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A little sketch of Ian and Barbara I drew for my partner last year. Hopefully I’ll get the chance to paint it!

We love them, your honour.

Ranboo but Gwen Stacy and also aimsey cause yes :D

Boo bitch

Describing each doctor based on how I differentiate them in my head

One: suspiciously inclined to murdering people with rocks

Two: executed by the state for being a fun little guy (no relation to the rock murder thing, they didn’t really care about that)

Three: if you’re not going to be at least a little gay and dramatic about it, why do it at all

Four: creature who is also a man who should probably not be allowed a space/time ship for the health and safety of the universe

Five: someone test this man for something, no one passes out/falls down that much with out there being something going on there

Six: guy with the worlds worst (best) coat

Seven: if a mouse trap could also be an alien with an umbrella

Eight: your grandma loves him, but he will leave her house and commit at least one atrocity that he never speaks of again (he probably forgot)

Nine: a fun guy who very desperately needs a therapist

Ten: was in love once and makes it everyone else’s problem

Eleven: excitable puppy that may or may not also be an eldritch horror (you get to find out the hard way)

Twelve: punk grandpa who want to stop having moral quandaries

Thirteen: excitable puppy who is an eldritch horror, just not in the way she thinks

Yeah but like they are smiling? And exaggerating their motions? So i think they are joking? But also it might be a social cue, i have no idea

Does anyone else feel embarrassed after getting carried away with your hyperfixation in front of someone who you know may not be interested in it? Like you exposed yourself in a way you shouldn't have?

Please reply with you experience, I need to know to deal with this.

I jist want to show them the excitement i have for this thing :(

I think what a lot of non-autistic people don't understand is the relationship between special interest and empathy.

I love hearing people talk about their special interests because it makes them happy, and it makes me feel good to see other people happy. I talk about mine with the understanding that even if they don't get the actual thing, talking about it makes me happy and they like to see me happy.

This works really well with other autistic people, moderately well with those who have other divergences, and is an absolute minefield when talking to neurotypicals.

When I talk about my special interests with another autistic person, there's an understanding that I'll talk now about mine, and it'll be their turn soon. If we have similar interests, it rapidly devolves into excited fawning over something. If they're different, I get to learn about something new from someone who loves that thing more than anything.

When I talk with someone with another divergence, like my friend with ADHD, there's an understanding that maybe what I'm doing doesn't make sense, but it makes me happy, and it's not hurting anybody. I'm more careful about picking topics that are "of general interest", and more attentive to cues that it's time to talk about something else, but any person in this category who I know well enough to get like that around knows to just tell me to stop in a gentle way. We acknowledge each other's differences and respect them.

I don't usually start talking about special interests around neurotypicals. Unless we already have a very close relationship, there's no way for them to get the kind of enjoyment I would expect an autistic person to get from seeing me so happy. If I try to ask leading questions to get someone to "take their turn" and talk at length about something that makes them happy, they generally don't get it, and the conversation fizzles. In addition, neurotypicals usually don't understand that I'm not going to notice their subtle hints to stop talking, and will start to get frustrated by the time they clearly ask me to stop.

The only neurotypicals who actually get this kind of empathetic enjoyment are those who already like seeing me happy, like my parents or siblings, and even then, I can't really tell if they're getting much out of it. Opening up that much is risky, and often just not done. I know to be careful.

Basically, all this led me to this idea: autistics want to talk about our special interests because we want other people to feel the joy we feel. Other autistics pick up on that. Other neurodivergents pick up on something, even if they're not sure what, and neurotypicals make absolutely no sense whatsoever.

I on the other hand will probably need a new floor. (i have a habit of jumping up and down when excited, and i live on the second floor)

$500 says that I'll need to lie down for an hour a full HOUR on the floor after the 60th Anniversary I'm gonna fucking die this is gonna kill me

ranboo said that in the final stream he couldn't run at his full speed bc the cameraman couldn't keep up or something, and while yes, this is completely just a behind the scenes fun fact, i also would like to propose the headcanon that showfall controlled his running speed in the chase scenes so he never actually could outrun the security guards/the wire monster, only as long as they wanted him to

they were stargazing :3

*turns your genloss into a poster*