okay, so, the thing about Amos

Now I realise that in my attempt at making my thoughts looks like this:

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It’ll probably end up something more like this:

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But I’m just gonna go for it anyway, bc this is something I’ve been gnawing at for a WHILE now. and this is long af, and not entiiiiirely finished, but I’m sick of staring at it, so here y’all are.. ! 

Main things are:

  1. Amos is clearly autistic.
  2. Amos IS NOT VOID OF EMPATHY, he just experiences it very different from other people
  3. Amos is NOT a sociopath - it’s called dissociation >>
  4. Amos clearly has c-ptsd.
  5. adult Amos and sexuality 

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nervousmentalitydragon:

prokopetz:

enjoloras-deactivated20220821:

Okay so Victorian erotica is literally the most heinous, morally bankrupt, horrific shit I’ve ever read - but I’ve read a fair bit, partly from historical interest but also because a while back I helped a friend with a university project she was doing about censorship and pornography in 19th century England.

Anyway I need to share with you all the most hilarious line that has ever been written, circa 1887:


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I feel like this excerpt is significantly enhanced by knowing that the novel in question is a first-person narrative written from the perspective of an inexplicably sapient flea who lives on Bella’s body, and that’s why the third priest’s penis is described in this way: from the narrator’s perspective it literally blots out the sky.

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(via doriantheviking)

enjoloras-deactivated20220821:

Okay so Victorian erotica is literally the most heinous, morally bankrupt, horrific shit I’ve ever read - but I’ve read a fair bit, partly from historical interest but also because a while back I helped a friend with a university project she was doing about censorship and pornography in 19th century England.

Anyway I need to share with you all the most hilarious line that has ever been written, circa 1887:


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(via underestimated-heroine)

-snickers- also don't forget that in 1887 ejaculate meant 'to exclaim' not to cum

mysharona1987:

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For some reason I have doubts about putting my life in this man’s hands.

Is…. Is it not satire….?

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