#chemical dependence

[justletmeon12]

Ibuprofen withdrawal headaches are the worst.

"I have a headache."

"Take some ibuprofen."

No, bitch.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

In the world of heavy metals, love is denser than hate!

[x-ourrayofsunshine-x]

okay so….Ray and the DD Spider shirt….

[dykesynthezoid]

I think one thing that really gets me about the “Daniel’s not repressed” crowd is that they seem to view him as someone unashamed. Which is a head scratcher. Like they see him and go “oh come on he’s totally shameless,” like sorry. The addict? You think the lifelong addict is impervious to shame??? Nooooo baby. Noooo

[the-ipre]

Consider! Charles finds a camera that has been enchanted to make ghosts show up on film and is absolutely thrilled about it! They’ve got plenty of pics of the girls up and about the office, but it would be good to have some of the founding members, right? Edwin is not quite as enthused about the whole prospect as Charles, as photographs were quite the long, drawn out process back when he was alive. Also, although he does not mention this bit, after a hundred years without seeing it, he’s grown somewhat disconnected from his physical form as something that is his.

Charles is pretty convincing, though, and Edwin is far too willing to allow himself to be convinced when it comes to his friend. They rope in Crystal and she lines up the shot, Charles and Edwin with their arms around each other as they beam at the lens, and then she takes the photo and the flash goes off and when she blinks, the boys are both gone. Crystal calls out for them, but the office is small and it isn’t like there’s much space to hide. She considers that they both sunk through the floor and are fucking with her, but before she can give that particular option too much thought, the camera prints out a small picture.

As it develops, Crystal finds that it did manage to capture the boys’ likenesses, as well as their ghostly essences. The photo is frozen at the moment she took the picture as they both grin at the camera, but when she Reads it she can feel their fear and desperation as they are trapped in the film.

Now, it’s down to Crystal to figure out how to undo this curse and break them out!

[frnkiebby]

i honestly am having so much fun with this @randomslinky

just huddled on my bed like a weirdo at 1:30am making mass frimage posts is 10/10~🎃

[hotel-bella-morte]

Gender is weird. I identify as an mcr fan

[shinythingsarecool]

actually doctor i believe i need this song injected into my veins. or i'll implode. yeah

my source? oh it's the prophetic vision i had a moment ago when i passed out due to the. slerp deprvatsion

[etoilelafleur]

You cannot tell me this isn’t a year 9 art teacher who knows you’re very autistic, but didn’t know how to help you so she just gave you colour theory tests to work on throughout the lesson

[anti-socialexperiment]

World’s first chemical box fanart..

extras undercut

[demolitionw0man]

I literally cannot choose one, but I've been a bit of a Ray girly recently 🤭

LIKE LOOK AT THIS MAJESTIC MAN ‼️

MY WIFE ‼️/j

[reksink]

A Little Survivor (With Grand Gourmand Bonus💚)

[ryuusea]

sherliam halloween doodles, based on sensei’s art

[serpentface]

I'd say the 'aware of loss of faculties until they aren't' description is apt, but with less of the horror that most humans experience with this knowledge. Units have a sense of personhood, but archin do not tend to philosophically imagine a 'self'. Their consciousness being an emergent property of many interacting bodies kind of precludes the illusion of some core, unchanging individual essence.

The basic experience of being divided is something every unit would have been through, an entire unit is not in literal constant communication and will temporarily divide itself even down to the individual to perform simple tasks (though always with the comfort of scent trails leading back to the collective).

It would still be unsettling and a source of deep melancholy. The pain would be more knowing that there is no going back, the scent trails lead nowhere, there are no more eggs being laid that will replace the parts of you that die or are separated. You would increasingly struggle with abstract concepts and complex ideas, the edges of your personality would slowly be smoothed out, you are increasingly running on raw instinct. You remember everything, but without any way to organize these memories into anything more than flashes. Most of the pain would be a profound sense of loneliness.

How a merger would feel would depend on how much of the unit remains. If its personality is more or less intact, it will probably survive as the same 'person' (mergers are usually accomplished with recently pupated ants, or by taking a few individuals from many units so as not to disrupt other consciences). If it's down to just a few ants, any remnant of the original personality will be lost upon the merger and they will settle into the new personality (perhaps subtly changing it, as all units do over time, but not in a distinct, easily identifiable way). The only thing that remains of the former unit is their raw memory. Even individual archin have very good memories and their learned experiences will supplement the new consciousness with everything it has experienced. So the new merger might learn and 'remember' the pain of loss, though not in a complex way (complex memories, like being able to tell a story, are stored in the collective and not the individual).

Mergers between roughly equal numbers of ants are rare and only done in desperation due to being incredibly disruptive to the personality of each, and a very literal danger that individual archin will become panicked and attack the 'foreign' bodies. A large ratio is ideal so one side has enough of an intact group consciousness to tamp down these impulses, and ability to physically restrain the other side until they have calmed and accommodated to the new scent. All mergers have risks of aggression, but introducing similar numbers is especially risky and sometimes fails entirely due to too many being killed in the process.

[taviokapudding]

Joining XHS was a good decision because now I know a singular 16oz water bottle costs $0.25 USD in China and now I get to tell the rest of you that 1 SINGLE 16OZ WATER BOTTLE IN CHINA COSTS 25 CENTS HOLY SHIT I WISH THAT WAS US SO BAD

If Donald Trump can't get all local US water bottle brands to sell individual bottles at 25 cents in 1 month from now- I NEVER want to hear any of you motherfuckers who voted for him to speak ever again

[sometimes-i-make-mcr-fanart]

had to leave out the the interludes :( because only 12 options. Also no never listened too option