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[crystalcanis]

If we're being brave is this a safe space to say that it's fucking weird how some people have no problem implying with their whole chest that they'd rather read about animals than stories about humans of color.

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FadeAway and WINGS IOA | 2026 Teasers

HEHEHEHAHEHE I'M SO EXCITED YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW!! I'm being ambitious this year. There are two FA scenes I want to get to really bad and I'll make sure I do! This will also be Noriel's year in Wings :D We had a Kana focus last year, now its their time!

Wings is my other AU comic, you can read it at Comicfury ! (you will just have to be chill with the first chapter being clearly written by a high schooler.)

[crystalcanis]

in relation to my last reblog, as someone with pretty bad OCD (harm and moral +magical thinking) with really poor insight, I've really found most mental health spaces online to not be welcoming to me in the slighest. Other than people with *similar* OCD symptoms, really the only spaces I've felt safe discussing my symptoms in full with in a way that didn't feel like judgement or like I'm some kind of "interesting" performance for others to watch and learn from, have been people with schizospec disorders/psychosis.

I will always fight for my friends and people with schizospec disorders and psychotic symptoms because a lot of you wil see a hint that someone experiences the slightest bit of unreality or bad insight of reality and start shitting your pants.

I've been in spaces where people are discussing the harsh symptoms of their adhd, autism, depression, what have you, in active conversation. But the moment I walk in asking if I can share my own experiences with false beliefs, intrusive thoughts or moments where I couldn't tell reality from truth, almost without fail I'm met with someone saying "actually can we not." "I dont want to hear that." etc etc. It's always written so fast and frantic too. Because it's a fear responce, you're scared of what I might say or do if you dont shoot me down fast enough. You're scared of me. You're scared of them and you're scared of us and we can tell.

[crystalcanis]

Because Ive been looking into this the past couple days to write dialogue for a character of mine, I want to share;

Did u guys know that when latinos speak "broken english" we are in fact not throwing random english words around and it has gramatical rules? Like for example for the phrase "I am 26 years old." we would say it like "I have 26 years." Or for something like "I don't know anything." we might say it in double negative like "I don't know nothing."

Its called negative transfer. Essentially talking with our language's grammar but english. Fun fact!

[crystalcanis]

Something I wish I saw more of with OCD rep is showing more of the really rough parts, and I mean really really rough this could be confused for a delusion by an onlooker who doesnt understand parts.

Like what do you mean a couple days ago my brain fully convinced me all my friends want me dead. And I dont mean that in the exaggerated haha I think my friends hate me way. I mean it in the "getting close to me was all a ploy and they are all planning my murder, yes even the online ones that cant reach me" way. There's a reason OCD can get misdiagnosed as schizophrenia sometimes yall.

It sucks but I don't think I have ever related to any OCD rep that wasnt written by me. (Except maybe for Moira and Pan Un/Bound.) I know I may be biased cus mine is more harm OCD when half if not more of OCD rep is surface-level contamination, and sometimes *maybe* moral (and I have my own gripes with how some people view moral OCD. But I have seen some good rep of it in comics!), but it really does feel like people dont even want to touch the Scary Symptoms(i.e. magical thinking) or harm OCD with a large pole.

[crystalcanis]

More webcomic creators should make gifs of their characters so I can use them specifically.

[crystalcanis]

Hello! This is just a small advice from someone with OCD. I know a lot of you are doing this to be kind but you're actually playing into people's disorder in a harmful way without realizing;

Posts that shame and play on fears arent the only ones that harm. Reblogging posts reassuring people about their fears is equally As Bad. (In the likes of; "if you have done X things, its ok <3 you're not a bad person" "It's ok if you've thought about X, thoughts arent real!" "X bad thing wont happen, you are safe" etc etc)

The way OCD works as a disorder is that it inherently seeks for ways to ease anxieties. That's why its called Obsessive(distressing thoughts you cant stop thinking about) Compulsive(actions taken to ease obsession) Disorder(its really bad up in here). The compulsions only ease the anxiety for a lil bit because it makes your brain *think* you did something to make it better, but it will only come back stronger than before and make you seek that small moment of relief again. Because all it actually serves is to make yourself keep giving your obsessions attention and continue the endless cycle of obsession+compulsion.

Reassurance Seeking Compulsions are a very real thing I urge you to research! That most people with OCD have, and if they dont, they can develop it Very Easily. This is why reblogging posts reassuring about fears will only make people more distressed and fall deeper into harm. There's also a very high chance they didnt even consider they had to worry about the thing you reblogged, and now they do.

For example, one of the bad OCD spirals i've had caused by Tumblr was actually from a post (that everyone was reblogging...) that went something like "If you have used AI in the past before you realized it was bad, its ok! You didnt lose you AI virginity or something. You just didnt know and now you know better!"

1) AI virginity????? This sort of reasurance seeking is why you end up with ppl saying shit like AI virginity. 2) Oh my god I didnt even Think I had to worry about that! I wasnt worried about it until I saw the post! Now I'm left worrying about ppl who might think i'm a bad person if I ever used AI in the past, whether I even did it or not. This is an extreme but real example, hoping it illustrates the issue. But this applies to less extreme posts, too.

This is mainly OCD centric. I personally fail to see how this kind of stuff would help anyone feel better, period? but I cant speak for that. I know that my disorder is a me issue, the last thing I want is to tone police, I promise. Just if your goal specifically is to make your space safe for OCD because you have a friend or something along those lines, i hope you find this useful!

[crystalcanis]

Writing a comic about being an ethnic minority is going to be the death of me, we're barely 3 pages into the first Wings scene where I'm not holding back punches anymore and need people to sit with Noriels perspective and Kana being in the wrong for 5 seconds and its task failed instantly. So I'm going to make something clear here:

If you write something insensitive where you missed the point with flying colors I'm not going to approve your comment. The core of Wings as a story is not "a story for white people to learn about bigotry". It's for ME to explore my feelings about being an ethnic minority, and a safe space for other ethnic minorities AND racial minorities (Im no authority on being a racial minority, but to me also just ignoring racial prejudice while talking about xenophobia against latinos is being purposefully obtuse at best. So this story is for brown and Black people as well. Noriel is Literally Black and thats important. So if you're a white latino or other ethnicity, you will also not be allowed to say stupid shit.) White people can read this story and learn from it, but you have to be nice and behave because I'm not going to be your teacher so dont expect me to lol. If I ever explain anything in my descriptions is because *I* wanted to.

Kana will be lowkey insuferable at times and ur going to have to be chill with that. Real Kana fans like her because she can be insuferable and wrong ✌️