#*psa*

If your character did ‘the bad’ and now people are like ‘oml I hate them so mean’ you should feel proud because it means you are a good writer and you got the point across.

Please don’t tell me/ask me/send me stuff about Narci X Steel as a ship. You can ask me about their relationship but not send in romantic stuff/sexual stuff. Sometimes I might post something that could easily be misinterpreted as suggestive but that’s because I just don’t like censoring myself because of what someone might think. I don’t like thinking “oh I shouldn’t draw Steel or Narci like that or I shouldn’t say that because someone is going to ship them”. When it comes down to it this is my blog and I don’t like seeing or reading stuff about this as a ship, because it makes me feel like someone could be shipping a sixteen year old and a grown ass flower and it’s just...disturbing to me xD

 So, a small disclaimer: I’m not an expert, not a psychiatrist, have no foundation for my limited knowledge of psychology other than what I have read on online sources (aka the internet). I’ll list the sources I’ve based a majority of Steel’s portrayal as an individual that suffers from pyromania. That said, the illness in itself is not used to ‘justify’ the character’s actions, not used to imply that I condone in any of these actions or that the character themself is ‘innocent’.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2416759/

http://www.minddisorders.com/Py-Z/Pyromania.html

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2011/09/thats_hot.html

http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1967-12122-001/

http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/18052565

http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/5908949

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpubh.2013.00040/full

https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-244X-5-47

http://journals.lww.com/jonmd/Abstract/2002/05000/Impulse_Control_Disorders_and_Depression.7.aspx

 Well...I did make this post a while back and I’ve also dropped hints throughout the blog but anyway here goes;

 Steelio. Is not. a gurl. Yes. I know I use she/her all the time and rarely go with them but there’s a reason for that and the reason is as follows:

 It wouldn’t be realistic at all for a sixteen year old person (aka in the middle of their teens aka knee deep in biological confusion) that had a horrible upbringing in poor conditions and completely neglected and then fell down a hole in a world where everyone wanted to kill them to have heard of, read up on, understood, had the time or the reason to question their assigned gender. Gender is such a personal and complex thing for most people that it takes a lot of time to sit back and think to yourself in order to figure out what’s going on with you. And that’s what usually happens with people who had average lives and go through the process of self-discovery; now imagine you grow up thinking that you’re just ‘born bad’ and ‘born wrong’. There’s been no reason whatsoever so far for Frisk to come forth and say ‘hey you know what i don’t feel like a girl tbh’.

 In the Future verse of course as I’d mentioned in that post I’d made, I only use they/them pronouns because I’m assuming that in the process of years on the surface they would have figured out their identity -or at least be on the track of figuring it out.

 Anyway what I want to say with this post is that it’s okay if your muses get confused about these things, it’s natural and realistic bc it happens in real life too sometimes. Misgendering from muse to muse is completely okay with me whether it is considered an insult or not. What bothers me is when muns misgender muses because it makes me feel like you’ll just go ahead and assume things about the characters without having read their about pages or the content/headcanons related to them on the blog. And I think that’s not very nice to do when I always go through my partner’s stuff to read up on their muses.

// I personally never use these terms for characters who have a 'bad past' or whatever. A psychopath/sociopath etc is another human that just happens to suffer from some neurological issues. So I believe unless someone is rping a character that is actually suffering from these mental illnesses they should refrain from using them, as that is just ignorance and also stigmatizing irl people who suffer from these things.

 I have an irl friend who is a sociopath and trust me, he’s one of the nicest people I know. Sociopaths and psycopaths aren’t evil, they aren’t ‘bad people’, they’re just sick and because of that think differently. And I don’t think the media stigma is helping them cope with their disorders as well -which is very sad because having to cope with what they do is probably a big day to day struggle. There is no thing such as evil people, monsters are born in malfunctioning societies.

 And another thing; I believe all people who want to rp as someone who has one or more mental diseases should put a lot of time and research into these diseases first. I am really sick and tired of people posing as muses that suffer from schizophrenia or PTSD without having a clue how these things are like in real life and just spreading stigma and ignorance. 

 Thanks for reading this and bringing this issue up ~<3 I think it’s really important to point these things out.