#sh salt

[lilybug-02]

Patience and responsibility....that's a promise....right?

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An exorcism? In my family-friendly Deltarune? It's more likely than you may think. The backgrounds here were very interesting! Much more complex than how I usually do them (especially that computer).

Player POV:

Feral energy.

[cowboy-caboodles]

Your art is rad! Would you draw Crutchie in the winter?

me and crutchie 🤝 the agony of using crutches in the ice/loving the winter anyways

(thank you for the kind words btw!)

edit: I FORGOT HIS FRECKLES 🙏🙏

[kaylovesdrawing]

Since you guys seems to like dredge and scarlet hollow collab, here have another one😂

Here is Stella In dredge art style, and of course gretchen! Best doggy. I think it will be fun if each character is on a different location. I think she fits Gale cliff nicely

I would think she would be pretty chill about the situation, and would probably pretty excited to try and catch footage of the serpent in gale cliffs for her youtube channel😂

[ogressemarama]

SPOILER ALERT MIRACULOUS LONDON SPECIAL

On the other hand, I reaaaally hope that all that "not telling Adrien"'s situation won't alter the relationship between my two other girls Kagami and Marinette...

I was so happy that Marinette and Nathalie seems to grow closer! It kinda spoiled my mood a bit when Kagami coldly thanks Ladybug when she lost her words in front of Adrien...

OF COURSE, I am not being salt on Kagami, I totally understand her reaction and she is being in character to act like that but their friendship with Marinette was so charming during the last two seasons! 🥲

Bref! Can't wait to see how their relationship will evolve in season 6!

If there is any tensions between them, I would prefer it to be about Felix creepy behaviour...🤨

[comics-and-fanworks]

The Bird Has a Question

Okay Hi, y'all so we've all seen Shadybug and Claw Noir right? Well, I Was curious about something, hear me out.

So Chat Noir means Black Cat right?

and Chat Blanc means White cat. Y'all following?

So now we have CLAW Noir, Black Claw.

So, if this guy was akumatized, I guess into a hero or something, would he be

What flavor do we think White Claw would be?

Anyway I thought about this dumb joke the other night and thought "lol" so here y'all go. I'm so sorry for this. Byeeeeee.

[disassociation-culture-is]

Tw s/h mention

Dissociation culture is using self harm as a grounding method because its the only one easy enough to remember and do while your dissociated

Anon, although I can resonate with this, that is called a harmful coping mechanism - you should experiment, and see if you can find other grounding methods!

[sayakxmi]

The interesting thing about it is that at the first glance it really seems like Kankri’s losing it over nothing. Which, to be fair, he kind of is. Porrim was just being nice to Karkat. But his reaction becomes... actually understandable, given later on we find out that Porrim has no respect for Kankri’s personal boundaries, like trying to touch him, which is the only real instance of us seeing Kankri lose his composure.

And of course the nickname thing, as well as the sweater thing.

And then acts pale toward him at the first opportunity:

An idea he finds uncomfortable. Like any other potential romantic relationship with her.

So while he is overreacting in that one conversation with Karkat present, he’s also doing this, because Porrim apparently never took his “no” for an answer, so he clearly has to repeat himself over and over again.

[absentmoon]

endeavoring convincing my parent to get me another spamt plushie considering they um Destroyed Mine and made myself desperately sad =-_-=

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

poetry. putting under the cut bc potentially triggering mention of suicide/ideation/sh.

The days they pass like wine

The nights like drunken grief

I wash with stuff unclean

And wonder why I fail.

I go to God with hands outstretched

Receive an answer faint and dim

"Come to my arms and take from me

The water fresh and pure

Wash out the bad and all the dark

And live as you were born."

Hands, my hands are scarred and frail

They reach and trembling drop

An inch away he holds the stuff

And I collapse and cry.

I cannot reach so far as some

Can limp not stride or dance

God helps the weak, but what of me

I try and yet, I fail.

A thousand times I've made a plan

A hundred times I've cut

Look at my hands, and look, my side

My self-made saviour, self made weak.

The pain is never great enough

To clean the sins I've done;

To die in awful agony

Would fit the one I am.

The plans I burn, like I would burn

If my mind had its way

Delete them from my little world

As I too would be gone.

A thousand times I've made a plan

Some days I make a few

The easy, not the best, idea

A coward I'd be. Coward I am.

The pain is never great enough

To clean the sins I've done;

Yet God be thanked he sent his Son

And self made man must fade.

The knife, it tempts

And death, it beckons

The world is hard and living harder

And pain then seems the only way

But ever there is God, so close

Saying, "Come and trust me

Let go of all, and fall

And fall out of your own desires

Into safety, truth, and love."

[dorothygale123]

Welcome back to the conspiracy board, where we nitpick things way too much!

Now, in the past couple posts I talked about how Chiyou and Yandi, the Red Emperor, both rebelled against Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor. This time we will be coming up with reasons they may have rebelled in the first place. Please note, this is all just speculation for funsies and has no historical basis.

Yandi is pretty easy. Considering that his son/grandson/whatever Chiyou is of similar age to Huangdi, maybe he just didn't want to bend the knee to his baby brother. And when you consider they were only half brothers, that could turn up the heat on the drama too. No matter how you spin it, at least one of them is the result of either an affair or a previous relationship, which leaves lots of room for hurt feelings. However, since Yandi is very notably NOT executed after his rebellion, we can assume they worked it out somehow.

Chiyou, on the other hand....

See, the idea for this theory/ramble/psychotic rant came to me while I was reading one of my books and came across a god named Kui. He's a thunder deity with one leg that is depicted in many forms, such as a dragon or a monkey, but in my book was said to be an ox. His only notable myth is being killed by Huangdi and having his pelt turned into a drum and his only leg becoming the drumstick.

As you may recall, Yandi and Chiyou are both ox-y boys with bull heads, so I got to thinking... what if Kui was somehow related to Yandi and Chiyou? What if Huangdi killing Kui was what soured his and Chiyou's friendship? Even if Huangdi had a good reason (and it should be noted that in the myth, he doesn't- he's just jealous of how loud Kui's thunder is) killing a relative could turn a friendship on it's head pretty quickly. It could also give more context as to why Chiyou went to Yandi first in his conquest- he might have expected that his grandfather, who had also rebelled once before, would be as outraged as he was but ended up being disappointed in Yandi's lack of concern. As such, his relative was the first to be attacked.

It also could explain why Chiyou was executed while Yandi wasn't- Yandi and Huangdi just had some petty family drama to sort through and were eventually able to talk it out, but the rift between Huangdi and Chiyou started with a death and eventually ended with one. Killing someone's relative and turning their corpse into a drum is a bit more weighty than petty sibling drama, after all.

Anyway, that's my conspiracy theory, feel free to use it as a creative writing prompt.

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[sharpth1ng]

Love debaser, love that you’re a psych major. I am also so that’s awesome. I feel like tbh that’s probably why you’re good at characterization as well. I was wondering how you can tell in general if someone is autistic vs bpd? You’ve talked about Billy’s psych before, and I am just wondering if you can talk about it generally too.

Thanks so much! Essay incoming:

So I would say take all of this with a grain of salt, I'm not a clinician- I work with clinicians but this isn't my specialty and personality disorders should really be diagnosed by specialists.

But generally the best evidence we have about the development of BPD is genetic vulnerability (Things like emotional sensitivity and impulsivity can have a strong genetic component) in combination with an invalidating or unsupportive social environment. What counts as a trauma for someone depends heavily on what their level of sensitivity is, and also what resources they have to deal with it, so the idea is that bpd is essentially something that develops when someones emotions and needs are invalidated consistently from a young age.

It becomes hard to trust other people and also your own feelings, and you may learn that you have to do things like lying to get the help an support that you need, or that your emotions are so large and you have so little support for them that the only way to cope is to harm yourself. All this is to say that bpd, trauma, and invalidation are closely tied together.

Now moving on to the connection with autism, because theres a not insignificant number of autistic people who are also diagnosed with bpd. This may be a slightly sweeping statement, but at least for myself, being an autistic child was inherently traumatizing. I was constantly subjected to sensory hell in school, around other kids, and particularly at meal times, and my meltdowns were perceived as intentional tantrums. On top of this I would lose the ability to speak sometimes and this was also taken as an intentional behaviour.

Because there are so many things neurotypical people don't even notice that are traumatic to autistic folk (like fluorescent lights or an unexpected change of plans) we are constantly invalidated, especially when we are young. Basically here I'm just trying to explain why the overlap exists.

No on to differentiating the two, this is a useful diagram:

The real answer here is that we're still really trying to figure out exactly how these two disorders interact and how to differentiate them and in my opinion theres a lot of terrible research in personality disorders, and a lot of unqualified people giving out diagnosis (don't trust your family doctor to diagnose you with a mental disorder, they at most got like a month training and psychologists, psychiatrists and counsellors study this stuff for for 6-8 years).

There is also some evidence that autistic people who were assigned female at birth are more likely to be diagnosed with bpd than people who were assigned male at birth who have the same symptoms, so there might be a gender bias in the way that diagnosticians perceive people too.

There are some bigger differences to look at though, so things like sensory symptoms (sensitivities but also stimming), special interests, neurodivergent body language, literal interpretation and introversion are more common for autistics. In contrast, people with only bpd are more likely to have a history of childhood abuse or neglect, heightened sensitivity to perceived social threat (which some autistic folk may be oblivious to), drastic emotional up and down, and personality instability, where they frequently change values, hobbies, opinions, friendships, ect. (while in contrast most autistic people are pretty consistent on those things.)

One of the most important things is to figure out why behaviours are happening- for example, self harm and substance abuse are common for both groups, but for autistics these behaviours are often a way to compensate for sensory overload and anxiety, while for people with bpd they are a way to deal with feelings of emptiness or overwhelming emotion.

Another example would be difficulty in relationships- for autistic people this often comes from an inability to spontaneously produce neurotypical social behaviours, so a lot of us miss cues or copy and paste behaviours to try and blend. In contrast many people with BPD have an unstable sense of self, so their social behaviours can seem "disorganized" from the outside, and they may miss read situations because they constantly looking for threats so they can try and protect themselves.

Personal history is also important- if someone has a deep distrust of people because they were neglected as a child, this may point to bpd, but if they have a distrust of people because the weren't able to read their peers and got severely bullied for special interests in elementary school, then this may point to autism.

And again, some people do have both! But it's honestly really difficult to differentiate them without seeing a diagnostician over a long period of time. Its super important though, effective treatment for an autistic person is different than effective treatment for people with bpd, and for people with both its different as well.

I hope this is somewhat clear! I don't want to simplify any of this because it actually is really complex and I just want to be honest about that.

[chronomally]

Anyway I just think Jiang Xing and "Arms Tonite" by Mother Mother

[theinfinitedivides]

not even in a dating show i can escape the clutches of a Subway sponsorship. what part of their soul did South Korea sign over why they are literally everywhere i need to know

[maximaxstreasurebox]

Me,after catching up with Honkai story updates:

So you're telling me that what we (& Fu Hua) thought as Previous Era is not lots of time that gone by BUT a SAMSARA that basically RESETED the world back to zero(not literally), and the cryopods probably were for the prev era survivors to not be affected by Herrscher of Finality's power, so that's why there's two Mei & Himeko s, herrschers numbered from 1 to 14 instead of 15 and further and if not the same but similar herrscher powers appearing again, and the possibility that (if we go by Genshin Sumeru Quest 2 logic) the reason PROJECT:ARK failed to communicate back to Earth was bcuz it was outside the samsara's range-

(take it with salt)

*inhales* boi-

[dandelionjack]

listen i’m not saying it means anything at all but these are all from the same episode

DOCTOR WHO (2005-) | ‘Wild Blue Yonder’

[flight-freedom]

How are you- are you doing okay?

Me who has only had a quart of water to drink and only eaten a PB&J and bowl of cereal all day and is very dehydrated:

FinE! I'm doin' alright.

*stumbles walking away*