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writeouswriter · 14 days

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*banging fists on table* more mentally ill characters in stories that aren't just about them being mentally ill! More mentally ill characters in sci-fi, in fantasy, in romance and fun and high stakes situations and everything in between, as the heroes, as complex individuals, multifaceted and treated with respect, not having their needs and differences ignored or skirted around but, again, not having them be their only trait or plot point/entire premise! Please, I'm begging, on my hands and knees, there's a place for these topics and characters in realistic, reflective and literary fiction, yeah, but there's also a place in those magical, mystical, action packed, mysterious and alien worlds, give them to ME

#books #mental illness #mentally ill characters #writing #writeblr #not so much a problem with writers here but in books and such in general it's an impossible search #because you try and look up books with mentally ill protags and it's giving you either 1. the worst horror rep you've seen in your life #2. secondhand inspiration or pity p*rn #3. just irl biographical or realistic literary fiction which is not what i'm looking for at the present #4. either complete hollow cardboard tokenism or just barely true hc or etc.#&god forbid you try to find a character with psych*sis w/o it giving you killers or big plot twists where it was in their head all along 😑#like i just i want a funky scientist studying aliens who happens to be b*polar #i want a fantasy adventurer or ghost hunter or etc who happens to be sch*zospec is that so much to ask 😔#bizarrely hard to find male protags in this category as well? if you do have recs for scientists in fiction like this hmu 👀#anyway and yeah yeah yeah write what you want to read I'M TRYING #i have all these guys i have this funky scientist but i have the illnesses™️ as well such is the world #so i want something to read or see like... now

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pcm-vandermeer · 1 month

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FBTM + tumblr text posts (2/?) feat. Chief!

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eldritch eye -> iantalmacs on unsplash Christopher -> lukejonesdesign on unsplash Gyth -> jacksondavid on unsplash husky Chief -> andreacapiello2 on unsplash

#self publishing #authors of tumblr #writers of tumblr #lgbt fiction #queer characters #poc characters #mentally ill characters #monsterfucker #monsterfucking #monster x human #monster x reader #eldritch romance #far beyond the moon #fbtm #tumblr text posts

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thelesbstrosity · 1 year

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Rewatching Arcane and I forgot how good the disability and mental health representation is in this show. It doesn’t romanticize or demonize them. The show doesn’t dehumanize or infantilize it’s characters. Arcane shows characters with disabilities and mental health conditions who aren’t weaker for it. It doesn’t take away from their goals or actions. It a show where people have advanced technology and access to magic, but it doesn’t use those things to magically make real medical issues go away. They also clearly put a lot of time and effort into making the portrayal of the symptoms and conditions feel as accurate as possible.

Is it without flaws? Not at all. It of course is still worthy of criticism in some aspects, and there are likely places they may have been able to do better in. However, it is still one of the best representations I’ve seen on screen to date.

As a disabled person and as someone with several of the mental health issues and conditions we see coded in these characters, I feel represented and seen. It made me feel like I can exist without being demonized or dehumanized. Like I could just be understood.

#arcane #disabled characters #mentally ill characters #representation #i feel so seen #This show helped me feel more validated

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luckynightkryptonite · 1 year

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The "Whitman Fever" .

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lary-the-lizard · 1 year

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Do I ship it? No. Do I love their dynamic? Yes! Do I still love their dynamic when sex and/or obsession is added to the dynamic? Yes! Do I think it’s healthy and loving and good? No! Please don’t do it, you will suffer

#toxic ship #fandom culture #fucked up blorbos #mentally ill characters

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under-my-pillow · 2 years

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I noticed there are not many remarks about Chu Ci of the Lantern and Po Yun written by Huai Shang, so I wanted to leave this for him.

While re-reading Po Yun I was reminded of Chu Ci's story (Lantern: Behold the Bayonet) and how I thought the ending was happy.

I weirdly feel guilty.

Rethinking it, it's rather sad and frightening that Chu Ci ended up with Han Yue. No matter how the author spins a bow with a happy wrapper, the ending was rather chilling.

I get that this abuser to lover and this disturbingly performed (I'm a better man now) is a common setting, and the author was probably trying to cater in that direction, but I don't think any of the novels of the same trope frightened me like Behold the Bayonet did.

Some say Han Yue detained, mentally and physically abused and raped Chu Ci because he truly loved him. Just his default love setting is violent

And that Chu Ci did not kill Han Yue because he at some point had come to have feelings for him.

No, I think Han Yue lived only because of Chu Ci's moral compass. He believed Han Yue didn't deserve death. And by the time Chu Ci chopped up the elder Han son as retribution to what happened to his family, there had already been a significant deterioration to his sanity.

He was suicidal, a mess of guilt, regret, conflicting with the satisfaction of literally dicing the older asshole and the dissatisfaction of not being able to do more triggering the guilt of having used his father's sacred teachings for something like this.

What's even painful is how we see that Chu Ci is alone, and how several times throughout the story we see characters imply or even directly say 'Just give in. You're actually lucky... Or you don't know how lucky you are.'

The author's attempt at making Han Yue decent by the end and showing Chu Ci live well is frightening, because by the end of it all I am questioning is if he is indeed happy or if the continuous dismissal of his plight, the overwhelming degree of disregard shown by the people around him when Han Yue abuses him has finally buckled him mentally.

I don't think anyone in the story has truly told him this genuinely caring for his wellbeing. So I am leaving this...

Chu Ci, you deserve better. You of all people truly deserve the best.

Everyone in this world deserves way better than someone like Han Yue.

#Chu Ci #Lantern: Behold the Bayonet #Po Yun #breaking through the clouds #deserves better #stockholm syndrome #mentally ill characters #Really dont think its a happy ending

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ichangedmyusernameandthiswasopen · 2 years

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Character: *Is visibly mentally ill, disheveled, pathetic but can also definitely kill you*

Simps everywhere: 😋💗🤩💓😘💞💘🤩😋😘💘💞😍💘💞😍😍💗💗💗💘😘🤩😋😍😋🥰💞💗🤩💗😘😋🤩💗💞💗🤩😘💘😘💘🤩💓🥰💓😘😋😍💗😍

#fandom #simps #characters #simping #Blorbos #comfort characters #I don't blame y'all #it's so easy to just go feral for that #Mentally ill characters #feral characters

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dysfunctionaldogdude · 5 months

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Can't sleep haven't posted in a bit either

So some two boyfriends here. (Not GO like I usually am is)

Click for better image quality (excuse my shitty finger letters)

^This is Icarus "Ick" [He/They], who's a rags to riches character by killing his monopolizing grandma (His late father's mom) who did nothing to help his mom to raise him and his brother 😃👍 (His mom died when he was 12 from overwork since she worked 4 jobs.)

^This is Jules "Julie" [He/Him], who has raging BPD and was abused by his father since he was 9. Which led him to become a serial killer who's known as The One Eyed Weaper because of his mask (not shown). He's also half blind and covered in scars, showing his father's abuse. 🫠

Anyways, a bit of my characters from my "A Collection of the Clincally Insane" series. I'll do Happy and Vysion next

#A Collection of the Clincally Insane #one murdered the other's ex so they could be together #Icarus is so silly like that #They are so fucking gay #oc artwork #oc art tag #my art #oc art #circle head #cartoon #oc #original character #original art #mentally ill characters #serial killer oc #rags to riches #murderer #queer characters

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homeiswherethe-artis · 10 months

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Do you want to help me write a chapter?

Hello!! I’m writing a book that will include scenes inside a mental hospital/psych ward, I have no personal experiences with such places and would like to depict them and the people within them as well as I can. So with the help of you and this handy google form, you could tell me your personal experience with psych wards completely anonymously! Please answer the questions with as much detail as you are comfortable with, just whatever you may think help :) thank you so much to anyone who participates!! If you would like to learn a little more about the book, it’s in my pinned post :3 (the haunting of miss Caroline Marsden) Google Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7Re98TVWxKh3XTZX5obuF8OZBID3ztSw9RIDsrOhJysoqwA/viewform?usp=sf_link

#writer #help me write #psych ward #psych ward stories #google form #mental hospital #mental illness #bpd #mentally ill characters #how am I meant to tag this #beginner writer #idk if this is good

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noriartz · 6 months

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There's no shame in having meltdowns! It sucks by itself already!

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abyss-boys · 1 year

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Romance

The main system has In Memory Of Us to work on, but it’s hard to communicate between main and subsystem about what projects we’re working on. For us, the subsystem, we are working on a currently nameless romance story about mental health and learning to love healthily beyond illnesses. Here is the opening portion:

“I can’t love you!”

Those words sunk their teeth into my fragile flesh and tore an ugly hole in my chest.

“I can’t love anyone like you.”

Her words were made of mud, slathered across my image.

“Like me?” I scoffed. “Like me?”

She spared me no details. To love me was to love a stone wall, a scarecrow, a worm. To love me was to tear your own chest open and bleed for someone who doesn’t care. To love me was to hate yourself.

I, she said, am unlovable.

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pcm-vandermeer · 7 days

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FBTM + tumblr text posts (5/?): Christopher Edition

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close-up -> lukejonesdesign on unsplash sunset -> renan_angelo on unsplash pensive -> mafonso on unsplash scream -> pabloarenas on unsplash

#self publishing #authors of tumblr #writers of tumblr #indie author #lgbt fiction #queer characters #mentally ill characters #paranormal romance #writeblr #booklr #monsterfucker #monsterfucking #monster x human #monster x reader #eldritch romance #far beyond the moon #fbtm #tumblr text posts

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clouvu · 5 months

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Offering lil doodles of them bc my eyes have been opened

#genshin impact #furina #clorinde #furinde #furina's character story 5 and her voicelines about clorinde has left me so mentally ill in the head #THE WAY FURINA FELT THAT SHE WAS NO LONGER WANTED AND ALMOST IMMEDIATELY CLORINDE POPPED UP TO INVITE HER TO A LIL GATHERING AMONG FRIENDS #NOT TO MENTION THAT CLORINDE IMMEDIATELY OFFERED TO PAY FOR HER TO HAVE BETTER LIVING CONDITIONS #EVEN WHEN DECLINED SHE STILL HELPED FURINA TIDY UP HER NEW APARTMENT BEFORE THEY WENT OUT FOR DRINKS TOGETHER #the way clorinde was no longer bound to any sort of contract but still went to visit furina and help her out of her own volition is so?????#AND the fact that little miss stonefaced 24/7 clorinde actually SMILED at furina???? chewing on aluminum foil #oughhhh they scratch at my brain so nicely #ALSO!! ALSO!! THE LONGING IN FURINA'S VOICE WHEN SHE SAYS HOW MUCH SHE TRUSTS CLORINDE AND MISSES HER IS SO!!!!!!!!!#crawling on the walls and howling as we speak #4.2 had made me already so deranged about furina to the point where she shot up from being just a funky lil guy to straight hyperfixation #I just thinjk;;;;;;; she deserves to be happy for once in her life (and have her lil emotional support bodyguard gf w/ her to smooch)

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subcon--forest · 14 days

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Bitches will be like "I want more morally gray characters!" then they cant handle Five Pebbles and either write him off as an irreemable monsterous villian or as a baby whos dumb and doesn't know anything and thus cant do anything wrong because he was a kid

#shoutout to the person who commented on my post about how the community hates mentally ill characters/people #saying i was trying to gain the 'moral high ground'#and said 'when did it say he was mentally ill. I don't remember that'#or something similar #dude. its stated multiple times #its implied too #do you have any reading comprehension whatsoever #did you even play the fucking game. did you get your lore from shitposts #rain world #five pebbles #delete later

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sixoclockuty · 7 days

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the nuances of being alive when you aren’t meant to be

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ilovelosermen69 · 8 months

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My emotional attachment to fictional men that kill people is insane.

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