i just finished rereading all of @brainbent and i’m having a lot of Feelings about it
for those who don’t know brainbent is a homestuck humanstuck au where all of the beta kids and trolls are at a mental health inpatient residential clinic and are either residents or staff (some new people from act 6 are added later but it started in mid-2011 so it’s mostly the beta group)
as it started in august 2011, this au has been around since before i even started reading homestuck, which means it was around while i was in high school
i found it initially in early 2012, and let me just say, this fucking au literally changed my life
at the time i was struggling with depression, social anxiety, and a self-harm habit stemming from both of those issues, and it gave me a vessel to explore and understand my own mental health in a time where i was very confused and upset about a lot of things
it also helped me figure out that i want to work as a therapist. at the time i was aiming for psychotherapy, but later in 2012 i discovered that art therapy is a thing that you can go to school for and i fell in love
and here i am in 2018, now a university student working towards the very goal that this au inspired, three years into a bfa in visual art minoring in psychology, and with an information session appointment coming up at an art therapy institute to further explore my post-graduate options
cheers to you brainbent, i know i’m not the only person whose life has been majorly affected by this wonderful au
(not entirely relevant to the post but i was pleasantly surprised to find not one but two of my asks had been answered by them over the years [ask1 ask2]! i remembered the second one but not the first)
