I literally saw someone say laios is too autistic for romance... you guys HAVE to start being respectful to autistic people. like I know he's just a character but its emblematic of real problems. Even if it's just a joke, it is NOT FUNNY to perpetuate ableism in the form of jokes. I see like a thousand posts a day about how he has autistic swag and in the SAME POST joke about how his friends actually hate him, nobody could REALLYYY like him they're all just pretending <3, he's too autistic for sex or romance or love.
He has canonical problems in the text with people pretending to be his friend, or people secretly hating him. We've gone over and over again about how divorcing autistic people and characters from sex and romance on the whole is infantilizing. (individual ace/aro headcanons are fine, but maybe also examine where they're coming from when its characters widely seen as autistic). I feel like a lot of fans don't even realize what they're doing. oftentimes what you think is funny fan content is actually you making fun of him and excluding him from things based on his autistic traits.
And this isn't even MENTIONING the racism in making kabru be aggressive to laios for no reason all the time when kabru has genuine reason and understanding even when he thinks he might need to kill laios. OR how weird it is that people will boil down falin's autistic traits for farcille and say like "yeah she's similar to laios, but she's less of a 'freak' (AKA has developed people pleasing social skills) so marcille likes her still :)"
Before I go to sleep I leave you all with this piece of advice: sometimes you don't actually have to answer big political questions, sometimes you can just say "I am not smart enough to know that, I just know the small things I do to help." Like you can often times completely avoid making a fool of yourself if you just say you don't know.
so i am thinking of remaking this blog for many different reasons (but i'll leave it up as an archive!). but ive been also thinking about making a separate blog for more witchy/forst stuff separate from garden/farm stuff.
blog 1: cottage, farms, gardens, spring, warm, 'cozy' nature
blog 2: forests, witchy, gems, autumn, winter, 'darker' nature
~ after being taken out by Tracey for some fun in the city for his big day , once returned home , the birthday boy himself gets some lovely stickers made just for him by Sketch , who had to get over her disdain of the color green for the day , just for her friend's sake . of course , Tony couldn't just not give his dear pal anything , instead baking the computer his cake for the special day , alongside other smaller gifts ;3
also extra digitaltime thing thing for the occasion teehee 💌
listen mate its incredibly important that we all keep spreading the info about whats happening in gaza. id argue its the most important thing we can be doing rn. but can you fucking get off your high horse about 'not posting about your hobbies' bc its 'clogging the timeline'? just unfollow those ppl who arent up to your standards of online activism. youre not helping by telling ppl to do nothing but focus 24/7 on atrocity. as you should know with 'this blog is a relaxing space' in your pinned post many ppl use social media as a place to de-stress after theyve done irl activism. i dont apologize that this is rude lmao offense is strongly intended since youve reblogged so many posts in the past championing mental health and self care
it was not my post, it is simply an opinion i am sharing... i am still a supporter of mental health and self care. currently i am heartbroken by the genocide of thousands of people and doing my best to do right by them. i reblogged the post because i too feel like i am "losing my mind" seeing most people in my circles on most social medias i have appear to be carrying on as normal. it feels very defeating, very strange. as someone with ocd who, you are correct, strongly advocates against "guilt tripping" in reblogs; i feel this is the one time my reblogs have actually been important. i feel that speaking up is more important than my own relaxation.
i am of course aware that not everyone is up to date on the information, that not everyone knows the urgency, that not everyone has the energy. that human brains are not made to comprehend the capacity of wars outside of our own lives. that partaking in our fandom interests is of course more enjoyable than speaking of terrorism. i am not condemning any of these people. you are allowed to do whatever you want online, forever. i am just... sad? that is all.
i have to be real polls that separate results by “i think this and im neurotypical” and “i think this and im neurodivergent” are collecting almost 0 useful data. nt+nd people are not wholly separate species and additionally neurodivergent is, once again, an umbrella term for about a thousand different unique life experiences. if i say “i spend most of my time avoiding photographs of people because they make me intensely paranoid and like i can be seen by the person in the photo, because im neurodivergent” that isn’t untrue, but it isn’t something that would be relatable or comparable to other disorders outside of psychotic disorders/schizospec disorders. my experiences are shaped by the Specific Things i experience, which might fit under the nd label but using the nd label doesn’t really give anyone a good idea of what my experiences actually are. idk if this makes sense really im just kind of thinking out loud but Man i hate the way nd as a term is used
hello everyone! in light of a recent ask i have just recieved i just wanted to make just a few little things clear.
i do not control who wins or loses a poll. that depends entirely on how you vote. you are free to encourage others to vote for your choice through tags, comments, or any sort of propaganda.
on that note, if you create any sort of propaganda in places other than the tags, i will most likely reblog it.
however. this tournament is meant to be silly and light-hearted. please do not be rude to voters who vote differently than you, and know that i will avoid posting anything that bashes any particular character as much as possible.
i do not care if you hate a character with all your heart and soul, but i would prefer to keep it clear from this blog. we're here to do something silly and fun for everyone, regardless of favourite and least favourite members of the cast. this means keeping to solely positive discussions of the characters.
tbh my take from the whole Pal world thing is that I genuinely think that if Game Freak didn't fumble the bag w/ SV so badly, a lot less people would be singing it's praise and treating it like another mon game. (IMHO the gameplay looks like shit, and the only designs I like are the stolen ones) And more critical of things like the whole stealing designs and, you know, Capturing and Selling Actual Human People?!?
Like this really feels like a bunch of Pokemon fans got (very understandably) burned hard by how bad SV was at launch, and wanted to find something to fill the void and/or stick it to Game Freak by showing them that much smaller developers could make something superior to the largest franchise in the world.
But y'all, there are so many better options out there (Monster Hunter Stories, Nexomon, Coromon, etc.) If you're tired of Game Freak dropping the ball so hard these past several years, I highly encourage you to play these games. There are so many creature collection games out there that are much more deserving of all the hype and media PW is getting.
the time has come where i have become DEEPLY BORED of my (not irl) name, wyrm. (i am also deeply bored of all 3 of my irl names but. that is whatever) beloved tumblr goers pls suggest any names you have pleading eyes emoji