#5 feet apart

[zetaphobia]

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Hey look, they finally meet! ..sort of, I guess?

(Author Note: I’m so sorry you guys keep seeing a drastic art style change throughout the comic </3)

[ghosts-r-real-i-swear]

Another universe

[beyourowninspiration16]

As someone who is disabled, frequently ill and often has to take to bed for days on end due to incurable ailments, I wish there was more representation in books and media.

And not just as glamourized plot devices.

I'm sick of seeing a movie where the entire plot is romanticising how sh*t it is to be sick, or showing how valuable your illness actually is in a convoluted way, or using the entire book/media to show that you're actually lucky, others have it worse and whatever

Look at Kaz Brekker. He's disabled. But the entire book/show is not about that. It is simply a fact of his character. It adds and takes away nothing from the plot. But it adds everything in representation.

I can name so many productions that utilise illness and disability as an asset to a character, or conversely a detriment. Instead of it being just a fact of life.

This would especially make sense in terms of longterm injury in fantasy. Maybe they're immortal magical soldiers who heal incredibly fast, but give them a shoulder that never quite mended right. An ankle that fractures or sprains easily. A deformed nose. You can't seriously expect me to believe that these characters got out of wars with just sexy scars.

And why can't we have a protagonist in any genre where they just happen to have asthma. Or have a serious intolerance to dairy. Or gets bad migraines. Or has chronic back pain. Endometriosis. Even bad hay fever. Or a frequent habit for catching stomach bugs.

It doesn't have to be major. But representation of illness, disability and injury can make a world of difference.

It can make a character more beloved, for showing humanity and for being relatable.

I'm not saying that movies shouldn't be made about specific illness and disability, so much so that they are the plot. I'm not saying that. I'm saying they need to be done right, and we need to lose the stigma that someone who is disabled or has a longterm illness is less capable of being a functioning protagonist outside of the illness plot.

Dramatisation and glamourization of illness is damaging. It's harmful, and does not uplift disabled or ill people.

If someone has a longterm illness, or is disabled; they do NOT want to watch or read something that makes an example of them. They want to feel represented in a book or show, or movie, where their illness or disability doesn't matter.

So, give us a character that has IBS. Or tourettes syndrome. Or is deaf. Or autism. Or ADHD. And NOT make them the token side character.

Give us a protagonist who is disabled or chronically ill, and PROVE to small children and preteens that they are just as worthy of being a main character in their own lives.

Because right now and up until now, everything in literature and the media is telling them that the most they can be is a token representation in a side character, and an example where their illness is the entire plot.

It is telling them that they are not worthy of their own story.

Yes, there have been more representations in fiction, even of autism and mental illness. But they are still either glamourised, or pushed to the side. Or both.

And it's not acceptable.

Illness and disability is not glamorous. It is someone's life. It can be painful, and difficult, and often disgusting even to oneself.

And to have someone glamorise it in media and fiction is incredibly insulting. It is demeaning, undermining, and dehumanising.

People with illness and disabilities often don't have the cliche happy ending you see in fiction. And I don't mean that to be cruel, or pessimistic. I say it because often times it is realistic, and in the case longterm illness and disability, it is simply a part of their life, unfortunately.

But the opposite is not an unhappy ending. The stereotyped happy ending is only a fantasy, because these things just go on. And to have a cliche happy ending just incorrectly educates others about the experiences of chronically ill and disabled people's.

I'm not saying people who are disabled or have longterm illnesses are all always miserable, and I'm not saying that they will never recover, or even improve. I'm saying that it is just another part of their lives, for better or for worse.

And sometimes it doesn't NEED fixing. You don't need to fix a disabled person, you need to fix the world around them. The world needs to adapt to the people living in it. And fiction needs to adapt to the different characters. Otherwise it gives the impression that only perfection is valued and acceptable. There are no perfect protagonists.

So, happy endings are unrealistic, because it's just life. There are good days and bad days, like anyone else in the world. It will always fluctuate.

But it DOESN'T need to be tied up in a nice, neat bow.

[brandileigh2003]

Ty @lavenderhaze for the tag

What are 3 AUs you'd love to write/draw/etc & 3 you'd love to read? And with which ships?

(I'm guessing we mean like tv shows/movies, etc and not just HP being non magical?)

Ok. Wolfstar for all--

✏️Write-

Honestly? I don't know what I can handle. I need to work on my remus Lupin fest so ... Unless inspiration strikes for an au match up, I doubt it.

📚Read:

-one tree hill (I know, doesn't fit perfectly, but I'm watching Lucas and Peyton and making it gay with wolfstar)

-5 feet apart maybe? (I have read one, but still)

-Jurassic world (sort of). I totally need a velicoraptor imprinting on remus. I loved blue when I watched with the fam last month. I don't need a bunch of people to die, it can be happy. I just want velicoraptor

@lucigoo wanna play?

[dxncingwithastrxnger]

Finally watching Five Feet Apart (it was on my watchlist even before watching Riverdale) and CRYING before I'm even halfway through

I love these two no matter how much I'm trying not to because I know one of them is gonna die, UGH

So not fair that they played one of the same songs from the Fault In Our Stars soundtrack 😭😭

[silvermistcosmos]

TELL ME WHY I DECIDED TO WATCH 5 FEET APART?!?! TELL ME!!!! WHEN I KNEW IT WOULD HAVE THIS KIND OF ENDING!! IM CRYING!! LIKE ACTUALLY, LITERALLY!! I CRIED A FEW TIMES THROUGHOUT IT ACTUALLY AND I JUST CANT-

[meeskdo]

Connection, 2022

All made of acrylic yarns crocheted and knitted, the heads are cardboard with acrylic paint.

I’ve always wanted to do a sculpture with crochet that looked natural and I finally did one !

[teenkillhimself]

I like movies where the main character has a terminal illness and the whole movie’s shot in a hospital and they probably die in the end

[bookworms-haven]

My Brotp

I have a variety of answers but there are three that stick out (in different books).

1. Lily & Alyssa in 'It Ends With Us' - Colleen Hoover

I know that CoHo is a touchy topic at the moment and some of her other books aren't great but if we can get behind a romance between a person and a pillow then surely we can give her a break, right?

2. Richie Tozier & Beverly Marsh in 'It' - Stephen King

I have conflicting feelings about the book as a whole but I am in love with the plot and characters. Rich & Bev must be besties FOREVER. End of Discussion.

3. Stella & Poe in 'Five Feet Apart' - Rachael Lippincott

Despite the fact that things don't end well for Po, Stella and Poe will forever be the type of friendship that I aspire to achieve. Truly Idyllic.

[alphabetcrashcourse]

That but Chuuya sitting back and enjoying his struggle

something about Dazai being comfortable enough around Chuuya to be vulnerable and let him see his genuine reactions (especially his genuine shock) as he processes out loud is SO SO IMPORTANT TO ME

plus Chuuya not being shocked to see the genius at work tells us this isn’t the first time he’s seen Dazai actively figuring things out in real time…

the way Chuuya knows Dazai's nervous habits— noticing that Dazai is worried, and subtly checking on him. the way Dazai drops his facade in favor of putting all of his focus into the mental game at hand is such an obvious sign of trust & closeness for someone like Dazai, whose facade is his main form of defense

how they interact with each other in the downtimes when there’s nobody's watching…

all i can think is, look how far they’ve come since they were 16 when Dazai couldn’t trust anyone with his plans. how even now, Dazai is always putting up his “all according to plan” front, even with the agency. how Chuuya is the one person we’ve seen him truly drop the mask around, and Chuuya doesn’t bat an eye. even their banter is ongoing, but subdued.

soukoku and their subtle displays of intimacy will be the death of me 💔

[zetaphobia]

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(Got the slippery doll and tied threads combo 😔)

Error belongs to @/loverofpiggies

[xdestinykey]

always been a big fan of the ✨fingertip touch✨

[inkskinned]

these days, the summer fan is on, and there is a little cricket in you. your mother would say you don't have ambition, but that's not quite true. you just had different priorities: for most of your life, the pain swallowed so much of your energy that picturing a future was almost impossible. it took so much just to render yourself here without evaporating - making goals always felt shallow, far-off.

at 17, maybe you would have wanted to be famous. maybe you would have wanted to kiss every woman and come home late at night and call the dawn to heel like a dog. to meet taylor swift and ask her to collaborate on poems and french-kiss in the rain. to wiggle your fingers at jealous ex-lovers while you lifted the hem of your ballgown and got out of limousines. a life of rooftops, spinning and glittering.

these days, it isn't that you're tired, but that you have learned the weight of carrying things. you have had the good times. you have laughed at the bottom of a pool. you have had your hands on the paring knife. you know the cost of it, like a carcinogen. these days, you want a life like a stone fruit. these days, you want a life that lays gently on your skin, rather than piercing through.

you are going to get a little condo with your friend. the two of you fantasize about basic things: how it will feel to cook in a friendly kitchen. the serenity of picking out wall paint colors. putting plants in the sunlit corner. you want a place that never rings in anger. where the only echo is jazz music. you want a peace like holding your head under the water.

ah. maybe your younger self would be devastated - you got boring?

she doesn't know yet. she has lived her entire life terrified, running. she has grown so accustomed to the threat that she has fallen in love with the scythe. she thinks passionate and violent are synonyms, that anything lovely has to come with a bad side. she thinks life has to break like a wave - that you need to swallow the ocean in order to stay above the foam. she doesn't know about the boat yet. she doesn't know about spending hours at home, quiet, your hands folded, finding peace. she doesn't know about weightlessness. she thinks everything good is everything sharp. that the pain is what makes something satisfying.

one day she will make cookies from scratch. one day when she breaks a plate, she will be the only one around, and nobody will start shouting. one day she will slip her fingers under the sand, and it will make sense to her. the life assembling in little shards: oh. i've been afraid of a quiet life at home because i've never had a quiet home to come to before.

the gentle world inside her, singing behind a door.

[magicshop]

just two beautiful men hanging out in the mountains

[tananais]

andrea & daniele prisma season two coming june 6th

[turnipoddity]

uhh…. anyway