Happy Gotcha Day Blu! Almost forgot! Thankful for my backup memory, fb! February 17, 2020 is the day we brought him home from the foster, right before the pandemic went full on crazy! In mid-March everything shut down so I had three months to be with him. Every hour of every day. It certainly helped us get to know each other. It wasn't easy, I have admitted I didn't love him for practically a year. I took care of him as I would have taken care of Jake, he wasn't lacking for care or attention. I just couldn't feel a bond. Jake was just a part of me, and I know some of you know that feeling. Slowly though, as we developed our own little routines, he became more trusting and affectionate. He is not a cuddle dog. But he has his little moments, a welcome home greeting with a lick on the face, laying half on my feet, lol! I love him dearly now, and I know Jake wouldn't mind that this is now Blu's home too.
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Reading qphil's arc as DID makes his conversation with Tallulah so much more emotional to me.
(Rose) She used to protect us but now she can't . We can't talk about him (Ender). Talking about it causes more problems, it's going to make people ask more questions. We can't go telling people these secrets.
like, this is a conversation that people with DID who have families who know about it have, or even just people with DID talking to their alters. you can't tell your friends and your neighbors and your doctors and people you know, it's not safe. it makes people ask questions, makes people question your safety and sanity and everything else.
"I'm doing this for us?" "Are you?"
This is a conversation that people with DID have with themselves a Iot. Is what we're doing actually to help each other, or just ourselves? Is it just to maintain an unhealthy and sometimes dangerous status quo? It applies similarly in a dynamic with a family, especially one so open and close as Phil's.
You can't be telling people, Tallulah. Its gonna cause problems, okay. They're going to want to ask more, I'm going to have to explain this now. It starts a web of lies.
Most people with DID live covertly. That is, you probably won't know they have it unless they tell you. They mask and they hide and they lie, frequently even from themselves. Many people don't know they have the disorder because they are so deeply hiding. Denial is a key symptom.
Phil, like Fit said in the stream, isn't a very good liar. This is true. But holy fuck is he good at avoiding, minimizing, denying, and dissociating from it all.
And, most importantly:
"I'm sorry for shouting at you... You broke our trust. We weren't supposed to tell anyone else."
People with DID often view themselves as a 'we,' on account of the multiple separate states of identity. The 'we' is Phil, Rose, and Ender.
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character appreciation posts with heavily modded appearances, my beloathed
like you can do it of course, it's none of my damn business what someone does in their own games and neither do i care much, but.... i can't deny that i find the cognitive dissonance of claiming to love a story about identity and personal agency (which is reflected deliberately in the character design), and then changing said design because you don't find it aesthetically pleasing enough, endlessly ironic
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I think Blu's doing a rather well GSD impersonation here! Posture and the fact the groomer massively cut his leg fringe and trimmed his crazy tail. Never again!
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Was feeling gloomy about all the yuppies but then I saw a wizard in the Heights so maybe its not all bad
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