I honestly hate how art and media have kind of romanticized the idea of like “going off your meds and being your true self again” because like I started taking antidepressants and like immediately got a new job, found a place to live, improved my relationships with people in my life and completely reconciled with my sort of estranged ex-girlfriend?? Medication can be rad and while I realize that it’s not for everybody I don’t think anything should be trying to convince anyone that being on medication inherently makes you less of who you are
(Most) Medication is for helping you to be you again. The real me isn’t tired by just walking to the train station. The real me is not my anxiety or depression. They don’t define me.
The real me is who I am when I’m not anxious and feeling worthless 24/7.
Medication is supposed to be the chemical equivalent of glasses or a wheelchair, depending on the severity of impairment. It tries to help you compensate for what has been taken, been broken, or is missing.
In particular, i always hear the myth that anti-depressants give you “artificial happiness”… no, no, no. They give your brain the ability to be happy. You won’t always be happy, and sometimes you’ll be sad. But the happiness you’re able to feel when you’re on meds is your own, real, happiness.
SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE NEUROTYPICALS IN THE BACK!!!
I mean this is important for neurotypicals but it’s honestly more important for people who struggle with mental illness and hate being on meds for a variety of reasons (aka me).
Take away med stigma! Don’t deny yourself something that can help you live a more fulfilling life and don’t shame people for their choices!
you know i hate tumblrs “i hope they do something problematic” shit so much? its not only with people like thomas sanders or john mulaney or that comic guy with the bike, but with whole ass shows and projects? like nobody ever said b99 is cop propaganda. nobody was saying that until one single person mentioned it and suddenly its the worst show you could watch because of one aspect of their show, while ignoring the shows diversity and political stances.
same happened to dream daddy, like you cant deny that that game was groundbreaking for the lgbt society, but suddlenly some people started shit like ‘uhhh but 5 years ago the game grumps made transphobic jokes’ and ‘you know that joesph is actually a satanist, right?’ and suddenly no one talked about the game anymore?
everytime someone tries their fucking best to be inclusive, diverse etc. people are digging through everything they can find just to justify that they dont like it? overwatch recently hosted a huge event to raise money for breast cancer research in association with the BCRF and without even doing one second of research people accused them of working with the susan g. komen foundation (which wasnt true) and tried to boycott a fucking charity event?
what im saying is, dont let tumblr ruin everything you love because they are bitter
If your whole personality and what you use to describe yourself when someone asks like so what are you like is your race, sexuality, or gender you are boring. If you answer that with, I’m gay af!!!, or total non binary hehe, or #black I’m so black, black af!. Yeah no that’s annoying.
Listen there are very legitimate reasons to dislike Trump but at this point when I see people bitching about every time the guy blinks I just stop caring about anything he does or says
– Praise the living daylights out of a show and shove its greatness in everyone’s face
– 2 years later, pick it apart violently and insult everyone who still enjoys it in as edgy a way as possible because negativity is cool
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uhh maybe marginalized ppl were excited at the possibility of a show (such as su) representing them, only to be rightfully angry when the show ends up racist, homophobic etc. anyway, super bad post all around
I feel like a lot of hardcore accusations of problematic and offensive content that get thrown at media that was previously lauded as progressive come from a few sources; first, the creators are often a lot more accessible than the creators of mainstream media. you can message rebecca sugar on twitter personally to call her a racist bitch, but you can’t do the same to, say, jj abrhams or another large-scale creator. likewise, you can’t stand on a streetcorner and scream at people until they agree to stop watching law and order, but you can certainly bully large groups of people online until they stop supporting an independent creator.
second, the fandoms that tend to form around progressive media tend to be younger, more volatile, looking to media and fandom as forms of activism. mainstream media they can write off as garbage, but progressive niche media that makes a sincere attempt to represent marginalized folks must be Absolutely Perfect. the idea that a piece of media can have good parts and bad parts, that it can try and only partially succeed, but that that partial success is still worth something, is completely lost on many young fans. either its irredeemable garbage or its the literal messiah, there’s no in-between. so if a show falls short of perfect, as is inevitable, then it goes straight into the “total garbage” pile and must be condemned by the masses.
genuinely trying to represent certain groups and making a few missteps is not the same thing as being ignorant or malicious. making a sincere effort to mean something to folks who don’t get a lot of things made for them is something to be proud of. would you rather go back to the times when fucking nothing got made for us? when the only characters we saw that we could relate to were only there to be made fun of? you’re spoiled by a rush of new creators who took “go make your own thing then” to heart and set out to make content for people like them, you have the gall to look at what they’re trying to do and spit on it for not being better. no creator owes you shit, no creator has to bow to a bunch of teenage bullies who do nothing but demand and harass, that’s all there is to it.
Dear lord can everyone please read this post because it’s so relevant
Whenever someone says “You should expect backlash for your work” I wonder if it is because they think that “backlash” just stops at people not liking your work.
It’s normal if people don’t like your work. People won’t like everything, everything you write or create won’t be for everyone. That’s normal.
What isn’t normal is people being afraid that if they work on or create a popular show or thing people will harass them because they don’t like it or want something done a certain way in the show whether it be a character, ship, etc.
If you would have told me this even five years ago, I would not have believed people would go as far as to harass the creators of a show.
And this fear isn’t something that is completely unfounded. You see it happening over and over again with people harassing actors, creators, artists, etc. over things that are either petty or beyond their control. Rather than just not watching the show anymore like a normal person, they decide that it is their “duty” to make the show what they want it to be. They engage in unhealthy forms and levels of criticism and negativity that is then thrown at the people who work on the show or art.
Rather than this being viewed as some one-off abnormality… creators, actors, and artists begin to anticipate that something like this will happen. It weighs on or in the back of their minds and how they should approach something like that, not quite if but rather when it will happen. It is no longer uncommon to hear about an actor, creator, etc. having to close down one or all of their social media accounts to escape fans who expect them to just give in to their expectations and desires. It’s becoming disturbingly common for people to engage in behaviors like this because of misplaced disappointment, anger, and entitlement over how they think something “should” be. In some cases, it’s because they feel as if they want to have some type of power or control over another person even if it is harmful and toxic, alternatively, because it is harmful and toxic.
People have to withdraw their social media presence because of people that feel the need to harass them is not normal. It should never be normal. It shouldn’t even be considered normal. It shouldn’t ever be considered normal to slander, harass, threaten, etc. an artist or creator and yet… It is becoming almost commonplace.
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