Me, at my character whom I created, whose dialogues I write, whose actions I decide, whose development and personality are completely under my control: Why are you such a bitch
i think my fav thing about griffin as a dm is that instead of going “unfortunately the ooze is immune to slashing damage :/” he says “if you were making a pb&j sandwich and you dropped some jelly on the counter, would you take a knife and just start cutting at it you dumb son of a bitch”
this seems obvious but there are a lot of blogs that are just 1) uber nsfw pictures of hot men alongside 2) cute dog pics. idk what to call this niche
someone come up with a pun
cock or spaniel
THERE IT IS
First thing I want to say is that it is not necessary for fiction to be good for people’s mental health. Art for art’s sake has value, so does individual autonomy, and people can create and consume fiction based on what they want and what they value without having to make it medicinal so they can justify it as a social good.
Second thing I want to say is that it is not possible to create fiction that is universally good for people’s mental health. Tumblr fandom tends to treat certain mental health needs as implicitly the most legitimate, and inherent universal needs, but it’s way more complicated than that. Many people will absolutely thrive on stories of loving, supportive families, while some people will need to avoid them due to their specific family history. Some people are helped by reading about characters they enjoy practicing healthy communication and getting positive results, while other people might come away hearing, “Everyone can do healthy communication and get helpful responses if they try hard enough, so therefore the problem must be you screwing it up!” Some people might find “Destroy the evil abuser” revenge fantasies a helpful way to process anger, while other people might find they do more harm than good. A lot of people find stories of a character being gently nurtured by someone else, while some people have negative associations with other people trying to take care of them and have bad psychological reactions to these stories. (And let me tell you, if you have a bad associations with soft pastel nurturing that mean it can put you in a bad headspace, Tumblr can be pure hell.)
Mental health needs differ. They’re not always soft. They’re not always predictable based on a diagnosis, or a few details of someone’s history. They’re diverse, individual, and sometimes mesh poorly with stuff that most people would consider healthy and wholesome. Your story might be helpful for a specific person, or for a number of people, but there’s no such thing as the universally healthy story or the universally unhealthy story. It is literally not possible to write something for the general public and ensure it’s healthy for everyone who reads it.
In Spider-Man: into the Spider-Verse, we meet a female version of Doc Ock, who, while being a villain, is a total badass. Upon introductions, she tells Peter B. Parker that her friends call her Liv. Later, when Miles accidentally lets the villains track him to Aunt May’s, an equally badass woman, who calls her Liv when she comes in. It is canon in the Spider-Man universe that Doc Ock tried to marry Aunt May once. If this is true, we can be led to believe that Aunt May is Bi. In this essay I will
Just to yell directly into the void for a few seconds but I was in the mbmbam tag and ran across like 3 posts from different people saying that the bit at the end of “kiss your dad square on the lips” is uncomfortable and inappropriate because incest is wrong and like are y'all ok? I feel like I say this all the time now but like, really tho, are y'all ok???? Are you ok? Do you know you can kiss your family members? Do you know parents and children kiss and that’s normal and healthy and not sexual? Do you know that? Are you ok? Please don’t have kids because you don’t sound ok. You do realize I can kiss every person on the planet and that that also isn’t sexual?? That kissing isn’t like inherently sexual? I really think you should talk to a therapist; I mean i recommend therapy for every living human but specifically you here, who thinks kissing a parental figure on the lips is incest. HEY ARE YOU FINE? ARE YOU OK?
FINALLY it’s done
I started this a while ago but just got around to wrapping up my first MBMBAM animation: Telescope Bully