St. Lobaf's Institute for Gifted You- wait, wrong thing

BRAINBENT THREAD
not the (very useful) subforum, the fucking amazing au by vastderp, mercurialmalcontent, rainbowbarnacle and cyruleancynic (i think??)

THIS HAS BEEN SO HELPFUL TO ME (and to a lot of people) even though i discovered it during it's hiatus and Luka appears to be posting again? Holy shit? This is amazing?

(Admittedly i'm also making this thread because i am yearning for brainbent rps)

(and maybe through this i can find other fans?

i want to rp gamzee or dave or karkat

for reasons)

ETA: I guess I should probably explain what Brainbent is maybe? i haven't finished it, entirely, yet, buuuuuuuuuuut it's a homestuck au where everyone is in mental hospital? whatever the term is, idk, in Northfield, and it's amazing.

and some characters are interns or patients or friends of patients and (tbh) i like these characterizations of the characters a lot better than some of the canon ones, sometimes (hello, gamzee)

and various events occur and yeah.

/flail

 

This is the only psychiatric ward AU I have ever liked. Both for being accurate to the wards and the characters and for being uplifting and helpful.

 

heck yes, brainbent is part of why i ended up on this forum at all.

 

CAN WE JUST APPRECIATE HOW REALISTIC ROSE AND HER MOM ARE
OKAY
I'm sorry it's just.

it's not identical to my situation and i'm not an alcoholic but just.

also karkat.

and sollux.

and everyone and /viciously flails in own thread

 

Kanaya is how I accepted I probably maybe had OCD and should go and talk about with my psychiatrist.

 

I haven't quite had a "oh shit this made me realize my brainwrong " thing but nepeta.

oh my god nepeta explained my freaking brain.

 

Like idk, nepeta's experience as an autistic person is how i have experienced a lot?
not in the same way obviously but it's made me more certain that i am, in fact, of the sperglings.

 

dude, dave is what helped me start looking at my childhood and going "oh. that wasn't okay, was it." like, i might be a way more fucked up and unhealthy person if i had never seen brainbent, really. also nepeta is like, the most relatable character ever holy shit. i can definitely say brainbent overall has made me a lot more accepting of myself.

 

i am so glad that there are other fans on here (i mean obviously)

should i ping the authors?

should i have done that in the first post?

 

:D

holy shit beardad is using a thing i said.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
(squeals)
you're so cool
sorry

 

and now to do my not so secret plot!

anyone want to do an rp with these characters (i think the authors have okayed that) eventually at some point?
with preplanning obviously?

 

That is definitely tempting!

(Also, BB!Nepeta is legit the single best portrayal of autism I've seen in fiction, ever. I nearly cried reading Spaceship because I related that hard.

...Dibs on Nepeta if we do the thing?)

 

I recently started reading brainbent and am at around mid way point
love it
s'great
also i recently did room headcanons, with canon influence and the charaacters there too

Spoiler

still psyching myself up to post it to brainbent on tumblr
because i am basically a ghost on tumblr
but yeah
brainbent woo!!!

 

omg i'm wibbling you guys are so sweet and amazing <3 <3 <3

 

ohmygosh thank you so much, reading this made a crappy day 10000% better <3<3

 

Same Hat to everyone talking about Nepeta. Reading Spaceship made me cry because I'd never realized that other people understood the way I felt when I was younger. Wanting to grow up but not wanting to do so many of the things that growing up seemed to mean to other people. Feeling like everyone else must have gotten secret lessons to learn how to act and I just missed class that day or something. I sent it to my mom early on in my wondering-if-autistic and I think it helped her understand. Thank you all so much for that.