Confundida

wow! your understanding of this character is so. . . Unique! just wondering by the way but when was the last time you directly interacted with the source media

[Image: Steve Rogers wearing face paint in the bi pride colors on one cheek; he’s wearing street clothes and lounging, comfortable. Caption: “It’s stars and stripes”]

Mirror neurons are the reason you cry at a funeral for someone you never met. your brain literally cannot tell the difference between watching grief and experiencing it, it just runs the program. and writers who understand this are playing an entirely different game. you don't describe the sadness. you put the reader in the body that feels it. the mirror neuron does the rest. you're not writing emotion. you're building a trigger for theirs.

I truly enjoy how much Animorphs is like “here are our young heroes, each with a distinctive trope to fill in the group!” And then it makes you watch how the pressure of each person’s role grinds them to dust. And also they have homework.

This is what having auditory processing issues is like.

There are a lot of people who start creative projects with no business or financial plan, because "who cares, it isn't important, we'll figure that out later". And you can't let yourself become that person. Not because I'm a sneering finance bro who thinks your woke animated youtube series wont make money, but because if you don't you'll wind up financially exploiting your friends for years

Look, it's none of my business if you wanna work yourself to the bone for no money so you can make your dream project a reality. I think you shouldn't, but also let's be real that's basically a rite of passage for young creatives. But as soon as you start involving other people? You need a plan. You need to be able to compensate them for their time, and you need to have it in writing

the idea of laura palmer is haunting because she's a woman suffering and people know she's suffering and don't do anything and then when she dies they make her into a saint and grieve her because she was too young to have gone through all that suffering like it's truly about how women's pain is only put in evidence when it's too late

like it's how now there are countless articles going "we have failed [female celebrity who went through an international smear campaign after coming forward with the abuse she suffered through the hands of a respected man in society]" and it's like no we didn't! you did! you made a spectacle of her suffering and you mocked her and made people hate her for her suffering and called her a liar and an abuser and a criminal for not being a perfect victim! it's too late to apologize for not supporting and helping and believing women who are suffering when you didn't take her seriously when she needed your help! it's too late to cry at her funeral when you're complicit in her downfall!!!!