#nervous prey animal

[inkydrew]

hare wisdom

conference doodle. march 2023.

#hare #rabbit #art #original character #original art #doodle #sketch #spilled ink #fear #afraid #have you ever considered that everyone else is just as afraid as you are? #mental health #anxienty #dark art #nervous prey animal #animal

[creekfiend]

How does it feel to be the most galaxy brained person on the group therapy website

#I fuckin love this #i often think the same but w a rabbit #sometimes your nervous system is a prey animal!!! #dysfunction junction

[spiderversegf]

my friend sent me a screenshot of an email i sent him last year and it made me laugh for several minutes so i had to post it

#🍜 #i was sending him a pdf of the first draft of my novel and i was nervous #but like girl….. girl. #maybe i’m not beating the prey animal allegations……. #reflecting on how multiple ppl have told me i’m the most anxious person they know…. and on my doc saying i was an incredibly anxious kid……. #much to think ab! <- will not think ab it ever again probably

[ectonurites]

DRUNK BUS (2020) DIR. BRANDON LAGANKE & JOHN CARLUCCI

#drunk bus #drunk bus movie #i truly do love Michael's nervous prey animal demeanor here. his big ole eyes 👁️ 👁️ #characters in this movie for the most part did Not get last names so im not bothering trying to tag by character. just the actors. #charlie tahan #pineapple tangaroa #sam edits

[katsigian]

Gonna force myself to finish those asks I've gotten. Gonna force myself to finish those tag games I've been tagged in. Gonna reblog all of my mutuals things they've tagged me in and shared. Gonna share my lore writings and oc studies. Gonna put my head down and keep walking even though things have been one real bad stroke of luck after another irl for a little while now. I haven't forgotten about anyone, friends or mutuals, or anything they've tagged me in, I promise

#the schedule and queue option are gonna be the way to go rn #i've fallen into this trap where sharing anything gives me anxiety out the wazoo. i seem to have misplaced my confidence in the things #that i create #don't know why don't know how but i guess i'll do it scared. like they say. do it anxious and worried like a nervous prey animal #and it'll be alright again. eventually #this isn't for attention or pity by the way it's more of an update because i've been absent #anyways #love y'all thank you for staying here #okay bye mwah #katsi.txt

[pisshandkerchief]

do you ever feel like you're on the verge of a panic attack for no reason at all

#I'm so fucking nervous and I have no idea why #like I'm literally just sitting here in the office and I feel like a prey animal about to be attacked

[catgirlriddler]

Scarecrow saying "hold on i have 2 take my anxiety meds" and then microdosing on fear toxin

#sometimes a man needs 2 relate 2 a nervous prey animal. sometjmes a man has 2 run when he hears the wind move leaves like a feral horse. #the scarecrow dc #jonathan crane #scarecrow dc

[captain-lovelace]

Ngl sometimes I wish anxiety wasn’t so common so I would be able to talk about it and have people respond with like oh something is going seriously wrong with the crushing terror you feel on an everyday basis rather than like yeah yeah the crushing terror we’ve all felt it just suck it up and deal like everyone else does

#I know it’s not healthy but it feels honestly stupid and cringe #Like wow you have anxiety? Should we throw a party? Should we invite your therapist #I ALSO HATE BEING STUPIDLY NEUROTIC #The OCD makes it worse #Like if I’m not constantly terrified I’ll hurt someone or myself #vent #ask to tag #Is this good? Probably not #But #whatever #i don’t feel like there’s a supportive community or like understanding it feels like I won’t get taken seriously #Like wow you’re a nervous prey animal. That’s stupid grow up #Maybe if you just weren’t like this #Maybe if I wasn’t so sensitive #I don’t want to be like this anymore I am so so scared and I can’t calm down

[growingstoriesandgardens]

Under The Arbor

Part One: Few Scars, Many Kits and Endless Prey

Fall Leaf puts her nose to the dirt and climbs the stones where she can overlook the clearing beyond it. The golden field had been cleared by a human noise maker, leaving the space open and empty. Calling her above anything else. 

This is a lookout point she's climbed and even gone far outside of countless times before. Even venturing out regularly now when the humans living within sight across the field were far away. But the urge is different as the sun peeks through the trees this time. This time, no part of her felt the tug to return down the slope again, not as it had before. There is a part of her somewhere in her chest that tells her she won't be coming back this time, drawing her far away. Her pointed ears stand upright, and her tail waves excitedly behind her. 

Like every fox did, as her mother explained so early in her life, she felt the calling. The burning drive to leave the den she was raised in and become her own hunter, den builder, and protector. A fox cub's parents fill those roles until the kits are old enough to do these things for themselves. Independence from their parent's food, shelter, and protection marks the beginning of a fox cub becoming a grown adult. 

As a cub, it had terrified her.

"One day you won't need me, little leaf. You will do all I do for you on your own." The warm voice of mother whispered as she snuggled into her belly. Ignoring her brother's paws digging into her side to get closer to hide deeper into the vixen's fur.

"But what if I can't!" Fall Leaf had squeaked, curling closer to her mother.

"You will. I am sure." She laughs, licking her cheek, 

With a tail wrapped tightly around them, her mother silently sends them into a deep sleep. With a full belly, warmth, and safety, Fall Leaf hadn't let her mind dwell on it long.

Now, all Fall Leaf wants to do is leap onto the other side of the ridge and go. 

Confidence wells in her, remembering her mother's words. A season after that moment, deep in a den with her mother, Fall Leaf has provided her own food for what feels like forever. She's fought off crows and helped her mother build a new spring den. As the cold of autumn sets in, her whole body, from nose to tail tip, screams that she is ready. 

There would be good hunting, Fall Leaf knew, beyond this field and several over. There, she has seen thick woods- not unlike the ones that sheltered them now. The crows, the kind ones who patiently waited for what her family left behind instead of rushing them for the leftovers, promised her so. It would be plenty to help her through the winter, she knows, which will set in once all the vibrant colors currently on the trees fall to the ground, and the last of the color dies and sleeps till spring, as her mother explained. 

There was little to no fox scent there the last time she visited (because, of course she visited), nor that of wolves of any kind. While that didn't promise a lack of confrontation, it seemed a safe start. That place would be her goal. 

Staying with her mother was always an option, and the vixen knows that well. But she didn't intend on helping her mother raise a litter of siblings, as safe an option as it would be. No, not when the chance was so wide open before her under the gleaming gold of the sun pushing through the trees as it rises. 

The ground is slowly being warmed by the rays, but soon, the earth will begin to freeze overnight. Lightly, a coating of frost at first, then deeply, making everything ice before snow. The thought of trying to get her paws into frozen earth makes her have to shake off an extended look over the area around her mother's den. 

Now. The time was now, or else she might never leave. 

Looking back a last time into the shaded drop into the ravine where she grew up, Fall Leaf's dark-furred chest deflated, still. Sunrise is crouching at the bottom of the stones. The sunny orange ears of her littermate are pinned to his head, and he doesn't look up at her with his long muzzle close to his white paws. Undoubtedly, he knows where her mind is already, and if his tail tucking itself around his body is any indication, he is less than happy about what she is planning to do. It's nearly enough to break her resolve to move on today.  

"Stay!" He cries out to her, lifting his face from the ground and taking a few steps to place a single foot on the first stone. For a moment, she thinks it is a shame for his bright orange coat to be sullied by the dirt. 

Her ears pin, and her tail drops close to the ground at the sound. 

"Come with me!" She screams excitedly at him. Playfully, she jumps down and intentionally nudges him before leaping back up. A failed attempt at convincing him with a bit of play. They aren't kits any longer, but Sunrise always loved wrestling. 

Sunrise shrinks back into the den at it this time, and Fall Leaf stops and sighs sadly. Her brother isn't ready, not yet. It simply wasn't his time now. Despite knowing that that was a good thing, that it would make her smaller sibling more ready for what the both of them would be facing, a twinge came over her heart temporarily, and she slowly made her way down the stones again. Closing the distance and nuzzling his lighter fur. Would he be happier here, helping their parents with next season's litter? Would he leave this winter before that?

The first bit of grief comes over her, knowing she might never really find out.  

"I love you, brother," She whimpers despite the sound coming out heavy, "I wish you the best life if we never cross paths again."

"I wish you the best life, too, Fall Leaf. With few scars, many kits, and endless prey," Sunrise whimpers back as he returns her affectionate nuzzle before they pull apart. 

Turning though, she comes face to face with her mother's unmistakable white mask, looking down at her with gentle hazel eyes. Otherwise, she looks much like her sibling, a lighter color than her fiery red pelt. The steady gaze is the one that had watched her learn to walk, to pounce, to track. There is sadness in them, though. While she had grown more distant the last few turns of the moon and had visited them less and less, the love, even with her presence, wraps itself as tightly around her as her own pelt. 

"Thank you," She squeaks. "I want to be as good to my kits as you were to me, Mother." 

White Mask steps forward and nuzzles her shoulder before pulling away and nodding. "I have no doubt you will do that and more, my little one. That said, I came to be sure that you're ready. Are you ready, to feed yourself alone, to protect a terrority? Make a den?" 

She is taken aback by that by the hesitancy in her voice. "You were the one who told me I could, even as a kit." She says firmly. 

"And I stand by that. It's just that you may not understand how much you still have to learn." White Mask replies with the same unwavering tone she raised them with. "I only love you and worry, daughter."

"I can do this; I know it. No matter how much I still have to learn." Fall Leaf says back, unfazed and matching the immovable belief in her words that White Mask had used. 

White Mask's eyes seem to grow proud when she steps away, making her heart feel full. Sunrise, while still not filled with zeal about seeing her go, still manages to be excited as they watch her take her first steps as a grown, free fox. They believed in her, and if Fall Leaf didn't believe in herself, that would be enough to fill her up with confidence in what she was doing in spite of anything. With a large deep breath, she turns. This time, she reminded herself to not look back. 

Bursting with the energy loosed from finally taking the first steps, Fall Leaf climbs the stones for the truly last time like the wind rushes, fluidly jumping down over the other side. As she takes full strides through empty fields, the vixen is careful to avoid the sharp stubs left by the human monster claws when they cut these fields. A handful of birds take wing. Sunrise and their mother let out exuberant farewell calls to her from behind her. Which she returns for as long as the sound of their voice echoes.

Likely for the last time. No more stashes of food from her mother or sharing warmth with Sunrise. No more strolls in the territory with her father, whom she hadn't seen in days and days. 

It makes her choke on her grief while she passes through one field, a second one, and then a third. Practically bouncing as she avoids the sharp, dry stubs left behind. The pangs melt away when her hazel eyes take in the tree line, lit up by the rising sun, and the sounds of life within make her ears lift towards it. Her whole body falls into the same pull without her consciously directing it. 

#Orignal Writing #Orignal Fiction #Orignal Characters #Prose #Animal Fiction #Foxes #Short Story #Part One #Under The Arbor #Part One: Few Scars Many Kits and Endless Prey #Please share/reblog! #First time doing something like this and I am SO nervous. Please do be kind. #writblr

[verved]

more than anything im just glad to stop feeling like im going fucking insane. my own immune system is attacking my body and i KNEW something was up w it. it was not normal to be getting sick every other week. it was not normal to feel so stiff and fatigued and have so much brain fog all the time. my body is genuinely under attack and of course i'd be feeling awful while this is happening. i'm just fucking pissed it took this long for my shitass doctor to test for anything more than vitamin deficiencies. i feel like he was just writing everything off as anxiety bc that's already on file. it took a horrible flare up and for me to be crying in pain at work and having to be driven home by confused and concerned coworkers for anything to fucking happen.

i know i'll continue to be brushed off and infantalized. im so used to it by now and i know a diagnosis won't change how little people take my distress seriously, but at least i can stop feeling like i'm going insane and know i have every reason to feel like shit.

#even if it was just anxiety or whatever that doesn't negate that i feel like a nervous prey animal all the time #upset it got to the point where the nervous prey animal gets hit by a truck #literally only my friends cared i love them so much #everyone else just kept telling me i had to keep going #im so upset #lineko.txt

[piplupod]

would rly love to know why the brain and nervous system have decided to gift me with The Evening Horrors every day for the past ... week ? ish ? what the heck changed that made this start happening consistently every time dinner rolls around :[

#its just like suddenly everything bad becomes a crushing unbearable weight #like i can usually cope but this is just... Too Much fhdkdl #i wish i could just tell my brain and body ''hey i know this reality is intolerable but can we just like... chill?'' #like theres nothing i can do for it fhdkdl so why do i have to act like a prey animal about it !!! #cant i just be silly and ignore the terrible reality around me ??? why do the body and brain refuse to cooperate !!! #its so infuriating dbjdksl #i know its looking for an escape or a fix but theres nothing !!! i have been attempting to figure this out for 5 years now !!! #unless something miraculous happens then there is no escape or fix !!! i would like to move on and just chill !!! #if there is no way out of hell then i might as well have fun w it yknow? #if nothing immediately terrible is happening then i should be able to just Ignore it all #but alas !!! nervous system and brain do not allow for that !!! #(actually there IS a way to cope w this and its called ''have a self destructive meltdown and forcibly get switched out'') #(but I'd prefer to not do that fhdkdl i have a lot of creative projects i want to work on rn LOL) #(also the others in the brain get very bored and lonely bc theres nobody to talk to and nothing much for them to do) #(thats the issue w having a host who fronts for large chunks of time!! its difficult for the others to make friends and find hobbies!) #anyways. rambling. im going to go eat dinner and hopefully that fixes at least a little bit of this fjfkdl #pippen needs 2nd breakfast

[jennilah]

my animation work on Prey 😊

#prey #prey spoilers #predator #predator spoilers #my animation #cg stuff #vfx #my videos #omg im always so nervous when i share these even tho im told its ok

[starlyht]

reminding everyone this is lex chic

#he's so precious to me . #speaks to me on a spiritual autistic nervous prey animal level .

[n7viper]

9 people you want to get to know better

ayyyy @cinisekha tagged me in this lil thing - thank you for thinking of me! 💖

Last Song: Jaded by Imminence

Currently Watching: Nothing, actually 😅 once a week I sit down and catch up on AEW, but other than that I watch nothing. (Now that I took a few days to post this - I am in the middle of watching AEW Double or Nothing PPV haha)

Currently Reading: stupid amounts of things on Ishtar Collective and also trying to make it through The Fall of Reach. but one of those things is winning, and it’s certainly not the book...

Current Obsession: fucking DESTINY. I’m going back and playing 1, I’m playing excessive amounts of 2, I’m rotating OCs in my head so hard I wanna scream… I’m having fun :D

ohhh dear I'm so nervous about tagging people. no pressure to respond, and let me know if you don't want to be tagged in things! 💖 @mars-colony | @vhenan-solas | @datsonyat | @seventhscorpio | @friendlyneighborhoodcorvid | @scribbledquillz | @mars-colony | @lilllithdraagon | @email-core

#if i didn't tag you it is because i am a nervous little prey animal #thank you for the tag ash!! #tag games

[flambo19]

i feel kinda bad about pivoting into drawing different games a lot but I need to remind myself that this is my house and i can decorate it how i want for lack of a better term

xenoblade still owns like a good chuck of my brain tho. send help.

#i also want to talk here more (i say before i get nervous like some sort of prey animal) #flambo says stuff #xenoblade is like a tattoo in how its permanently fixed to me (and also i have a xenoblade tattoo)

[newtdrawz]

It's so fun and scary when a post I make anywhere gets alot of views/likes 😭

Like omg!!! Hello!!!!!! But also,,, omg,,,, hello,,,, the horrors,,,,,

Idk I just get anxious over literally anything I've ever done 😭😭😭 ik it's ridiculous,, plz ik 😭 internet is so fun!! Love being annoying on the internet!! But also,, the internet,,, so scary 😭

#newt shut up challenge #idek what to tag this #having a great time #love it here #but so afraid #at the same time #thats how i usually am at the function #afraid but having a good time #throwback #to #“never beating the nervous prey animal allegations” post