#anyone can correct me if im wrong

[v3il]

hi! so i've known about plurality for a while but not known much until more recently after some reading. through my therapy journey i've come to understand there are several "me"s of varying ages (mostly ages certain events happened at) within me, and a huge part of my healing has been acknowledging and caring for them properly, such as building a safe headspace for them. We're all definitely the same person, just different ages, and there have been times it really seems one "fronts" enough for me to have a hard time keeping myself in check (or sometimes impossible) but never so much that I lose memory or am unaware of what's going on, etc. Before therapy I needed external help calming down, but now it happens less often and I can usually calm myself down, though depending on which age it is how I do that will vary. I've explored age regression as a possible explanation but it honestly always feels like I'm someone else, who just happens to also be me, but also not me??? Rather than simply being me but younger. I'm also autistic (formally dx'd) so Feelings have always been Weird and Difficult to Discern/Describe. I'm just wondering if this is plurality? Logically I think it would be but sometimes you just need to ask someone, you know? Thank you so much for your time whether or not you answer, I know this is A Lot out of nowhere.

ACK sorry for the late response ive had this in my askbox for a While now qwq

just a disclaimer, i dont know everything about DID/OSDD and im still figuring things out myself as well- im just a teenager on the internet and this is just an attempt to help find a good direction at the moment !!

but anyway, this sorta sounds like something in the OSDD spectrum- i was gonna suggest OSDD-1a because that involves the presence of alters that are fragments/without a distinct personality- and sometimes having parts that are like a 'time capsule' (parts that are like you but different ages/phases)- but 1a also involves full amnesia barriers between these parts. ive definitely heard of OSDD experiences that dont fit into 1a or 1b (i'm pretty sure i relate a bit), so you're not alone!

another thing- i havent personally gone to a doctor myself, but i've heard when diagnosing OSDD, if they know you experience little to no amnesia, they dont really diagnose you with 1a or 1b, but just the OSDD label itself (correct me if im wrong ofc!)

(from https://osdd.one/overview/)

another thing i think might be helpful (from the same website):

i hope this made sense n helped a lil bit, im obv not a professional so if you're able to, open up to ur therapist about it or ask them for recommendations for dissociative disorder specialists if u can ! good luck, anon :] /g

[wikipediafag]

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[savage-rhi]

Magenta 😥

[lunaryuwu]

I feel like this needs to be said someone mentioned that in jp jackalope said mikoto has “one of the most kills”. ONE OF THE MOST. NOT THE MOST.

Just to clear up some misunderstandings

[sukibenders]

One thing that was weird to me in an interview Rick made after the Medusa episode was when, in regards to the changes from the books and how Annabeth instantly figured out where they were, he says around the lines of "Oh she's a daughter of Athena, goddess of wisdom, so why didn't figure this out sooner in the books" or something like that (correct me, politely, if I am wrong). And, to that, while I understand wanting things to be different from the books it's also important to note that isn't it implicitly stated that, in the books, both Percy and Annabeth were under some sort of magical spell that basically had them throwing out basic thinking out the window? And also weren't they literally starving after having little to nothing to eat for hours? And also, again, they were kids! They probably aren't going to figure things out right away no matter how smart, especially when hungry!

[vypridae]

tell me about alastor pls

[/nf btw i just like him and his voice and design]

alastor !!! IS AN AWFUL AWFUL MAN AND I LOVE HIM SO MUCH !!!

he's got two of the five main cast under tight contract

he, a deer demon, has been shown eating a deer in his room before

his room has a whole ass forest btw

he can control his shadow

he's absolutely horrifying

he knows he's horrifying

he hates vox

he also hates tv in general

and film

they used to be friends(?) or something

we assume he died in the 1930s (which idk if it's still canon or not)

he is aroace :3

he absolutely ruined vox's entire career on live radio

he has said, quote, "i said no and now he's pissy, that's the tea!"

(he died in the 1930s. remember that.)

he also got fucked up by one (1) hit from adam, the original man

cocky asshole of which i love

sometimes his radio static voice stops having the radio static and it puts so much emphasis on stuff he says

he's also very silly goofy. makes silly jokes all the time

he's my silly pookie pie

[sp1resong]

yknow people claim that 'tme/tma' labels are supposed to 'not disclose your assigned gender!!!' but the thing is that... when you present yourself as nonbinary.... it pretty much does

[reggiestein]

Always intrigued by this expression L makes once in this scene and then never ever again

[thedisablednaturalist]

We got some really cool shots from the trail cam including a video I'm editing right now and these that were taken when a flock of starlings flew right around the camera:

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

[lonelysnowyart]

my contribution to the knivio ship 😔 (heavily inspired from all of @iszapizza ‘s knivio art it has truly sold me on adding this ship to my repertoire)

[imreszekeres]

Ive encountered a lot of fat men (especially the cis ones but thats just what Ive come across, doesnt mean its factual lol just makes me curious!) who are like “oh except for me/my body type/weight etc” or joke in that direction abt themselves when I say I prefer and like fat dudes.

Like no, especially you sir. I am one iota away from tearing your clothes off with just my teeth in an alarmingly fast fashion like the noble Piranha Fish

[lets-play-dress-up]

The urge to throw my phone out the window is immense...

[spriinglocked]

"defiance disorders arent real it wont kill you to just do what youre told" i dont think you realize that its called a disorder because its quite literally a huge change in their brain and may feel as if they physically cant do what you want them to for any reason. its like telling someone with a dissociative disorder to just stop having alters. all disorders are important and need to be recognized because of people like this

[stardust-sunset]

genuine question

does kyle eat kosher? because i know he said his mom packs him kosher lunches and stuff but he was also shown to eat ham and supposedly bacon pancakes from denny’s, so i’m kinda lost, can someone please help

[theduckeminence]

Let’s talk about The Water Tribe and Sexism.

From what I’ve seen in alot of posts, fans tend to point harsh fingers at how extremely sexist the Water Tribe is in terms of their culture and how their customs are divided into gender roles (at least for the NWT).

On a surface level, this is understandable as from an outside POV, when we see something involving strict and seemingly stereotypical gender roles, we immediately perceive this portrayal as sexist and even taking it as far as misogynistic. Though what we need to understand is that we need to take in the context of the situation/setting and what we are actually dealing with. What we need to do is to look from a different lenses.

For starters, the Water Tribe in general are inspired by indigenous and native groups—such as the Inuit. Though I am not indigenous/native myself, I can say is that, from what I learned, a lot native tribes and even other cultures tend to have customs and traditions that are separated into certain roles and jobs amongst one another. For example, in many Inuit tribes, jobs are often split between the men and women in order to get necessary things done to survive. This is typically normal traditional wise (though someone correct me if I’m wrong).

Now when applying these ideas to the Water Tribes, you can imagine that the Southern Water Tribe and possibly even the Northern Water Tribe following along with this similar system. Though some of you may be wondering—“How can the Northern Water Tribe be like that when they’re so extreme with their gender roles?”.

Well the answer is this: the fear of the colonial/imperial threat of the Fire Nation.

Picture this:

It’s the early years of the war and word has it that the war is quickly making its way to both the Water tribes. The Air Nomad Termination is still fresh in everyone’s minds and fear begins to arise within the nations—especially the water tribes. If whether by will or force, the cultural traditions and customs of the NWT could be threatened by the Fire Nation if they make their way up North. Not only are the well-beings of the tribal people a major worry, but the possibility of cultural extinction also stands on their minds. To prevent this from happening, the Chieftain and the Elders believe there is only one solution in order to protect their people from outside threat.

The Northern Water Tribe announces their isolation from the rest of the world.

Yet as the Northern Water Tribe closing their gates to any international interaction, the fear of cultural loss continues to reverberate within their icey walls. And if the Fire Nation are to ever knock on their gates unannounced, forcing their surrender, the next generations of the NWT would never remember their stories, their teachings, their traditional way of life—their culture as a whole.

This could not happen. They could not—and would not—let that happen. They need to be sure of it.

So, they had to do something about it. And they did.

Though it’s unspoken, gender roles begin to stiffen. They become more and more rigid over time.

Things from hunting to healing and other chores became more and more divided by gender—and less flexible and bending. Unspoken rules come into place as years go by. Men do the hunting and lead the households—taking most positions of leadership. Women do the healing, care for the children, and do the chores. The barrier of roles and duties between men and women of the Northern Water Tribe become stricter—separating.

So much so that it seems unheard of—almost unnatural—that men and women would go anywhere beyond the roles they knew they must fulfill.

It is of means of survival, after all.

Though, things didn’t have to be this way—and they don’t have to be. While these gender roles seem to be apart of traditional conformities, it is not, by law, forbidden for a water tribes-person to go against their own societal expectations—the status quo. Think Kanna and how she was expected to be betrothed and wedded, as well as how she was expected to remain as a housewife—feeling confined by her own tribes’ strict customs.

But that’s also not to say that it may or may be considered taboo in the eye of the most traditionalist folk within the tribe—maybe even considerably “insulting” and disrespectful to some (cough cough Pakku cough).

TDLR: So, in an attempt to preserve as much of their culture as possible from the posed threat of the Fire Nation’s imperial control (via isolation and sticking to cultural traditions), the Northern Water Tribe fortified their traditional customs to the point that it causes a divide between jobs of men and women—conforming them to these gender-based roles and preventing any more flexibility to go beyond the status quo without being deemed as disrespectful and possibly outcasted.