I'm writing an autistic Charlie one shot for AO3 right now, based off of my own experiences being autistic. Thought I'd share one bit of it!
I want to write a more positive side of autism for Charlie fic later, but I'm starting with the negative stuff that people know about but don't actually know how it feels like. So I wrote it out and peer reviewed it with another autistic person (there's more, but spoilers)
Btw the fic is gonna end up being Dee & Charlie and then a Charlie/Dennis subplot due to other stuff that will be talked about
ok hear me out. kabru wanting to fuck laios but also not wanting to fuck him because he is absolutely certain that sex with laios would have to involve some kind of weird monster roleplay. but because kabru is kabru he overthinks this and spends an unhealthy amount of time figuring out how to negotiate around this and deciding what he would or would not be comfortable with (all without actually talking to laios or making any kind of move whatsoever).
then eventually they do get together and before they hook up for the first time kabru is like okay we need to talk first and he goes into great detail about exactly what he is and isn't willing to do and what monsters he is and isn't willing to roleplay as
and laios, to whom it has never occurred to blend his monster fixation with his sex life, just listens like "😳😳😳" and develops several new fetishes on the spot. and at some point laios is like wow I'd never thought of that before! and kabru is like oh. oh no. I've made him Worse.
WAIT wait I figured it out. the reason every single modern adaptation fucks up irene adler by giving her romantic feelings for holmes (and vice versa) even though SCAN is about her trying to live a quiet live with the (non-holmes) man she loves and acd basically put a giant NO HETERO HE ADMIRED HER SKILL HE DIDNT LOVE HER warning sign at the beginning of SCAN is that not a single male director could imagine a man respecting a woman for her intelligence and skill without having romantic feelings for her. In this essay I will SCREAM
one of my many favorite things about alhaitham is how he is unintentionally some of the best autistic representation i’ve seen in media the past few years 🫶 he’s literally just like me esp with the auditory sensitivity, his bluntness, and his aversion to socializing/collaborating with others. i relate to him So Much and it comforts me a lot, love him sm <3
i want to see exactly how many people actually have thought i am for research because ive gotten this quite a few times from different people i just wanna see how far it goes
what it says in the tin, got a new sketchbook today :) it's thicker and rougher paper than what i usually use which is slightly annoying because it tends to smudge a lot more and has a rougher look, but it's still good paper and i find it nice to draw on!!
every so often i fall back into my DDLC phase and start rewatching a bunch of analysis videos on the characters. they're like my comfort background noise to listen to. Monika's one of my favourite characters and i find her fun to draw!!
(ignore the sudden lighting change idk why that happened)
Splatoon was, like, a childhood hyperfixation of mine, mainly because the character designs and the music go hard. like, they literally please the autism so much, it's like a stim just looking at the characters and listening to the soundtrack!!! the design of the Inkling girl was always my favourite as a kid because look at her! she's so cool looking!! i love all the colours and i love the texture of the characters' hair and their ears literally make me so happy and they are SO fun to draw. i would chew on an octoling's hair like a dog toy if i could it looks so chewable
I’ve been thinking of Miles thinking he has a crush on Hobie and not really understanding that he’s just really enjoying being his friend and assumes anything outside of “friend” in this box he’s mentally constructed around himself and Hobie means “crushing” because i personally don’t think he’s . good at social/romance stuff. Anyway Hobie does not like this and it makes him so upset/uncomfortable because he sees Miles as WAY younger than him, and in this scenario he isn’t, he’s just perceiving the gap between him and Miles being so huge from his mental baggage and fear of “chaining” people down, and also just wouldn’t return the feelings anyway. and Hobie doesn’t want Miles to see him like that either. So he just starts calling Miles kid in the “you’re too young to know anything lol go home” way because he knows Miles hates it, and hopes this pushes him away and gets rid of the “crush” so they can return to normal again. The final push is Hobie physically shoving Miles away and giving him mean ass looks, which causes a fight, which results in the usual “because i love you! I want to be with you! / no, you don’t! You don’t know what you want!” dialogue that im a sucker for esp when it’s true. Oh waiter, more difficult and uncomfortable situations to put Hobie and Miles in that are a result of poor communication, fucked up societal standards, and autistic traits please!!!
tbh. not a fan of how much this mv's lighting/contrast absolutely destroys any dark colored outfit. thus ruining any attempt for hoc's goth drip. but i think i managed to find something that worked
reread the rest thus far of lackadaisy and there's the both v easy & difficult task of gathering a shit ton but only a shit ton of excerpts (like every single page is a highlight i'm not exaggerating)
and every single element is superlative and the way it all only becomes More So....already mentioned the way the like smooth gradient shading made the successful evocation of 3D Shapes more noticeable, along w/the consistent geometries of character design & details in fabric folds; the way Lighting & Coloring only goes on to become more prominent elements only enhances that further. the compositions, backgrounds, pacing, angles....everything is so dynamic & expressive, such as including the expressions which you know i also Love / absorbed
going "hell yes for people to discover this superlative comic" then having to occasionally refresh past site traffic overloaded server errors like "nooo" but actually yes
whilest clapping & cheering for the fun of everyone who's been here a minute. My God the invigorating reward when again i started reading in '07 & the concept of rocky & freckle on a "proper" run had only manifested via fun official bonus art, then a literal decade later as it was actually happening in the comic like screeeeaammm i can feel it coming in the air tonight oh lord etc....i've loved following it, again, if i see another new comic page. i am going to be Enriched
i also really was right on the ball myself this time around like okay okay yep i have picked up on Everything, at least to the degree i can lmao. i love the mysteries. i love how Character Focused it is too ofc and there's no characters i'm uniterested in / dislike. you gotta point to one of them, truly, and i have been a [pointing at freckle] enjoyer these fifteen years but fr i am a connoisseur of everyone, i love that so many characters are a weird mysterious chaos element story driver in their own right. i considered mordecai more intently than ever, love his like ultra mystery (and that we leave off on him doing some detectiving even) and truly fun that like, the source of the more Immediate problems he keeps having in every damn interaction isn't the like [wow mordecai with the just diving into the hatchet murdering] factor so much as it's that he's generally like "i am just standing here" and is not nt in any way that matters and people insist on fucking with him on that front. the peak tragedy of him in a bonus comic getting bullied into having to dance with someone to Be Polite like i'm so sorry i wish you could be that ficus too. anyways intrigued with the marigold &/or mordecai mysteries including that it's like, how coincidental is it that he talks about marigold having a thorn in its side & the savoys' nickname for him is peekon = thorn. there is so much to consider, love that for us truly. and i'm rooting for mordecai & nicodeme's dynamic out here, is another conclusion....very enriched by comparing & contrasting that serafine nicodeme mordecai triumvirate with the rocky ivy freckle one, to be sure. im enriched
i'm also enriched by every footnote that's got like historical facts / research notes / [this is inaccurate for xyz prioritization but here's the disclaimer] explanations. i Love information. and everything else like i loooove this comic it's Soooo Fucking putting my hands to my temples and inhaling at length through my teeth
[image: meme that says "my disability is invisible but your ableism isn't" surrounded by rainbows and colorful centrosaurus dinos, which is like, picture a weird small elephant hippo with a big vertical nose horn, a rounded beak, and a funky stiff head frill on the back of its head, like how turkey feathers stick upright but instead of feathers it's like bone maybe i'm not actually sure?]