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Heritage Post

02/10/2012

An immortal person decides to start streaming themselves playing Geoguesser, and over time become extremely popular as they tell the history of the places that they guess.

Autistic Inertia is an autism experience that makes it hard to start, stop, and switch tasks.

It somehow doesn’t get talked about enough - so I made this comic!

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Also, if you want to read the research study I based this comic on, it’s right here!

Since I posted this on other platforms and got these questions a lot:

ISN’T THIS EXECUTIVE DYSFUNCTION / ADHD?

A lot of people keep relating this topic to ADHD or executive dysfunction. The study itself (linked in the post) says executive dysfunction may contribute to Autistic Inertia, but it is not known at this time! It might be possible, we just don’t know.

There are also other non-executive dysfunction related possible causes, which would distance it from ADHD.

The brain thinking to move, but the body not responding, is a trait more associated with Autism than ADHD (to my own knowledge).

I RELATE TO THIS! DO I HAVE AUTISM???

If you relate to this it does not mean you have autism. There are other explanations and similar experiences, always do your own research.

This is not part of the diagnosable criteria for autism. This is just a common experience some autistic people have. This is not even experienced by all autistic people, as everyone is different!

If you are autistic and experience this, you aren’t alone! ❤️

yes it's that he lost his sister but it's also that he killed his sister but it's ALSO that his sister represented everything that was untenable about his life and the world he lived in, that she was light and love and she was beautiful and perfect and everything good in the world and he was nothing like her. it's that he could see people's hearts and saw that there was nothing but light in hers and knew by comparison what that made him, and she was this impossible ideal that he could never hope to live up to and all he could do was live in her shadow (ha) and cling to her to give him a sense of safety the same way a cage is safety, because it was safety from himself and the thoughts he hated himself for and he was never going to be able to live with himself living like that, but she's everything to him and he's terrified of what he'll be without her so he goes after her right. and it's maleficent that kills her but it's also darkness but it's ALSO him, it's his recklessness and the darkness that was already inside him (because there is darkness in everyone) but it was also HER recklessness and her burning, righteous hatred for darkness that drove her to dive headlong into danger no matter the consequences, no matter what happens, as long as darkness dies wherever it lies. and he knows this, right, he knows what she feels because he feels it too and she's his closest confidant and he tells her everything but he can't tell her this because he Knows and he's waiting for that hatred to turn on him and then it does. "i knew you would never understand." and it's not just that she's his sister but that she's the ideal of keyblade society (destroy the darkness return it to light) and every way it has failed him so completely, so he killed her, but keyblade society is also what killed her. she was light and he was darkness and they were never going to coexist. You know?

may the best boi win

one thing about me is i frickin love long ass youtube videos about the most random and niche topics imaginable. defunctland's investigation into who created the disney channel theme song? oh i was seated. a two hour breakdown on the lore of the entire tekken video game franchise? sign me up. a vlog about a cross-country roadtrip dining at every single rainforest cafe in the united states? i'm there.

some good tags on this one fellas

Thank god I get to visit Pelican Town

When a character is assured enough in their own power that they are completely relaxed in dangerous situations??? When that same character becomes tense and uncomfortable in the mundane because they don't have a framework for peace?????? When they help navigate violence for another character and in return that character helps them navigate softness??????????? That's all, your honour

His Mighty Echo...

The ghost of Radiant Garden

I’m sick af rn and ppl r gonna do whatever they want and that’ss fine like that’s what makes the world go round.. but I think arguing that sora never wants to hurt anyone when rage form exists is sofunny. Like that form is literally sora getting his butt kicked in battle and deciding I’ve had enough of this. It’s not like anti-form that snatches sora without sora/the player’s say. it’s a spark of rage sora feels when he’s about to faint/die that sora/the player doesn’t have to act on but can if they want.

And you/he decide how far to take it like you can use rage form as a way to restore your hp and that’s it, or you can use the special dark rage attacks to really provide a smackdown but at the cost of your hp. which is where it becomes apparent that this is unhealthy behavior. it’s good that sora releases some of that pent up emotion, but when it starts tearing him apart and there’s blood when he moves and broken heart shards floating around him, like obviously something ain’t right l o l

i don’t think sora likes hurting people, i think he’s pretty scared of being a bad person, but when you don’t deal w your negative emotions in a healthy/constructive way, you can end up lashing out. rage form is literally someone hurt wanting to hurt back. you as the player decide how much he gives into that emotion.

I also feel like a lot of ppl look at it the wrong wayy like they see rage form and are like well that’s not really sora, that’s not really what he’s like, but it is, it is him and that’s the point. the problem is not that sora has these feelings, he is allowed to have these feelings. the problem is he doesn’t know what to do w them. and this kind of attitude like it reflects his own inability to reconcile that he and his shadow are the same. rage form isn’t something or somebody else, it’s sora. It’s sora as much as friendly and loving sora is sora.

@dj-of-the-coven I haven’t seen MP 100, but yeah lol

I think it’s like ppl not accepting characters are complex too like kind characters can be mean sometimes and that doesn’t mean their kindness is fake or that their meanness isn’t real or really them. With Sora, it feels like a lot of ppl want to blame his moments of anger or cruelty on someone else or some outside force bc that anger or cruelty doesn’t fit how they see his character.

Everytime someone brings it up I am absolutely delighted because yes, and also rage form is an excellent visual metaphor for what happens when someone is forced to repress their own negative feelings after a traumatic event for too long.

There was a book I read that had a good quote for it, but essentially: it's common to feel anger (among other things) after you went through trauma.

And, unfortunately, sometimes you will repress those emotions, either because you don't want to feel them, or because others around you (like donald and goofy) apply a degree of toxic positivity that might pressure you not to show them and even pretend they don't exist.

The thing is, feelings need to be processed. That's something most books and essays about mental health that I have read (and I read a lot) will tell you.

Someone (I don't remember who out of the top of my head unfortunately, my memory is bad and I don't have my notebook at hand) compared it to shoving a cat inside a box and sitting on it. Sure, the cat is contained, but you can hear it meow, and you can even see a paw sometimes, and whenever the cat will manage to get out you know that it will be furious.

Meaning: if you repress your emotions instead of managing them, they will explode on you, and they will likely be so intense you will struggle to manage them. Which means you might deal with them unhealthily, lash out, explode, and even develop damaging coping mechanisms.

And I think this is what's happening with rage form. Sora feeling angry, lashing out, and sometimes being snappy does not mean he is a bad person. Him snapping at the organization and not wanting to build any form of rapport or compromise with them in kh2 after all he heard about them was that they hurt Riku, kidnapped Kairi, and thrown chaos around the world trying to summon Kingdom Hearts, thus sending him into another quest when all he wanted to do was going home does not make him a bad person.

But it does mean he is person with complex feelings, some of which are not fair not the prettiest feelings, as well as his own personal darkness; he doesn't always react or act in the wisest or best way to situations. Sometimes he acts based on his emotions, and sometimes his emotions are not very manageable (besides, he was said to have a short temper since before all the shit that happened in kh1, so he was already struggling a bit with that).

So essentially he is just a teenager who struggles with emotional regulation and has some anger issues. Which is understandable considering all the shit he has gone through, and how much he has to repress. But that doesn't take away from the fact that those issues are very very real, and he really needs to find a way to deal with his "uglier" emotions at some point if he doesn't want to succumb to them.

Warmup painting.

Alternate reality in which Sora did not get restored until kh2, and Riku sort of found him and looked after him until he could go back to his regular self.

went to miami to recover father sotirios. and made some new friends.

these animals... they are wise. I recruited them to avenge my dear brother. I was then escorted out of the sea world.

Better than the 1596 Marseille dolphin exorcism I suppose.

In 1596 dolphins were infesting the port of Marseille. Back in those days, y’see, dolphins didn’t have the cuddly image they enjoy today. They were pests and were causing damage.

So the cardinal of Avignon sent the bishop of Cavaillon to do something about them. In front of a huge crowd, the bishop sprinkled some holy water into the waters of the port and told the dolphins to begone. Whereupon the dolphins indeed turned tail in terror and fled, and were never seen again.

Still not as dramatic as Saint Bernard excommunicating the flies though.

What happened to the flies?

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux built a monastery in 1124, but it was plagued by flies. So the good saint promptly excommunicated them. By the next day the flied had died in such quantities that they had to be shoveled out.

Still not as nutty as the Basel rooster trial though.

*everyone in unison* um what rooster trial?

In 1474, a rooster in Basel did the heinous and unspeakable act of laying an egg. As everyone knows, an egg laid by a rooster will hatch into a basilisk (or cockatrice).

So to avoid the creation of a cockatrice (or basilisk), the rooster was tried, found guilty, and burned at the stake along with its egg. A huge crowd was present.

The “rooster” in this case was likely a hen that had developed male characteristics (it happens).

Still not as properly legal as the Savigny pig trial though.

Ok, clearly you want an excuse to talk about the pig thing, and I now DESPERATELY want to hear about the pig thing, so PLEASE tell us about the Pig Thing.

In 1457 a sow killed Jehan Martin, a five-year-old boy in Savigny. For that crime she was put on trial and judged guilty, and sentenced to be hanged from a tree.

Her piglets, however, were judged to have been innocent of the murder, and so were returned to the owner, with the caveat that he had to surrender them to the law if they were later found to have eaten any of the boy.

Not to be confused with a whole bunch of other, similar porcine trials.

I won’t mention the 1454 excommunication of eels in Lake Geneva then.

OK what did the eels do, and more pressingly why were they in communion with the church in the first place

Animals are expected to be part of the Church by default, that’s why they take excommunication so badly.

Felix Hemmerlin’s treatise on exorcism, cited by e.g. Wagner’s Historia Naturalis Helvetiae (1680), informs us that around 1221-1229, eels once infested Lake Geneva in huge numbers. So Saint William, bishop of Lausanne, excommunicated them and banned them from the lake, forcing them to live in only one part of it.

Plot twist: as far as we know, Saint William was never bishop of Lausanne.

There’s no way you have historical Christianity nonsense more silly than this to share

I’ve been trying to stay on brand and talk about animals only, but sure, few intersections of Christianity and the legal system get sillier than…

… the Cadaver Synod.

Pope Formosus (“Good-looking”) was pope from 891 to 896, and apparently accumulated a few enemies. After his successor Boniface VI enjoyed all of a 15-day papacy, the next pope elected was Stephen VI.

And he hated Formosus.

How much? He had the corpse of Formosus exhumed, dressed up in papal vestments, and put on trial for his failings as a pope.

End result? Formosus was found guilty of papal fail. The corpse was stripped of its clothes, three fingers on its right hand were severed (no blessings for u), and it was tied to weights and dumped in the Tiber.

Needless to say Stephen VI came to a sticky end. An angry mob deposed him, he was strangled in prison, and Formosus’s corpse was fished up and reburied with honors. And the later popes passed edicts ensuring this kind of silliness would not happen again.

Tune in next time when I tell you about how a lawyer defended a city’s entire rat population.

Please, the rats, give us the rats, i beg....

The story of the rats of Autun is also the story of Barthelémy de Chasseneuz (or Chassenée, etc.), a highly original and highly talented defense lawyer. That’s him here.

When the town of Autun was infested by rats in the early 1500s, they were accused of eating the province’s barley crop and were duly summoned to be judged in an ecclesiastical court of law. Chasseneuz was the defense attorney.

How do you defend an entire swarm of rats? You don’t, is the answer. You delay. Chasseneuz’s original defense was “my clients live all over the place, one summons won’t be enough”. So he got a court summons to be posted in all the infested parishes.

When the rats didn’t show up after the elapsed time delay, Chasseneuz proceeded to explain at length why. The rats didn’t come to court, he said, because of their enemies the cats, which are everywhere and always vigilant and hungry. “You cannot expect my clients to undertake a journey which would put them in mortal danger”, he argued in complete seriousness. “Thus they have the legal right to turn down a summons that endangers them”.

As far as we know, the rats never did appear in court, and remained unprosecuted.

Chasseneuz went on to have a distinguished career as a lawyer and was allegedly killed by a poisoned bouquet of flowers.

went to miami to recover father sotirios. and made some new friends.

these animals... they are wise. I recruited them to avenge my dear brother. I was then escorted out of the sea world.

Better than the 1596 Marseille dolphin exorcism I suppose.

In 1596 dolphins were infesting the port of Marseille. Back in those days, y’see, dolphins didn’t have the cuddly image they enjoy today. They were pests and were causing damage.

So the cardinal of Avignon sent the bishop of Cavaillon to do something about them. In front of a huge crowd, the bishop sprinkled some holy water into the waters of the port and told the dolphins to begone. Whereupon the dolphins indeed turned tail in terror and fled, and were never seen again.

Still not as dramatic as Saint Bernard excommunicating the flies though.

What happened to the flies?

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux built a monastery in 1124, but it was plagued by flies. So the good saint promptly excommunicated them. By the next day the flied had died in such quantities that they had to be shoveled out.

Still not as nutty as the Basel rooster trial though.

*everyone in unison* um what rooster trial?

In 1474, a rooster in Basel did the heinous and unspeakable act of laying an egg. As everyone knows, an egg laid by a rooster will hatch into a basilisk (or cockatrice).

So to avoid the creation of a cockatrice (or basilisk), the rooster was tried, found guilty, and burned at the stake along with its egg. A huge crowd was present.

The “rooster” in this case was likely a hen that had developed male characteristics (it happens).

Still not as properly legal as the Savigny pig trial though.

Ok, clearly you want an excuse to talk about the pig thing, and I now DESPERATELY want to hear about the pig thing, so PLEASE tell us about the Pig Thing.

In 1457 a sow killed Jehan Martin, a five-year-old boy in Savigny. For that crime she was put on trial and judged guilty, and sentenced to be hanged from a tree.

Her piglets, however, were judged to have been innocent of the murder, and so were returned to the owner, with the caveat that he had to surrender them to the law if they were later found to have eaten any of the boy.

Not to be confused with a whole bunch of other, similar porcine trials.

I won’t mention the 1454 excommunication of eels in Lake Geneva then.

they should invent a huge button to press that’ll make all of your friends instantly feel loved and happy etc etc. where’s the mass love signal booster

phantom bitchslap

That is the saddest and funniest shit I have ever seen

The cat is right-pawed and I’m laughing too hard about this.

this is actually really interesting because despite not actually having that limb the cat is still able to communicate exactly what it’s trying to (which seems to be “don’t touch this cup” or “this is my box”). the other cats respond to its gesturing because they recognize what it’s saying (you can see them pull their heads back or bat their own paws in response). most of the time when cats tell each other to stop doing something they aren’t actually using any real force–it’s just a gentle bop. the hitting isn’t really the point!

i actually do a version of this with my own cats all the time. i never hit them but i’ll wave a hand at them to say “no stop it” and they understand fully despite the fact that i never make physical contact with them.

this cat may be disabled but it is perfectly capable of telling its friends and family to step the fuck off

intense writing things (exposing things that writers do)

This feels like a good time add one of my favorite weird inventions from history: The book wheel, invented in 1588

character whose villain origin story is having a job

You see, Perry the Platypus, when Vanessa was a little girl, she wanted to take estrogen. Of course, I said yes. And since then she’s always been my little girl. Well recently, Vanessa’s school deadnamed her on her reports! Can you believe that!? I mean we live in a fairly progressive area and—hey, isn’t that not allowed in public schools??

Anyway, that’s when I got the idea for THIS! The deadname-eraser-inator! That way, not only will Vanessa no longer be deadnamed, but EVERY OTHER TRANS PERSON IN THE TRI! STATE! AREA!

Perry spends this episode fixing the wall he put a hole through on the way in

This is great whether you're a trans doof truther or not.

If you're not, we still know that doof canonically had to wear dresses as a little boy in a very non progressive society and time period.

And if you are, this means he hadn't even considered doing this when he got treated that way but as soon as it's his daughter it's on sight, which is very in character.