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[glo-shroom]

yes & no by Natalie Wee | Trigun Ultimate Overhaul

[mouseonvenus-main]

Dreamer (2024 ver.)

2021 Original below

Bonus:

[galactic-rhea]

The thing is,,,,abuse doesn't have anything to do with intelligence or lack of confidence, though yes, a person with low self-esteem is an easier target for abusers, however that's what not I'm talking about.

Like I'm someone who doesn't like to take part in The Discourse (tm) because this is fandom, I'm here to talk about my favorite dolls and create silly scenaries with them. And it might feel a bit egregious to talk about something as delicate and serious as abuse, grooming or domestic violence but also it's the perfect playground to explore such themes and you can learn a lot by psychologically analizing a character and do your own research on the matter so you can understand abuse better, and sometimes that way you can also have a more critical view on real life, and for some of us, also come to terms with our own lives.

That said, back to my original point, it has nothing to do with intelligence. A person that falls into a cycle of abuse doesn't make them stupid, the whole deal of predators and abusers is that they know how to play their game, they know how to manipulate. A victim's mind will always try to cope with the abuse in ways that can be hard to understand sometimes in ways that will make you say 'well, that's enabling their abuser', but is not a statement on their intelligence or lack of it, abuse dynamics are extremelly complex, and victims will go through several states such a guilt, or violent outbrusts, fear, appeasing, avoidance, sometimes all sometimes just a few. And it's because no one is the same and no one's experiences will be the same, even though there are patterns you can identify sometimes.

So when someone wants to argue against a character being too smart to fall for abuse or manipulation, it's a bit sad to me. Not necessarily malicious or dangerous, or anything, again this is fandom and fandom runs rampant with whatever takes that makes all of us grimace. But because that's not how it works, if a certain dynamic isn't abusive by your pov, then it has nothing to do with the character's intelligence. It's not about being strong, or confident; that downplays how abusive dynamics come to be.

Like for example y'know I don't think padmé and anakin were abusive, I've made several posts about it, but it's not because they are too intelligent for that.

Likewise, Anakin wasn't stupid for being groomed by Palpatine; the contrary, he was quite literally a gifted child and a genius at mechanics and was good at many things, including drawing and strategies, but he fell for Palpatine's grooming because:

a) Palpatine is an evil top tier manipulator and predator who knows how to play adults, he literally knew how to play the jedi council, what was a 9 y/o going to do about it.

And b) Anakin's trauma and unattended mental illnesses made him an easier victim for grooming; he was already used to be a thing and be a servant from the moment he learned to talk.

But even if we weren't talking about someone as deeply messed up as Anakin was already, abusers and predators always will take advantage and exploit of the weaknesses and flaws on an individual, they will adapt and change their tactic according to the victim needs, that's why anyone could become a victim, it doesn't matter if your IQ is up there on the moon.

It's not about being too "stupid" to not realize there was abuse, it's a deep, complicated and terrible ensemble of thoughts and insecurities tangling around the brain in such a way that there's no a way to blame the abuser without feeling at fault, or at the very least without feeling scared of retaliation or lost, it's a power dynamic that messes up the sense of self.

[shaylogic]

Being grabbed by many hands

"It was really, really fun to be comfortable with one form of touch, and find another absolutely agonizing." ~George Rexstrew

[krscblw]

a little sketch of mary goore with copia's face paint (to go with the drawing i did of copia with mary goore's fake blood)

[lapdogchase]

do u think my psychiatrist will get it if im like “im not gonna kill myself imminently but it does feel inveitable and like time is running out and idk what to do bc i cant afford to be alive” do u think he’ll Get It or do u think he’ll start asking things like “do u think u need a higher level of care possibly” and “have you heard of [local crisis unit]”

[historicalclaptrap]

Sometime in the 18th centaury:

India: You know sister, there's great wisdom in 'keep your enemies closer'

Pakistan: Yeah but you don't have to bring them in the house! Look at him, he's got flees!

India: Sister! he's a rescue, be nice

(England, incidentally is standing in the hallway. He does, indeed, have flees)

[brotherlysuggestion]

Hey, for any of my little sibs trying to learn to eat salads/vegetables but running into a lot of unhappiness/failure/sensory issues, I recently started learning to eat veggies after a lifetime of struggling due to autism and sensory issues, and I have some tips that I’ve collected along the way!

Forget all about the “healthiest varieties” or “most nutritional salads” elitism.

A lot of that talk is based on bogus science or half-truths to begin with, but even for anything that’s true, you’re trying to eat in a way that is sustainable for you. You don’t need to be like anybody else. If you like iceberg lettuce, screw the people who say “well that doesn’t have any nutritional value”. It’s fiber and roughage if nothing else! You like a lot of dressing or add ins and people tell you that isn’t a real salad/isn’t a healthy salad? It’s more vegetables than no vegetables! It gets the greens in your body! Do your thing, you don’t deserve guilt (external or internal) for figuring out your own path.

This is about habit forming and breaking bad associations to form better ones.

Think of this as practice! I eat salads nearly daily when available because I genuinely look forward to them now, but I used to want to retch at just the thought of salad. When I used to think of salads, I always thought of being a kid and trying not to gag while forcing sensory hell so that adults wouldn’t get mad at me. It was punishing for me, and it took a lot of gentle work to change that association! So if you hate salads, really try to identify why. Are they bland and tasteless to you? Conversely, are the bitter flavors too strong? Is it a textural thing? Do you have some highly negative experiences with them in the past?

Don’t force yourself to keep trying something you know you hate.

I personally can’t stand a lot of “ultra healthy” salads that have a lot of different textures/flavors mixed in, and years of trying to suffer through salads like that never made me like them more. Back to the first point again, forget about what you’re “supposed” to be eating and eat what you find the least repulsive tbh.

The greens you choose can make a massive difference, so try a lot of different things!

This is especially important if texture or flavor is an issue for you. Personally I find iceberg lettuce the “easiest” because it has a very mild taste. I started out my adventures in learning to eat salad eating EXCLUSIVELY iceberg lettuce. Butter lettuce or romaine (especially romaine hearts) are others that are popular for being pretty palatable, and I’ve come to love them! And you don’t even HAVE to have lettuce! You can have cabbage, beets, carrots, whatever! Pick a vegetable you like and search for salad recipes using it!

Find a dressing you really like and drench that bad boy if you need to!

Some people really like ranch, or poppyseed dressing, or vinaigrettes, or even sweet dressings with honey and fruit! You can use mustard or honey in dressings! Look up different types of salad dressings and try them all out if you want. Personally, I really like zingy dressings like Italian vinaigrettes or blue cheese, but everyone’s different. You can make a lot of dressings at home, too, and if you have the stuff already it can be a cheap way to find what you like. I know dressing freaks some people out, but referencing my very first point again; some salad is way better than no salad. You may even eventually find yourself able to use less and less once you’re more accustomed to eating salad! So use as much as you need, whether it’s just for now or forever.

Toppings! Salads are allowed to be goodies with obstacles!

Use a protein like chicken or fish (I like tuna a lot) or crumbled bacon, use croutons, hummus, little cubes of cheese or shredded cheese, sliced hard boiled eggs, whatever! If there’s vegetables that you know you like, put those in! I love some sliced cucumber or shredded carrots in my salads. Some people do nuts like almonds or cashews in their salads, some people use chickpeas and corn from a can, and if you’re feeling super adventurous you can try some fruit to sweeten things up! If you like variety then mix warm foods and cold foods, creamy textures and crunchy textures! Make it totally your own. Personally, I’ll sometimes eat around my croutons so that once I’ve eaten all of my greens I have a big, crunchy reward. There’s no rules for how you have to eat something!

Conversely, be as simple as you need to be.

If you need to get used to salads by eating just iceberg lettuce and ranch for a while, you don’t need to be embarrassed! You don’t have to throw the kitchen sink at your salad, even if that’s what helps some others! This is about what works for you.

Don’t be afraid to have salad ingredients… not as a salad!

You can make a green smoothie by blending ingredients if texture is your big issue! Or make a fruit smoothie with some spinach or lettuce thrown in to help you ease into it. Or try dicing up some lettuce, cabbage, and a preferred vegetable or two (avocado, bell pepper, tomato, or cucumber would all work!). Drizzle that with a generous amount of dressing or sauce, and you can use it as a chip dip! Tortilla chips work especially well for this. Or maybe make a vegetable wrap in an actual tortilla? Or throw some chopped up vegetables in your next soup. Even if it’s as simple as putting some lettuce, carrots, or tomatoes into a sandwich, that’s awesome too!

Even outside of salads, experiment with texture for vegetables!

You can roast most vegetables on a sheet pan in the oven (or in an air fryer) for a crispy and crunchy experience! Or you can boil or steam them on a stovetop (or in the microwave) to different levels of softness; you can get most vegetables pretty mushy with enough time, if crunchy textures are hard for you! Looking up vegetarian versions of your favorite meat-including dishes can sometimes also offer great ideas for getting different textures out of vegetables! Try everything that you think you might like: grilling, griddling, roasting, steaming, boiling, sautéing, braising, stir frying, and blanching (which also helps reduce bitterness!) are all different methods to look into, and different methods have different results with different vegetables!

Big takeaway…

Be patient and kind with yourself. Working through food aversions is hard. The goal is gently pushing/testing your boundaries and expanding your comfort zone, NOT forcing yourself. Forcing yourself into extreme discomfort, distress, or pain typically only makes aversions worse! So it’s in your best interest to be patient and go as slowly as you need to. Be proud of yourself for trying, and don’t let anyone (including yourself) make you feel shame for doing what you can.

And obligatory disclaimer:

Please don’t get discouraged if none of these tips work for you! This isn’t an exhaustive list, and I’m not any kind of professional. This is just a mix of tips I’ve seen online, and what worked for myself and my own sensory issues, and I’m still learning more about myself all the time! If you’re struggling, there’s still more out there! You can achieve your goals, I believe in you. 💖

[blood-orange-juice]

That awkward moment when you only have enough spoons to either cook or eat something but not both

upd: yay! food acquired (2h later)

[valgeristik]

She will not come,

She was torn apart by dogs,

Her hands were not ready for a fight,

And she did not desire to win

I will now be

Instead of her

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Hi, meet Noel (she/he), whom i decided would fit perfectly for my dark urge bg3 playtrough 🤭

The way I see it... the him before the nautiloid is dead, and the him after the nautiloid will make sure it Stays That Way.

She is here now, she won, she was the one to claw her way to the surface of the body they share, and she will maim anyone who threatens her newfound existence.

Resisting the urges not out of fear, but out of Spite💁‍♀️

and as always..............this was drawn with a song in mind:

[twilightakiishi]

VENNNNUUUUSSSSSS AAAAAAAAA 🫂🫂🫂🤍 I HAVE SELFSHIP QUESTIONS !!!! you and endo. who fell for the other first and how did that happen?? AND FOR THE SECOND ONE OOOO. sooo. you two are at target!! they close for the day and the two of you are somehow locked inside …. oopsie … so what now ? what are you guys gonna do ?! eat … play with the toys … check out the games … sleep ?!

hi evie 😭🖤 tysm for asking :') this got insanely long so going utc…..

ok so!! with me and endo, he falls first and I fall harder :') but I take a while to open up about it !! it's just how I am I'm afraid.... anyway! very romantic love story we have.....drug dealer -> fwb -> lovers LOL. when we started hooking up, we both agreed, no feelings! we'd link, get what we needed, and leave. it went that way for a while! like a few months. when endo started to fall for me, he kinda just assumed it was the weed talking and making him feel all fuzzy when he was around me, so he ignored it. until one night, he came over to my place and smoked me out for hours, we fucked freak nasty style and passed out immediately after, and he woke up in the morning, sober, and felt butterflies seeing me in the bed next to him. he did not wait to tell me but I didn't believe him and thought he was fucking with me for like a month straight 😭 it takes him calling me his girlfriend in front of takiishi for me to be like :0 u fr? and he's like YES I'M FR WTF !!!!!! and the rest is history <3

and in target, I get super panicky to be locked inside. the fact i can’t sleep in my cozy bed stresses me out but i try to hide it and put on a brave face but i’m not good at it and he sees right through me!!!! he distracts me by playing house, puts on a frilly apron and “grills” beef jerky on a display bbq pit, in the little summer backyard patio display section in the back of the store,,,, he has me sit down and serves me little jerky strips while he’s yapping and making quips about what a nice day it is to be barbecuing :’) he’s such a cutie. n then after we eat little makeshift meals that he put together out of random pantry items, he can tell i’m feeling a little better, rubs a hand on my knee to reassure me a lil more. suggests a fashion show! picks out clothes he wants to see me in and shoves me in the dressing rooms. claps and cheers so loud it echoes n it makes me giggle. once he gets me smiling and laughing he feels content. spends most of the night trying to distract me n make sure i’m comfortable— the display beds are so uncomfortable it makes us laugh and we hardly even sleep. it ends up being a rly unexpected bonding experience for us <3 :’)

[crystalpallette]

《이걸로 영영 이별이라니... 믿고 싶지 않아?》

so that new rokia alt huh

[im-secretly-a-frog]

Vent

For context I'm in high school and I live with my parents and four out of six of my siblings.

I don't have very many things that belong only to me. Even most of the books in my bookshelf belong to "the family", so when I have something that is definitively mine, I treasure it and find it very precious.

I used to have a small collection of mugs, four in total, that were very special to me, as they had been given to me by people I love on special occasions. Two of these were from a store that no longer exists in my city and the other two aren't sold anymore in their stores, so it would be very difficult to find replacements for them.

I took very good care of these mugs, always being sure to remember where I had put them down and be aware of them when I was holding them. (This is very difficult for me, as I'm quite clumsy and not very good with spacial awareness) I never once dropped them, and I had most of them for a rather long time.

But over the course of this year, each and every one of them was broken. All of them in accidents that could have been avoided. All of them by other people and their carelessness. Today, my favourite of the mugs, the last surviving one, was broken. Or at least I found out about it today. I only used this mug about once a week as it was my special hot chocolate mug, only used for hot chocolates, and today when I made a hot chocolate in it I found a crack running all down it's face (it was a hedgehog) and another right next to the handle.

I was, understandably, very upset about this, and I told my older sibling and my mother. I had already been having a rather bad day, and this stacked on top of it to make the day terrible.

My mother then got mad at me for being so upset. It was, after all, just a mug. It wasn't going to last forever anyway. I don't know why she got so mad at me, I was just trying to express the fact that I was upset, which I have a right to do.

I don't even really know why I'm making this post, I just want some sympathy, I guess. Was I right to be upset? Was I just making nothing into a big deal? I don't know how I'm supposed to feel if I can't be upset.

[maddymoreau]

Dead Space Live-Blog

Part 1-4: Click Here Part 5: Click Here

Chapter 6: Environmental Hazard

The Necromorphs transformed some of the crew into what Hammond calls "poison pods" AKA Wheezers.

The Wheezers were contaminating the air so Isaac had to kill them. Which was EXTREMELY easy since they don't fight back.

Isaac did a sexy pose when I got him electrocuted:

I found Hammond but unfortunately halfway through Chapter 6 he vanished . . . I can't tell if it was something he did willingly or was the Hive Mind.

I KICKED THE LEVIATHAN'S BUTT!!!!!!

Also the game FINALLY gave me an alphabet!!!!

I'm a little cheater 😔 I had to look up a guide for the alphabet because even after an hour of trying I couldn't figure out the smudged letters.

I accidentally saw a slight spoiler. I was trying to see translations online for the graffiti I missed in earlier chapters. Instead, I saw the complete version of this (which I had already translated myself):

“The ships are coming for the chosen.”

( ⊙_⊙) SOMEONE IS COMING TO PICK UP THE NECROMORPHS!!??? WHO!?!?! THE CHURCH OF UNITOLOGY!?!? OR SOMEONE USING THE CHURCH FOR THEIR OWN SCHEMES??!!

By the way I’m glad I saw this because NOT ONCE did I consider the entire sentence wasn’t visible. I thought I translated it wrong or missed something.

[paeinovis]

With the news in Hathras, India, remember that crowd crush (NOT a stampede) is 100% preventable and 100% the responsibility of organizers of events and local authority, NOT the people or victims involved in the crush, who often do not even realize that there is a crush occuring

Link about Hathras:

Link about crushes vs "stampedes", and why you should be wary of the use of the latter word:

[mothnita]

TW!! insects, beetles, frogs

i find it very interesting that Olimar notes in the Piklopedia how the White Pikmin, despite being poisonous beings, do not have a bright or striking colour, rather having their titular hue

it's amazing!! normally, in nature, an animal or a plant that's venomous/poisonous will display vibrant colours to warn other creatures to stay away

this is called Aposematism!

the use of warning colouration in animals and plants to indicate that they are dangerous in one way or another, be it poison, venom or any other kind of threat!!

while yes, white is one of the colours some will display, it usually comes in a striking or eye catching pattern like that of a skunk or a honey badger

but for my main example i'm taking notes from the Poison Dart Frog and Yellow Blister Beetles (yes, they look a lot like Anode Beetles!!!)

the frogs have very bright colouration, ranging from a solid coat of colour, like the Golden Poison Dart Frog, to more intricate patterns like the Amazon Poison Dart Frog

Yellow Blister Beetles have yellow stripes or sometimes spots on their solid black backs, and once crushed or squeezed, they will release toxins

as for plants, i think my best example would be the Nightshade family

but Moth!! there are many poisonous flowers out there with white colouration!!

you are very right! there are! Lilies, Giant Hogweed, Jimson Weed and Water Hemlock to name a few!

however i bring you this: Pikmin, and by extent the Ambuloradicis class, are both stated to exhibit both animal and plant traits, and since they do show more "animal" traits, i decided to give this one characteristic to them

therefore, it would make sense the Pikmin are very brightly coloured! little guys won't go down without a fight!

but White Pikmin?? why not show vibrant colours or eye catching patterns??

and here's where i want to do some fun speculation:

creatures that consume the Pikmin are also prey, yes? the Pikmin coexist with the planet's flora and fauna through the natural cycle of life and death: the Pikmin that are consumed give life to others, produce nutrients and therefore produce more offspring for said bugs; the beings that are hunted by the Pikmin will, in turn, become nutrients for the Onion to produce more seeds

what i'm going for is - the Pikmin and the Creatures need each other to thrive, they consume each other so that they will both live, it creates a balance!

back to the White Pikmin, i think it would make sense that they don't decide to outright present themselves as dangerous: to be consumed by a bug would mean that it would get poisoned and die, therefore becoming another corpse for the Pikmin to feed to their Onion- simple!

however i do see some flaws in this little headcanon: while not very striking, the White Pikmin's body colour makes a nice contrast to their vibrant red eyes and you can even see a hint of purple creeping on their limbs!

maybe there's no special reason for them to be just white, maybe it's just a fun colour!

a hungry Bulborb would no doubt eat the very first tiny carrot in front of it, even if it's got an interesting colour to it!

but this was all just an excuse to ramble about my favourite things: nature and Pikmin!!

edit: added pictures! pretty pictures... :]