#recovery will be a bitch

[serpentface]

Young Jazait mother posing for a lore friendly fishing photo with a sea 'turtle'. This is only a modestly sized adult (the biggest could grow almost three times this size), but a lucky catch nonetheless.

While superficially resembling a turtle (and very often referred to as such), these are actually from an entirely separate order of marine reptiles that has remained successful and widespread enough to keep true turtles confined to freshwater habitats. They occupy a variety of niches, with this particular species being more basal and subsisting on a specialized diet of mollusks.

This animal has a very wide range in shallow subtropical and tropical waters, and can be found along all the Imperial Wardi region's coastlines. The sea-turtles and their eggs are widely considered to be delicacies, and hunting pressures have extirpated them from many heavily fished areas, though the overall population has remained mostly stable.

The meat itself is very tender and resembles veal with vague, oil-fishy undertones. The connective tissue around its shell can be boiled with broths to give it a thick texture that becomes highly gelatinous when cooled. In South Wardi cuisine it's often cooked into a pepper stew and eaten with grits; in Jazaiti cuisine the body is most often gutted and roasted whole in the shell while the limbs are boiled for broth. Their smaller pelvic shell is also traditionally used by Jazait to form the body of a lyre.

[significant-narratives]

they need to be doing everything under the sun to protect joey right now. burn some sage, get that italian grandma to pray for him again, spray him with holy water, bubble wrap him, carry him around every where he needs to go lest he trip (kniesy volunteers as tribute), poison test his food, get jt to make him his very own personalized kombucha batch, promise your first born to gary bettman (known crossroads demon), get him a 24/7 bodyguard (kniesy volunteers as tribute), offer a blood sacrifice to the hockey gods, get him an amulet. do whatever you have to. protect thy goalie.

[janeacular]

do u have a normal relationship with your mother or do you have to imagine yourself violently murdering her mid conversation in order to cope with her presence after everything she's done

[wishchip106]

i wonder how long it took for charles to get out of his habits and depression after dofp

putting my problems on charles lmao

charles not wanting to change but knowing he needs too because nothing beneficial will come out of staying in his sad little bubble of alcohol and the serum.

i find it kind of unrealistic to just be able to get out of that hole. he would be going through two different types of withdrawal and his ex kinda broke his heart again

the main reason he got out of the house was because logan told him about the future and that his sister was going to be tortured and experimented on

he would also have to get re-used to not using his legs AND telepathy

bro stronger than me damn

i feel like mental health was also definitely not treated the same way it is now compared to the 70s so he pretty much just has hank as a support beam

change is an incredibly difficult thing so i bet it took at least a few years for charles to heal from all those years of drinking and taking too high a dose of the serum and depression. even then he still clearly has some lingering habits as we can see in dark pheonix he resorts to drinking whenever he struggles with something (and this is 20 years after dofp)

this guy crazy forreal

[michaels-reality]

Not putting this in the main tag but just a thought: Why do some of you feel the need to draw Grujaja, the Bizzyboy who is the only own showed to have messy hair, with dreads? Don't get me wrong, I love Gruja with dreads, but some of it comes off like his hair is messy cus he has dreads/locs? Especially when he's the only one with dreads/locs.

Not tryna vague post anyone btw, it's just a trend i see happening and it's a lil concerning to me 💀

[cry-baby6]

[brother-genitivi]

sorry everyone, I'm very much alive 🏃‍♂️

sorta homeless, staying with a friend. got a house in my name from the 19th onwards so that's chill! chronically ill, too fatigued to do a lot of things but I'm trying 🤟 kind of accepting that I'm joining the disability club.

trying my hand at art again, but very very slowly easing back into it. appreciate those who reached out to me <3

thinking about you all. missed my moots :)

[bpdohwhatajoy]

You love your favorite character when they’re not at their best. In fact when they’re struggling, you have a warm desire to nurture them and take care of them.

So why is it different for yourself?

[x-psychotictendencies-x]

Throw back to when I was 11 or 12 and broke my own wrist on purpose because I needed attention, I needed someone to see me and take care of me for once. Even for a moment. My mother didn't believe it was broken and waited hours before taking me to the hospital. I wish she knew.

[nesscel]

even though i love negativity i think the only way for ness to get over this kaiser/feeling useless slump is to be optimistic and romanticize his bleak life. like ykw yes that flower growing in the cracks in the sidewalk does symbolize perseverance and shows us that we can bloom even in difficult circumstances and isnt that magical. he’s sensitive he can’t handle being a doomer

[citrine-elephant]

something about leon being fucked up by forces of nature, i tell you.

if this jellyfish/squid/eel thing whatever does have squid aspects....

beaks.

it'd be one thing to be grabbed by a red devil mutant. cephalopod tentacles are terrifying in how strong they are.

but add poison effect? and the power of an electric eel forged in a lab?

if leon was brought in far too close before he could get away, be that rescue or a miracle, that beak could and probably would kill him. but that would be the least of his worries. that would be a mercy.

does he get away with a chunk of flesh torn out? a minor laceration through his tactical gear?

getting out alive would still be hell. sure, a regular jellyfish sting suuucks. get something like the man o' war and... yeah, uh, medical attention!

leon coming out with thick welts and dark circular bruises. small cuts, maybe larger ones. there's options for the next part.

maybe he's conscious. writhing in pain, only to have the slightest graze on the stings, and writhing away as he's reduced to animal instinct. a back and forth of being so uncomfortable and in pain.

maybe, this pain doesn't wane. maybe, it's just the beginning of a long drawn out process. being in so much agony as fire hotter than the center of the sun scorches every microscopic inch of his nerve endings. for days on end. so much pain he's out cold. medically induced, probably. just so he can tolerate being alive by having the trial run of "death" for a bit.

there's many a thing on this planet. there's gympie-gympie for example. manchineel trees. thinking of things that leave you in agony for a long, long time. some insects, some sea creatures. watched some things of people taking stings that were "mild" at first, but then, in time...

maybe even, we could make it even worse. with blisters that form on the worst of the welts. when the swelling comes down, they only seem to grow. infection.

practically on the brink of death, barely escaping the fate of sepsis, whatever entity above, his chosen warden in this purgatory, keeps him alive and intact. no matter how much blood and tears he'll shed. the chosen guard dog needs his trigger fingers working.

he is never going to the beach again.

[fallout-lou-begas]

isn't the halimede account a transphobic chaser

[janeacular]

went to the mommy issues tag to cope and instead saw porn. this is at least not as bad/unexpected as when I went to the emotional abuse tag to cope and saw yall whump fics. And like no hate at all to the creators of those posts i'm sure yall very talented, it was just jarring? like if I wanted whump I would've searched whump... Was it my heightened state of sensitivity that's causing these feelings? possibly! But the jury's still out so who can tell.

[crayonurchin]

A reminder to OCD folks that a trigger can come from something happy. I just got tickets to an event and I'm really excited, but it's triggered intrusive thoughts of being assaulted. I've gone from excited to nearly spiralling over thoughts of being hurt cuz triggers literally do not care where they come from and OCD will latch onto literally anything in the world.

And that's okay. It's okay that the happy thing is a bit shit right now. Don't engage with the thoughts, don't perform the compulsions. You can only get so upset and so anxious, and when you reach the maximum garbage feeling, it will have nowhere to go but back down.

Take some time to recover from the episode however you need- meditation, exercise, a comfort show, journalling, snacks etc. Just don't perform the compulsions.

OCD wants to make you miserable and even if it succeeds right now, it doesn't mean it'll succeed later.

No matter how shitty I feel today despite getting these tickets, when the time for the event comes, and I go despite my anxiety and intrusive nightmare thoughts, I'll be WAY WAY WAY happier for the experience of the show than I would be for avoiding it.

Everyone has a different experience and there will be always be nuance but for this?

OCD IS A BITCH AND YOU AIN'T A BITCH AND OCD WANTS TO MAKE YOU ITS BITCH BUT THE ONLY BITCH YOU ARE IS A

BAD BITCH

[plasma-packin-mama]

Working on a two page comic but I like this panel so I'm posting it. This is their dynamic right?

[b0amagination]

Psst. You. Yeah you. Smell that? Soon, the smell of fresh mulch will be in the air as your neighbors revive their gardens this spring.

Gosh, wouldn’t it be a shame if your whumpee had been mock executed by burying them alive in a flower patch and the smell of mulch is a huge trigger for them now!

Even better if they’re undead in some way and they remember their burial :D!!!!

Okay, just wanted to tell you!!