autistic headcanons - fred jones

happy autism acceptance month!

[image id: a 9 image gifset of fred jones from scooby doo. the subject of the gifset is an autistic interpretation of his character, and each gif lists a trait of autism while showing examples of fred having that trait across many scooby doo movies and tv shows.

gif 1: the caption reads: meltdown. fred is digging frantically in the sand, and he is visibly distraught.

gif 2: the caption reads: face blindness. part 1: fred doesn’t recognize velma without her glasses. part 2: fred doesn’t recognize scooby when he’s in a low-effort disguise.

gif 3: the caption reads: fixation on things to the point of self-neglect. part 1: fred is walking down a street during a mission he’s fixated on, and he is very dirty and hasn’t shaved in a long time. part 2: a man has fred’s arm around his shoulder and is helping him walk because he’s so tired.

gif 4: the caption reads: special interest in traps/engineering/cars. fred is looking at a selection of nets and deciding which one to use.

gif 5: the caption reads: happy stimming. fred points at something off-screen, and then hand flaps. the autism infinity symbol is overlaid on this gif.

gif 6: the caption reads: awkward social interactions. fred is talking to a girl. he appears confident. she is annoyed at something he says, and he then appears uncomfortable.

gif 7: the caption reads: attachment to/personification of inanimate comfort object. part 1: fred is hugging the mystery machine and talking to it. part 2: fred is holding the now-wrecked mystery machine’s spare tire cover, and he has a sad expression on his face.

gif 8: the caption reads: difficulty reading social cues/taking things literally. part 1: daphne suggests that she needs CPR to fred (she is really hinting that she wants to kiss), and he gives her actual CPR by pressing on her stomach. part 2: fred is talking to velma, and she walks away looking uncomfortable. he is surprised and seems a bit annoyed.

gif 9: the caption reads: infodumping. part 1: fred and daphne are looking through a scrapbook of his traps, and he’s pointing at things and talking about them. part 2: fred is looking at a magazine and happily talking about something. / end ID]

Some bowuigi to celebrate the official start of the holiday season. Happy December everyone

Pop culture reduces It's a Wonderful Life to that last half hour, and thinks the whole thing is about this guy traveling to an alternate universe where he doesn't exist and a little girl saying, "Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings." A hokey, sugary fantasy. A light and fluffy story fit for Hallmark movies.

But this reading completely glosses over the fact that George Bailey is actively suicidal. He's not just standing there moping about, "My friends don't like me," like some characters do in shows that try to adapt this conceit to other settings. George's life has been destroyed. He's bankrupt and facing prison. The lifetime of struggle we've been watching for the last two hours has accomplished nothing but this crushing defeat, and he honestly believes that the best thing he can do is kill himself because he's worth more dead than alive. He would have thrown himself from a bridge had an actual angel from heaven not intervened at the last possible moment.

That's dark. The banker villain that pop culture reduces to a cartoon purposely drove a man to the brink of suicide, which only a miracle pulled him back from. And then George Bailey goes even deeper into despair. He not only believes that his future's not worth living, but that his past wasn't worth living. He thinks that every suffering he endured, every piece of good that he tried to do was not only pointless, but actively harmful, and he and the world would be better off if he had never existed at all.

This is the context that leads to the famed alternate universe of a million pastiches, and it's absolutely vital to understanding the world that George finds. It's there to specifically show him that his despondent views about his effect on the universe are wrong. His bum ear kept him from serving his country in the war--but the act that gave him that injury was what allowed his brother to grow up to become a war hero. His fight against Potter's domination of the town felt like useless tiny battles in a war that could never be won--but it turns out that even the act of fighting was enough to save the town from falling into hopeless slavery. He thought that if it weren't for him, his wife would have married Sam Wainwright and had a life of ease and luxury as a millionaire's wife, instead of suffering a painful life of penny-pinching with him. Finding out that she'd have been a spinster isn't, "Ha ha, she'd have been pathetic without you." It's showing him that she never loved Wainwright enough to marry him, and that George's existence didn't stop her from having a happier life, but saved her from having a sadder one. Everywhere he turns, he finds out that his existence wasn't a mistake, that his struggles and sufferings did accomplish something, that his painful existence wasn't a tragedy but a gift to the people around him.

Only when he realizes this does he get to come back home in wild joy over the gift of his existence. The scenes of hope and joy and love only exist because of the two hours of struggle and despair that came before. Even Zuzu's saccharine line about bells and angel wings exists, not as a sugary proverb, but as a climax to Clarence's story--showing that even George's despair had good effect, and that his newfound thankfulness for life causes not only earthly, but heavenly joy.

If this movie has light and hope, it's not because it exists in some fantasy world where everything is sunshine and rainbows, but because it fights tooth and nail to scrape every bit of hope it can from our all too dark and painful world. The light here exists, not because it ignores the dark, but because the dark makes light more precious and meaningful. The light exists in defiance of the dark, the hope in defiance of despair, and there is nothing saccharine about that. It's just about as realistic as it gets.

the sexy girlbots are returning. nature is healing

Velázquez, 1623 / Anonymous, c. 1630 / Velázquez, 1631 / Velázquez, 1644 / Carreño de Miranda, c. 1645 / Anonymous, c. 1660

I don't know what newly out trans girl needs to hear this, but you never have to apologize for "male socialization". Ever. Even if you legitimately hurt people. If you did bad things pre-transition, it's perfectly okay to apologize for those things, and take responsibility, and acknowledge the harm you caused, all without gendering yourself male. If the "male socialization" model feels true to your experience, then you're welcome to use it on yourself (and nobody else), but nobody has the right to hold your past misdeeds over your head as proof you're not a "real woman".

I am OBSESSED with people telling me how they met the love of their life. Just found out my director met his wife through a misdirected email - that’s fate right there.

i bet every single one of you that alicent “what about rhaenyra don’t hurt rhaenyra” hightower has fantasized more than once about rhaenyra sitting on the iron throne with alicent as her queen consort or vice versa like literally LOOK at her catholic guilt face when rhaenys brought up the idea of her being in power and getting what she wants (independence, freedom, safety, and rhaenyra rhaenyra rhaenyra) for the first time ever in her life

Rhaenyra with her and Daemon’s third child: Visenya Targaryen

Aegon, Jacaerys and Lucerys (surprisingly) getting along

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 01x01 | 2022–

Harwin "breakbones" Strong going in, knocking heads, picking Rhaenyra up and flinging her over his shoulder to carry her to safety was hot, I said what I said. A worthy baby daddy

Yes.

Hi... so I haven’t posted anything in a couple years. So uh... yeah. I lost my job. I found a new one but its over an hour away. Found an apartment we could afford. But it doesn’t have an elevator. anything would help honestly.

this is so sweet 🥺🥺🥺

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) dir. David Slade Supernatural 8.05 “Blood Brother”

'kids these days have it easy' thats the point thats the point thats the whole point we're here to make it better for whoever comes after you sad selfish self absorbed puddle of wank