#hit children story

[taxinealkaloids]

horrible children who are. so so mean to each other

#tlt #the locked tomb #my art #precanon griddlehark dynamic is SO funny. the way they are just no-holds-barred absolutely AWFUL to each other. #the fact that harrow made fun of gideon for saying 'i love you' over her dead mother's grave so gideon nearly choked her to death #and then when gideon recalls this story in gtn she's just like 'yeah lol we were wild kids' #also remember when gideon responded to harrow being kind of bossy with 'your parents must have been so relieved to die' like #imagine saying that knowing full well her parents killed themselves in front of her when she was ten!!!! insane!! #there's no sense of going 'too far' between them. they casually hit what would be considered by most ppl to be 'too far' and then keep going #anyway i don't usually go in for characters-being-kids-together stuff but i will admit that childhood gid+harrow #following each other around absolutely terrorizing each other because they're desperate for each other's attention but also full of #hatred and vitriol #does compel me #like...2 very lonely very traumatized children with only each other for company. what will they do? ENDLESSLY TORTURE EACH OTHER!!! #and yet they are each other's emotional support person. its so good.

[to-to-karamba]

The blue candy I'm WEEPING 😭

#Percy Jackson #pjo #idk why that made me so emotional #percy jackson and the olympians #i mean #bc at its core it is a story about parents and children #and idk i was rereading the books recently and it hit me just how much sally did for percy #im so🥺😭 about them

[comradekatara]

sometimes i feel like the teen in charge of saving the world trope is too overused but i feel like it works so perfectly in atla. the way they utilize it for character/story purposes as well as to teach lessons to their young viewers is so great

yeah like it’s obviously a pretty necessary convention of the genre, that a children’s fantasy adventure narrative requires child protagonists that the primary audience can relate to and identity with. and usually they’re orphans and ontologically special in some way, so as to justify their role in these magical shenanigans, since it’s fundamentally unrealistic for a bunch of tweens to be saving the world. and there’s pretty much always an in-universe explanation as to why it has to be children specifically for all of these various works, either because children stumbled upon a magical teleportation device by chance and now they are tasked to complete The Prophecy (eg, narnia, amphibia, etc), or because they are in some way The Chosen One (eg, harry potter, atla), or because the stakes are so high that they need to risk their safety to go on this quest (eg, a wrinkle in time, also atla).

i think revolutionary girl utena and neon genesis evangelion both do an excellent job of deconstructing this trope from within their respective genres (the works themselves functioning as deconstructions of their assumed narrative functions). like, the reason these kids are the ones tasked with shouldering these unique burdens is actually because they are being exploited by the adults in power. the fact that they are orphans (especially in the case of the eva pilots, but also in utena’s case) makes them especially viable to these modes of exploitation (spoilers: they need to have a dead mom so that they can be piloted, utena needs to be an orphan so that she can idealize the illusory promise of family and something eternal).

so in the case of atla, it’s not as overtly deconstructing these tropes, but the stakes do feel sufficiently heavy and tragic (if you choose to read into the underlying implications). aang should be an old man, if not dead by now, but due to his temporal displacement, he is now forced to carry a weight that is unfathomable to anyone, let alone a child. as he says, “i’m just one kid.” katara is similarly forced to carry a burden due to being the sole remnant of the systematic extermination of her people. sokka, like aang and katara, is also alone in his own way, and must grow up too fast to compensate for the devastation his people have suffered. zuko was disfigured and banished by his abusive father at the age of 13 specifically to emphasize the extent and depth of his cruelty. azula was raised as a weapon by the same man, and her friends taught themselves to be weapons from a young age for similar reasons. suki is a kid who sees other kids her age travel the world and attempt to save it, and is inspired by their courage to leave home and help out in any way she can, only to end up in a maximum security prison. toph isn’t directly affected by the war, but she nonetheless chooses to join the avatar because of her status as a child being denied autonomy by her family. yue is barely sixteen, and thus deemed old enough to marry, and is essentially sold off against her will. jet and his freedom fighters are so young, and yet have no choice but to fight because their families and homes have been destroyed.

the point atla is making is that in war, children are forced to grow up too quickly and become the kinds of people who must make ruthless, impossible decisions. we see katara and toph fight like sisters over meaningless, trivial bullshit, and then episodes later risk their lives to fight the fire nation. we see sokka awkwardly try to woo the girls he has crushes on, only for him to lose them in horrific ways. aang and sokka fight over whether killing is necessarily wrong, sokka already too jaded to understand aang’s point of view. killing is second nature to him by now. he’s barely sixteen. aang is twelve. as a kid, seeing kids your age or older fight evil is awesome. as an adult, seeing children forced to sacrifice everything to resist against the imperialist forces that have destroyed their lives is devastating.

#sapphikatara #asks #analysis #synthesis #i guess thg also does the nge thing of children being exploited specifically by adults in power #i mean these were just the first examples i could think of off the top of my head #obviously there is a wide array of children’s stories out there #and they ALL hit different watching them as an adult #even the ones that don’t necessarily hold up

[super-paper]

afotaro is the elephant's foot of toxic old man yaoi but that's not gonna stop me from memeing on it, y'know, as a coping mechanism.

#my hero academia #mha spoilers #afotaro #all for one #dank mha meems #tw: child abuse #what do you mean afo manipulated kotaro into fucking his wife. hori???? 😭😭😭 #give nao to me you utter loser i wouldn't need some ancient eldritch comic book shill to convince me to make love to my beautiful wife-- #more seriously tho #I've said it before that AFO and Tenko's dynamic is meant to be viewed as a story of abuse told through a lens of fantasy #and these chapters cemented that impression in the best (worst?) possible way bc so many abusers get close to the parents-- #--so they can have unrestricted access to their children + be trusted to be left alone with their children #Hori has really hit the nail on the head so it's disappointing that so many people still downplay Tenko's victimhood #and view this chapter as him ''falling off as a villain'' (wtf) #also the idea of AFO appearing to the Shimura fam wearing different faces/fulfilling different ''roles'' is so fairy tale coded I love it

[picturebookshelf]

The Complete Brambly Hedge (1999)

Story and Art: Jill Barklem (Original Stories published between 1980 - 1994)

#brambly hedge #the complete brambly hedge #mice #animals #jill barklem #nostalgia #picture books #kid books #kidlit #children's literature #children's books #i love these stories so much this is exactly my brand #i love kid books with detailed water colour art - especially when it's about small animals #the foxwood series hits a similar mark - same for redwall though those novels obviously aren't illustrated #1990s #90s #1980s #80s

[fireworkss-exe]

call me a stereotypical annoying teenage girl all you want but titanic (1997) had me absolutely transfixed when I first watched it

#shockingly enough I didn't cry when jack died but I DID tear up at the scene #of the mother in third class telling her children a bedtime story one last time so they can sleep peacefully instead of being afraid #god. and the orchestra??? it's been a pleasure playing with you tonight gentlemen or whatever the line was #fuck. that hit me way too hard #also the set and costume design are BRILLIANT and cathy bates as molly brown SERVED #tbh if I was having a love affair with young twinky leo dicaprio and he died in front of me it'd take WAY more than 84 years #for me to get over it #I'll quit yapping now

[inkblot-inc]

So my writing blog is and always has been a chill space for me to write want I want to read from my own brain, shoot the shit and share thoughts with peoples, and just... Be a fuckin respite, but I want to make something crystal clear:

Don't turn a blind eye to Palestine.

Don't turn a blind eye to Congo.

Don't turn a blind eye to Yemen.

I go about my day to day life the best I can, but if I sit and think about the state of things in the world for too long it fucking SHATTERS me. And it disgusts and freaks me the fuck out that people can disregard human beings going through crisis after crisis and LITERAL GENOCIDE with fucking platitudes, clutching to ignorance, and circlejerking apathy.

You don't have to be mother Theresa, but it costs you nothing to actually give a damn about humanitarian crises happening around you and to know that it's wrong and fucking abnormal.

I've been taking a simple break from writing mainly unrelated because I just wanted some time to myself regardless, but also because I couldn't just immediately go back to lighthearted shit with everything going on.

People with common sense would understand and probably wouldn't even question that, but hey, common sense isn't that common and people are fucking weird.

I'm not gonna stop writing, but I need y'all to understand that I'll post what I want on my own time and I'll have a fuckin heart first. Some of you should learn that lesson too.

I'm not mentioning anyone cuz at the end of the day I'll side eye whoever I want and I'm not the Morality Police, but what'd Renee Rapp say that one time? "If the shoe fits, lace that bitch up and run."

Not a single person free until we all are, it's that simple to understand.

#i'm not arguing and debating with people over nonsense either take your opinions up with someone who might give a fuck o7 #you got innocent men women and children legit losing *everything* they know and watching their loved ones die in real time #you got folks (as in MULTIPLE) setting themselves on fire to get people to pay attention to the tragedies that are happening in our faces #the bare minimum we can do is see them and acknowledge them and support them in any and all ways that we can #hit dogs are gonna holler #your regularly scheduled program is on the fritz 🤷🏾‍♂️ #moral of the story: i'm fucking tired #stop genocide #ceasefire now #jc ink blots #jc ink notes

[blaaaaask]

This is madness

Hear me out, this was what my head canon was for new Willy Wonka:

Willy Wonka is played by Ben Affleck

Ever since he inherited the factory from the previous 'Willy Wonka' he has been on a downward spiral of hell. Trying to get a new 'Willy Wonka' to take his place is impossible in this modern era because children suck, and each year he attempts a 'golden ticket' tour to the factory in hopes that one day he can fucking retire by finding the perfect child to con into taking on the business.

Harrison Ford is Charlie's grandpa.

I don't remember Grandpa's name, so we're going with Grandpa Ford.

~Charlie has no other grandparents because they're all divorced or dead.

~Charlie (I don't know child actors so pick whatever you want) sometimes visits Grandpa Ford but not super often which spurs Grandpa Ford to want to plan a fun trip to bond with his grandson.

~Grandpa Ford thinks the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory is super cool and so he keeps buying candy bars until he gets the Golden Ticket.

~Scene where Ford is like 'Charlie, look, we get to go to the Chocolate Factory!' but Charlie is on his iPad screaming about Roblox. By the time Charlie hears him, he's like 'Grandpa, that's so unkewl, why the heck would I want to go to a factory? Can't you just give me money for Robucks?" (Is that what it's called? Lol)

~Charlie is forced to go

~WonkaFleck has everyone sign papers. There is at least 1 parent who is trying to read through it all, but their child is throwing a tantrum so they end up saying 'fuck it' and signing it.

~The whole group of odd people have their mini solo scenes including:

-Kid who is allergic to Blue Dye 4000 and like, totally eats something very artificially blue because their parent is too busy on dating apps to pay attention. This kid doesn't make it far. They balloon up so much kid would need like, 20 epipens or something. WonkaFleck like 'not my problem you signed the papers saying you would be responsible for your own actions here'

~Kid who literally touches everything. EVERYTHING. EVERY. THING. You? Touched. Food? Touched. Machine? Touched. WonkaFleck gets kind of rage-y and tells this kid 'NO. STOP.' But kid's mom is a tiger mom and she jumps in and rips into Wonka about "we do not use the word 'no' in our household" and "how dare he think he can parent her child?" They do not last.

~One kid who stands uncomfortably close to people and stares. STARING. And everytime you try to speak to them they don't talk back, they just stare harder. Unblinking. WonkaFleck does not think he can withstand that level of terror in his life, so when the lights flick off (which is actually quite common in this facility) he boots the child into a candy flattener and we all know where that's going.

~We discover that Grandpa Ford is incredibly useful in the tour because he is one of the few people who can read things in cursive.

~At least 5-10 of the kids go around with phones and ipads taking FaceTimes of all the trade secrets and business practices.

~Wonkafleck trying to stop them by putting a ban on electronics, but they don't listen or they steal back their phones/items and their parents are like 'lol kids will be kids, am I right?'

~Grandpa Ford is at least respectable and had forced Charlie NOT to bring any electronics on the trip. The child cries like, 99/100 times the other kids have their electronics out, though.

~Wonkafleck finally destroys all electronics in one of his many rooms of weird shit.

~Grandpa Ford is incredibly good at storytelling, conversing, and trying to help resolve the problems of the children even though their problems are incredibly petty. Wonkafleck is undeniably sad that Grandpa Ford is pushing 90s or he would have forced him to take over the factory.

~Oompa loompas are actually regular people just wearing bright orange haz vests because gotta practice safety, yo

~But also they realize the factory is like, 4 million degrees in some spots and WonkaFleck is like 'sorry, this is a big place, I can't afford air in here'

~Also one room a chocolate "water tower" breaks because of these bad safety protocols and takes out half the tourist group but WonkaFleck is like 'do I look like I give a damn?'

~Grandpa Ford and Charlie do get into a little trouble by taking some candy, but it's because Grandpa Ford wants to 'take a little piece with him' to remember the trip by. Charlie just like 'uh huh, okay grandpa.' Doesn't question it.

~By the end, everyone be dead but Charlie and Grandpa Ford. But Wonkafleck is like 'you guys stole shit.'

~Charlie, realizing he means the candy, takes it out of his pocket and gives it back to Wonkafleck and is like 'here you go, mister.'

~Wonkafleck, totally moved by the fact that this child did something respectable, decides this is it. This might be the child to take over the helm of the factory. He's like "Charlie, since you were honest I'm going to give you a wonderful deal. Take this factory from me. You can inherit everything."

~Grandpa Ford like "oh wow, factory" totes bamboozled

~Charlie like, "No thanks, mister, I don't want it."

~Wonkafleck, almost loses his shit, barely holding on by a thread, is like "what you mean you don't want this factory???"

~Charlie says "I don't really like candy. I like energy drinks. And Robucks."

~Everyone is like 'flmlenwgngegbagbwgeljage'

~Grandpa Ford says, "Charlie, you can buy those things with the money you make from the factory."

~Charlie gives grandpa a weird look. "Why would I want to work for money when I can just ask for it??"

~Wonkafleck woes his fucking life. He rages a bit, then motherfuckin' skips outta the scene and jumps into a hot air balloon to reach the highest peak of the city so he can scream for all eternity.

~The End

What I actually thought after I saw the real trailer for Willy Wonka:

Wow I am totally off, lol.

#Willy Wonka #Wonka Movie #Willy Wonka 2023 #storytime #Ben Affleck #Harrison Ford #charlie and the chocolate factory #Weird fan story #if I were a filmmaker #But like all the worst plot #Me making bad predictions without seeing anything #children being children #I should get off the internet more #sorry not sorry #so if you've seen the movie did I hit any points HAHA #I'll stop

[arabian-batboy]

You know how every now and then, a comic will be released to remind you again why you love Batman comics? This is one of those times.

#I'm so impressed with how they made a boring and overdone story-line such as Martha and Thomas returning be interesting #probably because it was character-drive and not focused on angsty-fights and cringey comedy? *brain explodes* #my only problem is that I feel like in this story ALL of Bruce's children should be present #it just doesn't hit as harder when you only show their faces in the sky at last page #and I thought Damian saying Bruce would be happier if he had his parents instead of him would be taken more seriously #like that's a big statement #but I understand they didn't have time #Bruce Wayne #Dick Grayson #Damian Wayne

[cienie-isengardu]

5. A gift from the past.

Up until the moment the officer gazes at the holo of the infant boy, it’s easy to believe Loi’e may have been mistaken in her identification of the eyepatch-wearing Imperial. But as he removes his cap to show the scars where two horns once protruded from his skull, we know her intuition has served her well. And instead of just another nameless Imperial soldier, a cog in the Empire’s galactic machine, we begin to see him as Loi’e did. A little boy who was stolen, a child who was indoctrinated, and a young man who can still change his mind.

#star wars #the spy dancer #star wars visions #i will admit the spy dancer hit harder than I thought it could #i did not expect the story to be about stolen child #an literal alien forced to fit into human imperial society #by cutting his horns and hiding those “flaws” and mother to see him anyway as her own #this hits harder because stuff like that happened in our real world #stealing children and raising them as your future loyal - INDOCTRINATED - generation of empire's supporters? #it happens during russia attack on ukraine #it happened during IIWW with nazi germans stealing Polish children and giving to german families for adoption if they could pass as aryan #and i'm just talking about east europe in the less than 100 years while kidnapping and/or indoctrination children happened #under different empires in different times and places #which makes the spy dancer hits hard about empire treatment of people #star wars visions really are amazing how the show is using traumas & folklore & human experiences to tell an universal story

[dont-offend-the-bees]

Dyou think the pheonix lore about being reborn from their own ashes applies to Arthur Parnassus? Dyou think at a ripe old age (probably having outlived Linus, given that he seems to be supernaturally youthful) he'll pass on from this life in a ripple of flames with Zoe standing vigil at his bedside, and she'll look down at the ashes to find a baby crying where her old friend was just lying? Dyou think she'll pick him up, bring him to see his kids -- the ones who are all grown visiting when they heard he was sick, the others still children all these years -- and they'll be sad, then confused, then happy because he gets to come back. And Sal will say it's their turn to look after him, now, and Talia -- still just a child by gnome standards, basically a moody teen -- will will take her turn holding the baby with utmost seriousness, because it's not every day you lose a dad and get him back as a baby brother but she won't let him down. Dyou think they'll wonder if they should even call him Arthur, maybe he'll be completely different this time around, but stick with it anyway -- if he wants to be someone different, they'll support him, but he should get to choose that for himself. Dyou think decades and decades after the first time, some other girl working her first summer job at the ice cream parlour will be scooping cherry flavour for a messy haired little boy with colourful socks once again.

#guess who just did a re-read #the house in the cerulean sea #arthur parnassus #the Depression is hitting today so as an act of self care i read my fave little found family for 5 hours straight #i wonder if little baby reborn arthur would keep his memories #dyou think he remembers his wonderful linus or does he just grow up on stories of his children's other father who they were all so proud of #I'll stop now #mr. bees speaks

[carito-dorito]

look a reason why am i so obsessed with tnb compared to any other superhero anime shows like mha or one punch man is because im a burnout gifted adult no other reason needed

#tiger and bunny #and no this post is not to belittle other hero shoes and shit at all #tho mha focuses mostly on kids and shit and even when i think it has a solid story #it's for children it's a shonen #and even when tnb is a very cheesy seinen it has this the boys feel and it can hit you in the guts sometimes

[daydadahlias]

i always think it's crazy how, as a child, i was definitely on track to becoming a serial killer but then one day i just decided not to be

#like i was #violent #i was biting kids #and hurting other children #and i felt no remorse #my imaginary friends were DEAD KIDS #that i had concocted horrible terrifying deaths for #i was like 'yeah this is my imaginary friend Sam. he was kidnapped once and forced into slavery and then when escaping he was hit by a car' #LIKE WHAT??? #WHATTTTT??? #and then i was writing horrible violent short stories full of TORTURE and ASSAULT and MURDER and i was like 'hehehehe' #and the teachers MET with my MOTHER to be like 'jessica is writing terrifying things and has no friends' and my mom said 'And??' #and i pinned BUGS #i was one of THOSE KIDS #i would pin bugs while they were ALIVEEEEE so i could WATCH THEM DIE SLOWLY #and i SKINNED SNAKES???? #in my free time i was googling 'torture scenes' fOR FUN?? #I WOULD JUST WATCH TORTURE VIDEOS?????? #like who does that #what was wrong with me #this has been in my drafts forever but i had to do a presentation for class today and i brought this up #so now im gonna post it dfghj

[forevercloudnine]

re: the joker post you reblogged, I always wondered personally if people's unwillingness to forgive him compared to other rogues is cuz he reminds people of their abusers (with his relationship with harley) I tend to find fandom is often less forgiving of behaviour that hits closer to home when compared to potentially worse but more abstract stuff. Like a character who hits their wife will get more hate than one who blows up a planet, bc the latter feels more fictional? Just my theory though

(The Joker post in question)

I think you're definitely right about that. Plenty of people hate Joker specifically because of Harley Quinn (or, predating Harley's conception as a character, because of his mutilation of Barbara Gordon in The Killing Joke-- which, though not considered sexual assault by the author Alan Moore, was definitely sexualized in the art by Brian Bolland). And honestly, given the way he's written as an exaggerated parody of an abusive misogynistic boyfriend in Harley's various solo series, it's completely understandable for anyone who reads those comics to want to never see him ever again, because his appearances are not fun to read!

But I think it's also true that people who are mainly fans of other male villains use him to make their own faves look better in comparison. Though it is funny to constantly see posts in character tags that are like "[insert supervillain here] hates Joker and could totally beat him up," because invariably the supervillain has a) been depicted as friendly with Joker in canon, and b) HAVE fought Joker but lost embarrassingly.

#joker #harley quinn #panel is from 'prelude to the wedding: harley quinn vs. joker' #which is just the premier example of how joker is portrayed by harley writers #because in canon an HOUR after he has this convo with harley. he goes and has the church fight with bruce and selina #and the difference in characterization between these two appearances is absolutely staggering #he is genuinely unrecognizable as the same character #anyway there is definitely something to be said about how btas has permanently added 'abusive boyfriend' to joker's character #and that batman media has sooooooo much trouble with figuring out how much that has to factor into any given portrayal #i think the most transparent struggle with that is on The Harley Quinn Show #where joker goes from being an abusive misogynistic creep to Harley's Funny Ex in-between seasons #to the point that he hooks up with some civilian nurse with two young children and it's treated sweet and romantic #instead of like. incredibly worrying. because he's a noted abuser with a terrible track record around women #but he's switched from being the antagonist of harley's Feminist Character Arc to a comedic side character so whatever it's fine now #so many male writers get to write harley quinn content and i feel like they almost never understand anything about domestic abuse #so they just write the most exaggerated parody of it possible and then have harley hit him with a hammer #and then feel like they've made her a strong female character #which like. i guess makes sense as an evolution for a female character who was originally written as side joke eye candy #NOT that i don't enjoy a lot of the stories paul dini has written about her #but like. there's a lot of contextual baggage in her character from day one

[imidori-ya]

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros is literal hot garbage and I will die on this hill.

#like it’s literally one of the worst constructed/written books I have ever encountered #how on earth could Yarros be married to a 20+ year military vet and yet still not even understand the most basic military concepts #it’s honestly astounding how brain dead her characters are #the way she writes makes it abundantly obvious that she thinks her readers are a bunch of idiots #who need every single story theme and element hand fed to them #the introduction of Varrish was just utter bullshit #she could have painted ‘VILLAIN’ on his forehead and it would’ve been less obvious #please tell us again how smart your main character is while she proceeds to do the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen #‘oh why won’t xaden trust me with rebellion secrets even though I basically announce my suspicions of the empire at every turn?’ #idk violet maybe it’s bc you won’t do the mind training they’ve been telling you to do #so you’re constantly vulnerable to the mindreader YOU KNOW PERSONALLY #maybe that’s why no one tells you anything??? #also holy shit her being like ‘I have to be careful and not let the empire know I’m questioning my duties’ #and then immediately crashing into a scribe meeting to request more red flag reading?? #like??? was she kicked in the head??? #also the dragons stating multiple times that humans are basically like ants to them and they don’t care if they live or die #but simultaneously having to somehow be subserveant to the military???? #bitch why weren’t you all enslaved by the dragons #this is such nonsense #also her prose is ass #come back when you can tell the difference between parse and parcel Rebecca #yeah a lot of my complaints are iron flame related #but that’s just bc it really hit home how bad this all is with the second book #net zero improvement #way to fail downwards Rebecca #ALSO!! what evil empire would conscript their enemies children into the one branch of their military where they get DRAGONS and SUPERPOWERS #like what??!! #in what world #what military would be so afraid of a new rebellion that they conscript the people with deep emotional ties to the old rebellion??? #if real militaries worked this way there would be no more war bc we’d all be dead

[mariemariemaria]

Does anybody else feel the waves of history crashing over them constantly and like they can't escape the generational trauma that permeates and poisons every interaction they have or do I just need to chill and have a drink lol

#'our day has come and we are here. we are alive here. we've built this place. we suffered and starved here. #we own not an acre of land we belong to it. the land of cú chullain and macha. ní muid 'hungry crocodiles'. we are full. #full of knowledge. and talent. and success. #full of drink. and drugs. and stories. #agus beautiful ceol. that spills on sundays. from the windows of ancient pubs like smoke #tá vóta agam. tá acht Gaeilge agam. agus táimid sa rialtas. #we are the landscape. we are the trees and the rivers and the mountains. an integral piece of someone else's infrastructure. #growing strong between cracks in the concrete.' #and whatever else seán an seanchaí said..... #would recommend his instagram. his posts always hit #ngl tho when men post stuff like this about ireland i always think...do you see the similarities between this and patriarchy tho? #but maybe im better off not knowing the answer #whatever!!! we will persevere!!! we will help one another and build trust and relations and improve no matter what governments say or do!!! #just like generations have been doing before us!!! and we who have benefited from our parents making this place better will work to make it #better for our children. who will make it better for theirs. #and maybe i need to stop shying away from difficult conversations. maybe we all do. and maybe then we'll be okay. #my thoughts on mental health + the north + my own personal experience is such a mish mash of several different things #im only truly starting to realise that it's all connected. yes i got depression because i was lonely and vulnerable. but also because of th #trauma my family's been through. and sometimes i feel so angry thinking about what certain family members have been through #and there has been too much silence surrounding it. but maybe i just have to feel the anger and sadness and allow myself to feel it #but continue reaching out and trying to talk and having cups of tea and walking my dog and making memories. #memories that aren't political or based on trauma. to get out of my head and realise that yes this was a terrible thing #but there's so many good things too. and the best thing i can do is to try to make life better for those who lived through the worst of it #and make society better for those who are too young to know any of it yet. #instagram is actually a tonic for me sometimes. would never get such taig specific posts on here like the one from seán #which is probably a good thing lol