#he identifies as a problem

[aestknowsbest]

An au with genderqueer Bernard Dowd and his crush on Darla is rooted heavily in gender envy, he sees Darla– perfect, unattainable, incredibly well-liked and the poster child for the perfect High School Girl experience– and has no idea what the heck to do with himself and why he can't stop staring at her.

Dionysus was the patron god for those questioning their gender (or simply even gender ambiguity) as he was raised a man amongst women and thus had an understanding of such conflict, and seeing as the Cult Of Dionysus was explicitly stated to be targeting children it is not far-fetched that amongst them the common denominator were those questioning the way the want to go about living and future prospects in general- including but not limited to, their sexuality and/or gender orientation. In this essay I will

[violent138]

Leslie, glaring suspiciously: "And this is all the medications you're on?"

Batkid: "Well."

Leslie: "You know this doesn't work if you're not honest right?"

Batkid: "No I know, it's just I don't know the names of all of them."

Leslie:

Leslie: "Are you kidding me right now? Where did you get them?"

Batkid: "Some of them are from B's utility belt, in some random pocket."

Leslie:

*moments later*

Bruce: "What was so urgent--" *sees look on Leslie's face* "--how are you doing today Lesl--"

Leslie: "Save it. What are these?" *gestures to assortment of meds*

Bruce: "Well I'm not--"

Leslie: "Do not lie to me."

Bruce: "I wasn't going to, Alfred buys them."

Batkid: "Alfie's buying the drugs?"

Leslie:

Leslie, sighing deeply and reaching for the phone:

[phoenixcatch7]

Loz fandom stop being angsty and give the daydreaming kids on big fun adventures with a cool glowing sword some actual whimsy and joy challenge

[qoldenskies]

I will say that for Donnie’s characterization, I think it comes from a place of not knowing how to identify the line between his autism and his personality, and a difficulty with portraying the balance between those things influencing each other.

“Donnie is autistic, but this isn’t all he is” and “Donnie’s autism influences the way he views the world, and thus influences his character” aren’t mutually exclusive. In the case of flattening his character into the apathetic, flat “bad boy” persona, I think this one is actually from a bit of ableism—albeit unintentional.

Donnie is low empathy; this is something that is related to his autism. However, despite this being TRUE, he’s not LIMITED to this. Donnie is low empathy, but Donnie’s personality is someone who is deeply loyal to his loved ones, someone who loves to show his affection through his work (and the intertwining of his special interest and how he shows affection to his family is another example of this intersection!!). By assigning all of his actions to just a quirk of personality, you’ve left yourself with contradictory pieces of character—and some parts of it that are just easier to leave out entirely.

And on the other side, Donnie being rude and sarcastic isn’t necessarily because of his low empathy, either. Because Leo is also these things—and it’s… his personality. Donnie is rude and sarcastic because it’s a bit, and it’s funny, and he plays the straight man in his family dynamic. He loves playing around with his family as much as they like messing with him! By doing this, we’ve gone the other extreme of assigning all his traits to his autism, and leaving out the potential of him being a person with his own sense of humor and personality.

TLDR; it’s hard to dive into the intricacies of characters, especially ones who have disabilities. You have to balance the extent of the influence the disability has on the personality of the character. A lot of times it’s easier to flatten someone into one end or the other, and that’s partly why we have an Emotionless Donnie pandemic.

^^^^^^ yeah i agree with this as well!! i mostly hesitate to accuse it of being ableism because i dont want to accuse a lot of well-intentioned people, especially those who are neurodivergent because fandom is a very nd-heavy space, of doing something like that, i just think its a folly of getting caught into fandom archetypes and then either staying there or overcorrecting in a way that is similarly exhausting, implicit bias is just a difficult thing to understand and call out in yourself even if youre the afflicted group youre applying this behavior to, and i really dont want to just be hostile to people who mean well

but GOD it pisses me off more than it probably should. the weird donnie sidelining in the fandom has actually destroyed a lot of my enjoyment of leo to an extent im a little embarrassed to admit, i cannot IMAGINE how raph and mikey stans must feel

[timaeusresponds]

I hate for a lot of reasons I don’t owe anyone the character assassination of Dirk Strider through the epilogues (no one is going to convince me it was a logical step) (do not try i dont care) but

But

Ult Dirk’s Big Beautiful Motorboat-able Rack and Massive Biceps.

[sharry-arry-odd]

If Marx at twenty-two had a problem, it was that he was attracted to too many things and people. Marx's favorite adjective was "interesting." The world seemed filled with interesting books to read, interesting plays and movies to see, interesting games to play, interesting food to taste, and interesting people to have sex with and sometimes even to fall in love with. To Marx, it seemed foolish not to love as many things as you could.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin

[illegalvampire]

i have so many pics of connor in my camera roll that the app identified him as a person. guys am i cooked

[slashthrashandcrash]

Ghostface calling Frank or someone a fag

Amanda: Danny you can't reclaim that

Danny: I'm not reclaiming it, I'm using it as a slur

"Wait, what are your pronouns? I wanna make sure I misgender you correctly."

[godsfavoritescientist]

well hold on, if we define a character flaw as any limitation a character deals with, regardless of whether it's something Morally Wrong With Them or not, then Ford's paranoia counts as a character flaw since it does in fact negatively impact him and the people around him. Let me use better wording here: I will die on the hill that Ford's paranoia is not a moral failing.

[blessedshortcake]

Akechi is either like secretly deranged, the most mentally ill mother fucker in the cast or somehow an extremely tragic meow meow. Like my parents are dead and i have no friends tragic meow meow. I am just yet to find out which so far

He is such a loser dweeb... i am not accepting the connection yet like yea hes a cool detective but when you see him hes so awkward. Mm delicious pancakes!! Lets get sushi!! God.

[strawberrybyers]

once again it doesn’t matter what we headcanon mike’s sexuality as as it hasn’t been confirmed. we can call mike gay, queer, bi, pan, etc because as of right now he doesn’t have an official sexual identity. also, as long as mike wheeler and will byers kiss on the lips does it matter if mike is gay or bi?? either way he’s in love with will.

if he’s gay? GREAT. if he’s bi? GREAT. if he’s straight? it’s a NO from me

[boleynqueenes]

"The King, so far as I see, is not only provoked at the said Bishop being made cardinal, but also at the bishop of Paris, in whom he had always had great confidence, because previous to this creation he was considered a bad Papist. He has also no great pleasure in the Auditor of the Chamber, and to soothe him the Lady lately made him a feast in a house of hers, where she got up several fine mummeries. She invited many, and the French ambassador was not pleased at being forgotten. The said Lady had so well banquetted and mummed, that, as the Princess has sent this day to inform me, the King dotes upon her more than ever; which increases greatly the fear of the said Princess [...]"

okay, i edited and added the relevant quote to the chapter notes, but i have GOT to say...i need to save this for posterity, because this is an insane quote??

[anaceshornyblog]

Thinking about MonsterJon non-apocalypse version.

Just him getting pregnant and Sasha going through like the five stages of what the fuck, because oh god she did not know this was a possibility. Sasha’s archiving assistant job quickly becomes a, keep the needy pregnant monster happy job. Jonah helps but he’s now become accustomed to being allowed to get work done, so now it’s Sasha’s responsibility.

MonsterJon getting fucking mood swings, from needy baby to sad pathetic monster, to just bites everything. Luckily Jon doesn’t want to hurt her during any of these, but he has chewed through several items of furniture and Sasha’s hand keeps cramping from fingering Jon till he calms down.

Sasha doing her best to keep Jon in the Archives, because turns out the pregnant monster has decided to extend his territory to the whole Institute, specifically he seems intent on getting to Jonah’s office and dragging several things from there to his nest in the archive when he gets in a particular mood.

Sasha sending Jonah a very strongly worded email that her pay better increase or she’s letting Jon drag his fancy desk into the basement next time.

[subsequentibis]

made up some guys to engage in shrinking shenanigans. theyre terrible people and i enjoy them deeply

dr. alfred "alfie" kauffstein is a world class scientist who's committed all future inventions and progress to the ownership of a Shady Space Corporation in exchange for a lifetime of funding. he's working on perfecting true, reversible shrinking technology, none of the pseudo-compression that deep space transport companies are using these days. he has the formula down pat, and now it's just a matter of perfecting the method of application - rays, serums, pills, etc, etc.

robin "robbie" cosmique is a world class scumbag who needed a legit job while he laid low and let the legal consequences of his last get rich quick scheme blow over. the Shady Space Corporation is always looking for ways to keep costs low and the personnel budget is the first to get slashed, so instead of any kind of accredited or qualified scientific expert to assist dr. kauffstein, they hired robbie. he and alfie are always at odds, but nonetheless manage to work rather well together - though they're also the only guinea pigs around for alfie's experiments. robbie will eventually get fired when it's discovered he's been sneaking samples of the shrinking serum for yet another harebrained scheme, but for now they're making the best of it.

[jamiesfootball]

Always lowkey simmering a Leverage AU in the back of my head hear me out:

Ted is an ex-insurance investigator who was able to get his son life-saving medical treatment because his first, original Crime Pal Beard was like ‘Ted if your company doesn’t come through with the coverage, we’re doing things my way.’

The company did not come through. The company did let him go due to suspicion of Ted’s involvement in the incident, but Ted will happily remind folks that no charges were formally pressed. Henry is alive and healthy and living with Michelle, who divorced Ted shortly thereafter (not just because of pre-existing marital problems, but because Ted wouldn’t tell her anything about why the doctors “””suddenly decided to do the procedure for free”””). Shortly thereafter, Ted fled the country.

What Ted learned from the whole experience is that there’s a lot of people out there, good people just trying to live by the rules, but sometimes things happen that are just out of their control. And well- if we’ve got the means to help the good people out when no one else will, then shouldn’t we try?

“We’ve got means,” Beard agrees. “And motives.”

They do things Beard’s way now.

[whatwooshkai]

I tend to get overstimulated, so this is directly inspired by the time my friend told me to just eat warheads when it happens because it kind of factory resets your brain. although I imagine "sour" cybertronian candy would probably deliver some kind of electric shock or something