When Cody reaches the top of the tower, something in his heart fits back into place to see his not-prince—to see ‘Ben’—sitting on his balcony and looking up with a real and joyful smile.
“Cody!” Ben says, standing. There’s a second chair on the balcony next to his, and it’s wooden where the other one is curving black metal. Cody’s sure, suddenly, that this is Ben’s kitchen chair. It makes a painful kind of sense that a man imprisoned alone would have a deficit of additional seating. “I’m glad you came.”
“I said I would,” Cody says, smiling helplessly back, and Ben’s demeanor brightens a few degrees more.
Honestly if your anxiety is so bad that you can’t read like… something in the horror genre that I wrote (and tagged correctly) without tagging the post I made with “this literally made me have an anxiety attack i’m panicking omg my dereality is acting up” maybe you SHOULDN’T INTERACT WITH ME, because I’m a horror fan, I’m very open about being a horror fan, and I don’t like being guilt tripped over and over about a harmless piece of “creepy” writing I made!!
I’m talking about this kind of… growing group I see on this site and other sites who blames horror content creators for their anxiety issues that the creators have no control over?
For example, Adam Ellis drew a pretty good horror comic about the ghost of a creepy nurse (it was not graphic in any way, and was fairly tame) and posted this DM he received about it on his Twitter:
For any concerned, Adam Ellis put absolutely no id’ing info on this post, so the person who sent it is safely anonymous. But I honestly hate this so much. If you are THIS afraid of a drawing of a creepy ghost, you should not engage with media that is LABELLED AS A HORROR COMIC! Many people with anxiety (including myself) create horror as an outlet for our own fears–Ellis even discussed the fact that his comic was tied to his very real fears of doxxing and harassment by certain fans/enemies online. Do you have any idea how genuinely horrible it feels to be told “this thing you created for fun/to vent caused me direct and terrible mental damage?”
In short, stop being a manipulative, guilt-tripping asshole to horror creators. Stop engaging with horror media if you are so, so viscerally distressed by it that you send genuinely cruel things to people in an attempt to force them to apologize to you. A lot of horror creators use horror as an outlet to vent THEIR anxiety, and you are an asshole for trying to increase their anxiety by telling them that they “hurt you” by writing horror. G’night.
^^^^^ Figure out your boundaries and then HONOR THEM YOURSELF.
Example: I love Horror as a genre, but I have certain types I can’t tolerate as well. I started listening to The Magnus Archives, which is a fantastic podcast, well put together, and utterly fascinating. But I was listening to it in December when my Seasonal Affective Disorder is at its worst, and I realized it was negatively impacting my mental health. My anxiety and depression were getting worse. So you know what I did?
I just stopped listening to it. I said “this is really good but right now it’s not really good for me so I’m going to move on to other things for the time being, maybe someday I’ll be in a better place to handle it and come back but for now I’ll just go watch The Haunting of Hill House again”
THAT’S ALL YOU HAVE TO DO. Step away. You do NOT need to tell a content creator about the problems you have with their content when it is WELL MARKED and your problem is I DON’T LIKE THIS GENRE.
I get that some things hit you hard out of nowhere, unexpectedly, and yeah that can really really suck. But it’s STILL not the content creator’s fault.
You can learn things about your own boundaries and move forward without being an asshole about it.
I don’t mean to be so Mando-centric HAhahaha, but I haven’t seen a MandoAU Oberyn yet? And after THAT finale? I’m sure there’s one floating around somewhere but 🤷🏻♀️ Not me crying over Oberyn again trying to get these armor refs. Absolute bicon. Ngl didn’t realize this would come out lookin like Din’s old armor but 🤷🏻♀️
New installment of Recovery is UP! (Part Two is coming this week).
Summary: Qui-Gon can no longer dodge messages from the Jedi Council. Obi-Wan is uncertain about his past and his future. While Qui-Gon begrudgingly speaks to the Council, Anakin stays with Obi-Wan.
Gorgeous commissioned art by the immensely talented and kind @kurtssingh .
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