BUT HE'S RESTLESS AT NIGHT

There's this perception, I've noticed, that if you're going to have a cultural conception of something like "mental health" in your fictional setting it has to be like Ideal, it needs to be the ideal version of mental health awareness/conception/care or it needs to not exist at all even a little. Does that make sense.

Similarly there's also this idea that either a character knows what therapy is, has had some, and has had an overwhelmingly positive experience and result from it, or they have literally no concept of therapy at all, like Harry Du Bois not knowing that he's a cop style. Total blank. Very odd.

The options are not "this story takes place in the Instagram infographic universe" or "you get nothing. Everyone has a caveman's understanding of what depression is." is all I'm saying. Make a setting with a concept of mental health that sucks. Send the character to therapy that doesn't work. Officially diagnose them with something that sucks and is absolutely going to be taken out of the in-universe dsm in a couple of editions. Try something difference.

surely another trinket will cure me

Imagine living at Avengers Tower where Loki also lives. After the election, you talk about packing your bags and leaving the country. At night Loki appears next to your bed, asking you to stay.

no post has changed me more than this one. every time i get drunk at a bar i need to physically restrain myself from talking about it

She was trying to look behind the counter where we keep Gold Jewelry and Gucci Purses for pokemon cards

taylor swift would release a 30th special edition of the tortured poets department to block the vampire lestats spot on the billboard chart and within 24 hrs travis kelce would go missing

Tumblr users discussing rap music is the new Plato's Allegory of the Cave

They see the shadow of rap music cast on the wall by their conservative parents and confuse it for the real thing

my 37 year old vampire girlfriend keeps telling me i simply don't understand the woes of immortality as if I didn't also own a VHS player or visit a blockbuster a few times as a kid

she keeps staring off into the distance saying those shit like "those as youthful as you know not what horrors lie in your past" even though we both know damn well she's talking about the 2008 financial crash

it is always odd to me that there is a sort of masculine strength associated with conservative politics (this is an actual phenomenon that has been studied) because to me it all comes as a confession of weakness and mediocracy--an inferiority complex disguised as a superiority complex. maybe the reason conservatives dislike other conservatives so much is they do have to admit they're engaging with a loser by their own standards.

Nothing frustrates me like Xtians who think that for the last 2,000 years, they’ve just been the biggest bros and allies to Jews. After all, we share a common destiny, right? We worship the same god, right? The Jewish people were the precursor for the Xtians and now we’re all just best friends and always have been and antisemitism is totally antithetical to Xtianity after all. Right? But then you mention how this idea is like 60 years old and that for the last 2,000 years, they’ve been positing the Jew as the opposite of the Xtian, inhuman, an example of moral decay, and they say this is new information to them. Somehow, it’s always new information to them.

“potentially mature content” yeah that’s my pervert friend i hope it’s mature content that’s what i followed them for

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