Feel like face blindness is underestimated as a thing that Completely Fucks Up your ability to socialise and make friends, especially when its combined with time blindness.

Want friends but cant recognise people and have no idea when you last talked to someone?

The only way you can do that is to be in a situation where the same people show up in the same place at the same time, or/AND where said people approach you first and frequently enough to where you can figure out a way to find them that doesnt involve needing to know what they look like.

Oh, you already did that? Well now you have to actually remember they exist and contact them. Regularly. And pretend you care. You wish you did.

Even worse if you're depressed or otherwise emotionally suppressed naturally or otherwise. As a lot of autistic people are. Its not at all surprising no one makes an effort to hang out with someone who never recognises them, never contacts them, and if they do has nothing they want to say and has no response to anything you do or say, and shows no sign they even like you at all.

But people are still really cool. Wish my brain actually wanted anything to do with them sometimes. Would be nice.

so on the subject of the "Crowley is secretly Revaan/Laverne/Levin/please Twst give us his name" theory, I think my feelings are best summed up as "I don't really buy it, but it's funny". like, in all seriousness, I'm not opposed to it; I have enjoyed the writing in Twst so far and I'm willing to trust that whatever happens will, you know, make sense and not be terrible. but I'm just not really convinced by the current evidence! maybe that'll change once we learn more, we'll see!

with that said, may I propose a few alternate theories about the possible Crowley/Revaan connection:

Usopp obtaining Conqueror's haki makes so much sense to me and I genuinely think he deserves it on Elbaf please please please

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Cellbil kills a man. Bagi finds him in the middle of the forest trying to eliminate the evidences, she just pinches the bridge of her noise, tells him that they won't move out of the town, and helps him to burry the body.

Later, when they are home and washing the blood out of their clothes, she repeats that they won't move out, they can't, this is the tenth town they moved into! They finally found a therapist for him! (a man called Doctor Simi, who, well…). So they can't move!

They both know that the actual reason she doesn't want them to move out is that she finally got the number of the girl from the tea shop, after months of crushing on her. So he says nothing, and goes to take a shower and take away his blood, and that's how the day ends.

But, the next day- while buying stuff in the supermarket, he finds the man he killed.

(The thing is- this man entire bloodline is cursed, the curse dated centuries ago. Their family is fundamentally imortal, until something kills them.

Strings will connect the parts of their body that got damaged, and they will have to have their revenge against what killed them so their damaged body parts will heal. If they don't get revenge, the string will slowly break, and so will their whole body, this is the only way they can actually die.

Maybe they will have to fight who killed them, maybe they will have to get a medicine degree and help to fight against their illness.

It had been a years since the last time someone in his family died. It happened with his grandson: a sharp sword stabbed trough his chest, revenge seemed impossible as his murderer died.

But- the guy who worked as the judge in the betrayal was still pretty alive, and it was easy to make everyone turn against him, and gave a potion to the judge, and he forget his own curse, nobody even suspects the grandson, and the grandson didn't notice the potion was swapped. The judge doesn't even believe he is cursed anymore, but if he did know, he would be surprised to know he has a twin brother, and that this is the most important part of the curse.

After the judge life was ruined, well, the grandson injury healed and his strings went away, weird how these things work, right?)

And that's how Roier meets Cellbit: he searching for his abuelo and finding the old man beating him up in a parking lot.

(And an extra information: the city is cursed, and everyone inside it is cursed too, but only a few of the citizens know about their curse)

man. y'know that scene where little hiei realizes the bandits are afraid of him bc he kept killing them? how he thought it was fine because they were killing others and he thought they understood, that their system of might makes right would be consistent no matter his actions, until all at once the only family he's ever had shuts him out for doing what he thought would help him fit in? for doing what he thought they wanted from him, at least to some extent? sigh. heartbreaking levels of autism in this small faggot

Elena of Avalor is genuinely such a good show.

whenever i talk about hera and embodiment i feel like i first need to make a case for why i think it works thematically / why it might be something she'd choose, given the option, but sometimes i just wanna say, like. it's interesting to me to think about how she'd be perceived, or what she would perceive differently by virtue of it being a novel perspective. in her own self image, i think she's generally unaware of her own expressions - that they either don't communicate what she's feeling, or that they communicate too much of what she's feeling - because it's not something she's ever had to take into account in social interactions before. if she had a body, i think she'd be overly precise in her movements, like she's thinking through each individual part of it the same way she'd do with the hephaestus.

if her body was more biological - would that put her more at risk of disease? would her muscles or motor functions be underdeveloped? if it was more mechanical - what environmental hazards would that expose her to? what maintenance would she need, and who could she trust with it? either way - would there be physical tells in her appearance or presentation that could make it difficult for her to navigate public spaces? would her actual appearance be at odds with her self image, and how would she feel about that? with or without a body, if she meets new people on earth, especially if she meets them online - when and how does she broach the topic of being an AI? what issues of safety / trust are there; how do people generally respond?

it sounds kind of terrible to be like "i think a lot of aspects of this would be difficult and frustrating for her, and i think she would still have chronic pain" when it's something that i want for her, that i think she would want, and that i like thinking about. but that's part of the point, for me. it's about choosing to live in the world when having a body feels like an unnatural state - when it feels like everyone has some shared history and experience that you're an outsider to. it's about being visible in a world that might be more comfortable if you weren't. it's about building a life worth living with disability.

but it's also just about... existing, without needing to be useful or having a purpose. i don't know if i have answers for a lot of these questions, but i like to think about them because... there are a lot of things that hera very much canonically thinks about and has some concept of, or desire for, but she doesn't have the ability to experience. i want her to experience those things. i want her to have access to physical comforts, because it kind of breaks my heart when i think about how she knows physical pain, but the closest thing to a good sensation she's ever really had context for is relief.

first they complained that nonnumbered kh games come out on like eleven different consoles from eleven different companies thereby making it inaccessible and difficult for the average consumer to be able to play all of them (pre fm or collections) and now that the nonumbereds are releasing on a console virtually everyone has (phones) they r still mad about it. blehgh

and like y’know. tbh that isn’t a ridiculous complaint. the series has historically been inaccessible. it’s still inaccessible to me (because i personally can’t justify the financial investment of a playstation; i’ve poured everything into my switch) but like that’s my issue not theirs lol. (i mean i am mad that they kinda like acknowledged there’s a demand for kh on the switch yet made it cloud-only which is almost disrespectful and totally not gonna happen here. but like. i can get over it). i don’t see anyone out there actually complaining about kh being a playstation series like lbr that’s totally fair

BUT they’ve updated them with the all-in-one-playstation collections now! if you have a playstation there is no excuse! it’s not that hard and not that expensive! smh!!! and yeah, even with the updated collections now you do sorta miss out on some of the stuff that was removed or changed from the original versions. the mobile games only offer theater mode now. but like… it’s ok to have to go on youtube or wiki or second-hand sources to dig up old easter eggs and trivia sometimes…

and it’s ok to not have physically played every game yourself!!! like i honestly think if you take every single game up until now into account you’d be hard pressed to find a person who’s done literally everything from the console games to the handheld games to the mobile games etc themselves. like i’m sure they exist but there aren’t a lot of them. it is perfectly fine to just watch cutscenes. and if you care about the story of this series as a whole you really need to

like… i get it. it’s a video game series. one would expect to be able to play a video game instead of essentially watching a bunch of movies. that’s fair. but if you care about kingdom hearts as a franchise, whether you’re an old nostalgic vet or a newbie, doesn’t the story matter to you??? wouldn’t you do what it takes to be immersed in this world in order to fully understand the story going forward? if it’s just the gameplay you’re after like idk man i feel like you could find a similar style of gameplay as a replacement out there but idk

point is. one would have to be completely blind at this point to not realize that the mobile games are full of lore that are relevant to sora’s own journey and especially will be going forward. nomura has made it clear he’s not forgetting about sora and he’s never gonna replace him as the protagonist and heart and soul of the series. it is simply not possible to jump between numerical titles and still comprehend this stuff. this is where the series is going. there’s this thing in fiction called plot progression where some narrative threads will be resolved and left behind while new ones will be picked up. and it’s up to the author to determine this, not the nostalgia of fans. either drop the series as a whole or get on board with where it’s going

the original khχ came out like what, 10 years ago? almost half the runtime of the franchise. it is not new anymore. this is not new information. anyone who still hasn’t bothered to pay attention to that whole storyline at this point, even given all the hard work that fans have put to make it more accessible to either casuals or specifically stubborn people like that, then like. skill issue tbh.

and people complaining it’s all way too complicated? man.., find another series. i feel like it should be self-evident that this series is not known for narrative simplicity. it’s known for making everyone insane in a good way. even back in kh1 stuff was always kind of wild. everyone’s beloved kh2 is especially where we start ramping up the insanity. i fail to see how all that’s ok but the concepts of more keyblade wielders and like a lengthy timeline aren’t. after 20+ years it should be evident that things aren’t so simple and clean.

rant over *drops mic*

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Found a very cool pastel cat sweater at the bins but I have literally nothing that matches it well, so I always struggle to make outfits with it lol

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tired girl hours i’m just ranting bcos i don’t have enough time to cry

Andrew Garfield at the SBIFF Cinema Society Q&A on tick, tick...BOOM!

Also the implications of Sharena putting on the bunny suit in that Nerthuz FEH comic are SO FUNNY like.

Plus this castle dialogue!!

LIKE....... I'm not gonna lie the 40 convo was the ultimate betrayal for me LMFAOOO (I THOUGHT WE WERE ALL HAVING FUN!!!!!!!! At least me and you....... 😭😭😭😭😭) but I do think that and this implies she IS at least a little embarrassed about being in a bunny costume.

And yet

LIKE. I do know there's some funky multiverse/more than one of each specific hero going on, but imagining this as a quick costume change is so fucking funny WHILE keeping that lore in mind. She will do ANYTHING to bring cheer to people and goddesses alike. Yes this was also a high stakes situation but also she's just like that I think