#burn ward

[jevilowo]

Every day I think about a potential tf2 taunt that lets you make character kiss. The problem with this is 40+ combinations gets complicated, so in my mind I have since simplified it to a Medic taunt, similar to Soldier's choking one, in which the other classes kiss him in thanks for the heals.

Scout: acts grossed out about it, goes on tiptoes and kisses the very edge of Medic's lips and wipes his mouth afterwards (He secretly enjoyed it)

Soldier: recreates that one painting where the soldier swings the girl down to kiss her, then steps back and salutes

Pyro: HEADBUTT

Demo: drunk af, stumbles in, slings his arms around Medic and gives him a massive sloppy one on the lips

Heavy: the one you've probably been waiting for. Picks Medic up clean off his feet, borderline make out session, puts him down politely afterwards

Engineer: has to pull Medic down by his lapels (short) and gives him a chaste enough one on the lips bc his mother raised him right

Medic: synchronised double cheek kisses with the "mwah" sound effect from the heavy is dead

Sniper: KAKEBON, lip kiss, bonus "i reckon ur gonna get real used to lookin up at me" line

Spy: back of hand kiss, double cheek kiss AND slightly hesitant peck on the lips

...I've thought too much about this haven't I

[artist-mico]

burn ward? dare i say that this is the most toxic power couple

[darius-immortal]

I finally finished college and will be working soon 😭😭

I couldn't draw anything for a long time, but I still have a couple of old works. Here are the Persians of my two friends (I'm a Sniper).

[balloonomancerr]

this is how medic heals people in battle

[not13opossoms]

We should make Scout/Medic/Pyro a ship, a popular one in fact, and call it QuickCauterization NEOW!!!!

[toxicfruitzz]

some kerosene support things I made for the past weeks

[teslacoils-and-hubris]

burn ward! burn ward being So Normal together!

Their date night plans almost always include medic getting some Fresh Organs and Pyro getting to burn a few bodies

[lizbee0820]

[pyrotation]

saw this while out today… dare i say pyrocore

[number-one-pyro-fan]

Anyone wanna send some tf2 art requests 👀👀?

​cough cough I’ll draw ship art

edit FORGOR TO TURN ON ASKS but my inbox is open now 👍👍

[hazardtoons]

what if i was pyro and i looked at you in your eyes

[bloodheartz]

When will the Pyro/Medic/Heavy nation finally rise up

[masters-and-magnets]

i needed to get this out of my brain

[darius-immortal]

I remembered one art where Pyro licked Sniper's cheek imitating a "kiss"... well, actually, our Pyro decided to try the same.

Bonus:

[balloonomancerr]

kinda part 2 to this

/ more aggie doodles w gf !

[trans-axolotl]

content note: discussion of suicide.

this next monday will be the six year anniversary of losing one of my friends to suicide.

when he died, my high school barely mentioned his death, even though for other students who died by things like car crashes or illness, there were so many public expressions of grief. they believed that having any memorials for a student who died by suicide would encourage other people to die the same way. in their rush to erase the circumstances of his death, they erased the memory of his life.

there are so many things i am angry at that high school about in terms of how they treated mental health (mandatory reporting and collaborating with cops, their refusal to recognize the ways in which that system led to peer-to-peer crisis support, their refusal to recognize the ways that trying to keep each other alive through trial and error was scary and exhausting, carceral disciplinary policies, etc etc etc). but i think one of the things i am still angriest about is the way they enforced shame around his death. it felt like they were retroactively blaming him for the constellation of circumstances that made suicide an option in his life. it felt like they were blaming those of us who missed him and cared about him and wanted to grieve him. it made those of us still there who were actively suicidal feel even more scared about the reaction if we did reach out for help from one of those mythical safe adults.

as an adult now involved in psych abolition/mad liberation work, it makes me so fucking mad to see the ways in which he was discarded by people in authority positions. and the older i get, the more options i have found in my life for making sense of the world and finding healing and community and support which were never available to him because he died when he was 16 and the only things offered to him were a carceral psychiatric system that blamed him for his own fucking death. it feels so incredibly unfair.

i miss him and i think i always will; i can't remember his laugh or the sound of his voice or his favorite color any more and that aches. this grief is so heavy and it feels harder in a new way each year, when i become older than he will ever be. sometimes meeting new comrades or seeing new anticarceral suicide support models hurts because i wish so fucking bad that we had that back then. i remember how close we came to losing even more people that year and i know it is simple fucking luck that i'm still here when he's not.

i remember another letter (never sent) that i wrote to a friend while they were in an ICU bed after a suicide attempt when i didn't know if they would live or not. i have spent so much time in the past 10 years begging for anything to keep me and my friends alive, but even in that letter i knew that there is so much fucking violence that is hidden beneath psychiatric logics of cure and safety that promise a "solution" to suicide. I knew that institutionalization, coercion, and shame would not have helped build a life more liveable for him or **** or any of the people i've loved and lost since.

there needs to be more fucking options for care and support that aren't so incredibly cruel to suicidal people. i know so many people doing incredible work in alternatives, peer respite, a million different frameworks for healing and liberation. but it makes me so mad every day i have to live in a world where there are still people restrained, locked up in psych wards, having all autonomy and personhood taken away from them. knowing there are dozens of people every day getting blamed for their deaths the same way he was blamed for his.

i miss him. i cared so fucking much for him. and he died by suicide, and all of those things are true. he has been dead for 6 years and he lived before that and the people who loved him want to remember all of him; our celebrations of his life should not require hiding the way that he died.

Image description: [1000 origami cranes in all different colors and patterns that are tied together in strings of 25]

(these were the 1000 cranes we made to give to his parents, in memorial and recognition of how much he meant to us.)