#theme: healing

[boyloser6526384]

first love / late spring, mitski

#hes healing his inner child one step at a time #god bless carlton the bear #toronto maple leafs #mitch marner #mm16 #16 #hockey #hockeyposting #nhl hockey #nhl #webweave #web weave #web weaveing #theme: hockey #theme: healing #mitski

[hp-fanfic-archive]

Of mammals, birds and reptiles by Jessa_yeah Pairing: Hermione/Ginny, Minerva Mcgonagall/Pomona Sprout/Rolanda Hooch Rating: G Word Count: 2k Podfic available here Read by: Thunder_of_Dragons Length: 10-30 minutes Post-war Hogwarts. A small note appears on the announcement board in the hall, offering extracurricular courses. Ginny and Hermione sign up. Something new builds from there - something good. A story about healing, growth, hope, love and comfort.

find the full podfic library here

#hermione/ginny #ginny/hermione #ginmione #ginmione fic rec #hp femslash #hp fic rec #rating: g #less than 5k words #hogwarts eighth year #friendship #romance #get together #hurt/comfort #friends to lovers #ptsd #theme: healing #theme: recovery #animagi #bi character #bisexual hermione granger #minerva/pomona/rolanda #wlw ship #poly ship #hp rarepair #hp rarepairs #hp rare pair #hp rarepair fic rec #hp rare pair fic rec #ginmione podfic #ginmione podfic rec

[seasunandstar]

[I.D. -

little prayer Danez Smith

let ruin end here

let him find honey where there was once a slaughter

let him enter the lion’s cage & find a field of lilacs

let this be the healing & if not   let it be

End I.D.]

#danez smith #poetry #theme: hope #theme: healing

[zellink]

salvation

#an attempt to portray the process of link turning zelda back to her human form #through unconditional love and sheer will #and thus healing his arm too #i just love totk's themes so much. redemption. love. connection. #true love saves fr fr #zelink #zelda #link #tears of the kingdom #the legend of zelda #breath of the wild #totk #totk spoilers #tloz fanart #flowerpower art

[probablyhuntersmom]

Made something for the Huntlow Nation! Their baby is perhaps a month old here? They're bringing her to see Flapjack for the first time

#only fitting that her lil blanket is palistrom wood themed #idk. I cried making this (I blame the playlist I used) and it was healing. maybe it could heal some of you a little bit too #huntlow #the owl house #willow park #toh hunter #huntlow kid #loz's edits #loz's art #romance cw #def won't be the last time you see them either!

[borderlinebelle]

🪄🧠

a brain busted lunacy letter to:

YOU AND UR VERY OWN HUMAN EYES- READING THIS RIGHT NOW

+ tumblr,

I need each and every one of you to pls hear me out: i want you to feel it too. Remember long form content? Alright, gather your tits. Let’s get into it. 😈 if you remember how to read … come down there and see it for yourself.

hey you little bag of flesh meat, cartridge, water and electricity… come closer i said… 🙂

I deeply find the tumblr space, as a whole, so vitally valuable to our current society. I, like all of you, have painstakingly enjoyed sifting, repurposing, creating, and displaying a woven unique tapestry… mine is currently over 10 years long. A historical virtual “scroll” 📜… Manila ironic in the worst way: the scroll 🤳🏾 that consumes us.

This isn’t MINDLESSLY scrolling… it feels like… peaking penetratingly into the minds of human beings through their own perceptions.

Every fucking photo, gif, text post, meme, story, song, collage, any and all of it … was put there purposely. Everything … means something to someone here. That’s … fucking incredible.

That’s … fucking human magic. 🪄 something no other social media platform can recreate in the world of TikTok’s, we remained tumblr.

Every single mf time I find a new blog or revisit a mutual’s blog… and I just burst with color and vibrance and wild wickedness and I … drift… loosing myself in the back of your brains, I’m saved.

I’m saved from my own brain, trauma, habits, hangups, mental health… I’m just safe.. tucked behind YOUR brain… and they always fucking feel JUST like mine… so thank you.

I love human beings so much and this is my MOST favorite way to experience them. I’m so fucking happy I haven’t been able to log back into my TIKTOK for months. This is the only place I want to be when I’m online.

The tumblr scroll is so much more healthy: i see these feeds as very distinct and endlessly versatile flip book of human ingenuity and stupidity and comradery and community stitched together to make a pattern that mirrors a portion of a person… can you imagine? IT’S FASCINATING! I mean I know It’s equally ugly here and often… yet outstandingly but overwhelmingly … this is a safe space for creators and the many fandoms we express and decompress with.

i remain almost speechless,on the brink of pure pleasure… on how absolutely embedded i am into all of your collective energy on this stupid little imperfectly perfect fucked up little platform.

Look at April Fool’s Day: Tumblr reminded us all.. to just exhale and have fun TOGETHER. Ugh. gut me gently with the sheer scale of talent and genius and curiosity and kindness and skill and silly and authentic and absurd and individual yet succinct creation of … art. Of feed art. 🖼️ the scale and silly of the creativity around that now HOLIDAY, was tremendous and stupid and clever and community and inclusive.

i hope to one day gain support in organizing and leading a team of experts to create a true con for us. i have experience in events and .. I care. 🧠🪄

tumblr… this … is one of my longest lasting relationships, and i cherish the time so very dearly. From screaming at porn bots to whispering to mutuals… I’m so grateful for all of it.

#tumblr community #i love tumblr #tumblr drama #tumblr meta #tumblr theme #tumblr update #writers on tumblr #tumblr girls #black tumblr #tumblr #tumblr staff #staff picks #staff #personal #borderline Belle #mental health #mentally exhausted #healing #mental health matters #girlblogging #recovery #release #tumblr is my diary #tumblr lore #dashcon

[misspaddockverse]

blink twice if you’re not dealing well with the last year of C2

#the beginning of the end #i’m literally crying #I love Lewis but I love charlos more #literally the theme of my profile #don’t touch me i’m emotional #red red desert heal our blueeees #I’m not well #f1blr #f1 #formula 1 #formula one #charles lecrelc #carlos sainz jr #charlos #c2 #ferrari #Ferrari f1 #f1 2024 season

[thottybrucewayne]

The realest advice I was ever given? "Never trust Black folks who wanna be the only Black person in the room."

#thotty speaks #thotty rants #I hope she heals. I do. Like you talk about how Black people don't like you ah ah ah but then you do everything in your power to side with #Whatever white person is speaking it doesn't matter if they deadass wrong... #Also picking up that habit of calling every person who speaks about transness in an 'embarrassing' way a 'tenderqueer' when the 'tenderness #in question on display is someone criticizing a show you like for having bigoted jokes/themes its like... who's really the sensitive one? #Tbh I should have so the red flags when we was talking for that lil while but now that I know her whole story and who she runs with now? #Things are starting to make WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much sense

[lazycranberrydoodles]

phone studies 🎉 you know the tan line from either ruoye or the cursed shackle would be AWFUL

#i have so much love in my heart for tgcf fanartists but if i see one more twink xie lian im gonna lose it #xie lian has no scars cause godhood heals them all #hua cheng has many - lots of stuff from before he died #including his death wound (which i guess was a sword to the chest because jun wu stabs him there later) #and then he has an additional one on his eye and his top scars #idc. eming being born after he tore out his eye #and then being doubly a part of his own blood / self transformation/determination because he used it for top surgery #is funny and also VERY on theme #[waves hands vaguely] people who like men are welcome to go bananas on this one #me rubbing my hands together and laughing evilly when i get to use my figure drawing skills on my blorbos #btw a good reference for xie lians body type is ufc fighters #not too bulky its functional fitness built to kick ass and lift stuff #i also personally think both of hualian would gain weight after getting together cause theyd start eating more meals :) #edited cause i forgot his tattoo LMAO #tgcf #my art #hua cheng #xie lian #hualian #study #tian guan ci fu #mxtx #hob #heaven official's blessing #figure drawing

[blueskittlesart]

do you have any thoughts on zelda not staying as a dragon? me personally I like it and am very cool with it mostly because I think zelda should get to be happy forever (and because I'm smart enough to know she changed back because of recall and not some ambiguous power of love lmao) but a lot of people seem to dislike that it made the draconification inconsequential?

i think there's like. some valid concerns surrounding inconsequentiality/"curing" the physical problems characters have as a way of giving them a "happy ending" but I think those concerns don't necessarily apply to totk in the way people seem to be applying them, especially irt zelda's draconification and link's arm.

most of the time when the criticism of this "magic cure" trope is applied to media, it's because the trope is used as a cure-all to erase a character's suffering or trauma and make them "normal" again, and often ignores the character development or themes of the story in favor of giving the character a happy ending. I don't think that applies to totk, though, because the "curing" link and zelda experience is both within the realm of possibility given the worldbuilding present in the game (recall could easily have done it, as you mentioned) AND thematically consistent with the rest of the game. One of if not the most important central themes of totk is the idea of failure and second chances. we see a hyrule that has been given a second chance after link's initial failure with the calamity brought it to the brink of destruction. we see characters who were deeply unhappy and entrenched in the shame of their precalamity mistakes like purah and zelda become active, beloved members of their communities. we see the people of lurelin village take back and rebuild their destroyed home. we watch this kingdom and its people make an unprecedented comeback after a century of struggle and ruin.

Similarly, totk's gameplay is LINK's second chance, his comeback from the initial mistake of losing zelda, of specifically being unable to reach her with his injured hand when they fell. The consequences of that--the master sword's corruption, the loss of his arm, and zelda's draconification, are all supposed to SEEM irreversible, because that's how LINK initially sees them. he believes that he doomed both himself and zelda all because of that SINGLE moment in which he wasn't enough, a viewpoint which is obviously left over from the pressure he experienced to perform to an impossible standard of perfection pre-calamity. The story of totk is about deconstructing that belief and proving it wrong. the mistake he made caused harm, but it's never too late to repair things. he can fix the regional phenomena ganondorf causes and rebuild those communities. he can revitalize the master sword. he can GET ZELDA BACK, with his own arm, uninjured and able to reach her this time. no matter how impossible those things may initially seem, no matter the perceived finality of his mistakes and their consequences, there is always hope. there is always a second chance. no one person's single mistake can doom an entire kingdom for eternity. the fate of hyrule was NEVER resting on link's shoulders alone. he was never their final hope. there was always going to be an after. the whole POINT of the draconification and the loss of link's arm is that they AREN'T final. they ARE inconsequential, because they were born of one mistake and ONE MISTAKE IS NOT THE END ALL.

#like. think about the message the game sends if zelda stays a dragon. we are saying that link CAN'T come back from this mistake. #that one single split-second moment in which he made the wrong move because he had no way of knowing what to do #means that the one person who understands and supports him above all else. the one person who shares his experience and his trauma #the woman he LOVES. is gone forever with no hope of return ever and it's 100% his fault. #that's not true to the themes of botw OR totk. these games are about growth and healing and second chances. #this game was link learning that he gets a second chance. that no move he makes is the final be-all-end-all fuckup. #it removes the pressure and that's the POINT. for a character like link whose life has been DEFINED by pressure #who was taught from a horrifically young age that any wrong move on his part would KILL EVERYONE HE KNEW AND LOVED #this is such an important lesson to learn. removing that pressure/showing him that it was never actually real in the first place #is a crucial step towards healing for him. #asks #zelda analysis #totk spoilers #like i like the idea of lasting consequences dont get me wrong. <draconic features zelda enjoyer #but like. making link keep the fucking rauru arm rubs me the wrong way. the whole point is that he caught her with his own hand in the end #ugh. anyway. you get the idea

[holysaintscathedral]

To be honest, part of the reason I've been able to heal from my religious trauma is because of kink and being able to approach religious subjects through that outlet without getting deeply fucking triggered. The anti-kink/BDSM and sex negative crowds can die mad about it for all I care

#hierophilia #priest kink #religious trauma #sorry not sorry sexuality and embracing that can be healing and freeing for many #i know myself well enough and what my triggers are and kinky rp involving priests and religious themes is NOT one of them #pro kink

[aftgficrec]

omg it’s finally open!!! so i’ve been looking for these two fics FOREVER, and i can’t find them anywhere :(

the first one was called “the way young lovers do” i think, and it was aaron and katelyn helping neil and andrew set up their new house, and it ended with neil and andrew dancing to the song in their yard. it was very cute and i can’t find it no matter where I look

and the second one was aaron meeting katelyns parents for the first time, and they are super conservative and hate aaron, so they invite neil and andrew to be there to take the heat off of aaron. i remember neil saying andrew bought him a cartier bracelet and he wanted the one in a different colour, and just being a brat in general?

also if you have any similar fics with the four of them bonding, i would love them!

thank you guys sooooo much for this blog! happy holidays <3

OK, so what we have for you is a collaboration where S instantly remembers every fic she’s ever read BY NAME, and A makes random connections you may or may not want. 

The first fic you’re looking for is fluffy, fun, post-canon andreil: ‘We Sat on Our Own Star and Dreamed,’ by fuzzballsheltiepants. The author has locked this fic since its original publication, so you have to be logged in to AO3 to find it. If you’ve ever wondered why some works are locked, check out this article from techcrunch.com.

The second fic you mentioned is ‘the roads I traveled with you,’ which is part 9 of a delicious post-canon series by Ominous that digs deep into the relationships between andreil, andreil + aaron, the twins, and katelyn/aaron, and the stitched-together family they become. I just checked, and part one of this series has nearly 5,000 kudos! -A

also see

the latest roundup of this group bonding (and not!) is our Neil & Aaron: quests, situations, friendship & slash ask here

‘awkward Twinyard/ katelyn & Neil double date,’ and ‘wholesome twinyard hurt/comfort’ here

‘The societies we despise’ here

‘I'll Come Back To You’ here

We Sat on Our Own Star and Dreamed by fuzzballsheltiepants [Rated T, 3815 Words, Complete 2020, Locked]

Aaron & Katelyn have been too busy with their internships at the hospital to visit anyone, but Andrew and Neil just bought a house and they took a few days off to help them move. Fluff and introspection ensue.

tw: implied/referenced abuse

NB: if you love the relationship vibes in this fic, here are other asks where we suggested it:

more like ‘something in return’ here

new Katelyn/Aaron here

post canon long domestic andreil here

post canon andreil fluff + snark here

cute and happy andreil here

canon divergent low angst twinyards here

twinyards relationship focus here 

progress comes in small steps series by Ominous [Rated T/E, Series, Complete, 2020], featured here and here

Before Andrew & Neil and Aaron & Katelyn, there was Andrew & Aaron. This series tracks the ups and downs of healing a relationship that was broken from the word go. 

Part 9: the roads I traveled with you [Rated T, 35542 Words, Complete, AFTG Big Bang 2020] When his brother gets engaged, Aaron doesn't expect it to send his head spinning as much as it does. Marriage has always felt like a dream, or a nightmare, one he never thought either of them would be able to achieve. In that moment, Aaron remembers what he's always known, what keeps his head above water. He wants to be with Katelyn forever. That's never been a question. But marriage hadn't been brought up. For so long it was this abstract concept, a fantasy. He'd always reasoned with himself that it would happen, rationally of course it would, but now... Now Andrew has made the idea a reality, and Aaron has to confront his own wants for his future.

tw: implied/referenced abuse, tw: implied/referenced addiction, tw: homophobia

NB: find art by @autumnalpalmetto here, and below are other asks where we’ve featured this series:

favourite new fics 2020 roundup here

domestic fluff w/twinyards bonding, Neil & Aaron friendship here 

Katelyn & Neil friendship here

let’s focus on Katelyn here

Katelyn-centric hurt/comfort here

Andrew & Katelyn rapprochement here

Aaron & Neil rapprochement here

angsty aaron fics here

Aaron accepting andreil here

fluffiest long post canon college fics here

best post canon fics w/happy ending here

staff fave post canon andreil here

canon divergent low angst twinyards here

healthy sibling rivalry here

twinyards relationship focus here 

Andrew & Aaron’s therapy sessions here

Andrew's pov of meeting Neil here

Neil's sophomore year and beyond here

romantic andreil/growing together here

andreil first time sex here and here

Andrew says no here

andreil getting married here

fics like 'only you' here

more like 'room 308' here

authors like willow_bird here

#fic #neil josten/andrew minyard #katelyn/aaron minyard #neil josten & aaron minyard #aaron minyard & andrew minyard #katelyn & neil josten #katelyn & andrew minyard #universe: post canon #theme: domesticity #theme: relationship study #theme: engagements #theme: pregnancy #theme: twinyards bonding #theme: families #theme: communication #theme: healing #theme: vacations #theme: fluff & humour #theme: fluff & angst #aftg big bang #tw: implied/referenced abuse #tw: homophobia #tw: implied/referenced addiction

[autumn-may]

being a kh mobile fan is so funny because all the kh content i see is going off about motifs and parallels and the development within both the light/dark and interpersonal connection themes and dissecting how it affects the other events within the story… and then i go to the kh main tag and its ‘Top ten reasons sora and riku should make out on kairis grave (and this will make kairi a better character)’

#NO HATE TOWARDS SORIKU BTW I LIKE SORIKU ITS CUTE THERES THEMES AND DRAMA AND ITS FUN AND THEY LOOK NICE AND EVERYTHING #I GOT INTO KH BECAUSE I LIKED SORA AND RIKU OK #But i am also far to aspec to not notice the implications behind the statement “sora cares lots about riku so they are canonically in love” #Like are you kidding me. In the friendship series. Really. #Also a lot of the theories that make kairi ‘better’ are like: “and then kairi will be inside soras heart forever!” #“And not only will sora not really do anything about this but it will make sense for him to not care :)” #“Human bonds being essential for living and powerful and healing? No kh is about leaving your friends behind actually. ” #“Not riku tho” #Sorry uh #Rant #I guess #(again. Not about soriku or shipping in general i am self aware and not a hypocrite. This is about a very hyperspecific genre of kh fan)

[seasunandstar]

Cento Between the Ending and the End

Sometimes you don’t die

when you’re supposed to

& now I have a choice

repair a world or build

a new one inside my body

a white door opens

into a place queerly brimming

gold light so velvet-gold

it is like the world

hasn’t happened

when I call out

all my friends are there

everyone we love

is still alive gathered

at the lakeside

like constellations

my honeyed kin

honeyed light

beneath the sky

a garden blue stalks

white buds the moon’s

marble glow the fire

distant & flickering

the body whole bright-

winged brimming

with the hours

of the day beautiful

nameless planet. Oh

friends, my friends—

bloom how you must, wild

until we are free.

-- Cameron Awkward-Rich

#cameron awkward-rich #poetry #cento poems #theme: healing #theme: friendship #theme: living

[ai-kan1]

Idol ace thoughts....

#Havent been able to draw anything this week until todayyy #Idol ace to heal my soul #Hope it heals your soul too #Prince theme idol ace... #my princess... #yea its very sketchy but idc I need the rot out NOW

[genericpuff]

i have nothing to say about the newest episodes of LO

so I'll let past me from the year 2022 say it instead

because everything they said a year and a half ago ironically still applies today and i don't even know how that's possible but it's where we are 💀😭

#except now instead of it being entirely on hades' behalf it's now ALSO on hera's behalf #literally why have we gotten a whole ass third season that's continued to drag its heals on the main conflict of the story #persephone has to play superman for everyone else's trauma and never gets to address her own #we'll get episodes showing the empathetic POV's of the abusers tho #and literally all of them come down to “parents suck” #literally they're all the same backstory and plotline #like i get if that's the theme rachel is trying to go for here but how is this even a retelling of the Abduction of Persephone at this poin #persephone has so little to do that rachel has to literally shove everyone else's trauma and problems onto her plate for her to solve #all while her own trauma is still gathering dust in the corner #we're not even seeing her witness the women around her find their own strength and learning from them #because SHE'S TOO BUSY BEING WRITTEN AS THE ANSWER TO EVERYONE ELSE'S PROBLEMS #THE APOLLO PLOTLINE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE STAKES ANYMORE #CAN WE JUST DEAL WITH IT PLEASE AND END THIS FRIGGING COMIC 😭 #IT'S LITERALLY SO DEAD IN THE WATER THAT IT'S REPEATING ITSELF #lo critical #anti lore olympus #lore olympus critical