2021-09-25 7:32:49 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

dathen:

> ashes-in-a-jar:

> > Here’s a trend I noticed with Jonathan Sims.

> > Jon thinks very carefully before he speaks. Trying to explain what he wants or what he is going through or what he Knows/knows is always a slow and meticulous process. It always takes him a moment after someone asks him a question to get to the response. He searched for accurate wording thoughtfully and when finally answering, his explanations are pretty clear and comprehensible for the most part. When forced to answer quickly is when things become unclear and frustratingly vague.

> > But the people he deals with are some of the most impatient people I’ve heard in my life (and yes this includes Martin up to a certain point in the apocalypse when he actually understands Jon’s thought process).

> > Seriously! I’ve been relistening to some interactions between him and Tim, Melanie, Georgie, Basira and when they ask him a question and he, heavens forbid, takes a moment which is obviously to consider how to best word his response, they beat him to the punch by impatiently nagging him to get on with it, to be more clear, to start talking already.

> > It really feels like there is a double standard with responses from Jon. On one hand people expect him to explain himself clearly but then on the other hand also want it done quickly and in their pace. And for Jon it just. Doesn’t work like that. You want a fast answer? It’ll be vague and need elaboration. You want a comprehensive explanation? Let him take his time, goodness.

> Reason #47385848 why the neurodivergents have latched onto this man.

For another trip down memory lane, this is the first post I saw about TMA on here. (Which I somehow recognized as TMA? Technically this wasn’t the exact iteration of the post, someone else I followed reblogged it, so I guess they tagged it as such.) Anyway, between Jon being headcanoned as neurodivergent and him being (canonically!) ace…

Well, it’s what made me, who doesn’t like horror movies, listen to a horror podcast.

Okay, and you know what’s weird, is I only followed the person that reblogged it bc another person did (and reblogged their stuff) and I only followed that person because I was in the Umbrella Academy fandom. So I’m in the TMA fandom partly because (or maybe almost all because) I was in the TUA fandom. Weirdest pipeline ever.

Don’t ask me why I’m in that fandom, but I watched the first episode and then watched the rest of season 1 and season 2 last summer, when season 2 came out. So I was only in that fandom by chance as well.

Or is it chance? *web emoji*