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Take me where the forest meets the ocean
In her mind, she could almost see him. A figure in the shadows, watching her with quiet, steady eyes. There was something about him that felt safe, yet dangerous all at once. Not the kind of danger that would hurt her, but the kind that came from carrying his own pain, his own battles. His presence felt like a warm fire on a cold nightācomforting, but with a power she couldnāt ignore.
She imagined the way heād hold her, not to keep her trapped but to remind her she wasnāt alone. He wouldnāt need grand words or promises; his actions would speak for him. A warm hand on hers, a hug that lasted just long enough to chase the shadows away. Even in silence, she would feel it: āIām here. I see you.ā
But she couldnāt ignore the darkness in him, either. It wasnāt cruel or selfishāit was the kind of darkness that came from surviving hard things, the same kind she carried in herself. It scared her a little, but it also made her feel less alone.
#writing#creative writing#writers on tumblr#original writing#short story#prose#fiction writing#writing community#angst#romantic prose#soft angst#comfort and pain#bittersweet#dark romance#emotional writing#yearning#forest meets the ocean#melancholy aesthetic#moody writing#atmospheric prose#shadow and light#ethereal#haunting beauty#dreamlike#damaged but healing#tender intimacy#protective love#tumblr fiction#storytelling#words matter
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My actual favorite part of wisdom saga is telemachus trying to lean against Athena (he thought about that for .03 seconds and then was like nah !!! :D she's my friend not the goddess of war!!! Good to see that the audacity is running strong in odysseus's family) and then just passed threw her and fell on the floor. And then Athena did not move at all!!! And just stood there looking at him.
#Epic the musical#Wisdom saga#Wisdom saga spoilers#Epic the musical spoilers#Athena and telemachus are my favorite girlie pop dou#Her little oops earlier you know she was thinking back to how she just use to toss odysseus around with her full strength#Athena in that moment :....did I give odysseus brain damage? Is that the way he is? Or was he always a freak?#And then the way she just stood there while telemachus is sprawled through her ??? Amazing#Favorite moment#Athena does not get humans 101#You know what#I'm about to be back on my Athena just lives odysseus's house bullshit#It's not even an au it's practically Canon in the odyssey#And honestly?? After that she's needs a treat of all her favorite people under one roof just relaxing and healing#Rip diomedes sorry you're not included in this one#Athena#telemachus
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hope you feel better soon!
I am riddled with ailments, but I stay silly!
#ask#non mdzs#My health journey has been: Hernia -> acid reflux -> Vocal pain due to aforementioned reflux -> chest infection.#I'm terrified to know what's about to hit me next. Please let it be something kind. PLEASE.#The consequence of living with linguists is that you'll wake up with a wacked up voice -#suddenly you're sitting you down in front of a program called something like Praat having your shimmer and jitter levels calibrated.#They gave me a GRBAS of 33012. I have a fun thing called a pitch break where a whole octave just does not exist.#My vocal pain was bad enough I ended up seeing a speech pathologist and that whole experience was super neat!#I learnt a lot about voice - to be honest I might make a little comic on it after some more research. Fascinating stuff.#For example; your mental perception of our voice modulates the muscles of the vocal folds and larynx.#meaning that when you do have changes (inflammation = more mass = lower frequency)#your brain automatically attempts to correct it to what it 'should sound like'. Leading to a lot more vocal strain and damage!#And it gets really interesting for trans voice care as well - because the mental perception of one's voice isn't based on an existing sampl#So a good chunk of trans voice training is also done with the idea of finding one's voice and retraining the brain to accept it. Neat!#Parkinsonial Voice also has this perception to musculature link! The perception is that they are talking at a loud/normal volume#but the actual voice is quite breathy and weak. So vocal training works on practicing putting more effort into the voice#and retraining the brain to accept the 'loud' voice as 'normal'.#Isn't the human body fascinating?#Anyhow; Now I have vocal exercises and strategies to reduce strain and promote healing.#Which is a lot better than my previous strategy of yelling AAAH in my car until my 'voice smoothed out'.#You can imagine the horror on the speech path's face. I am an informed creature now.#I'm my own little lab rat now. I love learning and researching. Welcome to my tag lab. Class is dismissed.#I'll be back later with a few more answered asks </3 despite everything I'm still going to work and I need the extra sleep.#Thank you for the well wishes! And if you read all of that info dump; thank you for that as well!
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Kim got like 2 points in Physical Touch
#he fails the check but harry kisses him on the forehead#something something healed morale damaged health#yes i support the 'only kim's ears blush red' agenda#harry du bois#kim kitsuragi#tequila sunrise#disco elysium#disco elysium fanart#artists on tumblr#fanart#de#kimharry
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We talk about aching of old wounds and breaks that pulsate in throbing unrelenting anguish years afterā¦
But Iām here to posit that the worst kind of haunting wound is nerve damage. Nerve damage spasms in electric like stabs that feel raw from the very first shock. Nerve damage feels like youāre being electrocuted at any given moment and the pain receptors are eternally sharp and much too sensitive, unlike the throbbing that eventually dulls into bluntness of the aforementioned aches.
Nerve damage makes your whole body twitch if it is unexpected and significant enough, even if youāve had a thousand before that should have primed you to hide it.
Nerve damage feels like glass is embedded inches into your skin, waiting like shrapnel to cut in afresh at every movement.
Nerve damage doesnāt just remind you of your past but haunts you with shocking clarity like the first time every time.
#lol can you tell them Iām fed up with my nerves not healing fast enough today#the shocks are embarrassing#and for some reason the worsen on certain days#and every time I step it feels like Iām crunching on glass#mine is mild and really just nerve bruising so it can heal if I fix the arthritis#so I canāt imagine what itās like if you permanently damage nerves#nerve pain#nerve damage#whump#whump prompt#whumpee
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i think, for trauma survivors, especially those who were emotionally abused, invalidated, or gaslit, it is really important not to underestimate the significance of speaking bluntly about what happened to you. Forcing yourself not to beat around the bush, not to downplay what you went through with your words. say what happened, without any caveats, without any ābut it couldāve been worseā, ābut i might just be being overdramaticā, ābut it wasnāt really THAT bad,ā and so forth. sit with the discomfort until you can begin to let yourself realize that it WAS that bad, you WERENT being overdramatic, and even if it couldāve been worse you still didnāt deserve it. Itās almost like a form of reclamation, taking back your memories, taking back your life, even the difficult or gross parts, and refusing to let anyone change the narrative or tell you how you should feel anymore, even yourself. and it hurts and itās scary and it feels weird and awkward and sometimes you want to convince yourself youāre lying, but i think sitting in those weird feelings and letting yourself admit that you really did go through trauma puts the power back in your hands to process things and be compassionate to yourself while you heal
#like. recently iāve been reflecting a lot on this trauma i have with this absolutely godawful english teacher i had in grade 7#he was an absolute creep and even though he never touched me i knew he touched other girls and made even creepier comments to them#than he did to me. and i never really had time to fully understand the gravity of the damage he did to me because i was#so focused on the fact that it couldāve been worse and he never even actually touched me or got that close to me save a few times#but yesterday as i was reflecting on this i finally got myself to admit. i was terrified of him and i was terrified for every fucking minute#that i spent in that class. and i was a child who never shouldāve had to deal with that and itās clear that i still have a lot of problems#from that whole event. and the more times i repeat that and get myself to understand it. the more iām able to be compassionate to myself now#and patient with myself in the things i struggle with as a result of what happened#childhood trauma#trauma#cptsd healing#cptsd recovery#cptsdawareness#trauma survivor#trauma recovery
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Who's going to write that fic where Kurogiri secretly survived and timed himself to take Tomura somewhere else so everyone would think he was dead.
And then they went for Toga, because everyone would also believe she was dead.
And years later they went for Touya after a lot of planning on how to make his dead convincing.
So now they're all living in some mountain, trying to figure out how and when to take Compress and Spinner with them.
#listen tomura's body evolved constantly and so much and Tomura could have had a recovery quirk originally according to the manga clues#what if Tomura could grow a body from a piece of his finger and what if Kurogiri could teleport into himself to make it look like he died#the ghost of Tomura that Deku saw was the real Tomura and the reason why Toga disappeared is because they took her with them#so Tomura could save her from the blood loss#but it was a while before they could recover from the damage taken#and they couldn't simply communicate with Touya or kidnap him right?#they had to find a way into the place Touya was kept in and plan things out so Touya was really about to die#it'd be a matter of faking his death by little then pretending he became dust or whatever so a body wasn't left#then rushing him to Tomura so he could start a slow healing process#Toga turning into Touya so they can take skin implants from her in his form#absolutely no one can know they're alive tho#just saying#bnha#mha#my hero academia#boku no hero academia#league of villains#lov#bnha spoilers#mha spoilers#shigaraki tomura#toga himiko#dabi#touya todoroki#toya todoroki#Kurogiri
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AU where the healing abilities in ACOTAR remain consistent and post ACOWAR wing shredding, Cassian is never able to fly again and that's why he's sent up to help with Nesta and they have a healing journey together
#something something undoing the toxic masculinity of the culture something something#cannot stop thinking about how emeries wings can never be healed but cassians can 1000 times#and how interesting the story would have been if wings were just never the same once they sustained that level of damage#and cassian has to do some internal work#has anyone written this?? id read the f word out of it#dont make me write it#im so weak and stupid
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I drew these to set up a patreon, but then I got some nerve damage in my drawing hand and I hit a dry spell šI still like these drawings though!
#tf#maccadam#swerve#worm art#the nerve damage is almost fully healed! yeehaw! i wanna get back in the saddle#i miss drawing these goofy goobers
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Loki fixes his jacket, Mobius doesn't look, and I fall apart
I was in the midst of making a thirst edit for loki, I was just admiring loki being unfairly attractive when I ended with anything but a thirst edit and got emotionally devastated instead.
I refer to that little moment of Loki straightening himself out. First, when he's trying to find his footing at the TVA. When he first puts on his jacket, its this smooth, practiced motion, he sweeps that hair back, adjusts his lapels, chin up, like he's slipping into a role, trying to play along, trying to present himself as someone in control even though he is anything but.
And mobius, watching him, already amused, interested.. and Loki sees that, clocks it, gives that tiny little 'oh you like this?' smile.
Then cut to Dons timeline and tell me why Loki does the exact same motion, only this time, its hesitant. In the TVA it was almost performative, like he was trying to present himself well.
But Dons timeline? its more tentative, like he's nervous, like he wants to get it right.. Because now it isn't just some TVA game. This is Mobius, living a quiet human life that Loki isn't apart of. Its almost like Loki's bracing himself before stepping back into something he knows he can't stay in.
And Mobius-Don- god. Mobius doesn't clock it this time. Because this isn't that kind of story anymore. Theres no knowing little smirk, no teasing remark- just Don, squinting at Loki like a stranger.
Its the tragedy of the saddest little muscle memory. The way Loki's hands move before he could ever even realise why. Because once upon a time, in a place that doesn't exist anymore, he did this exact thing. He straightened his jacket, swept his hair back and looked up- and Mobius was there.
Watching him. noticing him. Seeing him.
Mobius doesn't see him this time. Not in the way he used to. And yet, Loki straightens his jacket. Because some part of Loki remembers what it was like to be looked at by him.
#lokius#loki#loki laufeyson#loki mcu#loki odinson#mobius m mobius#loki series#marvel#mobius#mobius mcu#emotional damage of the highest level#im crying#still fucking crying#this show needs to be federally regulated#loki god of following don home#anyway back to editing him like he didnāt just shatter my soul#loki god of fixing his fucking jacket and making the masses sob#i did not plan to get this devastated tonight.#loki god of i need to look good for my boyfriend mobius#im actually so sad#when does the healing begin (it doesnt)#he fixed his jacket like mobius was still looking iām in ruins#just wanted to make a thirst edit and now iām clinically unwell#i miss them so much#i miss them#i love them your honor#look at them#mobius didnt look this time.#why must pain find me#loki my tragic little victorian ghost you will always be so loved
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You guys are so kind. What the hell did I do to deserve you?
-Tim
#OOC: more soft stuff to heal the emotional damage of those two back to back comics#ask.png#tim wright#marble hornets#mh#afterlife au#slenderverse#fan art#fanart#art
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Gojo: jujutsu is an individual spo-
BZZZTTT WRONG ANSWER JUMPJUTSU JUMPSEN
#jjk#jujutsu kaisen#sidrabbles#i love how previous gen gojo says this and our mc who is next gen is ALWAYS the one jumping peeps with his buddies#TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK GOJO#idk smtg smtg symbolism of healing together instead of cynical isolation#smtg smtg next gen changing things previous gen was damaged and shaped by#so they dont make the same mistakes
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DPxDC Prompt:
The next blow sent the human tumbling into the wall. It wheezed and spat up a gob of blood, pulling itself up on trembling arms and legs.
Pathetic.
āSo this is the mortal who captured our young kingās attention. The so-called warrior who he trusted with the sacred duty of guarding his core.ā
A shadowed hand pinned it to the wall and it uselessly pawed at the blade-like claws pressed against its fragile throat.
āHow a weakling like you seduced High King Phantom, Iāll never know.ā
The human squeezed its eyes shut. Iām sorry Danny, it mouthed with cracked and bleeding lips.
The impudence.
Slammed into the ruined bricks once more, the human let out a breathless cry.
āYou dare address him like that. You dare to call upon his living name!ā Dagger sharp teeth dripped shadowy ectoplasm inches from the mortalās flesh.
āIām doing him a favor, disposing of you.ā
There was silence.
Then.
The human looked up with glowing green eyes.
A wave of unearthly force erupted from its body.
A dual layered voice echoed out from its miserable throat.
āOh you just made a BIG mistake.ā
#dpxdc#dpxdc prompt#ghost king danny#the ship is up to you#my writing#free to use#tw injury#hehe Danny is aaaaaaangry#I mean at this point the ghost is just ASKING to be torn a new one#I imagine Dannyās not quite healed yet so heās sort of#using his loveās body to manifest his power#but it took him a few desperate angsty minutes to figure out How#hence the ghostly beat down#Extra Angst Potential if in manifesting his power the posession is also burning his love interest out from the inside- damaging body & soul#āThe power of the Ghost King is not meant to be wielded by mortal handsā sort of thing#dp x dc
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jane: that's twenty-four points of healing damage!
andy: healing damage?
mike: thatās how jane sees the world
#the way i didnt even twig the healing damage#it just felt so normal so natural coming from jane#healing damage is very necromancer coded#jane douglas#andy farrant#mike channell#oxventure wyrdwood#oxventure#outsidexbox#oxbox#folkmoot#are queue working bard or bardly working?#oxventure spoilers
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I finished wild arms yesterday! what a great game
#wild arms#wild arms 1#cecilia adlehyde#jack van burace#rudy roughnight#earth golem#art tag#i really really loved this one im so glad i finished it#its really fun and not overly long for a jrpg (about 30 hours)#also gets my seal of approval in that despite what all promotional material would have you believe cecilia is the main character#like its not even a question she just is. compounded by the fact that if you want to you can play as her the whole time#my biggest criticism would prob be that by the end of the game the party feels kind of unbalanced especially in boss fights#cecilia can do so much shit and the boys basically just do different kinds of big damage lol#cecilia can also do big damage but shes too busy healing and buffing and debuffing and all that#its not all that hard though so its not a huge deal just kind of funny#anyway i definitely want to play the rest of the series at some point. apparently theres an anime too?? exciting
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more warden!! his name is kelwyn. im PLANNING spirit healer/blood mage for him but havent unlocked blood mage yet (but i did drink the tainted blood potion avernus made)
#da: origins#da:o#dragon age origins#dragon age#warden surana#dragon age fanart#grey warden#the nature of (my) every first rpg playthrough as a mage is to fucking completely bungle spell choices#so i end up with the least optimized most scattered kit in the whole wide world#started with not enough dps spells and was suffering so went full dps#alistair keeps dying ok i get heal#hey wait i like doing support spells ill specialize spirit healer maybe#i also wnat to still do damage. and i want blood magic sauce.#also that solas quote about the healer having the bloodiest hands. yeah#he's just trying to do it all is my in universe reason#ive been playing him as pretty intense and pragmatic#weight of the world on your shoulders and all.#of course i can heal and do damage and cc and#itseart
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