but also one of the most open to learning, since he wants to do what he can to keep those he cares about safe and happy

Will be a bit put off by the way you seem to copy him at first, but definitely doesn't mind after a while

Silently thanks you for making him take a moment to appreciate his own voice

Pakunoda

Sweetheart hums a meteor city anthem one day, and isn't really shocked when she comes upon you humming it yourself

Since she's looked into your mind with her ability, she knows the way that you like to echo certain sounds, and doesn't mind at all

If she's listening from around a corner or such, she will smile joyfully and quietly wait out of your sight

Unless you catch her in the act, she's actually quite happy to not let you know of presence while she enjoys the thought of you enjoying her culture

But, if you do catch her, she'll probably start gushing to you about the origin of whichever song you wanted to imitate

She wants you to feel happy, however you wish to pursue that, and will absolutely hype you up in any sort of stimming you need to do

Whether you want her to ignore your echoing, or to join in whenever she hears, she's happy to do whatever you ask to keep you happy

Feitan

If he catches you copying something he said in broken language, at first he will assume that you were making fun of him

Not because he thinks that you're mean spirited, just because he's used to people mocking

With most members of the Troupe, he would show no mercy at this point, but since he actually likes you, you get one chance to explain yourself

Once you tell him about why you're copying him, he'll be seriously confused for a moment

Yeah he's never heard the word echolalia before

So you'll have to explain it to him

Probably doesn't immediately get it, but he lets you off the hook for it, since he does understand that you're very different from him and the others

Doesn't really think too much of it once you've cleared up that you aren't mocking him, although he finds it interesting to listen to you talking about how stimming works, even when he doesn't understand half of it

Kortopi

Actually another case that assumes that you're mocking him

He's used to being acknowledged as a weak link in the Troupe, and would get quite internally upset if he thought you were also in on the joke

I can't explain why I think this, but I actually see him as one of the most educated members of the group when it comes to any sort of neurodiversity, since I think he's neurodivergent himself, but he probably doesn't catch on immediately that this stems from your own autism

Wouldn't confront you straight away, but when he does, he tries to be as professional as possible about it

Cue a string of quiet apologies when you explain yourself

Quickly tries to explain himself to you, and you probably bond over how annoying it can be to have stimming misunderstood

Tries his best to let you know from then on that any symptoms you need to express are accepted around him, since he knows that you accept him as well

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Thanks for reading!

[glowingspence]

Extended Family

"What if Cat had Spencer's child and Spencer is left to take care of it? At least he has an old friend to help him.”

Chapter 2

Summary: Savannah and Derek take them back to their house.

Word count: 1854

Warnings: Self-harm

Ao3

Chapter 2:

"He seems to like driving in the car" Spencer assumes when his son falls asleep quickly after driving off. He sits next to him on the backseat, facing him and having one hand on his stomach. "Where will he sleep?"

"We still have the crip we used for Hank in our bedroom we never came around to put it away"

"I wanna sleep next to him."

"You can, pretty boy. You can sleep in our bed for the night and tomorrow we will rearrange stuff okay?" Derek offers and takes the next turn. "How long has he been with you?"

"This morning"

"And he drank the bottle?" Savannah questions.

"Yes, the nurses at the hospital taught me what to do and JJ was with me."

"That's good, where is Cat now?"

"Hospital and then back to prison."

"Did you see her?"

"Yes, she didn't even cry when they took him away from her." Spencer tells them. "She would have gotten sick of him pretty quickly."

"He has you so that won't happen."

"What do I do when he becomes like her?"

"That won't happen. I know you will make sure of it."

"What if he becomes like me?"

"That's a good thing don't you think?"

"No, I mean what if he is autistic to. And what if- what if schizophrenia passed onto him-"

"When he is autistic, he is lucky to be growing up with you. If someone would understand him then that's you." Savannah assures him. "And for the schizophrenia, you would know the signs and get him help but these are huge things to worry about for a one week old child, right now he seems perfectly healthy and everything else we will see."

There is silence for a few minutes. Morgan after some time recognizes what it's about. "Spencer, you won't become your father. You aren't capable. You won't hurt him on purpose I know that,kid."

"You don't know that"

"I know you, that's enough."

"He is smiling in his sleep" Spencer exclaims seconds later, flapping his hands in excitement. "Look he is smiling"

"My mom would now say that he is flirting with the angels." Savannah tells him. "Hank would do it all the time."

"You do too, pretty boy" Morgan adds. "You talk and you have strong facial expressions when you dream."

"Really?"

"Yes, sometimes I would wake up to you just bubbling in your sleep."

"You never told me that." Spencer states with a frown not taking his eyes off Theo. "I never said anything embarrassing right?"

"Of course not." There are actually a lot of moments that Morgan recalls to just have laughed at. "Maybe I should trade stories with Luke once in a while."

"No please don't make fun of me. We aren't there yet again." Hesitant Spencer touches Theo's face, let's his finger run over the tiny nose. "He is so small"

"Be aware you close your eyes once and you already feel like he grew again. Can't believe Hank can walk and talk already."

"Do you think he is going to be smart?" Spencer questions, not taking his eyes off him.

"Cat may be a bitch but she is smart as hell not even talking about your brain. I doubt that that didn't pass down on him." Morgan comments. "Besides, even if he isn't, he is gonna be one boy to fool with that father of his."

"I am gonna protect you" Spencer whispers. "Your mom isn't gonna get to you,you will always be safe"

"Come on in" Morgan opens the door to their cozy home. A light burning in the living room. "Mrs Sanchez watched Hank for the evening" He explains when the elderly woman walks into the hallway.

"Thank you again for doing this."

"Everything for that boy" She lives next to them, her grandchildren play with Hank when they are over and by now the Morgan's are invited to the family celebrations over there as well. "Oh look at that." Mrs Sanchez walks towards Spencer but he turns away facing the corner between door and wall and using himself as a protection for the kid.

Apologetic Savannah smiles at her when she takes a step back and Derek approaches Spencer putting one arm around him, making sure he isn't panicking. "It was a long night, I am sure he will love to introduce you two another day"

"Of course, call me if you need anything."

"We will, thank you again. We owe you a lovely dinner and some wine."

"I will come back to that." She responds with a wink and leaves through the door.

"Spencer, why don't you go upstairs with Derek and take a shower and I get Theo to his crip?" Savannah offers with a warm smile.

"No"

"You can trust her" Derek tries encouraging him and wipes his hair back behind his ear, it's greasy from the days he spent at the hospital, fearing that Cat is gonna hurt their child. "It's okay, give him to her. She is gonna make sure he feels safe okay?"

"No"

"Okay, we can show you how to do that? Is that okay? Can we get him to bed together?" Savannah offers.

"Yes"

"Then we need to go upstairs okay?" Concerned Derek looks at him, his whole body is shaking, his pale face isn't helping his imagine. He is pretty sure Spencer has done nothing to make sure he is okay himself over the last few days. He can't imagine the terror Spencer must have gone through while staying at the hospital, a place he hates with every cell of his body. "Do you want Savannah to carry him upstairs?"

"Please"

"Alright she is gonna take him from you."

"But give him back." Spencer pleads not letting go.

"Of course, we are just gonna get upstairs okay?"

"Yes" Sceptical he let's Savannah take him.

"Spencer I need to ask you this-" Derek starts and gently turns him towards him holding both of his arms. "When was the last time you ate?"

"I want to follow Savannah"

"We can, just give your attention to me for a moment because you don't look very healthy right now."

"I need to get to my baby"

"Spencer!" Derek calls out louder, making him flinch and finally look at him. "When was the last time you took your medication?"

"Don't take them anymore. Stopped a while ago."

"Is this discussed with your therapist?"

"Hate her, don't wanna go back there." Spencer starts rocking back and forth on his heels.

"Kid-"

"Don't wanna take them again."

"How long have you been of them?"

"Since prison." He admits and looks at the stairs waiting for Derek to allow him to follow his baby.

"I think they would help you right now. I think they would help a lot."

"I am not taking them again! And I am not going back to her she doesn't understand." Spencer steps back with force and starts hitting his head against the wall. "She doesn't understand. No one understands. No one understands. Only Garcia understands."

"What do we not understand?"

"Don't understand." He repeats and keeps on hitting his head while Morgan holds onto him. "Garcia understands."

"Okay do you want me to call Garcia?"

"No, Garcia understands."

"You mean your autism?"

"Dr Preece wanted to fix me. Don't wanna be fixed. Luke said she shouldn’t be a therapist. Luke said not to listen to everything she says. Don't wanna be fixed like that."

"I know, I am not fixing you I promise come on, you are safe. You are safe here, kid. We aren't doing anything with you you don't want. We are gonna keep you two safe. I promise you, it's okay." He wraps his arms around him, pulling him close and pushing his hand between his head and wall. "I've got you. I've got you, you are safe with me."

Spencer struggles for a moment longer until quiet barks ring through the room and Spencer stops dead I tracks. "We have a puppy" interested Spencer looks in the direction of the sound. “You wanna see her?”

"Puppy"

"Come with me. Her name is Patch"

"Does she bite?"

"No she doesn't." Morgan leads Spencer through their kitchen holding his hand and then steps into the dining room that is the closest room to the backyard and turns on the light. "She is in a cage. We can get her out if you want."

"We can get her out if you want"

"Alright" Derek crouches down next to the cage and opens it, while Spencer kneels down. "Come here sweetie we got a guest who likes to meet you."

"Come here." Hesitantly Spencer hits the floor with his palm. "Do you have any treats?"

"Sure"

"Can I have some to feed to her?"

"If course give me a second." He hears Theo crying when he walks into the kitchen to get them and just hopes Spencer doesn't. "There you go"

He hands Spencer the small bag with treats and crouches down behind him, steadying himself with one arm at Spencer's waist, feeling him flinch away first.

"Come here" Spencer holds the treat out and Peach slowly pats towards her. "Good girl."

"If it were up to Hank she would be fed all day with this"

"I always sneak in snacks for Roxy"

"Who is Roxy?"

"Roxy is Luke's dog. Sometimes he brings her in for office days and I can have her at my desk all day." He tells him while patting the puppy.

"That must be nice"

"It is" He watches Spencer lean down and cuddle his cheek against his fur and sighting comfortably and Derek wants to slap himself for not thinking about taking Clooney to the office back then. It's obvious that it seems like dogs have a calming effect on him. "She is very adorable."

"I love her too." Derek carefully pats her and is positive that Spencer at this point ignores the crying from Theo. If it's on purpose or not he can't tell. "What do you think about getting to bed? We can do everything else tomorrow okay? Slowly."

"With Peach?"

"We are gonna leave her downstairs but tomorrow she will walk around in the house the cage just for overnight and for when we aren't here until she is old enough."

"Alright" Spencer pats her one last time and then places her into the cage. "Sleep tight, I will see you tomorrow."

"Let's get you to bed too." He leads him upstairs and into their bedroom where Theo is laying in the crip, whines coming from him while Savannah tries comforting him and Spencer passes by them, sitting down on the bed his back turned towards him. "Alright, here is something you can change into okay?"

"Thank you" Tired he starts unbuttoning his shirt and slips into Morgan's shirt while he ignores the scratches over his chest and then changes into sweatpants before laying down on the bed letting Morgan tuck him in.

"Just sleep we are gonna take care of him."

"I never wanted him."

"I know we will figure this out."

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here's my design for goty 2022 (in an au where copyright isn't an issue)

FACTS

name: nia mahdi

age: 11

ethnicity: persian

religion: muslim

family: nia is an only child. she was born in charlottesville, va, after parents immigrated there from iran.

notes: nia is autistic and trans <3

DOLL

face mold: nia would get a new face mold that is designed based on ethnically persian features

skin tone: 25 ("tan skin with warm neutral undertones")

eye color: dark brown

freckles: yes

hair cut: wavy, very long (kanani length)

hair color: dark brown

meet outfit: a trans pride flag colored scrunchy for her hair, a light blue zip-up sweatshirt that says "i am proud to be autistic" on the back, this t-shirt (a light blue t-shirt with fan art of dreamer with a trans pride flag cape) beneath that sweatshirt, these shorts (pastel plaid knee-length shorts), lindsey's striped leggings beneath those shorts, and sperry shoes

meet accessories: bright purple ear defenders, an AAC tablet, a doll-sized version of the 2021 dc pride comic book, this pink kryptonite chewelry

BOOK 1

(these books would have three authors - me, an author who is muslim and a second generation immigrant, and an author who is a trans woman of color. the reason for three authors is so that we can tell nia's story authentically - i'm autistic and have autism gender like nia, the second author is muslim and an immigrant like nia, and the third author is specifically a trans woman of color like nia.)

in chapter 1 we'll briefly go over this background information:

nia came out to her parents as trans on the car ride home from the last day of first grade. she chose the name "nia" because she wanted to name herself after nia nal, a character on her favorite show (supergirl) because nia nal is trans like she is, nia nal is an alien (and nia mahdi oftentimes feels like an alien around other humans), and nia nal is a really cool superhero! (unspoken: nia nal is nia mahdi's special interest.)

it took nia mahdi's parents a little bit of time to wrap their heads around her truth, but soon, they fully accepted nia for who she is.

that summer, her parents informed nia's school of her correct name, pronouns, and gender. and nia started growing out her hair, and she's never cut it since! nia loves her long hair.

when nia started second grade, nia's classmates sometimes accidentally called her by the wrong name and pronouns, but they always apologized and corrected themselves when nia pointed out their mistake. a few kids were confused, but once nia explained that she knows she's a girl just as well as you know you're a boy/girl, they all understood and accepted her :)

now onto the real content of the first book, which takes place from september to december:

nia's just started sixth grade at a new middle school. it's really loud, big, and hard. but she has a friend, ender. ender doesn't speak english well (he moved to america from turkey just last year), but that's okay because nia has trouble speaking sometimes too.

one day, nia's parents take her to a doctor, and she has to answer a lot of questions and take a lot of tests.

a few weeks later, nia's parents sit her down and tell her that she has been diagnosed with autism.

nia researches autism and feels very relieved and validated. (unspoken: autism becomes one of nia's special interests.)

at school, nia gets some cool accomodations: she's allowed to wear ear defenders at lunch and in the hallways, she can keep a tablet in her backpack to use for AAC when necessary, and she can use the school's sensory break room when necessary.

one time, nia gets very upset after receiving a "bad grade" on a reading test. a few of the questions asked her to identify characters' emotions, motivations, etc., and nia wants to explain to her teacher that her autism makes "emotional reading between the lines" hard for her. but she's so upset that her mouth isn't working properly, so she uses her AAC to talk to the teacher.

after that, one of nia's classmates makes a rude comment about her AAC. speaking through her AAC, nia explains to him why she uses her AAC. she stands up for herself.

in her free time, nia keeps researching autism and disability justice advocacy. she begins to think that her friend ender might be autistic too - he has a lot of autistic traits, and she's never felt alien around him in the way she does around most people.

she tells ender about her theory. ender says he's not sure whether or not he thinks he's autistic. but he does know that the hallways are far too loud, and he would like to be able to wear ear defenders like nia. so nia lends ender her spare pair of ear defenders.

the next day at lunch, ender gives nia back her ear defenders and reveals that he got in trouble for wearing in the hallway. the teacher thought he was wearing headphones and listening to music (which isn't allowed), and ender couldn't remember the english words to explain to her that they were just to shield him from the noise.

nia wants to help ender be able to wear defenders. she schedules a meeting with the guidance counselor. together, she and ender explain to the guidance counselor that ender just wants to wear ear defenders in the loud hallways. the counselor says that ender can't do that since he doesn't have an official accommodations letter.

nia leaves the office very upset. she knows from her research that autism diagnoses are very expensive and hard to get. she wants to find a way to get ender this accommodation without an official letter.

so nia makes a plan: she and ender write a long essay explaining why ender should be allowed to wear ear defenders.

they present the essay to the counselor, and she's convinced by their arguement. ender is now allowed to wear ear defenders in the hallway :)

to celebrate their victory, nia buys ender bright purple ear defenders (the same type she has) so that they can match :)

and that's the end of book 1

BOOK 2

book 2 takes place from january to march

nia goes on puberty blockers. nia's glad that she won't have to go through male puberty, but she also feels weird about it. nia is very excited to start wearing a hijab, and her mom says that she can start wearing a hijab when she goes through puberty and transitions from being a girl to being a woman. so, if nia isn't going through puberty now, when will she get to start wearing a hijab?

nia talks to ender about her problem. ender suggests that she should talk to her mom about it.

nia talks to her mom about her concerns. nia's mom explains that the shift from girl to woman involves more than just her body changing: it involves growth, strength of spirit, and learning about oneself. nia's mom will be able to tell when she's ready to start wearing the hijab, even if nia isn't going through puberty. nia feels a lot better now.

the next day at lunch, nia tells ender the good news. he is very happy for her. he then tells nia that he's scared of puberty too. he asks nia how she knew she was a girl, and nia explains how it was this strong internal feeling. ender reveals that he feels like he's not a boy or a girl. he's afraid that that means he's weird or broken. nia explains that he's not weird or broken - some people are non-binary, which means that they're not fully a boy or fully a girl. ender really likes that word. nia also tells ender that some non-binary like to use the gender-neutral pronouns "they/them" and asks ender if he would like her to start using those pronouns for him. ender says that he's not sure. he likes he/him pronouns, he thinks, at least for now. nia smiles and tells him that she's proud of him.

the spring dance is in march. nia and her mom go shopping for an oufit. at first, nia drifts towards the pretty dresses. she loves how they look and feels great in them, but she wants to try on suits too. she feels a little bit insecure when she realizes that she loves how she looks in the suit too. (plus, this navy suit will go better with her purple ear defenders than the colorful dresses will.) she's scared that her classmates will think she's not a "real girl" if she comes to the dance in a suit, but then she remembers her conversation with ender - when ender asked her how she knew she's a girl, her answer was that it was just something she knew. her gender isn't defined by her clothing preferences - she's just as much of a real girl in this suit as in those dresses. so nia buys the suit, and she feels very happy and confident.

at the dance, she finds that ender is wearing a skirt (and a tuxedo shirt and blazer). she runs up to him, and they both happy stim. they have a lot of fun dancing and snacking on cheez its together.

BOOK 3

book 3 takes place from april to june

the main plot of book 3 is going to be nia's grandmother visiting from iran for three months. nia learns a lot of new information about her family culture.

in june, to celebrate the end of the school year, nia's school has a multi-cultural night.

ender signs up to bring in some traditional turkish food and share some of the poetry his dad has written in turkish. he encourages nia to sign up for multi-cultural night too!

so nia signs up.

together, nia and her grandmother cook a ton of traditional iranian food to share at the celebration. she and her grandmother also work together to sew a special kaftan for nia.

the night of the celebration, nia dresses up in her kaftan and grabs the containers of food. as she's getting ready to leave, her father asks her to stop so he can take a picture of her. her mother says, "wait! i have one other thing for the picture!" (but spoken in faarsi). she emerges with a hijab for nia. she helps nia put on the hijab and tells nia that she's seen how nia's grown into a woman this past school year (aka, over the course of these 3 books). nia is so happy that she cries.

at the multi-cultural night, everyone loves the food and nia's kaftan and hijab. when ender sees nia's hijab, he starts happy stimming, and nia starts happy stimming too.

that's all my plans for goty 2022!

[justtogetthrough]

I spent 6 hours in the ER tonight to be diagnosed with food borne illness and offered no pain management for the first 5 of those hours despite me being balled up and crying in pain bc literally nobody came to check on me for 4 hours. At the 1 hour mark upon arrival is when I got put in a room from the triage/waiting area and I was like hey nurse I'm doing real bad bc x and y and she was like you're going straight to a room so I'm sure you'll be seen quickly. And then I saw no one for 4 hours except when I pressed the call button at hour 4 crying and having a panic attack and asking if I should just leave cuz apparently there's no medical reason anyone feels I should be there and she's like no no the doctor will come and I mean... he did... but not for another hour and a quarter and I was in 9 out of 10 pain alone in a hospital room crying for hours and literally nobody gave a shit. Adulthood sucks. I had just gotten up to grab my coat and leave when the doctor walked in to draw blood. And they have the gall to post signs in the rooms saying nurses will check in every hour during the day to check on pain, potty, position, and personal belongings "its called the 4 p rounding in the ED". I want to file a complaint and be like TELL ME WHY NO ONE CHECKED ON ME FOR 4 HOURS, AND WHY IT TOOK 5 HOURS TO GET PAIN RELIEF WHEN MY LITERAL PRESENTING COMPLAINT WAS PAIN ALL DAY FLUCTUATING BETEEEN 6 AND 10 OUT OF 10. As soon as they injected the antiinflammatory into my arm at hour 5.25 since arriva to triage the improvement was significant and the crying stopped and its like wow. I could have had this hours ago. I wasn't drug seeking. Fucking toradol is all it took, its not a narcotic, and it worked and I was satisfied and I want to know why a doctor didn't check in on my pain within the first hour of getting a room to see what I needed to function. That toradol injection at hour 2 not hour 5 would have made this night a lot less hellish and spared my neighbours from listening to me cry and hyperventilate for 30-40 minutes straight.

I am much happier to be crying in my own bed now than in the fucking hospital where everyone just ignored the sounds of a person in extreme suffering.

At this point I would rather die from some random medical misfortune slowly and painfully at home then ever voluntarily attend my local hospital man. It's literal hell on earth.

I'll go there for stitches when I'm not in medical need besides sewing up a wound and I can bring a book. But if I'm suffering in any way, the hospital is the last place to go. I need to restock my home pharmacy with OTC and illicit drugs and I'm self medicating from here on out. If I could stitch myself I would and trust me I've checked Amazon for suture kits. They seem suspect. Once I find a real kit with real tools, I will never step foot in a hospital again.

Ps, med students link me up with suture kits, I'll pay you for them. Amazon sells practice kits and idk if theyre truly skinsafe. I need what you use and I have 2 decades experience watching it done and am probably autistic and would research the fuck out of it and do it 100% properly minus the med school qualification. Hook me up please. This is a serious request.

This post is written on xanax and zopiclone and will form the basics of my complaint I will be losing with the hospital thanks. I need to ask my kid if he still wants to lodge a complaint about his mistreatment in November. We can navigate that process together. It's a life skill. Reporting concerns is not the same as complaining but the complaint process is necessary and it needs to be used when services are harmful and negligent and both of our situations warrant formal complaints and apology letters for mishandling our medical needs.

So that could be a tomorrow thing given I refuse to work after this week I've had so yep. Day off, boss can't convince me otherwise and likely won't. So reading up on hospital complaint procedures and connecting with my kid about whether he wants to do his too. His complaint was way more violating so I suspect he won't, but I think he should. Up to him though. People, institutions, etc all need to be held accountable and if they dont know we're unhappy or the whack shit their employees are doing, we are failing our responsibility to take part in social democracy.

That's my drugged up rant for tonight. I am upset.

[stevishabitat]

Neurodivergent friends, I need some help.

I took my kiddo (age 9) to get the Covid jab today and... let's just say it was traumatic for all involved.

I was so hoping that the kids vaccine would be released with a nasal mist version like the flu shot, but that was a pipe dream, really.

We live with my parents, who are medically fragile, and we just can't take any risks with bringing Covid home to them. We keep ourselves as isolated as possible. Kiddo is homeschooled, and is only around people outside the family when they go to therapy once a week.

But the time has come for the vaccination.

My kiddo has as much autonomy as a 9yo possibly can, within safety parameters. But this is one thing that just can't be left to their choice. Just like setting a broken bone wouldn't be a choice - it would have to happen.

Kiddo accepts it logically, that it's important for everyone to be vaccinated, but just kept wanting to postpone it. I know there's a lot of anxiety involved. We've talked thru it as much as kiddo will allow. We talked to their therapist about how to approach it.

Every trip to the doctors office requires a team of folks to keep kiddo from bolting or harming themself or others. Kiddo is definitely getting too big for me to be able to hold on my lap anymore, and can really pack a wallop when they lose control of their limbs.

I knew it was going to be rough, but I really thought that kiddo would bite the bullet and make some noise, but ultimately let it happen.

That was not the case.

Kiddo will have to get the 2nd shot in a few weeks, and then the booster after that.

But I'm not willing to put any of us thru something like today again.

I personally remember some traumatizing moments in healthcare as a kid. And I still have some things that I can't bring myself to do in regards to medical procedures - I have to be sedated for dental work due to trauma. So I totally get it. I know what it feels like. And I feel for kiddo having to go thru this right now.

But also, I'm a parent and a part of a community. I can't neglect to get my kiddo vaccinated just because it's hard. People are dying every day, and the one and only thing I can do to help with that is make sure my family is vaccinated, isolated, and masked up - so we don't contribute to the problem, and so we keep ourselves and each other safe.

So anyway, I don't know what to do for these next two rounds for vaccination.

I tried looking up resources online, but I should have known better than typing in the words 'autistic' and 'vaccine' in the same search. That was horrifying and I'm not going back out to Google for this again.

So I'm asking my fellow ND friends and community to help me with this.

Are there places you can go to get healthcare specifically for ND kiddos and adults??? Like doctors offices where people understand how to help? Sensory-friendly clinics? Places where kiddos can safely meltdown without getting hurt, and staff who know how to support someone with extreme anxiety regarding medical procedures???

I'm in the Midwest USA, and any organizations or resources that are ND friendly would be appreciated.

Please keep in mind that I'm autistic myself, and I don't want to be pathologized as an incompetent parent because I'm having trouble getting my kiddo vaccinated. Nor do I want to hear from NT parents about how they 'handle' their autistic children.

Thanks so much, friends!

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I don't ever pull the DNI card, but I'm laying down some ground rules here:

Anti-vax comments will be blocked.

Ableist comments will be blocked.

Anti-children comments will be blocked.