#w.h.i.d.

[nyenylon]

W.H.I.D. is the story of my experience with maladaptive daydreaming until it's not and then it's about how to get all the interdimensional queers to work in Spar

Anyway casual Will outfits because Ireland wouldn't support the Tumblr sexyman look so now he gets Fat face™ gitup:

[nylonnye2]

Gotta keep your pet Tumblr sexyman nourished with not criticizing him for once

[nylonnye2]

Okay so I made an OC based around metamorphosis, first he had hard, spiny, bony wings, so now that he has softer moth wings he doesn't complain about them as much. He can't really sleep on them, obviously, but he suffers from insomnia anyway. When he does sleep he usually is able to just conk out on his stomach. Clothes-wise he always wears a base-layer of a vest cut so there's only a strip going down between the wings. Luckily, his wings are angled down, so loose-fitting jackets and such aren't really a problem. Because moth wings are pretty flat, any other clothes just have a slit cut in them. Sure it's kinda inconvenient, but he can also fly, so.

okay. i just had a thought. i get that having wings is pretty nice and all but imagine what a pain it would be. you'd have to find clothes that have slots for your wings and then you'd have to figure out how to put those clothes on cause if your wings are massive its gonna be a fucking pain and lets be honest most people probably don't make clothes for wings so you'd have to cut the holes yourself but then how do you get said shirt on? like. it'd fucking suck. not to mention if your wings are big the pain it would be in a small room. or how about sleeping? cause i've seen fanart where characters are all comfortable using their wings as blankets but like- it would be a pain to turn because you'd just be on your wing and that'd suck

man it would be such a pain-

[willhazemusic]

#LostTapes W.H.i.D.

[nyenylon]

Jewels Robyn π Tad

Bro doesn't know his limits so I told him 2πr AAAAHAHAHAHAHHAHRRRH (help)

Isn't he an ugly bastard? Don't you want him dead? Don't you hate his design and wish he would die? Don't you believe they should reconsider shape language? Don't you think it's all over for circles? Should we kill this guy? Yeah we should? Well we can't.

@artsycloudysleepy :3

[nyenylon]

MDD is so funny because if this was a redesign it'd be terrible because it's been like 4 years and barely anything changed, but Benson has just been rebuilt like.. 27 times because he cannot speak English. and no one knows WHY

He can speak Spanish though

(W.H.I.D?)

[nyenylon]

Maladaptive daydreaming is so funny I have to absolutely yell at these little shits

Extra dumb doodles!?!

[nyenylon]

Thinking about times past and how terrible they were

[nylonnye2]

Fuck that piss hoe

Basically Will's redemption arc is just accepting eternal regret and remorse until he forgets it all again

But for now let's just appreciate his new understanding of how fucking ugly this look was

Mutual tag: @artsycloudysleepy :3

[nyenylon]

Happy pride to the asexuals and the asexuals only (/j)

Certain this isn't all of the asexual Nysland citizenss

NAMES/SEXUALITIES/GENDERS/PRONOUNS

Charcoal: Lucius - Aro/Ace, GNC, They/Them

Purple: Cythian - Gay/Ace, Cis Male, He/Him

Blue: Grey - Unlabeled/Ace, Unlabeled masc, He/She

Pink: Merk(Mercurio) - Panromantic/Ace, Transfem nonbinary, Any Prns (They/Them default)

Red: Alexander - Aro/Ace, Cis Male, He/They (He/Him preferred)

Green: Lucia - Omniromatic/Aegosexual/Polyamorous, Intersex GNC, She/Her/Any

THE TWO ON THE RIGHT ARE NOT RELATED TO THIS POST AS THEY ARE NOT ASEXUAL!3;3!3!!

[nyenylon]

hiya nye!! hope you're doing good :3

looking for some OC advice if that's okay: i have an OC who has MDD, but afaik i don't have it myself and i really want to avoid harmful stereotyping or unrealistic portrayals!

was wondering if you have any tips on writing it, if there's anything specific i should know (if there's treatment, side-effects, etc.) or just anything to avoid in terms of stereotypes?

obviously don't answer this if you don't want to, it's probably very personal, and take your time if you do! i want to avoid screwing up, and while i am also going to check out articles and do my research, i also want to make sure i'm not accidentally being a prick or looking at misinformation and ask you if you have any advice :)

thank you so much! have a nice day nye, stay hydrated :D

Heeyyyy Artsy :3

I'd be happy to help in whatever way I can, but heads up I'm not professionally diagnosed or anything and am definitely not an expert on the topic, so this will just be from my personal experience

So of course maladaptive daydreaming is different for everyone, I think the most common interpretation of it is someone who might use their persona to self insert themselves into media they might like, or a personally written story. Sometimes they might be pre-written and played out (I personally believe this is what "shifters" do). A second common one might be writing a story by thinking about it as a show, where you yourself may not be involved. Many people wrote brilliant stories using this method.

My personal experience is that I can count multiple times where my maladaptive daydreaming was more prominent throughout my life, but I can't really pick it out if childhood experiences as it was kind of like the hit thing to be good at imagining when you were 5.

My standout experience with MDD is ongoing. It started five years ago and it involves myself and other people consistently. There is no change in plot or reboots, I consider these people consistent as any other person I might know. Plainly, I consider the maladaptive daydreaming characters that I have created (ocs) AND have not created to exist as people in some way, so I treat them as such.

Part of my MDD is that these people I know through my head interact with people from the real world, having casual conversations and such.

My level of focus on my MDD varies on my mental health and environment, it usually ranges from maybe 1 interaction a day to things I have planned for the day being cancelled because I'm busy daydreaming. My daydreaming friends will often grow distressed if I don't speak to them for long periods of time. Some of them (my ocs) fear that they'd cease to exist, while others may fear their friends could disappear, including me.

Something well known for MDD is repetitive motions, personally I find my stims outside of MDD are larger and more noticable, while I'm daydreaming sometimes my repetitive motions will be spinning a pen or something as miniscule as timed blinking or eye movement. It's like keeping pace to me, like they tell you to associate a smell with sleeping if you have a hard time sleeping. The motions help keep me focused on my daydreams.

I don't like closing my eyes when I daydream, but I do like dark rooms. I also prefer background noise. It's also well known people like to listen to music while they daydream, and I do, but the noise doesn't have to be music. It just has to be constant and have some kind of pattern that I can tune out to. The noise helps distract me from what I see visually!

I haven't researched treatment because recently I've been quite good at regulating my daydreams, and in the past it's been a fear of mine. I think the only treatment there would be for MDD is finding other coping mechanisms.

As for side effects, I'm not sure what would qualify. I can get angry at daydreams the same way I would anything else, same goes for every emotion. Sometimes it just makes my mood seem out of place, I think. I also think it's obvious when I'm daydreaming, because people usually poke me or wave a hand in front of my face (THIS IS SO ANNOYING DON'T DO THIS I'M DAYDREAMING FOR A REASON). MDD sometimes restricts my real life experiences, socializing, sometimes makes me forget meals, it also makes my memory of everything worse, instead replaced by memories of daydreams. MDD is something that I deal with, while I know it's a negative thing it's something that I don't have any desire to detach myself from. That's a scary idea to me, so I suppose that's a side effect in itself.

As far as writing a character with MDD goes, you'd have to know what they were daydreaming about first. A lot of the rest of the traits, such as what noise or actions they use, would be down to their other characteristics. If I was going to avoid something, it would be to not make everything they daydream about separate to reality. Almost everyone I've known with MDD has integrated their realities in some way, whether it be having their persona personality shine through, their daydreams interact with people around them, writing about it, drawing or infodumping. Of course this might not be everyone, but I think it also depends how private of a person they are. People who have MDD tend to know they're creating something complex.

Thanks for asking me Artsy, again, this is just from personal experiences. Hope this helped! :3

[nyenylon]

A bunch more doodles from tonight!

[nyenylon]

I like the colour red guys. Alpine.. she's had enough of it.

Chose THIS over eternal rest

[nyenylon]

W.H.I.D: Grey Kay

Twink gets haircut

You guys he's so motherfucking BALD

At least his head isn't lumpy I GUESS

(Purple man featured is Cythian)

[nyenylon]

Coloured these in a bit ago because people keep reminding me art is only really interesting to look at with colour but I say poor colour blind people

W.H.I.D. is the story of my experience with maladaptive daydreaming until it's not and then it's about how to get all the interdimensional queers to work in Spar

Anyway casual Will outfits because Ireland wouldn't support the Tumblr sexyman look so now he gets Fat face™ gitup: