#the trauma code headers

[sevenverses]

ㅤ  ،، the trauma code: heroes on call icons & headers

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[statementlou]

So I see folks pointing out that Louis' circle A tattoo is more likely an aesthetic choice than an announcement of a political commitment to anarchism, and saying basically that that maybe makes him a bit of a poser and I mean- I GUESS. But I don't like to look at things that way and I don't think it's useful. As I see it the subversive sexiness of the symbols of resistance have ALWAYS been gateways for people who are drawn to the struggle in vague ways and that's GOOD. Aligning yourself with those values is good no matter the reason, in my book, especially given the wretched options available out there, but also the journey doesn't necessarily stop there. Gatekeeping queerness victimizes people who are just trying things out and starting to discover that it may run deeper than just trying on a new look who should instead be welcomed and helped along their path, and I fail to see how gatekeeping political affiliations is any different (plus how counterproductive to actual movement building is that?)

ANYWAY. What I really want to say about Louis is that while I KNOW that Louis is probably not secretly a theory reading anti-state communalist anarchist, I think that actually Louis' optimism and idealism (and his unwavering commitment to allying himself with the working class and embracing those roots) are a perfect fit for the philosophy and always have been. I know that anarchism is mostly understood as being about throwing molotov cocktails and fighting the state (and the allure of its symbols are that they signify this, a terrific aesthetic for him to choose to sign on with in my book), but that's honestly largely cartoonish stereotyping that comes directly from anti-anarchist state propaganda. That resistance is necessary in this hellscape of oppression we live in and is super important, but in its heart anarchism is only about the state in that the state and capitalism currently stands in the way of its goals. The whole point of anarchism is that it's NOT about the state! It's about being able to imagine something better than a state, it's about how we live and about how we SHOULD live, it's about HOPE and picturing something utopian and something free of the ways capitalism pits us against one another! What could be more Louis than that?

"I need you and you need me and I love that" is as beautiful a way of talking about the cornerstone of anarchism that is mutual aid as any long winded essay I've read (even if what he meant was contextually different), and I think when he talks again and again about how special the space fans have made around him is he is expressing an intuitive understanding of the importance of autonomous zones, places and moments outside of the shitty life imposed on us by the system (also a huge part of anarchist thought). Maybe I'm just being an optimist but I think that Louis DOES understand that caring for people and wanting self-determination and freedom for all and allying himself with the working class involves a certain amount of resistance to and positioning yourself in opposition to the state. Thinking the symbols of smashing that state are cool isn't meaningless; it's a CHOICE. There are other cool symbols out there and I just happen to think that feeling a resonance with certain ones is something in and of itself, even if at this moment he does not choose to start a fight with the media about it all.

[hexcrystals]

holodomor denial is genocide denial. the systematic starvation of an entire people is not something for you to debate on the internet with your lenin pfp and your xi jinping header while you sit in your warm safe home with a full stomach and plentiful access to food. the generational epigenetic trauma that is irrevocably coded into modern ukrainians’ dna after the scale of manufactured starvation that their families experienced is not a ‘narrative’ or a ‘lie’, it’s proof of an atrocity that you’re continuing by denying its existence.

despise the west all you want but do not sit back and enjoy the comforts it gives you while handwaving the experiences of millions of ukrainians. there’s plenty of propaganda out there for you to be mad about. there’s plenty of it on your own fucking blogs. you don’t need to start shitting on the graves of my family’s dead ancestors.

[skythealmighty]

why am i just now finding out about thisisnotawebsitedotcom i feel a little stupid.. then again i dont have the Book of Bill so maybe im lucky to know about it ???

#rocket talk #gravity falls #miss this show. anyway twink cipher fuckign jumpscared me

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Why Flatland counts as an object show: an essay

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Why Flatland does NOT count as an object show: a rebuttal

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why flatland isnt an object show: its a book + movie you assholes

#this argument is fucking stupid its just flatland

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lol ok have fun w that 👍

also do u know any recipes for roasted pumpkin seeds the internets failing me rn and im cooking a big dinner for me and my bf

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Oh yeah sure https://www.jessicagavin.com/how-to-roast-pumpkin-seeds/#wprm-recipe-container-35845

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Wait why am I telling you this go die I hate you

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thx for the help!

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Date of origin: November 3rd, 2021

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~~Welcome to MePhoneX deletes your favs!!~~

I'm mod Xav (the only mod rn - -"), here to cause trauma to your favorite characters :)! PLEASE keep in mind that submissions will take a while to get to, because I have to photoshop out the limbs + background or even completely recreate someone's object if they're transparent!

The background flag is in the header and the X (recreated from an image of MePhoneX) I overlay on top is the profile picture if you want to make your own :) just @ this blog and I'll reblog it!

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RULES ABOUT SUBMISSIONS:

NO INANIMATE INSANITY CONTESTANTS. I would like to avoid Apollo's Dodgeball thanks (plus it's insensitive)

No algebralien or algebralien-adjacent characters! I love those guys too I get it but I honestly don't have a good method of 'deleting' them planned. Feel free to do it on your own time though!

If someone asks me to take down a submission with them in it I will do it without questions. This is for a variety of reasons, but I think you get it.

Alright, that's it! Have fun :)

#not xed out #mod xav #pinned post #your fav is #your fave is #mephone #mephonex #inanimate insanity #ii2 finale

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has anyone else wondered why this spaghetti code webbed site can connect across DIFFERENT UNIVERSES??? or is that just me

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follow for the same picture of my crab every day!!!!! look at him :D

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anonymous asked: greeny how does it feel to be technically a higher being than most other people on the site

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sir this is a wendys

#i didnt order an existential crisis today :(

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todays liveblog!! B)

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knife and suitcase made it to the finale!! hell yeah so proud of them

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balloons talk with suitcase didnt go so well :/ i hope they can get some alone time without anyone else so they can like talk properly next time

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mepad???

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oh i think the finale challenge is happening

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baseball looks worried but lightbulb's brushing him off :|

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ojs backing away from paper??? wh

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WHJDT THE FUCK

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WAIT I HAVENT SEEN SOAP IN A WHILE WHERE IS SHE???

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OH GOD

#mics ramblings #SOAP???!??

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anonymous asked: evil woman are so hot <3 i will do whatever you want queen

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Awwww, this means a lot to me, anon! Could you find Film Reel for me and doxx him? That would be really helpful <3

#He's been evading me #It's really annoying #Hard to take over the world when I have to worry about him 🙄

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WHY DO I KEEP GETTING SENT ASKS ABOUT PREGNANCY?!

#I'M GOING TO QUIT TUMBLR AT THIS RATE.

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if this fuckass hand keeps showing up at the edge of my vision i'm going to hit something

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#maybe hes in love with you

what the hell is wrong with you.

[danieyells]

idk if this has been brought up before, sorry if it has, and maybe I'm just thinking too hard on this but I keep looking at the official tokyo debunkers Twitter banner and like seeing taiga with that smirk, but then the broken piece has him with a wide eye + the theories of him seeing the future and such got me thinking.. or maybe it's just a cool banner, what do I know LOL

lol i waited until i got home because i had it saved in HQ for reasons that probably won't come to pass off the twitter page on my laptop

I LOVE THIS BANNER it's such a good image and it shows off Taiga's crazy. Taiga is kind of the game mascot atm, interestingly enough. He's the first character you meet, he's the game icon and twitter header, he has some important knowledge of a major plot point. . .you'd think it'd be Kaito since he's kind of your sidekick and the one who teaches you everything at first, but Taiga's got all the impact.

But yeah, either he's losing his mind back there, or he's Seeing Some Shit. The broken gap in the image showing him with wide eyes is very much a little suggestion of 'there is more going on here than you see on the surface' which, admittedly, is kind of the setting of the game('there's more to the world than meets the eye and you're thrown into the world of anomalies common sense would tell you aren't real') but. . .yeah, if you think about Taiga possibly being able to see the future, which is similarly a hidden aspect of him, then the image is even cooler.

I'm honestly getting more and more attached to that theory as time goes on. Because I remembered today at work. . .Taiga doesn't wear gloves with his uniform, unlike with his house outfit.

When the pc is in the torture chair and his hunger is triggered by their blood, he touches them, bare hand to bare skin.

and then suddenly he snaps out of it, suddenly aware that Romeo was coming.

to which I suspect. . .touching the pc caused them to enhance his stigma by accident. This happened to activate it automatically. And he saw the future without meaning to--perhaps in more detail than usual. That's also how he knew exactly where to shoot to hit the like dove--because he saw it fly in in his stigma's vision.

That's also why he said Ritsu could close the casino and he didn't need it.

The whole future he saw was so fucked(again?) and the casino wasn't helping to alleviate or avoid whatever he had made it for, or perhaps was causing more of a problem--it had, after all, spawned a dangerous anomaly. He just sort of lost steam and gave up all of a sudden. Yeah, take it away, we're fucked no matter what we do. (He got better, though. I too overcome my trauma and depression by forgetting things.)

. . .BUT UH YEAH. IT'S A SUPER GOOD BANNER IMAGE THAT SAYS A LOT. I really love it. Taiga is seeing into the code. It is traumatic but when he forgets in 15 minutes he'll be fine.

[sunnydayaoe]

Color-Coded CCCC Lyrics Doc

Me and my friends have been working on a color coded CCCC lyrics doc since we joined the fandom. It has all the songs of CCCC and their lyrics, color-coded to who [we think] is singing. We hope this helps!!

Feel free to share this with anyone you want to!!!

Example of what it looks like VVVV

[Image ID: A screenshot of the CCCC Lyrics doc.

The header "Variations on a Cloud" shows what song is being transcribed.

Under it, in a light grey, "Added lyrics are highlighted." (with Highlighted actually being highlighted grey) explains that lyrics changed/added from the original Tally Hall songs will be highlighted.

Below that are some lyrics from Chonny Jash's cover of "Variations on a Cloud." Mind, Heart and Soul all have unique colors used for them: Mind in blue, Heart in purple-pink, and Soul in red. The lyrics where both Mind and Heart are singing are in a blue-purple color. End ID]

[solizen]

DNI: MINORS, proship, radqueer/transid, shedtwt, terfs

I follow from @aquarichor ! <- That blog is SFW and I have moots/oomfs who are minors over there, just a fair warning!

Please do not interact with this (solizen) blog if you are a minor, I will block you.

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Now Playing: Spiracle - Flower Face

"I want you, butterfly, I want you sailor. I am your lover and I am your jailor."

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Volume: ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ MAX

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Hello!! My name is Zenith Petrichor, also known as Zen. I'm agender and my pronouns are zey/zem/zeirs and ve/vem/vys, if those don't work for you, then use he/him/it/its! My MC (who I will usually refer to in the first person, since that's literally me) is also agender, but only uses he/it. You can still use neos for him, but I will usually refer to it as he/it. Also, please do not use they/them to refer to me or my MC! ^^

I am 18, fictorose, aroace, and a yumeshipper! I do ship with Solivan and am nonsharing, however, I am fully aware that he is literally from a visual novel that is centered around him. I can't really be mad or picky LMAO. If someone makes me really uncomfy then I'll block, but like, I actually want TKatB friends and want to share my art and love for this game, so idrc. </3 I'm not gonna harass anyone for anything and I'd appreciate if I didn't get harassed in turn. <3 I yumeship to cope w trauma please respect that xoxo kisses hugs

Otheeeer stuff: I am diagnosed with AuDHD, OCD-C, and CPTSD. I am emetophobic and germophobic. Horror wise, funnily enough, I'm quite sensitive to gore and people in agony, however! I find body horror really cool. Like weirdcore type shit. And analog horror. heh.

Anyway I'm soooo normal about Sol like so normal I need to walk him like a fucking dog oh my god.

I write and draw stuff ,, working on tkatb related things for both rn and will most likely post it on this blog. Holds up platter to u with my fic and my art,,,,, do u like the food I made. :3

please dont yell at me i will cry. also sol is yan/stalker (in practice) and i am yan/stalker (in theory). if that makes sense. heh. cat smirk emoji 😼. also as gen z i will be projecting that onto sol, so he talks like a gen z-er. idk i just think itd be funny if he said "chat is this rizz" and he's breaking your window lock and giving you roofied orange juice.

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FEATURED TAGS:

#•∘₊✧ harvest moon ✧₊∘ - reblogs

#•∘₊✧ spiracle ✧₊∘ - solizen/selfship stuff

#•∘₊✧ october birds ✧₊∘ - shitposting/random thoughts

#•∘₊✧ paper doll ✧₊∘ - askbox/answers

#•∘₊✧ cornflower blue ✧₊∘ - writing/drabbles

#•∘₊✧ kaleidoscope ✧₊∘ - artwork

#•∘₊✧ back to you ✧₊∘ - ventposting, heart emoji 🥀🥀 (will probably rarely use this)

Everything except harvest moon are all songs from Flower Face's album: The Shark in Your Water. A lot of her music is Sol coded, esp Back to You. I highly recommend her music auhghgh she's so good.

Harvest moon is a pun that is in reference to the game because I heart the game but also because 'Sol' means 'Sun' and Sol calls us his pumpkin... there's some irony in there somewhere LMAO something about him not matching his name and being more moon than sun... harvest moon....

Solizen header was made by me :D Sol pixel art is the original pixel art from the game, aka the artist is @/fantasia-kitt herself, and I made the Zen one :D I originally made it for that one relationships chart thingy and then I thought it'd be cute as a header :3

my MC masterpost will probably get lost, so here's a direct link to the post if you dont wanna go looking for it!!!

one more thing,,,, i dont condone the type of person solivan is. im aware he is a fucking freak /neg and is awful to hell and back. his charm just worked REALLY well on me, but he gets karma in the form of i knew what he was doing the entire time and just let him for my own validation. that being said, i already have trauma regarding SA, and this helps me cope, i am aware this can be seen as unhealthy depending on how i do it, but i know what im doing and im safe and sane. ive projected a lot of intrusive thoughts onto my MC and while my MC is redeemable, he is not a good person by any means. this reflects on the said "karma." i really love the writing, art style, and character/world building of this game and find the story very interesting. im not here just because "hehe sol... hehe..." he is not a green flag, he is (crowe's) blood red flag and i am fully aware of that. thank yew :3 im just whimsical and silly. i gave sol some whimsy and silliness because i think that personally adds to his charm to woo the MC. TKatB is a horror visual novel, not a romance visual novel 🎀

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[agentrouka-blog]

Hey! Did you find the time to read the affc outline yet? I just know people are seething lol. I wanted to ask, what did you think about the Tyrion outline? That he will “witness incest”? Will he see two people and be reminded of Jaime/Cersei because there doesn’t seem to be any other option. Dany is alone and I doubt she will get together with Aegon VI later in the volume.

Moreover, I feel like the pov Prince of Sorrows is Tyrion’s or Tyrion centric nonetheless because I feel “whores go everywhere” is the answer to the constant question Tyrion asks himself in adwd - “where do whores go”. Maybe he finds out about Tysha and it is painful??

I know at this point we can only speculate because we don’t have any evidence to go off on, but what do you think, can we figure out something about the outline?

Hi there! :)

(Reddit post in question)

I've read it but not in-depth. No time, unfortunately. (Employment is a huge impediment to fandom...)

Here are some rambling thoughts, yay!

I'm pretty sure the Prince of Sorrows refers to concept that Tyrion was supposed to have an encounter with the Shrouded Lord (I think?) in a dream of some kind, probably during his near-death at the Bridge of Dream, which was in the Sorrows stretch of the Rhoyne. What snippets of philosophical musings GRRM put under that header certainly fit a transcendent confrontation with Tyrion's conscience. "Let it go or it will become you. Let them go - will not bring you peace." Tyrion's inability to let go of his own trauma and resulting rage (like Dany, like Theon, like Stannis, like LSH, like Bran, like Arya etc etc etc) is utterly the root of his own villainy and future undoing. So that checks out. GRRM cut it, probably because it may have been too heavy-handed at this point in time. He instead opted to show us a Tyrion descending into complete depravity at Selhorys, with any self-reflection deferred to a much later point.

"Witness to incest" is so vague that I don't think we can even extrapolate it refers to any specific action with the plot so much as it's a self-description.

It's important to remember that this informal little note of an outline is from GRRM for GRRM, and these are prompts or reminders that tie into his already existing thoughts. We have no idea what those thoughts are. A phrase like "KILL THE MOUSE" or "witness to incest" can refer to an intended quote, it can refer to a status he wants to emphasize inside the chapter, it can be a personal reminder to achieve a specific moment or plot point, it can be symbolic. Is the Mouse Shadrich, or is it a code for Alayne, who is a mousy-brown creature scurrying about the castle, different but similar to Arya's Harrenhal mouse era? What it does is beautifully showcase how he structures the more pragmatic, detailed bits of his plot around key points he wants to make. Take the Arya notes. "The joy of giving". Obviously, he is working on complex imagery that juxtaposes "taking a life" with "giving the gift", the hypocritisy of murder for hire - and the genuine peace offered to those who come to die of their own volition. Here, too, GRRM chose to hold back on actually going into these issues in the finished product in Feast-Dance, probably saving it for the climactic escape and/or Arya's confrontation with Catelyn's revenant.

Is the incest Jaime and Cersei, which Tyrion has witnessed all his life? Was it meant to tie into Aegon and Dany (who he learns are intended to marry), or to set up something else, or both? GRRM chose to cut it, anyway, so the sentiment may well come back at a later point, much like the insights in the Prince of Sorrows.

Basically, while the emphasis on Sansa's identity is a pleasantly unambiguous support for her (already obvious) trajectory north in GRRM's own mind, I don't think we'll get much else out of this outline that isn't already in the text one way or the other. We shouldn't be too literal with the notes in there because he wasn't writing an explanation of his plot, he was writing an extremely self-referential little to-do list that may be as reliable as the to-do lists I write for myself on a day off: i.e., I end up doing one thing and scrap the rest in favor of lying around on my couch.

[crow-winged-wolf]

WIP Ask Game

Rules: post the names of all files in your WIP folder regardless how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask (or just comment that’s fine with me too) with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell us about it.

Thanks for the ghost tag @genjyoandgojyoandhakkai (psst! consider yourself tagged if you see this, I want to know what you have out there so I can learn more!)

All of these are basically the chapter headers for my one and only story. First time I'm boring about it, I only have the one. ... unless you count the Baldur's Gate 3 fan fics, and the one or two from Destiny... Ok, I'm gonna organize it by color coding the chapter title.

Baldur's Gate 3

Destiny 1 and 2

DA Veilguard

The Guardian- A shortfic from the pov of a crafty little Hunter musing over who she is

R2Q- the Talon's False Heir- The part where a Rook gets nostalgic over sea air and a tall Dalish Elf

Cazador's Misstep- What if Tav got kidnapped and Astarion was too late to save her?

In This Rez or the Next- I'm new to this "risen" thing, what's the Light?

R2Q- Home- Sometimes, you need your siblings help to work through trauma.

Ghost's of the Past- Co-written by a Hunter and a Titan about how they AREN'T the hero of the story. (No, seriously. This is CO- WRITTEN. By me and my hubby (that looks like Lucanis and now I want to draw Lucanis as a D2 Titan... dammit...))

R2Q- Redemption of the Lesser- He fucked up, she still saved his sorry ass.

R2Q- Bloodbath- Ossuary trauma go brrr

The Astarion Playthrough- There was no direction here, just a rabid fangirl with too many ideas.

Unintended Consequences- The longfic that resulted from the earlier 'too many ideas'

R2Q- A Harsh Lesson- Sometimes, your childhood friend needs a semi-public beatdown to realize you're still working through TRAUMA and his dismissive attitude really isn't helping...

[antigonewinchester]

Inspired by the lists I've seen floating around... here are 50 memorable books (or some series) that have stuck with me over the years. It's includes fiction, non-fiction, and comics/manga.

[edit as of evening of 4/8/25] List under the cut for reference (with titles, authors, artists, and translators listed when I could find them).

5 Centimeters per Second, written by Makoto Shinkai, art by Yukiko Seike

Akane-Banashi, written by Yui Suenaga, drawn by Takamasa Moue, translated from Japanese by Stephen Paul

Bambi, Felix Salten, translated from German by Damion Searls

Between Two Fires: An Epic Tale of Medieval Horror, Christopher Buehlman

Black Jack, writing & art by Osamu Tezuka, translated from Japanese by Camellia Nieh

Blue Flag, writing & art by Kaito

Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind, Alan Jacobs

The Breath of the Sun, Isaac R. Fellman

Chainsaw Man, Tatsuki Fujimoto, translated from Japanese by Amanda Haley

A Change Meeting: American Encounters, Rachel Cohen

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, Atul Gawande

Conviction, Kelly Loy Gilbert

Dr. Franklin’s Island, Ann Halam

Fear, Gabriel Chevalier, translated from French by Malcolm Imrie

Haikyu!!, Haruichi Furudate

History of Wolves, Emily Fridlund

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Jenny Odell

How to Live: or, a Life of Montaigne, in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer, Sarah Bakewell

How to Think, Alan Jacobs

In a Lonely Place, Dorothy B. Hughes

Kapo, Aleksandar Tišma, translated from Serbo-Croatian by Richard Williams

Kasane, Matsuura Daruma

Kindred, Octavia Butler

The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler

The Long Walk, Stephen King

Lord of the Files, William Golding

The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Self and the Making of the Western World, Iain McGilchrist

Milkman, Anna Burns

Morality Play, Barry Unsworth

Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro

The Oceans of Cruelty: Twenty-Five Tales of a Corpse Spirit, A Retelling, written & translated by Patrick Penick

Ôoku: The Inner Chambers, Fumi Yoshinaga

Opus, Satoshi Kon, translated by Zack Davisson

Piranesi, Susanna Clarke

Season of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih, translated from Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies

Shadow of the Torturer& Claw of Conciliator, Gene Wolfe

The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas Carr

The Singularity, Dino Buzzati, translated from Italian by Anne Milano Appel

The Slynx, Tatyana Tolstaya, translated from Russian by Jamey Gambrell

Starving Anonymous, Yuu Kuraishi

Such Small Hands, Andrés Barba, translated by Lisa Dillman

Sula, Toni Morrison

The Summer Hikaru Died, Ren Mokumoku, translated by Ajani Oloye

The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett

Through the Woods, Emily Carroll

Two Old Women, Velma Wallis

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma, Stephanie Foo

Witch Hat Atelier, Kamome Shirahama, translated by

The Woman Who Smashed Codes, Jason Fagone

The World Beyond Your Head, Matthew Crawford

[sevenverses]

ㅤ  ،، the trauma code: heroes on call icons & headers

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Clone, born and raised in a lab. Only name he knows is Duran, because his handlers couldn't think of anything better to call him. At 20+ years of age, he's only now finding out what freedom REALLY means to him.

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Before the semester kicks off and murders me, @disniq​ asked for my essay on Jason Todd and hysteria. So, without further ado, here is an actual essay (fucking dissertation) because I refuse brevity. It is extremely long. I’ve split it into sections so you can find the section header and read what you want. This does not encompass all the narrative trauma themes and lived experiences that this boy holds, just specifically hysteria. 

Jason Todd, The Hysteric & Bruce Wayne, The Batman

I think it’s a common reading that Jason Todd is girl-coded and the patron saint of victims, at least within the circle that I’ve fallen into within this fandom. There are plenty of meta discussions on why those readings stand, so I’m not going to reiterate them. A pillar of him being girl-coded and someone trauma survivors have latched onto as one of our own has to do with being written in the context of hysterical femininity. And let me just say, I don’t think that writing was done in a way that he was intentionally coded as hysterical, but it is a function of our patriarchal society that this coding was used on him albeit without the explicit purpose of writing a hysteric story. 

For the purpose of this post: the word woman includes ciswomen, transwomen, and any person who is socially positioned as a woman regardless of gender identity. I include the positionality here because anyone can experience misogyny and sexism depending on the perception of the perpetrators either interpersonally or systemically. 

The History and Context of Hysteria

To understand the context, we have to look at the history and oppression of hysteria. Hysteria (in the modern context of psychology) emerged in the nineteenth century and is difficult to define by design and often applied to traumatized, unruly, and broken women. The main patriarchs who contributed to hysterical study were Jean-Martin Charcot and Sigmund Freud. I only mention this because it’s important to know their names moving forward for any of this to make sense. The beginning of this started with Charcot literally putting women whose lives had been marked by rape, abuse, exploitation, and poverty on display in his Tuesday lectures (which were open to the public) to show his findings on hysteria. This was actually seen as restoring dignity (fucking yikes) to the women because before Charcot these hysterical women were cast aside and not treated at all. In Charcot’s work, the women’s speech was seen as simply “vocalization” and their inner lives, their stories, their words, were silenced. After hearing a woman cry for her mother during one of the public sessions Charcot remarked, “Again, note these screams. You could say it’s a lot of noise over nothing” (Herman). 

This led to Freud, Charcot’s student, wanting to surpass his teacher by discovering the cause of hysteria. This was disastrous. Freud started with listening to the hysterics. In doing so, he learned and believed them about the abuse, rape, and exploitation of their pasts. He then published his work and gave a lecture on it. The work rivals even contemporary psychological work on trauma in it’s level of compassion, understanding, and treatment of survivors. However, he was then labeled a feminist (this was all happening during the first wave of feminism) and professionally ostracized. How in the world could these aristocratic French men be sexually abusing their wives, sisters, and daughters??? Insanity, truly. And... This always fucking gets me. He recanted his work and then told his patients they all imagined it because they wanted to be sexually abused by their husbands, brothers, and fathers. This set back the study of trauma by literally a century. One colleague called his work “a scientific fairy-tale” simply because he had the audacity to believe victims. Also, I want to point out that the famous hysteria case during this time was the case of Anna O and she was ultimately villainized by the entire psychological community for going into crisis after her care provider abruptly ended their therapeutic relationship after two years of DAILY sessions. 

Anyway. We can see how the power of these men over vulnerable women silenced, pathologized, villainized, infantilized, and used male ‘logic’ to completely destroy their credibility and lives under the guise of care and hysteria. Even when credible men lend their expertise and voices to the victims, their voices are silenced. This particular iteration of hysteria lasted over a century, and we are still dealing with the consequences of these actions and ideas within our social construction, medical and mental health care, interpersonal relationships, and more. Patriarchal pillars such as hysteria don’t die. We saw it move from hysteria to schizophrenia (which used to have the same symptoms of hysteria before the diagnosis changed in more contemporary psychology) after this which led to widespread lobotomies and electroshock therapy (my least favorite case of a lobotomy being done is on a woman who was diagnosed with LITERALLY ‘narcissist husband’) to depression in the 40s-50s with the over prescription of benzodiazepines to house wives to keep them in a zombie state (these prescriptions were sometimes double and triple what we take today with the intent of medical catatonia). In my opinion, as well as other counselors within the feminist therapy theoretical orientation, we are currently seeing it with the emergence of borderline-personality disorder. Think about how BPD is treated and demonized for a second. I professionally know therapists who refuse to work with BPD clients due to this villainization and just fucking gross perception of victims.

These are just the highlights, but it shows the history of hysteria. There have been centuries of women being marked as hysterical and the cures have ranged from lobotomy to bed rest (which sounds not so bad but read the Yellow Wallpaper and get back to me on that one). While the Yellow Wallpaper is fictional, the life behind it was not. After the traumatic birth of her child the author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, was remanded to bed rest by the authority of her husband and doctor. Within the sphere of medical control, hysterical women are often treated as children while their doctors make decisions for their mental well-being without consulting them, or they hide the truth of their procedures for “the woman’s own good” and because “she’s hysterical and wouldn’t comprehend the logical need for this.” She then had a mental break due to the treatment. Again, we see hysterical women being silenced, infantilized, discredited from their own experiences, and under the narrative control of male logic and voices. 

Hysterical women have often historically been seen as beneath men, except for when they’re dangerous. Listening to victims is inherently threatening to the status quo because all trauma comes from a systemic framework. The framework that upholds patriarchal power. It’s easy to see why that would be seen as dangerous to powerful men. We saw this with the European witch genocide in which oppressed women were targeted and wiped out under the excuse of what was considered women’s work. (Before this time, witchcraft wasn’t tied to any religion and was mostly just seen as women’s work. It was targeted specifically to have an excuse to persecute widows, homeless, disabled, and vulnerable women who no longer had men to reign over them during a time of political unrest and scarce resources). This time period saw hysterical and traumatized women demonized as dangerous, evil, immoral, hypersexual, and supernaturally wily. A threat to the moral fabric of society. 

(Interesting history side note: this caused the view of women’s base traits we have today. It stemmed from the Victorian era that came after this time period in which women learned if they behaved a certain way, they would be spared the stake. For example, before the witch trials, women were actually seen as the ones with unsatiable sexual appetites, something we culturally prescribe to men now.) 

Notice how none of this has to do with the actual abuse that happens to the women, but instead the labeling and treatment of women when they are already showing the symptoms of abuse, trauma, control, exploitation, and rape. 

Jason Todd, The Hysteric

So, how does this relate to Jason Todd? To say that Jason has experienced trauma would be an understatement. Extreme poverty, loss of parent to death and addiction, loss of parent to the justice system, parental abuse, manipulation, witnessing violent crimes, witnessing the aftermath of sexual abuse and assault, arguably (not explicit in the text) his own sexual trauma, witnessing the dead bodies of victims, a violent death, and subsequently a violent resurrection. There’s also an argument to be made for being a child soldier and how that is romanticized up until he dies, but the text does not treat this as traumatizing.

Now, I’m not going to dive into the trauma he experienced. The purpose of this is only to look at how he’s framed as hysterical in the narrative, and as I stated, hysteria was a word slapped on women after they tried to talk about their trauma or exhibited symptoms (or were just unruly women). Jason does embody many facets of the victim experience and this is just one of them. 

Feelings vs “logic” - Firstly, it is really hard to talk calmly about things that you carry, your experiences, your trauma, and things that specifically harm you. It is easy to talk calmly about things that don’t. This is why there is an abuse tactic of gaslighting or silencing victims by framing their very real reactions to harm or their triggers as abuse, this is known as “reactive abuse.” This tactic is also employed in oppressive settings where the privileged group will often default to ‘winning’ a debate by being able to remain calm while the marginalized group whose life, personhood, etc is being harmed by the things being discussed and are unable to have a sterilized, emotionless debate. 

Both of these settings fit Jason nicely within the moral context of vigilante comics. He fought back, he didn’t lay down, and he will do what he deems as necessary to protect himself and others from his fate. This, however, is framed by Bruce and others as being just as bad as his murderer or even just as bad as Joe fucking Chill. To put this in perspective of a real world equivalent. Combine every billionaire on this planet into one person and instead of their shitty business practices murdering people, they did it with their own two hands. And due to their resources and political power, they would never, ever stop killing or be reasonably contained. More people would die with absolute 100% certainty. Would killing that one person make you equally bad as that person or violating the sanctity of life? That’s the moral question that Bruce puts onto Jason. While the moral question inherent to Jason is actually, is there a line worth crossing to provide reasonable safety (for yourself or the nameless community)? There is actually a difference between those two questions and the reactive abuse framing is certainly a choice. Also, it is funny to me that a man with the amount of power Bruce has (and frequently misuses) can lecture a murder victim on the misuse of power and morality. Are we supposed to be agree with his stoic, philosophical lecturing to a marginalized, abused, murder victim? (yes, we are). Bruce leverages (personal) philosophy against victim’s voice for their own safety, and take a wild guess which one is framed as logical and reasonable.

Jason’s morals come secondary to Bruce’s philosophy in a universe where there is still harm being done (but it’s an acceptable harm). Why is killing the line? Bruce is regularly destroying families and lives by feeding them into the prison industrial complex while supporting it with his whole chest. Or he’s disabling and seriously maiming people with the level of violence he uses. 

Crying - Throughout the entire story of Under the Red Hood, we never once see Bruce emote while interacting with Jason outside of tight grimaces. With the exception of the shock he shows at the Joker’s life being threatened, which... Okay, suuure. We never see him cry during any of their interactions, but we do see Jason cry. Specifically, we see him crying when he’s at his most emotionally vulnerable and physically dangerous to the toxic male power fantasy. This kind of vulnerability is rarely shown by male characters, and when it is, it’s usually done with a mist of a tear in their eyes or their face is hidden. There are a few narrative devices that allow men to cry, but they are the exception rather than the rule. Usually, it’s to play for laughs, infantilize, or emasculate. Here, we see Jason combine the violence of a bad victim, bucking the system of power, and fully crying. Just slide right into that hysterical coding like a glove. Jason often shows his feelings entirely. Time and time again, the readers have seen Jason have breakdowns, cry, and be overcome with grief. This is tied to his portrayal as hysterical and unstable in the narrative, but in actuality it shows his capacity for love and how vastly impactful his death was. 

This fits nicely with the next point that Jason fits into the hysterical box. Love is framed as one of his key faults. A son reaching for his father. 

Love - One of Jason’s defining features is the amount of love and compassion he holds. He’s willing to put up with any treatment, shoulder blame, and sacrifice himself for others to almost an unhealthy degree. However, this doesn’t extend to what he defines as his baseline safety. This one line of safety is the one thing that can’t be crossed, even with all of the love he feels for his father. He desperately wants to feel connection, have a family, and be loved in return with the same unwavering ferocity love that he gives. This is such a fucking key part of the victim experience, especially victims of childhood trauma. The desperation to just be chosen. He’s raw and honest with his reasonable expectation for love to provide safety for him and that is framed as hysterical, needy, unstable, naive, and fucking childish. Victims know what they need to have safety, and this framing as Bruce knowing what’s best for Jason and literally giving a cold shoulder to his needs is disgusting. 

Less than - Jason is portrayed as less powerful than Bruce even though they have similar expertise. There are so many instances of this that if you just open any media they both appear in, you can close your eyes, point, and land on an example. It makes me die laughing every time I remember that the Arkham games made Jason just one inch shorter than Bruce. Like, they can’t even be the same fucking height, that’s the level of insecure masculinity surrounding this relationship. Jason cannot and will never be able to be on par with Bruce because of his hysterical femininity and the power of Bruce being the self insert for the toxic male power fantasy. This power dynamic applies to the other batkids as well, but specifically in Jason’s case there is an element of hysteria. The reasons change because he’s so inconsistently written but usually he can’t surpass or even meet a stalemate with Bruce because he’s too emotional, he’s unstable, traumatized, and simply Bad. It’s even explicitly stated by Alfred in Under the Red Hood. 

Victim blaming - Jason deserved to die because he didn’t follow orders. Jason deserved to die for not following his training. Jason deserved to die because he was an angry Robin (oh no a child had an appropriate reaction to sexual violence). Jason deserved to die for being human.

Infantilization - Jason is repeatedly infantilized in contrast to Bruce. When given the ultimatum at the end of UtRH, Bruce speaks to Jason like a child, or a bad dog. Ordering him to do things like, “enough!” or “stop this now.” Bruce knows what’s best for Jason (and for everyone in the entire world), we should really just take his word for it and not the victim’s. Imagine staring at a 6 foot wall of a man and scolding him like a child. Beyond that, as mentioned above, his views of love and safety are framed as childish. Even though they are actually leaning more toward collectivism rather than the rampant individualism that Bruce so strongly defers to. (also, just a side note, collectivistic methods in healing from trauma is actually the only scientifically reliable way to heal. Every other method has absolutely abysmal results and higher rates of relapses.)

Silenced and Safety Villainized - Jason is silenced in his own story, acceptable and honored when he was dead and met with vitriol in life. All of the love given to him as Robin turns to ash as soon as he collides with Bruce’s power and morals. I think any survivor can relate to the experience of being told that what happened to them was a long time ago and it’s time to move on. Or even that they’re leveraging their own safety to get what they want in a manipulative way. Regardless of whether or not there was any accountability or justice for the harm done to them. Alfred asks Bruce if he should remove Jason’s memorial in the cave like two seconds after learning of his resurrection because Jason’s methods of securing safety for himself and using his own voice to define his story. Bruce was able to tell Jason’s story when he died. He was able to memorialize, grieve, and ultimately define Jason’s story because Jason wasn’t there to speak for himself. When Jason does speak for himself, he is villainized and literally stripped of his past significance as Robin (or a good victim) by Alfred within seconds. This is reflected in real life with adoptee advocates speaking about how adoption is unethical/harmful/traumatizing and subsequently being framed as ungrateful, selfish, etc. They were little perfect victims without voices before they grew up and could speak for themselves.

Erased - Gestures at the entirety of how Jason is either talked about or completely erased during the 90s Tim Robin run. He wasn’t convenient to talk about, as victims rarely are. This also ties into how Steph’s death was erased and Babs was written like she “won” at trauma by simply... beating it??? 

Dangerous - Jason is framed as threatening the basic fabric of society (in a story with vigilantes this is hard to do, so they have him oppose the no-kill rule, and then doubled down on Bruce’s characterization of no-killing). Anything that bucks the status-quo is usually marked as villainous in mainstream vigilante/superhero comics, but this is a step beyond that into the interpersonal and political sphere. Hysterical women are often framed as dangerous, villains, snakes, and treacherous (the other side of this coin is weak, pathetic, and pitiable) because they are victimized and then have the audacity to do something to the system about it. Whether that be the system of their immediate families or the political sphere. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Jason was paired with Talia in Lost Days to hammer this point home to the reader. It could’ve just as easily been anyone with access to the Pit that rescued him, but no, we had DC’s favorite brown, treacherous, venomous, female punching bag. 

Bruce Wayne, The Batman

Bruce fits well into the father, enforcer, and logical man slot in Jason’s hysterical story. There is a history of ownership throughout women’s history when it comes to their subjugation to men. Women actually couldn’t be put on trial before the witchcraft genocide because they weren’t seen as legally a person. Their male owner would be put on trial instead. Women would go from being owned by their fathers to their husbands after entering marriage, the most dangerous woman being one who isn’t owned (orphaned, widowed). Bruce does treat (and even thinks) about Jason like he’s something that he owns. He’s his protege, his son, and his responsibility. 

The narrative function of Bruce as a perpetrator in Jason’s story. 

“The perpetrator asks the bystander (reader) to do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander (reader) to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement and remembering” (Herman). 

Bruce does remember what happened to Jason. He keeps a permanent memorial to his dead son. However, this doesn’t translate into any kind of tangible action. He doesn’t do anything to actually stop the murderer who took his son’s life and he continues to throw child soldiers at the problem of crime (how many children have died for the sake of his no-kill rule at this point?). When met with the reality of his inaction, he fits into the perpetrator’s role like a glove:

“In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. Secrecy and silence are the first line of defense... If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure that no one listens... From the most blatant denial to the most sophisticated and elegant rationalization... One can expect to hear the same predictable apologies: it never happened; the victim exaggerates; the victim brought it upon herself; and in any case it’s time to forget the past and move on. The more powerful the perpetrator, the greater his prerogative to name and define reality, the more completely his arguments prevail” (Herman). 

I think it is simply fact at this point that Bruce is the head patriarch in Gotham if not, arguably, in the entirety of DC. That level of power in the narrative cannot be ignored, especially when faced with the very real, screaming voice of a victim that Bruce uses all of that power to silence. Bruce, because of his status as patriarch, default protagonist, and self-insert for the toxic male power fantasy, has the ultimate power to name and define reality. Especially to the reader. Bruce doesn’t deny what happened to Jason, because that’s physically impossible to do. But what he does do is ensure that no one listens to Jason, discredits him, and rationalizes his own inaction, actions of violence towards Jason, and victim blames.

Here’s Bruce using the most base form of denial and victim blaming:

After this panel, Bruce also revokes Dick’s access to his childhood home simply for asking a question.

This theme extends to other members of the batfam because of Bruce’s narrative power over them. It’s why we can’t have Dick, Steph, Babs, or even Damian step in and relate to Jason’s trauma or vindicate him. Even when we, the readers, can see parallels and wonder why these conversations or bonds aren’t forming. Jason HAS to be a lone wolf because he is hysterical and a threat to the system of power. This also shows why most of his runs in group settings outside of the batfam fall apart or fall flat. If he was humanized by any other character or had his trauma validated in any actionable way, it would be recognizing the failure of the toxic male power fantasy. The readers are not supposed to see the flaw in this system that allows the bodies of children to pile up and sympathize with one of their voices. It would be a crack in the system of power that exists not only in the source material, but very much within our real world.

Side note: Jason is allowed to interact with others in a wholesome and validating way when he no longer threatens the systemic power of Bruce. When he is silenced by the writers and plays the “nice victim” (like Babs does), he is allowed connection. Only when his healing is done in a way that doesn’t demand action and is only his personal responsibility (gotta love the rampant individualism). If he is hysterical, demands action, and asks for someone to be held accountable for his death, he is shoved away into a lone wolf box. Examples: Gotham Knights (from my very basic understanding, I haven’t played the game, only seen play throughs) and WFA. Victims are acceptable if they do their healing in a neat little box and stay there, but hysterics are the ones who step outside of that box.

Red Hood, The Political Voice of Hysteria and Trauma

Red Hood is deeply political in terms of hysteria and trauma. Herman stated that victims and those that authentically care for them or listen to them intently (whether that be interpersonally, clinically, or professionally) are silenced, ostracized, and discredited. Survivors need a social context that supports the victim and that joins the victim and witness in a common alliance. On an interpersonal level this looks like family, friends, and loved ones. However, trauma is systemic and the social context mentioned above must also be given on a wider social scale. For this to be done, there had to be systemic change and political action. Jason had the interpersonal social support and witnesses to his trauma ripped from him by Bruce. So, we see him move onto a systemic level of addressing trauma in his own political way. He literally cannot escape Bruce and this constant trigger because of Bruce’s philosophy and just... fucking power to define reality... being re-enforced constantly in DC no matter where he tries to go. So, he tries to heal by taking the systemic issue of perpetrators who cannot be held accountable or have fallen through the cracks of accountability into his own hands in a very personal way. A one man political movement.

Whether his methods are moral or ethical doesn’t really matter in the overall framing him as hysteric. He simply has to be opposed by the male power fantasy in some significant way. This shows that the goals, needs, and work towards victim’s and the marginalized’s freedom is dangerous, doomed to fail, and ultimately unethical if the victim is framed in a villain light instead of the more pathetic/pitiable iteration of hysteria. 

You can see how this is not only problematic but also reflects the real world values instilled in arguments against human rights movements (which are intrinsically tied to victims rights). Defunding the police is dangerous, the MeToo movement is dangerous, abolition is dangerous, trans rights are dangerous, etc etc etc. Think of the victims voices tied to each of these movements and how they are integral to the real change offered by these political movements. You can’t have human rights violations without creating victims. And you can’t have political movements surrounding human rights without listening to victims.

We can also see how the individuals within these movements are ostracized, villianized, and often silenced (sometimes ultimately silenced with death) because they rally against the systems of power that victimized them. The framing of traumatized, vulnerable people as hysterical is integral to upholding the system of power that traumatizes and harms them.

A popular comic book movie adaptation that highlights the importance of Jason’s hysterical framing and how it impacts the political narrative/how he is written is V for Vendetta. To be fair, it received an insane amount of backlash by conservatives (not within leftist or liberal spaces) for V’s methods in over throwing fascism, but only because of the movie’s release date being so close to 9/11. V and Jason have many parallels, it’s only the lack of hysterical framing that makes V more palatable to the viewer. We are told, not shown through behavior, that V is traumatized by his past and he does not pick a fight with the protagonist that functions as a toxic male power fantasy. He is the protag, with his version of Bruce being men who are not framed in a sympathetic, heroic, or relatable light. 

Additionally, there is literally an unemoting mask standing between the viewer and V, whereas Jason takes off his helmet to allow the reader to see every aspect of his trauma and pain. V readily dehumanizes himself into an idea, rather than a person. Whereas Jason screams to be seen as a person in a very hysterical way. So, we can see how the framing of Jason as hysteric against the logical, heroic man greatly impacts how the audience reads him when contrasted by a very similar political story/character who uses similar (and arguably more violent) methods to meet his ends. (This just made me realize that I would die for a Jason adaptation written by the Wachowski sisters). 

Jason’s work as Red Hood is seeped in leftist, victim, and community centered politics. His portrayal as a hysterical antagonist (at best an anti-hero) is rooted in misogyny and upholding patriarchal, capitalist, and the prison industrial complex systems of power. He is the righteous embodiment of “the personal is political” for victims. Even his Robin run draws attention to and shows correct, angry reactions to the system of patriarchal power in sexual violence.

Patriarchal Writing and Enforcement

Jason is girl-coded and hysterical because he’s supposed to be emasculated, discredited, and disliked by the reader. He serves the narrative function of boosting the toxic male power fantasy of Bruce and in doing so, the writers use one of the oldest tropes in the book (one that we have all subconsciously been taught since birth) to get the reader on their side. Make him a hysterical woman. 

References: for anyone interested in furthering their understanding of any of the concepts mentioned above and to, you know, use sources for my own writing.

Barstow, A. Witchcraze

Bondi, L., Burman. E. Women and Mental Health: A Feminist Review

Freud, S. The Aietology of Hysteria

Gilman, C. P. The Yellow Wallpaper

Herman, J. Trauma and Recovery

Ussher, J. The Madness of Women.

Van der Kolk, B. The Body Keeps the Score

Wilkin, L., Hillock, S. Enhancing MSW Students’ Efficacy in Working with Trauma, Violence, and Oppression: An Integrated Feminist-Trauma Framework for Social Work Education

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[I.D.: A photoset containing four screenshots from the interactive fiction game Airwaves.

Image 1 shows a setting inside a small military tent. A typewriter sits on the left side of the screen. It’s printed message reads, “I. Use the transciever to receive incoming transmission. II. Use the standardized Morse code to interpret and translate any and all messages.” On the right side of the screen is a guide that translates morse code.

Image 2 shows a close up of an object in the game: a pack of cigarettes. The object’s description has a header saying “Da Qian Men.” Its text description says, “Da Qian Men translates to Great Front Door. The ‘Daqianmen’ cigarette label Qian Men is a famous brand in China. The front door or gate is referrnig to the front gate of Beijing, and it has been a miraculous journey for the brand for more than 100 years.”

Image 3 shows a setting inside a type of military building. The typewriter is on the left side of the screen. Its message dates the day as “06/02/1970 0530HRS.” The title of the typewriter’s message says “Today is Lunar New Year” with following text reading, “Spring in Zhenbao Island is just as cold as the winter. I hope my brothers are taking good care of our parents, life has been hard on them.”

Image 4 shows a setting inside a home. Red decorations hang in the room and the typewriter is on the right side of the screen. Its message reads, “1. The right of the working class must be protected and supported by all. 2. All personal must keep and guard their post and cannot change post on their own.”

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Airwaves is a visual novel about deciphering codes as a radio operator. Set in a fictional contempoary China, translate morse code and cryptic messages to witness 4 short stories about generational trauma. With each story spanning across the different political generations of time, witness the perseverance experienced by marginalized people living in rural China.

For free on Windows and Mac.

Developed by Michael Luo, a Chinese developer who makes short games about his culture and identity. His works are inspired by diaspora experiences, hallucinations, vulgarity, crudeness, roughness, and anything else that undermines the status quo.

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"Sun and Rain Part 2: Age of the Empire"

Chapters

For anyone interested in reading part 2 of my "Bad Batch" Hunter x fem OC fanfic, I will have the links to each chapter posted here and will update this post when each chapter is uploaded in case anyone misses them. Part 2 will most likely follow just season 1 of "The Bad Batch" show.

(Art used in the header is a commission from lightspringrain)

If you haven't read all or any of the previous "Sun and Rain" chapters from part 1, you can find the part 1 masterlist here.

Here are the chapters posted so far:

Chapter 1 ~ "One More Mission"

Chapter 2 ~ "Order 66"

Chapter 3 ~ "Aftermath"

Chapter 4 ~ "Live Rounds and Insurgents"

Chapter 5 ~ "Ultimatums"

Chapter 6 ~ "On the Run"

Chapter 7 ~ "Far Away"

Chapter 8 ~ "The Chain Code Escape"

Chapter 9 ~ "A Night of Promises"

Chapter 10 ~ "The Crash"

Chapter 11 ~ "Shocks on Pantora"

Chapter 12 ~ "Both Teams Out"

Chapter 13 ~ "The One That Got Away"

Chapter 14 ~ "Trust Issues"

Chapter 15 ~ "You've got this"

Chapter 16 ~ "Circuitry and Assets"

Chapter 17 ~ "The Balmorra Mission"

Chapter 18 ~ "The Doctor"

Chapter 19 ~ "Invitations and Scars"

Chapter 20 ~ "Feelings"

Chapter 21 ~ "Discomfort and Doubt"

Chapter 22 ~ "The Imperial Masquerade Gala"

Chapter 23 ~ "Mob Funnel"

Chapter 24 ~ "A Captain's Return"

Chapter 25 ~ "Final Moments"

Chapter 26 ~ "One Last Day"

Chapter 27 ~ "Bracca"

Chapter 28 ~ "Fear and Understanding"

Chapter 29 ~ "All Too Easy"

Chapter 30 ~ "A Tense Rescue"

Chapter 31 ~ "The Koriena Way"

Chapter 32 ~ "The Gamble"

Chapter 33 ~ "Ryloth"

Chapter 34 ~ "Eyes of Pain"

Chapter 35 ~ "Intelligence and Spice"

Chapter 36 ~ "Your Own Person"

Chapter 37 ~ "Recovering a Reg"

Chapter 38 ~ "Jump"

Chapter 39 ~ "Hard Hits"

Chapter 40 ~ "Traumas of the Past"

Chapter 41 ~ "Special Surprises"

Chapter 42 ~ "Taken"

Chapter 43 ~ "A Kidnapper's Demands"

Chapter 44 ~ "Deadlock"

Chapter 45 ~ "Second Chance at Life"

"Sun and Rain Part 3: A New War"

My Art (Part 2)

Father and Son

One Last Day

Kimber and Omega

Scars

Favorite Color

Goodbye

My Girl

Mother and Son

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