I do the, ‘I’m here’ and let my circumstances speak for themselves.

Oh my god I’d love a world where ‘how are you’ can be answered honestly or never asked at all.

This reminds me of that story here a while back about the autistic man who didn’t react appropriately to someone’s death and being convicted of murder.

It’s fucking bleak out here that we have to make Oscar- winning emotional performances to convince people we have feelings.

I think masking as a concept gets mistaken as just concealing ND traits, when there is this element of forced emoting involved as well. You’re actively masking when you force a smile to convince a person that you’re actually happy. God forbid you can’t cry on command to align with the pain you’re feeling.

If someone tells you they’re feeling a certain way, just believe them. You have nothing to lose.

I love Laios, I really do, but he’s the last person to be giving a lecture like that. At least according to his trajectory as a character. He’s not invested in the politics of the world and hasn’t done the level of research Marcille has. It just feels off.

I hate fiction where magic is considered too dangerous to solve systemic problems. Like it’s an antagonistic force in the world that’s only good for warfare. It’s a natural force in most settings, making the mistrust seem so strange.

Like in this setting, the mad mage made mistakes, but they want to throw it all out.

GOOD article.