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Starlight Studio

The StarWhispers official blog. Resources and reflections to help bring your stories to life, publish your own work, and build your own platforms as we share the methods used to create our own.

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split image with a diagonal stripe showing the same blonde person in two contrasting looks: left side lit in green with more natural makeup, the diagonal stripe in vivid purple and blue lighting with glowing crystal crown and luminous face paint. Overlaid text reads, “The Fairytale Apocalypse That Healed My Medical Trauma” and “full story on starwhispers.”

How misdiagnosis, pickles, and LARPing changed my life.

With never-before-seen photos of Az's LARP origins.
​In 2014, I went to see a psychiatrist in Beverly Hills, California. I had just decided to take a break from art school, which was scary, and I was having anxiety. I wanted to take acting lessons, which really weren’t helped by the anxiety.

That psychiatrist prescribed me an anti-psychotic.

If you’re thinking, “Wow, that seems extreme,” you’d be right. You may also be thinking “If you have no form of psychosis, that doesn’t seem good.”
And you’d be right again.

Authors

Trystan (Azrai) has been fabricating and designing themed narrative entertainment since 2016. Lou has a BA in game design and has extensive art & hospitaly experience. Together they create worlds, aim to make storytelling more accessible, and give artists autonomy over their own work.