#enables emotional

[vaguely-concerned]

sometimes I think of all the on-the-surface warm, well-meaning but deeply ineffectual advice and attention john gives harrow through harrow the ninth (make some soup and get some sleep! get a hobby! don't be so hard on yourself! self care harrow! as long as I need take no actual responsibility in this relationship whatsoever I would have loved to be your dad!) set up against the stark truth that with his other hand he has been staging her attempted horrific murder again and again and again like a living nightmare on the logic that it will 'put her down or fix her'. and then I find that I wish there is a hell. a special hell where twitch streamers turned necromantic death emperors go

[furiousgoldfish]

my 'less abusive parent': hm seems like I've had children with a violent maniac who is now threatening and hurting the children.... this is the children's fault and also none of my business

[annabelle-house]

how do you expect me to get better in the environment that made me sick in the first place?

[caitlynmeow]

Alcina has her parenting hiccups, and these show the most with Cassandra.

When she was younger, Cassandra hated going to school. Drop off time at pre school was a nightmare. A nightmare that Alcina made worse by responding to her daughter’s tantrum.

A teacher told Alcina to drop her off and leave. Not linger or try to calm her down. Because Cassandra is putting up a show for Alcina, and her performance is getting her the audience she wants. The teachers assured Alcina that as soon as she’s out of the door Cassandra would be up and playing as if nothing has happened. She is putting up a show for her Mama because she’s responsive and feeds Cassandra’s attention seeking behavior.

[twig-tea]

I'm still thinking about Dee being apparently so much of a mess with a history of bad decisions that Kao gets one [1] voice memo (which Dee had time to send Kao but not Yak, apparently??) in which Dee presumably casually mentioned he was going to pop by Ter's to work on the presentation and Kao comes running.

[melblogsgfreethruptsd]

[tinybro]

jasico server was chatting about the cupid scene and jason getting nico's memories blasted straight into his brain and how jason being shot with one of cupid's arrows while with nico and this was just never brought up in canon again and now i'm thinking like...what if that's just how cupid's arrows work? not by magically manifesting love for someone out of nothing, but by giving someone the perspective that'd make them fall in love naturally? jason gets a front row seat to nico's memories and instantly understands him intimately and can trust him completely without any doubt or suspicion

so what if jason, after slowly realizing he's totally in love with nico, just thought back to the arrow incident and it made him second-guess everything? because maybe he's only feeling this way because cupid hit him with an arrow with only nico was around and it's no different than any other god messing with his love life

[tanadrin]

It’s nigh impossible to get through to people who have gen anxiety and depression for whatever reason. I try every day and fail, you just can’t win if a person hasn’t experienced cognition free of depression and reality testing and analysis free of anxiety. And if they are neurotic on top of it all, any advice or instruction will be taken as an insult and victimhood mentality will be reinforced. I say this with the utmost sympathy, it’s a really fucked up state to be trapped in.

It is! I’ve been in it. I’ve had people very close to me in it. It’s brutal. And if you are smart, rational, thoughtful, and this is a new development, it’s worse, because the idea that the systems with which you synthesize attitudes about the world are miscalibrated or stuck in some kind of pessimistic attractor state due to inputs that have nothing to do with the thing you are fixating on as the problem, is one that just seems inherently implausible. Insulting, even.

But that’s just how the human brain works. Our emotions, which we rely on for all kinds of judgements for cognitively kludgey reasons, can be affected by things that seem to not be related, like how much exercise we got today, or the last time we hung out with friends being too long ago, or not enough sunshine.

But even if we are smart and rational and thoughtful, we are also highly social savannah runners who need to do highly social savannah runner things to be happy.

[daughterofanarcissistwoman]

[nashvillethotchicken]

Thinking about Lestat seeing Louis’s eating patterns as a waste of his gift/himself while Armand gives Louis food that he literally can not enjoy or digest just so he has something on his stomach

[theinnermechanismsofmymindtdp]

None of you understands my plight, how will Soren and Terry interact?

[astronicht]

Often ppl assume because I’m into space and have been since before I could speak in full sentences I would love to go to another planet or I think Earth is for chumps or something. I may never be able to go to space — though I can see it, that’s the magic, we all can see it every night, I’ve seen more of space than I have most continents — but man. Man. You’ve probably seen the Earthrise photograph on some bad motivational poster. But I think about that a lot: the first people to go around the barren moon and see the Earth rise over its horizon, like the scene in the original Wizard of Oz where everything goes from sepia to color. Only it’s not the wonder-world that’s in color— it’s Kansas, it has always been Kansas. You think I would truly choose space over this? A trip, sure, but on a personal value scale, you think I’d relegate Earth to some has-been resource mine? This is space, this is a little rocky planet hurtling through space, this is it: my favorite part.

[stressedjester]

"all cops are bastards except Harry Du Bois!!!" no, all cops are bastards ESPECIALLY Harry. In fact he's a bastard even outside of him being a cop

[ritzzor]

I never did post my Obey Me MC so here she is!

[vaguely-concerned]

every personal conversation my agent has with vector just feels like

vector, with gentle genuine concern: ...bitch you live like this??

and it's cracking me up so much. yes. caringly drag him bug boy he deserves it

[qyburn-in-the-black-cells]

Again, I haven’t gone here in a long time -

But let’s talk Arthur.

He was not Uther. He was a better man and ruler than Uther but Uther forged him. It’s very difficult to be a healthy person when the foundation of your personality is cracked - affection starved. His worse impulses enabled or encouraged. Thrown in jail for fighting with his father. Participating in massacres at fifteen. Raised since birth to hate an entire group of people.

Who does he go to when he breaks his own laws to save an elderly woman from burning alive? The father who wrote those laws. The father whose legacy was genocide. It was his destiny to undo that legacy.

Fulfilling it required him to change as a person in a way that would’ve been incredibly painful. It would’ve required self introspection Arthur wasn’t fully capable of yet and something/several things to radically reverse his attitude toward magic. It would’ve required facing the fact that his only parent, who he can acknowledge wasn’t always good, was evil. Truly and deeply evil.

Season 5 made it clear it would’ve happened eventually (esp. if Merlin took the opportunities given to him to push for magic to be legalized) but it was too late. He was out of time the moment Aithusa was put in that pit with Morgana.