#broken and scarred

[il3x]

All that I know All I remember Ripped by the knife I was torn from my sleep There were no dreams No tortured memories Only a silence eternal and blissfully deep AM I ALIVE OR IN PURGATORY? AM I INSANE? What is this animal gnawing inside of my brain?

Frankenstein: The Musical.

I love the "came back wrong" trope but from the opposite side.

Imagine you are dead. And then you are RIPPED from the embrace of decay into the world of the living again. Your memories are hazy and you don't recognize any of these people, but they act like they're close to you? Like they love you? So you try to get your memories back, to act like you belong here, but everybody tries to forget you died. And you can't. It is omnipresent. And just trying to grapple with that fact pushes the people who "love" you away, and they're incapable of understanding, and they're so confused, what's wrong N̶̄̀O̶͛͗T̷̉́ ̷͋͝Y̴̎̌Ȍ̴̈U̸̓R NÄM̴̃͑E̵̾̇? And you just need them to understand, you aren't that person! You aren't! You don't know who that person is! You don't know why any of this is happening, but they're unwilling to bend, they keep insisting you are that person, your memories will come back, everything will be normal again, and you want to scream and cry and claw yourself open to show them you're different. Your existence as a being wholly separate from whoever you "used to be" is a sin unto itself. All you can do is scrabble for life and to them, you're killing whoever they loved to do it.

just. lots of fun in that concept, you know?

[courtmartialme]

you ruin everything you touch

[chrisrin]

HE'S GONNA STEAL--NOT JUST YOUR HEART--BUT EVERYTHING YOU OWN AS WELL!!!

[thefirstpaleontologist]

Anatomy of Alastors demonic forms

[stil-lindigo]

seeing clearer

(sequel to another comic of mine, the calamity.)

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[spiderziege]

hermit a day may 11: Scar!

season 8 scar will always be my favorite i think

[pinktrashgoblin]

“I won’t let you get rid of me.”

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woo sorry this one took so long lmfao

I had fun writing it tho!! character dynamics and lore my beloved

[erlkink-heatcliff]

learn a thing or two from the master.

[nachtart]

simon

[tridentrans]

welcome to my twisted HEV suit indulgence drawings

[dent-de-leon]

Forever feeling soft about the fact that Molly found love and joy after feeling so broken and empty. The way he can't help but reach out to other lost, lonely souls. Caleb's quiet, despondent, "I broke a bit." Molly telling Lucien,"We love broken things the most." The way Caleb feels like, "softness and light" to him.

Just...Caleb spending so long isolated and abandoned, believing he was only ever broken. And Molly, who awoke in a world that made him feel lifeless, and Empty, and broken--showing other shattered souls the love and compassion that saved him--

[masked-kitsune]

Art and ficlet below for @carouselunique

Confrontation

Minuette took a deep breath as she climbed the worn stone steps of some old ruins. She had received a letter to come here so she had. When she reached the platform at the top she found three large crystal mirrors, one was shattered. She looked at the pattern on the floor and was momentarily transfixed. The sound of hooves on marble where soon heard, Minuette turned to see Twilight Sparkle, the unicorn looked worse for were. "You got my letter." Twilight said it wasn't a question it was a statement.

"I did." Minuette said as she backed up as Twilight approached her. The purple mare stopped when her front hooves touched the edge of the pattern. Minuette glanced down and she saw her own hooves on the other side of the pattern. "I want to show you something." Twilight said, without waiting for a response, Twilight's horn blazed to life and so did the pattern in the floor. Pink light filled the room and in the center mirror the reflection faded to show an odd scene to Minuette.

The ex weather mare of Ponyville, the local seamstress, Ginger's cousin, one of the local bakers, another pegasus that Minuette was sure she'd seen in town, and Twilight herself were gathering for a picnic, Twilight however seemed to be an alicorn instead of a unicorn. "What is this?" Minuette asked in confusion. "This is the life that you stole from me!" Twilight snapped in anger. Minuette tore her gaze from the mirror only to meet Twilight's angry glare. She had no idea what Twilight was talking about and the anger on the other unicorn's face scared her.

Floor pattern without effects

Mirror image of the main six

[parasitic-saint]

zydrate comes in a little glass vial. a little glass vial? a little glass vial.

my take on amber sweet, i would've loved for more body modifications present during the movie but oh well! i'm still not happy about this design so you can expect more explorations and stuff! (initial sketch under the cut)

[wield-the-mighty-pen]

Do you think that Marinette ever looks into her partners eyes, and is sure that, for a second, the green flashed into a soulless blue, and her stomach turns?

Do you think that Adrien ever flinches when someone close to him yells, terrified that they'll become a villain that he'll be forced to fight, a force he'll be required to destroy?

Do you think that Marinette ever looks over her shoulder in public compulsively, afraid and paranoid that she's being observed by an enemy priming itself for attack?

Do you think that Adrien wakes up from a nightmare and sheds a tear for the children he had for too short and lost too soon?

Do you think that Marinette ever catches herself paying attention to, and involving herself in, the issues and lives of complete strangers, that she feels it is her responsibility to keep feeling good

Do you think that Adrien ever feels a physical weight on his hand from all the destruction he has caused? and actual feeling of his hand getting heavier from the burden of disaster?

Do you think that the heroes of Paris ever feel a bit of guilt or a bit of worry any time they feel an emotion too strongly? That they are incapable and unworthy of feelings that could cause the decimation of their city?

[uncanny-tranny]

The frustrating part about conversations like "should people with self-harm scars warn others before showing off their body?" and conversations like it is how nobody would tell me that my scars are obscene or should be hidden despite, literally, being self-harm scars. They just do not know because people literally do not know what self-harm scars are and what self-harm is.

Our bodies are not vulgar or gross. We deserve to live our lives, and if our scars make you uncomfortable, we can be compassionate about that, but that doesn't mean that our bodies are Bad and should be Locked Away. Treat us like we belong, because we do.

[bleue-flora]

You know, I feel like we don’t talk enough about how sensitive and painful scar tissue is. Maybe because most people haven’t had stitches and huge, deep cuts. But let me just share as someone who’s had quite a few surgeries and injuries, scars are really tender. Like I cut the side of my pinky pretty deeply and I couldn’t wear rings on my ring finger for like a year because the ring rubbing against it hurt so much. And after I got my eyebrow stitched up, I couldn’t pencil my brow for about a year and whenever my sunglasses bumped against it, it hurt so badly. The surgery scar I have on the base of my thumb from when I was 4 years old still hurts if I’m stretching or using my thumb too much. The bigger the scar the worse it is too, which makes sense. I have two scars about half a foot long on the inside of both of my knees and they took forever to not be super painful to touch, even now they can be a little sensitive. All that to say, even when a character’s injuries are healed they would still have a lot of pain and tenderness going on from any sort of touch, even months after, especially in the places with the most nerves. Just something to think about…