Support Group

[dontcryformememetina]

 

Per Wikipedia:

In a support group, members provide each other with various types of help, usually nonprofessional and nonmaterial, for a particular shared,
usually burdensome, characteristic. The help may take the form of providing and evaluating relevant information, relating personal
experiences, listening to and accepting others' experiences, providing sympathetic understanding and establishing social networks. A support
group may also work to inform the public or engage in advocacy.

And now you know. And knowing's half the battle.

○ Post with a character.

○ Unlike most memes, you'd probably be better off by providing a general theme for people to respond to. You know, have your subject or post read "People who got turned into animals in their respective games" or "Time travelers and keeping the space/time continuum intact."

○ Respond to other people and support them through their trials and tribulations.

NOTE: While you're welcome to post whatever the hell you want, if you delve into triggery whatnot (i.e. abuse, suicide, things which tend to actually evoke real life support groups and therapy) please label your posts with a nice and blatant warning so someone who was looking for Time Travelers Anonymous doesn't accidentally stumble into your suicide thread instead.

Comments

Vampire Support Group/Being a Vampire Is Awesome Group

[scarlet_devil]

[ A twofer. All those broody woe-is-me vampires need to be shown it isn't so bad being one, after all! ]

My Father Absolutely Despises Me And My Family Is Fucked Up

[largeshadow]

{ ooc: trigger warnings for talk of verbal abuse and lots of unhealthy sexual attitudes, and... let's be honest probably talk of incest. }

[keepgodwaiting]

My sister seems like she got out all right. Can't figure out how. I guess our da just hated me more than he hated her.

[largeshadow]

I'm sorry to hear that. Father certainly favored my siblings over me. It doesn't help that birthing me killed Mother.

If your sister got out all right, what about how you got out? If you have.

[keepgodwaiting]

[ Johanna's eyebrows go up before she smiles humorlessly. ]

Oh, you too? What a club to be a member of.

I don't suppose either of us would be here if we got out all right, right? But I have gotten out -- have you?

[largeshadow]

I thought I had gotten out well enough, but then here I am. Perhaps not as well as I might like.

[ He manages a more sincere smile. ] We're alive, though. That's something. I find it far more preferable to death.

[holdshisown]

Well... one half of it is true in any case, I don't think there's a more fucked up family than mine among my people. Though, now that I come to think of it, my last argument with my father didn't exactly convey any great wellspring of affection on either of our parts.

[largeshadow]

There is but one family in the realm that could safely be considered more fucked up than House Lannister. [ Shoutout to House Targaryen. ] That isn't necessarily a brag, however.

[holdshisown]

No, mostly it tends to be both embarrassing and depressing to be able to claim your family is... unable to function properly. I mean, who want's to be that guy who's family stories tends to cause uncomfortable silences every time it's his turn to share one.

[dreamflowers]

My father hated me so much, he tried to kill me.

Then again, he might not have been my real father. It would explain a lot.

[largeshadow]

My father oft loved to accuse me of not being his. He could never prove it, and so he was forced to endure my presence.

I'm not certain he outright tried to kill me, though I don't think he would've been terribly disappointed if he'd managed to outlive me. Fortunately for me, I killed him first.

[dreamflowers]

Hm. Mine never could quite prove it, either. Though the fact that I looked nothing like my parents -- beyond my mother's ears -- seemed to be evidence enough for him.

[Genetic science isn't very well grasped among the common people. Unlikely as it is, the possibility of her traits coming from distance lineages just never occurred to her.]

Nevertheless, a piss poor excuse for ever treating a child that way.

If nothing else, my actions are what got him killed. But they did end up getting the rest of my family killed as well. [A consequence she clearly takes no pride in.] If I could go back, I'd have killed him myself, too.

[coldsong]

Well, the latter is absolutely par for the course in noble and royal families, I'm afraid. One's mileage may vary on the first bit.

My biological father certainly despised me. The fact that I killed him probably didn't help.

I'm still not clear on my adoptive father's feelings. He did profess love for my brother and me on his deathbed, but we all knew which of us was his favorite. Ultimately, I think I was too much like him for him to like me.

[largeshadow]

[ So much of this mirrors his own life, except that Tyrion only has his birth father and not an adoptive one. It's kind of uncanny, and catches him off guard. But ultimately, he's sort of amused. ]

Perhaps this should also be a group for those who've killed their fathers. My father's deathbed was the privy, however, and there was no last-minute confession of his love or pride for me before I buried a crossbow bolt in him.

He refused to see our similarities and tried to deny that I was his son, but he could never prove it.

[coldsong]

Mnn...in point of fact, I'm responsible for the adoptive one's death, as well, only that was a complete accident. [He frowns, more pensive than guilty, but a little of both emotions in his face.] I meant to bind his power temporarily. I never dreamed he'd struggle so hard to break the spell that he'd exhaust himself to death.

Laufey, on the other hand, I intended to slay from the moment I set eyes on him. I wish I'd thought to kill him in a privy, that's a brilliant joke. [If a somewhat grim one.] He abandoned me in the snow as an infant; he had it coming.

Sorry yours was such a waste as a parent, though. [Compassion isn't his strong suit, but that seems to be sincere.] Did you know your mother at all?

Raised by a Psychopath

[monstermanual]

... it's not like she ever got any kind of official diagnosis, okay.

Undead and Living-Deficient

[graveling]

Oh, come off it with that euphemism. We're just corpses that walk.

[thrashingdragon]

Living-Deficient? Is that what it's called now?

[graveling]

It's fucking not. Whoever wrote the sign's just too much of a wimp to say things straight. Anyone who tries to call me 'living deficient' is bound to get punched for it. Like...has to have been someone alive; I don't know no one like us who gets squeamish about the what of what we are.

[thrashingdragon]

You seem to have some strong ass feelings about this.

Parentified children support group

[holdshisown]

I'll have you know it was all fathers fault, mother was a very good parent to all of us. It wasn't her fault seven children and a husband who can't act his age is too much for any one person to deal with.

No Direction In Life, No Life Plans.

[infinite1ups]

Somehow I feel called out.

Ken Support Group. A support group for Kens.

[occupationbeach]

[ It's for Kens. ]

Brainwashed & Manipulated Club

[counterstep]

...Jesus.

Daycare for those who literally cannot stop flirting. Please go bother each other. Thank you.

[unrequite]

Hey.