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What is up gamers… I’m back

Inspired after reading @slashers-and-rats ‘s fic & the general AU they wrote abt with @hollowslasher :3

Reawakening lov for billy

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Where we r rn in the drawing

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Everyone in the slasher community listen up…

STOP INFANTILISING AND FETISHISING AUTISTIC CODED SLASHERS FOR THEIR AUTISTIC TRAITS.

Warnings-Talk of abuse & Trauma

My examples for this will be:

•Billy Lenz (1974 specifically but it applies to all variations of him)

•and Bubba Sawyer/Leatherface

but there are of course,more cases of this with other characters.

I’ll first explain why this is a big problem irl so that I’m not hit with ‘but they’re fictional’.

And I’m clarifying that this is to do with people fetishising and babying them BECAUSE They’re autistic coded or finding their autistic traits ‘Cute’ or as a way to infantilise them (not that I agree with doing it either way).

Doing this to characters who are heavily autistic coded and display autistic traits can be not only very uncomfortable for autistic individuals but it also contributes to the idea that you should baby people with autism and that they can’t do anything for themselves.

It also stereotypes autistic people in a way that if you don’t act like that people can claim that ‘you’re not autistic because you don’t act like it’ making it increasingly harder for Specifically AFAB (assigned female at birth) people to get a diagnosis.It leaves an impression on a neuro-typicals’ brain that this is how autistic people should be treated,which isn’t true.

It’s very uncomfortable to see people baby,infantilise and fetishise characters that share many traits of autism and for me at least,I display some of those traits too,it’s weird to see that.And that in this case, these people are serial killers.They can do things themselves very easily and shouldn’t be babied the way I’ve seen some people do.

All of this just feeds into the (very wrong) social belief that autistic people are less competent than everyone else or that their mentality will always be child-like and by extension always needing to be cared for.

Now I’ll give my examples and a brief analysis on each character and ways that people display these actions and sentiments towards them and by extension the autistic community.

Billy Lenz-

Billy is heavily autistic coded and also displays signs of trauma responses and other mental illnesses.If you watch the original movie it’s very clear why I say that he’s autistic coded.I’ve seen many people either treat him like a baby that so desperately needs to be protected or they fetishise it by making those traits (Like the meltdowns or the way he acts somewhat ‘child-like’ in response to his years of trauma) into him being ‘Cute and submissive’ and that’s very wrong.Yes,he wouldn’t mentally act his age and that’s not even because of autism but just because of trauma,his lack of childhood caused him to regress back into a more immature state of mind to cope,with the exceptions of the first phone call buts that’s a whole other thing,the rest of those calls are him acting out his traumatic childhood.I’ve seen people talk about him saying ‘mommy’ in some of his calls was hot,no it’s not.He was displaying himself as an autistic child about to be heavily and violently abused and calling out for his mother.In what way does that sound appealing? So yeah don’t fetishise his autistic or trauma traits.

Bubba Sawyer-

THIS ONE.This is the most common one to see.A lot of people treat Bubba like this innocent little baby who’s so cute and pure that needs to be protected, like no.He can take care of himself just fine,Yes he may have issues speaking up and he’s not as bad or ruthless as his family because he was pressured into doing what he does and doesn’t do it because he wants to,he just wants to make his family happy.He’s non verbal with very little to no linguistic skills and the closest we get is him babbling as the only way to express emotions other than his masks.These are common autistic traits that are always infantilised in real life as well,being non-verbal is seen as being child-like and not being able to do anything when that is just not true.And just because he displays traits of autism,a speech disorder and possibly a social disorder it doesn’t equal being ‘submissive’.

Just don’t do this.You can still write them in a softer light,I do that.But there’s a big difference between putting them,as characters,in a more positive,soft and loving light and treating them like children because of autism coding.

Anyway, thanks for reading my small rant on this,if you did get to the end :)

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WIP Billy (full body photo…. Soon..)

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can u put billy lenz in the husband roster next time, not because he would be a good husband. I just think it'd be Very funny to see how far he could get until he crashes and burns /nsrs

well i had to exclude billy 'piggy cunt' lenz because obviously he would have swept the bracket and I needed to give daniel a fighting chance

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People really be liking my billy stuff huh!! (It is all that I post rn)

POV: He’s murdered your sorority sisters and won’t leave you alone but you’ve grown to almost like him

(The hallmark sweaters r intentional)

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big eyeball

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Hello, longtime Wattpad writer and reader.

In front of you is a laptop equipped with parental controls. The wattpad website is blocked. The browser is open to the ao3 website. An account has already been created for you.

You have five hours to figure out how to use ao3, find, read and bookmark at least three fanfictions from the fandom you read and write for on wattpad, one of which must be smut, one of which must be heavy angst, and one of which must be a gay omegaverse coffeeshop au that features both the enemies to lovers and watersports tags. The first two will not be hard to find but the third will require knowledge of ao3’s tagging system to locate if you want to avoid manually scrolling through every fic in your fandom in hopes of finding it.

In addition to this you must also write and figure out how to upload a fic of the genre and fandom of your choice. Don’t worry about quality, you are on a time limit after all, but it must have decent grammar and at least 200 words. It must also be tagged accordingly.

If at any point you google anything along the lines of “how to use ao3”, the parental controls will alert us and your wattpad reading lists will be exposed to your dear sweet seventy-three year old grandma, as well as the smut fic you just bookmarked on ao3. If you fail to complete all of these tasks within these five hours the same punishment will await you.

Your time starts now. Good luck and happy reading.

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final girl Boy

haha black christmas final boy oc who’s definitely not me.

Trans Guy at the Sorority 💔 Open secret situation. His sisters aren’t the most supportive or knowledgeable but they don’t out him.

Mrs. Mac doesn’t know that he’s transgender lmao.

Billy probably gets him pretty bad but he just barely manages to crawl outta there.

will probably add more as i think about his participation in the movie plot and obviously I try to keep things close as possible to cannon lol

he’s definitely not attracted to billy lmao that would be crazy (I’m lying 💔) love-hate relationship since Billy is still Billy and they BOTH are traumatized as fuck.

kinda cringe but…. i am free

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here’s that one drawing from the Billy post!

without the coool spooky overlay lmao.

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insert Billy coughing and sputtering and hacking up dust

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Pinned post to introduce myshelf….

Hey there!! You can refer to me as.. uh idfk Mouse,

let’s do Mouse.

This is a side account where i’ll put all the fandom and other interest stuff bc i don’t want my main moots to look at this (it doesn’t make sense exactly but also organization reasons yk)

I might connect my main account on here at some point, i mostly post about band and music stuff (and… feel free to drop music or ask abt it … teehee)

I make art and (unless stated) all art posted is mine, if you want to use it for any reason simply credit my tumblr.

I LIKE TO REBLOG ART TOO!! I typically don’t use other’s art without credit or asking— however PLEASE tell me if i have unintentionally.

I like slashers and understanding the why and how behind them.

Guilty self/oc and canon shipping, if you recognize my art do NOT ask about it.

will probably make a better intro… later

(you’re gonna see my face… a lot)

(also Alektrophobia is the fear of chickens/hens, I do not suffer from it.)

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Some Billy Lenz fans:

Billy in question:

(When December hits you know I’m going to be drawing him nonstop)

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Piggy CUNT

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Bruh he STILL didn’t kill her I gotta step in