#colin is a neurodivergent character

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the more I think about it and rewatch his scenes, the more I cannot help but realize that Colin is coded as a neurodivergent character. At least, I can very clearly see how Luke Newton, a neurodivergent actor, is playing Colin as a neurodivergent character

a special interest in Greek mythology? in traveling? neurodivergent

taking people's word at face value without 'reading between the lines'? neurodivergent

not being able to read Penelope's feelings regardless of how 'obvious' they are? neurodivergent

brain constantly bouncing around from one idea to the next (as in the books)? neurodivergent

not saying the 'right thing' and admitting to having to rehearse important conversations? neurodivergent

all that rejection sensitivity and regret he had well over a year after his engagement blew up? neurodivergent

masking in public? the whole 'charming facade'? neurodivergent

the man straight up STIMS, I mean how often do we see him fidgeting or playing with something? he has an oral fixation like no one's business, always eating, rubbing his mouth, licking his lips

I just can't unsee it

and, one day, i hope our fandom is going to be ready to recognize how many of the things we've unjustly called him an 'idiot' or 'stupid' for is actually just him existing with a neurodivergent brain and how hurtful that can come across to us neurodivergent peeps who identify with him

[lokiiied]

the world would be healed if everybody watched ted lasso, i honestly believe.

[johannestevans]

So you finished Our Flag Means Death…

What show do you want to obsess over now?

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So, Our Flag Means Death, unexpected workplace romcom chock-a-block with anachronistic 18th century fun, piracy on the high seas, gay and trans and otherwise genderweird and queer characters, not to mention neurodivergent and disabled ones, is over for at least another year. You’re aching for something of a similar flavour to fill the gap — especially if, like many of us, the finale has left you disappointed and eager to watch a show with a bit more care for its queer audiences.

Want recs?

After finishing Our Flag Means Death, I’m in the mood for…

Ed cradling Stede’s face in S1 of Our Flag Means Death. Via IMDb. 

… more (relatively) light-hearted queer comedy!

The most obvious example I can start with is, of course, What We Do In The Shadows. While its fifth season was weak, its sixth season was in my opinion its best ever — a spin-off of the Taika Waititi-directed (and starring) mockumentary film of the same name, WWDITS is a fun-filled, ridiculous and deeply silly show starring a variety of incompetent and bumbling and blood-thirsty vampires and their various friends, enemies, and companions. It’s constantly and continuously queer, with the majority of the cast of characters being openly bisexual, and one of them being gay and having an emotive coming-out arc with his family.

Nandor (Kayvan Novak) and Guillermo de la Cruz (Harvey Guillén) in WWDITS. Via IDMb. 

WWDITS follows the adventures of Guillermo de la Cruz, fat and gay and badass and so fucking pretty, the familiar to a vampire named Nandor the Relentless, a big himbo ex-warrior plagued by insecurity and ready to enter in power struggles with anybody from a fellow warrior to a household appliance, and the rest of Nandor’s household — Laszlo Cravensworth (once an English aristocrat, still a dandy, charming, slutty, and well-spoken — and often tinkering with experiments or DIY), Nadja of Antipaxos (once an impoverished member of a Mediterranean village, dramatic, intelligent, sharp-witted, and wry — and often getting involved in various misadventures), and Colin Robinson (an “emotional vampire” who feeds by boring those about him, dull, mundane, and painfully cringe at all times in the best of ways). As a mockumentary, its tone is silly and light-hearted, but it’s not without its emotional stakes, and there’s so many references to other pop culture vampires. 

The BBC’s sitcom, Ghosts, is a great sitcom to go for if you’re in the mood for more of a neurodivergent found family vibe, with sumptuous costumes and a complex and intriguing cast who have a lot of wonderful moments with each other. The show follows Alison and Mike, who inherit a manor house and find when they start to refurbish it that it’s full to the brim with silly, ridiculous, and unrelentingly friendly — not to mention antagonistic — ghosts. Ghosts, like Our Flag Means Death claimed to be prior to its S2 finale, is a tremendously loving and kind show — it spends a lot of its time building up flawed characters and encouraging them to change and grow, giving you time as a viewer to love them. 

See any familiar faces? Many of the Ghosts cast also appear in Horrible Histories. Via IMDb. 

The show is not as continuously or constantly queer as WWDITS, but it does have elements of queerness dotted around the main cast, particularly in the character of the Captain, the ghost of a WW1 soldier who was never deployed abroad, but spent his time in service yearning for the intimate company of a fellow soldier. 

Brendan Scannell and Zoe Levin in Bonding. Via IMDb. 

Want something a little weirder, a little kookier? Crave a bit more of the BDSM flavouring around Our Flag, more whips, more leather, more latex, more kink? You might like to try Bonding — this show features a woman who begins moonlighting as a dominatrix and then employs her gay BFF as her assistant. It suffers from the tendency shows like this have to sideline Pete a bit as the gay BFF, with some of his characterisation being squandered to prop up the less interesting protagonist, but it’s really funny and honestly super heartfelt. 

And if you want really weird, really kooky, and unabashedly and delightfully and wonderfully queer, there is always The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo, which is a gorgeously funny and loving gay comedy that you can watch online!

Apart from those above, you might like to try Special (a sitcom exploring the romantic and sexual misadventures of a deeply selfish and flawed character a la Stede Bonnet, this one a young gay man with cerebral palsy), Schitt’s Creek (a sitcom about a posh family falling on hard times and featuring several queer characters, particularly the bisexual David Rose, played by Dan Levy), and Grace and Frankie (a show about two ageing women who are best friends, and whose husbands leave them to start a romance with one another). 

… more of the stunning cast!

You’ve watched Our Flag Means Death and you’re craving more of the spectacular and incredibly skilled cast. 

If you want more of Nathan Foad (Lucius Spriggs) particularly, you’re in luck — last year, Foad wrote and served as executive producer on a show loosely inspired by his early life as a weird boy growing up gay in Nottinghamshire, Newark, Newark. It’s very silly, funny, full to the brim with love, and also deeply silly and willing to get in touch with the cringe side of life. It’s only three episodes, but starring the unparalleled Morgana Robinson as the harried mother of Leslie, the closeted-but-not sixteen-year-old who is trying desperately to lead the tragic gay life he’s seen on TV, it really makes the most of that limited runtime, and it’s so fucking good. Nathan Foad even has a cameo in it as a freaky and overfamiliar employee at the bowling alley. 

He has a cameo in another great show, too — Bloods is an incredible sitcom about two NHS paramedics working in an ambulance together. It’s rapid-paced, it’s messy, it’s horrible and hilarious, and it stars Jane Horrocks as Wendy across from Our Flag’s Samson Kayo (Oluwande) as Maleek. The two are chalk and cheese in the front seat of their ambulance together, and Kayo is so incredible in the lead role balancing Maleek’s own desire to appear as cool and tough whilst also being vulnerable and having his own insecurities, especially because Wendy challenges him on so many points. Wendy is great as well, the two an exercise in contrasts, but Kayo and Horrocks are spectacular among an equally spectacular cast — you get to see so many different dynamics at the depot and in other settings, amongst other NHS staff, and the show is non-stop with the punches and the punchlines. If you really enjoy how well-balanced and how fitting the soundtrack to Our Flag is, you’ll love the music and its pacing in Bloods. Foad’s cameo in this is as Wendy’s neurotic and kind of a fuck-up son, and he’s so messy.

If you want more of Joel Fry (Frenchie), he stars in the first few seasons of Plebs — this is a goofy comedy set in Ancient Rome, and it’s not dissimilar to The Inbetweeners in its tone and content. Some of the jokes are funny, sometimes. I don’t recommend it because it really gives Joel Fry his full acting chops — but he’s hot and he’s funny and he’s cute in this, and even if you’re not super passionate about the show, if you like Frenchie, you probably will like Stylax too. 

Joel Fry and Con O’Neill (Izzy Hands) also both play characters in season 2 of Ordinary Lies, which is an anthology series, so you don’t need to watch season 1. The premise of the show each season is that the narrative jumps between characters in a workplace and explores the ramifications of the small lies they tell themselves and each other. While O’Neill’s role is a more typical set of lies that concerns adultery (or not), Fry’s involves vigilanteism and attempts at superheroism, and the plot is quite fun. This show is obviously a drama, and is tragically heterosexual on many points, but for all that, has its good and intriguing elements too. 

But what about Con O’Neill doing what he’s good at — playing wet, pathetic men? Very wet, very pathetic men? In Happy Valley, O’Neill plays a gloriously wet and pathetic man named Neil Ackroyd, who enters into a relationship with the protagonist, Catherine Cawood’s, sister, Clare. Clare is an alcoholic in recovery, as is Neil, and they have a really sweet and mutually supportive relationship — Neil’s particularly gorgeous in the most recent series, where he really dotes on Catherine’s grandson, Ryan, and he and Clare play a great duo. Neil is introduced in the beginning of season 2. 

The premise of the series is that Catherine Cawood, a police officer in Yorkshire, is attempting to solve crimes while at the same time her grandson, Ryan, is curious about and desires to make contact with his father, whom he has never met. Ryan’s mother was raped by his father and died by suicide after Ryan’s birth, whereon Catherine raised him alongside her sister. Happy Valley is a cop show, and Catherine Cawood is really funny as a character. She’s a deeply conservative and cruel, reactionary woman who constantly engages in police brutality whilst trampling over people’s rights — she believes that people are born evil and bad, effectively, and while she often talks about the effects poverty have on people’s outlooks, lifestyles, and actions, she can’t quite make that connection with her beliefs. As a cop show, it’s really interesting because it’s very pro-cop and tries to be on Catherine’s side for much of her crueller actions, but at the same time is so starkly blunt about the awful shit she does that it doesn’t exactly make you put faith in cops no matter the intent. Clare Cawood, and then Neil, are naturally far more critical of Catherine’s perspective. 

But if you really loved Izzy at his best in S2, if you love Izzy full of love whilst also being precise and cold and calculated in the defence of his family, if you love him beautiful and wonderful and unabashedly queer, you’ll undoubtedly adore Val, who appears in Uncle as the transfem and gorgeous dad of Gwen. Uncle isn’t a great TV show, it’s an example of one of those shows where they give a deeply dull cishet white dude who feels insecure a show where he sort of masturbates about how much he sucks and how he’s unlovable, but really, isn’t it on the people around him to love him anyway?

But Val is great. She’s so much fun, she’s funny and sharp and full of quips, she’s flirtatious, she’s hot, and she has some tremendous gender stuff going on as well as some gorgeous costuming throughout. If you like Uncle’s humour, watch all the episodes — if you don’t, just skip everything that doesn’t have Val in it. Val is where the good stuff is. 

Or don’t watch it at all, and just watch this scene pack on YouTube: 

Taika Waititi appears far more in great movies than he does TV shows, although he’s also one of the producers on Reservation Dogs, which is excellent — it’s a native-led and starring comedy series, and it rocks. Most of the time when Waititi does TV, it’s in cameos. 

Apart from the cameo he makes in the What We Do In The Shadows TV show, I mentioned in the sitcom section, Taika Waititi also appears in the Flight of the Conchords TV series, starring the band members of the band of the same name. Rhys Darby also appears in every episode as Jemaine and Bret’s fictional manager, Murray Hewitt, and Murray is such a fun, bizarre character — and with a wholly different facial hair situation than you might have imagined for him before. 

Wholly different facial hair. Via IMDb. 

… more sailors!

Pickings are slim for a good pirate show, or indeed, any good show with nautical flavours to it — scenes at sea are high budget and hard to shoot, and as was evident with much of Our Flag Means Death’s second season at the hands of HBO Max, many studios do not want to proffer the budget for such things. 

Let’s start with the best of recommendations — a show that’s unapologetically queer, anti-imperialist, anti-establishment, and full to the absolute brim with pirates, historical and fictional. Interested in Mary Read, Anne Bonny, Calico Jack, Benjamin Hornigold, Israel Hands, or of course, the inimitable Edward ‘Blackbeard’ Teach, real historical pirates who are portrayed and played with in the course of Our Flag Means Death, and want to see a very different take on them? Enjoy lesbians constantly scheming to kill each other, torture each other, and generally make one another miserable (sexual)? Read Treasure Island, perhaps, and ever wonder what came before?

Not-Yet-Captain Flint (Toby Stephens) and Thomas Hamilton (Rupert Penry-Jones) in Black Sails. Via IMDb. 

Black Sails has all of the above and more — while it is very queer and anti-establishment, I will say that it’s far more similar in tone to Game of Thrones than to OFMD. The comedy bits are hilarious in part because the stakes are so high, but Black Sails is firmly a drama, and a gritty, violent one at that. It lacks the escapism present in OFMD — there is constant and continuous sexual violence, brutal gore and brutality, racism, classism, deep misogyny and homophobia from the society around the characters. The characters on offer are varied and complex, flawed, and interesting, but your mileage may vary with how much you vibe with them. 

Making use of some of Starz’ old set pieces for Black Sails, including some of their ships, the new One Piece live-action reboot — an adaptation of the anime of the same name (itself an adaptation of the manga) — is a fast-paced, fantastical, and colourful new release. If what you loved about Our Flag was its playful relationship with real-life piracy and chronistic details, its flexibility with “reality” and its eagerness to play around with tropes and expectations, with its creation of found family through a ragtag and varied mix of individuals. What it isn’t, unfortunately, is textually or explicitly queer, let alone as unabashedly queer as Our Flag and Black Sails are respectively. 

HMS Terror and HMS Erebus sailing through the surface ice in The Terror. Via IMDb. 

If you’d rather have queer sailors at any cost than having ones that aren’t explicitly queer, there is, of course, season 1 of The Terror. Based off of Dan Simmons’ magical horror reimagining of the real events of the lost ships in the Arctic, the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus, the first season of this anthology horror series is itself a deeply anti-imperial story following the events of two British ships that become stranded on the ice whilst attempting to discover the North-West Passage, and in so doing poison themselves and the land and people around them. Stuck in place in a cold and unfamiliar environment that does not have sufficient resources to sustain them — and in any case, an environment and resources that as invaders of, they do not know how to live in relationship with — they are hunted by an Inuit spirit, a representation of and manifestation of the imbalance they’ve caused by their mere presence. 

The Terror has a few more explicitly gay dynamics in the book than in the TV show, but the show does feature an unstable, cannibalistic bastard of a man whose favourite hobbies are identity theft, violence, and emotional manipulation — and he’s gay. Representation win! 

As you might imagine from that description, The Terror is not a cheerful, happy show — it’s deeply violence and very at home with hopelessness, but has some fascinating exploration of British imperialism, whiteness, class dynamics, queer men on ships, and chilling horror. 

And it’s not a TV show, but I would be remiss if I did not mention and recommend Taika Waititi’s favourite romance movie — Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003, dir. Peter Weir). Based off of Patrick O’Brien’s long-running Aubreyad, starting with Master and Commander, this film is about Captain Jack Aubrey and his duet partner and best friend (wink wink) Stephen Maturin, the ship’s surgeon. It’s a gorgeous film and while of course not explicit, it’s pretty fucking gay — although unlike the other pieces I’ve mentioned, as Napoleonic-era fanfiction about British navymen, it’s not nearly as critical of British imperialism as one might like, with the majority of the criticism coming from Maturin, and might leave a poor taste in the mouth compared to pieces more critical of the British imperial evil. 

… more queer period dramas and historical shows!

Anne Lister (Suranne Jones) contemplating her hat and gloves. Via IMDb. 

Let’s start with a historical drama — Gentleman Jack, starring Suranne Jones, is set in the early 1800s and is an biographical look at the life of the cryptic diarist and all around delightfully butch lesbian dirtbag, Anne Lister. Apart from the obviously intriguing concept, the show has some sumptuous costuming and set designs, and there are so many different characters and dynamics throughout. I’m always a sucker for an epistolary piece, and as it’s based off of Lister’s diaries, this show has a lot of epistle work throughout. 

If you’re a sucker for lesbians in period dramas, though, you might just like Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries — the eponymous Phryne Fisher is not the lesbian in question. She’s a flapper and private detective in 1920s Melbourne, complete with a little golden gun, and is very hetero — but her best friend, a doctor named Mac (short Elizabeth MacMillan), is gay, and she’s so much fun. Where Phryne is really high-energy and excitable, constantly jumping from idea to idea, Mac is a lot chiller and more smooth, and she’s so suave and so much fun. Miss Fisher is a fun show — alas, a cop show, but it’s a lot more light-hearted, and it does a lot of playful stuff with the period and particularly with costuming details and things like cars, weapons, and various inventions. 

Getting dressed and leaving the boytoy still abed. Via IMDb. 

If you’re open to a miniseries that’s a lot dirtier and nastier than much of the above, have I got the recommendation for you: A Very English Scandal. Starring a relatively innocent and easily manipulated Ben Whishaw across from the deliciously greasy and depraved Hugh Grant, this is a dramatisation of the Thorpe Affair — a political scandal in the UK in the late 1970s — and it’s so fun and so sexy. If whilst watching Our Flag you’ve been giggling and kicking your feet whenever the more fucked up shit goes on in intimate ways, you will almost certainly delight in this one. 

… more of… something. Surprise me!

You might have heard of NBC’s Hannibal, which is a gay take on the dynamic between Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham, but the same creator, Bryan Fuller, also did Pushing Daisies, which is a gorgeous 2-season show that was cancelled long before it ought have been. It explores intimacy at a necessary distance, and has some wonderful queer themes throughout, and stars Lee Pace. 

The new TV adaptation of Anne Rice’s books, Interview with the Vampire, is glorious — it’s openly and unabashedly gay, it’s so full to the brim with depth, and unlike other shows I can mention, it really doesn’t try to shy away from the cruelty of abuses in intimate relationships, or try to shift the blame for abuse entirely onto the back of the victim in a last-minute attempt to foster more sympathy for the abuser. Interview goes so deep into the loneliness and isolation of being separated from society’s mores and expectations, of how that isolation leaves you at much more risk of leverage and abuse by intimate partners, of the brittleness of found family under heavy pressure, and alongside all of that, like… 

It’s a vampire show! It’s sexy! It’s full of blood and horror and misery and grief — the grief of being alive when you should be dead, and at the same time, being halfway dead when you seem to be alive. It’s funny and it’s dark and it’s just full to the brim with poetry, has some honestly gorgeous dialogue, and on top of all that, it’s well-paced, beautifully costumed, and tremendously shot and scored. Watch!

Looking for queer movies, as well as TV shows? I have a big rec list of gay movies here:

[conejita-canelita]

From my own perspective, I deeply relate to Penelope and Colin because I see a lot of my own neurodivergent experiences in them, and to me they’re both nd-coded at the very least.

Even if Penelope and Colin’s characters aren’t canon to being nd, the way they socialize, act, behave, and think touch on so much of what I already know being neurodivergent. For both characters I could write essays on why I think polin are autistic-coded (to me at least). And the way they struggle with that reminds me a lot of my own experiences and pains of masking, lack of confidence, and wishing on everything I knew that one day, someone would see me for me. Colin and Penelope are just that! They’re both two people who struggle with their identities, purpose, confidence, been seen as who they really are, and above all: being accepted for that. That’s why even in spite of critique and hesitance on whether s3 will be good at all (which is fair and valid, I have my own reservations too!) I continue to have overall faith that s3 is for the wallflowers because so far, as a “wallflower” myself in a way, I already am obsessed.

[waystarresourceco]

General PSA

(followed by Lore Masterlist):

As I’m attempting to organize the scattered bits of Succession lore and headcanons as provided by the actors and/or the primary creative directors (Jesse Armstrong and Mark Mylod), I thought it might be helpful to create a pinned menu for folks to navigate lore posts more easily. The goal here is just to make this material accessible, not to impose any strict reading on the show or to dictate what is or isn’t a “right” reading. The positions here are simply reposted for general fandom access.    

Below the cut are links to the gathered bits of lore organized by character. Let me know if it would also be helpful to use another denomination system and/or if there’s anything else you’d like to see added – ask box is always open!

Note: This will be updated regularly via edits as more lore is added.

ROY FAMILY:

LOGAN:

Logan and Ewan's childhood l How Logan recruited Colin l Logan and Gerri’s backstory l Logan and Marcia’s connection l Roy family discipline (TW physical abuse) l Logan and Caroline's friendship with Gerri and Baird l Caroline and Logan’s divorce l Logan and Marcia’s connection

CONNOR:

Connor’s age l Connor’s Mom l Connor and neurodivergence l Roy family discipline (TW physical abuse) l  Connor’s education l Connor’s yurt business

KENDALL:

Kendall’s childhood stuffed raccoon l How the Caroline-Logan divorce impacted Kendall l Dog pound l Kendall and Roman sneaking out to pubs l Kendall’s art knowledge/ Time spent at the Tate l Roy family discipline (TW physical abuse) l Kendall and Rava’s backstory l Kendall and Nate’s backstory l Kendall’s degrees and office items

ROMAN:

Time spent at the Tate l Dog pound l  Roy family discipline (TW physical abuse) l Roman and Kendall sneaking out to pubs l Roman’s understanding of the “the game” and limits l Roman and food (TW ED)

SHIV:

Time spent at the Tate; Shiv’s grime era/college Shiv l Shiv’s friendship with Lisa l Shiv’s relationship with Logan l  Caroline’s gifted earrings to Shiv l Shiv’s reading taste   

EWAN:

Ewan and Logan's childhood

ROY FAMILY PARTNERS AND EXES (+ STEWY):

CAROLINE:

Caroline and food (TW ED) l Caroline and art l Caroline and Logan’s friendship with Gerri and Baird l Caroline and Logan's divorce l How the divorce impacted Caroline’s relationship with Kendall l Caroline’s view of the Golden Trio l Caroline’s gifted earrings to Shiv

MARCIA:

Marcia and Logan's connection

WILLA:

Willa's backstory

RAVA:

Rava’s job and background l Rava and Megathump l Rava and Jess post-show

NAOMI:

How Naomi knows Tabitha l Tabitha and Naomi have fucked

STEWY:

Stewy’s name l Emigrating from Iran

TABITHA:

Tabitha’s job l How Tabitha knows Naomi l  Tabitha and Naomi have fucked

TOM:

Tom’s reading taste

WAYSTAR ROYCO:

GERRI:

Gerri and Baird's friendship with Logan and Caroline l Gerri and Logan’s backstory l Gerri’s daughters

JESS:

Jess and Rava post-show

COLIN:

Colin's backstory

FRIENDS & RIVALS

Sandi Furness's backstory l Nan Pierce's and Kendall talking art l Lisa Arthur's friendship with Shiv

EPISODE COMMENTARY

Arian on the bathroom scene in Lifeboats

DELETED SCRIPT SCENES

Caroline, Logan, and Marcia at Pre-Nuptial

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Why these DHMIS characters have ✨Autism✨

(As explained by someone with autism)

Red Guy📞🎥🔵: I remember when I first watched DHMIS I was pretty terrified of it until I was introduced to the media theory and the idea that in universe DHMIS was a show, and Red was the original creator. A lot of things with Red began to click with me at that point. He spoke a monotone voice, even when he wasn't upset or disinterested. He had difficultly interacting with his peers (Specifically, I'm think of the scene in the office where he's making the file sing and dance around and all the other mops are staring at him :)) He couldn't stand the idea of working a normal office job, where he would never get to show other the incredibly colorful and vibrant world inside his mind. Despite the fact he appeared stoic on the outside, he had so many big feelings inside, happiness and anger and love and fear, that were all invisible upon a first glace at him. As a creative autistic, I related to him a lot. He became very important to me, and it honestly surprises me how much people don't talk about him being autistic compared to other members of the cast.

I think it may partially be due to the new Channel 4 show, as in it he mostly is portrayed as an uncaring person, rather than someone who has difficulty expressing themselves, which really upsets me :(

Roy Gribbleston💵🎬😑: When I first watched DHMIS I used to joke that Roy was the only neurotypical character, but it wasn't long before I realized that wasn't true. One of the first things one notices about Roy during the series is that he never speaks, which could be interpreted as going nonverbal. He has a very blank expression and shows no outside emotion. We also see him hiding away in dark or dimly lit places rather than standing out in the open for the majority of the series. Another prominent trait Roy possesses is looking very scrappy, "greasy" as one of my friends described. This reminded me of the troubles I have with hygiene such as hair brushing and face washing because of sensory issues. I personally headcannon that Roy will show up to business meetings in his overalls looking all scrappy thinking it's socially acceptable because he is a respected businessman and owner of the company (It's not too bad a problem, everyone is too scared of him to actually point it out).

I personally enjoy this nasty, lanky little autistic puppet >:)

Yellow🟢🍝🎈 and Duck🦆💼🥫: I personally haven't paid attention to these two as much, but I have noticed that Duck uses a rocking chair, which could be a stim, and also has an issue with volume control, as he often speaks very loudly. Yellow seems to have difficulty verbally communicating his thoughts, feelings, and ideas in a way others can understand them throughout the original series.

Colin the Computer🖥️⌨️‼️: I have a friend who is into computer science and also neurodivergent who liked Colin a lot when I showed him the Technology episode! Things I've noticed about Colin are that he dislikes physical touch. He also seems to really enjoy talking about the internet, computers, and their functions, almost like a special interest (but going by this logic, many of the teachers would be autistic too, but that probably isn't far off).

That's all for now, but I might think of more later!

[ultimateloserboy]

Why do you hate people calling dhmis a time loop?

I always saw it as an easy way to describe what we know happens: it is always either June 19th or 20th, and any changes made the previous day are undone, including death, injuries, and new memories.

Does calling it a time loop change anything that I missed? /gen

hi i just wanna say that i don’t actually HATE anyone that believes this, sure it makes me angry, but theres nothing wrong with it! believe what you want! my opinions are not law, but i would like to explain why this theory makes no sense to me as someone with a hyperfix (and maybe special interest) on this show and series as a whole

the reason i personally hate this theory is because it literally doesnt make any sense if you think about it for more than a second. its an easy-way-out explanation if that makes sense. ive rewatched both the show and the webseries and i can say firmly that neither of them work as a time loop. ESPECIALLY the tv series, because they have specific holidays on specific days (like computer day) and even mention “tomorrow” in the same episode. if every day was the same day colin would be there every day for computer day, but hes not. in the death episode its mentioned that the news papers change every day. in the very first episode of the tv series the first thing the main three mention is that they stayed up all night talking. that wouldn’t work in a time loop. not to mention how time loops imply the same thing over and over. since when is anything in dhmis the EXACT same? similar format does not count. time loops are very specific, and work in a very specific way, the fact people have thought dhmis is a time loop for this long is genuinely surprising to me. like it just makes no sense?? the only thing that even remotely suggests this is the calendar and the calendar is JUST A CALENDAR. the calendar itself is just a prop, and june 19th/20th is just a placeholder date to keep things mysterious. sure its mentioned often and might be important but only in a metaphoric way. in a LITERAL sense the calendar never actually mattered, its a shame people still think it does.

and no, nothing in dont hug me im scared is undone. deaths are not undone, the puppets are simply replaced. everything still happened, its simply forgotten by the main three and cleaned up by lesley. even with the original series the main three remember the days and songs before. duck hasnt done this in the tv series but in the webseries and in a qna with the characters he freaks out when time is mentioned, and red guy catches on when someone references the computer episode. nothing in this world is re-set, only forgotten and cleaned up with hints left behind.

i like to think of it less literally. i like to think that the reason the date is the same is because despite the fact that time is moving forward, these characters are never moving with it. time goes on but they do not. their memories are deteriorating behind them and the world refuses to let them change as people. so it might not really be june at all, but to the characters nothing has changed. so the date is more symbolic to me, more metaphorical. this is only my belief tho, theres many interpretations, but i feel like the time loop theory is such an overrated interpretation yaknow?

yet again, no actual hatred just a very passionate neurodivergent opinion about my hyperfix LMAO

[swanhookheart]

I haven’t been active on this app for about a billion years, but I want to be again. I’m looking for friends! So, like this post if you like any of this stuff and I’ll follow you:

Doctor Who

David Tennant

Good Omens

Once Upon a Time

Jennifer Morrison

Colin O’Donoghue

Game of Thrones/House of the Dragon

Lucifer

The Hunger Games

Shadow and Bone

Ben Barnes

Jessie Mei Li

Lord of the Rings/Rings of Power

Harry Potter (but fuck JKR)

Bones

Castle

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Prodigal Son

Sherlock

The Vampire Diaries

The Witcher

Warrior Nun

Pirates of the Caribbean

Handmaid’s Tale

Stranger Things

LGBTQ+ stuff

Neurodivergent stuff

I’m a 28-year-old queer dweeb who reads, writes YA fantasy novels, is headed off to grad school in 2024, edits fan videos on YouTube (also SwanHookHeart on there), and generally gets way too attached to fictional characters. Pls be my friend. 🥲

[dollypopup]

thinking about how absolutely masochistic it is to be a Colin fan in this fandom.

He never gets a narrative, never gets any real agency in stories, his reaction to discovering a close friend of his has been lying to him, destroyed his engagement without his say, fucked over his family, went Misogyny Barbie on main with her own cousin and her best friend, embarrassed him publicly is limited to either going into an inexplicable horny frenzy or to be spinelessly gentle in the face of harms committed against him. Never allowed to be angry unless it's for sex, never allowed to display neurodivergency in the form of misunderstanding his feelings, not knowing the right thing to say, not understanding what love is or entails. Constantly called stupid for truly batshit reasons. People reveling in him 'suffering' or the weird unbalanced 'penance' he needs to go through to 'prove' to Pen that he 'cares for her' (how very Catholic of y'all. interesting Pen never has to do the same for objectively worse). Denied having any depth whatsoever, in fact: no need for hobbies or friends or interests outside of those that serve Penelope and HER narrative.

Colin is meant to. . .what? Come out of several months in which his friend froze him out for seemingly no reason, assist her in fulfilling her dreams, support her endlessly, apologize profusely for one singular comment, and then find out she was the straight up villain in his life for three years running and go 'that's so sexy of you, babe'?

he's not a character in this ship. he's a cardboard cutout and it's SO unfulfilling and flat

[collectivelyacoward]

Hello fellow travelers, if you are somehow seeing my very cool art blog-

good for you I guess lmao..

LGBTQ+ SAFE!!

ALL COLORS WELCOME!!

ABOUT ME!!

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You can call me Riftly!!

(Or Rift for short)

[She/They] (Any robotic neos) Pronouns please!!

[Demigirl-Nonbinary-Robotgender]

Minor!! [14]

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I am an-

🔥 artist

🔥 animator

🔥 crafter

🔥 cosplayer

🔥 furry

🔥 alterhuman ( @a-pile-o-creatures )

🔥 multi fandom enthusiast

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Other silly things abt me-

🔥 My favorite color is yellow

🔥 I love animated series/movies

🔥 Major tomboy

🔥 I have OCD

🔥 I tend to speak very loudly

🔥 Extroverted!!

(Mostly, anyway)

🔥 I am neurodivergent

(Not professionalay diagnosed)

🔥 A little slow and oblivious

(Mostly)

Basic DNI shit, I am a minor and please respect those boundaries.. and don't request me to draw NSFW art I am not comfortable with it!!

And trigger warning- I tend to swear and use caps a lot!!

(Also fanart is always aloud just surprise me!!)

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I refuse/can't/won't draw-

🔥 NSFW

🔥 Backgrounds (not often)

🔥 Fandoms I don't know

🔥 Realism (not often)

🔥 Religious stuff

🔥 Political things

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I will draw-

🔥 OC x Canon

🔥 OC x OC

(Poly relationships are also okay!!)

🔥 Anthro/Furry/Animal

🔥 Mecha/Robot

🔥 Humanoid/Human

🔥 GORE/Robo gore

🔥 Intimate things <3

(kissing, cuddling, hugging)

🔥 able to draw male/female

(body wise!!)

Some Fandoms I'm in/interests-

🔥 Transformers

🔥 DC (& JLA)

🔥 Marvel (& Spiderverse)

🔥 Weirdcore/Dreamcore/Kidcore

🔥 The Backrooms

🔥 TMNT/ROTTMNT

🔥 BPJD

🔥 DHMIS

🔥 TADC

🔥 Murder Drones (kinda)

🔥 Sonic/STH

🔥 9 (2009 animated film)

🔥 Batim/Batdr

🔥 Fnaf

🔥 Undertale/Deltarune (kinda)

🔥 Cuphead

🔥 SJRB

🔥 Garfield

🔥 The Lego Movie (1/2)

🔥 Pokémon

🔥 Scoobydoo

🔥 Yokai Watch (The show/movies)

🔥 Bakugan (kinda)

🔥 Robots 2005

🔥 The Iron Giant

🔥 Mao Mao; Heros Of Pure Heart

🔥 Osmosis Jones

🔥 Unikitty

🔥 Kipo

🔥 LBP/SAB

🔥 MLP

🔥 Hilda (kinda)

🔥 Ninjago

🔥 Assassination Classroom

🔥 Hello neighbor (kinda)

🔥 Baldi's Basics (kinda)

🔥 Wander Over Yonder/WOY

🔥 Fortnite

🔥 Bluey

🔥 Harvest festival 64

🔥 Welcome Home

🔥 Just Shapes & Beats/JSAB

🔥 The Owl House/TOH

🔥 Poppy Playtime/PPT

🔥 Gartan of Banban

🔥 Adventure Time (kinda)

🔥 Super Mario Bros

🔥 Steven Universe (Kinda)

🔥 Atlas and the Stars

🔥 Helluva Boss (kinda)

🔥 Hazbin Hotel (kinda)

🔥 She-Ra (Kinda)

And that's just a few!!

(Please don't be afraid to ask if you are curious to know if I know something that isn't on this list!!)

These are a few of my besties- ( @rustbrainedcoward )

( @bolt-bolt-bolty-bolt )

They are underrated please check them out!!

Some of my MOST favorite characters-

(One per fandom)

🔥 Firestorm (JLA/DC)

🔥 Iron man (Marvel)

🔥 Drix (Osmosis Jones)

🔥 Cuphead

🔥 Bendy

🔥 Shiney (SGRB)

🔥 Masterfrown (Unikitty)

🔥 Scourge (STH)

🔥 Jamack (Kipo)

🔥 Scorpia (She-Ra)

🔥 Breakdown (Transformers)

🔥 Kagerou (BPJD)

🔥 Vex (SAB)

🔥 Kinger (TADC)

🔥 Bennie (The Lego Movie 1/2)

🔥 Colin (DHMIS)

🔥 Tempest Shadow (MLP)

🔥 Wander (WOY)

🔥 Zane (Ninjago)

🔥 Mettaton (Undertale)

🔥 Eddie Dear (Welcome Home)

🔥 Donatello (TMNT VS. BATMAN)

🔥 Hunter (TOH)

🔥 Koro Sensei

🔥 Bitter Giggle (GOBB)

🔥 Plushtrap (FNAF 4)

🔥 Gligar (Pokémon)

🔥 Boxyboo (PPT)

🔥 Rodney (Robots 2005)

🔥 Luigi (Super Mario Bros)

🔥 Mao Mao (HOPH)

(I have way more than one favorite character per fandom but I tried to make it simple!!)

ALRIGHTY, BUY BUY!!

[the-vermin-king]

Yvenne's CC Interaction HCs

(Yvenne's Canon Character Interaction Headcanons)

This stuff is going to change in the fanfic post that should drop around September. That one is meant to set Yvenne's lore straight.

To start, I'd like to say that these HCs are in a timeline where Yvenne is the only other familiar in the house next to Guillermo.

Nadja of Antipaxos

¥ As her familiar, Yvenne is relatively nervous when actively serving Nadja. Seeing the way Nadja treats the familiars of others drives her to tread lightly when speaking to Nadja unprompted. Despite this, Nadja has yet to snap as harshly has she does with other familiars.

¥ After finding out that Yvenne fancies a vampire, Nadja and Yvenne both agree that being turned would happen should Yvenne court him successfully

¥ During her free time, Yvenne will sit with Dolly and talk about bugs while tending to the terrarium in her room. There, she keeps invasive species of bugs that show up in the house's garden.

From time to time, Nadja will invite Nadja to join her and the Guide when they go out (or stay in) to have a "girl's night".

Lazlo Cravensworth

¥ Like Guillermo, Lazlo calls Yvenne by a name similar to her own. Rather than "I(yi)-veen" he uses "Evie".

¥ Yvenne's neurodivergence makes her somewhat immune to hypnotism, intriguing Lazlo greatly. Should she not be busy serving Nadja, Lazlo will observe her to learn more about her brain. He has made multiple jokes about dissecting her should she die prematurely.

¥ Though charming, Yvenne feels uneasy around Lazlo when he talks about sexual encounters or expertise.

¥ After the frog experiment, Yvenne puts together a nice enclosure for the frogs to be kept and watched.

Nandor the Relentless

¥ Naturally her favorite of the four, Yvenne is quite fond of Nandor. Though she finds his silliness entertaining, she is deeply saddened by his treatment of Guillermo.

¥ Her and Nandor have a "Back in my day"/"It's time for your meds, grandpa" dynamic.

Colin Robinson

¥ Yvenne will frequently sneak small talks of entomology during conversations to try and get Colin to start info-dumping about the subject. She enjoys hearing him talk about things she has yet to learn. Anything else will put her to sleep.

Guillermo de la Cruz

¥ Being the other familiar, Yvenne feels a strong sense of camaraderie with Guillermo, and will likely take his word before anyone else's.

¥ After Guillermo is turned into a vampire, Yvenne finds out by catching him snacking on raw meat. Though sight made her sick, Yvenne agreed to keep her lips sealed as if nothing happened.

¥ The talking frogs intensely disturb but intrigue Yvenne. The thought of them talking would make her faint.

¥ Post-vampirism Guillermo teaches Yvenne about vampiric combat so she can fill the role should he lose his life to Nandor.

If you made it this far then I applaud you! You much be really interested in Yvenne. As I go about my time in this fandom, I intend on adding to this post as more come to mind.

[being-of-rain]

Legal notes from my court-appointed Classic Who watchthrough. This time season 23, The Trial of a Time Lord.

The Trial of a Time Lord reminds me of Flux in New Who in a lot of ways. Both are shorter seasons that have a unique and more prominent story structure. And idk if it’s the neurodivergent in me or the writer in me (or both), but I really love an interesting and strong story structure that shows itself off, so I really love Trial and Flux in theory. I like some of them in practice too! But oh boy do both stories have their weaknesses, especially in their endings, that could’ve been fixed with some planning and editing and good writing. Though to be fair, both had reasons that accounted for some of their messiness- Trial’s final story saw the death of its author partway through and his first replacement quitting, and Flux was made during the COVID pandemic. So yeah, I have a soft spot for Trial of a Time Lord. Putting the Doctor on trial so they watch videos of his adventures to debate is perhaps a little on the nose on the meta level... but I’m fine with on the nose themes, and it’s a great premise just on its own, so whatever. I’ve heard people say they get sick of the trial scenes and I can’t say I’ve ever agreed. It’s a fun gimmick and there’s not that much of it compared to the rest of the story, it’s just a shame that eventually they stop having anything particularly interesting to say in them. But honestly I’d always be happy to watch some Doctor Who that randomly pauses sometimes to have Six give commentary on how good he’s doing or how much the Time Lords suck.

The Mysterious Planet isn’t the most gripping story ever and goes a bit slow, but honestly it’s a solid start to the series. The introduction to the trial is a great build-up, and the shot of the space station at the start is obviously wonderful. Six and Peri’s relationship being a little softer is nice (though, like most of their soft moments last season, it kinda looks like that character development was down to Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant working hard to deliver the script in a way that makes the characters watchable. I’ll never understand why the writers thought the Tardis team fighting and bullying each other all the time would make for a fun show). Glitz and Dibber are very funny, so are a lot of the Doctor’s interactions with most characters. Setting up the mystery of the sleepers and why the Time Lords want to censor what they found is the sort of story arc Classic Who had never really tried before, and I love it. And its eventual answer of people stealing secrets from Gallifrey itself is a cool payoff. But it does raise the first of many, many questions/holes in the trial plot: why on Earth did the Valeyard choose this story to show as evidence? Out of the history of Doctor Who, he chooses the only one the High Council wanted him to keep secret? Also, I don’t like season 23′s theme music. Maybe it fits the court intrigue better than the action-packed early-80s theme, but damnit I just love that action theme. SO catchy.

Mindwarp is.. a mess! I mean it’s meant to be a mess, but apparently nobody working on it knew exactly what was supposed to be happening in it. And that’s not how you make a deliberate mess! Because it shows, and it means I don’t know what was supposed to be happening either! Specifically, the bits where the Doctor goes evil. Was he acting evil to earn the trust of the bad guys, was he actually evil because of something their machine accidentally did to him, or did the Valeyard edit the footage to make him look evil? Or a combination of those? According to Tardis wiki Colin Baker asked the script editor, the writer, and the producer for the answer, but they all said they didn’t know. How is that even possible. The way the Doctor at the trial says he’s starting to half-remember what had happened makes things even more confusing. So... yeah. The story reminds me a lot of Vengeance of Varos. Obviously it’s by the same author and features the same villain, Sil, who still just doesn’t do it for me. Again story feels like it’s being very meta (even more than the rest of the Trial season) and I’m sure you could make some clever observations about it and the way season 22 plays Six as very unlikable, but again it just doesn’t interest me a lot. It’s a bleak serial without a lot to enjoy watching. Brian Blessed is one of the most fun things in it, but I’d rather he was in another story. Peri’s departure is... well, I guess it’s the right story for an exit as brutal as that. I think I prefer making a happy ending out of it, but being left to marry a random warlord is still pretty rough. Still, if there’s one thing that I love in this story, it’s the Doctor’s reaction to her death. Colin Baker’s acting in that part (and at the start of the next story too) kills me every time, and the moment of silence before his delivery of “you... killed Peri?” is heartwrenching in a way that I love.

First of all, I love any story that follows the structure of A Christmas Carol with past, present, and future, so kudos to the three stories used in the trial as evidence for that. And it’s a very fun way to introduce a new companion. But if the trial was starting to confuse itself a little in Mindwarp, it completely loses its focus in Terror of the Vervoids. Calling the Doctor’s argument in his defence ‘flimsy’ feels like it’s giving him too much credit. He chooses it so he can point at one adventure and say “in this case I was explicitly asked to interfere,” something that has already been made clear isn’t always the case, and something that I’m not sure would even matter in Time Lord law! And why this adventure specifically? Obviously he didn’t see it coming that it would get him saddled with a charge of genocide too. In the next story it looks like the Doctor would’ve genuinely been executed if the Master didn’t intervene, and honestly... it makes the Doctor look like an idiot more than any other time in the show. It’s bad writing lol. Another thing that seemed silly- its made clearer in this one where the Valeyard had tampered with the evidence, but his two edits are wildly different. One of them is writing the Doctor out of a certain scene so it looks like he let Mel investigate something alone- not particularly damning and not very unbelievable either, with the Doctor thoroughly edited out of a certain sequence of events. The second edit is a quick scene where the Doctor sighs in satisfaction while holding an axe and looking at the wreckage of the radio room, which is so absurdly out of nowhere and nonsensical that it makes me laugh every time. The way the Inquisitor is willing to believe it makes her look very gullible, especially when she was quite ready to consider the idea that the Matrix had been tampered with when it was the Valeyard suggesting it, but pooh-poohing the idea as impossible when the Doctor suggests it. Anyway, I can enjoy watching Terror of the Vervoids, and not just because of poking fun at it. Mel’s strong personality matching the Doctor’s makes a nice change after Peri (sorry Peri), and a love a murder mystery so setting up the characters then watching them sneak around and suspect each other is also fun. ...Though that said, I think the mystery gets a little too complicated. There’s a few different parties up to no good who are all facing double-crossing in their own ranks, making things very hard to keep track of, so the trial scenes on top of that is quite a lot of plot that isn’t executed very clearly. Maybe I was just happy for an all-round brighter story after Mindwarp. I think the most interesting character was Travers, the guy who’d met the Doctor before and had both a healthy respect for his ability to root out the truth, and a healthy wariness of the chaos that he causes. Oh, and the scene where the Doctor pauses and rewinds the Matrix to explain how he made a deduction was kinda fun, like a peak into the thought process of the Doctor that might turn up in Moffat’s Doctor Who, if a little rough and smarmy. It’s a peak at the kind of entertaining things that could be done with the trial format. It’s this kind of thing that makes me wish they reused the trial format for another season in modern Who, with better writers who’d actually work together to make a coherent story.

The Ultimate Foe is a lot! Just so much. From the moment the Master turns up, the trial premise that’s been building (and then decaying) for twelve episodes collapses into an absolute shambles. I don’t know why so much of these episodes are set in the Valeyard’s Victorian England-themed Matrix hideaway, or why the Valeyard spends it pretending to be a completely random character he made up. Maybe the funniest moment in the story is when, in the middle of everything, the Keeper of the Matrix runs into the court and announces, with no build up, that the High Council has been deposed by insurrectionists. Are these insurrectionists allies of the Valeyard, the Master, or just random people who have somehow been following the trial and realising just how shit the High Council is? I don’t know, because it isn’t mentioned again until the Inquisitor mentions that she guesses that they’re going to have to elect a new Council. One day I’m going to make a post going through the politics of Gallifrey in Classic Who, because oh boy is it a hell of a mess. Another moment that I always find very funny is the reveal that the Valeyard is the Doctor, which is written and delivered like it’s supposed to be a super casual line from the Master, but the most talented actor in the world couldn’t deliver that line and make it sound casual. Actually, that’s something I could say about a heck of a lot of lines in this story, especially for poor old Mel. Bonnie Langford you tried so hard with the script they gave you, and I respect you for it. Oh also, shout out to the Keeper of the Matrix for looking the Doctor in the face and telling him that no one could possibly get into the Matrix. As if The Deadly Assassin and basically every other Gallifrey story didn’t happen. As if the Master and Goth didn’t have a DIY bootleg Matrix link in their sewer lair. I feel like so much of some Gallifrey stories are Time Lords saying very dramatic things that are demonstrably false, but I guess that’s an empire for you.

I’ve really spent most of this post dunking on The Trial of a Time Lord, but I’ll say again that I always enjoy revisiting it. It’s partly because of the little great moments sprinkled throughout, partly because of nostalgia, and largely because of the fantastic premise that they had to work hard to make such a mess of. It becomes more and more of a disaster as it goes on, and by the time the Valeyard turns to the camera in the Keeper’s clothes and laughs I’ve completely given up caring about questions like “how does that make any sense at all,” but I enjoy the ride every time. They even managed to write Six in a way that isn’t aggressively unlikable and rude all the time! Good for them. As always, it’s a shame that Colin Baker was treated so poorly by the show in so many ways, but I’m grateful he got a chance to play the role with such better scripts in Big Finish (and specifically I’m grateful for Jac Rayner and The Marian Conspiracy for writing the blueprint for Six and Evelyn. I’ll never not stan that audio.)

[old-wild-child]

okay actually I need to know about The Friends of Mrs. Ann Braunstein!

Oooh. Ok !! It’s kind of a long story so bare with me.

The gravesite felt like a foreign piece of land that Howard was forbidden to pass grounds on. The mere thought of visiting Dad was trespassing. Then again, at least he can visit the gravesite of loved ones. Who knows if Virginia even had gravesites to visit.

“Your daughter-in-law is performing Neil Simon in New York. Isn’t that something? I always knew she had it in her, but it’s even better seeing her on stage. You’d like Sally. She’s really sweet and theatrical. Did you kill yourself? I’m not disappointed in you. In fact I don’t blame you. I understand how you feel. I’ve been through it. Sally's been through it. Did Mother ignore your help too?”

“The Friends of Mrs. Anne Braunstein” (going to change it to Anne because Ann feels naked) is an original story of mine, which is about a bunch of random people who meet for the first time at the funeral of a mutual friend, Mrs. Anne Braunstein. Some of them become brief lovers, some become lifelong friends, and some get married. But it’s about how all these friends met Anne, how they were influenced by her, and how she continues to impact them all.

“The Friends of Mrs. Anne Braunstein” takes place in San Francisco in the early to mid 1970s, inspired by the era of New Wave Hollywood (late 1960s-early 1980s). This era of filmmaking is a big inspiration to me, which some of my biggest inspirations/favorite directors and/or screenwriters being Colin Higgins, Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude is a HUGE influence on me and one of my favorite movies thanks to the earlier two), Mike Nichols, Elaine May, (unfortunately) Woody Allen, Robert Altman, and Peter Bogdanovich. And I took a lot of inspiration from writers of the same era such as Jacqueline Susann and Joan Didion.

I’ve always despised it when bigots say “Back in my day... *insert something incredibly homophobic or transphobic* or “No one was autistic back in my day”. Because of this, I try to write period pieces that have plenty of representation and diverse characters (I’m more prone to LGBTQ+, women empowerment, mental illness, and neurodivergent rep because I’m a part of all those groups so naturally I can write that better vs. a marginalized group that I am not a part of such as being a person of color, having a disability, and/or being an immigrant. (But of course I do my research as much as possible !!))

So far my characters are Howard (the only straight white male in the book, but he’s a trans man so that's his self discovery journey), Sonny (Howard's partner who’s bisexual and has loads of parental issues and she should really be placed with a psychologist), Neil (Sonny's close friend and ex-husband, who married each other for benefits), and Caroline (Sonny's ex-girlfriend who was probably her worst breakup ever). I still have loads of ideas which haven’t been written down or figured out yet.

[ao3feed-tedlasso]

Stupid storms

by LiverpoolFan2456

Trent has a fear of storms, Ted comforts him.

Words: 794, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of Trent hurt/comfort

Fandoms: Ted Lasso (TV)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Trent Crimm, Trent Crimm's Daughter, Ted Lasso, Coach Beard (Ted Lasso), Colin Hughes, Roy Kent

Relationships: Trent Crimm/Ted Lasso

Additional Tags: The others will be mentioned, Mental Health Issues, Phobias, Storms, fear of storms, Hurt/Comfort, Trent Crimm & Colin Hughes Friendship, Autistic Trent Crimm, Queer Trent Crimm, Neurodivergent Trent Crimm

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/48230398

[secondgenerationnerd]

I'm curious where did you get the idea that Jai has depression

Projection mostly lol

I personally suffer with depression, anxiety, ADHD, and autism, so writing these characters is a way I cope with all that. Most the characters I write suffer from various mental illnesses and/or have varying degrees of neurodivergency.

I know in the comics Jai has insecurities about Irey being faster than him, so I built on that. If you look only at Omega squad, Jai doesn’t have to be on the team. They already have a speedster in Irey and strength between Jon, Mar’i, and Colin. He’s extra and he knows it (if you ask his friends, they can’t imagine the team without him but depression is a bitch.) These feelings get worse when the two girls he dated before Lian cheated on him.

I’ve noticed speedsters get painted as the sunshine characters, which again I totally relate to, so I wanted to show it’s not just sunshine and rainbows. Add in the various traumas he’s seen/experienced and it’s a wonder he gets out of bed some days.

When his depression is bad, Jai struggles with eating, something that’s dangerous for a speedster. He’ll hit a sandbag until his hands bleed. He lashed out and he hates when he does.

So yeah. That’s why.