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musical-chick-13 · 8 months

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ALSO now that I'm on the Complaint Train, I would love it if I could say, "This thing might be artistically good on other levels and if you like it, good for you have fun, but the gross way it talks about/handles mental illness is too much for me, to the point where I have to avoid watching/reading it for my own well-being" and people would go, "Yeah, that makes sense, you do you" instead of "Omg, you're so sensitive, lmao just get over it."

#am I too close to this issue? maybe! but I think I've earned the right to be close to this issue by having it be the single most formative #experience in my life. I'm close to this issue because THE ISSUE LITERALLY RESIDES IN MY FUCKING BODY #'you care too much' SO WHAT! WHY IS IT BAD TO CARE! WHY IS IT BAD TO BE PASSIONATE ABOUT SOMETHING! FUCK YOU!!!#ALSO this is ONCE AGAIN not to say that there is One Right Way to tackle mental illness in fiction. there isn't. and also not all depiction #is Representation™ and that's ok! but there are some things that...idk I'm not going to say any idea is automatically inherently unworkable #but there are some things that make me go 'hmmmm...do we really need to keep doing this? did no one consider the optics? can #we evaluate this in accordance with general trends and a wider context?'#like idk it might be nice if I said 'hey this is important to me and it affects me' that people would. acknowledge that. could be neat.#the real horror was the ableism we found along the way #ALSO I am past the point of apologizing for this these comments are just what y'all get now

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