#there's something in some of them episodes... and that something is the eepies

[lavvydrafts]

I’m still eepy but

MLA essay format Akimoya NOW

u asked so i shall deliver

warning this contains spoilers for danganronpa heartless deceit episodes 1-5

also i suck at writing essays and my grammer + spelling sucks (ask ANYONE IK) and idk how to quote series

Enjoying romance in the fiction world has lots of benefits, these include helping the become more empathetic, helping you learn from the characters and helping you take a break from life to escape. So, enjoying romance, of course in a healthy amount, is beneficial to the reader. Akimoya is a great example of romance because they have good chemistry, they care about each other, and have good angst potential.

The ship Akimoya has great chemistry because it is obvious they both get along great. In the beginning when they first meet Akira teases Tomoya a lot. This is a sign of a good relationship because it is common for people who like each other to tease the other person as a way of showing affection. One example of this can be found in Danganronpa (He)artless Deceit episode 1, “Really, I think the Ultimate Narcissist fits you better.” (Akira 11:38) In this quote we see Akira jokingly say Tomoya is egotistical as a way to make fun of him. Obviously she doesn’t mean this as an actual insult due to her sprite���s expression being playful. Also in the way the sentence is phased it comes off as a joke because if she actually met to insult him she would have said something more like, “Can you stop being so egotistical?” or downplay his achievements based off his personality. Another piece of evidence that shows they have great chemistry can be found in Danganronpa (He)artless Deceit episode 3, “I don’t mind being anywhere in the world as long as you’re around.” (Tomoya 6:59) “…You may as well confess to her already.” (Shion 7:06) “H-Hey! Don’t take it the wrong way! I-I, uh, I was j-just…” (Tomoya 7:09) In this series of quoted we see Tomoya saying something sweet to Akira and then getting flustered when his sister teased him about it. Based off what he said we can clearly see that he has a crush on her. Quite literally stating he would be okay being anywhere in the world as long as Akira was there. This contributes to their chemistry because if you would be okay being in a cold single celled prison with someone you obviously like them to a pretty good degree. So, we can see Akimoya has chemistry due to the way Akira teases him and the fact Tomoya basically fell head over heels for her already.

In the ship Akimoya, we can tell Akira and Tomoya care about one another alot by an experts opinion, how Akira comforts him, and how Tomoya reacts to Akira being in a situation she could have gotten hurt. My first piece of evidence comes from Danganronpa (He)artless Deceit episode 4, “It’s okay Tomoya. I’m sure Akira cares about you deep down.” (Kyouran 1:13) “How would you know?” (Akira 1:16) “I can tell. Let’s just say it’s a skill of mine.” (Kyouran 1:20) In this quote we see that Kyouran, someone whose talent is being a con artist so he would need to know how to read people easily, states that he can tell Akira cares for him even though she may tease him. This is important because we can consider Kyouran an expert on being able to read someone’s feelings which shows that he is most likely correct about Akira caring for Tomoya. Even if you don’t trust Kyouran, we can see from multiple situations that Akira does feel this was about Tomoya. In a quote from Danganronpa (He)artless Deceit episode 5 we can see one of these situations, “I hold Tomoya’s hand tightly, calming him down. His heavy breathing slowly stops, but the dull look in his eyes remains.” (Akira 23:17) In this quote, Tomoya, who has a strong fear of guns, we can assume has some sort of panic attack in which Akira calms him down from when the Ultimates try to escape by breaking the doors causing machine guns to be shot at them. We can see that this shows Akira cares about him because she could have easily focused on something else or pretend to not notice him struggling due to the noise. Despite the fact it would have been easy to ignore him she decided to comfort him and making the situation easier for him to deal with. We can also see Tomoya cares for Akira from a quote from the same episode, “Oh, thank God you’re okay. I’m so happy you’re awake.” (Tomoya 25:08) “I was so worried you got hurt.” (Tomoya 25:13) “You were… Well… Everyone was knocked out again. No one’s injured, thankfully, but…” (Tomoya 25:15) “Im just glad you’re okay too.” (Tomoya 25:22) In these series of quotes we can see that Tomoya was worried that Akira was injured to the point of him rushing to hold her hand to help her get up after the failed escape attempt. If Tomoya didn’t care about her, he would have most likely pretended to be preoccupied with something else and let her get up herself. Instead he rushed to her worried she could have potentially being injured which shows he cares about her. So, we can see that in the ship Akimoya both parties care about eachother from expert opinions and from quotes in the text.

My last reason on why Akimoya is a great example of romance is because they have great angst potential due to Tomoya disliking criminal and Akira’s second talent. In romance, the couple always goes through a problems and solves it to be even more loving. In episode 4 when Kyouran outs himself has a con artist, Tomoya expresses his distrust of him and is rather insulting not knowing Akira is quite literally a hitman and has done far worse than what Kyouran has done. In this quote we can see her opinion of that, “If this is how Tomoya reacts to seeing a con artist, I can’t imagine how he’d react to my line of work…” (Akira 3:21) We can see in this quote Akira is worried about Tomoya finding out about the fact she is a hitman and what that would mean for them. We can consider this foreshadowing potential angst due to her already thinking about this and them most likely going to be trapped there for a decent amount of time. More proof of Tomoya disliking criminals is shown in the same episode when Chiemi mentions she is okay with being trapped in the place as long as she had a bunch of friend in which Tomoya replies, “Are you sure about that? We’ve met some pretty strange people, and umm… ahem… an actual criminal…” (Tomoya 10:14) … “But aren’t you worried he might be a little dangerous?” (Tomoya 10:30) In these two quotes we can see Tomoya expressing his distrust and dislike of Kyouran and how it makes him want to escape more due to being trapped with a criminal. Obviously, if someone is not okay with being in the same area as a con artist then they most likely will have problems with being in a relationship with a hitman. This gives Akimoya great angst potential which will either make their relationship stronger or make them break up. So, Akimoya having good angst potential makes it a great ship because relationship angst have a tendency of making the relationship stronger if they overcome it.

In conclusion, Akimoya is a great example of romance due to them caring for each other, this is shown by an expert opinion, and both of their dialogues, them having good chemistry, shown by Akira teasing them and Tomoya flirting with her, and them having good angst potential due to Tomoya disliking criminals and Akira being a hitman.

[danieyells]

Puts my mouth against the microphone

Oh my god.

Oh my god they were so fucking close AND TAIGA RUINED IT BUT ALSO. . .HE WAS SO NOT OKAY THERE???? MAYBE BECAUSE HE HADN'T EATEN IN AT LEAST TWO DAYS AT THAT POINT??? BUT LIKE WE ALSO KNOW HE CAN EAT ANOMALIES OF ANY SORT EVEN IF THEY'RE MADE OF SOMETHING SOLID AND CONTAIN NO MEAT. HE WON'T EAT THEIR WEAPONS BUT HE'LL EAT OTHER STUFF. Also he does drink regular human alcohol but i guess he doesn't like processed anomalies???

And the fucking

The whole thing

The everything

Romeo knowing people at the auction because he knows how to be an art dealer

ROMEO AND YURI'S PREEXISTING RELATIONSHIP?????? WHERE THEY KIND OF HATE EACH OTHER BUT ALSO YURI STOPPED CALLING SINOSTRA GERMS WHILE ROMEO WAS LISTENING SO HE EITHER RESPECTS OR FEARS HIM BUT ALSO THEY CLEARLY HAVE NO RESPECT FOR EACH OTHER. . . . ROMEO KNOWS HE USED TO BE IN SOME OTHER HOUSE AND WAS THERE WHEN HE RAN AWAY DOES THAT MEAN HE WAS IN SINOSTRA?? PROBABLY NOT RIGHT THE FROSTHEIM CONNECTION IS TOO STRONG. AND WE KNOW ROMEO KIND OF HOLDS FROSTHEIM IN HIGH ESTEEM EVEN IF HE HATES THEM NOW SO MAYBE MY THEORY THAT HE USED TO BE CLOSE TK THE FROSTHEIMERS WAS CORRECT??? AND HE WAS THERE WHEN TOHMA HAD TO GET YURI OUT???? UUUUUU

YURI SLEEPING NEXT TO JIRO?????

RITSU SAYING HIS MOM HELPED HIM PICK OUT THE SUNGLASSES KDBCHFIDJ

BUT THE OUTFITS WERE OTHERWISE PICKED AND CURATED BY ROMEO??? ROMEO FUCKING DRESSING EVERYBODY AOSBDHDKS DU

TAIGA REMEMBERING THAT HE MET PC BEFORE AND EXPLAINING THE KYKLOS RAN AWAY TOO QUICKLY FOR HIM TO GET TO. . . .

TAIGA MOCKING ROMEO FOR WORKING WITH HYDE. . .SAYING HE THINKS THE WAY HE TALKS TO HYDE IS GROSS. . .TELLING HYDE TO LEAVE ROMEO ALONE. . . . . . ..

And

Dbdhxusndgdudjdh

SO J THINK TAIGA'S GUN CAN ONLY HIT THINGS THAT ARE ACTIVELY MALICIOUS HE CANNOT HIT SOMETHING THAT HAS NO INTENTION OF FIGHTING. HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THAT THAT'S HOW IT WORKS

RITSU HITS PEOPLE WITH THE BOOK BECAUSE TAIGA TAUGHT HIM TO USE IT AS A BLUNT WEAPON. . . . . . . . . . .

ROMEO'S STIGMA CAN MAKE LITERALLY ANYTHING INTO A BOMB WITH A BIGGER EXPLOSION DEPENDING ON THE OWNER'S ATTACHMENT TO THE THING.

TAIGA DOESN'T LIKE THAT HYDE IS INVOLVED WITH ROMEO BUT HYDE SAYS ROMEO IS THE ONE DRIVING THEIR INVOLVEMENT SO IF HE'S BOTHERED HE SHOULD TALK TO ROMEO ABOUT IT. . . . . . . .

HYDE CONTINUES TO BE SUS BUT ALSO. . .I REALLY THINK HIS INTENTIONS AREN'T BAD HE'S JUST SUSSY? BECAUSE HE'S LIKE. . .TAIGA YOU HAVE TO TELL ROMEO YOU WANNA WORK TOGETHER WITH HIM AGAIN YOU HAVE TO COMMUNICATE WITH HIM BUT TAIGA GETS MAD. BUT THAT'S ACTUAL GOOD ADVICE THAT WOULD HELP THEM. . .I WONDER IF HE'S TRYING TO DRIVE THEM INTO CORNERS TO FORCE THEM TO TAKE ACTION?

THE HALLOWEEN EPISODE IS NEXT MONTH!!!!!

The way romeo talked about taiga ehen he pulled out the mask, with this fondness snd admiration and in a similar voice to the kne he uses with hyde even though taiga just got through saying it was gross

And taiga clocking that romeo had been so consumed by greed that he was preventing them from leaving and romeo letting go of all the valuables so they could all escape and

And

You'll get to keep the prettiest thing

The little touch to his hair

These bitches are so gay good for them. . . . . . . . . .

AND. AND!!!

TAIGA KNOWING ABOUT THE AUCTION TIAGA BEING QUIET FOR SO MUCH OF THE INVESTIGATION BECAUSE HE WAS ANALYZING AND OBSERVING AND TAKING EVERYTHING IN TAIGA REVEALING THAT HE KNOWS SO MUCH BUT REFUSING TO EXPLAIN HOW AND RITSU CREEPING CLOSER TO HIM ASKING ALL THESE QUESTIONS AND AND HE DEFINITELY SEES PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE RIGHT???? IT'S ALMOST CERTAIN RIGHT????

Taiga was so eepy this whole episode just lying all over the couch and taking naps and sitting in romeo's chair AND ROMEO DIDN'T COMPLAIN! and!!!!

I FEEL LIKE WE DIDN'T LEARN ANYTHING BUT I THINK THIS IS ABOUT THEIR GROWING AND STRUGGLING DYNAMICS RIGHT NOW. I THINK THIS IS ABOUT FINDING PROBLEM AREAS FOR FUTURE RESOLUTION. NOT REALLY A PROGRESSION CHAPTER BUT AN ESTABLISHING CHAPTER. WE LEARN A LITTLE MORE EVERY TIME.

The fact that Romeo's stigma is more powerful based on attachment to the thing he blows up. . .meaning if he wants to really destroy something he has to use something he loves. . . .

WHAT DID YURI MEAN BY THAT ROMEO HAD HIS BRAND NAME STOLEN???? DID ROMEO CHANGE HIS NAME?????? IS ROMEO NOT ACTUALLY ITALIAN????? WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN WHY DOES YURI KNOW ABOUT IT(I MEAN WE KNOW YURI ALSO SEEMS TO LIKE LUXURY GOODS FROM WHERE HE WANTED TO GO IF HE GOT AN R&R PERMIT?) WHEN DID THEY BECOME FRIENDS WHY ARE THEY SO BITTER WITH EACH OTHER NOW BUT ALSO IT FELT KINDA LIKE BANTER BETWEEN TWO GUYS WHO KNOW THEY'VE BOTH BEEN THROUGH SOME SHIT AND RELATE TO EACH OTHER?

AND I WAS RIGHT THAT TAIGA KNOWS HAKU AND HE CALLS HIM "NAGI" FROM HIS LAST NAME. . .THAT'S CUTE. . .AND HIS NEW WARDING CARD HAS HAKU WATCHING HIM IN THE BACKGROUND TOO WHAT'S UP WITH THAT? HE LOOKS UNHAPPY TOO ALSO WTF IS TAIGA EATING THAT MEAT LOOKS PREPARED NOT RAW. LOOKS LIKE FUCKIN JERKY.

I'M JUST HAVING SO MANY THOUGHTS I'M HAVING SO MANY FEELINGS THIS WAS A TREAT CHAPTER. Like i said this is definitely an "establishing the background/situation" chapter more than a progress one but hahsbduxkdnshskdn aaaaaa. . . . . . . . . .it was good. Maybe because i ship taiga and romeo so hard but it was good they squabbled the whole time romeo punches taiga and he just takes it. ROMEO TELLS TAIGA HOW MUCH HE HATES "SPINELESS MEN" BECAUSE HE FEELS LIKE TAIGA'S BEING A COWARD AND TAIGA GETS QUIET AND COOPERATES LIKE HE DOESN'T WANNA BE UNATTRACTIVE IN ROMEO'S EYES THIS WAS A SHIP TEASE CHAPTER.

[acidichcl]

Some of my rottmnt ocs :3c i have some more but im eepy so i’ll do them later. I just wanna get these out

(By counterpart i mean theyre basically the guys in another version of earth. Another reality)

Edit on 6 aug 2024: Scooter's ref is up to date now

Theyre basically part of an AU i have. It’s really just something for myself cuz it’s fun to imagine the guys interact with new characters. It’s like making ur own new episodes lol

[trashland-llamas]

-> Fic Masterlist <-

[ Post One // Fandoms A-C ]

Across the Spiderverse

Marked; Miguel tattooing fang marks into Reader’s skin as a form of ownership [GN]

Workaholic; Miguel and Viktor take care of Reader after discovering they've overworked themselves into exhaustion [GN]

Alice 19th

At the Thrift Shop Down the Road; Kyou takes the reader thrift shopping [GN]

Arcane

Workaholic; Miguel and Viktor take care of Reader after discovering they've overworked themselves into exhaustion [GN]

Unpaid Intern; Disabled! Reader heavily compares themselves to Viktor and as a result, overexerts themselves [GN]

Baldur's Gate

Shrek; Astarion gets compared to Shrek [GN]

Exsanguination; Astarion rescues reader from being the tavern's residential blood bag [Fem]

I'll Stay; Reader decides to stay with Astarion instead of returning to the tavern. Astarion then takes her to meet the rest of the Baldur's Gate crew after going to pick up her last paycheck. Sequel to Exsanguination [Fem]

Pulse Points; Reader confuses Astarion with how he gives physical affection. In that they like to nuzzle his neck, but Astarion doesn't have a pulse? [GN]

BNHA

Opposites Attract; Eraserjokemic headcanons based around the TikTok trend where you show pictures of you and a best friend/partner & it’s usually opposites. Like sunshine, sunshine protector for example.

Neko; Hizashi offers the neighborhood stray shelter during the storm. Or where the neighborhood stray ends up being a Neko named Aizawa

Insulin; Aizawa helps Eri check her blood sugar after lunch

La Da Dee; Eijirou Kirishima x Reader + Music HCs [GN]

I Think We're Alone Now; Katsuki, Eijirou & Izuku x reader (separately) fall asleep on you [GN]

Like Riding a Bike; Reader teaches Hawks how to ride a bike after learning the commission never taught him [GN]

Memento Mori; Shigaraki’s quirk + suicidal reader. Spoiler; he refuses to use it on them. 'Was the door still open? Or had time finally decided to close it in on them?'

Neko Traits; Neko traits Aizawa displays in his human form

Buzzfeed Unsolved/Watcher

Shyan Brotp headcanons

Call of Duty

Bookworm; Team 141 listening to civilian! Reader go through their library haul [GN]

The Missile is Eepy; Team 141 x gn reader’s sleeping positions [GN]

Blood Lust; Vamp! reader begs Price for blood [GN]

Leave Me to Dream; Gaz and Soap find Reader in a catatonic state and are instructed to get Price [Fem]

Everything’s a Mess; Price gets y/n to talk about what caused faer catatonic episode. Sequel to Leave Me to Dream. [Fem]

Snap, Crackle, Pop; Price discovers Reader has crepitus, conversation ensues [GN]

Boo Boo; Soap interacting w/ kids

Howdy; How y/n meets Soap, Ghost, & Gaz (separately) as inspired by selected country songs

Blood of the Covenant; Soap comforts Ghost over the anniversary of his father’s death

Appa; Soap takes care of regressed reader while waiting for Ghost to come home from leave [GN]

Johnny Boy; Reader refuses to call Johnny “John” [GN]

Everybody Talks; 'People are going to start spreading rumors if you keep greeting me like this.' 'Too late for that dearie! They already whisper rumors about us.' [Fem]

Hot Summer Day; Keegan & y/n troll Ghost w/ sweet tea [GN]

How Was Your Day?; Sexy times get interrupted when Reader checks in with König, ends up w/ König rambling about his day [Gn]

You Must Be in Pain; Reader’s too tired to get off; the alpha in König tells him to do something about it [Fem]

Age Regressor! König

Did You Have Fun?; Gaz and Reader go hiking, in a fluffy date type of way [GN]

Sleep Drunk; Where y/n has never been good at waking up in the morning…or Gaz discovers this and tries to help [GN]

ASMR; Gaz returns from a mission, finding y/n had fallen asleep to asmr…Or y/n wakes up to a welcomed surprise of Gaz in their bed [GN]

Floor Time?; Gaz joins reader for floor time, and distracts them from their scoliosis pain [GN]

Tangled Bedsheets; Simon discovers Reader has some childhood trauma around making the bed, resulting in hyper-independence. Ends up comforting her over it. [Fem]

Balaclava; Reader's plans to knit Simon a balaclava for his birthday might or might not involve a little bit of thievery [GN]

Let Me Help; Simon helps Reader get off [Fem]

Ghost Headcanons

Accidents Happen; Reader gets into a fender bender and calls his dad Simon afterwards [Male]

Wrung Out; Simon notices how Reader holds their stress physically during a reconnaissance mission gone wrong [GN]

Camp Here and There

Yes Chef; Headcanons about Matthew Napoleon

Chuckle Sandwich

Acts of affection I associate w/ Chuckle Sandwich

'do you know Schlinx is fucking dead?'

Slime boy make Sensory Issues go brrr [GN]

Wed-nes-day; Ted Nivison x Reader w/ a speech impediment

Hold on to this Lullaby; Ted makes reader's bed after finding out they've been hiding their stuffed animals [GN]

Criminal Minds

Enter Sandman; Headcanons about Spencer checking out his local music scene

[aihoshiino]

so here's something from episode 1 that stuck on my brain today and when i went to go back and look at it. sis was flabbergasted because

that's kaburagi! blatantly kaburagi, even - to the point that the equivalent character from the manga was redesigned to more obviously be kaburagi

I imagine I'm probably late to the party on this - I always thought this character looked like kaburagi but i put it down to coincidence or even just a fun cameo as an easter egg and didn't think anything of it so chances are good other people have noticed, too.

but this further emphasizes a pattern we see in the post-epilogue timeskip part of the story, of kaburagi being deeply involved with almost every single production the hoshinos are involved in as entertainers. he is the one greasing the wheel of their careers. i hadn't really thought super deeply about it until now, but off the back of chapter 137...

i think i am officially putting my money on secret villain kaburagi or at least kaburagi sus going forwards. i'm a little too eepy to fully put this into words, but i really truly believe at this point that kaburagi is up to and has been involved in some foul as fuck things in oshi no ko and uncovering them will be part of the plot as we go forwards.

[khazadspoon]

Eepy trail boss! Nice header!

Question: Do you have a favorite Gil Favor outfit? (Could be one of the variations of his working clothes, or something special he wears in some episodes, like a suit or uniform or nightshirt.)

That’s like asking my favourite kind of chocolate cake - I love them all

bUT.

I think the nightshirt he wears in that one episode where he’s injured and with the… Germans? Austrians? Maybe? Is my favourite for oggling reasons. However his more relaxed white/pale shirt and dark jeans town outfit is also premium.

I don’t like the confederate uniform but he looks excellent in the Union uniform….

[dorianbrightmusic]

Saw the tag so wanted to send an ask! Do you want to talk/infodump about the history of antipsychotics and how that relates to ASD because that sounds fascinating.

oh my god i got asked to infodump about my most special of interests. thank you so much, most-definitively-a-human, you have made my day.

Disclaimer: I am not a psychiatrist or mental health professional, and I have no experience of either psychosis or taking psychiatric medication, so I can't promise that the facts are 100% perfect, nor that I have an understanding of what these facts mean in day-to-day life. But the least I can do is try to understand, and hope that someone else finds this interesting, or, better yet, useful.

I cannot be bothered tracking down all my sources again, so if anything in this post is interesting to you, please fact-check it, because I can't promise it's going to be right. This is medical information, so, as this is a rambling tumblr post, please take it with a grain of salt.

Skip to the end for the discussion of how autism, schizophrenia, and the antipsychotics are linked. Most of this is just me infodumping about antipsychotics, since I find them so fascinating for some reason.

Trigger warning: This post discusses medical abuse of people with severe mental illness and neurodevelopmental disorders, as well as the side-effects of psychiatric medication. There is also some discussion of self-harm in autism. As such, tread carefully.

A short(-ish) history of antipsychotics

In 1953, a new medication hit the market. Its name was chlorpromazine, and it belonged to a family of chemicals called the phenothiazines. The phenothiazines contained a lot of very, very revolutionary/historically significant meds – some highlights include methylene blue, an antimalarial that happened to be the first ever fully synthetic medication (which, due to its original purpose being 'fabric dye', had the convenient side effect of making your urine go blue); and phenbenzamine, which was not the first antihistamine ever (that honour goes to piperoxan, which is too toxic to use in humans), but was the first that was safe for use in humans. Phenbenzamine was very, very sedating, and from it, we got another compound, fenethazine. From fenethazine, we then got two derivatives: promethazine, and chlorpromazine.

Promethazine is an antihistamine, and like most old antihistamines, it's very sedating. As such, scientists tested whether promethazine worked for sedating people—and, indeed, it worked as a pretty good sedative. Its younger cousin, chlorpromazine, synthesised in 1950, also was very, very sedating. So, someone gave it to a psychiatric patient who was having a manic episode, and then, something cool happened. That is, the manic patient wasn't manic anymore.

Okay—so, chlorpromazine was sedating in a way that meant it could have some potential for previously difficult-to-treat psychiatric syndromes. (From memory, I'm fairly sure that lithium was around at the time, but frustratingly, not all mania responds to lithium. I don't know whether this patient had been trialled on lithium—all I know is that chlorpromazine worked for him.) So, it was trialled on quite a few psychiatric patients with schizophrenia, and they, too, seemed better.

Now, chlorpromazine, being related to promethazine, had a similar side-effect profile to most old antihistamines. That is, it made you eepy beyond belieepy (i'm sorry). This sedation was also accompanied, rather horrifyingly, by apathy, psychomotor retardation (thinking and moving much slower—I once saw someone online liken it to moving 'through molasses'), and emotional quieting. This triad—not moving, not wanting, and not expressing—was known as neurolepsis, and was originally thought to indicate that the drugs were working well. However, this wasn't necessarily true—in part, that's because schizophrenia spectrum disorders have negative, as well as positive, symptoms, and neurolepsis is basically a combination of actively worsened negative symptoms and physical/mental slowing. So, chlorpromazine made the psychosis better, but also induced neurolepsis, as well as several other side-effects (including but not limited to: reversible Parkinson's-like motor symptoms; orthostatic hypotension, which is when your blood pressure plummets when you stand; and anticholinergic effects, which I'm going to get back to later). Chlorpromazine was wonderful because it meant that finally, patients could deal with psychosis in a way that meant they didn't have to be institutionalised, and because it meant that much, much worse treatments (looking at you, insulin shock therapy) could finally be discarded. Chlorpromazine was awful, because, in addition to its awful side-effects, it wasn't always given consensually, and could be used to abuse and harm patients. Such is still an ongoing problem with antipsychotics—while they have revolutionised psychiatry and allowed many people to live much, much better lives, they've also indubitably been used to harm so many people. This is why it's crucial to have informed consent in psychiatry—and while I don't know how to handle this when a person is going through florid psychosis and is probably very, very scared, we ought to do much better than we are at the moment.

Due to the neurolepsis-inducing side-effect profile, chlorpromazine was deemed a neuroleptic. Most people will use the terms 'neuroleptic' (neurolepsis-inducer) and 'antipsychotic' interchangeably—however, the categories are a venn diagram, not a circle. There are some antipsychotics with only very mild neuroleptic effects (we'll get back to this), and some neuroleptics that aren't antipsychotic—for example, if you've ever the taken over-the-counter antinauseal/migraine relief drug called metoclopramide (Anagraine, Paramax, MigraMax, Metozolv, Reglan, etc), you've taken a neuroleptic. Neuroleptics are dopamine antagonists—that is, they bind to the receptor for dopamine in the brain, which means dopamine can't bind to that receptor, so you can't get the effects of dopamine at that bit. This basically explains neurolepsis as a syndrome, since dopamine is associated with reward pathways and movement; less dopamine in the reward pathways -> emotion blunting, lost motivation; less dopamine in the movement pathway -> i can't fricken' move, can't fricken' move emotionally, Parkinson's-like symptoms (Parkinson's is in part due to a dopamine deficiency in certain movement-related bits of the brain).

The antipsychotics allowed for de-institutionalisation to occur, and also gave rise to the tricyclic antidepressants, as imipramine (the first tricyclic antidepressant) is a chlorpromazine derivative. Fun! Problem was, these older psychiatric drugs tended to have fairly intolerable side-effects. So, the first-generation antipsychotics were by and large very neuroleptic—as such, we needed less neuroleptic antipsychotics for them to be tolerable. This started to happen around the 1990s and onwards, when the second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs)—olanzapine, risperidone, amisulpride, aripiprazole, quetiapine, etc.—started coming out. These SGAs bound to serotonin as well as dopamine receptors, and tended to have fewer motor side-effects than their older counterparts. They came with their own set of extra side-effects, however—some that come to mind are prolactin elevation (sexual side-effects), and appetite increases or decreases (this is not necessarily a bad thing)—but they're generally considered more tolerable, and while they're sedating, they're considered not to induce neurolepsis to the same degree. As such, they're called atypical (where typical means 'cue the neurolepsis and motor symptoms).

The problem with the typical/atypical split, however, is that most atypicals aren't quite as atypical as they're said to be. Every single atypical antipsychotic except for quetiapine and clozapine can still be linked to motor symptoms, and all of 'em can be linked to sedation of some degree. Moreover, one nasty motor side-effect of neuroleptics AND antipsychotics is this thing called tardive dyskinesia—tardive meaning late-onset, dyskinesia meaning unwanted/uncontrolled movements. So, over time, we go from Parkinson's-like symptoms (less movement) to tardive dyskinesia (more, unwanted movements), which is irreversible and sometimes progressive—the only way to deal with it is to switch to another antipsychotic and hope that it doesn't have the same effect, which is great, except if you've otherwise got a nice balance of symptom management and side-effects, that's a horrible curveball. The atypicals are said to cause tardive dyskinesia at much lower rates... except people still get TD on the atypicals. Moreover, most folks who are still taking typical antipsychotics have probably been on them longer than those on the atypicals, since people don't tend to try chlorpromazine first when quetiapine or olanzapine is more likely to do a better job of attenuating psychosis while inducing fewer adverse effects. As such, part of the difference in TD rates may be due to time, since TD develops in the long term. So, most atypicals aren't as atypical as is said.

Moreover, to split more hairs, just as antipsychotics and neuroleptics are a Venn diagram, SGAs and atypicals are also a Venn diagram, rather than a perfect overlap, due to the existence of one pesky compound called clozapine. Clozapine is pesky on several levels. Clozapine is reserved for those who've tried at least two other antipsychotics and found that they didn't fit, and this is because of its side-effects. Clozapine has a small chance of a potentially life-threatening side-effect called agranulocytosis—technically, almost all antipsychotics can cause agranulocytosis, but clozapine is the most likely to do it. If you get regular blood testing, which you will, if you take clozapine, you'll probably be fine. Otherwise, clozapine is the most atypical antipsychotic we have side-effects wise (of course, YMMV for individuals, since the human body doesn't behave according to textbooks), though it still has MANY side-effects, and it's also more likely than the others to be very effective for attenuating psychosis. (I say 'likely' because everyone's brain chemistry is different, so saying 'this drug is better than this drug' just isn't true, because different compounds work differently for different people. Some people will benefit nicely from haloperidol or perphenazine, others from ariprazole, and others will benefit most from taking mood stabilisers, instead of antipsychotics.) Clozapine is also a somewhat old antipsychotic, having been first put onto the market in 1972. But it tends to get lumped in with the SGAs simply because it's so atypical, which leads me back to the point: most atypicals aren't 100% atypical, and drug categorisation in psychiatry is confusing.

One other side-effect that antipsychotics tend to have is that they're usually very anticholinergic. Anticholinergic drugs reduce levels of a neurotransmitter called acetylcholine, which is very important for memory, movement, and so, so much more. However, the reason I mention memory is that most antipsychotics are contraindicated (recommended against) in those with dementia-related psychosis, primarily since depleting memory chemicals is the last thing you wanna do in someone with a major neurocognitive disorder. This is also why we need to be careful prescribing anticholinergics in those over 65. For the record: most severe mental illnesses tend to have some degree of neurodegenerative effect, which is why medication is so, so important, as it prevents that illness-related neurodegeneration: as such, taking an antipsychotic will prevent schizophrenia/bipolar/major depression-related cognitive decline and worsened illness, but may also have some subtle cognitive effects that probably balance out with those of the illness. It's something to monitor over time, but not something to be scared of.

I've harped on a lot about SIDE EFFECTS SIDE EFFECTS SIDE EFFECTS, so this is a reminder—if the name of a certain medication has been brought up here as associated with a side-effect, that doesn't mean the medication is necessarily bad. Antipsychotics have done a lot of good for many people, and so long as they are prescribed consensually, they will continue to be invaluable.

Also: not everyone who takes an antipsychotic has psychosis, and not every with psychosis takes antipsychotics. Medications don't necessarily indicate what illness someone has—they just help with symptoms, and antipsychotics can help with a heckuva lotta symptoms when used well.

Okay, great. How does this relate to autism, aside from that being proof that you, the author, meet criterion B3 for ASD?

We're almost there.

Several early theories of autism conceptualised it as a pervasive, childhood-onset form of schizophrenia ('childhood schizophrenia' and 'autism' have historically been used synonymously at times). Notably, several of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia spectrum disorders can be considered similar to the executive and social symptoms of autism—autism has its own positive set of symptoms, and schizophrenia its own positive symptoms, but there's an overlap between negative symptoms of the two. Autism was originally the name Eugene Bleuler gave to the way schizophrenic patients tended to withdraw into a fantasy world of their own—that is, withdrawing into an inaccessible inner world, rather than reality. While schizophrenic autism isn't nearly as relevant a clinical concept anymore, it's kinda funny how the two diagnoses diverged from that point.

It's also worth noting that schizophrenia spectrum disorders are probably neurodevelopmental, and both schizophrenia-spec disorders and autism feature enlarged ventricles in the brain. But correlation is not causation—this commonality may not mean anything. In schizospec disorders, ventricle enlargement tends to link to greater untreated duration of illness (as a visible sign of neurodegeneration), while in autism, I think it's just there. Not sure on that one, though. Not all people with ASD or schizospec disorders necessarily have enlarged ventricles, either—it's just a thing that seems worth noting.

Further, the predominant theory of how schizophrenia spectrum disorders work is that there is dopamine dysregulation—that is, some bits of the brain are getting too much, causing positive symptoms, and others are not getting enough, causing negative symptoms. Either that, or dopamine metabolism isn't working properly. We largely figured out that dopamine is probably involved in schizospec disorders by working backwards from the mechanism of action of the antipsychotics: that is, neuroleptics suppress dopamine, and dopamine suppression makes psychosis less bad—therefore, dopamine is involved in psychosis. But it's likely more complex than that, in part because not all people with schizospec disorders will respond to antidopaminergic drugs, and in part because SGAs are generally more likely to be effective than first-gen antipsychotics, and SGAs target more than just dopamine. One other theory posits that NMDA, which is a subtype of the neurotransmitter called glutamate, may also be involved. I'm not going to try to explain it here, since I don't know enough about the NMDA theory to be able to coherently string together a sentence about it. But, keep reading.

We don't entirely understand the mechanism behind autism. It probably involves synaptic pruning to some extent. It may also involve having an overactive brain, in part due to lack of pruning meaning that there is no brain highway so much as a network of ratruns that get clogged up very easily, and in part because GABA, the main inhibitory neurotransmitter we have, isn't doing something right. I think it's interesting that NMDA, a form of glutamate, might have links to psychosis, and that autism also probably involves something weird with glutamate, but I also don't know enough to say whether this is just a weird coincidence or if it's actually relevant. Nevertheless, even if it is a coincidence, I do find it funny to note these commonalities considering the historical links between the diagnoses.

It's also notable that autistic people experience psychosis at higher rates than allistic folks—I'm pretty sure schizospec disorder rates are also elevated among autistic folks—and I'm semi-sure autism is also more common in those with schizospec disorders than in those without.

Okay, now to where the meds come in.

Autism can cause varying levels of disability, ranging from those who need relatively little support to those who need full-time care. Often, higher support needs (HSN) autistics tend to have more dramatic self-injurious behaviours, and may struggle more with controlling aggression, with eloping, and other behaviours that are harmful to both themselves and others.

And I'm less-than-comfortable with how modern psychiatry has chosen to deal with this.

The only drug that's approved for treating these behaviours in ASD is risperidone, a second-gen antipsychotic. Some people will find that risperidone works really well for their psychosis—it's an effective drug! —but when it's used in ASD, it's not there to treat psychosis, usually, but to treat aggression, self-injury, and such.

Thing is, the use of risperidone for this purpose is basically an attempt to sedate the autistic child into not doing these things. I'm a low support needs (LSN) autistic who's never taken psychiatric medication, so it's not really my place to judge this as a tactic. I understand that things that some of us initially flinch at, such as putting HSN autistic children on leashes, is the right thing to do if the child is likely to elope, and I understand that if a child is going to hurt themself badly, they need help. But on the other hand, I have reservations since antipsychotics have been used unethically through history, and continue to be used unethically in certain situations. In some cases, antipsychotics may be helpful for autistic children, and I don't know enough to comment, but it's also profoundly uncomfortable to contemplate the fact that certain medications that are infamous for having horrible side-effects are being used on people who may not be able to provide informed consent. It's an ethical conundrum, since if it is the best way to prevent harm, then it's important that we don't flinch on instinct, but I also really, really hope that the HSN autistic people's needs and comfort are being taken into consideration in these circumstances, since both historically and today, HSN autistic people have been treated as subhuman in so, so many circumstances.

[icy-watch]

Ok, Wojira is real.

Didn't really doubt that she was, but at least she's still asleep. The only problem is: Not for long.

Something's going to happen and she's going to wake up. And it's going to cause Problems. But that's problems for the next season.

So, Scooby-Doo inspired hijinks. It sucks that Ronin fell to capitalism. I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed. He's so much better than that. Him and Clutch took big hits this season.

A couple of people have mentioned that the next season is Seabound. I think I'm going to make some predictions on what that means tomorrow when I watch the first episode. I'm getting a little too eepy rn.

I'm going to quickly do my correct and incorrect predictions here, and call it a day.

I'm only going to do 1 episode tomorrow. I know myself by now. So until then!

Correct and incorrect predictions are under the cut.

Correct

Tim clearly knows more about the island than he's telling the ninja. He did, and I feel so bad for this guy. Trauma, y'all. It really messes with you.

The thing in the fog is not Wojira. Y'all, if I honestly was just bingeing this show, I doubt I would have noticed the jaw moving weird and the sounds the boat was making. I might have thought something was off with the fireballs, but do this is only making me more observant.

Incorrect

Adventure Team was captured because they were trespassing or getting too close to Something. It was thought that they were there to steal the amulet. Which, Clutch was planning on it after he saw it. Maybe before.

Rescue Team has a Scooby-Doo vibe. The "monster" reveal is going to be an actual monster, not some dude in a mask trying to make money from ghost hunters or drive the native people away or something along those lines. Well. I guess I was very wrong about this one.

Wojira is going to be awoken this season. She was not. I'm surprised her eyes didn't snap open in that last shot of her.

Jay (with Nya) will awaken Wojira somehow.

Partially

The ninja are going to be split up at some point. Half of the group are going to be captured. They did split up, twice! The first time Lloyd split from the group, and the second Jay split from the group. But not half of them.

Lloyd and Tim's plot this season (with maybe Zippy) is to rescue the others. That was Lloyd's plot (with the help of Zippy). Tim's was to work around his past trauma thru exposure therapy.

Unconfirmed

The storm and the statues are connected somehow. I was going to put this in correct or partially, but there was never really a solid yes or no to this. There was some connection to the Keepers/Islanders and the statues, but not really with the storm.

Wojira is likely to be the main antagonist for s14. Well, we don't know that yet, so 🤷

[duckduckhjonk]

*very loud clap of my hands*

RIGHT

*very loud cracking of my knuckles*

so tonight marks a special occasion, I finished season one of Inanimate Insanity as part of my tumblr live reactions. Very important day indeed. Now its time for my season review.

I guess if you haven't seen season 1 spoilers?? also its long so it goes under the read more. Also please note I'm just some random critter on the internet, I might not have gods greatest reading comprehension. If I say something wrong, please be respectful but do correct me!

I think the show started off very rocky to say the least. I think it was originally like "We're bfdi but edgy" with all the censored swearing and jabs at what would probably be 'dark' humour. Not really a fan of that bit, like- at all. I think most of what they tried to do early on landed very poorly. I think the way they originally tackled Paint Brush being non-binary was done awfully. I know in the later seasons it is properly discussed, but this is just going through the first season.

But, I think they recovered decently. I think that this season managed to turn that around and make it into genuinely an interesting show. I felt myself getting closer to the screen in anticipation and excitement during some of the later episodes. They ditched the dark/edgy humour and made a good show. I think that was smart and really good.

The characters are very fun. I definitely have some favourites. Those being Paper, Paint Brush, Bow, Balloon, Taco, and Marshmallow, but of them all I absolutely adore Paper. But I also think Bomb stood out a lot. He's a very solid character to me. I don't see a lot of characters with a stutter a lot, and originally I don't think it was done in a goodhearted way, but I didn't see a lot of it being used as the butt of the joke very often. Of course there were times it was, but it wasn't as common as I was expecting I suppose. I also think I'd like to talk about Apple a bit? I thought she was a very decent character, being a little stupid, but iconic I suppose. Although my biggest complaint with her was she was very much written off towards the end with her elimination. While the rest of the eliminated contestants came back and did things, she only got snippets???

Talking more about my faves for a moment. Paper, god I love him. From the bottom of the barrel to the top of the game with him. He became evil, he stopped being evil, he survived isolation, he's a soggy wet cat to me. I love him. I think both him and Bomb were fucked over by OJ. Segway into talking about that guy. OJ, our winner. I have very mixed feelings about him. On one hand, he absolutely is a prick, he's a little dramatic, but on the other hand, he absolutely does feel like Main Guy. He suffers a lot from that Protagonist Syndrome that I think some of these cartoon survivor shows have. Although I don't entirely hate him. He turned out well.

As for everyone's favourite food, I feel a little bad for Taco. She played the game and played it well. Feigning ignorance is not something easily done. If it wasn't for me being a spoiler-seeker and having seen it already, she very easily could have fooled me. She was very much for the most part what Rocky is/was but honestly, 20 times better. I loved her shouting, her auurrrr noise, the lemon spitting. I think that while she's back she should spit a lemon at someone. Please if the movie cares about its fans-

With all of this, I'm actually really looking forward to starting season 2. I'm hoping to be caught up by the time the movie/finale for season 2 comes out so I can possibly add this to my list of object shows to live review. I'm cutting this here because 1) my joints are starting to hurt and 2) if anyone wants more in depth reviews of each character feel free to hop into my inbox and ask, I would love to go more in depth, even with the ones I mentioned here individually. and also 3) its midnight. I'm an eepy guy.

thank you all who are here for accompanying me on this journey :3

[exoticalmonde]

Arknights, Chapter XII - All Quiet Under The Thunder

I'll be honest, I kind of missed a part of the previous stories like chapter 9 and 10 becausse I was grinding stages still, but hey now that I caught the end of Chapter XI I can actually start a new, fresh start knowing that this is where my husband Hoederer comes in.

Here. Watch.

Freaking epic Episode opening.

Also, some spoilers. I didn't manage to get far because I ran out of sanity.

[Text: The battlefield always puts people on edge, even more so when you don't know where the when or where- ]

Excuse me, this sentence...

[-the when or where war will break out, or who you can trust.]

Me: "I have a bad feeling about this." Pinkie: "What makes you say that?" Me: "..." Pinkie: "The war can happen any moment now." Me: "???" Pinkie: "With the press of a button." Me: "Stop. My guy is going back to his family." Pinkie: "Any moment now." Me: *Continues with the story, trying to ignore them.* The story:

Me: *Visceral scream of despair.* ---

Me: "STUPID MILDRED!" Pinkie: "Mildred?" Me: "... Manfred." --- Pinkie: "So far, let's take an account on all that has happened. You have eight or seven dukes that are all keeping an eye on the capital of Victoria, while they're also conspiring with the Sarkaz in a seven-sided-civil war. Your enemy, the Sarkaz, isn't really helping out the situation, but as we have seen, they're not really doing it without a reason. We know something is going on with the Sarkaz. So everybody is keeping an eye on the capital of their country to see what's going on, right? Rhodes Island is trying to infiltrate Victoria to figure out what's going on as well in an attempt to help. Suddenly an airship flies out of their capital, blasts one of their tanks out of the skies, and refuses to elaborate as it leaves. Imagine the mass panic that erupts in this power-vacuum that has to be filled. Me: "If I had to live through that kind of historical event, I'd rather blast people out of the sky and disappear too." Pinkie: "So you figure out that your least favourite enemy has a weapon of mass-destruction and you don't. Now what are your options? You cannot take it down because this ship is much larger than anything you have. Do you steal it? Do you infiltrate it and sieze control? Do you try to side with the, now remaining, SIX lords?" Me: *Sigh of complete exhaustion* ---

Pinkie: "So whoever is in possession of the bigger weapon is the winner." Me: "Small nukes?" ---

Me: "What was the name of Chapter 12 again?" Kryo: "All Quiet... Uh-" Pinkie: "All Eepy On a Rainy Day."

[phatcatphergus]

We actually got much more of a debrief than usual after the session ended and Owen did explain why he wasn't expecting them to fight Pazuzu! I highly recommend watching the whole thing if/when you finish this episode for other details but basically the amount of turns for Pazuzu to show up and for the Chronoheart to break were determined by dice rolls. With the numbers Owen rolled there could've been exactly enough time for the party to break it and get out right before he showed up if everything went perfectly.

So I was right that once he showed up a fight was likely and the players didn't do anything "wrong". What was unexpected for Owen was that they met at all. I'm still a little surprised that during the planning stage he wasn't more worried about the possibility of the dice roll being even worse though. But it did make for some cool moments and a tragic ending!

Oh cool!!!

See, I would absolutely love to go back and watch if I didn’t have to get up in about five hours 😭 I’m making a list of things I want to go back and watch whenever I have time and he’s playing something I’m not particularly interested in watching constantly (coughvalorantcough). That’s on there after the boat stream, the will it toast stream and one of the Woolf working streams.

I was born to be a eepy girl and watch tubathon but I am forced to work and be a girlboss 🖐🏻😔

[acid--inside]

I AM GOING SO VERY WILD AND FERAL. Thank you for the good food

If its alright I would like to hear more about. Any vre takes yuo got (on literally anyone you want). Giggle

ok so fun thing abt me is i cant do fatal or else i have an episode (hallucinate people coming into my house to kill me) so. soft stuff only. :3c

i... thiunk the c/ o/g/s should be stupidly hugelarge in general so they all theoretically CAN. its more of if they WOULD. (all could be pred to a to/on, but if they're small enough could be prey to another c/ o/g)

uh. undercut bc long.!!! (re/gi/on/al ma/na/ge/rs)

i think 🧠 would try to. idk if he's any good at that stuff bc he's one of the smaller ones. and also has no canon mouth. for funny purposes i think it would end with him just getting really pissed off and then going "I CAN BUT NOW IM NOT GONNA!"

🔔can. and he will. he's my snake friend (i see him like a big boa constrictor) and i do have like. genuine lore about the snake instinctss. he was raised like a snake el/sa. so he like. would/could never until he gives in and/or is convinced to give it a shot.

📺no. he dgaf actually. no thank you. he could but he doesnt feel like it/doesnt see any appeal. thanks for considering him tho.

🛻(yes this is the stupid speedy boy's emoji) also can. he does i think. but only ever to 🔥. (and 🔥is just prey not a pred, at least not to him. look i see 🛻 as an actual truck in my mind)

🦆he'd try to do it as a joke but he can't so he just kinda. slobbers on you. also would get distracted and end up kissing you a lot.

🌲yah. he can + will. tee bee aych i think non-romantic safe/soft w/ him and ⛓️could be sweet. protect your brother :) (NOT ROMANTIC!!!! THEYRE BASICALLY HUGGING)

🌑sorry hes too little. also probably would not. i dont see him being too big of a fan of either orientation either. (a mix of no interest + would be like. prey exclusively and doesnt want that)

🛰️i. thiunk they could go either way. i habe my own bag of worms abt these freaks. all would have their own preferences tho. i think its funny if N didnt gaf. keep that shit away from me and let me cook.

⛈️ya. mean lawyer who keeps trying to eat the competition/anyone who wins against her. she'd be more mean abt it but also has to spit them out. tiny enough to be prey to other employees tho.

📜(its that stupid old man there wanst an emoji for him) eh. he's. he also dgaf. no interest. thinks its also stupid to do regardless.

⚔️UH HUH. another big mean lady who eats people she doesnt like. would absolutely throw a fit if anyone else ate her though. (literally only 🔔 is big enough to reliably eat other coworkers. and she hates him. idk why.

☎️sure. i think she's done it before. no longer has interest. that was something she looks back on like it was an embarrassing teenage phase (it totally was)

🔥also yes, he has fun w/ it. pred to most to/ons and cool abt it. prey to his BF. also cool abt it. also i think he'd be stupid chill about it, just kinda. on his phone in there.

🦉SO EEPY. probably would do either orientation (pred/prey) but sleeps the whole fucking time. if you like hyper prey do not engage they will lie to you. you like preds who tease? good fucking luck he immediately takes a nap

🎹ABSOLUTELY A PRED. more than happy to chow down on any randos who ask politely. but only if you ask politely. kinda the epitome of "yum im so full of quarters yum" so he like. isnt some people's first choice bc of that.

⛓️yuh. i will break the mold and say. while i think he COULD be a pred, he prefers to be prey. its like a full body hug, and a warm weighted blanket. he finds it soothing to have the warmth + pressure and also have no responsibility until he's back in his office. so. he would like to take a nap in there. would pair best w/ 🦉for that reason but he's too big/distrusting of himself around others bc of the ov/er/ri/de.