#host of influence

[analog-jester]

Inked and used a better camera for this. I still really want Filet Mignon to exist and curl up in a doggy bed in my apartment.

[brightlydim]

[The victim will outstretch their arms, exposing their vital organs. Then the host will begin to feed.]

inspired by @tasmanian-jevil (remember that host of influence doodle you sent? :) )

[west-tokyo-incidents]

Listen, I just want a Trimming. And I am astonished I've seen exactly no one drawing one tucking it's paws under it and calling it a meatLOAF.

[taz-drgaone]

i wanna be gutted by a host of influence so bad itd be soooooososo cool. like. because look at that thing. if im gonna die in the vc universe im walkin up full on reject-the-walk-of-shame-this-is-the-walk-of-FAME-baby up to that thing, grab one of those tendrils and tug, and wait for them sweet succulent spores to enter my damn brain holes. set an alarm for 7 hours from now cuz its fenna be a wild ride. walk up to that mf like "whats GOOD homie" and get violently stabbed through the stomach by this a-mannequin-had-sex-with-wise-mystical-tree lookin ass thing. i will die happy. content. satisfied. donate my body to science to research the spores. you will learn nothing my braincells have eated them all

[snowy-draws]

My brother showed me this show

This isnt as finished as I would like but honestly I just wanted to make this and have it to display

[lord-tekron]

Vita Carnis is a neat series, and The Host of Influence is a neat creature... Here are some dumb drawings of The Host of Influence. :V

[rowime]

You shouldn't do that....

[someminecraftvillager]

oc transfur

[ask-the-rag-dolly]

For Mod Bee : We'd actually like to see these doodles of yours! (Mainly cause i'm desperate for more content) but it's alr if you don't wanna! Just a suggestion

// i suppose i can put out some of them ! okay my children here's your dinner ^^ //

[pastelpaperplanes]

Happy 4.5K @avoidghost ✨🥳🥳🥳✨

don’t worry guys, Hot Rod is just buying clothes at the soup store for his hubbies it’s FINE

[insteading]

As someone who’s done bereavement care for almost 20 years, I’ve observed again and again and again that it is not staying with grief that cuts us off from other people, it’s suffocating grief and suppressing grief. It’s impossible to repress grief without also repressing all sorts of other things like joy and memory. Actually, expressing grief naturally connects us empathetically to other people. It is not an accident that right now when there is such a profound suppression of global grief, we’re also finding ourselves in a moment of such isolation.

Rabbi Elliot Kukla, in them magazine

I sought out this piece because Rabbi Kukla was quoted in today's sermon in reference to the ongoing genocide in Gaza ("It is lifesaving to mourn our humanity in inhumane times").

But this paragraph about grief hit me so hard I wanted to single it out to share. It is relevant to corporate grief of the sort we might experience when a state is doing harm in our name (police brutality, displacement, execution). It is also relevant to individual griefs.

In the bereavement calls I do for hospice, I have noticed, this is precisely what gets people stuck in grief: the feeling that there is no safe space and time to express grief. Companies tend to give very little accommodation for bereavement, if they give any at all. Culturally we're expected to get over losses in a matter of days. But grief rewires us, and some losses-- particularly losses like war, displacement, and police brutality where a state or institution does the same kind of harm repeatedly-- are complex and ongoing.

Grief impacts sleeping, eating, executive function. (I don't ask people in bereavement calls, "How are you doing?" I ask, "How are you sleeping?" "How's your appetite?" Maybe "Are there moments from your caregiving, or from your [loved one's] dying, that keep coming up for you?" Because of course you're not fine! You just lost someone essential to you. What I want to know is, is your body getting a chance to repair itself as your mind and heart process what you've experienced?)

People have talked to me after a loss about feeling exhausted and overwhelmed by daily life. It's not unlike recovering from a major injury and having a sizable portion of your bandwidth given over at all times to the tasks of bone, muscle, and nerve repair that are not under your conscious control. When tasks you're used to thinking of as having one part suddenly make it clear how complex they are? Cooking a meal takes more out of you. Doing a load of laundry takes more out of you. If you're already an introvert, the cost of social engagement goes up, at a time when social engagement might actually be very helpful.

Doing some of our grief work with other trusted people shares the load. It recovers some bandwidth. But many folks learn early in the grieving process that they have fewer trusted people than they thought. Or that it feels like the wrong time to deepen an acquaintanceship they'd hoped might become a friendship. Or that they aren't as comfortable asking loved ones for help as they thought they would be.

And the bereavement model I'm trained in assumes that a grieving person has experienced one recent loss. We know that a recent loss might poke us in the tender spots left by earlier losses. But that's still different from the experience of a tragedy that affects a whole community at once (as in an entire region's population losing multiple loved ones in a very short time and being forced to flee).

I don't really have a conclusion here, but I'm finding the activism that feels most healing and hope-filled to me has lament built into it: a chance to name the people who've died in our county's jail, while advocating for better communication with families of people inside. A chance to call out the names of people lost to covid while advocating for policies that will mitigate risk to vulnerable people.

Maybe it takes days to name all the people impacted by ongoing genocides in Congo, Palestine, Yemen, while urging our government to end its role in those genocides. Maybe our systems and structures, which aren't even good at honoring our grief for members of the nuclear family we're taught is our primary world, are disinclined to give us that time. Maybe we ought to take it anyway.

[analog-jester]

[spread-the-influence]

influencer: regular couple. yaoi couple. yuri couple. I see no difference. you should accept the influence

// Exactly //

[xskyll]

🌊🌊🌊

The other people in the town square be like 👀

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