#(the drama and the trauma)

[waitineedaname]

divorce as angst: boring, depressing, overdone, I've had enough of that in my own life thanks

divorce but the characters are still friendly: good! healthy! more of this please!

divorce as comedy: unparalleled, hysterical, I want characters to divorce each other repeatedly for no reason

#divorce as a sad trope is NOT something i do well with #i have enough trauma from my parents' messy divorce thank you!! no more!!!! #HOWEVER. i fucking love the trend im seeing where fandoms decide a character is divorced for no real reason other than it would be funny #ESPECIALLY the joke of characters repeatedly divorcing and remarrying and then divorcing again #the first time i saw it was in the tma fandom #where people jokes that peter and elias had been divorced seventeen times or something #and i think that's hilarious. especially when it's over petty shit #i think boomer should be one of the repeatedly divorced and remarried couples. just for fun #they just do it for the drama #no one can tell when theyre together or not because they act exactly the same

[dorkfruit]

tiffany is a hater

#can u tell its my day off bc i posted 3 arts in one day #my art #procreate #i was telling a friend that the tiffany amy drama was soo good so i decided to draw them #too many hands in this piece #also the hair is a weak point for me i think. doesnt feel 3d. #faith the unholy trinity #ftut #amy martin #tiffany robinson #faith tiffany #tiffamy #/ tw eye trauma #/ tw eyestrain #tried shading with black for once . a lot of work.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I'm a doctor, not a miracle worker.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wen ning #wei wuxian #wen qing #jiang cheng #Truly Massive disclaimer here: I am a Jiang Cheng enjoyer. I like his character. I enjoy that he is very flawed and volatile. #This episode of the audio drama has a lot of great breakdown scenes featuring JC - and they all deserve a feature. #But underlying this comic is a small meta comment of 'ah man I have too many comics of JC just wailing sadly' #My goal is to draw 6-8 comics per episode - I sometimes have to truncate and cut good scenes out. #Especially when a large majority is just different flavours of trauma and toxic relationships to your self-worth. #I would also like to make a note here that just because you lose the ability to do something that is very tied to your core identity- #-does not mean your life is over. It will feel like the end of the world. It will send you into a spiral of grief. It will hurt so badly. #Sometimes we do not realize how tied up our identities can be in certain things until we are cut loose. #You don't lose yourself. I promise the pain will fade in time. I promise you will find other things to tether you. I promise you will be ok #Life moves forwards. Time moves forwards. You move forwards. #Ego death just means an opportunity for ego rebirth. You are never committed to being the same person forever. #To wrap this around to JC: Yeah I love the twist with the core transfer but man I would have loved to see JC accept the loss. #Obviously it happens for a reason (story) but I can have my AUs. I can have these 'what-ifs'. #described in alt text #I'm trying it out! *please* give me feedback - I want to eventually Add image ID to all of these comics one day

[lygma-nygma]

Being a batfam fan is funny because people will make a post like “here’s my headcanon-“ and it’s just something that’s directly canon to the story then post about major canon events and get everything wrong.

#this post was inspired by me remembering the experience of reading death in the family #after only knowing the fanbase version and realizing oh none of that shit happened okay #like girl you don’t understand it’s so bad #Jason wasn’t even fired as Robin #He’s not accused of murdering anyone by Bruce #He’s not trying to prove himself at all he’s just looking for his mom #The reason Bruce didn’t go after him right away is because he was tracking down a goddamn nuke the Joker stole #Then after he finds it and handles the problem he helps Jason track down moms 2 and 3 #Also Jason died in like 20 minutes?? even less?? #He died in less time than it took his mother to smoke a cigarette #Bruce literally went ‘wait here I’ll be right back’ and was gone for less time than a trip to the grocery store #and then you go into the Jason Todd tag and they act like Bruce pulled the damn trigger on him #Like besties I don’t know how to tell you this he basically did everything right he possibly could have #Even him benching Jason from Robin temporarily happens so that he can get Jason into therapy about his trauma #Like the whole point is that neither of them did anything wrong bad shit just sometimes happens #That’s the tragedy. The drama. #Bruce couldn’t have made better choices in the position he was in and Jason was never going to make different ones #It was inevitable #Anyway rant over please read death in the family before I lose my mind #batfam #batman #jason todd #tim drake #dick grayson #damian wayne #bruce wayne

[ao3-crack]

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#archive of our own #ao3 quotes #ao3 stuff #archive of our own quotes #fanfic #fanfic quotes #funny #ao3 #ao3 tags #reccommended #darubyprincxx #rated t for trauma #honestly that’s fair #most of my fics #i love my characters #but I also must traumatize them #it’s for the DEVELOPMENT #(and also the drama but whatever)

[bones-of-a-rabbit]

perhaps a fire does get rid of the weeds and leaves the rest, but the trees are scarred all the same. the forest will never be the way it once was.

aka: even after the virus is gone, everyone is still left changed by it's affects. (in other words, everyone needs therapy 2k24)

Readerbot: just super traumatized. extremely. also has big big imposter syndrom. also also doesn't have any way of venting their thoughts and feelings. also also also, did i mention they are traumatized. they are sad and conflicted and lonely pls be nice them

Sun: is pissed tf off at Moon for Some Reason (that will be explained later), refuses to acknowledge his existence, doesn't want anyone interacting with him if he can help it, is basically pretending Moon doesn't exist, probably either tore down or covered any poster with Moon's face on them. just rlly petty angy boi lmao

Moon: woke up recently with no memory of the past year, maybe two. no one has told him why he's suddenly under such close watch by management, Sun is refusing to communicate for, again, seemingly no reason, the kids are all wary of him and keep calling him the 'scary one', and some random StaffBot seems to hate his guts. he's just sad and confused and lonely pls be nice him

anyway. sorry for fuckin up all ur blorbos lol :3c

#everyone has trauma and no one is getting therapy for it: the fanfic lol #after everything was fixed fic #after everything was fixed but you were still broken #fnaf fanfic #fnaf fic #fnaf x reader #fnaf dca #fnaf au #fnaf sun x reader #fnaf moon x reader #staffbot reader au #readerbot au #repairbot reader #bones of a rabbit #bones of a rabbit fic #doodles #sketches #angst #drama #heehee hoo hoo *gives everyone emotional issues*

[fantasticgothicpeachsludge]

Thinking about padawan Cal being on Coruscant during Fives’ arc and somehow running into him and getting an echo off of something Fives had on him. Then helping him, whether by getting him in contact with Quinlan somehow (I think the council would be more likely to believe him over a child, even if they could feel Cal wasn’t lying)

Or in a disaster lineage Cal AU going “I’m gonna call my dads, no offense (full offense) to Anakin, but I think he likes the Chancellor too much to think rationally about this.” and then calling Cody and Obi-Wan, and Palpatine’s plot is uncovered and everything is OKAY and Fives is OKAY and nothing bad ever happens again.

#cal kestis #arc trooper fives #clone wars #cal and fives are near inseparable after this #THATS HIS LITTLE BROTHER #cal helping fives with his trauma by telling him all the drama he hears while hiding in the vents #cal intentionally finding fives because he’s his favorite of ani’s battalion and he doesn’t buy the shit the chancellors saying for A SECON #NOTHING BAD EVER HAPPENED TO THE CLONES #AHHHHHHHHHHHHH #sw clone wars #starwars the clone wars #starwars #anakin skywalker #quinlan vos #commander cody #obi wan kenobi #disaster lineage cal #a little #codywan #? #implied? #star wars jedi: fallen order #sw jedi survivor #jedi fallen order

[samanthamulder]

THE X-FILES (1993-2018)

SEASON THREE — Don’t you see, Mulder? You’re doing their work for them. You’re chasing aliens that aren’t there, helping them to create a story to cover the shameful truth. And what they can’t cover, they apologize for. Apology has become policy.

#my favourite season <333 #(ask me again after I watch s4 jsfkbfjs it's always between those 2 for me :')) #txf #the x files #tv #txf3 #txfedit #tvedit #scifiedit #horroredit #90sedit #thexfilesnet #.gif #*txfrewatch #this was soooo difficult I had like 40 gifs made and couldn't decide omg #because this season (even more than most others) has a very interesting mix of serious and comedic episodes #the myth arc is less trauma heavy than other seasons but still carries a lot of drama and darkness with melissa's death for example #and then the introduction of the black oil and scully meeting the other abductees and all that #but opposite this we have THE funniest and most brilliantly silly episodes (clyde bruckman. war of the c. jose chung's. quagmire etc.) #while there are ALSO some darker motw like grotesque and oubliette and pusher (to only name a few) #so idk. this set is a bit all over the place and doesn't totally do the season justice but it is what is is :') #*saul queued

[iloverace]

me explaining the newsies ensemble

#like all the relationships #the trauma..the DRAMA #newsies #livesies #pepe silvia #always sunny

[wildfeather5002]

I hate it when xtians reduce my religious trauma to "a religious person said something mean to you once so now you're mad at religion".

Like, shut the fuck up. My trauma isn't just someone being a little rude to me once, it was systematic, deliberate manipulation with the threat of possible eternity of suffering in Hell if I didn't obey religious rules and "keep Christ in my heart". It was "Nonbelievers burn in a lake of eternal fire. Tell your friends to convert to our faith or they'll be damned for eternity".

I have suffered from anxiety, ocd and other mental health issues for several fucking years because of this shit. I've suppressed my sexuality and felt terrible guilt just for the 'sin' of having sexual thoughts. I've feared for my loved one's souls, genuinely believing they would go to Hell for simply not being xtians and that I'd never see them again in the afterlife.

These beliefs are sick and twisted. What I went through was sick and twisted.

I seriously don't know what to say to you if you still think telling anyone, let alone a child, that they're going to be damned for eternity if they disobey 'God's word' is totally fine and not abusive.

Know your fucking place and stop speaking over trauma survivors who have been hurt by your shitty religion.

#ex religious #religious trauma #fuck christianity #anti christianity #anti purity culture #ex christian #ex baptist #fuck conservatives #anti conservative #right wing nut jobs #conservative insanity #online drama #vent post #vent tag #tw hell mention #tw eternal damnation #hell tw

[afloweronthemoon]

#THE first kiss and the first reactions #religious guilt #religious trauma #tv shows #gifset #hilda furacao #ships #romance #period drama #hilda muller #frei malthus #spoilers #mutual pining

[heretherebedork]

The way the show truly lets Babe confront his trauma and abandonment with his father and with the way he was raised and left and all of his pain, that they don't shy away from how much it hurt him and how much it shaped him and how broken he was believing that his father was dead and how the place his father put him hoping he would be safe and saved hurt him. The show is not afraid to say 'you did your best and that is commendable but your best still hurt me' and goddamn that's beautiful.

#pit babe the series #pit babe bl #pit babe series #pit babe #thai bl #thai series #bl series #thai drama #thaibl #asianlgbtqdramas #asian lgbtq dramas #bl drama #thai bl series #thai bl drama #the trauma informed of the whole show is off the hook

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Je verrai toujours vos visages (Jeanne Herry, 2023)

#Films watched in 2024 #Je verrai toujours vos visages #All your faces #Jeanne Herry #adele exarchopoulos #Adèle Exarchopoulos #2023 #siete #Gilles Lellouche #Élodie Bouchez #Dali Benssalah #drama #psychological drama #prison #psychology #justice #long shot #trauma #Leïla Bekhti #Miou-Miou #Birane Ba

[exposingtotaldrama]

I really hate the original post I had so i have this much better explanation that I forgot to post

Google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1prB4HqFZ7p6Kvr8ki9u1GPcM8aaoE7jhU-pwTEbyjZ0/mobilebasic

Idk if the link works but if you need it then dm me

I changed it so hopefully it works

#total drama #total drama fallout #exposing total drama #total trauma comic #total trauma #total drama courtney #total drama Mike #total drama zoey #total drama Sierra #tw csa #tw child abuse

[yeen-meteor]

I want to take a moment to try to express why i appreciate Haru's sadism as an actual serious part of her characterization and not just a funny contrast joke and 'yay girl violence!' don't get me wrong i love me some yay girl violence for the sake of it, but like. i think there's a lot to work with there for genuine drama writing, too, not just comic relief and i want to talk about it! (cw sugimura)

for all of haru's backstory and her life with her father, sure she's rich and has a lot of privileges, but the one thing she completely lacks is any sort of control. Everything about her life is being decided for her, her father has decided on the shape of her entire future, and she can't do anything to change it - she's being raised just for the sake of being outright sold as a sex slave trophy wife to a perverted creep who is certainly too rich and powerful to ever face legal trouble for marital rape. She's going through the motions, enjoying what she can of the life she has while she still has it, completely hopeless in the face of this horrifying future that other people are forcing her into. Her will means nothing, what she wants means nothing.

And then the Phantom Thieves come along, and they give her the power to make her will matter, to fight for her own freedom and happiness. And that power comes in the shape of violence, physically fighting images of all the things and people standing in her way.

But more than that, she starts to feel 'shivers of excitement' when she hears shadows begging and pleading beneath her. She feels what it's like to have something absolutely, pathetically desperate to make her stop, to deny her what she wants - and to bask in the feeling that she doesn't have to listen, she's the strong one, she can shut them the fuck up with an axe through the skull because their will, their selfish desire, their plan for her doesn't matter anymore, her will, Haru's will matters. It's catharsis, it's intoxicating, it's a rich and indulgent feeling of real actual control and the freedom that comes with it, something she's been denied all her life, and it's probably an unhealthy way to get that feeling but who cares? these are just shadows!

And that catharsis and relief and self-assured confidence she gets from that just makes her better able to be her sweetest, kindest, purest self around the people she loves! It doesn't undermine the sweet person she is, it helps it!

And then, she makes the choice to try to cure her father's brain-rotting greed and see if there's anything worth salvaging in his heart. It might not be the best choice, it could certainly be argued about, but it's her choice, it's her will, and she finally, finally feels like she's able to make that mean something-

and Akechi takes the choice away from her, and forces her to live in the future he decided for her.

I think when people write the dynamic between Akechi and Haru, they can sometimes miss the forest for the trees - 'you killed my father', without the underlying 'this was the first time i believed i ever had a choice in my own life, and you took it away from me and fucking crushed it before my eyes'. I've also seen it done very well too, and I love it! but i think a lot of writers are sleeping on the potential a bit, of haru & akechi focused stories, or even of haru as a source of drama and an interesting supporting character in shuake stories. In general, haru's potential for anger, frustration, violent desires and just a need to feel in control of her own life has a lot of potential in drama writing!

Atlus certainly dropped the ball on the akechi and haru dynamic, and kept the sadism thing as mostly comic relief, but Persona canons are all half-realized outlines of good ideas just begging for fic writers to come and actually flesh them out, anyway, so ah well!

all i hope for is that if you're a persona writer that doesn't know what to do with haru or how to use her, or doesn't pay her much mind, maybe this might inspire you or give you a clearer idea of how to write her dramatic side!

#persona 5 #haru okumura #goro akechi #i love haru so much because i also had a guro phase and a learned helplessness trauma phase at the same time lmao #send me good haru drama if you know of it or write it! <3

[mrinafria]

If there's a fate that doesn't change no matter how hard you try to change it, it means the choice never changed...Sometimes you make a choice, even though you know the consequences. Because you like it. - Ryu Seon Jae

#Lovely Runner #Byeon Woo Seok #Kim Hye Yoon #Sun Jae #Im Sol #Seon Jae #선재 업고 튀어 #kdrama #kdrama recommendations #east asian drama #episode reaction #if trauma and heartbreak had a face they would be Im Sol and Seon Jae