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The Adventures of Steve and Orphan 

No. 46

Funny story, Krita crashed just before I was about to save this for the last time. I panicked when I opened it again and it was only lineart... I thought I’d lost the file and proceeded to languish in disappointed agony over hours lost. Cue to roughly an hour later where I’d tried just about everything to get the thing back-

Only to realise I’d been looking at number. 47. Not number 46. number 46, was FINE. And number 47 wasn’t finished because I HADN’T FINISHED IT YET. Not because I’d accidentally deleted half of it. 

HAH hah. Ha... *sobs

At least it didn’t get deleted-

Guess I was too sleep deprived to notice. Being sick does things to your brain...

Anyhow, rant over. GOODNIGHT FOLKS. I am LEAVING. To... SLEEP. Ah yes. If sleep be the food of life, play on. Give me excess of it, that surfeiting I may sicken and so- ... Live. Not die. I know the original says die, but I don’t care

❤️💛💚 I just love draw MCC inspired outfits, look how cute they are!! ❤️💛💚

(I'm sorry I couldn't draw all the team members, they all did a great job)

Sure! I love it when I get to ramble as I have very complicated thoughts about a lot of things :D

First I want to preface this by saying: I do not think every single instance of oldest brother!Techno is inherently tied into ableism. There are so many reasons why people would want to make and engage with that content which have nothing to do with the reasons I’ll describe below as reasons I DO NOT enjoy it. I’m also not accusing anyone of actually being ableist for enjoying a trope. Obviously that’d be silly, especially since we’re talking about a fictional family dynamic based around a bunch of streamers’ online personas

Having said all that: Why I don’t like oldest brother!Techno has everything to do with why other people DO like it.

When people are asked why they think Technoblade is the oldest brother their reasoning almost always boils down to some variations of ‘he acts older’. This isn’t only stupid to me because age =/= behavior and it’s built on the idea that somebody acting more serious, down to earth and calm makes them more ‘adult’, as if adults can’t be child-like and fun-loving.

BUT ALSO, a lot of the reasons Techno is perceived as acting more ‘adult’ have to do with his neurodivergency? Same as people perceiving him as more monotone and emotionless - which, as a neurodivergent person myself he’s never came across as either of those to me? Things like how he’s calmer than Tommy or Wilbur and more laid-back, or how competitive he can get (do you mean hyperfixations lmao. I wouldn’t call the potato war a regular case of ‘competitiveness’)

So yeah, the reason it peeves me in particular is because I myself am a middle child who spent their entire childhood being told they were ‘so mature/grown up’ for their age and who was expected - as a result - to take care of my OLDER siblings just because they didn’t act like me, while in reality I was struggling just as much IF NOT MORE than them but that went unnoticed because it didn’t present in a way my neurotypical environment would understand.

Middle child!Techno who is neurodivergent feels a lot more accurate to me than oldest!Techno because he ‘acts older’

Also as an aside and not related to any of the above, Wilbur just fits a lot more of the stereotypes surrounding eldest children (ambitious, very social, charismatic, perfectionist, very self-critical) compared to Techno who fits the middle child to a T (responsible, prone to fade in the background, doesn’t like to be the center of attention, competitive)