infinite diversity in infinite combinations

brood ☆ early 1990's ☆ he/him/his ☆ system ☆ white, queer. autistic, multiply neurodiverse, & disabled ☆ broodwoof is my sideblog

[broodsys]

we're brood!

30+ | he/him | white | trans | queer | neurodivergent | disabled + a system! if you're under 18 please do not follow. i will block you. no hard feelings, but this is an adult-only space ao3 is bitterling (dragon age and more dragon age) @broodwoof (dragon age sideblog) @broodgames (other games sideblog) @broodblood (gore/guro sideblog) (vent sideblog by request)

this is a blog where i express myself. by that i mean i post/rb things about my interests, of course, but also that i actually talk in significant depth about my thoughts on various things

one of my core beliefs is in subjectivity. equally true to say one of my core beliefs is in the lack of objectivity. this influences everything for me

i do not post about current politics, but i do post about more general social justice / activism / leftism / etc.

this blog runs on a queue (no queue tag) and i deliberately re-queue stuff from myself when i feel strongly about it c:

i don't tag much, but am generally willing to add tags by request

#brood lore - about me tag #brood salt - salt/vague/vent tag #broodart - art tag #broodplants - gardening tag #broodessays - my random little 'essays', various subjects #insect / #insects & #bug / #bugs - what it says on the tin (#wasp / #wasps & #spider / #spiders get their own tags) if filtering, please filter both singular and plural tags for bugs/insects/etc. - i change them depending on if it's a single critter or multiple

[crazysodomite]

i support gore and torture but i draw the line at misogyny

[kn0wmore]

[brightlotusmoon]

[the-uss-premise]

Console buttons from Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-69)

[theterribletenno]

[broodsys]

sighsss

hate it when a good blog does a lot of the reblogging-people-i-disagree-with stuff. like okay. glad you disagree. maybe nobody actually needed to see some of the most heinous transphobic takes just so you could debunk it. maybe that's not particularly useful 💀

[thekidsfromyestergay]

Tumblr 2015: omsqueeeeee *ovaries exploding*

Tumblr 2025: OUGHHH MY PENITS EXPLODED

[ashbelero]

On account of the gender transition

[transhuman-priestess]

On account of the gender transition

[hattiecattie]

Bisexual pride cat has graced your dash

[bxrntcheesecat]

Some recent calico studies :p

[odettecarotte]

In the face of abuse and neglect, especially at the hands of those they love, children need enough psychological distance from what is happening to avoid being overwhelmed and survive psychologically intact.

Preserving some modicum of self-esteem, attachment to family, and hope for the future requires victims to disconnect from what has happened, doubt or disremember their experience, and disown the "bad [victim] child" to whom it happened as "not me." By holding out some sense of themselves as "good" disconnected from how they have been exploited, abused children capitalize on the human brain's innate capacity to split or compartmentalize. That "good child" might be precociously mature, sweet and helpful, perfectionistic, self-critical, or quiet and shy, but, most importantly, he or she has a way to be acceptable and safer in an unsafe world.

Splitting or fragmenting in this way is an ingenious and adaptive survival strategy-but one with a steep price. To ensure that the rejected "not me" child is kept out of the way (i.e., out of consciousness) requires that, long after the traumatic events are over, individuals must continue to rely on dissociation, denial, and/or self-hatred for enforcing the disconnection. In the end, they have survived the failure of safety, the abuse, and betrayal at the cost of disowning their most vulnerable and most wounded selves. Aware that their self-presentation and ability to function is only one piece of who they really are, they now feel fraudulent. Struggling to stay away from the "bad" side and identify with the good side, they have a felt sense of "faking it," "pretending," or of being what others want them to be.

—Janina Fisher, Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation

[guilhernunes]

floral perfume

prints to north america: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/guilhernunes/floral-perfume/

t-shirts, prints and much more to north america, europe and oceania: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/159725331

[smileyobrien]

paprikash 🤌

for @purplespacekitty :)

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

chinese mantou (steamd bread) be like

[shapeshiftinterest]

/crying/

i am so desperate and scared and confused by this wizardry

it’s amazing but it’s also like

wtf bro

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#i wanted to find the patrick stewart meme to make say 'culinary arts' instead of 'acting'#but you wouldn't believe how unproducive the search 'patrick stewart acting' is

[everyday-cutephoto]

[broodsys]

wikihow to not assume every post is Secretly About You

me reading a post about something i don't even do: oh.... 😔 i'm terrible.... 😔

(like i KNOW it's wrong but there's still that immediate reaction and it is So Annoying. pls. i want to turn it off. not everything is about me!!!! in fact proportionately very few things are!!!!)

[broodsys]

tbh, british english doesn't usually throw me off, but. capsule... capshul... that gave me a 'wait really' moment

[broodsys]

I look in notes

I find ppl to block

[importantpics]