#ive been meaning to write this for a while but haven't had the right scenario

[clarks-letterman]

Wally anon: Guess that means that one Ryan idea is going platinum in your mind. 👀 What are all the slashers you have a ~thing~ for? So very close & yet so far. 💔 Yupppp. And, while I can't speak to your opening ranking, I think it's a pretty uncontroversial statement to make that 1/2 >>>> the rest. Both are individually scary in their own unique ways which apply to the overall themes of their movies the best. It pains me that we haven't gotten another opening void of a call like 2, in particular, cause they were not. playing doing that in such a public place. 😭

Is there anything you would like to inform me on with this subject since I'm obviously less familiar with it. 🤭 dkdhsksk oh he veryyyy much would do that in this specific scenario. The paranormal investigator!reader would quickly figure out what it was from the smell alone, even if they didn't from the sight. 🫣

Yesss exactly. It is. the best position cause you don't have to do anything, just lie back while they completely wreck you & give you all of their attention. Whomever's beneath you would be kissing all over your neck, whispering all kinds of dirty shit in your ear, & holding your arms down. And on top would be teasing your nipples, spitting into your mouth, & stroking you while they go. 😮‍💨

Another thing we have in common huh? 😉 (but I'm sure it's not as bad as you think it is ♥) It really is funny howwww scared the writers are to kill the adults off when You Know Who deserved it for being a weird creeper on Billy. I know a sizable portion of the horror genre is ~the adults know nothing & are not involved~ but when you have Joyce & Hopper over here, Idk why they couldn't have had it be someone physically related to Chrissy (like a twist on the Joyce/Will stuff in S1) while Jason & Eddie were given less one-note material. 🤔 Yupppppp. I understand they had to make some.thing up when the franchise kept going, but it doesn't excuse why IV/V are sooooo boring. 💤  On your ass, huh? 🫣 (but yeah, Michael specifically seems daunting to go against with the right perks based on what I've seen) I keep meaning to see what all was done with them, but I'm so behind on DBD updates, but loveee to hear that they're that good. 🙌 It hadn't crossed my mind at the time, but I'm sure there are multiple ways to expand on Streamer!Ryan in the future (him getting distracted while playing & jerking off under his desk until you walk in on him). 👀

(I'm gonna be honest, Idk who dream is. What have they done?) Yupppp, though. And even if they are. on trial/convicted/clearly. guilty, people want to act all dumb like "Well I just don't know..." or will fully ignore multiple warning signs + past behavior cause they like stuff that those people have been involved in. I know it's difficult to understand how somebody you had an attachment to turning out to be a huge piece of shit, but other times it's like...okay, willful ignorance. 🫤  It's cause too many people refuse. to have their views on things challenged (&, the most embarrassing part is that it'll just. be insiginificant shit like tv characters fkfbdk). They d e m a n d you agree with them or they'll write you off as "problematic" & it's like...is it that. serious? Can we not just normalize going, "I do/don't like this thing just because" 🫠 (oh no @ relating to him in that way💔 I get it, though, cause I tend to respond to a lot of ~intense~ characters that I frequently see people hating & it's like 😶) Oh, no, don't apologize. I support giving them books the flack they deserve. 👍 (It's cause repressed people want to explore poor depictions of sex cause they're unfamiliar with of the inner workings of it, resulting in having genuinely weird fantasies that even the kinkiest person wouldn't entertain)

He sure can. 🎂 They might end up taking a little longer than some of the others since that's months away lollll. I figured you'd like that. 🫣

agdjfkd I could've warned you if I knew you were gonna watch it. 😭 But that's why I love Emerald Fennell's work so much. This + PYW start out in a way that's more familiar to audiences & then boom 💥 completely nastyyyy ending.

Yessss i loved the slasher!ryan thing so much🤭 Lets seee… we covered Ghostface (and several of the wearers I guess). There’s Michael Myers, Pyramid Head, Mark Hoffmann, and the Totally Killer guy if Charlie Gillespie’s character was the killer (i don’t think that’s a spoiler for the movie lmao, and shouldn’t be on the list but i couldn’t resist) Those are the most in recent memory besides ghostface who is number one. No contest. 2’s opening is so good it constantly fights for the best opening in my head because it always leaves me gagged😭 It’s so sad and such a good commentary on something that’s still and issue in recent media (though, not as much, but it still is an issue.) The movie theater benefits from being in an enclosed space and having its own eerie factor, especially when the killer is right there and the whole crowd doesn’t care!! They could’ve had him if they weren’t booing her away from the screen😭 (but also Mickey… he’s so‼️ timothy olyphant>>)

Uhhh guys cumming a lot (like abnormally high levels) usually entails big balls. Sounds silly, I know but they gotta hold it somewhere, and it’s just that it sprays everywhere. If they needed a fire hose to douse a fire… they could use that it’s that strong sksjs. Lmao it was definitely a joke but maybe that’s what makes him do it😮‍💨 the stickiness cluing us in quickly to what he’s doing

The spitting🫣 I need any of Milo’s characters to do. that. now. But yesss I could see Wally being on top, being rougher, and Zed being the softer one on the bottom because he’d feel like dead (haha because he’s a zombie) weight on top of you or something.

Yeah I love Sebastian and he was sooo good in Fresh. Wasn’t exactly scary but thrilling and fun (and he looked good too🫣.) Exactly!! No satisfying death scene for his asshole dad sucked because he made Billy cry and was the only one who could. He deserved Bob’s death but 1000 times worse. And yesss ugh why were those movies so boringgg. They’re fun the first time through for the traps, but the story is soooo😴 I tried to rewatch V and literally fell asleep. Michael Myers with Tombstone+new buffed perks is just so insane. You should totally hop back on if you have time!! It’s pretty fun and they’ve worked to balance the game a lot since you stopped playing (i’m just guessing that you stopped playing at least a year-ish ago, based on the fact that you didn’t know of March’s new survivors and killer and all.) Yes omg!! Maybe you walk in on him and see him jacking off, he tries to hide it and he thinks he succeeds, but you plot to dress up as whatever character that was on screen that he was jacking to. Kind of like Streamer!Ryan and Cosplayer!Reader of sorts, or maybe you’re a very eager fan on his stream watching him jerk off and donating the most to his stream specifically😮‍💨 It could take so many different directions (especially with twitch entertaining the idea of “artistic” nudity on their site.)

(Oh, you have been blessed by an individual for that. Dream is a Minecraft Streamer who got really popular during covid because people found his voice attractive. Eventually, he did a face reveal and everyone called him ugly. They were right though, because it reflected exactly who he is on the inside. It came out a year or two ago that he had groomed a minor and then actual proof of it came out last month I believe. Before last month, he was also in a controversy for holding blackmail over someone’s head and posting it when they started talking shit about him. It was a whole thing.) And yesss it sucks that I relate to him but I hate that people say “it’s sick to relate to a tragic character.” Like, just because you relate to a self deprecating one doesn’t mean others can’t relate to equally harmful ones?? Crazyyy. Yeah those books suck, never will ever read them. The closest thing I got to that was enjoying a hate watch of the first movie, but I gave up because it was too dumb. So true about the repressed sexual nature, it causes you to like weirder stuff. Which, I don’t mind people’s fantasies. Like, as long as you don’t hurt anyone with them and everyone’s consent to discussing/acting upon them, by all means engage in it. But, when it’s hypocritical, then I have an issue with it fr

If he was in a cake or cake contest, he’d have an easy time winning sksjsj. Wally definitely has more than a sweet tooth. Yesss ugh I to see PYW even though it was ranked kinda low on some people’s lists of movies the year it came out. Ollie is so me in the bathtub scene tho, so that was relatable- IM KIDDING IM KIDDING

#wally clark #wally clark x you

[lizzieehearts]

i love the idea of chase and rosa meeting the rest of the charming family cause like,, they're so awkward. rosa overthinks everything in the run up and dare has to try his hardest to calm her down, especially on the tram ride there (as im guessing this would be a family ball) and chase just. doesn't understand how ever after works, let alone how to socialise with his gfs (frankly, huge) family

#darlase and darabella brain go brrr #ever after high #eah #ive been meaning to write this for a while but haven't had the right scenario #darlase #darabella

[nashibirne]

Gimme Shelter - 6

Sorry, it took me a while to write the next chapter but I was kinda busy. I hope you still want to know how things are going and growing between Henry and Kat. If you like this, please reward me with a comment, reblog or like 💜

Pairing: Henry Cavill x OFC (Kat Spencer)

Words: ~3.0k

Summary: Henry has to deal with a personal crisis and he finds shelter with his old rugby mate Sam and his sister Kat. She used to be Henry’s best friend a very long time ago. Will they be able to become friends again or maybe even more? Chapter 6: A disruptive factor and The Lonely Hearts Club meets again.

You can find the previous chapters and my other fics on my masterlist!

Warnings: RPF, mention of mental health issues, lots of poetry

Unbeta'ed. English isn't my first language. Mistakes ahead and they're all mine.

Disclaimer: I don’t know the real Henry Cavill or anyone who's related to him in any way, this is pure fiction and nothing more

Credits: Pics for the moodboard from Pinterest. Face claims: Kat = Jennifer Connelly

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So, enough of the small print...here we go:

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As much as Kat enjoyed her time with Henry and the feelings that blossomed between them there was this one disruptive factor called Mel.

When they were sitting on that rock the other day, almost kissing, when they were pouring their hearts out afterwards, it all felt so real, so possible, so tangible but whenever she saw Hen talk to Mel her heart sank and doubt started to nag at her hope. And he not only talked to Mel, he went to her place several times and so Kat went to London for contract negotiations with a publishing house with mixed feelings. 

She wanted to trust Henry who always laughed it off, when Kat asked him about Mel, saying they were just having a neighbourly chat, but she also wasn't willing to be heading for the rocks blindly. She wasn't able to ignore the existence of Mel and the connection between her and the man Kat had fallen for again. 

She missed Henry terribly when she was away though. Five days without him made her realize how close they had grown and how much she enjoyed being around him. Five lonely nights in a hotel bed increased her doubts and her worries, her jealousy and her insecurities. She couldn't stop her mind from creating worst case scenarios of Hen being with Mel. Of Mel seducing him, of Henry having sex with her, falling for the attractive, charming blonde who knew how to enchant a man. She imagined how he got trapped by this woman who'd never tried to hide that she was looking for a new husband, a new provider, after the last one had the audacity to die and leave her with a big, beautiful mansion but not with the amount of money Mel had hoped for. And in all these scenarios Kat was the one who was left behind with a broken heart. Again. 

When she returned to St. Ives on Saturday afternoon she found Lydia working in the garden and Sam in the kitchen, baking bread. Her brother hugged her, leaving handprints of flour on her black shirt.

"How was London?" 

Kat plopped down on a chair with a sigh. "Successful but exhausting. I can't believe that I actually liked living there. The traffic is horrible and all those people and the noise…"

"Good thing you're back in our beautiful, little sanctuary then. We've missed you. Even Darcy came looking for you every day." Sam shoved the loaf of bread he'd just moulded into the oven before he washed his hands and sat down at the table across from his younger sister.

"Really?" An amused smile played on Kat's lips. "And I thought Henry and Kal are all he cares about recently. How's Hen by the way? On the phone he said he's fine?"

"He is, I guess. No more panic attacks as far as I know. He's been in a pretty good mood all week, busy and full of energy."

Sam poured himself a glass of water and offered one to Kat too but she declined with a shake of her head.

"Where is he anyway?"

"At Mel's." 

Kat's expression changed from curious to annoyed in an instant. "Again? What's he doing there?"

"Having a coffee and a chat, I guess," Sam shrugged. "I don't know the details."

Kat rolled her eyes. "Of course not."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Nothing."

"Then why do you say it?"

Kat looked at Sam with a frown. "Nevermind."

"No, come on. Spill it. Are you implying I know something I won't tell you?" Sam got a little cross now.

"I'm not implying anything. I just don't understand why he spends so much time at her place and I can hardly believe your old rugby mate hasn't told you." She crossed her arms and gave her brother an expectant look.

"He told me what I've just told you. What do you think they're doing? Having a secret affair?" He let out a snort, laughing just at the thought of Hen and Mel but when he saw the frown on Kat's face it dawned on him. "Wait? That's what you're thinking? That something's going on between them? You're jealous?"

"Does that sound so far-fetched? She tries to dig her nails into every man who seems to be good husband material. She tried it with you and you don't need a crystal ball to know that she's for sure trying it with Hen too. And for the record...I'm worried about him, not jealous." Kat was all worked up now and Sam could easily tell that he'd hit a sore point.

"Henry is not an idiot, Kat. From my own experience I can tell you that Mel is anything but an enigma. I could tell what she's looking for after our first and only date and a man like Hen, who has to deal with gold diggers all the time, will see right through her without problems. There's no need to worry. And no need to be jealous." He grinned at her and Kat made a face. "Did you even listen to me? I've just told you that…"

"That you're not jealous. Yeah...yackety-yack. I know you, sis. You're in love with him. Don't try to deny it." Kat sighed and surrendered with a resigned smile. "Fuck, yeah and I feel like I'm sixteen again, Sammy. Confused and clueless. What is it about him that makes me feel like that? Why does it have to be so damn complicated?"

"It's not complicated. Trust him and listen to your heart."

"It's not that easy."

"No, obviously it's not. So maybe you should just ask him about Mel and work on your trust issues."

"It's not like I haven't asked him about her before. But I guess you're right. I'm gonna try again and talk to him tonight." She gave her brother a nod.

"At the meeting of The Lonely Hearts Club?" Sam winked at her with a grin that made Kat chuckle.

"He's told you about it?"

"Yeah. He's talked about it all week. Running around with piles of books, volumes of poems as far as I could see. Copying entire pages by hand into a notebook. To be honest, I think it's the reason for his good mood."

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Maybe, Kat thought, or maybe he just enjoys fooling around with Mel.

When Kat climbed up the rope ladder a few hours later she had managed successfully to avoid Henry up to this point. She had spent the rest of the day in her room, brooding over Sam's words, about Henry and Mel for the umpteenth time and about the club meeting of course. She was close to chickening out but she decided to get her shit together and to enjoy the time with Henry on their little stroll down memory lane. And maybe, just maybe, she would even find the courage to ask him about Mel.

"Kat!" Henry flashed her one of those billion dollar smiles when she entered the tree house. "There you are." He hugged her and gave her a look full of relief. "I haven't seen you all afternoon. I was a little worried you'd stand me up." 

"Neighbourly duties?" Kat asked, trying to sound nonchalant.

She gave him a smile and shrugged. "Well, you were not around when I came back…"

"Yeah...I was busy." He grinned sheepishly, scratching the back of his head. 

"Huh?"

"Sam said you went to visit Mel."

"Ah, yes. Yes, I did. You know we have a little chat every once in a while. She's...nice."

"How lovely."

"The room looks great, Hen." 

The awkward silence that fell over the room made them both uncomfortable. The unexpected tension left Henry in a state of insecurity. He'd hoped for an easy time with Kat, some intimate moments to share but the start of the night wasn't very promising. He cleared his throat before giving Kat a goofy smile.

"Shall we begin? I've prepared a little something. A few poems and...yeah." He shrugged helplessly and to his big relief Kat nodded with a smile. "Of course."

It was only then that Kat realized that Henry had decorated the treehouse with loving care. Blankets and cushions on the floor and candles in the corner of the room created a very warm and cozy atmosphere and a huge pile of books showed her that Henry was very well prepared for the first meeting of the Lonely Hearts Club since 1999. 

"Thanks, kitty. Let's sit." He plopped down beside the books, his long legs stretched out and Kat sat down cross-legged next to him, placing a little bluetooth speaker on the floor. "Prepare for some 90s flashback. I picked all the cheesy love songs we listened to non-stop." She started the playlist and soft music filled the air. Henry smiled at her and took a deep breath before he started to speak solemnly in his best statesman's voice.

The way he looked at her took her breath away for a moment, his gaze intense and pleading, he seemed so vulnerable it made her heart miss a beat. She wanted to kiss the insecurity and sadness that crossed his handsome face away but her own doubts made her fight the need to be close to him. Instead she took the notebook he handed her over and opened it. She stared at the name of the poem that was written down in Henry's neat handwriting on the first page. 

"I hereby declare the meeting of The Lonely Hearts Club open. Present are the founding members Katherine Elisabeth Spencer and Henry William Cavill."

Kat couldn't help but chuckle. He was such a dork.

"Would you do me the honor of reciting the first poem, dear kitty?" 

She knew it all too well and yet she'd almost forgotten it existed. Forgotten or repressed, it didn't really matter, she still knew it by heart, since it was the very poem she had read countless times after Henry had broken her heart. The fact that he knew it too, that he'd chosen these verse to be read out loud made her wonder if it was as familiar to him as it was to her. She cleared her throat, closed the book and her eyes and started to recite.

"When we two parted by George Gordon Byron."

She paused and took another deep breath.

"When we two parted

In silence and tears,

Half broken-hearted

To sever for years,

Pale grew thy cheek and cold

Colder thy kiss;

Truly that hour foretold

Sorrow to this."

Kat flinched slightly when she felt Henry's warm hand in hers. She looked at him and she wasn't surprised when he continued, his voice warm and soothing like thick, golden honey.

"The dew of the morning

Sunk chill on my brow—

It felt like the warning

Of what I feel now.

Thy vows are all broken,

And light is thy fame:

I hear thy name spoken,

And share in its shame."

The game was the same it used to be back in the days at Stowe. They took turns to read the stanza. The only difference was that they were holding hands now. Kat spoke the next words with a steady voice although on the inside she was trembling.

"They name thee before me,

A knell to mine ear;

A shudder comes o'er me—

Why wert thou so dear?

They know not I knew thee,

Who knew thee too well:

Long, long shall I rue thee,

Too deeply to tell."

She smiled at Henry, sensing that he needed her reinsurance for the last paragraph. He returned the smile and went on. 

"In secret we met—

In silence I grieve,

That thy heart could forget,

Thy spirit deceive.

If I should meet thee

After long years,

How should I greet thee?

With silence and tears."

They sat in silence for several minutes, comfortable silence this time, the quiet connecting them in a way words never could.

"I've got another one you might like." Henry said softly after a while. He reluctantly let go of her hand, took the notebook and searched through the pages. "Here it is."

"Bring it on." Kat smiled at him, hardly able to hide the loving feelings that spread inside her chest and her belly. Henry nodded and began.

"My heart leaps up when I behold

A rainbow in the sky:

So was it when my life began;

So is it now I am a man;

So be it when I shall grow old,

Or let me die!

The Child is father of the Man;

And I could wish my days to be

Bound each to each by natural piety."

"That's beautiful, pop." Kat blushed under Henry's smirk when he heard the nickname slip from her lips. "William Wordsworth?" she guessed.

"Yes. I'd never heard of it before, but Mel showed it to me the other day."

Kat's smile faded like a shadow in the dark.

"Oh really, did she? So that's what you're doing when you meet? You read poems to each other?" Her voice had chilled in an instant, her body language switched from open hearted to closed off. Henry was confused by the sudden change of tone.

"Yes, she told me about it when I mentioned that I was looking for romantic poems by british poets. And no, that's not what we usually do."

"And what do you do? Usually?" 

"Nothing special, as I've told you before. And honestly, Kat..it's none of your business anyway."

That felt like a slap in the face to her.

"Right...yeah...you're absolutely right. It's none of my business what you do or who you're fooling around with." Kat got up, tapping off non-existing dirt from her jeans with determined motions that showed how touched and churned up she was.

"Fooling around?" Henry got up too in a hurry, knocking his head on a branch that was part of the treehouse's roof. He cursed before he turned to Kat again. "You can't be serious. You don't really think I f...that I sleep with Mel, do you?"

"I don't know what to think, Henry. You spend so much time with her lately…"

"And I've told you it's harmless and I just visit our neighbour from time to time." He tried to take her hand but Kat took a step back, turning around to stare out of the window with a deep sigh.

"You still don't trust me." His voice was sad now and there was a note of disappointment too. 

"I really want to, Henry. But it's so hard…" Her shoulders were trembling and her soft sobs told him she was crying. He hugged her gently from behind, wrapping his arms around her waist, resting his chin on her shoulder. "I know, kitty. And I know that I'm the one to blame for this dilemma. But you have to believe me. There's nothing between me and Mel. I don't fuck her and I'm not interested in her. I only care about you. Okay?" The last words were nothing more than a whisper in her ear, a light breeze of tones that made her want to believe him. She nodded, leaning into his embrace but she wasn't able to give him a proper answer. The truth was she had no answer. She knew she loved him but what she didn't know was if she was going to allow herself to act accordingly. 

"Listen, Kat. This might not be the right time nor place to do this, but I need to ask you something. I'm going to Jersey next week for my mum's 70s birthday and I wonder if you'd want to come with me?"

Kat turned around in his arms abruptly, taken by surprise by his question. He didn't let go of her waist and so she found herself closer than ever to him, his gorgeous face right in front of her. "You want me to go to Jersey with you?" He nodded. "As my plus one. Yes." She freed herself carefully from his embrace. "But…"

"Let me explain." Henry took a step back to give her some space. "My mum invited me months ago and I accepted...of course...but to be honest, I've dreaded that family gathering since day one. All eyes will be on me, everyone's gonna try to wrap me up in cotton wool, walking on eggshells around me, wondering if I'm okay." He sighed and shrugged. "Don't get me wrong. I'm beyond grateful to have a family that is worried about me, loving people who care, but it also stresses me out. Having you by my side would be very helpful and besides that, I would hate to be separated from you again. Those five days last week were long enough, Kat and don't even make me start with the 22 years prior. You have no idea how much I missed you." He gave her a sheepish smile and she couldn't help but return it. "I missed you too, Hen. But I'm really not sure if this is a good idea. Your parents hardly know me."

"Don't be silly. They remember you very well. You spent Christmas 1998 with us. Please don't say you forgot about that...my parents invited you after I spent the summer with your family here in St. Ives."

"Of course I remember that. It was the most lively and jolly Christmas of my childhood. All those people at your parents house, the chatter and singing and goofing about, it was such a stark contrast to Christmas with my family."

"See...you can have that again. A crowded, noisy place, loads of laughter, alcohol, fun and food. When I asked my mum if it's okay to invite you she was so excited, Kat. She'd love to see you again and so would my dad and my brothers. And I'm sure you're gonna like my sisters-in-law and all my nephews and nieces." Kat smiled.

"That sounds good."

"So you're in?"

"I don't know. Where would we stay? At your parent's?"

"No. I always stay at a small cottage near the beach when I visit them. I bought it a few years ago."

Kat started to chew on her lower lip.

"Two bedrooms." Henry added with a wink before making the next try to take her hands. This time she didn't pull back. "Please say yes, Kat. Let's spend some time together. We can stay there for a week or so. When the whole Cavill bunch leaves after the celebration, it will only be you and me and lots of time to...to bond again. So what do you say?"

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[scripttorture]

I'm writing a comic, and while I haven't worked all the details out yet, one of my characters is basically fed very small meals and forced to constantly do chores by his partner. What effects would this have, and what would be needed for him to recover physically?

This is a pretty damned realistic scenario that lines up incredibly wellwith cases of modern domestic slavery.

If you feel up to reading real victim accounts then there are quite afew cases I can think of that fit quite closely with what you’re describing.Domestic slavery in the Middle East, Brazil and parts of Asia broadly followsthe sort of pattern you’ve described.

I’mgoing to leave you a link to a BBC article I read recently which interviewedAsian maids in Brazil. Brazil recently brought in tighter laws defining thehours maids could work and giving them a right to holiday time. They’reactively trying to stamp out practices described in the article.

Other places aren’t quite so progressive on this front unfortunately.Cases in the Middle East tend to involve a degree of obvious physical abuse andoften sexual abuse as well. That doesn’t fit so well with your scenario.

Cases in Singapore would probably be a good source. The laws governingdomestic help are pretty lax and treatment of maids is poor compared to many ofthe neighbouring countries. There’s a case here fromearlier in the year of a couple who were jailed for starving their maid.

I know the situation in your story is different, partner abuse isn’tquite the same thing, but I think you could use sources like these to informwhat you write.

You might want to have a look through @scriptshrink and @scripttraumasurvivors tags for more information on the psychological andemotional effects of partner abuse. I feel like it’s something I should find out more about, but asthings stand they both know a lot more then I do.

I do know that he’d probably find it incredibly difficult to seek helpand articulate what’s happening to him. He’s likely to be isolated from peoplewho could support and help him.

That said- he’s being starved and starvation produces a very particular psychological effect.

I’ve got a Masterposton starvation here that talks about that but to be honest what I’ve foundmost helpful to my writing are the words of people who’ve actually experienced what I’m writing about.

So I think you should probablyalso have a look at this. It’s the 70 page summary report from theMinnesota Starvation Experiment. A group of conscientious objectors duringWorld War 2 voluntarily starved themselves for six months so that the effectsof starvation could be studied and the best ways of alleviating it discovered.

The volunteers describe what it felt like to starve, the effect it hadon their personalities and motivation. I’ve found it an extremely helpfulsource because….starvation is a bit of a special case and I think it can bedifficult to understand how the psychological effects it has interact withoutreading personal experiences.

Physical effects are a bit easier.

I know it’s obvious but he’s going to lose weight and he’s going to bein pain. I mostly describe the pain as constant dull aches but it is alsoaccompanied by periods of more intense abdominal pain. A sort of constricting,clenching feeling as if a fist is tightening around your internal organs.

Some of the knock-on effects of weight loss are easy to think through.He’ll have lost muscle mass, so he’ll be physically weaker. Some of the men inthe Minnesota Starvation Experiment were surprised by how much weaker they were. He’ll also be less coordinated and slower andthe combination can lead to clumsiness and a lot of breakages.

He’ll also have lost a lot of fat, which means he’ll be more affected bytemperature. In a temperate environment he’ll probably be cold all the time. Ina hotter climate he’ll be too hot, which could combine with his other symptomsto cause more fainting fits if he moves quickly.

He’ll also probably find he’s less physically comfortable. Sitting down,lying down, leaning against things will all be less comfortable without aprotective layer of fat.

He’ll look paler or ill. His nails and hair will be more brittle and he might grow more body hair depending onexactly how badly he’s been starved and for how long.

His mouth will feel dry and he’ll find it difficult to cry.

He’ll have very low energy and will find his work very very difficult.Combined with the psychological symptoms of starvation he might well becomeprone to quite emotional outbursts, which his partner might use to underminehim.

I’d suggest avoiding theswelling legs or distended belly. Those are symptoms of starvation but theysuggest a more severe case then what I think you’re suggesting.

He’d also be a lot more prone to disease. Many of the particulardiseases I suggest in the Masterpost are related to famine conditions ratherthan starvation of an isolated individual.

Unless he’s doing things like eating the dog food, raw meat, handfuls ofearth, grass etc then he’s unlikely to have a problem with parasitic worms. Thissort of desperate eating of anything wouldbe normal behaviour for someone being starved though, so I wouldn’t rule it outentirely.

He’s probably safe from things like typhus and dysentery but he’d be alot more prone to colds, flus and fevers.

It’s a pretty dire list of effects but the good news is that thephysical recovery process is simple: food.

He wouldn’t even necessarily needa hospital stay, but in a modern setting doctors are likely to insist he staysin a hospital for a week or so while he’s fed and rehydrated.

TheWorld Health Organisation guidelines for combating and treating malnutritionare here. Most of the article assumes that the person reading it is dealingwith starving children but thetreatment is more or less the same in adults and children.

In a modern setting it’s basically an IV line of high calorie solutionand encouraging the patient to eat and drink a lot over several days. Completerecovery and weight gain would take weeks but marked improvement can be seen ina few days.

Because starvation has such a strong psychological effect this wouldalso help some of his psychologicalsymptoms. Some of those symptoms would probably vanish entirely.

As these things go his physical recovery would probably be extremely quick.Which might make it harder for him to accept the longer term psychologicaldamage he’s going to be living with. A strong support network would beincredibly helpful to his longer term recovery.

Since this is a visual medium you might also want to consider looking upphotos of the men involved in the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, before,during and after the experiment as a good visual reference for the way his bodywill change over the course of the story.

I hope that helps and good luck with your story. :)

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Hi, I'm the anon who sent the messages about Rotom-Cyrus to TWJ. I wanted to explain myself. There are two books in Rotom's Room: one written by Charon where he says he found out about Rotom "by pure chance." So Charon is involved with Rotom (prob why he has that card) but he isn't the one who met Rotom as a kid. I don't want to spoil exactly what happens in USUM incase you haven't reached that part but it does basically confirm Cyrus is the one who wrote that account.

aaaa that suuuuuckscos literally its fuckin a book signed by charon how was i meant to know that oh the other book right next to it isnt by charon alsoand the trading card has no meaning whatsoeverand we’re just giving more sad backstory to a guy who already had a sad backstory and nope charon has no backstory whatsoever and was just super evil and everyone was right for all these years telling me i’m a jerk for liking this characterand right when basically the same thing just happened with faba seriouslyharmless comedic villain in sun and moon, is shown apparantly redeemed in the postgame, but NOPE now its retconned and he was The Most Evil One and something something lusamine isn’t bad anymore and everything she ever did is now being done by faba in the animecos hey yknow thats what i get for giving the benefit of the doubt to ~ugly people~seriously fuckin everyone hated faba right from when he was first revealed, you had people predicting his ENTIRE PLOT based on just one picture of him and his name and no information whatsoever on his personality. we all just fucking knew what was going to happen because he’s a science man with an ‘ugly’ face and he’s ~flambouyant~and then charon fuckin literally existed to be the ~worse man~ who was added to make cyrus more redeemablethats how he was treated in both mangas. he was made more evil just so cyrus could be redeemed, which was POINTLESS because we all already believed he could be redeemed! and fuck we even all already thought he had cute moments with his pokemon as a kid, geez! there’s a hundred fanarts of that same scenario but with murkrow or zubat or magikarp or houndour or sneasel...just fuckin the pokespe manga wrote a personalityless charon who murdered a child and was outright shown not being friends with rotom and actually hating rotom and getting his ass kicked by rotomand then in DPA we get not only More Evil Charon Who Kills People but also he’s drawn really stupidly over the top scary while everyone else is big eyed shoujo dorks. and our protagonist believes that everyone is redeemable except charon. lets show cyrus committing far more evil acts than charon ever did in the game, lets show him being ooc as fuck and talking about murdering pokemon while surrounded by graves. but THAT IS OKAY and our hero will insist on saying he’s redeemable but NOOOPE charon just fuckin steals some money and has an ugly grandpa face and he gets no such sympathy. he just exists to make you forget that moment of cyrus being ooc double evil. cos we literally retconned that charon was responsible for all cyrus’s evil acts last arc, even though he wasnt even in the fuckin story yetand like now my only damn consolation here is that the character i connected with when i first played the game is AT LEAST NOT THAT EVIL. but all the potential signs of headcanoning him as not evil were all false and i just should have known it. and apparantly its a better and more worthwhile plot to just give sad childhood man another pokemon he knew in his sad childhood, and the thing i thought was Really Cool And Interesting Writing didn’t actually exist. like seriously i was fuckin literally suffering from the same abusive childhood cyrus has in his backstory back when i played dppt and i DO NOT KNOW WHY but i ended up connecting with this stupid grandpa more than him and it saved me in a dark time more than him. back then i was a stupid fuck and i hated cyrus cos i saw myself in him, like i didnt want to admit that i was in an abusive family and i wanted to hate him for daring to want to take revenge against the world that fucked him over. i felt he didnt have the right, like I didnt have the right..so yeah i didnt even fully realise cyrus’s backstory until i replayed the game as an adult, but the one thing that did hit me back then was how unexpected and cool it was to turn our opinion of this jerk grandpa on its head. like i mean whoa! i didnt hate him like everyone else did, i found him pretty funny, but still i wasnt a big fan or anything until i saw that diary entry. like charon does LITERALLY NOTHING in the plot there is no reason they should have added him in a third version, he has no reason to exist unless he was meant to be the guy who introduces rotom’s new forms also added in the game. and it was such a mind blown moment! it doesnt even make him less evil! like “whoa this evil guy used to be a good kid once” could still work even if it WASNT a sign of him having potential redeemability, like it makes him so much more personally evil and horrible if he abandoned his best friend or something. I was so dissappointed you don’t get a boss battle with him, cos i went and caught that rotom and was hyped to defeat him with the pokemon he once betrayed and like there’s NONE OF THAT ANGLE if it was cyrus. it doesnt make rotom any different than any of his other pokemon that he owns right now and we know he already cares about, cos he has a crobat.and it JUST DOESNT MAKE SENSEbecause the journal SOUNDS like charon!they both talk all smart guy style but it felt more formal like how charon talksand like how charon boasts a lot, but the journal has him boasting about his friend instead. it sounds too enthusiastic to be cyrus...and like we already know where cyrus grew up as a kid and it wasnt eterna city. and he doesnt have a secret lab in galactic hq also in eterna city, like charon does. and also he’s not like friggin fifty years old so why would his childhood poke-friend be in a wrecked abandoned house if it was just ten years ago or something. and also why would they give charon this trading card where they draw the 100% evil guy having a vaguely genuine smile on his face and not looking like rotom hates him and he’s got it caged up or anything and also why would the card’s effect be all about friendship and why would they define him as The Rotom Guy and why would they even bother to give a trading card to charon if charon is a pointless character who never did anything important and had no actual relevance to this rotom wifi event except apparantly stealing a bunch of diaries from some other guy who was really responsible for it all. and why would they bother to point out that someone signed the diary if it wasnt the guy who wrote the diary, and also we are not going to sign the diary by the guy who actually wrote it. like if it was meant to be cyrus whey didnt they make it clearer?? nobody could be expected to have figured that out!also why does charon have a second rotom room in silph co in HGSS which timeline wise means he would have had it before DPPT and he’s talking about finding a rotom by chance before he ever found this diary that doesnt really belong to him. like why would he build an entire lab of form machines if he didnt own a rotom yet? how would he know enough to make them actually work for rotom if he never owned a rotom yet?why did nintendo decide to do all this if i wasnt supposed to reach the conclusion that charon had ANYTHING to do with rotom???why didnt they make it fucking clearer. why couldnt i have been saved years of clinging to this stupid ass headcanon and basing a lot of my taste in stories on the whole concept of ‘wow that was so fucking cool how they took a one dimensional looking villain and then turned it on our head with a cool reveal and made me super eager to see future stories with him’ and hey we’re not ever gonna get those and also everyone else was right and i should just give up and agree that ugly looking granddads will always be eviland why the fuck did i somehow link my self worth to such a random ass headcanon for a random ass character like seriously could someone have properly explained cyrus’s plot to me as a kid so i could have had him stop me from committing suicide instead. like seriously if they’d just made cyrus’s grandpa less hard to find and explained the plot more clearly and explained that he was the rotom kid AAAAAAAAARGHand i really didnt fucking need this, usum, right after also people started telling me that lusamine is ~really good~ and her whole child abuse plot is gone now like ha ha ha ha fucking ha lets crush bunni on two damn levelsand what is my fucking luck that this happened to happen right on the same day when i got some stupid ass anon hate and also had a horrible nightmare about my abusive fatherlike seriously dude who sent me this ask im really sorry ive had such an incoherant babbling reply to it, its just been a really bad day for me and like.. im not freaking out because of this minor headcanon being proven wrong, its just like i was already freaking out and having some random irrelevant headcanon bullshit happen right now is REALLY bad timing to push me off the edgehopefully i can calm down and come back and give a more coherant response of like.. why i headcanoned the different thing and why I’m sad its not true, even though i’m happy for you that your personal headcanon did become true instead.but like it sucks to be told ‘nope you’re not allowed to have your favourite character, his one and only personality trait was just a misconception you had’ during such a really bad timing of such an already bad daynintendo could u give us like a sassy science villain gramps who DOES have a redemption plot? or at least a plot that isnt ‘exists to be worse than the main villain’? like seriously why did it happen twice. i was happy at original sun and moon cos it felt like faba as charon but better written but then NOOOOPEjust...god...what.what sort of fuckface up in heaven decided to throw all the bad shit at me today and not at least spread it out across the rest of the week?

#also just a heads up to not play a game called Far From Noise #cos that also contributed heavily to me having this giant breakdown right now #its like two hours of chilled out philosophical discussion about someone who's stuck in a car thats hanging over a cliff #and then the conclusion is that they find a reason to want to live again #AND THEN THE CAR FALLS OFF THE CLIFF #AND THATS JUST THE END #i really hope there's multiple endings or something cos that one made me want to fucking kill myself thanks #what the fuck is fucking wrong with whoever wrote that #A Nonny Mouse #ask