#it's just HP or Health

[galaxostars]

i drew this v silly doodle for a friend and they told me i should post it so if anyone wants a messy harry and sirius sketch, there you goooo

[gierosajie]

Idea: dead lore characters becoming playable through leyline shenanigans similar to the Hidden Strife event and their voicelines are either directed at someone else or are said by a present character that knew them

Imagine the about sections in Vennessa's voicelines being told by Venti, or things about Crepus told by Diluc and Kaeya, Guizhong's being super long because of both Zhongli and Cloud Retainer, etc.

[curioushabitforarivergod]

what would the doctors visits tom apparently endured have been like? what if he had been institutionalized as he apparently feared? what would have happened to him?

Sorry this took a little while! I had to do some research for this because I'm not super familiar with healthcare from this period.

This is potentially triggering for ppl who are neurodiverse or experience mental/chronic conditions as I'm discussing outdated language and treatments, some which are still prevalent today despite medical suggestion. So after the first part on general healthcare, I'm going to put the rest as hidden.

From what I can gather, general healthcare (like doctors) were largely free for working men, but that left women, children, the unemployed and homeless without. This also means Tom. Tom would've likely been treated, if he ever got ill (and I think its mentioned in Order of the Phoenix that wixen don't get the same health issues that muggles do, although that may just be JKR batshittery), by one of the staff at the orphanage, who would prescribe cod liver oil for colds and thats about it. Penicillin was only discovered in 1928 so its likely kids were still dying from infections, especially in the orphanage. A doctor might've been called for something more serious like a broken bone, but operations still were being done on stuff like kitchen tables, so I wouldn't trust a 20s/30s doctor. There would've been a sanitarium (basically a sick room) although I can imagine that children went there to essentially die, especially from the more dangerous conditions that were rife at the orphanage, which I also discussed here.

(This next part is the potentially triggering section. Read at your own discretion.)

Tom is commonly read, particularly to outsiders (as we are when we view him through others eyes), as neurodiverse or with an Anti-Social Personality Disorder. Especially with his magic, he likely would've been perceived the same way by those at the orphanage, most prevalently by Ms Cole and others in charge as kids just don't notice these things. Germany's Aktion T-4 during the 30s an 40s (the proposed eugenics and selective breeding, but in reality murder, of anyone 'mentally retarded') mirrored the attitudes of the first half of the 20th century. Not a lot was known about how children think anyway, so they were often treated as mini adults or dolls, despite children not even having the mental capacities to comprehend why they're doing something until they're literally 15.

Tom (with whatever condition he does have) would have fallen under the Mental Deficiency Act (1913) which was passed almost unanimously with only 3 votes against it. It was a step forward from the previous Idiots Act (1886), but the language and treatment was still poor. It categorised people into four groups:

a) Idiots. Those so deeply defective as to be unable to guard themselves against common physical dangers. b) Imbeciles. Whose defectiveness does not amount to idiocy, but is so pronounced that they are incapable of managing themselves or their affairs, or, in the case of children, of being taught to do so. c) Feeble-minded persons. Whose weakness does not amount to imbecility, yet who require care, supervision, or control, for their protection or for the protection of others, or, in the case of children, are incapable of receiving benefit from the instruction in ordinary schools. d) Moral Imbeciles. Displaying mental weakness coupled with strong vicious or criminal propensities, and on whom punishment has little or no deterrent effect.

It suggested institutionalisation was the best response to these conditions, and the now-obsolete Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency oversaw this implementation of 'care'.

Tom wouldn't have been aware of what occurred in these places (lobotomies and shock therapy of various kinds for 'treatment', including insulin and forcing seizures; but also horrible treatments of patients by 'carers' including violence and abuse), but would know that it meant you were crazy. Bedlam (12th century — present) was notorious based on rumours alone. Tom would've been genuinely fearful of what happened in those places even though he had no idea himself.

I remember playing games about asylums when I was a kid, and I doubt children in Tom's time were much different, but there was no one around to de-stigmatise and so rumours perpetuated. I think Tom was very scared because he believed his magic was a sign of insanity or a hallucination, and although he probably wasn't politically aware, he realised his own ability to hurt and was afraid of what that meant for him. To Tom, as a young child knowing nothing about his strange powers, being crazy was just as frightening as death because it meant the end of freedom.

[cherry-pop-elf]

HPMA is closing for Global

I guess this will be a vent post, but I just kinda need to get it out. Because it’s a lot to process

As yall know I started this account when I started my HPMA account

HPMA was there for me when I was in a edteremly dark place in my life. My health was a painful mystery, I was starting up colleges, I kept going in and out of the ER, I was basically genuinely wondering if I was dying

Then I was able to meet my friends, through all this. Through having HPMA and starting up a tumblr to share my love of it through writing and drawing

I don’t even care about the money I’ve wasted on this all. It’s just boggling to see and process it all

Sure I can make a new account, start from scratch, but there is still the anxiety of it all being taken away again. And the annoyance of being at the bottom when you were once at the top

There is just to many emotions for my to go into. I just know I’m starting college again with shitty health, like last year, and HPMA is no longer gonna help me this time

I’m having so many emotions right now. I’m sick to my stomach, I can’t stop crying, I’m trying to stay quite so my parents don’t here, I have college to focus on, there’s just to much all going on all at once. I feel like such a baby getting all worked up over this.

I just can’t help but pray that somehow it’s all a bad dream, and the servers won’t shut down. That I won’t lose everything. Lose all my hard work, Victoria, just everything with all its memories

I just don’t know what to do, but cry

Guess the next posts you’ll see from me, for a while, is me mourning

Taking pictures of my fading memories

I’m gonna miss you Cherry-Wood

Olive, Cherry, my babies

Gone

Gonna miss you, and miss my babies. Maybe I’ll have the heart and restart a new account. Maybe. But for now, all I can do is just weep

[wackysach]

Hello, I did not draw this but my friend did. He told me to use my account to send it to you because he did not want to publicly out his Tumblr account. Here you go 😁

AAARGGGHH WHAAAAAATTT !!!!! 💥💥💥

dude. this just lit up my entire week. IT'S SO GOOD !!! the details... ough... 💖💖 the little doodles on their face, the crayon textured background, THE HEART CURL IN THEIR HAAAAAIR !

i sense a new wallpaper change for my phone. this is seriously so incredibly kind. 💜 thank you so much for sharing this with me. and tell your friend i said thank you too !

[mousebattery]

does anyone have any easy to comprehend tips on how to beat ricardo's ass my team is at full strenght and uptie yet he kicks my ass to next sunday every goddamn time and i lost all of my patience braincells on dongbaek who took me like 4 months to finally beat lmao :(

[gothamcityneedsme]

odin does his big scary huge attack. half my demons dodge it, nanashi takes like 180 damage (nothing), and my other demon takes similar.

odin: you are not worthy of valhalla

[freakpercent]

speaking of beast yeast, level 4-19 go fuck yourself heres a moodboard for level 4-19 specifically literally fucking explode into bits level 4-19 we hate level 4-19 round these parts level 4-19 should be cancelled and doxxed and never live a normal life again fuck you level 4-19!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[deer-with-a-stick]

Gale is single handedly ruining every single "haha wizard die from 1d4 poke damage" meme I have because I did the githyanki fight at level 4 (with the party extender mod) in Tactician and by the end of that, Shadowheart, Lae'zel, Karlach, and my paladin were all dead, Astarion was half health, all while Wyll and Gale had nary a scratch on them

[khaotungsfirst]

honestly tho how do you stop caring abt other ppl’s moral compass? i feel like it’s driving me insane… once you’re aware of misogyny and other forms of discrimination you see it everywhere and the feeling of being surrounded by ignorant ppl who either don’t know better or worse - don’t care is eating me aliveeee

[konfizry]

echoes of wisdom was alright!

[itsbenedict]

oh god oh fuck i started playing Porgy off UFO 50 and now it's 1am and i forgot to do. approximately all of my responsibilities. LiH update tomorrow sorry

[cursedwithwords]

I hope everyone is aware that every time I'm writing Teddy Lupin, he's battling this inner monologue:

This is him every second of every day of his life. He is simply waiting for the opportune moment to go gloves off. He is, after all, related to the Black family who are, historically speaking, 100% fucking batshit insane. It's in there, lads.

[aria0fgold]

I just realized that I now have two princesses male characters in hsr that puts one of their arms behind their back and adds a field effect to the battle. I'm going to be collecting two more on the side then to have a full team of princesses em.

[fvaleraye]

decided to boot up Black Reliquary again bc we got tired of refusing to play it until the 1.0 update and just wanted to play it. we completely forgot that the difficulty spike from apprentice to veteran quests is a wall, and that we have... very poor opinions of how punishing the bosses are. don't get us wrong, we get it's supposed to be hard and it's probably just a skill issue, but we genuinely believe that specifically enemy damage needs to be toned the fuck down. we do not think regular enemies should be able to hit for 30+ if they get a good roll at a level where tanky characters have around 100 HP and squishy characters are lucky to break 60. we also call bullshit on the idea that "the third spot is typically safe in most fights except in the caverns", bc literally every area has SOME basic or specialist enemy in every fight that can nuke the third row, it's not just the caverns. third row will get hit by a 56 crit damage flying guillotine or a 30+ crit damage trained slash and there's nothing you can fucking do about it. we love Black Reliquary, but the second we decide to go above apprentice, or god forbid fight a boss, it stops being fun and starts being frustrating, because it feels like every enemy has enough damage to just kill you, and every boss is tuned to be completely unbeatable if you don't bring a perfect team to counter everything they do and still completely ruin you anyway even if you do bring a perfect team because fuck you. Darkest Dungeon, even at its worst, has never given us this feeling, not even on Stygian/Bloodmoon difficulty. it's always the early game that lulls us into a sense of security, bc the early game, once you get used to BR's flow, is WAY less punishing than DD's early game(you start with more money, the prep round gives you time to think, heroes have more health and damage overall, basically all items have larger stack sizes and you get more money overall and you start with everything unlocked, as opposed to DD's early game; where you start with basically no money, money is incredibly scarce for a while, you do not unlock everything until a few quests in, and every hero is generally useless until enough investment is made), but then the second you hit the mid game, or even the late early game, and try to start fighting bosses and doing harder quests, the game stops fucking around and you suddenly live in a constant state of everything being able to kill you in two turns, sometimes one turn if they focus you hard enough, with no warning and no way to really ever stop them, because no healing is going to outpace barbarians hitting your front AND backline for 14-36 multiple times a turn, especially if they roll high and god help you if they crit. we understand that we're probably just not good at the game, but unless you have actual advice to help us get better we don't wanna hear it.

[aqqleshiqqing-archive]

i replayed hypno's lullaby for a quick bit just to feel the nostalgia but replaying dissension made me realize how the strangled red story is probably one of the best creepypastas out there because there's a really good story behind it and it's not just of any ooo scary supernatural shit that every creepypasta falls under - the unnatural playstyle of the game is just the catalyst to tell a good story and the story IS good.

trading is such a simple concept in-game but the genuine horror realizing that a slight mistake in the trade can ruin a simple exchange just to finish a pokedex - which is what happened to poor steven's miki. i can't imagine the guilt mike must've felt and the anger steven carried just for this