hey since I just told a friend this and they found it helpful: if you’re having hallucinations and are having trouble distinguishing what’s real and what’s not, use your phone’s camera and take a picture of the thing you might be hallucinating. cameras don’t hallucinate.
hey maybe reblog this for other neurodivergent people to see please?
sometimes ur own hallucinations may show up on camera or on a recording if its an auditory hallucination, so if ur unsure and have someone you trust, you can try sending the picture or recording to them and asking them what they see/hear too!!
i want people to start making Hamilton ocs like just iNVENT A FOUNDING FATHER just fUCKING MAKE UR OWN AMERICAN HISTORY self insert where u wrote part of the constitution
Hi my name is Yorkshire Philadelphia Virginia Willamette Laurens and I was born in New York (that’s how I got my name). I have short blonde hair I keep under a powdered wig and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Marie Antoinette (AN: if u don’t know who she is get da hell out of here!). I’m not related to John Laurens but I wish I was because he’s a major fucking hottie. I have pale white skin. I’m also a genius, and I drafted the entire US constitution by myself (I’m seventeen). Stupid men are trying to steal my work. I’m a girl (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly black. I love boys clothes and I always wear them. For example today I was wearing a black shirt with a matching waistcoat and black leather pants, pink stockings and black combat boots. I was wearing black lipstick, white foundation, black eyeliner and red eye shadow. I was walking outside the Constitutional Convention. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of stupid men stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.
me: gay characters are severely under-represented, but within the realm of gay representation, conventionally attractive white men are over-represented
I made an account called @norareedprivate, locked it, and told people who wanted to talk to me on private to follow it.
About a month ago, someone tipped GamerGate’s subreddit off that I was running an anonymous account about one of their pet issues. (I make a good target for these people– I’m non-binary, and I talk about my mental and physical health issues.)
As a result, I ended up targeted by a hate forum that doxxed my family and me; they’ve been aggressively monitoring everything I do online, sending me creepy anonymous messages, and eventually they decided to start going after everyone who talked to me on Twitter and trying to dox them too.
I went private on Twitter sometimes to make it a bit harder for them to go after me, and every time I did that, they kept obsessively keeping track of how many tweets I’d posted. Which gave me an idea.
I made an account called norareedprivate, locked it, and told people who wanted to talk to me on private to follow it.
The hate group targeting me, predictably, LOST THEIR SHIT ABOUT IT:
They kept posting screenshots of everyone who’d @’d it (I’d told my friends to pretend to interact with it if they wanted to).
Despite their spending their time obsessively refreshing a private Twitter account to watch the numbers go up, they didn’t notice that the account was posting every 10 minutes.
Can I talk for a moment about visual storytelling, cause, I feel like it’s something that a lot of adaptations forget about in lieu of trying to replicate their source material.
It’s a problem you see most often in anime derived from manga or light novels, but it’s also present in movies based on YA novels, and you gotta know what I’m talking about, start on black, opening narration, fade in as the main character explains the world and environment. This works in a book since the reader can’t see anything, they need the specifics of the world explained, but it feels like the movies are just like “well it worked for the book, it’ll work for us right?
I’d say it’s worse in anime, where characters will go on long internal soliloquies trying to explain their thought processes and complex emotions, which again, works for the manga, in a manga movement is very expensive, every single motion requires it’s own panel, which takes up the artist’s time, printed space, and a moment in the narrative, so it’s important to only show what absolutely needs to be shown. But animation is different, it’s all movement and the details are what sells it more than the dialogue.
The reason I wanted to make this post is because of one scene in One Punch Man that perfectly exemplifies how to translate a written thought process into visual storytelling. After getting punched to the moon (err, spoilers), Saitama has this thought process
and it’d be easy to translate that entirely literally in the anime, Saitama crouches, has an internal monologue as he tries to figure out how much force he needs to put into his jump, and then he launches. Instead though, the scene is done completely silently, to sell the fact that he’s in space, but the thought process isn’t removed, it’s just show visually.
He throws a bit of moon rock to gauge the moon’s gravity, then launches, it’s a much more thoughtful approach to the scene and the audience’s ability to interpret visual information.
I just, really wish more adaptations realized the inherent strength of the visual medium instead of relying entirely on the source material’s structure and reliance on its own medium.
roxy is a good character because shes got chemistry with every single girl in the session. she and kanaya are practically besties already. she and jade had a fun cute chat and i bet they will have many more to come. she and terezi, despite like 2 lines of dialogue, seem to have hit it off in the lets-troll-people department.
