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🎙️ So like, there's an amazing bit in Patricia Taxxon's video about Don't Hug Me I'm Scared where she describes the single most famous bit from the series. In the first episode, the entire frame is about 'creativity' and using your imagination, being taught to a bunch of puppety dudes by a singing, talking notepad. Anyway, there's this one bit where the notepad tells them to 'make their favorite colors out of leaves and sticks' and Dennis(Yellow Guy) assembles them to say 'green.' And then the notepad tells him 'green is not a creative color.'

This dovetails into a discussion of the way neurodivergent and especially aut-spectrum(including ADHD) people are treated by people in positions of authority, and how this is part of the horror of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared. Tools that are supposed to help you are used instead as prods. Instructions are given in ways you can't understand and nobody explains anything. And if by some, like, miracle you actually manage to follow the rules? The rules will change just to fuck with you, and stomp you into the ground for daring to believe you might actually succeed by the metrics of the people you're trying to please. You are always surrounded by these vast clouds of invisible rules that are not just selectively enforced, they're only enforced for you. So why am I talking about this? Well, I told you that story to tell you this one, to set the mood. Let's talk about my single favorite character in any piece of media ever made.

Let's talk about Spinel.


hystericempress
@hystericempress

✨ Sharing this for day 2 because we're VERY proud of our headmate for writing it!