#fear of deep waters

[deep-dark-fears]

Lonely teardrops. A fear submitted by Gabrielle to Deep Dark Fears - thanks! You can find original art and commission portraits in my shop!

[seabeck]

Went to my favorite bog yesterday but oh no! There was actually enough water there to warrant boots (last time I visited it was just a bit muddy). Good news, I brought my boots, bad news, I ripped a hole in my boots while I was on an island. I did get to finally do something on my wishlist: actually touch a blooming western swamp laurel (my beloved).

Left to right: swamp laurel x2, wild cranberry, big Labrador tea, two baby slugs, tufted loosestrife (new plant for me), northern white violet (also new!), Corona cups maybe, chrome spagnum

[silverskye13]

I've been having thoughts, since the time Impulse appeared in RnS a couple chapters ago; and now after your "Tango in hels" piece they're getting stronger.

Your Tango's a smart, determined little fella, even when he's being difficult and not at his best. He doesn't know what "self-care" means, and can be kinda selfish in his social behavior (otherwise Tanguish wouldn't be there), but he can and will do things for his friends when he has a specific goal in mind.

So, if someone tells him "Go talk to your friends, it will help you feel better"? Not happening, and rare attempts aren't paying off the effort.

But if someone went "Hey, you know your friend Impulse's helsmet is getting stronger. His helsmet's name? The Demon. You know, the one who's been a huge scary pain in the ass for Tanguish. So maybe if you went to Impulse and tried to help with whatever his struggles, two of your friends would have less mortal danger looming overhead"?

Might work, maybe? Both in the stated way and in Tango getting out of his mind way? Could have an unintended side effect of Tanguish getting whacked with weakening if he hasn't sanctificated hard enough (which is. 50/50 with how recent chapters went?) but overall net positive, I guess? And it's kind of in line with Tanguish's manipulative streak?

Not saying this is something that Will happen, but. Sounds like something that theoretically could, I thing?

🎤

[citruscitrushope]

Headcanon I'm mildly scared is ooc of the day: Tsukasa's scared of the dark.

He's had this fear since he was a child, but it stayed with him as he had years of waking up in the middle of the night to Saki sobbing in pain, or his family having disappeared to get her in the hospital, alongside spending many nights alone when they stayed with her overnight. He'd never admit it, not even to itself, but being alone at night always unnerves him in a way

[circuitsofgold]

I’d like to piggyback off of this post for a moment. I don't want to reblog it because it and the the replies are focused on the Architects. Which is cool and all, I remember being intrigued at a linked sentient species like that.

But I want to talk about the kharaa's involvement in the Degasi subplot in the base game.

They already didn't get along. Well, at least Paul and Maida didn't. Bart was just kind of there as a timid boy overshadowed by his father's presence. Maida was loyal to Paul since he was the one paying her. She was likely used to a rough life whereas he was the sort of man who had wanted for nothing in a long time.

but when the infection sets in. It starts with being itchy. But one of the symptoms is aggression. And we can hear the progression. Bart starts to stand up to his father. Paul and Maida really start clashing.

( and one could argue that she was the one to get them killed. Or at least Paul. When she drags back a leviathan. The recording makes it sound like a ghost which would make sense for the biome because there is a ghost leviathan in the vicinity. But she has a reaper skull in her base in SubZero? )

[pencilgutz]

I really need to stop staying up so late at night

I may or may not have an AU preheating in the oven rn

man Pirates and Cruises are so cool am I right

Close ups under the cut :]

I think @xinnamonbun would enjoy this greatly

i would also like to thank @trifluoperazine for helping me get ideas

[the-ellia-west]

Thalassophobia

The world we live in is a beauty of color and a wonder of life. Across it, more water than land, millions of creatures across its surface. But 10x more in water than on land. 10x more life in a place we can't breathe.

Wide expanses of water. The deep blue of the sea almost as deep as the blue of the sky. Stretching so far your eyes couldn't find anything but space. In one lives the type of creature half your size with soft feathers, and in the other lives things 4x the size of the busses you travel in.

A Blue so deep it blocks almost all sunlight. A blue so deep we haven't discovered 80% of it. A blue so deep something with millions of teeth could be swimming blow you and yourself never know.

A blue where you can hardly move and everything in it is faster than you. You're still, appreciating the blue all around you when a massive shape breaks through the darkness below you with little effort. Eyes half the size of your body and bigger teeth. Many can't eat you, but many more can, and you couldn't fight back because the thick water you can't breath inhibits your movement.

The water that can kill you hundreds of ways. The water you need to survive but can't drink. The salt in your eyes and your lungs, as massive things pass you, and you have no wall to press backa against. No way to know what's where because their eyes are accustomed to the depths, and yours aren't. Some part of you holding out for so long you know you'd never survive.

Fish and fathoms.

A fear of heights but you fall slower on air you can't breathe while things that can eat you surround you at every direction.

HOW ARE YOU PEOPLE NOT SCARED OF THE OCEAN??!??!?!?

[elisaenglish]

I think I’ve made myself very clear. No one’s coming forward to stop me. Some of you cared. None of you cared enough. And neither did I. And I’m sorry.

[pontmercysamis]

“It is a bad moment to pronounce the word love. No matter, I do pronounce it. And I glorify it. Love, the future is thine.”

[deep-dark-fears]

Hello friend. A fear submitted by Jane to Deep Dark Fears - thanks!

You can find original artwork in my shop!

[naffeclipse]

Heya Naff, slightly late but Happy New Year!! 🎆 Hope you’re doing well and I wish you much inspiration and many good things this coming year! <33

I had a little query pop to mind recently if that's okay:  what if reader in the Deep Dreams universe had megalophobia and/or perhaps even thalassophobia? 

I know this might make less sense for fisher Y/N as we know them, so it could hypothetically be some other person, a friend or a future Y/N who makes friends with juvenile Sun and Moon and then only later discovers they've grown to be big sea beasties - maybe seeing them in their dreams is fine but for real it's a different matter, at least until they get used to them :)

How might the boys react?

Having a slight bit of megalophobia myself, the best way I can describe my experience is a gentle anxiety with the need to seek shelter and cower there, but people's experiences can vary (and possibly change depending on the conditions). Also that kinda makes it 10x funnier that I have an affinity for giant creatures xD

Hi, Piixel! Happy New Year to you, too, babe! ♥ Thank you so much, ahhh, you're much too kind! :D I hope you have a beautiful year and an abundance of lovely things happen to you!

Oh ho! Fear of big things and of large bodies of water? I'm sure that totally wouldn't be a source of great fear and conflict with a poor little reader soulbond to a couple of mers hehe (The Sea Beast is an excellent movie btw!! ♥)

Y/N with megalophobia and thalassophobia wouldn't be caught dead on the ocean. You have dreams about two massive mers, and those creatures are always sweet and gentle and attentive, but you're still convinced it's some weird nightmare (even though no real spooky events unfold in said dreams). The mers coax and plead with you to go out to sea so you can all meet, but that's a solid no from you.

Then through a very terrible chance of fate, you're on a boat for whatever reason but very much against your desires, before you get swept away by a rouge wave and left behind. You're alone, struggling to swim in a massive ocean when—oh goodie, that looks like a giant mer floating right below you. What else could go wrong today?

Needless to say, after seeing Moon, then Sun, and realizing that these massive mers you've had dreams about are here in the flesh, you pass out from sheer fright. It's a lot for you to wrap your brain around, but when you come to, you're on Sun's back as he floats gently along the surface, keeping you dry as you begin losing your mind out of the horror of it all while Moon watches you from close by. You can't jump into the great wide ocean to escape the mer carrying you but you can't stay on the thing's scaly back either, so you may have a panic attack. Sun stops and turns his head back to give you his full attention while Moon tries to take you in his hands but that does not help your situation. They can feel your panic and horror, but you can feel confusion and distress at not being able to help, and in fact, them being the cause of your fear.

Their attempts to calm you down are met with resistance as you want to be anywhere but here in the ocean with two giant mers.

Sun and Moon are bewildered and upset, to say the least. You did often seem nervous in your little dream rendezvous but they thought they did a lovely job of reassuring you it was alright and that they would never hurt you and there's nothing to be scared of. Turns out, not quite. So, they take you safely back to the island shore where you more or less escape from the massive monsters and flee inland. But, there's not a whole lot of places to go on the little island and you've got to sleep eventually, so Sun and Moon decide to spend more personal time with you and show you that really, they're the two baby mers you happened to scoop up one summer day when you were just a tot and didn't realize how scary some things could be.

They'll be patient. You'll see that there is no place safer than with them in the water. They'll help you face your fears and then reunite with you.

If you ever leave your house again, that is.

[kuhulua]

I have Thalassophobia so this is very accurate to me.

[lonelyroommp3]

literally what is behind the surprisingly common irrational fear of toilet flushes especially at night... i'm constantly worried that one day my downstairs neighbour is going to knock on my door like PLEASE stop sprinting around the flat at 3am and i'll have to be like i'm so sorry but i got up to pee and as i'm sure you'll understand as soon as i've hit the flush i have exactly 5 seconds to be under my duvet and out of the sight line of any uncovered windows because otherwise there will be A Face there. you know how it is

[toongamer4]

Created a thalassophobia based artwork for my OC Ameya, my ghost cat with power over water. Although ironically, she is also deathly afraid of deep water too, as this art reflects something of her past life.