Are you actually happy with them? Or are you just saying that because you have such a hard time loving yourself that you'll take the bare minimum anyone will give you because you feel that's all you deserve?
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I would like to thank everyone who pays The Lost Prince any attention or appreciation (those I suppose you're all sick of hearing about it by now 🙃) and to that end, I want to pay love forward to some special WIPs I've been allowed to appreciate over the year. I'll pick a few and if anybody wants to do this, feel free to reblog because nothing makes a writer's day than something to keep them going.
@veneritia I am in love with the WorldBuilding of When Comes the Dawn and the relationship between Fernice and her lil bro, is drama I always enjoy hearing about. Charles and Ambrose, ma'am!
@trapped-inadystopianovel for engaging characters (Sola my son) whom I always love to hear about and wonder what they're up to often.
@serpentarii it's the intriguing plots and complex characters for me, the never ending roll call of acceptional posts. And my star-crossed boys.
@surroundedbypearls Every WIP post is always so beautiful, it's like the art the sky makes just before it takes a nap.
@writingamongther0ses the sheer abundance of the writing you manage to produce never fails to impress me. Like girl, you're singlehandedly pushing me to get off of Tiktok and write. Your wip posts always make my day.
@lottieiswriting for my darling Macro and your beautiful wip, Kill the King
@ccorpsidious Adrian Skylar, the one and only, most precious boy who needs a good mom and a warm blanket.
@eluari the absolute beauty of the accompanying art!
@dameschnee123 for Priestess of Light, for the hardhittibg lines that just stock with you. You know the one I mean!
@writerjodie for a Protagonist like Nessa Herrik, whose complex motives are as compelling as the plot! I really can't wait to see more.
@residentofthedisc for all your works! Every one is utterly amazing, you have the range, darling!
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I want to make sure you all understand that i do not encourage self harm, nor do i romanticize it. The reason why i draw the scars on Lucy is that, the trauma does NOT define her and that she's herself despite all of it. She still wants to show her skin like anyone else and i think it's okay. I know i haven't revealed much of my character's personality and story and lore, but she is not perfect and i want to make sure you all understand that. I want you to understand that people with trauma can grow and change and even though the past might manifest in your behavior or your body. You are beautiful and i love you. Please do not hurt yourself.
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One thing I don't really see people tend to talk about with schizoid personality disorder is how much of it is staked on moral shame... It's a little different from how people usually conceptualise 'shame' but it's the closest feeling I can think of at the centre of it.
The 'splitting'/black-and-white thinking associated with ScPD is just so punitive, but it doesn't look punitive at first glance because schizoids are often non-confrontational and 'do' nothing (externally) with the emotions. But internally, it feels like being fixated on all the many ways of fucking up.
Nobody else is good enough and every single thing others do is scrutinised under the lens of obligation—these people that 'love' me, what do they want this time?—to the point where relationships feel like a frustrating power exchange and a court trial of endless litigation, and in the end it's really that yourself is not 'good enough'.
That even if you don't actually hate yourself or think of yourself as inferior in a straightforward manner, it's that because you're acutely aware of some 'obligatory' fucntion of love, it always comes to this overwhelming point where just existing around other people feels like you're failing some invisible demand made of you, and you have to run away if it means you don't have to face that failure.
I remember that case study from the ScPD handbook about this guy who would come to detest any woman who reciprocated his feelings, and it was borne from this feeling that if you view yourself and more importantly your own love and attachment for other people as worthless and unwanted, you can't get rid of the feeling that the love of anybody who could love you was worthless too.
It's a strange, paradoxical form of self-loathing where you might not really recognise yourself as 'incompetent' the way most anxious or insecure people do, but because your standards of what makes a person 'acceptable' enough to relate to are so impossible, you'll always be falling short just by virtue of being a human being.
If another person loves you, it's easier to think that either it's conditional and ulterior or the person has some flaw in their character that gives them such 'poor' taste—and maybe, in some cases, it's an arrogant envy. It's maddening to realise other people can truly 'love' the imperfect and inadequate when you yourself can't.
I'm helplessly cynical towards other people and I attribute it a lot to shame and envy. I feel that if a person doesn't 'love' me enough, they trigger some kind of childish desperation, the way children cry when their parents leave. And if a person 'loves' me too much, I feel like my own selfish nature is put at the forefront. I get embarrassed of wanting affection, of accepting grace, of being treated kindly in a way I can't return—it makes me feel selfish and immoral to think people can care for me in a way I can't reciprocate, especially when the neglect of other people hurts me just the same, so I get angry and envious of other people for having the ability to be so openly kind and I want them to get away from me.
I feel envious that others can care for the people around them so simply and straightforwardly, but more than that, I get envious that other people's love is seen as such a good, desirable thing when I feel like the reason I'm so alienated is because my own feelings of warmth towards others is seen as evil and unwanted. It's not merely that the act of being loved is selfish, but that the very act of loving another is. And it is just absolutely tiresome to feel like the one thing everybody considers as universally good and necessary is wrong when you do it.
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I’m gonna get yelled at for this, but:
While I understand they are serial killers, I dislike how the Ghostfaces are under more criticism from the fandom while the Hero Protags get a pass while being boring and not serving any cunt at all.
I don’t mean criticism for being serial killers or whatever other bad thing they’ve done. I mean this absurd checklist to be accepted by this Hellfandom. (”This character is a LAME Ghostface because-”) 🙄
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