#it will always hurt

[ylvglo-may-writer]

Katsuki has known since he was five years old that his body would one day betray him.

This is a continuation of the omegaverse story from chapter 2 of the collection. This time focusing on Katsuki and his looming presentation.

Do note though that this was written years ago (2017-2019), and though it ends at a decent spot, it was meant to be longer. Not sure why I chose now to post it, but here it is.

Warnings: Katsuki suffers from dysphoria related to his omega dynamic, there's a mild panic attack, sexism (Mineta), and a threat of castration.

Chapter Tags: Archive Warnings: None Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki & Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki & Kirishima Eijirou Characters:Bakugou Katsuki, Midoriya Izuku, Kirishima Eijirou, Ashido Mina, Kaminari Denki, Sero Hanta, Mineta Minorou, Uraraka Ochaco, Iida Tenya Aditional Tags: a/b/o, Omega Verse, Omega Izuku, Omega Katsuki, Dysphoria, Mineta Minorou Exists, Sexism, Midoriya Hisashi's A+ Parenting

[purplefeathersandblackleather]

Digital Art Logs/Community Picture

Well, there was intentions to draw Stephen a picture for his birthday, but my tablet drivers have decided to betray me, no matter what I do. The worst part of this is that I don't really know how to fix the issue, given that I've never had it come up that many times in a row. I had intentions of also starting on the other variants' sketches tonight as well, but with no solution that I've found in how to fix the driver, I'm feeling that it may be a bug that occurred when it updated earlier this week. I could still use it, but the fact that the pressure sensitivity would be absent makes the lines and edges of what I'm working on look like shit. I don't want to make my work look sloppy when I'm doing it for all of you as much as I am myself. Plus the children themselves wouldn't give me any peace if I did.

The best that I can do is say that I have poses for Sinister, Dark Suns and What If lined up. But I also have a bit of a request from all of you if you'd be willing to help me with something. I'd like to work on a picture myself of Damon moving on from Tony's death. But I would like all of you to contribute something to it, because I have only begun to heal since I joined this community and found my footing. There were struggles on the way, but I feel confident in the fact that I can only go up from here. I want this image to not just be a symbol of the healing I am going through, but a testament of the friendships I've made here.

Below I made a list for all of you that I've tagged. If you have multiple suggestions, I'll do my best to incorporate them, so don't hesitate to give me whatever comes to mind. Aesthetic (Such as warm lighting, pastels, sepia tone, etc) Colors (Nothing too dark, since this is about recovering and moving on) Flowers (Keep in mind that flowers have meaning, so be wary of the ones you choose for me to draw in here~) Environment (Weather, location, etc) Literary Line (Quote, poem or lyrics) Secondary characters (OC or a canon character, but they will be in the background a fair bit.)

@strangelockd @fanartka @sinisterstrange616 @sobeautifullyobsessed @harlekin6 @strangelock221b @icytrickster17 @the-eldritch-sorcerer All of you have helped me so much, I can't imagine not including you all in this picture, or something to remind me of you at least. I look forward to hearing what all of you choose. Also remember that you're each more than welcome to pick more than one thing and I will do my best to incorporate it cohesively. Much love my dears! 💜💜

[silverspleen]

Every time I see that G--gle phone photoshop commercial my heart is filled with infinite sadness, like, yeah it's cool you can have a good family photo, it's cool you can do that, but god, there is something to be said for the honesty of a family photo where you're blinking, or crying, or have ugly wrinkles.

What is too unsightly for you? Would you swipe-click-replace out the image of my cousin crying on our Florida trip family reunion photo? Would you remove the plastic snake I have clenched in my grip, which I still have to this day? Would you scoff at the wrinkles around our eyes and the strands of hair on our faces as we squint into the wind, the day before the massive storm? Would I remember it if I didn't have these reminders, if the picture was perfect and clean, all children in a row with perfect gleaming white tombstone tooth smiles? No tears. No plastic snake.

Everyone is beautiful and no one looks genuine.

[son1c]

there's no temptress quite as irresistible as the mid afternoon sleepies

[ruporas]

your love returns in tragedy (ID in alt)

[andthebeanstalk]

Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".

Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"

And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".

Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.

At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.

So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!

Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!

Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!

Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.

[strangestcase]

becoming a furry nonhuman otherkin objectum genderweird relationship anarchy freak has made me immune to weird conservative whatifs. "what if people want to identify as animals" let them "what if people want to marry furniture" let them "what if-" is it hurting YOU? personally? or are you just so joyless that you can't conceive a living thinking person that isn't as repressed and deprived of whimsy as you

EDIT: Incest and pedophilia (including simulated pedophilia) don’t count because they do hurt people. I can’t believe I have to say this but things that hurt people aren’t part of the list of things that are weird but don’t hurt people.

[mindonmymoneyandmoneyonmymind]

@demolisherspork on tiktok soo talented

[detectivechen]

[captainkirkk]

I want to see characters being taken care of in an explicit and worshipful way. Home-cooked meals. Hair brushed and braided by gentle hands. Little gifts just because.

I want to read about characters who are not used to kindness being bombarded by acts of service. This trope works romantically and platonically. Give me found family and acts of service - all the ways a character is wrapped up in wordless, explicit care after years of cruelty and having no idea how to handle. I need it.

[iphigeniacomplex]

it’s very easy to tell the good satires and pastiches from the bad ones because the bad ones are too afraid to live within the form. like if you are doing work with fairy tales and you are refusing to look closer at the underlying logic and unspoken rules of what can seem at first to be a senseless form, you are not going to create meaningful work. to borrow a turn of phrase originally used by maria tatar, if you refuse to enter “the house of fairy tale” as anything more than a gawking tourist, you will miss the particular order to the way the table is set, the rooms that are locked vs the rooms that are simply difficult to enter, the set of the floorboards and the position of the furniture. whatever you build will then be a gilded imitation of how you believe the house of fairy tale ought to look, the table set according to your educated specifications and every door open. there can be no interrogation of themes from a writer who views the form as beneath them!

[tubbytarchia]

Missed drawing these two too

Bonuses

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Laios's three Boy Best Friends. And yes, they hate him.

[sepulchritude]

Sometimes tummy hurt and that means you should eat food to appease it. Other times tummy hurt and you should not eat food, lest the agonies increase tenfold. This is one of life’s many difficulties

[sentient-forest]

#cecilsweep and Welcome to Night Vale trending #1 in 2023

[featheredadora]