#auctober 1

[icannotgetoverbirds]

Auctober 2022

I don't know if I'll be able to keep up with this all month, but I saw @autiebiographical 's post and got so excited about this, so I just had to join in however I'm able!

Stims! I love me some good hand flapping. Jumping up and down and leg bouncing are some more high-energy ones. Sometimes I'll layer my fingers over each other, one by one, and then layer them in reverse order - that's actually the first stim I remember doing!

Sometimes, when I'm trying to sleep, I'll just sort of bend my foot up and down like I'm pressing on and releasing a pedal. Still not sure what that one's about, to be honest (/pos).

Tapping my fingers in sequence sometimes drives other people a little crazy, but having a laptop where I can type and get essentially the same thing done helps with that.

Chewing is also a really good stim, but I don't have any chewelry or anything yet, and gum just doesn't work for me, unfortunately. Someday, though, I'm gonna get myself a nice chewing stick.

Granted, there are a few stims that aren't so good that I have (under the cut, content warning for self harm), but those are some of my most common ones.

Sometimes, when I'm really frustrated, I'll hit myself on my head with the heel of my palm, or I'll dig into my skin with my nails. Often, regardless of how I'm feeling, I find myself picking and pulling hairs.

When I was a kid, I also used to pick and chew and rip at my nails. I'll be honest, I'm not sure what made me stop doing that, but I'm grateful nonetheless.

I also occasionally chewed on my shirts when I was younger? I don't know why, I guess I just craved the flavor of fabric. I really have always been a chaotic little gremlin.

#auctober2022 #auctober 1 #auctober #tw sh #tw trichotillomania mention #tw excoriation disorder mention #tw dermatillomania mention

[spookylovesart]

Auctober Day 1 - Stims

Hooray another month full o’ drawing/animating/etc.! I wanted to animate this day cuz I felt like it captured the movement I do better :-]!

#auctober #auctober 2022 #day 1 stims #autism #actually autistic #my art #spooky's art #spookylovesboba #spooky loves boba #animation #gif

[solangeloweek]

AUctober 2023

[ID: An orange and purple prompt calendar for the month of October, titled AUCTOBER, with clipart of bats, a ghost, a pumpkin, and a scarecrow /end ID]

Happy AUctober!

This year's prompt calendar includes themed days of the week, including Monstrous Mondays, Terrifying Tuesdays, Free-Day Fridays, and Soulmate Saturdays! As always, Halloween (Oct 31) is a free day as well.

Event Rules can be found Here. Any questions can be directed to @solangeloweek or any of the mods! Written list of prompts below the cut:

Sunday, Oct 1 - Roommates

Monday, Oct 2 - Sea Creatures

Tuesday, Oct 3 - Ghost Hunters

Wednesday, Oct 4 - Exes

Thursday, Oct 5 - Royalty

Friday, Oct 6 - Free!

Saturday, Oct 7 - Red String

Sunday, Oct 8 - Artist

Monday, Oct 9 - Vampires

Tuesday, Oct 10 - Magic

Wednesday, Oct 11 - Childhood Friends

Thursday, Oct 12 - Enemies to Lovers

Friday, Oct 13 - Free!

Saturday, Oct 14 - Soulmate Tattoos

Sunday, Oct 15 - Canon Divergence

Monday, Oct 16 - Werewolves

Tuesday, Oct 17 - Necromancers

Wednesday, Oct 18 - Athletes

Thursday, Oct 19 - Office

Friday, Oct 20 - Free!

Saturday, Oct 21 - Dreams

Sunday, Oct 22 - Musicians

Monday, Oct 23 - Ghosts

Tuesday, Oct 24 - Saw Trap

Wednesday, Oct 25 - DnD

Thursday, Oct 26 - Canon Rewrite

Friday, Oct 27 - Free!

Saturday, Oct 28 - Soulmate Timer

Sunday, Oct 29 - College

Monday, Oct 30 - Zombies

Tuesday, Oct 31 - Happy Halloween! Free Day!

#auctober #prompt calendar #solangelo

[buoyantsaturn]

yet i need to talk to you (1/1)

summary: “Being away from you just makes me think about how I never want to be without you, and--”  Nico snorted. “Are you asking me to marry you? Haven’t we done this already?”  word count: 4,116

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With all of the twists and turns Nico had gone through in his life, he knew he could always rely on Will as his constant - more specifically, Will being around to dote on him after a return from the Underworld. 

They’d established early on in their relationship that Nico often didn’t need healing whenever he came back from running an errand for his father. Yes, his vitals were abnormal, and sometimes his fading would return, and on occasion he would come back to the surface with a few minor cuts and scrapes. But after more than a few small disagreements, Will conceded that doctors - or heads of infirmaries, or med school students - didn’t always know best, and admitted that the best person to handle Nico’s care was, in fact, Nico.

Imagine that.

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#solangelo #will solace #nico di angelo #mine #my writing #farm to table

[gatesofember]

The Three Month Curse

Part of the Clichecore AU

Everyone assumed that Nico and Will were dating before they got together. Now that they’re finally a couple, why do people always think they act too much like friends?

Day 1 of @solangeloweek's auctober: Roommates

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#clichecore au #solangelo #nico di angelo #will solace #my fic

[autiebiographical]

Day 1 of Auctober!

There are so many different types of stims. Flapping hands, rocking, spinning, snapping, and more and more and more.

Stim freely my friends!

#auctober #auctober 2022 #auctober2022 #stims

[sunflowersandscreams]

kiss with a fist is better than none

orchestra au chapter 1 aah!!! written for @solangeloweek auctober day 12 - enemies to lovers. no loving yet but it will come <3

Summary: Well, if he wanted to play it like that, then Will would meet him halfway. “I meant it. What I said earlier. I would have liked to make peace so we can get over this whole… whatever, but you just had to be an asshole, so never mind, I guess.” Nico looked at him, bored, a distinct lack of an expression on his face. “You think I’d really believe that? That you’d be so courteous, so kind, as to- what, ‘use your hand as an olive branch’? I’m not naïve, Solace.” “I wasn’t saying that you- it’s not like-” Will bit his tongue. “You don’t wanna be nice to each other? Fine. I don’t care. It’s not like it would change much, or that we could change much, at this point.” “Your guilt tripping isn’t going to affect me.” Nico tilted his chin up, angry now. “Maybe I’m fine with being like this? Or maybe it just doesn’t matter as much as you seem to think it does.” ~ Nico and Will have been rivals slash sworn enemies since the beginning of high school, when they both joined the orchestra. Things change, for better or worse.

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#lori writes #solangeloweek auctober #auctober 2023 #orchestra au #aah!! its finally out :))) updates r gonna be So Slow bc of the horrors

[selfindulgentraptor]

Auctober Day 1!

Here's a few of my common stims!

Flapping (usually only my left hand)

Flailing my arms/hands around all rigid and snappy snap-like

Head/body shake when I need to recalibrate

Standing on one leg and shaking the other like a jackhammer

Literally anything with my hands, they're always mashing together

Stabbing any area of my body with my claws (deep pressure)

Shout out to my invisible stims! Including flicking my tongue on the roof of my mouth, flexing my thighs, eye widening/closing

#auctober #auctober2022 #auctober 2022 #autism #actually autistic #stim #stimming #my art

[eldritch-edward]

Auctober Prompt 1: Stims

A friend commented how great it would be to see Elle lashing his tail happily.

#edward elric #fullmetal alchemist #auctober #stims #Eldritch!Ed #Eldritch!Edward #Chimera Edward Elric

[sweetpumpkinmouse]

Auctober 2023! Day 1: Red, Not Blue!

!!!EYE STRAIN WARNING!!!

I decided to do Auctober. Some drawings will go extreme, others will be silly. Either way, I hope it’ll be fun. ^^

#auctober #auctober 2023 #red not blue #actually autistic #autistic adult #autism #autistic #artists on tumblr #autism acceptance #digital art #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #october

[cobaltsoulsearcher]

Auctober Day 1: Hyposensitivity

One of my major hyposensitivities is cold, so I wrote this little poem for today:

Shivers fast and chill slow

Angel of frost, glitter of snow

The weather winds between my teeth

As I see the cold I never know

Until my heart does reach it

Sidenote: I headcanon Orpheus from Hadestown, my current Hyperfixation and part of my special interest in musicals, as also hypersensitive to cold because he doesn’t sense a supposedly extreme storm in “Chant”!

#Auctober #auctober2023 #hadestown #Orpheus #hyposensitive #actually autistic

[solreefs]

auctober day 1 is stims, so here’s five of mine! I have more but this is all I’m sharing for now:

butterfly hands. I link my thumbs so that my palms face my chest, and then I flick my fingers. it’s mostly a stress response.

when I’m really excited, I bounce on my toes

I spin my rings around my fingers

if fabric has a good texture, whether that’s on a blanket, a stuffed animal, a shirt, etc. I will run my fingers over it as much as I can

I love biting things, usually a zipper or necklace, but sometimes gum or my hand

#Ceres rambles #auctober

[spookylovesart]

Auctober Day 20 - Special Interests

So as someone with co-morbid neurodiversities, it's hard for me to tell when something is a special interest or a hyperfixation. I don't really have the time to figure it out so if something goes away it's gone & if something stays it stays :-P

BUT! No matter what I'll love them for as long as I can (if I don't have an unpleasant experience with them)

Some of these I've had my whole life while others I've only had for at least 1 whole year. Plus they all mix into the different categories so it's just a big ol mess up in my brain lol!

#auctober 2022 #auctober #autism #actually autistic #my art #spooky's art #spooky loves boba #spookylovesboba #basically it's like a ball of things in my head #do I dare tag each one? #gore #cw: gore

[cloverandcrossbones]

Autober: Autism pride and awareness challenge

Day 1: Stimming

Idk if I've started allowing myself to stim more since discovering my autism or if I'm just identifying them specifically as "stims" now and not habits, personal quirks, or nervous ticks like I probably used to!

Some stims are happy stims where I'm just so full of glee I can't keep still! Others are self soothing stims that calm me down when I'm nervous or upset. And some are stress stims when I am so full of bad feelings that I just have to Get. It. All. Out.

My stims:

Rocking/swaying: I sway side to side when I'm happy or eating good food, I rock back and forth when I'm anxious or overwhelmed

Happy feet tapping: usually I just tap the front of my feet up and down but when I'm really pleased (and lying down) I rock one or both feet back and forth from the ankles like a metronome (or a dog wagging its tail) I also like rubbing my feet against fun textures like soft blankets, sheets, or rugs that I like the feel of.

Leg bouncing: a classic. Helps me focus, prevents my leg muscles from falling asleep and helps with nerves. Fairly acceptable since neurotypicals so it too, but that also means it's frowned upon since they see it as just a bad habit.

Rapidly opening and closing my hands: I often alternate between having my thumb inside or outside of the fist each time. Kinda looks like I am making a poor attempt at sign language hand spelling...

Shake it off: letting my hands go limp at the wrists and then aggressively shaking them like when your hand gets sore from writing for a long time. Kind of like traditional flapping but side to side instead of up and down. I don't flap up and down as often.

Closing my fists and rotating them at the wrist: I've noticed a lot of neurotylical people do this one too when they're excited or looking at something cute! I think my threshold for excitement is lower for this stim than NT ppl though. I think this one is less noticeable than the shaking/flapping ones so I didn't register it as a stim at first.

Wiping hands/rubbing thumb across finger tips: kind of like when u get crumbs on ur fingers and are swiping them off. I do do this for crumbs but also after touching bad textures or trying to get a bad thought out of my head.

Thigh pushing: I do this when I'm very stressed, having or fighting off a meltdown or panic attack. I drive the heels of my palms into my thighs and pushing them along the length of my thighs (kind of like u might give a deep leg massage?). It provides good pressure for grounding myself and I can really dig my frustration into it without really hurting myself. It's better than digging my nails into my arms or pulling my hair like I used to do. This is usually paired with rocking back and forth.

Lip biting/chewing: trying to stop this one! It's bad for the obvious reasons that it's a damaging stim but also because I get cold sores so I have one spot on my lip that if I break it open it releases the virus cells and turns into a cold sore :( that sucks! If anyone has tips for avoiding this stim let me know!

Skin picking: like the lip biting I do this when I'm nervous or if there are textures on my skin bothering me. I've been wearing pimple patches over textured places so I can't feel them or pick at them.

Do you do any of these? Reblog with the stims we share (in post or tags) or make your own post to participate in Auctober!

#Auctober #Auctober 2022 #Autism #Women with autism

[buoyantsaturn]

Bloody Mary (1/1)

summary: It was like he’d flipped a switch - in the blink of an eye, there was suddenly a fourth person in the room. He was standing just a few feet in front of Will, blocking his view of the TV screen: another teenage boy in clothes that were probably hand-me-downs, who looked like he fit in perfectly with the rest of the group.  Aside from the whisk in his hand, which was dripping some sort of chocolate batter onto the carpet.  “You have got to be kidding me,” the boy grumbled.  word count: 1,315

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Will’s house, as usual, was that night’s sleepover location. Will’s mom was the only one that wasn’t weird about multi-gender sleepovers, so she was happy to host Will’s two best friends almost every weekend. (Cecil’s mom didn’t think it was appropriate for her teenage son to have a girl in his room, or vice versa, but Lou’s mom thought Will was gay, so she had no issues with shipping her daughter off to the weekly sleepover.)

Also as usual, ten o’clock found Lou lounging across Will’s bed, scrolling mindlessly through her phone, while Will and Cecil sat on the floor playing video games. “We should do something,” Lou said, dropping her phone onto her stomach and tipping her head back over the edge of the mattress, watching the TV screen upside down. 

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buy me a coffee | more auctober stuff

#solangelo #will solace #nico di angelo #mine #my writing #auctober

[gatesofember]

The Father Dilemma

Chapter 1

Wild West AU | Pairing: Solangelo | Rating: T | Read on AO3

A year after deciding to stay permanently, Nico di Angelo has long since settled into Ladon Creek. He has two bothersome but loyal housemates, a caring community of friends, and a loving partner. His days have never been so peaceful and he never thought he’d feel so happy. But his calm, blissful life is thrown into disarray when he learns some truly sinister news: Will’s father is coming to visit.

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This work is part of a series! Read the first part here.

Free Day is Wild West day for me! I am once again plaguing @solangeloweek with the wild west au for auctober.

#wild west au #will solace #nico di angelo #solangelo #my fic