#is it rudeness or bluntness

[antimonyantigone]

If I had a nickel for everytime I was in a lab and had to research social norms from other countries or cultures to figure out if I was being unhinged or if the others were I would have a lot of nickels

[casscainmainly]

Duke Thomas Being Rude and A Hater

Role Call (Batman & The Signal TPB)

We Are Robin #1 & 2

Robin War (yes he's speaking to Damian in that bottom panel. The brothers of all time)

Batman (2011) #47

Batman & the Outsiders (2019)

[idolomantises]

Sometimes I get messages about certain dialogue in my comics about how a character is being passive aggressive when I'm just writing them as straight forward and blunt.

idk, as an autistic person who's dealt with genuine harassment several times (including a few months ago) because his straight forward and blunt demeanor was misinterpreted as being "rude", "ungrateful" and "bitchy", its just kind of interesting seeing people interpret dialogue in a more hostile way.

it's not a complaint, i prefer those fictional interpretations over terminally online twitter users who need to be coddled over everything but it is kind of fascinating seeing how people interpret certain dialogue.

[unstablemolecules]

I guess If you’re taking requests, maybe draw josh being happy? or josh hanging out with your oc? idk

Josh isn't really "happy" in this, but he's experiencing a very alien interaction: a friend who doesn't make fun of him, and he's cool with that

[aj-artjunkyard]

In love with the main character dynamics of ToA

[dailyhmsw]

I had another idea for my hms designs. Imagine if instead of becoming less human with every loop, they became less human as the loop goes on. So in calamity they're entirely human, in cacophony they're inhuman in a way that emphasizes their bad traits (heart is animalistic, mind is apathetic etc.) and in concord they're still inhuman but in a softer way, like instead of Heart having these biblical angel style giant wings, he has just one pair that can be folded onto his back. Or instead of Soul's entire half of his body being in shadow, it's just the skin and hair. Am I making sense? Anyway the designs shift back into fully human by the time the loop restarts as a form of grounding them in reality, like they can't be happy forever. Sorry if this makes no sense I literally just woke up I think I had a dream about it or something.

NO I AGREE WITH THIS you ALWAYS have peak ideas ,,

i find it extremely interesting that heart showing animal traits and mind showing robotic traits are not how they want to portray themselves, but instead how the other sees them. i feel like a transformation like that throughout cacophony would be a little distressing for them both. they turn into a worse version of themselves, as seen through the other's hateful lens.

and then there's soul. it can be easily said that heart and mind transform into something less human, but for soul, it goes deeper than just appearance. because he's a vessel. empty and hollow, shrouded in darkness, in cloud, in the absence of the person he's supposed to be. and he doesn't experience this because of the way heart and mind view him; this is how he views himself.

ANDTHEN CONCORD AWW W WAWW AW GOD I LOVE THEM heart's incisors get duller and his wings get smaller and he trims down his claws and mind stops fussing over his non-prosthetic skin being imperfect and is able to, well, enjoy things for once in his damn life. and soul is a step closer towards being his own person.

TLDR . LOVING THIS . YAY YAY YAY dumb fucks with the symbolism

[ohara-n-brown]

Am I the only one that feels like NTs HATE saying 'I don't know.'

You will not believe the amount of times I'll ask a basic objective question about a situation and they'll give me an answer, only for later the answer to be completely wrong. And then when I ask them why they would give me wrong information - they say 'I just guessed.'

I didn't ask you for your guess. I asked for the information. If you didn't have the information don't just GUESS. Say 'I don't know.'

I feel like NT don't realize that WRONG information is worse than no information.

If I want to know when an event will end and you say '5pm' - I'm going to be mentally prepared for 5pm. And if it DOESN'T end then, not only will I be out of energy, but I'll be irritated and confused because I'm in an unfamiliar situation with NO INFORMATION

Had you just told me 'I don't know what time it ends' instead of GUESSING 5, then I would've prepared for the worse. But now I have to literally rearrange everything in my head and talk myself down from meltdown cause I was given inaccurate information and also I thought I was going home.

But they act instead like saying I don't know is a moral failure.

My father used to yell at me all the time to not say 'I don't know.'

He'd always demand I figure it out and come up with SOMETHING no matter how uninformed or vague and that's how you have NTs walking around feeling like it's a crime to admit they simply don't know something

and instead they'll just shamble something together and hope that's good enough regardless of whether in the information is actually helpful or correct.

IT'S SO ANNOYING. JUST SAY YOU DON'T KNOW.

Stop guessing and giving me WRONG information because it only makes the situation worse and more confusing. Say you don't KNOW. It's FINE.

[disco-troy]

What if I said Rose Wilson Flamebird protector of Bludhaven... what if...

[fredbydawn]

Just now noticing the way Strahm fidgets with the pen while watching the tape of Hoffman and Jill, and I love it cuz

A. it’s very cool foreshadowing, especially considering he’s holding it right by his neck

B. tehe he stimming, which again, the amount of men his age in agencies like the FBI or CIA who have undiagnosed autism is more than you would think

C. something something Freudian, Hoffman got him up playing with his penis

[sonicexelle-junkary]

What good does it do to make all your horror have bad endings? If the world already sucks like you said, why not motivate yourself with a story showing that no matter how bleak, you should still hope, because things can still turn out alright?

And you can just as easily ignore these endings— or go to another story that has a good ending. I like writing bleak stories when it comes to horror. I think it’s really fun and interesting. LITERALLY my favourite genre of horror is psychological horror, often known to be at least mostly bleak.

I’m not gonna change how I like to write just because a lot of horror stories have good endings. In fact, that’s a big reason WHY I write such bleak stories. It’s often too predictable to know how a lot of horror movies end, often with at least one of the main characters—or even the MAIN main character themselves—surviving. I’m tired to seeing it.

Would you go to a horror writer/artist like Junji Ito, who often creates stories with rather bleak or inconclusive endings, and complain about that? Would it even fucking matter? Of fucking course not. It’s not your story. It’s not targeted at you. So just pull up your pants and either deal with it or kindly go away.

I have PLENTY of stories with good endings! Most of which are on my main blog @weirdozjunkary . Go over there if you want a happy ending. I’m not gonna do that over here, not often at least. I’m writing what I like to write, so I’m sorry if that isn’t your cup of tea. The door is open if you want to leave.

[seriousbrat]

Why do people like Lily? From what we've seen of her in the books she seems like a charming and good hearted person but also someone who is shallow, judgemental, a social climber, a classist and immature. Why do people make her out to be this feminist, kind hearted role model that is always morally above others and everyone likes her because she is oh so kind and great? It makes me cringe. From the text we can see that she had a black and white thinking, was shallow and probably self righeous, always thinking she's right and not being able to see the perspective of others. (We can see this in her interactions with Snape) So why do people love her? Do people really need a 'girl boss' in every fandom? There always seems to be one that's just made up by the fans. It looks like people just need a character they can point at and say "see we care about female characters, this one is oh so great, she can't do no wrong, worship her please." 🙄

Look, no offence, but... what? 'Shallow, classist, judgmental, social climber' what? Where are you getting this? Because she stopped being friends with a boy who literally called her a slur? Because she criticised that boy for defending and befriending people who were bigoted against people like herself? Like sorry but I think I'm entirely the wrong person to come to with this kind of thing. I fully disagree. I could not disagree more.

Black and white thinking? The opposite. Lily remained friends with someone who espoused the exact opposite of her beliefs for way too long. Not just her beliefs, but her right to exist. She tolerated Snape (and I do love him as a character, but still) way more than she should have, objectively speaking. That's the opposite of black and white. She was way too understanding, way too empathetic with him. She didn't judge Snape hard enough, in my opinion.

Nah, look idk what you were hoping with this ask but I'm sorry, I'm generally a staunch Lily defender and I heavily disagree with what you're saying. It's not that I think she's a perfect person, she certainly has her flaws like anyone. I don't think that she should be idealised, I think she should be given complexity like any character, but neither do I think she's classist (esp since she's meant to be working class) nor particularly judgmental nor shallow nor immature. I love Snape but he was terrible to her. He befriended people who wanted her dead. Lily didn't owe him anything, and her """righteousness""" as you say is not only entirely justified, but objectively speaking she should have dropped that bitch way earlier.

Why do people (including myself) love Lily? Because she was a good person. Because she was brave and decent and kind. She remained friends with Sev for years despite peer pressure and common sense and she defended him without hesitation. She dedicated her life to fighting for what was right. Lily is a good person. She's not inherently, morally above others, she's not perfect but she was a good, kind person, the way her son is a good, kind person.

Not that difficult to understand imo, unless you have way higher standards for male characters than female characters. Not everyone has to like or be interested in Lily but pretending she's somehow worse/less worthy of interest than Snape, James, Sirius, Regulus, etc (and I imagine you've got to be a fan of some of these marauders era characters if you're reading my blog) because she dropped a guy who wanted to join a fascist group that wanted her dead is absolutely ridiculous.

Lily is so kind and great. Her act of bravery and sacrifice is what kickstarts the entire HP series. Sorry. Like absolutely not, I completely disagree with you about Lily's character. People liking a female character doesn't mean that they have a shallow 'girl boss' approach to that character, and I find that a condescending explanation for why people like myself might be fans of Lily Evans. Maybe, and you perhaps should consider this, us fans of Lily just enjoy and are interested in female characters the exact same way we might be interested in male ones.

Look I don't want to be mean, but can't you tell from my icon, which is clearly supposed to be Lily, that I love Lily? Lily is one of my favourite HP characters. I really don't want to be rude but I'm absolutely the last person who'd share this viewpoint.

[cloud--dust]

Hello! I saw in your intro post that you use the term "psychopath" for yourself. Is this something you have a diagnosis for?

Sorry if this comes off as offensive!

It comes off as ignorant, if you'll forgive my blunt phrasing. A simple google search could've helped you here. But I'll explain anyway as this is important to me.

Psychopathy isn't a diagnosis. ASPD is the diagnosis I have been given.

Psychopath is a stigmatized term that has been, and still is, being used to insult and degrade those like me. I have been called this in a derogatory way.

I chose to reclaim it for myself for multiple reasons. One being that since it's something that has been thrown at me without my consent, I thought I might as well own it. People reclaiming a term to redefine it can also help reduce the harm is causes. I also got a score of 38 on a PCL-R test.

This doesn't mean you can just go around calling those with ASPD psychopaths. Some don't reclaim it, and that's their choice. Unless they explicitly say it's ok, just don't use it.

[birdricks]

i think one of the reasons i find rick so compelling as an autistic character is that a bunch of his autistic traits are not treated as either purely good or bad but instead a mix of both. or just neutral parts of him as a person.

like on one hand his tendency to hyperfixate on things heavily contributes to his creativity and problem solving when it comes to his inventions and schemes. but he also often gets far too carried away and it ends up causing issues later down the line (eg: gotron)

like its very refreshing to see a character whose autistic traits arent … mutually exclusive. it makes him feel more real and less like a caricature

[kami-kun1003]

TWST fic writers stop reducing Silver’s entire personality to just “sleepy boy who falls asleep all the time and is sooooo sleepy and tired and did i mention he sleeps a lot and also he loves his dad” challenge (impossible) (gone wrong)

[usertoxicyaoi]

"Isn't that loner guy looking over here? He wants some friends, I guess. Does he think we'll come over if he keeps glancing at us? That's impossible."

MY PERSONAL WEATHERMAN (2023). Episode 6.

[shoezuki]

also theres a kid here who like. when i was introduced as bein here to volunteer she blurted out AGAIN? and the teacher lectured her on 'making me feel welcome' but that was funny as shit. ya its me again wassup