How to do the mentally unstable, unreliable narrator trope without being ableist.
1. The protagonist is not evil
2. The people around them are trying to help them
3. Their doctors are not on some big pharma kick and actually care about their patients.
4. The character cannot tell what is real or hallucination. They are aware, and that is why they are seeking help.
5. The protagonist is not a danger to others, may be a danger to themselves, but are a capable adult just dealing with a sickness no different than cancer
6. The protagonist DOES have the mental illness they are diagnosed with.
7. The reveal is that the HORROR IS UNDENIABLY REAL AND NOT BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE MENTAL ILLNESS.
8. Medication doesn't completely remove symptoms, it just alleviates and tones them down in some cases. Stronger dose/medication is 100 percent ok in normal circumstances, and shouldn't be injected to here
9. The protagonist has coping mechanisms to help them deal with what they are dealing with. Do not trivialize them, play them for laughs, or make the protagonist seem lessor for using them.
In fact, might be interesting if the ritual aspect of them warded off the monster.
10. Hospitalization is not a punishment. That does. It mean that we can't have horror there, but consider it to be a safe and sacred space like any hospital, and then let the terror begin to creep in from OUTSIDE in.
Don't make hospital staff allied with the evil
11. If you really want a real life villain to work off of, consider a least relatives, politicians, and other authority figures who believe mental illness is a joke/ just hate disabled people
Let these fuckers feel their own hubris
12. Don't suddenly make us wonder if the horror or mental I'll was were real at the end of the film. The horror comes from is questioning our own reality and what might be out there. It is not the mentally ill are bad and scary, actually.
13. For fucks sake, hire actors with real mental illness, consult with people who treat mental illness. Use real science to infuse your art.
14. Try not to make it a franchise, but do try and change the tropes of a genre that hurts a lot of people
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Out there is (or at least was) a variant of Odin who showed all three children the love and affection that they needed.
He valued Hel for her tactical brilliance, and raised her not to be a butcher but a leader.
Thor got to be the lovable himbo middle child who got two really awesome best friends.... Even if he doesn't realize his own strength and why they both get super annoyed with him sometimes
Loki is the doted on younger brother who gets to throw himself into his magical studies. He has a cool older goth sister that helps him not be an egotistical little shit... And is the reason why his pranks on Thor still contain stabbing.
I just saw a post by a high schooler who was talking about the environmental impact of obesity. They brought up the notion that it costs more water to grow more cotton to create a shirt for someone my size. They state, emphatically, that we should not make larger sizes.
My guy, I'm just trying to go to work and keep my job. I gotta have clothing. It's a necessity. I gotta have stuff that fits so I can go out and work out so I can lose my weight.
All I'm trying to do is live.
When I'm talking about fat positivity and pride, loving my body for who I am, I'm not saying I'm not healthy. I fully realize the stress the weight puts on my joints, I can feel it tear my heart to shreds. I am keenly aware of my lack of mobility.
Gregg Abbott claims they don't need an exemption for rape in the Texas Laws because they are going to "remove all rapists from the streets"
Buddy, you can't remove all rapists from your own party.
I'm not even saying this flippantly.
Most rapes and sexual assaults go under reported.
And, cops aren't trained to handle how trauma effects memory in the first place, let alone take it seriously leading to survivors not coming forward npr.org/sections/healt…
The. There is the fact that the justice system treats it like a joke as a whole. According to RAINN for every 1,000 rapes, 384 are reported to police, 57 result in an arrest, 11 are referred for prosecution, 7 result in a felony conviction, and 6 result in incarceration.
So, one of my biggest complaints about D&D is how it treats races.
Ability scores have no place being in races. Saying all orcs are naturally stupid so they get a negative bonus to that smacks of eugenics.
Speed really should be a math equation like AC and passive perception
Because you can work on being faster than you are, and I've know many a person smaller than myself to be speedy dexterous little shits
And if we are looking at some of the magical bonuses you get... Any of them could be considered cultural teachings, but how they are written sound a hell of a lot like stereotypes that have been wished I to existence by magic. "All Halflings are lucky!"