#Theme: PTSD

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The Second Kingdom by bluewinged_songbird (@darling-deerest-dead) Pairing: James/Sirius, Raising Harry Rating: T Word Count: 10k In the aftermath of Lily's death, James and Sirius struggle to raise Harry together. As if being in your early 20s wasn't already hard enough. (sequel to The First Kingdom)

[jaded-but-softening]

[anyanary]

I…have absolutely nothing to say for myself, so I’m just gonna ask all of you to not look at me, as I slowly back away and admit myself into the nearest psych ward.

[radiomogai]

[PT: I made some neurocatgenders!

BPDcatgender

PTSDcatgender

C-PTSDcatgender

OCDcatgender. End PT]

I made some neurocatgenders!

BPDcatgender

BPDcatgender is a catgender that is in some way connected to or influenced by one having BPD. Exclusive to those with BPD, including those who self-diagnosed.

PTSDcatgender

PTSDcatgender is a catgender that is in some way connected to or influenced by one having PTSD. Exclusive to those with PTSD, including those who self-diagnosed.

C-PTSDcatgender

C-PTSDcatgender is a catgender that is in some way connected to or influenced by one having C-PTSD. Exclusive to those with C-PTSD, including those who self-diagnosed.

OCDcatgender

OCDcatgender is a catgender that is in some way connected to or influenced by one having OCD. Exclusive to those with OCD, including those who self-diagnosed.

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Do It All Over Again (Series) by DracoWillHearAboutThis Pairing: Harry/Draco Rating: E Word Count: 468k, 9 Works Podfic available here Read by: Sandstripe Length: 30+ hours All he wanted was a way out. A way to do it all over again, and to erase his mistakes. He stared at the crackling blue flames so hard they imprinted in his vision. At age eleven, Draco receives a letter from the future, which will make him change the path he has set out upon and lead him into a life he'd never dared to imagine.

find the full podfic library here

[peppermint-candy]

[aroaceleovaldez]

The himbo, malewife, goofball -fication of percy jackson is such a crime by both the fans and riordan. It has made Mr not like percabeth as a couple because in all posts and in later books annabeth is such a girlboss, while Percy's dumb and can't fight his way out of a paperbag without her. All the posts are about how annabeth will be an architect and percy would love to be a trophy husband.

Even the humor in the books went from Percy's sharp wit and snark to 'my pancakes can't drown because I'm a son of poseidon.'

And now this recommendation letter bullshit.

Honestly now I'd wish percy just separated from annabeth (but they remain best friends.) He stays home with his family, becomes a camp counselor, helps young demigods, holds God's accountable and eventually becomes a social activist. (I also dislike him doing something marine biology related. It's clear he hates academics but he always wants to help people. Him helping demigods and mortals is such a wholesome profession for him.)

I fully agree with the first half of this, though I slightly disagree with part of the latter.

The later-series and fanon mischaracterization of Percy is at least a solid 50% ableism minimum, full stop. He's being warped into a very stereotyped ADHD character and the exact reason why he's being characterized as "dumb" is because of ableism. Percy is a very intelligent character! That's exactly why he's so in sync with Annabeth and they're such a strong duo! It's just generally Annabeth is more book/academically smart.

I disagree with where you say he hates academics - because that's one of the common misconceptions about his character. Percy doesn't hate learning or academic subjects! He's not even bad at them! We know explicitly that when he is in an accommodating environment he is interested in learning and gets significantly better grades! Percy only dislikes school because it is generally an environment that systematically he struggles with. It's literally just he has a learning disability (two, actually)! That's it! When his learning disability is accommodated for he does well! It's almost like that's what accommodations are all about! We know this from the first series! It's discussed pretty in-depth! Percy isn't a dumb character and he doesn't hate learning, he's just been let down by school systems so much that he's inherently distrustful of them. If they actually accommodate him though then he does just fine!

And that's exactly what CHB was all about and why New Rome University was supposed to be such a big thing for him! CHB is a learning environment geared for demigods. NRU is a demigod college. Both inherently imply an environment meant to cater to and accommodate students with ADHD and dyslexia! They are both systematically structured to be able to accommodate him! Heck, CHB and CJ even both address in the wider themes of the series a metaphor about how ADHD and dyslexia are commonly seen as childhood disabilities, and how it can be more difficult to find accommodations into adulthood because of that attitude but those disabilities don't just go away - that's why CHB is a summer camp but they talk about how demigods outside of CHB don't often fare well. The metaphor there is those who are not getting help or accommodations are struggling. Because that's how that works! This is a fully intentional metaphor from the first series! CHB is never framed as being perfect for demigods, because one of the entire central conflicts of the series is Percy and Luke going back and forth about this flawed system meant to help and support them but still letting people fall through the cracks. The "claim your kids by 13" thing is a metaphor about how acknowledging a child's disabilities (and possibly getting a diagnosis) earlier/as early as possible means they will have more time to learn and build up resources and support for themselves to be able to use later in life. One of CHB's major flaws is that it can accommodate demigods to a certain point, but it can only do so much before those demigods have to leave (the metaphor being accommodating school systems when those disabled students do not have any other forms of accommodations in their lives.)

And that's why Camp Jupiter was framed as being so revolutionary for Percy because it had an environment acknowledging that this is not just a childhood disability, adults with ADHD/dyslexia exist too and still need and deserve accommodations, AND is a place where those accommodations are available. That's why Camp Jupiter and NRU are treated as such special and important things to Percy, because it's essentially Percy being shown this type of thing can and does exist and it is available to him. It is an option he never thought was possible. Percy never thought he'd be able to go to college because he would not be able to go through school without accommodations, but NRU proves otherwise.

The part that's absolutely stupid is Rick then proceeded to retcon NRU so that apparently it's not a full college and Percy still has to take classes at normal mortal college which DEFEATS THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF NRU EXISTING. Rick has fully retconned that demigods struggle past the ages of 16-18 when they're on their own (see above elaborated metaphors) and in doing so we have fully killed all symbolism in literally all of that. It's so stupid. And by having the plot of the CoTG trilogy entirely be that Percy is not actually allowed access to NRU in the first place because he is a son of Poseidon and has to do extra to even be accepted is stupid!

All that to say, I agree the marine biology feels like a huge cop-out and a disservice to his character by reducing him to just a son of Poseidon. The literal only reason why it's the default option people take for him is because oh, fish thing, fish guy. But I feel like everyone ignores the really obvious answer for what Percy would want to do which is - writing. Both his parents are writers/authors and he clearly admires that about them. Percy likes telling stories! He canonically is already a published author in-universe! That's what the books ARE in-universe! The first series fully exists in their universe and Percy is the author! This is explicit canonical information! Percy canonically has help physically writing it down (accommodations) but he is still the credited author! Percy is a writer! Already! Canonically! Why are we making him a marine biologist he already has a profession that ties into his character significantly more. Like you said, Percy likes helping people. That's what the books in-universe are supposed to be for! It's point blank at the beginning of the series! Book one! The thing everybody quotes all the time! The books exist because it is Percy trying to give advice to other demigods who don't know what's going on yet! It's Percy's writing down his experiences to help new demigods understand and contextualize their experiences so they can understand themselves better and figure out what's going on - WHICH IN ITSELF IS ALSO A METAPHOR ABOUT ADHD/DYSLEXIA! Because the core of the series has and always will be built around ADHD/dyslexia! Percy as a protagonist EXPLICITLY was created so that ADHD/dyslexic kids could see themselves as a hero!

Sorry that all was a very tangential rant but my point being: Absolutely. Percy in newer stuff in the franchise and in fanon is horrifically mischaracterized in ways that are functionally either fully ableist (shoutout TSATS for just outright claiming Percy is intentionally lazy and skips school out of disinterest, which is like the number one ableist attitude towards kids with learning disabilities) or a complete erasure of Percy's disabilities. Also I think he should be a writing major not a marine biologist.

[radiomogai]

[PT: Obsessive Love Flag. End PT]

Flag proportions: The proportions are very particular, if we imagine the canvas as having 100 pixels, then the stripes are gonna have the following heights, in pixels, from top to bottom, 20p, 25p, 10p, 25p, 20p. This is to represent how it can feel like the obsessive love is closing in, taking over, or expanding. The flag's width can be stretched to your liking.

Stripe meanings: Red: Strength of obsessive love/Intrusive Thoughts Pink: Affection Light pink: Loyalty/Dedication. The object of affection, embraced by other stripes. Purple: Protectiveness Dark purple: Fear of rejection/Longing

If desired, the symbol for OCD, PTSD or BPD can be overlaid. (Or, any other disorder that makes you feel like you might experience obsessive love.)

Although this flag has a stripe for Intrusive Thoughts, this account doesn't endorse enacting Violence towards the object of affection. Remember that your thoughts don't define you. Remember not to act upon harmful thoughts.

Pasted what's under the cut for archival purposes.

Obsessive Love Flag

Stripe meanings + Explanation under "read more"

Flag proportions: The proportions are very particular, if we imagine the canvas as having 100 pixels, then the stripes are gonna have the following heights, in pixels, from top to bottom, 20p, 25p, 10p, 25p, 20p. This is to represent how it can feel like the obsessive love is closing in, taking over, or expanding. The flag's width can be stretched to your liking.

Stripe meanings: Red: Strength of obsessive love/Intrusive Thoughts Pink: Affection Light pink: Loyalty/Dedication. The object of affection, embraced by other stripes. Purple: Protectiveness Dark purple: Fear of rejection/Longing

If desired, the symbol for OCD, PTSD or BPD can be overlaid. (Or, any other disorder that makes you feel like you might experience obsessive love.)

Although this flag has a stripe for Intrusive Thoughts, this account doesn't endorse enacting Violence towards the object of affection. Remember that your thoughts don't define you. Remember not to act upon harmful thoughts.

[sidsledge]

✦ SIDSLEDGE // “Back to the Old House” ‐ The Smiths.

just in time for my 1 year anniversary. vote sidsledge

And you never knew How much I really liked you Because I never even told you Oh, and I meant to

[diaryofamenace]

TRAINING PERRY AS A SPY!

Plus, I like how Candace and Phineas find Perry being a spy as funny.

Plus, Phineas, didn't you already find out that Perry was a secret agent back in 2011?

WHY DO YOU FIND PLATYPI SPIES FUNNY, PHINEAS FLYNN-FLETCHER?!

You almost got killed by a robotcized version of him, for crying out loud!

Plus, you two do not remember the events from that adventure!

[defire]

As an abuse survivor, you are just fetishizing child abuse. Plain and simple. Call it a coping mechanism or a power take-back all you want, but it's just an excuse to write porn about child abuse. I pity people like you, truly, I do. I can only pray that you eventually see a therapist about your internalized pedo behavior.

Cw: RANCID ask ⬆️

I'm so glad you brought this up because I don't like to speak for people like you--I'd rather combat these opinions directly.

Since you're praying, I'll feel free to make biblical allusions. (Tw)

First, the word "fetish". My opinion: I don't find fetishes or porn too helpful for processing trauma--it's more like exposure therapy. At some point you do need to actually grieve and process what happened. I don't judge those who do that (you're not hurting anybody♥️), but that's not what Survivor Fiction is for.

When you're judging whether something is bad or good, you can use the "tree by its fruits" concept. Basically, if a tree produces good fruit, it's a good tree. If it produces bad fruit, it's a diseased/bad tree.

So let's look at what Survivor Fiction does for survivors specifically.

It brings healing. I (a new author!) have already received five testimonies that have said how much my writing helped them move through some of their trauma and see things in a different, calmer way.

Survivor Fiction brings peace. A surprising amount of the community--90.5% in a poll involving 1,543 voters--use whump stories to go to sleep at night. (Many trauma survivors have difficulty sleeping from flashbacks. Fiction along the same lines can offer an appropriate sense of distance from the fear.)

It helps disabled people. It appears that a strong majority of our community is autistic. Part of the diagnosis is emotional dysregulation. We need to be walked through how to do things in great detail. Survivor Fiction often walks the reader through the process of trauma, reaction, ptsd, and recovery.

It spreads awareness. Survivor fiction is often more accurate to real-life abusive situations instead of glossing it over--in other words, LYING--about what goes on. This can bring a 3rd party perspective to a current victim too, giving them the understanding that they are being abused and need to escape if possible.

For a more thorough explanation of why fiction about survivors is good and necessary, see this post.

Okay, so would "bad fruit" look like? Do you see any of the following from our community? ↙️

Doing these things in real life

Being generally hurtful of others

Hurting children in real life

Harming emotions by pushing unwanted content to people who would be triggered by it? (Quite the opposite, we tend to post exhaustive content warnings before the content.)

Something else that's actually wrong and not just a thought crime?

And here's the fruit of your words, which I'm sure we all heard the jist of many times before:

You encourage covering up evil. Trying to hide fiction that more accurately describes pain, abuse, and PTSD means hiding the truth. Stifling the exposure of just how evil it is to abuse someone like this. The righteous walk in the light, but the wicked hide their deeds in the darkness.

Your words are shaming. Shame causes pain to fester and act out in harmful ways, such as repeating abuse cycles, self-harm, and dangerous overreactions. Christian ideology here--shame is what caused Adam and Eve to hide from God.

You are lying. You implied that we harm people in real life without any reason to think so. And also implied that we want to be in the aggressor's position. Generally speaking we identify most with the victim.

Referencing Christianity here, if you're christian--Your words condemn the Bible. The bible is full of stories much darker than most of what is written here. You'll read about rape, and the cannibalism of one's own children in Lamentations, among other things.

You're hurting yourself. You will be judged with the measure you judge others with. This is because if you judge others harshly for their thoughts, you'll instinctively judge yourself just as harshly. You end up hurting yourself and others over something that wasn't even doing any harm in the first place.

Causing confusion. What you said was illogical. If it's fiction where the damage occurs, we should be blaming the fictional aggressor--not the writer reporting it. If it's reality where the damage occurs, we should be blaming real criminals--not the journalist. The truth is that writing about survivors isn't generally harmful.

In short, you're creating a lot of problems and not helping. Did this ask come from a loving place?

This answer I'm giving, does.

[sodachalice]

already posted this elsewhere but one of the best parts about cartoons is that if you made them into real people who abide by the rules of logic and society as a whole in our world all of them and i mean literally all of them would be deeply deeply autistic and likely extremely mentally unwell. any of them. any single one. its amazing.

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Love In A Time Of The Zombie Apocalypse by rizzlewrites Pairing: Hermione/Draco, Harry/Ginny Rating: E Word Count: 356k Podfic available here Read by: Beatificbean, Cailynwrites, ETL_Echo_Audiobooks Length: 20+ hours After Voldemort, there was this. The clock is ticking to create a cure to the unimaginable horror that currently grips the world. Hermione finds herself unwillingly allied with the most hated man in Wizarding Britain. find the full podfic library here

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Irondad fic ideas #148

You know those homework assignments where you have to interview someone in your family and then write an essay about their responses? Fic where Peter's class is told to interview their dad / a father figure in their life. 

Peter decides to interview Tony. But, he doesn't want his class to accuse him of lying, and he definitely doesn't want Tony to know what the assignment is about. 

So for Tony, Peter makes it seem like the assignment is just to interview anyone. Then, he carefully chooses questions to ask that are domestic and personal enough to avoid any mention of superheroes, celebrities, or so on. The few details that do slip through he just leaves out of his final essay.

For the class problem, Peter solves it by referring to Tony in the essay exclusively as "dad"

Unfortunately for Peter, the teacher then announces a part 2 to the assignment. Right after collecting the essays, the teacher says they will now need to bring the people they interviewed to school for their presentations

Peter has pretty much decided to not even mention it to Tony and just say his dad is busy. But then Flash has to open his big mouth. 

He accuses Peter of just making his assignment up, loudly reminding the class that he's an orphan. Peter clarifies that this father figure thing is a new development, but now the teacher looks suspicious

Peter is going to have to ask Tony to come to his school. And he's going to have to explain why the class will be full of kids and their fathers

[radiomogai]

[PT: Polytra. end PT]

[PT: Polytra was coined by FANDOM user The Icarus System on May 1st of 2021. The flag was coined by FANDOM user The Icarus System on May 1st of 2021. end PT]

Polytra

Polytra is term used to define someone who was and/or felt like they were once polyamorous but, due to trauma, they are now monogamous. This term may only be used by those who have PTSD, C-PTSD, or trauma-formed disorders.

One with this identity may also be caedsexual and/or caedromantic. The opposite to this is monotra, while the non-exclusive version of this term is polycortar.

Polytra was coined by FANDOM user The Icarus System on May 1st of 2021. The flag was coined by FANDOM user The Icarus System on May 1st of 2021.

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