#Sadnesses

[beneathsilverstars]

been thinking about headcanons for how sadnesses work. they’re made out of solid craft, which can have a variety of physical properties, but is generally grouped into five categories of material. a sadness will be composed of several if not all of these materials, but each craft type has a material it tends towards a greater proportion of. this contributes to its type advantage and disadvantage.

hard craft - favored by scissors types - sharp but brittle. think bone or glass. it’s pointy and smooth and hard to get a grip on, but when it breaks it cracks and shatters. it tends to act as carapace or skeleton.

semi-hard craft - favored by rock types - strong but somewhat malleable. think metal. it can hit hard and it’s difficult to even scratch, but it’s easier to bend out of shape, and with enough bending you can break it. it tends to act as skeleton or limbs.

semi-soft craft - favored by paper types - flexible but soft. think rubber or fabric. it’s very maneuverable and can bend with a force and then back into place, but it’s easy to cut into. it tends to act as limbs or muscle.

soft craft - stretchy but weak. think dough. it’s easy to slice or pull or squish, but it bounces right back unless you tear it off entirely. it tends to act as muscle or skin.

liquid craft - adaptable but flimsy. think slime or honey. it’s hard to truly alter because it flows and reforms easily, but it can’t affect anything else very much either. it tends to act as clothes, hair, or tears.

a person can use their innate craft energy to absorb some of the impact of an attack, and the way it does so reflects their craft type. craft attacks and defenses aren’t made of a solid material the same way sadnesses are; they seem more like light or gas or electricity. but, they take on properties of solid matter when you interact with them, sort of like how oobleck seems liquid but then acts solid when you smack it. alternatively, craft can be channeled through a physical object and amplify its properties instead.

[roguecanoe]

Waiting

[vastingedachten]

De ongrijpbaarheid van geluk en verdriet…

Geluk en verdriet zijn als eb en vloed; ze komen en gaan, in een ritme dat we allemaal herkennen. Geluk vult je hart met licht, een sprankeling die je even laat zweven. Maar soms dooft die sprankeling langzaam uit door de uitdagingen van het leven.

Verdriet voelt dan weer zwaar, als een donkere wolk die alles vertroebelt. Het lijkt eindeloos, maar ook verdriet heeft zijn tijd. Net zoals wolken uiteindelijk altijd wijken voor de zon.

Hoe verschillend ze ook zijn, geluk en verdriet hebben één ding gemeen: ze zijn tijdelijk. Ze herinneren ons eraan dat het leven altijd in beweging is. Geluk leert ons genieten van wat er ís, terwijl verdriet ons kracht geeft om door te gaan.

Het leven is een spel van licht en schaduw, en juist die wisselwerking maakt het écht. Omarm beide, want zonder schaduw zou je het licht niet zien.

Van. Mij.

[annikamaja8-blog]

"rage was a wild heat that rose out of the base of my spine and through my belly, and I punched those rotting boards until my knuckles were raw, the tears erupting out of me"

Indian Horse, Richard Wagamese

[smellslikeputrefaction]

[gorgo4ne]

"Useless ray of goddamn sunshine. You could have taught an old fool like me a lot."

Referenced Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1885)

[rafeandonlyrafe]

well 🧍‍♀️ as a reminder this blog is NOT a safe space for trump supporters but it IS a safe place for women, queers, trans ppl, people of color, undocumented people, and any marginalized group.

[sleeplessv0id]

what doesn't kill you makes you weird at intimacy

[tibetanquaaludes]

no way daily mail posted this expecting people not to find it funny as hell

[beneathsilverstars]

i heard we're doing sadness sonas?

mine is called accablé which means overwhelmed/overburdened, bc i'm always totally fine for quite a while until one last straw tips me into total breakdown and then suddenly i can't stand any sort of noise or interaction. since stars are already taken as a motif i did diamonds instead. and i gave myself my platforms teehee.

my kid is frustrée because being five years old is very frustrating! people keep bossing you around and you're old enough to know why but that just makes it even worse, that you know they're right. i asked her what type she'd be and she said scissors, which seems appropriate that i'd be weak to her attacks, lol.

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[soul-from-another-era]

Unconditional love isn't a free pass to hurt me.

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

I think one of the kindest things you can do for people with various mental health struggles is just... let people back into your life after they've been absent for a while.

Making friends as an adult is so fucking hard already and isolating yourself from other people is a very common symptom of depression, anxiety, burnout, ocd, trauma, grief, etc. Which means that someone will do the hard work of recovery/healing and resurface back into a world where their previous friends have written them off because they stopped showing up.

So if you know someone where you're like "yeah we could have been better friends but they fell off the map a bit" and that person suddenly reaches out, or starts showing up to events even though you kind of forgot they were still in the group chat... well they may have been Going Through It and you don't actually have to punish them for their absence you can just be glad that they're back.