#anyway!! i think about this a lot.
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quicktimeeventfull · 2 years ago
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in the tags of a recent post of yours you mentioned L having psychosis, and while ive seen people talk about him being very easily interpreted as neurodivergent, especially autistic, i havent seen anyone talking about psychosis in relation to him. would you mind elaborating? i love nd readings of characters, and a new perspective or idea is always fun
absolutely!! i’m always very happy to talk about this.
so this is based on a brief but very memorable line that was added into the anime. it’s from silence (L’s death episode) and it takes place in the rain. L mentions that the bells sound louder than usual on this particular day. we also get a few extra scenes of disjointed images from what is presumably Wammy’s house, with a bell ringing.
what’s literally being depicted on screen is that L is having and has apparently been having auditory hallucinations throughout the entire series.
this is almost certainly meant to be understood as a metaphor — L is “hearing” both his oncoming death, and the echoes of his past. in regards to this, i think it’s worth recognizing that there’s a really long history of using mental illness, especially but not exclusively psychosis, as symbols or metaphors for various things, including death and guilt and sin. this scene is very much playing into that framework.
imo it’s not unreasonable to just ignore the fact that L is, literally, psychotic. it’s clearly not the intention of the scene, and there’s absolutely no invocation of it before or since. at the same time, though, choosing to engage with it via analysis or invocation within fic/art/etc. without in any way acknowledging the backdrop against which it exists (ie the very troubling & dehumanizing history of reducing mental illness to metaphor) inevitably results in the replication and unintentional endorsement of that history. after all, if you choose to use it as a metaphor, you’re doing the exact same thing madhouse did. also, choosing to ignore it outright is (imo) genuinely a valid choice, but it’s not a choice without weight and context behind it.
more broadly, when it comes to potentially incorporating that psychosis into the rest of the story — i don’t have any particular on how it should be done, other than that it’s 100% possible and i think it would be really interesting to see people engage with it in an intentional way.
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illusioncanthurtme--art · 2 months ago
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Physically? I am sitting in my bedroom. Mentally? Spiritually? I AM DEAD ON THE FLOOR!!!!! THESE TWO HAVE KILLED ME!!!!
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(Another drawing! This was originally attempt #1 at drawing stan, and then fiddleford just showed up. Kinda feels like them five minutes after the above acting like nothing happened though, so it works sdjkgkjfshj)
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mroddmod · 3 months ago
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don't be weepy sleepy puppies
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fascinationstreetmp3 · 2 months ago
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every time i think about how armand as rashid is a kind of visual echo of how he looked as amadeo i want to explode
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like... his big brown eyes... all his little expressions... his hair...
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ciderjacks · 4 months ago
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dwarven brew
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s-ccaam-era-crepe · 1 year ago
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i think everyone who's ever had migraines should be financially compensated forever btw
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clownowo · 1 year ago
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been replaying the Portal series I think this is where its heading
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hinamie · 2 months ago
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"I'll show you every day that choosing to live was worth it"
some of my favourite scenes from @hijinks-n-lowjinks' fic things i would miss from the other side . this fic tore my heart out fr but like in a good way and i wanted to pay it homage the only way i know how <3
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egophiliac · 7 months ago
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IT WAS ERIC AFTER ALL!!!! I'm so glad we got to meet him (before Vil snaps him away with those Infinity Gauntlets) (can't wait to see what happens when we get the matching Infinity Tiara to go with them, there will be no survivors)
(sorry to be so slow/rough lately, just got a lot of stuff on the ol' brain at the moment! alas, if only I could spend all my time drawing incredibly stupid characters I mean I do but)
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separatist-apologist · 3 months ago
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Genuinely, and I mean this kindly, but learning to recognize bait and not engaging with it will change your fandom experience.
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mienar · 7 months ago
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small town buzz
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abstractfrog · 1 month ago
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Happy 1 year anniversary to Mr Sherlock Holmes! Here's a litttleee celebratory comic from me
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jinaxxo · 1 month ago
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to whom do i surrender my heart?
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technically-human · 4 months ago
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Edwin after the confession is a menace
Bonus Charles being normal about it:
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soldrawss · 2 months ago
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Something something that one couples meme where you have to guess which outfit belongs to which (except its huntlow and they share a closet actually)
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aroaceleovaldez · 10 months ago
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Nico referring to his mom as "Mama" implies he most likely at least used to refer to Hades as "Papa" and i 100% headcanon he still does but mostly in the manner of him having the entire Underworld wrapped around his finger for being the baby of the family
#pjo#riordanverse#nico di angelo#headcanon#my art#nico flexing youngest child privilages by pulling out the most pitiful expression he can manage#anyways i find it fun to explore character word choices#cause yknow no two characters are going to select their words the same way#or even necessarily think about it to the same degree#i like to think Nico thinks about his word choice a lot#so of course every time he uses ''papa'' he fully knows he's pulling the Baby Of The Family card#Hades definitely knows this too but falls for it every time anyways#cause Nico hasnt called him ''papa'' regularly since getting his memory wiped - just detached ''father'' or at best ''dad''#so it just reminds Hades of How Much He Just Wants His Children To Be Happy Like The Old Days#and how much poor Nico has been through and he's just the baby of the family and-#cue Nico smugly staring at the camera cause he knows how much power he holds#also i say Nico is Hades' only son cause mythologically even when Zagreus *is* Hades' son (rarely) he's. dead.#a major part of Zagreus' mythology is that he died#and im p sure every other deity said to be Hades' children are all goddesses and also are like 50% of the time not his#theres also only like 3 of them. and as far as we know in riordanverse canon one of them is implied to not be his daughter#so Nico is Hades' only son and also youngest in the family (cause Hazel is older by a month chronologically or 1 year biologically)#(and everybody else is a deity if children of hades at all)
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