#is it inherently unhealthy? no??

[kkoct-ik]

i dont get involved in syscourse because i have literally anything better to do but im so secondhand embarrassed that integrated functioning has become the word of the week with people completely not understanding the term.

i love integrated functioning as the name of the treatment goal for DID because it really highlights that both constant cooperation and full integration are incredible achievements. and are both valid ways to live and overcome your symptoms. and are both *the same goal* (to operate seamlessly and collectively) just with different mental frameworks. multiplicity is literally fine.

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

At times, for inexplicable reasons, Jason feels drawn to his grave like a ghost to its haunt, and then he’ll just stay there for hours at a time regardless of the weather.

This happens at random, and the first time the batfam notice is when Jason suddenly wanders off mid patrol.

[bioswear]

I think more people should make peace with their dark sides, and I don’t mean that in an edgy way, I mean that in a “letting purity culture infect you to the point where you get frightened by even your own darker thoughts and impulses is NOT the healthy own you think it is” kind of way and

[sludgekludge]

What really bugs me as the sins is how they are portrayed as "Nice" and "virtuous", which not only misses the point of the being embodiments of evil, but also conflicts with the show wanting us to like them despite them perpetuating the systems of hell. Like they want to designate Asmodeus and Beelzebub as the "good, fun" sins, whilst also in the same breathe admonishing Mammon as an evil one "Because he's relatable evil as a scummy boss".

(This also regards the shows habit of wanting to portray Hell as this cool location where you can do whatever you want and not a place of suffering and evil but that's another topic.)

Thing is they could've potential had there cake and eat it too with the Sins being fun characters, whilst also beings to be feared. Just make it so that the Sins don't operate on traditional human/hellborn morality. As embodiments of evil, they operate mostly on what will spread their respective sins more; "what can I do to cause and bask in the most Greed/Sloth/ Gluttony/ Lust/ etc. at the moment". And they can be cordial and fun at times with some of the people they meet, but only under the pretense of them being currently interesting to them at the moment. Like one moment the Beelzebub is having a party with hellhounds, and the very next day she's eating one of them from the same party and never bats an eye. Make them less good or evil, and more incomprehensible, which leaves the door open to portray them as both funny and imposing at the same time.

honestly really agree with this, it reads as so...painfully childish? the way they're written now. they're so scared of you disliking vivs favourite ocs. it baffles me that there's a distinction between the 'good' sins and the 'bad' sins at all - all of them would've been much more interesting characters if they'd just been portrayed with some nuance.

all of them operating on their own 'morality' i guess that's centred entirely around indulging in their sin could've been a super interesting and fun character trait. i feel like the 7 deadly sins should be something so easy to write in a fun and unique way, and yet...

still totally baffling to me they introduce the sin of gluttony, have her sing some very on-the-nose lyrics encouraging over-indulgence, then write her hitting the 'woah bro you've had enough' in the same ep.

[elliegoose]

posts about having been a righteously angry teen are great and all but i was terrified of my own anger and consciously forbid myself from ever expressing or acknowledging any angry feelings at all from childhood until the age of like 25. so shoutout to people who are afraid to ever express any anger. we gotta work on that

[incomingalbatross]

This is an unpolished and untested thought but I think at this point the only way I'd be interested in "portal fantasy as child abuse" fiction is if you had TWO former protagonists of different portal fantasies in conversation, and one of them is traumatized and the other experienced growth and empowerment and is literally fine.

[fernlessbastard]

hot take moment cwilbur is literally just psychotic as all hell and i think people got way too comfortable villianizing the shit out of a man who was clearly portraying signs of severe mental illness. cwilbur was like im so fucking paranoid and scared and i think everyone is out to get me and hurt me and ive spiralled to the point i cant reach out to the people closest to me because im so afraid and lost in this spiral and im having constant panic attacks and hurting myself because i dong know what to do with myself and the only way out for me is to die. and everybody was like EVIL MAN WHO ENJOYS HURTING OTHERS AND IS ABUSIVE ON PURPOSE AND A VILLAIN AND SHOULD NEVER BE TRUSTED AGAIN. and then he came back and was like im still deeply troubled and afraid but im desperately trying to make up for the wrongs i did in the past and the people i hurt in my own way and communication is really hard for me but i hope people know that im truely sorry and i love them. im going to try my hardest to fix this in the only way i know how and then respectfully remove myself from the situation because i feel thats the kindest thing i can do to the people ive hurt. and people were like ABUSER ABUSER ABUSER EVIL MAN ABUSER. like girl

Yeah no based true real no questions asked

I'd hope I manage to portray Wilbur the way he deserves in my content, cause that man is heavily bpd coded and he just needs therapy and someone who genuinely loves him but also can handle his bullshit (which has exclusively and reliably been Quackity like, canonically)

But yeah no completely agreed. The man has issues and has definitely fucked up a lot but at the end of the day he really does need love and care and patience, but also boundaries (and therapy and meds, obviously)

[king-of-havoc]

Really REALLY hate that so many so called "pro-polyamory" people will be like "yeah polyamory is fine, except when the Mormons did it because a man having multiple wives is wrong"

No. No that's not why it was wrong. It was wrong because a lot of those girls were minors who were groomed into it, NOT because "man has many wives and that's icky >:("

If you refuse to acknowledge that multiple women can consensually be with the same man then you are not pro-polyamory. Being pro-polyamory has to include all consensual dynamics of a polyamorous relationship, even cishet men wanting multiple girlfriends. If they're all consenting then you don't get a say, sorry

[calware]

i don't think dirkjake is inherently unhealthy, i think they're just two socially awkward 16-year-olds who haven't yet learned how to properly communicate. not to say they can never be unhealthy or that it's not interesting, i just don't think it's inherent to them

i also think there's a difference between them having relationship problems and them being unhealthy. because, yes, they do inherently have relationship problems. because that's inherent to relationships

[edwardseymour]

good for her.

[lightbulb-warning]

so has anyone figured out WHY there is the Need To Share our Artworks™ or is it just the vibes and our Soul apparently

[girlashfur]

obviously dont be ableist about moonpaw that shit is bad but also. incest is bad and ive seen a few people now try to normalize cousin on cousin incest bc of this incident and it makes me want to actually throw up as somebody who was sexually abused by a cousin lol

[positivelyadhd]

As important as it is to learn to accept and understand your neurodiversity, you are allowed to struggle with it. You are allowed to have complicated feelings or even feel negatively about it.

As wonderful as being neurodivergent is, you are allowed to acknowledge that sometimes it isn't. That doesn't make you a bad person or mean you are any less accepting of yourself.

A big part of self acceptance is also accepting the negative parts.

[sainteclectic]

and btw whole is soul's fp... if this isn't obvious in how i write them smiles. he's so so normal about that man and definitely doesn't have any fears of abandonment. he definitely doesn't freak out whenever whole isn't in his line of sight, terrified that the loop will start again and he'll lose him. he definitely doesn't rely on whole for a sense of identity, definitely doesn't only feel like a person through him, definitely doesn't have any issues idolizing whole to the point that not seeing his flaws causes very real problems. he for sure has a normal and healthy attachment to whole (lying) (lying) (lying) (ly

[captain-lovelace]

I’ve said this before but I firmly believe that fatphobia and ableism are intrinsically linked

[naehilisms]

the Corinthian is such an interesting character because on a surface level he craves freedom and consumption but what he really wants is fulfillment/meaning and it doesn’t truly matter how he gets it

he can satiate his hunger by consuming the waking world or by being loved by the one being he gives a damn about

he despises being dehumanized and reduced to an object/function but if he were given sufficient attention he wouldn’t even mind being treated like a tool because he would feel whole

That is to say I think Morpheus should’ve just given cori a good hard fuck to fix him 🙂 just kidding. Unless?