im absolutely terrible with encountering babies in the wild. if i see a crying baby next to me on the bus or something i’ll just stare at them in distress until they stop crying. why are you yelling at me, little guy? i’ve got absolutely nothing to offer you.

There are legit folklore creatures that mimic baby cries to lure you close enough to eat. Staying the hell away is just good sense.

A New Day a New Adventure

protect-and-love-animals:

shipping-isnt-morality:

sourcing for my own reference:

“Fic is a bad way of coping with trauma!”

“People who write fic related to their trauma are re-traumatizing themselves”

“Victims would never write things that sexualize their abuse!”

Expressive writing about traumatic events – including graphic, honest descriptions of physical responses – is shown to improve mood, help with post-traumatic growth, and decrease cortisol response in those with PTSD.

Sharing this writing, even with anonymous others online, can be a significant part of obtaining closure and can also assist with recovery. It’s worth noting that while most research was on journaling, some of the writing in this experiment was hypothetical or fictional.

For those with triggers, exposure to hypothetical or imagined situations can help them get control of those. This can be important for those whose triggers are too severe to discuss their own trauma, or are interfering with their everyday life.

Let’s clear something up here: over half of women have had a rape fantasy. Around 15% have them regularly. They’re more common among survivors of rape or other sexual trauma and they are not considered maladaptive or harmful so long as they’re not adding to the victim’s distress. (And if they are, most sex therapists will try to treat the distress, not the fantasy.)

None of which is to say that survivors should have these reactions. Or that they shouldn’t. There is no universal treatment for abuse, trauma, or PTSD. Every person is unique and what would be horrifying and destructive for one is empowering and healing for another. This is natural.

I just wanted something empirical to link to when people start yelling about how somehow victims who are voluntarily writing fictions related to their trauma (including fantasies!), a thing that victims have been doing for centuries, is somehow suddenly bad and maladaptive. It’s not. Victims don’t always act the way you want them to; that doesn’t mean they’re doing anything wrong.

smarmyanarchist:

all adults have a responsibility toward the safety+well-being of all children they’re around, irl and online. i can’t believe this #hot take is controversial like. at all

ALL adults are NOT responsible for ALL children. You get taught about Stranger Danger and Not Taking Candy for a reason. Most people are not out to harm you, but they’re not here to look out for you either. That’s something you have to learn to do for yourself.

nattromanoff:

And the eternal myth.

My most sincere, Thank you very much!

haedonistic:

antis-delete-your-blogs-pls-thx:

blooming-wilting:

full-course-identity:

ladymioka:

lethal-cuddles:

your-gingerpsycho:

Ship Appreciation Post. Add your problematic ship! (All are welcome)

Bellamione

The Squip/Jeremy Heere (… but I don’t envision them looking like that, tbh)

Not shown: Rich/his Squip (actually consensual, until Jeremy’s squip ruins everything); Michael/Mr. Heere; Jeremy/Mr. Heere; Jeremy/Mrs. Heere; Rich/his brother (who is Awful); Rich and/or Michael/Jeremy’s Squip (more of the Squip being a monster); Rich’s Squip/Jeremy’s Squip (monster part 2)…

And so many more, honestly.

… And that’s JUST Be More Chill.

Skywalkercest (Luke x Leia)

Lannistercest (Jaime x Cersei)

Shendak (Shiro x Sendak)

Was just reading your ‘fun times at the morgue’ tag – I remember pathology_doc on ffr!! He was cranky but amusing IMO.

I could just never figure out why he was there. He didn’t seem to write fic. He probably read some but he had no attachment to any particular fandom that I can recall. It was like he just found a joint where his brand of sarcasm went over ok, so he stuck around.

copperbadge:

I kept wondering if I should post this but fuck it, I’ve read enough about him to know Stan would have loved it.

The story goes that there was a magazine that wanted to do a story about Marvel Comics, and the reporter showed up with a photographer to shoot some images to use in the article. Someone cracked a joke about doing nude photos, and one of the other artists couldn’t even finish jokingly refusing before Stan Lee was taking his pants off.

He was very saddened that Marvel put the kibosh on the magazine using this photo of him naked with a giant-sized Batman Vs. Hulk comic preserving his dignity. I like to think this is how he’d like to be remembered. Especially the sunglasses.

Stan Lee was a marketing genius, a showman, a storyteller, he was flashy and he made a lot of really…strange business decisions, he made one VERY strange musical album, and he worked for Marvel Comics in one incarnation or another for over seventy-five years. He held some opinions I wouldn’t agree with, but he did a lot of good, too.

He never thought of comics as respectable but he did think of them as important and that’s how I think of him: a flashy weirdo, but an important flashy weirdo.

He chose Stan Lee as an alter ego, like many of his creations. He was saving his name, Stanley Lieber, for the career as a novelist he never quite got around to having, and in the end he said he was proud of Stan Lee.

May your name be a blessing, Stan.

umikochannart:

Rest in peace Stan Lee.

You’ll be missed, thank you for everything.

ardwynna:

ardwynna:

Please let today’s case be better than that brain-breaking demon thing.

Well…

We had the medical students with us today to bear witness, and I, never missing an opportunity to be the absolute asshole I know myself to be, was all…

Only two takers, no fainters. Some retching in the back row but nobody hurled. A promising lot.