Maybe let’s not infantilize the autistic coded character
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| Title: | untitled |
| Creator: | acecrisis |
| Date(s): | 09 September 2023 |
| Medium: | Twitter post |
| Fandom: | Good Omens |
| Topic: | One fanart of Aziraphale from Good Omens,"minor-coding", "Autistic-coding" |
| External Links: | maybe let’s not infantilize the autistic coded character, Archived version on Twitter |
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Maybe let’s not infantilize the autistic coded character is the first part of a post to Twitter made by a fan named acecrisis. In the post, she recalls she saw fanart of Aziraphale from Good Omens drawn to be aged-down, with Crowley said to be "looking after" him. She makes a call to action for other fans to be aware of his fanon characterization, which often leans into stereotypes of Autistic people under the guise of representing his "minor-coding."
maybe let’s not infantilize the autistic coded character and let’s not especially make him a literal child and then draw him with his canon romantic interest as an adult “looking after” him like we’re so much smarter than this(this isn’t bashing anyone who relates to characters and hcs them as age regressors, you do your thing and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise)
full Tweet by acecrisis
The post went viral on Twitter soon after it was posted. As of March 2024, it has 83 comments, 876 retweets, 10,000+ likes and 289,600+ views. Many fans added in quote retweets other characters which are deemed as minor-coded by fandom. Most fans who commented/interacted with the post agreed with acecrisis.
The post also led to the creator of the fanart being harassed. acecrisis clarified that this was not her intention, and that she used the fanart as an example, adding, "been seeing a lot of people infantilizing Aziraphale anyway, which we should not do, he’s a capable being, if you wanna make cute harmless aus then go for it but don’t involve characters who are minors or characters you age down to be minors in stuff like that, that’s just 101[.]"[1]
Characters and Ships Mentioned in Quote Retweets
- Marius "Jäger" Streicher from Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege[2]
- Edogawa Ranpo/Edgar Allan Poe from Bungou Stray Dogs[3]
- Adam Raki from Adam (2009 film)[4]
- Pyro from Team Fortress 2[5]
- Carlos Reyes/TK Strand (specifically TK) from 9-1-1: Lone Star[6]
- Jesper/Wylan from Six of Crows Duology[7]
- Steven Grant/Layla El-Faouly from the Moon Knight[8]
- Monkey D. Luffy from One Piece[9][10]
- Papyrus from Undertale[11]
- SpongeBob SquarePants[12]
- Otori Emu from Project Sekai Colorful Stage[13]
- Cyclonus/Tailgate (specifically Tailgate) from Transformers G1 IDW Comics[14]
- Meursault/Don Quixote from Project Moon[15]
- Butters Scotch from South Park[16]
References/Further Reading
- ^ acecrisis's addition (Sept. 10 2023)
- ^ Minus the part about the love interest because he doesn't have one but good lord it's irritating (Oct. 8 2023)
- ^ ik this is about the gay angel show or whatever but some ranpoe artists... (Sept. 10 2023)
- ^ adam raki with anybody he's shipped with 🗿 (Sept. 10 2023)
- ^ This with Pyro. (Sept. 10 2023)
- ^ This isn’t about TK or artists in our fandom BUT(...) (Sept. 10 2023)
- ^ i thought this was about wesper lol but either way !!! so true !!!!!! (Sept. 10 2023)
- ^ isso acontece com um pouco de frequência demais com o steven e a layla (Sept. 10 2023)
- ^ tem umas fanart do luffy por ai q sao literalmente isso (Sept. 10 2023)
- ^ one piece fans please read this (i know luffy doesn’t have canon partners BUT STILL!) (Sept. 10 2023)
- ^ ... papyrus (Sept. 10 2023)
- ^ I'm refusing to read the comments to know what this is about I'm just accepting this as that Spongebob and Squidward post from earlier in the week (Sept. 10 2023)
- ^ emu otori i'm sorry this has happened to you (Sept. 10 2023)
- ^ NGL this is how I feel with how people do cygate!! It's so uncomfortable (Sept. 10 2023)
- ^ Not PM related post but this made me think of Don/Meurdon (Sept. 10 2023)
- ^ I'm so sorry butters... (Sept. 10 2023)