#he was considering a therapist

[cobaltfluff]

wait, who's getting married??

[xxplastic-cubexx]

just wanted to make a color ref for Brain Therapist Magneto from 309 but i needed lights too for some reason

bonus The Flats Only Version

[kiwibirbkat]

Dick: So you ever just want someone to hug you? Like, just because they WANT to. They actually care about you and don't have an ulterior motive. And I know a lot of people have aversions to touch, and that's why they don't hug me very hard or at all, but sometimes I just want to be pulled into a bone crushing hug because they CARE about me and not because they're trying to hurt me, or manipulate me, or stop me from escaping. Is that weird?

The justice league (-Bruce), who get physical affection often:

Bruce, who has not hugged Dick in years to not overstep his boundaries:

All his siblings (barring Tim and Damian), who thought he was the most mentally stable:

Tim, who knew something was wrong already but didn't wanna mention it in case of upsetting him:

Damian: ... *Slowly walks up to him and hugs his leg. (He's short)*

Superman: *Flies behind him and pulls him into a bear hug probably strong enough to suffocate someone without Bat-Training™*

[imogenkol]

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[asher-writes]

My characters are ultimately a dissection of myself. If I discover things through them it's incidental, and not to be mentioned.

[sysig]

Dr. “Has to get a good grade in therapy” Doran (Patreon)

[askchilchuck]

Hi! I’m the last person who… uhm… asked to get adopted…. (I’m sorry I just have a horrible father and what a new father figure:/)

But I drew you as an apology and I hope you like it :D <3

Look, I’m sorry if I came off rude before. I’m just… Not really sure what I even could do for you at this point. Most of you are adults now, there’s no more raising to do in the first place.

And, quite frankly, I’m not sure finding a father figure would help at this point either. It sounds like you’re looking for someone to base your worth on, rather than looking for someone to guide you. It might be good to figure that out first, if you ask me.

[aritsukemo]

I do nothing but cry in this damn fandom omgosh pls yall just let me be delulu and happy for once 💔

I swear everytime I see a post about Wiege an angel sheds tears like can't I just have a thirst edit of Luka and Hyuna instead??? ☹️

AND KEEP YOUR DAMN FUN FACTS TO YOURSELF PLEASE AND THANK YOU SHARING IS NOT CARING!!!!

[langernameohnebedeutung]

the fact that the hospital therapist has canonically been trying to get him to come see her for years. truly, the man, the myth, the character.

[televisionenjoyer]

I've been hating gaiman since it was way out of style and he was this website's princess diana but I think the main takeaway of the whole thing ESPECIALLY if you read the vulture article is not "oh he wrote a rapist author as a bad guy so he knows exactly that what he's doing is wrong he just chooses to ignore the morals of his own writing and be a bad guy on purpose" like no I just think he's a frankly disgusting deeply conflicted and messed up man because he grew up in a cult that fucked him up forever and he should've gone to therapy about it like ANYONE within his circles should have seen the red flags and send him to therapy about it. Genuinely there's been way too much negligence from everyone who wasn't a direct victim but was somehow in the loop for years and I don't feel comfortable turning my gaze to the side regarding that

[shatterdome-underscore]

Nows as good a time as any to share my favorite personal headcanon that in the original timeline before Ron was in the picture Nick thought it would be rad to set up Glenn and Samantha after they met at a school-based grief counselling thing for kids who lost a parent because she was nice and asked Nick how he was feeling and then Terry did absolutely everything in his power to make sure their parents were never even in the same room again because absolutely fucking not

[fayevalcntine]

The whole "Claudia is now his sister"/Louis' sibling comparisons are never gonna sit right with me because that's never going to erase the fact that Claudia exists as a vampire partly because of him. Their relationship will never have this clearly defined role of siblings in the same manner Louis had with Grace or Paul, even if he was their older brother and was implicitly given the role of providing for them as the successor and manager of his family's estate. Because Louis was never responsible in part for their creation, the reason why they existed the way that they do in terms of behavior and life itself.

It also makes his betrayal of her all the more heartbreaking in ways that him and Grace drifting apart never will. He was her father, and didn't provide emotional support for her. She had to turn the tables and try to assume the role of being on an equal level because of this failure but this doesn't make him not choosing her any less painful than it did the first time. Even as they shift roles, take or give emotional responsibility one has towards the other, the fact that Claudia exists the way she does because of him and Lestat will always be there.

[coachbeards]

remembering how people attacked claire for not being more supportive during carmy's breakdown just. "she's a doctor she should know what to do" y'all she is a person first and she has emotions too btw !

[good-wine-and-cheese]

Just feel like talking a little about interesting behaviours that have come out of this version of Tenma I'm writing in my fic. Specifically, about his relationship to "parental instinct". There are two passages that made me think about it, as follows:

In this state, Hiroshi could not comfort his child. Tenma wasn’t sure that he could, either. But… He put his hands on her shoulders, then gently drew her closer. This – it felt familiar, painful. But she fit there in his arms just as Atom, just as Tobio; and he was filled with it, some kind of an automatic instinct that told him this was what he was supposed to do.

In the first he's only really conscious of it in passing; the urge that he should hug Uran is strange and alien. "It" - something that sounds ominous to him.

Tenma could feel it again, that same sense of urgency as when Uran had run to him for comfort. It was a piece of human programming that had a superseding power, the kind that demanded he follow it above all else. Right now, it urged him toward Atom.

And then there's this one; he's more aware of it happening now, and associates it with programming that overrides his natural state of being. Like he's being puppeted.

It's just an interesting thought process that I like thinking about. He definitely has parental instinct, but it's been repressed so much for obvious reasons and is associated mostly with pain and failure. So he almost can't think of it as something internal to him, and instead views it as something that takes over him. Like it's a computer virus, like mind control. Something that "happens" to him - he's not responsible for those feelings and can safely separate himself. And even though it's generally a positive force (telling him that he should be comforting Uran and Atom respectively) he kind of hates it. Probably because he knows it's a part of him.

I dunno, just interesting things that have worked their way into writing Tenma.

[light-wrath-paradise]

Using my psychology knowledge to give a fictional character the MMPI-2 questionnaire is possibly the only thing my knowledge is good for

[nobodybetterlookatme]

If your boyfriend is making you feel like that, then you're better off without him anyways. A s/o should never make you feel like you can't be yourself in order to receive love <3

This ain't about him 😭