#destructive patterns

[karver518]

….burning spice and dreamweaver y/n but he just keeps staring at them menacingly (can I be banana anon? - yeah I’m new)

This staring contest is a little insane

[femalephilosopher]

Understanding the Manipulative Behavior of Pathological Liars and Enablers

Pathological liars and enablers can engage in behavior that is not only socially harmful but can also have physical and emotional consequences. One of the tactics they often employ is triangulation, a manipulative strategy that involves deceiving others for their own advantage in social dynamics. In this blog post, we will delve into the reasons behind their resorting to such tactics and explore…

[moonlightcycle571]

Marvel making familiars for his loved ones

So I was thinking about Tawky Tawny (again). The thing about him is that he got so many different backstories or explanations on what he might be, but a common enough theme that we see is that he is a stuffed toy when he wants to be.

So here me out.

Tawky Tawny is Billy’s familiar and helps him adjust to his magic when he wants to use it in his small form. He was originally a toy given to Billy by his parents and later given life by The Wizard.

It came with more benefits. Tawny would eat his nightmares, be able to teleport to Billy’s location so that he could never get stolen or lost, protect Billy by going into his tiger form and all around be a constant warmth on his life.

So imagine Billy doing the same as The Wizard.

A lot of his friends aren’t magic users and don’t have the same magical protection he does, so maybe he gives them some enchanted clothing or pendants. A semi familiar (because without magic you can’t make a magical familiar pact with a living animal) where he just makes them familiars.

He would create stuffed animals, and weave in some magic to make them sentient. Maybe it would start with younger heroes, but when he realises his coworkers in the JL need the help as well, he absolutely would make some for them. They, like Tawny prefer to stay in stuffed toy mode, but will sometimes would want to stretch their paws and go into animal form once they feel like they are in a suitable environment.

Just picture it.

It all started with Raven, and the constant stress she might feel with having to constantly guard over Trigon. She can’t have a familiar because most creatures would suffer if give a link to her because her magic is not compatible like that. Captain Marvel decided to make her a companion. He makes her a little leopard wearing an elegant pink suit with a little top hat.

Raven: Is that a plush?

Cap: I heard you have trouble sleeping, so I got you a friend. I haven’t given them a name or pronouns, so that’s up to you.

Raven: … why

Cap: Trust me, they are for nightmares! Tawny *holds up his tiger plush* tells me they are fun to hunt and makes quite the sweet treat.

Raven: *holding the handmade gift* thank you 🥺

Cue shenanigans where she thinks he’s just trying to be a great den mother, and is a tad naive thinking stuffed animals actually work. Not that she isn’t holding little Ebony Darkness every night and is getting the best sleep she has in years.

Another thing to add is that insomnia and PTSD is a common sight within the caped community. And of course Billy notices that. So, after seeing more and more positive results of his plushies, he makes more and more. It becomes a trend. Younger heroes receive a small teddy of an animal and proceed to get attached to it almost immediately.

Nightwing almost cried when he got an elephant wearing a bow tie . Cap said that he seemed like the type to like them. Now Dick has given Zitka a little sibling to sleep at night with. But then that plush becomes fond of Zitka and gave the og elephant plush sentience.

Starfire absolutely adores her shrimp plush. Said something about being able to see colours together. Wally doesn’t know what to think about getting a turtle, but quickly gets attached, even putting little designs in the shell.

Jason also likes to put in patterns in his sting-ray, which Roy doesn’t get cause he thinks his jelly fish is perfect just the way she is. Lian gets a smaller jellyfish, which makes her happy because all the Outlaws get a sea animal.

All the members of YJ, even the retired ones, get a reindeer. They suspect he knows.

It gets back to the JL that Caps giving stuffed toys to their protoges.

Flash: Hey, Cap, how come we don’t get any stuffed animals?

Captain, exited his work is wanted: You want one!!!

Flash, can’t say no to that face: … yes I do

He gets all exited and makes plushies for all of his coworkers, that he pours a bit of extra magic in his work.

CM, fidgeting infringe if the door:

Batman: what is it Captain

CM: I made you something but then I realised that you wouldn’t really want it but then it could be cool if you did and I didn’t want to overthink-

Batman, stopping Billy’s rant: go ahead

CM, hands him a plush snake wearing spectacles: I thought you would like them. I haven’t named them so that’s up to you

Batman, not knowing where to go from here: … is the name important

CM, offended: It’s the MOST important

Batman sighs and keeps the snake. Naturally he does a billion different tests but finds it’s a snake plush. One that’s handmade. That must have taken a lot of time and effort. Batman keeps George Snaking. No he will not admit that having the snake wrapped around his shoulders is soothing.

And it just spirals from there. Hal gets a Sparrow in a poncho, Plastic man gets a kangaroo wearing the nicest boots, Wonder Woman gets a duck in a fancy dress, Aquaman gets a penguin in swim shorts, J’onn gets a lion in a toga … Guy gets a clown fish.

It has no rhyme or reason. The only common thread is that it’s an animal with some sort of clothing. Cap just says that of course they have clothing, they are distinguished and perfectly civilised individuals.

It all come to a head when the League faces some threat, and they are weakened, only for their plushies to fucking teleport and turn into massive version of their respective animals and saves the day.

Hawkwoman, starring at her bear: I- Mrs Snuggles?

Mrs Snuggles: *shrugs*

Shayera: … I could have been getting bear hugs this whole time

Guy: *looks down* Flippers?

Flippers: *flops on the floor*

Guy: ….

Guy: how come the others get bigger version of their animals

The League of Superpets aren’t that worried about competition. They tried to recruit the plush’s, but turns out they are just lazy. Like, they will beat a butch if necessary, but won’t actively go looking for crime to solve. They act more of a home défense.

The only ones who knew about the sentient plushies where Ma and Pa Kent (their Octopus is extent helpful around the farm), Alfred Pennyworth (he’s the one who actually requested hamsters to help keep the manor clean and keep an eye on his family) and Damian who’s instinct immediacy told him his fennec fox is alive.

Oracle got a capybara. The Capybara is the most powerful one Billy has made, second to Tawny. I don’t make the rules.

Constantine is the only one who never got one. Billy is still salty about him trying to steal his powers. Plus he would prolly sell it.

[lightgamble]

DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.01, 1.02 & 1.03

I'm not him anymore. And, I won't let myself be.

[callmekatydid]

“Wait no not like that.”

OR: Results? To MY own self-sabotage? More likely than you’d think!

OR: I don’t CARE that the prophecy was self-fulfilling, I’m still angry about it! 😤

OR: Blitzø sweetie pie please go to therapy I know this great lady with a hotel where you do trust falls and talk about your feelings she’s like a block away from your office just pop in for thirty seconds please I’m begging you 🥺

[crabopank]

The Perfect Court AU #2

Riko & Nathaniel's relationship

This was initially meant to be a post about different character dynamics, but I've written so much about just Nathaniel and Riko I figured it could be a post itself ￣＼(￣▽￣)／￣

Again, I am not a book/fic writer especially in English, so don't expect it to be much of a literary experience. I just express ideas and maybe get a little too emotional while writing sometimes. No actual sketches this time, I didn't draw em yet ( ´ ▽ ` )

Riko,

initially obsessive about suppressing Nathaniel, saw him as a threat at first. When the three of them – Riko, Kevin and Nathaniel, grew up from being childhood friends to being Perfect Court, Riko constantly felt pushed back. Kevin was better, a wonderful striker, who surpassed him as a player. Nathaniel was considered higher than Jean, his should-have-been number “two”, in their hierarchy, despite numbers, kept provoking the Master and got Ichirou’s attention, surpassed him as a part of Moriyama crime family, surpassed him by being someone Riko couldn’t be. 

But where Kevin tried to hold his progress slightly back for Riko to keep up, where Kevin was submissive and suppressed, Nathaniel pushed twice as hard. Where upperclassmen stopped behaving as an actual people as soon as they saw him approaching, Nathaniel kept his attitude unbothered, he fought back, he insulted Riko and would purposefully get on his nerves. 

But overtime, the sole existence of Nathaniel stopped feeling as a threat. Because every time Riko lashed out on him, he came back the same. He talked with him the same way he would talk yesterday, and after Riko stopped reacting to every single “wrong” phrase with blood and pain, even Kevin acted almost comfortably. It was as close to being back in time as it could be, three of them, talking about exy, watching movies and banter. Nathaniel couldn’t actually threaten him more than it was silently allowed by the Master and Ichirou, because Riko still was Moriyama, and Nathaniel could never leave, sold, and thus he is stuck in here forever (and maybe, just maybe, Ichirou can go fuck himself for taking his younger brother’s property back). Nathaniel keeps looking Riko in the eyes when they talk, and suddenly Riko starts feeling connection instead of rage, even if he wouldn’t admit it to himself. He felt comfort without actual full domination for the first time since when Master began to discipline them with pain. 

Nathaniel

felt lonely. Kevin closed in himself, desperate to balance perfectionism with Riko’s insecurities. Riko acted like Nathaniel was always a property for him, just as Jean. When Nathaniel was sarcastic and witty, instead of eye rolling and smirk Kevin answered with frightened look and Riko answered with violence, like Nathaniel was living in his Father’s house again. The upperclassmen were too guarding of him while couldn’t actually do anything.  Jean was comforting, his partner. But Jean wasn’t there for as long as he was, for him Riko’s smile was always bad news, and Kevin was always restraining himself to be the number 2. Andrew was even more recent part of his life than Jean. Nathaniel looked in mirrors, into Ichirou’s eyes and every time he saw his father, a Wesninski, a Butcher Junior.  

Everyone else saw his nonobedient behavior as a performance, as to show his pride couldn’t contain itself to stay alive, or as a way to keep Riko’s rage where he could control it, and it was, in some ways, but at his heart it was an expression of frustration he had. He pushed Riko, he pushed Kevin. 

“I want our good old days back” He cried and “You know, I get it…” would come out loud instead.

“I want my fake freedom back” He pleaded and let out everything he got from his father on Riko. 

He helplessly tried to beat the old Riko back into the new one, and he almost felt free, and the smile of Wesninski covered his face, and he felt in control enough that it almost became his own, like there was never some Butcher of Baltimore who wore it first. 

And Riko smiled back.

And it felt like going home, and it wasn’t Nathan’s. 

Thoughts on fighting style

 Riko and Nathaniel have polar opposites in how they fight with each other.

Under pressure Nathaniel frequently becomes primordial in his violence, his Instincts scream «survival survival survival break out run», he scratches, bites, growls and kicks if he feels like he's losing, but it's still somehow thought through and strategic. 

Riko on the other side gets collected and technical when Nathaniel gains an advantage during the fight. Concentrated, aiming to carefully get his dominance back, but it's something still very impatient.

Riko in his disadvantage is technically better but impatient, like he's trying to get his throne back and can't wait to reign again. 

Nathaniel in disadvantage is practical and strategic but primordial, like he's a child again and needs to survive by any means necessary.

When getting an advantage with a knife, on the other side, Nathaniel is methodical and almost dissociative. He may not feel that much of a passion for violence as his father, but he was taught to see through the human body. In the heat of a battle, advantage means looking at someone and seeing veins and muscles and organs, like a map of vitals. How to cut to leave a scar, making up a plan like his father did («first your ankles, then…») And having an end result in mind. It's work, and it must be done («That's what Ichirou will soon expect from me, that's my duty»).

Riko doesn't like when Nathaniel gets in that state because then it's not about him but about Nathan and Ichirou's shadows over Nathaniel's mind. If Nathaniel starts overpowering him in a fight, Riko has a decision to make – Throw his knife somewhere out of reach, dealing without it if he manages to fight back today, or keep it and having a possibility of Nathaniel taking it and not be fully concentrated on Riko.

Riko feels physical dominance and being in control as comforting and relaxing. He doesn't care that much about leaving a scar, he is instinctive and structureless, and it's all about him and Nathaniel in his head in some unconscious way. 

They kind of switch places about name carving. For Riko it obviously was something planned and what he concentrated on, but Nathaniel was driven by an impulsive feeling of anger and craving for revenge, he didn't even think about how it should look like when it's done, and some lines weren't even deep enough (partially because Riko wasn't cooperative). 

About handcuff scenes from canon 

Nathaniel temporarily suppresses his survival instincts of primal aggression for Riko sometimes, letting Riko to “blow off steam”. Nathaniel doesn't fully understand how Riko's possessiveness and aggressiveness involves him in particular and is afraid that if Riko won't be able to “win” for too long, he'll just go and hurt someone else.

It works for Riko, even tho he knows Nathaniel just lets him do it. It does actually calm his down in a way, but despite Nathaniel’s beliefs, he wouldn’t express his disappointment to someone else (at least not in the same way) and would’ve kept pushing in instead. What those handcuff sessions actually do is prevent Riko from unconsciously going too far. 

One time during their fight he accidentally hurt Nathaniel so much it took a call to Ichirou and a couple of paid surgeons to save him, when Riko noticed how bad it was. And at that moment he knew, even if there was no punishment, he wouldn’t want Nathaniel dead.

The next time he saw Nathaniel restrain himself before Ichirou, Riko almost thought he wouldn’t want to have Nathaniel suppressed either.

[calypsolemon]

A question for the Pen & Ink AU (since I find it so very facsinating)! How do you think Thespius interacts with both Sweater and Ink Click respectively? Is it any different to how he normally is around Click Clack? How does Sweater Click's arrogance and Ink Click's self-isolation affect their dynamic? That kind of thing!

Overall, Thespius does interact with Sweater and Ink Click different than he does Click normally, though initially that isn't due to their split nature, but rather because Thespius understands what he is essentially dealing with is Click Clack in the middle of a mental health crisis. In the same way that you might act differently around a loved one who is having a breakdown or going through a hard time, Thespius is being very patient and cautious as to what he says and does around both Clicks. Especially at first, when they're all just trying to figure out what even happened, and all they can tell is that Click Clack is clearly distressed.

That being said, as the situation stretches on, the differences between the two halves settle in a bit more, it gets a lot harder for Thespius to treat these two parts of Click Clack as just... Click Clack. This is, in part, because most of his interactions are with Sweater Click, whose stubbornness, self-negativity, and complete refusal to listen to reason push the limits of Thespius's patience. Sweater Click embodies a lot of the hard-headed behaviors that hurt Thespius the worst during his over-a-century of pining for the fellow god, and so soon after their confession to each other, its increasingly difficult for Thespius to continue holding back his negative emotions. And keep in mind, those negative emotions are something Click Clack was previously helping hold back with his overzealous editing, preventing any potential conflict from breaking out between them before.

Feelings only get further muddled when he gets the chance to interact with Ink Click too. Ink Click is... difficult for him to wrap his head around, in many ways. He's still Click Clack, but disconnected from much of the personality quirks that make him recognizable as such. Less capable of communicating properly as well, as he can't speak directly, and the narrative he desires to tell is gradually buried by the cacophony of the world's story. Thespius can tell he's gripped by an existential guilt he can't even begin to fathom, and the primary feeling he evokes in Thespius is pity, which is not a great thing to feel about someone you're supposed to love. In many ways, he's a reminder to Thesp that, despite knowing and loving Click Clack for so long, there's still aspects of his partner he has yet to learn about, let alone understand.

All this to say, both halves of Click Clack are a bit of a confusing and upsetting mess for him to be around, and this really puts a strain on their relationship! He tries to act calm and collected around both of them, FOR their sake, but even a god of love can only keep face for so long.

[kaontic]

Aw, he made new friends. :)

Apparently small, harmless (to him), yet very loud friends.

[razberrypuck]

the cyclical nature of charlie slimecicle characters

[erynalasse]

If Morgoth is a Thought of Eru Ilúvatar, and Morgoth is the original corruption of Arda, then I don’t think Eru is as omnibenevolent as Tolkien would want us to think.

[ipushedthewrongbutton]

uuuuh yeah, i’m a little sick of romance being treated as the only type of love that matters, so yeah, get headcanoned as aro/ace

[fappellmoan]

they’re just so completely opposite to my experience in dating which has involved a vulnerable 16 yo me on her jr prom night sitting in a mcdonald’s embarrassed with her head down after she just described her ‘type’ to her friends as basically her current gf and said gf started with traits that were not only nothing like her but also included a whole other ethnicity about it. so

[stump-not-found]

two questions

how do you make all those fancy graphs and stats about your writing progress

how do you write sci-fi without any science nerds jumping at you

thank you :>

i made an estimate of how many words i thought the second part would be, assuming the average word length would be 10k per chapter, then set up "=CONCATENATE((TRUNC((T24/T26)*100, 0)),"%")" in excel 2 make it pretty for me. the bar on my blog is just some ascii characters

i just write what i find funny and appealing, and try not to worry if its complete dog shit, or if others will like it . art is fundamentally about indulging and brother do i indulge . i'd break the habit of being afraid of an imaginary audience who could be potentially cruel -- you will encounter cruel, bad faith takes about your art the more you create . it'll feel bad and it'll suck a bit, but just block and ignore, and let yourself process those emotions without guilt . the joy of creation is absolutely worth it! :D

[onelongsound]

Shira

Watercolor and gouache on paper 2002

[iamespecter]

My mom: *psychologically makes me feel worthless and invalidated of my existence unintentionally by not letting me have autonomy and independence I've been wanting and asking for the last 4 years*

Also my mom: WHY AREN'T YOU TAKING CARE OF YOURSELF!!!!!! OMG YOU ARE SO LAZY!!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Asian parents istg man like gee I wonder why I feel worthless and act worthless, it couldn't be because I was told I wasn't important, but had to keep earning for the family! Jesus fucking christ

[sophsun1]

when will the #depression and suffering end? wHEN?