some things that horror movie culture has taught you are scary…. are just ableist
….clarify?
okay sure. psychosis? scarier to have than to know someone who has it. DID? im more a threat to myself than people around me. wheelchairs and psych meds? are tools that help people live more functional and flexible lives and are not judgments of the persons character and for sure are not scary things. and for real, intellectually disabled people are not threats, but movies love to make them villains because they act different and understand the world differently. and people with notable physical differences? people who’s bodies look different? people with scars, growths, amputations, etc? are literally just people. and seeing themselves painted like monsters on the big screen is absolutely sickening and damaging to how society will see them.
its not only bad writing but its extremely harmful to people who actually live with conditions that are misrepresented in media. when i found out i had DID, my mom freaked out because her only point of reference was Sybil. when i was younger and first went on psych meds, i thought it meant i was set on a track to be a bad person, because in so many movies and video games you find out the bad guy has medication in his bed side table for some sort of psych disorder. the worst thing a hallucination has ever made me do was wake my mom up at 3 AM to check my bathroom to see if the bugs i saw everywhere were real and the worst thing an “episode” of any sort has made me do is hurt myself. my ptsd doesnt make me kill people, my alters dont kidnap people, my autism doesnt make me so morally unaware that ill murder for senselessly, my ocd doesnt make me hurt people etc etc etc
literally the only “horror” is the ableism. and the only way you can write good horror about disability and mental illness is if the focus is on how society and the medical field treat us rather than focusing on how we are apparently so scary, threatening, and bad.
dont forget how mental hospitals and the patients are often portrayed in media.
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along with no tails, their scales are supposed to be dull browns and their “scale colour” refers to their blood heritige. That beign said, the players guide is only usefull for mechanics and stats so aesthetic is up to the players and DM. Make yo dragonborns and kobolds be rainbow with long tails and horns. Nobody can stop you.
Edward Elric has only been known to wear the official state alchemist uniform once during his time as a state alchemist. One day, about a year after the promised day, Mustang and his friends are eating lunch in the mess hall. Suddenly the hall goes completely silent. Mustang looks up from his lunch and sees Edward striding purposefully toward him, fully decked out in the navy blue coat and boots. He looks at Riza- surely she must have some hand in this unprecedented turn of events- but Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye is as surprised as he is.
Every eye is on Edward as he reaches the General’s table.
“You know the difference between you and me?” Edward says, clear enough for the entire hall to hear.
He takes a pair of shades out of his pocket and slides them on.
“I make this look good”.
Edward turns on his heel and strides out of the mess hall. An hour later Hawkeye finds him in a cafe with Winry, wearing normal clothes.
That is the one and only time that Edward Elric has been known to wear a state alchemist uniform. Nobody even knows where he got it from.
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