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Slipping through reality...

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Shout out to @whoelghost for the original post I couldn't Not draw it

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Poster of the concert at Oslo Spektrum, Norway

30/04/2023

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@mossdeep

i found your post on pinterest!

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Redrawing the dnd party as more memes!!

Vice is mine! Akiva, Maeve and Yaakov belong to @meisakurohashi <3

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i guess you could call this a richie tozier character analysis.

ok ok ok. the scene at the arcade. here's my thoughts.

richie uses humor as a defense mechanism. it's a coping mechanism and it's a method of deflection. it's something that he uses to cover up his insecurities, just like his whole hyper-masculinity misogynistic bullshit.

so here we have this character and he uses humor to cover up his insecurities. what's he most insecure about? being queer. (bisexual imo.) and then we have this kid who has bullied him for years and this other kid who he kinda might've liked if he'd known him better and both of them are pointing out his biggest insecurity.

now, wouldn't it make sense for him to use humor to cover up this insecurity? why didn't he make some kind of comment to henry, "why, you want a bite of some of this?" or some shit like that? it seems in character, doesn't it?

does it make sense that he would only use humor to cover up his insecurities in other situations where he technically shouldn't be that insecure, but not in this scene which literally told the GA that he was queer by preying on his insecurities? yes, i get that internalized homophobia is a whole thing, but his toxic masculinity mask shit is what he uses to deal with the brunt of that.

so what's going on here? why is he acting so scared, when we know his typical coping mechanisms for fear?

i have one answer for you, folks. RSD.

you might be wondering what the hell RSD is. well, i've got an answer for you!

RSD stands for rejection sensitive dysphoria. if you have ADHD, you're a lot more likely to experience severe RSD, it's connected to the way that the ADHD brain is formed and how it regulates chemicals and shit. this basically means that (for people with RSD) if you get told you've done something wrong or if you get rejected or insulted, your brain blows it majorly out of proportion, because it has difficulty regulating the chemicals that are released in certain situations. a lot of emotions, especially negative emotions, that people with ADHD and RSD experience are very intense, very amplified.

what does this have to do with richie, you're asking? (i'm surprised you haven't figured it out, you're really very smart.)

richie tozier is a very ADHD child, as you'll all certainly agree with me. his entire being screams neurodivergent. so why does richie almost seem ooc in this scene? because of RSD.

bowers' cousin's initial rejection of richie's offer to play another game, tacked on with the preying on of richie's greatest fear really fucks with richie's head. he's so fucking freaked out because his brain fucking hates him and he's already reeling from this kid that he likes hanging out with pushing him away for a reason that shouldn't have been evident, since richie has been repressing that shit. and of course this is all because of a guy who has been torturing richie for years and beats him and his friends up all the time. all of these things combined in a neurotypical brain spells trouble (but if rich was nt, it's not enough of an excuse for him to be ooc), and then of course richie's ADHD RSD brain has made them so much bigger and worse, of course he was acting weird.

in conclusion, richie tozier has ADHD and also i love him

[incorrect-snkquotes]

Iori: You should be addicted to shutting the fuck up

Kyo: You wanna fuck me so bad it makes you look stupid

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Zoozve, my beloved

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maya angelou saying the funniest thing anyone has ever said about editing, which i can never let myself forget EVER AGAIN [x]

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So I just watched the fnaf movie

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a day late to my 6 years on t anniversary ✨🏳️‍⚧️ a short comic about looking back

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my dear maple

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its what maria would have wanted yeah

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hexsquad! 💫

edit: updated version with vee here!

[inkskinned]

probably time for this story i guess but when i was a kid there was a summer that my brother was really into making smoothies and milkshakes. part of this was that we didn't have AC and couldn't afford to run fans all day so it was kind of important to get good at making Cool Down Concoctions.

we also had a patch of mint, and he had two impressionable little sisters who had the attitude of "fuck it, might as well."

at one point, for fun, this 16 year old boy with a dream in his eye and scientific fervor in heart just wanted to see how far one could push the idea of "vanilla mint smoothie". how much vanilla extract and how much mint can go into a blender before it truly is inedible.

the answer is 3 cups of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup milk alternative, and about 50 sprigs (not leaves, whole spring) of mint. add ice and the courage of a child. idk, it was summer and we were bored.

the word i would use to describe the feeling of drinking it would maybe be "violent" or perhaps, like. "triangular." my nose felt pristine. inhaling following the first sip was like trying to sculpt a new face. i was ensconced in a mesh of horror. it was something beyond taste. for years after, i assumed those commercials that said "this is how it feels to chew five gum" were referencing the exact experience of this singular viscous smoothie.

what's worse is that we knew our mother would hate that we wasted so much vanilla extract. so we had to make it worth it. we had to actually finish the drink. it wasn't "wasting" it if we actually drank it, right? we huddled around outside in the blistering sun, gagging and passing around a single green potion, shivering with disgust. each sip was transcendent, but in a sort of non-euclidean way. i think this is where i lost my binary gender. it eroded certain parts of me in an acidic gut ecology collapse.

here's the thing about love and trust: the next day my brother made a different shake, and i drank it without complaint. it's been like 15 years. he's now a genuinely skilled cook. sometimes one of the three of us will fuck up in the kitchen or find something horrible or make a terrible smoothie mistake and then we pass it to each other, single potion bottle, and we say try it it's delicious. it always smells disgusting. and then, cerimonious, we drink it together. because that's what family does.

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The Hermit Post! 💌