Oh Fuck

Oh fuck

All it takes to make me want to cry is reading

Remember me

Though I have to travel far

Remember me

The amount of meltdowns caused by this exact set of circumstances, usually mixed with dysphoria...

That shit gave me actual trauma

VENT POST:

Sick and tired of the "I can't remember a loved one's face, and therefore I should die" trope, where it makes you automatically suicidal or evil to not know what someone dear to you's meat mask looks like.

I have prosopagnosia, or face blindness, and while I get that this trope is associated with grief, it's often executed and handled extremely poorly

An example of this trope handled poorly is in Centaurworld, which, while I love the show, it has an entire musical number where the main character sings about not remembering her best friend's face, and that's her reason for JUMPING OFF A CLIFF-

Of course, she survives, and the rash decision she makes is frowned upon, but it's merely framed as "dying bad" and not "Hey, that doesn't make you a horrible person." It's not even addressed.

My response to that scene is always "Oh well fuck you, guess I'll just go die then"

I am not a bad person for not knowing what my girlfriend, my best friend, or my mother looks like. It doesn't affect how I feel about them, whatever way that may be. I still love my girlfriend and she is still beautiful to me, even if I can't remember why.

I know my disability is rare, but that doesn't make the message of this trope towards people like me any less hurtful. It shouldn't be seen as the obvious thought process to be suicidally depressed or a cold-hearted monster because you don't know what a face looks like.

This goes for blind people, and people with aphantasia as well. We're not evil or shameful. Please find a different way to convey grief and guilt without demonizing a disability

what

i want a boyfriend whos afraid of the dark but pretends not to be

Deity of Poem!

Bet, edgy poems and pretty lyrics, here I come!

here's a random word generator--whatever word it gives you is now the thing you are the deity of

Tag ppl who haven't seen HB

I'll start

@lilac-the-void-pup