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khorazir · 2 years
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My third (of three) 2022 @fandomtrumpshate pieces: a cover for the marvellous The High-Functioning Sociopath Who Walked by Himself by @chriscalledmesweetie
It’s also for June’s @sherlockchallenge : Move
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Sherlock you're depressed. Sad crying mew mew (: (:
No, I am not. That is just an extreme excess of negative emotions, and I do not feel, so how should I experience anything to do with an overabundance of emotions? Sociopaths do not get depressed.
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tenderlywicked · 5 months
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What's with Englishmen and purple shirts?  😆
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seaweedstarshine · 19 days
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Rewatching my favorite Christmas special and I cannot get over “Psych*tic Potato Dwarf” as an insult from a person who — canonically — according to sources from the same writer — often hears voices that he has trouble distinguishing from reality. It's not just the one line, it's the fact that it’s the title of Strax’s theme! I always wanna call it out 😭, which works out in my The Snowmen-era Eleventh Doctor fanfictions because Strax is a nurse and would know what that word means.
Like, it does unfortunately fit the character because Gallifreyan culture is — canonically — systematically exclusionary of mentally ill people, and the Eleventh Doctor — canonically — hates himself more than anyone in the universe. But the choice?
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madgalena · 8 months
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online pop psychology needs to Die now
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❝ I’m the monster. I’m the villain, ❞ he says dryly, as though stating the weather forecast for the day.
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"I'm sorry, and you are--?" the consulting detective retorted, his tone irreverent. Icy blues fixated on the case file in front of him, dismissing the other. Sherlock had enough problems to deal with without a new chess piece coming onto the board. "Now, if don't mind excusing yourself, I have a case to crack." he waves off the other refocusing on the task in front of him.
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actually, sherlock holmes has been in public domain for a while now. what we're celebrating is the ability to write sherlock as respecting women and NOT being a dick 🎊🎉
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jasonsbones · 1 year
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SOCIOPATHY IS NOT A FUCKING DIAGNOSIS
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quodekash · 2 years
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Whenever anyone in sherlock calls him a psychopath and sherlock isnt there to correct them, i say out loud ”NOT A PSYCHOPATH HES A HIGH FUNCTIONING SOCIOPATH” and that reminds me of will and elizabeth correcting cuttlet(didispellthatright) that hes ”CAPTAIN jack sparrow” and now you know youre welcome
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rebel-stardust · 2 years
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I volunteer to be one of Lloyd Hansen's desperate ugly chicks, please thank you
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liminalweirdo · 2 years
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spoilers for super dark times and josh’s character/motivation behind the cut. seriously, it’s spoilertown. proceed with caution.
Hate those articles that say that Josh is a character that helps us “spot the warning signs” in Psychopathic Children tm “before it’s too late” and honestly first of all what the fuck????
second of all, bitch WHERE?!
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Look at him, he’s DISTRAUGHT. He literally almost passes out after Zach pulls the sword out. His scenes alone after Daryl’s death are Josh fucked up with guilt. This isn’t a kid who sits and plays with coins on the hardwood for the entirety of a school day in his day-to-day life. Look at his bedroom. This is a kid who keeps himself busy. He shows multiple clear indicators of stress and guilt afterwards. Josh doesn’t have any psychopathic “warning signs”, he’s a kid, a literal kid, that made a fucking MISTAKE?! The trajectory of the film doesn’t make sense for this reason, this is my biggest problem with an otherwise pretty perfect movie.
Like, this kid made a very big mistake and then very rapidly lost a very small but crucial support network, and it overwhelmed him.
Also, not only are psychopathy and sociopathy real personality disorders that real people have, and thus shouldn’t be used as just a “movie villain quirk” or the entire reasoning/motivation behind why someone “acts evil” (which is just incredibly lazy character creation), but Josh just... isn’t a psychopath. Neurodivergent? yes, absolutely. (I realize there are other problems with this. To be 1000% clear, NO I do not think that it’s Josh’s neurodivergence that causes him to be violent either. It’s a tragic thing that happened and spiralled a collection of tragic events, and I don’t think any of them are related to his ND brain. Neurotypicals can be and often are perpetrators of violence.) Again, this is more of a film canon issue, but: Why was Josh so weird? Why is Josh so blunt and straightforward and why doesn’t he look anyone in the eye? Why doesn’t Josh want to change their safe bubble of Josh&Zach to Josh&Zach and OTHER PEOPLE? Why does Josh shut down under (immense) pressure? Why does Josh have persistent, canonical stims and tics? If you’ve met one autistic person, you’ve met one autistic person and Josh is not going to be like everyone on the spectrum, but as an autistic person, I spent the whole movie thinking “oh this kid is me, it’s me” and then?!!??! This kid is SURPRISE, a “psychopath” who murders people! I’M SORRY, LIKE WHAT?!
I’m not explaining this as coherently as I want to but I am percolating on it more so I can write more cohesively about it later. Basically, my overarching thought is: Josh is clearly ND and it SEEMS LIKE (i’m not saying this was the intent) but it SEEMS LIKE that neurodivergence just translates to “psychopathic murderer” as though that’s some kind of a) logical reasoning or b) a real and common thing (it’s not), and that is not great. That’s so not great, particularly because things involving violent teenagers and violent men involve the media FREQUENTLY pointing out that those people are autistic, often without any actual medical confirmation. This associates violence with autism. This is so incredibly rarely the case and is playing on such cause/correlation bullshit that it’s like saying “the killer was lactose intolerant.” And it sure does vilify autistics for no fucking reason.
I’m not a professional, but Josh is more clearly on the spectrum than he is exhibiting signs of psychopathy, even if they wanted to go the (bad) “psychopathic villain” route. This is one of the main reasons why the ending was so disturbing, but also confusing. The ending’s nonsensical “twist” is actually kind of just throwing people with real personality disorders like psychopathy or sociopathy under the bus, while somehow also saying “people who act autistic are going to become violent” and those things are both super not great. (new title? no, i’m kidding, i still adore this film)
I just... I don’t know. I guess I don’t know why this choice was made, in the film. I don’t even know if it was a choice. It’s extremely possible that I’m just reading into a character too much because my autistic brain relates strongly to Josh’s character. Until the murdering happens.
Even the scene where Zach comes to see Josh in his bedroom afterwards and Josh is just in shutdown mode is so similar to my autistic shutdowns that I have a hard time seeing that scene as anything else. Is he annoyed with Zach? YES, but not because he’s “a psychopath” now, it’s because he’s fucking done. He’s out of spoons. He cannot handle any more of this shit. Zach is outwardly expressive, he’s raised by a single mom who’s a good parent, he can voice his feelings. Josh doesn’t have that upbringing. Like, a lot of the time I think Josh has Zach and no one else and now he feels like he doesn’t even have Zach.
Also, hopefully we all know by now that autistic people are MORE LIKELY TO BE THE VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE than they are to be violent themselves. And psychopaths and sociopaths are also uh... not commonly or inherently violent, either.
If they wanted to make a film about a psychopath, I feel like they could have done it with more attention and tact (and also like... maybe not made him one that murders people), but as it stands Josh is not the main focal point of the film, adding to the confusion of the ending.
Anyway I would like to talk about this more.
Again, I’m not a professional and I am open and willing to hear other people’s criticisms of this theory (if you’re polite), and would love to talk about all this more in general. Like I said, my headcanon of Josh as autistic might just be me. I’m not saying it’s fact.
Disclaimer #875 I really do love this film. I’m not trying to call anyone out, I’m more just wanting to discuss this as the theory of the film itself because I really don’t think any harm was intended here by anyone, I think it was just more a case of unfortunate ignorance.
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khorazir · 2 years
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Lineart for my third (of three) @fandomtrumpshate pieces: a cover for the marvellous The High-Functioning Sociopath Who Walked by Himself by @chriscalledmesweetie. When finished, it’ll also be for this month’s @sherlockchallenge. I hope to finish it this week.
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You do realise no one actually believes you're a Sociopath, right?
I am not just a sociopath, I am a high functioning sociopath. There is a difference. Do your research.
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szeminimalist · 2 years
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The OMG look on the face bahahahahahaha
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luckyscreenshots · 2 years
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amegamiart · 1 year
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"Thanks for the cheering~ Can't wait to see you all at the next show!"
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