#withdrawal symptoms...

[stargirl230]

moonlighting 🌚✨

i’m so rusty from not drawing for a whole semester (sobs) but its ok now because kaito's here

(no reposts; reblogs appreciated!)

[lotus-pear]

i miss them......please come back........please come home :((

[shantechni]

Shiguang size difference my beloved

Also, shout out to Lu Guang's noodle arms dropping Cheng Xiaoshi in a heartbeat

[erandraws]

Bells Hells coming back this Thursday, you know what that means

[sharldose]

Max: I feel that I'm missing something... Charles: *appears* Max, grabbing Charles: There he is.

[longstoryshqrt]

“maybe you weren’t a terrible person. maybe you were just fourteen”

[lamoureg]

posted my fic and then ao3 immediately shut down after. sorry for sharing my joy and whimsy i won't do it again

[shira-ceres]

I don't usually repost daily doodle acc stuff on other platforms but what is whitrei agenda without whitrei

[silvermun]

may i offer you all the smidgeon of a crumb

[holymolyfizzie]

i don't wanna derail @kityana's post about stolas's pill popping, so i'm making a separate one. but something kityana said finally made me think about something: "i'm still not sure if those pills are actually helping him or if they were just given to him to numb him to how shitty his life is"

I've wondered something related to this a lot myself. but Stolas takes his antidepressants with alcohol (and in the aftermath of alcohol, like at the end of The Circus), which is a depressant. taking antidepressants + alcohol at best just cancels out your antidepressants so they don't actually do anything. but both at once, at worst, makes your depression symptoms a lot worse. taking them together is the sort of stuff that college girls get yelled at for, but i guess no one told stolas. i wouldn't be surprised if he's been popping them like candy and upping his dosage because he was told they would help him…and then they don't because of the rampant alcoholism. which is to say that we don't know if the meds even worked for him at all (i'd argue strongly they didn't, considering his alcoholism only ever got worse and he kept taking more and more pills, like they never worked enough) or if they were a placebo while he was taking them

and this might be a bit too nuanced for such a show, but as someone who has suddenly gotten off antidepressants that didn't work at all, the withdrawal symptoms don't always affect mood that much (they did nothing for it to begin with) and they sure as hell don't last a full month after getting off. in fact, going cold turkey off of meds that do work for you shouldn't have withdrawal symptoms that last a full month (if you do, it's a Talk to Your Doctor moment). i just really wonder if Stolas noticed the lack of antidepressants after the first few days beyond the old habit of taking them, and if we really can contribute much of his mental breakdown to getting off antidepressants

but you know what he was taking religiously, that did affect him for sure, and that we haven't seen him touch in a month now? the alcohol. he was drinking during Mastermind, but he clearly hasn't touched it since the trial. Blitz doesn't seem to have alcohol around, and Stolas wouldn't ask for the extra expense -- he's being forced to quit. he passes up Loona's beelzejuice at the Sinsmas party, noticeably. the beelzejuice is brought in, and Stolas immediately goes outside for a smoke instead. he's not drinking anymore. and quitting alcohol cold turkey is an insane process, esp at his level of hard liquor. we're talking about disastrous health consequences and a whole host of withdrawal symptoms -- anxiety, depression, irritability, fatigue, loss of appetite, brain fog, hallucinations, and much worse stuff (in humans, seizures). it's impossible to underestimate the severe damage alcoholism does to your brain and body longterm. and a lot of those withdrawal symptoms stay weeks after stopping cold turkey

like, i don't want to detract from him going off of antidepressants; he needs and obviously wants working antidepressants, he's desperate for them. but i'm gonna be so for real, i've had my experiences going off ineffective antidepressants, and i've watched family members try to quit alcohol. an alcoholic quitting is a brutal, drawn out process that shakes me to my core. there are reasons a person still says "i am an alcoholic" even a decade after quitting. that shit's insidious in a way that antidepressants aren't, and it was affecting stolas noticeably more, surely enough to render his meds useless. if you want him back on antidepressants, then you need a sober Stolas first, and this is what he's FINALLY working on

so i think more emphasis needs to be placed on Stolas's recovery from alcoholism when discussing his mental breakdown, irritability, etc. the fact that he's doing this without rehab or other interventions is miraculous, nearly impossible. i don't want his impressive recovery (so far) from alcoholism to end up getting buried under the antidepressant talk ngl, especially when his getting off of alcohol now means that his antidepressants may actually work in the future and help him. this is something to be so so proud of!!

[notyoinara]

[lumpsbumpsandwhumps]

whump fic where whumpee is being held captive by whumper and continually tries to escape to find where caretaker is being held so they can get out of here together, but as the story progresses it becomes more clear that whumpee is a victim of stockholm syndrome/brainwashing by "caretaker" and is actually being rehabilitated by "whumper" after being rescued, not kidnapped

[kiksniko]

old sketches

[snakeunderyourboot]

was relistening to malevolent s1 and the early jarthur are so funny

Like

they don't like each other, and they do not want to be together but the situations that keep happening to them are so bizarre, that they decide that it's maybe for the best that there is some other guy with them.

Arthur spends the whole season between being a detective and a scared wet kitten. In the second half of the season he gets his early stages of the murder phase, but it's probably nothing, it definitely won't affect anything, chill

Both Arthur and John know that John is probably some evil eldritch being, possibly a god, but John shows 1 case of human emotion and Arthur's father's instincts(they are not very good but they are here) are activated and he is ready to forgive John for everything. John is at first "haha I am so going to use this brit" - In the next second he is saying no to being a literal god in favor of being stuck with this pathetic human, said brit

John also is so funny, he has no memories and he has no idea where the fuck is he. He has some knowledge about the human world but not a lot, which leads him to kind of trusting Arthur to make decisions which is not his plan at all. He is trying and failing to manipulate Arthur. John is not human but there are some signs that he used to be human and he immediately jumps onto this chance. He asks to be called John and Arthur immediately agrees, which probably makes John emotional and maybe that's the reason he decided to stay with Arthur.

Both John and Arthur have NO IDEA what the fuck is going on, they just keep bouncing from one situation to another, and SOMEHOW Arthur got only like…5 scars. Why is he able to not get scars in s1 but not s5?

they also have no idea who the fuck are all those dead people who are somehow connected. All alive people they interact with are mad and want to kill them

Somehow they are alive at the end of the day

If we put s1 jarthur in season 5 they will probably survive. The biggest danger for them is them, the "fuck your eyes" divorce can always happen again. If we put s5 jarthur in season 1 they will either chill and relax or somehow end up dead, there is no in-between

[allichella]

joel has to build at least one new building per episode or he explodes

[psycheetamore]

I never thought I would say this, but I believe I am having withdrawal symptoms from not having a continuous spice new-Austin-Butler-pictures-influx anymore.