#traumatic stuff

[archivedantiques]

,,, A horrortale Headcanon.

tw: cannibalism, trauma

Sure Sans and Papyrus eventually "recover" when they get to the surface- but healing is a rough and rocky slope, filled with vines threatening to wrap around your ankles and trip you up.

Which is why I propose an idea:

Sometimes Papyrus will be in the middle of eating something and it starts to taste like human flesh to him, so he promptly loses his appetite and has to stop himself from throwing up.

Sometimes Sans hoards food. He can't handle meat because it reminds him too much of when he was The Butcher underground. I don't actually feel like he likes intimidating people; it hurts sometimes when those who used to his best friends have turned their backs on him.

Sometimes Papyrus disassociates.

They both don't like the snow.

Both Papyrus and Sans are adverse to a specific shade of red and it will throw them into dissociative episodes or panic attacks

Because remember, everyone, trauma isn't always logical! :D

[archivedantiques]

Man am I tempted to literally just create Sans that are relatable and focus on a specific issue in out society.

Like.

A Sans who is trans but experiences dysphoria.

(talk about life struggles under the cut ig)

A Sans with a Not Good Family that he cut off because they were toxic and had to save Papyrus and is unstable with life because he doesn't know what he's doing and goddamn it he's trying! But he's too prideful to ask for help.

Aroace Sans who keeps getting erased, being told "you just haven't found your person yet!"

Just. Sans with adhd who doesn't like himself for it.

Sans with autism who berates himself for it.

Sans who struggles with how malnourished he is.

Sans who struggles with how unfit he is, but isn't motivated enough to do anything.

Fuck, Sans with burnout. Who can't do anything but people still keep pushing him because he's "fine."

Sans with extremely strict parental figures in his life.

A Sans who can and will make jokes out of his trauma but that doesn't make it any better for him and he still has trauma triggers. The more he jokes about his trauma at the moment, the more his bones are crawling and he wants to get the fuck away.

Idk, Ig I just like spreading awareness using Sanses? It's silly and fun!

[slugjehovah]

Been doing this thing called expressing the emotions that I have and allowing the reaction to be there while also trying to be healthy.

Do not recommend. It's extremely painful. Hate hate hate.

This is the only way.

[mori-jane]

I had a tab with Acid Town open for like two months and now that I've read it I realise I have been missing out on an amazing manga.

I love how it's very dark, tragic and tackles many serious issues, yet it's not explicit. Whenever yaoi manga is explicit I find myself disappointed with the plot - usually because is silly, cliched and poorly written. Some of my favourite stuff - Boys Next Door, Song of Wind and Trees, etc - is always very dark yet almost PG-13 in rating. 

Acid Town is just so awesome. So many characters, all with developed backstories, and all interconnected to the point where I feel I need a chart to keep track of who knew whom from when and where. It's so interesting to watch this plot unravel. 

Also it's unusual to see a female character with a backstory and some interesting development in a BL manga. Hisako graduated from a "woman in a refrigerator" to an actual interesting character through flashbacks, and I feel that Tsubaki will probably get more backstory later on. And while the missing pieces on Tsubaki is the story of how she became a victim (who later died and left her sons in the care of a monster - this screams meek and passive, though it does go against the established character for her, as she was shown to be quite tough and independent when younger), Hisako, on the other hand, is actively taking part in her own destruction. I think that kind of deconstruct the trope in a cool way. The whole awfulness with "women in refrigerators" is that it's a female who is maimed or killed for the sole purpose of male character development. I think if a female character was actually doing things and it was her own actions that lead to her demise, she does not qualify as a "WiR", even if her trauma/death caused anguish and char development for a man. Because, you know, she had her own storyline, passed a Mako Mori test and everything (instead of the "sexy lamp" test. Gotta love the sexy lamp test). 

So Hisako's backstory is absolutely horrifying - somehow more horrifying than the other characters even (I wonder if it's because I as a reader identify with her more easily or because it's not romanticised in any way). But yay for her being so badass. While her brother was basically worried about senpai not noticing him, she carried around a knife in her pocket and plotted to take revenge for her family since the age of 11, all the while keeping a perfect poker face.

However, with the scanlation catching up to the current release and new chapters coming up very rarely and always being short, AT seems like a very painful series to be a fan of. I wonder what's it like for Japanese mangakas - are they obligated to complete the story they have started or can they drop it if they become bored? 

[tashastarks-blog]

back from my trip from hell~

I was 7 minutes away from Andrew.