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gentle somno ... sliding yourself inside me while i feel super sleepy and i can't do much besides gasp softly and let you do as you please. even though you know i can't fight you, you still grab onto my hips with the slightest bit of pressure and thrust gently into me over and over again. i whine and moan ever so sweetly, fighting both my sleepiness and the overwhelming pleasure that you're giving me until you hold my mouth shut and tell me to simply go back to sleep. we both know that it's not that easy, yet i still try and end up falling asleep to the feeling of you filling my insides as i deserve🩶

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vampire who drinks from my neck while i’m sitting on her lap with my back to her so i can feel her get hard as her cock fills up with my blood and once she’s full and i’m dizzy she fucks me until i pass out (and even after i’m unconscious)

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Strange Bird

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labs that are also churches. to me

(1. annie dillard, teaching a stone to talk 2. the deep underground neutrino experiment, a.k.a. DUNE 3. the large hadron collider 4. the sudbury neutrino observatory)

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first day as a second century warlord i have my men tie branches to their horses’ tails to stir up dust and make it look like there’s a lot of us but i forget it just rained so there isn’t any dust and the enemy can clearly see there’s like twenty of us all spread out in a line

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I've been thinking for a long time whether to take new suits or last year's and decided to choose the second option to show the contrast in their relationship over the past time 🦊🦊

They also decided that Neil doesn't need makeup this year 💪🏻

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i recently found out the funniest thing about big horses recently which is that for centuries humans have sworn that the feathering on big horse’s legs has been bred in there for a reason, and the reason given is usually something to do with how it helps keep the joints warm and safe when the big horse is doing hauling work in fields.

the thing is: it doesn’t appreciably do that, because the feathers wick up water and mud, which cancels out any insulation advantage they might hypothetically confer, and also it wasn’t even put there on purpose.

the Leg Get More Hair gene is just linked to the Bones Get More Big gene. when you breed any lineage of horses to have bigger bones–not just taller, but chunkier–the leg hair just happens anyway. so every single breed of draft horse has feathered legs, and even carriage horses like friesians get feathers once they hit a certain threshold of lorge.

when you supersize your horse, mother nature throws in a free pair of booties. how cool is that?

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Had a dream that wizards of the coast replaced elves, dwarves, gnomes and halflings with a sort of giant cannibalistic frog, and their section of the players handbook took up 800 pages

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it could mean something, it could mean everything

Keep reading

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Mary Oliver, In an Interview by Krista Tippett

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when gansey called declan a manwhore……..GKLDFJGJDFSLJLJKFLGKJFJKLLJKLJKDFGLKJFKLJDFKLJDG 

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sketches for skater AU inspired by this headcanon on Twitter

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Onion and Garlic

oil

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Got some comments about the Fuck Shit Up-jacket, so I present to you: Aziraphale Goes Fucking Feral.

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Things to keep in mind when you write about stuff that happens in a dystopian desert wasteland

Most of a character’s clothing will be to protect them from the sun during the day. Even if it’s balls hot, you need to be protected from sun damage. No matter your skin tone, enough sun exposure WILL burn you.

They’ll also have to dress in layers to keep warm at night because the temp drops harshly in the desert when the sun goes down. I mean seriously, you could freeze to death. It’s cold at night.

Resting in the shade at midday is a good idea to both conserve energy and bodily fluids. Sweating has a cost, hydration.

A good 70% of what a character will be thinking about is water. Don’t drink enough, you die.

Anything is food if you’re hungry enough. That can go a lot of dark places but sadly it’s true.

Speaking of “everything is food” after long enough without anything to eat, your body will start eating itself.

Always toast the hair off tarantulas before eating them. The hairs are an irritant they use as a defense mechanism and they can brush off their abdomen hairs onto you if you mess with them.

Do. Not. Eat. Lizards. Raw. Lizards carry all sorts of parasites transmissible to humans. It will not be a good time. Cook them thoroughly.

Sand gets into everything. Everyone in the desert has a sandy buttcrack.

Screaming at the sun/moon occasionally is fine, just don’t go overboard and piss them off.

Head bobbing at monitor lizards is a pretty good stress reducer.

Avoid rocks that look kinda shaped like a human face. That’s probably not a rock.

Don’t talk to rocks.

Chatting up scorpions is fine from a distance.

Don’t sleep in the open.

This got weird fast.

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Demystifying the DSM-V: PTSD

Alright.  Time for a heavy topic.

First off, for these disorders, your character needs to have gone through a traumatic event (or multiple ones).

Note - there are two different sets of criteria for PTSD.  One is for adults and children older than six; the other is for children 6 years and under.

These are the adult criteria:

A trauma is defined as being exposed to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence, in one or more of the following ways:

Directly experiencing it

Witnessing in person the trauma as it happened to someone else

Learning that the trauma happened to a close family member or friend. If the person dying or nearly dying is the traumatic event, it has to have been violent or accidental

The character has been repeatedly and excessively exposed to awful details of traumatic events.  This is typically seen in first responders, police officers investigating child abuse, etc.

So your character has, in some way, been through something pretty hellish. What comes next? As I discussed in one of my earliest posts, not everyone going through a traumatic event gets PTSD.  There are a lot of factors involved.

But your character is one of the unlucky ones.

There are few clusters of symptoms the character needs to have experienced some of to get a diagnosis of PTSD.

Intrusion (1 or more of the following):

Repeated, unwanted, inescapable and extremely stressful memories of the trauma

Frequent nightmares about or similar to the trauma

In children above 6, the nightmares may not seem related

Dissociative reactions / Flashbacks - the character feels or acts as if the trauma is happening again.  Flashbacks range from relatively mild to severe (to the point where the character loses all awareness of their present surroundings)

Children above 6 might reenact the trauma in play

Severe stress when the character is exposed to internal or external cues that are similar to the trauma

An example would be someone who nearly died in a car crash freaking out when riding in a car and someone slammed on the brakes.

Bodily reactions to internal or external cues that are similar to the trauma

Such as someone’s heart pounding and feeling like they’re going to pass out when they’re being followed

Avoidance (1 or both of the following):

The character avoids (or tries to avoid) memories, thoughts, or feelings related to the trauma.

The character avoids (or tries to avoid) external reminders (such as people, places, objects, situations) of the trauma.

Negative Cognition / Mood (2 or more of the following):

The character can’t remember an important part of the trauma 

The character has enduring, strong negative beliefs / expectations about people, the world, or themselves

Ex - “No one can be trusted,” “I’m tainted goods,” “I am a bad person”

The character’s thoughts about what caused or resulted from the trauma are distorted, leading the character to blame themselves or others

“It’s all my fault - I brought this on myself”, “This would never have happened to me if you hadn’t…”

Persistent negative emotional state (fear, horror, anger, guilt, shame)

The character can’t experience positive emotions, such as happiness, or love

The character isn’t as interested in activities they used to like

The character feels distant or estranged from others

Arousal and Reactivity (Not that kind of arousal. Seen through 2 or more):

The character is irritable and angry

This can be seen through verbal or physical aggression towards people or objects

The character is reckless and self-destructive

Hypervigilance - see my post here!

Exaggerated startle response - when the character is surprised, they flip out

Problems concentrating

Trouble sleeping / insomnia

All of these symptoms have to have been experienced by the character for more than 1 month.

These symptoms cause the character stress and seriously makes their life more difficult.

PTSD for children under 6

Alright, now PTSD for children 6 or younger is slightly different.

A trauma in this case is defined as being exposed to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence, in one or more of the following ways:

Directly experiencing it

Witnessing in person the trauma as it happened to someone else, especially caregivers

Learning that the trauma happened to a parent or caregiving figure.

Again, there are clusters of symptoms required.

Intrusion (1 or more of the following):

Repeated, unwanted, inescapable memories of the trauma

These memories may not always appear distressing, and may be shown through play reenactment of the trauma.

Frequent nightmares that may or may not be related to the trauma

Dissociative reactions / Flashbacks - the character feels or acts as if the trauma is happening again.  Flashbacks range from relatively mild to severe (to the point where the character loses all awareness of their present surroundings)

Children above 6 might reenact the trauma in play

Severe stress when the character is exposed to internal or external cues that are similar to the trauma

Bodily reactions to internal or external cues that are similar to the trauma

One or more of Avoidance OR Negative Cognition / Mood 

The character avoids (or tries to avoid) activities, places, or physical reminders of the trauma.

The character avoids (or tries to avoid) people, conversations, or social interactions that remind them of the trauma

The character is much more frequently in a bad or sad mood

The character isn’t interested in activities they previously liked, or don’t play very much

They’re withdrawn socially

They don’t seem to experience positive emotions frequently

Arousal and Reactivity (Not that kind of arousal. Seen through 2 or more):

The character is irritable and angry, resulting in extreme temper tantrums

Hypervigilance - see my post here!

Exaggerated startle response - when the character is surprised, they flip out

Problems concentrating

Trouble sleeping / insomnia

All of these symptoms have to have been experienced by the character for more than 1 month.

These symptoms cause the character stress and seriously makes their relationships with others strained.

There are a couple specifiers for both types.  First, the character may have dissociative symptoms - specifically depersonalization and/or derealization (see my post here!)

You also need to specify if the PTSD had a delayed expression - meaning that all the criteria were not met until at least 6 months after the trauma.