#sometimes inner child work is uh. this? look there's something very very very bittersweetly cathartic about works that acknowledge the | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

skrunksthatwunk · 6 months ago

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waiitt i just remembered the promised neverland existed. exists, present tense. i have no idea if it was actually good or if i was just like 13 but that shit scratched a crucial and oft-neglected fiction genre itch of watching small children Go Through It Like Just Having Genuinely The Worst Time You Can Imagine without any support from adults/with active hostility from adults who have way more power over them. which. is putting into perspective some of my own childhood and anyway that was probably the most tense i have ever been watching anything in my life that shit was horrifying. full body clenching my way through like 12 episodes of television. im gonna go watch it teehee

#i've heard s2 was awful and that the manga 'got bad' but i can't speak on either claim bc i like. haven't read/watched those :p #but s1? might still do the trick of making me feel so so scared and so so vulnerable but in a way that's like. yknow. controlled via horror #fiction. unironically normal stuff it just manifests in me saying sentences like 'sometimes i need to see children be mentally tortured to #feel emotionally validated and seen' which. hm. whatever you guys are probably used to it by now #like i never put it into those words before and i hadn't quite pieced together the validation part but yeah basically #sometimes inner child work is uh. this? look there's something very very very bittersweetly cathartic about works that acknowledge the #emotional pain children are capable of. as one whose emotions were generally ignored not noticed or actively scorned #maybe i'll make this its own post actually bc i've been thinking about stuff Around this issue for a while (see my one singular little #prince post from like a year ago) but i'm starting to kind of understand it better. yeah #tpn

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