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On the discussion of book accurate depictions of Sherlock Holmes, one thing I really want is accurate Mycroft. In the books Sherlock is very… autistically coded. At least to me, an autistic person. And Sherlock basically states that Mycroft has more “severe” autism. Sherlock says his brother is more brilliant than he is but absolutely cannot function in society and hates social interaction so much he founded a society for the purpose of minimizing it as much as possible. In addition it’s implied he becomes overstimulated so easily he has to curate his environment to be devoid of disturbance and noise.
Give me the autistic brothers but one has it much much worse
Enough of this Mycroft as the more sociable of the two who is a powerful politician. This man would have a meltdown if he had to be that social!!!
Mycroft goes one (1) place and then goes home, at the same time every day, and does not talk to anyone if he can avoid it, and is really good with facts and figures. Given the state of mental health research in the late 1800s, Mycroft is possibly the most autistic a character could be. And he’s HAPPY - do you know how rare that is in fiction about autistic people? Sherlock is super clear about this: Mycroft does his Mycroft things, and has no desire to do any other things, and everyone is super grateful for him being himself and sorting out all their facts for them.
Obviously we only meet him in the stories when he’s been forced to Get Up And Go Do Something because of circumstances (that’s how adventure stories work, after all) but the majority of the time, Mycroft is having a great time looking out the window and not talking to anyone. Good for him, I say
actual artists: well idk if I can call myself an artist, even though I’ve been doing it my whole life, being called that just feels like such a huge honour, I just draw/paint/write sometimes
ai “artists”: hi I am the most creative and original artist of this generation, it doesn’t matter that I never picked up an actual brush/wrote a single sentence outside of my english class and this computer program did everything for me, my “work” deserves to be recognised internationally and I need to be paid 3789823503$$$ like rn, also fuck those losers who refuse to use ai programs bye 🥰🥰✌️✌️✌️
Just a reminder I do not support AI art, writing, or music in any form. I do NOT care if it’s easier to enjoy your blorbos with ai content. By supporting ai content you’re just literally cutting out human connection and telling human creators that they’re replaceable. As a human you should feel terrible about this.
That ear bone is called the stirrup because it’s for the horse in there. The little man in your ear listens to the message and then rides a horse to your brain to deliver it. He can imitate sounds really well, like a parrot. That’s why you need the stirrup bone.
The hammer and anvil bones are for the little man to make new horse shoes because the horse has to move VERY fast and wears them out quickly.
Previous guy with the job. Executed for being too slow, remains left as an example.
When creationists reach biology.
Every time I think I’ve heard the meanest thing someone could say about me, someone on this website tops it.
Normally the horse is fast enough that you can’t really hear it, but once in a while the little man has a bad day where he keeps forgetting what he heard and has to go back to hear it again. The constant back and forth hoofbeats is tinnitus. The annoying delay is auditory processing issues.
As a hearing acoustican, can confirm. If you need hearing aids that’s just because the little dude on the horsey forgets to deliver all the sounds. The hearing aids are just reminders for him so he won’t forget anymore
tumblr being all adults nowadays is so funny because my mutuals are either unemployed chainsmokers or Ezra, Bioengineering PHD Candidate at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
one of the important lessons to learn about adult life is that the gap between an unemployed chainsmoker and a bioengineering phd candidate is actually not that large
One thing I can tell you as someone so zoology obsessed is that books, articles, blog posts, any literature at all is highly likely to let you know if an invertebrate or reptile has ever been known to eat its own young but not nearly as likely to admit how many widely beloved mammals will do the same (most of them) or how often (way way more often than the scorpions or snakes)
Something something researchers found out hamsters had a specific number of babies and would eat babies to achieve the optimal number of baby. They figured it out by removing excess baby and no eating. Then reintroducing excess baby and then some babys got eated.
One of the funniest darkest things I ever saw an animal do was a hamster not just designate a baby as food but designate it as food for later by putting it in its cheek pouches with the normal food
