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edit: so #girl of me to post this right before I had to go AFK for like 3 hours

As a kid one of my favorite movies was Ratatouille (and it still is!), And one of the reasons for that is because the stakes are so low. The worst outcome is that Remy doesn't get to realize his dream of being a chef, or maybe that he's killed but that doesn't seem likely for the movie. Contrast that with something like WALL-E, where basically the continued existence of the human race and the planet Earth hang in the balance, or the scene in the Garfield Movie where he almost causes several passenger trains to crash and potentially kill dozens.

As a kid, I remember thinking that having such extreme life or death or even apocalyptic stakes for kids movies was unnecessary, it just made me feel stressed out and upset rather than excited lol

cum version anyway tho

Edit: also to be clear none of the art I post is my own, all I can do are stick figures. This one's by @fsnowzombie on twitter/tumblr!

1: a decade ago I watched a robot chicken episode with a parody of Monk called Cork the autistic detective. You can probably guess the amount of nuance and sensitivity this portrayal had, I actually called my mom over to show it to her to see if she could help me understand why it made me so sad

2: just watched Good Time, featuring one of the Safdie brothers playing a disabled adult who at the end of the movie gets put in a kind of adult daycare group therapy, the movie as a whole is pretty grim with a downer ending but that aspect especially made me depressed

Important context is that I have autism, and from the end of 6th grade to graduation I went to a school for kids on the spectrum, ranging from high functioning like me to completely nonverbal, and I fucking hated it and the resulting effects and trauma are probably a big part of why I'm Like This today, but that's a story for another time maybe.

Who knew one type of flavorless dry protein slathered in seasoning and sodium would pass as a different flavorless dry protein that also happens to be cheaper and faster to prepare (not to mention vegan)

It's like playing Fallout or something, but every single skill check is always 1 point higher than you have in that skill. Doesn't matter if you spend the whole game minmaxing, or the reverse (trying to keep yourself balanced and good at most things); you're always just barely underqualified for anything and no matter what shapes you contort yourself into, it's never quite the right one

Another comparison would be that spongebob episode where he keeps missing the bus no matter what he does, to the point where it's clear that the laws of physics themselves are optional as long as he's unable to succeed

It's midnight and I have a stomachache. Post quality will continue to deteriorate