this is gonna be quite a short post (i hope), ill try my best to keep it brief. apologies to anyone that has been dissapointed by my lack of activity here, ive done nothing but like posts and check my feed every couple of days, a lot of stuff has happened. to make a long story short i graduated high school (hurray) and did my college entrance exam, fingers crossed i get some good news soon. i made a public instagram art profile, and it has a whopping 2 drawings that i havent posted here (woW!). ive yet to attend prom and do my graduation ceremony so im not quite free yet but i got way more time to do 100% finished works that i deem good enough to put up here and on instagram. oh yeah and happy pride month, hope all queer folks on here are having a good june so far. thats about it, see ya.
ive had this idea in my mind for a while but i wanted to wait until autism acceptance month, i found out its this month (whoops) but still on time i guess.
i am autistic. i was diagnosed when i was 14, which is extremely late for some and extremely early for others, although i had some tests done on me before my baby teeth started falling out (all inconclusive lol). id put some citations regarding autism from a cientific/medical perspective, but truthfully all we know is that we have it and we got no clue how it works. ive had some time to ponder about my neurodivergence so im gonna write what i feel here as most coherent as i can, gonna try my best not to ramble.
im high functioning/low needs, i can function and assimilate into society smoothly, but i have some quirks. i dont really make that much eye contact, i carry my headphones everywhere, i tend to get lost fairly easily when speaking to people that dont know me well; small stuff really, and people usually got no clue im autistic unless i tell them. i used to feel very strongly about being autistic, sometimes i resented it greatly and other times it made me feel like a god among common peasants, now ive sort of mellowed out. i view autism not as a good or bad thing but as a thing, a thing entirely different from being neurotypical (which is why you cant compare them without being biased as all hell). like all things, theres good and bad sides to being neurodivergent, and that bad is not going away anytime soon; the best example i can give is going on a hike. there are times where youre gonna be cruising just fine and other times where youre gonna have to break your muscles to get to the top. you just gotta find a way to scale the hard parts, eventually itll be smooth sailing once again.
if youre wondering if youre neurodivergent of some kind or are upset because you cant figure out how your brain works (trust me, ive been there) i hear you; self diagnosis is completely 100% valid and for many its the first step towards discovery or diagnosis. if you wanna investigate for yourself or to understand a person youn know, theres many helpful resources online that can make you understand this stuff better (be careful though, theres an equal amount of conmen and 'information' deeply tied to politics, bleugh). if youre neurodivergent of some kind or doubting being neurotypical, feel free to comment your experience, i love hearing about others perspectives on this sorta stuff. yea thats about it, seeya!
im a huge mario fan for as long as i can remember, ever since i got a wii as my first console ive been hooked on the brothers. i remember when i watched the first movie i really liked it; its not a masterpiece by any means, but it serves its purpose as a fun kids movie and a nice celebration of the mario franchise for the fans who came to see it. needless to say i liked it for what it was. the mario galaxy movie just aint doin it for me
the thing with the first one is that i wouldnt say its a good movie, but its a decent enough movie that i can see past the issues and enjoy it as a fan. this new one has too many issues for me to move them aside. it suffers from a lot of illumination problems and a lot of general problems that bad movies have. the pacing is horrendous, the characters are less non existent than they were in the previous movie, the story makes decisions that are downright incomprehensible, and its just tiring to watch; im sorry guys, i dont recommend this movie, like at all. if you still wanna watch it thats fine (in fact i encourage you to, form your own opinion) i think its a fine movie for kids, but for a good majority of people (even hardcore mario fans) theres not much for you here.
has it ever happened to you that youre watching a movie about something youre knowledgable on and suddenly go "huh... thats not right"? well do i got something to tell you.
theres a lot of things in westerns that are unintentionally very funny, but if done extremely wrong, theres none as hilarious as the revolver with infinite ammunition. a revolver only has 6 shots, they dont call it a six-shooter for nothing; so tell me why so many westerns have revolvers that never run out of rounds?
normally its pretty subtle or otherwise ambiguous, characters usually fire 4 or 5 shots per shootout and never reload, but sometimes it can be done so, so wrong. i think the most hyperbolic example ive seen is in the 1993 movie tombstone, an otherwise great western (so ive heard, havent watched it yet :P), where during the o.k corral shootout doc holiday fires checks notes 15 shots in one revolver and 7 in another (right after firing 3 shots in a double barrel shotgun); in total thats almost double than what 2 revolvers can get you.
is this enough of a problem to ruin movies? no, not at all. is it extremely funny if you notice? absolutely. i hope this doesn't ruin any movie youll watch in the future, i know for me it wont. if you feel inclined to do so, comment a moment where a movie got something youre interested in incredibly wrong, i wanna see more of this phenomenon.
goodbye, have a good rest of your day :]
So i'm not sure if yall have heard, but during the end of last year and this year theres been a resurgence of measles in north america, thanks to the incredible research of Andrew Wakefield and the backbone of our society that is anti-vaxxers (sarcasm btw). it started out way north in Canada and has since trickled down south to the rest of the continent. Recently my school offered the measles vaccine in order to stay safe, so I got vaccinated. A poke through the arm, maybe a light fever coming in the next few hours and im good.
If you haven't arleady, I highly, highly recommend you get vaccinated. According to the World Health Organization, measles is incredibly contagious and poses serious risks of disease and death, and took the lives of approximately 95,000 people in 2024; Vaccines are perfectly safe, measles is not. So please, vaccinate yourself.
Check your local hospitals or primary care doctor to schedule and run by any doubts you have, as well as checking if you're currently able to vaccinate yourself (certain factors may make you illegible for the vaccine). If you've got a fear of needles or are otherwise tense about the procedure, bring a family member, friend or your partner for emotional support, it goes a long way.
I'm not anything close to a doctor or healthcare professional and I don't wanna spread misinformation, all I can really tell you is to get educated on these topics, it's important we all do. Stay safe out there!