Would you classify Machete as neurodivergent at all? Like in an autistic way? Or is it just the overwhelming ambition, trauma, and anxiety?

I think I've projected so many of my own autistic traits on him over the years, chances are he's at least a little bit on the spectrum.

I’m reading Witch King by Martha Wells, and now that I have read more than one (1) series by this author, I have been suddenly brained with a two-by-four sharpied over with “realizing that I really enjoy novels by Martha Wells because they live in the specific niche created by the intersection of casually and thoroughly queer casts and non-romance storylines”

I am as ever a sucker for non-human main characters struggling with their very human feelings, which is why I jumped on Witch King the moment I saw “the author of Murderbot wrote another book with a main character that’s non-human,” but I live in this dichotomy where I can really enjoy reading queer romances but I don’t really identify with non-ace characters (which is not actually something I figured out how to differentiate until I was Last Week Years Old). so there are lots of books out there that I enjoy reading but it’s comparatively rare for me to read something that feels like it was written For Me and Martha Wells does that very well

anyway, give me more ace it-pronouns human-spliced robot main characters and people-eating demons who consider rank over gender when finding new bodies to inhabit

Can I see more highschool au fics where Kenny is the same kinda guy we usually see but also crazy academic smart and maybe taking advanced science classes bc like?? I never see that in fics even though he quite literallly becomes a billionaire scientist?? pretty please

(Partial explanation/partial rant in regards to q!BBH’s famous Dodging of the Question)

Um okay here we go

q!Bad is not being manipulative, or playing with Forever’s feelings like q!Baghera says - or at least he’s not doing it intentionally.

CC!Bad confirmed that his character is extremely oblivious. He even said that he was taking an “aromantic approach” to his character. Granted, q!BBH is not canonically aromantic, but he is definitely aro-coded. I really relate to him because his confusion surrounding romance mirrors mine as an aromantic person. And I’ve had people call me manipulative, for this exact reason.

This isn’t me going after q!Baghera or anything - she has never done anything wrong ever! But she is, however accidentally, very much representing how society and alloromantics don’t really understand the aro experience. At least from my perspective.

… I don’t know, it’s disheartening to see people on twitter claiming that q!Bad is being malicious when he clearly isn’t purposefully trying to hurt anyone. CC!Bad is doing a pretty good job of representing my experience of being aromantic even if he’s not trying to, and it sucks to see people holding this against his character even though I did kinda expect it.

And I kinda understand to an extent, because CC!Bad does know what Baghera means so I can see how it comes across as him toying with the idea of 4halo because he is, but the character isn’t.

"Im not even sure anymore if we get to choose who our friends are" There is a part of me that resents you for making me a worse person than i want to be but i am inexplicably uncontrollably drawn to you. You make me a worse person which is the last thing i want yet i want you in every way. If i could leave i would. Maybe i can but i dont want to. I have fun with you. You challenge me and you captivate me and you push me and pull and run circles around me and it makes me feel like a younger man. For the price of being a worse person i get to feel truly, wholly alive. You are the blood that runs through my veins; vital, inseparable. I was reborn when i met you and you are the womb that haunts me. You are the one person on planet earth who knows me. I wish i could leave, move on and be the man im supposed to be but my heart is tied to yours in a gordian knot. There is a part of my soul that rests in yours, magnetic. For as long as i love you i cannot be better than i am. But maybe thats something i can learn to live with. Gregory House-- I think you're worth it.

my girls tricky and maewynn

today i bought my fountain pen and inks and such i was discussing looking into, for delivery next week. one big reason i wanted a nice pen was that i think going back to writing by doing my 'zero draft' longhand and then doing the first round of edits by typing it up is a good idea, and i'm not gonna lie i'm dangerously close to being like 'should i buy a Diamine ink colour for like... specific characters... i write fic about..........'

After rewatching Ghostbusters: Afterlife and also seeing Frozen Empire, can I just say how much I love the autistic, queer, butch science girl rep??

I ultimately grew into a transmasc NB but as someone who is AFAB I still would have been wow’d by that as a kid. And it still makes me feel seen, now.

Possibly controversial statement but I also love that none of Phoebe’s character traits are Big Plot Points; they’re just there. I do love her weird as fuck jokes though. That’s definitely a mood from my childhood 😂

Small reminder that the only reasons the VA's decided to make to Moon AroAce, and Monty the boyfriend for Earth, is because the VA's were looking to kill the Moon x Monty ship by any means possible, to date, the only ship that the VA's have openly rejected

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Doctor Who is inherently built to evolve with the times and I think it's so strange when people get all butthurt about it not being the same. It's literally meant to be a family show for all generations. There will be consistency but also they gotta give us something new and exciting because that's the POINT.

It's a small thing, but I've been watching the new Percy Jackson show with my little brother who also has ADHD and seeing him represented so fairly and kindly on screen is so amazing. When Percy was petting the lizard during capture the flag, he went and grabbed his own bead lizard so he could also pet a lizard and he was so excited

I'm so glad that this series is coming out so more little kids can see themselves represented on screen, even in the smallest ways

Everytime i read any aroace representation on any media (ahem ahem ao3 fics ahem ahem) i just feel so giddy that i sometime giggle like a teenage girl in love (very ironic i know) or sometimes do a little dance

Its very fun

While I (not so) patiently await season 3...

I think being on Tumblr is gonna be tough this week: I've blacklisted sp*ilers because I wanna watch the new season with my mind as free as possible (like I did for the first 2 seasons) but it means that right now my dash is 99% empty, just an endless list of blocked posts 😅 So 1. it's boring and 2. the temptation to check these hidden posts is growing bigger and bigger by the minute >< I'm not entirely sure I can make it spoiler-free 'til next Monday... But anyway, I was just thinking tonight how lucky we are to live at a time when shows like Young Royals are being made, and well-made, and successful, and so so loved by so many people.

Earlier tonight I got struck by a faint memory of a scene from an old TV show I watched when I was (way) younger and so I went on a deep search to find it. It was an old French TV show that I watched with my parents growing up and it made me laugh to check some bits of some episodes: but I ended up watching a scene where a (secondary) character comes out to his best friend (a main character on the show) and it was awful. The best friend reaction was terrible and homophobic, but treated as if it was totally normal and acceptable. And it made me so so sad, because I grew up with that, I grew up watching that. And it's probably not the only scene, the only show, the only movie with that kind of message that I've watched when I was young. I grew up in an environment, a family, that was quite close-minded. The mere concept of not being straight, not being cis, was not at all something that I was aware of at the time. We didn't talk about that with my parents or at school. And the little representations I got on TV (like this one) were pretty awful. It makes sense that it took me so long to really realize that I was neither straight nor cis, to be able to actually put words on what I had been feeling my whole life (and I'm not even done questioning it all). But yeah, growing up then meant not being exposed to the amazing representation that we have now. And I am so so so happy that young people now can have that!! That we can all have that! I am sometimes incredibly frustrated by the idea that my life would have been so so different if a show like Young Royals existed when I was growing up, when I was a teenager... Where would I be now? Who would I be now? Most of the time I'm just happy and grateful that I still managed to get where I am today, but yeah, the frustration over what feels like wasted years can rear its ugly head sometimes...

Glee was my first "Young Royals", my first fandom, my first show with a good and real and strong LGBTQ+ representation. It's the show that will always have a special place in my heart because it made me see, made me realize things about myself. It's the show that pushed me head first into queer culture and told me to "look look here! Look at these people, look at this history!". The show that took me by the hand and told me I could be strong and brave and myself. And that I was not alone. Blaine and Kurt will always be the fictional characters who helped me the most, who made me start the process of becoming myself, who started healing me.

At the time I didn't participate in the fandom life as I do now with Young Royals, because I was quite introverted and not comfortable talking to people, and still trying to figure things out about myself. But Young Royals changed that. This show arrived at the perfect time, when I felt ready for more, ready to take a step further in my healing process. Anyway, such a long rant just to say that Young Royals is incredible. It didn't change my life quite as radically as Glee did, but it is making it incredibly better! Part of it is of course due to the show itself, and Wilhelm, and Simon, and the cast (Omar!!!!). But it is also this fandom, and the people I've met and chatted with. You all have no idea how incredible you've been, how happy you've made me. How healing you've been for me. I'm realizing that I've written a whole novel in this post >< Which was not really my intention! I was mostly just thinking about how awesome our little show is, how lucky we are that we're gonna have 3 incredible seasons to watch and rewatch. And how happy I am to be part of our little fandom family 💜

So I hope you're all enjoying the season 3 content that we've been getting today (even though I don't know what it is 😱) and I'm excited to be there with you all next week to be happy and sad and unhinged as usual about our dear dear show 💜💜

I just have to remind myself sometimes that no matter what anyone else says, the way a piece of media makes me feel and the positive impact it has had on my queer identity is valid, and that tearing myself apart thinking I have to defend it or questioning my own place within queer communities is not at all important when compared to the almost tangible sense of 'rightness' that piece of media helped me to feel about myself.

kazazel is extremely pretty and ofc I love how purple and shiny he is but one of my fave details is actually how the chest scar is still there and actually looks way rougher in texture than everything around it

It's funny to be an adult who didn't realize they were queer until they were grown. Turns out those "crushes" on the cool boys weren't crushes. It was gender envy, but I didn't have the vocabulary to convey that