Our little stupid conversation means more to me than you think

i think the way tiktok and tumblr (yes i am unifying these two sites together for this, for shame!) talk about autism and adhd (n honestly ocd too) as this quirky party trick has really damaged The Youths, at least in america (n they enact that damage on the rest of us, per usual)

like you guys will CONTINUE as usual to mock n harass anyone who is slightly "weird" or "offputting" bc well YOURE autistic and YOU dont do that, so it must be a them problem. well, YOU live on your own and YOU have a job and YOU have tons of friends and YOU go to uni and YOU go to the club and YOU arent weird. its not an "autism thing", this persons just weird. weird for being a picky eater, for using scripts in conversations, for avoiding crowded places n having meltdowns while in them, for living w their parents or in assisted living, for going on about their special interests, for missing social ques, for speaking "weird", for stimming, for having little or no friends, for being unemployed, for having motor issues, for being nonverbal, for not being able to handle the school/academy system, for being autistic.

THEYRE clearly just weird, THEYRE wrong for exhibiting signs and symptoms of autism. their autism is WRONG and WEIRD and OFFPUTTING. YOURE autistic and YOU dont do that, so its clearly "not about autism".

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everything nintendo related in it's entirety is in the process of being removed from the Garry's Mod workshop due to a DMCA takedown (most likely) from Nintendo. It's a very sad day, lets all take a moment to remember carlos

the longer i stay in fandom, the longer i think a huge amount of bad takes and discourse come from an... abundance of identifying with a character

to be clear, i don't think it's bad to identify with a character. far from it! i think that's part of what makes fiction so powerful.

and it's only logical people often attach to a blorbo because they're just like me, for real. a person will see some element of themselves-- their race, their gender, their sexuality, their hobbies, their family life, their specific flavour of neurodivergence-- and something just resonates. it gives them a way to explore and name this important part of themselves, a part they maybe didn't even know existed before it.

and everything is well and good until some split between them and the character shows up

because of course, no character, except an explicit self-insert written by yourself, will ever be a perfect 1:1 for your own experiences. so sooner or later-- maybe in canon, maybe in a fanwork-- your blorbo diverges from your lived experience in a huge way.

I think this is why shipping culture in particular gets so toxic. While it is by no means the only way to indulge with shipping, a significant portion is 'if i was in that character's shoes, i would choose X'. the fight becomes for your own self-identity.

but this gets expanded in other ways. a character who is revealed to be black when the majority of the fandom had just assumed they were white. or revealed to be queer, or maybe the 'wrong' flavour of queer. or fuck, even some more innocuous part of their backstory, one that's nonetheless so meaningful for SOMEONE, but now it feels like the story is saying, fuck you, we're doing something else

i don't know. i just feel acknowledging this perceived-attack-on-identity helps me understand why people react it what seems to be such outsized way to canon and fanworks alike.

at the same time, i think it's a really important thing to check in yourself.

it's nice, to see a character who you identify with. who resonates with for being like you. but it's also nice to acknowledge and appreciate the way characters are not like you at All. how great it is to get insight into this totally different lived experience. and to muse on how wonderful that recognition might be for someone who does have that background.

robot cannibal smut when

a necessary pain to make a necessary point

truly the judge of hell ever

sorry i couldnt stop thinking about it

how the fuck has no one made a fictional vehicle or motor driven Thing yet whose sound design samples guitars and drums. like djent and prog rock n shit. literally a steady djent rhythm would be perfect for an idling noise and cymbals and other percussion hits for gear switches. or whatever other mechanical noises those things make. long notes which pitch up n down when its in motion. u know??? it just feels like the most obvious Cool Thing to do with a Cool Vehicle in fiction and yet i swear i've never heard it. either way someone should do it and by god itll be me if it doesnt happen sooner

Please be normal

bungus

hot take but i’m getting real tired of seeing posts on this site that act like being afraid of bugs is some kind of moral failing when it’s a literal human instinct.

i know as biologists we tend to forget that the average person isn’t as knowledgeable or unafraid of the things that we’re passionate about, but being afraid of bugs is something that takes a long time to get over! i love bugs and even i’m still scared of them!

it just pisses me off to see someone admitting that they have a fear or don’t know that much about a certain subject, and be met with so much hate and dismissiveness for it. if someone told you they were afraid of flying in airplanes, you wouldn’t call them an idiot and say that they’re what’s wrong with society. you’d be nice and help them out.

bugs are such beautiful and fascinating creatures! we need to inform people about them and make them want to learn more, not shame them for having a fear that’s difficult to overcome. please have some sympathy for your fellow humans instead of putting them down to make yourself feel smarter. because all that does is push people away from wanting to find out more about these amazing animals, and i think that’s a real shame.

Gutterman lore.

Gutterman lore.

gutterpou