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[auschizm]

The thing about support needs is that they're there to measure the amount of support you need to live your life, not whether or not your life is hard. And while both can be disabling challenges, there is a difference between "cooking is hard" and "I will starve if people don't cook for me" which is worth noting when judging the amount of support a disabled person needs to live

[xgoth-mothx]

Now that finals are over, I can start posting again!

Here's another beast, and my first attempt at painting one of my sculptures. I also tried to put more details than I usually do, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!

[nerves-nebula]

Funfact! Alligator snapping turtles will gladly eat younger, smaller turtles, even of their own species :)

[promptsforyourwhumpfic]

Whump Prompt #1256

Submitted by Anon - thanks!

TW: starvation | disordered eating

If a character has become accustomed to prolonged under-nourishment, they probably won't be "fine" as soon as they can eat adequately. Of course there's the psychological recovery from whatever experience(s) they had, but also their body may not remember how to deal with normal amounts of food.

A few things they may experience when they start eating more (severe cases can be dangerous and require medical intervention, these are just in the "unpleasant" range):

Poor appetite and rapid/disproportionate satiety

Bad stomach aches

Increased lethargy/fatigue, in general but especially after meals

Suddenly needing a lot more sleep

Dizziness/shakiness/weakness if they haven't eaten for a few hours, even if they don't feel hungry.

[phleb0tomist]

the recent surge of articles on severe ME is shattering my heart. we’re looking at a live, ongoing portfolio of the NHS’s failure to protect young ME patients, the same failures that cast a shadow over both my childhood and my current life, and it’s so wild that things aren’t changing. there’s no repair, no apology for the highly preventable suffering or the deaths, which are mostly young women.

the improper care of ME patients isn’t because of a lack of funding, it’s because of ignorance & stubbornness. the bare minimum of appropriate care to prevent a severe ME patient from getting worse is to allow them to be somewhere dark, quiet, lying down, hydrated & fed, and somehow the NHS can’t even provide that. my main shred of hope is that this is finally being reported and i wonder if that will be the catalyst for a little bit of repair. i’m desperate to believe it will be

[hurtthemgently]

A game of chess, where whumpees pieces each represent a punishment and whumpers pieces represent a reward.

They loose a pawn, that’s one lash. They capture a pawn, they get warm water for one shower. They loose a rook, a day without food. They capture a rook, they get one hot fulfilling meal.

[compassionatereminders]

It's like they think if you're too disabled to care for yourself it's because you're not motivated and not trying, and that by refusing to do things for you they can motivate you to do more for yourself. Because they generally don't believe in people being genuinely incapable, they think it's always a character flaw that they can force you to work on by refusing to accommodate it. But that's not how disability works, and that's why I starved and lived in filth an entire year I was just too sick to take care of myself while they kept insisting that it was all my own fault for "not working to improve"

[befuddled-calico-whump]

Fae whumper only offering their captive faerie food in an effort to trap them forever

Captive holding out as long as they can, but day by day it gets harder to control themselves when they're starving and there's a literal feast locked in the cell with them

[solar-eclippse]

Cannibalism in whump...

Whumpee is starving. The corpses lying by the side of the road look more tempting by the minute. They swallow hard, and hope they will be able to forgive themselves for doing what they have to do to survive.

Whumper has prepared a meal for whumpee, bigger and higher quality than what whumpee is used to. They should be suspicious, but they are simply too hungry to turn it down, and take a hearty bite of the meat that's served. Halfway through the meal, whumper drops the name of one of whumpee's loved ones, and asks if they taste as good as they thought they would.

Whumper cuts off a piece of whumpee and forces them to eat it. It's all they're going to get.

An intimate/obsessive whumper eats a part of whumpee, or forces whumpee to eat something they cut from themselves, forming a bond between them that can never be erased.

Whumper discussing the sorts of meals they might be able to make from whumpee's meat as they "work" on them.

[lilliancdoodles]

Fanart for Chapter 2/3 of @tastytoastz's fic Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down! I'll make some happier fanart next but the fic has been pretty angsty so far (I love it) go read it if you haven't yet!

[matrose]

nightmare

[pluto-ravensea]

Just thinking about how in atla season one, you see Zuko shirtless a couple times, and that dude is jacked. Like, every minute he’s not searching for clues and chasing the avatar, he’s eating well and training his body. For a 16 year old, that level of musculature is equally impressive and concerning.

But after that, you don’t see his muscles much until the beach episode all the way to season three, and boy oh boy he couldn’t be any more different. He’s freaking emaciated: he’s skinny, his shoulders are less broad, and you can see his ribs for Pete’s sake.

Sure, some teenage boys just Look Like That, but it’s a huge change that has to be on purpose. During season two, Zuko must have starved so badly. Going from eating properly every day and using that energy to eating almost nothing so suddenly must have been a stark change for his metabolism.

And it’s not like he was less active: he was doing Blue Spirit activities by night riding an ostrich-horse through the desert by day, he might need less calories but there is still a huge deficit between what he needs and what he’s getting.

The entire show doesn’t take place over a large amount of time: a year, at most. Which leads me to the conclusion that Zuko starved so badly that his body started breaking down protein for energy, atrophying his muscles.

[nerves-nebula]

abe death #2 ! starvation box. :) im pretty sure someone asked for this but i dont remember uhh... ok bye

[ziptiesnfries]

starving whumpee being forced to hold a grape between their teeth indefinitely to prove their obedience. no eating; just holding.

bonus points if, at the end, whumper tells them to spit it out, and they comply.

[thehollowwriter]

📚🔺🐉💚🍔🤒

All for Silas!

(Still not done sending these 😈)

I'm excited to see more!

📚 BOOKS — What level of education has your oc most recently completed/is currently in (GED, undergraduate, grad school, phd, etc)?

Absolutely none. At all. Ever. At least not "formally" or "officially." He grew up in the Abyss, and there certainly aren't school down there.

Lady Rhoda taught him how to read, write and do math as well history and biology (sex ed at 20 something is better late than never,right?), but he already had steady income, so there was no need for trying "formal" education. He does research things on his own since he doesn't like not knowing things and having that used against him, though.

🔺 RED TRIANGLE POINTED UP — Does your oc know how to use any weapons?

Silas most certainly does! While he mainly uses magic as his weapon, he knows how to use spears, harpoons, knives, and probably swords if you give him one. I feel if guns could actually work under the sea, he'll be able to use one. Also, a fun fact from Silas: seaweed can, in fact, be used to strangle if you use it right.

🐉 DRAGON — What is your oc's favourite mythical creature?

I'd say Sirens from Greek Mythos. He finds them fascinating. It does annoy him that so many think these half bird half women creatures look like merpeople, including the mer people. It's probably the first thing he'll infodump about. Finn has heard his rants about the many misconceptions about Sirens hundreds of times.

🍔 HAMBURGER — Is your oc good at cooking? are they good at baking? which one do they prefer?

Silas is good at cooking! Though he technically can't "cook" anything since they're underwater? But I like to imagine there are heated air vents on his property he can go to cook something, though usually it's just not worth the trip when there are many raw dishes like stuffed crab, seaweed wraps, etc that he can make.

Baking involves cooking in dry heat without exposure to flame, usually in an oven (hah! I learned that in Hospitality), so I guess he could do it in those air pockets and mini volcanoes? But it's far from house and not worth the trip, though maybe he will "bake" on special occasions. He likes it and is good it at it. He prefers cooking, though.

🤒 FACE WITH THERMOMETER — Does your oc get sick easily?

Okie angst time

Hah! Nope! He used to get sick a lot as a child, then (and kinda now too, actually...) he was just sickly because of how malnourished he was. His immune system is something else, truly, as he's been exposed to so many sicknesses and infections it'll leave doctors confounded. It's difficult for him to get sick. Well... though it wasn't necessarily an illness, he gave himself "refeeding syndrome" by trying to make up for what he was lacking when he finally had steady access to food.

Refeeding syndrome is when someone malnourished or starved suddenly begins eating again, and the quick introduction of foods can cause problems and even be fatal. This is why it's best to have the process of healing from starvation overseen by a qualified medical professionals.

Now Silas didn't trust doctors at the time, so he never went to one, but what he did do was simply go back to eating the same amount of food he used to so he didn't keep throwing up and getting sick. Morrigan eventually forced him to go to a hospital. (Silas was horrified when he learned what a feeding tube was)

Tagging: @distant-velleity @kitwasnothere @the-banana-0verlord @cyanide-latte @cynthinesia @jovieinramshackle @skrimpyskimpy for Silas lore hehe

[auschizm]

Do you like living in a group home? What’s your experience been like?

No. I've lived in three very different group homes over a period of nine years, and I have yet to have a good or even decent experience. The first place I lived we had no personal freedom or autonomy. We plain weren't allowed to participate in activities/maintain relationships outside the group home. We weren't even allowed wifi. Or privacy. And inappropriate use of overmedication was frequently used to silence and control our unhappiness. The second place I lived we were free to do basically anything we wanted, but the neglect was so severe that I lived in filth and starved to the point of being clinically underweight the entire time. I even ended up with a big debt because no one helped me with anything ever. Where I'm living now I have my own apartment and a decent amount of both privacy and autonomy for the first time, but I'm still receiving close to zero support and the one time I went to the group home for help during a hard time they doubled the max dose of my antipsychotics so that I lost an entire year to a completely irresponsible dosage of medication. And the only reason I'm not also starving and living in filth here is because I have gotten better at taking care of myself, because I'm still not receiving any consistent help and support. So while at first I thought I might just have been very unlucky with my placements, by now I'm sure I have nothing good to say about Danish group homes.