#its also like. definitely the trauma

[yb-cringe]

ill think my love language is like affirmations or some shit until someone asks me to cook a food for them bc they really liked it and suddenly my whole life feels ten million percent better and worthwhile

[jesse-pinko]

Big fat disclaimer I love Stan he’s definitely my favorite of the Stan twins and I have no doubt that he loves both of the kids but in retrospect it’s kind of wild that there was a whole episode where it was established that Stan purposely treats Dipper poorly because he thinks that the way his abusive father raised him was acceptable and correct. And then the onus is put on Dipper, the child, to understand and come to terms with this rather than having Stan ever self-reflect and make an actual effort to change his behavior. Both of those old men projected allllll of their shit onto those poor kids go to theraprism!!

[rewritingcanon]

my sister and i just yapped for almost three hours and we were just talking about how genuinely weird people in fandom are surrounding characters who have explicit mental illness. like they can never ever be normal. there are characters who are romanticised and glamourised for their mental illness (eren. wanda. joker. kaneki. nico. almost any danganronpa/ddlc character). characters who are consistently ridiculed for their mental illness either because it simply isn’t getting taken seriously (reiner) or because no one takes the character seriously (armin). and there are the characters that get blatantly outright DESPISED for it (basil, harry potter, korra, gale, also eren etc etc). like yes im seeing a correlation but its still so astounding how selective people are about where they draw the line with mental illness and what traits they can accept.

[spaciebabie]

at first getting diagnosed with cptsd was like, "yay my trauma has been validated (it always was valid)!" and i really thought that was going to be it, but then i started to do research as i do whenever i realize i have something and learned that!! the way i experience socialization is!! quite horrid actually!!

[mbat]

i love how werewolves are a metaphor for so many things. queerness. trauma. menstruation. chronic illness. like... its the best fictional creature for a reason

[fairiencarnate]

Why did no one tell me that the "chemical imbalance" theory has largely been disproven, that serotonin and dopamine can't cause mental illness on their own? Why have all mental health professionals been pushing this idea as fact? I've always thought the whole BPD diagnosis was bogus, just modern day hysteria slapped onto (mostly) women with complex-PTSD. Almost an official gaslight, like "your trauma wasn't traumatic enough to warrant the PTSD label so we're going to act like your brain is malfunctioning". So I'm not surprised to find all this out.

Can we finally begin a trauma-informed approach toward mainstream mental health shit? Especially mood disorders? Let's not rule chemicals and hormones out entirely, but let's acknowledge that trauma and genes have far stronger ties to mental health.

[bitchthefuck1]

That one chef saying that the worst thing about a bad boss is how they unlock that behavior in you and seeing Carmy mirror the attitude of the chef that terrorized him and gave him panic attacks and then ending the season with Syd having a panic attack because of the stress of working with Carmy...diabolical.

[pussyhoundspock]

i think my least favorite thing about fanfiction is when people will like write in a way that's like 'actually during this event it was really MY favorite character who was the MOST victim and here's all the secret reasons no one knew and weren't included in the narrative' and it's like well one it's just not really in line with the intended read of the scene like media literacy wise but also it's just the far more boring interpretation of the show and characters. like everything my favorite character has ever done is actually fine because of x y z traumas never shown or known and every other character is worse -- it's both rewriting a show to make what is clearly their fav come off better but no one else/everyone else comes off worse or it's the weird secretly-most-victimized approach and again both are just well morally fine just to me at least the most boring interpretation of the characters. i think with favs you should be able to CLAP AND CHEER when they make bad and toxic choices and no i dont just mean the ones that are 'putting themselves in situations to be even MORE the victim'.

[princescar]

Crazy how despite Mikan's love for gory movies and blood, she doesn't do an over the top murder. She doesn't even do a medical themed murder despite it being the main focus of the chapter. (Only one of her victims was a patient and she just strangled her)

Crazy how, when she wants to commit a murder for Junko, she does neck trauma.

That's Yasuke's M.O.

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

3l!grian is frequently depicted as a tragic figure and sometimes i wonder if we even watched the same series

[cherry-bomb-ships]

Sorry I'm rly back on that bullshit cuz I'm skimming thru the PPG movie for reference pics while drawing and seeing pieces of the start of the film has me thinking yet again about Mojo's origin and just like. There is soooo much angsty potential there and I 100% understand why it wasn't touched on cuz A) the girls are the main characters, this is their origin story, and B) they didn't want to make it TOO dark. But still. Throughout this whole cute opening scene of the Professor meeting the girls, Mojo is somewhere in the corner of the lab going thru his mutation as his brain grows and he basically becomes sentient. Animals in domestic spaces will kinda put themselves in somewhere cramped and dark when they're in pain, that was probably one of the last things he did running off just animal instinct

And I mean, his brain is loterally expanding, breaking through his skull, breaking through his skin, there is no way in hell it wasn't a painful process, and on top of the physical pain, there's also the intense confusion that must have come with suddenly having intelligence even more advanced than most humans, the overwhelming sensory overload of information coming into his rapidly advancing mind. He's suddenly one of the most intelligent creatures on the planet, and you want to know the first thing that all of that intelligence allowed him to logically conclude for himself?? That the only other living being he's been in contact with and relied on for survival for probably YEARS, completely forgot about him. All he sees is that Utonium didnt even THINK to check on him during the most painful experience of his entire life, didn't care at all. All his old caretaker is concerned about is those strange new superpowered girls. The first sentient thought Mojo ever had was realizing that he was abandoned.

That's like, real fucked up man

[bunnyboy-juice]

spent the first hour and change at work deleting some old files and am having a grand ol time laughing at myself for not realizing i was a lesbian sooner

[straycalamities]

back to self-analyzing what the fucks going on in my brainium

[always-a-joyful-note]

The more I think of this OP's drawing and description of the i7 anniversary AU, the more I realise that the Au Is literally the i7 boys living their besy lives as their canon self's greatest failures

[sangre]

*wakes up in a cold sweat* obviously the guardian is an echo of the emperor's claim to being an adventurer bearing the burden of saving a wicked world..... (a pretense/a performance/an experiment to a means to an end)

but i can't stop laughing bc like. Tha. That's the emperor's OC. the dream visitor is his OC that he's shipping with tav. and let me tell you the fic is 300k