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One's sweet and one's a little minty!

Actually, they have the capacity to be both.

🍫An art card for February/Valentine’s Day for all $10+ tiers on Patreon! 🍃* +

(*I might have these up for sale via Patreon if I can figure out their new shop thing.)

(+A reminder that I have a one time buy over on Kofi for all already existing Patreons under the $10 Honorary Sticker Club tier if you’d like anything you see listed for the month, but don’t want to deal with Patreon’s system/change your monthly amount)

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Creating the content i want to see in the world: more sleepy derek hale :] a wolf burrito. worrito. wolfarrito.

we'll workshop it.

Also to further my Stiles' erratic taste in music (previous: 1 / 2) headcanon, he's listening to:

Which is another had-it-on-repeat-for-days kinda song for me, what can I say! it slaps. also recommend Bobby, huge earworm.

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Before i dive further into my playlist for stiles, i bring you a brief shitpost - in my heart derek is a soft rock / country girlie who listens to drengr of ragnarok (power metal, but specifically the melodic, chanting variety with a lot of repetition) when he works out ♥️

Bonus stiles:

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My subspecialty, i guess you could call it, is chronic pain - i did my master's thesis on sleep disorders in patients with chronic pain - so i've got a LOT of thoughts about the concept of 'stealing pain' in teen wolf.

The current definition of pain is

"an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage"

because pain is not purely a physical phenomenon, it's an experience not necessarily tied to any physical damage.

Of course you can delve into the different types of pain and argue that nociceptive and neuropathic pain is due to biochemical triggers (inflammation/tissue damage and nerve damage, respectively) as opposed to nociplastic pain - but even those are heavily modulated by how we perceive them.

In one of my psych classes we were shown a powerful example: In a segment from a local news station a lady had won a competition and as a reward she got a handful of minutes to 'empty out' a kitchen supply store - after all the excitement was done and she was being interviewed post-haul, suddenly a bystander points out that she's standing in a large puddle of blood. She'd dropped a knife into her foot at some point, resulting in a quite large gash. She'd felt nothing until someone pointed it out - endorphins, adrenaline, the works. (She was immediately attended to and recovered completely).

Studies show that pain perception increases dramatically in young, healthy subjects who were sleep-deprived even just for 24 hrs, and in the same vein stress, anxiety and distress also increases pain perception.

So where does that leave the idea of stealing pain in teen wolf? Rather than taking a physical representation of 'pain', maybe it's more stealing the perception of pain, the fear and distress?

Kind of a romantic notion, isn't it?

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Wolf moon

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Stiles loses a bet.

(A Patreon request!)

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art by @miakagrewup for the Sterek Everlasting Winter 2024 Edition, featuring fics and more art from the talented Sterek community!

You can read the magazine online here.

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art by @aredblush  for the Sterek Everlasting Winter 2024 Edition, featuring fics and more art from the talented Sterek community!

You can read the magazine online here.

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art by @plasmabear for the Sterek Everlasting Winter 2024 Edition, featuring fics and more art from the talented Sterek community!

You can read the magazine online here.

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art by @batwynn for the Sterek Everlasting Winter 2024 Edition, featuring fics and more art from the talented Sterek community!

You can read the magazine online here.

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Derek: Listen, I know Stiles is unhinged, responsible for multiple atrocities, and a danger to himself and others. But have you ever considered that he is tiny and mean and I love him?

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When it’s a super serious moment in the comic but you still draw Derek with that peach.

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Winter Sterek card for Patreons

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Derek revealing animal secrets one by one every time after he shifts back from full wolf but to Stiles' horror, he takes no questions

Derek: oh yeah, all animals understand everything humans say, they just choose not to

Stiles: WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY CHOOSE NOT TO??? DO THE DEER THINK I'M DUMB, DEREK??? DO THE FISH LAUGH AT ME

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One big honkin update.

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and like, I Do think that Peter Hale being involved in basketball rather than theatre in high school probably made his eventual descent into madness just a little bit worse. I do, I think that. maybe if he'd just auditioned for the lead role of a poorly produced musical when he was fifteen, he'd be doing soliloquies on stage where he belongs, instead of At Teenagers.

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The Hale House