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neil-gaiman

araneapeixes asked:

Dear Neil, I'm wondering - how much creative authority do you have over the American Gods show? When characters that were absent or mentioned in passing in the book are developed in the show, are these mostly your ideas, or do you let the showrunners run wild?

It’s very much the showrunners’ and the writers’ show. I get to offer advice, and I get to suggest things. But it’s not my show, in the way that Good Omens is.

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wearepaladin

I’ve never given the trope “balance between good and evil” any credit. Good and evil aren’t concepts that can balance each other out. Light and darkness are often used as metaphors for each, but while that’s some fairly potent symbolic imagery, it’s not the reality of the situation.

To me, the more accurate comparison would be that evil is a disease that warps our nature without us ever witnessing it physically. It infects us, poisoning what should be simple parts of human nature into something horrible. Unless you treat the body, the disease eats away at you, corrupting everything until there is nothing worth saving. You can’t compromise with something that will either destroy or consume you. You can only reject and refuse it to let it determine either your fate, or those around you.

You can’t live in balance with evil. You can only fight or submit.

wearepaladin

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absurdinadress

[image description: a tweet by user @JuliusGhost that reads, “Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man. You take a step toward him. He takes a step back. Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man.” end image description]

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crpl-pnk

ok very funny guys. you got me. now seriously who left all these neurotypicals in charge of the mental health field

roccondilrinon

who left all these healthy doctors in charge of the hospital

is literally what this sounds like

agentelderofshield

God, can you imagine how awful that would be? People with amputations consulting on things like prosthesis?

People in wheelchairs designing living and working spaces for people with mobility issues?

Autistic people actually trying to help other autistic people?

OMG, just thing – wouldn’t ti be awful if people who are now in remission actually helped manage the pain and other symptoms that come with having and treating cancer?

I mean seriously, what on Earth do any of those people really have to add to the discussion? What could they possibly know that an able-bodied neurotypical wouldn’t already know? I mean, experience doesn’t teach all that much!

/end sarcasm.

phoenixonwheels

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jenroses

My care for EDS got radically better when my doctor’s kid was diagnosed. 

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kindlyflower

I get a lot of people asking me “why don’t you talk about your recovery on here?” And I’ll tell you why. My recovery isn’t something people would care to see. I was not a sickly 90 pound girl with an NG tube in, I wasn’t on the brink of death, I wasn’t in treatments. I wasn’t even underweight. But, I was miserable. I had lost 40 pounds, I was SICK. I restricted and purged and cried everyday over food, but it was all invisible. I didn’t have doctors or therapists or dietitians helping me recover. I simply realized if I didn’t recover I would eventually die. It seems that people don’t care unless your recovery is through treatments and tubes. Well I’m here to tell you that everyone’s recovery is different. For me, it was mostly focusing on rebuilding my healthy relationship with food, which I had to do on my own because of a lack of a therapist. My recovery may not be revolutionary in people’s eyes, but it was revolutionary to ME. So many people deem it as “fake” because I “wasn’t sick enough” but to that I say: fuck you.

Stop associating ED recovery with brink of heart failure and hospital visits and ER rooms. For some people, yes that is their experience. But if we just normalized recovering when you AREN’T at that point YET, maybe just maybe there would be less cases of that. Maybe if we stopped calling people’s EDs “fake” simply because they don’t follow the stereotyped timeline when eating disorders are MENTAL DISORDERS. I’m tired of having to validate my own recovery because some people can’t imagine why I’d want to recover when I was a “healthy weight”. I’m tired of having to then list all my symptoms and feelings I had to then validate and explain my recovery. You don’t owe ANYONE an explanation for why you want to recover. Your recovery was valid regardless of what your experience was. Your eating disorder was real and always will be.

studiousmedic

I’m tired of having to validate my own recovery because some people can’t imagine why I’d want to recover when I was a “healthy weight”.

So I basically almost cried when I read that because this is literally what my life has been ever since I realised shit needed to change.

So if you’re out there reading this and you’re suffering because you think you don’t have a ‘real’ issue because you’re not underweight - your eating disorder is real, your pain is real, you deserve recovery, and no one has the right to question that.