#did media

[bunnidid-reviews]

I just finished Chasing Dawn (The Alters) by Terra Katherine McKeown  and aaaaaa!!!!

aaaaaaa!!!!! It so good!!!!

I don't have the time right now to write up the review, but if you want a thrilling urban fantasy with a really cool take on DID and magic, please check this out, it's so so cool!!! I am Hooked! I Am Compelled! In less pages than other certain books I've read, I'm so much more connected to each of the alters and their personal journies, as well as the magical lore.

If you check it out, please be mindful that there's some detailed fight scenes that get pretty bloody, implied sexual abuse and a chapter detailing ritual abuse(the chapter is titled Sigils and Scars Faded). I'll do a more detailed TW list when I can write my review

But yeah!!!! I loved this one

[givemespacedog]

Ya know, I never hear Mr. Robot being brought up in the DID circles. Like, people are trying so hard to get into stuff like Moonknight (I got one episode in woof) but when I watched Mr. Robot when I was like 14 the DID rep was so accurate it blasted the show from my entire memory. My disorder wouldn’t let me think too hard about it because it was too close. If you are looking for shows with DID rep and haven’t watched it yet WATCH MR ROBOT

[the-dollhouse-system]

I think this actually says something very powerful about how labels now carry more stigma than expressed symptoms themselves.

I'm not sure when this shift happened, but it was certainly spurred by contemporary pop psychology. I have a theory that the dehumanization and demonization of explicitly-identified neurodivergent characters is also linked to the explosive trend of true crime media in recent years. Once people have a name for something, or someone, that is conceptually foreign to them, they begin to mythologize it. Schizo-spec, DID, and Cluster B PD's in particular have are being mythologized and woven into dramatic narratives over and over again. The "scary" ones, the ones that seem entirely unrelateable, and inhuman, are a lot more fun for people in search of escapist entertainment.

So why can people address symptoms and experiences so holistically when those diagnostic labels aren't attached? Because these are human experiences. These aren't great divides in our species, they're subtleties in perception and behavior that can resonate far beyond the confines of some alienating disorder. Our experiences are not only our own.

There are overlaps, synchronicities, and blurred lines between all of us. Hallucinations do not require schizophrenia, dissociation does not require DID, compulsive manipulation certainly does not require BPD. So when a character is written as a person, instead of a patient, we will find that they feel a lot like us, or like someone we love, or like a past life, or like home. When the personhood of a character is prioritized, symptoms and their expression may still be alarming, or unsettling, or bizarre, but they do not carry the terror of the named unknown.

The "accidental" appearance of symptoms may actually be accidental, simply a coincidental combination of traits. Or the creator might've intentionally based the character's lived experience off someone they know, or themself, without the fanfare of a diagnostic announcement. Either way, the authenticity of the human experience is better preserved.

why is the best DID representation in media always accidental. the moment they try to do it on purpose its just the evil alter trope again but the moment theyre not trying its like wow. how did you manage to get that accurate accidentally?

[nothazellevesque]

a man self immolated in front of the israeli embassy in washington dc yesterday. not just any man. an active member of the us air force. he live streamed his death, and said that he refused to be complicit in a genocide any longer. he said that compared to what palestinians were facing every day, setting himself alight was nothing.

let me reiterate. an active duty air force member burned himself alive because he was so disgusted by what the us government was openly supporting. he live-streamed his own suicide, so the whole world could bear witness as a man in his military uniform set himself on fire to protest his government’s complicity in the horrors that we have all been forced to watch happen in real time. he became a new horror. footage of the immolation blurs him out the moment the fire catches, but you can hear him. it is over in seconds, really, but you can hear him screaming. he shouts “free palestine” until his body physically cannot make any sounds other than guttural screams of agony. and then he falls silent. a police officer arrives and points a gun at his still burning body, shouting at him to get down on the ground. and it is over.

his name was Aaron Bushnell. he was twenty five years old. and he isn’t here anymore because the political ruling class has decided that genocide is perfectly fine as long as it preserves imperialism. in the coming days, people will try to discredit him. to say that he was mentally unstable. they will try to bury his actions to save face and defend israel’s propaganda. do not let them. aaron knew what he was doing. he knew what he was doing when he put on his military uniform, set up his twitch stream, and made his final walk up to the embassy. he knew what would happen to him when he flicked that lighter. do not let them forget. aaron’s blood is on the hands of the political ruling class.

[wanologic]

sorry danny, sam will never think you’re cool

[katsinspats]

Thematically appropriate comic for Make a Terrible Comic Day!!

I saw the original post this morning and it made me get out of bed to make something, so thank u Pseudonym Jones mission accomplished

[misscammiedawn]

Just read The Strange Case of Harley and Harleen and my god I needed a little bit of positive plurality in my life this week.

The way Pam and Harl's relationship adapts to accept the Harley/Harleen split makes my heart swell.

The way Pam sees the difference between her girlfriends.

And assures her that she accepts and loves all sides of her.

And does what she can to accommodate Harleen's memory holes.

The core relationship of this book is just so sweet and positive in accepting things as they are without judgment or pushing. Just acceptance and love.

And after finding that in our own life, I know what a powerfully positive thing it can be.

But the Harley/Harleen relationship is well handled too. There's friction and denial at the start but the two develop and trust one another by the end and Harley takes a seat as my favorite kind of character, the morally ambiguous protector.

I love the way Harley's protectiveness of Harleen is depicted and how she tries so hard to keep her from interacting with the criminal underworld of Gotham.

It's just saccharine and kind.

Highly recommend the book to anyone who just wants soft and kind plurality vibes. Heaven knows the majority of the fiction involving split personalities are flooded with angst and darkness and though this book contains a few dark plot beats like DV it never feels painful or sorrow inducing.

I'm so happy I read it.

[hinamie]

I don't want to regret the way I lived

[cozylittleartblog]

"content creator" is a corporate word.

we are artists.

[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

[sharks3ye]

Oh i didnt post this here yet?? Hi

[bunnidid-reviews]

I've been reading a story on and off called "Love Me Whole" by Nicky James. I haven't gotten too far in it, but so far it has taken a lot of care to be respectful, and even explicitly states it will not go in-depth on very triggering topics. I wanted to see if you had a take on it?

Oh I’ve seen that one pop up in my searches before!! It looks really good, I’d love to read it :) I havent read it yet, so I don’t have a take on it, but if I do I’ll def let yall know 💛

[fanaticalthings]

the muskification of twitter except it's lex luthor instead of elon lol

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[caliburn-the-sword]

"hur hur gabe wasn't as abusive as he was in the books" people can all shut up. percy's jaw TREMBLED when ares yelled at him, which had nothing at all to do with his god status - percy backtalks gods just fine. he had trauma response to ares yelling. ares didn't so much as lift a finger. that goes to speak volumes about what percy was experiencing at home

[time-to-write-and-suffer]

I love how on Tumblr, "media literacy" has become "Um, just because someone writes about this doesn't mean they're endorsing this. I hate all these media puritans ruining everything."

I'm sad to inform you that knowing when and whether an author is endorsing something, implying something, saying something, is also part of media literacy. Knowing when they are doing this and when they're not is part of media literacy. Assuming that no author has ever endorsed a bad thing is how you fall for proper gander. It's not media literacy to always assume that nobody ever has agreed with the morally reprehensible ideas in their work.

Sometimes, authors are endorsing something, and you need to be aware when that happens, and you also need to be aware when you're doing it as an author. All media isn't horny dubcon fanfic where you and the author know it's problematic IRL but you get off to it in the privacy of your brain. Sometimes very smart people can convince you of something that'll hurt others in the real world. Sometimes very dumb people will romanticize something without realizing they're doing it and you'll be caught up in it without realizing that you are.

Being aware of this is also media literacy. Being aware of the narrative tools used to affect your thinking is media literacy. Deciding on your own whether you agree with an author or not is media literacy. Enjoying characters doing bad things and allowing authors to create flawed or cruel characters for the sake of a story is perfectly fine, but it is not the same as being media literate. Being smug about how you never think an author has bad intentions tells me you're edgy, not that you're media literate. You can't use one rule to apply to all media. That's not how media literacy works. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Aheem heem. Anyway.

[sapphosewrites]

Teaching creative writing to 8 to 12 year olds this summer, a demographic whose stories include a shocking amount of murder. The use of "unalive" was so egregious I had to tell them, "if you aren't comfortable using the words death, die, and kill, you aren't mature enough to be writing about them yet". Kiddo asked me if that applies to adults as well, and I told them it very much does, so here's a PSA.

If you aren't comfortable using the words death, die, and kill, you aren't mature enough to be writing about them yet.