Onfirekittyturtle - Ppth's Worst Patient.

I WAS FINALLY ABLE TO GET MY DIRKJOHN ART DONE IN TIME. It is a Castle in the Sky AU!

(There was a sand/dust storm happening and it literally destroyed my electricity.) Sorry I didn't make more for todays prompt (っ⁠˘̩⁠╭⁠╮⁠˘̩⁠)⁠っ

Rewatching the DHMIS TV show for the second time, it definitely strikes me that a fair portion of the death episode involves things someone would say / do specifically after the death of a child.

"So quiet here without David, isn't it?"

By far the most gutting thing to the grieving parents I've known is how quiet their house is after their child dies.

The make-a-friend kit calls to mind the people who say, "Well, you can always have another baby" and just completely don't understand how the child who was lost can never be replaced in any meaningful way. Alternatively, something else I've witnessed: pushing the grieving parent toward a toy like a stuffed animal or a doll (something that can never die, and Stain calls himself the Forever Boy).

On the "another baby" train of thought, Stain lives with the constant shadow of the dead person hanging over him, not allowed to develop his own identity, shoehorned into being as much like the deceased child as possible. He begins life with a blank slate and an innocent, open-minded curiosity, but others' expectations and demands effectively traumatize him into a hollow caricature of the original person.

I think the show can be about a lot of things concurrently - as a writer who lives and breathes symbolism like air, my own work is often about a lot of things concurrently - but I can definitely see "child loss" threaded through the underlying themes.

Also, the sad tissue box seems to have a vital signs monitor, which I haven't seen anyone else point out yet.

GLAD YOU AGREE WITH ME

idk how to tell you all but Daniel Radcliffe and Dane Dehaan in Kill your Darlings just give off the same energy as DirkJohn,, I MEAN LOOK AT IT

idk how to tell you all but Daniel Radcliffe and Dane Dehaan in Kill your Darlings just give off the same energy as DirkJohn,, I MEAN LOOK AT IT

making up for being unable to finish dirkjohn week with my impeccable shitposting skills💯