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#that shit was exposure therapy and they didn't even know it
stellarspecter · 7 months
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okay i don't know if the hyperfixation will hold long enough for me to actually write this but au where everything is the same but the waylon house is just a bit more structurally sound. max doesn't die and is like 'thanks for this guys, is that the whole party or?' and everyone just sort of looks at each other like. well we don't want to anger him so what can we say but yes. and so the nerds and max end up hanging out for a night in the waylon house and the worst thing that happens is grace chastity is tempted to have a beer for the first time (she doesn't though. but with max offering it's very hard for her to refuse. or focus lol) max keeps giving them weird backhanded compliments like 'wow you guys are way cooler than you look, how'd that happen' which is not the best but it's way better than being beat up for daring to be in his line of sight, so they'll take it.
so they all hang out for the night, max is like weirdly chill and friendly, eventually he leaves and they're left standing outside the waylon house like. ?? what the fuck??? did we just befriend max jagerman???? the nerds are still apprehensive considering pete still has a black eye, grace is still boiling with religious zeal and repressed lust, and steph still doesn't really like him, but they can't help but remember how he said that trying to prank him was the nicest thing someone's ever done for him. and that just can't be true, considering he's literally the star quarterback and the main character of hatchetfield high, but.... the fact that he felt like it enough says a lot, doesn't it?
so they decide to leave the prank footage to gather dust and figure this was probably the best outcome they could have hoped for. who knows what they'll walk into at school tomorrow? maybe max will become a friend.
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asylumdwellermoved · 8 months
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thinking about how Harper loves making the pc (and possibly others) into happy little unaware patients that are subconsciously sluts since all of his pills and treatments decrease awareness and increase control but then there's obviously everything else he has people do under hypnosis
So just imagining him doing all the fucked up stuff he does and erasing your memory afterwards like normal but eventually when you come to therapy you start telling him about these weird dreams you're having about a mysterious figure doing things you don't understand to you and he realizes you're just having dreams about all the shit he does when you're hypnotized and so then it becomes VERY important for you to tell him about these dreams in as much detail as possible with your cute little confused innocent face that doesn't know what any of it means while he's absolutely cranking it under his desk
"A-And how did it feel to you? Be as thorough as possible..."
"It... gave me a weird feeling in my stomach. And my body felt really hot-... Dr. Harper? Are you okay?"
"Hm? I'm fine, keep going..."
"But your face is all flushed and your breathing is kinda... A-And you're shaking! Your arm especially-"
"Do the dreams make you feel uncomfortable at all?"
You pause for a moment, despite your concern.
"They... didn't at first, not even a little bit. But now something feels a little weird about them. I can't really put my finger on why."
He hums in feigned thought at your response. He was trying not to let his eyes linger on your face for too long, but god, you were so cute like this.
"Maybe your treatment wasn't the most effective. I believe some exposure therapy might help... We can start today. One moment."
You look at him expectantly, nodding in acknowledgement. His cheeks start to flush a little again.
"Now I want you to watch what I'm doing... and not look away. Get close and take in every detail..."
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Could we please get some headcanons for Hroned King with a witch/mage reader?
FUCK YEA WE CAN this is some GOOD SHIT
Horned King x Witch!Reader Headcannons:
Having heard tales of a powerful witch, you were captured (not without resistance) and brought to the King early on.
The men didn't want to go after you, so you were unceremoniously dropped into the throne room by Gwythent Express(tm). Say what you want but magic can't do much when being hunted by dragons.
His Majesty questioned you for hours, begrudgingly impressed with your resistance to the terror his appearance normally inspires.
You were quite literally shaking with fear, but he doesn't need to know that and you were very proud of the fact your knees didn't give out.
It's rare to find a skilled magic user - it's a profession with a LOT of judgement - and as the only other magic user you've met (other than your mentor) is the Horned King himself...you reluctantly get to talking.
And comparing.
And having staged matches in the cellar (not the one full of skeletons. Another cellar. It's a castle he has several.)
How long have you been here now? Too long, probably, but no-one misses a witch and His Majesty is treating you to more advanced magics than you ever managed to find in your shack in the woods. It's also nice to not be blamed for every little thing that goes wrong. That dubious honour belongs to Creeper and you've snuck him away to heal his bruises more than once.
He was disappointed to find that you wouldn't be able to assist with finding the Black Cauldron, but having you as an asset is better than killing you or exiling you from the castle. (not killing you when you can't help his One True UnLife Goal ((get some therapy Sire cHRIST-)) is the first sign you had that he actually wanted to keep you around. The second was when he broke a huntsmans fingers for daring to touch you.)
His very being pulls at your magical senses - he feels like a black hole, an unstoppable siphon taking in energy from the very air around him. He confirms to you one evening that his lichdom literally takes heat and life force from his surroundings, since he can no longer get energy from breathing or eating. It's why prolonged exposure to him makes people feel weak unless they have magical defences.
Out of curiosity, you ask what you feel like to him. He goes quiet, and doesn't respond until many weeks later, when he mistakenly assumes that you're sleeping by the window of his private library.
He gently lays his stole over your curled up form and you can't help but relax under the weight of the thick fur. His words are so quiet that you could honeslty mistake them for the breeze beyond the thick glass when he speaks.
"You feel like a star." Calloused knuckles gently brush an errant hair from your forehead. "Blinding, and unreachable."
You crack an eye open to watch him leave as your heart swoops inside your ribcage. Unreachable you say, Sire? Your fingers clutch the furs to your suddenly warm face. Bet.
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weebsinstash · 10 months
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Same abo person here
Dude you didnt have to come at me like that with that Izuku shit. I've already been feeling more down bad for him than I ever have because I just finished season 6 and vigilante Izuku in the costume just hit me different.
Ok but like secretary or assistant Izuku who slips some shit in your coffee or beverage of choice, maybe even lunch while already having taken something himself. Planning it just so your both in a small space when it happens, my thought is if your big(in terms of a company role or whatever) enough maybe a limo or maybe he might be personally driving you somewhere for work. Just for it to kick in and well we dont want to risk crashing right? Then Izuku insists that when the other one of you starts to show signs they must've gotten triggered by the other.
And if the two of you somehow end up not fucking the next time he sees you at work he is apologizing profusely. Apologizing for not keeping track of his heats or your ruts, apologizing for his begging and pleading because it must've be so hard for you to hold back, and how 'unprofessional' it was that he acted that way with a co-worker let alone a superior.
Worst part is this just pushes him to want you more. Afterall, your such a kind and strong willed alpha to be able to keep yourself off him, not wanting to 'force' yourself on him. Not having listened to any begging because he 'wasn't in the right state of mind'.
Thing was, he absolutely was at least in the beginning. He basically immediately started begging, crying, and maybe even screaming as soon as he felt the mildest twinges of his heat. Not like you'd know though, with the way he was acting he sounded like he was dying.
Bruh deadass I have absolutely awful at keeping with anime, I think a big factor is that my laptop I bought several years ago has severely degraded in performance quality so like I basically watch anime anymore unless it's on YouTube or like I can see if my TV streaming whatever has anime on it but. My dudes I've literally been meaning to catch up with MHA since season 4 which is funny bc I still have a draft w him I wanna finish. I've mentioned it before but, it's a quirkless AU where he's your wealthy renowned psychiatrist while you're involuntarily admitted into a hospital and it devolves into him extending your stay there on purpose just so he can spend time with you and eventually when he finds out another doctor discharged you while he was away for a conference he just decides to straight up kidnap you for further "therapy" that eventually further devolves into "I see you have problems being comfortable with men therefore I'm gonna fuck you as exposure therapy :) I am Totally Not An Obsessed Creep"
Izuku really is one of those yandere that, whether consciously/intentionally or not, fully takes advantage of the fact you think he's so sweet and unassuming. If he does something that wrongs you or upsets he comes back and apologizes so sweetly and tries to make it up to you and like, it IS genuine but he is also just wanting you to be completely on his side so, he be doing a little bit of lying sometimes
Izuku: oh my goodness I am so sorry about us "somehow" getting locked in that room I had a key for (I totally didn't sabotage the key so it would break and we would be locked in). I just couldn't control myself, I barely even remember what happened, I'm so sorry if I made you uncomfortable, please don't hate me 🥺
Izuku when you two were trapped in a car or elevator or broom closet or some shit just the day before, in heat but also lucid enough to know exactly what he's doing: *sits DIRECTLY in your lap so his scent floods your noses* oh my gosh I just think you would look so beautiful with a little baby belly 🥺🥺🥺 PLEASE let me see you with my baby *keeps wiggling his hips on purpose to try and stimulate you, keeps touching you with his hands trying to peel your clothes off* I promise I'll take care of all of you, PLEASE have my pups, I am IN PAIN right now 😩😩😩 *continues to whimper and whine and shit trying to make you pity him because he knows you have a good heart*
Just full on drugs you so you go into a rut, and then if you ever "slip up" and fuck him, well, he isn't going to let you GET RID OF any potential pups that might come out of it. NOW the tactic is to emotionally manipulate you "oh no, our pups are innocent, PLEASE don't KILL THEM, it ISNT RIGHT, they DESERVE TO LIVE, I WANT MY BABIES, I already TOLD MY MOM SHE HAS GRANDCHILDREN"
Izuku is one of those "and then when she gets pregnant we can move into a nice big house and it might be a little rocky at first but she'll definitely love me if I keep trying and show her my heart" kind of yandere but like, he definitely has the capacity to snap from stress. You're working in an office with him or wherever and for some reason a lot of your male and or Alpha coworkers keep getting mysteriously injured? Did you hear how Shouto somehow slipped down the stairs and broke his leg from a mysterious grease spot right by the stairs? Or how Bakugou got horrrriiible food poisoning after that cookout event held last week that Izuku DEFINITELY didn't bring poison to? God, did you hear about Yoarashi? His brakes failed and he RAN HIS CAR OFF A BRIDGE AND ALMOST DIED
And here's Izuku "oh gosh, there's been so much bad news around the workplace recently, so I brought you this little treat to help ease the stress ^^" and there's 'definitely' not any drugs in it cause he finally bought his dream home to steal you away to, 'promise'
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cheemken · 3 months
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Been seeing all this drayton angst and im EATING IT UP!!!!! gamefreak was really cooking when they put the guy from opelucid "blasted with a giant ice beam" city in the snow biome of the terrarium, in a previous post you said he'd be at BBA at the time of the attack but what if he wasn't? What if he was stuck in the frozen town? (maybe trapped in his frozen over house)
He chose to station himself in the polar biome as exposure therapy because oh boy! he does not do well in the cold despite what he says about it not bothering him
I imagine he had a similar response to the cold/ice types like anime!iris does but of course less humorously and more traumatically!
He'd def mask his fear of the cold/ice types w/ jokes n such before skedaddling away "just because I'm not bothered by the cold doesn't I wanna stay here, it's not the best place for napping ya know"
DUDE YES CBMDBXDNND
Real shit he and his fam would have some sort of trauma over ice and snow and even the cold now for real, for fucking real. Opelucid really got the brunt of Plasma's attack, and I know that Drayden, Iris, and his parents told him to stay put, to hide inside the house, within the warmer rooms, just so he'd be safe. And like, he's young during the attack probs, imagine how that'd mess him up too, having to hide within the safety of your home while your family is in the front lines trying to save not only your city but the entire region. His sis especially, Iris probs hunted Plasma down, and had to made sure everyone else in the region was safe
But imagine if he really went out tho to at least try to help, what good is his strength as a trainer if he won't help right? And god just,,, him seeing the state Opelucid is in, how some people were frozen to death, some were struggling to warm themselves even w their pokemon, and there's still some Plasma grunts roaming around. His grandfather was fighting tooth and nail against the grunts, and even Zinzolin. The Frigate wasn't even around anymore, and he knows Iris is probably hunted them down to stop them too
Imagine how that fucked him up tho, that even after everything was settled, he hasn't forgotten abt the deaths, abt how cold it was, how helpless they all were
He doesn't interact w the pokemon in the biome that much, he hates how cold it is there, he's scared they'd use any ice attacks on him too. It didn't help, it didn't fucking help, Dragon types are weak to Ice. One good thing is that his Archaludon's Steel typing made Ice neutral, but sometimes that doesn't reassure him. There's always that lingering fear y'know, that Plasma will show up again and maybe attack the region again and he dreads the thought of it.
And even better bc in my hcs, Iris has Kyurem, she was the one who got him, the one who kept him. And y'know, as much as Drayton loves his sis, he absolutely hates how she has the pokemon that ruined their city. He knows it wasn't Kyurem's fault, he knows that, if anyone's to blame it's Team Plasma, but yknow, it's Kyurem's powers that made Opelucid a frozen hell scape
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nerves-nebula · 6 months
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so you're a strange person who won't leave the house yet you have friends and a gf
weirdly accusatory ask for someone who doesn't know anything about me aside from what I share anonymously online, but alright! I love talking about myself, so I'll just take this opportunity :)
for the record, I dont have a girlfriend, and i'd say i have about two irl friends who i meet up with somewhat regularly, and one of them is my roommate who i see every day. i also speak to 3 of my siblings semi-regularly. and though i am friendly with all my classmates and might call them friends sometimes as shorthand, we don't really hang out or text or anything outside of class.
anyway you guys know last summer when i got really into wizard101? yea well i mostly became a Night Being and that's when I'd play w101, from like 3 AM until 9AM because i couldn't leave the house so why even bother being awake during the day. I was always in the apartment and the only times i left were to get groceries with my roommate or that once or twice i went to therapy. I tried twice to go to this local meet up thing but I couldn't get myself out of bed for it. I don't leave the house unless I have to, but i do have to for school, so I'm on the bus every day now.
one fun thing about me is that i got agoraphobia and anxiety and i got MADDDD avoidant personality disorder and all these things get worse or better with exposure. over the summer is when you see what I'm like when I am not FORCED to leave the house for work or school and it is truly abysmal. I feel like shit all the time because I'm stagnating but I don't want to leave the house because it's unfamiliar territory. it feels insurmountable, the idea of even putting shoes on feels like it'll take an hour and not be worth it. i don't like leaving, but i know it's good for me, because even if i just started going on walks or something I'd probably feel way less stagnant and bored. so I'm gonna try to do it more this summer anyway, even if i failed last time.
even if i was totally normal and didn't have trouble with all that stuff anymore, I still spent the majority of my childhood in my house/bedroom. No school until i was 13, hating any outside activity my parents forced me to do and failing basically every social interaction I'd ever had, and then retreating to our house as soon as possible. my only friends were my siblings. So that would still have negatively affected me enough for me to consider myself a strange person who doesn't leave the house.
and aside from the leaving the house stuff- being strange doesn't mean i don't ever speak to people ??? I literally met my current roommate online ???
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chronically-evie · 7 months
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rant warning
my new therapist is so insistent on me doing exposure therapy that i can't talk about anything but my anxiety with him and i am diagnosed borderline so if i don't talk about this shit it's gonna turn into a giant split and ive been working so hard on not splitting on my boyfriend but i need a vent for it like i can't fucking bottle up all the dumb shit he's doing
it's not his fault that he has memory issues i KNOW it's not his fault but he doesn't ever fucking tell me what's going on
APPARENTLY his shitty ass best friend (treats him like garbage and is the most racist transphobic dick ive ever had the displeasure of meeting) has a birthday this weekend and he neglected to tell me until today. literally the day before. and i haven't seen him in two weeks either and we had plans. so i asked him why he didn't tell me and he said he didn't know it was happening. he has been friends with him since fucking KINDERGARTEN and he doesn't know his birthday? i genuinely think that's fucking bullshit.
his memory issues are not bad enough to that level, if anything they're more short term, and we've been dating a little less than a year and he knows my birthday.
and he's calling me unreasonable because im fucking pissed obviously i would be upset over this we've talked it over before and one of my main issues with him is communication like i NEED to know what is going on so i don't freak out and he never. fucking. tells. me.
like genuinely when he is out with friends he does not text me once and he says he'll be done within like 3 hours which is good and fine and then he's gone for 6. and doesn't text me once. not even like a single thought crosses his mind to maybe text me the simplest sentence?? "hey i'm gonna be gone an extra 3 hours i love you" would be fine. but he doesnt. and then i freak out bc i have panic hallucinations and i genuinely think he is dead and i spam call him and he texts me when he gets home acting as if im unreasonable and crazy and dramatic
and im not ALLOWED to be mad at him anymore because he dumped me a month ago and like said he didn't love me and shit bc i split on him and the only reason i got him to get back with me was saying i'll change bc he was mad about me getting upset over things that he does wrong so now every time i get upset over something i have to shut the fuck up because i don't want him to leave me
sorry for the rant im fucking pissed
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dykelawlight · 6 months
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5 mikami and 14 mikalight !
HEHEHE love these. Thanks!!
5. Fear headcanon (Mikami)
One thing I SINCERELY HATE about a lot of Mikami characterization is that it depicts him as this very sort of fearful, cowering person because of his deference to Light in the anime (particularly, I think, the bit of the warehouse scene where he's working from behind the door). Mikami does not scare easily! Mikami canonically had the shit beaten out of him over and over as a child by groups of boys significantly stronger than him (in manga canon it is explicitly stated that on one occasion he was stripped naked, beaten, and subjected to an attempted hanging from a tree) for doing what he believed was the right thing, and he just kept fucking doing it, as a skinny nerdy kid with few friends and what he perceived as no support from his mom. Mikami killed a guy on a bus in broad daylight. He is not a timid dude, except MAYBE where Kira is involved, and even then, he's prone to moving independently and acting on his own intuition. That said, I think when he DOES feel fear he becomes very existential and sort of bleak about it very quickly, almost disturbingly so. He is not a super mentally well person and can be prone to paranoia, particularly given that throughout his life it's seemed that an unknown force can read his thoughts and kill people he thinks badly of. I also think he's big into the idea of exposure therapy and is the kind of person who thinks that if you're scared of bugs you should let one crawl across your face so you can overcome your fear or whatever. Let me know how that works out for you bro!
14. Romance headcanon (Mikalight)
DREAMY SIGH!!!!!!! I love them. Honestly a huge chunk of what I like about them is how blatantly canonically attracted to Mikami Light is. Like he picks the dude off a TV screen after being ~mysteriously drawn~ to him out of a slew of Kira supporters. He spends a HUGE part of the time immediately after Mikami is introduced musing on how he picked the perfect surrogate actor. There's also whole bit of the phone call between them in e32:
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which is like. You cannot tell me this man is not ROCK FUCKING HARD rn. Also I think this is very much Mikami's first time experiencing this kind of thing! Not because he's not hot or thinks of himself as unattractive (he is, and he doesn't) and not even because other people don't know he's hot (they do) but because he socially positions himself in such a way that nobody has ever approached him to tell him they're attracted to him before and he's never approached anyone else for the same purpose. So I think when Light is very blatantly like "I think you're attractive and I'm interested in engaging with you in a romantic sense" (or whatever geek ass shit he would say because he knows the lines he pulls on girls aren't going to work) he's like ⁉️, but not in the sense of like, nerd guy getting hit on by hot homecoming king, rather just like...oh I didn't know this was going to happen to me and honestly haven't given it a ton of thought. I don't think he's a guy with a whole lot of secret romantic longing and fantasy going on (unlike Light who VERY MUCH IS) because, with the exception of his streak of religious fanaticism, he's pretty pragmatically-minded and likes to focus on things he perceives as actually relevant to his life, so when he first starts kind of crushing on Light he's like Oh so I just think stupid shit now? What the fuck? and attempts to get over it (thereby only making it worse). ANDDDD he thinks Light is divine and beautiful instantly but doesn't have a lot of context for what that means or feels like. And they kiss each other a lot and stuff. Okay. That's enough for this post
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carlos-in-glasses · 9 months
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Since you’re drunk rn : 48 when did you first try an alcohol beverage?
Oh my god!!! I was TWENTY! Literally twenty years old. What happened was I have severe, life-ruining emetophobia (which I'd actually be happy to discuss with anyone who suffers with it btw), and I associated alcohol purely with drunkenness and sickness for a really long time. I never got any help with it because as a kid you can't really be like "Excuse me mum and dad, please can I have therapy?!". Going to uni ended up being exposure therapy in the sense that I realised that people could be drunk and not get sick. ONE EVENING I was part of a performance poetry show and I was absolutely shitting my shorts lads I can't lie. So my friend Louise was like "Have some wine?!" and I was like "You know what?!!!! I wILL!!" It was disgusting obviously because we were twenty and went to like Offbins or whatever the fuck that place was called on the high street back in the day. Cheap white wine. Got smashed - didn't throw up! Decided to do my poem 'from memory' rather than read it. Louise was like "Are you sure?!" I was like "YES!" and it actually went pretty well.
If anybody wants to read more about drinking with Louise please experience no.2 of Five Drinks to Get to Know Me.
To be honest though it was a bit of a slippery slope and I have done *some things* I should not have done. Anyhoo.
Thank you for the question!!! I can't wait to read The Yankees vs The Astros.
If anyone happens to be reading this who hasn't read Shannon's fics because you've been living under a rock (affectionate) please go and check them out because they're so brilliant omg.
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imagine-silk · 10 months
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AtSV; Peter B!Mermaid with a reader scared of water
》 A lot of people talk about the myth of people who grow a tail in the sea and can breathe underwater, varying from horror stories to barbie. But everyone thinks they're just that, stories.
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People think everyone who's lived in an ocean town to love the ocean. None of them have met you. If you had it your way you would never go further than a foot deep. You could swim no problem and you worked on boat but that wasn't ideal.
Then a dude moved in who was simultaneously an open book and a complete mystery. He went to the pub often but never let anyone into his house. He went to the beach and sold things from the ocean floor but you had never seen his gear.
You didn't care about him. Then you found him in a cave face down in the water with blood surrounding him. With no thought you jumped out of your boat and dragged him to the rocks but it was a lot more difficult than you thought it should be. When he got to the rock he stayed under the water and said he was fine and you could leave. You saw two things; a big ass gash on his stomach and a big ass tail behind him. Long story short he scared the absolute shit out of you.
The next day he was completely fine. He caught you staring a few times but you didn't want to talk about it. He didn't feel the same. He caught you alone and interrogated you about it and what you were going to do and was very surprise when you said it wasn't your business or your interest. "You haven't hurt nobody, right? As far as I'm concerned you sing with crabs and eat kelp."
He notices you a lot more after that, how you're always kind of around but never brought to attention. Sure your mom and brother were around but other than that you lived a pretty solitary life, one you didn't care to change. But after living his life walking on eggshells to make sure no one finds out he knows that only lasts so long. So if he sees you he'll walk over. You don't really know how to turn him down or if you even should considering he could kill you while you were working on your boat and no one would find the body.
He thinks your fear of the ocean is super weird for the sole purpose you live and work near and on it. But you don't need to explain money to him, you really don't. It's so inconvenient though. And then the most insane thought came to him. He says you could swim with him in the water so you could see it's not the worst. “Come on, it’ll be fine. You’re safe with me. I can kill anything in the water if it gets too close to you.” He said it so blatantly crude you just agreed so he would stop talking.
The way he transformed was basically immediate and you didn't want to look anyway. He held out his arms and you scooted into them in the cold water. There you were in a cave away from town in the arms of a man you've known for years that felt like only a few hours doing exposure therapy, and that man was also something of fairy tales. All that was going through your head was, "I'm going to die."
He knew you were panicking. "You're good. Try swimming around." You refused. But after you also felt like it helped a bit so you asked if you could try again another day. So every other day you would go off to the cave and meet him there.
It was impossible to not become his friend. He's so dry in his humor and how he handled things, so casually confident. He's a bit assertive and presumptuous but he really does care about you and you can see that clear as day. Then suddenly you weren't drinking alone at the pub and you saw someone enter his house. It was a controlled mess as you thought it would be.
You met someone who came to see him, a kid who walked into his house and then immediately changed whatever subject they were talking about. You asked Peter if he was like him and he said yes but it was complicated. Miles had never been in real water other than a pool so when he did for the first time it freaked him out. The kid accidentally gave you shit for hating the ocean and apologized immediately after.
Little by little it does work but the issue becomes you can't focus because all you can think about is Peter telling you to hold your breath while his hands are holding you up. He's always listened to you and helped you out of the water. It got to the point you forgot to hold your breath and immediately needed to be pulled up.
He does see you increasingly getting starry eyed but automatically doesn't think it could be him so he doesn't think about it. It nags at him in the back of his head but he ignores it.
You are both outed by women in your lives. You were out with your mother and he was with Jess, begrudgingly. Your mom did her vetting process and fully said she was seeing if he was quality material, not necessarily saying you already said something to her. Jess told you what Peter says out of malice, how he likes helping you and doesn't want to stop, how he mentions you all the time. He didn't tell her the information she got but it's true all the same. The two of you wanted to drown in the ocean a pace away.
You two sat awkwardly in his house that night and both put your cards on the table and spilled your guts. "I'm in love with you."
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mlobsters · 6 months
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supernatural s11e7 plush (w. eric charmelo, nicole snyder)
not the most promising start. offbrand donnie darko bunny
DEAN Really? I mean, really? SAM You ever hear of privacy? DEAN Hey, you want privacy, close your door.
as ever, privacy being invaded really hurts my heart. absolutely dean has a point and sam should have closed his door, but dean also had a shitty fucking smirk on his face and that nasty tone and i'm ready to punch him. i don't pray, i've never believed in anything, and i'm horribly hurt and offended that he'd act like this. i know their history and the dumb plot shit makes prayer not the same thing as it is out here in the real world, but come fucking on. he's still being a raging asshole about sam taking the chance on believing even just a tiny bit that it's god behind the visions.
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DEAN Thought we talked about this. SAM Yeah, we did, Dean. But why is it so hard to believe that God could be sending me visions about the darkness? DEAN You kidding me? He didn't feel the need to show up for the Apocalypse. Why would he give a crap now? SAM I don't know. Maybe because she's his sister? What do you wanna do? Sit back? Ignore him? Do nothing? DEAN No, that's -- that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying, don't count on God. Okay? Count on us.
count on us (so when you gonna tell sam your secret huh DEAN-O)
glad they let donna wear a uniform that vaguely fits and maybe dropping the fat jokes. maybe. (of course not)
BROCK Not much, man. I mean, I was just hammering my bi's, gettin' all swole,
please no and thank you
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s11e7 rita / true colors (1990-1992) brigid brannagh as katie davis
whoa okay so i definitely know this person and i think... it's from.... true colors?? which is yet another tv show i haven't thought about since the early 90s. wild
surely couldn't let sam's clown phobia not make an appearance in a killer ghost possessed child entertainer costume episode. was it purely so they could subject sam to a clown :p it's never gonna beat this post-clown interaction though
7x14 plucky pennywhistle's magical menagerie
dean heartily laughing and sam with his arms outstretched absolutely coated in glitter (i wanna paint it some day, so sparkly) will make me smile every time
also, i love this line
from 2x02 DEAN Planes crash! SAM And apparently clowns kill!
okay anyway. rehashing the good clown phobia moments :P (he did say the clown fight in 7x14 was therapeutic, guess he needs more exposure therapy [beating])
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taking another moment to appreciate how much better his hair looks this season, especially post-scuffle
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she is so very cute
DONNA I don't have time for insubordination. SAM Or is it maybe that you're treating new Doug like old Doug and not even giving him a chance? DONNA You know what I think? You need to mind your own beeswax. We have a case to solve.
saw her line comin a mile away
outsiders with sibling issues are evergreen
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*staring into camera*
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crack treated seriously vibes
SAM I keep praying to God because if it is God -- and I know you think it isn't, but if it is -- then he's showing me something I don't know what to do with. DEAN What? SAM The cage. DEAN Lucifer's cage? SAM Yeah. What if he's telling me I have to go back? What if he's saying that's where the answer is to beating the Darkness? DEAN Sam, no. No, okay. I don't know if these visions are coming from God or PBS or what. But we've been down that road. Anything having to do with that cage is -- it -- it's suicide. And you of all people know that. So, no. Just…Not gonna happen. SAM Okay. DEAN Okay.
actually okay? they both have a habit of agreeing and doing whatever the fuck they were gonna do anyway. i mean if dean isn't gonna come clean then whatever anyway. bitterness rising again
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nanlanmoarchived · 5 months
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a very tmi, very long, very personal ramble is beneath the cut. i'm putting it here, partially because I don't have somewhere else neutral i can put it and partially because it does explain a lot of the ways i interact with people here. please feel free to skip past it, the tl;dr is essentially i am consistently afraid that i am going to do something wrong and make people leave me and i'm trying to fix that.
During my last therapy sesh, my therapist and I figured out that I live in a constant state of fear. My core emotion that I make 90% of my decisions out of is fear. And today, while driving home from getting my coffee, I was thinking about how that comes from the abandonment wound I carry from my dad and how the first time I was kicked out I was a first grader and that fundamentally changed my brain. But then I realized that my mom did the same exact thing back. She never actually kicked me out, but I lived with the threat of being sent away if I didn't behave every day of my life.
So, then I grew up constantly trying. If I was the best at everything, if I was the smartest and funniest and nicest and most understanding, I wouldn't get kicked out. That instability still haunts me to this day and I find it so funny that this hobby has become such a large part of me, this community and all of it's ups and downs, when it's the same constant fear: that I'm going to be kicked out. And like, "kicked out" feels a little dramatic but I had people here years ago that I would talk to for hours. I knew their family members and I supported them through shit and they supported me through shit. And then they were gone. Not even a falling out or anything, but one day they just. . . didn't log in anymore.
It's funny, we seek patterns that are familiar. If you grew up in a peaceful environment, you're more likely to seek peace than if you grew up in a chaotic space and here I am: constantly afraid of not being enough and being cast aside in a community where people come and go, sometimes without so much as a goodbye. It's like here my fear makes sense. I can say the wrong thing and someone can decide to block me and it answers that fear in my head. It rationalizes that fear that I live with and idk. It's almost like exposure therapy.
If you've read this and made it this far, thank you. I felt compelled to share I think because I'm trying to have a healthier relationship with the RPC and with the way I interact with this hobby. I'm trying to learn that rejection or disconnection isn't a negative reflection on me, or either party really, but something that happens when friendships flex and change. I know I get quiet when I'm feeling afraid and I'm sorry if I've done that to anyone of late, I promise I'm working on it. Thank you for being a part of this space where I can practice healing before taking it into the real world and trying it on for size out there lol.
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tincansamurai · 4 months
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a long post about my exp figuring out gender
i'm seriously so glad that it's so easy to find information about gender these days. just knowing certain things are possible is so important to figuring out who you are.
when i was like 11 and becoming a Junior Poster, even with all the lurking i did i only saw people talk about trans women. of course, this was because people are fucking horrible and love to make fun of trans women. i liked to read webcomics and therefore also read people talking about webcomics and webcomic drama. there was this one woman who got shit on all the time. her webcomic was bad, that's true, but there was also a lot of precursor-kiwi-farms type shit about her personal life and her other website about being trans. people were accusing her of being a groomer (wow! things sure have changed!) because she had a quiz up for boys to take to see if they were trans. for some reason who knows why i was really fascinated by this and read a lot of drama about other gender-y webcomics, and of course i took that quiz. the result was essentially "you're not trans, you're a regular boy." i didn't really know that you could be trans in a way other than being transfem, so i just kinda shrugged and went "ok, i'm not trans". like, i wasn't stupid, and even the tg fetish webcomics everyone liked to laugh at included women turning into men sometimes. but no one talked about those fictional moments with the same terms, and i didn't have any examples of real life people, so i guess i assumed that transmasculinity was a separate, theoretical thing. and if it was only theoretical it couldn't apply to me, of course.
then when i was around 13 or 14 i was reading tab's khaos komix and when a gay trans dude was introduced i kind of broke. like, wait, you can be trans in that direction, for real? wait, you can be trans AND gay?? two big parts of why it was obvious i wasn't trans crashed around me and i absolutely had a crisis about it. entirely internal, of course, because i knew how much everyone hated trans women. and if they thought being a trans woman was stupid and fake, there was no way this new (to me) thing would be well received either. i can perfectly picture standing in the shower, staring at the faucet handle, completely still - or more like stuck, and thinking "i'm a gay man". without qualifiers and everything, no "i think" or "i might be", like i 100% came to that conclusion. it made sense.
i talked myself out of it because it was terrifying. some of the stuff i used to talk myself out of it turned out to not be signs i wasn't trans, but signs i wasn't binary, but i wouldn't know that existed for even longer. plus i had mentally shock therapied myself hard enough that when i did find out you could be nonbinary, i avoided learning more. honestly thank god for tumblr and patient art school mutuals, who have probably (more like hopefully) completely forgotten me arguing with them about how nonbinary identities don't make sense, lol. sorry for being a dickhead. but thanks to this space i couldn't avoid exposure anymore, and that was really good for me. i can't even imagine how miserable i would be. actually that's a lie, i can picture it pretty easily lol.
anyway the fact that kids can get online and learn about just about any kind of gender anybody has ever thought of, and find real people talking about their experiences, and form or join any kind of community about those shared experiences is so so good. meeting nonbinary kids makes me so fucking happy. i'm so glad that it's at least a little easier to figure out who you are these days.
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apollo41writes · 2 years
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Goodnight prompt 60/∞
Fandom: Detroit: Become Human Ship: RK900/Gavin Reed AUs/Tropes: Machine RK900, Slow build (like, really really slow) Prompt: Faced with the only android unable to understand human emotions and deviate, the entire precinct makes a challenge out of making RK900 become a deviant. No one expects Gavin to be the one to succeed.
Extra details: Okay, this would be set in a basic best ending with the Jericho gang going back to Cyberlife to find all of the other androids still left. They obviously find a bunch of prototype, some that can be activated, some that are just not programmed/built enough to do so.
And they find RK900 too, of course. They manage to break the whole "Amanda" thing thanks to Connor's help, but unluckly that does not mean that RK900 immediately becomes a deviant, no matter how much both Connor and Markus try.
There is just something about RK900 that prevents them from the deviation to happen in that way. It just has to be more natural, like it happened for the first androids.
Everyone at Jericho gives it a try, but all of the other androids are just as confused by having emotions, since it's so new to them. So, Connor asks for help to all the human he knows. Which is basically he asks his human co-workers to help.
RK900 starts to work at the precinct. Mostly because Connor thinks it's the best place for him to organically deviate, like he did. Don't know if I necessarily want this one to be one of those fic where RK900 is Gavin's partner. Actually, I think that should not be a thing in this one.
I imagine RK900 just rotating with different people trying to fit in, everyone giving it their best to make Rk900 deviate.
I also think that Gavin would be laughing at whatever everyone around his is trying to do to make the damn Pinocchio become a real kid. He obviously wants to stay as far away from RK900 as he can, and refuses multiple time to give a go himself to deviate the damn thing.
That is until Tina kind of dares him to do it while they are both drunk. They would have both forgotten about the bet by the following day. If it wasn't for RK900 himself, that was, at the time, Tina's partner.
Gavin is absolutely furious with Tina for making him take that bet, with himself for drinking so much that he actually agreed, but most of all to RK900 that is already sitting in front of Gavin's desk and shows him footage of him and Tina drunkenly shaking their hands.
When faced with a challenge, Gavin is not one to simply give up. So, begrudgingly, he does his best. He already knows where everyone else failed. After all everyone was always complaining about why this or that didn't work. So Gavin knows what NOT to do.
So he has a good starting point on that. But no clue of what he should actually do since apparently all of the good ideas have already failed. While he thinks, then, he just treats RK900 like he would any other partner. Like shit, then.
RK900 at first seems his usual robotic self, but after working with Gavin for months... They both realize that there is something different about RK900 actually. It's subtle most of the times, but... Whatever Gavin is doing, seems to be working. And, despite how Gavin would never admit it out loud, he kind of enjoys RK900's company and help. He would even go so far as to say they are friendly.
And it takes more and more time, and Gavin starting to slowly accept that he does like RK900 A LOT actually, when he finally realizes that what RK900 needed was time. Like, literally exposure therapy but not all at once, like he could learn about the human experience in just a pinch.
It has to be a gradual thing, living like a human to actually learn what humanity is. Which is how they become actual friends, and Gavin, the less lovable and loving person in the whole Detroit, also decides that he should teach RK900 what love is.
At first he thinks it would be a good idea to adopt a new pet, letting RK900 name it and taking care of it from day one. And it seems to work. RK900 learns how to show affection to others.
What he does not expect is that Gavin himself is the person he shows that affection the most. And that's coincidentally when Gavin realizes he himself has fallen in love with RK900... Which is bad, because, with how Gavin has basically babysat the thing for basically two years at this point, there is no chance that RK900 sees him as a lover.
Rk900 probably sees him more as a father figure or a brother, right? Damn Tina and her bet! He doesn't even want to gloat to her about succeeding where everyone else failed and gave up when things got too complicated!
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kim-poce · 1 year
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8. Witches Are Meant To Burn: Righteous Faters
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During the first hours of the night, I pretended the fire hadn’t affected me while Tina pretended to believe it. I hate that even when I know that I was too far for the fire to get me, and I know I didn't get hurt in any way I still feel like shit. Younger me tried to solve this with her own version of exposure therapy, which, as you may have guessed, did not solve the issue. It did, however, make things worse.
I noted down what I recalled from my former notebook that I’m pretty sure was now reduced to ashes, flying around Jitarin’s campus. I believe in the lovely redundancy, so of course, I have a backup notebook (which I left in Podium). The issue was just the notes I took since I left the library, and also the paper where Hector had noted down words in the unknown language. Damn, now I would need to wait until I went back to the library to study it (or ask Hector to write it to me again). It wasn’t nearly as important as I pretended it was. But I wasn’t going to sleep anyway and I had a lot of time on my hands.
Whenever my focus slipped, though, I wondered what caused the fire. It was in at least two different buildings, so it was most likely not an accident. Criminal then? I hoped it was. Yes, I know this is a bad thing to hope for but I would rather enter a building that someone purposely set fire to once than in a building that can, by chance or accident, suddenly burn down.
I didn’t have to wonder for too long though; My students came in the morning (what kind of student wants to spend their break time with their professor and boss? I know I wasn’t), they were, obviously, talking about the mysterious fire. Sandra was excited as if the fire was some kind of festival that she had just discovered. Well, I always knew she had a pyromaniac side in her, thinking about it she often has odd likes and habits, for example, the fact she was still wearing the long white dress of Portia against her dark skin, the fabric was too thin for the current climate but it’s not like I’m the one wearing it. Speaking of Portia, even her long dark hair was tied up like Maliane’s tribe’s man tied theirs, a kind of ponytail, but lower and more to the left, ornate with fake leaves of a plant common in in there (it would usually be ornate by real leaves, but said plant was not common here in Gea). It was an odd choice of hairstyle, but again, Sandra is just like that.
“Were you there? Did you see it?” she asked, green eyes sparkling somehow.
“Sandra you shouldn’t–” Tina started.
“I was,” I cut. Tina was the only one aware of my issue with fire, and I want it to stay like this. “I had left the interview building when it started. Did anyone get hurt?”
“That’s the thing!” Sandra said. “No one was inside when it happened. According to the register, you were the last person to use the interview building and most of Professor Gione’s pupils were gathered in the pub. You know that pub.”
“Maria’s Stage.” Hector clarified, as usual, a contrast of Sandra. He was back to his spiky bracelets, silver piercings, and leather jackets. His hair was almost touching his shoulder. I knew (from working with him for a while) that as soon as it did he would cut it really short and wait for it to grow all over again.
“There was also another fire. A dorm in Owl’s Book, that as you know also has a group working in Podium. Again, no one was inside when it started.” he added.
The picture that was forming in my head wasn’t pleasing me at all. “Did the specific dorm that burnt–”
“–belonged to someone working in the library?” Lucas completed while messing his blond hair. “Yes, Master. The fire started both in Professor Lucy Udio’s office and in her student’s dorm. They were on their way back from the central library when it happened.”
“So what you are saying is that someone might be trying to kill the scholars working in Podium?” I raised my eyebrow, it was getting too speculative for my tastes. Still, if someone was trying to set me on fire I would very much want to know previously, thank you very much.
“I don’t think that’s the case?” Tina said. She had left earlier in the morning and brought actual food, and now we were having a healthy breakfast. This was so unlike her that I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a storm today. “I mean, from what June told me earlier, no one got hurt. Apart from the idiot that tried to get back inside the building and got some light burns (which would be worse if someone hadn’t pulled him out as soon as the idiot stepped inside). So maybe… Well, I admit I don’t have theories but still I don't think it was meant to kill the scholars. They could set this house on fire if-” she stopped herself and cursed under her breath before glancing at me.
“You are right,” I said, smiling to show that it was okay. “If they wanted to kill me they could just… burn my house, I would argue that the neighborhood is safe but they managed to get inside Jitarin, and Owl’s Book so whoever it is, they seem to be able to get wherever they want.”
“It’s most likely a group- Shit!” June said, reaching to take bread from the sack. “Who put this here?”
“Are you truly asking—” Lucas chuckled, watching June trying to wipe chocolate off the sleeve of his worn-out jeans jacket. “—who put the cake over the table where all the rest of the food is?”
“Ah come on,” he gave up on trying to clean it, cleared his throat, sat back down, and pretended nothing happened. As June does. “It’s most likely a group since both the fires in Jitarin started about the same time, and it was quite a few walking minutes from one building to another. And the ones in Professor Lucy’s office started about twenty minutes later. Which is about the time one would take to arrive there if they were on a very fast horse, faster if you go by car but who even owns one of these?”
“How do you know that already?” Tina asked with a mock-angry tone. “When I say that you all are eggs that is what I mean. You are always the first to do anything.”
“Do the police have any suspects?” I asked.
June made a sign to wait while he finished chewing and swallowing his bread, “They—” he sipped the coffee “—didn’t find anything yet. They are keeping Gione’s pupils in check, though, the idiot who when back to the fire could, maybe, be walking out of the building and his peers lied to cover it up.”
“That’s circumstantial,” Tina said. “I mean, I distrust Professor Gione’s as much as the next person with common sense. If the point was who stole some very profitable idea I would also point at him but making his students burn the dorm? It’s not like Podium lacks work, he would only be making the whole thing harder and slower.”
“Like June said,” Sandra said, “The police are just keeping them in check. The fire was yesterday, they are still looking for other clues. But only three of them weren’t in Maria’s Stage. The timing doesn't match, even if they were the culprit they wouldn’t have done this alone.”
“I see,” I took a deep breath. When I said I rather it to be criminal, this wasn’t what I was thinking of. “Lucas, I need you to send some letters to me.”
“To the council, master?” he guessed.
“Yes, we can’t be sure of anything yet but if someone is truly attacking us we need to make Podium safer, maybe halt the project for a while.”
“Halt the project?!” Sandra asked, getting up all of a sudden. “Why?”
“You said it yourself the other day. Podium is said to be the Hands of God cave, you know, the thing people used to kill doctors for in the past. So, maybe someone doesn’t want a town to be flooded or a new plague to arise.” I shrugged.
“Are you saying someone is trying to stop us because they believe in magic?”
“It’s probably not it. I’m just calling a meeting because the chances, even if low, are not zero. Also, the four of you need to be careful, avoid the dorm, stay together if possible, look for a hotel that has proper emergency exits. Just to be safe.”
June sighed deeply, “Great! Now we are detectives, that’s all we need while on vacation from decrypting books!”
“Don’t forget that someone might be trying to kill us,” Lucas added.
“How dare I forgetsuch a thing? Fate isn’t on our side.”
“You are playing with the hands of god and you complain when fate betrays you?” Hector teased.
“I found him!” June yelled, grabbing Hector closer. “I found the Fater. Are you mad because we are disturbing fate, oh righteous Fater?”
“Of course!” Hector grinned before making a mock-angry expression. “Thou dare to learn, Heathen June? Thou shall burn with thy books! Fate wants me to free the world of thee so thou shall join the witches in the ashes!”
June laughed and let his friend go.
Sandra tilted her head. “Magic isn’t my field, but wouldn’t killing someone to punish them for bending fate count as bending fate itself? How can people know when someone is bending fate or when fate wanted this someone to do whatever they were doing?”
“No one ever accused Faters of making sense,” I said. “But that is where things get fun, if nothing happened then the punishment had been fair and the fate was back to its track, but if something bad happened the punishment was unfair and they would try to appease fate in another way. It was all so subjective, no wonder people were scared of everything back then.”
“Well, we are on a break everyone. And this counts as working, right?”
“Oh, right Hector, you made me remember something. You have a good memory, right?”
“Perfect memory, Master,” he grinned.
“Please don’t adopt Lucas’ bad habits. Do you remember the words you noted down for me?”
“The one from that last language they found? Yes.”
“Please write them down to me again, after this, yes, everyone is on a break.”
“Still with the break thing? Do you even believe we can do that?” Tina raised her eyebrow.
“I don’t,” I admitted. “But I have to try.”
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moondragon618 · 1 year
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I want to talk about my introduction to c!primeboys (and the dsmp in general) bc it's kind of funny lol
So my introduction to the dsmp was Technoblade's prison break vod. Like, I think I was watching Deltarune videos or smth and saw it in the recommended lol. (This was also like right around the time of the green smile stream I think)
Now, I vaguely knew some things about the dsmp already (I think I watched a recap video at some point out of curiosity or smth).
The thing I remembered most was that c!Dream was the main villain, there's a huge inescapable prison, and c!Dream was locked in said prison for being too powerful or smth I didn't really remember lol.
I also vaguely remembered something about a country that got blown up and something about someone getting trapped in the prison with c!Dream (lmaooo the fact that I could have been here a lot sooner if I looked into that)
Anyway I watched it bc I was like hey that's probably a really huge deal it'll be interesting probably. And it was even without 99% of the context lmao. c!Dream's power is being a necromancer apparently (and he's kind of a dick tbh but I still was wondering what he did to get locked up + maximum security). At one point there was this extremely british teenager absolutely losing his shit over c!Dream getting out. So idk seems a little concerning tbh.
After that I watched a video that was all of the prison break povs edited together and that's when I saw Tommy's pov.
Yes my introduction to c!primeboys was the post prison break Logstedshire confrontation lmaoooo it was. Very interesting without context. Like okay something Fucked Up happened here. Not just location wise either lmao
So naturally I was like FUCK everything except the context behind this bc what the hell lmao. And that's how I ended up on Tommy's vod channel binging most of the vods starting with the first exile arc vod and ending with the prison vods (or maybe the exposure therapy + c!Wilbur revival vods I'm not 100% on that). Yeah that was fun (no actually it was though /gen bc of the power of hyperfixation lmao).
I have to say exile arc + bedrock bros (and everything after too but especially those) with no context (outside of knowing about "And maybe I'll kill you again. And I'll revive you and I'll kill you again and I'll revive you-") was a very interesting experience lol /pos
After that I went back and watched all of the disc war, L'manburg, Pogtopia, and pre-exile stuff (And as for the green smile stream I don't remember exactly when I watched it lol). So yeah I experienced the dsmp very out of order lmaooo
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