#WHY IN PSYCHOLOGY

[mylittleredgirl]

actually you should see how much i’m NOT putting on your dash right now. i could always be so much worse.

#‘why not create a sideblog’ well. see. #i spent my twenties collecting my fragmented identities and reassembled them into a unified psychological whole #and now we all have to suffer for it

[midnight-musings-of-nyx]

I theorize that Astarion’s over the top body language in early game is something he subconsciously does to passively enforce a large radius of personal space. His leaning over or back dramatically, wide-flung gesticulations and frequent shifting of his positioning all encourage other people to stay further away from his body than the average person, without him having to say anything. It’s essentially a quiet defense mechanism that is dressed up as part of the charming lure for the people he was forced to seduce. He’s been doing it so long it’s become part of his personality now, but the more he comes to love and trust the player, the more he tones it down when talking to them. Except when he’s being deliberately melodramatic, ofc.

#astarion #astarion romance #psychology nerd headcanons I guess #that gorgeous gremlin is such a hot mess #and that’s why I love him forever #thank you for coming to my TED talk

[introspectivememories]

#fucking idiots the both of them #lewis you lost nico 'britney' rosberg???? #and nico you lost lewis hamilton???? #you stupid fucking idiots #me whacking them with a roller up newspaper: IT'S. BEEN. A. DECADE. TALK. TO. EACH. OTHER #i mean like at this point it has to be a psychological experiment #how much psychic damage can our fans take before they snap? #why am i sobbing over two forty year olds on the bus? #anthony hamilton and keke rosberg please hold an intervention for your children #im sorry but if i fumbled britney and lewis you would've had to sedate me #like straitjacket and psych ward and everything #lewis hamilton #nico rosberg #f1 #brocedes

[ghaniatreides]

katniss: i accept the responsibility of the mockingjay

coin: yes, with gale as the perfect new love interest?

katniss:

#like ma’am this is the first long distance she’s ever done with peeta #why are you testing her mental state like that?? she just lost her soulmates she’s in denial about to a tyrant using him #as a way to psychologically torture her cause his situationship left him bitter #it’s a delicate situation please be more cautious!! #katniss everdeen #alma coin #peeta mellark #gale hawthorne #thg #the hunger games #catching fire #mockingjay #suzanne collins

[pratchettquotes]

"Good heavens, potatoes are worth more than gold!"

"Surely not!"

"If you were shipwrecked on a desert island, what would you prefer, a bag of potatoes or a bag of gold?"

"Yes, but a desert island isn't Ankh-Morpork!"

"And that proves gold is only valuable because we agree it is, right? It's just a dream. But a potato is always worth a potato, anywhere. Add a knob of butter and a pinch of salt and you've got a meal, anywhere. Bury gold in the ground and you'll be worrying about thieves forever. Bury a potato and in due season you could be looking at a dividend of a thousand percent."

Terry Pratchett, Making Money

#moist von lipwig #sacharissa cripslock #making money #discworld #terry pratchett #money #economics #economic theory #wealth #potatoes #value #worth #relative value #currency #perception #psychology #a potato is always worth a potato #why is ankh-morpork like a desert island?

[kthulhu42]

I'm back to shaming it all.

The push to not kink shame was a psyop to try to convince us that simulated rape/pedophilia/beastiality/abuse/ etc. is somehow not as bad as really doing those things but every time you have an orgasm to some simulated version of real life depravity you're rewiring your brain to think the real life depravity is sexually arousing too.

#radical feminism #radblr #feminism #kink shaming #Why do you think actors have psychological assistance after doing deeply disturbing roles? #Y'all took the “video games don't make you violent” argument to the extreme and now you think no media has any effect on you whatsoever

[minty364]

DPXDC Prompt #82

Harley Quinn and Bruce Wayne accidentally have a one night stand after Harley is reformed. Harley gets pregnant but hides it, she can’t let anyone know about this. She gives him up for adoption and doesn’t tell Bruce. She can’t risk this getting back to the Joker who would definitely target the boy. Joker would definitely use her son against her, he’d be furious. so she gives Danny up for adoption. Who knew the Fentons were the wrong people to let adopt.

16 years go by and Harley begins to regret her choices and she decides to visit the home. She heard their eldest daughter Jasmine was getting into psychology and she’d figured she’d give her some pointers especially since they were kind of family. What she didn’t expect was for the Fenton Parents torturing and Vivisecting a ghost in their basement. Harley doesn’t know who this ghost Phantom is but she’s getting him out of their.

Danny finally comes too after the rescue to Harley Quinn of all people. He knows she’s reformed but he’s still cautious.

#dp x dc prompt #dp x dc #dc x dp #writing prompt #danny fenton #danny phantom #Danny is the son of Harley and Bruce #Danny gets vivisected #poor danny #Danny gets saved by Harley Quinn #Eventually Danny says fuck it and reveals he’s half ghost to her #Harley Quinn goes on a killing spree #She adopts Jazz afterwards why wouldn’t she want a kid that’s into psychology like she is? #Harley loves her kids and would do anything for them #Danny didn’t realize he was adopted #Danny being way smarter than people give him credit for #Honestly same #Id rather people underestimate me because if people knew they’d take advantage

[werepires]

Fic in which Mary tries extra hard to bond with Cas to show Dean she supports him and their relationship, except that relationship doesn’t exist in the way she thinks it does and because none of them ever use their words Dean is now faced with the horrifying thought Cas might become his stepdad

#Dean Winchester psychological torture chamber #he starts to just retreat to his room whenever Mary and Cas hang out #trying to rationalise it like #of course mom would like cas he’s got the dark hair and piercing eyes and air of authority just like dad he’s exactly her type #I should be happy for them. for her #cas seems happy too I guess that’s all that matters #at least it’s not ketch anymore #and one day when cas is out he gathers his courage and approaches her about it #so he sits down next to her and Mary’s like oh he’s finally comfortable enough with me to tell me about his relationship #but instead Dean goes mom are you dating Cas #and Mary is like wtf Dean of course I’m not dating your boyfriend why would you think I’d do that #and it’s the spiderman meme of dating Cas #where both of them assumed the other is involved with him when neither of them actually are #txt

[unhelpfulfemme]

Another thing I liked is how Laurent's trauma is handled, because usually when a character has a Secretly Traumatic Backstory there's some kind of annoyingly maudlin scene about it. Either they get into some kind of big conflict with the love interest and are forced to explain themselves so they don't get judged or dumped, or the love interest intrudes on a vulnerable moment and sees them being abused or somehow handling the consequences of that abuse, or they are explained the circumstances by a benevolent third party, and this changes their view of the abused character because now they're god's poorest meow meow and I just fucking hate it every time.

Like, this is why I stopped reading this type of story: because the amount of crowding and backing into a corner and privacy violation that happens to abused characters in order to coax them into opening up about it and reassure them that they're okay is so annoying. I feel like I've been psychologyposting on main too much lately, so I might explain later why I feel this way or I might not but in any case I hate it.

I love that this book is the literal opposite of that, that Damen not only doesn't crowd Laurent and insist that he open up, but that Damen ensuring space and privacy and time to calm down for Laurent when he's overwhelmed is repeatedly portrayed as an act of friendship and caring and love (that Laurent later reciprocates, because they both lose their heads when something pushes their buttons and understand this about each other).

I also love how Damen doesn't fall in love with Laurent because Laurent is sad and fucked up, or because he's so brave to have put up with the abuse, or because Damen too is sad like Laurent (I'm physically restraining myself from going off on a rant about how shared trauma is hardly ever a good foundation for a relationship): no, he falls in love with Laurent because he's whip-smart, and a good leader, and funny, and tender once he opens up, and a lateral thinker, and a man of integrity who keeps his promises and pays back his debts (and because he's pretty and blonde and good at sporty shit that Damen likes). Some of these things may have been shaped by the awful shit that happened to Laurent, as they were also probably shaped by his station or his education or his body type or any other circumstance of his life, but it's refreshing to have a character who went through awful shit but who also has other things going on for him that make him loveable instead of being completely defined by his trauma. And even when Damen finds out, the way he thinks about Laurent literally doesn't change at all - the things he likes about Laurent are still seen in the same light as always, Laurent's personality as a whole is still the same, even his attitude towards what Laurent did to him when they first met doesn't change much (as we see in the short story epilogue). And even this last bit is really cool because Laurent is never stripped of his agency or made out into some sort of helpless victim currently, both of which would probably mortify him with how much he's trying to establish that he's not at any opportunity.

And I also like how it's not necessary for Laurent to tell Damen about it in order for them to be close, nor does Damen push him into it. And everyone else seems to agree that it's Laurent's story to tell when and how he wants it told, except for the villain of the piece, who reveals it in the most awful way possible. This is particularly important because Damen spends three books grabbing everyone in Laurent's life by the shoulders and shaking them and going, "Why do you care about this guy??? Have you noticed that he's kind of an ashole?? Why are you loyal to him?? Why???" and no one ever says anything, because they're protective of Laurent and don't want to take away his agency or privacy because it's his fucking story to tell. Even after Damen finds out, we don't see him mention it and he probably lets Laurent open up or not on his own terms, as he does with everything else that doesn't directly concern him. Even though we've seen through Laurent's dialogue time and time again that he's probably conceptualizing it in some fucked up ways in his own head and needs yet to realize that he's not some kind of twisted pervert for what happened to him, crowding him about it before he's ready won't accomplish much.

And the story itself backs all this by never being maudlin about it even though it's obvious what happened pretty early on (I figured it out really early, I remember suspecting it almost immediately and being dead sure of it by the Ancel scene in the garden); it kind of elipses around it, gives hints and parallels to other characters in similar circumstances, has Laurent say incoherent shit that makes sense in context, has other characters hint at it, but with Laurent being one of the central characters it's cool that the story gives him that respect and doesn't wallow in the tragedy of it all.

#captive prince #I'm gonna be honest I've only read one other story where this kind of well-meaning breaking of boundaries was explicitly portrayed as bad #and it was a darth maul-centric fic of all things #special mention for my most beloathed cordelia vorkosigan pop psychology philosophy of talking at people until they #understand why they're wrong to feel bad about something #which drove me up the wall even though I liked those books

[keshetchai]

Btw the reason gentile pagans are fixated with Lilith is because she is the parallel to their fixation with "Lucifer," or "Satan," as a means of deconstructing their fucked up relationship with Christianity and Christian theology, and the internalized terrible garbage they picked up from Christian normativity, even if they weren't previously practicing Christians.

Lucifer/Satan gets to replace Jesus/God (the representation of XYZ Christian theologies they have issues with) and Lilith gets to replace Eve (the representation of XYZ Christian theologies relating to women that they have issues with).

The replacements represent - to some extent - themselves. They choose means of interpreting these characters that specifically make them into people who were unfairly victimized (within Christian theology) and marginalized, and who were ultimately "right." Or more "powerful," or ultimately more sympathetic/human/compassionate.

It's a fantasy wherein they get to validate their own frustration/pain/feeling of exclusion or powerlessness/treatment of being seen as an "ungodly" or "bad" person, and then make that person who typifies those things in their mind as the real hero, regardless of how doing that affects other people, or even if it makes sense.

It's actually very transparent when you think about it. I can almost guarantee Lilith would hold almost no sway to any of them if she wasn't explicitly mentioned as a counterpoint to Eve.

#they could just go worship ishtar or whatever but that wouldnt scratch the same psychological itch #none of these people want to worship lilith a screetch owl they want to worship lilith counterpart of eve #theres nearly identical babylonian parallels re: sex demonesses and child killers but that doesnt hold any interest for these people #and theres a reason why lol

[bdoubleowo]

Got super bored in a college lecture and suddenly treebark had possessed me

#og post #my art #treebark #trafficshipping #itlw #martyn inthelittlewood #rendog #fuckin. showing up to me psychology class and they’re like ‘let’s talk about neuroscience’ #like YEAH it’s relevant but it’s also boring as hell and also NOT ON THE TEST. LET ME OUT #idk why treebark was on the mind. as of late its not typically #but hey i won’t look a gift horse in the mouth (aka i actually DREW something. i’d been struggling to draw lately) #also this was done entirely in a program i’d never used before. procreate. so that was a little agonizing #except the text that was done in my normal art program #bc i couldnt be bothered to figure out how to accomplish it in procreate

[eyk-hetaart]

tragedy strikes on the streets of Vienna

#would you get him a new lebakasemml #hetalia #aph #hws #aph austria #hws austria #I don’t know why I drew this #psychologically

[nezu-mi]

Elfen Lied - エルフェンリート

#classic cap but why not #elfen lied #manga #manga panel #manga aesthetic #mycaps #horror manga #gore manga #mangacap #psychological horror #seinen manga

[learnelle]

After finishing my psych assignment I treated myself to bubble tea! I also found a shop that sells second hand Japanese books, and I got these ones with pretty pictures of Paris and Western art ♡

#machi machi & laizé are my go-to bubble tea places 🧋💕 Why are they so overpriced tho asdfghjkl #langblr #Japanese #dark academia #light acadmeia #cottagecore #academia aesthetic #chaotic acadmeia #library aesthetic #studyblr #studyspo #study inspiration #psychology

[weirwoodsugar]

ok anyway. i’m killing reblogs/replies on that tully/cat post bc everyone gets on my nerves but let us consult the text for a moment. cat stark isn’t a big mean evil step mother out to get him the entire foundation for the dynamic between her and jon is that he does not exist to her. every memory he has of her is about her ignoring him/looking at him like he is a stranger. she makes up what she thinks he is like after the fact because she functionally never met him despite living with him for 14 years. the single on page interaction they have is when she is in the middle of a nervous breakdown. i need people to have some precision about what this dynamic actually is because it is bad in a very specific and interesting way that affects both characters in a very specific way. the “this is not your place” situation is not grown out of active cruelty it is grown out of total absence

#‘why didn’t she just ignore him’ she did #she literally did and that is in fact the source of the psychological damage #based on his later thoughts on the subject it’s actually crazy how much she spoke to him in that one chapter

[disinhume]

Woah, you're so strong dude, do you think you could pick me up? Like, do you think you're strong enough? I bet you can't. You can try if you want to, but I don't think you can.

#reverse psychology insane boybestfriend behavior <3 #why am I so bad at drawing Jensen Ackles's face??? he always looks wonky #I can draw Cas no problemo but I fail to capture the essence of Dean >:/ #castiel #dean winchester #supernatural #spn #my art