#they are behaving differently now

[goldkirk]

[earlier today]

me, excited that I’m about to drop some insight into why it’s different than my aunt thinks, these parents have to spend every day full of massive fear and guilt and suffering because they think they’ve failed their kid and the kid is going to suffer for eternity: yeah so that’s where there’s a disconnect for her, because the media they were being fed by, especially in the 80s and 90s, you know, it all trains them into the mentality of—

my aunt, who rarely takes any hard stances on any family things I mention or say, cutting me off to say: No, no, no, no, no, don’t tell yourself that they were manipulated or brainwashed, they chose to move further into that. Everybody got that media. They chose what they wanted to be told. Your mom could have gotten any other media and it was her choice to pick those things because they fit with what beliefs she was getting strongly back into at the time, and she chose that. She had the choice every time, no one brainwashed her or your dad they picked that media on purpose and decide what they want to let themselves hear

my brain, after a two second pause of genuine thought train derailing over a bridge into the abyss: —that’s WORSE!!!!!!!! that’s worse! oh my god! no, aunt p, that’s worse!!

me, physically:

what I had planned on explaining was something like: so that’s where there’s a disconnect for her, because the media they were being fed by, especially in the 80s and 90s, you know, it all trains them into the mentality of “it doesn’t matter how good or selfless or accomplished or successful your kid is in this life if he’s in mortal sin because he’ll still suffer for all eternity in the next life even if he was a great feed the needy and homeless person in this one. the concept of your kid no matter how happy they seemed being doomed to hell if you don’t convince them back onto the straight and righteous they’ll just condemn themselves to be lost forever and you’re just guaranteed to lose them. FAILURE”

what I got chair-to-the-face crimed with instead was:

“your parents are completely responsible for their own warped understandings of the world and chose to make it so”

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“I was never enough to make them change”

and just, GEEZ, 🥲😰

[rayhantochtli]

Doodles to get used to my "new" brushes

[sciderman]

I swear I have read your big post regarding Peter Parker's neurodivergence and why it is best to avoid labelling him, but he definitely has a weird brain

Can't find it and feel kinda sad about it cuz I deeply related to it

i know exactly which post you're talking about and i can't find it either! i've raked through my archive, and it's just - nowhere to be seen. i think tumblr eated it (it happens.)

really, tumblr's search functionality is so so useless, i don't know what to tell you. there are plenty of keywords i can search to find it that post, but the search functionality actually just does not work!

undiagnosed audhd-addled peter parker, my darling, my light, my life, my everything.

i think peter parker's such an interesting creature to write, because a lot of people will point to a certain behaviour about him and say "this is an autistic thing, right?" but a lot of those behaviours are actually, in my head, tied to certain traumas in peter's life too.

people say "oh, the food thing, peter's a picky eater because he's autistic" and yes, absolutely. but also it's tied to his trauma with his parents.

peter gets overstimulated, and yes, it's an autism thing, but also he was bitten by a radioactive spider and his senses are dialled to 11.

it's a similar case i've found for myself, too – where a lot of friends i have kind of diagnose me because i have autistic traits, but actually - i'm hesitant to claim the label or pursue diagnosis because, actually, i know where these certain behaviours come from, and they come from certain traumas. there are events i can pinpoint in my life and say "yep. that's where this behaviour comes from."

so - i think there's a lot of overlap between trauma and autistic traits. the brain is very complex! i think the reason for that overlap is maybe as simple as the fact that people with autism and people with trauma are both doing the same thing - developing behaviours to protect themselves or soothe themselves. so - i think it's nice to be able to see a character like peter parker, who may or may not be autistic, but recognise behaviours in him and see yourself in him.

people who go undiagnosed for whatever reason - people who are really good at masking - so good, in fact, that they have no idea they might be on the spectrum - everyone and anyone at all can look at peter parker and recognise themselves. because i think we discredit the thought that every single brain does the same thing! develops certain behaviours in order to survive. every brain has that same software - we've just all been faced with different hardships that we need to overcome, and that's were all the differences come in.

autism is a spectrum, i guess - everyone falls into it to some degree. and i think events in your life probably push you along on it. but i don't know, i didn't study brain science. probably what i'm saying is very stupid and uninformed. of course there's brain chemistry involved. but i know people in my life living with autism and certain events in their life have exacerbated certain behaviours or made coping with it a lot more difficult. so maybe trauma is a catalyst.

[stuckinapril]

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[statementlou]

ugh I cannot stop thinking about the rumor of Andrew Cushin asking girls from the audience how old they are and inviting them backstage, the implication that 1) he is selecting girls young enough that he can't tell by looking if they're legal or not and 2) he has intentions that they need to be legal for, like I am very aware this is anything but unusual but Louis has created such a beautiful and respectful culture around his tours that it's a jarring and fucked up reminder of the shitty wider culture and I just want to know if Louis knows someone is treating his army of depraved younger sisters like this because I do not think he's gonna like it- and boy am I praying for that reckoning

[crabussy]

people cannot see a harmless poll curious about vernacular without implying that anyone who speaks differently to them is stupid huh

[sualne]

new game, new wizard!

[deadciv]

the way g witch is about like…people trying to escape the gravity of their upbringing/background and then getting pulled back in inexorably…i do unfortunately love to see it

[b4kuch1n]

OOOUGGHAAAAAAA I DID IT I MANAGED TO DO INK WITH A DIP PEN

NEXT COMICS MEDIUM IS FUCKING SETTLED. YUUTO YOU WILL BE FED

[frasier-crane-style]

I'm halfway convinced that Nazis could conquer the world if they just renamed themselves the Good Guy League, because no one would look at what they did, they'd just see the name Good Guy League and go:

"Wow, you're opposed to the Good Guy League? What are you, A BAD GUY?"

"Can't believe I'm living under a government that isn't pro-good-guy."

"Here's Why Gassing The Jews Is Not Incompatible With Being A Good Guy: how bad faith arguments about gassing jews are trying to ruin being a good guy."

[sweetshire]

So, @silv-paru sent Sherlock Holmes for the character opinion bingo. thanks a bunch for this (and for your patience. my god, i’m answering this a week late. typical me behaviour). you’re a darling :D

Did you know, i used to tell these stories to my friends? they delighted in them AND i got a chance to sort of ramble on and on abt him and watson. it was a win-win, really. ah, those were the days! now i haven’t reblogged much of him this month at all. i miss him. I MISS HIM.

Onto the bingo: well. he’s The quintessence of gender™ to me. and i relate to him so so much. fav character of all time fr. i want to carry him in my pocket at all times & study him. like. do i want to BE him OR am i IN LOVE with him, ykwim? pssh who knows? certainly not me. uh-huh ‘a beast unleashed’ -does this refer to me or him? you choose. oh re: canon, i’m ignoring the part where holmes dies (or y’know, is dead for 3 years). that’s too angsty.

[fiona-fififi]

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[trashcanwithsprinkles]

Archon war anon

Very fair on the roman apartments thing! That was more of a "If I had to make this as we can see it work, how would I do it?" than anything serious. There's enough space around there that I would doubt the people there would have felt the need to cramp into living space like that. I'm also just mentally trying to insert towns everywhere I can for the sake of my many competing god territories story, so that influences how far I'm willing to stretch.

The viewpoint does say scattered, and you're right, that scattered isn't what you'd use for "fled together with the adepti".

On the Geo Diaries/Zhongli's story quest, you are very right on that. But another theory that it made me think of, for the mora-house at least, is maybe that story comes from Zhongli's original people before he joined Guizong? Drawing from the stone tablets book again, he supposedly raised Mt. Tianheng out of the water and had some people there on Shanhui Rock/Fort. Maybe the mora-house story comes from further back than the founding of Liyue Harbour? Given that he apparently had Shanhui while with/before Guizhong, and she set up the ballista to defend it, I think it'd make sense for there to be some sort of earlier settlement that maybe got renamed when Morax took all of his people there after she died. This doesn't work out so well for the many gods thing, but it does play into the "Morax had control of most of Liyue" thing pretty well.

I refuse to believe that people had to relearn how to build stones after getting to the harbor though. That's so useful, and the kind of thing that I think is both basic and widespread enough that I can't really see it getting lost.

The scattered theory, even as a non-canon thing to play with is pretty fun! I was plotting out more of the war in a pre-write brainstorm yesterday and ended up writing it in? Not as far as I think you've been advocating for, but I wrote that Morax kind of dumped his surviving people on his allies and adepti and went off to rampage on his enemies for a bit. And none of his allies or adepti had the resources to take all of his surviving people, even though a bunch died when Guizhong died, so they ended up a little scattered.

:) thank you for the replies, this is so much fun! ily too!

this is fun, yeah! i love rambling about liyue history

i guess it is possible that the account of the mora house comes from a long long time ago? and that it just got for whatever reason repurposed for the founding of the harbor? since the guy explicitly speaks of it in the context of building liyue harbor. it would make sense, i could never really get this idea into my head since i, too, had always been of the opinion that the liyue migration must've happened relatively shortly after the fall of the assembly, so them having to relearn how to make houses would make no damn sense. even if it had been generations between the assembly and the harbor, that's still like- like you said with the stones, i don't think people just forget how to build a damn house. but then zhongli just says that it's true???????????????? idk man. again i know he's a little shit but i don't think he purposefuly spreads/actively perpetuates misinformation of that type. (i've come to the realization that all the misinformation he seems to not care about enough to try and make an effort to correct revolves around himself. like he will correct misinformation on other subjects but seems to care very little about misinformation surrounding morax/rex lapis. i might just be missremembering though)

[outeremissary]

Gripped by an intense terror that my computer may have decided to die forever before I could rescue my writing

[fleetways]

The thing is, Sonic is very chivalrous with Shadow. And even though Shadow kinda has pick up on how it seems very exclusive to him, he doesn’t see the irony of it.

Sonic was a King, and if he had grew up as his peers had expect him to, he would’ve expect that sort of reverence from Shadow. Not viceversa.

He is gentle because he wants to, and because he loves Shadow already, he doesn’t view him as weak, he just can’t stand to see him hurt.

Que Vivan los Novios🦔🦔!

🎯

[panharmonium]

“he’s just a fill-in!”

the fact that naruto’s tantrum inadvertently weaponizes every single insecurity that yamato later ends up having about his own position on this team...