Special interests: cultures (observing not participating (unless invited)), language and music
Collections: minerals and rocks, and small instruments
Her favorite stim is tapping, as is has a triple affect: texture, movement, and sound.
Gets along famously with famously autistic Spock
She and Bones become friends because he offered his office to be a sensory safe space for her
She hates the sound of the bridge’s loud beeping, which is why she plays white noise in her earbuds when she’s not doing vitally important work (like yellow alert work)
Likes the way her earrings feel in a sensory way. Her favorite is the green pair so she can tap on them. They also contrast with her uniform and she loves a good color scheme.
Putting on makeup is part of her morning routine, and creating a bit of art at the beginning of every day helps her stay positive.
Nyota and Sulu have a stim toy trading system. They have communal boxes, but their favorites they trade between themselves. (Hers is a pink worry stone, his is a kinetic ring)
She loves repetitive work like paperwork, much to the horror of nearly everyone else on bridge
Jim tries to bribe her into doing his work. It doesn’t go well.
She and Chapel sit in complete silence in the dark every Tuesday evening. It’s the best time both of them have.
Scotty and Uhura, much to everyone’s surprise, cause a feedback loop of chaos, because Scotty has no impulse control, and Uhura is too curious to be that impulse control for him. It’s less ‘unstoppable force meets immovable object’ and more ‘unstoppable force befriends immovable object’
Like Mythbusters except they’re friends in real life and they’re both autistic
(Yes Scotty is an autistic man. What of it?)
She sometimes wears color reducing contact lenses, and they don’t change her eye color much, but they do add a hint of yellow (like twilight vampires but less). Poor chekov, who doesn’t know abt the contact lenses, is convinced somethings wrong.
Raúl Castillo with Winston Duke and Millicent Simmonds at the 21st SCAD Savannah Film Festival (October 27, 2018) | via Entertainment Weekly’s Instagram Stories.
Some badass stills of Regan Abbott in the A Quiet Place: Part II trailer. I love how the trailer gave each family member moments in which to shine without revealing too many of the major plotpoints. I love that Regan isn’t a damsel in distress and she isn’t a plot device. She’s fully formed, strengths and flaws. The first film in this series did an exceptional job with characters and perspective. While Regan may be the film’s primary protagonist (imo) because of the significance of her character arch, we don’t spend the whole journey following her. AQP changes its character narrator based on which perspective serves its story the most in the moment. It’s not an easy balancing act so kudos to Krasinski, Beck, and Woods for making it feel seamless.
It came to me at a time when it felt incredibly relevant to my life. I cried in the theatre trying to process my emotions around it. I recently reread the original book for the first time since childhood, and it holds up wonderfully. So thank you Greta Gerwig for making something so special. The movie also just makes me feel warm and toasty.