This is what I get woken up by every morning. I can’t remember how many years ago I got given this damn alarm clock by my aunt (as a Bday prezzie), but it was probably 14 or 17 years ago, and is easily the most effective alarm clock I’ve ever had:
I thought bonnets covered all the hair to protect it while sleeping. My brain has decided to fixate on this, I’d be forever grateful if someone can explain.
egon
i think willis just doesnt know how bonnets work. he drew sal wearing one once in the same way
Given the rate this comic’s going and the sliding time scale, by the time she’s a sophomore, the original cartoon would’ve been off the air before she was born.
Oh my god, I just realized I’m older than the comic characters now
MatthewTheLucky
Oh god Sarah is younger than me
ProfessorDetective
Same, I started reading this comic as a freshman… in HIGH SCHOOL.
Needfuldoer
Don’t feel bad, I’m roughly Leslie’s age.
You know those feelings of cringe-y regret you have about some of the things you did when you were younger? Yeah, those don’t go away…
Minotaur
Half a century old here! Agreed, those feelings don’t go away, but once children turned up in my life (nephew and nieces in my case), and I was able to love them in spite of them being childish and stupid, I was able to forgive myself for doing cringe-worthy things when I was small.
I’m also around your generation. Spousal Ms valdVin and I have no kids.
My own childishness escapades taught me to not tell my nieces/nephews stories of what they did when they were tiny tots. (Way younger than high school.)
I have no interest in being part of this conversation:
Nephew: Uncle, you’re embarrassing me in front of other people!
Me (insistingly, obliviously): No, I’m not!
AndieStardust
OOH my brother showed me an anime about that. I forgot the Japanese title of it but it translated to “8th Grade syndrome”. If you’ve ever pretended to Kamehameha or whatever was cringe worthy, you’ll resonate with the main character. I haven’t finished it but the first chunk of episodes are fun.
Indoor Cat
Is the anime Chuunibyou?
Chuunibyou is kind of a fascinating phenomena, mainly because it’s listed as a personality disorder / mental health disorder in some cultures, but not in others, and in those cultures, eccentric types of 14 year olds do tend to be eccentric or express anxieties in ways that match up with 8th grade syndrome, whereas teens from cultures where there’s no notion of Chuunibyou, anxiety and eccentric self-exploration is expressed differently.
So, for example: a fourteen year old who has anxiety and is insecure, who wants to be seen as unique / interesting / cool, that’s most 14 year olds. However, teens with Chuunibyou cultivate a completely fictional identity.
Sometimes this is done online (sort-of like Catfishing, but usually without romantic intent; they just want to be perceived as someone cooler / more attractive than they really are). Sometimes this is both online and in real life, saying or implying that who they seem to be (a normal middle schooler) is, in fact, a secret identity cover. These fictional personas are sometimes things like “secretly a celebrity,” but in Japan, the personas tend to be legitimately impossible things: someone with magical powers, an alien, a dragon or wolf trapped in a human body.
This differs from pretend play such as Dungeons and Dragons, writing plays or stories, which is pretty typical and actually healthy for adolescents, because despite the obvious false-ness of their fictional identity, teens with 8th grade syndrome want other people to sincerely believe their fictional self is real. At worse, they can become deeply in denial or deluded about who they really are versus the story they’ve invented for themself, which can lead them to doing dangerous things.
It’s a really peculiar phenomena, and it’s interesting to me what aspects seem to be cross-cultural and which are unique to Japan.
I mean, mental illness in general is heavily culture bound. It’s just that the US and Europe have done really well in exporting/forcing our illness reportoires to other cultures.
smparadox
Huh. I know a 52 yr old who has that syndrome. He hasn’t seen much anime, and not all of his personas know that they are fictional, but the delusion is strong enough to contaminate a professional psychic’s reading, leading the psychic to predict that he would indeed become a real powered superhero soon. You can tell him by his superhero gravatar…
I really don’t get the hate Teen Titans Go receives. Like, I can understand it not being someone’s thing, especially if they just want more of the original, but I’ve never understood the sheer, unbridled HATE that it seems to fill people with.
Media oversaturation. They play it too, too much and not enough of anything else.
Gizen
I see. Maybe it’s because I haven’t actually watched TV in years that I’ve neither noticed nor been bothered by that.
Doctor_Who
I don’t mind it, but seeing how much it clogs up the schedule DOES make me a little resentful that Steven Universe is relegated to the occasional “Steven Bomb”.
Maybe if they didn’t need to fill up 26 hours a day with TTG they could give SU proper seasons.
marianne
As much as the molasses trickle of new SU episodes irks me too, I’ve always figured that relying heavily on one or two cheaply made, popular cartoons helps CN fund their more ambitious but less profitable output, and if I’m right and that’s what allows SU to exist in the first place, I’m all for it. Although they could certainly use just a bit more variety in their schedules.
LookingIn
That wasn’t it. It’s either complaints that it’s pointless and insuliting to the old sow or it’s nothing like the old show that people were expecting.
They play it a lot because it’s property that the network owns the characters. DC and Cartoon Network are part of the Time Warner conglomerate, DC via Warner Brothers and Cartoon Network via Turner Broadcasting.
It’s like Nickelodeon constantly playing Spongebob or Disney XD constantly playing Phineas and Ferb.
Mr. Bulbmin
The difference there is that SpongeBob still occasionally had a decent episode every now and again (before it, y’know, ended), and reruns of the older ones were pretty frequent . . . as for Phineas and Ferb, it kept contained to its run and is arguably one of the best (second best, imho) original Disney TV series in recent years, sandwiched right between Gravity Falls at #1, and SatFoE at #3.
Cartoon Network has straight-up better shows than TTGo! (so there’s no reason for it to overshadow the rest of their lineup), it relies mostly on cringe comedy or meta humor (it takes itself down constantly, as if the showrunners are trying to be liberated from it), the references are heavy-handed, and I swear if I have to hear one more repetitive, loud, annoying musical number I’m going to scream. I have younger relatives who watch the show constantly , and I make it my mission to try to show them something a little less . . . irritating.
They don’t have to like what I like- that’s not my issue. I’d love it if I could talk about my own favorite shows with my younger siblings, and get differing opinions on characters, plot points, et cetera, but it’s pretty unlikely I’d be so lucky. I still enjoy hearing them excitedly explain why they like the series they do (for example, Sofia the First has much smarter writing than I would’ve expected from a show originally part of the Junior lineup, and I wouldn’t have known it from initial impressions), but even without comparisons to the original Teen Titans, Go manages to hit every check mark on the list of “why”, from an unlikable main cast all the way down to really unfunny base humor despite being primarily marketed as a comedy.
Long story short, there’s a lot more to it than “it’s not the original Ten Titans so it sucks”, but that might just come down to me having spent more time around it and developing a laundry list of reasons not to like it.
Maybe fans of the characters can’t get over the fact that they are being shown as being classic cartoon characters and have basic personalities that are parodies of extremes instead of the serious, gritty, bleak characters that the comics and the previous show.
Funny thing is, the show was never meant to be serious and was always mean to be antics and fun happening between missions. Heck, they barely fight crime!
Gizen
Yeah, if you hadn’t followed up with that second paragraph I was about to ask what the fuck version of Teen Titans you had watched, because anyone who says the original Teen Titans was dark and serious clearly hadn’t seen like, 60% of it. Sure, it had dark moments, but then it also had things like the Mad Mod episodes.
3-I
Might also have to do with the fact that for the period of 2010-2016, the comics and all related media pretended that the Teen Titans had never existed as a team, and the ONLY show that continued to acknowledge them was a bizarrely sexist random-humor filled version that totally took over all discussion of the characters.
1) The original was a cartoon about characters, not a slapstick type of cartoon focused on just being silly and wacky which is a very severe style shift in terms of expression.
2) All the characters are flanderisations or completely recharacterised due to the style of the cartoon shifting. This is the biggest issue with the reboot honestly as dumbing down the characters leads to…
3) …the characters acting in morally questionable, bizarre and confusing manners. They either act so stupidly it is unbelievable or do immoral things the original characters would never have done.
4) Combining the three points above, it was essentially ‘branding’ a cartoon as Teen Titans to draw in the original fans when apart from looking like them and having the same backstory concepts, nothing is really the same, and it is not something fans wanted. It is an unneeded spin-off which retains very little of the original and none of the style, character growth, or sense of humour that made the original appealing in the first place.
5) It is on Cartoon Network constantly and actually does feel like it clogs up the schedule more than any other cartoon I have ever seen, and it doing so is kind of salt in the wound if you were looking forward to more Teen Titans until Teen Titans Go came out and was nothing remotely like it.
Personally I don’t care because I never trusted the reboot to be anything like the original, but I can see how the small things could build up into a hatred for someone else that was more invested.
not someone else
Also 6) the fact that they supposedly cancelled the awesome show everyone loved and replaced it with a mediocre one because too many girls liked the first one. That’s gonna lead to some resentment.
CoMa
I didn’t know of that. Read up on it. And now I’m in an angry wth-state of mind.
I mostly didn’t like Teen Titans Go, because it appeared to be a step backward. I wouldn’t hate on it, but I also didn’t enjoy the style and after watching an episode, the type of humour displayed. But this now…that’s, that’s really something. Wow.
(Plus with what I’ve read in the explanation that it’s due to greater difficulty in controlling the gendered merch, that concept alone is just something I can only sit and stare at and wonder what’s going on in the heads of those executives)
Geneseepaws
See? You said,”wonder what’s going on in the heads of those executives.” And your assumption is that there is something going on in their heads, like logic. From (many many) years of observation, there is nothing going on in their heads that isn’t mysoginistic, homophobic, or an accidental ‘hit’ which is then cancelled. TW3, Smothers Brothers, Star Trek, … Couple of seasons and Voom! Gone, and rung down the curtain indivisible.
Many fans of the original show were undoubtably hoping TTG! would be a continuation of the series they grew up with and loved. When it turned out otherwise, their reaction was predictably hostile. Add in the fact that the show really is pretty poorly written and you’ve got a recipe for online rage rants.
I just generally don’t like “monkey cheese wacky lol random” humor, and from what I’ve seen this show shoots it at you with a gatling gun. The pace is too hyper and frantic for any of the gags they’re using to have any impact.
Is Lucy autistic? I thought she was just nice, and geeky? I’ve plenty of people like her that don’t fall within the spectrum. If so the vast majority of girls in cartoons and anime act similar to this, so there must be more representation than I thought.
I can explain as an autistic AFAB person myself, there’s just… things that are more than “nice and geeky”. I mean, she comes on strong. She doesn’t know how to “tone herself down”, so to speak. It’s in the communication and the expression of experience, that I see the autism.
And I think anime loves ND characters, especially in fem characters, because it’s easier that way to group specific “types” of girls. They just pretty much take a certain caricature/stereotype of girl and roll with it, in many cases.
Ronnie
OH GOD I PUT IN THE WRONG EMAIL BUT THAT’S ME
I’m freaking out a bit oh no
Surprises stink
212 thoughts on “Good morning, world”
Ana Chronistic
if Lucy doesn’t totes have a theme song playing when she wakes up, I’d be surprised
Stephen Bierce
I got nothing to say but it’s okay
Good Morning Good Morning Good Morning~a
Marsh Maryrose
Good morning, Starshine
The Earth says hello
You twinkle above us
We twinkle below
Undrave
This is way too mellow for a waking up song!
Let me share some super obscure deepcut here: https://youtu.be/ZOqq3TfpFxY?t=15s
Red
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1I7D5MsSvU
I used this as an alarm in the morning for about a week before I got sick of it, but I think it fits here.
showler
Whoa. Flashback.
Reltzik
Top hit for “Annoying Morning Person Song“. Click at your own peril.
Reltzik
Okay, obviously I don’t html. Here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9ODz8EWghc
Minotaur
Annoying early-morning song in Dutch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z84mGFiE5hk
Very effective in getting people up…
Yet_One_More_Idiot
This is what I get woken up by every morning. I can’t remember how many years ago I got given this damn alarm clock by my aunt (as a Bday prezzie), but it was probably 14 or 17 years ago, and is easily the most effective alarm clock I’ve ever had:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEgiNag27WI
C.
Take it away, Mr. Burns:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlikAybIR-o&feature=youtu.be&t=16s
Doctor_Who
Please tell me that’s a real hat that exists.
Lucy and Dina NEED to meet. They must know that there are other true connoisseurs of fine haberdashery out there.
bleepbloop
It’s not a hat but it exists! I’m wearing one right now lol. It’s a bonnet, you wear it to keep your hair from getting messed up in your sleep.
egon
pretty sure that’s just a hair bonnet
Blue
I thought bonnets covered all the hair to protect it while sleeping. My brain has decided to fixate on this, I’d be forever grateful if someone can explain.
egon
i think willis just doesnt know how bonnets work. he drew sal wearing one once in the same way
Blue
Oh! Okay, thanks
Omymel
Did anyone notice that Lucy’s bonnet is a POKEBALL?
Sporky
oh my god she has a hermione doll that she says good morning to that’s so precious
Dork
Is black Hermione canon in the Walkyverse? If so, I approve.
3-I
Hell, she’s 70% canon in OUR universe.
AnvilPro
I really like the lighting in this comic
captainrex7675
You just had to go with the abomination that is teen titans go, not the regular titans….
Doctor_Who
Wouldn’t that have ended when she was about 7?
kyojikasshu
Given the rate this comic’s going and the sliding time scale, by the time she’s a sophomore, the original cartoon would’ve been off the air before she was born.
Nobody
Oh my god, I just realized I’m older than the comic characters now
MatthewTheLucky
Oh god Sarah is younger than me
ProfessorDetective
Same, I started reading this comic as a freshman… in HIGH SCHOOL.
Needfuldoer
Don’t feel bad, I’m roughly Leslie’s age.
You know those feelings of cringe-y regret you have about some of the things you did when you were younger? Yeah, those don’t go away…
Minotaur
Half a century old here! Agreed, those feelings don’t go away, but once children turned up in my life (nephew and nieces in my case), and I was able to love them in spite of them being childish and stupid, I was able to forgive myself for doing cringe-worthy things when I was small.
ValdVin
I’m also around your generation. Spousal Ms valdVin and I have no kids.
My own childishness escapades taught me to not tell my nieces/nephews stories of what they did when they were tiny tots. (Way younger than high school.)
I have no interest in being part of this conversation:
Nephew: Uncle, you’re embarrassing me in front of other people!
Me (insistingly, obliviously): No, I’m not!
AndieStardust
OOH my brother showed me an anime about that. I forgot the Japanese title of it but it translated to “8th Grade syndrome”. If you’ve ever pretended to Kamehameha or whatever was cringe worthy, you’ll resonate with the main character. I haven’t finished it but the first chunk of episodes are fun.
Indoor Cat
Is the anime Chuunibyou?
Chuunibyou is kind of a fascinating phenomena, mainly because it’s listed as a personality disorder / mental health disorder in some cultures, but not in others, and in those cultures, eccentric types of 14 year olds do tend to be eccentric or express anxieties in ways that match up with 8th grade syndrome, whereas teens from cultures where there’s no notion of Chuunibyou, anxiety and eccentric self-exploration is expressed differently.
So, for example: a fourteen year old who has anxiety and is insecure, who wants to be seen as unique / interesting / cool, that’s most 14 year olds. However, teens with Chuunibyou cultivate a completely fictional identity.
Sometimes this is done online (sort-of like Catfishing, but usually without romantic intent; they just want to be perceived as someone cooler / more attractive than they really are). Sometimes this is both online and in real life, saying or implying that who they seem to be (a normal middle schooler) is, in fact, a secret identity cover. These fictional personas are sometimes things like “secretly a celebrity,” but in Japan, the personas tend to be legitimately impossible things: someone with magical powers, an alien, a dragon or wolf trapped in a human body.
This differs from pretend play such as Dungeons and Dragons, writing plays or stories, which is pretty typical and actually healthy for adolescents, because despite the obvious false-ness of their fictional identity, teens with 8th grade syndrome want other people to sincerely believe their fictional self is real. At worse, they can become deeply in denial or deluded about who they really are versus the story they’ve invented for themself, which can lead them to doing dangerous things.
It’s a really peculiar phenomena, and it’s interesting to me what aspects seem to be cross-cultural and which are unique to Japan.
Kamino Neko
Culture-bound syndromes are pretty fascinating in general.
vividgrim
I mean, mental illness in general is heavily culture bound. It’s just that the US and Europe have done really well in exporting/forcing our illness reportoires to other cultures.
smparadox
Huh. I know a 52 yr old who has that syndrome. He hasn’t seen much anime, and not all of his personas know that they are fictional, but the delusion is strong enough to contaminate a professional psychic’s reading, leading the psychic to predict that he would indeed become a real powered superhero soon. You can tell him by his superhero gravatar…
thebatman22
It reran for a good while. It was still airing all the time when I was a kid
Gizen
I really don’t get the hate Teen Titans Go receives. Like, I can understand it not being someone’s thing, especially if they just want more of the original, but I’ve never understood the sheer, unbridled HATE that it seems to fill people with.
Conuly
Media oversaturation. They play it too, too much and not enough of anything else.
Gizen
I see. Maybe it’s because I haven’t actually watched TV in years that I’ve neither noticed nor been bothered by that.
Doctor_Who
I don’t mind it, but seeing how much it clogs up the schedule DOES make me a little resentful that Steven Universe is relegated to the occasional “Steven Bomb”.
Maybe if they didn’t need to fill up 26 hours a day with TTG they could give SU proper seasons.
marianne
As much as the molasses trickle of new SU episodes irks me too, I’ve always figured that relying heavily on one or two cheaply made, popular cartoons helps CN fund their more ambitious but less profitable output, and if I’m right and that’s what allows SU to exist in the first place, I’m all for it. Although they could certainly use just a bit more variety in their schedules.
LookingIn
That wasn’t it. It’s either complaints that it’s pointless and insuliting to the old sow or it’s nothing like the old show that people were expecting.
They play it a lot because it’s property that the network owns the characters. DC and Cartoon Network are part of the Time Warner conglomerate, DC via Warner Brothers and Cartoon Network via Turner Broadcasting.
It’s like Nickelodeon constantly playing Spongebob or Disney XD constantly playing Phineas and Ferb.
Mr. Bulbmin
The difference there is that SpongeBob still occasionally had a decent episode every now and again (before it, y’know, ended), and reruns of the older ones were pretty frequent . . . as for Phineas and Ferb, it kept contained to its run and is arguably one of the best (second best, imho) original Disney TV series in recent years, sandwiched right between Gravity Falls at #1, and SatFoE at #3.
Cartoon Network has straight-up better shows than TTGo! (so there’s no reason for it to overshadow the rest of their lineup), it relies mostly on cringe comedy or meta humor (it takes itself down constantly, as if the showrunners are trying to be liberated from it), the references are heavy-handed, and I swear if I have to hear one more repetitive, loud, annoying musical number I’m going to scream. I have younger relatives who watch the show constantly , and I make it my mission to try to show them something a little less . . . irritating.
They don’t have to like what I like- that’s not my issue. I’d love it if I could talk about my own favorite shows with my younger siblings, and get differing opinions on characters, plot points, et cetera, but it’s pretty unlikely I’d be so lucky. I still enjoy hearing them excitedly explain why they like the series they do (for example, Sofia the First has much smarter writing than I would’ve expected from a show originally part of the Junior lineup, and I wouldn’t have known it from initial impressions), but even without comparisons to the original Teen Titans, Go manages to hit every check mark on the list of “why”, from an unlikable main cast all the way down to really unfunny base humor despite being primarily marketed as a comedy.
Long story short, there’s a lot more to it than “it’s not the original Ten Titans so it sucks”, but that might just come down to me having spent more time around it and developing a laundry list of reasons not to like it.
LookingIn
Maybe fans of the characters can’t get over the fact that they are being shown as being classic cartoon characters and have basic personalities that are parodies of extremes instead of the serious, gritty, bleak characters that the comics and the previous show.
Funny thing is, the show was never meant to be serious and was always mean to be antics and fun happening between missions. Heck, they barely fight crime!
Gizen
Yeah, if you hadn’t followed up with that second paragraph I was about to ask what the fuck version of Teen Titans you had watched, because anyone who says the original Teen Titans was dark and serious clearly hadn’t seen like, 60% of it. Sure, it had dark moments, but then it also had things like the Mad Mod episodes.
3-I
Might also have to do with the fact that for the period of 2010-2016, the comics and all related media pretended that the Teen Titans had never existed as a team, and the ONLY show that continued to acknowledge them was a bizarrely sexist random-humor filled version that totally took over all discussion of the characters.
Sam
Well these factors play into it:
1) The original was a cartoon about characters, not a slapstick type of cartoon focused on just being silly and wacky which is a very severe style shift in terms of expression.
2) All the characters are flanderisations or completely recharacterised due to the style of the cartoon shifting. This is the biggest issue with the reboot honestly as dumbing down the characters leads to…
3) …the characters acting in morally questionable, bizarre and confusing manners. They either act so stupidly it is unbelievable or do immoral things the original characters would never have done.
4) Combining the three points above, it was essentially ‘branding’ a cartoon as Teen Titans to draw in the original fans when apart from looking like them and having the same backstory concepts, nothing is really the same, and it is not something fans wanted. It is an unneeded spin-off which retains very little of the original and none of the style, character growth, or sense of humour that made the original appealing in the first place.
5) It is on Cartoon Network constantly and actually does feel like it clogs up the schedule more than any other cartoon I have ever seen, and it doing so is kind of salt in the wound if you were looking forward to more Teen Titans until Teen Titans Go came out and was nothing remotely like it.
Personally I don’t care because I never trusted the reboot to be anything like the original, but I can see how the small things could build up into a hatred for someone else that was more invested.
not someone else
Also 6) the fact that they supposedly cancelled the awesome show everyone loved and replaced it with a mediocre one because too many girls liked the first one. That’s gonna lead to some resentment.
CoMa
I didn’t know of that. Read up on it. And now I’m in an angry wth-state of mind.
I mostly didn’t like Teen Titans Go, because it appeared to be a step backward. I wouldn’t hate on it, but I also didn’t enjoy the style and after watching an episode, the type of humour displayed. But this now…that’s, that’s really something. Wow.
(Plus with what I’ve read in the explanation that it’s due to greater difficulty in controlling the gendered merch, that concept alone is just something I can only sit and stare at and wonder what’s going on in the heads of those executives)
Geneseepaws
See? You said,”wonder what’s going on in the heads of those executives.” And your assumption is that there is something going on in their heads, like logic. From (many many) years of observation, there is nothing going on in their heads that isn’t mysoginistic, homophobic, or an accidental ‘hit’ which is then cancelled. TW3, Smothers Brothers, Star Trek, … Couple of seasons and Voom! Gone, and rung down the curtain indivisible.
Lokitsu
Many fans of the original show were undoubtably hoping TTG! would be a continuation of the series they grew up with and loved. When it turned out otherwise, their reaction was predictably hostile. Add in the fact that the show really is pretty poorly written and you’ve got a recipe for online rage rants.
Needfuldoer
I just generally don’t like “monkey cheese wacky lol random” humor, and from what I’ve seen this show shoots it at you with a gatling gun. The pace is too hyper and frantic for any of the gags they’re using to have any impact.
Arianod
I thought it was the Powerpuff Titans.
Pablo360
This pretty much confirms what I was suspecting about Lucy, and I foresee conflict (or at least a very important discussion) in the future.
That said, that’s a good Hermione doll.
Stephen Bierce
As opposed to the Hermione figure who darkened Robin’s doorstep in Shortpacked!TNI
Jamie
It appears to be non-white, too, which pleases me.
Passchendaele
Honestly, it’d be really funny if she was awake
the whole time and just wanted to scare Lucy away.
Ivy
She was awake for two thirds of it
Terry
Are we high enough level to unlock Lucy’s Tragic Past?
JessWitt
We could speed up the process with a few hundred dollars of microtransactions.
Loki
Can we also offer microspeculations instead?
For example: her tragic past, at some point, involves people wearing shoes.
Yossarianduck
SECRET SIERRA/LUCY CONNECTION CONFIRMED
Wright
Or roll the dice with *shudder* a loot box.
Ronnie
As an autistic person myself I declare about Dumbing of Age that with the appearance of Lucy:
**AUTISM INTENSIFIES**
Yes most my comments will continue to be about autism in the comic, it’s just too awesome that we’re getting good representation.
Thank you Willis!
geno
Is Lucy autistic? I thought she was just nice, and geeky? I’ve plenty of people like her that don’t fall within the spectrum. If so the vast majority of girls in cartoons and anime act similar to this, so there must be more representation than I thought.
Ronnie
I can explain as an autistic AFAB person myself, there’s just… things that are more than “nice and geeky”. I mean, she comes on strong. She doesn’t know how to “tone herself down”, so to speak. It’s in the communication and the expression of experience, that I see the autism.
And I think anime loves ND characters, especially in fem characters, because it’s easier that way to group specific “types” of girls. They just pretty much take a certain caricature/stereotype of girl and roll with it, in many cases.
Ronnie
OH GOD I PUT IN THE WRONG EMAIL BUT THAT’S ME
I’m freaking out a bit oh no
Surprises stink
JessWitt
Oh, another Dexter and Monkey Master fan?
Lucy’s meetup with Joyce can’t come soon enough.
Needfuldoer
That meeting will be a supernova of happiness and cheer so powerful it’s sure to destroy the planet.
Tacos
So I see Lucy has a Teen Titans Go poster on her wall. Ain’t nothing wrong with that.
JessWitt