#i KNOW it is demand avoidance. i know it

[megkuna]

i know it's just demand avoidance acting up sometimes but nothing is more stressful to me than feeling like someone is trying to manipulate xyz emotional response out of me. i do NOT need you to be my mother. please

[starry-bi-sky]

Love and hate can sometimes cross wires - DPXDC Ficlet

She props her up against the far wall, and kneels before her, fingers deceptively gentle against her cheek. Danyal is cold and trembling, her once bronze skin now dull. She meets her other half— self— sister— mother— predecessor’s eyes, and they are still wet. But now they are sharp, focused on Her face.

Danyal takes a shuddering breath, one that wracks itself down her spine. One that She can feel sinking into her — their? — shared soul. “You’re going to kill me.” She says, matter of fact, something like grief choking in her voice, making it shake.

She blinks at Her mother—sister—friend— predecessor, a feeling She knows is horror but thinks is hatred filling up Her lungs. Her cool palm trails kind down to her throat, Her talon fingers wrapping around the fragile skin. With very little effort, She could break her little neck. “Yes.” She murmurs, a sound only the two of them can hear. “I am.“

Her mother-sister-other half— predecessor shudders again, and yet makes no sound. Simply goes limp with acceptance in her arms. She doesn’t bother to even fight; she looks tired. Make it quick, it’s like she says.

I will. She promises, running the gentle padding of Her thumb along her jugular. It’s the only mercy She thinks She’ll ever give. But first…

“Give me a name?”

(Mother— sister— mine—) Danyal stares at Her, confusion parting her slowly paling lips. There’s silence between the two, thickening the air like the rise of an oncoming storm. Hurt and rage begins to toil beneath Her skin. Was the thought of naming Her so abhorrent, that she’d rather not say a thing at all? Her name is nothing?

Before She can take Her anger out, Danyal breathes in sharp. The sound is painful, jarring like jags of broken glass. She raises a hand, her palm — rough and calloused, proof of her fourteen years of life, of hardship — finds Her cheek too. It’s almost loving, the way Danyal swipes her thumb across Her skin, her clammy fingers tucking a strand of hair behind Her ear.

An emotion sweeps across her, boiling and toiling, burning hot and consuming her whole. Thick, bubbling in her throat, curling behind her teeth and under her tongue and tinging her peripherals with spots. An overwhelming emotion.

It must be hatred, she thinks. What other feeling can encompass one so much?

When Danyal breathes out, so with it comes a name; “Layal.”

Danyal always did love the nights.

(If you ask the Mother of Monsters why she killed Danyal al Ghul, she’ll tell you it was because she loved hated her.)

[puppyeared]

learning abt friendship decay and "not reaching out to your friends for months at a time unprompted is not neurotypical behaviour" has me feeling a certain way

[realredbanana]

Every time I remember that canon!Will Solace kinda sucks if you think about it for too long, I feel like crying. Idk. Like, what do you mean my beloved boy whom I love dearly actually kinda sucks, but the narrative ignores it and pretends like everything he does is Totally Fine??/hj

(Not saying all fanon!Will is great! He’s sometimes not.)

[elftwink]

one thing thats so interesting about being a vegetarian is you get to hear all about everyones hypothetical activism that they care about very deeply when talking specifically about your diet and why it's stupid, but literally will never bring up ever again in any other context

[plounce]

my emoooootional issues and my physical iiiintimacy issuuuues

[aurangg]

I really don’t like it when people tell me what to do, especially if I was already planning to do that thing. I will now not do that thing just because you told me to do it. You’ve ruined both our days now.

I take being told what to do as the other person assuming I’m stupid. I don’t need you to give me orders, I’ll do what I want and I’ll do it my way.

[rabbiteclair]

a while back my mom discovered that the owner of the company was stealing basically all of the money that he was supposed to submit for things like 'taxes' and 'health insurance' and 'court-mandated payments' for the employees, listing them on the pay stubs but then pocketing the money to help keep the company afloat

she then made sure that everybody in the company knew, submitted her resignation effective immediately, and spent about the next week calling government offices to report every crime, regulatory violation, and breach of employment contract that she could think of. and now it looks like the series of investigations that she kicked off might be the thing that finally destroys this man's company.

sometimes I'm proud of her

[toxifoxx]

i dont get the complaints about like > reblog banners... everyones talking about how it pisses them off and makes them not want to reblog but ive gotten way better ratios ever since i added it . and quite frankly if you're rude about it and dont want to reblog artists i dont really want u on my posts anyways...? i mean most of these people were never going reblog in the first place, so if they're not adding to my like count, good riddance imo!!

[sisterdragonwithfeathers]

Prayers please

Trying to help a chronically ill friend understand that she CAN say no to things that are too much for her,

and that she absolutely needs to do something Right Now about the fact that she's somehow let herself end up working 40 hour weeks late into the night (11:30 PM), while doing school,

when she lives at home and doesn't technically need the money and the main reason she's working at all is that she wants to be independent one day and hasn't yet accepted that she has to scale her efforts to what SHE is capable of not what "normal" people are capable of

[anthromimicry]

[dykesynthezoid]

PDA is crazy I finally sent an email reaching out to a specialist about getting evaluated for autism which I’ve been trying to get myself to send for weeks and she, amazingly, got back to me in the same day and instead of being relieved and excited about this my initial instinctive response was instead anger and disgust bc ew lmao why are you literally crowding me like that

[its-a-me-mango]

GLITCH's response TL;DR

not even blaming management for this as they're apparently just as overworked as everyone else. Also why are they responding instead of upper management, come on guys if this was a mistake like your VA manager says surely you have something to say as well, they're your employee there's still accountability in that.

[gay-victorian-astronomer]

okay I am SETTING a DEADLINE for myself because if I don't I will fiddle with this fic forever and never finish it, and that would be BAD because I have to get started on my fic for the pale static exchange and I really need to get the one I'm currently working on off my plate

july 9th (to mark a year since I first beat disco elysium). next tuesday. 6 days from now. if I have not posted a new work to AO3 by the end of that day you all have permission to harass me in my ask box about it until I do

[brown-little-robin]

my last week, a visual demonstration

[italicized-oh]

so I should be writing a conference paper but. instead I am thinking about jace and anger. specifically autistic meltdown rage. like. god. being told what you do looks easy and so why do you complain about it / what could you possibly be upset about you have such Talent such Gift. and just being absolutely furious with nowhere to put that rage except. no. I shan't say

yes I shall say. put that rage in his hole!!