Storytime: My brother Dave used to manage a Little Ceasars, and he hated it. So when my mom asked him what he wanted on his birthday cake, he jokingly said the Little Ceasars guy being stabbed with his own spear. My mom, who doesn't always get sarcasm, didn't even question it. She lovingly made him exactly what he asked for. It's my favorite cake ever.
Happy Ides of March to Ceasar getting stabbed!
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ok i'm at work again and no customers are here time for more trek fanart on receipt paper
behind every gay person is another more evil reptillian gay person
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im so nice to people who are genuinely terrible to me lmao
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If I was attractive (or had money for motion capture stuff) I'd play video games for a living fr fr.
I told a customer that a stall was clogged, and stepped away to grab cleaning supplies, and she immediately went in to use the clogged toilet.
Last week, someone crawled under the door that said "Out of Order" so they could use the toilet, then came to complain that the toilet wasn't flushing. After they shit in it.
The week before last...
Someone shit on the wall.
Back of the toilet, across the wall, dripping down.
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On Infantilization and Tech
I'll say it because I'm extra spicy today.
I see a lot of folks saying that Tech shouldn't be infantilized, and he should not be kept away from adult relationships.
Got it. 100% agree.
However....
Infantilization isn't just regarding relationships. It also involves how the person is perceived in greater society.
So....when you're writing about Tech, let me ask you:
Is he respected as an adult? His opinion taken seriously?
Are his ideas dismissed as childish or dorky?
Does he have a cool and/or IMPORTANT job? Or is he shoved into Dork Corner dicking around with engine parts?
Is his partner the dominant one who takes charge of everything?
Is it another team member in charge?
Is he contributing in a way that is fulfilling and respectful of his background and knowledge?
Or is he just toddering around until someone rescues him?
I get plot, I understand that character arcs need to happen. But every time I start a fic where Tech's being bossed around or taken care of by someone else, canon or otherwise, I immediately log out.
Why am I saying all of this?
Because I am a neurodivergent person who receives this horseshit on a regular basis.
I'm not a dumbass or lazy. I have a Ph.D and have been working in my field for 16 years. But I have been passed over and mocked and teased and shoved into corners because I'm biologically female, I'm a wife and mother, and I am vaguely on the spectrum.
Poor wittle Dr. Meat Muffin and her weak womanly ways, must help her over puddles and shit.
I'm putting in my yearly review right now. I expect that I will be talked down by my department director, despite performing wildly well.
I will be going to a conference shortly too. My colleagues with the smoother, charming voices will use the grants I wrote as a basis for THEIR grant writing course, of which I am being forced to take.
Learning about writing properly using your own writing as an example is a level of hell I didn't know existed and yet, here I am.
Maybe it's God's punishment for that Spiderman/Tech drawing I did earlier, who the fuck knows.
The point is, when you're writing about neurodivergent people, give them opportunities to use their skills and brains and contribute in fulfilling ways.
There's more than one way to infantilize someone, don't be that person.
Bleh.
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well. were rhe robbers cute at least
NOOOOOOOOOOO THEY FUCKING WERENT
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