One of these days I should actually write up, like, “a fannish guide to C-PTSD and BPD” for people who aren’t mental health professionals, so that people understand what I mean when I say a character sets off my trauma radar.
I’m writing that kind of thing for work–trying to explain these disorders to people who have them, since I can write from the perspective of having them, and so much psychological literature is essentially written by therapists as a way of teaching other therapists how to treat people, not about how to live as one of those people. But it’s hard–hard to constantly dig up my perspective and re-root it in a different position, when I’m so used to being clinically detached; hard to concisely explain things that took years of experience to learn.
I struggle also with my position in fandom? I don’t like being in a position of authority over knowledge, telling people what to think and what’s correct or incorrect. Especially in the mental health field, I go out of my way to de-emphasize my systemic power and build up peoples’ knowledge over their own lives. So I don’t want to say, you know, “That neurodivergent headcanon is incorrect!” or anything like that, ever.
On the other hand, I do kind of want to explain the frankly excessive amount of thought that goes into some of my own headcanons, because when people go, “You can’t just slap these labels on characters! You’re not an expert!” I’m like… I can slap these labels on people, not just fictional characters. I can legally diagnose people. I kind of am an expert. So I’m not coming at this from the same place as someone who’s read the Abnormal chapter of their Psychology 101 textbook. XD
And somehow, telling people, “Just read three or four of these books” has a low success rate.
It’s a bit of a throwback, but I thought I’d share these. I made instrumental writing playlists.
Where was the rape joke? It’s been a few years since I last watched AOU, but now I need to know so I can point it out to people.
okay, so i saw a post on my dash about the aou scene with thor and tony, and i obviously didn’t want to comment on the post, so i’m writing my piece here.
age of ultron was trash. that movie was garbage and joss whedon and his mannist bullshit perpetuated most of that movie. otherwise, we wouldn’t have so much sexism, so much deterioration of characterization, so much alpha masculinity between the superheroes.
tony making a rape joke. in which universe would tony stark make a rape joke????
thor (a god) lifting a human up by his neck in front of his friends and his friend’s lack of reaction.
natasha’s entire arch with bruce
all of these scenes illustrate just how much joss whedon doesn’t understand the character’s he’s writing. he wants a macho showdown between thor and tony (parallel to his first movie), he wants macho men all sitting around and laughing at rape jokes, he wants minimize natasha’s entire character into being a broken mary sue because she can’t have kids (because adoption doesn’t exist).
joss whedon is trash, his writing is trash, and every problematic thing that happened in aou is joss whedon and thanos looking ass.
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rdj kissing josh brolin on the lips is such a power move. the man doesn’t give a single fuck. he’s the male protagonist archetype of this century but he will kiss as many guys as he pleases because he can and there’s nothing hollywood can do about it
@fandomaestheticnet pride month | canon lgbt characters
You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.
I’m looking to do a 1x1 Watch Dogs 2 RP with somebody. Preferably, the RP would involve both canon characters and OCs. Either Discord or Tumblr would be fine. Only requirements are as follows: - No one-liners.
- Warnings before long breaks (Over one week).
- Discussions before including themes that aren't already in the game (For example, graphic nudity, etc).
Contact me or interact with this post in literally any way to get my attention. :p
(This is where I’m really starting to regret both my URL and my profile picture, honestly.)
i have this au i’ve really liked lately where ravenpaw becomes a kittypet after leaving thunderclan and his new owners train him to be a therapy cat and it’s all about ravenpaw dealing with his trauma and learning how to cope while helping humans do the same. idk i really like it
MY BROTHER JUST SAID THAT GIRLS DON'T HAVE GENITALS. WHAT.