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Websites for Japanese Learners
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all websites can be used for free and without subscribtion (thats why japanese101 isnt included)
-> apps for japanese learners (soon)
1. JLPT Sensei
study guides (N5-N1)
includes grammar, kanji, vocabular, adjective, verb and other lists for orientation when studying
free JLPT practice tests
2. Japanese Verb Conjugator
automatic verb conjugator
verb database
kanji database & kanji tester
over 180,000 example sentences with sound
3. Tanoshii Japanese
japanese-english dictionary (with stroke order!)
pratice games & interactive lessons (Kanji Mahjong etc.)
learning resources (japanese novel, textbook, magazine, movie recommendations)
4. Jisho
fast and smart japanese-english dictionary
draw and radical function apart from keyboard search
searching by topic and categories by adding #[topic/category]
JLPT levels, sentences, particles, counters, names included
5. Map Quiz
world map quiz in japanese
divided into continents and north, east, south and west
6. Japanesetests4you
free JLPT N5-N1 reading and listening tests
free JLPT N5-N1 vocabulary, kanji and grammar lists + tests
7. Shiritori Online
Shiritori (しりとり) is a popular japanese word game and is ideal to exercise vocabulary for japanese learners. 2 or more players take turns saying a word that starts with the last kana of the previous word. The game ends when someone answers with a word ending with -n (ん) because there are no words starting with ん.
it is up to the players whether all forms of a hiragana (kana and its diacritics; は,ば and ぱ etc.) are allowed or not (e.g やぎ -> きよう).
example: りんご (apple) -> ごりら (ゴリラ) (gorilla) -> らーめん (ラーメン) (ramen). The last person who said ramen loses because the word ends with -n (ん). Instead the person could have saidらま (ラマ) (llama) (e.g).
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I HEART EVERYONE IN UR STYLE THEY’RE SO EXPRESSIVE AND UNIQUE 😍😍🙏💥🎉🎉🔥
Drawing my mutual agian but this time I've played to much cult of the lamb‼️‼️‼️🙏🙏🙏🙏🗣🗣🗣🗣
JELLIAN‼️‼️‼️🧚♂️🧚♂️🧚♂️ has eaten a bowl of poop, will eat another🥄🥄
TERRI🍪🍪🍪🗞🗞🗞🗞🗞 KEEPS PLANTING THESE STUPID FLOWERS IN FARM PLOTS MENT FOR FOOD GIRL STOOOOOOOOP‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
ITSRAT‼️‼️😱😱😱😱⚠️⚠️⚠️ has dissented 4 times, is plotting an uprising PROBABLY 😭😭🗣🗣🗣
LUCAMISU‼️‼️‼️👽👽👽👽 IS CONSTANTLY TIRED❓️❓️❓️OVERWHELMED❓️❓️ IDK IN THE GAME THEY GET THAT BAGGY EYED EXHAUSTED EXPRESSION AT RANDOM CHAT HOW DO I FIX THAT⁉️⁉️⁉️🗣🗣🗣😨😨
CROC-POP‼️‼️‼️👾👾👾 keeps trynna fight people- HAS FOUGHT AND INJURED NARINDER 3 TIMES WHAT DID BRO DOOO⁉️⁉️⁉️😨😨😨🗣🗣😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏🙏
HEY HI I WAS GONNA TELL YOU TO CHECK YOUR @s BUT I THINK THE POST FUCKING DISSAPPEARED SO UHM...B
GIFT FOR YOU?? MAYBE YOU ALREADY SAW IT IDK JHBRBABD
HIIHI SORRY FOR LATE REPLY IM JUST GOING THROUGH MY INBOX AND HOLY MOLY HOW DID I MISS THIS🙏🙏‼️🔥
AUHHWWHHWNSNDND I LOVE IT WHEN PEOPLE DRAW MY OCS I DO TRIPLE BACK FILPS AND A SUMMERSAULT
THE VALUES ARE SO GOOD U GOT THEM PERFECTLY 🤯🤯 I LOVE THE WAY U DREW HER FACE AND SHADED THE HAIR OHGHGHGHG SHE’S SO CUTE IN UR STYLE I HEARTTRR 🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷
TY FOR FEEDING HER BELLY AND MY EYES 😁😁‼️‼️
DNAGF ALL I KNOW IS HOW TO COOK FIRE TY FOR THIS
hii!! so, as I promised, I have finally put together recipes for those TSAMS character themed foods!! Though, on the site I only put up Sun and Moon’s recipes because currently for me its like super superupeuros late 😃(🪦) I will add Lunar and Earth’s dishes in there soon though, dw 🦈
ALSO- if you wanna see any certain character as a food, tell me bruh. these are actually pretty fun to do hehahahhwhdanhjnashh it takes a while but its worth it 💪🦈 anyway, have fun baking!!
IM ABOUT TO DO SOME CANOODLING WITH THIS REF CHAT 🙏🙏🙏😈😈😈😈😈😈😈💨🏃🏃🏃💨🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣
Z-55 - Codename: "Buddy"
look man i NEEDED to make a pressure oc you dont even understand!!! (lore below :})
Z-55 is a mutated catfish. It was fused with human and poisonous frog DNA but rejected most of it, causing it to only partially mutuate and not gain any of the dangerous traits it was supposed to. Originally created in a different Urbanshade division than the Hadal Division, it was sent to the Hadal Blacksite due to being defective.
After the expendables started being sent down into the Blacksite, it started to follow groups of them around, joining them in collecting lost assets and the crystal. It seems to think of the expendables’ search as a fun game. It even wears its own EXR-P jumpsuit, albeit mostly torn apart to fit Buddy’s fish-like body.
Buddy can be found in the underwater sections of the Blacksite. When found, it will follow the expendables that spotted it around and help them locate lost assets. It does not help in locating the other monsters, except for spotting puddles of void mass; it despises puddles of void mass and will start screaming whenever they are nearby.
While Buddy on its own is completely harmless, if expendables reject it it will run away sobbing, causing other monsters to show up much more frequently until the expendables die. Despite this, it is incredibly friendly to expendables and considered a sigh of relief from the others. As long as you let it join you on your little adventure, of course.
heres a fun bonus for reading the lore
CAT WHEN I CATCH YOU CAT WHEN I CATCH YOU 😡😡😡😡😤😤😡😤😤😤😡😤🫵🫵💥💥🫵🫵
OMGFOFKFJDMDMMDMSMDKEKSMANAWNRHGRHAHR U MADE MY SONA LOOK SO CUTE OMGOMG IM GONNA USE THE BOTH OF THEM AS MY POKESONA TYSMMMSMSMSMSSMSMM 😍😍😍💥💥😍💥💯💯🤯🤯🤯💯
OUGHGH THE OTHER TWO’S LOOK SO GOOD TOO HOLY HECHT YOU WITCH
Drew silly friends as their silly pokemon they got taking those pokemon personality quizzes‼️‼️‼️🗣🗣🗣🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
Terri - @terriblyterri (SOOOO SLIPPERY SUZAN😨😨😱😱😱)
Jellian HUMAN SONA⁉️ - @jelliannn (SoOOOOO STINKY🤯🤯🤯)
The Ratking‼️‼️‼️ -ITSRAT!!!! (Little scrunched on discord,,,,, can't @ them because they don't have tumblr unfortunately😔😔😔😔 RIP...)
Heart, lungs, liver, nerves, heart, lungs, liver, nerves….
Time to combine two of my favorite games into one animation gif, at the cost of my poor neck…
RadenWA is honestly a hero for these
they're got even more than these, too!
THE CREAUTR LORE
THE CREATURE LORE REALL NOT CLICKBAIT 😳😳😳😍😍🔥🔥🫵DO NOT TRY HOLDING THEM BY THE ANTENNA ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ESPECIALLY AT 3 AM 😨😨😰😰😰🫵🫵💥💥💥
FINALLY getting around to introducing my ocs starting with this... thing... who is my sona...
this is the creature. its an evil 4th dimensional being that causes all the drama that happens in my stories
its everywhere. its even right behind you at this very moment. say hello.
it has an intense rivalry with my foam head guardian, stanley (aka cheese fred)
i like to hide it in my drawings sometimes so keep an eye out 👁
okay thats it bye the rest of these intros will be serious i promise (im lying)
GENKI 😍🙏🙏 THE FISHIES ARE SMOOCHING (I THINK)
i ask you this: how would YOU wear your freshly caught fish hat
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heart locket gif maker
minecraft advancement maker
minecraft logo font text generator w/assorted textures and pride flags
windows error message maker (win1.0-win11)
FromSoftware image macro generator (elden ring Noun Verbed text)
image to 3d effect gif
vaporwave image generator
microsoft wordart maker (REALLY annoying to use on mobile)
you're welcome
FAMOUS AUTHORS
Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.
The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.
Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.
Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.
Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.
Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.
Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.
Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.
The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.
Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.
Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.
Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.
Fiction.us: Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.
Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.
TEXTBOOKS
Textbook Revolution: Find biology, business, engineering, mathematics and world history textbooks here.
Wikibooks: From cookbooks to the computing department, find instructional and educational materials here.
KnowThis Free Online Textbooks: Get directed to stats textbooks and more.
Online Medical Textbooks: Find books about plastic surgery, anatomy and more here.
Online Science and Math Textbooks: Access biochemistry, chemistry, aeronautics, medical manuals and other textbooks here.
MIT Open Courseware Supplemental Resources: Find free videos, textbooks and more on the subjects of mechanical engineering, mathematics, chemistry and more.
Flat World Knowledge: This innovative site has created an open college textbooks platform that will launch in January 2009.
Free Business Textbooks: Find free books to go along with accounting, economics and other business classes.
Light and Matter: Here you can access open source physics textbooks.
eMedicine: This project from WebMD is continuously updated and has articles and references on surgery, pediatrics and more.
MATH AND SCIENCE
FullBooks.com: This site has “thousands of full-text free books,” including a large amount of scientific essays and books.
Free online textbooks, lecture notes, tutorials and videos on mathematics: NYU links to several free resources for math students.
Online Mathematics Texts: Here you can find online textbooks likeElementary Linear Algebra and Complex Variables.
Science and Engineering Books for free download: These books range in topics from nanotechnology to compressible flow.
FreeScience.info: Find over 1800 math, engineering and science books here.
Free Tech Books: Computer programmers and computer science enthusiasts can find helpful books here.
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
byGosh: Find free illustrated children’s books and stories here.
Munseys: Munseys has nearly 2,000 children’s titles, plus books about religion, biographies and more.
International Children’s Digital Library: Find award-winning books and search by categories like age group, make believe books, true books or picture books.
Lookybook: Access children’s picture books here.
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Bored.com: Bored.com has music ebooks, cooking ebooks, and over 150 philosophy titles and over 1,000 religion titles.
Ideology.us: Here you’ll find works by Rene Descartes, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, David Hume and others.
Free Books on Yoga, Religion and Philosophy: Recent uploads to this site include Practical Lessons in Yoga and Philosophy of Dreams.
The Sociology of Religion: Read this book by Max Weber, here.
Religion eBooks: Read books about the Bible, Christian books, and more.
PLAYS
ReadBookOnline.net: Here you can read plays by Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and others.
Plays: Read Pygmalion, Uncle Vanya or The Playboy of the Western World here.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: MIT has made available all of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, and histories.
Plays Online: This site catalogs “all the plays [they] know about that are available in full text versions online for free.”
ProPlay: This site has children’s plays, comedies, dramas and musicals.
MODERN FICTION, FANTASY AND ROMANCE
Public Bookshelf: Find romance novels, mysteries and more.
The Internet Book Database of Fiction: This forum features fantasy and graphic novels, anime, J.K. Rowling and more.
Free Online Novels: Here you can find Christian novels, fantasy and graphic novels, adventure books, horror books and more.
Foxglove: This British site has free novels, satire and short stories.
Baen Free Library: Find books by Scott Gier, Keith Laumer and others.
The Road to Romance: This website has books by Patricia Cornwell and other romance novelists.
Get Free Ebooks: This site’s largest collection includes fiction books.
John T. Cullen: Read short stories from John T. Cullen here.
SF and Fantasy Books Online: Books here include Arabian Nights,Aesop’s Fables and more.
Free Novels Online and Free Online Cyber-Books: This list contains mostly fantasy books.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Project Laurens Jz Coster: Find Dutch literature here.
ATHENA Textes Francais: Search by author’s name, French books, or books written by other authors but translated into French.
Liber Liber: Download Italian books here. Browse by author, title, or subject.
Biblioteca romaneasca: Find Romanian books on this site.
Bibliolteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: Look up authors to find a catalog of their available works on this Spanish site.
KEIMENA: This page is entirely in Greek, but if you’re looking for modern Greek literature, this is the place to access books online.
Proyecto Cervantes: Texas A&M’s Proyecto Cervantes has cataloged Cervantes’ work online.
Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum: Access many Latin texts here.
Project Runeberg: Find Scandinavian literature online here.
Italian Women Writers: This site provides information about Italian women authors and features full-text titles too.
Biblioteca Valenciana: Register to use this database of Catalan and Valencian books.
Ketab Farsi: Access literature and publications in Farsi from this site.
Afghanistan Digital Library: Powered by NYU, the Afghanistan Digital Library has works published between 1870 and 1930.
CELT: CELT stands for “the Corpus of Electronic Texts” features important historical literature and documents.
Projekt Gutenberg-DE: This easy-to-use database of German language texts lets you search by genres and author.
HISTORY AND CULTURE
LibriVox: LibriVox has a good selection of historical fiction.
The Perseus Project: Tufts’ Perseus Digital Library features titles from Ancient Rome and Greece, published in English and original languages.
Access Genealogy: Find literature about Native American history, the Scotch-Irish immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, and more.
Free History Books: This collection features U.S. history books, including works by Paul Jennings, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Josiah Quincy and others.
Most Popular History Books: Free titles include Seven Days and Seven Nights by Alexander Szegedy and Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha G. Browne.
RARE BOOKS
Questia: Questia has 5,000 books available for free, including rare books and classics.
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
Books-On-Line: This large collection includes movie scripts, newer works, cookbooks and more.
Chest of Books: This site has a wide range of free books, including gardening and cooking books, home improvement books, craft and hobby books, art books and more.
Free e-Books: Find titles related to beauty and fashion, games, health, drama and more.
2020ok: Categories here include art, graphic design, performing arts, ethnic and national, careers, business and a lot more.
Free Art Books: Find artist books and art books in PDF format here.
Free Web design books: OnlineComputerBooks.com directs you to free web design books.
Free Music Books: Find sheet music, lyrics and books about music here.
Free Fashion Books: Costume and fashion books are linked to the Google Books page.
MYSTERY
MysteryNet: Read free short mystery stories on this site.
TopMystery.com: Read books by Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton and other mystery writers here.
Mystery Books: Read books by Sue Grafton and others.
POETRY
The Literature Network: This site features forums, a copy of The King James Bible, and over 3,000 short stories and poems.
Poetry: This list includes “The Raven,” “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.”
Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.
Famous Poetry Online: Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Lord Byron and others.
Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, fromThe Canterbury Tales to Beowulf to Walt Whitman.
QuotesandPoem.com: Read poems by Maya Angelou, William Blake, Sylvia Plath and more.
CompleteClassics.com: Rudyard Kipling, Allen Ginsberg and Alfred Lord Tennyson are all featured here.
PinkPoem.com: On this site, you can download free poetry ebooks.
MISC
Banned Books: Here you can follow links of banned books to their full text online.
World eBook Library: This monstrous collection includes classics, encyclopedias, children’s books and a lot more.
DailyLit: DailyLit has everything from Moby Dick to the recent phenomenon, Skinny Bitch.
A Celebration of Women Writers: The University of Pennsylvania’s page for women writers includes Newbery winners.
Free Online Novels: These novels are fully online and range from romance to religious fiction to historical fiction.
ManyBooks.net: Download mysteries and other books for your iPhone or eBook reader here.
Authorama: Books here are pulled from Google Books and more. You’ll find history books, novels and more.
Prize-winning books online: Use this directory to connect to full-text copies of Newbery winners, Nobel Prize winners and Pulitzer winners.
....... til the smoke clears out, am I high? perhaps,
i'ma rip this shit 'til my bones collapse.
independent anime/manga multi-muse ft. baki hanma from baki the grappler series, trained by gore. (banner commission credit: @desuetmort 💪♥️)
indie anime/manga roleplay blog, penned by gore. 25+ low activity, dash only, & semi-private.
most active fandom(s): baki, dr. stone, & demon slayer
current muses: senku ishigami, baki hanma, & genya shinazugawa
rules.
note.
HAPPY JOHN FUCKS UP AN EXORCISM DAY EVERYONE 🎉 don't forget to leave bread and wine on your bedside table
Just a bunch of Useful websites - Updated for 2023
Removed/checked all links to make sure everything is working (03/03/23). Hope they help!
Sejda - Free online PDF editor.
Supercook - Have ingredients but no idea what to make? Put them in here and it’ll give you recipe ideas.
Still Tasty - Trying the above but unsure about whether that sauce in the fridge is still edible? Check here first.
Archive.ph - Paywall bypass. Like 12ft below but appears to work far better and across more sites in my testing. I’d recommend trying this one first as I had more success with it.
12ft – Hate paywalls? Try this site out.
Where Is This - Want to know where a picture was taken, this site can help.
TOS/DR - Terms of service, didn’t read. Gives you a summary of terms of service plus gives each site a privacy rating.
OneLook - Reverse dictionary for when you know the description of the word but can’t for the life of you remember the actual word.
My Abandonware - Brilliant site for free, legal games. Has games from 1978 up to present day across pc and console. You’ll be surprised by some of the games on there, some absolute gems.
Project Gutenberg – Always ends up on these type of lists and for very good reason. All works that are copyright free in one place.
Ninite – New PC? Install all of your programs in one go with no bloat or unnecessary crap.
PatchMyPC - Alternative to ninite with over 300 app options to keep upto date. Free for home users.
Unchecky – Tired of software trying to install additional unwanted programs? This will stop it completely by unchecking the necessary boxes when you install.
Sci-Hub – Research papers galore! Check here before shelling out money. And if it’s not here, try the next link in our list.
LibGen – Lots of free PDFs relate primarily to the sciences.
Zotero – A free and easy to use program to collect, organize, cite and share research.
Car Complaints – Buying a used car? Check out what other owners of the same model have to say about it first.
CamelCamelCamel – Check the historical prices of items on Amazon and set alerts for when prices drop.
Have I Been Pawned – Still the king when it comes to checking if your online accounts have been released in a data breach. Also able to sign up for email alerts if you’ve ever a victim of a breach.
I Have No TV - A collection of documentaries for you to while away the time. Completely free.
Radio Garden – Think Google Earth but wherever you zoom, you get the radio station of that place.
Just The Recipe – Paste in the url and get just the recipe as a result. No life story or adverts.
Tineye – An Amazing reverse image search tool.
My 90s TV – Simulates 90’s TV using YouTube videos. Also has My80sTV, My70sTV, My60sTV and for the younger ones out there, My00sTV. Lose yourself in nostalgia.
Foto Forensics – Free image analysis tools.
Old Games Download – A repository of games from the 90’s and early 2000’s. Get your fix of nostalgia here.
Online OCR – Convert pictures of text into actual text and output it in the format you need.
Remove Background – An amazingly quick and accurate way to remove backgrounds from your pictures.
Twoseven – Allows you to sync videos from providers such as Netflix, Youtube, Disney+ etc and watch them with your friends. Ad free and also has the ability to do real time video and text chat.
Terms of Service, Didn’t Read – Get a quick summary of Terms of service plus a privacy rating.
Coolors – Struggling to get a good combination of colors? This site will generate color palettes for you.
This To That – Need to glue two things together? This’ll help.
Photopea – A free online alternative to Adobe Photoshop. Does everything in your browser.
BitWarden – Free open source password manager.
Just Beam It - Peer to peer file transfer. Drop the file in on one end, click create link and send to whoever. Leave your pc on that page while they download. Because of how it works there are no file limits. It’s genuinely amazing. Best file transfer system I have ever used.
Atlas Obscura – Travelling to a new place? Find out the hidden treasures you should go to with Atlas Obscura.
ID Ransomware – Ever get ransomware on your computer? Use this to see if the virus infecting your pc has been cracked yet or not. Potentially saving you money. You can also sign up for email notifications if your particular problem hasn’t been cracked yet.
Way Back Machine – The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites and loads more.
Rome2Rio – Directions from anywhere to anywhere by bus, train, plane, car and ferry.
Splitter – Seperate different audio tracks audio. Allowing you to split out music from the words for example.
myNoise – Gives you beautiful noises to match your mood. Increase your productivity, calm down and need help sleeping? All here for you.
DeepL – Best language translation tool on the web.
Forvo – Alternatively, if you need to hear a local speaking a word, this is the site for you.
For even more useful sites, there is an expanded list that can be found here.
"friends don't look at each other like that" well okay you coward you do whatever you want however i WILL look at my friends like they're the most important thing in the world. i love them with my whole heart and i will hold their hand and stare at the stars not because i wanna fuck them but because they mean the world to me and i care about them. fuck you
Sayaka Murata and Autism
Recently I read both Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings, and from my perspective, I see these books as two sides of the same coin. CSW is My Neighbour Totoro as Earthlings is Grave of the Fireflies in the way that they’re twin media, with one being exponentially darker than the other.
Reading from an autistic lens, I see CSW as being from the perspective of an autistic person that easily masks and wants to fit into allistic society (or “The Factory” as they call it in Earthlings); the convenience store is a representation of larger society with the main character having found her role in it, a role that she loves despite the shit she gets for not having a “real job” in her mid-30s. She grew up with a loving family that albeit saw her as odd, she has perfectly catered her very being to please others, using scripts and practised expressions and emotional responses to fit in with others and maintain her position as a convenience store worker, aka, her place as a highly masked autistic in society.
In comparison, in Earthlings, our main character is deeply traumatised, and abused by her family. Similarly to CSW, she is seen as odd, but is treated worse since she struggles to mask and fit in according to society’s standards. The fact that she, her cousin, and her partner see themselves as belonging to another extraterrestrial race is an act of literal and metaphorical alienation by perceiving themselves as aliens for being autistic and unable to gel with allistic society — and this isn’t an uncommon occurrence for autistic people, seeing yourself as non-human! And when she grows up and we learn that her cousin “stopped believing” in being an alien, it’s not because he’s matured, but because he’s learnt to mask.
While the cannibalism and incest in Earthlings is shocking at first, especially in comparison to CSW, I see it as symbolic of them accepting who they are by fully unmasking. Since they’ve been treated as grotesque monsters their whole life for being autistic, it would only make sense to me that by fully committing to the depravity depicted in the book that it’s supposed to be representative of them embracing themselves wholly.
Something something marginalised groups treated like filth will embrace filth and find beauty in it something something