I've gotten some dms asking if I'm okay after this week's posts.
The honest answer is that writing is one of the ways I've always processed the world. Most of what I've been posting this week wasn't really about games. Games were just the setting.
What I was actually writing about was how we treat each other.
What happens when entire groups of people get reduced to stereotypes instead of being treated like individuals.
Living with chronic illness probably shapes how I see all of this more than people realize. Illness teaches you very quickly what it feels like to be misunderstood, dismissed, underestimated, spoken over, or treated like your experience doesn't count.
It also teaches you that pain is not a license to become cruel.
Some days suck more than others. That doesn't give us permission to stop treating people like human beings.
I write because I'm looking for my people. Not people who agree with me about everything.
People who value nuance.
People who can disagree without dehumanizing each other.
People who understand that strength, kindness, self awareness, and accountability belong together.
If some of them find me through gaming, that's perfectly fine too.