@tshidar's post on Artfol
my original story (the contents of which i haven't posted much, but i promise i'm working on it) includes a kind of relationship between characters which you could definitely call problematic. in fact, it was intended to be some kind of self insert for me: i once experienced something really terrible in my life, and i wanted to share this experience through my characters — although in the story i made the situation even worse than it was in my case to exaggerate the tension and make the character's trauma more obvious. hence, there is no romanticising of this kind of relationship at all — on the contrary, i intend to show how destructive and traumatizing it was for the character and how things and actions like these are overall horrible and can't be forgiven.
however, i sometimes feel really insecure about this stuff, and i'm afraid to find out that somebody interprets this the wrong way and accuses me of promoting sick kinds of interactions and relationships. it's understandable that people can misread things sometimes, and it should be okay? i guess? as long as i stand my ground and try to make my intentions obvious. but sometimes just the representation of something controversial/condemned itself is immediately seen as its support. this bugs me from time to time.
Jan 13, 2024
however, i sometimes feel really insecure about this stuff, and i'm afraid to find out that somebody interprets this the wrong way and accuses me of promoting sick kinds of interactions and relationships. it's understandable that people can misread things sometimes, and it should be okay? i guess? as long as i stand my ground and try to make my intentions obvious. but sometimes just the representation of something controversial/condemned itself is immediately seen as its support. this bugs me from time to time.
Jan 13, 2024#thoughts
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I get this so bad, but I think people are smart enough to mostly get it, but because this is the internet the people who don't would probably be loudest about it. I don't think that should ever stop you though, because someone might see it and feel comforted by it. or someone might realize they had that to. and it will make them feel better, knowing they're not alone. That's what it's all about, right?
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seems like too much overthinking for something that hardly even has a chance of being released as a full comic or something 
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