#abusive qualities

[izzystizzys]

TW: discussion of something approximating suicidal tendencies but with the usual crack programming of this blog

“Ah, High General Windu”, says Fox, pleasantly. “So we meet again.”

High General Windu raises an unimpressed eyebrow at him, Fox thinks, though it’s getting hard to tell with all the blood rushing to his head. “If I let you go, will you try to throw yourself out of another window?”

Fox makes a vague shrugging motion - or tries to, anyways. It’s hard to tell where any of his limbs are going, hanging upside down in the air as he is. “I am willing to discuss terms.” A bridge will do just fine.

Impossibly, the High General’s eyebrows climb even further up his forehead. “A compromise, then, esteemed Commander.” And so, he righths Fox the head way up in the air, but leaves him floating just above the ground, at which point several painted shells come skidding around the corner followed by billowing robes and screeches.

“WHAT”, says Kote, calmly, “THE BANTHA-KARKED, FORCE-LOVING KRIFF, FOX.”

“You’ll short out your helmet mic”, Fox advises him, sagely. Fondly, he thinks back to decimating his own on only his second time in the newly-christened official Coruscant Guard Scream Closet. He’d just received the comm about the Zillo Beast being transported to 000, and made sure to take his bucket off thereafter to improve the quality of his closet time.

High General Windu’s face does something complicated between sympathy and constipation.

Because the Galaxy doesn’t hate Fox enough already and Cody wasn’t enough on his own, Wolffe elbows his way through their batch to plant himself in front of him, shoulders squared and shaking with repressed rage. “If you try that again, dickhead”, he begins, in a low growl that quite frankly sounds more cringe that intimidating, “I’m going to resurrect you and then kill you again.”

“Ah, Wolffe”, Plo Koon says, in his deep, shivery timbre, “Remember our conversations about effective conflict resolution and communication of needs?”

Wolffe’s eyes narrow at Fox, because all non-Guard are sweet summer children who walk around buckets off on 000 like absolute lunatics. Fox prays they never have to find out why that’s a bad idea. “I feel”, his ori’vod presses out between clenched teeth, “that if you make me watch you throw yourself out of another window, I’m going to jump after you and strangle you on the way down, you little bitch.”

“That’s fair”, says Fox, and watches High General Kenobi bury his face in his hands. Wolffe twitches in place and makes an aborted groaning noise, the hypocrite.

“Excuse me, High Marshall Commander Fox, but I fail to see what’s so dire about this situation that the Jedi High Council and your brothers cannot help you solve”, says Windu, the only sane one left on this Force-forsaken bloated corpse of a planet. Behind the gaggle of Jedi and ori’vode already gathered in front of Fox, the rest of them come veering around the corner in a commotion that’s quite frankly embarrassing. High General Yoda is mounted on Skywalker’s back like he’s a race-Eopie, which is Fox’ only consolation.

He got up this morning at 0300, bleary-eyed and with a pounding headache as always, and all was right in the world. And then Fox got called into the Jedi High Council’s chambers and was ceremoniously informed that in the wake of Chancellor Palpatine’s unfortunate demise (hah), and through the emergency state of the Senate, as well as several invented promotions foisted on Fox to make the delegation of any and all paperwork less shady, he was now next in the chain of command and-

Well, Fox is the acting Chancellor, in short.

Haha, he had said, and been meet with several seconds of silence, until it got both awkward and exceedingly painful. Wait, he’d said. You’re kriffing serious.

Kriffing serious, we are, had said High General Yoda, and thus Fox launched himself out the first best window with a maniacal cackle of, you’ll have to catch me first!

And catch him, High General Windu sure did.

“The will of the Force this is”, Yoda interrupts Fox’ train of thought. He scans him thoughtfully from beneath his wizened brow, and hems to himself. “Shake things up, this will. Determine the fate of the Galaxy, this shall. A feeling, I have, that a good Chancellor you will make. A better one, hmmm.”

“That’d be high praise, if not for the fact that a dead lemming would make for a better Chancellor than the last one”, says Fox, drawing and indignant gasp from Skywalker. He doesn’t bother with either that or the green goblin’s cackle, lost in the deep sense of resignation that settles over his shoulders like a suffocating blanket.

“Alright, then, get me Thorn on the comm. As my first act in office, I’m firing all the Jedi. No offense, but you’re kind of a disaster. Then, someone get me to the Chancellor’s office, I’m calling Dooku to let him know the war’s off. And please get me Judicial, they’ll be up all night working on my datafolders - I’m having the Senate arrested.”

“Who - is - arresting - “, Bly pants, hands on his knees from where he’s just come sprinting around the corner with his Jedi.

Underneath his bucket, Fox smiles a smile that’s all teeth. “The Senate”, he says, sweetly, wondering if he’s just imagined the shiver that’s gone through the room. “I’m suing the Senate, and taking them all into temporary custody for abuse of sentient rights.”

[furiousgoldfish]

I hear a lot of 'Don't give up, keep trying, you'll get there!' when people mention some of their worst struggles, but you know, it's okay to give up. If something is making you feel awful about yourself, it's stressing you out to the point where you lose your life quality over it, if you're identifying your entire value over how it goes, if you're experiencing crushing anxiety over it, if you're starting to feel suicidal over it, it's okay to give up. You are worth more than that thing that is stressing you out.

I can't think of anything that is worth bearing so much pain for. What in life is worth losing your will to live? We humans don't need to spend our life struggling so badly. We need comfort, feeling good about ourselves, feeling worthy, feeling safe, and cozy, and peaceful, and happy. If trying desperately hard at something is taking this away from you, it might not be worth it. Finding new ways to experience calm and comfort, that could be a better focus.

We're not alive only to accomplish. We can exist just to find ways to feel good. Even if it's something that people wouldn't usually do, even if you feel calmer and better when alone, when not accomplishing anything, when you're removed from any stress or competition, when you're just you and there's nothing to compare yourself to. You can do that. There's nobody worthy of judging you for that.

[stellaranglerfish]

To that one person who said he needed to be put thru spin dry

captainrufflebanger was their name, I think? Correct me if I'm wrong!

[samble-movedd]

"homura is an evil abuser who wants to control madoka and hates their friends" tired trope, canonically untrue, congrats on falling for the facade put up by a middle schooler.

"homura sees herself as inherently evil and abusive due to her upbringing, past actions, and status as a witch, which is still ongoing even at the end of rebellion" fresh, new, actually closer to canon, doesn't demonize a child for being mentally ill.

[bipbopdepmop]

something something these guys are almost always used as just a sidepiece to grian

[myartsing]

Nothing but respect and love to Shubble who was incredibly brave for coming forward about the abuse they went through in their relationship.

She talked about how she thought it wasn't violent enough to be abuse, that he convinced her he didn't want to hurt her, that she was sure that something like that couldn't happen to her....that it took her a long time to acknowledge that what she went through was abuse. It's so easy to be manipulated by a person you should be able to trust, it's so easy to fall victim to abuse. It can happen to anyone.

At the end of the stream she says her friends made her feel like the strongest person in the whole world. I'm so glad they got out of that situation and I hope that their story helps other victims realize they are being abused. I hope this prevents others to fall victim to her abuser. I hope they continue to get the love and support they deserve.

I encourage everyone to go watch Shubbles stream about the situation and also spread a little bit of love for her 💓

[cascigarette]

"whatever you do, you will always end up... here."

[cupidl0vesy0u]

Sooo update on puppy TomTom- blame @charlybvnny for this… the angst it infected me-

The arm was eaten by @nomsfaultau btw <3

[marblebagcollective]

scream and shout , trickle down and down , ill build a home at sea.

[thewoundedfallenangel]

My take on Simon petrikov

Fionna and cake is eating me alive. At least we got baby girl over hereee (I'm talking to you Simon you dumb bitch)

[briennsa]

Lucifer and Sam 5x03 // Ramsay and Theon

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[furiousgoldfish]

When I look into the mirror, I can see the eyes of my mother. I have the nose, and the eyebrows of my father. My lips are from my grandmother. The older I am, the more it's pronounced, it's their combined features in my reflection, a solemn reminder that I was not adopted, or kidnapped by them.

But then I also remember that all of these people have called me ugly at one point or another, what is up. Your genes not pleasing you? Gonna insult your own face on me? Grow up.

[cosmo-abyss]

“I’m not allowed to cry, but it hurts too much to stop”

[zinnie-zoloft]

One thing I love about the depictions of abusive parental figures in DBDA is that they’re complicated

Charles mentions missing both his parents, not just his mother. Despite how awful his dad was Charles still loves and misses him. His mother is still with him and according to Charles they’re happy, or at least as happy as they could be after losing their son with no explanation. His father is terrible, but he’s not just terrible, he was clearly enough of a father and husband for them to still be a family.

Esther, despite being a pretty straightforward villain, isn’t completely uncaring towards Monty. Despite torturing him, the first thing he does when he’s human is smile back at her. He’s genuinely shocked when she stabs him because he trusts her enough that he doesn’t think she’d kill him. And she doesn’t, she just turns him back into a crow and lets him go home. Anyone other than Monty would absolutely be dead after talking back to her like that.

They aren’t just pure evil uncaring monsters, most abusive parents aren’t. They love and care about their children, but that doesn’t stop them being abusive.

[sk1fanfiction]

on dursley revisionism

Random people with wrong opinions: "Harry wasn't abused by the Dursleys" (bonus points for 'just neglected', which is a type of child abuse btw or 'that's all fanon')

Things that the Dursleys canonically did that are abuse just off the top of my head:

Swung a frying pan at his head (at the age of 12)

Grabbed him by the neck and basically tried to strangle him (even light pressure to the neck can cause internal damage)

Starved him

Verbally abused him

Locked him alone in a small cramped space as punishment (which can cause permanent psychological damage btw, and that's in adults. It is literally a type of torture.)

Made him sleep in that same small cramped unhealthy space when they had an extra bedroom

Encouraged their son to bully him and beat him up

Left him to be possibly attacked by a vicious dog

Bonus: Hid the evidence of his existence to outsiders and didn't speak about him to others (a typical thing for abusers to do)

And more. That boy is unrealistically well-adjusted.

I know the shitty guardian trope is so common in British children's lit (think Roald Dahl) that it became normalized, but it's not. It's abuse. I am worried for the children in your lives tbh.

[thwackk]

welcome to the gigantic boots for silly guys convention, this is the president