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wip of void stiles
finished version here
yayyy daylight savings!!!
hey floea! who's your celebrity crush, and what would you do with them if given the chance to do anything?
"Uhh...
I never really had a celebrity crush, but I do think that Neichel sings good... if that sorta answers your question?"
another batch of school doodles from 1 or 2 months bakc
Once again, I LOVE the way this man speaks!
Daniel Ricciardo & Lissie Mackintosh | Coming this week | Pt. 1
EXACTLY THIS! this is why I never read romance books, they tend to have the most frustrating plots because the only way people can think to make them interesting is miscommunication!
The only books that have characters get together that I like are, like, Percy Jackson and Septimus Heap because its not any where here the real plot of the book
I think a big part of why I slide off of most over-protracted romantic subplots is because absolutely any time the plot starts going "one of them is suddenly acting Cruel and Harsh to the other without explanation, perhaps because they believe they must Break Their Heart To Save Them" I just go straight to "cool. they can go fuck themselves and you can go do literally anything else"
I'm not a massive fan of tattoos on men but when Selwyn Kane:
I'm not a massive fan of tank tops on men but when SELWYN KANE:
aka Selwyn Kane can make anything hot I will die on this hill
how do you tell if a boy likes you?
U just gotta ask 'em, man. Boys are stupid as shit, I'm not even kidding.
soo...... What If I said that I kiiiinda beat the battle right after posting the last post..... huh
miiight watch a playthrough of the genocide on youtube since I am WAAAY to attached to these lil buddies
well anyways more screenshots and maybe a lil forgot the word uh lets say my words about it and the game
once again spoilers for the ending!
but heres this though
the greatest fan game I've played so far give it up to....
Jeeze I reeaally like her so much
I LOVE MARTLIN CEROBA AND STARLO SO MUCH AAA
me to bud, me too ;-;
oooh aaawwwe jeeze Ive somehow grain attached to clover a lot
just a lil guy who wants to help people aaaaa
and there they go
the bravest lil cowkid
THEY MEET AND DALV GETS A HANDSHAKE YEEEEEAAAH
I love the little send off so much its just so sweet
there they go ;-;
now I always take a picture of THE END screens when I play a game
they are like lil trophies for some reason to me
a journey that has ended but was a blast to adventure through
now some words of mine, you can just ignore if ya want or skip through cause I have yet to show my favorite screenshot of this game
also I am pretty terrible at words sooo yeah... but anyways rambling time
I haven't played that much fangames really
but so much work went into this
I first started playing because of some art i've seen of starlo and I thought "huh! seems pretty neat! ill give it a try since people like it so much!"
so I got it and just....
im so glad I did
the characters were so well written and there were a lot of moments that made me burst out laughing
(as I show here you see!)
its so cool that technically none of the main cast of the original game except for toriel was in this, like a new breath of fresh air showing how much more there is to the underground. Back to the characters I think they were defiantly well written in my book, from Starlo not just being the funny sheriff but also a lil sweet nerd who entertains to make people happy to Martlet while being a scatterbrained dork helping with a lot of the things and even setting aside her job to help this random kid go home, even Dalv was great despite not seeing him that much!! the soundtrack was so good and I can listen it for hours, right now im listening to it right now the song being gift in repeat since it kinda feels fitting right now. and all the talk about Chujin and revealing him at last was really cool and good, and the betrayal arc with Ceroba was really cool as well and I wasn't really suspecting it. and ah of course the ending, with Clover giving their soul up to help their friends, I certainly gotten attached to the lil deputy somehow really. All the little moments in this was just so sweet and yeah fine ill admit it I did shed a few tears so what.
all in all I definatly have WAAAY more words to say but ill put it down to this
when I learned about this being made for seven years just... I see all that hard work put into it, it feels like undertale and sometimes I forget... Okay a lot of times I forget its just a fangame but it's just that good! the devs are so talented and If they everr somehow see this I hope they know that all their hard work paid off so much and that they made something spectacular
This is probably my favorite fangame Ive played and will be for quite a while
sorry for the long rant guess I just really wanted to talk about this huh? also sorry for being bad at words, they still elude me to this day
but yeah! thats what I thought about this do what you will with it with that being said
the final and favorite screenshot time :]
The End
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On Duke Thomas and the problem with the ASPD diagnosis
There are many many messed up things with the way personality disorders are classified in the dsm-5, but I think what best illustrates how fucked up the ASPD diagnostic criteria are is that Duke Thomas (yes, Duke Thomas, the Signal) could definitely get diagnosed with ASPD.
FYI, ASPD means Antisocial Personality Disorder, this is the clinical entity usually referenced when we talk about psychopathy or sociopathy. So how does that fit Duke? (It doesn't. And yet...)
First is the question of why should we diagnose Duke, a teenager whose personality is still in construction, with a personality disorder? Well, while you only get diagnosed at 18 (criteria B), your "transgressions" occur since age 15, which means Duke's behaviour in We are Robin (when he was a traumatized homeless teenager in a hellscape of a city)can 100% be used to spring a diagnosis on him at 18. Criteria D is just excluding schizophrenia and bipolar episodes. Now let's take a look at criteria A: at least three manifestations from this list of signs that someone is "disregarding and transgressing other people's rights" :
1. Repeated liable to arrest behaviours
So, like when Duke got arrested for being part of We Are Robin, then escaped arrest and did it again and again?
2. tendency to lie for either profit or pleasure: repeated lies, use of pseudonyms or scamming.
Funnily enough, I don't think Duke had a pseudo in WAR aside from Robin ofc (feel free to correct me if I misremember) but Isabella and the others sure did! Still, when Duke gets arrested, he lies and insists he isn't part of the WAR and hasn't done anything illegal, which fits the criteria as "lying for personal profit". (If you're feeling full of righteous rage reading this it's normal, I'm trying to prove a point.)
3. Impulsivity OR inability to plan ahead.
Duke is definitely able to plan ahead, but I know very few clinicians who, upon hearing how this mf jumped off a bridge to escape a moving police car, wouldn't write down "impulsivity"... And it's not like it's his only similar offence. I'm not saying he is impulsive, but that behaviour is definitely enough to get him classified as one in the eye of a clinician, especially if they're meeting him after an arrest and hearing from that episode second-handedly.
4. Repeated fights and aggressions.
Do I need to develop why this would fit Duke?
5. Inconsiderate disregard for his safety OR other people's safety
If you thought I was being unfair about the impulsivity for jumping from a bridge, you can't tell me this doesn't fit here. Again, far from the sole iteration of it from Duke in WAR, but one of the most memorable.
6. Persistent irresponsibility: this one is all about pathologizing and shaming financial and employment struggles, which is its own nest of issues but doesn't concern our boy Duke since he isn't an adult.
7. justification/indifference after harming, stealing or mistreating someone (lack of remorse).
The question here is, does street vigilant violence count as harming someone? I'm gonna go with yes, because there is no question of whether it is justified, and attempting to defend oneself is here considered a sign of a lack of remorse. (Whether or not you count it doesn't matter so much though, because we're already over three hard yesses.)
So, to recap, whether or not we count criteria 7 and 3, Duke already fits the bill of 3 criteria, and thus fits criteria A.
The last criteria to examine, criteria C, is :
"manifestations of a conduct disorder before 15". So you're going backwards in time investigating the person's past actions to see if they fit the criteria having, most of the time, only data like police records, grade reports, foster care interviews sometimes, on top of your own retroactive bias. To quote Duke's bio "during his time in foster care, Duke went from an upstanding student to becoming a bit of a delinquent, receiving poor grades and racking up an extensive police record due to his investigations into his parents." I'm not gonna go through the whole list of conduct disorder symptoms because there is so many, just know the cutoff is 3. For Duke, we can identify: "picks up fights", "stays up late at night despite interdiction from his guardians (before 13 -when was Duke first placed?), "often skips school" (again, before 13), "has run away and spent the night outside at least twice or once but didn't come home for a long time", "has b&e into someone's house/car/building" (i'm pretty sure that happened at some point? An abandoned building that legally belongs to someone else counts btw), "lies often to avoid obligations". I might have missed some from Duke's time in foster care so feel free to point out any sign of conduct disorder I didn't spot!!
In conclusion, Duke fits the criteria for ASPD and would have been, in universe, liable to be diagnosed as soon as he turned 18 (which could very well had happened if he had stayed in the system or gotten arrested). So, is the conclusion that Duke Thomas actually has ASPD? Obviously not. The point is the dsm criteria for ASPD (and conduct disorder) are so fucked up that fictional superheroes who definitely don't have it meets them on a technicality. Even if we accept ASPD as a valid clinical entity (which is highly debatable) this wording is so wrong I can't wrap my head around this.
Another point you might have noticed is that post-crisis Jason Todd (Jaybin, not the Red Hood) would also have been a very valid test to highlight how problematic these criteria are. While little Jason is at risk because there is also a huge classism problem in these criteria (which don't do shit to acknowledge necessity theft and actively shame financial insecurity), Duke is at risk because studies have highlighted the racist bias in these criteria: regardless of clinical intent, the awful, unclear wording of these criteria have led to a huge race difference in ASPD diagnosis. Add to that the foster care to prison pipeline, a story where Duke had been diagnosed with ASPD would have been all too realistic (assuming dc writers know about aspd).
All these critiques are acknowledged in the DSM-5: Revised Text version, where researchers warn against the bias and unclear wording of these criteria. But let's be honest: clinicians barely ever read the diagnostic characteristics of the original DSM-5, let alone the revised text (generally because 1. They're overworked and 2. To interview properly, you need to ask questions based on the criteria while talking to the person, which is super hard and means you need clear, defined, easy to memorize criteria). So most of the time, clinicians just base themselves on the diagnostic criteria. Just saying "hey careful about bias these criterias aren't that well written" in the revised text isn't enough : if ASPD is going to stay an entity at all, it needs better criteria.
The ASPD criteria are amongst the worst failures of the DSM-5, and the case of Duke Thomas perfectly illustrates the pitfall in which we might fall if we don't remain critical of classifications and take into account how they fit within a social and political sytem.
*This post simplifies listed criteria to what clinicians actually use while diagnosing for clarity's sake, but doubting your sources is smart, so feel free to check out the detailed criteria to check I'm not misinterpreting what the dsm says by simplifying it since the DSM-5 is available online for free, search key for ASPD is F60.2 and for conduct disorder is F63.81.