if i had supernatural powers and was constantly literally getting beat up id simply fight back. mf would literally be in shock if he got knocked in the face with one solid ass punch. rip to danny but im different
I'm ngl Brittany broski and Sarah schauer ending their podcast suddenly a few days before my birthday is giving me trust issues fr....Can't have shit in Detroit
I feel like I had psychosis ( or something similar ) as a child
I had hallucinations
EXAMPLES:
I watched the pictures on the back of a vhs tape thingy (( the case that holds it )) change into different pictures and they stayed that way
When I threw down a bug catching-container ( the ones that have the magnifying glass in it so you could see what you caught better ), the butterfly inside suddenly had giant eyeballs and kept looking around wildly at everything ( don’t ask me why I threw it don’t, I was a fucking dickhead and I was pissed off about something ). Ofc I got freaked out about it ( like the scared spineless bitch I was/still am )
I accidentally disturbed a wasps’ nest which was hidden in one of those stick-animal thingy’s that my grandma had out in her garden. A wasp came out, suddenly had a cartoony-like mouth, and bit the shit out of my finger
One that happened often was there was a bear rug in my room ( along with a rabbit and turtle one I believe ) and I always got woke up at night by him. One time he was behind my TV stand growling and staring at me with big/beady red eyes. Another time was where I threw a ball at him and it landed on his head, he woke up and looked around and asked “ Who threw that?? “. There have been other times too, but I can’t exactly remember what happened. All I knew was that he’d “ come to life “ so I’d grab my blanket and toss it over me before I’d run into my moms room to sleep with her
And I’m pretty sure I had voices in my head as a young child too! Because why the fuck not right, me/universe/creators/observers????
Why not create some stupid fuck like me that’s just a giant fucking burden from the beginning, who’d end up fucking every bodies lives over INCLUDING my own???
Because why not right??? Or something or nothing or whatever???
Cuz “ fUn “ and “ ExpErIEnce “ and whatnot???
Because we were too fucking bored or whatever so we just “ hAd “ to exist… or something. Because * things *
If you’re in the cult, there is nothing bizarre abt what’s happening and in fact the normal stuff that happens outside of it is what’s bizarre to you. Target? Weird. McDonald’s? Even weirder. I can like guarantee Jean and Kevin never had McDonald’s until they left the Nest.
When you leave, you’re gonna be paranoid as fuck. All the time. Ngl at least for weeks but sometimes for years. Nightmares and insomnia 24/7. Hallucinations too lmao Riko is in every corner of empty rooms and you can hear his voice echo in the confines of the lockers.
I see a lot of Jean wanting to go back to the Nest, but not a lot of Kevin wanting to go back. He definitely struggled, 100%. In fact when he was in the pits of agony from his broken hand, was when he probably wanted to go back the most. Cult is home, cult is safe. Four walls you’ve always known and while it’s a cage at least it’s dependable. They hurt you but by god it always works out and the reward of pushing through this tragic incident is greater than the terror it caused in the first place. It’s a gift, actually. A gift from Riko. He saved Kevin. Cults save you. Cults make you wanna return to them like damn homing pigeons bruh. Give me more shattered hand Kevin screaming at Wymack to let him go back home and having a breakdown when he’s denied fics thanks
Piggybacking off the last one: cults are saviors; you’re nothing without them and they make sure you truly believe that; that everything that is done to you is for you and you’re blessed for it to be happening. You’re lucky even, to be allowed in it. Everything is as it’s supposed to be and order must never be challenged, because it works, and you’re the Edgar Allan Ravens, and this is the most honorable place you could be. All the pain you go through is you earning the right to be saved and to prove your worth every day on court. Only the worthy are honored.
You justify everything that happened and you will start fights and get angry with people who try to correct you and tell you it was wrong what went on.
On the other hand, you blame yourself for everything ever that happened there whether you were at fault or not. Hurting others, hurting yourself, gaslighting the fuck out of yourself over things maybe you could’ve prevented and over things you never could’ve stopped. The guilt is crippling and it eats you alive and haunts you.
There’s a lot of shame too. I see more guilt written than shame but shame is a huge portion of emotions that cult survivors have. Shits embarassing dude like “god how did I end up thinking this wack ass shit was normal” 😐 Shame comes later in the healing process usually, it’s after you have come to terms with shit that’s happened and you understand it. Looking back, you go “Jesus fucking Christ that was a red flag what the hell. Should’ve left then, or then, or then, or then” and then you’re just plain fuckin embarrassed.
Please look up how hive minds and brainwashing are created and work; also Stockholm Syndrome; understanding these would be incredibly helpful tbfh.
Diets are big; everyone eats the same thing; food is used as a reward and a punishment.
Hype hype hype. They whip up a frenzy of one singular emotion and use that to push you into a blind hysteria because you’re more suspectible to their influence when you’re out of your mind.
Drugs. Depends on the cult. But yeah these little bitches can be a huge factor for shit and can help with the brainwashing and hysteria and stockholm. Sometimes you don’t even know you’re being drugged or poisoned until you leave.
OH I ALMOST FORGOT. Dehumanization and then being treated like a person again can be traumatic as fuck yall!! Holy shit! Sometimes it feels worse than being dehumanized!
EDIT AGAIN: you don’t know what mental illness is !! Cults don’t fucking tell you these things lmao. if you show symptoms it’s your fault. Kevin being depressed his mom died was gonna get blamed on him and he was never going to be told grief is normal and it’s okay to be insanely sad. Jean also never got told his anger was correct or his trauma responses to being raped were realistic! They just got blamed for any reactions ever that weren’t neurotypical !! that is all; do with that what you will.
Idk if I think of anything else I’ll write another one but that’s all for now; I haven’t slept much lmao 🫡
The Lazarus Pit as a concept has been rewritten a million times. I don't mean "they rewrote it so it never does exactly the same thing, which is to bring people back like Lazarus," but a "Every time Jason Todd gets a different writer, the Pit does something different to him." And I'm serious about this. Initially it brought him back and the comics were all "He didn't come back right! He heals faster! He moves faster! He is Big now when before he was doomed to be Small from malnutrition! He is very Angry and full of Manslaughter." But then it was like later in that same comic run "Batman slits his throat with a Batarang and It Seems Like he Dies. But then he shows back up!" Is... Is it implying he healed from a fatal slice because he was fresh from the Pit, or is it that Jason's just liable to coming back from Death? And heck, they tried to explain away his unexplained resurrection with "Superboy Super Punch Time Stream Fuckery" but that always felt very contrite? And God, DO NOT GET ME STARTED ON THE VIDEO GAMES. When did the Pit give him magical powers? Are you telling me my guy's a magical girl zombie now? (Which is kinda iconic but also very abruptly declared. Gotham Knights is a game...) WHAT ABOUT THE ALL-CASTE? Bruh by their definition my guy Jason is their Holy Man Chosen One Who Will Bring Great Change.
... Anyway the Lazarus Pit is weird to me. Why is it called that? Isn't Ra's Al Ghul not Christian at all? Why would he name a magic pit he found roughly 600 years ago (or more, depending on who is writing Ra's Al Ghul) after Lazarus when he could care less about religion? And has his own assassin cult???
Oh and it is actually inhabited by demons. This is canon. He sacrificed his mom or some shit to be the host of the Demon at one point. And apparently Damian can be possessed by that Demon? It's all kinda confusing.
This may sound cliche and perhaps maybe I’m the wrong fucking person to even say this. But as adult in his early 30s, I���m jealous of you guys that are in relationships and if you are in one cherish oddee. Yes it is cool running around being single do whatever you want but majority of the time shit gets hella wack when you wake up solo by yourself. I find it a beautiful feeling after coming home from a long day of work, you come home to your wife and kids. So if you have that in your life, you the man bruh 💯
can anybody recommend some youtube channels that cover the same kinda topics as shadiversity but aren't run by insane alt-right weirdos? like bruh i can go listen to some deranged idiot ranting about how The Woke Agenda is turning precious innocent white children transgender on a random street corner downtown, where the fuck am i supposed to go to hear somebody talk about polearms and castle design? get that wack politics shit outta here
accidentally woke up with a side part for the first time since like 2009 lmao. having an identity crisis.
ramblings:
according to my doctor's records I've lost 15 pounds over the last year or so. gratifying to see tangible evidence because I've been responding well to drug therapy which allows me to be more active than i was... basically ever. hoping i can keep building strength and avoid the wheelchair scenario most people with my disorder face eventually.
doctor also said gene therapy is looking more promising which is CRAZY. i could actually never have to worry about it again. eat whatever i want, do whatever i want, not worry about insurance paying gazillions for medication all the time. have marathon sex... haha jk. unless...
also cara mia floated the idea of going to the east coast for a trip sometime, which would involve seeing Boston, Walden Pond, AND the X files museum just for me <3<3<3<3 just gotta make sure our car isn't too shitty to get us there lel
my brother is getting married in may which means a four hour drive to the venue and my newly divorced mom potentially bringing her online bf as a bad surprise. my dad will be performing the fundamentalist self-flaying the whole time, wondering how he sinned to be punished this way. this will be fun.
however i am glad my new SIL has a way to gtfo, even if it's via marriage into my wack ass family, because her parents do shit like track her phone while she's at college or at work, or call her a whore for wearing leggings. bruh.
I'm in the stage of forming friendships with several people where i feel like every other thing i say is extremely cringe. i hang out with this group on a fairly regular basis and they're all at least 10 years older than me, which is nbd i love making friends with older people, but they just always seem so much cooler than me and i have no idea how to read social cues lmao. there's this kick-ass lesbian couple, one woman is an English teacher who writes and performs poetry, the other is a musician and skater and software dev; then there's my yoga instructor who studied musicology and djs, and her friend who's an artist, plus her husband who is also a musician and dj and software developer, and his friend who's an artist, and another woman who bakes like she's fucking mary berry, and all of them are so funny and smart and cool. i know i have a lot to offer talent and personality-wise but good lord i feel like a single Christmas light in a room full of lighthouses. hey --they're still hanging out with me though lol
when my voice and stamina return to me I'm providing vocals on a track my husband composed. very excited :)))
If you ever see 4 Town in pillow fight this is how it mainly goes down 😀
Robaire
For Ro he is quite the fighter! This man is doing his best to hit the others; however, he somehow always ends up tripping over something and falling which gives the members an advantage point to pound him with pillows. He almost almost never misses when it comes to hitting T! Like his aim is impeccable when it comes to T, but it truly irks him when it comes to Z and sometimes Tae but mainly Z! He can never hit that man at all. *sneaks up behind Z and is ready to swing as he thinks “FINALLY”*. *Z quickly turns around and wacks Ro in the face smiling*. “Bruh!!! how the Hell!!?!” Ro and Jess teams up a lot, which scares T when they corner him “hey wait, y’all chill *backing up* NO AHHSNF”
This Is Ro’s face when his attacks on Z doesn’t work
Jesse
When it comes to a pillow fight “old man jesse” is out the door! This man is on a mission! He will hover over someone and beat the shit out of them with the pillow until they tap out! He literally jumped on Tae and said “Hereeess JESSE 😈” It happened to everybody except Z. There is only two people that can truly can get Tae more than once and one of those people is Jesse. Tae might be fast, but Jesse can be a little bit faster surprisingly. Now when it comes to getting hit then old man Jesse is back. He’ll be on a roll when he’s fighting but once he’s hit, he loses it and he gets pounded!  I’m talking on the floor trying to crawl away😂 but he’s pretty good at recovery.
When he is done pounding someone with his pillow he’ll do his signature move by blowing as kiss just to piss whoever off
Aaron T
No, I know It seems like he would be really good in a pillow fight and he can be! Believe me, he’s good when he is in control but he’s also very goofy as we all know, so therefore, he’s not that good😭 he has his moments where he is whacking people left from right but he’s also kind of similar to Jesse so once he gets hit he’s kind of out of it however it’s worst for T because he’ll be laughing too much that he can’t focus to get back up and fight his battles and he’s the main person that gets hit in the face. *giggling and shit while aimlessly swinging hitting no one because he is getting hit by Z and Ro*He’s great at hiding though, so he can make a great sneak attack which gets him some brownie points but for obvious reasons because he is silly, it doesn’t last long. Another though he will use parkour to his advantage! Hell be jumping over couches and tables and shit, he even will roll😂
Remember when I said Jess and Ro will team up? Yeah this is T’s face when that happens😭 it’s also his face when Tae betrays him
Aaron Z
From the hints, I was throwing you already know this man goes untouched! Nobody not even Tae or Jesse  had a chance to hit Z he is too fast!  Not only is he great at dodging other peoples hits, but this man never misses! He is the second person that can get Tae with no problems. I know it seems like he wouldn’t play games like this, but he does and he will take it serious. He wants to win! he is like a ninja. He pulls out so many tricks that leaves the members jaw dropped which gives Z another chance to attack while they’re distracted🥷🏾
Z is the one in the red shoes and the others is the one in the sweatshirt 😂
Taeyoung
He is another ninja, but not as slick as Z! But he will do math and shit in his head to attack 😭 he’ll be like “okay with the way Ro is standing he’ll swing with his right arm, so I’ll lean back to dodge it but swing my right arm at the same time to hit him in the head” he will do all that he can to not get hit, he will crawl under tables and legs so he can attack from behind! Just like Ro, Tae is upset that he can’t ever get Z but mainly because he himself is the king of pillow fights so it pisses him off😂 He is quite the trickster so he will tell T he wants to team up but back stab him 🤣 “I- AH- I thought we frie-AHH”
When Z or Jesse comes after Tae, this is the face he makes
I came up with this idea out of thin air so please enjoy😂😂 (the video I put for z is taking me out🤣)