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And then we can move on and discuss more important things.
Okay?
Here goes…
Nicolas Cage is an incredible actor who is very bad with money so he has to act in terrible movies because otherwise they will repossess his dinosaur skull collection.
But even when he is in terrible movies with terrible writing he refuses to phone in his performances. And sometimes when you are acting your ass off while saying some of the dumbest dialogue ever conceived it can give the appearance the acting is the issue rather than the writing and story.
Hayden Christensen knows that feeling all too well.
So next time you see Nic Cage in a B movie acting a fool, just know he probably bought some new shrunken heads and forgot to pay the mortgage on his volcano island.
Every actor has been in some bad films for the money. There’s a whole page on TVTropes about it, named after a quote from the Sir Lawrence Olivier about why he was acting in a terrible, Mooney-funded Korean War film called Inchon in 1981: “Money, dear boy!”
Michael Caine in Jaws 3 or whatever
Jaws: The Revenge. Here’s what he said about it.
“I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific!”
mom was describing a tattoo a girl once took her to a back bedroom to show her, which was a fishing pole low on her pelvis with a line and hook that descended into her bush where a small clownfish hid amongst the hair. and that’s just. that’s a goal. and the ultimate freedom from obligation, like “gah I would shave but it would ruin my very good joke, what are you gonna do, I gotta make sure there’s foliage for my little clownfish to hide in”
then mom finished telling me this and looked off for a moment. “my god,” she said. “she was flirting with me. fuck. goddamn it.”
You know, one time I read a fanfic and it triggered my psychosis, sent me into a month long episode THEN a whole year later I was on ao3 just mindlessly scrolling, I came across the fanfic title and it gave me a panic attack, but something compelled me to click it, i didn't read it but i did scroll through it, why? mental illness.
So like... ya
This is me responding to your old(?) post about someone else's fiction not being able to hurt you, this is probably just a me thing but mental illness makes you do things and react to things in insane ways that sometimes you cant control. I knew while reading that it was affecting me in some way, but I kept reading because well, I'm mentally ill, and then a month of my life dissapeared lol
I think I'm trying to make a point about something but I'm not sure
I did after the fact comment to the author and just kinda, told them about what happened, but I didn't harrassed them or something, -
-but when something does what this fanfiction did to me then you're basically obligated to let the creator know I think(they are a really good writer), I'm an adult and the fanfic was in the ballpark of something I would read and if like, 59% of it was taken out and it had a happy ending I would be fine but oh well
Oh boy, I'm starting to have a panic attack just typing this out holy hell anyways uh, I'm not disagreeing with you(?) but I am saying, don't be too quick to dismiss someone who says a piece of fiction fucked with them? idk sorry, have a good one
Random writers on the internet are not responsible for managing your mental illness for you.
You are responsible for managing your mental illness.
I knew while reading that it was affecting me in some way, but I kept reading because well, I’m mentally ill
This is self harm. You were engaging in self-harming behavior by continuing to read a fanfiction that you knew was triggering to you.
👉 You are responsible for managing your mental illness.
👉 Writers are not responsible for managing your mental illness for you.
And I hate to tell you this but messaging the author about it was absolutely harassing the author.
“I think I’m trying to make a point about something but I’m not sure”
Yeah you are.
You’re trying to show that saying ‘someone else’s fiction isn’t able to harm you’ is wrong, actually, look, it harmed you! when in actuality, you just harmed yourself.
I am fascinated to see what your comment to the author was.
“Hi, I read the warnings for this fic, then read the fic and it triggered me for some reason and caused a month long a psychotic episode, and then I read your fic again on purpose, knowing that it triggered me before, and gave myself a panic attack, and you know I’m obliged to tell you this, next time can you just change half of your fic and give it a happy ending so I won’t trigger myself, thanks”
No one needs to read that on a work they put time and effort into.
I was reading a fic that involved a medical procedure that gave me a panic attack out of nowhere, but that wasn’t on the author. That was a me problem.
It’s a me problem that is so far divorced from the author and what they wrote that telling them about it would be cruel.
And that was a me problem that I didn’t even know I had until that point - I can’t imagine =knowing= that I’m about to read something that would trigger me and STILL blaming the author and their fic.
Dear Reese’s,
One time I ate one of your peanut butter cups and it triggered anaphylaxis. A year later, I came across another one of your peanut butter cups, and even just seeing its bright orange packaging was enough to give me a panic attack from the memories of my medical emergency. But, I still opened the package. I didn’t eat the whole cup because I have a peanut allergy, but I did break it open and lick the middle.
Now I feel obliged to contact you and let you know that your clearly labeled peanut product triggers severe reactions for people with peanut allergies. If you could change about 59% of your product (the chocolate on the outside is fine! It’s just the peanut butter that’s the issue), I would appreciate it.
Sincerely,
Tumblr Anon
I cannot imagine the harm getting a comment saying “your fic sent me into a psychosis for a month” would do to a writer.
Spot on framing this behaviour as self-harm. And then calling out that this reader harmed someone else.
genuinely best thing to come out of american politics in a while is this whole earnestly calling republicans “weird”. never underestimate the power of cringe to turn the tide of a political campaign.
genuinely the democrats best option right now is just to reply to insane republican takes with
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Everybody’s all “fuck canon”, “death of the author”, [insert Ron Swanson meme here] right up until the point that they realise they’ve sufficiently departed from the source material that they can no longer safely assume their target audience is already familiar with the basic premise, and that they’ve thereby put themselves in the position of actually having to write establishing scenes.
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