#even though they barely interact

[burgerfry]

is this too niche

[clumsypuppy]

this place is so fruity

[lavenderfairiez]

I think that if valgrace was canon it would be as popular, if not more popular than solangelo...

[dreamsy990]

TELEMACHUS AND ANTINOUS. FINALLY

[dilemmaed]

travnat come home the kids miss you

[dont-let-me-eat-pears]

me to me: girl, don't do it.

me: *imagines an au where the show didn't practically forget about merlin and gwaine's friendship after series 3, and gwaine found out about his magic sometime in series 4, and merlin got to have a friend again who knew everything about him and who he could be his true self with and tell everything to and share sneaky, knowing looks with when he secretly performed magic and—*

me to me: well, now you've done it. enjoy the pain.

[iconicname]

I'm all for jason as a parent, I think he'd be great at it. But can we stop with the "jason becoming a parent to someone who's basically his age or straight up an aldult" because it's weird

[joydvst]

the parable is now 2

the fellas lookin snazzy (and red) for the sequel :)

[rockafstw]

Sometimes I remember Prost has said Senna told him things that he promised to never repeat to anyone and I go “Hm.”

[fandomlobster]

That's it. I'm opening up my DSM5 to diagnose that damned shrimp from Dandy's World. I'm never going to get any work done if I don't talk about ODD with someone.

So: Oppositional Defiant Disorder is classified as a mood, impulse-control, and conduct disorder characterized by angry/irritable moods, argumentative/defiant behavior, and vindictiveness. Let's go through each category one by one with some in-game examples.

Category A

A pattern of angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, or vindictiveness lasting at least 6 months as evidenced by at least four symptoms of the following categories, and exhibited during interaction with at least one individual who is not a sibling:

Angry/Irritable Mood

1. Often loses temper

2. Is often touchy or easily annoyed

3. Is often angry and resentful

Argumentative/Defiant Behavior

4. Often argues with authority figures

5. Often actively defies or refuses to comply with requests from authority figures or with rules

We never see him interact with an authority figure [who even is an authority in their situation? Dandy?]. Even if he was perfectly in line with authority figures, he would be diagnosable so it doesn't really matter. But come on, do we really think this guy complies with authority?

6. Often deliberately annoys others

7. Often blames others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior

Vindictiveness

8. Has been spiteful or vindictive at least twice within the past 6 months.

While we don't have a timeline of events, I think it's safe to say this pattern of behavior has lasted at least 6 months with how the other toons expect this kind of behavior from him. The interactions I chose as my "evidence" were pretty arbitrary since all of his interactions involve Shrimpo being angry, argumentative, and vindictive.

All that to say, I think Shrimpo fulfills category A to a tee. At the most conservative reading of his interactions, he hits five symptoms [1,2,3,6 and 8]. In a more imaginative reading, he hits all eight easily. Either way, we only needed 4.

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Category B

The disturbance in behavior is associated with distress in the individual or others in his or her immediate social context (e.g., family, peer group, work colleagues) or it impacts negatively on social, educational, occupational, or other important areas of functioning,

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This category is probably the shakiest for my argument. It's hard to say if he or any of the toons around him are necessarily "distressed" by his behavior. Toodles certainly seems distressed by this interaction, but it's also a one-off in which he purposefully scares her, so it's hard to say if she's distressed by his behavior in a broader sense.

I would definitely say that his social functioning is impacted. Social functioning defines an individual's interactions with their environment and the ability to fulfill their role within such environments as work, social activities, and relationships with partners and family. Things get tricky when we ask ourselves about the roles of the toons, and what those roles mean for a living creature. Shrimpo is a bully character in the canon cartoon, and he fulfills that social role very well.

However, he is... bad at everything else, to put it nicely. Shrimpo completely fails at any other role you could possibly assign to him, such as friend or coworker. He fails at occupational functioning as well, being useless at extracting, distracting, or surviving [believe me, I have all mastery quests on Shrimpo, I know lol]

So can we check off category B? That's reader's choice. It depends on if anyone is distressed by his behavior, and if ODD is negatively impacting his ability to function [or if he's naturally that unskilled].

Ultimately, this category is only here to say that no one should be diagnosed with a disorder if there isn't a good reason for it. If no one's bothered by it, then it can just be a character quirk instead of a disorder. But this guy is fictional, so I'm just going to decree that he should be diagnosed for the fun of it.

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Category C

The behavior does not occur exclusively during the course of a psychotic, substance use, depressive, or bipolar disorder. Also the criteria are not met for disruptive mood dysregulation disorder.

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We see no evidence that could lead us to assume that Shrimpo has a psychotic, substance use, depressive, or bipolar disorder. We also never see Shrimpo act any differently, nor do any characters mention Shrimpo acting differently, so if Shrimpo does have any of these disorders we can assume these symptoms do not occur exclusively during their course.

Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder is slighty more complicated, but not really since Shrimpo is an adult. DMDD is an adolescent condition with similar symptoms of irritability, extreme temper outbursts, and trouble functioning due to irritability, but the diagnostic criteria includes "This diagnosis should not be made for the first time before age 6 years or after age 18 years." Since he is past adolescence, we are free to diagnose him with ODD.

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So what do we do with this information?

Idk. I'm just autistic with an interest in disorders. All I want is to carve out a section in our shared sandbox for ODD Shrimpo since the guy has literally taken over my brain and he is exhibiting Symptoms.

I often diagnose characters just so I have a nice and neat guideline for how they should act in my own portrayals. It's not perfect by any means, but I think it helps keep me consistent lol

[deadlincs]

okay last thing ☝🏼 if anyone would like to indulge me with more things in higu’s incubus/succubus verse or nana’s siren verse specifically … i’d honk 2 the moon or whatever

[random-lil-illing]

i haven't seen anyone else ship these losers but i think they're cute :3

speed paint below the cut <3

[uchiha-gaeshi]

Does anyone else automatically size themselves up with people their age and look for ways that you’re inferior to them? Just me? Ok….

[d3spairisart]

TADC YURIIIIIIIIII

[icewindandboringhorror]

I occasionally wish to reach out to old friends/acquaintances I haven't spoken to since high school/some other even earlier time in my life, but I have SOOO little social energy even for required tasks (like making dr phone calls or etc), I never have any leftover for extra ones, and it would be very odd to message someone I haven't spoken to in like 5 years out of the blue but then take 4 entire months to respond back lol.. My natural curiosity with nostalgia/collecting details of the past/etc. (literally if I were born a little earlier I would definitely do scrapbooking or something lol) is very strong, but, alas, not strong enough to beat out the Social Issues Demons apparently

[muffinmonsterzs]

i feel like jawa and zoe would have COMPLETELY different music tastes, so when in a car and trying to find a song to play, it would go something like this:

“how about we play taylor swift?”

“NO. WE ARE NOTTT PLAYING THAT CO2 EMITTER IN MY CAR. BO BURNHAM.”

“AND YOU THINK HE’S ANY BETTER?? HM??”

“VIVA LA BURNHAM FUCK YOU. IF I CANT PLAY BO BURNHAM, THEN THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS.”

“NO. NEVER. OLIVIA RODRIGO.”

“YOU EVEN SUGGEST THAT AGAIN, WE WILL BE LISTENING TO NOTHING BUT THE ENGINE OF THE CAR.”

“…”

“…”

“mitski?”

“mitski.”