Sonic having unexpected bits of secondhand expertise that he gets from his friends:

His coding skills wouldn't last a single second against anyone actually competent but he can hack Shadow's Netflix password every time it changes.

He knows how to brew a perfect cup of tea and also how to bake exactly one (1) cake.

Around the specific latitudes that Angel island tends to float around in he goes looking for a particular kind of edible plant that a certain someone showed him how to identify. He likes to snack on it when he's bored.

He's able to estimate the value of a piece of jewelry based off the quality of the gem. Knows the difference between a 'karat' and a 'carat'.

He can look at bullet holes and have a decent guess at the caliber of the gun that shot them. He could also, in a pinch, fully disassemble a HK45 Tactical pistol and put it back together again.

Fishing. You get the idea.

I hate it when I’m at work and a kid is talking to me about something they’re interested in and the parents will butt in and go “sorry he’s on the spectrum”. Like bold of you to assume I’m not.

confession i’m obsessed with the idea of these two getting along. infodump under the cut

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listen.

so you know how shadow’s very “i have no friends >:(( i don’t want friends”

well blaze in sonic rush was very much like that, too. she was resistant to the idea of someone being her friend because of her responsibilities and her inability to really know how it felt to connect with someone. she still is pretty timid and maybe would want some time to herself, but she loves and appreciates the time she has with her friends.

so. i feel like blaze would be someone who can relate and understand shadow (sonic too because of similar reasons but i’ve already talked about this) but i feel, since their personalities are also so similar that shadow could possibly feel comfortable around her, too. and maybe bring the best in him. IDK THOUGH

disclaimer, as someone on the aplatonic spectrum, i don’t think not wanting to have friends is inherently bad. but in the case of shadow, i feel like he restricts himself to a standard. in tmosth, shadow is shown to really care about and even get along with people, but struggles with self image. i feel like that can connect with him in canon as a whole.. like he purposely shuts himself out and lashes out as a response to the trauma he’s experienced.

so yeah. they would be besties if sega wasn’t a coward

tw: emotional abuse, sustem origin

just a bit of an info dump, i split/started dissociating at like 7 years old after a huge traumatic event and i was really getting into video games at the time. we were a really lonely child - called bossy, mean, ugly, weird. we only really had like 4 or 5 friends.

after that traumatic event - and after i subconsciously started realizing the people i was friends with weren't very nice to me either, and the emotional neglect from my parents started piling on - i started getting really into imaginary friends; i had a twin sister named emily, i started talking to my stuffies more, started coping with escapism, and more relevantly to what im gonna talk about - imagining fictional characters as imaginary friends.

enter sonic the hedgehog!

he split off when we were about 9 years old, and has been here a very long time. i'd say he's been here the longest. presently he protects my inner child alter, but he wants to branch out more. he's been in a regressive state as of lately but usually he's a little younger than i am. he's definitely grown up over the years that he's been with me. and although that progress may have been muddled with discovery/reemergence, he's every bit the same sonic i've known for almost 12 years.

i guess i just wanted to infodump on how being a lonely child kind of impacted my system - most of my introjects are comfort characters. somewhere in this brain are several little girls/lonely enbies that just want to be listened to without having to shout. and now we have eachother, and we have them. i dunno. i hate what happened to me and how we were treated, but them being there helps us remember we can confide in other people. and we're here to help them remember that too.

i lorb my syssem

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I’m glad that all of you are there for each other!

You didn’t deserve any of that growing up and I’m sorry that happened to you.

Sorry for the small response, I don’t want take away from your info dump :)

who are your favorite prog rock artists

This is a little embarrassing to answer since I don't listen to a huge variety of prog artists, just like 3 who fall under the genre umbrella 🫣 that being said, my absolute favorite artist of all time is Devin Townsend. People who look at my tags on music related posts are aware of this. It's proggy less so in the expected sense of constant weird time signature shenanigans, and more so in general sonic complexity and richness of sound. Lots of instrument tracks, lots of layers. It's a through line from his most extreme speed metal projects with Strapping Young Lad into his ambient albums, and even coloring his pop-rock stuff on Addicted! and Epicloud. Out of some 30-odd albums, I love almost all of his work (excepting some earlier unpolished stuff, plus DevLab and Casualties of Cool which just don't sit with me aesthetically) and I utterly implore people to check him out. Every project besides SYL has his name on it so it's not too difficult to hunt down. But aside from that, my taste is super basic: Rush and Yes were my intros to the genre and I still listen occasionally (send this question 4 years ago and i'd have infodumped about 2112 instead lmao), plus I've been trying to get into King Gizzard but have only really resonated with Nonagon Infinity so far. That's basically it, though. Thanks for the ask! :)

also idk if it's going to show up once this is posted but as im typing up my response this ask format is FUCKED. check it out:

no clue why that happened, it looked normal in my inbox. lol. well thanks again for the question!

Hi I don't know where to begin I first just want to say I've been following this blog on insta for a very long time and I just love it's so nice and sweet also I really loved your daily sketch account (I didn't really expect an open inbox so I'm just gonna rattle as many question as I can rn I understand if you don't answer them all) Has Agent 3 Modified one of her shoes to have jet boots like shadow yet? maybe 4 helped her out to make it? Does 8 and Ahato borrow each others clothes/ play dress up with each other? or bought each other some plushes? what was 3 and 4 first reactions upon seeing each other for the first time? How would everyone react to seeing the new agent 3/new idols? Would 3 and 4 get 8 and Ahato into sonic? did Ahato and 8 talk to Marina about their experiences in the deep-sea/octarain army?

Ik these were just for the sake of the bit but can 8 summon other things besides a chicken nugget at will? uhh I can't think of anything else atm hope your wrist is better and thank you again for making the blog!

- If Three knew how to do that, they would.

- Ahato gets cold easily so in the winter, she's in a hoodie almost all the time. (Rumor has it that her blue hoodie used to be Eight's but neither of them will confirm or deny this.) As for plushes... maybe! Eight's definitely the type to fall into that trope of "We're at the carnival and my Friend I Have Feelings For made a passing comment of liking the big stuffed animal prize and now it's my life's goal to win it for them" LOLOL

- When they met, Three wasn't that used to socializing, for multiple reasons. But Four didn't really put on the pressure for Three to talk, so she enjoyed the company. They started hanging out regularly after that, and quickly grew to be like siblings. They just understood each other really well.

- Ahato and Four would probably be big Deep Cut fans. No reason in particular I say that, it just sounds right.

- Eight and Ahato don't really understand video games that well so they kinda just let those two infodump from time to time and listen as best they can LOL

- I'm sure at some point, they did. But I think they also had a pretty mutual understanding of wanting to leave the past behind them, so it's not a regular topic, by any means. It's nice to know people that come from a similar situation, though.

- every time i forget about the chicken nugget post someone reminds me of it and every time i'm reminded of it i do not know how to approach talking about it . why did i make that

doin the ask game for @sonic-oc-showdown because i want to infodump about my funny sonics!!! also ft. plucky and lyre even though theyre not in the tournament just cause you cant have one without the other two, man. original post by @/schondezert956 here

✨- How did you come up with the OC’s name? puns. tommy: a tom-tom is a type of drum plucky: guitars are plucking instruments lyre: a lyre is a stringed instrument (bit of a stretch with this one but A. i really like the name lyre, B. naming her violet would've been too obvious)

🌼 - How old are they? (Or approximate age range) all 3 are young adults around their early 20s

🌺- Do they have any love interest(s)? does a QPR count as love interests? cus they queerplatonically love eachother so much.

🍕 - What is their favorite food? tommy: she loves ice cream so much she's made her bandmates equally obsessed with it plucky: acorns. they'll find one on the ground and crack it open with their teeth and start dining. lyre: shitty instant ramen. she is embarrassed about this and will instead say it's 𝐵𝑜𝓃𝒿𝑜𝓊𝓍𝓇𝑒 𝒹𝑒 𝓁𝒶 𝒞𝓇𝒶𝓅

💼 - What do they do for a living? they're a traveling band, man! they're The Shooting Stars!! their music has 700000000 listeners on spotify (in plucky's dreams)!!!

🎹 - Do they have any hobbies? tommy: she likes to draw in her spare time. her art style is strikingly reminiscent of sunky.mpeg. plucky: they're the kinda Gamer Girl to accidentally electrocute their controller because they got extremely mad at fortnite. they also like to collect pins and cool rocks. lyre: he enjoys and creates all kinds of art, music is just the one he made his profession. she's knitted countless ugly sweaters for her bandmates (and has to stop herself from crying whenever she seems them wearing one).

🎯 -What do they do best? disregarding the obvious answer of "music LOL"... tommy: she's very skilled at making people feel relaxed, whether it's deescalating arguments or calming someone who's stressed. she has a very Chill Aura that makes it easy to be around her. also, silly bear. plucky: keep a positive attitude! it's hard for anything to ever keep her down. lyre: she's a quick learner and a quick thinker, so she's great at adapting to any situation. her actual response to this question would be "i am the best at anything and everything," said while shaking and sweating and gripping the table so hard it cracks.

🥊 -What do they love to do? What do they hate to do? tommy: repetitive tasks are very calming to her, so she's the designated chore-doer of the three of them. she doesn't particularly hate doing anything-- if it bothers her, she'll find a way to make it fun! plucky: they love exploring, seeing new things and meeting new people and experiencing new thrills. the thing she hates doing most is nothing; she is very easily bored and always needs an outlet for her endless energy. lyre: she loves creating, no matter the form; the art of making art is enthralling to her. he hates cooking because he sucks at it and has managed to make every single kitchen appliance explode. including a spatula.

❤️ - What is one of your OC’s best memories? tommy: she'd think about it for a moment-- her best memory-- then realize she's just listing off every single second she's spent with her bandmates. plucky: the shooting stars's first venture after the band first formed. it was at that moment plucky fully realized this is what she wanted to do, and these are who she wants to do it with. lyre: when she told her bandmates she loved them, and they told her they loved her too.

✂️ - What is one of your OC’s worst memories? gonna be real everyone's backstories are so barebones that i do not have an answer for this LOL. theyre just my funny girls i dont want them to be sad

🧊 - Is their current design the first one? not quite, but almost! i basically knew what i wanted right from the get-go, i just had to fiddle with everyone a bit before i got em perfect. it was very important to me for tommy to be fat and hairy and have Susie Deltarune Hair. V here is their first concept sketch from back in may!

🍀 - What originally inspired the OC? sonic music is so fucking good i heard it and was like I GOTTA MAKE SOME GUYS OUT OF THIS. they were specifically inspired by Fist Bump (Instrumental), which is why lyre is violin and not like bass or something. (their species also came from me googling "woodland animals" on google images because i was desperate for inspiration.)

🌂 - What genre do they belong in? sonic fangame that lowkey looks like it was made in roblox

💚 - What is your OC’s gender identity and sexuality? tommy: aromantic lesbian, girl but you can't tell if she's trans or cis or non-binary or all three at once (she/her) plucky: non-binary, aroace (they/she) lyre: bigender, bisexual. bicycle (she/he)

🙌 - How many sibling does your OC have? tommy: a single older sister (and a niece that she has claimed her younger sister) plucky: an uncountable number. she could list all their names to you and you'd lose track halfway through. lyre: 0, she's an only child

🍎 - What is the OC’s relationship w/their parents like? tommy: her parents "disappeared" when she was too young to remember them-- for all she knows and cares, her uncles are her parents. she sends them letters often. plucky: they love their parents and each and every member of their comically large family! she chats with em whenever and however she gets the chance. lyre: her parents held her to very high regard, expected very great things of her, and taught her all the wrong things. she hasn't spoken to them in a long time.

🧠 - What do you like most about the OC? HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO PICK JUST ONE THING MAN. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH THEYRE MY EEBY DEEBIES MAN. probably their designs (tommy's in particular, she's like my magnum opus).

✏️ - How often do you draw/write about the OC? it fluctuates, as it does with any other of my ocs. at the current time im rotating them around in my mind like rotisserie chicken

💎 - Do you ever see yourself killing off the OC? NO!!!!!!!

💀 - Does your OC have any phobias? tommy is comically fearless. being around water makes plucky uneasy, due to their electricity powers. lyre will scream at the top of her lungs if she sees a spider.

🍩 -Who is your OC’s arch-nemesis or rival? i've vaguely rotated around the idea of making a rival band to the shooting stars, a fellow traveling trio who play emo music and are all super emo (*lyre voice* plucky you know i'm scared of emos!!!). they'd be like the goth to the shooting stars's prep, and whenever they see eachother they immediately get into a fistfight. haven't done anything with the idea though LOL

🎓 - How long have you had the OC? i first came up with their concept in may this year, but i named and finalized them in july! they're babies.

🍥 - What age were you when you created the OC? classified

obviously there were a lot of difficult things abt growing up undiagnosed autistic but in retrospect growing up like that alongside family members who were also unaware they were on the spectrum was like. the funniest way i couldve grown up and very formative to my personality. like my house was the perfect echo chamber for my behaviors, an average conversation with my brother was the two of us reciting an entire movie from memory trading lines back and forth while stimming. an average conversation with my dad was me just kinda passively sitting there in his office while he infodumped about brian wilson or the history of tractors or 1960s ford mustang advertisements without any consideration given to whether or not thats a conversation a kid really cares to have. and so to me it was just normal to be Saying Words Recreationally and conversation didnt have to be socially useful or a two way street so. at school i did not really grasp why i was hated for my str4nge vibe when all my interactions with other people consisted of cornering them and making them listen to my one sided rambles. and then when i would be beset by a fellow mostly-friendless child who subjected me to an unskippable cutscene about sonic the hedgehog or something id be like oh thank god finally somebody normal

pls info dump tiny funfacts about your oc. they don’t even have to play a huge part in her life, just tiny fact will work pls

im kissing you on the mouth for this <3

grew up on a planet neighboring caldera- primarily a vacation planet that other alien species visit

her parents are both superheroes, her brother is a supervillain (which plays heavily in her backstory), all of them sharing bug-like superabilities

her powers include: insect manipulation, antenna protrusion, compound eyes manifestation, wallcrawling, silk generation, enhanced leap, sonic illusions, super strength, heightened senses, levitation

has a really hard time getting used to human customs. unlike her other alien peers she has a harder time with it (cough autism cough) and just can't get used to how humans behave. this leads to people often seeing her as ditzy or bimbo-y (think starfire from the teen titans cartoons)

makes all of her own clothes from scratch, including her supersuit

like i mentioned before she has compound eyes manifestation, which just splits her eyes up into dozens of mini eyes like most insects have, allowing her to see a lot of shit around her. once kaz finds out about this he insists on having her use it to help with his pranks

she's really good at pranks. like really good. has almost given chase a heart attack on multiple occasions

once she moves in with the team in centium city, she gets a ton of insect farms in her room. once you go in all you hear is chirping and chittering. it's like a zoo.

she loves meat. like loves meat. most people would assume she's a vegan but that girl only eats meat.

likes sitting with chase in his lab to listen to him talk about science. it's her way of figuring out how earth works, since scientifically it's a lot different from her home planet. he's very happy with having someone to infodump to

8 Shows to get to know me!

Tagged by @someguywife 💕

1. What we do in the shadows

Obviously. This show is everything to me, i never had an hyperfixation that last this long, I paid for a tattoo of this show, Nandor is in my mind all the time, unironically helped me deal with some body problems I had and also embrace being weird and stupid, I love this show I love it's humor I love the drama I love being in the fandom I love it so so much

2. (not a show but) All Barbie movies

I was known by my colleagues when I was in film school as "the barbie guy" because I love barbie so much I love all the movies I love them

3. (that's so hard) Shera and the princess of power

So that's interesting because I HATE spop I HATE IT so fucking much. I used to love it until like the third season when I thought wow it looks like they'll handle the catra thing very badly also I hate how they treat Entrapta and then they did handle the Catra thing very badly and I hated it and then all the ableism and racism came up and I was like wow I was right and all the people that sent me hate mail when I started saying that it wasn't as good as they thought started saying well I never loved it that much and I was like hm I have the screenshots of you saying I was lesbophobuc and that I should kill myself you don't fool me anyways I like being right and it was really funny to see the circus getting burned.

Also I won a research prize because of a paper I wrote about the subtle ableism of the show and how Entrapta and Hordak ended up being punished by the narrative because of their disability (i would love to share this paper with you but I burned it with all the other works I did in film school after I quit it so oops)

4. (gods I don't know anymoreeee) Doctor Who

The show that teach me about fandom culture, the show that introduced me to tumblr, nothing more to say about it

5. Fairy tail

The first long series I watch also the first time I was like wow I spent years of my life loving this just for it to finish LIKE THAT WTF also the first time I unashamedly infodump about something with friends and learned that if people love you they listen to you and don't scream at you because you're being boring

6. Sonic X

Nothing to say about it but that my first self incert was a sonicsona and that I was deeply in love with Knuckles and Shadows

7. Zig and Sharko

One of the silliest funniest shows I have ever seen when I'm overwhelmed I put zig and sharko on Netflix and it makes me happy it's so funny

8. (this is so hard) seven little monsters

My favorite show when I was a kid I vividly remember an episode where the kids were afraid of the storm and mama said that we could count the time between the thunders to tell when the storm is going away and I honestly don't know if this is real but I do this until today

I'm not gonna tag anyone because I'm a little fag and I'm afraid of being annoying and I would rather die than tag someone who don't want to do it so feel free to tag yourself and say it was me I want to see it I'm curious

Whirlwind and Cynder? :]

two of my many favs from the first game!!!!!

- >whirlwind is a big ol (ace) lesbian, she's the one who buys all of the pride merch for her coworkers and friends >she loves baking! >i see her design having more horse traits, like having her back legs have hooves instead of claws. her front legs' claws are much chunkier and have less digits too >she and sonic boom are #besties >lowkey thinks flashwing is super pretty >her and ghost roaster share a mutual appreciation for food, sometimes they do meal collabs! >she's the type who loves retro rainbow vintage type stuff, along with 80s anime n care bears and g1 mlp but she'd also like something like street fighter >adhd - >cynder's orientation is usually described as "no". she doesn't feel much towards other people >her body shape is similar to a borzoi in my interpretations. her tail is prehensile as well n she's got these super sharp canid teeth n long sickle claws >grunge >her and drobot bonded over mutual uhhhhhhh...... not feeling much towards other people. drobot also likes to infodump about machines n she finds that entertaining to listen to >also she and pop fizz get along, weirdly enough >now i have the very unpopular take of i think she and spyro butt heads because both of them can be a lil bit hotheaded and stubborn >likes hanging upside down >she likes stuff like monster hunter (i think her fav monster is alatreon) also would be a huge luxray enthusiast >cat eyes, they dilate if she's feelin good :) also has that weird reflective eye thing that nocturnal animals have >she swears, a lot. no mercy when near children. they're learning the word fuck >overall i've always seen her as really grumpy n snarky but when she's having fun, she's pretty smug >has alexithymia woohooo self projection woohooooooo!!!!

If Sonic were a thing, Ed would most likely enjoy some of the early games, but definitely stop interacting with the franchise/fandom later on. He doesn't like stories with a huge emphasis on The Power of Friendship - not because he's one of the overly cynical people calling others naive and childish for enjoying a happy story where friendship always wins, but rather he just doesn't like the overuse of it and it feels kind of overbearing(?) to him. I can't find the exact wording I'm looking for.

Emrys feels similar, but she didn't really care about these stories in the first place and was just listening to Edris explain the whole story to her in an infodump.

World Autism Day was 3 days ago. It was my first one spent knowing I'm autistic. I'd like to say it "hits different" but really, the day was like any other and I didn't pay it much mind. But I do want to use it as an excuse to comment a little about what my autism has meant to me. To be absolutely autistic about it, I have to clarify that I am not formally diagnosed nor do I plan on seeking one out. Whether through genetic roulette or the dulling effect of complex trauma, my sensory needs are not such that I'm dysfunctional. My case is mild, or I'm "high functioning," or I JUST have Aspberger's, or something like that.

Autism is typically depicted as a struggle for everyone involved (except the autistic person, who is just seen as a force of chaos that must be contained). That's certainly how I remember a lot of my childhood and young adulthood. There is something to be said about getting yourself into enough trouble that you straighten up and fly right. I guess that's what I did, eventually. To me, my autism has felt like an overwhelming conviction at a core level that I don't seem to experience reality the same way as everyone else.

Scientifically speaking that's true, of course. I now know my brain has trouble separating noise from context. Neurotypical people walk into a crowded room, immediately look for the people they feel most connected to, and everything else drops away. I... can't do that. EVERYTHING is relevant to me - the size and shape of the room, the colors, the smells. I want to scan every face and consider it to whatever extent I feel I need to at that moment.

And of course there's the noise. Oh god, the noise. I spent 15 years of my life thinking I somehow destroyed my ears MORE than any of my friends who were right there with me playing loud, sonically overwhelming music and are still at it. But somehow my habit of overhearing anything and everything will have my wife calling me "eagle ear." Ever get lost listening to the symphony of a quiet house, as all the stray creaks and street noises and electricity blend into glorious overtones and incomplete melodies? 'Cause I just call that bedtime.

I figured much of this out for myself when I started working as a therapist. Sounds like a nightmare for an autistic, right? Except I get to meet with people one on one in a softly lit, quiet room and get to be as curious as possible (the DREAM). Maybe this was the moment when things started to line up for me? I think it's when I got the chance to meet with so many different people in moments of extreme emotional vulnerability that I started realizing, "ohhh shit I'm different-different."

There have been some moments of fear and certainly plenty internalized ableism as all the myths and stereotypes about autistic people pop in and out of my head. But as I've learned more about the condition and accepted how it presents in me, all of that falls away like a cocoon to reveal my overwhelming JOY at liberation. For the first time in my life, I'm truly ok with my infodumping, my arm flailing, my time distortion, my clothing rotations, my grabbing on to stray insignificant details and bringing them up until whatever itch about them is sufficiently scratched.

This acceptance has led to a renewed interest in myself. Knowing to respond to what I now know as sensory overwhelm by checking in with the rawest see-hear-touch-taste-smell stuff, I've uncovered a whole new way of appreciating the world and my relationship with it. It's given me one of my best therapy tools as I discover that "evidence-based practice" doesn't seem too worried about how much it DOESN'T know. It's also reinforced one of my core therapeutic values: that people are the world's greatest and only experts in their own lived experience and that good therapy begins by humbling ourselves to this expertise.

I'm continually on this journey learning more. Inevitably that involves trying on and discarding labels that don't seem to fit in the end. It may generate eyerolls or catty comments or worse, but the cost of worrying about that is no longer worthwhile to me. Things are fundamentally making SENSE in a way they never have before. I feel like I can TRUST myself genuinely, like I'm not at war with my instincts. Even were I to wake up tomorrow and decide this was all just ridiculous and I'm a plain ole garden variety nerd after all, I know I would still have this new confidence that I will protect and fight for with all the resentment of someone who had to build an Empire State Building of self esteem from popsicle sticks and bubble gum.

As autistic self-identity and self-diagnosis grows and develops, it's also inevitable that people will be threatened. Labels prop up hierarchies, industries, entire systems of systems that rely on the effectiveness of the label as an anchor. More personally, they give people on both sides of the label peace of mind over the clarity it provides in a very unclear world. I'm not unsympathetic to that. I'm asking that before people jump to assuming radical autistics are seeking dominion and revenge that they express some curiosity about our experience. The fact that most autistic life means navigating literal extreme physical pain should be enough.

One of my pet peeves as a Certified AutistTM/person w ADHD/Medically Verified Crazy Person is like. When someone makes a point like, "x behavior can be bad sometimes" and some other person swoops in like "but that's a thing autistic ppl do!!!" like. Ok? Doesn't mean it's necessarily like. Good.

Autism isn't Better Person Disorder or anything. We're literally just different, not better or worse. We do some things better than some neurotypicals do, and they can do some other things better than we do. That's really it.

Saying like, "it's good to diversify your knowledge/experiences to become a well-rounded person" isn't an attack on the Autistic Community it's just a fact. It's like saying smth like "it's best to be direct and clear when communicating with people" to a neurotypical person. Is it hard sometimes? Yeah. But like. It's our responsibility as humans, even us autistic humans, to try and better ourselves. Just bc something is hard or simply doesn't come naturally bc of this, that or the other doesn't mean it's like. Impossible or going against our nature or whatever.

It also just feels so. Infantilizing. Like someone is patting my head going "it's okay if you only ever talk about Sonic the Hedgehog to people, if people don't want to listen to you infodump for two hours or get frustrated because they can't carry a conversation with you, they're just being ableist! You'll find other friends!" as if like, as humans all of us need to unlearn making conversations exclusively about us and our interests. Like genuinely one-sided conversation like that gets tiring for literally anyone if it goes on long enough.

Growth is hard! Learning is hard! But I feel like it's unreasonable to ask/expect neurotypical ppl to learn how to communicate with us without. Some kind of return. It feels self centered. Not to mention the fact that just. Most people are neurotypical (even if they're mentally ill) and so learning how to be at least passable in conversation/societyTM is. Really important.

This is sort of what I mean when I talk about people online using autism (or any other weirdbrain) as a shield. It almost acts as if neurotypical people are just naturally born Mature and autistic people are naturally born Immature and it's NTs responsibility like a parent to just be okay with and support any and all behavior autistic people (or some random's PERCEPTION of our behavior, I've said it before and I'll say it again that just bc you and all your friends are Fandom Autistics doesn't mean we all are) exhibit even if it's like. Bad and could be improved.

And are there things that NTs SHOULD get used to, support, etc that they don't? Of course! NTs should get used to and support stimming in public, people being harmlessly weird, someone needing more direct communication, etc. But it's straight up weird to be like "all NTs NEED to be okay with and engage with me exclusively relating to others via anime fanfiction" like of course if that's ur thing you should be treated with respect and human decency, but you also cant be surprised when people find it hard to get along with you. I feel like there was some sort of weird transformation from "if someone is being harmlessly weird that's not anyone else's problem and you should still treat them with respect" to "if anyone doesn't put up with any and all behavior x person does then that's ableism" like. Ur not entitled to friendship w people. Esp when this is applied on an individual level when it really is more of a Societal and Systemic issue. Person X not wanting to be friends with person Y isn't the issue, but the grander idea of like. Thinking that people who do/act like A shouldn't be interacted with/cannot form deep connections/etc is.

Sonic headcanons 7

Amy Rose the hedgehog had Prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, which means she can’t recognise people’s faces. She also has Deutan colour blindness. This explains why she has trouble telling other hedgehogs apart from Sonic. She hasn’t been diagnosed and the others don’t realise and think that it’s just her outgoing and rambunctious attitude.

 Tails the fox is trans gender. He was originally a female but felt like he should have been a male. His friends all respect his decision and refer to him with male pronouns.

 Sonic the hedgehog sees Tails as his little brother rather than just his best friend and takes care of Tails. Both him and Tails are orphans and they live together. He is very protective of his little brother, like all his friends, but he is particularly protective of him.

 Tails is autistic and mechanics is his special interest. His repetitive tail flicking is a stim he uses to calm himself down and he does this also when he’s excited. Tails has a need for routine, he has trouble with sarcasm and reading social cues, he often infodumps people, has hyper fixation on his projects, often doubts his abilities when something knocks his confidence and is extremely empathic. Amy, Cream and Sonic will usually stop what they’re doing to listen to Tails when he starts to infodump them, even though they might not understand all his science and mechanic’s jargon, they adore hearing how enthusiastic he is.

 Sonic has ADHD. This explains his hyperactivity, impulsiveness and inattentiveness. He really struggles to concentrate on things, which makes sitting still hobbies and activities like movies and art really difficult for him. It also makes reading incredibly frustrating and stresses Sonic out considerably, as he enjoys reading epic adventure novels and can’t focus on his book long enough to get emersed. He also suffers from insomnia and it can worsen his ADHD, as people with ADHD tend to need more sleep. He often sleeps when he can, which could be on a roof, in a tree or on Tails’ sofa.

 Rouge the bat is a Kleptomaniac, especially with shiny things. Despite her chilled demeanour, its actually really difficult not being able to control the urge to steal things. Shadow the hedgehog, E123 Omega and the GUN commander, Abraham Towers have attempted to send her to therapy, which she finds incredibly embarrassing, as well as stressful. She hates people judging her.

Knuckles the Echidna independently discovered that it wasn’t just precious jewels and the Master Emerald but a mixture of things that Rouge would steal. He would offer her interesting objects he found on Angel Island to take in place of the Master Emerald. Sometimes, they both go on treasure hunts together and Knuckles persuaded her to go to therapy, much to everyone else’s relief. She has gotten slightly better with therapy.

ohhh can we hear more about sweet woman 🥺

we totally can!! infodump about this gaslighting gatekeeping girlboss is under the cut as always

sweet woman was commissioned by a super classy french dessert restaurant called the orgueilleux pâtisserie [orgueilleux being very poorly google translated french for elitist/snobbish lmao], acting as both a chef and a mascot! the gimmick worked wonders for the restaurant's popularity, with rich people coming in droves to experience the novelty of food prepared with a robot master's help, and she was quickly promoted to social media manager as well as her original duties. despite her cutesy demeanour, she's much smarter than she looks, and is equipped with an in-depth understanding of chemical reactions and inhumanly accurate sense of timing and spatial awareness. she knows hundreds of recipes and most of them cost several hundred dollars to make

her personality is more deliberately engineered than most robot masters, designed to fit her appearance and be marketable. she's unwaveringly cheerful, incredibly extroverted, and just silly enough that it's cute rather than grating. she plays these traits up a lot for the cameras, exaggerating her energy and playing dumb when it'll appeal to the masses, but even when she doesn't have her public image to consider she's a bubbly and energetic goof. she's a stubborn optimist, and if she can't find a bright side to look on she'll take out a flashlight and make one. her optimisim makes for a good workplace morale boost and an even better social media presence, although when combined with her ditziness and being a bit out of touch from almost exclusively interacting with the 1% it often makes her come across as insensitive

since she's in the spotlight a lot, most of sweet's hobbies and interests outside of work are still carefully selected to match her public image and look good on an instagram post. she has a passing interest in shopping and fashion, and enjoys going to parties and gatherings and what have you to meet new people. she also loves to experiment with cooking and come up with new recipes, some of which end up on the orgueilleux menu. she does, however, have a private interest in chemistry! as mentioned earlier she knows a fair bit about it already, since cooking is just chemistry with a restricted set of substances, and in her own time she ended up getting curious and reading into the sort of reactions that arise from chemicals she doesn't work with. she rarely mentions this interest herself, but she gets super excited if someone brings it up or gives her the excuse to talk about it, and it's probably listed as super secret trivia about her on the pâtisserie website

unlike other robot masters, sweet has an acute sense of both smell and taste! [since robots seem to only use e-tanks for fuel, there's not much benefit to smelling or tasting things, so i personally believe that most of them don't have those senses unless it'd directly benefit their job.] being able to actually taste the food she cooks makes it much easier to tell if she's doing it right, especially if she's trying to come up with something new. she's also capable of replenishing her energy by eating - it's less efficient than e-tanks, but she thinks they taste gross so she always opts for actual food. fittingly, she has a massive sweet tooth, but she's accustomed to only the highest-class dining and dislikes cheaper or less 'refined' tastes

her magical girl vibe, brought to you by someone who has watched maybe 4 episodes of anime that weren't sonic x, is entirely an aesthetic and marketing gimmick rather than serving any functional purpose. she'll play it up for promotional videos and photoshoots, twirling her fork-trident thing and striking dramatic poses and calling out thematically appropriate attack names like 'sparkling sugar swirl' and 'cinnamon whirlwind' whenever she does anything, but it's mostly for show. while she genuinely enjoys the shouting and posing and twirling, she massively tones it down when she's not performing, maybe occasionally saying an attack name at a reasonable volume while she works. her fork-trident thing isn't even a real weapon, magical or otherwise. it's just styrofoam with metallic paint on it

sweet's weakness to harpoon shot was decided before i figured out exactly what tide man's weapon would be, going on the idea that getting food wet tends to make it sad and gross. this logic doesn't quite carry over with harpoon shot being, well, a harpoon rather than something specifically water-based, but i imagine shooting a cake with a harpoon would also be a very one-sided battle so this weapon wheel makes sense i promise. i guess you could also make the argument that it's because sweet is only experienced with a fake pronged weapon made of foam and would be completely blindsided by a real one? maybe it's that tide is so staunchly anticapitalist that his weapon inherently vibe checks her? i'm grasping at straws a bit over here but listen, if mega man 5 can insist that water is elementally weak to trains, i can insist that it's elementally strong against the french

i think her stage could be some kind of factory! lots of conveyer belts definitely, maybe some crushing hazards, definitely a few mets. the idea there is that she's seized a major food processing plant and is using that position to wreck the regional supply chain. even when she's evil, she basically keeps the exact same personality she shows to the public with only a noticable capitalism upgrade. she has pretty much no combat abilities on her own, but at her own suggestion she was upgraded to shoot a specially formulated icing that's acidic enough to burn through thin metal, finally putting her interest in chemistry to use. her fork-trident, on the other hand, was not changed in the slightest. still just styrofoam. i think it'd be pretty good if she opened her battle with it but even if it hits mega man it only deals one point of damage and the second it touches something it snaps in half and she never pulls out a new one

designing sweet was pretty fun because she's pretty different from my usual taste in character design! my experience with the magical girl genre is that i read about half of sailor moon when i was 12 and absorbed everything else through pop culture osmosis and tv tropes pages, so it was definitely fun to draw what i think a magical girl might look like. i also don't use oranges and yellows much, so picking out her colours made for an agonising exciting challenge! she didn't change too much from the initial microsoft paint sketch, although she lost a skirt layer along the way because i didn't feel like figuring out how to draw another one, and her weapon was originally just a big fork that probably would have been a ksjfjhkjhfillion times less cumbersome to draw. oh well. live and learn [HANGIN ON THE EDGE OF TOMORROW]

that about wraps it up for sweet woman, i think - thank you so much for asking about her!! here's the transparent art and the version without 15 different filters on it to make it look kinda like an 80s anime screenshot