#by ginger

[reimeichan]

Coworker: hey are you good at tasting teas?

Me-as-Ginger: yeah absolutely I drink teas all the time, what's up?

Coworker: can you tell if I over-steeped this?

Me: yeah can you hand me a cup of water first to wash down this vanilla latte I'm drinking?

Coworker: *hands me the water and tea*

Me: *rinses out the taste of coffee, give myself a second, then tasting the tea* yeah that's very definitely over-steeped

Coworker: cool thanks man

Me: no problem. *takes a sip of my latte* god I fucking hate this drink why did I even order it

Me:

Me:

Me-as-Green: GOD DAMMIT I SWITCHED JUST TO TASTE THE TEA DIDN'T I

[joyousjoyfuljoyness]

My painting, "Cat in Boat Pose."

[satin-polar]

We got everything

[go-star-sailor]

she’s just so cool i cannot lie

[churrotowns]

ginger cat world domination incoming

[justcatposts]

The chosen one

(Source)

[luxjii]

women want me, fish want me too

[gawki]

Delightful Liberation

[chaotic66hummingbird]

Levi Coralynn

[ao3-shenanigans]

WE MADE IT FOLKS!!!

[reimeichan]

I know that when people say that DID has no cure, that those of us with DID will always have a DID brain and may even split again in the future, they're trying to be realistic about recovery goals and maybe even acknowledge that those of us who have reached Final Fusion or Functional Multiplicity are still part of the DID community. However, I've recently been finding those kinds of statements to sound.... defeatist, actually. There's oftentimes an underlying feeling of "what's the point of trying so hard if I'm just going to have DID forever?" or "no matter what I do there will always be the possibility for me to relapse", and as such I've started to see these phrases as being almost anti-recovery.

I agree, there is no cure for DID that we know of. We cannot change the fundamental way our brain works. However, that's not the same as saying there's no way to get better with DID, or saying there's no treatment for DID, or there's no way to live a happy, fulfilling life with DID. It takes a lot of work, yes, but it's absolutely possible to learn how to live with both dissociation and trauma to the point they have very little if any negative impact on your life. That's what expanding your coping toolbox is for. And learning emotional regulation. And trauma processing. I may never live the same life as someone who never developed DID or has the same traumas as me, but that doesn't mean I'll be unhappy and miserable and fighting against my own brain every day of my life. Instead, I've learned to work with my brain and with my disorders, and in the process I've learned how to not just survive day to day but thrive. I'm excited to see what tomorrow brings me. I'm hopeful.

And I think that's really what my feelings on those phrases boils down to. They feel like they lack hope and end up making me feel like working on recovery isn't worth it. But I know that's wrong, for myself at least. It's definitely worth it to keep walking forward one step at a time. Where I am now and where I was before are two very different places, even if some days it's hard for me to see those differences and acknowledge that. And there's so much more for me to look forward to as well.

So, here's to healing and recovery and thriving with DID.

[joyousjoyfuljoyness]

Number 18 of the Close Encounters Collection, "Smug"!

[dollarhide4]

[ayo-edebiri]

Taste (2024) + movies references:

Psycho (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock Death Becomes Her (1992) dir. Robert Zemeckis Ginger Snaps (2000) dir. John Fawcett Addams Family values (1993) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) dir. Quentin Tarantino

[gingermintpepper]

I think, perhaps one of the funniest things to come from EPIC popularising the Odyssey is that now a ton of people think Poseidon wanted to kill Odysseus.

In the Odyssey, Poseidon has no intention of killing Odysseus. In fact, part of the whole reason Zeus lets Poseidon do whatever he wants even though he thinks Odysseus is rad and should get to kiss his wife is explicitly because Poseidon had no intentions of killing Odysseus. Poseidon wanted to pay back the suffering/inconvenience blinding Polyphemus would have caused. It's a really abstract thing tbh. How do you pay back someone permanently disabling your son? Poseidon's solution was just to amputate Odysseus from his other half; i.e. Penelope. The end game was never murder, it was always an endurance race.

(Od. Book 1: Zeus reassuring Athena that he is not, in fact, a part of Odysseus Hater-Nation. Trans. Robert Fagles)

Also, for those wondering if there's any sort of in text reason for why Poseidon wasn't around in God Games - at the time in the Odyssey when Athena petitions Zeus to let Odysseus leave Calypso's island, Poseidon was -checks notes- on vacation in Ethiopia. Yep. He left to Ethiopia for a festival and thusly was very much absent for Athena's whole "please let Ody go? Please? 🥺" request.

(Od. Book 1: While Odysseus was suffering, Poseidon went to party in the east)

I am begging y'all to read the Odyssey. It's a comedy for everyone except Odysseus and Penelope who are, in fact, suffering 24/7 365.

[luxjii]

malewife duties