you are real. you are special.

it makes me sad that the art of media criticism has been so thoroughly hijacked by people desperate to have a new lolcow that you have to put a million disclaimers about how you don’t want the creator to kill themselves when you critique their work

people who dont have ocd should just automatically assume they know nothing about ocd. even if theyve evolved past the 'its the clean disorder!' people still find ways to completely misunderstand it and then say theyre right because theyre woker about it now. this disability pride month lets listen to people with ocd about how ocd works 🙏🙏🙏

yessssss shame your past self for surviving the only way you knew how to at the time 😍😍😍

yessssss shame your past self for surviving the only way you knew how to at the time 😍😍😍

Anti-kin really overthink what it's like to be fictionkin when they talk about how horrified or disgusted they'd be to find out someone is 'kin with one of the characters in their story/ies. To me-us, as a writer ourselves, they're flipping out over absolutely nothing. A much more reasonable reaction would be: "My story gave you the words to describe who you are and what you experience? A core part of your identity can be found in what I wrote and people may not fully understand you unless they know of it? I feel flattered and glad that my work is that important to you." A lot of stories do the same thing in other ways; it's not that big of a deal. If you think someone looking at one of your characters and going "oh, that's me!" is a sign of the end times, maybe you shouldn't be sharing your writing in the first place. I'm not sure you'll be able to survive the horrid phenomenon known as "people reading your work", let alone "people relating to your work".

*stands up abruptly* i have an idea for video games *refuses to say any more and goes to bed*

gar field? that’s not where they’re supposed to be

oh wow… how serene…