So Few People Understand The Art Of The Pseudo Nap

i think when people talk about dsm diagnoses being 'destigmatised' it's usually the case that what they mean is the public perception of the diagnosis name (depression, anxiety, etc) has become associated with minor, temporary, or resolvable forms of distress. the experience of being so depressed you cannot get out of bed, or brush your teeth, or work -- that experience and those behaviours have never been 'destigmatised,' only associated with other diagnostic labels in certain discourses seeking to present 'depression' as treatable or minor. it's basically a semantic nosological shift, rather than any actual 'destigmatisation' of the behaviours psychiatry exists to pathologise -- widening (minimising) the diagnosis, then just moving any leftover 'scary' symptoms to a different diagnostic bucket. it's a rhetorical shell game that does not challenge, but exists symbiotically with, the ableism that causes behaviours like "not being able to get out of bed" to be stigmatised in the first place.

Getting into bnha through fandom-blind fic reading has been such a wild ride like what do you mean kirishima and izuku arent friends in the series. Wait, why aren't they blowing up the stadium. What The Fuck do you mean they didn't even sink taiwan??????

do not joke about the advertisements, do not engage with the advertisements in witty fashions, do not, fucking, mention the contents of the advertisements. as soon as an advertisement enters your mind, you kill it, dont care how cute it is, take it out back and shoot it. install adblock, ublock, mute the volume, look away, turn off the monitor, cover your ears, paint over it. evolve your mind, your modality, your instincts, to disregard the stimuli of advertisements before you can even process it. whatever it takes, you do not let them win. and thats an order.

IM WHEEZING

SOMEBODY SPED IT UP

class picture day

BNHA Meta

me: because you have this story set in this superhero world, but like, the horrors of modern Japanese society are still very much present

me: (like why the hell would a highly individualized quirk society still be using family registration and koseki? the reason is because Horikoshi is Japanese and didn't think that was weird, much like when Americans toss around their Imperial measuring system willy-nilly, but it says something about BNHA as a window to modern Japan)

me: Mental illness is seen as something shameful and to hide away from

me: I mean, it's crazy that Todo's mom was in that hospital for 10 years. like most modern psychiatric facilities would promote rehabilitating a patient back into their life way earlier

me: the fact that Todoroki implies that he has to save her from the hospital says A LOT about her situation. she's probably been totally abandoned by her family thanks to the mental health stigma/the fact Endeavor managed to charm them into making her marry him to begin with

me: (also how wealthy Endeavor is to be able to fund her permanent stay and yet how empty and cold her room is)

me: (even terminally ill people don't stay in the hospital that long, it's so expensive and no hospice wants to tear someone totally out of their normal life)

me: (so like I said, honestly terrifying)

me: (like Endeavor is the worst but also, fuck Todomama's family. They clearly didn't do shit for their daughter.)

me: It's still a shonen and they don't criticize society so much as the individual but the implications are so important and it becomes fascinating to pull apart because there's so much of the modern Japanese fantasy and reality mixed up in this superhero world

me: like the hero culture in HeroAca has startling parallels to the horrifically exploitative idol culture in Japan

me: kind of the hyper commercialization of personalities and the idea of rankings being some be all, end all

which paired with, instead of a sexualized consumption, but a consumption of violence, is kind of startling

me: (well there's still sexualized consumption because the treatment of women as sexual objects is rampant even here)

me:in some ways, it's almost hunger games esque, this commercialization of violence and the audience participation in this act

A good bird boy

me n the homies robbing some back alley convenience store for goods

Any time the League of Villains go through a drive thru they make Dabi hold all the bags to keep the food warm until they get back to the hideout.