#brainworm ivy

[vanityloves]

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#idk how my layout is gonna be #or how my system is gonna work but #i think my main will mostly be rbs n art #i shall see #brainworm ivy

[coentinim]

Kai's manipulation techniques up until he got addicted to meth and started hating women big time. These are also all cult leader strategies in general so good job on research to the writers of the season!

This is strictly for educational purposes! Watch out for those behaviors in ANY group. Cults are dangerous and don't have to be religious at all. Stay safe and avoid groups and people displaying even the tiniest bit of those behaviors! Trust your gut and don't disclose personal info to strangers! <3

Cult trchniques obvi, mentions of suicide, mind control, killing, spoilers obvi

@fear-is-truth this is the most I could come up with rn, the brainworms are all-consuming!

So, how does Kai control people?

- Observing someone and analysing their deepest insecurities, then promising to erase/fulfill them (most visible with Meadow)

- Forcing his followers to partake in crime together and not hide their identities from one another to create additional fear of going out of the group - they will be found guilty by the authorities

- Using people's sexuality against them (Meadow, Bob, Ivy, Winter, Harrison...)

- Constantly speaking about and hyping up an agenda, a movement, a change... but never saying what it involves. His cult is focused on recruiting people who can benefit his rise to power and feed his ego. He doesn't have any agenda except for personal gain but people believe he brings some great change.

- The fearmongering. It does require media and an extensive wave of concerning shit happening, but he did achieve this. Especially insidious technique to watch out for irl.

- One-on-one meetings with the members, the "pinky power". It's supposed to seem silly, unserious, but it makes him hold incredible power over them. The eye contact, the physical contact, the demanding tone and the isolation from others and their own self.

- He uses the BITE model of authoritarian control, a type of cult mind control tactic categorized by Steven Hassan (his book is an incredible read btw!). So basically behavior, information, thought and emotion control. Kai started using this mostly after recruiting his boycult.

- Mock executions - first with Meadow, this is how he convinced her to commit suicide for him. Then, he made his men drink the kool aid to "strengthen their bond" and weed out disloyalty.

- Torture - this one doesn't work, obvi, but it did work temporarily on Beverley (putting her in isolation she described as a "dark hole"). We all know how this ended though, so it wasn't rly that successful?

And more. But it's all I can think of off the top of my head.

- Physical and verbal violence against members that makes them want to get on his better side and gets them to work twice as hard.

- Putting people against one another!

#do not think about doing this shit to other people im so fucking serious rn #another episode of me adding long ass disclaimers because i have ocd #not tagging as cults since there are actual cult survivors there #ahs cult #american horror story #american horror story cult #ahs #kai anderson

[villain-pencils]

Cover I drew for this insanely long Harlivy playlist I've put together. It's like 4+ hours of music and brainworms lol.

#artists on tumblr #harlivy #hivy #harley quinn #poison ivy #wlw #dc comics #my art #Spotify

[afterimages-again]

and since I’m at it (it = digging through my saved works), here’s old stuff I did last year because the frog pond AU brainworms were getting too sticky in my brain <3

(frog pond AU is essentially where tim is mentally adopted by poison ivy and harley, gets kidnapped and experimented on, and has his face quartered into a sentient alien mouth. it sounds bad but it’s not that bad I promise)

#frog pond au #tim drake #dc #afterimages

[cairoscene]

Send to All

i guess i’ll make a fic promo here for posterity

[READ HERE on AO3]

Pairing: Gen

Rating: Teen

Words: 3099

Relationships: Tim Drake & Bruce Wayne, Stephanie Brown & Tim Drake, Barbara Gordon & Dick Grayson, Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake/Kon-El | Conner Kent, Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne

Additional Tags: Multimedia, Epistolary, Email fic, Batfamily, Humor, Bruce Wayne is a Good Parent, Barbara Gordon is at her limit, Legal Documents, Poison Ivy adjacent, Passive Aggressive Emails, the horror of realizing your dad Fucks

Summary: I, ___________________________, hereby acknowledge that this form represents my wishes should I contract phytoaphrodisiac-induced delirium (hereafter referred to as “PAID”) during engagements with or while apprehending Dr. Pamela Lillian Isley (“Poison Ivy”).

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the bats have a sex pollen release form. because of course they do.

Inspired by: Batnesia by Qui particularly Ch. 8 which gave me the biggest brainworms

#i'm done #guess i need a writing tag? #cee writes #my fic #batfam #batman #tim drake #bruce wayne #dick grayson #barbara gordon #jason todd #there's all here and all writing emails #featuring bruce i must sign all of my emails just in case they don't know it's me wayne #the ships are there but not important #no actual smut occurs btw

[toki-macross]

On discord, @creepysteeples mentioned something about having Black nail polish on Scarecrow... And I got a brainworm lodged in my brain. As well as Creepy likes Scarecrow, KillerMoth, and Ivy as a trio. But since they also love Mr.Mind, my brain instantly thought about the Slug meme. So, Crowmoth fanart... With little details that was fun to make. -Bug book for Scarecrow's lap -Ivy's Vine flowers are colored in Harley's hair color -Ivy Vine is also holding the nail polish bottle -Wanted blushing Scarecrow face, so mask is on a vine nearby -Also Scarecrow leaning on his chin, but making sure not to get the nails bumped -Ivy also has a note, that was from a silly comic, from Harley. So always Harlivy <3 Took me a while to do, but I am really proud of it. I haven't done something this complex digitally in a long time. And loving my tablet for helping me do this easier. <3

Also a stand alone silly Mr.Mind Slug meme. Such a silly little man.

#Crowmoth #Crowmoth fanart #Scarecrow #Killermoth #Poison Ivy #pamela isley #Jonathan Crane #drury walker #All the fun little details #so worth the effort! #Such hand cramps XD #my art #batman #dc batman

[rocket-man-major-tom]

I'm back on the Lackadaisy brainworms for the time being, and I've got plans to talk some more about my OC, Clancy.

I've been meaning to touch on his views on the Lackadaisy crew as I like to imagine him as their latest addition, having arrived some time after the events of the comic.

I will say here that I think Rocky, Ivy, and Calvin are the only ones he'd really get along with. Everyone else, he either doesn't trust much, or isn't certain about. I will have more to say about this later.

#lackadaisy #lackadaisy oc #my oc #clancy

[catty-words]

@continuallyunexpected babygirl, i have too many thoughts on evermore (2020) to fit in my brain, but bless you for asking:

- enchanted by the way the album feels cohesive because of the way it’s fifteen songs reflecting on selves and people lost to time that all evoke wintry sparseness in both the music and lyrics

- relatedly, i got into this album at exactly the right time. it complements the liminal space feel of the week between christmas and new years and i was in exactly the right headspace to be utterly decimated by its interest in the feminine urge to callously move through time with little regard for the people who fall victim to you being so goddamn occupied with the narratives you’re constructing in your head

“willow”

- originally found the refrain of take my hand, wreck my plans, that’s my man annoying and undeserving of their hype but you know what? the rhythm of it wins i understand now that this is a brainworm from which i cannot escape

- i will Not come around on i come back stronger than a nineties trend though. i just won’t.

- verse three goes so fucking hard oh my godddd

- the underlying sultriness just works, man i dunno what to tell you except my hips love this song

“champagne problems”

- the diction of each repetition of champagne problems contains such an understated bitterness that is very sexy of the narrator considering she just left a dude mid-wedding, her being like ‘your problems are not that deep ok? grow up.’ is HOT. ruthless and HOT.

- and the flipping of the script to the narrator being the one who has not-so-deep problems they have to grow up about is just good writing. which is also hot.

“gold rush”

- this song often makes me think about you!! so, an honest answer to the question “what are your thoughts on evermore?” is “you, bestie” 😘

- the way this song is an Experience, though. like, the percussion and the bass et al make you feel your own anticipation-sick heartbeat and the lyrics of the chorus tumble down down down into the feeling they’re describing and “gold rush” is falling in love i will not elaborate further

“‘tis the damn season”

- in a bit of a love affair with this song right now it’s the latest to mash the 'think about d/b’ button in my brain and i’m feeling very

about it, y’know?

- ooohhoohoo the lyrics if i wanted to know who you were hanging with / while i was gone, i would have asked you / it’s the kind of cold fogs up windshield glass are a prime example of the wintry sparseness and the feminine urge to live up the ass of your own perspective and i feel very normal about them as a result!

- something about the instrumentation of the chorus makes me feel like i’m standing in the gently falling snow. which?? that’s witchcraft

“tolerate it”

- it’s a well-constructed story powerfully and emotionally evoked through music but my primary reaction to it is always something along the lines of: girl, get help fr fr

“no body, no crime”

- 👏 GASLIGHT 👏 GIRLBOSS 👏

- the way she thinks i did it, but she just can’t prove it hits!!! that’s it, that’s my whole thought!

- at first glance, it might seem that this self-contained murder ballad is a bit of a detour for the album, but i’d argue that the narrative is cold and brutal in such a way that fits right in. “champagne problems” and “‘tis the damn season” and “ivy” and especially “long story short” all feature narrators who are self-involved, painfully aware of that fact, and never stop themselves repeating their harmful patterns. gaslighting girlbosses the lot of them. 😍

“happiness”

- letting go of something that treated you well enough but you’ve outgrown, being wistful for change but also for the past... this song is so thematically on point i find myself needing to stare into the void about it

“dorothea”

- another wistful exploration of bygone relationships and whole eras of life. theme once again on point.

“coney island”

- i totally feel like i’m walking through an abandoned theme park in the dead of january listening to this song. i taste the ocean, or perhaps my own tears,,,

- obsessed with the lyric sorry for not making you my centerfold for the way it captures so succinctly the downfall of the romantic relationships on this album, makes my brain buzz

“ivy”

- this pop-country ballad simply is a jam

- why is the rhyme scheme of oh, goddamn / my pain fits in the palm of your freezin hand so fucking satisfying?? i wanna bite down on it

- also, the palm of your freezing hand image/sensation is so simple, yet i find it to be one of the most striking lyrical evocations of winter on the album

“cowboy like me”

- i really enjoy the way this one turns the ‘end of an era’ motif on its head. in most of the other songs on the album with similar interests - “champagne problems”, “tolerate it”, “happiness”, “coney island”, “marjorie” - a relationship is coming to an end and the narrator has to grapple with how that changes them. in “cowboy like me”, a relationship starting is the change that requires reflection on what’s being lost and i think that’s neat!

“long story short”

- this song offers a meta-perspective on the whole album and i have it between my teeth and i’m gonna grrhgrhhrhhhgrhhhgrhj

- the whole chorus fucking. it offers a birds-eye view of the cycle we’ve been seeing different facets of for eleven songs now!!

- relatedly, the line i always felt i must look better in the rear view shines a spotlight on why the speaker stays trapped in this particular cycle and i am unwell about it!!!

- looking at the song through this lens, the CHEEK of now i’m all about you!! (for how long, taylor? yeah, that’s what i thought, see you in the review, babe!!!)

- in any case, i find it delightful that even the album’s meta-narrative contains a flipped-script moment that’s powerful as all hell. long story short, i survived indeed!

“marjorie”

- it really gets to me that in the outpouring of the bridge, the speaker says i should’ve asked you questions / i should’ve asked you how to be in such a panic, yet the verses are proof that the speaker picked up on marjorie’s advice all the same!! heart-wrenching.

“closure”

- the lounge piano layered over the static gives the song a disjointedness that really works for me and somehow perfectly captures the chaotic emotional state of being suspended between letting something go (a relationship, a year of your life) and still being stuck with that something a little while longer. i.e. the perfect penultimate track to this album

- the petty delivery of it wasn’t right, the way it all went down / looks like you know that now delights and amuses

“evermore”

- album closers to sink into a fit of despair to!!! because this is the perfect album to sink into a fit of despair to and this closer is the perfect concluding statement for its album!!!!!

- truly, the way this song ends with the faintest whiff of rebirth yet is still melancholy the whole way through... name a better love letter to winter. you can’t do it. ❄️

#continuallyunexpected #replies #evermore (2020) #taylor swift

[merrybandofmurderers]

Seasons Aesthetic - Mahanon Lavellan

Rules: bold what always applies, italicize for sometimes/somewhat applies, and strikethrough for never.

(art by @artharakka)

WINTER

christmas lights | cuddling by the fireplace | snowball fights | fingers blue with frostbite | yuletide carols | bundled up in a thick coat | ice cold wind | a devastating blizzard | a warm cup of cocoa | boozy eggnog | candied fruits | sliding on a patch of ice | watching your breath billow from your lungs like a cloud of smoke | half-drunk family reunions | watching your loved one’s eyes light up when you give them a gift | the steady drip of a melting icicle | silent snowfall

SPRING

a leftover chill in the morning air | dewy grass | budding flowers | rebirth | baby animals | a picnic in an endless field | rose wine | caressing flower petals | walking through a well-kept garden | ivy climbing a stone wall | butterfly wings | the smell of honeysuckles drifting through the air | a crisp breeze | a dragonfly hopping from lilypad to lilypad | sunshine warming your skin after a harsh winter | tall grass brushing against your bruised knees | a clear, blue sky

SUMMER

the smell of chlorine/sea salt in your hair after a swim | lounging in a sunbeam | a cookout with family | ripped shorts | melting ice cream | the slap of flip-flops on concrete | sweat running down your scalp | stargazing on a warm night | a mini-umbrella in your drink | martinis with friends | slathering on sunscreen/tanning oil | summer thunderstorms | sitting on the porch with your grandparents | golden sunlight | throwing a friend in the pool | thundering laughter

AUTUMN

carving pumpkins | the smell of cinnamon | crunching leaves beneath your boot | haunted hayrides | gathering around a bonfire with friends | taking your kids trick-or-treating | beanies and hoodies | earthy colors | lanterns lighting a dark path | hiking through the woods | jumping into a pile of raked leaves | reading by candlelight | pumpkin spice | seeing a specter out of the corner of your eye | a thrill up your spine | the hairs on the back of your neck standing up | a shrill scream | cats meowing beneath your window

@mrs-theirin, @gaysolavellan, @fade-and-loathing-in-thedas, @calicostorms, @brainworm-terrarium, @transfenris-truther

#my stuff #oc stuff #oc: mahanon lavellan #oc meme

[cc-zerozero-ff]

Playing FE Engage and absolutely loving it. It’s way cleverer than I anticipated, and it’s fun and it’s colorful. I adore every character, including the Emblems from games I’m unfamiliar with (Byleth and Sigurd are my Big Faves in terms of character, they’re hilarious).

Onto what’s most important: Alcryst is my absolute favorite character and I am SO happy for him for finding a great boyfriend in Fogado. That A support gives me strength. Other important ships include Diamant with Amber and Alear with Alfred. I just feel like Alfred is the best match for Alear as a character, they are really, really cute. However I myself am Big Crushing on Louis, Kagetsu, and Zelkov.

(I ship Louis with Ivy and I’ve got way more brainworms for that than I ever expected I would.)

And yes, for those keeping track at home, 100% got an Emblem Endellion in my heart complete with bracelet design, “recruitment” paralogue, and personal paralogue. Details to come.

#personal #Sh1n1 plays Fire Emblem Engage

[st-agatha-city]

Got Ivy brainworms today, so I am reposting this GIF WIP I have, where she is getting caught between one of Troy and Nate's arguments.

#st agatha city #zombie lane #troy ramone murry #ivy kohen #ignatius hutcherson

[thedandydollmaker]

Still feeling Extremely Normal about BG3, of course. (I am in Act 3. I am having a normal amount of feelings about things)

Ivy: I've reached the point where I'm just throwing up my hands and saying "good enough!" There are a couple of tweaks to make to his hands and feet, and his neck hole needs to finish drying, but he's ready to get some fine sanding done.

Aster: I didn't want to do a styrofoam fore because they're a mess to carve, so I made a tin foil core wrapped in tape. Pro: It's held up much better than foam or paper, so I can probably use it one or two more times. Con: Sticking a knife into foil is Viscerally Unpleasant. I've had the brainworms so badly with him, but now I'm on a roll so I might pack up a little sculpting kit and work on him during vacation lol

I'm starting to panic slightly because they're going to need eyes! And wigs! And shoes! I'm going to have to learn how to make so much stuff...

#doll: hedera #doller's gate 3 #dollstarion

[swrdcryptd]

this cryptid is currently in pain and needs distraction so I am answering asks I received back in late February and so forth! haha sorry,,,

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do you ship anyone in engage?

not very strongly in the romantic aspect,,, I do appreciate Boucheron/Kagetsu and Merrin/Chloé,, they're so cute together,,

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your drawings are so cute! :3 do you plan on drawing Ivy? she's my favorite <3

thank you!!! I'm taking a smol break right now and she is actually next on my list to draw! really funny how you asked this because I've been trying to figure out what to draw for her OAIJETOEJAOtj but I adore her! she makes me miss studying too,, but education system is poopie in hell,,, I am trying to draw every playable character in engage unless my brain decides to not cooperate with me like it is right now CRIES

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Hi Nana! You said you are evil, but your drawings show a lot of kindness in them. I think that's funny.

my drawings are just a ruse to lead you to think I am nice and pure-hearted but I am truly the evilest and corrupted,,, *Owain voice*: MY DARKNESS IS DARKER THAN YOURS!

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What are these "bad potty humor shitposts" you speak of? I don't think I saw any last year.

oh shit you're right I didn't draw one last year,, depending on my schedule and brainworms I might do two but hahaha uh,, I do not promise anything,, my energy for potty humor usually just goes into words that I curse my friends with,,, but I guess whenever I'm ready I may do a poll because I have an idea on who to draw for this oajtoeajtoe

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how much should i pay you to draw one little caspar cat with his head stuck in bread

since this is possibly(?!) a smol request,, $3 with optional tip to my ko-fi,,, I would be happy to draw the little blue meowmeow stuck in a baguette even

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ナナさんこんにちは！落書きはとても可愛いですね 😊

ありがとうございました！

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main blog?

fukkachans,,, I just reblog stuff I like on there though,,, I don't go off the shits in text posts as much as I used to years ago because I am old and just want a quiet life,,

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ok I have like 14 asks left to answer here but I am sleepy,, sorry,, I will reply when I am not feeling like a sloth,, I go back to my cave! thank you for your continuous support *raspberry noises*

#villain san whoopie

[coffee-and-cusswords]

terminal take ivy brainworms

#mine

[whoreillaz]

bearer of the curse

#brainworm ivy