when u go to write a mentally ill person in ur story you are presented two options. the first option is to write your mental illness realistically as you actually experience it with all the ups and downs and people who are like you will resonate with it and feel seen. except every person who reads instagram infographics on mental health that uses the phrase narcicisst for anyone who does anything that crosses them and unironically call themself a dark empath will call you scary and tell you that youre demonizing mentally ill people
the second option is to lie and write inspiration porn for those people to get hard to
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the true girlhood experience (fighting the urge to fall to your knees in the middle of a grocery shopping aisle because of a sudden wave of grief that hit you out of nowhere)
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I painted over my Halsin portrait with his hair down for science and
oh my fucking god
somebody call me an ambulance
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[Astarion] is a cat. He's a black cat. There's a stray that comes into my house called Red... and he's quite feral. It took me three years before I could pick him up and hold him. He's totally cool with me now. Three fucking years. He gave me a lot of inspiration about Astarion.
- Neil Newbon, on developing Astarion's physicality and mannerisms
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play potions with your followers, but watch out..
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Iโm really enamored with the dynamic of two characters who work perfectly in tandem, like pacific rim drift compatible level, but they donโt like each other. Itโs not even as strong an emotion as hate itโs just a very neutral-negative dislike, but they still act in perfect concert and their individual abilities are fully complementary
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