#pathologically literate

[jagalart]

thanatologist

[plan-3-tmars]

HBOMBERGUY USED THE DANIIL QUOTE IN A VIDEO AND PRETENDED A PHILOSOPHER SAID IT AFTER 4 YEARS

[chaos-in-one]

Friendly (or unfriendly if you're against this) reminder that this blog is supportive of ALL disorders. This blog does not think ANY disorder inherently makes someone a bad person, and is against any disorder being demonized. This blog wholeheartedly believes that a bad person having a disorder, yes, even if things that are also symptoms of their disorder are part of what caused harm, does not make the disorder a "bad" or "evil" disorder or excuse ableism and demonization directed towards the disorder.

Yes this includes personality disorders

Including npd and aspd

Yes this includes all psychotic disorders & disorders that cause psychotic symptoms

Yes this includes paraphilic disorders. All of them.

Yes this includes disorders that cause, or are even characterized by, attention seeking

Yes this includes disorders that directly have lying as a common symptom

Yes this includes dissociative disorders

Yes this includes any disorder with "gross" symptoms

Yes this includes physical disorders too

Yes this includes disorders that can cause loss of control of any kind- control of speech, control of body movement, etc.

Yes tis includes disorders that make someone "look scary"

This goes for literally any fucking disorder. There are not exceptions.

[songthursh]

Shhh kids, parents are discussing philosophy matters

Based on a little writing training by my lovely @stupidlynx

[jajatoc]

I have died once already. Now it's your turn!

Day 11, Sword law (Matador)

[anghraine]

Thanks!

Just to be clear, Lady Catherine is a lady by birth, not marriage, like her sister, Lady Anne Darcy—Darcy's own mother. Lady Catherine's title would be Lady de Bourgh if it came from her husband, Sir Lewis de Bourgh. Her own status, however, supersedes any title a mere knight or baronet could give her—Lady Catherine and Lady Anne were the daughters of an earl, a high-ranking nobleman.

This certainly affects Darcy's social status, though I think it's sometimes a bit overstated in terms of where Darcy's prestige comes from. A lot of his status comes from the scale of inherited land the Darcys control and the power it represents (we are told that basically his entire income is generated by Pemberley, not a smaller genteel estate + a separate inheritance, as we see with more typical wealthy gentry in other novels). Darcy isn't literally a nobleman, but Pemberley is aristocratic in scale and the Darcys are the kind of family who would have close blood relatives in the higher echelons of the nobility, as he does.

That's really unusual for an Austen hero, or really any Austen character who's portrayed at all favorably. The very powerful landowners and those with close associations or alignments with them tend not to come out looking good in her work, but P&P is so central to so much of the general sense of what Austen is doing as a writer that I think it's easy to overlook how much of Austen's relatively sympathetic depiction of Darcy's power is unique to him personally.

(@bethanydelleman - thanks as well. I also don't get it, but it's seemed increasingly common in the last 10-15 years from public-facing scholars who should and, I think, do know better.)

I've been trying to think of a less harsh way to put it, but every time I see an ostensible expert say that Mr Bennet and Darcy have the same social position and the only difference between them is that Darcy has more money, it's like ... um, either this person doesn't know what they're talking about or assumes their audience is so unsophisticated and ignorant that they can't handle the slightest degree of nuance.

Yes, it's obvious why this always comes up with P&P specifically, and explaining all the many differences and gradations in socioeconomic hierarchies between then and now is a steep task and not always necessary or useful. But Darcy and Mr Bennet are both untitled hereditary landowners. This means they have the same rank, yes—the technicality Elizabeth uses with Lady Catherine—but it also means that their status, incomes, reach of influence, and general consequence in their world are going to be primarily based on their inherited land, not that all these things except income would be functionally identical in their social world.

Awhile ago, I quoted a fairly concise description of England's class system at the time by the historian Dorothy Marshall, made decades ago, but—unusually—managing to convey some of the RL complexity around social position without belaboring the point too much. One of the most critical points she makes is this:

In spite of the number of people who got their living from manufacture or trade, fundamentally it was a society in which the ownership of land alone conveyed social prestige and full political rights.

The difference between someone like Mr Bennet and someone like Darcy in terms of socioeconomic power and status (often termed "consequence" at the time) is inevitably going to be more about hereditary land ownership than any other factor, including incomes and connections. Their incomes provide important information about the scale and value of the land they own, but wealth alone only tells a portion of the story here.

[haharuspex]

inspired by this post on twitter lol

[fennelwasp]

He has misinterpreted the tradgedians

[silasbirchtree]

"billford is abusive" yeah. fucking obviously

here's the thing: literally no one is making content w the inherent idea that billford is a healthy relationship, or that they Should be together. but it is a genuinely interesting dynamic with tropes that have been enjoyed since literally forever: power imbalances, mortal/god, enemies/lovers etc. and part of the appeal of why their relationship is so interesting is delving into the underlying care/love between them. abusive relationships aren't constantly threatening or scary 24/7 - part of what makes them so easy to fall into is that you really do love and trust this person - which is a realistic portrayal!! the tragedy of it is an idea that has been loved for ages: watching a relationship grow and evolve, even knowing that it still ends badly!! it's interesting and heartbreaking and it is literally just basic antithesis.

this is like basic media literacy can we pleaaase be serious lmfao. it's fine if you don't fw the ship/dynamic but you don't have to come up with a moral high ground for it - and having a dynamic that is explicitly abusive, while also showing the victim to be able to heal with support, in mainstream kids media facilitates further recognition and discussion on abuse which is a good thing.

[vampireghostsart]

Day 14/15 -- Strange Room

"It all began here."

[awerzo]

drawing tender burakhovsky to save me from The Horrors (uni assignments)

[mariamegale]

post-canon where people are still just. fucking terrified of artemy. they know he made the panacea, yes, but he still like. killed a lot of people. stole organs. brewed them into potions which he then gave to other people to drink.

people come to his home clinic in silence, quietly relieved if one of his colleagues answer the door. artemy has to go through his checkups in silence, never-unaccompanied patients watching him with hawk eyes to make sure he doesn't step out of line.

no, they don't hate him, nowadays. they're just afraid. he writes them notes and instructions instead of saying them, because he knows they want to get out of there.

daniil thinks he's got the world's worst bedside manner and needs to put in some effort to warm the fuck up to his patients. artemy isn't sure if he'd rather shatter the illusion of the world's most unobservant man or live in it for the rest of his isolated life.

[clownawnie]

This is so fucking funny

[katabay]

I spent so long trying to decide on a line of dialogue to use for a caption, but EVERY line of dialogue these two have in the bachelor’s route that mentions the other makes me feel like I’ve been shoved into the middle of an intense fever dream. how am I supposed to pick just one!! you can’t do one without the other!!! or the third (daniil)!!!! cant wait to someday see what the patho2 bachelor’s route will do to me

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / tip jar!

[songthursh]

A very, VERY basic doctors argument

[ninvic-art]

silly herb bride doodle!