BlackHeart Biohazards

petermorwood:

dduane:

catgirlwheels:

woolen-feathers:

personaglitch:

“Self insert characters are cringe”

Bro I’m trying to survive capitalism with maladaptive daydreaming. Leave me alone.

Writing a self insert helped me unpack more trauma than twenty years of therapy. Do it.

DO EET.

Segnbora is a self-insert. (And so obvious. Is there anyone west of the Prime Meridian who read the book who didn’t pick up on it? Surely not.)

(Checklist: dark twisted backstory: check. Magical powers (seriously broken): check. “Pet falcon or something”? Well, is “gigantic alien silicon-based dragonlike fuckbuddy-cum-spouse” okay? Check.)

My most interesting moment after finishing the book that helped me for the first time deal anything like successfully with my own sexual assault (in my own house, in my own bedroom, while grieving my mother’s death, by a “friend” of the family) at the age of 16:

Being accused by a critic of “sexually fridging” my working-it-through character “for cheap drama.” (We’d say “clickbait” now.)

And you know what?

The issue was still dealt with. After the fact, the reviewer was still nothing but a poorly-clued-in person. (Projection of putative motivation can be so revealing.) And I was still free.

So, advice: (Self-)Insert where and when and how you please. Break down your prison walls in whatever way works for you. Get out of jail, (mostly) free. And before, or after, invite the would-be jailers to go fuck themselves… while, in the light, you continue going forward.

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