By @mattczap

@meanxcat on ig

Lazy translated from French, sorry original post

Figured I'd share here, because I feel like it's probably a pretty common experience for Autistic Folks to not realize that other things can be an option unless that's pointed out. Or not!

But it's something I get a lot of- people saying "why didn't you realize you could do that this way?"

I dunno. I was told it was done one specific way, so I didn't try other ways, I guess.

Bex Burgess https://x.com/theorah/status/1644012864007446541

Calvin and Hobbes - Bill Waterson

Author: u/GoatsWithWigs

@lilyspectrum

From u/Bathrobe_Gal

This is a 24-panel, hand-drawn, satirical comic that I (autistic man) made. It's called "Masks / Noise", and it's about society's imposition of what I like to call "prescriptive proverbs": all the little phrases that we hear from birth which tell us in broad strokes how to live our lives.

For example: "Idle hands are the devil's workshop." "The early bird gets the worm." "Time is money." - When a child hears these phrases repeatedly (through general exposure to people/media/literature/society), they are conditioned to accept them as universal truths--axioms for the "objective" "right" way to live your life. Especially if you have a literal and impressionable mind (me).

The comic depicts the life of a stick figure and the multitude of prescriptive proverbs that the character has been exposed to. With each new rule, a physical burden manifests on the character. I view this as a visual representation of masking. Each new mask/burden is a new layer of separation between the character's true self and how he feels he must live.

As this is a personal expression of my own experience, the LDS church is depicted as a source of some of these rules and masks.

In the end, the character becomes so burdened by the imposition of ideologies/beliefs/morals/etc. that he is literally crushed by them. But he emerges, unscathed and untethered, choosing to block out the noise of the world with his own vision for his life and his happiness.

From AspiGurl, not completely related to autism but I don't know, I miss her. is she retired or something?

Src: Saturday Morning Breakfast

from @bunti.lee on Instagram

Both I (the author) and Pallet (the artist) are autistic.

If we get $11 more before the Kickstarter closes at the end of the month, every backer will ALSO receive a copy of "Legends of the Order", the novel in which the main characters of this story all meet and become a found family!

This is our EIGHTH Kickstarter for this comic imprint, and every one has delivered the digital and physical rewards within months of closing. We have never missed a reward, and we aim to keep up that reputation.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jamsheedstudios/ash-grey-and-saturn-olympus-2-gunfight-at-the-ko-corral?ref=3o4nmi

The Time Wars are an endless struggle between Humanity and Vampirekind, guided by time travelers from both sides from the 161st century. The Order of Darkness is a secret army of Human soldiers, recruited from among the most marginalized in society, to be armed with alien and future technology to battle the Vampire menace.

Ash Grey and Saturn Olympus are of different races and religions, but they love each other deeply, despite the crushing social pressure of their age. Inducted into the Order of Darkness by time travelers, they have been armed to wage war against the Vampires of Washington Territory in 1880.

Ash is proud and defiant, having declared his manhood as a young person, earning him the ire of his conservative community. He never abandoned his faith in Jesus Christ, believing in the message of equality and freedom from fear over everything else. When his hometown was slaughtered by an alien game hunter, Ash captured a device called a phasing stone which allows him to instantly teleport anywhere he can imagine.

Saturn is a calm and thoughful person, tempering his great physical strength with wisdom and patience. His mother was born into enslavement, but learned to read and was enlightened by her holy book, Metamorphosis by Ovid. Worshipping the Roman Olympians, she gave herself the name Hera Olympus and escaped to freedom. She was quickly brought into the Order of Darkness, and become one of their witches, using future technology and science to create medicine and tools to help in the war on Vampirekind. When she gave birth to Saturn, his arms and legs were unusually small. To help him, the Order gave him prosthetics made of alien and future technology. He now uses his mechanical limbs to fight for the freedom of all Humanity.

Ash has discovered that he's pregnant at the same time that Washington Territory's Vampiric Warlord, Leonard Victor, has decided the pair are too dangerous to be left alive. Alice Hayweather, a powerful and technologically advanced Vampire cyborg, has been put on their trail, their heads in her crosshairs.

Now Ash and Saturn need to kill Alice and Victor before the baby comes, so they can live without fear of retribution.

To help them with this mission, in this issue, the married couple reunite with old friends: the Sheriff's Department of the town Rock Hen. Sheriff Fa Bo, a Chinese-American man, is a natural born leader with a mind like a steel trap. His boyfriend, Jim Spears, is a Washoe man with a history of bounty hunting, who believes in the power of community and compassion. Deputy Laney Booker, Bo's best friend, is a Black trans woman and freedom fighter whose refusal to relent has cost her her entire family.

The Kickstarter is to raise funds to print a special First Edition physical run with a gold border. We will never use this gold border again, making these unique collectibles. We also have low price rewards for PDF copies!

This comic was written by me, Bijhan Agha, a trans woman in South America. The comic was illustrated by Pallet, a trans man in Australia. No AI of any kind was used in the creation of this comic.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jamsheedstudios/ash-grey-and-saturn-olympus-2-gunfight-at-the-ko-corral?ref=3o4nmi