Something that I don't think is talked about enough when it comes to processing trauma: sometimes, healing is grieving.
Grieving for a person lost. Or, for a childhood you never got to have. For the familiarity - regardless how unhealthy - because it's the only thing you know. Or, for the people who outgrew you, for one's you outgrew along the way.
Healing is a process that isn't necessarily peaceful.
Sometimes it's grieving for what could have been, what should have been, and releasing the pain in whatever healthy coping skills you're able to build for yourself.
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you’re not evil or worthless or whatever else you’re thinking. you’re just mentally ill and you might need a nice snack or some tea or fresh air to remind you what being human feels like
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Florence and the machine dance fever is the mood these days and I wanted to share it with you c:
Florence my beloved, but tbh I’ve not gotten through the new album yet, might put it on now actually
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so i love peppermint candy and when i was in middle school theyd hold a candy cane sale in december, one quarter per candy cane! extremely excellent deal, except i was twelve and completely broke. so one year i scrounged for floor change for a couple of days before deciding i was desperate and stealing $20 from my mother’s nightstand 😔 it weighed on me for a full decade until a few months ago i decided to finally confess to my mom and she was like. yeah dude you came home with eighty candy canes. do you think i’m stupid
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worried that thing you put in your art or writing or game or music is too self-indulgent, too self-referential, too niche for anyone but yourself? fear not! you can do whatever you want forever. and you should.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -
I am fine with "the audience" -
downloading my fics
printing my fics
copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics
sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3
making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss
doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc
I am not fine with "the audience"
doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity
feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever
Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.
Enjoy the fandom things.
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no windows in here. it's alright, brighten up the space by putting up pictures of the homies
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