#abuse-cure

[quotelr]

I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.

Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure

[crustyfloor]

Content warning (light) : Experiments / Abuse / Body and eye horror tw(?)

The album cover is sick as hell, I initially thought it was skeletal parts, but it looks the most like an MRI scan showing a brain with a lot of abnormalities, including signs of head trauma.

The most profound detail I found in the "brain" is the dark spots.

Dark spots in the brain are usually the result of a brain lesion, a permanently damaged area of the brain usually caused by injury, infections, exposure to certain chemicals, etc. General trauma.

If it's someone's brain, I suspect it's Till's brain. aside from Luka, he has been through the worst of the Alien's mistreatment since he was a child, under Urak's (the bastard's) care he had been exposed to much abuse. The sheer harshness and hostility of Urak's "training" make it obvious why he was probably one of the only pets to withstand it all.

Life-long injury in some form is surely a given to me. Seeing as it's already been mentioned that because of Urak's abuse, his pets rarely make it to the end because of the mental issues they had developed, and experiments can kill them before they even make it to the stage.

Back to the brain, it has a lot of abnormalities (especially in its appearance). I can't explain much, I'm not a neurologist. But based on the research I did the the most damage seems to be near the Frontal lobe and the Precentral gyrus.

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This could explain Till's already implied mental problems, one of them (In my opinion) being some form of dissociation, round 6 was the most telling as his behavior was out of sorts having been broken down he changed drastically, throughout the whole round he was emotionally distant, i'd probably describe it as him being in a daze.

And his hallucination of Mizi during the karaoke scene could be a symptom of that to ease out of the moment.

(I also see that as more of a coping mechanism for Till, but I'm taking it into account for this since it's likely.)

Experiments always looked intense, I wonder just what chemicals and substances he was exposed to, in one of the opening scenes of CURE we're shown what looks to be DNA splitting, or duplicating? there could be a multitude of reasons for that. But it makes me curious just how deep this goes, and how much it affected Till. There is a lot of things about him that could be explained with Urak's presence in his life.

Having his brain tampered with to such a degree, I think we'll start to see the horrific effects come to light here soon.

[blackhholes]

teen wolf meme: [1/5] motifs -> fire

You find the girl wearing that necklace, she's your arsonist. Murderer. Excuse me? Arson happens to property. This girl's a murderer.

[bringmebrightness]

today i am thinking about ivan being made to mask and the difference between his photo smile and his genuine smiles

[jellyfilledeyes]

maybe this is just me but i felt like the most out of character thing percys done was encourage annabeth to forgive her dad and step mom because i know damm well if he knew the fact that annabeth was basically neglected to hell and back by her dad and stepmom and was treated like absolute shit by her stepmom he would not say this shit

[cripplecharacters]

So in a book I'm writing there are two ways how you treat your disability: 1) get an aid (can be magical or mechanical) that doesn't erase your disability but sure makes your life easier 2) go to a temple of a certain deity, adopt a pet (they run a giant animal shelter among other things), in a year come back with it, and kill it in their name with your own hands to get fully cured. My friend says that last one is a bit too radical...

Hey!

First thing, there should be more ways of what to do - or not do - in context of disability. Not every disabled person needs or wants aids; some people might want an aid for one disability but not for the other.

If you would like our input on the first solution, it would be great to know what exactly is encompassed in the idea of a "magical aid" - we have a whole tag dedicated to it. Some magic aids are better than others in terms of representation and usefulness.

As for the second, please don't do it.

What you're describing is the "cure trope", that we also have a tag dedicated to, as it shows up all the time, and we try to discourage it as much as possible.

"Magically healing disabilities" isn't good representation, and the implication that disabled people would kill animals to get "cured" is strange at best and incredibly offensive at worst. Just because being disabled sometimes sucks (as most things do in general? nothing is perfect all the time) doesn't mean we would kill puppies to be abled, and it's a concerning conclusion to come to. I don't know a single disabled person who would even consider something like this.

My advice would be to just completely get rid of the second "solution"; it's not representative, and the reasoning behind the concept is fundamentally flawed, it features some very tired tropes. I recommend going through our blog and the tags linked to get a better idea on why we take issue with the trope shown here.

You could easily use the shelter concept in a much more interesting way and make the pets into service animals who learn how to help their new owner properly, rather than the whole "dead pet>being disabled" conclusion.

I hope this helps,

mod Sasza

[thepastneverforgets]

evan buckley is literally a disney princess mc embodied in a broad six foot man. and tommy is his prince charming, his flynn. thats all there is to say

[therosehost]

I lied. Put your clothes back on. I wanna discuss dying and/or dead platonic relationships in the hanahaki au. I'm just really fascinated by the implications of this trope.

Has anyone considered what to do with children who don't feel loved ? With parents who are queerphobic or colorist or misogynistic? What does society do with a daughter whose vision goes dark because she knows her father hates gay people? A son who is suffocating on hydrangea petals because his mother keeps giving him bleaching creams as birthday presents? A non-binary kid who coughs up blood because their favorite brother is a red pill podcaster with millions of followers?

That barbed dread in the pit of their stomach when they look at their admired loved ones and realize, "if they knew i was different, they'd hurt me".

When there's demonstrable proof that you won't be safe or worthy unless you've physically/mentally mutilated yourself to your family's standards, how can you not just die inside? Does it not pain you to be so imperfect?

And the fact that these families mean well! That father doesn't want his daughter to go to hell! That mother doesn't want her son to be punished for his dark skin by this white supremacist society! That favorite brother truly believes adhering to strict gender roles will make the rich capitalists respect the common man!

When the pain you've caused your family is seen as merely an investment in a better future, how does it feel to know the only thing you've ensured for them is an early death?

That's kinda fucked actually.

[indilaras]

Whiteboard doodles done while waiting for the lecturer to arrive

+ Cyno joke bonus

Joke explanation: "Menuntut ilmu" is a common phrase that means something like "searching for knowledge; studying, learning", but menuntut by itself means "suing (to sue)". So Cyno is saying "'Suing knowledge'? What did knowledge do wrong?"

[tinytimism]

the reviews on the cover of any edition of convenience store woman:

[sukunastoy]

Um, what?

This generation is “psychologically damaged” cause of uneducated asshats like herself that most likely beat her kids into submission and played off any problems as the child being “attention seeking.”

Fat yikes.

[arkiwii]

Kristen Arknights is giving me brainworms this cannot continue

Before Lone Trail, I was really convinced that "ah yeah so she's really evil", like what, she approved and conducted the Diabolic Experiment? She approved the experiment at Site #359 and was probably looking at the giant Hub from her window, presumably while eating popcorns, and when Saria arrived to scream at her "WHAT THE FUCK" Kristen just replied "Oh hey I knew you would solve it"? She also funded Loken's Watertank and collected his data on children experiments after he got arrested??

Any sane person would be calling her an egoist, a betrayer, a seeker, a loner

And yet, she was a pioneer.

Lone Trail dropped and now, I don't even know what to think anymore of this character. Like I don't approve what she has done, but also, I don't hate her. She put me into a state of mind I can't think straight anymore. This dog is TRULY fucked up.

She was obsessed, truly obsessed by her dream. She wanted to achieve what her parents had failed to do. She wanted to honor her family, to prove something to the world. To find the truth. To break the sky.

And she fucking did it. She absolutely did. She achieved it, she had done what nobody has ever done before. Regardless of the methods, regardless of morals and ethics, what she did was HUGE. That night, everyone on Terra looked up at the sky. She made a huge step forward, she revolutioned and changed things. The moment she pierced the starpod, a page in the history of the world had been turned, a new era has started. This event was major. And countless scientists will look up upon her, and for ages, her name will be praised.

And she did at what cost? Everything. Her own life, her friends.

I can't stop thinking about how much she tried to keep Saria away from her. I thought that Kristen was using Saria, that she didn't care about her, but actually it's... Something else. She does care about Saria, but it's Saria who was completely obsessed with Kristen. It's Saria who refused to let go. Of course, Saria devoted her life to protect Kristen, she wanted to stay with her until the very end. Kristen did not wanted it, she wanted Saria to continue to live on. It's her dream, and she's ready to die to achieve it. Not Saria's. Nor Muelsyse's.

I can't stop thinking about how she tried EVERYTHING to stop Saria. She studied her Arts, found ways to supress them, created Power Armors to neutralize them, she showed coldness to Saria to keep her away. But god, Saria was clingy as hell. If Kristen had to get to install a trap door in her spaceship SPECIFICALLY for Saria, that's to say how much Saria did not want to let go.

Saria was ready to die for Kristen, she was ready to stay with her until the very end. But Kristen always had in mind to go alone.

And in the end, she had to show Saria that she deserves to live, to continue, that there's still people who need her. Rhine Lab needs her. Ifrit needs her. Silence needs her. Rhodes Island needs her. She can't join Kristen like that. She can't die yet.

Even if Kristen was obsessed by her dream, she was still able to care enough for Saria and the people around her.

And god fucking damn I'm crying

Kristen is absolutely the best antagonist of all Arknights there's absolutely no way we can't do better, I'm standing on my ground

[sqebu]

My mother, to her daughter who has displayed consistent signs of mental illness: you are taking advantage of mentally ill people by dating them

[besttropeveershowdown]

The Worst Trope Ever Showdown: Round 1, Side A

Disability Magically Cured

When a character is ‘fixed’, ‘cured’, or ‘healed’ of their Permanent disability, usually by the means of magic within fantasy genres in media.

Propaganda:

Framing the curing of a disability as a narrative reward suggests that having/acquiring a disability is some sort of punishment, and that disabled people 1) SHOULD want to be cured, and 2) are disabled because they somehow deserve it. Same goes for the “disability as punishment” trope; just the other way around. If other people are submitting the disability as punishment trope and nobody else is submitting the cure as reward trope then please count this as a vote for the disability as punishment trope.

Implies that disabled characters are ‘incomplete’ and/or ‘broken’ people because of their disability.

Honor Thy Abuser

Abuse victims are expected by the narrative to forgive and respect their abusers.

Propaganda:

While this could be done well and with moral complexity, most of the time it's just kind of shitty and vilifying towards the understandable resentment one might feel towards someone who abused them.

[witheredgardenparty]

Every now and then I see the discourse circulate on this hellsite, and I wonder if people know that the term 'yandere' used to have an extremely specific definition that no longer holds up to how people use it today

[fentanyl-rabbits]

"I'm nicer now"