#Long-Term Wellness

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[bigfatbreak]

What does Marinette think of all these changelings and people touched by them?

in honesty, she hasn't really known a life without really weird stuff happening in the background. Nothing that's enough to get on the news, but enough for hearsay and local rumors at the counter. It didn't used to be this magical, though...

as though over a decade ago, someone opened a door,

and never closed it.

[vaguely-concerned]

rook falling asleep on the red couch in the lighthouse dining room while lucanis is making dinner....... they were helping out by keeping him company and peeling and chopping potatoes for a while there but then the potatoes are done and the room is so safe and warm and smells like coffee and good food and lucanis is trying to explain something to spite and his voice is low and soft and good to listen to and rook's eyes only slip closed for a moment. they'll get up to save the world again or whatever in a second just. one moment. while the world is warm and kind. and then they're being shaken gently awake an hour later because it's time to eat and everyone's starting to drift hopefully dinner-wards

[thegodthief]

I'm only a couple of hours into South Of Midnight, and what I can tell you is that this is a Black game for a Black audience. And I say that with care and attention. That conversation between Hazel and her mother in the first fifteen minutes is a conversation between me and my mother, between my sister and her kids, between my aunties and my cousins.

There are certain distinctions that other folks may have observed because of their friends, but many of those distinctions are not portrayed positively on mainstream television, if they are portrayed at all.

My (adult) daughter watched over my shoulder and once I got into the actual gameplay, we both lamented that the game is likely going to be attacked for not centering a certain demographic.

And then when we got to meeting Bunny (she doesn't deserve that other name, tbh, even if it's the more correct one)... I turned to my daughter and said, "Welcome to the Deep South," as she stared at the screen in shock.

"You mean, it's not just a stereotype."

"No, Mija, this is life."

I anticipate many hounddogs hollering because there's no dodging that hit.

Having said all that... I really did not think myself worthy of playing the game for all the reasons I laid out above these words. I struggle with blackness, and accepting if I'm "black enough". That first conversation between Hazel and her mother? Hazel took the words from my life.

And then when the "strings" started to show up....

That's when I understood why my mutuals and followers were so keen to tell me about the game when the preview first dropped last year. You all saw something that I have struggled to see.

You all saw me.

Thank you.

[laser-tripwires]

really appreciate the full canon confirmation of the likely reason that eliot has dated so many doctors and nurses. aka he keeps meeting people in the ER. it's great.

[zecoritheweirdone]

wanna preface this by saying that i am. So normal. anyway i just spent the last week redrawing scenes from mystery skulls animated but as that hermitcraft au i posted about a couple times. you guys should watch msa it is. so so good.

[chimerafeathers]

i know we love to rag on Siffrin for feeling so miserably guilty and manipulative for the crime of [checks notes] “doing nice things for their friends so that they’ll be happy and care about him even if it’s not perfectly sincere on his end”

but like. in context i don’t think that thought process is anywhere near as nonsensical as it always sounds written out like that

i’m sure i’m just stating the obvious here but it’s not really about the “crime” of making people happy. it’s about what he’s not doing, which is anything that would allow their friends to have any real knowledge or agency over the situation they’re all in.

it’s about never acting according to his real feelings in the moment and letting them see the messier version of him that exists now, never allowing their relationships to evolve or develop meaningfully beyond the “safest” iteration, the thing that is Known and produces the Correct Results, because anything else has the possibility of leading to negative emotions towards Siffrin.

Siffrin knows he’s not really doing all this for their benefit, not entirely, because the “right” thing to do would give them the full context to choose how they feel and what to do about it. they’re happy, but in a way they don’t get to keep. they’re happy, but in a way that keeps Siffrin safe from anything more complex and real. they’re happy, but only because some Siffrin in the past said the right things once, and this new, bitter, lonely, desperate version wouldn’t know how to get the “correct result” without a script to follow. they’re happy, and it was real once, it meant something once, but not anymore.

they cared about that Siffrin, yes, but would they still care about this one, if they knew? if Siffrin ever allowed them to know? (he won’t, he can’t, he refuses.)

and there’s something that could have been said in favor of Siffrin allowing himself this “selfishness” if it made him happy anyway, if it could be a genuine source of comfort in a difficult situation—but it doesn’t! not really! because that guilt is there, because that fear is there, because of how flimsy it all inevitably feels.

so they’re not doing it for their family’s benefit, because that happiness is predicated on lies and ignorance. he’s barely doing it for his own benefit, because they’re torturing themself by revealing things they no longer want to reveal, concealing things they no longer want to conceal, acting out of fear of rejection rather than genuine desire for connection. who benefits from this hollow “kindness,” really?

that’s why the last loop had to be the ugliest one. Siffrin had to see that the worst could happen and there could still be love and connection on the other side. that even when the party sees the worst of him, when they have the agency he’s been knowingly denying them, they will still choose to love him.

[superbat-lmao]

Bruce gets hit with a spell that makes his outward appearance reflect how he thinks of himself.

Most of the JL is stunned, his kids are unruffled because at least his consciousness is in his own body, and Clark realizes a couple of things about himself.

[journey-to-the-attic]

the rest of the cast got their new song covers, so i wanted to try putting the others in a band :>

i did want to make it look a bit like an album cover but i have no idea how those are designed so eh?? i also couldn't think of any band or album/song names so. if anyone has any ideas...

[requinum]

My only clear thought is how can I withdraw from the attempted suicide of having known him?

-Those who stand for nothing fall for everything

[anghraine]

It's wild to me that I had heard of the prime Kirk/Spock content in various TOS episodes long before I saw them, but had never heard of what IMO is the shippiest moment of all thus far, in an interestingly O_o goddamn I do not want whatever you two have but you do you?? holy shit though what a moment way.

I'm of course referring to the otherwise rather mid episode "Requiem for Methuselah," in which Kirk has an underwritten love affair with a clueless woman whose various secrets have to be discovered before her inevitable death.

At one point in this relationship, her.......uh, guardian??? sort of???????? had Spock play the piano while she and Kirk waltzed, which (in-story) Spock did perfectly while somehow managing to silently exude even more intensity than usual. After the plot (and her life) were over, we end not with the usual cheerful bit of snark on the bridge that ends most episodes, but with a weary Kirk falling asleep with his head on his arms and Spock hovering not for away. McCoy exposits the last bit of detail and then goes on an unprompted and honestly pretty viciously racist speech about how Spock, unlike Kirk, will never suffer from the joys and travails of love because of his inherent lack of feeling as a Vulcan. The speech is longer than usual and just really mean-spirited as McCoy waxes rhapsodic about all the aspects of passionate true love that Spock will not and cannot experience as a Vulcan before he just leaves.

Spock then turns to look at Kirk, and now just bleeding intensity, takes a few slow, deliberate steps towards the sleeping Kirk, lays his hand against Kirk's cheek and neck, and then very obviously mind melds with the sleeping Kirk while murmuring, "Forget."

Is this healthy respectful behavior that honors Kirk's autonomy? No, obviously. Is it god-tier repressed homoerotic passion between two people who should probably just work their issues out and stop inflicting themselves on anyone else? Yes.

[clarabosswald]

unlike other hostages, who were released home for in-community treatment after short stays at the hospital, hisham al-sayed was transferred to a locked ward at a psychiatrist hospital last week.

his father, shaaban, said that before hisham's kidnapping by hamas, he used to be perfectly communicative. "his [schizophrenia] was mainly characterized by his inability to make decisions like a healthy person, but apart from that he had no problem with communication." now, hisham doesn't speak.

"i'm unwell, i feel much worse than before, when my son was in captivity," shaaban said. "every time i sit with him, i have to go away and have a little break. it's very difficult. and hisham's state is even worse, he's still unable to communicate, and there are a lot of issues other than that. "we don't know what he's been through there, where he was held or what they did to him, he can't tell us, but i'm sure nobody spoke with him for years, and that he was held alone for a long time, like an animal. it's the worst abuse for the soul."

shaaban adds, "at first we thought that maybe he'll be stabilized and able to be released home. when he was hospitalized [in the regular hospital] i thought a week or two will pass and his condition will improve, but that didn't happen. we're hoping that in a few weeks' time he'll improve, but the doctors are saying that it'll take time until we see improvement."

he says he'd never imagined that his son would reach such a state. "he's completely wiped out. physically he's relatively okay, but his soul is done for. the first time we met he didn't react, he couldn't understand the situation, he didn't know where he is and where he came back from."

via haaretz

[seagreenstardust]

Izuku being oblivious to all the ways he deserves love and therefore oblivious to the love the people around him show him is so real though

And Katsuki being the only one to finally get him to understand that he is loved is THE hill I will die on

Just like Kats was the only one who could make Izuku stop running from Class 1A, he gets Izu in a way no one else ever will and that is canon

[thirteenth-sword]

not really sure what you were expecting there, sabo

but why are sabo and law in jail together? why is sabo dressed like a doctor? is the handcuff on law's arm made of seastone? find out all this and more in LJ's newest slawbo fic!!! GO READ IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!

[arolesbianism]

Been working on some first run Chou sprites for funsies, here’s a handful of the ones I’ve done so far