#i want to cuddle her

[dr-spectre]

The way my fucking jaw hit the floor seeing CALLIE PULL OUT THE AIR GUITAR AGAIN AFTER SO MANY YEARS!!!!

AND THE LITTLE TWIST TOO!!! AHHHHH!!!!! HER JOYFUL BIG ASS SMILE AND WAVE TO THE AUDIENCE I CAN'T TAKE IT!!! I'M MELTING INTO A PUDDLE!!!! MY HEART IS LITERALLY GOING "BBBBTTTZZZZ!!!!!!!"

I feel so warm and fuzzy.... so energised.... I can't fucking go to sleep because all I'm gonna be thinking about is Callie Cuttlefish and when I think about Callie Cuttlefish I GET EXCITED AND SO HAPPY!!!!!!

She's both my serotonin AND dopamine pill. And I am ADDICTED!! I NEED MORE OF HER!!!!

WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME?!?!?!

[sscieloz]

am i insane or is she looking like tzu here

[squiglluwu]

What its like sleeping next to your trans gf

[everythingwasnormalhere]

pls rb if you think cuddling doesn't have to be s3xual

im tryna prove a point to my bf's mother help me out

[letaot-ze-magniv]

Autistic katniss makes so much sense I will die on this hill

Adhd and autism solidarity

[untitledgoosegay]

re last reblog I do see fanfic culture pushing/replicating a certain model of "what trauma looks like," "how trauma works"

this is a problem across all areas of society obviously, but transformative works are, well, transformative. they're about crafting and modifying narratives where the fan-creator sees a flaw or a lack -- often for the better! don't get me wrong, I've done my fair share of "I take a hammer and I fix the canon," it's the main thing that gets my creative gears spinning -- but what happens when that "flaw" is simply a narrative not conforming to popular expectations?

some people just don't get PTSD from events that sound obviously traumatic. they're not masking, and they're not coping; they just straight-up didn't get the permanently-locked stress-response that defines PTSD. they walk away from a horrible experience going "well, that sucked, but it's over now." some people do get PTSD from events most people wouldn't find traumatic. we don't really know why some people get PTSD and others don't. but fandom has an idea of events that must be traumatizing, of a "correct" way to portray trauma. you see the problems with this lack of understanding in e.g. fans pressuring the devs of Baldur's Gate 3 to add dialogue where the player character badgers Halsin about his own feelings on his abuse -- because he must be traumatized, and his trauma must fit a certain mold and presentation of sexual trauma, under the mistaken impression that anything outside that narrow window is somehow "wrong" and disrespectful or even harmful to survivors.

take, for another example, the very common trope of a traumatized character who hates touch or sex "learning" to like touch or sex as a part of their healing process. certainly that can be healing for some people; other people will never like, or want, touch or sex, because of trauma or because they just don't. the assumption that someone who doesn't want sex or doesn't like to be touched must be traumatized, must be suffering from this perceived lack, is seriously harmful -- to asexual people, to people with sensory issues around touch, and to people for whom healing from trauma means freedom to refuse sex or touch.

and there's a secondary trope, one that's slightly more thoughtful but ultimately repeats the problem -- that once someone has learned that their boundaries will be respected, they'll feel it's safe to soften those boundaries. once they feel safe refusing touch or sex, they'll feel comfortable allowing it on their own terms. but many people don't, and many people won't! many people will simply never want to be touched, and never want sex, and they are not suffering or broken or lacking because of it. the idea that proving you'll respect someone's boundaries entitles you to test those boundaries -- the paradox is obvious, and yet this is something i've seen hurt (re-traumatize) people i care for.

people are imperfect victims. people don't heal in the ways you expect. many people have positive memories of their abuse, of their abusers. many people hurt others in the course of their trauma, in ways that can't easily be unpacked in a 5k oneshot. very few narratives of trauma and recovery actually fit the ones put forward by popular children's media and romance novels -- which are the ones I most see replicated in fandom spaces, because they provide the clearest narrative and easiest catharsis, and so they're easy and soothing to reach for.

that's not necessarily a bad thing! i am not immune to goopy romance tropes. i am not immune to teary catharsis. not every fic has to grapple with ugly realities. but there's a problem when these narratives become predominant, when people think they're accurate and realistic depictions of trauma, when the truth of trauma is unpleasant and uncomfortable, and doesn't fit any single narrative, let alone one of comforting catharsis

[embrace-your-illithid]

heere she is..… my illithid tav creature....… my sunshine goth pink sparkle princess paladin.… naive -2 int will drop a divine smite a-bomb on whoever threatens her lynchpin bf…... loyal lapdog to the very end, won't break her oath so she is the most cringefail starving mindflayer in toril.... Qurrn ✨🦑☀️

[peacockrulz]

An Well Made Excuse To Post My Specific Headcanons I've Had Since The Show Came Out

[gunstellations]

cuddle ball

[dr-spectre]

OMGMGMGMGMGMG MARINAAAA!!!!!! THE AUTISTIC ICON HERSELF!!!! THE QUEEN!!

YOU'RE SO PRETTYYYYY OH YMYNROW929E9QO1KE9AJW9DDNQPEJDOQN3ODJSKWKW!!! Hziqoes9qiiw!

Sorry I had a stroke. Anyways. Uh.... I LOVE YOU MARINA!!!!

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[gdn7-dollopole]

No because then I think about how much comfort and softness Arthur had to give up since his childhood. No parent figure he could actually admire and be proud of. He couldn’t even be a good husband to Guinevere, he had to be a leader and stoic, he couldn’t cry, and those rare moments where we see him letting himself go, he hugs Gwen so fiercely, he smiles so widely, so entirely, and that’s when your heart breaks, because you see him empty, like something’s missing, and then you realise all those small touches between him and Merlin are all he had ever had. Arthur ‘you’re the only friend I have and I couldn’t bare to lose you’ Pendragon; Arthur ‘Why are you so upset?’ Pendragon; Arthur ‘I haven’t seen you smile these past three days’ Pendragon; Arthur ‘I think we would probably get on’ Pendragon;

Arthur ‘Just… Just hold me’ Pendragon.

He treated Merlin like he wanted to be treated. He did it clumsily, but he still tried. Arthur only ever wanted to be cherished with soft care and tenderness, and I’m glad that was the last thing he got before dying.

And from Merlin, of all people.

(let’s also not forget that Arthur held Merlin’s hand before he died. He stroked his hair, and smiled before going away. In the end, that’s all he ever longed for)

[xbriizx]

A moment of peace...

CUZ THAT’S ALL I WANT

[fleshprofessor]

Jon doodles :] some headcanons (or facts if this is my interpretation of the character??) in the tags

[mynabirb]

An Shiraishi comfort squad assemble!

[tinyshinysylveon]

miri finally getting her own room! ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

sure me wanting to see Charlie in demon form when she's HAPPY as well as when she's pissed partly stems from an emotional health aspect- with a twist of self acceptance- bc she Is A Demon, even when she's happy she's still a hellborn, and it'd be nice for her to be comfy in that

... especially since the awe of heaven and angels has been slightly dampened by the "murdering of her friends" stuff... and the, "were the ones who mutilated and abandoned her girlfriend" stuff... and... yeah

mainly though, speaking honestly,

it'd just be really CUTE if Vaggie casually hooked her tol dmon girlfriend down by the horns for a kiss <3

??? something like this but better and more often idk