#society has rejected them so now theyre rejecting society

[kaleidoscopic-quiddity]

best thing about shigaraki being back in control is that deku (or nana and the vestiges) is probably gonna pull some talk no jutsu ‘youre free from AFO’s influence, you can be better person now!’ shit and hes gonna look him dead in the eye as he says ‘actually, i’m going to be worse’ and tries to decay the entire planet or smthn

[cultural-marxism-official]

last veilguard rant i swear

something ive been mulling over for a bit now again connects to the whole "elves/dalish rejecting the evanuris after finding out they bad"

this never really sat right with me for a whole host of reasons

-how did that knowledge spread from the inquisition?

-why would they spread this knowledge and how would they prove it?

-why would elves/dalish believe it with no proof?

but most importantly, why would it change anything for the elves and their faith? think about it, imagine if you went to ancient greece and told them "hey umm some of your gods were really bad and cruel, tryants actually" and said greeks going "oh wow that sucks, we will no longer worship them!" because that's essentially what veilguard does. granted the greeks knew more about their gods than the dalish do but that only strengthens my point. the matter of faith is written very strangely(poorly) in veilguard. for the most part it doesn't really engage with faith and religion much at all, which is very disappointing but when it does, it's done in a very blase kinda way. it feels like most characters are atheist/agnostic when that doesnt fit with thedas at all, religions are core to all societies weve encountered. what i believe has happened here, is a modern thinking issue with the writing, it plagues nearly every aspect of veilguard.

veilguard seems to look at faith as a matter of personal choice and that people follow the gods that are the good ones, so when they find out those gods were BAD, welp, not following them anymore! this is ridiculous and fundamentally not understanding the core of faith and belief. The elves/dalish don't worship the evanuris because they're the good and nice gods who's doctrine aligns with theirs. They worship them because they are SUPREME DIVINE BEINGS WORTHY OF WORSHIP. They are the creators and shapers of your reality, of your destiny, they are the arbiters of your eternal soul and to turn your back on them is to invite their ire. I say this not meaning specifically the elves and evanuris, but this is how most religions work. You don't choose this faith over that one because it fits your personal feelings, you believe because there is nothing else, no other god, other faiths are HERESY and LIES. Really, there isn't a choice at all unless you reject it all, something very rare in thedas because you know, magic and the fade are REAL.

So this notion of elves instantly rejecting their lifelong gods after discovering they did some bad shit is just stupid. Again, they are GODS, it is not for a measly mortal to remotely understand or be able to pass judgement on their actions. In religions morals, ethics, right or wrong do not function the same for divine beings, they are gods, anything and everything is within their right to do and the reason a mortal, a worshipper does not reject them for it is...BECAUSE THEYRE GODS AND THEY WILL SMITE YOU!!!

Same reason devout christians don't curse god for the bad stuff that happens in life, despite him being able to prevent them, it is blasphemy and it makes god angry.

All this on top of some elves already following fen'harel for example, despite it being known he is the god of lies and tricks. Faith here isn't based on him being a good god to worship, but because he could fuck up your life and you wan't to appease him to prevent that. So it should not matter at all if everyone magically became aware of the evanuris and their crimes, they are still GODS, in fact seeing them in the world should strengthen belief in them if anything and it shouldn't even enter into any believers mind that they need to be stopped or that it can even be done. Who are you to deny the will of the gods?

All this is just another example of how shallow the worldbuilding in veilguard is. We've all noticed that hardly anyone in game references religion in their dialog. No "makers breath", no "andraste's tits", no "by the paragons". It's not because the characters of veilguard are all atheists for some reason, there isn't some well thought out reason for it, the writers simply didn't bother to dig deeper into the core aspects of thedas and the forces that shape its societies.

game bad

[psychabolition]

Why and how do you reject diagnoses , treatment and recovery?

The why is answered quickly ,. For a lot of us "treatment" doesnt help or actively harms us . Its not uncommon to face psychiatric abuse as part of your treatment plan: including conversion therapy, physical violence, social ostracization /isolation, stigmatization or severe side effects from psychiatric drugs which can include brain damage and death .

So how do we stop thinking that we need treatment from professionals to feel better and to lead a life that we enjoy when we know it doesnt help us ? The biomedical model and its logic make us feel this way. We're told that we have an illness that causes our pain and that can only be treated by doctors and psychologists. But this model is inherently contradictory and that we have an "illness" thats the cause of our pain has never even been scientifically proven . If youre labelled with depression you dont have low serotonin, if youre labelled with schizophrenia theres no genetic defect, if youre labelled as adhd/autism your brain doesnt look different than the brain of people without the label. "mental disorders" are not an "illness" by medical standards.

Also, the logic of the model doesnt really make sense. Your 'mental illness' can never "cause" anything because its solely a descriptive label (every psychologist will admit this !! - all diagnoses are just a list of descriptions of specific behaviors/experiences/ways of thinking), its never the reason for anything. I think we need to avoid the circular logic of "well i do x because i have y condition (which was diagnosed based on clinician observations of x) and my brain is simply broken in a way requiring me to submit to expert clinical management and surveillance". I think its highly misleading to talk about symptoms of an illness since saying 'I am suicidal because Im depressed' is the same as saying 'Im suicidal because Im suicidal'(remember: its only a descriptive label!!) - it doesnt explain anything. I think its really unhelpful and also simply not scientifically backed up to think about any experiences/struggles/distress that we have no matter how unusual/painful/norm deviation as an 'illness' of our minds/brains.

The way I depathologize myself and reject the (bio)medical model is by saying that I think of a lot of the experiences that got me diagnosed and that also made me label myself as "ill/disordered" as simply a deviation from "neuronormativity" (=whats societally deemed 'normal' to think/feel/do depending on your assigned gender/age/socioeconomic status/...). So when I say that "Im neurodivergent" what I mean is that I "deviate from neuronormativity". And when people are not neurodivergent I say that theyre "neuroconform" - which simply means that they manage to conform to what society expects of them .

If you define neurodivergency in this way it includes 1) suffering more severely in our current society than others do 2) being neurodivergent because of positive experience and/or negative experiences that youve made 3) your neurodivergency also includes experiences that havelnothing to do with the reason why you got labelled as ill/sick/dysfunctional/disordered . Like being politically radical in some way - like for example if youre a communist or an anarchist or queer or simply just very different and norm deviating . 4) it includes queerness that is currently pathologized (I like to use the concept neuroqueer).

These new concepts and understanding of myself made me get better in the sense that I trusted again, after years, that only I know whats best for myself . And to be true medication and therapy has only ever harmed me and made me get worse. I can now ask myself whats actually causing my pain and struggles, and its never been my own brain that simply " reacts wrong " . When Im doing really bad it always has a real cause in my real life and theres always something that can be done (even if this means overthrowing the current social order in society)

[luckyshouse]

basically my point is that people discourage an autism diagnosis at every turn and despie people who are allistic systems falling under all the requirements for autism, they're still told theyre allistic for whatever reason. who does that help? if theyre expereincing symptoms that mimick autism so heavily that it can be confused for autism but is actually secretly their trauma disorder, then why deny them of a diagnosis that'll allow them to get the help they need for those traits, and vice versa. if someone with autism is presenting enough symptoms of DID that they could have DID, but are being told that it's just their autism causing it, isn't it worth it to get them help for traits they are exhibiting that point to trauma and severe dissociation? and it perpetuates this weird hatred of autism, like i said i've met a bunch of allistic systems and honestly you were spot on with saying that they're ashamed of their community, a community that is essentially known for 1) gender play 2) "eccentric" dress and behavior 3) weird social interactions and 4) "cringy" behaviors, which are again, all autistic traits that get lumped in with DID. and whenever i meet people who are so horrifically ashamed by people, i dont know, trying to find themselves and have fun doing it, its hard for me to believe they aren't disabled in some way and have been abused to reject and turn their backs on that part of themself. the most ableist people i've ever met in my entire life are disabled and autistic people who have been conditioned out of identifying that way and now lash out when they see that behavior because it not only triggers them but they get excited to "enforce" rules they've had enforced on them because it reasserts their place in allistic society. and if they're someone who strongly doesn't identify with autism and JUST has a system, how are they ever supposed to learn that they might also be autistic? they've convinced themselves that all these traits they experience that are in proximity to autism are just caused by trauma that they need to "recover" from and "get over" than theyre never going to be open to learning about autism and their possible own autistic self. and because of psychiatries general distaste towards autism diagnosises, they wouldn't be encouraged to either, because autism isn't treatable. PTSD and DID is "treatable" with medication and therapy and every other process they can scrape money out of, but autism isn't, because it's a neurotype and a disability that exists in a world that essentially doesn't believe that it exists. i just think its interesting. i think the overlap is so interesting. i'm constantly wondering what the thresh hold for DID or OSDD is, and also wondering if you traumatized a young child and then put them in the most healthy most understanding family, would they still develop DID? would they still be severely autistic? or would they be able to learn how to cope well enough that they would be able to avoid having DID as an adult, and be able to manage their autistic symptoms enough that it wasn't disabling? i assume the latter is POSSIBLE, but the former? i have no fucking idea. i dont know. the point is that the reasonings im being told that these disorders arent connected dont make sense to me, it just sounds like more psychiatric jargon to keep people in the psyche system trying to treat a disorder that isn't the root cause.

[danggirlronpa]

Okay so you said we can send transfem headcanons SO here's two wlw Kazuichi ships. A messed up one and a cute one for flavor.

Kazujunko in this context is so interesting to me because I think Junko would realize Kaz is trans before she's even fully realized it herself, and absolutely use that to manipulate her into despair. She'd play the part of supportive girlfriend who teaches her about make-up and clothes but then fill her head with how the rest of society will mistreat and disrespect her, and how that will never change. How she has no option but to join her, and destroy society before it destroys her.

On the cute side: Soudabuki! I think Ibuki would do great at pulling Kaz out of her shell, help her find a style that fits her and makes her feel comfortable in herself for once. Plus, Kaz has a lot of issues with her appearance and self esteem so I think someone like Ibuki, who would 100% tell her she's hot to her face without shame, would do wonders for her. Also Ibuki directly rejects her in canon, so I think I'd be funny if Ibuki wasn't into guy Kaz but the second Kaz is now a girl Ibuki goes full AWOOGA for her like she does for Peko.

YEAAAH these are both so good!! Tbh I have a big brOTP soft spot for. Well, all the SDR2 kids, because I think SDR2 does by far the best in this aspect, but in particular Kazuichi and Ibuki. The whole scene in the second chapter of everybody meeting up at the restaurant is just so fundamentally Queer Teen Friend Group Meeting Up Outside School Hours. A lesbian and someone who thinks they're the token straight (they are not) talking about how hot girls are. Guy everyone in the friend group has a crush on was dragged along because he has nothing better to do. Everyone here should be tested for autism. It's all there babey

And Kaz and Ibuki in particular have a soft spot for me because they satisfy a big narrative hole in SDR2, with Kazuichi as the only survivor without someone who sacrificed themself on his behalf, and the third trial being the only one that doesn't have this sort of self sacrificial theme. I privately like to pretend that Ibuki somehow kept Kazuichi from getting the Despair Disease as her Best Bro She Talks Abt Girls With.

I love them as a M/F friendship, because I just love M/F friendships so much. But I'm DELIGHTED by the concept of transfem Kazuichi/Ibuki. The pipeline of "bro I talk about hot girls with" to "hot girl I talk about with friends" is so real. Kazuichi like "We'll still be cool right? We'll still talk girls?" and Ibuki going "Yeah of course! (HAJIME GET OVER HERE KAZ HAS BOOBS AND THEYRE SO HOT)"

[clothingfashionandjewry]

The effervescent early morning jewbrian placid and at peace....why so shylock?...he gets right that Jews are enraged not at the dutch people who kicked their asses but me ....which is easier....what he gets wrong is the merchant of Venice shylock reference....he's not a Jew an he proves it by the very mention of shylock he's not supposed to evoke the image of the Jew shylock written in a time when living without fear of antisemitic labeling but he doesnt understand that he doesn't understand that Jews want to be regarded as white Anglo Saxons not the reality they inhabit which will be rejected by the very hebriety he wishes to enrage....they are here in America where they select white as race....

Whats happening is the world is reacting to Jewish actions which to Europeans is theyre waring in Ukraine and they're at war in Israel how has economic expansions in real terms affected the lives of non Jews on earth....as a result the Jew shows it's cards by retreating to the United States and UK both jewhore states respectively consolidating Jewry in these 2 nations due to global rejection....now you would think I'd advise against this i wouldn't but we must define the Jews accordingly and charge the Jew for existing in a non Jewish state because we paid for the Jewish state so what are you doing here? You're a Jew it's a Christian country I mean are you seriously that retarded Jew Israel not Jew native American you don't belong here there were no Jews on the mayflower but they select the race that was as their own it's a mental deformity that we feeling sorry for them don't talk about....a Bordeaux is a wine manichewitz is a wine the difference is the Jews make alcoholic swill it's disgusting but just because it's disgusting and deformed doesn't mean there isn't a market for it and in a free society the intercourse of commerce cannot be retarded by retards because doing it retarded is the way they've made money that and having an american social security card given to them after they were saved from Hitler who was Jewish by Americans soldiers from being stuffed into ovens....the Jewish thank you for inclusion or dumb Americans you don't know were Jewish? This can't be free anymore but if the Jew has to pay he want violence first because maybe then the Jew doesn't have to pay....all of this after the United States has sent the trumpian mandate....

[pingintech]

i (a transwoman) actually have a lot to say about this but its not what youd think hear me out

this is 100% the case i see it literally all the time

im very lucky i think to live in a city where there are a LOT of very active transmem in our community most of my friends are transmen but i know in other cities and states trans communities are often skewed more femme than masc to the extent denver nonbinary group iirc is called the trans feminine and nonbinary group which is patently gross and ive also intimately known trans women who act the way this post describes

9/10 i adamantly reject the idea that talking abt agab in relation to trans ppl is helpful but in this particular case i will say i think an aspect of this is being socialized as men in a sexist misogynistic patriarchal society a lot of trans women will go through the process of discovering their gender and then decide they they cant be perpetrating patriarchal ideals being misogynistic and sexist because theyre women now!!! and that its transphobic to imply otherwise

i call bullshit if part of your gender journey as a trans person doesnt HEAVILY involve deconstructing gender and unlearning engrained toxic masculinity then youre part of the problem

i do think trans men have a similar journey sometimes as they too are raised in a sexist misogynistic patriarchal society so the second they transition theres a tendency to act on those patriarchal ideals and turn all of the toxic masculinity that had harmed them growing up back onto others

so it isnt just a transfemme issue but i think that unfortunately its very common for trans femme people to be introduced to the concept of being trans through porn and that pipeline results in some really skewed and damaging sexist ideas without someone around to help our baby queers unlearn the damage society has done to us we are just going to get more and more of this which means we cant enable bad behavior because we are afraid of calling it out (even when a trans woman does it)

also sidenote but i also think this issue plays heavily into a lot of intercommunity intersexism and we all should know the only way forward for the trans community as a social movement is if we start talking about and deconstructing the default assumption of a binary set of chromosomes and start working with our intersex siblings for a better future for us all

One evening, I was at the LGBTQIA center for a trans committee and I was the only trans man in attendance. One trans woman told me she never understood how I could want to be a "disgusting man".

Later that evening, she told me she'd love to swap bodies with me (I was pre T, pre op and didn't bind). I told her I didn't understand why she'd want to have the body of a "disgusting man".

She called me transmisogynistic.

Oh, the irony.

[letmeoutofthebasementt]

I wondered if you ever found out or wanted to find out who your fs is? personally im fine being single more so used to it than anything else. But its quite interesting to say the least... im torn between wanting to know this person but not caring bc like it not the end of the world and well the world might end one day anyway by societies own doing. I found out theyre an athlete... sadly not for the sport I prefer so I have to be a mf wag, a WAG. No, I reject this not because secretly I wouldnt like them idk them but I dont wanna be a WAG. Im not ever going to want to be a beckham. I swear im the most mf average being there is so I hope we dont end up in the same environment one day. Why did jesus have to do me dirty like this?

First school was literal hell and now adult life feels like hell continued itself then my fs is someone famous and idk how anyone normal supposed to fit into wealthy lifestyles like ehhh but idk if its worth it in the long run? relatinships and all that? my uncle cheated on his first wife three times and that deeply affected my views of romance and well it not something I genuinely longed for same with material items I rather just exist peacefully. if your fs was an actual idol or some other famous person would you sacrifice or risk it all to not have privacy and peace for them?

I’ve asked some things about my FS. They definitely seem like my type for better or for worse, and my FS is a celebrity who likes to spoil me. So all of a sudden if I’m posting all day because I have no responsibilities anymore…You know why.

Though I also agree with you on a lot of things. It’s like, something I want to know but also can’t be bothered to care 100% about. My FS is most definitely out of my league from my readings and the readings people have done for me.

Famous, attractive, intelligent, loves spoiling me, and extremely talented? Sounds like a scam, I dunno. Even if my FS clearly has many flaws. All of those flaws are in fact things I find the idea of to be questionably attractive.

But hey, in the future we can be the mildly questionable spouses of celebs together

I think if I loved them enough I’d be able to deal with it all, though. And if the fans are crazy just more of a reason to stay inside and be the recluse I already am because frankly people are insane nowadays and I’ll be damned if I get got on the street.

But yeah, I relate to you on a spiritual level. Though for me, love is more…Its interesting in other people’s lives, but in mine it’s more so…Something I can hyperfixate on and a springboard for like fantasies for me to think up of the perfect relationship n shit and not something I can see myself ever in. Not like I haven’t had multiple relationships, but those were…Interesting. Though I loved a few of my partners.

But I still get why you don’t believe in love.

We can be under qualified celeb spouses together though so at least that’s smth

[islanddboyy]

its the late hours of the night where i begin to dissect my entire personality. ive begun the whole self sabotaging spiel again and already pushed away one close friend and am in the process of doing it to another. but im just so tired of her relentless negativity and honestly shes made me a worse person when im trying to be a better person. thats what this last year has been about. trying to be better and i feel like im back at square one because of our friendship. except ive done the asshole thing and wont tell her why i havent been talking to her and keep avoiding any serious conversation about it. and on top of that im realising that my escape to canada isnt happening and im gonna have to spend 3 more years hiding who i am from my community and not living my life how i want to. i wanted to go to canada so i could be trans and start transitioning. but now that im stuck here i cant do that. i mean maybe medical tourism could work if i want top surgery but hrt is completely out the window in this backwards society. im just sick of having to hide who i am from people or being scared of what theyll say and how ill be treated differently if i do come out. like in my sport there are no rules about trans athletes because the thought hasnt even occurred to anyone. so if i want to compete no one would even understand what im trying to explain to them and in the miscommunication theyll just see some girl competing in the wrong category and send me back to the womens team. but i want to be on the mens team and maybe my club would be okay with it theyre pretty open minded. but outside of my club with the different race committees theyd just shut it all down no matter what i try and say. and im not ready for that kind of rejection. especially when i know for a fact that at least half of the club would have something mean to say about a trans person racing with them. holy shit that was a lot sorry to anyone unfortunate enough to come across this. i just needed to get this out into the void because i have no one to talk to honestly. the friends who know im queer and trans we dont talk about this shit because well im pretty emotionally closed off. so thats come back to bite me in the ass again lol

[wygolvillage]

TBHHHH in relation to my theory that riverclan will become a leaderless society.... what if all of the clans develop their own new, distinct leadership hierarchies? it would do a lot to make the worldbuilding feel more tangible and have the different clans feel more distinct. as it is right now i think the divisions drawn between them are pretty arbitrary considering their cultures are all mostly identical. having them all operate in different ways would be neat i think

but yeah uhhh

riverclan- totally leaderless. the population of the clan makes important decisions together. they are the starless clan!

thunderclan- super early on nightheart considers the idea of having a representative democracy (i.e. voting in a new leader periodically) so i think thats pretty likely, if anything

windclan- NOW HERE’S A HOT TAKE, remember that lore that windclan considers themselves the closest to starclan due to their territory being open to the sky and their proximity to sacred places? what if they give their ultimate authority to the medicine cats, and become the most spiritual clan? also pls bring back the tunnelers and moor-runners

shadowclan and skyclan- not sure on them but at least one of them should stick with the old system just because. skyclan sticking with the tradition would be kinda funny since theyre the most “non-traditional” clan with their population having a lot of former kittypets and their former isolation from the culture of the other clans.

i also think a kitty monarchy would be interesting, with leadership chosen by birthright, but i dont think it fits with any of the existing clans. it would work best narratively in thunderclan though since our thunderclan pov character already has a lot of thoughts about their bloodline and the implications of “honorable blood” and there’s already been mentions of firestar bloodline nepotism being A Thing. ive seen theories that bramblestar will step down due to there being mentions in river of him feeling super out of it and distant after the whole possession thing. so im imagining it like: bramble steps down and squirrelflight is retired by this point maybe? -> sparkpelt or some other firestar relative takes up the leadership mantle and establishes The Kitty Monarchy -> nightheart is the one to overthrow it and reject their role as the heir

[averys-happy-space]

red velvet ramblings & headcanons

i started doodling rv and then i started thinking abt him and now i have brain worms

i think rv is kind of like, i dnt know how else to describe this but half were wolf. bc i think his cake arm is like a werewolf arm. this is bc theres a lot of cake hounds and cake brutes which are wolf inspired, so my brain just went like yea, wolf arm. and then i started thinking rv’s skin is entirely red right? and sure it might be bc hes made from red velvet, but most other cookies dont have this, except squink whos a monster and yam who. idk hes yam. anyway ignoring that, i hc that rv’s actually a burn victim and thats why he has red skin. so his body is kind of like, half burnt cake that fades into burn scars and hes a bit disfigured but not like a lot, just tons of scarring. think like third degree burns. also, he was baked with dough that was too thin, hence he ended up being half cake as the mixture was weird and not made properly. and i think he would have chronic pain from being half cake half cookie, because his body is in a constant unbalanced state as one half is thicker (heavier) than the other. so rv is like a fusion between a werewolf and a burnt human. his left half would also have lots of fur just like a wolf, like brute would have.

de is basically rvs mom. and she has lots of big expectations for him. and he feels like hes not able to meet those expectations bc of his physical form being a weird amalgamation between cake/cookie which limits him. and he has a lot of insecurities. bc when ppl see him, they react with disgust/fear, never giving him any chance to really show who he is bc they only see him as “monster” and run away. hence ppl stay a way from him and hes really lonely and insecure about not being good enough, being abnormal. de abuses his insecurity and manipulates him into believing that the only way he will be accepted by society is if they destroy it and rebuild it anew, thats why rv is part of the dark gang. and de KNOWS he loves the cake hounds and other cake creatures bc they are non judgmental, they are like him (cake), they love him as he loves them. so de abuses that, tricking rv into believing ppl also hate cake creatures as they hate him, and tells him he must train the creatures to become weapons for destruction. this only causes ppl to start believing they are aggressive and bad, since they are trained to be that way, which reinforces rv’s hatred for ppl, and it creates a cycle. 

i think rv is rlly similar to werewolf cookie. werewolf isnt necessarily cake, but hes a type of wolf just like rv, except ww is full wolf while rv is only half. but they have similar insecurities, theyre both seen as “monsters” by society and thus rejected and forced into isolation. but in their hearts theyre both good people who only want to be accepted and loved, yet they cant be. their only difference is that ww simply falls into a depression, embracing his sadness whereas rv embraces his anger at the world and projects it onto everyone else. ww is melancholic; rv is angry and frustrated. but they are both in pain, lonely, and longing for something more. i think, if they found each other, they would be surprised at first: another wolf cookie, like them? and this curiosity would pull them towards each other, despite ww being afraid of hurting rv and rv being afraid of doing wrong in de’s eyes - de, the only person whos been with him since the start. i think rv loves de, is dependent on her, believes she is the only person who cares for him when that is very much not true at all. and i think ww would help rv realise how abusive, manipulative, toxic de is as a mother. 

fuck i rlly wanna write a fic now ..... i will be Working on that

[psychabolition]

if this is too much please don’t feel pressured to answer. i just have a lot of thoughts about antipsychiarty and idrk where i stand

because, like. ive been in really bad places before and then they hospitalized me and like that was *bad*, right, i still believe thats bad

but the hospitalization put me on meds and OBVIOUDLY I DONT THINK PEOPLE SJOULD BE FORCED ON MEDS ITS UP TO THEM but also i consider my meds to be life-saving. because i no longer want to die. because i can stop having panic attacks. because there is an amount of feeling… not even good! just okay! that i never had before

and ive been in therapy that i hated and therapy that didnt work and the hospital doctor called me a “psycho”. but i also have a therapist now that i love. i consider him a friend. they don’t try to fix me or anything but i just, like. i go to therapy and it helps?

and i want to go into psychology. not psychiatry but psychology, because i want to do for other people what my therapist does for me, and i want to help people, and i want to learn about brains- the “normal” (which doesnt really exist) and the abnormal-

and i say that i am a system. and that i am autistic. that i have depression and anxiety. because it helps me to have language to understand myself. to be able to explain certain complixities of my humanity in less words than it should take and yes it misses out on the nuance but it helps, too, i think. learning i was autistic helped me.

so idk. i want to be anti-psych. because of the medical abuse and the usage of diagnoses to undermine people’s feelings. but can i be antipsych and love my medication. can i be antipsych and want to be a therapist. can i be antipsych and enjoy having labels to use for myself because it helps me learn to love whats in the mirror.

and if i cant be antipsych and all these things, then am i propsych? and for the very system that destorys and abuses and traumatizes people?

sorry for all this

im just confused

and scared.

I mean first off Im just one person whos anti psych and everyone whos anti psych will have different opinions on these subjects .

The most common anti psych stance on meds is that we should have full autonomy in choosing to take medication and in choosing not to take any meds. -this is not what reality looks like rn. Especially people with very stigmatized labels like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder are coerced into taking meds /literally forced on meds trough physical violence and coerced into staying on meds that harm them. And then other people -like for example people who are trans or nonbinary who want to transition are put through a dehumanizing process of pathologization of their queerness just to get access to HRT and then theyre still often denied access to gender affirming care . Both is awful . We always know who we are and what we need best. We deserve full autonomy on our decisions,always. You can obviously take meds yourself and be anti psych thats not a contradiction at all.

Also a lot of people who are anti psych reject the biomedical model (=mental health is the same as physical health - this includes words like Symptom/disorder and diagnosis labels like depression anxiety autism schizophrenia etc) since there is no scientific basis for calling our mental distress / neurodivergency a disorder or an illness and our diagnoses are just descriptive labels that say nothing about the cause of our suffering/behavior/feelings/ourselves in general . There has never been found a chemical imbalance, genetic defect or biomarker for our experiences of distress/neurodiversity .they came to These conclusions through their own Research .its insane that the biomedical model is still talked about as If its scientific fact, it is disproven and inherently contradictory . I highly recommend reading into current anti psych/Mad studies literature to understand how this oppressive system of hegemonic psychology operates in our current neoliberal society and why the biomedical model is still used today to diagnose us as "ill" and "treat" us . This is my perspective on the matter.

But honestly, i wont ever tell someone what words to use to describe their own experiences, how they should think about themselves and who they are - thats what psychologists do . Im not interested in doing that at all . Use the language you seem fit to describe yourself - i just recommend reading into different frameworks of interpreting your own experiences before you conclude that the biomedical model is the one that makes the most sense to you.

This is a different framework based on marxist theory

This is a different framework based on the disability rights movement

This is the biomedical model explained

Resources for psych abolition (harm reduction Guides, Mad studies, Zines ... )

This is a PDF to a book that goes in depth about the biomedical model and how the psychiatric system and its ideology is still extremely oppressive today

One thing that i firmly believe, that a lot of other people who are also anti psych dont share the same view on, is that Im convinced that you can not be against psychiatric violence and then become part of this oppressive system yourself. To me thats like becoming a cop to stop police brutality 💀Give me a Break

Thank you for your ask ! I highly highly recommend reading more into the subject of mad studies/psych abolition before dedicating energy time and money into being part of a system that youll probably despise in the end . (💀i have a degree in psychology by the way so i speak from experience)

[that-vigilante-piedpiper]

2 and 6 for the ask game even though i’m about 10 chapters behind :’)

2. What’s your favorite relationship in your story? Could be the main one, one your characters shares with a friend, etc. 

[There’s really no answer to this besides Reo and Midoriya ghsgsjgsjd They’ve got a really good relationship with one another that goes beyond something like friendship, loving and supporting each other unconditionally (the only exception being when theyre(*cough* midoriya) being self destructive). My second favorite would probably be Naomasa and Sansa, but I think that’s also because I catch myself writing them to mirror Midoriya and Reo’s dynamic a lot hkgjehsksgsk]

6. How do you feel the environment your character(s) grew up in shaped them as a human? How does the environment they’re in now shape them currently?

[Well, we’ve already seen how Midoriya’s environment shaped him as a kid. He’s always been a pretty realistic when it came to heroism, even when he was young, which is why he started Muy Thai in the first place. But, after UA’s rejection letter I think he really saw a clearer picture of the world. He’s always known that it was an unfair one, but after the letter I think he finally saw just how unfair it could get. He lost sight of his dreams of legal heroism because of it and turned to vigilantism instead. More recently though, Reo has helped him regain the dreams he originally had, though it was more a combination of the events of the USJ and the effects that its aftermath had on his loved ones than Reo specifically, though he certainly had a large part to play in it being Midoriya’s sole confidant and voice of reason.

Reo on the other hand, we haven’t gotten to see much of his past. He was still pretty young when his parents got divorced and his father moved out. Naomasa came to visit and spend the night frequently and as a result he grew attached to Naomasa in a way that we don’t really get to see much anymore. Reo was a kid that cant forget anything he reads, and there’s always a lot of stuff to find on how dangerous stuff like police work was in a superhuman society. Because of that he’s always lived with a lot anxiety, especially about whether his uncle would come home safe or not. He distanced himself from people a lot because that anxiety. He didn’t want to get overly attached to anyone like he had his uncle. He spent a lot of time on his own and that’s how he came to work with support gear, both because he had the time and because it could help protect both the people he cared for and the people that other people cared for. Midoriya is the first person Reo’s let into his life since working past the anxiety he’s felt as a kid. They became each other’s first friends by pure coincidence, in any situation Reo wouldve distanced himself from Izuku, but as it was this Izuku needed his help. In a way Reo’s forced to relive the same anxiety with Midoriya being a vigilante as he did with Naomasa being a police officer.]

[I don’t know if that whole Reo section even answered the question, but I like talking about him so 😭😭]

[m-feys]

OK NEURODIVERGENT GAANG TIME BC I WANNA

these hcs are kinda halfway set in a modern au bc thats my context for this ! (gonna split it up so its not as long bc i drafted the original and it was LONG) water tribe siblings first !!!

Sokka

adhd/autism king 😌

[ID: a screenshot of Sokka standing on a raised stone platform with a map of the Fire nation hanging behind him. He’s holding his arms stiffly by his side with a wide-eyed look on his face, brows raised as he has his mouth open, saying something. End ID.]

- schedules to survive, he likes to know what hes getting into and if you try to change plans on him without warning he’ll be very resistant

- smart kid who doesnt study, oh he tries, oh boy does he try, he ends up reading the same sentence over and over until he gets distracted by drawing something, working on the blueprint for his latest invention, or with researching something completely unrelated to what he’s mean to be studying. then he tosses and turns all night because he’s stressed by not having studied, but when he actually takes the test he makes a 105, despite there not even being a bonus question, he just answered the essay question so well the teacher gave him an extra 5 points

- special interests?? we got em!!! classic weaponry (think swords, boomerangs, but also, like canons and catapults and shit) engineering/physics, art/drawing, strategy games. he tends to hyperfocus within his special interests, so like for a week he was hellbent on building his own full sized trebuchet, much to the dismay of Gran Gran who just wanted to grow her tomatoes without them being crushed by said full size trebuchet

- (also he plays all types of games probably, but he def plays those ones where you take over the world, like the ones online and azula also plays them too and they end up being rivals, while not actually knowing who the other is outside of their usernames)

- he also talks a lot in his classes/is like the ‘class clown’ and ppl think this is him not focusing but engaging this way actually helps him focus way more than sitting silently, a lot of teachers dont understand it but the ones who do are actually paying attention and realize that he’s generally talking/joking about their current topic

- some observations (this shit is all canon babey!!!) - sokka is great at being a leader and communicating in groups he’s in but he really really struggles in front of crowds, one-on-one and sokka can talk well, joke and stuff but as soon as he’s separate from other people and everyone is just listening he clams up (solar eclipse pt 1). he also loves to joke and make people laugh, and a lot of the time he misinterprets stuff because he’s autistic but he also will realize this and do it anyway because he thinks it’s funny and he likes laughing with his friends (idk if this happens in canon but i do this and sokka does too bc i said so :^). He also takes up the protector/comforting role but despite his best intentions he can sometimes say insensitive stuff and not even realize what he’s done to upset people (when he happily told aang ‘the whole world thinks your dead!’) works best when he feels needed, if he feels unnecessary or like something doesnt matter he struggles to complete it (i feel like the beginning of sokka’s master rlly demonstrates what i mean here), and this goes both ways, he will put too much value into certain things that he cares about and can get his priorities mixed if he’s focused too much on what he believes matters more than what might be most pressing (zuko destroyed his suki sculpture, oh right bc he was attacking aang)

Katara

she also has adhd/autism, (so do both Hakoda and Kya 💙)

[ID: a screenshot of Katara, Hakoda, Sokka, and Bato. Hakoda has his hand on Katara’s shoulder as they both look at Bato who is saying something, she has curious look on her face with her brows raised, while Hakoda looks exasperated. Sokka beside him his also looking curiously up at Bato, with one brow raised and the other furrowed. Bato has a neutral expression on his face as he speaks. End ID.]

- palms sweaty thoughts spaghetti, she tries to be practical bc she thinks someone needs to be but really her brain is like a runaway train, she sees something that needs doing and is like, guess ill do that now! and drops whatever she was doing first. she can get very anxious because of this because all the thing that need doing start to pile up because theyre all in her brain at once. that and as much as she tries to be practical she’s very impulsive, getting help from other people really helps alleviate this stuff

- interacting w ppl, when she was only part of her own smaller community she had a lot less toll on her, bc she knew everyone and was used to them, as she meets more people she gets really frustrated with how many people seem to refuse to say what they really mean. Katara is very straightforward herself and she says what she means, so even tho she gets more and more perceptive when interacting with new people, she resents how much she has to work just to decipher what people really mean half the time.

- caring for ppl, with people she cares about communicating is much easier bc she knows them, so she’s very open about her feelings around these people, and she can be hyper empathetic at times, but then sometimes she will say SUPER insensitive stuff off the cuff because she’s just very impulsive and she might regret it after the fact but she really struggles with apologizing because being wrong makes her feel like ppl are going to reject her

- perceptions, she knows what’s expected of her by the world, but she really rejects the idea that she has to stay in her role. still, she has internalized a lot of these expectations and tries to perform them, even when she sometimes struggles. beyond herself, she’s very certain about what she knows is wrong and has a strong moral code, she sees something wrong and she wants to fix it.

- she’s awful in school, not because she’s not smart, but she’s smart in ways that society does not appreciate. she doesnt care at all about all the worksheets and math she’s never gonna use, and all the history that got distorted, she’s much better at learning stuff on her own and she will go on deep dives of subjects she cares about and is super knowledgeable abt them.

also:

[ID: A cropped screenshot of Sokka with his arms extended outwards, palms flat as he gestures. He has a slight grin on his face with his mouth open to speak, eyebrows raised and looking at the viewer calmly. He’s wearing his usual blue tunic with the Earth Rumble XI belt along with his earth kingdom bag hanging across his chest. The text on the image says, “This post made by ADHD Sokka gang. End ID.]

[ID: a cropped screenshot of Hakoda, he has a serious expression on his face as he looks ahead. The text on the post reads, “This post made by ADHD Hakoda gang.” End ID.]

from this post (part of what inspired me to write these out) @meteor-sword​ now just katara needs one 😄

adhd aang next, i will finally live up to my url (will edit with a link when i post)

[antiloreolympus]

4 Anti LO Asks

1. Does anyone honestly think Minthe is going to come back? She’s a star witness against them and Persephone just physically disfigured her. I doubt she’s ever going to change her out of her plant form, tbh. Rachel seems cruel enough to have Persephone either destroy the plant all together, or plant her in a tiny garden to be stuck in forever than actually let Minthe be free of the torture Persephone is putting her through. Rachel clearly hated the Minthe centric episodes too (which going off her editor was probably their idea anyway), so the more they just torture and/or ignore Minthe the happier Rachel will be. The only case of Minthe coming back is for some more petty drama, but it’s more likely they’ll just forget about it after all of an hour of being concerned.

2. you know what sucks? apollo was having upward momentum in the past few years of people discovering his queer romances and people begging for apollo/hyacinth retellings and then rachel came in and killed all of it by her nasty, lied about r*pe plot to make persephone's actual r*pist look better and her fans infesting any greek myth tag/group so no one can talk about apollo positively without LO fans ruining it. Thanks for killing growing hope around LGBT+ greek myth content, rachel! thanks a lot!

3. What I don’t get is Rachel claims LO is all about “reclaiming” female sexuality and it’s like ok, where though? Because she shamed women for choosing not to have sex and had them ousted as liars anyway who were totally having sex the whole time and they’re stupid for even thinking they could lie without it (Athena and Hestia, maybe Artemis too), she shamed women for having consensual sex but (gasp) they weren’t married to the man in question! (Aphrodite, Minthe, etc), and though she maybe could have had a point about how cheating is bad, she only condemns Minthe, Thetis, and Leto, but Hera can happy cheat on Zeus all she wants with his brother (who also shows no qualms about it and cheating on Minthe as well) and still frame her as good in it, but everyone else is bad? What?!

And especially with Persephone. She shows some exceedingly conservative, christian views that Persephone can’t even look at any other man other the man she will marry, and any sex she had outside of him must be made into SA because again, why would a story about “reclaiming” female sexuality actually let women actually control their sexuality? Such as having consensual sex outside of the designated love interest? Don’t be silly. She cannot be a young woman who has had experience and a life outside of hades, it just can’t be! More so, as she is now in therapy, Persephone’a main concern is not trying to work through her genuine trauma, it’s only making sure she’s sexually available at all times for him as a wife (a requirement hades quite literally told her! And Persephone felt shame and doubt about!) and that’s it, you know, like a tradwife is concerned about. Persephone doesn’t care about her body as her own nor even considering that she as a woman with autonomy has the right to say NO, she only cares if hades can get off sexually with her and that she doesn’t disappoint HIM. Rachel doesn’t even let her think “hey, maybe Hades, my perfect grandpa of a boyfriend, will understand my boundaries and respect my choices to not have sex when I’m not comfortable”. No, Rachel drills home that Persephone MUST ALWAYS be open to sex with him, and she better get over her very real sexual trauma now or else Persephone will be replaced! Being sexually available is her main purpose as a wife, doesn’t she know? Hades said so! She can’t work out her issues for herself, she has to do it so Hades can have sex with her and Persephone doesn’t fight back or reject it! It’s all incredibly nasty, and frankly a right wing reactionary’s dream of a comic. It’s basically an unintentional psych-op of claiming to be this progressive, feminist piece being given to millions of impressionable young girls to shape their views of relationships and sex when really it’s more conservative and regressive than any conservative school or church gathering they could ever go to.

4. What I find very frustrating about LO is Rachel wrote it that everyone looks down on Persephone for being a “stupid village girl” (which doesn’t make sense given she’s a daughter of a big six traitor and literally an olympus champion in a bunch of competitions as well as the face of her mothers company) but? Rachel made that their society? She’s the one who purposely made ALL of olympus and the underworld (and likely Poseidon’s kingdom too) into modern metropolises with huge emphasis how much better and advanced they are over mortals and Demeter who still rely on the land and are thus “behind”. Even in Persephone “growing up” is not her doing anything she’s comfortable with or bringing nature back to their lives, it’s becoming as minimalist and “modern” as Hades and everyone else. Minus the one tree she grew, she has to entirely forgo who she is and her nature (quite literally) to be “accepted” by everyone else. She cannot be herself, she has to be what she’s expected to be. You can’t frame it theyre bad for judging her for being more nature based, then make a point that she should leave it all behind and she’s better off forgetting it to be modern and devoid of nature entirely? Why even make it a this or that battle anyway? Why can’t they live in harmony? It’s clear she has a positive bias towards modern everything and a negative one towards nature, but this is just ridiculous. Rachel, you’re going to seriously shame farmers and nature itself? Really?? Even hades is myth was a lowkey farmer! He has chickens! Cmon!

[grouper]

i have a very specific theory about gender as a branch of whatever phenomenon causes religion . maybe this is crazy but hear me out... theyre so similar . religion as a whole is a neutral social construct that occurs as a set of beliefs . these beliefs encompass the way people experience the world , through the lens of whatever religion or spirituality they subscribe to ... but if one was brought up completely isolated , that would have no idea of what religion was , even if they developed their own lens to look at the world through.

in addition to this , some people lose their belief in one religion and feel drawn to another that works better for them. some people do not have any religious beliefs at all , and reject the idea altogether.

for a long time, religion was a concept that was entirely entrenched in our society. people would structure their entire lives around their beliefs. not to say people don't still do this now, but it used to be much more common to go to church multiple times a week and say grace at every meal, and pray before bed.

in the same vein, gender is another lens that we use to view the world. gender is also a neutral social construct that occurs as a set of beliefs. we know that it is a set of beliefs and not strictly a matter of biology for many reasons because (among other reasons) different cultures and different time frames experience gender in different ways. therefore it is not intrinsic, it is learned from our environment!

gender is also a lens through which we see the world , which encompasses our daily life. some people see the world through one lens, and some see it through another. like the way we experience religion, each individual's experience with their gender varies. in the same way some people may convert from one religion to another because they feel that it's their truth to persue it, some may transition from one gender to another for the same reasons. or, they may not see the world through any lens of gender at all, like an atheist's experience with religion.

both religion and gender involve intricate rituals. for example, clothing unites both concepts in some circles. where religion may restrict the food you eat , gender may restrict the pronouns you feel comfortable using.

this is not meant to devalue religion or gender, i practice both. it is just an observation i've made that these two human inventions are very similar in the way they function . it is possible that as gender consciousness grows in the same way that consciousness about religion grew , we may see less and less people practicing either due to lack of obligation. or, more people converting / transitioning to one gender from another . i believe it has already begun!