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We can say that pink diamond /rose quartz is an Anti-hero, Her goals and intentions are morally good but she proceeds to achieve them in bad ways. And makes mistakes in the way
I’ve never understood why people who made these videos over used to word scientifically like that’s the only way to explain things in details since science is just the study of something unless you only go by word-of-mouth then whatever you say didn’t come from us scientifically point of view
Oh my fucking god... Satoshi Tajiri was _not_ and _has never been diagnosed_ with autism. The rumor stemmed from one female author that found a laughably fake MySpace page, took it at face value, and labeled him as autistic without any further research. And she regretted doing so after she was called out for it. I'm not even finished watching the first section of this video, and there's already blatant misinformation being touted as fact. Yeah, great job. Totally helping your case here.
The best representation ever for me is Holly Gibney from Stephen King's "Mr. Mercedes", "Outsider", "If it bleeds" and "Holly". I read about her and every page I was like "This is me. I am reading about myself". And it felt good
My Interest is history more specifically modern history and as a American. I would be lucky if my history teacher gave me a interesting conversation. Also I know near nothing about my “Condition” like I just learned of Overstimulation in this video
I think you’re giving bad faith arguments for pink diamond. And blaming her for the corruption and the shard fragments fusions is actually INSANE to me. Also pink diamond was literally being abused by the diamonds and had no way to reveal to them she was doing the rebellion. This would have had her beaten and thrown in jail. And pearl meeting the same fate of the previous pearl. Pink diamond was in a terrible situation and she did what was best for herself to get out and protect the earth. You can’t blame pink diamond for things that happened after she had actions. Faking her own shattering in her mind was the only way to stop homeworld from completing the colony. If she revealed she was a diamond it would get the other diamonds involved and the rebellion would lose. So rose had no way to know the diamonds would use a corruption spell. You continually victim blaming rose for the actions of her abusive family is honestly hurting me to watch. I do think Rose should have told garnet and amethyst who she was.
I do have a character that I consider ‘Autistic’ in the headcanons, Shadow the hedgehog. Now I know I will be bombarded, but most of his traits I put in online Autism tests are settled in ‘most likely autistic’. Shadow is the kind of person who prefers being alone, he only has a few friends (which are Omega and Rouge), and he doesn’t really speak to others (unless they annoy him) This may be confused with him having PTSD, but it was never confirmed by the creators, but I can see him being Autistic AND having PTSD, the only difference is that the head canon I have for him is high functioning Autism, since I think it makes more sense for his character. I, myself have high functioning autism and ADHD, there are times when things are hard but I do manage somehow.
Spinel is a great character, and what makes her so great is that in the trailer, it shows her trying to kill Steven while she laughs in the background, but in the movie, we now know why. If it wasn't Pink Diamond abandoning her, she wouldn't hurt Steven and the gems anyway. I'm starting to think that Pink Diamond is the true villain of the series. She emotionally abused Pearl, also emotionally abusing Spinel, saying to her to stay still and wait for Pink to come back, but she didn't. She never wanted to come back, because she prefers Earth instead of her own garden (I think.) 6000 years, Pink left Spinel to rot in the garden, waiting for Pink to come back and play with her. But when she heard Steven's news, she cried. She was in pain. Her heart was broken. It makes me angry thinking about why fans would get mad at Rebecca for saying the reason why she made Spinel. They all think that Rebecca said that Spinel deserve to rot alone, but she didn't say that. Thank God she found Steven, her "new best friend", and she's living with the three most powerful diamonds. (If they hurt her, I swear to God...) Enough of my endless yapping, I love Spinel. She's an amazing, yet cute character. I hope we see her more in the future. Oh wait, the show ended. Damn it!
this video, particularly the section centred around peridot and pearl (my symptoms are very visible but I’ve learned to hide them, I relate to both) made me realise i was autistic. ive since gotten a diagnosis, so… thank you. this video kind of changed my life and i am so glad you went over this SO ACCURATELY (i have a special interest in psychology funnily enough, and have since i was 10. that partly helped lmfao). thank you.
How do you learn how to control your feeling after something like this happens? I don't want to be toxic I don't want to hurt anyone. I just keep doing it....
That's a lot of the reason I've been happy to write! My special interest is Ratchet and Clank, and on top of seeing a lot of myself in the characters, it was important to me to write a story on it that used a character that is very clearly autistic. She stims constantly, doesn't understand certain social terms until explained, and there's a scene late in the second book where she has a meltdown. Felt it was important for folks to see, even if the RaC fandom is smaller than other fandoms.
I very probably have some form of ADHD, and have been struggling with hyperfixations since forever. Especially now, where I find myself not really... having one? ig? I still have a very strong interest in my past hyperfixations, but I'm not intensely consumed by anything atm and haven't been for a while. As someone who doesn't know how to enjoy things "normally", it's strangely harrowing. I find myself trying to latch onto different things to feel more okay again (although being hyperfixated on something has its own laundry list of cons) but to no avail (especially considering how difficult it is to start any kind of task, including trying out a new series for ex). It feels so embarrassing and lonely lol.
Anyone: (mentions Splatoon) Me: Oh! You know about Splatoon?! Yaaaay! So, uh, did you know that all of Dj_Dedf1sh’s songs are about how she felt being sanitised? Yeah, I think only #0 Shell is the actual becoming sanitised because it feels like it is disabling you from thinking and doing stuff to your brain which is basically what sanitisation does and oh, do you know about the actual lore? Well it all started with the conflict between humans which soon broke out into a whole entire war which ultimately just ended with the sea levels rising and everyone died, the end! But, it doesn’t stop there! So some humans managed to escape into underground bunkers where they would all live and there was a certain scientist with a cat named Judd who made a sleep pod and a telephone to pass on human knowledge to the next intelligent life and soon, the whole bunkers kinda just flooded, but the scientist had the option to save himself using the sleep pod and get to the future, but he saved his cat Judd instead. Meanwhile! Another bunch’s of humans escaped into a crater where they would make a new home, Alterna. The humans wanted to have a sky so using the bodies of marine life they would make a sky. It was all good for them and humanity WOULD survive, right? Wrong! The younger generations wanted to escape alterna so they built an entire rocket!! But on a test fire the shock wave was to huge that all the crystals and things from the marine life came crashing down in a huge flood and that was the end of humanity… in the next thousands of years, marine life began to evolve thanks to the help of the crystals which held human desires and so the sea creatures evolved into humanoid forms, the most advanced species being the Inklings and the Octolings. These species lived in harmony, ignoring their differences and flaws, it was perfect. In an alternate reality probably! What really happened was a whole giant war between inklings and octolings because of the lack of land and a little bit of Racism. Eventually the inklings won and the octolings were driven underground. Some years later, there was a talent show for young inklings! A girl named Pearl entered but she had a voice so loud that it destroyed the entire venue, in the end Cap’n Cuttlefish, The leader of the squid beak Splatoon (the inklings from the war),‘S nieces, Callie and Marie, won leaving pearl to go yodel in the mountains alone. Callie and Marie would soon become the idol group known as The Squid Sisters! And that about sets things up for the story of the games! That person: ok I think I’ve heard enough.
Revisiting this viddeo now, and it is implied the bodily fluids of each diamond has, for some reason, the power to create new gems. It usually is made by collecting, somehow processing it, and injecting it, but, to some extent, Rose's tears creating pebbles are one form of that. Steven's spit and some of roses creations might be the result of that interacting with organic matter instead of minerals. Hard to say as the watermelon stevens seem to have a fairly limited lifespan and ability to reproduce, unlike gems. Finally, pretty sure that ine story from Junji Ito inspired the creepy aesthetics of the kindergartens. To the point amethyst once references it, saying "it fits me perfectly" and slotting into her hole, as happens with people on that story
Adrien Marinette are brother and sister including kagami also Chloe is sisters too and Felix is their cousin. They are all sentimonsters he looks the opposite to what he was doing for Adrien while they all don't figure Marinette out that she is one of them
One could not fathom how horrifying it must've been to be on earth during corruption day. Imagine you just survived a full on civil war between immortal light based space beings and then suddenly a bright light blinds the earth, only to wake up seeing everyone slowly turn into unrecognizable monsters who are hell bent on tearing you to shreds.
this aged well and in season 5 (representation) we find out both Adrien and Felix are sentimonsters and the amoks are in the graham rings (Emily and Gabriels wedding rings) but Adrien does not now he is a sentimonster but marinette does
I have a theory, white made diamond gems but they weren’t like.. the gems that form yet, white is so emotionless because she passed her emotins to the other diamonds, and thats why pink is so small, because white’s joy is super small.
This feels like a pretty safe comment section, so I want to ask your opinion. I'm autistic, and my special interest is Harry Potter. Legit, I picked up the first book when I was four, and I've been in love ever since. But, I find myself significantly at odds with JK Rowling time and time again. I've tried separating the author from her work, but a couple of my cis and trans friends, and numerous people online in the trans community have expressed that my special interest and attachment to Harry Potter is the equivalent of being a die-hard transphobe. I can attest that I 100% validate and support trans individuals, but I don't know what to do. Like others have said, I don't choose my special interest, and whenever I try to let go of the Harry Potter Universe I sink into a deep, months-long depression. Does anyone have any thoughts or opinions on this predicament? Thanks for reading this long comment :)
Well, this is kind of late, but anyway. In the video itself Toon Ruins talks about having a ''problematic'' special interest or hyperfixation like Attack on Titan. Indeed, a special interest or hyperfixation can be considered as such depending on the interest or hyperfixation itself. I have Blue Reflection as a special interest (I'll try to hold myself back...), and I know perfectly well that some people won't like the fanservice or suggestive content of said IP, especially if we talk about the first game, but if I cared about what other people might think about me because Blue Reflection is my special interest I wouldn't be able to enjoy Blue Reflection as much as I do or my life would be a little more miserable or something, worrying about what other people say or think about you isn't good I would say, so, if you love Harry Potter and can't help it (you didn't choose Harry Potter after all), I say, keep loving Harry Potter. Then again, I say it as someone who isn't a fan of Harry Potter, someone who supports trans people (at least to an extent) but also someone who doesn't consider JK Rowling a transphobe (and I've seen several tweets or comments made by her), so, maybe you should get opinions from people who are Harry Potter fans unlike me.
