#not undiagnosed bc therapy doesnt exist in the forgotten realms. undiagnosed bc youll never catch her ass confronting her problems | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

smallnico · 5 months ago

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nobody asked but i want everyone to know that when i draw karlach doing a happy tail thrash, it's stimming. i'm drawing her happy flapping. i'm not trying to compare karlach to a dog (or, rather, i'm not trying to condescend to her or minimize her pain or awareness or intelligence). i think everyone knows she's got big feelings and she's a very physically emotive and fidgety person (we've all seen her little dance) so it just makes sense to me that she would vent her excitement physically somehow.

also it's what i would do if i had a tail. i'm stuck using my hands lmao

#i don't even know if i headcanon her as adhd/tistic. i know whatever she's got it's deeply undiagnosed #but as far as i'm concerned you don't need to be either to experience excitement very intensely and physically #i just saw a post going around in my periphery about not taking karlach's character nuance seriously #and using 'hehe doggy' as an example of that. make no mistake. that is not what i'm doing here #i seek to portray what i see and project on her. not to infantilize her #loquor #i know i don't need to justify myself to anyone either. i think i just got a little tetchy about the insinuation that #you can't be both worth taking seriously and portrayed expressing excitement. particularly in a nd way but it's not about that really #like. stimming and flapping aren't inherently childish behaviours. you can do them while harbouring darkness within.#i'm not judging anyone for disagreeing with my interpretation btw. all i ask is that you open your mind #i'm taking karlach just as seriously as anyone. you can love karlach angst #i also love karlach angst! i just choose to portray it differently. she's running the fuck away from her problems #and surrounding herself with positive vibes to drown out the darkness. i thought we were all on the same page that that was what she does #not undiagnosed bc therapy doesnt exist in the forgotten realms. undiagnosed bc youll never catch her ass confronting her problems #but yeah. this isn't a callout #or an attack #this is an invitation to think about stuff and what it means to you

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