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Childhood made everything feel like it lingered. The time it took for hot chocolate to cool down was eternal. Christmas day took weeks. The two-hour drive to my grandparents' house took us to a new world. It's all too fast now.

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I hope u dont mind me putting my suf Hot Take in ur askbox but like,, I don't understand why showing stevens whole breakdown is Not an invasion of privacy but showing recovery would be?? As someone who's traumatised (and i love su bc it helped me work thru a lot of those feelings) it would've been so cathartic from both a writing and personal perspective to see his recovery. Like pearl's arc in the og series was so GOOD, i was hoping steven would get the same treatment but I guess not ://
i agree 100%
IN MY OPINION (and pardon my frustration here, im allowed to have a negative opinion and it stinks that i have to write a disclaimer for that because the SU fandom is so hostile towards negative opinions), rebecca sugar is just being SUPER pretentious when she says that about steven. heâs a fictional character, rebecca. youâre being hypocritical, rebecca, since you had no issue torturing the boy for the audience, but oh nooo in a show you say is about love and healing how can you possibly breach privacy and actually SHOW that love and healing.Â
i heard that maybe she wanted to give him privacy because the whole therapy and recovery part was based off her own experience? and like. rebecca, come on. yes, projection is important in writing if you want to write compelling characters, but thereâs a point where youre projecting way too much. projecting to deepen a character by incorporating your own experience is good! but doing so to the point where youre totally blinded and cant separate the character from yourself and incorporate experience outside of yourself is bad.Â
but also, itâs important to note that rebecca has less control over the show than we think, so i donât fully blame her, i just think she needs to learn to say no to ideas that just. dont work. rather than be âeveryones ideas should be includedâ because even if the sentiment is sweet, it makes for sloppy and unfocused writing. SU AND AUF have a focus problem, but it showed more in SUF where every episode seemed to have a different idea of what Stevenâs arc is. i think its fully possible that rebecca didnât have much say in SUF besides a loose guidance, and that her interview about âprivacyâ is just her defending her teamâs decisions, which she might not have had as big a part of as we think.Â
point is, i think itâs bad writing. i love angst and emotional breaking a character as much as the next person, but if you donât spend time showing the rebuilding and recovery, youâre just writing torture porn (which belongs in fanfic, where i btw DO love some good whump) and itâs a cop out to tear down a character and not put in the effort to write them standing back up. and i donât think steven going from âi murdered someone and tried to murder another person right after then turned into a monster because i was in such immeasurable pain, shame, and rage after one by one losing all my support system because they suddenly became extremely uncharacteristically uncaring and incompetentâ to âimma head off into the world all on my own because im totally stableâ in just a few months is so unbelievably out of character. after what steven went through, what he did, it would take a lot more for him to be stable enough to do that, and i dont buy steven moving on from shattering someone and turning into a monster attacking his family without showing me how it was possible.Â
truthfully, i woulda loved a âsteven shatters someoneâ arc, if the shattering happened, like, in episode 10, and the remaining 10 episodes were focused on him coming to terms with it and getting the support he needs. also, i agree with the argument that in order to show that steven is loved and worthy, he needs to reach his LOWEST point and still have people care about him. i LOVE that idea and i love the sentiment, and i love that aspect of IAMM where, yes, steven is damaged and isnât the same kid anymore, but his family will still love him. problem is, everything AROUND that sentiment, including the way they spent the whole season establishing that his family SUCKS (which isnât in character for them, to just continuously brush off his issues when they know somethingâs wrong) leaves a bad taste in my mouth. it kind of ruined how i see the CG family.
but as it stands, and excuse me for being dark but this is just my personal feeling (and ive seen people saying that people against steven shattering just donât understand steven, but i argue that i feel this way BECAUSE i understand steven), i dont buy steven being ok based on what the finale showed me. because i donât buy it, i CANNOT imagine steven NOT hurting himself after leaving BC. this is the same kid who had a breakdown over POOFING gems. who went on a suicide mission because he felt responsible for someoneâs shattering. this is the kid who blames himself for everything, holds himself to an impossible standard, and has a history of bottling up to the point of being self-destructive. the kid who clearly still doesnât forgive the diamonds because of the awful things theyâve done, and now feels like heâs become one of them. the show did not give me ANY evidence of him not continuing to do that, so the final episode felt so so fake to me.Â
if they had showed the recovery, even just one episode dedicated purely to therapy, i would have believed it. and to establish steven as having actual MEDICAL DEFINITION of trauma, and NOT give him therapy on screen is just. bad. to me. and harmful.Â
edit: i was exaggerating when i said i woulda loved a steven shatters arc, i would not automatcally LOVE it, i would just be intrigued and excited to see a good execution, but if its not a good execution its not worth doing, and i dont think su/suf could ever reasonably do a good execution unless it takes like a whole freaking season of emotional turmoil
SUF ended like a month and a half ago, and I keep seeing posts on my dashboard saying that people who criticise its writing âdonât understandâ it or other things along those lines, or straight up implying that people who criticise it arenât good at media analysis full stop. And yet it has been a long, long time since Iâve seen an actual post voicing their problems with the writing.
Idk, Iâm sick of people acting like Iâm ignorant or stupid for hating the way SUF ended, and disapproving of the writing decisions made during the second half of the series.Â
The harsh truth is that I do think SUF was poorly written. Looking back now, it was kind of a mess. I loved a lot of the episodes themselves in a vacuum but when you put it together it doesnât make a particularly cohesive whole. I still think the shattering was too far, I still think Steven trying to shatter White was a short sighted thing to include after the trauma reveal. I think making us see this boy spiral further and further into despair for 19 episodes and then not even showing us any of his recovery process was very unsatisfying; it felt like misery porn, relentless angst with very little catharsis. I think a lot of the characters were more aloof and uncaring than usual for the sake of manufacturing Stevenâs breakdown, which complicated my feelings for those characters and the CG family unit as a whole. On the whole, it felt like slotting characters into a plot rather than writing a plot based on the characters themselves.Â
I think sending him alone on a road trip just months after a total mental breakdown and the implication that he has lifelong trauma doesnât make any sense.
Iâm allowed to think these things, stop acting like I HAVE to love everything about the series to be a fan, or to be ârightâ. Itâs getting frustrating.
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Ghibli films look the way it feels to exist in this world, like not how the world actually looks, but how it feels- and in all the good ways
the warm buttered toast of early mornings, the sheated heavy rain of grey days, the huge welling tears of grief and the electric anger that raises your whole head of hair
like, itâs not real, but itâs really Real, you feel me?
Perfect example: I never looked like this, but I sure as hell felt like this
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What is Autistic Burnout?
Signs:
Lack of motivation (hard to care about goals when everyday life is overwhelming)
Loss of executive functioning abilities (decision making, organisation etc)
Difficulty with self care
Easier to reach overload or meltdown
Loss of speech, selective mutism
Lethargy, exhaustion
Illness, digestive issues
Memory loss
Inability to maintain masks or use social skills
Overall seeming "more autisic" or stereotypical
May have a period of high energy before collapse
Causes:
Passing as neurotypical/suppressing traits
Doing "too much", too much stress
Ageing: needing more downtime, having less energy
Changes, good or bad (relationships, jobs, living arrangements, belongings, environment, routines...)
Sleep deprivation, poor nutrition, dehydration
Illness
Sensory or emotional overload
Strategies:
Time
Scheduling breaks, managing spoons
Leave of absence
Stimming, sensory diet
Exercise
Massage
Reminders and support
Routines
Better environment/job/etc
Boundaries, saying 'no'
Dropping the mask/facade
Solitude
Absolute quiet
Creative projects, passions, special interests
Paying attention to reactions and your body
Allistic people really need to stop phrasing requests as questions because it's fucking with me
"Do you want to help me cook dinner?"
No, I'm still overwhelmed from earlier and want to stay in my room.
"well fine, dinner will be ready when it's done." And now they're upset with me
And I'm just here like ???????
Oh God I hate it when they frame it like that because it sounds like a choice, but if you say no they get all offended. Itâs an illusion of choice and itâs so annoying.
If I ever ask something, itâs an offer, not a demand. âHey, wanna watch a movie with me? No? Okay, Iâll go watch it, you chill here and I hope you feel better.â
I can't count the times I got in trouble because of that as a kid while never having any idea what exactly I did wrong.
Those requests with only one correct response disguised as questions with multiple answers just made me think I couldn't actually say "no" to anything (because I had no idea which ones were the secret requests), something I still have trouble to this day.
Also when they just make an observation but they expect you to know that theyâre asking for something. Like âOh the trash can is pretty full.â But they really mean âCould you take the trash out?â Just fuckign say what you mean đ
Here's the thing. They've literally been trained since childhood to do it this way, and probably do not realize that what they're saying can be interpreted another way. It's an Ask vs Guess problem. In particular, a lot of women are taught to phrase things is a Guess way. The way they were taught to speak, they are saying what they mean.
If you want someone in your life to switch from Guess to Ask with you, then you need to have a discussion with them, Ask them to meet you somewhere in the middle on this, possibly explain the difference in cultures, definitely explain, "When you say $THING, it does not mean to me what it means to you", and then understand that it will take them time and work to change, and that you may need to be an active participant in that change. You can do this by remembering that things do not mean the same to them that they do to you, and, when they say, "Do you want to cook dinner with me?" replying with, "Are you asking me to do that, or are you asking me if I'd like it?"
Yes, I understand that this will be hard for you also. You and this person in your life will both need to work on this, together, and be forgiving of one another.
This is not something the other person is intentionally doing to you, or at you. They are speaking as they were taught to speak, that's all. It happens to conflict with your neurodivergence. That happens. It can be dealt with.
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Au contraire! You can absolutely get famous here
It is however, explicitly a bad thing.

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Petition to start saying that X unlikely character is a âfairytale princessâ and not a âDisney princessâ because:
now that Disney owns 95% of all movies and other media, âDisney princessâ has become functionally useless as a descriptor;
itâs what you mean anyway;
fuck Disney. Theyâre the literal, actual worst.
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Spray Upwards ..
you know what fuck you *unfalls your water*
"But NORMAL People's Bodies Didn't Look Like That!" ...right?
Some of you may have seen my post about Baroque artists and their realistic depictions of human bodies as having skin and fat.
I've had a lot of negative and frankly fatphobic comments on that post, calling the people in the paintings "fat" and "obese," mostly along the lines of this:
"It's because the artists are depicting rich people, who were fat and lazy. Normal people didn't look like that!"
The idea, of course, is that these artists wouldn't have ever drawn bodies that looked like those in the Baroque paintings, if they weren't painting super-rich people that stuffed themselves with food all day.
Supposedly. We'll see how well that holds up.
Today I was in the library looking at a collection of drawings by Albrecht DĂźrer, and learned that in the early 1500's, DĂźrer tried to put together essentially a "how-to-draw" book, showing how to draw people. His work was controversial, because of his technique of "constructing" figures using rules about proportions. (A quick and easy method of inventing realistically proportioned bodies out of thin air? Cheating!!)
However, in his "constructed" drawings, DĂźrer had to figure out how to handle the range of variety in bodies, and ended up breaking down how to create a variety of body types in correct proportions.
I'm showing the women, to contrast with the post on Baroque paintings. Here are some of his drawings that I thought y'all should take a look at.
These are a couple of his more "average" womenâthe one on the left is from his drawing book, and the one on the right is one of his drawings.
Here's a "strong woman" and "A very strong, stout woman"
This is what he refers to as a "stout woman."
Here's where it gets interesting: this is what Albrecht DĂźrer refers to as a "peasant-type" woman
^That. That's what a "peasant" body type looks like.
He labeled this one "A peasant woman of 7 head lengths"
in case you missed it: this figure drawing by a guy in the 1500's is literally labeled as being of a peasant woman! this is what a "peasant woman" body type looks like!
He did draw similar amounts of thinner figures, but they're not particularly emphasized over the "Strong" and "Stout" figures. Nor is there exactly a "default" figure. He's just...going over the range of variations that there are?
Here's another "stout woman," covered in notes on how to draw the proportions:
now that's too technical for me to make any sense of but
this was in the 16th century!! This body type was apparently not incredibly rare in the 16th century. This body type was important enough for you to be able to draw, as an artist, in the 16th century to be handled in detail in a 16th century artist's drawing advice
In conclusion: yes this is just what people look like, yes it's important to know how to draw fat bodies, even this dude from the early 1500's is telling you so, Die Mad About It
all of this is from "The complete drawings of Albrecht DĂźrer" by Walter L. Strauss

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I know Iâm being really snooty rn but I am literally begging television shows to go back to having endings that make actual thematic sense and donât use tragedy as a way to peddle their finales as a more âhonestâ and âmeaningfulâ experience
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Snufkin is concerned about the rising cost of living in Moominvalley