i wouldn't say it's a time management thing for me more so than just an autism one? i get very easily overstimulated and mentally drained by most things that haven't already been processed by me to some extent... so my brain tends to function better on patterns of stimuli that seem highly related or almost equal to my preferences and sifts through information that way to basically preserve itself

i've actually watched welcome to nhk before... i don't remember much about it but i know it's not too similar to paranoia agent, just somewhat psychological and emotional
i found ergo proxy to be more akin to paranoia agent with its gloomy atmosphere and psychological surrealism but nothing has really come close to paranoia agent's genius for me since i first watched it

... and yeah, tone tags are actually kind of appreciated! i often have quite a bit of trouble sensing someone's attitude through very short text messages, but deliberate and detailed wording is usually enough... it's not offensive or anything tho, i feel like a dumb confused baby most of the time anyway lol

i've watched quite a few things in the past, but nowadays i barely have any mental energy to watch/play/listen to anything new really... things don't stick with me as well as they used to because i've become very skeptically picky, so it's hard to entice me with something that's not very familiar to me already

it's rare to see me be completely interested in something since it takes a lot of energy for me to be genuinely emotionally invested, like even with mlaatr i'm now only focusing on sheldon more than anything else... the only piece of animated fiction that has impacted me on a personal level in all of its entirety still remains to be paranoia agent

if you're also asking me this to know if i'd want to depict other non-mlaatr cartoon characters... that's not really possible with how few characters tend to actually resonate with me emotionally now, and any kind of appeal of a character is strictly tied to the emotional connection i have with them, usually manifesting in the form of one specific intense emotional fixation at a time that takes up most of my mental space which is why i don't fan over multiple characters at the same time, but i can return to previously loved ones (sheldon is the only instance of that so far)

... so in terms of most media i'm generally not the type to just compulsively consume and collect anything that i happen to like even slightly, instead i prefer to stick by a few familiar options and sometime try branching out to something new

this is a nice question... i'm answering it much later than it was asked because i wasn't really feeling like it before

sheldon would primarily enjoy electronic and experimental music, but he also wouldn't be opposed to some types of rock or just classic music... the only thing he'd likely find too boring and grating would be pop music (which is also true for me)

considering he's autistic like me, he'd absolutely love listening to actual breakcore... like, not the popularized hardcore version of breakcore (ex. goreshit) but real niche experimental breakcore (ex. venetian snares)

tho he definitely would also love something mostly stimulating and dancey like anything related to hardcore: gabber, speedcore, mashcore, j-core, happy hardcore and just rave music

anything industrial-themed but especially nine inch nails would be perfect for him with all of its emotionally intense (bpd-related) themes and complex sound textures but he's not the type to listen to nin like some tend to play the downward spiral every single day lol... he'd only listen to nin at very specific moments in his life because the music hits too hard

sheldon would also quite like styles of rock that are more lethargically emotional and lovesong-y (like radiohead) or psychedellic and "stoner-y" (like king gizzard and the lizard wizard)

he'd also probably like overstimulating himself with something much noisier (ex. harsh noise) when he feels like dissociating through music

...so yeah, describing sheldon's music taste is pretty much the same as describing my own because music is way too personal for me to not see a character i associate with the most as basically the same lol... but i also imagine sheldon as someone who'd definitely make his own music, specifically experimental electronica akin to ambient, glitch or aaron "vsnares" funk's breakcore

"demifemme" is a gender identity for people who partially (hence the "demi-") identify as feminine (hence the "femme") and something else as well, instead of seeing oneself completely as a woman

"femboy" is nothing more than a kinky aesthetic for men who like to assume a more stereotypically "weaker" feminine role by dressing and acting effeminately in a primarily sexual context, or for men who are too shy to actually identify as feminine for the same reason of femininity being seen as a "weakness" that can damage their sense of masculinity so they playfully repress their femininity... a "feminine guy" like this is mostly just a mentally androgynous man to me

being a "feminine guy" or "femboy" is simply all about posing on the outside as what's commonly thought of as "feminine", like wearing girly clothes or trying to sound emotional and high-pitched, while being a feminine person means that you confidently express yourself like one from the inside and aren't preoccupied with fitting into the widely accepted image of girliness

sheldon is not just some effeminate cis guy, he's a genuinely feminine-expressing person: caring, gentle, sensitive, emotionally strong, passionate and confidently submissive, supportive rather than assertive... so more motherly than fatherly, he even imagined himself as a bad father figure once because he clearly wants to support his partner 24/7, not lead a whole family

my view of sheldon's gender identity is a whole can of worms in itself and my system of gender-related views would be mostly confusing or even shocking to others, so this is all i have to say on this topic

not really? i find them to be too bland/tropey, i just mainly enjoy the interactions sheldon has with some of them... i tend to focus on characters that resonate with me emotionally, every other character will probably just be "ok" to me so i'll provide my thoughts on their sheldon-adjacent dynamics instead

brad and sheldon can be kinda fun with how laid-back brad is as opposed to sheldon's usual jitteriness and i sometimes like imagining them having casual sex... but i really don't appreciate how the fandom wants to pair them as if to "fix" sheldon's emotional dependency with jenny, brad sucks as sheldon's friend as much as jenny does because he really doesn't try to understand and accept sheldon and often shrugs him off as "weird"

sheldon being "brotherly" with tuck in the "pain in my sidekick" episode was really sweet because it shows how eager sheldon is to care for others... other than that tuck is just kinda there being a dumb little shit and aside from this one cute interaction i'm not interested in seeing him with sheldon

with nora sheldon clearly looks up to her confident motherly scientist persona and they make a pretty fun team of two, i can even see how she could take him under her wing for personal reasons... but that's as much as i can say about her

vexus is literally just a sexy human-enslaving bug?-robot? queen, she was able to swindle sheldon emotionally once to steal jenny's blueprints from him by appearing as an innocent robot girl in need of help so sheldon's loneliness expectedly makes him cave in and even start wanting to bond with her... she could definitely make him her human pet but jenny already succeeds at doing just that and quite well too lol

so basically... i kinda only want to explore sheldon's character in a mostly isolated manner, rarely adding in jenny for specific emotional effects and even more rarely adding brad, usually together with jenny, but i have almost no interest in mlaatr character's aside from sheldon at this point