#rat study

[star-anise]

I really wonder if trauma theorists who say things like "Humans are the only animal that will be in a fright state when physically safe" or "the rest of the animal kingdom doesn't get PTSD" have ever, like

Do you think they've actually ever met an animal?

[mrghostrat]

god, i know i drew all day but my brain so empty i just wanted to draw a little more <3

[veryintricaterituals]

[nosnexus]

Wanted the Rat Grinders to have a proper cover.

(In a perfect world I'd make a variant cover with The Bad Kids and the Ice Feast)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Actually, the bars aren't so bad anymore.

Think you can fix him? Read about his care instructions over at Tiger Tiger)

[n1ckelpistol]

teeth

of course hes removing the lettuce

[donutfloats]

Can you draw maid red crown please with cherry on top?🥺🙏🙏

Red Crown ain’t got no clue what’s going on

[paperfen]

BPD Torbek hehe @r0b0t-j0n3z you fueled me to make this <3 And yes, Torbek slipping out of using the third person was no accident :3

I sent this to my boyfriend before posting it and they fucking instantly clocked it as me projecting and that is SO funny to me oh my god. They said me and they were right, it was literally meant to be me. Bestie how did you know (I say, with clown makeup on because it was literally so obvious)

And heres some comfort for your hurt <3

[trashratsaws]

eef

[veryaren]

being fully honest I think nortorphrick is the holy trinity of toxic yaoi

[fearmakess]

from love to hate and from hate to love. I'm terrified...Micah is hot..... 🫣🫣🫣

[tokay-blog]

As I recall, they're forest rats

[ratective]

house study

[beemovieerotica]

everyone (human research scientists) want me carnally (have been consistently selecting me for paid neuroscience studies because i'm the only trans person who has responded to their ads and there is a systemic lack of conclusive science on the bodies and brains of people who do not fall under particular dominant demographic) and i'm being paid big money for it

[artificergorgug]

Been thinking a lot about how Fabian uses the word triggering. He uses it in reference to the sexy rat, to the term 'turncoat', and (i believe) about Chungledown Bim

And he says it like a joke, right? Like the point is that Lou is making a joke because haha a sexy rat and a mirror abandoning Fabian and a funny-named gnome that wants to shit in his mouth are all funny concepts so why shoudn't it be funny that they're traumatizing

Except, I think Fabian is using that term earnestly. I think he is genuinely upset by how a sexy rat wanted to violate him in the nightmare forest and that in order for him to progress he had to lay down and give coerced consent to it

I think he is deeply hurt by people he loves leaving him. Sure, this time it's a mirror being a 'turncoat', but it's also his mom going on vacation with Gilear. And thinking about how Fabian interacts with Cathilda, treats her like a parent and a caregiver, you have to think that his dad was at the very least emotionally unavailable (if not physically so) and we all know about his mom's sensory deprivation egg

I think Chungledown Bim terrifies him in ways he can't articulate. The representation of how he's fallen short of his father's legacy persuing him endlessly. Being given spells and wealth and access by his devil father. Tracking him down to degrade him in an extremely visceral way

Fabian says that things are triggering with a smile on his face and a laugh in his voice. He's learned that saying the uncomfortable thing means money being thrown at a problem. He's learned that you're supposed to distance yourself from your feelings, to self-medicate

He doesn't have the skills or the practice to tell his friends in all seriousness that the things they say bother him. Remind him of his hardest days - in Leviathan, the Nightmare Forest, the Red Waste

And the part that hurts the most is that if he had this earnest conversation, his friends would be there. They'd respect him. Maybe help him unlearn some of the lessons that have shaped this ineffective request for help in the first place

But he doesn't ask and he says it as a joke and they hear it as a joke and nobody heals

[rask]

4 NATIONS - feb 12, 2025

marchand's old school gloves (f**k yeah)