Real As Hell - Blog Posts

"we want more mental illness rep!" usually means "i want my favorite woobified characters to wax poetic about their trauma". If they made a character have ocd, bpd, or a non-glorified version of ptsd (underdogs) most of y'all would hate those characters for being 'mean', 'morally corrupt', 'abusive', or 'whiny'. the larger fandom despises most characters who mildly resonate with mentally ill folk, there's no way y'all could handle an accurately written depiction of stigmatized conditions lol (1)

I'm getting tired of the sly remarks to Cinderpelt becoming a medicine cat instead of a warrior. Fifth book in and I'm still getting the usual line, Fireheart couldn't shake off how Cinderpelt could no longer be a warrior or have a mate or have kits. SHE CLEARLY IS A GREAT MEDICINE CAT. So yea, maybe she was a fail queen two books ago when she had to learn to live with this disability, but she did learn! Yellowfang was a mean ol' granny, but clearly understood how well she adapted to the new role. It's not the worst depiction of becoming disabled, since you know in warrior cats society every able cat aspires to be a warrior and to lose that is everything and to find a new role that aids the entire clan in more ways than one is a great success story. Fireheart stays whiny for too long about Cinderpelt, imo.

When someone says Clara Oswald is a perfect Mary Sue manic pixie dream girl with no flaws