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Hey there! You can call me Loan, I'm a 20 year old boy looking for a place to share the stuff that I create, whether it's for a project I intend to work on for the rest of my life or just some dumb spontaneous idea. I'm shy but I don't bite! (I do actually)(but only if you're mean you can trust me I swear)
I'm a furry, this blog isn't about that specifically but yeah maybe don't follow if you think that's cringy (cringey? idk). I will likely talk about giftedness, autism and maladaptive daydreaming every now and then since that's part of uh, my life? I also just, think a lot, not in a smart academic way but rather in a stupid this-shouldn't-be-that-deep-stop-overthinking-it way. Sometimes it's funny.
I will mainly post in English but you might see some stuff in Spanish, though I try to translate everything.
The Justacireo saga: This is my current most important writing project, it's all I've cared about since I was a kid and though I don't expect to finish it anytime soon, I wanted a space where I could share my ideas about it as I work on it. It is a series of stories, some heavily connected, some not so much, set in the same high fantasy world and aimed mainly towards a preteen to late teen audience.
Imaginary friends: I have about eight of them in particular that I will talk about often, I'll make introduction posts for them soon.
Art: Mainly writing and drawing, I'm not a professional but you can expect to see personal projects and works as well as tips, ideas or fun games/excercises.
Stimboards/Aesthetics: Haven't made any yet, but I want to start!
Playlists: I have a lot that I made for myself but have been too shy to share, hopefully I'll start being more open with them.
Pets?: Maybe, if I ever feel like it, since I love my 2 cats and dog so much.
Random thoughts: Other things like fandom stuff, jokes, philosophical thoughts or anything in my list of interests that crosses my mind.
Nature: Mainly animals but I enjoy anything related to nature or biology. I also have a particular interest in the ocean and dinosaurs, and my favourite animals are orcas and lynxes (is that the plural form?).
Horror: You'll likely find some monster art and scary short stories here! I'll put content warnings when they are necessary though, obviously.
Mythological creatures/cryptids/monsters: I don't know too much about cryptozoology but I want to learn! I also just like making up creatures and such.
Psychology: I'm not as obsessed as I was a while ago but I definitely talk about it a lot.
Games:
The Sims
The Arcana (side blog!)
Our Life: Beginnings and Always
Nekra Psaria (if you haven't played it yet do it now)
Minecraft
Spiritfarer
The Hunter
Club Penguin lol
Escape games in general (flash I miss u)
Flight Rising
Shows/movies:
She-ra and the Princesses of Power
The Amazing World of Gumball
Ghibli films (Ponyo is my favourite!)
The Babadook (fav horror film)
Inside Job
Mรถlang
Happy Tree Friends
Disney (mostly from the 3D era, I don't remember the old films much)
How to Train your Dragon
Shrek
Megamind
Alice in Wonderland (the live action ones, sorry don't remember the animated one)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Jurassic World (I did watch the old ones but I don't remember them don't come at me)
Others:
The Magnus Archives (podcast)
Musicals (mainly Starkid)
The Neverending Story (favourite book)
Warrior Cats (read up to Night Whispers)
White Fang and The Call Of The Wild by Jack London
Benjamin Lacombe's books
Salad Fingers (webseries and oddly a comfort content?)
why do only children's and fantasy books have illustrations. what crime did other readers commit that the industry decided we weren't worthy of lil drawings
The reality people need to face about exotic pets is that the vast majority of people cannot care for them and should not own them. The vast majority of people they are sold or 'adopted' to should never have been able to acquire the animal, and that animal likely never should have been bred in the first place.
Most people are familiar with cats and dogs. Despite the vast amounts of other pets like rats, mice, birds, rabbits, reptiles, and fish, most people tend to think of animals similarly to cat or dogs in their behavior and needs, especially animals that look similar. It's where a lot of the danger and misconduct around exotic animals comes into play in my opinion, because it seems simple to say that this other animal obviously isn't a cat or dog, but in practice people tend to forget. Even the closest relatives people try to keep it comes with loads of problems. Domesticated animals are inherently used to people and want to be around us, which is not the case of exotic and wild animals.
Wolves, and by extension, wolfdogs, are not dogs. Wolves are inherently shy and try to avoid humans unless habituated to them, being around people can be a huge source of stress. They can't eat the same foods as a dog, they need acres of space rather than a back yard. They eat more, they run more, they have a prey drive built in to target smaller animals you won't find in even the most prey driven dogs. They're also bigger and stronger than dogs too, to the point that most people don't seem to realize just how big a wolf actually is. They are not dogs and will not act like one, but people who keep them repeatedly try to treat them just like a dog, and end up paying the price, with destroyed property, a stressed neurotic animal, health issues, and injury. The same goes for coyotes and foxes, that people often say are 'dog hardware with cat software' which... no. they are their own animals, their behavior, needs, and habits so vastly different from each other that the statement doesn't apply to either, and they don't act like cats either. A coyote acts like a coyote, a fox acts like a fox. Neither are domesticated either. The more removed an animal is from a cat or dog, the problems intensify with how people try to keep them like one. A skunk isn't a cat, its a nocturnal prey animal that has one defense people often try to surgically remove, removing any chance it has to defend itself at a distance. A tegu isn't a scaly dog, it's a large lizard and shouldn't be living in your living room on a dog bed under fairy lights, it needs heat lamps, a proper diet, proper substrate, a good enclosure for one would fill an entire room.
Most people are not malicious and intentionally abusing exotic pets, but they do not have the expertise, handling skills, or resources to care for these animals, and default to 'if its good enough for my cat/dog, its good enough for it'. So many exotic animals are in poor health because of it, with neurological conditions caused by stress and too small enclosures, dietary issues, over or underweight by dramatic standards, developing stress caused habits where they outright hurt themselves by plucking and scratching, all directly caused by their handling. In many exotic species kept as pets, it's seen as completely normal, at most a nuisance, because the owners do not have the knowledge to realize that something is deeply wrong with how they keep the animal and all the other keepers have the same issues, so it must be something the animal just does naturally, even when the wild counterpart doesn't do it. 'Most people keep this species this way, so it must be correct' is a huge mentality with exotic pets.
Snakes are the best example of that, in both good and bad ways. For decades people kept them in bins and power fed their snakes and its a practice that continues to this day despite that it's well known it's not to the benefit of the snake at all and only people who want to keep more and more of them, but it's 'how its always been done' so people keep doing it, even those who tout themselves as animal educators. Throwing a handful of leaves and rocks into a dark bin where a snake barely has room to spread out, only with a hide and water dish, is not good for the snake, it's not 'enrichment', it's just more crap thrown into a tiny claustrophobic enclosure. There's been pushback against it in recent years, which is great, but people continue to do it.
It's the same for almost every species of exotic animal in the petkeeping industry. We as a whole do not keep these animals correctly, we do not ensure those who own or sell them do, and we don't keep up on it. The truth of the matter is most animals are not fit for captivity, having needs beyond what the average person can give consistently for it's entire life. Instead of having massive enclosures suiting the animal's needs, only interacting with it on the animal's own terms and when it's needed, treating it as it's own kind and with all the respect and handling that animal deserves, exotic animals are treated like dogs, like cats, their needs ignored and let to roam in people's houses and when it doesn't meet the expectation of wanting to seek out its owners for affection, of being happy and healthy like that, of not attacking or threatening humans, they are ignored and it's seen as an issue of that one animal, not that it's species' needs are not being met and it shouldn't be kept.
my brothers share special interests and my favorite thing to do is walk in a room and be like "hey guys can you tell me about the mariana trench" and then sit there for an hour while they both infodump to me about the ocean it's extremely entertaining
and my parents are always like "oh my god why would you do that" bitch. I want to learn about the ocean and these two thirteen year old boys r my most trusted source
I mean, I could google questions I have about medieval weaponry and horsemanship, but on the other hand I could message my sister the simple statementย โhave question about historical saddlesโ and get both a phone call and a comprehensive 3 page google document within an hour
Seriously, if you know someone who has a special interest youโd like info about, go ask them! It costs zero money, you make them happy, and you learn way more than a basic google search would tell you.
The best way you can treat your neurodivergent friends is give them space to rant about their special interest/hyperfixation and ask genuine questions about it.
I've never had space to share my special interest. My friends either think I'm either being pretentious or they think "Oh that's smart people stuff. There's no way you know about that. If you really knew about that you'd be a tenured professor at Harvard." (And I'm not going to share what it is on here because I don't want to seem pretentious)
But my friend's younger sibling invited me to their discord server. And I'm like "how funny would it be if i made this your special interest?", and they were like "I made a channel for you to rant about your special interest" and I was joking but if they want to make room for me to rant? Imma take it.
And they're like genuinely interested. Asking questions. Telling me how cool it is. And how is this teenager able to give me more room to share my special interest and make me feel genuinely validated in my special interest more than any adult has?
If you love you neurodivergent friends. Simply give them space to share their special interest. Dude, it's not that hard and you might end up learning something cool. (Okay, to be fair when I get too excited about shit I have no volume control so I get aggressively loud which is impressive because I'm already ridiculously loud even when I'm not excited).
it really makes my day whenever i see someone in public with a stuffed animal. the simple fact that someone else cares about a little plushie so much to bring them everywhere always warms my heart. does it have a name, a backstory? i get to see a peek inside this person's world... that's so wonderful!
When I mentioned my (apparently hot) take that I believe self-diagnosed people are valid, I got a handful of (my first!!!) hate comments.
So I thought I'd elaborate.
People who are self-diagnosed with anything might just end up being default settings. That's okay. What's not okay is denying someone aid on the basis that they don't have a diagnosis.
I always carry earplugs because a bunch of my friends have auditory sensory issues. None of them are diagnosed with anything, but I've helped them through panic attacks nonetheless.
If a stranger came up to me at a loud event and, seeing I have earplugs, asked for a pair, I wouldn't hesitate to give them. Don't bother giving them back, I buy in bulk.
Maybe that person was a neurotypical with sensitive ears, or maybe they were an autistic person with auditory sensory issues. I'll never know. But if my response was, "Do you have autism?" that would just make me a jerk. If their response was "Yes," and I then demanded paperwork as proof of their autism and therefore eligibility for ear plugs? That would mean I'm violating their privacy.
One of my friends had a panic attack at a loud event where she was working, and someone took her shift without question when they asked if she was okay and she said she wasn't. That's being a cool person. Saying "Well, you're not diagnosed with autism," and refusing to help her on that basis while she is clearly in distress is not cool. Even if she is neurotypical, anyone in distress merits help. Just because someone can swim doesn't mean they need breaks to keep from drowning, and refusing them a lifesaver on those grounds is just being a jerk, especially if there's no one else who could use the metaphorical lifesaver.
One of the main reasons I'm pursuing being a psychiatrist is so I can give my friends the diagnoses that I know would make their lives easier. I have the privilege to be diagnosed. They do not. I want to help give people free therapy and diagnoses since, at least in the United States, money is a huge barrier keeping people from diagnoses.
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