#I nearly broke down there and then

[thatlonelycactus]

One moment for Good Omens Season 2 we don’t talk about enough is that one scene in season 2 ep1 where Aziraphales trying to question Jimbriel and like Az asks him “Well why did you come to me then?” (Not word for word by similar premise- I can hear him saying it THATS how much I think about them) and Jimbriel replies with something along the lines of “You’re one of those people(not really a “person” but close enough lol) who are easy to feel safe around [100% no where near the actual quote but like oversimplification and all + I couldn’t find the original quote + it gets the gist of the point he’s trying to make]” and Aziraphale AZIRAPHALE just knows exactly which buttons to push to break me and he just starts keyboard mashing them all. Aziraphale just makes THAT FACE the “I’m in love but I can’t show it because some part of me knows it can’t happen” face the “He’s my safe place” face and you just know EXACTLY who he’s thinking of. The realization that to him, Crowley means safety in every way shape and form is absolutely devastating to me (don’t ask me why). I just- just can’t anymore. Its plastered all over his face.

[kitamars]

a doodle that turned into something or the other

[ratwithhands]

Decided to polish some jacket designs!

Emmet originally received a strait from the League after they thought he posed a safety risk to others and mandated him to wear it. Big surprise, they literally just went to a Unovan hospital and asked if they had any of the old jackets lying around. It's ill-fitting and unpleasant, not to mention the hasty edits they made to his uniform to act as a secondary restraint looks awful. As much as he is still operating as usual, having to walk around in the strait is humiliating and dehumanizing, especially because of the stares from other people.

Of course this crime against dignity and fashion had to be corrected, so Elesa called her designers and offered to make the League Council a more appropriate uniform for him. The only rule given was that it must still restrain as well as the original straitjacket, so Elesa ended up modelling the jacket after a vest and the secondary restraint after a double-breasted greatcoat. It's meant to look like clothing, more like everyday wear than something out of an asylum. It also uses hand covers (i.e. socks) instead of a grossly oversized sleeve to keep the hands restrained.

It resolves a lot of the issues Emmet had with the original, namely that it blends in with the crowd rather than making him stick out. It also has an air of professionalism and formality that the original didn't have. He's much more willing to wear it and keep it on, as well as being more comfortable in it.

I'm struggling to describe this in sentences so as for the differences:

League Straitjacket:

actual retired straitjacket from hospital storage

made of old canvas and leather

uses oversized belted sleeves to restrain arms

uses belts and buckles to restrain upper arms and tighten back

can't fit anything thicker than a tank top underneath

Elesa's Modified Straitvest:

bespoke articles custom tailored to Emmet's measurements

made from stiff cotton and fabric staps

uses belted cuffs and hand covers to restrain arms

uses straps and locking slide buckles to restrain upper arms and tighten back

able to fit a collared shirt underneath

Elesa's outfit also has the added bonus of being more breathable, soft, and being able to function as regular clothes.

Anyways bonus sketch comic:

Dignity restored.

[nattikay]

Kìyevame [speedpaint/timelapse]

So at last goodbye I will be happy just to have known you...

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

So wait, Frank helped Julie out in the fantasy AU? What or who was Julie running from? If its a spoiler, you don't need to mention it.

oh yeah i imagine that they were friends while Julie was still ~Princess Juliette~ and when Julie decided to run away from her royal life & home, she went to Frank on her way out in the hopes that he'd help her

[insecateur]

we meet up at the pokémon tcg tournament and i whip these out

wyd

[hussyknee]

Idk if there's enough people talking about what a gigantic energy drain Complex PTSD is. It's not just one single traumatic event, it's having lived in a traumatic situation for a long time. And in the case of child abuse, your entire formative life period. Everything is a trigger, anxiety is your default, and your brain keeps trying to keep you safe by yelling at you about everything you're doing "wrong", which will lead to pain. Your brain is a constant war zone, braced for attack, rarely relaxed, at least some part of you always hypervigilant. The stress it takes on your body is insane. It's why trauma is linked to autoimmune issues, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and, according to one study, cancer.

Physical disability leaves you even more vulnerable and less able to live up to the impossible standards of control and "correct" behaviour your brain insists on, not to mention the free gift given to all patients of chronic illness that is medical gaslighting and patient-blaming, all of which simply compounds the trauma. Reduced physical and mental health obviously leads to systemic risk factors such as inability to pursue academic and professional qualifications, poverty and financial struggle, malnutrition, becoming unhoused or bad living conditions, exacerbated medical issues and further lack of medical resources, reliance on welfare and care networks, and becoming trapped in codependent, abusive or toxic relationships. The knock-on effects are endless.

This is all to say— if you're wondering why you can't seem to do more than the bare minimum every day when you haven't been diagnosed with a physical illness, or you're "not that disabled", or you think your symptoms are "just psychosomatic" (which means your brain is under so much intolerable stress that it's started taking a chair to the windows and destroying the furniture just to get you to NOTICE AND MAKE IT STOP): the answer is that your body is actually struggling under the kind of stress that kills trained soldiers and disables them for life. So stop trying to convince yourself that you're just not trying hard enough when what you really, desperately need to get your life on track is community, care, rest and ease.

[knolance]

Hi, it’s been half a year (ish) here’s some Eun doodles

Goodbye 🫡

[calypsolemon]

ive been rotating an au in my mind where show utena remembers being friends with touga (like in the movie) at the beginning of the series and like recognizes him and she's like. "Oh its touga my old friend touga who i drifted apart from after the near-drowning incident for reasons ive never been able to articulate to myself." Nothing really changes in terms of actual show events, Touga is still a dick and asserts himself romantically at her bc he doesn't think women and men can be friends anymore, but in terms of character dynamics its less of Utena being manipulated into thinking a guy she barely knows could be her prince and more her reassessing why she stopped thinking of Touga that way in her childhood, and struggling to reconnect with him through the bullshittery of the duels and Touga's own manipulative behavior.

[mister13eyond]

honestly i love this stupid kirby meme for the dumbest reason:

which is that "i want to dead" has lodged itself as permanent echolalia in my brain, so when i'm Spiraling it becomes the despair mantra my mind is chanting, which like

WOULD be harrowing, but i keep picturing this sad little low poly kirby saying it and i'm just patting his angular little head like "i know kirby, i know, but the horrors persist and so must my juicy ass"

[whenthegoldrays]

In shambles upon realizing that Yichan was not just doomed by the space-time continuum but also doomed by himself… doomed by his love for Eun Gyeol. Because when Eun Gyeol was 12, Yichan told him that he’d save him, their family’s angel, first. Because Yichan ran into a fire with no hesitation to save him even though he didn’t know whether Eun Gyeol was actually inside. Because at age 18, Eun Gyeol went to the past and made it his mission to protect Yichan and make his life shine. Because Eun Gyeol jumped off a cliff with the full confidence that Yichan would jump after him to save him. Because Eun Gyeol made him promise not to show his demo tape to anyone and that was the reason Yichan was on the street when that car drove toward Eun Gyeol. Because Eun Gyeol bet everything on the knowledge that Yichan would do anything for him… and he did.

[sk1nnysuccubus]

found out i weigh a LOT more than i thought i did. i know im losing weight but just knowing that im so fucking heavy makes me want to die.

[metalcatholic]

[witchmd13]

today's been a really bad day but i got to go to the levant sweets shop and i got in and they had ramadan decorations and they weren't only speaking arabic but the levant dialect and i legit almost started crying

[alstroemerian-dragon]

chiaki is such a good and interesting character. wish she was in a better game

[kimmkitsuragi]

at the moonrise fight and wyll had a nice wall of fire going on. fight ends, the harpers run towards the other room ie THROUGH THE WALL OF FIRE... and one of them dies and now the harpers are mad at WYLL of all people ?????? and now im in combat with quartermaster talli and for what reason. please don't do this to me