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[cutiepieautistic]

Maybe a stimboard of caregiver Psycho Foe Fredbear from Five Nights at Frickbear's 3, please?/nf

(Two things: This image is what he looks like in a mini game, his actual design is in 3D and it looks kinda intimidating and also, even though the game is comedic, his design ain't which is pretty effective.)

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[hellhoundzzz]

Does anyone else struggle with feeling "too stupid" to grasp certain things due to cognitive/mental issues, skill regression, or anything similar

[another-whump-sideblog]

Fixing Tracy Chapter 8: Domesticity 

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"Do you have a job?" Tracy asks as she helps Molly put away groceries. It's starting to strike Tracy as odd that Molly can afford all this and also spend the majority of her time with Tracy. Molly’s talked about past jobs, but never anything current.

“Not right now. Don’t worry, you’re not keeping me away from work or anything. This is where I want to be.”

“So how do you… afford all this?” 

“My parents were very wealthy, and I got all of it when they died.”

“Ah. That explains a lot.”

Molly laughs. “I’m not sure how to take that.” 

Hmm… Tracy tries to think of a way to direct the conversation that might give her helpful information. “Are you planning on getting another job any time soon?”

“Probably not. I don’t want to leave you alone all day.”

“I wouldn’t mind.”

“Still, if you got hurt, or needed me for something else, you’d have no way to get help. And I like spending time with you. I would miss you the whole time I was gone.”

That makes sense, logically. No one is forcing Molly to be here, she must be spending time with Tracy because she wants to. Tracy wants to ask what makes her so special, but she chickens out. She gets the feeling that whatever the answer to that question is, she really won’t like it. “Do you… have any friends? At all?”

“Mm… I hope someday you’ll consider me a friend.” She puts the last of the groceries in the pantry. "Do you wanna play Wii Sports Resort? I bet you can get a new high score at wakeboarding."

"Sure." She's really good at the wakeboarding game.

Molly grins and sets up the game. It makes sense that she has no friends, but it’s disappointing all the same. No one is going to come visit her and ask about the heavily locked basement. Tracy isn’t getting outside help.

A thought hits Tracy like a bus. "Am– am I the first person you've kidnapped?"

"Of course!" Molly hands Tracy a Wii remote. "First and last."

A chill runs down Tracy's spine. It's okay, it's fine. Just gathering information. It doesn’t matter why Molly decided to kidnap Tracy, that knowledge won’t help her escape. "Right. Um…”

Thinking of questions is hard. Maybe she should just try to make natural conversation, and see if anything important comes up?

“Do you have a favorite video game?” Tracy asks, partially focused on digital wakeboarding.

“I’m not sure. The only thing I ever play alone is The Sims, so I guess that would be my favorite?”

“That makes a lot of sense. You like taking care of the- hell yeah!” Tracy is momentarily distracted by getting a long string of 100-point tricks.

“Yeah.” Tracy can hear the smile in her voice. “I do really like games where I can take care of people. I’ve had to ban myself from getting any games like that on my phone, I always end up setting alarms in the middle of the night to check on them. Sims don’t have their needs drain when the game is closed the way so many mobile games do.”

Tracy’s turn ends. She didn’t get a new high score, but she got close. “You’d… set alarms in the middle of the night?” 

“They’d be so sad and hungry every morning if I didn’t!”

“They’re… not real.”

“That’s the thing— how do you know? I can’t bear the thought of telling someone that they’re not real if they actually are. Can you imagine, someone coming up to you and telling you you’re not real? That would be awful! I don’t want to risk it. What separates us from programs, really? People a lot smarter than me have theorized we’re all in a simulation. If that’s the case, would it be okay for someone to starve and hurt us because we’re not real? Even deleting those apps felt kind of like killing people. I couldn’t function for weeks afterward… But I’m okay now!” 

“You’re… actually crazy.” That shouldn’t be surprising for a kidnapper, but it somehow is.

“That’s not very nice.” Her tone is lightly scolding. Not angry at all, but definitely the harshest tone she’s used with Tracy so far. “You probably didn’t want to hear about my issues, though. What’s your favorite video game?” As she talks, Molly repeatedly does so badly at the game that it pauses to remind her she needs to land on the water with her board flat.

“I never really played video games before I came here— before you kidnapped me, I mean. I think I need to try a few more before I decide.”

The conversation continues like that until Tracy gets a new high score. Just… pleasant, even if the things Molly says are disturbing sometimes. Tracy’ll have to mentally go through the conversation a few times before bed to make sure she didn’t miss any valuable information. Even if she didn’t, though, building a rapport with Molly is good. That’ll… that’ll definitely benefit her somehow, even if she’s not sure how yet.

“You’re amazing.” Molly looks at Tracy like she’s… Tracy doesn’t even know. Definitely not something human. A beautiful painting, maybe? A sunset? A skyscraper?

“For… being good at Wii Sports Resort wakeboarding?”

“For everything. Everything about you is amazing.”

“…thanks?”

Molly stares at her for a moment longer, then breaks eye contact. “I don’t want to make you feel uncomfortable. You barely know me, that probably sounded more like a stalker complimenting you than a friend. I’ll do my best to dial it back.”

“…I appreciate that.”

Molly fidgets with the Wii remote. “I think… I need to spend some time cleaning today. You won’t be able to relax if your living space is filthy! I’ve been putting it off a bit.”

The basement seems plenty clean to Tracy. "Okay."

"I've been keeping the cleaning stuff upstairs, so I'll go grab some stuff and be right back. Is that okay?"

"Yep, go ahead." Tracy feels like she should offer to help, but… she doesn't want to. This isn't her house, she doesn't want to be here and would leave if she could, she has no obligation to do any cleaning.

For the next several hours, Molly takes various cleaning supplies up and down the stairs (always making sure the bag with restraints isn't downstairs while Molly is upstairs) and cleans more or less the entire basement. 

Tracy plays some Minecraft, then starts a book that looks interesting. She's… enjoying herself. Is this the best use of her time? She could talk to Molly more, but did she really learn anything last time? She runs through the conversation in her head repeatedly, but can't find anything useful.

She puts the book back. She needs to think of more questions to ask, more information that might help her, she needs to do something because if she has time to enjoy herself she definitely has time to get something done but there's nothing to get done, she can't do anything she's useless–

"Are you feeling okay, dear?"

"I'm fine. Do you… need help with anything?"

"You're here to rest! I'll handle everything, don't worry. I'm basically done, anyway, I've just got to take the mop back up the stairs."

She's not pathetic enough to beg to help her kidnapper with chores, so she nods and heads to the kitchen. She'll just make lunch for both of them, Molly's okay with her doing that. It's really hard to just wait for helpful information instead of actively working towards escape, but… she can do hard things. It's not Tracy's fault that she's useless right now, anyway, it's Molly's, so there's not much she can do but suck it up and enjoy herself until Molly lets something slip.

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[maaskuline-a]

ME: lol Johnny is a dumbass. no brain. head empty. totally clueless. airhead. stupid dumb idiot

ALSO ME: the main reason Johnny is perceived to be as dumb as he is is due to having undiagnosed / untreated learning disabilities, and the American public school system definitely did not help him with that, and so he is quite literally just learning more about life as he goes all by experience and playing a game of catch-up, and having it being reinforced to him that he's dumb or stupid over and over again also does not really help much in this process regardless of how true it may or may not be, and while he does need to be held accountable for a lot of his flaws he also needs to be treated with a lot of patience and room to make mistakes in order for him to learn and grow. you could also absolutely argue that the usage of these words are ableist, but ultimately Johnny being known as a total musclehead and called these words in his everyday interactions & conversations play a vital part in his characterization and cannot be avoided

ALSO ME: ...lol himbo, no head, no brain—

[riverphoenixsgothwife]

please. somebody get me out of here

[missmitchieg]

My two cents on this discussion! [Video Description: ST, a young white woman with long blonde hair, is speaking on screen. As she speaks, a screenshot of lyrics from Sabrina Carpenter’s song Manchild are behind her. Text on screen at the beginning of the video reads “Apparent ableist language in Sabrina Carpenter’s song Manchild”] #DisabilityTikTok #DisabilityAwareness

Enough about the Man's Best Friend cover. Let's talk about the Manchild lyrics, yeah?

[anti-ao3]

i kind of hate that wearing a mask at all times makes me look "paranoid" or i'm a nag when i wish others wore masks as well.

it's also so dystopian when i'm one of the few or the only person wearing a mask in public. i'm the "crazy" one, not other ppl who are mostly ignorant to the horrible effects covid and other diseases can have.

[adorawasright]

as i see ppl reducing adora's character development to "dumb lesbian jock lol", i kinda remember how some a/tla fans treat zuko.

for context, zuko/sokka became a lot more popular in more recent years, and sadly, i've seen ppl reducing zuko's entire arc to "he's a stupid gay". and i'm not saying you're not allowed to project onto him and hc he's gay, but not only is this a way of ppl to antagonize z/utara (trust me, the hate this ship gets is ridiculous), zuko as a character doesn't always get the right treatment from a part of the fandom. he might be infantilized despite being one of the oldest characters in the gaang.

secondly, azula stans often devalue zuko's trauma to make azula the "actual" victim - but trauma isn't a competition. besides that, ppl often overlook how unhealthy m/aiko is, considering mai avoids any emotional connection with zuko and just makes him kiss her or do pointless things, along with her being complicit in the fire nation's imperialism. now, i do not want to say that mai's apathy is what makes her a bad person. lack of empathy does not mean someone is automatically a monster or a "psychopath". the problem is that mai's and zuko's personalities clash a lot, as zuko deeply empathizes with others, even his supposed enemies (like katara). zuko and mai don't share the same morals. mai doesn't even understand why zuko turned against the fire nation. sadly, m/aiko is another victim of bad writing bc they end up together in a very concerning way ("never break up with me again").*

*in fact i'm planning to write a more detailed comparison with c//a.

basically, i feel like even this is like the way the spop fandom treats adora, which is also the show's fault considering it doesn't explore much of adora's trauma in comparison to catra's. while zuko's trauma IS deeply analyzed in atla, some fans silence his experiences bc they think azula deserves more attention. i agree that azula in some ways was done dirty (especially if you read the comics), but they straight up erase the fact azula abused zuko, that she intimidated and blackmailed ty lee, and obviously did a plethora of bad things. azula is still a victim of ozai, of course. but i'm so sick of azula stans erasing the damage she's done.