#Something something trauma

[deceit-and-knowledge]

You sure truthless? Because you look semi-uncomfortable with un-preened wings

🛡️anon

t: I'm always uncomfortable..

I don't care about my wings being "un-preened"

[thatwrestlingnerd]

There it is. The second OC starts relaxing around his new friends they get decimated by people specifically beefing with him.

(I see you being absolutely feral out of the gate when you jumped Jericho, sir.)

[eemoo1o-sunnyoo]

I wonder if the Waitress’ name is actually Bonnie, which is why Charlie’s obsession with her started.

[tawnysoup]

Finally now that the comic is fully public on comicfury, I get to share it with all of you here, too <3

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[evidently-endless]

i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.

[foreverandalwaysvictorious]

I would like to know why my first reaction to people at work asking me for something is TO CRY

[landscaping-your-mind]

but also literally god even the one person who is like "wow kid if you literally do not care if you live or die while doing this then stop doing this" isn't helping? at all?

[aciddrattboyy]

theres something to be said about how i have a habit of accompanying smut with angst in my writing...

[mumblingsage]

I'm wondering if, as a society who cares about vulnerable people, we could stop saying "traumatize" when we truly mean "upset"?

I am sick of hearing sad books or movies "traumatize" their readers. I simply do not believe that happens. A traumatic experience might be adjacent to books (I have vivid memories of books I was reading around certain experiences and even how the contents of those books affected my processing of the experiences). But it's not caused by the book. And, y'know. The weather is Christofascist Censorship Attempts outside.

Meanwhile from the other side I continue to be surprised at just how badly people fail to understand trauma and traumatic experiences in general. Watering down the term isn't helping. Find other hyperbole to express that The Bridge to Terebithia gutted you, chewed on your heartstrings, and made you cry your first pair of contact lenses right out of your preteen eyes.

(ETA here although it's impossible to edit reblogs: over the months since this post really took off, there has been valuable discussion in the comments. I stand by the passion with which I wrote this post and with the general message, but not all the exact wording. I talk more about the way I'd re-write this post in a response here, replying to an addition that added a ton of useful context [other additions touched on similar themes, but that person had it all together in one reblog]. With that said, I am muting this post.)

[mynnthia]

was talking with a friend about how some of dunmeshi fаndom misunderstands kabru's initial feelings towards laios.

to sum up kabru's situation via a self-contained modernized metaphor:

kabru is like a guy who lost his entire family in a highly traumatic car accident. years later he joins a discord server and takes note of laios, another server member who seems interesting, so they start chatting. then laios reveals his special interest and favorite movie of all time is David Cronenberg's Crash (1996), and invites kabru to go watch a demolition derby with him

[ghostietea]

Did you hear? Did you hear? You were a real girl all along!

[axoqiii]

ed

[breezy-cheezy]

"Still too light..."

Whumpril day 1: Hug (clammy)

(Yes I know it's May but I am just happy to finish this thing I started drawing like a year ago lmaooo)

I love Zeff and Sanji's father son relationship so so much. Zeff's poor Eggplant has gotten sick. Steamed himself instead of the actual food...

[arkangelo-7]

The dichotomy of Batman and Robin is so fucking funny because on one hand you have a brooding, dramatic millennial with a rigid moral compass and a sense of extensional dread, and on the other you have an emotional support child that is somehow the literal embodiment of both sunshine and straight-up murder.

[azuronel]

I think for the week following the incident, the three of them would not let mom Lilia be in peace for more than two minutes

[obamerzslop]

Caine can get scary… so scary in fact that he breaks panel structure and gives himself mood lighting.