InMyDefenseImLiterally Purrodivergent AndA Meownor

sometimes a trans woman wins against a cis woman. sometimes a cis woman wins against another cis woman too. yet only one of them is allowed to win without facing consequences.

I love indie animated pilots on YouTube!! <<333

The pilot was REALLY good and I can't wait to see more!

(Ik only two people said they wanted to see it but shhhh)

- Stone -

As for sensory issues, I think Stone definitely has the worst. Especially with physical touch (I mean, yall saw how he PEELED skipp off him in that one scene in the pilot when he tried to hug him).

I do think he’s known from a young age he’s autistic though,, since he comes from a rich background he was probably diagnosed as a kid but just never accommodated,, likely leading to many shutdowns/meltdowns (and then getting punished for them,, definitely contributing to his already extensive trauma)

IMO his special interests are probably geology and maybe medicine/ other sciencey stuff. Perhaps astronomy. He’d launch into a special interest infodump to skipp or something and he’d feel guilty about it after because previously his family would tell him he’s being annoying, generally make him feel bad about it and/ or punish him for infodumping. Skipp would be fascinated though

He is absolutely terrible at socializing,, and I think this contributes to his alcoholism. He’s so incredibly awkward all the time,, especially when he’s sober. He has NO IDEA what to do or say EVER 😭 poor guy is CLUELESS all the time,, so he mostly tries to copy Vinnie and Skipp in social situations. (This is kind of canon, as far as I’m aware)

Also autism definitely is the reason he’s so monotone and unexpressive all the time (just like me irl!! It makes me so happy to see monotone/unexpressive characters in media cuz I’m like that :D )

He thinks he’s so good at masking just because he tries so hard to appear even remotely normal,, and if it’s so draining it must be working, right? He’d try so hard to suppress his stimming, power through sensory hell, hide his frequent meltdowns by hiding away in a random alley, try his absolute hardest to be ‘normal’. But pretty much everyone knows he’s a freak. It’s incredibly obvious,, especially to Vinnie and Skipp. Maybe stone would accidentally mention he’s autistic and Vinnie and Skipp would say. “Dude we know. We’re all autistic here,, we may as well be the whole spectrum😭” and then they would help him unmask and stim freely and not just try to tolerate sensory hell,, and then his meltdowns would be a lot less common :D

Also: he’s DEFINITELY low empathy (also like me:D ) (also before anyone says anything‼️ not having empathy does NOT make someone a bad person‼️ empathy simply is when YOU feel the emotion you perceive someone else to be feeling)

As for stimming, I think he loves chewing on things,, like his coat, his hands, perhaps after his cigarette is all burnt up and no longer smokable he’d mindlessly chew on the butt. Also I think he’d LOVE a weighted blanket but those (probably) don’t exist in Ramshackle, so to achieve a similar experience he’d lay down and put a board on top of him and Skipp or Vinnie on the board or something

I think speaking is very draining for him. Not even just socializing but the act of speaking itself, and verbal crashes are very common for him. During these,, he uses a notepad to communicate

You cannot convince me he doesn’t also have PTSD too. His sister literally force fed him experimental drugs and abused him for YEARS when he was a LITTLE KID😭 my poor boy,,,

- Skipp -

He’s definitely the most sensory seeking of the trio,, if he’s understimulated for even a minute he’ll freak out. Like mauling people

He definitely does more big visible stims, like flapping his hands, rocking back and forth, etc. he also cannot mask for the LIFE of him tho

He’s not too bad at socializing,, but he’s definitely got moments where he completely drops the ball😭 like,, he’s trying to distract the butcher at the meat store so Vinnie and stone can steal stuff and instead of saying something normal he goes “so, do you enjoy watching the light leave their eyes, or does it keep you up at night?” And the butcher is like 😳 or he calls someone’s baby ugly within earshot of it’s parent

HIS SPECIAL INTEREST IS MUSIC‼️‼️‼️ he LOVES playing his mandolin,, it’s his favorite thing ever,, he’s written so many songs and he’s so good at it‼️

He DEFINITELY despises tight clothing,, i mean LOOK at him. Baggiest pants on the planet. Those puffy ass sleeves. He’d instantly start crying if you put him in skinny jeans.

He’s absolutely got adhd,, and he gets hyperfixations on the most random stuff

He is so hyperverbal he will never shut up literally ever. You say anything even tangentially related to his special interest or hyperfixations he will yap for hours‼️

- Vinnie -

She’s definitely got real bad temperature regulation issues,, she’d overheat so easily😭 she’s in shorts and a t shirt when both her friends are wearing a sweater AND a coat AND long pants🥀 it must be COLD asf in Ramshackle

Probably got adhd and dyslexia too. Always forgetting stuff, misplacing things,,

She’s definitelyy high empathy,, we’ve all seen the pilot (“screw you lootbags and your fancy garbage!! Maybe if you lived on the streets too you’d, I don’t know, EMPATHIZE WITH PEOPLE??”)

Also hear me out: hand to hand combat special interest‼️ also perhaps opossums. Maybe even fish 🤔🐟

I think maybe she could try to mask if she had to,, but the facade would break quickly so she just chooses not to unless it’s like super important during a scheme (like sneaking into the pageant)

I think she’s probably got the worst issues with actually speaking,, like mispronouncing words, stuttering a lot, misusing words and/ or phrases, etc.

Yes, it's alterhumisia.

church, extracurriculars, summer camps, school classes, their biological family's houses. notably, these are the places that child abuse is enabled by the child's inability to just fucking leave if they need to. they can't walk out of church if their youth pastor touches them inappropriately; they'll get punished for leaving. if they walk out of their house because their dad hits them, the cops pick them up and give them right back to their dad.

children need the legal autonomy to leave abusive situations in order to even begin to usefully materially address child abuse.

Like, ok, police wont force them to go back to abusive situations, im with you there, what is step two?

Theoretically, it would be nicer if we had e.g. a children's shelter in every city where any minor could go and have a very small private room they could stay in and not have to go home and eat shitty oatmeal, all no-questions-asked, until and unless they were willing to go home or get put into foster care or whatever.

Children are not so stupid they're incapable of experiencing something bad and then evaluating the situation they're in. If they're so privileged and just angry, they're not so stupid they can't go to the cops or even just return home if they've run away. If they genuinely believe that being on the streets - and, you know, presumably experiencing the horrors you're going on about - is better than going back to their parents or the foster system . . . well, I'm inclined to think there's a good reason for that. It might be because sometimes the streets are the better option.

Only that... it is not completely different.

If you argue that a teenager starting puberty cannot know what their gender is, then you argue that a cis teenager starting puberty cannot know what their gender is either. If you assume one can know and the other cannot, then your problem is clearly just that you are transphobic and have internalized this idea of "social contagion" which has been put out in the world by people actively faking science. Social contagion is not a thing.

If you talk about how taking hormones during puberty to have the right puberty is "irreversible", you have to acknowledge that not taking HRT during puberty is also irreversible. Why is it that you consider one of those irreversible things bad and the other not?

Also, what do you think about intersex children having things done? Which might also include them taking hormones during puberty. You know, spoken as a former intersex child who was forced to take HRT during puberty to force me to develop a physical gender presentation that I did not actually want.

But let's even keep out the entire problem of intersex kids being forced or coerced into therapy. Let's focus on an intersex kid who actually is certain about their gender, this gender also aligns with what was (forcefully) put into their data, but now they hit puberty and their body does not produce enough of the sex hormone they need and possibly too much of the sex hormone they do not want. Do you think they should be allowed to access HRT during puberty?

Only that... it is not completely different.

If you argue that a teenager starting puberty cannot know what their gender is, then you argue that a cis teenager starting puberty cannot know what their gender is either. If you assume one can know and the other cannot, then your problem is clearly just that you are transphobic and have internalized this idea of "social contagion" which has been put out in the world by people actively faking science. Social contagion is not a thing.

If you talk about how taking hormones during puberty to have the right puberty is "irreversible", you have to acknowledge that not taking HRT during puberty is also irreversible. Why is it that you consider one of those irreversible things bad and the other not?

Also, what do you think about intersex children having things done? Which might also include them taking hormones during puberty. You know, spoken as a former intersex child who was forced to take HRT during puberty to force me to develop a physical gender presentation that I did not actually want.

But let's even keep out the entire problem of intersex kids being forced or coerced into therapy. Let's focus on an intersex kid who actually is certain about their gender, this gender also aligns with what was (forcefully) put into their data, but now they hit puberty and their body does not produce enough of the sex hormone they need and possibly too much of the sex hormone they do not want. Do you think they should be allowed to access HRT during puberty?

Only that... it is not completely different.

If you argue that a teenager starting puberty cannot know what their gender is, then you argue that a cis teenager starting puberty cannot know what their gender is either. If you assume one can know and the other cannot, then your problem is clearly just that you are transphobic and have internalized this idea of "social contagion" which has been put out in the world by people actively faking science. Social contagion is not a thing.

If you talk about how taking hormones during puberty to have the right puberty is "irreversible", you have to acknowledge that not taking HRT during puberty is also irreversible. Why is it that you consider one of those irreversible things bad and the other not?

Also, what do you think about intersex children having things done? Which might also include them taking hormones during puberty. You know, spoken as a former intersex child who was forced to take HRT during puberty to force me to develop a physical gender presentation that I did not actually want.

But let's even keep out the entire problem of intersex kids being forced or coerced into therapy. Let's focus on an intersex kid who actually is certain about their gender, this gender also aligns with what was (forcefully) put into their data, but now they hit puberty and their body does not produce enough of the sex hormone they need and possibly too much of the sex hormone they do not want. Do you think they should be allowed to access HRT during puberty?

Taking meds is an admission that you have an illness/disability. Most wellness & self-optimization products/treatments, however, are marketed with vague promises that make it easier to avoid having to do that.