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1) the U.S. entertainment industry (especially animation) is run by older conservative types who make up offensive terms and get really mad about them.

2) the people who run Disney would be the first to fall in line with a fascist regime.

3) most of the media we consume is tailor-made and watered-down to appeal to the tastes of older, deeply religious conservative audiences.

And published it in Penthouse, to force those same censors to buy a skin mag. The editor there asked, why Penthouse?

That one is from his autobiography, Becoming Superman. See also:

When he was making Pulp Fiction, he was worried that the MPAA would object to the high level of violence in the film, so he shot a bunch of extra-gory stuff that he didn’t actually want in the film, and added it in before submitting it to the MPAA. Predictibly, they asked him to cut most of it (without even commenting on some of the things that had him worried, like the bits of Marvin’s skull that lodge in Samuel L. Jackson’s hairpiece). The resultant cuts were actually more permissive than he’d expected, so he cut a little more and submitted it, and it got passed with an R.

The second story is about that artist on Morrowind whose name escapes me (I’m not a big ES fan tbh) who figured out that if he made two creature designs, one weird and what he wanted, and one even weirder, he could get Todd Howard to agree to just about anything by showing him the whopper first, then going back and “working” for another few hours on a second, “toned-down” version, and it worked every time.

The reason I bring these up is that the thing that drives censors isn’t some extant physical rubrick of what is and isn’t acceptable, it’s the idea that they can have absolute power over someone else’s creative work. It’s about the social dominance of the interaction.

There is nothing so innocent, so clean, that a censor will not find some fault with it. Because they must find something wrong with it to justify their existence, and because it makes them feel powerful.

This lithograph is the final proof for the cover of James Joyce's Ulysses; it was created by the printer Maurice Darantiere to match the blue of the early 20th century Greek flag.

comic i made about being higher supports needs autism and masking

panel 1: on the left is an orange-and-yellow furred anthropomorphic dog with curly brown hair waving to the viewer. to the right of them is the text: "hi! I have Severe Autism! I want to talk about masking!"

panel 2: the top of the panel contains the text: "Usually, people think of masking like this."

underneath is a happy stick figure person to the left saying: "haha wow what a totally normal person. i would never guess they're autistic!"

to the right of this stick figure is a cat wearing the mask of a person, saying: "i'm actually very burnt out by this."

panel 3: the top of the panel contains the text: "But when you're higher supports needs, it's not usually like that."

from left to right, top to bottom, the 5 drawings contained are:

a small white cat with yellow headphones with a tablet in their hands. below is the text: "communication differences".

next a gray cat watching a small brown cat run very far away. below is the text: "elopement".

next a brown dog sitting in a wheelchair with a catheter and catheter bag. below is the text: "comorbid physical disabilities".

next is a brown cat with sunglasses and a gray happy cat standing next to each other. below is the text: "24/7 aid".

next is an overstimulated appearing gray fuzzy dog with a red helmet flapping their arms.

below all drawings is the text: "Our Autism is often very visible no matter what!"

panel 4: the top of the panel contains the text: "So, can higher supports autistic people mask?"

to the left of the panel is the orange dog from panel 1 saying: "It depends! some can and some can't. and when we do mask, it probably looks different!"

panel 5: the top of the panel contains the text: "here's some examples!"

the first example shows a black dog first flapping their arms, and in the next drawing chewing on their hand.

this example says: "instead of preferred stims, I might do different, often harmful stims like biting myself, pulling my hair, or picking my skin. I might also get overwhelmed a lot faster if I can't do my preferred stims. I likely can't just stop stimming completely."

the second example below it contains an image of a tan dog happily holding a pink tablet, and in the next drawing having no tablet and holding their paws over their mouth.

this example says: "instead of using my regular communication method, I might just not communicate at all. I likely have speech difficulties or can't communicate at all and can't force myself to speak "normally" [in quotes] even to mask."

the third example contains a drawing of a dazed orange cat with swirly eyes and orange headphones.

this example says: "instead of letting others know my needs, I might dissociate or go quiet. I likely get overwhelmed very easily and/or need help with basic needs like toileting. when masking, I might not ask for help when I need to."

panel 6: the top of the panel contains the text: "But what's the point of masking if you can't hide your autism?"

below is a drawing of the orange furry laying down, saying: "we still get the pressure to "Act Normal" [in quotes]. A lot of us also went through ABA and we're taught to suppress symptoms".

panel 7: this panel contains the orange fursona close up saying: "A lot of us also don't realize when we are masking!"

text to the left of her says: "family and caregivers may need to help us in this situation!"

panel 8: this panel contains the large text: "I created this short comic because I often don't feel included or represented by how others usually talk about masking, and wanted to put a different perspective out there and show you how I experience it. I hope you enjoyed it!"

below is a tiny chibi drawing of the orange furry and the credit text: "postmanic".