#equilibrium of existence

[smol-scribblies]

thinking about the wifeys, so Brooke & Skia doodles

[thebestieyoureinlovewith]

@smol-stargirl Here is part one of my modern ish slightly futuristic fanfic of EoE....inspired by your au idea with my own twist and style :) also plants have souls

'Hello?!'

The nymph wandered the path, the unfamiliar floor harsh against her feet. There wasn't much left in the way of souls to heal, but Brooke would have hope for life as long as she survived. No matter the loss of the forest, and the loss of the animals...

They were so small, but they had filled her whole being with joy. No matter the losses she hadn't yet processed, because Skia was exhausted and there had to be something for her to save. She couldn't leave Skia to come back to this desolation, with her only choice being to guide a transition that the universe was not ready for. Though she pretended otherwise, Brooke could tell it pained her to do so.

Brooke wasn't sure if 'desolation' was the right word to use. There were things all around-buildings and old cars, all kinds of fascinating human creations that she would have been curious of, had this not been the fault of the humans in the first place. Beautiful things are not beautiful when there are no clear eyes to take them in.

All Brooke saw were things she was too late to save. Even the humans, she couldn't have left struggling, but it all happened so suddenly. The bombs came down and the toxic gasses spread and suddenly everything for miles and miles was dead or dying. The humans called it war.

If war meant 'causing early deaths', then the humans were right. This was war. What Brooke and Skia were beginning against the workings of nature itself, that they had previously assisted, however?

That was revolution.

[hazmatmaid]

crayon scribblings of a Spamton and his rat child

[27thfirefly]

source

[suncaptor]

I do think that it is kind of stupid to delegitimise someone's anxiety or fear of going out or doing things because if you do go out and try to consistently do things when all you experience is distress then you're making the problem worse, not better. you're associating going out like that with distress. you need to find ways to find any form of enjoyment if not go slow and be in control so the amount of fear is controlled and you can regain feelings of safety.

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

man i have not posted enough pericky-specific content lately. i need to fix that. partly because it's a quality ship i love very much, and partly out of spite because tumblr is a garbage website and blocking does not keep me from seeing popular blogs around who talk about murdering pericky shippers and people who just, like, acknowledge that it's canonical SA/CSA/domestic violence survivor rep lol

[the-sunroom-system]

genuine question is it possible for the host to split into two alters and still have the same identity but with different names and ones more pos while the others more neg? and the neg one is the new host?

also is this a general DID thing or a sign of possible polyfragmentation?

[rapidhighway]

Actually the criteria to be my favorite movie is that it's got action and it was made between 1990 and 2005

[stargazypie]

that post about how there are characters where you don't care how they're together as long as they are. that's holmes and watson absolutely like idc if they're gay married and having mad sex idc if they're not fucking but romantically involved idc if they're just besties honestly whatever it doesn't matter. they just have to be together

[astrovagrant]

anathema spent years in an amos-like state where she literally relied on the mendicants to point her in the direction of Good because she also trusted that they would not inherently manipulate her. which. took a massive breach of her own existing traumas (was raised in a manner explicitly designed to make her very obedient and very easy to manipulate and was subsequently Extensively manipulated - to disastrous, disastrous effect) and it didn't happen overnight, but they put the work in because that is what the organization is About. she was also doing a bunch of other things while under their care at first that were extremely harmful to her both physically and mentally/emotionally and they also Very patiently dealt with that until it had run its course.

eventually, she got to the point where she trusted her own self enough to no longer need to rely on them wholesale and that self-confidence in her own polaris has only grown since then; she's now nearly always aware (~97%) when other people are putting the manipulation tactics down on her and patiently continues to engage with them until she can bridge the gap and figure out what they really want and if the behavior can be amended.

she's by and large not suitable for the type of therapy work that some mendicants work up to (it's like. an official certification that takes years to earn) and she is Deeply aware of this, but she does still believe in the overarching mission statement of caring about people, meeting them where they are, and showing them that love is possible. she endeavors to do that as much as she can, and purposefully started not hanging out with her fellow mendicants as often so she could focus on it Even More (read: start doing it in a way that was hurting her but felt good insofar as it's a negative coping tactic, which they wouldn't have approved of)

[thebestieyoureinlovewith]

@smol-stargirl part 3 final part!!!

Brooke hadn't seen so much damage concentrated to a single area before. Where there might have been lush green, or a bustling city, or a village with a tight knit community, there was nothing. It hurt her deep within to witness, and she knew Skia was horrified that the transition she found so beautiful was being misused.

The equilibrium had been disrupted. Some kind of catalyst had to occur to push it back into place.

'I can feel where there used to be life.'

'You can?'

'I think so. It's sort of...buzzing. That means it's not ready to let go yet.'

Skia looked at her with eyes so haunted that Brooke was taken aback.

'You have power beyond comprehension, but I think healing this might be beyond even you.'

Brooke heard the buzzing clearly.

'I have to try.'

'If you can't do it, it will be okay. Eventually, this will be okay.'

'I know. Wouldn't it be so much better if it was okay now?'

Skia nodded. She looked terrified, but stood proudly across from Brooke.

'I'll be right here.'

Brooke focused on the buzzing. It came from her hands, and her chest, and her head. It echoed through miles of distance between friends. It weaved through love and sliced through anger. It forgave ignorance and weaponised hope.

This buzzing was life. This buzzing was not scientific. It was the feeling that rattles bones when someone realises that they are alive. Brooke closed her eyes.

The buzzing was deafening by now, but she found it didn't hurt her ears at all.

'It's working. Brooke it's working. Keep going. You are made from art and tides. I love you.'

----

When Brooke opened her eyes, the green that surrounded her was shocking. So was the noise.

'Thank you Brooke, thank you Skia.'

'Brooke! You just brought back life! Do you think you could do that again?'

Brooke thought about how her sweetest shadow had helped her with words made from snow and sun rays.

'Yes. I think I could.'

'You're incredible.'

'Skia?'

'Yes?'

Brooke smiled softly, relishing in the joy of existence.

'I love you too.'

[hidrogenium]

[ethics-wizard]

Economics class is going to murder me insofar as its all largely correct and it all makes sense but also there is a framework here when we say things like the equilibrium on supply and demand is societally optimal and my philosophy addled brain keeps going wildly outside the scope of macroeconomics 105

[masatoshimori]

平衡 <equilibrium>

[mourning-again-in-america]

perhaps coming around to a sunsteinish view of law where "law is the self-authorized system of making things inconvenient for the sake of everything else"

since how you should act towards the law (is the law "good" when it provides damages actions against police who shoot a kid? is the law "good" when it protects small business owners from looting? large businesses from shoplifting? landlords from tenants who'll damage their property?) largely flows downstream from how inconvenient things should be and the obligations and restrictions on the citizenry for participating in this system according to their roles and views towards societies & authorities in general & in the specific.

[eggmode]

the urge to become a marine biologist simply to make “there are many benefits to being a marine biologist” jokes (also because marine life is so RAD) vs my 64% in my biology class: FIGHT