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⚠️TW: Panic attacks and anxiety.
Okay sure the clones are very astute and controlled.
What if you put a man who thrummed with the scream of war in peace? When there is nothing to shoot, tear apart, bare fangs to?
Does the scratching under the skin right at the top of their cranium still them to a swivel? Start and stop the machine of calculated carnage only to see the walls of their home, the buildings of safety and faces of loved ones?
The panic when the enemy coils in the mind. The panic. The panic.
It's a panic.
There is no enemy, oh but the body howls with the urge to do something.
#wrote this fighting a panic attack at work.#idk man#the clone wars#sw tcw#clones need mental health support#so do veterans#caretaker cody is well and good but the overstauration does not promote healthy dynamics#clones#clone headcanons#commander cody#commander fox#captain rex#commander wolffe#star wars#posting without looking back
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he’s literally babygirl
edit: new pfp :)
#i love my canonically lgbt poc disabled veteran little guy#can you guys believe they originally wanted to kill him off permanently#i’m so sorry for everything they did to u takashi shirogane#u deserved the world and more#voltron#vld#takashi shirogane#vld shiro#my art i guess#do i know anything abt shading ?? no. pretend that i do tho
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You know what? You know what I think?
I think that if we lived as we were meant to, in larger intimate ("extended family") groups and with more shared labor and time to do it (UBI NOW) people like me would not feel so useless and burdensome because there would be people around to help and to do what neurodivergent people can't while making valuable space for the neurodivergent to do what they ARE good at.
The way we live right now, all right, the way we live right now forces units of two adults to be able to do EVERYTHING or PAY to have someone come do it for them. I have to do the housework. I have to do it! But I am having to do a million different things and most of them I am not good at. I suck at them.
I wouldn't feel like shit, okay, if I had more than one other person around who was not a child and who could do the things I can't, like do the yard and cook and do repairs and basic maintenance; and someone else to split everything else that I like but is too much for me. It would free me to do what I am good at and enjoy. Cleaning, as in the sink and toilet, the windows, the blinds. Taking out trash. Folding, hanging, and sorting laundry.
But because all the shit I can do often relies on other shit being done first, and I can't do or have trouble doing those things, the shit I can do often can't be done. And even the shit I can do, I can't do ALL of it. So I can't keep up, and things get very bad.
We aren't meant to live like this. We are not meant to live like this.
That thought hurts so much because being able to flee the birth family is integral to survival for so many people. I'm so afraid that living in larger family groups would create more opportunities for, say, queer kids to be isolated, rejected, bullied, and abused. But if we gave people enough money to survive, and stopped considering children the property of their parents with no system in place to help them escape bad situations except a system that is often just as bad, just different.
I'm aware that communes and collectives aren't all that successful and are kind of a joke. I don't mean that. I mean a fundamental shift to multigenerational families where taking in "strays" (which my family did) is also normalized so people escaping abuse into existing households was accepted, with these families centered in maybe a couple of different larger residences so not everyone has to buy and maintain their own fucking washing machine and vacuum cleaner, and so people can benefit from large group meals that yield leftovers, and so child and elder care can also be centralized.
Then disabled people and the neurodivergent and sick and injured people, and pregnant people, and grieving people, would not have to either labor through all those stressors or consign themselves to living off an unlivable pittance or being put under legal guardianship.
I'm not saying anything new. People live like this in other parts of the world and maybe it sucks and I am wrong. But I'm just really mad right now because I can either do laundry or clean the sink but not both, and I really think we could improve society somewhat by making it so I did not have to choose one without sacrificing the other.
#im feverish feeling (not a real fever just malaise that i have no other way to describe) from the IBS (which can affect you like that#)#and i don't actually want to do ANYTHING#i would have to even living with others but it would be easier#at the very least i wouldn't have had to clean the microwave earlier which is hard because my arms are like the size of a meerkat's#and i can only reach the back with my fingertips#where is my BF in all this?#WORKING FULL TIME WITH BACK PAIN#yes i AM going to want him to have to do as little as possible when he comes home#he's neurodivergent too and struggles with the same shit#it's all a mess#we are doing way better i didn't realize how deep a drain three very sick cats were#but there's still only two of us#if you are disabled physically OR MENTALLY you should at least get in-home household help once a week or so#there's places that do that but the limitations are usually severe and always rule me out#because im not single im not an elder im not a veteran and im not physically disabled#if we have to ration that sort of thing i can see how on the whole it is more caring to allocate those resources to for example elders#but the fact that i celebrate what help there is doesn't mean i don't get mad that more people can't access it#is2g if i was functional enough snd physically sound enough i would start a charity that did intervention cleaning for people like us#who have fallen behind and can't catch up but can MAINTAIN#and who helped people clean for a few months during and after an illness pregnancy trauma major loss etc. so they could stay on their feet
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i just ragequit a youtube video because the guy said "governments around the world spent billions preparing for the Y2K bug, but nothing even happened!" wrong conjunction there buddy, try "so" instead of "but"
#imagine doing the hardest IT job of all time so well that people think the existence of the problem was a psyop#nothing but respect for MY veterans (people working IT in 1999)
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late to this, but doodles based on @destreza-draws's cute fangame demo! (ft. my ocs/scenarios that aren't official parts of their game, i just have brainworms LOL)
#akia art#olba#baxter ward#olba mc#looking forward to the full release!!#but i hope i'm not infringing on the storyline 🤣 i visited jpn just last yr so i felt Inspired#and i miss doing comics..i'd adapt all of step 4 if i were god's strongest soldier#veteran's discount if u rmb pink and blue
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THIS SCENE—
#DO YOU SEE THE DISDAIN ON HIS FACE—#THAT’S MY KING!!!! THAT’S MY GOAT!!!!!#the sheer aura i felt from ezran in this scene will power me through the next twenty years of life#GOD HE LOOKS SO ✨DISGUSTED✨ IN THAT SECOND FRAME THATS MY FUCKING SON#IN TRUE TDP FASHION RAYLLUM SPENDS THE SEASON BEING ALL CUTE AND LOVEY DOVEY WHILE EZRAN GOES THROUGH FUCKING 9/11#THE FUCKING RED WEDDING#my son is a VETERAN#god ezran ik you’re fundamentally a pacifist and i LOVE that for you but my boy. son. you deserve your hater era more than ANYONE#my boy needs more screen time more love more tlc and by GOD he needs to FIGHT WITH CALLUM#bc WHY is he dealing with XADIA’S BATTLE OF THE SOMME and KATOLIS 9/11 A L O N E#i mean i’m kinda kidding bc ofc ezran gave the go-ahead for rayllum to transport the pearl so callum’s like. not in the wrong here#i jUST THINK ITS FUNNY HOW—#anyway. i stan one (1) king of katolis#tdp#tdp s6#tdp season 6#tdp spoilers#spoilers#ezran tdp#tdp ezran#the dragon prince s6 spoilers#the dragon prince#the dragon prince s6#the dragon prince season 6
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silly redraws tiiiiime :] love these goobers
[characters belong to @abd-illustrates]
#u get a veteran's discount if u remember the first time i drew that first one like. three years ago. jesus the passage of time#anyway !!!! heartless meme redraws are always so fun i wanna do more soon#eira's diet is fucked btw i believe this firmly. also he loooove cigarette#abd illustrates#lance lothaire#alastor creed#eira hale#bandy bellamis#diana shikari#doppel glass#alchemy valentine#puppet scribbles#abd heartless
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in general trying to write a fully canon-compliant wol, as i conceive it, is an interesting project because the wol's life involves such a staggering amount of direct interpersonal violence it is almost beyond comprehension. the only people in the real world who did anything comparable are like, certain executioners for totalitarian states, and that's obviously a very different form of violence.
and like obviously combat in FFXIV should not in any way be taken as a 1:1 with real world violence, not least because the game repeatedly points to the idea that combat can in some sense be a joyous and glorious form of personal expression (as with ravana, susano, zenos, etc.), which doesn't really square with the reality of doing violence. but to even begin to conceive of a character who's capable of doing what the WoL does from ARR on and trying to take it somewhat seriously means basically making an extremely detached killing machine, who's fine using those skills for any rando willing to call the hit they're hiring you for a "quest".
it ends up dovetailing really nicely with the games as written, though; you start ARR being like "i am an instrument of violence directed by others :)" and not talking much or ever registering your own thoughts on anything, because who cares? you're a violence-doing machine. and then one of your friends gets mind-controlled and you gotta fight a might-makes-right fascist and you meet multiple people who think you personally are a really cool person with inherent value in their own right just by being a person and it's like, hm. maybe there are other ways to live. and that parallels really nicely with DRK in HW, and then you and alphinaud deciding that you are tired of endless sacrifices in the name of progress and you are going to save estinien, and then the WoL getting to walk into stormblood having really consciously chosen this fight rather than letting someone else choose for them.
obviously there are a lot of stories you can tell with your WoL but to me this is a big part of why my approach to it necessarily revolves primarily around violence and regret. you spend the core game and two expansions becoming a terrible angel of death and then get teleported to another world where you learn that some people literally consider you a psychopomp who escorts the dead to their final rests. then in the next expansion you meet someone who was unfortunate enough to be on the other end of things during your implacable killing machine days. THEN you accidentally cause the flower that symbolizes grief to be invented. the wol's whole life is haunted by overwhelming grief (mostly that of other people) and terrible violence (mostly their own).
#wolund is a veteran of a full garlean conscription tour for exactly this reason#i was like how do you even make a guy who's this thoroughly dehumanized and capable of doing violence at the drop of a hat#and luckily ffxiv said have we got the horrifying fascist regime for you#lions and lily flowers#shadowbringers spoilers#endwalker spoilers#dawntrail spoilers#this is why i maintain the dawntrail expansion class should have been a healer#though i know that will never happen#but come on! give meteor a break from doing violence!#the funniest part is when zenos comes in and is like hey man maybe doing violence can be a thing that is so fun and so cool#and it turns out it CAN BE if you're doing it at the edge of reality and the only people who might die totally signed on for that#then you wake up back on the ragnarok and it turns out nope violence is still bad actually#to the point where your wol doesn't even really pretend to find the arcadion maybe cool#and is pretty explicitly like i'm going to free these souls from your nightmare of unending combat actually thanks so much#meta: durai report#wol: zodiac brave story#warrior of light ffxiv
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people who don't vote can suck my fat fucking cock for real
#weh the electoral college weh shut the fuck up#there are more things on the ballot than just the president first of all#second of all if voting didnt matter why the fuck would they try to take the right to vote away from people#you bitches are so fucking privileged you cant see past your shitty egoes and do the bare minimum to fight for change in this country#my veteran grandpa refuses to vote hes never voted in an election ever and it makes me want to start killing ppl#i hear the same shit from these able bodied white bitches#shut up mei
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When I’m writing my Modern AU but then try to figure out and calculate how the life I gave the Batch is financially possible:
#I’ll be writing#and then I’ll be like wait how do they own a house in the suburbs in this economy?#so then I’ll be like ok 99 was the homeowner so maybe he already paid it off and now they only worry about property tax and bills#but it doesn’t stop there#now I’m looking up the prices of homes in the 80s#then I start looking up details on VA loans#then I’m calculating ok this sibling has this job so this would be what they make in a year after taxes#then I add them up#but wait#Crosshair and tech are in college how are they affording that?#then I remember the GI bill#but then I’m like ok but what if they go on vacation?#so then I’m like ok they give off the vibes that they would choose to drive everywhere they could within reason#BUT THEN I’m like hold up what if they brought Omega to Disney World#so now I’m looking at ticket hotel and airfare costs#and seeing what military and veterans discounts are#meanwhile this fic hasn’t even been fully written I’m just brainstorming and writing all these details in a brainstorming document#I’ll apply suspension of disbelief and ‘don’t worry about it’ to other things like face tattoos in the suburbs and timeline and ages#but for the financial aspect I’m like ‘how can I make this as true to reality as possible’?#star wars tbb#star wars the bad batch#the bad batch#bad batch modern au#sw bad batch
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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON + minimalist posters (click to enlarge)
#do my tumblr 2012 veterans remember these minimalist posters :')#so fun to make#house of the dragon#mine*#edits*#hotdedit#gameofthronedaily#usermali#userhann#tusereliza#cinemapix#lotrlorien#userelly#asoiafnet#userjake#userleah
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Headcannon: legend has terrible handwriting
This is because he started adventuring really young when his handwriting was still horribly illegible, and has not had time between adventuring to improve his handwriting.
Sure he has improved a bit since then, obviously, because he has to occasionally write a letter or such, but he hasnt had to write consistantly or often so his handwriting is only barely readable, maybe even a bit worse than that
#my lil guy#(he doesnt write in since joining the chain cuz its embarrasing. he's a veteran but he cant even write#(wars find out and he tries to help leg improve. leg doesnt make any progress however and throws the pencil and seathes in frustration)#(why cant he get this one simple thing that everyone knows right?)#i mean my handwriting was still a horrible mess even at 11yrs old so its not unreasonable to think this could have happened#this is one of my better ideas ive had recently#i do a little ramble#loz#the legend of zelda#linked universe#lu#lu legend#headcannons#zelda headcanon#lu warriors#lu headcanons#hc
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Typing "capsaicin snake effect" into the search bar so i can figure out if yakumo can eat spicy food
#it's telling me that primarily mammals are affected#and the few times they tried it on snakes#it didn't really do much except mess with their processing abilities a bit#so what you're saying is that yakumo will primarily not be affected by spicy food.#but maybe with super spicy things#he might get a lil loopy? a lil nose clogged ? a momentary distraction? but no pain#if yakumo's tears are mala sauce then it only makes sense that he can eat mala amirite#mammals are the ones who suffer huh.........#i am imagining the yokai trio eating some hella spicy food#yakumo is eating unaware of the presence of capsaicin. he's happily describing the textural and flavour profiles of the dish#garu is a lil confused. this food hurts a bit. but it's still tasty so... gotta keep eating.. OW drink milk? THEN EAT MORE! YEAH!#kuya is OBLITERATED#for all we know the version that kuya got could have only been seasoned with a bit of black pepper#but old fox scrunches up his entire face as soon as it hits his tongue#and he slams the dish into the trash (with dramatic angry flair) like he's a veteran judge on a cooking show#garu WILL eat that thing out of the trash if you don't stop him#if rei is more bird than man then he won't be affected either#i'm gonna go ahead and think even if he IS more man than bird... he'll still be unaffected.#rei probably eats toxic waste akin to blade and garu levels . he is beyond human. he has experimebnted beyond Mortal Stomachs#blade is in the corner crunching on what you THINK is a candy apple. but it is not that. it is an orb of molten glass#(blade's spicy food is hot metal? yeah. he'll eat that capsaicin like it's nothing. give him an orchard of chillis.)#(actually. maybe don't. because the next time eiden sucks him off there gonna be some COMEDIC consequences)
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love obscure special interests
#if i didn't have adhd i would be in radiology school tbh#skart#skit#mri#mri scan#i just think theyre Neat#but anyway look at this aesthetic ass design#are there any veterans who remember the samurai jack fic I wrote in high school strictly bc i wanted an MRI in it gjgkinkj#it also had a lowkey dogass desc of schizophrenia but it was inspired by a beautiful mind so not like#the holy roman emperor of bad schizophrenia rep probably#idk#now that i have actually taken psych classes and learned more abt it from ppls perspective who have it i wonder how id do that fic over
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redrawing two year old splat drawings. for science
#splatoon#splatoon 2#coroika#splatoon manga#if you remember my rampant coro phase you need like. some veterans discount. sorry JSBDSJRWNFA#n-pacer#quirinahdraws#i drew so many portraits of her. favorite character syndrome#digital#originally this was more rendered I think but I tried 2 lean#harder into the mucha esque style inspo this time#I MISS THE JELLY RENDERING I USED 2 DO WITH TENTAS THOUGH…someday…
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Me reading the description of episode 30: oh, that's fine! that's not so bad! i can deal with that!
Me after listening to episode 30:
#reaction pic by @kalo-pop#so how are we dealing folks.#there is. so much. so many bad decisions.#colin for one is fucked. alice girl you're about to have soooo much guilt added on to you#teddy might not be doing too hot either so with sam that's 3 people that are going to weigh on your conscience!#most importantly though. gwen and lana. *that* was the scariest part of the episode.#gwen has just doomed them all i fear (even more than they already were)#i knew celia was up to something but i was still SHOCKED like oh my god girl you really were not going to hesitate#im *sure* we're going to hear from sam again. i'm sure. i'm just... not sure if it will actually be sam.#or if it will be all him if you get my drift#all in all a great finale! we got to the hole in the universe faster than i expected#but i guess it just feels like that bc im a tma veteran#it was much more manageable than tma's s1 finale at least lmao. i *could not* handle the worm sounds#... oh man what am i going to do on thursdays now???#we do still have the epilogue and bonus content coming but then???#it will be a barren few months#the magnus protocol#tmagp#tmagp spoilers#tmagp 30
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