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Oh yes, the battery is so real and having an indicator of how much percent is left would be so helpful!!
Neurotypicals: Think Autistic people are exceptionally literal.
Autistics: Describe their experiences using phrases like:
My brain feels like it’s filled with cotton laced with barbed wire, it’s not safe for me to make decisions right now.
I’m entering a Wait Mode until we leave.
Just looking at that rotten food makes my skin feel slimy.
Neurotypicals: Assume the Autistics are using metaphorical language to exaggerate common experiences.
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nothinggg better than torturing an emotionally repressed character until every single trauma they've ever refused to process starts spilling uncontrollably out of the cracks. like a matryoshka doll situation of repressed trauma and baby you better believe i'm going in there with a hammer
#'literal or metaphorical hammer' yes.#anyway 23k in and i finally got to the comfort part of hurt/comfort✌️#aphelion.txt#whump#really feeling that one post thats like. I interact with fiction normally. dont look at my blog#my writing
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Disclaimer these are just a small sampling of some possible writer traits I’ve noticed either in myself or in fics I read. Also consider a rb for sample size !
#I literally do all of these but mostly abuse of metaphor and specific descriptors and run on dialogue with no staging#writing#writers on tumblr#polls#I chose abuse of a metaphor you like because I think that’s probably my biggest#but also literally ‘you guys are getting beta readers?’ because I’ve NEVER ONCE had someone beta read for me#I like. proofread. sometimes#if you’re lucky#lol#but I’m curious what you guys do lol
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"Death's child"
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#.... sorry#agathario#agatha all along#rio vidal#agatha harkness#nicholas scratch#i was overcome with the concept of Nicky always sensing Rio#as a metaphor for Death looming over him both out of love and quite literally... you choose#But mainly it was the concept of Rio not showing herself to Nicky ever#and not being able to touch him at all#not because it's a certainty that he'd pass#but because she didn't know if he would or not. couldn't risk any contact#not knowing if it would be a self fulfilling prophecy or not#idk if i'm making sense but EITHER WAY#there are a few ways to interpret this comic#in the first draft Agatha was smiling fondly#in this one it's bitter sweet. her saying ''he loves you so'' is also for herself#despite everything#they both love Rio#and on that note! i'm going back to bed. i'm sick as hell#BYE#maryneart
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Some past 1x headcanons (theories if we’re stretching it) aaaand u can have some art to go along with it :)
1: At first 1x was made out of boredom. Telamon wanted to make a little assistant of his own, but ended up making a child. Sure the child was atleast already 7-8 and would never cry or want for anything but it was a child nonetheless. Telamon had to feed it, house it, water it and the such, which was borrrring. Taking responsibility sucked.
2. 1x was made as a blank slate, hence they’re basic appearance. Didn’t really have a personality of their own for a while and was just there to run errands (see figure 1) for Telamon. Most people in the Roblox HQ knew him as the little guy that unfortunately has to put up with Telamon’s shit.
3: 1x was basically self sufficient. Sure He lived with Telamon but he made himself meals from anything left in Telamon’s fridge, got himself/ helped Telamon get ready in the morning. Brighteyes would give them Robux to go get themselves treats from time to time (see figure 2). She thought he was a good kid.
4: It wasn’t entirely child labour. Telamon gave him breaks but what was there to do? 1x had no friends unless you counted the adults he worked with. No kids his age to play with he knew, no school, no nothing.
5: This is more into theory territory I think? 1x isn’t just literally Telamon’s/shedletsky’s hatred, but a representative for something he hated, being mature and responsible. Telamon prided himself on being the admin who did whatever, whenever. An unpredictable force of nature. But having to take care of something? It felt like shackles to him. So maybe he left it in the Banlands so he’d never have to think of it again. Might change this later though, seems a bit cruel.
(Got the last headcanon theory with the help of my friend @clo-v3r0929 <3)
Not sure yet what I headcanon happened to him to become hatred and stuff, and I don’t wanna go all out cause I hate being wrong. /silly
So here (figure 3) are so,e lazy doodles I did.
Thank you for reading my yap session.
#yeah… I need to get into 1x more#I like the idea of a child that had to grow up too fast#literally and metaphorically#1x did NOT have a good father/silly#roblox#forsaken#roblox forsaken#homicidal porkchops#homicidalporkchops#forsaken 1x4#telamon forsaken#brighteyes forsaken#forsaken shedletsky
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Most sane soccer team 🤗⚽️💞🐇🌼
#shauna shipman#natalie scatorccio#taissa turner#misty quigley#Yellowjackets#my art#what if a soccer team cannibalized each other metaphorically and literally
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dinosaur in a lab coat - would you trust her with operating the centrifuge
#my art#oc#mockley#anthro#furry#dinosaur#i like the headshot especially so i'm including it too#unintentional redraw of the mockley ref from back in may. this is the natural mockley pose i guess - this is her official render#so i included the symbolism thing again with some slight edits#grhaggh i love her i'm ripping her to pieces with my mind.....my doddery old bint#okay i've got a lot to do tonight. why i did this today of all days i don't know but for people who want art from me#keep yer eyes peeled#also i'm gonna also use this for oc-tober. lol#for the monster prompt. mockley's a monster...literally to us and more metaphorically in her universe#also for ages i was trying to make mockley's species a dinosaur but like evolved. different and weirder#now i'm like embracing full dinosaur i'm too tired to make up a new species i can't....i surrender
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We're all alone, walking in twilight
The night‘s been long, and so many have fallen
Feel no remorse, light will be breaking
Our freedom is worth it all
#the metaphor of them symbolising wings of freedom is literally my favourite#I mean#it’s perfect#aot#eruri#attack on titan#shingeki no kyojin#snk#levi ackerman#erwin smith#wings of freedom#survey corps#my art#my art aot
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Vanny’s story in FNAF help wanted summed up
#myart#chloesimagination#comic#fnaf vanessa#fnaf vanny#glitchtrap#fnaf#fnaf help wanted#security breach#fnaf fanart#five nights at freddy's#this is literally what happens in that game#glitchtrap wanted Vanessa to slay metaphorically and literally#glitchtrap gets points for making Vanessa bad af#but he loses them too for getting rid of her rainbow hair
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even dogs pass the mirror test
#hello again everyone. how's it going#isat loop#in stars and time#isat fanart#in stars and time fanart#isat#lucabyteart#isat spoilers#so. had this idea Before getting my hands on the artbook and being validated. literally have a voice note from 4:30am on the 8th where#i frantically noted down this just horrid horrid horrid caption because i'd been musing on the sasasap Dress line all day i suppose#just kind of rotating in my brain the way any kind of first time trying on new clothes for them would be .#just absolutely mental breakdown material and not one i think would be recovered from quickly. they hate being in their own skin#like. a lot? like a lot. the collateral of any kind of transfemme read was barely in my mind until it ended up relevant again while i was#actively working on this. because christ that's a bad combo. 2x different forms of body dysphoria in one. maybe even 3x somehow#plus any scenario where they get clothes is... likely gifted. something they react viciously negatively to in game and i doubt#would improve thereafter. just a veritable katamari of disgust and self-loathing#like i was mostly just thinking abt how a lot of our collective depictions of loop being alienated from their body are rather abstract#in a body horror way mostly. on account of loop being more of a metaphor than a person half the time. so i think i wanted to depict#something closer to just. a human level of body dysphoria. no focus on the whole duplicate thing just... raw disgust for the self#but with the addition of recent discussion and playing ball more with the she/her loop and transfem loop angle...#scenario of leaning into femininity to try throw off suspicion on who they are PLUS realising they might want that PLUS the party#trying to use this to bond with them PLUS body dysphoria PLUS new!gender dysphoria PLUS the usual revulsion for wanting and desire#like. that is a catastrophic combination . not coming out of that one without it getting worse for a few weeks thereafter#that's a real lash out at everyone around them and then recede in shame type breakdown. which im sure looks interesting from#the party's pov because jesus christ that touched a nerve something awful (<- they only have half the context AT BEST)#. so . there's your free scenario to ponder on if you'd want to. seeing as ive done a picture without a shitload of words on it for once#ALSO don't get smart with me in the tags about the mirror test being an absolutely ass test in most regards re: self-awareness#or that things like minnows pass it. i'm a fellow pedant dont worry. it's just that minnow doesn't really have the same ring as dog yknow?#this is supposed to be like an absolutely excruciatingly self loathing thought spoken aloud of a caption. it's pithy and cruel on purpose#and more than a little inspired by (reblogged yesterday) liminal space's 'there is no other dog. it's just you'
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im not seeing enough love for delta slim. there's a large part of the narrative - that tragedy and hope are two sides of the same coin - which is expressed by him and his dedication to still performing.
performing the blues both because of and in spite of all the things that have happened to him. he's introduced as someone we're supposed to feel sorry for (his drunken state, his fear of his own mortality, the tragedy and brutality he's seen) and yet!!!! and yet!!!! hes still clinging to his passion with bloodied fingertips!!! still playing, still making music!!!
i can't remember smoke's exact line, but it's something like 'I've met plenty of musicians, but I've never met a happy one'. in a way, that's true of all the musicians in the film (pearline is implied to be unhappy in her marriage, the twins' father is stated to have been an awful man, etc). it's especially true for delta slim...but it's not true for sammie, not really, not when it's all but stated outright that sammie feels trapped and stifled by everything except music.
delta slim sees that passion, and he gives his life for sammie in the hope that the music sammie makes will live on. that despite everything that happens, he'll survive and he'll keep playing. he'll cling to that passion with bloodied fingers.
#delta slim clinging to his passion for music with metaphorically bloody hands. hands that have suffered#sammie literally clinging to his passion for music with bloodied hands. clutching that guitar neck to his chest like it's salvation.#this is so inarticulate im sorry. i just am not seeing enough delta slim content and he is simply so cool to me#rip delta slim you deserved to be sammie's mentor for a million years#you deserved to see that passion and skill be nurtured and see your own love for the blues reflected in sammie#i hope that every time sammie played his guitar he could hear slim's piano accompanying him#delta slim#sammie moore#sinners#sinners spoilers#sinners 2025
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These all work for the story, and good to know most folks still see what Gibson intended (though the runner-up might be just as cool in a fresh way).
One of the all-time best opening lines


The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel.
- Neuromancer, by William Gibson (1984)
gif by @hainfulcupid
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mayburi stocks are in the dirt and as a mayburi lover. i am okay with this
#it just has more of the flavor i love in a ship#the weapon learning to be human... metaphorical transgender meets literal transgender#unika#unika guilty gear#bridget guilty gear#guilty gear#guilty gear dual rulers#uniburi
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Why is the writing in this game so good
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curiosity and the cat 🐾
#metaphor#metaphor refantazio#baspha#basilio magnus#eupha etoreika#euphausia etoreika#junah cygnus#juani cygnus#i won't tag the others lol#my art#SPOILERS -> i literally hid will in this bc i didn't want to mark his little silver head as spoilers on twt lmfao
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#hi again tumblr#shadowvanilla#pureshadow#vanilla milkshake#my ramblings in tags below#I finished watching utena#I think it's peak media and everyone should watch it#if you like yuri stories with a loot of metaphors and grand plot that is#literally masterpiece#want pureshadow utenanthy au mmm#I also keep drawing lots of my precorrupted smilk design and treat him like my oc but too shy to post him anywhere#he's caged for good#ah and also 2nd one is redraw from mahiru shiina second trial milgram#shadow milk cookie#pure vanilla cookie#cookie run kingdom#cookie run#cookie run fanart#crk#crk fanart#artists on tumblr
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