#that will make the problem

[tirsynni]

Some pet peeves regarding Mental Health:

When you notice that all of the focus is how the mental health issue affects someone's productivity. ADHD has so many different symptoms and affects multiple sections of the brain, yet the focus is not just the person's productivity but increasing and FIXING that productivity. Who cares about the rest? Are they a productive member of society seems to be the only focus, not the person's actual well-being.

The emphasis on FIXING someone with mental health issues or concerns. What are these people doing to FIX themselves? How dare they not actively work on it? Why can't we just FORCE them to fix the problem? Will this medication or action FIX the issue? Holy shit, people, brains don't work that way. At all. That's not how it WORKS. I've had people ask me about FIXING or CURING my ADHD, and in order to do that, I would be unrecognizable. And how would you define it as cured? When I'm more productive? When I stop info-dumping on you? What is your definition of FIXED?

The need to categorize mental health and put everything in a neat and orderly box. My dude: humans take existing items and try to place made-up titles on them and put them into made-up categories in order to work with them, better understand them, fucking TAX them, decide if you can't eat them on certain religious holidays, etc. It isn't a human stumbling across a book in a field and going, "Oh, I know what this is because it is clearly titled and described." No. We are making these things up as we go with the full understanding that these things are going to change based on our growing knowledge of them and changed perceptions of them. Hell, even the "neurotypical" and "neurotypical" categories are highly abused and popularly misunderstood. The former isn't describing "This is how a brain is supposed to be" and the latter isn't describing a broken brain. It is more related to problem #1: the former is more socially accepted and the latter is less socially acceptable, generally based on that damned PRODUCTIVITY thing and their ability to be "socially appropriate" in certain public areas. That's it.

[pangur-and-grim]

also I got a tattoo partially re-coloured today and they bandaged me in veterinary wrap like I'm a sick horse

[donnieisaprettyboy]

“what if kids identify with something and it ends up just being a phase-?” good. stop teaching and expecting kids (and adults honestly) to formulate permanent traits and ideas of themselves. everything in life is a phase. that doesn’t make it any less legitimate while you experience it. let people explore themselves and know it’s okay if what you think about yourself changes.

[scribefindegil]

being a writer leads to a genuinely helpful but also very stupid kind of mindfulness where you'll be having a sobbing breakdown or the worst anxiety attack of your life and think "okay, I really need to pay attention to how this feels. so I can incorporate it into my fanfiction."

[inkskinned]

please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!

do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!

[snowstories]

My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.

[nondelphic]

"just write the story you want to read!" they said. well, guess what, now i have 14 unfinished drafts because apparently, i want to read 14 different stories at once.

[lust4angel]

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[desirdejane]

My tits are pretty and everything i say is right

[wintvies]

reconnecting with my room after being around other people for too long

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Finally caught up with Apothecary Diaries. I can't believe they gave Maomao a gun.

[9narly]

lowkey mood recently

[pinklavenderdoll]

[donnieisaprettyboy]

can we stop pretending like it’s so super easy for trans men to pass. “oh just put on a baggy shirt and cut your hair-“ it literally doesn’t work like that and I refuse to believe you actually think it’s that easy

[petitebabydolli]