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ourflagmeans · 2 years

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my partner wrote some autistic ed thoughts and wanted me to post them:

some of this stuff heavily overlaps with adhd so take it as a general neurodivergent dump, if you will:

- first thing that struck me that he is almost always either overstimulated or understimulated and moments of emotional clarity are seldom. this of course is not only an asd thing but also common in people with adhd or bpd, but i found it very relatable. like, in the beginning of the show, ed is literally so underwhelmed and bored of being blackbeard but also not realistically capable of breaking character or the routine he has created that he almost considers death just for the fuck of it. after meeting stede it gets better, but later in the show, he is often shown as jumpy or sometimes quick to anger, which could be seen as overstimulation (i.e. in the party with the french or in the nature with the snakes).

- masking! like no one else ever before! everyone has seen the meta about the beard being a literal mask. in addition to blackbeard being this huge personality that's tied in with masculinity, danger, and expectations, the beard also literally hides most of his face and facial expressions, which i think many autistic people can relate to.

- always wearing the same clothes. in a sense they're probably to keep up the blackbeard role, but at the same time i read it as a kind of a habitual comfort thing. impractical in the summer heat, but before stede he is reluctant to change what he's used to. like even when he probably should just to, idk, not burn in the sun.

- random stimming. the fabrics seem to function both as emotional support objects and sensory stim. especially pre-stede or while falling into the role of blackbeard while telling stories and stuff he's often shown smoking, which is obviously just. you know, smoking, but also looks suspiciously like an oral stim (also the smoke hides his face, in this essay i will—). also the random stabbing of the block when he's contemplating killing stede. oh and also echolalia (a rather exquisite cashmere). ALSO the absolutely unnecessary jumping everywhere, you know the little parkour shit i'm talking about. can't remember a lot of examples but i swear it happens a few times, think ed hopping onto the barrel in stede's clothes for starters.

- i have some thoughts on the yummy lavender soap thing too but don't know how to elaborate.

- not understanding social clues and the unspoken. to a certain extent he seems to have embraced it, having become a pirate and all, but the whole thing with him curious and a bit frightened of the french boat party people and not being able to understand social clues… hmm. what especially struck me was the way he realized that passive aggression was happening because it was so obvious he didn't really GET it but recognized it based on his earlier talk with stede. also lmao he's so impressed when stede actually gets passively aggressive, he's like wow mate people know how to just do this shit????? mental

- re: social clues, he often seems to have certain scripts that don't always land the way they maybe should. i.e., doing the dramatic gentleman pirate, i presume? entrance on stede even though he's more than half dead and probably won't remember anything, and telling murder stories in the fancy french party. this absolutely is a man who has memorized a bunch of stories and will crank them out when needed

- wanting to win social interactions. do i even need to elaborate

- slightly uncomfortable with the vocal, focuses on the physical. this momentarily changes in episode 9, but in general he is shown to struggle with words and also somewhat uncomfortable with people noticing this change in him. like when he hypes stede back up during the dumb treasure hunt and lucius is like heh that's cute. ed is NOT having it and does not want to be perceived like this. obvs this can be seen as general emotional repression, but i'm putting it into the bin of struggling to unmask/attached to own routines and scripts of who he is supposed to be with other people.

- MORE ON THIS: i know this was most likely written to emphasize the mask coming down and that the man to kiss stede on the beach was edward teach and not blackbeard, but the fact that the big speech about what makes ed happy was in third person just screams vocal/linguistic disconnect to me. like when you have all these feelings you might not know how to filter because you've been churning them out through several crafted fronts (blackbeard, the kraken, etc.), how do you just be yourself and? let people know shit? he doesn't even fucking know who ed is but he's getting there (or was until episode 10 happened)

- this in general though, he seems to have different sets of learnt traits he shows around different people and things get weird and murky when they're supposed to intersect and it doesn't work, i.e. when he's hanging out with both calico jack and stede.

- also, that scene with lucius telling him to get it together during the treasure hunt really actually emphasizes his body language. i feel like this happens often in the show, but can't remember when else, maybe with izzy at some point? anyway, whenever he is speaking with someone who is not stede, he's just kind of frowning and his eyes are bouncing everywhere and not focusing on the one he's speaking with. it was probably written as an intense and comical processing face, but i'm just. hmm. lack of eye contact can be hard to include on film but here i think it was obvious even if it wasn't intentional. like ok. ok ok ok.

- more body language stuff: extremely jumpy when the lady at the french boat party proceeds to touch his beard, has a meltdown of sorts immediately after. the sounds becoming louder and louder and the paranoia he has about everyone laughing at him were actually a great portrayal of this, imho.

- before knowing stede, the whole thing seems like a hyperfixation. like, ed hears one (1) thing of this absolute silly madman and suddenly drops the arguably very little business he has going on, becomes fixated, and starts following stede around just because why not.

- and then of course at the end the mask goes back on, but it's 100 times worse because the crying sequence shows the viewer that he's probably masking more intentionally than he was in the beginning of the show. masking has become so much more exhausting now that he's somewhat realized who he could be if he wasn't masking, but also the betrayal if stede being gone and izzy being an ass is too much to handle without the mask.

#blackbeard #edward teach #our flag means death #ofmd #ed #autistic #autistic ed #autistic blackbeard #neurodivergent #ok and encouraged to rb!#my partner is a genius mark my words #my themmie

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lord-dusk · 5 years

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Jurassic Emblem-Chapter 10

Scales are quite tricky to draw. Anyhow, there’s the second boss of the game!

Nifl was a cold, desolate land of snow,bones,ice,and blood. Frozen blood. It wasn’t quite the Kirby-esque happy place you’d thought it would be, after the Nifl-Muspell incident where Askran forces killed off warped versions of video-game protagonists and The elder Nifl princess Guunthra being roasted alive like some yummy Barbie-Cute pork. And the situation got particularly better when the sun-dragon Helios was frozen solid, condemning the whole area into everlasting night.

At least the stars and moon looked very charming and exquisite, white stellar bodies illuminating the aqua-blue sky.

Blue and Lucina were marching through the snow, huddling each other for thermal radiation. Blue, having grown up on a tropical island for much of her life, had borrowed Lucina’s scarf and cape for extra warmth(don’t get into that frappucino debate on feathers please). Lucina, having grown up in a desert country with enough rainfall to sustain a 15m-tall scythe-wielding flesh golem, found it rather uncomfortable trekking through the snow. Ryukami the mosasaurus had stayed behind at the ice-floes to catch up on some Nisioisin novels.

The raptors were marching onwards to the north of Nifl, sometimes passing by some shrubs and frost-covered rocks. Just when Lucina thought things were getting rather monotonous, she saw something rustle out of the bushes. Blue took notice as well and saw what appeared to be a penguin-like bird with white spots on its face waddling in a panicked manner before a fox-squirrel thing pounced on it and tore apart its head from its socket, crimson blood and pieces of esophagus and vocal cord spilling out unto the snow and dying it red. Blue and Lucina were eyeing the fox-squirrel as it dug heavy mitten-like foreclaws into the bird’s torso and stringy pink intestines splooged out. Lucina decided to look away and went on her way. Blue paid no attention to the carnage after that as well.

“That was a Repenomamus devouring a Great Auk,” Blue explained. “The world where I from, InGen didn’t simply revived dinosaurs, they brought back Paleozoic and Cenozoic fauna as well. Although if I were you, I wouldn’t dare pet a reppy.”

“Why? Are they dangerous?” Lucina asked. Blue can easily tell right off the bat that humans like Lucina had a profound desire to prod and hold small,furry mammals.

“Oh yes. Reppies are one mammal you do NOT want to pet; despite looking like a Pomeranian with mole-claws, they WILL try to eviscerate you; for a mammal from the Mesozoic they are quite big enough to eat small dinosaurs.”

“Hmm? I assumed mammals evolved after the demise of the giant lizards.”

“Actually, they co-existed with the dinosaurs, though they were bit characters in a world dominated by reptiles bursting with presence and charisma. Repenomamus was the biggest furry during its time, but most of its kin were barely any bigger than an Amiibo figure.”

“And that penguin-looking bird?”

“Uh-huh. That great auk was NOT a penguin-it’s actually more closely related to puffins than to the famous diving birds south of the Equator. Although, it was the the only auk that converted its flight power to swimming power completely, and those damn humans wiped its existence off the face of the Earth.”

“You know quite a lot about animals before the dawn of man, don’t you?” Lucina commented.

“I’m a creature from before man myself, though I wouldn’t be too surprised if InGen resurrected species routed by humanity, like the dodo and the gastric mouth-brooding frog.” Blue replied.

“Come to think of it, isn’t it harder to clone a mammal than say, a reptile or a fish?”

“Yes, Henry Wu of InGen has cloned mammals occasionally, but found it quite tedious because mammalian red cells do not have nuclei, where the DNA are located. You would need to find white cells, which are much less common than their red counterparts in a ratio of 2 to 12.”

“Reptiles and birds, on the other hand, have nuclei within their red blood cells, and Henry Wu is a genius when it comes to manipulating DNA.” Blue explained, frowning.

“Who is this Henry Wu that you speak of ?”

“Why, as a human being, Dr.Henry Wu is a tacky SOB who creates red-eyed, mangled-toothed fatherfuckers and is considered a most dangerous man with the most dangerous technology in the sad history of humanity. He attempted to use my blood to create a line of Indoraptors to sell off for military purposes.”

Seems Wu sounds a LOT like that sperm-slurper Validar, Lucina grimly thought.

The two of them chatted like this for the entirely of their walk until they reached Nifl Castle.

*********

Blue and Lucina had arrived at the castle of Nifl, but they were no guards to greet them. Well they were guards present-but they were frozen solid, and clusters of repenomamuses were busily gnawing away at the frozen body cavities.

I guess a species changes its behavior accordingly to the environment, Blue though as she and her partner pushed the gates open. They went inside the interior and up the stairs.

“Something tells me the weather outside isn’t the reason those soldiers were icicles,” Lucina said, walking behind Blue.”Would it be a bad idea to go into the kitchen wing and grab some potions for the upcoming boss fight?”

The charcoal velociraptor sniffed the solid,icy air. It stinged her nose. “I don’t see why not,” she answered. “though if you see some ANY creature, reppy or not, attacking you, don’t hesitate to knock their heads off.”

Blue waited at the second floor while Lucina brisky walked to the the kitchen downstairs. A few minutes later, she was back.

“Are you ready for certain? During the boss-fight there will be no pee-pee breaks, and no daddy in white shining armor with a shotgun and a motorbike crashing through the windows to save either of us. Understood?” Blue interviewed.

“No need for any of that,” Lucina replied. “Let’s get this over with. I feel as though my body is becoming a gelato cone.”

“Good. If my nose knows, she is just around the corner. Follow me.” the raptors headed to the corridor on the right and came across a door that read “Hrid’s Room: Out for Lunch”. They entered.

“Ugh. That was the fifth time someone has stepped in without my consent,” an icy voice hissed. “Do any of you thin-telligent organisms register the concept of knocking?”

A woman was lounging on an oblong bed spotted with various books. But not a regular woman. Her lower half was that of a boa’s, turquoise-green with purple stripes, and covered with icicles.Her hair-piece were icicles as well, and her Victorian-style corset colored electric blue and black made the entire “cool” effect perfect,considering her expressions suggested otherwise.

“What do you bipeds want?” The snake woman demanded. “Did you interrupt my inspirational reading just so you can become like those popsicles outside?”

“We just want to talk,” Lucina answered.

The snake snorted. “Don’t be honest with me, be honest with you. What you really came here for is my bloody limp body that you can use to nail onto this country’s gates like a crooked Christmas decoration. Is that it, O Exalted Princess?

“Why did you freeze the sun-god? Do you recognize the biblical effects the entire world will face?” Blue questioned, her face contorting in defense for her friend.

“Let me tell you this,” the Victorian boa began. “I am the future best-selling novelist Basilice, and I sincerely have no desire to kill you. But my mistress Sha’Rad Yuwi denied my request and forced to to sacrifice my writing skills for combative means. My writing may be on hold, but my mind is certainly not. Exalted Princess, have you ever actually considered the misery of your foes that killed them because you desired to make “everyone happy”?”

“.....You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs,” Lucina replied.

“ ‘I want everyone to be happy,’ ‘let’s end all suffering in the world,’ those are lines that make me want to vomit out the Niflites I ate yesterday. Those are the shallow,one-dimensional philosophies of idiotic eukaryotes who do not face reality.” Basilice sputtered out. “The light is full of lies, lies! People willingly bask in the glory of light so they never again have to experience the truth of the darkness below! Light is harmful, harmful! And not just the fact that overdosing on UV light promotes cancer on light skin. Do any of you bipeds know anything at all about plants other than the vascular system in high-school?”

“When plants grow, they break down soil to suit their roots for sufficient nutrient intake,” Blue raised her hand in reply.

“Precisely! Around 400 million years ago, during the Devonian period, mosses and ferns were starting to grow onto rocks near the coastlines, and inevitably, these early pioneers of the new world crumbled the rock into fine soil which washed out into the sea over thousand of years, and do you know what happened? Vertebrates started choking! Fishes here and there had no idea how to cope with this influx of mud particles from the land, their gills clogged with minerals. This, combined with volcanic eruptions, consumed all the available oxygen in the water and there were massive, massive, casualties everywhere! Because fishes and run-off from terrestrial photosynthesis do not go well together! This catastrophe makes your petty carnage across Jurassic Park and Fire Emblem look like a squabble between toddlers in comparison. And you little humans use the opportunity to view more serious issues as a excuse to lounge in your chairs eating chicken nuggets.”

“So I killed him! I killed that sick son of a bitch Helios because he’s a major liar, and I’m going to teach everyone that people deserve bad endings, everyone!” Basilice took out her Dragonstone. “And if you girls are truly good character down to the nRNA sequence, you might be spared and see everyone in the world smothered in the darkness that is free of any lies! No more pain, no more sadness!”

Blue and Lucina prepared their weapons. “Let’s fight!”

#jurassic emblem #fire emblem heroes #jurassic world #blucina #blue(jurassic world)#lucina #basilice #fire emblem #fanfiction #nifl #and you thought plants were the good guys during AP biology in high school

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twincircus-blog1 · 6 years

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#5 - TWIN CIRCUS IN HIBERNATION

Earth time - January 15th, 2018

Loaded up the backpacks and trolley and off we went, unfortunately we had to leave poor Thomas (our camper) alone in Rome, he isn't registered and without insurance, we'll do that down south...

Six hours later...

We arrive in Castellana Grotte with its limestone rock walls that hug the streets fencing the deep brown dirt and rows of olive trees, small white teepee like limestone dwellings with their conical roofs called Trulli, first constructed in the prehistoric age, can be seen scattered along the trail, the tiny streets of the historical centre is lined with cream stone pavement and quaint homes centuries old, it's a unique part of the world and typical to the area. The Pulgiese cuisine is well known throughout Italy, in fact its home to some of the foods Italy is famous for like, Frisella, Taralli, Orichietti, exquisite extra virgin Olive oil, and those Hot, delicious pastries filled with cheese, tomato and capers called Panzarotti; the etymology of this word makes perfect sense to us, PANZA meaning stomach, so yes, yummy in my tummy!...the coastal towns like Monopoli, Polignano al Mare, Lecce, Otoranto are second to none in their beauty and character; have that camera ready, and be careful with whiplash!...our home, (offered by a great friend that goes by the nickname THE MONSTER, but really he's more like a big teddy bear), was just a few minutes out from the centre of town, out where they call Campania (country) and it didn't take us long to turn it into our own, and a pretty well functioning recording studio (the studio is now called THE MONSTER STUDIO, hahaaa)...there's 17 songs to our debut album called 'Experience The Knowing' so we better get cracking. Thomas, our camper, needs his registration and insurance too. So let's fire up the fireplace, batten down the hatches, and rug up 'cause it's gonna be a looooooong winter...

Fortunately, we do have great friends here who also showed us around in their spare time, taking us to places like Bari, Lecce, Polignano al Mare, and Alberbello, shared intimate and cherished moments with their families, (they really made us feel part of the family), ate some wonderful local food, and drank plenty of beer and wine. What's not to like.

Three and a half months later...

We come out of our hibernation, yawning and stretching out of our cave, eyes taking their time adjusting to the daylight, and with the album vocals all tracked ready for the sound engineer. A huge job for Eris, but she done well, and when you hear it I'm sure you'll agree. Thomas has his long awaited registration and insurance and back with us, together, like one happy family. So We say our last sad goodbyes to the most wonderful people, but we will be back for the summer, and The Monster's Birthday in August, so stay tuned for that one, I think it'll be one hell of a clambake; maybe that's where he gets his nickname?...we turn on the ignition, get the motor runnin' and head down the highway...

"Heading down the highway, heavy metal thunder"Twin Circus is coming to a town near you....so until next time ladies and gentlemen, keep rockin', Twin Circus

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artpix3d · 3 years

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joancoyecamino · 5 years

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Tui to O’Porrino

13.7 miles today

9.17.19

Awakened by a luggage transporter at 9 am...wanting luggage?!! What kind of Camino does he think we're on?? Our fabulous old world hotel served a fittingly fabulous breakfast with hand squeezed orange juice the color of a blood moon.....oooooh....and the charcuterie, and pastries, and freshest melons! I could start every day like this.

Our first step out the door onto the actual Camino trail...a moment moralized by photos but more so ingrained in emotions. Following Tina’s stretching session, we made our way to the Tui cathedral, resplendent with four story tall gold gilt altars, a traditional gothic style with nave, rose windows and arches of granite.

The next few hours were a kaleidoscope of tableaus.....medieval stone walled villages, vineyards heavy with purple and green grapes, creekside paths, wooded lanes, and intermittent cross monuments laden with pilgrim stones honoring loved ones and sending intentions to the heavens. The scent of lilacs at one turn, citrus at the next and fresh forest after that, fed our senses.

After 5 miles, an interlude for refreshments, bathrooms and to rest our feet was welcome. Of all the countries in which I have traveled, this has one of the fewest English speaking people I’ve ever encountered. Google translate has been a basic necessity...and an amusement.

Entering O’Porrino famished and thirsty, we stopped at the first outdoor cafe we found. Through sign language and Google translate we acquired donuts and chorizo cheesy bread along with more chilled Albariño wine. An hour or so later we completed our days mileage, landing at the Hotel Internationale O’Porrino. Suffice to say it was more Motel 6 than boutique.

Upon the recommendation of the large tattooed desk clerk, we dined at the local hangout, Castro; which did not disappoint! It was evident upon our arrival that these four nicely dressed American ladies were an anomaly. The local crowd seemed curious and amused by our total (and vocal) enjoyment of the Manchego cheese and rustic bread, grilled squid; enormous prawns that tasted more like lobster, exquisite buttery scallops on the half shell and more Alberino. We capped off the meal asking the server to choose the four most delicious desserts for us. A good call. Caramel flan was the only one I recognized, but the others were just as creamy and yummy!

As the transport company was not willing to accomodate my request for an 11 am pick up of the luggage (and compromised for 8:30?!) we headed to bed.

Gratitudes: For the lost art of stretching; for blister band aids; nature at her finest; communication without words; shared wisdom; Divine coordination which results in more than we could ask or imagine.

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