#me and bia and some anons were talking about percy drinking bad alcohol and dancing to funk recently so. it's not like i haven't done it!!

[lizzibennet]

me: the normalization of drug/alcohol usage among young teenagers is alarming. i know it's not impossible for people to have fun safely and responsibly, but the fact stands that it's a dangerous, delicate matter. as someone who's had to go to therapy for substance abuse, i don't know if i necessarily feel comfortable with the normalization of headcanons where young characters drink and/or use drugs. i know young people do these things, and i'm not saying it's inherently wrong or bad to have these headcanons, it's just something that makes me uncomfortable when it's too normalized in real life too, so when it trickles down into fandom matters it's bothersome as well.

also me: percy and annabeth smoke weed bc i'm projecting and would love to smoke weed w/ them

#drug ment / #alcohol ment / #this was in my drafts for a while and i felt like posting it cause i saw some of these again #this isn't coming for anyone btw i just saw posts in my dash from more than one person but i honestly don't remember who it was #as i said this is something that bothers me in real life. it's not anyone in here's fault so please don't feel as though im attacking u #me and bia and some anons were talking about percy drinking bad alcohol and dancing to funk recently so. it's not like i haven't done it!! #i never want to talk about this bc i don't want to sound like. hmm not sure how to say it in english #but as a boring old lady who thinks all drinking and drug usage is Reprehensible and Bad and Disgusting #im not judging people who do those things bc its me. im people lol #just. as someone who got into college at 17 and moved to a college town i see now how normalized it was to get absolutely fuckin shit faced #and people my age (im 20) talk SO much about drugs and alcohol abuse on twitter and like. i see it i still frequent the same social circle #even tho im not in college anymore so like i see the amount of honestlu unhealthy behavior that goes on in these circles #and no one says anything bc its cool and hip #and like i said i went to therapy for alcohol abuse and honest to god my view on all of it changed so much #that said again i dont think it's BAD that people do these things #i just don't think it's inherently cool and okay and everybody should accept it #it took someone sitting me down and being like look love you have a problem for me to see that yes i did have a problem #and the problem wasn't the drinking itself; it was the abuse of it #so much so i still drink... just now it's responsibly and i see this normalization of being high or drunk for days and it's just #it's odd it's what im saying #it's not bad it's just. weird #so im here to be the person u may find annoying or boring but just. maybe question the status quo on Recreation where u live #that was a tag rant i had things to say ok goodbye