I don’t know how to say this in a way that doesn’t come across as incredibly out of touch and privileged but I don’t think the human brain was meant to receive so much bad news. The spread of news has always been limited by what can reach you and for thousands of years that usually meant the happenings in your village and maybe the surrounding villages. A few times a year you might receive word about the goings on in cities, maybe even distant lands. Occasionally war would break out which would increase bad news but, even then, unless the fighting was in your area, the news about the war would be a trickle—still devastating, but not as aggressive a bombardment. Now, with the invention of newspapers, wire communication, radio, television, internet, social media, click bait, traffic-driven ad revenue you receive every bit of bad news, from everywhere, all the time. We no longer live in a world where our bad news is local, mostly manageable, and only occasionally intensified. There is only bad news. I don’t think we were built for it.
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Hi, hello! Do you have IF recommendations where the MC is dealing with trauma? I've read and like Fallen Hero, The Exile and I, The Forgotten One. Thanks in advance!
Hi Anon! Here’s a long list of games fitting your request. If anyone else has further suggestions of IFs with this genre, feel free to reply below where we will add those that fit in the list.
Completed:
77 Oleander Avenue: Ghost House Investigation (VN) by @invocative
Deathless: City’s Thirst by Max Gladstone
The Fog Knows Your Name by Yeonsoo Julian Kim
Demos:
A Tale of Crowns by @ataleofcrowns
Advenio by @adveniogame
Aeterna: Rubra Plena (VN) by @quantumvelvet
An Angel's Song by @melkstudio
Better Off by @oscarwrites
Defiled Hearts: The Barbarian by @defiledheartsblog
Exiled from Court by @beeanca-writing
Greenwarden by @fiddles-ifs
Hollowed Minds by @shai-manahan
I, The Forgotten One by bacondoneright
Invoker by @tomawrites
Larkin by @larkin-if
Ouroboros by @honeypeabrain
Prodigy by @prodigy-if
Respice Finem by @rf-interactive
Sinners and Saints by @sinnersandsaints-linwrites
Siren’s Call by @the-siren-call
The Archivist and the Revolution by @cyberpunklesbian
The Bastard of Camelot by @llamagirl28
The Exile by @exilethegame
The King's Hound by @the-kingshound
The Numbers Game by @thenumbersgameif
The Spirited: Origins by @yuveim
The Watchwood by @compassroseproductions
Trails Lead Home by @trailshome
Throne of Ashes by @13leaguestories
Vespertines by @mondaysandwich
No Demo:
Haunt The Bodies by @hauntthebodies
Rehab by @rehabifiction
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Perhaps your thesis animation could be about the deaf community? It is deaf awareness month after all!
Well by the time the thesis'll be done it would be a year and then some after deaf awareness month but I can look into it!
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rejected apologies
"You're not sorry."
"Are you even capable of feeling any sort of regret?"
"You don't mean it. Not now, not the previous twenty times."
"It's a little late for that, isn't it?"
"I really wish I could believe you."
"I don't want to hear it."
"How much more can you lie? How far are you willing to take this?"
"I don't care. I really don't."
"Don't make me laugh."
"'Sorry' won't really do anything for me or anybody else that you've hurt."
"You're just saying that to ease your own guilt, huh?"
"Who's forcing you to say this? Are they paying you?"
"Fix it, then. Oh wait, you can't."
"Stop this. Get out. No one wants you or your stupid fake apology here."
"I have waited years to hear this from you. Years. And now you come here? When I don't want it anymore?"
"I don't think I can ever forgive you."
"Oh yeah? Let me guess. You need something from me, again, and this time 'sorry' is the only thing you could think of to get in my head."
"I've moved on long ago. I don't need your apology."
"No, no, I don't care, I don't care about your monologue, just go away. Leave. No, I won't hear you out. I don't owe you anything, especially not any more of my attention or feelings."
"And what if I don't accept it? Will you scream at me? Hit me? Again?"
"Okay." "Okay?" "Yeah. You said what you wanted, now you can get lost for good. Don't bother me again."
"Don't give me the crocodile tears."
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Vampire grandpa gave me a pass, so
Winner of day three is Pure Vessel!
Congratulations
I sure am guessing who's gonna be fourth on the list
This challenge may devolve into "drawing Radiance daily" way quicker that I expected
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on writing trauma
Note: I don’t have any experience with this personally (though I do have a degree in psychology, which is still such a wild thing to say tbh) this is just research that I’ve done into the topic. I’ve tried to get everything correct so as to not offend anyone, and as always, not everyone’s experience will be the same, so this is just a general information starting point.
Symptoms:
Insomnia
Decreased concentration
Loss of interest
Irritability
Depression
Memory problems
Nightmares
Flashbacks
Hypervigilance
Mistrust
Panic attacks
Self-destructive behavior
Loss of sense of “who I am”
Outbursts of anger
Withdrawing from people
Difficulty connecting with people
Fatigue
Lethargy
Mood fluctuations / mood swings
Feelings:
Hopelessness
Numbness
Shame
Worthlessness
Intense fear of loss and abandonment
Suspicious & untrusting
Demotivated & drained of energy
Judgmental of self and others
Emotionally cut off
Scattered and distracted
Self-sabotaging
Negative & pessimistic
Self-critical
Feeling on guard all the time
Empty
Thoughts:
“No one can be trusted”
“Everyone will hurt you”
“Everyone cheats or is dishonest”
“Sharing your feelings will result in losing people”
Belief that you are not safe and will never be safe
emotions associated with trauma:
shame
anxiety
depression
suspicion
unease
desperation
overwhelm
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