ik normally we talk about situations like what shubble opened up about, we wanted to take time to think through everything especially because of how upsetting the topic is to us personally. as of now, we do agree that signs point to wilbur so we wont support him and we encourage others to not support him during this time and especially not actively defend him.
but we dont want to make a big deal out of not supporting him so focus can be on shubble and people learning how to see signs of abuse. we're already not very active due to our own recent experience with a traumatizing friendship (we hesitate to really call it abuse yet) but regarding that experience and others weve had we can focus on another big part of shubbles stream: educating others about the signs of abuse. so we want to use the rest of this post to talk about that
abusers will be everywhere and anywhere. yes there will be more in this community, but youll find them no matter where you go and there will be abusers in your personal life as well, whether you end up being abused or someone you know does. theres abusers who are "obvious", who scream and yell and hit. and theres abusers who are charismatic, who will be supportive and funny and yet passive aggressive and backstabbing. and theres abusers who will be quiet and cold and manipulative. and theres abusers who fall into multiple "categories" because theyre complex people just like anyone else and thats why abuse can happen to everyone. because abusers can be anyone.
dont get yourself caught up in how "theyre such a good person", dont get yourself caught up in thinking abuse could never happen to you. if you find yourself in a situation where communication doesnt work, where the other person hurts you over and over and doesnt show signs of getting better, where you keep finding ways to blame yourself and defend them (especially if you find yourself thinking that you deserve how they treat you), where youre scared of them and how theyd react if you told them so, where when you tell them you dont like how they treat you they dismiss you and start treating you worse, look into how to get out of there.
and know that it will take a while. that abuse is hard to get away from. that sometimes youll be trapped for a long time and sometimes youll relapse and defend them even after youve realized theyre abusive. and there will be people who support your abuser over you and people who will hate you and believe your abuser over you. and there will be people who support you but will still support your abuser too for whatever reason. and there will be people who support you fullheartedly and care for you and help you even if it takes you a long time to find them.
abuse is complex. "good people" can be abusive. no matter the fandom, no matter the community, no matter the when who where how why there will always be abusers around. no matter where you go or who you talk to there will always be some case of abuse. the important thing is to educate yourself.
learn about tactics like DARVO (deny, attack, reverse [the roles of] victim and offender), keep notes of the hotlines and organizations about abuse. keep the discussion of how to spot abuse and support the victims open. and always, always, keep more affection in your heart for victims than you do hate for abusers. make yourself someone who can be confided in and trusted to not take advantage of that trust.
and remember: if youre a victim yourself, its okay if you didnt do everything "right". its okay if your feelings keep changing, its okay if you were an asshole victim, its okay if you didnt see the signs even when others pointed them out to you, its okay if you did things "wrong". abuse is hard to sort through and what matters is not whether you "provoked" them, its that they had the power to hurt you and get away with it and they used it, over and over. and thats horrible and what you deserve is to get out and to be able to speak about it without getting hurt for it.
if shubble's story and others like hers resonate with you, tell people. it doesnt have to be public. in most cases it shouldnt be. tell people who you can trust in private and get the support you need so that when youre able and ready to you can get out. and know that there are people like you and even if you feel alone right now you wont be forever
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mostly based off how he acts around fionna so far (Not much else to base it off of) i think ellis is super blunt and sometimes even outright mean and accusing toward people he just met and/or doesn’t trust but once he’s talked to someone a bit he is just the biggest sweetheart. like he’d do anything to help the people he cares about. except the only person who really has that title is marshall and i think he more than anybody ever was able to tear those walls down quickly. something about him just calms ellis down more than anything i think
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Itd be remiss of me to call xkcd "bad art", but I do enjoy the fact that we have this artist who exclusively draws stick figure people, when a common excuse for why people don't do art is "I can only draw stick figures"
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i have a bad habit of giving my characters hobbies or professions which i know nothing about and which are in some way related to whatever plot ive come up with. so my options are to either bullshit, or to delay writing until ive mastered whatever random skill my oc has, and by that time sometimes ive forgotten what the story was supposed to be about in the first place
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SO CRAZY, that yuji was out there, just minding his own business and just because he ate ONE finger he's now fighting for his life, tch 🙄
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Is the Inko adopts Tenko fic Inko Shimura? Or does she just decide to adopt an unrelated kid? How does AFO react? How does All Might react?
thanks for the questions!!!!
the basics - inko is a shimura, she's kotaro's sister and nana's daughter. (tenko is her nephew, tenko and izuku are cousins.) inko and kotaro were estranged, so they weren't in contact, and it was assumed that all of kotaro's family died in tenko's quirk awakening.
it's an au where after all might defeats afo in the pre-canon fight, he gathers heroes to figure out what afo has been up to. at this point, tenko is around 16 - he's taken in by the authorities, and they track down his family, which ends up being inko and her young son izuku. (at this point, tenko is still relatively sheltered, and hasn't done any provable villain work. mostly afo has been molding him for the future.)
afo exists nowhere in this fic. i kicked him out. he's simply unimportant to the focus of the fic - i haven't really decided what happened to him. either he's been captured by the heroes, or maybe dead though not likely.
all might, early on in the fic, doesn't know that tenko is nana's grandson as he'd been "shigaraki" at the time of the fight. he was told tenko went to live with family. but have no fear, he will find out... eventually.
not all the details are super nailed down, and they might not be. just enough to carry the story - the fic starts with tenko already in the midoriya household, adjusting to living in a family again, having a new baby brother and a guardian who just wants the best for him, and finding a home.
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do you ever make plans to do something social and then when it's time you wait for the other person to contact you, and when they don't you are simultaneously relieved and disappointed, or are you normal?
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