I've never visited anyone for my depression, much less taken drugs for it, so I can't comment from a position of experience...but I think if you're that unsure about going back on meds, then you shouldn't do it. I do medical transcriptions as my job, and one of my accounts is a psychiatric rehab center, and I know that some of those drugs can have strong side effects.
As for the fic thing...if I was writing an AU A/B shipper fic, and the canon show also had characters C, D, and E, and I had a little bit part or two, I would probably use C, D, or E's name and/or physiognomy for that bit part. Just because it's an AU of that fandom and I like to be inclusive. It wouldn't mean that I didn't have enought respect for C because I only gave them three lines. It would just mean I had a three line character and wanted to see C's name included in my story.
Granted, the author could have replaced driver!Teyla with, say, Jessica or Mabel and it wouldn't have made a bit of difference, but I don't think that means Tayla's being oppressed or anything. And as someone who was completely ripped into the very first time I posted a fic I wrote in a public forum, I can totally understand being on the defensive. Being attacked tends to make some people overcompensate while defending themselves, especially against something as hot-button as racism.
I hope that made sense. I've been typing all day and still have three hours of work left...at 9pm. *sigh*
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As for the fic thing...if I was writing an AU A/B shipper fic, and the canon show also had characters C, D, and E, and I had a little bit part or two, I would probably use C, D, or E's name and/or physiognomy for that bit part. Just because it's an AU of that fandom and I like to be inclusive. It wouldn't mean that I didn't have enought respect for C because I only gave them three lines. It would just mean I had a three line character and wanted to see C's name included in my story.
Granted, the author could have replaced driver!Teyla with, say, Jessica or Mabel and it wouldn't have made a bit of difference, but I don't think that means Tayla's being oppressed or anything. And as someone who was completely ripped into the very first time I posted a fic I wrote in a public forum, I can totally understand being on the defensive. Being attacked tends to make some people overcompensate while defending themselves, especially against something as hot-button as racism.
I hope that made sense. I've been typing all day and still have three hours of work left...at 9pm. *sigh*