#therapy sucks

[traaumaa]

*has several debilitating disorders* idk maybe i'm just lazy

[raqi-marr]

so i have a background in therapy irl and i cannot stop laughing every time i imagine what therapy must be like with an affini in the compact. in real life therapists have like eighteen gazillion rules around keeping boundaries with their clients, and there is so much shit they are not allowed to do (a lot of dogshit therapists break these rules anyway, particularly in the US because standards over there are less strict than where i live, but that's tangential) or otherwise they're supposed to get vaporized instantly by their accrediting body

meanwhile, various stories have established that the affini are totally okay with using drugs in therapy, and this has me imagining that like: you go to xenodrug-assisted therapy, get given a shitton of class-H's then probably hypnotised, and sure they fix your trauma at record speed but there's like an at least 40% chance you end up as the therapist's pet by the end of it

also you know that if you've got intimacy issues the therapist is absolutely going to end up playing with you as a form of controlled exposure therapy; probably eventually escalating to them giving you class-A's and cooing at you all "There, there, dear. Doesn't this feel wonderful? It's just as I told you; you really have nothing to worry about. It's perfectly natural to enjoy being touched this way, and it's not something you need to feel guilty for at all." (this has a 100% chance of domestication)

[clockworkreapers]

Vol 3 Jack really went though it huh

[bxriles]

I will never understand why this fandom abhors crackships. Like this is a series about faerie smut. You’d think crackships and multishipping would be the standard but nooo. That’s SACRILEGE and PROBLEMATIC and anyone who partakes in crackships is an ABUSE SYMPATHIZER. (That sounds fucking stupid, doesn’t it? That’s what some of you deadass sound like.)

We got people writing essays and attacking other people and sending DEATH THREATS for liking Rhysta and Neslin and Tamsand and Nyxlin (and bffr, nobody is genuinely shipping Tamlin with a literal baby ffs).

This fandom is so fucking vanilla and boring with how obsessed everyone is with canon and how so many people praise purity culture. Y’all are weird, sorry not sorry 🫶🏼

[clandestineindustry]

but I didn't take the love when I had the chance, but I swear I'm not sad anymore.

[weekdaysend]

My SentOpLita 1AM relationship chart I did not think I'd be psycho-analyzing this dynamic as much as I thought I would..

[ckret2]

I'm staring at the newest chapter in horror but also, there are SO many witnesses and there will probably be a ton of documentation about the second dimensional incident, which makes it that much more baffling Bill got an insanity plea. I know it's for Story Reasons and I probably shouldn't think about it too hard but goddamn.

They legitimately looked at all of this and said "yeah no he's found not guilty by reason of insanity, Theraprism NOW." (I thought at first it was "guilty but insane," however we get no indication that he's going to be sent to a normal multiversal prison after he completes his karmic rehabilitation. They all but say that reincarnation is the goal after this is over, which seems to be equivalent to release and reintegration into society.)

That being said it could simply be that interdimensional court has different requirements to be declared insane enough not to get permadeath. Or I'm misremembering how the Theraprism works...It's a forensic hospital, right? Not prison. He's being treated not punished.(Kinda debatable. That place sucks.)

The Axolotl gotta be the single best lawyer of the entire multiverse how the hell did they pull this off. I would love to just be in the court when this went down actually I can already feel how absolutely insane it was. No way either side didn't fight tooth and nail.

the fact that Bill is willing to look every single person he meets dead in the eye and say "no my dimension wasn't destroyed, it's fine, all my people are alive and they love me" is ngl gonna be a big part of the ax's defense strategy.

They have a lot of documentation of what Bill's like after the massacre—but there's absolutely no record, anywhere, of what happened during the massacre. You know what they do have documentation of though? Bill insisting that he dumped Euclydia into Dimension Zero so that he could do renovations and that he's built a paradise universe in its place when all he's built is a void with a few strobe lights. Bill claiming that all these people he kidnapped himself are actually from his dimension. Bill pulling off "rescues" with seemingly no self-awareness that he slaughtered more than he saved. Bill being told MULTIPLE TIMES "if you keep trying to fix Dimension Zero then the multiverse will collapse" and Bill going "okay. i hear you. So how about i fix Dimension Zero, and then, everything is fine."

What do you do if you get Bill into a courtroom and ask him "do you plea guilty to the massacre of Euclydia?" and he goes "I don't know what you're talking about. There was no massacre. I liberated everyone, they're fine. They're literally still alive today. Nobody died." Like. You're trying to decide his culpability in a crime he doesn't acknowledge happened.

You've gotta ask 2 questions: does Bill literally not know what happened to his dimension—even if the knowledge comes and goes, is it still sometimes genuinely missing—or is this just an act to try to wiggle out of trouble? And, if he does literally not know what happened to it, is that a trauma reaction to the massacre, or did he commit the crime not comprehending what the result would be?

Bill's a known liar, this could all be an act. But, like, god, wow, it's a really, really good act.

The Ax can argue that Bill literally doesn't grasp the difference between right and wrong. He can tell them that Bill is completely unable to differentiate fact and fiction. He can tell them that Bill has delusions that he didn't destroy Euclydia, that the neighboring dimensions are Euclydia, that all his people are alive and healthy, and argue that he probably had delusions that whatever he did to his dimension wouldn't destroy it in the first place. He can argue a whole lot of things about Bill.

Are any of these things true about Bill? Debatable. Probably not. Somewhere between 30%-60% true. Could the Ax convince a court that they're true? Probably. Everyone already agrees Bill's insane. The only question is if he was the right kind of insane at the right time.

[warmfuzzyanimal]

with my move around the corner and life feeling sort of real again, i'm having Regular Thoughts about hobbies i've been meaning to revisit...

[arttsuka]

you should draw fiddleford in some other outfits☺️☺️😋😋😋 (this isn’t a coverup to make my fidd obsession sweet… I swear…)

Here he is with a funky outfit :)

And here he is wearing a straight jacket (from an uncooked au I have in my mind, don't ask)

[biggest-anya-lover]

“anya x curly” bitch, hell the fuck no. 😭

[cupidsncheerios]

as much as they need it (which is like hell destroying levels of need), i think radiostatic would never go to couples therapy

alastor would never go because he doesn't want some stranger digging into HIS personal life and telling him he's NOT UNIQUE and there are WORDS for the things he feels and he should STOP EATING PEOPLE

and vox would never go because what do you mean he can't lie to his therapist

[moociaoafterdark]

Dear GOD, Rogal's sword is absolutely H U G E. Sister Anjya should reach somewhere to his pelvis, and if we compare Rogal's sword to her height... GIRLYPOP IS WIELDING A SWORD TALLER THAN HER. SHE'S DRAGGING THAT THING AROUND AND USUALLY JUST CRUSHES HER ENEMIES WITH ITS WEIGHT, SHE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE TO ACTUALLY SAW THEM.

I'm not giving up on the idea of a random insanely lucky/too-angry-to-die Sororitas wielding a weapon of a Primarch. It's cool, and it's hilarious, which is all that matters in Warhammer. Everything else is not relevant. Fuck gatekeepers, I'm having fun I haven't felt in years.

[finla2]

[gigglesparkles]

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