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This isn’t commonly known but one of the rings of hell is actually being in a fandom wherein the popular bloggers have the worst opinions known to man that everyone else parrots

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Thanks to @ygobattleroyale 's King of the Autism poll/tournament/thing that's gearing up, I am here to once again spread propaganda for my (current) favorite autistic blorbo, Yusei Fudo, since he rightfully made the bracket.

I had a whole essay started once that I never finished, but here I will be summing up some of the main points. This is also based on the sub. (Not hating on the dub in this post but the two are so vastly different they are practically different canons so I thought I should probably specify.)

Someone on here pointed out once that Yusei has "resting b*tch face" aka flat affect and I've been thinking about that ever since. (Wish I could credit them but I can't find the post again, haha. Had screenshots and everything. Very thorough.)

He's pretty straightforward. He says what he means and he means what he says. He doesn't sugarcoat things or beat around the bush. The first line he has is a very blunt question followed by an equally blunt response to the answer he receives.

My guy oscillates wildly between semi-verbal and hyperverbal. He's the main character but you literally do not hear his voice for the first seven minutes of the show and when he's not in life-threatening situations he's really pretty quiet most of the time. But then you also have the episode with Bruno where Crow comments how Yusei has never talked to him that much at once -- maybe in total ever -- and along with that, Jack being offended that apparently Yusei never has important conversations with him (also pertains to the above point since Yusei was being very blunt in that moment and a little bit mean, though that's not the way he obviously meant it to be, lol.)

The whole of meeting Bruno, okay? All Of That. He makes friends with Bruno in about .2 seconds to the point of sharing Super Secret Plans with him all because of a shared interest in mechanics and engineering. #autisticbonding

Crow also points out that Yusei really seemed to perk up while talking to and working with Bruno, which is very on point for engaging with a special interest especially when you have someone to engage in said interest with.

He's obviously shown to have a strong interest in Duel Monsters (obviously) as well as mechanics and engineering. He built his first fully functional d-wheel out of scrap parts by the time he was 16, after all.

During the WRGP opening gala, one of the other teams comes up to him and are excited and wanting to talk to him and he completely brushes them off and walks away. Crow calls him out on it (“hey man, that was really rude!”) and he’s like “oh whoops, yeah I guess you’re right.” He may have been distracted by other things, but this is still peak "failure to read social cues".

Having a strong moral compass gets him into trouble on more than one occasion. Because of his circumstances, he has a strong (and justified) distrust of authority, and he’s not afraid to break laws that he deems unjust. Even though breaking out of Satellite isn’t in itself for any moral reason (its just the means to an end), he isn’t afraid of breaking the law that says he isn’t allowed to leave because he sees that law as unjust and doesn’t understand why it exists. (For the record, it is unjust but that’s not the point, haha.)

I am sure there are more points, but that's all I've got for now, haha. Feel free to add anything I missed, and be sure to vote for Yusei when the polls start!

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Thinking about a duct tape wizard

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Urgent prayer request: monster storms going on currently, especially in Nebraska and now crossing into Iowa. There was a tornado emergency issued west of Omaha. For anyone not from around here: that is literally the highest severity warning the National Weather Service has for tornadoes. They don't have enough emergency responders to assist everyone. Firefighters are being dispatched from Iowa to Nebraska to help with search-and-rescue in the areas already hit. Things are very serious out here today.

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the next time you hesitate to leave a comment on a fic remember that I go back and read all the comments I get on my fic whenever I'm feeling down and it makes me feel so much better

if you leave nice comments on ao3 i love you

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justice for the alex rider tv series. best YA book-to-live action adaptation since catching fire (2013), victim to the worst marketing of all time

the 3rd season is on amazon prime/freevee/i encourage pirating but PLEASE watch the entire series. otto farrant is incredible. gonna miss his i-want-to-die acting face

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Be honest.

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I think the hot new trends for this summer should be reading comprehension and critical thinking skills

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Someone who wants to be the hero instead becoming the villain in order to save the world is truly an intriguing and underutilized trope in fiction

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Spoilers for TWS

As much as I love the Lockwood & Co TV adaptation, I really wish they would’ve kept the part in where George looks at the Bone Glass and “dies” but not really because his glasses had no lenses in them so he couldn’t see anything.

Because that was hilarious and a top George moment

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also I love the relationship between Lune & the Pevensies. 

it’s so easy to imagine that dynamic, and what must have existed between his wife and the girls. like, suddenly the winter is over and archenland can breathe again (side note: was the witch limited to narnia? c.s. lewis isn’t clear –surprise, surprise) but there are four tiny children crowned as kings and queens.

and lune is a young man himself, but he was trained to be king, and they weren’t. they are young and parentless and in need of guidance, and lune is happy to do everything he can to help them. and archenland is narnia’s fondest friend and dearest ally, and I’m getting overwhelmed imagining what that relationship must have been like. The fondness and trust and friendship between the monarchs of these two countries is so deep (after all, Lune trusts Edmund with his only son, after his firstborn was stolen, trusts him to protect him in a foreign country and bring him home again)…and lune & edmund respect each other’s guidance; edmund himself is tempered by lune’s wisdom and that must be the dynamic that was established when the pevensies first arrived in narnia. 

it’s just really great, and I’m really feeling the Lune feels.

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Stop! Are you writing a story or a commercial

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42 Reverdy Road, The Rider Household.

Can be found on the gallery under '42 Reverdy Road' ID: rebecca707

Some things about the house that occurred to me whilst building this, under a read more to restrain my ramblings.

General background first;

This is the end of a row of pretty classic English Victorian terrace houses, these are the sort of buildings I've lived in most of my adult life in the UK, and if you ever take the Thameslink south of the river in London you'll see tons of houses like this; especially with the modern extension with skylights and large sliding doors on the back.

They film Alex's neighbourhood in Bermondsey, which is not quite as affluent an area as Chelsea, (because, honestly, would be wild if Alex actually lived in Chelsea) but is still definitely quite wealthy, houses like this one in this neighbourhood would sell for upwards of a £1M in the current market.

Onto design choices for the build;

The downstairs is fairly open plan, and In the show we see several scenes that more or less show the whole thing, so I tried to replicate it as accurately as I could. In the lounge, it looks like there's a desk in the back corner, and since we see Ian has an office, and Alex has a desk in his room, I thought maybe this was for Jack to study, so in the build I added some case files for her to be reading. Also, I added bikes for Ian and Alex and put them under the stairs.

I found the upstairs really tricky - we only see Alex's room, and a brief look at the hallway outside his room, which seemed to lead to more rooms, and the stairs. This made me think he was at the back of the house, as most terraces taper at the back for access to the garden. Also, the window seems to line up with a window we see on the upstairs floor in an exterior shot of the kitchen. I feel especially proud of Alex's room - I think it gets the vibe of slightly messy but active high achiever - there's a certificate by his front door in Hebrew (presumably a Krav Maga thing), so I added lots of rosettes and medals and certificates and stuff. He's also got a row of hooks above his bed with like a snorkel, and climbing rope and stuff, so I used some of the snowboarding stuff to replicate that, and gave him a desk full of hobby items for boy scout spy crafting.

Jack's room was total conjecture, and also a bit of a challenge, since I don't feel I have a sense for her aesthetic taste in furniture, I tried to think what her room would be like considering she's lived there for presumably most of her early twenties, but this also being not her house/not her family/not permanent. I definitely think it would be nice, and comfortable, and personalised to a certain extent. So I gave her some kinda Ikea-ish furniture, and decorated it with small, movable clutter, and posters, pictures, and tapestries, tapped and blue tacked to the wall rather than nailed in.

Ian's bit was also a challenge, despite being the other room upstairs that we see. His office is categorically in the wrong place, the entry door should be on a different wall. Conceivably, it should be where I put Ian's en-suite, and there's a little corridor leading there, but I couldn't make that work without squishing everything together too much. So I put it in the modern bit, thinking that Ian might have built in some extra protection when doing the extension to add more security to what might be like the 'spy hub' in the house. We also see that there's another door inside Ian's study - for the level of privacy that room would need, it only really made sense to me for that door to lead to his bedroom, which also shows how he never really gets away from his work, when he sleeps right next to his study. So I gave him this kind of self-contained suite of rooms, which makes him somewhat shut off and isolated from the others. Considering how immediately Jack complies with a request for a moment of privacy when Ian is in his office, I imagine there's some pretty deeply ingrained house rules about disturbing Ian's office for 'confidential banking reasons', which makes him harder to access when he's in his bedroom. Also, Jack and Alex share a bathroom, but Ian has an en-suite. His bedroom is nice but bland, with a few souvenirs of his travels and a rack of monochrome clothing for his grey casual wear, and his bathroom is modern and dark, with some medical supplies by the sink for patching himself up after a mission.

The garden, on reflection, is a bit chaotic - I think it should actually be larger, and have a little shed. But what we see of it in Season 3 is different to season 1, it's smaller, more enclosed, and has some pretty high walls all around. I wasn't sure which way to go so left it fairly blank, with space for the wheelie bins round the side, a little patio, some grass, a drying line, and a football. The chaotic bit comes from the bbq I gave them in the corner which, looking at the photos, my Rider Sims must have managed to set on fire and burn immediately. Oh and also to make Ian Alex's uncle in CAS I had to make a John to be Ian's brother and Alex's father, so I Immediately killed him and put his headstone in a corner of the garden, so they can all be haunted by John's ghost. Neato!

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I sat through the first twenty minutes of the livestream so you don't have to:

New gifts. You can look at those yourself.

ChosenCon. Sept 20-21. If you want more details you can go find them in the stream yourself.

5&2 Day Livestream (May 2)

S4 update: They will release it as soon as possible, sometime in the next 4-7 weeks. Reiterated that there will be two episodes per week because of the delay.

I did not watch any further. Too afraid of spoilers in the interview. If there's something else important in this livestream, someone else is going to have fish for it.

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*bops you repeatedly but gently on the head* you. will. make. it. through. this.

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Genuinely love the ending to season 3 with Alex getting to walk back in with his family and be taken care of for once BUT

Take this man to the hospital

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It's not just Lockwood though, it's all three of them. They're all traumatized and depressed and lonely, they all think they should be dead. And how could it be any other way, after all they've been through? But somehow they still manage to keep each other afloat, to build this little, broken home in the middle of the storm and survive. It's a testament to both how resilient they are and how much they love each other.

Found family has never been done so well, I swear.