The Greatest Skill A Woman Can Learn For Herself Is Self Reliance

First thing I want to say is that it is not necessary for fiction to be good for people’s mental health.  Art for art’s sake has value, so does individual autonomy, and people can create and consume fiction based on what they want and what they value without having to make it medicinal so they can justify it as a social good.

Second thing I want to say is that it is not possible to create fiction that is universally good for people’s mental health.  Tumblr fandom tends to treat certain mental health needs as implicitly the most legitimate, and inherent universal needs, but it’s way more complicated than that.  Many people will absolutely thrive on stories of loving, supportive families, while some people will need to avoid them due to their specific family history.  Some people are helped by reading about characters they enjoy practicing healthy communication and getting positive results, while other people might come away hearing, “Everyone can do healthy communication and get helpful responses if they try hard enough, so therefore the problem must be you screwing it up!”   Some people might find “Destroy the evil abuser” revenge fantasies a helpful way to process anger, while other people might find they do more harm than good.    A lot of people find stories of a character being gently nurtured by someone else, while some people have negative associations with other people trying to take care of them and have bad psychological reactions to these stories.  (And let me tell you, if you have a bad associations with soft pastel nurturing that mean it can put you in a bad headspace, Tumblr can be pure hell.)

Mental health needs differ.  They’re not always soft.  They’re not always predictable based on a diagnosis, or a few details of someone’s history.  They’re diverse, individual, and sometimes mesh poorly with stuff that most people would consider healthy and wholesome.   Your story might be helpful for a specific person, or for a number of people, but there’s no such thing as the universally healthy story or the universally unhealthy story.  It is literally not possible to write something for the general public and ensure it’s healthy for everyone who reads it.

It’s a sunny day and it’s also Gon’s birthday!

the Mikasa Uchiha sketches no one asked for

Today’s gon is:

Really happy after seeing Kurapika again

a prayer

Les Félins (René Clément), Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar Wai), Malcolm T. Liepke, Gustav Vigeland (Eros and Psyche), Stephan Sinding (Adoration), Soul Eom (kiss, hug and die)

Had an entire day to draw

Wants to draw at 3 am

remember when you were a kid and whenever your parents came into the room while you were doing something for pleasure like looking at something on the computer or watching tv and you’d immediately close the thing like you’d just been caught watching porn when you were actually doing nothing wrong this post was made by strict parents with no boundaries gang

For artists who have problems with perspective (furniture etc.) in indoor scenes like me - there’s an online programm called roomsketcher where you can design a house/roon and snap pictures of it using different perspectives.

It’s got an almost endless range of furniture, doors, windows, stairs etc and is easy to use. In addition to that, you don’t have to install anything and if you create an account (which is free) you can save and return to your houses.

Examples (all done by me):

Here’s an example for how you can use it

me: *draws blades of grass in the background of an art* holy shit this looks so good

I really like the idea of Killua teaching Gon all of these slang words that no one uses anymore. And Gon being Gon gets all excited.

Killua: This is a really terrible idea…

Gon: Yolo.

Killua: Wow, you’re adorable.

Gon: Swag.

…….

Gon, eating spaghetti: Damn, this is dank.

……

Killua: This is such a ratty hotel.

Gon: Yeah, it’s pretty ratchet.

Killua: Gon…

……

Gon, walking into the gym: We bout to get swol. This place is lit.

…..

Gon buys Killua and him matching #SquadGoals t-shirts.

….

Killua: Gon, what-

Gon: YEET.