#<- this tag is just a category for my mental illness at this point .
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Okay you know what I feel like I should repay you because you've in the past inadvertently helped me by letting me gain enough vague knowledge of R6Siege to pretend I've played it to get like 50¢ from a survey so: Tell me about Lion! He seems like a guy you're eager to talk about
OH BOY TYSM glad i could help you get like 50¢ from a survey with my insanity . i’m sorry for all the information you’re about to lesrn he sucks so fuckign bad but i love him so much
so basically lion was a super rebellious teenager in a very well-off conservative catholic and he ruined his life when he was 18 by fucking up and getting his at the time girlfriend pregnant. he begged her to get an abortion because his family is so religious they’d absolutely kill him if they found out, she said no, he tried to pressure her into it and she left, it was a whole thing. they did find out and disowned his ass and he, now faced with being kicked out of the house with absolutely nothing at 18, went on a depression and fear fueled bender and landed in the hospital . absolutely sucked 0/10 bad time
so when he got outta this hospital he decided he ws gonna clean up his life by joining the military and try to be a good person. wild choice but yk its a military fps game what do you expect . he also became catholic again which i mean yeah sure fine i guess thats his choice. after a while (like a Long while) his unit’s chaplain arranged a meeting with the ex girlfriend and the child, and he was like “oh SHIT my actions have consequences this child almost didn’t exist” and now makes an effort to be in his son’s life even though the kid grew up calling someone else dad bc the gf got married at some point i think? idk regardless lion tries to be a good parent despite his past fuckups and i like that about him
but anyway so lion joins the gign, then gets recruited for cbrn which is like . anti-bioterrorism basically, where he meets doc and twitch (two other gign operators that r in the game) during an ebola outbreak. lion, being a quarantine specialist, decides to quarantine a bunch of infected people to prevent the spread of the virus. doc is NOT happy about this because hes hardcore humanitarian and wants to try to help them. because of lion’s shitty quarantine practices they wind up dying, and doc has blamed him ever since which is totally fuckin fair . they both had a lot of mean things to say to each other, namely that lion lacks empathy and that doc’s belief that People Should Not Die If It’s Preventable is a liability. the two have been actively hostile towards each other for a long time, but have reached a stable point in the past couple seasons. theyre both beginning to move on and work together to lead wolfguard, which is rainbow’s rescue unit essentially
so now with all the backstory shit out of the way, what i like about this wretched beast; he sucks, he fucked up a whole lot, but he’s trying so very hard to do better for the people he cares about and for himself. he’s confident and even cocky when it comes to his combat skills but he absolutely does not trust his civilian instincts because of the things he’s done in the past so he’s really, really bad at interacting with people . he tends to come off as an arrogant asshole (which is kind of true honestly) and has gotten into fights with so so many other members of rainbow because he’s just so full of fuckin attitude. he also canonically likes heavy metal and cats and is fascinated by virology and vector control :] and when he’s not doing stuff for team rainbow he tries to help his community by volunteering for various stuff
in conclusion; i love this wretched beast. he’s the reason i got into r6 and i rotate him in my brain every day because he is just Inch Resting to me. i could talk about my nighthaven lion thoughts BUT tahts not even canon adjacent that’s just me being insane so i will save that for another day . sorry for the 800 page essay i just fjskgkakkgks lion my beloved . i will leave you with this picture of him bc i like it :]
#trailcam recordings#babylonbirdmeat#long post#i have no fucking idea how to tag any of this .#lion r6siege#<- this tag is just a category for my mental illness at this point .
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I feel so sorry for the mod because of all the Jirai asks that get flooded on here daily but I literally won’t shut up about this…
the only reason we’re even having this stupid Jirai discourse in the first place is because people love mindlessly consuming shit and spreading misinformation from overseas and that being topped by brands using words they shouldn’t use for their money hungry profit and stupid aesthetics. Consumerism has rotten everyone’s brains ever since aesthetics became this insanely important thing to make someone feel connected to whatever they do. The rise of aesthetics as a whole has ruined how people consume and enjoy things and it’s gotten to the point where people mindlessly use a slur for their clothing style.
I also don’t understand why it’s so hard for (especially western) people to stop using the word Jirai, if y’all are against using slurs like the r-word or n-word (which you should!) then why aren’t you against using Jirai? Just because Japanese girls use it for themselves? Most of the time that’s not even the case and you are the ones calling them Jirai girls because of their style. The tag is literally overflown with white women or fashion influencers. And even if a Japanese girl calls herself a Jirai, that would be the same category as black people calling each other the n-word. Its not your word to use since it doesn’t get used against you and it doesn’t involve you, no matter how much you think it does. You don’t get called Jirai by other people and get looked down upon for being mentally ill in a Japanese society that has the highest suicide rate. It’s not for westerners to decide what they are allowed to use or not. Idk why everyone is so obsessed with using whatever word they want as soon as it’s connected to Japan. The word doesn’t belong to westerners and they shouldn’t use it. Point blank period! Is it so hard to not call yourself a slur? Just because y’all want clicks on instagram and feel like you belong to a group? It’s disgusting. Nothing else. Use the BPD tag or Menhera tag for all I know. But don’t use a slur.
And I swear if I see one more person say girly kei isn’t a thing is gonna have to fight with me…the fashion has been called that for ages and just because some stupid YouTuber and afterwards fashion magazine decided to connect it to a slur everyone thinks it’s ok to use it? Pure insanity.…same goes for a bunch of famous western „Jirai influencer“ (Jesus that word alone makes me sick, imagine profiting from mentally ill people) shaming or trying to remove mentally ill girls from Jirai just because it makes them uncomfortable. It’s insanely annoying to see how many westerners are trying to erase Japanese people from the conversation and origin of Jirai just because „i want my silly little clothes and aesthetic that have a dark origin but I’m not like these people so please pay attention to me and give me clicks and likes but don’t associate me with these disgusting people thehe“
Anyway. I’m fucking tired of this discussion and every day I get reminded why I stopped engaging with the j-fashion community as a whole just because people forgot how to act and think critically about things all for the sake of profit and consumption and some stupid likes on the internet.
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i need to flesh out my tags about diagnosis/psychiatry for my own personal gain because I feel like I'm onto something but my brain is moving too fast to physically write it down so here we are.
basically psychiatry at its core is responsible for creating and naming categories under which all of humanity is meant to fit. (even if you don't have a MH diagnosis, you are therefore not mentally ill / neurotypical, which becomes a category of its own.) a lot of mental health awareness campaign's language lies in this idea that mental disorder does not discriminate, that it can affect anyone at any point in their lives -- it's giving He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake boogie man panopticon vibes...
& speaking of foucault, I think the basic concept that, states wield power by creating knowledge systems that create subjects, is really important to the anti-psychiatry critique. the subjectivity of psychiatry is kind of its most obvious facet. what's MIRACULOUS is that, in the last 50 years, psychiatry and psychology have managed to convince a staggering load of people that they are SCIENTIFIC and OBJECTIVE fields; that there are really truly chemical / biological / neurological sources we can point to in which we will find all of the answers for human suffering. I'd argue this quick acceptance is in portion due to neoliberalism and rapidly growing technologies of surveillance -- the DSM-3, which basically put psychiatry on the map as a legitimate field, was published in 1980. psychotropics have also had a big role in legitimizing the psy-discipline's attempt to class themselves among the medical fields, despite the fact that we still don't really know why psychotropics Work for Some People.
but even if we did know why they "worked," we also need to question what we consider "working" under conditions of hegemonic capitalism. in which ways do medications alter human behavior and belief in order to make our lives easier for ourselves and others? what actions and acceptances are deemed healthy under the influence of psychotropic drugs? psychiatrists track your progress on the drug in line with how well you are functioning as a normal, productive human being. is being happy not better for labor?
this is not to say that I think the distress that may fall under psychiatric diagnoses is not real or valid. on the contrary, I think they're very real experiences and very valid experiences. but I don't think they need to be classified as anything. because I believe that 1. suffering and distress are inevitable facets of any meaningful life and 2. there is no one "correct" way to experience distress or suffering or to be a human being in this world -- in fact a diverse range of reactions to the human experience is not only inevitable but also amazing and beautiful and sacred.
anyway, it would be misguided to believe that, in another world, perhaps under a different economic structure, we could have a psychiatry that is objective and not suited to the interests of the powerful. because that's all psychiatry has ever done, regardless of whatever cloaks it wears that tell us otherwise. its quest as a field has always been to sort out the normal from the abnormal and force the abnormal back to normal for the sake of capital. its even easier when we just go along with it happily. will we ever be able to see this? even more so, can we accept that we will never be able to objectively or scientifically understand and chart humankind in our vast complexity, and that's fucking magnificent?
#think it could be interesting to see psychiatry as a new kind of religious moralizing due to increasing secularization#its claim to be objective science is rlly interesting in that context#is there a world where we care for one another in our suffering for the sake of community and not capital#of course -- but that's not psychiatry
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{last update: Mar 6th, 2022}
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✧i go by darling on here ♡
✧i'm 27, i'm married to my mommy, & my daddy now lives with us ♡♡
✧i'm disabled (legally blind, colorblind, neurodivergent, & mentally ill)
✧my little age range is 2-6, my middle age range is 12-14, my fave pet to be in general is a puppy, & my fave pet to be for my mommy is a cow
✧my main kinks & limits are listed at the bottom of this post :)
✧u can call me pet names, but pls do not imply that i belong to u! -> "hi princess!"✔️ "hi my princess"❌
✧i'm genderfluid, but i (usually) prefer fem terms/names
✧my mommy is pre-hrt/pre-op transfem & goes by they/them pronouns online. respect that!
✧my mommy doms me to a degree, but they are much more of a subby switch at heart. i also have a daddy i met thru this blog who is my main dom.
✧i am not looking for more partners! pls do not ask to be my dom or playmate!
✧i am open to making kinky friends, either dommy or subby!
✧i follow back blogs that intrigue me. if i unfollow soon after pls don't take offense! it just means i didn't align w ur blog like i thought i would at first glance.
✧i am much softer irl than some (most?) of my reblogs and even original posts may imply. there are things i only like/crave at certain times. the things i always like are on the softer, calmer side of bdsm.
messaging me
✧my dms are currently only for ppl i follow/mutuals. if i decide to open them again i'll make a post abt it & update this point here.
✧my asks are always open, including anons! i love receiving asks, but do not just send me sexts or i will block u!
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kinks & limits
fave kinks include:
✧ageplay, cgl, littlespace, innocence & corruption, teacher/student type dynamics
✧pet play (puppy, cow, kitten), collars & leashes
✧praise, adoration, obsession, being spoiled/rewarded
✧softer cnc, coercion, drugging, sweet manipulation, conditioning
✧bimboification, dumbification, being treated like a toy
✧sweet humiliation, sweet degradation
✧pee (either peeing for/on someone or being peed on)
✧light s&m, spanking, being groped
kinks i have interest in but never practiced irl:
✧breath play, choking, being gagged
✧bondage, rope play, captivity, kenneling
✧group sex, public sex (w ppl who consent obvs), free use for multiple partners
✧bukkake, creampies
✧s&m using tools (floggers, canes, clamps, etc.)
soft limits:
◦abdl (specifically diapers)
◦rougher cnc
◦harsher humiliation, harsher degradation
hard limits:
◦sibling dynamics
◦leather, rubber, other restricting clothes
◦hardcore s&m, violence, knives, guns, blood, harsh bruising, biting, hickeys
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What made you decide to stop being a transmed?
This was already in my FAQ tag
I got exposed to some of the flaws in their logic around the same time that I got fed up with the community’s negative mindset. The world health organisation reclassified transsexualism to be a sexual health condition rather than a mental illness, and everyone I was following was crying about how tucutes got their way and made it impossible to access medical transition, how trans people are now in the same category as pedophiles, and how transsexualism was no longer classified as a health condition at all, none of which are or were true and it would’ve been extremely easy to figure that out by reading past the headlines. They wanted to be miserable, they wanted to be outraged, they wanted to be victimised.
As for the flaws in their logic, a radfem messaged me (back when I was still strongly “anti terf”) and got me around to the idea of neuroplasticity. That reduced my faith in the idea that transness was caused by being born with a brain that has “the wrong sex”, especially after I tried to bring up these concerns and got the same response transmeds always provide - walls of links to studies with little to no relevance to the point, which nobody ever actually reads.
At that point I left the community, and the more time has passed the more critical I’ve gotten of transmed ideology. I’ve never been able to access medical transition but I did seem like a “tru trans” to the transmed community. They convinced me that if I was truly trans, I had no other options and I would be miserable for the rest of my life/might as well kill myself. The idea that my dysphoria was rigid, essentially incurable and Meant Something (not just “I feel discomfort in my body” but “I am in the wrong body”) made it so much worse for me, and I couldn’t start healing until I somewhat let go off those ideas. Also I reidentified and it hasn’t killed me so, there’s that. I guess I still agree with them that transition should not be as readily available as it currently is, but I don’t believe that any of the barriers they propose will be able to keep out anyone who would regret transition, and I don’t think that transition is beneficial to everyone they label as Truly Trans.
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The Risk I Took was Calculated, but Man, am I Bad at Math
the risk i took was calculated, but man, am i bad at math
by rubyflakes
When Hawks takes on an intern, he, like with most things, does not think it through. And so, when he inevitably messes up, it's not really a surprise—what is a surprise is that Hawks gets a second chance. He's never been the best at making it up to people, or at fixing his mistakes, or at…you get the point. But you should already know: Hawks does not think things through.
And this thing? Not an exception.
(or: in which I explore why Hawks was such a fucking asshole during the internship arc, how Tokoyami felt about that whole thing (spoiler: badly), how they both dealt with the aftermath (spoiler: also badly), and the next logical step.)
(or or: Hawks doesn't know how to handle teenagers, emotions, emotions that teenagers specifically experience, his job, his life, the impending crumble of hero society, teenagers, and so on. But he's determined to fix this…or to at least not make it worse. And he's trying. You can't say he's not, because he is. Very, very hard.)
Words: 3918, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: Gen
Characters: Takami Keigo | Hawks, Tokoyami Fumikage, Hakamata Tsunagu | Best Jeanist, League of Villains, Hero Public Safety Commission
Relationships: Takami Keigo | Hawks & Tokoyami Fumikage, Hakamata Tsunagu | Best Jeanist & Takami Keigo | Hawks
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, if i do continue this i promise i will NOT be sticking to canon, these are MY emotional support mentally ill bird people, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Family Dynamics, Found Family, i'm back on my found family bullshit, Parental Takami Keigo | Hawks, Takami Keigo | Hawks-centric, Tokoyami Fumikage Needs a Hug, they both need a hug but tokoyami especially, Takami Keigo | Hawks is a Little Shit, Hawks Is A Fucking Asshole and i am not sorry about that, Misunderstandings, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, sorry those tags suck. it's just one chapter and i don't know what i'm doing, Self-Hatred, on hawks’ front specifically
Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41615193
#AO3 Feed#FanFiction#AO3 Hawks#♠#Keigo Takami#Fumikage Tokoyami#Tsunagu Hakamata#Best Jeanist#R:T#A:Rubyflakes#Hurt Comfort#Angst
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“The DSM and the ICD are not the only formal classifications of mental illnesses. The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, CCMD, RDOC, and HiTOP, among many other classifications such as WKL and Millon's personality inventory, exist as well.”
I’m curious then, is there a reason why I’ve never heard of these manuals (except for the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual)? The post is tagged as psych history, so are these old manuals?
Thanks for the ask, anon!
The post is tagged as psych history mostly for my own classification of my blog, although some of them are indeed old. The rest are not really clinically used in Western psychiatry as far as I'm aware, which might explain why you haven't heard of them.
The CCMD is the Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders. I haven't read it myself.
Given the existence of Japanese psychiatric diagnoses like taijin kyofusho or modern-type depression that don't exist in Western psychiatry, I would expect there to be a similar Japanese manual, but I haven't been able to turn up any evidence that one exists.
RDOC and HiTOP are not manuals for clinical use, but research frameworks. Instead of classifying the spectrum of symptoms into discrete conditions, they try to identify the underlying factors that produce mental illnesses. So for instance, both anxiety and depression are part of HiTOP's "internalizing" spectrum, and all the schizospectral conditions are part of the "thought disorder" spectrum.
Millon's personality taxonomy was somewhat incorporated into the DSM and somewhat stands alone as its own thing. I believe that some psychometrics derived from it, such as the MCMI, have some clinical use in screening for personality disorders.
The WKL, or Wernicke-Kleist-Leonhardt, classification of mental illnesses is mostly historic at this point, although there are a few European, mostly Francophone, groups that use it. It was developed in Germany, first by Wernicke, then by Kleist (who was a Nazi), then Leonhardt (who worked in the DDR and was as far as I can tell from what I've read his writings, against the Nazis). It isn't a classification of every mental illness, just the "endogenous psychoses", which would correspond to the more mainstream categories of melancholic depression, mania + bipolar, schizophrenia, and catatonia. WKL also has a category of "cycloid psychoses", which have primarily psychotic symptoms but follow an episodic course similar to bipolar disorder. This is the main contribution of the system to other areas of psychiatry. There's a little bit of intriguing research relating cycloid psychoses to limbic encephalitis, although not nearly enough to be conclusive.
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Walking in a winter horrorland! wait- isn't it wonderland?..
read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/Vpb5EYt
by I_need_a_sandwhich_man
Kokichi Saihara' immune system is VERY weak against the cold... especially with his anemia WOOHOOO plus one! Due to that, he rarely gets to go outside and play in the snow like other kids did when he was younger,
yet he still managed to bother his husband to the point where he just lets him go outside with him..
what a complicated ass marriage
Words: 3, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
Fandoms: New Dangan Ronpa V3: Everyone's New Semester of Killing
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: M/M
Characters: Oma Kokichi, Saihara Shuichi, Momota Kaito, Akamatsu Kaede, K1-B0 (Dangan Ronpa)
Relationships: Oma Kokichi/Saihara Shuichi
Additional Tags: UHM THEY A LITTLE OOC, bruh idk how to tag help, complicated marriages, platonic oc x character, Kokichi has siblings, Sickfic, someone gets these two some help, kokichi and shuichi are both bitches, annoying kokichi, Stressed shuichi, shuichi is on his last straw rn., sorta fluffy😳, slight angst, gotta squint a little, lots of humor, slightly rude humor, referenced for attempted suicide?..., illnesses/mental illness, adding my own ocs, Sexual Humor
read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/Vpb5EYt
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okay so i just watched this video and it got me thinking so i may or may not have accidentally written a critique/essay about it and am now sharing it here because this is my blog and you signed up for my obvious signs of mental illness i will not get checked out/hj
I would like to preface this (as i may have gotten slightly carried away) as only being criticism and my own take on the subject at hand. This is entirely subjective and meant to add nuance on the subject because it is one that interests me and i thought voicing my opinion on it could be interesting. I mean absolutely no hate and i'd actually like to thank the original creator for bringing this up and giving me the opportunity to reflect on it, and that most things touched on here are technicalities that as a whole can be ignored but i thought were important to bring up.
My main issue with the points being made in this video is that they're portrayed as only being true for published fanfiction when in reality, they're things that occur in most literary genres or just points that kind of fall flat due to having quite a few counter arguments (in my opinion at least).
One of the first points made was that fanfiction isn't made to be consumed in the same way as "literary fiction" is, which i suppose is true on a base level. However, the problem here is that fanfiction doesn't fit into one literary category, hence why tags such as "thriller" or "fantasy au" exist. This may sound absurd but I've honestly read fanfiction that has had more literary merit than "literary fiction" books i've studied in class. Granted, those fanfictions weren't teen romance fanfics but that highlights perfectly the problem i have with the points being made in this video; it reduces fanfiction to something it isn't. This could be a problem with the sites used to read fanfiction on (i will admit that the only place i've read fanfic with true literary merit was on ao3 and that the only site she mentioned consuming from in this vid is, correct me if i'm wrong, fanfic.net so this could come from the fact that certain sites hold certain reputations) but that doesn't stop the media at hand from being fanfiction, and therefor fitting the criteria to the things said in this video.
But this also goes hand in hand with the comment made after where she associate things not being made to be monetised as something that will probably be bad when that can't be further from the truth. One of the best things (or at least in my opinion it is) about fanfiction is that it's made for free. At its core, fanfiction has no ulterior motives to sharing a story some lambda person found interesting enough to put pen to paper and to write about. The fact it's the essence of fanfiction is why i truly find it to be one of the best type of media. Think about it, when you don't have a set date to think about and have no editors pressuring you with the fact no books = no money, which is in this society one of the only thing every human needs to survive, authors have the time to perfect their craft and make it as good as possible. Not to mention that saying that statistically fanfiction is badly written just seems kind of weird because where do those statistics come from? There are millions of fanfictions - possibly billions or even more at this point - which does mean that statistically a part of that will be objectively bad but it also means that the polar opposite is also true.
However I reckon one of the worst arguements made in this video is moreso a comparison she made when she said "if like every song every child wrote counted towards the canon of what music is, we would all be like 'I guess music's bad'" which besides the fact this sentence reads like an acid trip, is a completely baseless arguement. Throughout this video, she seems to hold more intellectual types of writing such as "literary fiction" on a pedastal which i guess yeah you can since literarture has been a world of elitism for the past thousands of years, however, using children as an example of what contributes to something being bad and on top of that using music as the prime example is probably one of the worst choices you could have ever made.
Historically, the genre of music that has accumulated the most prestige is "classical" music. Now, one thing that is very emblematic of classical music has got to be child prodigies. Some of the pioneers of such an elitist kind of music started increibly young (prime example being non other than Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) and even if he feels like an exception, new child prodigies pop up every year and classical music seems to be the place to be for them. And even if you ignore the music part of that statement it still falls flat. For example: the one literary genre that is considered even more elitist than "literary fiction" it has got to be poetry and if children's work in poetry don't really count than how can you explain phenomenons like Arthur Rimbaud who became one of the best poets of all time at only 17 (which is an average age for fanfic writers).
The last thing I will touch on (since this is already really long) is the whole "it protrays abusive relationships as being loving" which i will never deny is problematic and definitely should have an afterword or something of the kind. However, you can in no way reduce that statement to only fanfiction. Depictions of abusive relationships as being healthy has been a problem for, at the very least, centuries and yet she only raises it as being problematic in fanfiction which is wrong on so many levels. Case and point with an iconic piece of "literary fiction": Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. We all know that this book doesn't depict a love story because we've all been told that it is a critique. However, if that were the case then how do you explain people like one of my old History teachers telling his student that it's an amazing love story? This problem doesn't only apply to fanfiction and disassociating it from other genres like "literary fiction" just makes the arguement fall flat.
There are a few more things I could have touched on but i think this is already lengthy enough so i'll leave it here. I once again would like to say i don't mean any hate to the original poster and i do apologise if i came off as though i did. This was just my thoughts on the video and nuances to the arguments brought up.
#so yeah i may have gotten carried away#but i am also really passionate about this#like i hate how fanfiction is always reduced to this little thing some kids write#i think my main problem with publishing fanfiction is that the kind without the most literary merit is being published#which taints the value of all the other fanfic as a whole#but thats enough for tonight#fanfic#fanfiction#ao3#archive of our own#fanfiction.net
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Hey, it’s Morgan. I’m back. Other than changing my age form 24 to 25, I haven’t changed my pinned post since I made this blog (until now), but I’ve changed in who I am enough that I guess I should update my pinned post to reflect that. Also though, I’m lazy, so I’ll keep what I can from my old pinned post;
Hey, I’m Morgan, he/him, 25
I’m on the gray ace spectrum and the gray aro spectrum, but over the last 4 or 5 months I’ve realized I’m probably specifically demi in both categories (I’m still figuring it out though)
Autistism, OCD, Depression, ED, PTSD, occasional month long anxiety episodes but no general anxiety disorder, miscellaneous other mental health issues
I AM PRO RECOVERY AND PRO HARM REDUCTION
This is primarily a vent blog and any recommendations I post are from the view point that if other people are gonna live this lifestyle anyway I can at least try and help them do so in the least harmful way possible. I’ve met so many people that have ed’s that aren’t ready or willing to recover, but could still go about things in a safer way if they knew how.
THIS BLOG WILL HAVE DRUG, ALCOHOL, FOOD, AND GENERAL MENTAL ILLNESS CONTENT
Again this is a vent blog to help me cope, if there’s something specific you would appreciate me tagging lmk, if my content is in general just too much please just block, don’t report.
Also I love answering asks, they help distract me from my train wreck of a life. I tag all the ask posts I reblog with “ask post” so if you’re bored and wanna send me something from one you can search that on my blog, just lmk which post it’s from.
If you for some bizarre reason want to know more about me, I tag all posts I make or add personal responses to with #0ops0uch
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Can i get your hamlet thoughts? both about the play and its themes in general and the character? Especially on hamlet/horatio and hamlet/ophelia?
hell YES you can. have some assorted hot takes which i did not organize at all. tw for some suicide mentions
[particularly for this bullet point] ...because it’s a suicide play. june sent me a really interesting article once and idk... i think of all the plays i’ve read it deals most directly w suicide and i know hamlet objectively doesn’t kill himself but i think he knew what he was doing
i also think it’s hugely about generational differences! i know there’s a lot of debate about hamlet’s age (and personally i am FIRMLY in the ‘hamlet is sixteen and just fucked up really bad’ category, like, pry that from my cold dead hands <3) but i think no matter how old hamlet is there should be a very clear disconnect between the younger & older generations. this is a play about parents not understanding their children
among other things, i mean, hamlet’s a play about everything -
i think we should talk about hamlet’s relationship to religion more. i do not say this because i have a complex relationship with religion myself or anything. i’m uninvested in this personally
hamlet was mentally ill before his father died, he just hid it really really well up until then + the symptoms manifested differently and not so debilitatingly
specifically hamlet has ocd
that one i can’t even pretend to be uninvested in but it’s also just a fact and i swear to god i will make that post on it someday
like he just. he JUST does i’m sorry. the way he thinks? the way he talks through his own thoughts? the constant doubt and inability to make a decision? he JUST does have ocd i don’t make the rules
i hate polonius i think he’s a fucking bastard and a terrible parent
i really like “king hamlet SUPER sucked” interpretations and i’ll admit i kind of like claudius if only because he is so fucking funny as a character. no morals + horny
gertrude is one of the most fascinating characters in the play and is CRIMINALLY underutilized and underanalyzed especially in her parallels w ophelia. also if you tell me hamlet wanted to fuck her i get to mince you
hamlet x horatio is peak im sorry it just is. it JUST is. it’s about the mutual respect & the seeing each other as people beyond social class and their vastly different circumstances & the way that horatio is the only one who can still joke around with hamlet after his father’s death
that said i very much want to think that before hamlet’s father died, their relationship was more... equal? if that makes sense? bc i think horatio tends to bend to hamlet in the canon of the text, and he tends to put hamlet’s needs before all else, and that’s completely understandable seeing as hamlet’s dad died literally two months ago and now he’s in a mental illness spiral with his horrible horrible family. but under more normal circumstances i want to believe horatio is less... self-carelessly selfless and actually calls hamlet on shit when necessary
thinking about hamlet and horatio pre-canon being roommates at wittenberg and sometimes kissing while they study latin declensions or whatever the fuck... this gives me brain damage. don’t talk to me </3
i think ophelia and hamlet are FAR more interesting when considered as foil characters rather than lovers. like i’m not saying i don’t think they should have a romance (i think it’s interesting to explore) but i just think they are so much more interesting when looked at in terms of the way they mirror each other over and over again
particularly in regard to the fact that they both lose fathers & they both at least consider suicide
and maybe my seeing them as foils is even part of the reason i don’t particularly... ship them? (at least not in canon.) because i HAVE to wonder if ophelia’s madness and suicide are influenced by hamlet’s madness, performance or not. and i have to wonder how things might have gone differently if they hadn’t both spiraled at the same time yknow
that said. outside of canon / in an au where hamlet isn’t so actively destructive to the people around him... horatio/hamlet/ophelia as an ot3? god tier
i know hamlet is four hours long. i know. i still think cutting horatio and/or fortinbras is a mortal sin
i think hamlet hooked up with everyone his age in that play but he had messy breakups with everyone except horatio
yes this includes fortinbras
hamlet’s not real as a character, like, he’s infinitely interpretable on PURPOSE and it’s very hard to pin down more than a few concrete character traits for him (especially because we never see him before his father dies) which is why we all kin him
that SAID. when i made my post about that macy said smthn really insightful in the tags which was that hamlet’s not real on a TEXTUAL level but he should be real in a production, like, there are infinite ways to characterize him but if you’re actually... playing him... you have to pick one... if HAMLET in hamlet is boring you’re doing it fucking wronggggg
hamlet is trans. “what flavor of trans” literally any flavor of trans makes his relationship to his father & his misogyny 10x more interesting. goodbye
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#max.txt#im so sorry for how disorganized this is..... i just Started#and my hands took me here#i hope this is at least a little in the ballpark of what you hoped for <3#hamlet#asks#Anonymous
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It looks like my brain is taking some time off doing things with words. This honestly almost never happens. I'm ✨obsessive✨ about writing to the point where it often sometimes becomes A Problem™
So, this used to drive me crazy with frustration. I'm a very push-through-it kind of person. This is also A Problem™ and one that I'm actively working on for reasons of physical and mental health. Before, I would admonish myself for not trying hard enough, force myself to do the thing, be utterly miserable, and ultimately end up despising every fucking word I wrote when my mind and my heart weren't in it.
Now I'm trying this new thing where I don't do that and I think about how I got here. I've been working on Project Frequency non-stop for a while, even though I didn't fully intend to get stuck into it just yet. I published a short fiction collection on my website. I finished the last revision on Project Storm way sooner than planned after it came back from my editing folks (still needs proofread, but sooooooon!).
Within the last few weeks, I also started creating regular writing-related content for Instagram, which has included making artsy fartsy microfiction videos where I read things with my own fucking voice OMG. This is legit one of my favourite forms of creative expression right now and I'm learning so much. I gathered three years' worth of microfiction into categories for future posts. And I completely overhauled my entire website.
My mental health has been not amazing. OK, that's a massive understatement. My mental health has been an explosive catastrophic disaster because of stuff relating to serious trauma that I don't want to talk about here. I fell apart in a full-on breakdown kind of way, which is not something I do very often because I live in a perpetual state of denial and dissociation and like to pretend I don't because it makes me feel like I've got my shit together better than I really do.
I contacted a trauma support centre that specialises in the very specific context of my trauma. I realised I wasn't ready to go through that whole process yet and cancelled the initial outreach assessment. Then I felt like a weak piece of shit and hated myself a bit. Then my close family and a very good friend helped me understand that this was an act of self-care and boundary setting and sometimes first steps have to be taken a number of times. So it's OK. Sort of. And I'm doing way better at dealing with the mess in my head with the support of people who love me. And I'm extremely lucky to have those people.
My chronic illness/disability stuff has been a pile of fuckery too, but the more manageable kind of fuckery. Except I've been really struggling with mobility aids lately because I'm basically going in cycles of fucking up my lower body by not using them, then fucking up my upper body by using them. So I found a truly epic rollator/wheelchair hybrid (swear to god, this thing is cyberpunk AF) that is everything I need and actually possible for me to operate even when my stupid hands are being stupid, and now we're trying to work out how to afford it and hopefully I'll be able to get it within the next few months.
Now that I type all that out, I'm not quite so much like "Why am I not feeling creative right now? It's a mystery!" I am burned the fuck out and profoundly exhausted on every level. And I'm doing that new thing I mentioned at the top of this post. I'm accepting it. And I'm letting myself rest. And I think it's good.
Anyway, I just wanted to check in and say hi and I miss you all and I'm still lurking even if I'm not posting as much. Love love love.
PS. Sorry if I've missed any tags lately. Please keep tagging me. I don't usually suck this bad at keeping up <3
#the shit in my head#chronic illness#disability#mental health#writeblr#writeblr community#writer#writers#writers of tumblr#writers on tumblr#tumblr writers#writers community#writing#am writing#writing community
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Abuse in Fiction
I think I spoke of a related issue once already, but well, I do not mind repeating myself. In a way, I even enjoy it, I suppose. It’s mildly personal this time too, hm.
So, as some of you may know, I am of a strong belief that fiction should not be hopeless and that it is easy to write a story full of despair - and harder to undo all the harm that’s been done. However, I am also of belief that... My views never matter more than that of another person, and that we are all entitled to our own stances, morals and opinions, for at least as long as we do not enforce those on others. (For the record here, I do not consider hatred an opinion or standard of any type; another distinction that needs to be made: facts are not opinions).
As such, the following will be my opinions, and nothing more. Whether you agree with them or disagree - this is yours, not mine. I do not aim to convince anybody to see the world the way I do.
Well, where do I even start? One step at a time, I suppose.
Bad people do good things. & Good people do bad things.
You need knowledge to realise what is abusive.
Themes of abuse are not inherently harmful.
Gatekeeping requires proof.
What can I do?
A little bit personal something.
Bad people do good things & Good people do bad things
As alluring as it may be, the world cannot be split in neat categories of pure goodness and pure evil. What makes a person good? What makes them bad? Is the good one that who does not harm others? It is generally the definition of goodness I go by, and yet - it is not absolute.
What I’m trying to say is that, to try and split people into good-bad categories based on a single action is... Not really productive. It may be an error. It may be a result of something you are not aware of. And, yes, it may turn out they are indeed not a “good person”, whichever definition you go by - but it also may not.
We are talking about fiction here, however. Not killing, not abusing somebody yourself, but an act of writing about it. If it is tagged appropriately - then who is being hurt? If it is tagged, the person who read it consented to it in the first place. They could have withdrawn. If it is not tagged... Then, it brings me to my second point.
You need knowledge to realise what is abusive.
I would love to see a world in which every single person is educated and capable of recognising different forms of abuse. However, we do not live in such a world. We live in one where access to sex education is still limited in plenty places, where access to mental health services may be restricted, where mental illness is sometimes still a cultural taboo, where humans are being trafficked, abused in all form, dehumanised, enslaved, all to the benefit of rich countries. We do not live in an ideal world, so to require people to act in ideal ways? I consider it ludicrous.
Plenty cultures around the world glamourise abuse - or so it is at least in Europe. What books are best-sellers? 50 Shades of Grey. 365 Days was somewhat big too. If a person cannot get education from a reliable source, if the culture perpetuates the belief that a form of abuse is not in fact abusive, or what is arguably worse, is well-deserved, then how will they know it is in fact hurtful?
You must realise that, even for victims of abuse, it may take decades to learn why they were hurting, to realise that something was in fact wrong. You must realise those people may include themes of abuse in their work thinking that this is how it just is.
Is it perpetuating the harmful norm? It is.
But are they doing it consciously? Or is it the by-product of their culture? And if so, is it their fault?
Is ostracising them and calling them morally wrong doing anything to counter the hurtful norm? Do we need to abandon a topic completely, as some approaches to it may be hurtful? Or do we need to deconstruct it? To realise what beliefs linger behind the words?
Themes of abuse are not inherently harmful.
Abuse victims do not always get their feelings validated. Not only that, they may lack a safe space to share their experiences in any form at all. Fiction provides such an outlet.
Are all depictions of abuse good? Well, of course, no. Romanticising abuse justifies it. It normalises it. We should strive not to ever include such a thing in a work. Many hurtful beliefs can be transferred through fiction - “abuse made them stronger”, “abuse made them kinder”, “once abused will turn into the abuser”, “if you were abused, you do not have a choice but to abuse”, “a parent and child always have some magical bond tying them together”. The list goes on and on. Some people use it as a shock factor, something that does not have any lasting and realistic influence over the characters - and that, in my opinion, is disrespectful.
However, if one were to ban abuse from fiction, they would have to cut out all the scenes calling out abuse for what it is. They would have to cut out hopeful stories, to take away from what may lead somebody to realise they are not treated appropriately. People learn through stories too - and some use fiction to process the issues they faced.
Gatekeeping requires proof.
As you might have noticed, I spoke about how themes of abuse resonate with abuse survivors themselves. Of course, some will not need it. Some will avoid the topic completely.
But, the question is: so perhaps, only abuse survivors should be entitled to writing about abuse?
Well... No. First, it requires proof. Then, it would require some sort of grading system - and that by itself is so dehumanising and humiliating I do not think I have to explain it. Also, the fact that somebody survived abuse does not mean they worked through all the toxicity it brought upon them and that they are capable of not repeating the hurtful messages.
Some people survived abuse and they are not aware of it. Does it make them a bad, hideous person if they include themes of what they considered normal in their work? Or perhaps they do not view it as ordinary, but cannot see a reflection of that in their own situation? Are they morally detestable? Or are they a victim?
What can I do?
Does it mean you should approve all depictions of abuse in fiction? No. Absolutely not, never. It means you should be critical about it, and that stigmatising people does not solve the issue.
Be critical of what you read.
Educate yourself on what is and what is not abusive.
If your friend (or a person you feel comfortable pointing it out to) made something toxic seem romantic/normal - tell them. (It can be a rather emotional discussion, so really, make sure you can handle it).
Do your best not to romanticise abuse in your own work.
If you do choose to write about abuse, make sure to label it clearly.
If it is a NSFW type of content, and the characters are acting out a scenario - show that it is a scenario played out between two consenting adults, and that it can and it will end the moment one of them opts out. If it is not consensual and was not meant to be consensual, show it for what it is - abuse.
Educate yourself, and if possible others, on what is and is not appropriate.
And, if you interacted with a piece of media that bothered you personally:
Block the author of it. Do not interact with the rest of their work.
If it is not labelled appropriately, do tell your friends of it. Warn them.
If you enjoy other works by the author and still want to follow them - ask them to label abuse. They may do it, they may not do it. Decide whether you still want to follow them afterwards.
A little bit personal something.
Content Warnings: discussion of abuse, domestic abuse, suicide mentions, self-harm, rape
Well, I never hid the fact that I lived through domestic abuse. There are authors in our fandom whose works I avoid specifically because of their poor handling of themes of abuse at the hands of a parent.
It took me 15 years to find words to describe my pain. I did not know I was abused for the majority of the time it happened. It was my reality - it was just how the world functioned. Did it spill into my early writing? Yes. But not in the ways you would have expected. My characters were not abusive themselves. They idealised suicide. They would hurt themselves, although not with blades or anything of the like - and at the time, I did not know it was self-harm either. In the plot, they were being abused, and they would come out of it victorious.
I am comfortable saying this. But somebody may not be. They may not know yet.
This post was sparked by a person calling people who write rape “sick in the head” (ugh, stigmatisation of mentally ill people aside, at least this time, okay?). I do not condone romanticising rape. It is disgusting, as any form of abuse. I blocked authors who did not label it and thus exposed me to sensitive content without my consent. I did not go through it and I do not wish for anybody to go through it. However, the post lacked this sort of nuance. It was about the entirety of it, however it was handled.
I do not know why somebody writes it. I do not think I have the right to demand an answer to that. I do not have the right to decide who was hurt “bad enough” (as if something like so existed in the first place) to touch the subject.
I also do not want to stigmatise people who did not get proper education on the matter. How many of them were raped and did not know that lack of consent equals rape? How many of them realised or will realise it after years? How many were failed by their education system, were victims to the times they were born in, to the culture?
Because, remember, to plenty people rape is something that happens in the black alley, at hands of a stranger. Not something done by their partner, when they hope to just get done with the thing and move on - after all, it happened to them. And said partner is not a bad person, so how could he do something bad?
I cannot say whether a person is processing something. I cannot say whether a person consumed so much of modern popular media and lacks knowledge and experience necessary to understand that scenes depicted in it are in fact ABUSE. Sometimes I am near stating that media almost conditions us to accept some forms of abuse as normal.
What I can say is that, well, if you make writing about one type of abuse a taboo, another one may follow.
I do not think this approach answers the problem of why do multiple people, across different fandoms and countries, perceive something abusive as “not that bad”, even bordering appropriate. I do not think that stigmatising the people who write such things is going to change much. It will certainly not target the ones who need education.
And well, it removes the opportunities to critically approach the matter. I know it is hard. But people need to understand why certain narrative choices are harmful and hurtful, not just be presented with “writing about abuse is evil”. We still need spaces to safely discuss abuse.
People need to understand why something is bad, not just label it as bad and be done with it.
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everyday i wake up. i find a mutual in law whos blocked me. like whyyy i dont even do anything on this website. some ex muts too like what. i feel like i have very little internet presence outside of talking to specific internet friends on like. discord like what do i do on TUMBLR that makes ppl want to hardblock me. i swear i was blocked less by mutual in laws on my old account where home.stuck was one of my top tags (im an ex hs fan for context i do not support it and actively hate it) like ??? i KNOW im overthinking this its literally tumblr who cares and i laugh abt it a lot but idk it bothers me like im not fixated on it pleeease dont think im that terminally online or anything i think im just mental illness 👍
like idk idk i put a huge amount of energy into how im perceived bc it matters a lot to me that people around me like me ..like irl i will buy food for people i despise bc i want ppl to have positive associations with me soo bad . this isnt like an "ohhh im such a nice person how dare u not like me im so nice" thing bc i absolutely can and will be an asshole and im constantly walking the line between "im overly self confident for fun" and "i genuinely think im better than everyone and will say it" and like a bunch of other stuff i dont have to list all my flaws to make a point (<- almost did but decided againist it)
anyways idk idk!! im so likeable irl which again sounds very egotistical but is literally true like im not afraid of confrontation or anything but im friendly and honest and ppl generally enjoy me being around which is something ive worked sooooo hard to make true and like. idk mutual in laws are people i see around and i like having little friends in my phone ! mils feel like classmates u see around but dont talk to much and the idea of that like. category (is that the right word..) of people not liking me is genuinely upsetting i literally dont have anyone in my entire school who doesnt like me or like. feels more negative abt me than positive or neutral (to my knowledge at least..)
like idk i feel like im going in circles and i genuinely am not super invested in this it isnt consuming my every waking thought or whatever its just frustrating and im a bit paranoid people are talking shit about me and like........ i am fine confronting issues people have with me like if theres a genuine issue pleeeeease talk to me abt it i would rather be confronted with an issue of mine out of nowhere then be blocked but most of the people who have me blocked probably have for things that arent objectively bad but annoy them like spam rbing or whatever (i dont think i spam the dash or mass rb from ppl but idk i might to some ppl) but i dont knowwww and its driving me off the walls <- will literally stop caring abt this in 5 minutes and it just thinking about it really hard rn and making my self feel worse by overthinking but also feeling better by talking it out instead of letting it fester
anyways sorry for the lack of read more im on mobile :( but like yeah im just talking it out ill feel better and more normal when i post this bc i just need to tell people things even if they dont matter just to have them out there and feel real or smn idk. i dont really get why it works but it does so yay ^-^
#this is so long helppppp um im kinda embarrassed abt it now lmao#long post#vent#<- kinda??? idk i just want ppl to be able to filter it if they dont wanna see it#.ares
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Diary of an Eating Disorder Recoverer
February 2nd 2022
Hi, I’m Star and I have an eating disorder.
I cannot speak to the severity of my eating disorder or the category since I only got formally diagnosed once years ago and that was actually before it was at its worst but regardless of whether I officially have one or not (or whether I look like someone who could have an eating disorder which, I must say, is a whole post in itself) I certainly suffer from very disordered eating habits that are extremely harmful and unfortunately extremely pervasive in media, especially that directed at women. Things that I personally struggle greatly with is eating most groups of foods and often omit meals for days, living off of snacks and coffee for days, exercise to the point of collapse and as a result, my weight and appearance can fluctuate drastically. I’m trying really hard to change that and with that effort I thought I’d document it on my blog just in case anyone else may suffer from these same bad habits and harmful mentalities, whether formally diagnosed or not, no one should have to go through it without some help.
A warning that some posts may be graphic, and all will be tagged with #tw: ea.ting di.sorder as I want to be accessible as possible to people with vision impairments and so require audio description to access posts.
The tag for these diary posts will be #EDdiary
I will also occasionally post art related to eating disorders and my experience, again it may be triggering so I’ll put artwork in an under the cut and add a warning that it may be graphic and/or triggering for eating disorder sufferers or recoverers.
Disclaimer: I’m not a doctor at all, I’m just documenting my experience in overcoming my problems as well as documenting my experience of having an eating disorder. This is not a glorification, or romanticisation, eating disorders are extremely harmful illnesses that are debilitating and can have a serious impact on your life in so many ways. Some of my posts will be lighthearted and comedic but not in any way to belittle the issue, merely to present my perception of it and how I cope, it is not something to be taken lightly. I strongly advise seeking medical help and there are many ways to do so, speaking to your doctor, going to self help groups (Insha’Allah I hope to find and make a masterpost on various ED recovery services) and trying out therapy. For those of you who cannot try those things just as I can’t, I hope I can help you, even if it’s just a little, even if it’s just in knowing you are not alone in your struggles.
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Links, Books and About
As I can’t fit everything into my description box, let’s have a post!
Me
I’m an adult, Australian, autistic, agender, allosexual (abrosexual) aromantic (nebularomantic/arovague and idemromantic). The gods cursed me with mental illnesses, coeliac disease, dermatitis and chronic hand, wrist, shoulder and back pain ... leaving me with an equally-chronic spoon shortage. I make simple stock images for as many shades of the aromantic umbrella as possible, I sew and design cross-stitch pride patches, and I write flash fiction, short fiction and essays while sighing at the novel projects my chronic pain made me surrender. Lastly, I consider myself a loveless aro and have written an essay about that.
If you want to read my essays, head on over to the discussion post category on my Aro Worlds website.
If you want to help me survive capitalism as a disabled aro creator, please follow my pointing hands to Patreon and Ko-fi. Patrons get early access to stories, essay posts, images and patterns, as well as a few exclusive stories.
Aro Arrows
Aro Arrows is an archive of free to use aromantic-spectrum stock images intended for websites, flyers and publications, including:
Arrow dividers
Bunting banners
Banner bases
Gradient flags
Cross stitch icon bases
Text and page frames
Pixel art letter stickers and icons
Pixel art text stickers and banners
Block text stickers and banners
Phone-sized wallpapers and backgrounds
Combination (aro and non-aro identity) arrows and bunting
I’ve also started an archive category for high-res versions of aromantic pride flags. All flags here are 5000 x 3000, 300 PPI images with links to the original announcement post/flag creator.
Allo-Aro Information Hub
People should keep in mind that this is a work in progress and is in want of updating with more recent content. It is, however, somewhere folks can begin to find allo-aro-authored information, discussions and community.
Current pages include:
Allo-aro 101
Allo-aro friendly uses of a-spec terminology, a guide
Allo-aro erasure, a guide
Allo-aro community inclusion, a guide
My allo-aro manifesto
My allo-aro post archive
My allo-aro fiction archive
An allo-aro Tumblr community directory
An allo-aro flag guide
How allies should write allo-aro characters, a guide
How to ally, a post series
How (not) to ally, a post series
The main hub page also includes links to playlists, other folks’ essays and media posts.
Aro Pride Patch Tutorials
I have a tutorial series for making cross stitch pride patches, ranging from simple square flag designs to text, arrow, ace of spades and heart shapes! If you’re a beginner in hand sewing or embroidery, I recommend starting from the first tutorial and working your way through in order as listed here.
Folks can find my many patterns (including other queer and LGBTQIA+ patterns) archived in my patch pattern gallery.
Fiction and Books
Most of my fiction is free for anyone to read, even on Patreon!
Folks who are interested in shorter, stand-alone aromantic stories may enjoy:
Hallo, Aro
What If It Isn’t
The Wind and the Stars
Ringbound
Folks who want a longer, interconnected series of fantasy short stories and novelettes that aren’t just about aromanticism may enjoy:
The Mara and Esher stories
The Darius stories
The Eagle Court stories
Folks who want collections of aromantic stories may enjoy:
Hallo, Aro
Bones of Green and Hearts of Gold
When Quiver Meets Quill
Spirits Most Singular
Folks who want allosexual and non-asexual aromantic protagonists may enjoy:
Hallo, Aro
Bones of Green and Hearts of Gold
The Nine Laws stories
About my Blogs
@aroworlds: an archive for free creative media (fiction, poetry, art, images and music) encompassing as much of the aromantic spectrum as possible. Content is tagged by format, identity and creator.
Links: About | Content Advisory | Artist Profiles | Post Prompts | Links Page
@alloaroworlds: an archive for any allo-aro content (including creative media, positivity and discussion posts).
Links: About / Content Advisory
@aroflagarchive: an archive for aromantic spectrum (and related) flags. Content is tagged by identity and creator, meaning one can search for ���aroace” or “aroflux” to find a wealth of flag variations.
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