#i hate loud noises...

[chebyshevptera]

to me all of the ninja are autistic but the only one who is diagnosed is cole because of lilly…. (this is also how lou found out he himself was autistic) . the others had to find out they were autistic bc cole offhandedly mentioned it and the others were like “wait really… i would have never guessed …” and it turns out cole , in contrast , assumed they were ALL diagnosed autistic

nya is like “huh?? u all thought we were autistic also??” and cole is like , “i don’t THINK you’re all autistic , i know you’re all autistic . i watched you pick every single onion out of the noodles we ate yesterday , kai was vocally stimming all throughout the train ride home , and jay explained the exact model that we were riding in and its origins until zane told him to shut up because noise was making him ‘warm and itchy’ .”

[itsnotacostume]

we as a fandom do not talk about this scene enough. what the fuck is this. why did he feel the need to install this? so he could stare at his boybestfriend all day without having to get up?

[vesna-v-irkutske]

"Убивать – круто!" (Killing Is Cool!) is the only Dismembered PugachOva song where Corpse (Artyom) is credited as a vocalist.

Artyom also wrote the lyrics for "Мёртвый Круг" (Dead Krug*). The lyrics were used in both Evil Gnomes and Dismembered PugachOva, but only the investigators have a recording of this song performed by Gnomes. *Mikhail Krug was one of the most popular Russian singers of the style of music known as blatnaya pesnya or Russian chanson (they depiction the criminal subculture and the urban underworld which are often romanticized and have criminally-perverted humor in nature), a genre of music that has been popular in Russia since the beginning of the 20th century. In 2002, Krug was fatally assassinated in his house in Tver by several unknown intruders. He died in the hospital a few hours later. I have the lyrics of this song, but I don't think it's that interesting. It's just about violence and them hating him.

[team-sleeps]

Ok I'm sorry but this is like literally making me nuts cause the more I watch IASIP the more I realize this is Legit Charlie and Dennis everytime they interact for more then 15 seconds

[tired-reader-writer]

To actually elaborate on the autistic Farangis headcanon thing now that I finally have a couple hours' sleep and a nice refreshing shower under my belt, while I definitely do not think she was supposed to be seen that way by either Tanaka or Arakawa— I'm sure she was only meant to be… *gestures* what she is in canon, I'm yeeting that far, far away from me. 

My City Now. 

So we know Farangis was very likely ostracized by fellow priestesses before the start of the story. After all, she says:

“...At any rate, it was likely just a way to get rid of a nuisance. My fellow priestesses are jealous of me for being so beautiful, talented, and skilled in both academics and in battle. I'm certain that they have used the last wish of the deceased as a pretense for throwing me out of the temple.” —manga, chapter 12

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“A woman of talent, who like me is graced with beauty and proficient in arts both scholarly and martial, shall be begrudged by her peers. Using the fulfillment of the deceased’s will as an excuse, they chased me away from the temple. I wonder if you understand, Sir Minstrel.” —novel, chapter 4 part 5

(Interestingly, novel!Farangis also says, “Those who leave such wills never consider what trouble they may cause for the people they leave behind.” and is that a hint of resentment/exasperation she expresses here? It's completely absent from the manga version but ANYWAYS—)

So there's very definite evidence of her not fitting in with her peers, but it's the reasoning I take a little issue with. Nothing wrong with a confident woman who knows she's Hot Shit, but the framing does bother me juuuust a teeny little bit. Her temple peers feel less like shitty but ultimately realistic people, and more like caricatures? It felt like an “all the other jealous bitches HATED her for being too awesome and pretty” thing, which… I mean, Farangis being shunned for her autistic behavior wouldn't make those peers better people or god forbid justify their treatment of her, but I thought it would be interesting to reframe the situation a bit and also project my own experiences on her. (After all, what are blorbos for if not projecting your trauma and issues upon them?)

We've seen how blunt she is, and how little of a shit she gives towards societal and formal conventions. She certainly doesn't seem like it at first glance, especially not next to Gieve, because in comparison to him she just feels like the epitome of rule-following formality. Buuuut. There's nuance to that. 

We see her bluntness in the way she gives Bahman a dressing down before the expedition to Sindhura— judging from Bahman's reaction (“why should I, a marzbān, be scolded by a kahina from the countryside?!”), it suggests a status discrepancy that societal norms should dictate that she not have the right to speak to a marzbān that way. But she does. Because she doesn't give a shit. 

It is a common perception of autistic people that they're either extremely rule-following or that they “don't understand” rules and instructions, and… okay, this is gonna be a lot of spitballing since for a number of reasons (mainly how I was constantly compared to my officially diagnosed and very detectably autistic brother as the “normal” one by my family, mainly where it concerns me being disallowed from autistic behavior where my brother was allowed since I was the “normal” sibling and it's been stuck with me my whole life and I'm… still in the process of unpacking everything and I still feel very disconnected from autistic communities and I feel like an imposter anyways that was one heck of a ramble) I am still dealing with much uncertainty in wading through my very own autism, it's very anecdotal, so. Yeah. Anyways— from what I've experienced and what I've seen of other people's anecdotes, while it is true that rules and routine can help us interact with and make sense of the world around us, autistic people will straight up reject some rules they feel are hypocritical or inconsistent. I've seen autistic people say that they do see the rules, they just go “well that's stupid I'm not doing that” and refuse to follow. Of course, I don't mean to say that there's no difficulty in understanding because gods know I'm terrible at catching social cues. And end up being extremely rude on accident. It's a complicated thing.

So how I see a younger Farangis is that, as a child, she finds it difficult to care about some things, her bluntness pisses people off even if she well and truly didn't mean anything bad by it, just pointing out something she thought was obvious, or calling out unfair things. Her difficulty in parsing social cues and such creates a rift between her and her peers in the temple. (I swear, growing up a neurodivergent child, it's like everyone could somehow tell I was some sort of Different Freak™, and I constantly felt like I was playing a game whose rules everybody except me knew. It was as though I was constantly emitting a Neurodivergent Miasma™ or I had a neon sign blaring from me that I was “Not Normal™” that alerted people and allowed them to exclude me at every turn, it was such an experience.)

I want to emphasize that this would not put Farangis in the wrong, and under no circumstances would she have been deserving of such bullying, in case anyone takes this the wrong way. That's not what I'm saying. I'm just trying to project and relate to a character I like because I thought this made sense.

There is also the factor of grief. She was at the very least eight years old when she was sent to the Temple of Mithra after her parents' death, so it's very likely that she was a tiny little child who was actively grieving her parents and the life she used to have. And children don't have the experience and emotional maturity to process their feelings, so they can lash out or act in “undesirable” ways since they have Very Big Feelings and very little way to express them maturely. I don't think her time in the Temple was a particularly good experience, even setting aside the whole Aghriras debacle (which isn't making it into the manga, I'm pretty sure, and never has the chance to happen in my AU, so I'm not gonna be discussing that). 

So imagine a young child who has just lost her parents being put into this unfamiliar place, where perhaps rules that are not explicitly stated but which everyone is nevertheless expected to follow. Hierarchies that are entirely unfair. I recall novel part 2 spoilers that detail how Alfarīd and Farangis infiltrated a temple for some investigative work? And I recall how it detailed that priestesses get harassed and apprentice priests/priestesses get heaped with chores and stuff just because of their junior status. I might be remembering wrong though, so do tell me if that's the case! But anyways, for a young child, an apprentice priestess, to be exposed to that kind of nonsense, I believe Farangis would've pushed back against it one way or another, and generally being not a fan of what she sees as nonsensical, arbitrary, and unfair rules. Neurodivergent people tend to have a stronger sense of justice and fairness, after all. And her “rebellious misbehavior” as a child could've given people an excuse to pick on her or shun her. I think she dedicated herself to her training and studies as a sense of routine, to cope with… everything, basically.

Here is another quote from Farangis that stood out to me:

“Let us say that Mithra's will and my own thoughts are in agreement.” — from that same conversation with Bahman

I think they showcase her relationship to rigid norms quite well. She is devoted to Mithra, genuinely and wholeheartedly (I do have to wonder if Mithra being a yazata of covenants, light, oaths, justice, contracts, and friendship played a role in her connection to the deity aside from the fact that she was raised in a temple of Mithra, maybe she felt more of a connection because she had a higher justice sensitivity and wanted something she could actually make sense out of), but she isn't devoted to her patron deity for the sake of it, the way she framed and phrased that is so interesting to me. I've seen someone say, “Rules are good if they are fair, reasonable, sensible, and easy to follow, and enforced uniformly by someone who is capable of being a fair and discerning judge.” and I think that's at least in part what's happening here, at least how I interpret it in a way that I can connect with. Your interpretation might differ! 

Anyways, this post is such an incoherent mess, maybe I didn't get enough sleep as I thought I did, but let me know what you guys think! Farangis is a character I've kinda seen myself in (and admire, because she's awesome) but I hadn't put my headcanons and interpretation of her character into words before, especially not in a lengthy post like this. This is a headcanon that is very dear to my heart! I wish we got more insight on what her life was like before the start of the story, I felt like it just got mentioned and then dropped— never to be seen or mentioned again— but I guess it means it's Free Real Estate for me to draw whatever kind of picture that I want. 

[napping-sapphic]

I’d be a GREAT girlfriend (would remember to charge your noise canceling headphones for you before the fourth of july)

[yonglixx]

felix vs. fireworks ;;

[nicodrawings]

I literally don't get it... HOW like HOW can you be setting off fireworks at nearly 3AM? You've literally been doing them for HOURS... HOW??? GO TO SLEEP.

[chebyshevptera]

wow jay walker ninjago. you really are a walking autistic stereotype

[seastarblue]

when yall are typing on your phones (specifically when they’re not silent and they make that lil tappity tappity sound)

does that sound just. randomly become so loud it genuinely hurts your ears bc I need to know if that’s normal what.

[pcktknife]

being night oriented or whatever is so sucks cause i will really wake up the whole house just to make sure i get myself a snack before i settle down </3

[saturnniidae]

Hiccup got the kinda sensory and stimuli seeking autism where he actively enjoys loud noises as long as it's not people talking or yelling.

[clancykisser]

me: i can't watch 45 minute episodes of things they exhaust me

also me: -puts on a 2 hour long youtube streamer compliation -

[hplonesomeart]

AUUUU STOP THIS MOMENT WAS ADORABLE AND SWEET AND PRECIOUS AND MY HEART MELTED FOR THEMMMMM 😭💕

(lots of writing under the ‘read more’ btw incase you want my personal thoughts on things!)

Before the episode started I has been bracing myself for the genocide route, but it seem like what we ended up getting was the pacifist route because NEVER would I have anticipated such an empathetic twist??? I was dead convinced that my hopes/dreams of Puzzle redemption were squandered and left to rot (they probably still are to some degree actually lol but oh well I can accept that he’s a lovable psycho). And yet this episode does the impossible….giving us an unfathomably wholesome scene that helps heal his dejected inner child, even just a little. PLEASE this wasn’t something I was prepared for and it’s gotten such a strong grip on my heartstrings right now. I love themmmmm holy shittttt <33

I didn’t think Meggy would step up and try to connect with him like that especially since she was so aggressively defensive when he initially reached out. And I like that even when she gets to speak to Little/Kid Puzzles her behavior is very stern at first lol. Kinda like a disappointed older sister who can’t be bothered to put up with him for too long. But using Leggy as a way to build that bridge again was so clever of her—and hey it helped lure him into false sense of security so he’d get jailed up jskjsksp. Everyone wins I guess!! ALSO can I just say whoever composed the soundtrack (Zach Preciado for the rap segment specifically) deserves just as much praise as the voice actors because DAYM the layering of all those instruments and the seamless transitions into different emotional tones was superb :))

[aliciadessendre]

idk if i'm just getting old but i can't for the love me watch a youtuber or a streamer who always screams or has screaming sound effects or just super loud in general for no reason

[roguesapphic]

it’s storming and i wanna snuggle with someone so bad, lay my head on her chest, listening to her heart beat instead of the noises outside, just breathing in her warmth