#stop infantilizing mentally ill characters

[insanelyadd]

#LetSansRest Day!

Hello everyone and welcome to year two of Let Sans Rest Day! Same as last year it's August 9th.

Before we get into some prompts, a little bit of a mission statement. Last year I said this day was for everyone who's a fan of Sans Undertale or anyone who's tired of every image they see of him being him Suffering. This is still true, but I do want to additionally address something I saw a few different people mention.

I have actually received criticism for daring to suggest that Sans not be tormented to the point of insanity, and that this day where I implore people to make realities where Sans doesn't become a creepypasta insane murderer man from the agony he is subjected to, isn't a stand against ableism like Let Papyrus Say Fuck Day is. *stares in bipolar psychosis and PTSD directly into your eyes* Obviously that's a load of shit, and even though Sans is more popular than Papyrus (I say, as a Papyrus Enjoyer) a lot of the content around Sans is very specifically about him suffering. So simply out of spite for these comments (including someone who saw last year's announcement and directly commented "No <3" on the post) I will be continuing this holiday indefinitely, just like LetPapyrusSayFuck Day. Die mad about it.

Just like how I have ADHD and relate to Papyrus and see the way the fandom treats him as the infantilization of neurodivergency like autism and ADHD, I can look at works in this fandom of Sans that demonize traits of mental illness like trauma, hallucinations, delusions, and mania. And I can say these are both bad actually. Not going to call anyone a bad person for engaging in these things, of course, that would be a bit goofy of me, I'm just saying the imagery used for these things is Very Loaded and a lot of people are mishandling them.

So anyways August 9th is the day we let Sans Undertale out of his Torment Nexus so he can:

Have lemonade at the beach or pool

Go stargazing while camping out in the woods with friends and family

Get smothered in cute baby kittens and puppies

Go to therapy and play with one of those magnetic sculptures all therapists seem to own

Take a nap on an inner-tube on a lazy river

Get to see the leaves change color for the first time

Play basketball with Papyrus

Fall asleep in a basket of freshly dried clothes

Go to a public greenhouse to look at all the different flowers on the surface

Perform stand-up for humans who all love his terrible puns

Please tag the post with #LetSansRest, #Sans, and #undertale as well as any other applicable tags for characters, relationships, etc. This day is primarily for classic Sans but it's not like I can stop you from drawing Fell Sans not being subjected to his own, personal, goth-themed Torment Nexus.

This is meant to be a day for everyone who wants Sans Undertale to go to therapy and feel better. People who want to put him in a hamster cage with plenty of things to prank for enrichment. People who want to win him one of those massive stuffed animals at the county fair.

If you want to participate please be mindful of some things:

I will be monitoring the tag to reblog things! I have ptsd and would appreciate if ships involving Papyrus or Frisk (and similar) with Sans are avoided. This is simply for my mental health and I greatly appreciate it. <3

Do Not post angst to the #LetSansRest tag. It is meant to be an angst free tag for him.

Don't worry if you can't participate on the exact day! Just like with #LetPapyrusSayFuck Day you can use the tag and post to it any day! :>

Hope you're able to participate and have fun! <3

#letsansrest #undertale #sans

[artsyaech]

going into next year, remember to keep fighting for disability and mental health rights!

[PT: going into next year, remember to keep fighting for disability and mental health rights!]

remember to:

put image IDs and plain-text on posts

tag eyestrain and flash warnings (DO NOT use #epilepsy, that puts epileptic people in more danger)

remember to tag potential triggers! (very important, i hate it when posts include my triggers and don't tag it)

remember that hyperfixating on / having a special interest in a problematic thing does NOT mean you're a bad person, as long as you acknowledge the problems with it. also, i can't believe this isn't talked about more, but a hatred for a thing can also turn into a hyperfixation / special interest! example: i had a hyperfixation on harry potter in a way that i absorbed criticisms of it and knew everything about it, but only because i wanted to be able to articulate how much i hate it and why. hyperfixation / special interest in something does not mean you like it / endorse it! (rant over)

PLEASE stop clogging up disability tags with fanfiction. yes, it's good that you're representing disabilities, but instead try tagging it with #disabled character or #disabled reader or something of the sort.

something i wanna leave in 2023, but unfortunately don't think will be going away soon is ableist / saneist slang or slang that makes light of disabilities / mental health. examples of this include: "delulu", "letting the intrusive thoughts win", "psycho", "schizo" (when referring to something that has nothing to do with schizophrenia), "bipolar" (when referring to something that has nothing to do with bipolar disorder), "sociopath", "psychopath", "narcissist" + MANY more

please stop infantilizing autistic people. i'm so tired of being treated like a baby.

c-punk is NOT an aesthetic and it is exclusively for physically disabled people. and if you're not physically disabled, call it c-punk.

uplift disabled and mentally ill voices.

below is a list of disabled creators you can support!

@my-autism-adhd-blog. summer (she/they) talks about their life as an autistic individual who has ADHD. super cool blog!

@cripplecharacters. a group of mods help answer questions about writing disabled characters. learned a lot from them.

@mogai-transcriber. (nameless) (she/he/it) describes mogai posts.

@accessmogai. reign (she/her) is a great mogai transcriber too. high quality IDs for all

@cpunkwitch. super cool witchy blog. cassandra (it/he/her/neos/none) is super cool and it's nice to hear a disabled voice in the pagan community.

@crippledpunks. cool positivity blog that talks about disability and educates on cpunk

@accessfashion. multiple mods add image descriptions to outfits. super epic stuff.

@cane-you-dig-it. disability and cpunk stuff. also just a super cool and talented individual.

@autistic-af. i wish she was my aunt, she's super sweet and her cat posts always make my day!

@crippled-peeper. relatable posts tbh.

@crippled-dinosaur. dino (it/he) talks about physical disabilities and cpunk

+ many more! feel free to add to this list

#this is the first of many posts i'll be making on stuff like this #aech rambles #disability #new year #mental illness positivity #positivity #long post

[rachelcommitscrimes]

im gonna rant abt how much i hate the ghost eyes fandom (as a former fan) bc im just kinda mad rn

so uhh yeah major TW for s3lf h4rm, romanticizing mental illness, su1c1de, sadomasochism, infantilization, and rlly just anything related to that

(also sorry if this looks weird idk how to separate stuff on tumblr)

also DO NOT harass the creator or anyone mentioned here, you’re no better than them if you do that

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ok so i read ghost eyes like 2 years ago but i stopped reading about the point where they were on that field trip. i still think it’s a nice comic and i’m sure the author is a cool person, also the art style is awesome. but the fandom is so fucking gross that i’m surprised more people haven’t talked about it. 

for some backstory on this, i used have REALLY bad depression and was cutting myself regularly (i’m much better now, i have medication, therapy, and i’m almost a year clean) i also stopped reading due to the comic severely damaging my mental health and i’m very glad i did. i was younger and immature and thought i could handle such content. this led to me becoming extremely obsessed with the comic to an unhealthy level, and getting severely attached to one of the characters (rudy) because i could relate to him at that time. i seriously thought that i WAS him sometimes.

i understand now that i should NOT have ignored the label and what i did was definitely wrong and if the creator is reading this i deeply apologize. i’m in a much better place now and i’m just glad that i was able to get the help i needed.

ok now to the angry part

if you don’t know what ghost eyes is, it’s a webcomic about a severely traumatized boy attending school for the first time and meeting a bunch of other severely traumatized kids. this comic has a crap ton of triggering/sensitive/disturbing topics (which is not a bad thing as long as you do it right) and like i said before, the creator has kindly put a warning before the comic starts stating that you SHOULD NOT romanticize/idolize/sexualize/kin any of the characters, do not read unless you can handle such topics, and so forth. now i know i should have definitely put the comic down before and not gotten obsessed over it, but i knew damn well enough that it was messed up to romanticize/sexualize any of the characters/things that happened in the book.

there are several scenes in which a character is self harming or harming someone else, and the comments will say shit like “nooo my poor bean” “awww baby don’t do that” or my personal favorite “protect the smol bean.” first of all, the characters are like 16-17, second of all, i cannot even tell you how fucked up it is that people see someone ruining their lives and putting themselves in danger and think it’s “cute” or “anxiety smol bean uwu” THERES LITERALLY A SCENE WHERE SOMEONE IS GETTING STABBED AND PPL ARE DRAWING THIS MF IN A MAID DRESS.

another reason i despise these fans is that they see an abusive relationship and start making ships/kinning them. as someone who has gone through pretty much everything rudy has gone through, i cant tell you how irritating it is to see people shipping him with his abuser or calling him a “cutie patootie masochist boi uwu” cause lemme tell you what-it doesnt feel good to have to put your health in danger and ruin your relationships with others just so you can get off somehow. ITS NOT FUN. the whole point of rudy’s character is to not romanticize someones fucked up mental health.

i could spend hours talking about this group of immature brats, but i’m tired and it’s a school night and i have a test tomorrow. i might add on if i feel like i need to but overall i really hope those immature fans grow up and realize their mistakes like i did, or get the help they need.

#ghost eyes #webcomic #rant #angry ramblings #angry rant #i hate this fandom #tw su1c1d3 #tw sh implied #go get some help please

[lurkingdoll]

Little rant about the fandom's treatment of Konig and Gaz because I am very hyperfixated on COD right now and this is a topic that bothers me way more than it should

(ALSO DISCLAIMER: This is just my opinion, I don't think it actually really matters that much but I like to rant about dumb things)

As I have mentioned in other posts, Gaz is my favorite character from the MW campaign. Mostly because he's overall a likeable character and you can play as him in all 3 of the reboots. His dynamic with Price is also rather entertaining to watch

Call of duty was the first game franchise I was introduced to, which me being shown it back when I was around 5 or so. But I only ever played the zombies mode, stopped playing because I use to only play on an Xbox and had to pay for Xbox live in order to even play the modes I enjoyed and up until 2023, I didn't know there was any actual storyline. I thought the campaigns were just random missions without much of a story so I never touched them. I found out because I kept getting videos of people cosplaying or talking about characters such as Ghost, Soap, and Konig.

I bought the MW reboots on my computer and was very confused when I finished all 3 of the reboots and saw nothing about Konig in any of the campaigns. I had to look around online before realizing this character I saw so many people obsessing over wasn't in a single campaign from any of the games, he was just a random playable operator for the multi-player mode.

I was even more confused when I saw that he was a Colonel for KORTAC, because from the posts I had seen before playing the games, I had seen people adding him to 141 and straight up replacing Gaz for him. And based off of the things I saw online when I was doing the research to figure out who he even is and in the dialog for Konig, his personality is also very different from how I saw many people depicting him.

The version of Konig I saw on the posts about him was a 6'10 gentle giant UWU boi who was a member of 141 and extremely sweet/shy around his comrades but also simultaneously a terrifying threat around his enemies. And I know this is mostly an issue with tiktokers because it's tiktok but still

There are many, many inaccuracies with how I've seen so many people portray him. First of all, there is no way in hell he's 6'10. When you compare Konig's model to Ghost's model side-by-side, Konig is only very slightly taller than Ghost. Ghost is confirmed to be 6'2 1/2. And usually, militaries take men around 60-80 inches tall (5 foot to around 6'6) and people below or over this are much more likely to be rejected.

Let's now talk about his personality. While Konig does have social anxiety according to his wiki page, he isn't some sort of shy baby boy. He's a Colonel and most Colonels are between the age of 30-40. He isn't a child and none of his dialog depicts him with any sort of soft, shy, or childish personality. The main reason people mischaracterize him like this is due to the infantilization of mentally ill people. As someone who also has anxiety, having anxiety does not make you into some sort of shy UWU baby. We're still people and it's incredibly infantilizing to act like having anxiety makes people into these extremely shy and childish characatures.

This also goes without saying, but Konig is NOT part of 141 and he's not friends with anyone on 141 either. They probably don't even know he EXISTS. While this obviously isn't bad compared to something more serious like infanitilizing people with mental illnesses, its still just annoying to replace an already established and likeable character with some completely random dude. Gaz is part of 141, not Konig. 141 and Konig are not affiliated with eachother and they would probably try to kill eachother if they ever DID meet. Show Gaz the love he deserves

#call of duty #call of duty modern warfare #call of duty mw2 #call of duty mwii #call of duty mw3 #call of duty mwiii #konig cod #Konig #konig call of duty #kyle gaz garrick #gaz cod #gaz call of duty #gaz #mischaracterization #rant post #I hate mischaracterization way too much #hyperfixation #im hyperfixating again

[super-hero-confessions]

I'm fucking sick of the ableist fetishization in fandoms.

The Boys, Marvel, DC, doesn't matter.

All of them have bullshit fanfic writers who think they're hot shit when they take a sick character and magnify that sickness or make them weak just to satisfy some disgusting infantilizing feeder type fetish that gets off on suffering without fixing anything.

Then they dare to say there's comfort in that when no there fucking isn't.

I don't care what people write in their free time or why. I don't even care what they get off on because I know I can't stop it.

I do care about people being so fucking pretentious and inconsiderate that they think they are somehow above the rest of a fandom for what they get off on when what they get off on is a fucking triggering hot mess for someone who is actually disabled and deals with the bullshit they force on the characters on a daily basis.

I know I can't speak for everyone.

But being mentally or physically ill or disabled is not fucking fun or cute in and of itself and I'm tired of seeing writers dehumanize and belittle characters in this way while ripping apart everything inspiring about the hero genre and pretending it's not ableist garbage with no self awareness or consideration.

Maybe more of the world gets off on narcissistically tearing others down for things they can't control instead of empowering them but I would say it's not just gross it's part of the fucking problem.

I'm tired of seeing it normalized. At least be aware of what you are doing.

#confession #rant

[beardedmrbean]

Okay thank you for liking my Jrpg idea. Actually during the launch of Diablo 4, a lot of og Diablo fans realize the age gaps between them and the new blood is that many new blood around their own kids ages.

Hell I knew about Diablo because my dad played the second game on the family computer.

Meh, dystopian Ya novels died in the mid 10’s. Also this

“Hey writers, maybe try writing and working out a solution occasionally, like, as said, patching up a familial relationship issue.”

Well Encanto did that, yes yes the running gag that the big fantasy is elder members apologizing.

Hmm given the abuse my stepmom put me through and my little sister, who was raised by her since the age of 6, develop depression so she can’t join the navy. And the bitch said my little sister said she faking it

Also keep in mind my stepmom is 14 years older than. So she a millenial, like yes she an incest survivor and came from a broken family. Sliver lining she isn’t a misandrist

But I can smell her toxic ass in modern “abuse survivor groups” like on tumblr

So when you see people on social media and the entertainment industry have the same toxicity and try to INFANTILIZE such garbage because they are women with a hard life.

You get pissed.

Oh sorry have to get it out, but the reason why say family healing from a mess is rare in modern media.

Welll a lot of modern writers have unresolved parental issues and treat the audience like their therapists. But feel hard when the writers still think they are the abused child with no power vs the insufferable manchildren that want to take away our human rights

And omg can we go back to HEALING abused children vs INFANTIZING them?

Like this idea that abused people need to be docile for the rest of their lives. Huh, explain a coworker of mine out of the kindness of his heart got me a GameStop gift card

Okay this anon is weird, but I often go

“Okay can we all stop acting like we are an abused character in a kids cartoon? Yes we don’t repeat the same cycle as our abusers. We still have toxicity we need to control…unless you believe you don’t have any.”

I send a better Jrpg, now I shouldn’t have been on here at that age…

I was EXTREMELY uncomfortable with the dehumanization and Nazis level stuff tumblr had towards white people. Like these was from fellow blacks and non whites. So them calling white people subhumans that need to be wipeout

Can for the love of god anyone explain to me why a 13 year old black child who just managed to make sure I never in the same house as my abuser (who never got punished. Enjoy your lonely death when your youngest daughter ditched you in a nursery cunt!) have more empathy and compassion to humans than people who were in their late teens or in COLLEGE?!

What the FUCK cause me to have better morals than the fuckers who grew up on BTAS and ATLA during it height of popularity?

Hell I knew about Diablo because my dad played the second game on the family computer.

I bought 2 a few months after moving back to CA from FL was the only video game I had for like 8.5 years till I got FF6 on steam a couple months back, love that game, both of them. Can't do 3 I get vertigo, never tried 4.

Meh, dystopian Ya novels died in the mid 10’s. Also this

I'm old things run together for me at times as a result, that and people keep bringing them up all the time.

“Hey writers, maybe try writing and working out a solution occasionally, like, as said, patching up a familial relationship issue.” Well Encanto did that, yes yes the running gag that the big fantasy is elder members apologizing.

Fantasy is that because young writers blame their elders for every problem in the world even the ones that predate them.

Hmm given the abuse my stepmom put me through and my little sister, who was raised by her since the age of 6, develop depression so she can’t join the navy. And the bitch said my little sister said she faking it

And here I thought white women were supposed to be more willing to accept mental illness as a thing others have.

But I can smell her toxic ass in modern “abuse survivor groups” like on tumblr

That's the other option ya, social media points

And omg can we go back to HEALING abused children vs INFANTIZING them?

Like this idea that abused people need to be docile for the rest of their lives. Huh, explain a coworker of mine out of the kindness of his heart got me a GameStop gift card

That's the therapy right there, it's different for different people, and genuine kindness, like learning about rome, or building a shed, or many other things can be therapy.

Reese Witherspoon did a movie called Wild, based on a memoir by Cheryl Strayed who afaik that's the only thing she wrote, apparently looking I'm wrong, but she did a 1100 mile hike up the pacific crest, and it was therapy, woman from my church who's husband just died of cancer recently is doing something similar in Europe except it's a pilgrimage walk and nowhere near as isolated, still 8 weeks and therapy.

“Okay can we all stop acting like we are an abused character in a kids cartoon? Yes we don’t repeat the same cycle as our abusers. We still have toxicity we need to control…unless you believe you don’t have any.”

Gaslight the trauma away, or maybe realize it's not so traumatic after all, or things in between too.

Can for the love of god anyone explain to me why a 13 year old black child who just managed to make sure I never in the same house as my abuser (who never got punished. Enjoy your lonely death when your youngest daughter ditched you in a nursery cunt!) have more empathy and compassion to humans than people who were in their late teens or in COLLEGE?!

You were less concerned with how people perceived you where as they felt the need to dehumanize other people and bring them down below their level in their minds so they could feel superior.

Short version even with all the trauma you had/have more self esteem than they do.

What the FUCK cause me to have better morals than the fuckers who grew up on BTAS and ATLA during it height of popularity?

For me it's Mr Rogers and Sesame Street, going with church upbringing that never made me feel lesser for being who I was is another primary one that ran longer than watching Mr Rogers, breaks my heart people got my saviour so wrong as to use him as a hammer to harm others, that ain't who he is.

Fundies may think they're getting the rules right but they forget that the greatest commandment is love, Jesus is the carpenter let him take care of the hammer.

For you it may be that you actually took what you learned from those shows to heart, lots of people did and lots of people got it right, lots of people loved Steven Universe too, and then they nearly bullied an artist to suicide and formed online hate mobs over other peoples opinions and interpretations.

#zoomer huey anon

[itoshislave]

𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐌𝐘 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 + 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓!

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Here contains the specific content i write and don’t write. Along with a list of fandoms I'll be writing for!

𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐈 𝐃𝐎𝐍’𝐓 𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄.

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･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Lolicon/ Shotacon/ or anything like that

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Pegging

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Shipps/ OC's

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Teacher/ student relationships (minor x adult).

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Feet.

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Scat/vomit.

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Serious mental illnesses (depression & anxiety are acceptable)

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Eating disorders

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Weight insecurities

›･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Extreme violence

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Gore/ snuff

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Pedophilia

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Suicide

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Major character death

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𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐈 𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄.

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･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ BDSM

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Incest/ pseudo/ stepcest

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Sadism/ Masochism

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Corruption Kink

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Daddy/ Mommy Kink

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ DDLG/MDLG dynamics

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Noncon/ Dubcon

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Manipulation/ Blackmail

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Toxic/abusive relationships/behavior

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Sub!reader/ Crybaby!reader

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Dom!reader (very, very rarely)

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Yuri/GL

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Loss of virginity

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Degrading

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Hurt/comfort

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Size difference 

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Dumbification/ infantilization/ Mind break/ Little space

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Yandere

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Somnophilia (both con + noncon)

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ A few more things!

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𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐎𝐌𝐒 𝐈 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐖𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 + 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓:

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･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Haikyuu. Hq

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Boku no hero. Bnha

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Kuroko no basket. Knb

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Tokyo Revengers. Tr

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Jujutsu Kaisen. Jjk

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Tokyo Ghoul. Tg

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Blue Lock. Bllk

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Shingeki no Kyojin. Aot

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Kimetsu no Yaiba. Kny

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Enen no Shouboutai. Ff

･:*.ೃ⚜࿔ Bleach. Blch

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[1863-project]

Testing the market here, so to speak - if I were to work on it, how many people would be interested in a comprehensive essay (or even video) regarding ableism in fandom and how it affects disabled and mentally ill people and how we engage with media and fandom?

Topics I’d like to address specifically:

Accessibility of fandom online and offline

Demonization/fetishization of mental health, particularly psychosis

People treating OCD as a joke (it’s actually one of the more lethal mental illnesses, surprise!)

Personality disorders being treated the same way psychosis is (no, not everyone who has ever hurt you is a narcissist, stop it)

Autistic-coded characters and fandom’s casual ableism towards and infantilization of them

No, ADHD isn’t “omg, squirrel!” - and not every character with a short attention span has ADHD

How to write disabilities and mental illnesses without dipping into ableist stereotypes

#tw: ableism #ableism #disability #disability rights

[downtowncannibal]

Up and Coming Billy Content for the DowntownCannibal Community

CW: Billy Backstory mention el oh el

first and foremost, thank you for all the love that came with the past headcanons post! I spent a good fucking 2 months on that shit, and still feel like it wasn't as good as it could've been but i was so annoyed at it just existing I fixed some shit and then rolled with it. The ending was rushed, had been changed twice (the entire plot, as well as structure had been changed at least 3 times) but I was so fucking done and ready to show how much

better

of a story thing I could do since the first Billy HC post, which now- I don't really like at all. (infact i took it down lmao) My understanding of Billy then was very- fanon Billy limited, and I had a incredibly small grasp on his real character, which I've come to know know and MUCH prefer over infantilized Billy (which I could go on a whole fucking rant about how much that pisses me off, but I have a lot of things to complain about when it comes to the way people treat Billy as a character in general, so I'll leave it at "stop babying mentally ill people.")

So what comes next? I've got a couple ideas.

First, i want to finish a project that was a good basis for the Headcanons, "Happy Birthday, Billy" which focuses in on my own interpretation of the Lenz family dynamic, deaths, and my characterization of Billy.

For second, a short drabble with Billy and a piano because of a conversation I had with my friend, lol

Third, I want to dabble in a reverse AU, this will be a return back to "Billy x reader" shit, as well as a "yay billy gets to be happy woohoo my favorite genre!"

and last but not least, the reason I'm making this post. I understand that Billy is a inherently sexual character, and most of the content ranging around him tends to be sexual due to how he acts during his first call- and I don't want people thinking I'm treating him as though he's some "innocent bean owo whats boobies?" stereotype because i know most characterizations of him do tend to range around Billy being more openly horny- and I am willing to make NSFW content, I've dabbled in it before, so if that's something you'd want, I'm willing to provide. However, you must understand that my version of Billy has gone through all of Billy's canonical trauma, and he understands what sex is, he's a grown ass man, however tends to lean away from it due to his past- so if I do make any sort of sexual content with Billy, understand that I will not push that away to sexualize him, as I refuse to do that. It will not just be "oo they fuckin" it will be treated as though your dealing with a man who has experienced ages of trauma, has received zero to very little help with his mental stability, and tends to avoid these situations. it will of course, be consensual, as I will never write anything that even slightly leans into "Dub-Con" territory, and will always make consent very clear, however it will not just be porn.

I do not want people getting upset with me because I'm not feeding into the fanon version of Billy, as I've seen it happen before 💀 so im putting that out there to let you know if your expecting like- Porn without plot i suppose, your not getting that. but yeah, that's it. If you would like to see NSFW, I'm comfortable with that, just know it's not gonna be a fuckfest.

Anyways, I'm super excited to be writing more for him, especially with a more canon-leaning ver than I started with! and I'm especially excited for Happy Birthday, Billy because I've been procrastinating on it for some long. Anyways, that's it really. I don't know how to wrap up a post like this, so

#black christmas #black christmas 1974 #billy lenz #slashers #slasher movies #slasher fandom #billy lenz x reader #billy lenz x y/n #billy lenz x you #kinda a rant #sorry lmao #Youtube

[silviawrites]

Writing people with disabilities

Writing people with disabilities may seem easy but it really isn't. People who write characters with disabilities may come off as ableist (hell, maybe they are) when maybe they're just trying to bring some more representation into writing and they're doing it wrong unintentionally. So let's break down tips for writing people with disabilities!

Research and properly understand the disability (disabilities) you want to write

Research is very, very important. I don't care how much you think you know about the disability (whether it's physical or mental), do your research properly. For example, depression (I'm not sure about other countries, but in mine, it's considered a mental disability). People are so sure about depression, saying it's just being sad and lazy when it really isn't. It hurts people with depression a lot and as someone with depression myself, it's extremely hard to deal with. Depression isn't just "being sad and lazy", maybe sometimes, the person isn't sad, they're just constantly angry. Depression is not being able to sleep properly or sleeping too much. It's not eating enough or eating too much. It's feeling hopeless and miserable and constantly not feeling enough. In another post, I'll elaborate more on people's misconceptions when writing depression and other mental illnesses.

So yes guys. Please do your research. Understand the disability/disabilities. When you're writing about disabilities, make sure you do it right. The last thing we need is a piece of literature being completely wrong about disabilities we really need more representation on.

2. Don't depict it as tragic

Please don't make the disability some plot device that helps form some tragic backstory that the character has. That's just shitty. We are not living in a Shakespearean tragedy, so stop it. It is not "tragic" that disabled people are disabled. It's just not cool. Being disabled can suck yes, but when you are calling it a "tragedy", you are being condescending. People with disabilities also lead a life of joy, love and happiness like any other person.

3. Don't infantilize the character(s) with the disability(ies)

Unless you are writing this and depicting this as explicitly wrong in your wip, don't do it (For example, maybe A is disabled, B is infantilizing them and C steps in and tells them to stop it and saying it's not cool. That's fine.) Disabled people are not babies. We know how to take care of ourselves just fine. So don't depict us as not knowing how to do it.

4. Make them more than their disability/disabilities

Them being disabled is an important aspect of them, yes. But key word being "aspect". A person's disability is a part of who they are, not who they are completely. If you make a character with a disability and they have no purpose or personality, then it's tokenism. The character's just there in the name of representation and nothing else. This is... sad honestly. We want disabled characters, yes, but we want good disabled characters. Well-written disabled characters. Well-developed disabled characters. Not a character with the personality of a fucking sheet of paper.

#writing #creative writing #writing disabilities #writing disabled people #writer #writingadvice #writersadvice #representation

[cydippida]

hi it's like 5am. anyways. interpreting könig as a soft, shy person just because he's got social anxiety and got bullied feels like the WORST misunderstanding of a character i've seen. like i'm speaking as someone with social anxiety who was heavily fucking bullied here. looking at the shit he does in game there's a clear oomph and aggression to it, he's incredibly capable and honestly terrifying. like canonically könig is one scary motherfucker! and sure scary folk can indulge in domestic fluff but babying him feels really fucking gross when you're seeing that shit as someone who has social anxiety. we're not cute or shy little babies, we're genuinely just uncomfortable or even scared to be around other people. social anxiety can often be crippling and treating it like it just makes people cute and shy is a gross misunderstanding of how difficult it can be to navigate the world with it. tl:dr stop infantilizing mentally ill characters i'm not fucking asking. this is a threat.

#könig #konig #mw2

[mixelation]

Oh thank you for the "forcing people to go to therapy (or otherwise infringing on their own decisions) is bad" post. Tbh I avoid therapy in fics because I feel like it's often widely misrepresented and it squicks me, plus it's often shown as a miracle cure when it doesn't even work for everyone - especially since therapists are people with their biases as well. I personally made a lot more progress on my own, which maybe I could have achieved with therapy but ultimately I'm not convinced, and I certainly would never have said anything to a therapist had I been forced to go. Also when writing in a real world setting people can get very anachronic about the subject and how it was seen at some points to go to therapy (I'm sorry but it was not seen well in the 90s and I will close the fic if I see it presented as such, it's not even seen as okay everywhere today). It's just... an accumulation of things that make me very nervous. But yeah people making decisions for others, especially when it comes to therapy, really upsets me. Idk if you saw it but a while ago there was a post about the found family trope and someone said they hated it because it was most of the time just a "no boundaries hell" and I feel pretty much the same about this (and the two tropes unfortunately tend to intersect).

mm, i avoid therapy in fic for these reasons too. "x goes to therapy" usually have the ~therapy~ happen off screen and feature the character magically "Getting Better" without them actively using anything they learn from therapy or any sort of struggle. they just stop doing whatever behaviors the writer thinks were disordered, or just stop being ~sad all the time~, and it think it can come off (probably unintentionally on the writer's behalf) as like..... "oh, being that way was wrong and bad, why did you stay in that state when there was an easy fix here all along??? now you can re-enter society and be a valuable, good person like the rest of us! :)"

to be clear to though: i don't have a problem with people writing these fics, or with people enjoying them. people can read and create what they want to. a huge portion of sickfic involves a character with a chronic illness or disability being confronted by their loved ones and forced into "taking care of themselves," and many of these very fics are written and enjoyed by disabled people. i think there must be some comforting fantasy about someone who loves you unconditionally managing your problems for you? and like, given the high proportion of neurodivergent and mentally ill people in fandom, I think the therapy fics must appeal to some of them too to be so popular? maybe in like a fantasy way where the appeal is a world where therapy is easy to get, everyone supports you doing it, and it works quickly and without complications? but i personally find the attitudes in these fics incredibly squicky and infantilizing, so i wish there was a TAG or CONTENT WARNING people would use.

like, i don't mind characters trying to force inappropriate interactions for "their own good" when it's treated as inappropriate/annoying but an unfortunately common experience. i just want a warning when it's going to be idealized into correct, benevolent behavior, because that's what squicks me. kind of like how i don't mind reading a male character telling a female character she'd be "prettier if she smiled more" as long as it's treated as a creepy comment by the narrative, but i'll click off the fic if i'm meant to interpret that as cute flirting.

#again: sometimes IRL adults do need an intervention. i'm not saying there aren't circumstances where this is called for #i'm just saying the average fic writer has no idea where that line is or if the line is crossed #how to write people behaving normally throughout and in the aftermath of the intervention #so it usually turns into (what to me reads as) an incredibly condescending act of #'you are not allowed to make make decisions for yourself that i don't like you stupid sick person' #also i think i HAVE read that post about found family #i can't say my experience is the same? but i don't actively go into that tag #i just like fic where unhinged people find community and support in other unhinged people u_u #but i do think there's a pattern of 'people who actively try to write x' like...... making weird decisions about it #usually not for like 'slow burn' or 'coffee shop AU' #but for example there is a lot of deeply unhealthy communication styles in the 'good communication' tag

[shrimpmandan]

You have the best takes on SU full stop

I hate how they treated Lapis bc I thought she was gonna get Pearl treatment but she didn't. And it sucks bc I relate to her more than Pearl but goddamn :/

Also yeah they completely infantilized Peridot after her redemption

Thank u king/queen

I hyperfixated on the show for years and years and while I don't regret my time watching it by any means, the way they treat their mentally ill characters is just awful and I wish the fandom would acknowledge it more.

Also I forgot to mention Spinel. They fucking ruined Spinel in Future by doing the same shit they did to Peridot -- robbing her of all of her depth and genuineness and turning her into nothing but comedic relief. They could've had her try to support Steven like he did to her, but nope, just have her act like an oblivious twat I guess.

#anon #steven universe critical #su critical #steven universe #steven universe future

[cosmohause]

BIG SIGH.

Puts my hands together, pleading. Begging.

Please stop infantilizing fictional characters (real people as well) especially if they're mentally ill, autistic, etc. Headcanon or canon or otherwise Its ableist as fuck and just frankly disturbing.

THEYRE GROWN ADULTS, EVEN IF THEIR MENTAL DISABILITIES MAKE THEM ACT A CERTAIN WAY IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAH TREAT THEM LIKE KIDS!!! Even as a joke even as a "cute uwu" factor. Its disturbing and disrespectful.

It needed to be said. And I'm just baffled that I even have to say it.

#cosmohause #cosmo speaks #and yells #caps warning #/srs

[yallemagne]

Don't feel bad, this webbed site has grown up with media that spoonfeeds them morality, and now if they see a character they identify with do something awful as part of their journey, they think the writers advocate for their actions and are therefore Bad And Cancellable.

Oh, I don't feel bad. Frustrated maybe. Spoilers for Orice.

So apparently it is ableist to have Renfield say some misogynistic shit and be insensitive about Jonathan's trauma. In a story where all the other men 1. say some misogynistic shit and 2. are insensitive about Jonathan's trauma. Why is it okay for VH or Seward to be sexist or insensitive but not Renfield? Because apparently, mentally ill characters or just institutionalized mentally ill characters must be held to a higher moral standard than any other character in the story. If they aren't a saint, the writer is the devil.

In Orice, VH prods at Jonathan's scars and insensitively calls them "messy". He later implies that he thinks it's only a matter of time before Jonathan and Mina take on more traditional roles in their relationship (Jonathan no longer cooking and Mina no longer taking the lead). Seward takes notes about Jonathan's negative reaction to Renfield (huge fucking nono, Jono's not his patient) and later accuses Jonathan of willfully putting his wife in danger. He strongly implies he sees Mina as too weak-minded to continue on. Quincey downplays Jonathan's trauma because he's a man and justifies leaving out Mina because they can't put the "little lady" in jeopardy. Arthur hasn't said anything particularly shitty yet. It's implied that he sees Jonathan's gender expression as off-putting. Even Jonathan isn't a saint. Jonathan is always putting himself down for his PTSD and unmanliness and is somewhat ashamed that he still needs a cane to walk most of the time.

I don't agree with any of the things listed. None of these characters are me. They are fictional people, and like real people, they are capable of being wrong about things.

It is not as if Renfield is the only one who says some off-colour shit. It's just more noticeable because Jonathan has such an extreme reaction to him. And because people expect Renfield to be written as a sweet little baby who can do no wrong. It's infantilizing and frankly more ableist to demand that the only institutionalized character be perfect and innocent.

Renfield digs deep and catches all of Jonathan's insecurities and trauma because he knows shit about him that none of the other characters know. If he were not institutionalized but still working with Dracula, were he to meet Jonathan, he would have acted the same fucking way. He'd possibly be even less sympathetic toward him.

I don't think Renfield has to be a paragon of morality simply because some folks relate to him. I don't think a mentally ill character should be judged more harshly for being wrong than a non-mentally ill character. I'm not gonna water down his personality and go "awe he's just a poor widdle kitten" he deserves more than that. He's a full-grown man, he can take accountability for the shit he says and does. Victims of abuse can still be abusive and what matters is stopping the cycle of abuse.

Like, all this bullshit just makes me cringe in anticipation of posting the next chapter because it's not pretty.

#people ask me things #update #orice #btw not mad at you #just letting off steam

[fictiveheavy-systim]

DNI LIST ( ꈍᴗꈍ).｡*♡

Here's our full DNI! We block those who fall under this criteria when we find them (either before they find us or whenever they disregard our boundaries). Some of these are big things, and some are personal things that we're uncomfortable seeing. Thank you in advance for reading through this and respecting our boundaries.

System List ;

Non-traumagenic systems and those who support/interact with them (including demo systems and western tulpas), those who use the terms 'sysmed' or 'traumascum', those who don't believe in system accountability, those who believe persecutors are bad people, those who use the term 'malicitor' (not including those who reclaim it for themselves), anti-fictives, believe in system hopping, believe that systems must have the end goal of final fusion, believe introjects can pick their source, blame introjects for their sources

-philes ;

Pedophiles, DDLG and variants, ageplay, sexual age regression, zoophiles, pro-contact, neutral-contact, trans-age, trans-species, paraphiles (not including those who are in therapy), pro-shippers, anti-antis, MAPs, NOMAPs, radqueer, or anyone neutral or in support of these things, or interact with people who are

Ableist ;

Thinspo/pro-ED/pro-ana, support Autism Speaks or NEXTAUTISM, support eugenics, trans-abled (excluding those with BIID), trans-autism, trans-adhd, believe in narcissistic abuse, romanticize mental illness, romanticize self-harm, demonize mental illnesses, infantilize mental illnesses, fakeclaimer, reality-checker, support subreddits such as r/fakedisordercringe or r/didcringe, believe roleplaying disorders you do not have is acceptable, believe autism has a cure

Anti-queer ;

Anti-queer, terf, radfem, trumeds/truscum/transmeds, nonbinary exclus, intersex exclus, pan exclus, bi exclus, against gender nonconformity, against pronoun nonconformity, "super-[label]"s, those who are against the split attraction model, "drop the T", aspec exclus, anti-mogai, anti-xenogenders, anti-neopronouns (including anti-nounself and anti-emojiself), anti-microlabels, anti-neurogenders, call queer relationships "sin" (including in fandom spaces), support the Don't Say Gay bill in Florida, "gender critical", "a is for ally"s, purposefully misgender people without their consent

Racist/Xenophobic/Antisemitic ;

Anti-BLM, ALM, white lives matter, blue lives matter, pro-cop, anti-acab, believe in reverse racism, believe in white oppression, trans race (not including adoptees), islamophobic, believe in black-washing, anti-stop asian hate, believe poc cannot cosplay white characters, Nazi/Neo-Nazi/Nazi sympathizer, holocaust denier, believe alters in white systems can be a poc

Miscellaneous ;

Support NFTs, cryptbro, SWERF, classist, anti-selfdx, anti-furries, anti-scalies, believe in cringe culture, anti-harm reduction, send or endorse anon hate, believe in Christian oppression, blogs with the sole purpose of bullying/harassing others, those who bring religion into unwanted spaces, support missionaries, believe in art style theft, anti-property is theft, know us IRL

DNI for comfort reasons ;

NSFW/18+/Minors DNI blogs, singlets under the age of 13, blogs with Harry Potter, TBATF, Your Boyfriend, Yandere Sim, or Aphmau content (not including blogs that have had those things in the past due to requests), anyone who tags NSFW fandom content under the main tags for that fandom, roleplay blogs, Christianity-centered blogs, blank blogs (default avatar, default name, default desc, default header- anything that makes you look like a bot. Bots obviously won't read this, this is more an announcement to people with those blogs that I block em). Endo neutral systems listen up: all I ask is that if you interact with endos do not reblog our posts. Otherwise, feel free to interact.

Thank you for reading!!

I especially appreciate it with how long this one is (๑•﹏•)