#no I don't feel fucking represented

[ph-cutie]

i really like how martinaise seems to be weird guy with longish hair Central

#sorry for reposting i forgot to maintag this firsttime around #disco elysium #5th is garte i don't have all his assets 💔 #fuck is there as representative of both piss and fuck #harry du bois #i don't feel like tagging the rest

[passerines]

really quick thing but i had to get it out immediately once i thought about it

Edit 05/26/2023: thank you to @princess-of-purple-prose for assistance writing the following image ID!

[Image ID: Digital fanart of Vash from Trigun Maximum. Vash is depicted in profile. He is kneeling with his face pressed to the ground, his hands braced on either side of his head in a pose reminiscent of prayer or prostration. He is sobbing. The background is white with a gray cross. Excerpts of text float through the background, with the last three lines surrounding Vash. They read:

If you are Gilgamesh and did those things, why Are you so emaciated and your face half-crazed?

I have grieved! Is it so impossible To believe? he pleaded. My friend who went through everything with me Is dead!

No one grieves that much, she said. Your friend is gone. Forget him. No one remembers him. He is dead.

Enkidu. Enkidu. Gilgamesh called out: Help me. They do not know you As I know you. End Image ID.]

#if you know shit about gilgamesh don't read into it tbqh it's just because this quote makes me go crazyyy. i am not doing it justice #text is from tumblr user ribombeee's post of the herbert mason version of gilgamesh #trigun #trigun maximum #trigun maximum spoilers #vashwood #vash the stampede #passart #to be absolutely clear the cross is just meant to represent ww. i'm not like. proselytizing. #also i was trying to hit somewhere like praying -> dogeza -> distraught but idk if that scans :/ #edit: what the FUCK i literally JUST FINISHED TRIMAX and this doesnt even beginnnnnn to cover how crazy i feel about all that!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #i thought??? it wouldnt get worse than 64 itself?? but the next 30 chapters just twisted the knife HE WAS THERE HE WAS ALWAYS THERE?? #(SCREAM)

[dimension-20-every-introduction]

Everyone Introduced in Dimension 20′s Mentopolis episode 6 (finale)

#dimension 20 #dimension 20 spoilers #d20 introductions #mentopolis #mentopolis spoilers #d20 mentopolis #HOT DAMN............. what a season #that was unbelievably goofy and looney toons level silly but like. what a fun ride #i feel like the kids on bikes system really opens the door for a lot of those moments from what i've seen it's so great #also having a secret narrative stat that uses the fucking d100 as the die roll was like VERY silly but also like. #it has me going a little bit insane about like ways that could be used in like other genres or things or whatever #like god damn that's a good way to represent some aspect of character that is just so impossibly strong that like...... #when they tap into that they just cannot fail #which kinda sucks in terms of balancing for gameplay but like god damn‚ narratively? #and like restricting it so that stat only sort of becomes awakened or usable when that sort of deeply rooted personal growth comes into pla #this might be kind of a weird stretch but like.... the crests from the og digimon adventure? #like if they managed to tap into those aspects of themselves and their crests glow‚ that's their d100 stat‚ their crests #and all sorts of astronomically powerful shit could sort of come about from them acting within their strongest parts of themselves in turn #i don't know. maybe i'm just too digimon brained maybe i'm just a little too hooked on that digimon ttrpg show that uses kids on bikes too #but like...................................... fuck. #i don't know‚ it could be something! #anyways i really enjoyed these sort of lightly animated scenes of the real world that elias hodge got to star in as the pov #very VERY fun how they played across the dome in game too #also oh my godddddd anastasia and fawnbrooke......... bro i'm gay #was this season sillier than fantasy high? or escape from the bloodkeep? probably #like the lore and worldbuilding was unabashedly bonkers due to it all existing in the mental manifestation of the human brain #and VERY funny at that #probably the silliest d20's ever been! but i loved it #alright‚ guess that's it for this one #see y'all next season!!

[cloudburst-ink]

🌈 Free the gays from weird heteronormative top/bottom discourse 2k24!!! 🖤 (And by extension, the dom/sub associations that go with it!! Which are also a completely separate though sometimes overlapping concept!!!)

Write your violent angry murder blorbo getting railed!! Make that sweet shy angel baby a top! Make them both verse and throw the concept out altogether because it’s inherently a bit silly to start with!! ✨ And your personality in the rest of your life often has nothing to do with your bedroom preferences anyway! ✨

Or don’t! Do whatever you want because it’s fanfiction! 🥰✨ Write them with whatever dynamics or lack thereof that you want—that’s the point! And no one can tell you what is and isn’t okay to write in your own fics!! 🎊 They're fictional characters, have fun!!!!!

Happy new year fellow fandom gays!!! Go wild!

#sincerely #a real life gay who has been repeatedly mislabeled #by people who will never be in the bedroom with me to find out anyway 😌 #and who enjoys representing these kinds of internal dichotomies in my own writing #maybe my violent anger blorbo just wants someone to take care of HIM for once #maybe he wants nothing more than to be fragile and soft and never could be before now #maybe he wants someone to pin him down and fuck him silly and fuzz out his constantly over-vigilant brain #MAYBE HE JUST LIKES TAKING IT UP THE ASS #there are any number of wonderful and fun and awesome reasons #to explore unexpected dynamics in smut fics #and i encourage everyone who wants to to pursue those desires without shame!! #and without fear!! #maybe my sweet soft baby boy blorbo just wants to make his partner feel good and relax for once #maybe he loves so deeply that he can only express it through teeth and ropes #maybe he just finds the fantasy of control super sexy in a world where he otherwise has none #embrace your wildest most “ooc” smut dreams!!!! #because your fanfics are first and foremost for YOU #and don't let anyone else's opinions influence you otherwise 🖤

[rocketbirdie]

i would love to enjoy everything that stardew valley has to offer but unfortunately i approach this game the same way i approach real life: avoid all social interaction and tend to my garden in belligerent silence

#people posting screenshots of their stardew valley spouses and i'm just sitting here like. #y'all have time for relationships in this game?? wtf #i feel every second of every day ticking by. and i must dedicate each and every moment to my beloved potato field. #but seriously it's lowkey distressing. like. goddammit what do you MEAN the autism still happens in-game. #HOW am i supposed to know what gifts to give? WHY do my friendships decay so fucking fast just because we haven't talked in like. two days?? #WHERE are players finding time in their days to interact with the npcs????????? #i can't relate to any of the npcs anyway! nobody shares my unhealthy obsession with agricultural economics!! i literally don't get it. #listen i know there's a wiki but #the problem is that the wiki only applies to stardew valley and not to real life. and i need a cheat sheet for real life. #don't even get me started on the multitasking hell that this game represents. goddang feels like a 50 hour work week playing this game #[I LOVE IT] #ok rant over back to your regularly scheduled pathetic rpg twunks

[izzyspussy]

i think a lot of people have never been in a truly desperate situation but think they have, and this causes them to pass really harsh judgment on people who made bad choices when either irrational or having no good choices to pick instead, and i really wish people could get some fucking self-perception and work on their compassion skills and not fucking do that as much anymore

#jack facts #people be banging on about empathy this empathy that #and like sure maybe people have a measurable capacity for it but i can tell you what #that sure as fuck don't mean any fucking one of them ever bothers to make use of it when it matters lol #and i mean on the other hand it's hard to conceptualize how you would feel going through something you've never experienced before #i just wish people would be AWARE of the fact they don't know! #or like that there's a difference between ''i can't afford anything but instant ramen'' and ''i can't get any food or water'' #or a difference between being freaked out by spiders and having clinical arachnophobia #or a difference between ''my loved one is sick and i'm really worried about them'' and ''my loved one is dying in front of me'' #etc etc etc etc etc #anyway the longer i live the more i'm convinced that empathy is a garbage concept #and actually a more reliable way to act with true compassion is through at least some capacity for relative objectivity #the ability to say ''i don't know how that feels and i cannot understand it through comparison'' and to be able AND WILLING #to take people's self reports on their feelings thought processes or lackthereof in good faith and with sympathy #and also the ability to acknowledge that doing a bad thing for good reasons does not negate the bad thing being bad #but also should and does change what consequences are appropriate and/or most effective #and also like............... things people do in desperation or other irrational states do not represent Who They Are As A Person #or what it's like to hang out with them in a day to day situation #another thing i keep getting more and more aware of is like. if y'all can't even handle an irrational or impulsive choice that does harm #done by an otherwise ''good'' person under short term desperate situations #that they then do their best to reduce the harm of after the situation is over #i can not even imagine how absolutely unforgiving you must be of anyone who has delusions #and i mean real delusions and real psychosis not the hyperbolic babytalk version lol #like i don't think most of you even know what the fuck a delusion even is the way you act about things as simple & straightforward as like #fear. hunger. pain. #absolutely fucking exhausting

[shayberri789]

Fun thing about sexuality is you're allowed to examine and puzzle over your identity for ages and eventually just go "fuck it" and sticking with a slightly vaguer label

#doesnt need to be specific #im aroace but what are the nuances #if I were allo would i be bi? straight? gay? #am i partial to a particular gender? is this aesthetic attraction or romantic? whats going on? #i dont know and I'm too tired of questioning #fuck it im aroace and leaving it at that #i don't need to go any more specific than that #which is what i imagine the beauty of the word queer is for other people #it works for me too #side tangent i like the word queer as an inclusive for me personally #bc lgbtqa+ is on one hand long to type and say but feels more like an organisation #labelling everyone in a neat row whos in or out and then the + says yep weve got more but theyre in the back row #whereas queer feels like community #one big party and everyone has a different identity (im including genderqueer in this) and who is what is not as important #as the fact that we are all in here together #no one is more or less represented or important and being specific is not necessary #i like it #shay posts #queer #lgbt #lgbtq community #lgbtqa+ #terfs DONT interact i will block you #aromantic #asexual #aromantic asexual #aroace #gay #lesbian #transgender

[widowshill]

65 / 62 / 71

#lela swift understands something fundamental about my psychological condition. which is to say. age gap fucked up couples on the stairs. #love is contained in the convo across the banister where i tell you to leave my house <3 muah. #burke/liz tag #➤ roger collins & victoria winters. ┊ pain sometimes precedes pleasure，miss winters. #compilation tag #okay. a) #the parallels between vicki and burke as the dark-headed poor kid that finds themself subject to collinses & Collins-ness & everything that #it represents. vicki who follows in his footsteps as imprisoned – endangered – almost *ran over* for the sake of the family. #who; perhaps despite their better judgment; *do* enjoy the charm; the noblesse oblige; the aura of... #call it doom. around the collins siblings. #(and as we know. ''devlin has a tremendous range.'' in terms of torch-carrying) #but the romance isn't precisely my point even if i'm more than willing to believe in b/e and r/v #but an older collins – one who is perhaps not directly involved in their ruination but a participant in it. #b) #while i was looking at the scene of burke on the stairs i was struck by a feeling of ''hey you shouldn't be up there'' #and immediately was like. no let's unpack that. #the stairs are one of the most-traveled parts of the scenography other than perhaps the drawing room window or the sofa BUT it's excluded #to the in-group – the family; their intimates. you don't (or shouldn't) be ascending the stairs as a stranger; an enemy. #because it traverses the boundary between the public and the private – where the drawing room is already host to secrets; #to scandal; to a type of metaphorical undressing; #the upstairs is a different realm entirely. upstairs is bedrooms; bathrooms; the tower room. sleep – intimacy – privacy – death. #burke is already trespassing in enemy territory by being in the foyer – to go on or up the stairs peels back another layer of skin. #(and worth noting that liz successfully stops him from doing so) #there's so many good r/v scenes that involve the stairs precisely because it represents that boundary between the intimate and public; #between the idea of the house as a home and house as monument. #... which is a key contention between both b&e and r&v. burke who wants collinwood as conqueror wants the castle; a monument to victory. #elizabeth who sees collinwood as her home – as the place of her childhood – as the bricks and blood of her ancestors. #vicki who is desperate to find her home there past and present. roger who sees it as monument to collins misery – #to ancestors that look down on him with undisguised hatred – to his own inadequacy – to imprisonment – to the tomb.

[just-aro]

y'all have no idea how much effort goes into trying to interpret and respond to some of the questions we get about aromanticism lol.

like kee does so much tonal phrasing to be nice about this, but. please. "what is aromantic?" i am not google. "i don't know if i feel romantic attraction." cool, i'm not gonna be able to tell you what it feels like either. "hi, what if I am a person and not one of the major aro stereotypes?" then you are a person who is aro and doesn't fit that stereotype.

and like, whatever, we deal with those fine. but the worst. the absolute worst. is the ones where the ask is more or less requesting me to speak for aromantic people as a whole, or - worse and more commonly - a specific subset of aro people who i may not identify with, and almost always insist they aren't trying to be bad, but have such a questionable mindset behind it that i feel like i need to start with "how to identify that you haven't unlearned shit, you just realized you have an identity and stuck your tongue out at the people who taught you that shit"

#aro #aromantic #actually aro #actually aromantic #i am trying. so hard. to answer things nicely #but also i am not google i am not representing every aro person and sometimes... you should research something #sometimes. if you listen to the group you have questions about and research questions via searches or asking for simple resources. #you will find out information without our system struggling with feeling obligated to respond nicely because we know the avg user is young #and we want to model that asking questions is good and that you can kindly say 'i'm not part of this group but here's what they've said' #and things like that #but. sometimes i get asks that make me want to delete aro-culture-is or archive it and just never open it again #and they're not even the bigots or anything #it's just that we're plural but one disabled body #and it's fucking exhausting. #but also we don't really want to go through the process of vetting new mods or anything like that #it sounds exhausting and frankly we've had enough experiences while running that blog to know #that people will find a way to be terrible and demanding #oh this is alexander btw #if you see salty takes it's probs me. protective fuckery is phoenix or axel tho #just... like bro please. please consider that i'm not hear to guide you through the baby steps of realizing you aren't actually #the anti-fascist rebel you think you are ur just queer and online. i am here because i wanted a space for aro people to be silly. #and everyone looked at my silly 'haha this is meant to be claiming silly things like games as ours' page #and was like 'oh! time to seriously discuss every experience of aromanticism i have :)' #but especially the ones against the rules :)

[hamofjustice]

it's nice that we're getting anything i guess, but, i'm gonna be what may come off as a little petty and whiny here; it'd be cool if either iteration of the gen 9 anime so far was actually about gen 9's characters instead of using them as cameos to promote original stories we have no investment in yet

it's like, i dunno, like the bait and switch with sonic appearing in wreck it ralph ads, except if wreck it ralph existing meant there would never be a sonic movie, and if you were invested in those characters and recognized they weren't generic platformer mascots, sucks for you, nobody cares

maybe they're just giving the DLC space to do its thing with them first (if they do anything at all...) but idk, i was cautiously optimistic about nemona in horizons, only for her to be a character of the day that the episode wasn't about, and pretty excited by "gen 9 prequel anime" only to find out it's going to be like, four short stories about OCs who have quick brushes with them. these are like the lacroix hint of what an anime about the game could've been like and you're left to imagine the rest yourself

i shouldn't be that surprised if the gen 8 anime reduced hero of galar hop to a character of the day with a level 5 wooloo in order to let the galaxy revolve around ash battling his brother because epic charizards, but man. what if it wasn't like that that now that ash is gone.

we haven't seen penny and team star at all because they're the hardest to talk about without bringing up the trauma of school bullying and the fear of being yourself at school when you're way too young to be dealing with all that drama responsibly. she's still learning to love and forgive herself and feel wanted.

arven's story is about, like, being a latchkey kid to a self-absorbed parent, being unsure how to feel about repairing the relationship or how seriously to take them saying they love him, and struggling to make friends due to misdirected resentment toward people he's jealous of for having apparently normal families and the stubborn self-reliance he was forced into. he's still trying to process things, find himself, and let people in.

nemona is supposed to have been a directionless lonely and depressed kid who hated being called gifted when everything was hard for her, until she met the player character and gained a peer who understood and appreciated she was a little different and she didn't have to mask her true self to have friends anymore. she's happy for now, but may still be under a little too much pressure to be perfect at the expense of her own personality, and probably won't deal well with being abandoned.

as much as they resonate with adults and are a little darker than usual pokemon fare, they're also smaller scale and realer. they are all stories that are explicitly about and meant to be relatable to kids going to school! y'know, your audience! you don't need to paint over them with 3-4 new characters and new stories every time like there was nothing there, or something shameful you need to sanitize and cover up! you can just use the game the way it is!

this got a little more heated than i intended, i just feel a little ridiculous waiting anxiously for loose scraps of a sign that this story isn't over and in the trash already and nemona's life-changing attachment to the player character isn't going to go totally ignored, as we are bombarded with what is supposed to be followup material that almost all seems eager to talk about literally anything else like they think the main story was a mistake they need to run away from

now, i'm not one to complain about original stories being told, but this was already a story that had room to grow. imagine a world where the gen 9 anime was actually about nemona, arven, penny, and the friend who brought them together. or what their lives were like before that friend came along. every episode. that would get me to watch the anime again and whatever movie came out for it. ask yourself why we don't have that, or even the traditional, like, 1-2 characters tagging along with the MCs per region thing that would leave us knowing them better than we know some irl friends

how was starting over with 100% original characters and new lore that might conflict hard with the upcoming DLC the safer bet? why is a 44 minute miniseries specifically for fans of the game making up OCs for them to get invested in and scrambling to tell their stories as quickly as possible before throwing them in the trash instead of being about the damn game?

sigh. i shouldn't get invested in a series that's about selling monster plushies just because it had one story that stuck with me

#paldean winds seems to mostly be making fun of the infodumping fat pokemon nerd character until he gets his own episode #y'know. the one that represents a lot of their viewers #while nemona is right there outside the window hyping up little kids about battles as usual because they don't hate her like her peers #honestly her overhearing the conversation and looking a little uncomfortable about it would've been a good touch #confirmation that the subtext i noticed is actually considered part of the canon and not a happy accident they'll never talk about again #something i have only gotten from pokemon masters so far #pokemon sv #pokemon #nemonaposting #pokemon scarvi #pokemon scarlet and violet #yada yada ten million other tags #'well at least there's the manga' the manga that inserted its own wacky main character that will probably also revolve around him #idk that one could still be good but it's also an AU and not the versions of the characters i'm invested in if that makes sense #i've been begging for pokemon to feel in touch with its audience forever and as soon as it is they treat it like a hot potato #i feel fucking obsessed because of how long this tease has been stretching on for no good reason #they could've just let us ACTUALLY hang out with the friend trio in vanilla postgame and shown them in the DLC a single time #and i could have had a normal social media presence for the past 3-6 months #instead of dreaming about a pokemon npc last night because of how little faith i have in her getting any justice outside of a fucking gacha #i am so sorry that this is who i am now except for the 2-3 of you who follow me specifically because i post these things #pennyposting #arvenposting

[aeide-thea]

like, someone posted an article recently that was like 'i didn't like these books because the main characters were women who slept with women but weren't sufficiently enlightened about it for me as a queer woman to feel Represented,' and i just felt like. i bet i wouldn't enjoy those books either, judging from the reviewer's description! but faced with a review that's like 'these characters had attitudes i found unpleasant'—iirc a tendency to ironic detachment and internalized fatphobia respectively, which, to be clear, i expect i would also find unpleasant! but those are attitudes that plenty of real young women do have; are we arguing it's only acceptable to tell stories about the sort of people we'd personally want to befriend?—'so i didn't find their stories nourishing,' it's hard for me not to think, okay, fair enough, but—should 'nourishing' really be the definitive metric for art? should 'savory'? an author's job is, after all, to make art, not food…

#like. sometimes art is a door and not a mirror or a meal or whatever. #(also sometimes it might be a mirror for someone who isn't you. or for someone you don't want to be.) #anyway. let's all go reread some cheever and then reconvene. #discussion questions: do you feel represented by neddy merrill's nonmonogamy. is it problematic to set a story in the suburbs. #does it alter your reaction to learn that cheever was queer. #bookblogging #(also like. the thing abt this discussion is like. my feelings ALSO revolt at stuff like this. frequently and vehemently‚ even! #i just think like. it's not sufficient to feel‚ & to then regurgitate that feeling & call it a take; you also have to think. #and‚ like‚ *actually* think (and *re*think if necessary)‚ not just apply a veneer of rationalization to yr original kneejerk reaction. #otherwise—how are we actually better than the conservatives we disdain. #we have to have actual thought-out principles we attempt to consult‚ not just a different set of outraged‚ reactive feelings.) #(this also gets tricky because like. we obviously get to dislike things‚ & to complain abt them! fucked up to suggest otherwise! #but at the same time—there IS a point at which censure tips over into censorship. #like. most people will not feel free to behave in ways that are decried sufficiently strongly by sufficiently many voices. #so if we value freedom—and i hope we do!—i think we have a responsibility to be thoughtful abt how we use our voice.) #(which isn't to say don't do it! sometimes it would be shameful not to! #but power dynamics are complex‚ and sometimes punching a person as hard as you'd punch a system means the blow rebounds #and has knock-on effects you didn't entirely intend and don't‚ perhaps‚ on reflection entirely endorse.)

[cannibalismyuri]

sometimes i genuinely hate my mother.

#i just don't fucking get it. she knows i go to the gym everyday and teach kids wrestling and swimming. #she knows im physically fit. i need to remain so. but she insists on fucking projecting her insecurities onto me. #just bc i don't look like the skinniest bitch alive. just bc my fucking bmi (proven a bad indicator of general health) says im overweight. #she's fat and short and ive told her she's beautiful but ofc she's battling her own demons but that does NOT mean she can just project. #im also short like. 5'4 and. im the most physically fit ive ever been since my pro wrestling era and yet. #she keeps recommending me fuckass whatsapp tricks to get taller. has a short person never accomplished anything 😐 #and she knows how deeply insecure i am abt not looking the way i feel and abt my fitness not being visually represented. #and still she decides to berate me constantly abt my tummy and arm and leg flab (the littlest ever btw) and police my fashion. #if any of u have actually read till here can i get some tips on how to deal w this if u have any idea? #im actually desperate. that's what tends to happen when you've been crying for three hours straight. #bc ur own mother called u a cow who can't stop eating. any fucking way. #delete later

[itsmyroadroller]

>"sculpt a mixed media piece representing a safe space!"

>has never felt safe

#idk. how do I represent scratch? even then I didn't feel safe because multiple family members knew the login #I think about how one of the first signs my mental health was nosediving was an animation meme I made in fifth grade #quotev? I wrote my first fanfic there. it was a sailor moon oc-thats-an-obvious-self-insert fic #. animal crossing? #but I keep doing video game things. my final in sculpture 1 was a 3ds #or tomodachi life. but AGAIN. I need something more original instead of always going back to my 3ds #like idk. I've always been bullied. I've never felt safe with my dad or his family. it took a long time to really feel safe with my mom #and I still don't tell her anything because it all reads as pity #I've always felt pretty safe on tumblr in spite of the grooming incident and the doxxing incident #but that's just fucking STUPID #I guess ultimately I've always felt safe online and in technology. I could somehow make like. the inside of a computer? #not in the literal sense but like in the screen #rzr speaks

[deathbypufferfish]

She's really pissing herself, humping my leg, and asking me to GIVE HER A TED TALK.

ALSO, WHO IS "ME AND MY COMMUNITY????"

#puffer talks #FOUR?????? #FOUR COMMENTS????? #im like the least helpful too like im still educating myself too #im not a representative of all jewish people leave me alone #be normal challenge #also nice subtle brag about your old job lmao #OKAY #I DON'T CARE #im not your mommy dont ask me to fucking teach you #this was this morning i just didn't feel like answering at the time #including my response so im not accused of bullying <3 #i mean im not being nice but

[coldgoldlazarus]

I know the chances of Nian or Weedy ever getting a figma were nonexistent, but I still can't help but be slightly baffled that Ch'en was who they went for for the first (and as far as I can tell probably only) Arknights figma. Like, yeah, she is a pretty important reocurring character in the main plot, but I still don't get why her, over someone like Amiya or even Kal'tsit. I would buy up a Kal'tsit figma in a heartbeat. Why Ch'en???

#not a reblog #arknights #i think ch'en is an interesting character don't get me wrong #but also shes a cop #and also I wouldn't want to get her unless #they put out a hoshiguma and swire to go with #so she wouldnt be lonely #and most importantly #she would be like my sixth or seventh choice for a figma #not the first #especially if first is only #I just feel like she doesn't represent AK #as fundamentally or efficiently #as Amiya or Talulah or Kal #like fuck #gimme a talulah figma actually

[solarisgod]

I still do think it's quite interesting that people would fakeclaim plurals who'd discover they have OSDIDD at such a later time of their life when, not only is it normal for people to learn they have it in a great amount of years later, but also OSDDID is meant to be a covert condition that protects the individual / system from negativity and traumas and potential danger. Of course, we wouldn't know if there is someone present who would (co-)front when a distressful event occurs to be the one endure it instead or if someone else has been fronting while """ pretending """ to be this person to avoid them + the system falling into danger. Usually, alters would resurface when they feel safe + comfortable enough to reveal themselves or when the individual suspects they're not alone and engage in things that would create a safe space for them to show up over time. It's unfortunately quite easy and frequent for people to assume people are pluralfaking when they would come out at a later age instead of knowing they would have it this whole time / since childhood, but that is completely not the common case at all.

#ABLEISM CW #/// #// #/ #𓁹 ༑ ࿐ྂ ⩇⩇ : ⩇⩇ ⚠︎ [ 𝙴𝚇𝙸(𝚂)𝚃 : 𝙶𝙾𝙳 ] * ‹ OOC . › #𓁹 ༑ ࿐ྂ ⩇⩇ : ⩇⩇ ⚠︎ [ 𝙴𝚇𝙸(𝚂)𝚃 : 𝙶𝙾𝙳 ] * ‹ PLURALITY . › #[ I'm fine to talk about it I'm okay but ] #[ I discovered I wasn't alone in May 2022 with Sunhound being the ' second ( discovered ) ' alter ] #[ that was around the time when Moon Knight came out in March but is still popularly talked about in May and ] #[ that's like when a lot of newly came out plurals were present and I can see why some people think they could be faking ] #[ because - for some fucking reason - a lot of people think OSDDID is ''' cool ''' and they would ''' want to have mind friends ''' ] #[ and watching this show could prompt this but ] #[ I don't understand why it's so hard for folks to at least try to see that this show represents DID overall well ] #( beside the whole dramaticness to it like the way when Steven and Marc switched ) #[ that this show essentially created a space where alters can feel safe and comfortable enough to resurface ] #[ while it provides meaningful and informative details of how DID generally goes for the individual ] #[ to be able to understand their plural symptoms and experiences more ] #[ like my first meeting with my sunmate wasn't even anything dramatic or traumatic ] #[ but I was just minding my own business and I haven't thought of this character who I really adore for like a week ] #[ and suddenly I just heard their voice calling the name of that character as to tell me that's their ( past ) name and ] #[ then few days later when I was going through extreme thoughts + emotions 'cause of Mother's Day ] #[ and that's when they came by more and doing + thinking these things that I found and go ' yeah this is Not Me ' ] #[ since I shared to the dash about me seeing we have OSDD1 - I have lost a LOT of mutuals and received a bunch of hate ] #[ with one who sent us an ask few hours before my birthday basically saying Sunhound isn't real and I'm faking ] #[ even since we came back here April 2023 to this day ; we have been hardblocked by a lot of people and I can't help but think ] #[ it has to do with our plurality if not our DNI criteria but even we did have a Moon Knight writer hardblock us which is. Huh ] #[ but anyways yeah it's completely normal for people - especially in their 20s and even 30s - to later learn they're a plural ] #[ for real. ]