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Have I been away long? Why yes! Yes I have!

But I come bearing a peace offering: 🧁

Oh also a Discord Server link to keep up to date with Fanfictions and Artwork for multiple fandoms.

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the percy & grog scenes in the last couple of episodes were very important to me and i want to thank everyone involved

#amen #my bookended intelligent cursed weapon surviving touched by darkness and equally feral best boys #don’t mention the githyanki skull #let them forge trammels together #Freddie and Greg by beloveds

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[Spoilers for Legend of Vox Machina]

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I knew the Sunken Tomb would make me emotional but because of the flawless acting, my weakness for Sibling Relationships in general, and some more recent events happening in my personal life, I have only just managed to stop crying myself to sleep at night.

I have a couple of days before I’m being put back into the emotional meat grinder again.

#critical role #vox machina #legend of vox machina #vox machina spoilers #do not go far from me #don’t go where I can’t follow

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Just a Decepticon Leader posing dramatically with his back-stabbing Second in Command who he hates.

g1 is such a trip they always are just together being weird

#matching hats for you and the SIC #megatron #starscream #transformers #transformers g1 #come Starscream let us stand together on this random high cliff #everything the light touches is my kingdom #one day Starscream it will still be mine #I’m not dying #get rekt

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Honestly? So much of Sonic Prime happens the way it does because Sonic is unabashedly, wholeheartedly neurodivergent, and I wanna talk about that in detail for several reasons

I think most people assume he has ADHD, and while I agree, I think they tend to leave it at "he's hyperactive and impulsive" when there's actually a lot more going on there.

For example, he lacks a filter. He says exactly what he's thinking, all the time, regardless of who's listening. I wouldn't be surprised if he does it as a type of vocal stim, considering that he talks to himself as much as he does to other people. Maybe he dislikes the way silence feels on his ears, too?

Something I noticed was that when Thorn gets on his case for this, asking if he ever stops talking, the way he says "eh, not really" sounds... almost resigned?

He could have easily said it in a more jokey way, but his tone (and the wide camera shot) gives me the impression that this isn't a trait of his that he feels especially positive about.

It's not cool or funny to him, at least not in this instance; it's just something he does, which further proves to me that it's more of an unconscious stim than anything else.

On the topic of the jungle world though, it also shows us a couple instances of him not being able to read others' intentions very well. Prim lies to him about knowing what the Prism shard is, and Thorn uses him to get to said shard - and despite how hostile they are, he takes both of them at their word.

He only realizes Thorn's intentions after she hits him across the clearing - not for the first time that day, mind you - and Sonic berates himself a little for not seeing this coming.

But it's not like this is the only time he has difficulty understanding intent; just look at his interactions with Shadow.

This is not the behavior of someone who understands why Shadow's picking a fight with him. He doesn't understand the implications of "you literally shook the world" because he doesn't know about the Weirder aspects of the explosion. In his mind, he just messed up a mountain.

Though I think his attitude implies another thing about his dynamic with Shadow that might explain why he was so quick to dismiss what he was talking about, which is. I don't think Sonic usually understands why they fight??

Shadow is a person of few words and Sonic has a hard time picking up on subtleties, that's a recipe for miscommunication already. And if Sonic's already predisposed to thinking that Shadow fights him Just Because, then of course he didn't take this particular instance seriously.

Though going back to "he only registered the physical effect of the explosion," Sonic is actually pretty consistent with understanding things that are tangible a lot better than anything else. Case in point: that One Palm Tree

His first reaction to seeing it presented as a gift is that it must be a trick. because he doesn't see the tangible point of the tree, and isn't enough of a symbolism guy to see the sentimental point of it, either.

Don't get me wrong, he is being insensitive here, but I don't think it's on purpose in any way. Look at his body language and expressions:

Even as he's getting on their case for being too sentimental, he's not unhappy or uncomfortable with them. He's just completely failing to recognize that this was supposed to be a big deal for them, so he's treating it way more casually than is appropriate.

Which is like. a classic social flub for neurodivergent folks

(Quick side note - this specific "huh" that he makes as Tails is flying away before Sonic realizes he's upset is a whole mood. I don't know how to explain it but this is Exactly what it feels like when you can sorta tell something's not clicking but you don't know what yet)

(Look at him. brain static)

I could go on with the detailed explanations but some of that would just be me repeating past posts I've made, so I'll leave it at "he is clearly not handling change well either" and link back to an example.

So anyway, this is what I meant when I said that so much of the show is impacted by Sonic being neurodivergent. It affects how we hear his thoughts as viewers, it affects his ability to understand and connect with his friends, it's why he dismisses Shadow, it's why he impulsively smashes the Paradox Prism, the list goes on.

And he's not stupid because of any of these traits, either. None of what I've described has to do with intelligence, but I've seen "Sonic is too dumb" as a reason to criticize the show, and that's just not what's happening here.

If anything, I'm actually really impressed with how well the writers have managed to portray a more nuanced take on what a character with ADHD would look like. Because he's not just being hyperactive and chatty, you can tell it affects how he perceives things too.

Which is a much bigger part of the overall experience, and it's really cool to see in a cartoon like this - and in the lovable main character, to boot! Who cherishes his friends despite his struggles to understand them! Why is it so good!

In conclusion Sonic is the ADHD king we both needed and deserved, thanks for coming to my TED talk

#sonic the hedgehog #and I don’t love him any less #sonic prime #sonic prime spoilers

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Warning: flashing lights/bright colors/Sonic Prime spoilers

This is the plot of Sonic Prime, right?

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic prime spoilers #these poor boys

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A List of various characters named ‘Percy’ who appear to be sweet little nerds on the outside but would be able to kill you (in their own unique way).

Feel free to add more!

#percy jackson #percy the small engine #percy de rolo #tf perceptor #percy the park keeper

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Ash reuniting with the first Pokémon he ever caught in the wild.

For some of us who watched the first series of Pokémon when it first came out back in the nineties, this hits very hard.

#pokemon #ash ketchum #butterfree

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She sleep.

#sonic the hedgehog #rouge the bat #sonic prime #sonic prime spoilers #i love bats

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Caution: Very flammable Human!

#critical role #vox machina #legend of vox machina #percy de rolo #percival de rolo #let’s go

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Transformers Reactivate really said: “Ok we have a Bon Jovi cover for the trailer… Oh! Go get the voice cast of Transformers Prime. That’ll be fun!”

#transformers #transformers reactivate #transformers prime #no thoughts head empty

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Excellent.

Will you do this for him?

#it’s what he deserves #percival fredrickstein von musel klossowski de rolo iii

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He needs all of the above, I think…

Will you do this for him?

#critical role #vox machina #percy de rolo

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Lying in bed thinking back on the Earthspark episodes and musing on the small things like how Wheeljack doesn’t have the Ghost Insignia yet Arcee does and how Spike Witwicky was in the G1 style flashback and how the President is a woman and how-

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#transformers armada #transformers earthspark #earthspark spoilers #alexis thi dang #starscream #Starscream looks at Megatron with his new human woman like: first time? #let the president have a dangerous Decepticon air commander #madam president you can’t have a Decepticon… #hold my moonrock

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Transformers: Animated Season 4 confirmed?

#i joke so i don't cry #transformers earthspark #earthspark spoilers #sari sumdac #transformers animated #my sister spotted this first

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Treasure beware.

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic prime #knuckles the echidna #rouge the bat #knouge #knuxouge

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#anything for their darling Ashley #team rocket have been with ash every step of the way