#digitally maniulated

[bananastarion]

I've seen people saying stuff like "I cry myself to sleep at night wishing Astarion was real" and it made me wanna make a PSA for yall.

If Astarion were real, you could not handle him. I could not handle him. I dated an effeminate, beautiful, charming conartist with a lifetime of ptsd and violent bloodlust irl. The parallels don't end there, but that's between me and my therapist to work out. Wanna know how that went for me? Very badly. Now I'm the one with PTSD, he left my life in shambles and years later I am STILL picking up the pieces and trying to feel whole again.

The beauty of Astarion is that you can interact with him in his little digital enclosure, and you have the option to "fix" him. Real life seldom works that way. Love can do a lot of things, but it can't "fix" people like that. Believe me, I wish it could. Red flags that are enticing in fantasy, are a nightmare irl. Don't let your taste in fictional characters inform your real life choices in partners. Date a Wyll or a Karlach, even a Gale if you must, but for the love of God, keep your distance from the Astarions of the world. And this is coming from someone who truly sympathizes with and adores Astarion. DO NOT DATE HIM FOR REAL! Especially if you're on the autism spectrum and easily maniulated, especially especially if there is an age gap between you (even if it's less than 200 years).

Be safe out there, folks! And enjoy the fictional vampire for what he is, a well crafted story about healing and survival. Let that be what you take away from it, and not try and go out and find your own sentient pile of red flags to offer your life to. It won't end the same way.

This isn't to say it's wrong to date people with trauma, btw. Please don't take that message from this post.

[mickmathersartblog]

“Streetcars Passing”

digitally manipulated ‘found’ image & digital collage by Mick Mather

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her time were sinews and the slides of tonsil

and the squaring  into sections,  sector pectorals  white lines, not shapely not shapely until.