Sparrow-Aiden

Becoming a writer is great because now you have a hobby that haunts you whenever you don’t have time to do it

I don't haunt the narrative - the narrative haunts me

No I'm not being mean to my characters - they bit me so I bit back.... It's called self defense 🙏🏼

Hey in middle earth is there any ecological consequences for those big fuckin eagles

Goblins and hobbits both make their homes underground

Funniest answer for why gandalf didnt use eagles to carry the hobbits to mordor

today's bug thing is this caterpillar lego duplo block!

To those unfamiliar with manual transmissions: this is not a threat, this is a cold, hard declaration of fact. This will happen and there ain't a damn thing the driver can do about it if they wanted.

because various constituent parts of the boat could be older or younger than other parts, it was considered the first ever age-gap ship

I hate all of you

@handalapls is Mohammed Ayesh's blog. He's currently inside Gaza working tirelessly to verify fundraisers. Do I have to explain how exhausting that is? He's in constant danger every single day, and still goes out of his way to help others as best he can. He also has to care for his family, including his little brother Yasser, who is hard of hearing and has a cochlear implant

The implant requires charging, which is difficult due to the destruction and inavailability of power sources in many parts of Gaza, and it's also starting to malfunction, as they're unable to care for it properly, again, due to the living conditions they are in. Trying to repair the device or get a new one would be extremely expensive, and they cannot afford it. This means that Yasser is having a lot of trouble expressing himself, since he's also been unable to have the speech therapy sessions he used to have, which made communication easier for him

Mohammad's fundraiser is destined to collect money to repair Yasser's hearing device, fund his speech therapy in the future, and help his entire family rebuild their lives. In a post on his blog, he's expressed wanting to close the fundraiser before the end of the year, and he has yet to reach his goal. As of today, his campaign sits at £35,320/£60,000. Please share his campaign, and donate to it if you can. The smallest act can make a big difference for him and his family. Mohammed spends so much effort trying to help those around him, it's only fair we should do our best to help him too

As stated previously, Mohammed is a vetter, and a friend of el-shab-hussein

If you want help, continue DM Nadra because donations are going very slowly.

@handalapls

i don't understand why more fantasy worlds don't have therapists. i mean, they have the fantasy equivalent of a doctor, which is a healer. so why not a therapist?

there's so much potential to integrate it with the fantasy elements too.

you could do exposure therapy, for example, with the help of illusions. imagine someone is deathly afraid of dragons because of a childhood incident, but they really want to overcome this phobia.

the therapist could conjure up illusions, working from a small abstract dragon to a big realistic one, and help the client progressively become more relaxed around the illusion dragon before they meet a real one.

or imagine a character is grieving a dead loved one, and they never got closure from this person. maybe they wanted to tell this person something and never got the chance to. or maybe the person is not dead, but it's best to sever that tie instead of trying to talk to them again.

in this scenario, the therapist could shapeshift into the person the client wants to talk to, and give the client a bit of closure.

mind reading could be practiced with the client's consent, so that the therapist could tap into blocked memories or an incident that the client is too traumatized to talk about.

there's just so much untapped potential and it's driving me crazy. maybe some stories have done this, but none that i've seen so far. and i want more people to recognize this potential so that we can have more therapists in our favorite tragic fantasy shows.

Just for some recommendations:

Tamora Pierce books, at least the Emelan ones, have the concept of a "mind healer" which does exactly that, though it's unclear if it's something like talk therapy or if it's reaching in your brain and moving stuff around with magic. Her books are aimed at teens, so it's not really delved into that deeply, it's just acknowledged as an option (some of her characters have PTSD and need to be told to go to therapy, basically)

Alexandra Rowland/@ariaste's book A Taste Of Gold And Iron is set in a fictional society where talk therapy is a religious ritual called "unburdening," though there are gaps in their understanding of mental health (like, there's no word for or cultural concept of "anxiety attack"). That book does have explicit scenes showing how it works. Honestly 10/10 worldbuilding for both that and everything else (y'all have no idea how hype I get about fictional politics) Note that THAT book is for adults, JSYK.

queer is a gender, sexuality, romantic orientation, political alignment, and mission statement, babey

queer is literally a slur that means weird and strange

and I most certainly am weird and strange, what else you got?

Transgender Forum & Resource Center, 1996

save me characters doing fucked up things out of self-preservation…..characters doing fucked up things out of self-preservation save me………..

save me character who made an undeniably terrible decision but man i dont know what i would have done either………

i actually kinda like it when a character getting better includes them becoming weirder and less polite and more confusing and strange. no more "domestication" i wanna see the weird guy be weird!!!

female rage is always traditionally dainty feminine women with long hair covered in blood :// WHAT ABOUT THE BUTCHES. what about a butch cradling her broken nose while eyeing the camera with contempt. what about a butch with the bottom half of their face covered in blood and viscera. what about veins bulging out of their muscular neck arms and back and sorry I lost track of what I was talking about