Fear and Control

The Antithesis of the former self

[pendragon-fruit]

a foe turned friend

prints

lucien ver.

[etheringtonbrothers]

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[feeplings]

zutara month this year was amazing 💜 reblogs are appreciated! part 2 here

here's a quick drawing to say goodbye! wish i could've participated more tbh, but the art won't stop here :>

thank you for the support on my art, it really keeps me motivated amidst the lil hate here and there! :')

BONUS:

sokka's dump account bec the gaang's late to the party

[laizy-boy04-deactivated20220501]

Go Team Trese!

[stuffman]

People have written a lot of touchy-feely pieces on this subject but I thought I’d get right to the heart of the matter

[sqbr]

[The artist, putting a simple cake next to a much fancier one: “Aw man, that guy’s cake is way better than mine.” The Audience, gleefully holding up a knife and fork “HOLY SHIT! TWO CAKES!”]

[elvencantation]

additions from the og artist (credit)

[ottermatopoeia]

remember: your feelings of inadequacy are often projection and not reality

[keke-i]

[ancientoptimism-deactivated2023]

Simple yet dramatic DA things to do🏹☕️

Sit down in the shower. Tip your head back and pay attention to each drop of water that lands on your face. Listen to nothing but the noises that the water makes as it misses your body and hits the base.

Sit by an open window late at night and feel like cool breeze brush past your face. See how it helps forget your problems for a brief second?

Lay down on your floor and place your legs up against the nearest wall or wardrobe. Play song songs through headphones as you stare into the abyss of your ceiling. Cry if you need to.

Listen to a heavy bass song on an old speaker whilst in the bath. Turn off the lights and submerge your head underneath. For a couple of seconds realise how nothing else matters apart from that bass that swims through the water. Take a very dramatic deep breath when you raise your head from beneath the water.

Write down your feelings and deep secreted emotions on a piece of paper. Screw up the paper and throw it into a lot fireplace. Watch as the paper blackens and how your thoughts are lost within the blaze.

Drink fruit juice out of a wine glass. Swill the juice around the glass whilst you turn the pages of an old book. Read a dramatic line of a book and react loudly before taking a sip from the glass.

Using stacks of books and cushions to reach something on a high shelf. Stretching onto your toes to try and grab whatever is just out of reach.

[beshinoe]

[doriantomybasil]

my friend and i are both not morning people so we buy each other energy drinks every morning to stay awake. i’m really self conscious about my singing but my friend loves it so every now and then a send her voice messages of me singing. my friend and i both love oranges and orange juice so if one of us has some we share it. my friends know how i like my coffee and sometimes they buy me when they go to a café and i do the same for them. i’m not very good at statistics so my friend always helps me with homework, and i always help them with english or whatever they need help with. love is in the little things

[seasonal-brotp-prompts]

it's pretty normal for me to be platonically pining (tm) for someone like at least once every few weeks, but occasionally it's even worse when I Yearn for Many.

I'm overwhelmed. I wish to be far from wherever I am, not necessarily in any fancy place but just a different coffee shop or someone else's city apartment or an art gallery I don't care about but other people are enjoying. I wish to be surrounded by the friends, the ones that reside in my heart, the many. I wish to be held or holding onto, perhaps even doing my own activity, while someone else cooks. or I can be the one cooking. I don't care; my heart just suddenly yells so loudly and it's overwhelming and I need to hold many people at once. I don't want it forever, I just want it for a moment or a day, so it will settle back down and I can feel content again.

[seasonal-brotp-prompts]

you ever just like... really appreciate someone in a professional sense? like, my mom's got a "best teacher friend" who she only hangs out with on occasion, but at work they ALWAYS want to be partnered together because their teaching styles mesh so well. there's one girl in particular who I met as a casual friend, but the first time we worked on a project together I was like Oh, I'm Keeping You. this week in school we learned about business partnerships and how long-term partnerships can be compared to marriage as far as legal ramifications are concerned if one party breaches their "duty of good faith" to the other.

idk I just think that's pretty neat!

[ancientoptimism-deactivated2023]

Platonic love🧸🫐

Staying up late to laugh about stories and past adventures, grabbing each other’s hands before running across the road, little inside jokes, weird greetings, name calling without hurting each other, getting excited over each other’s opportunities, telling each other how much you hate each other as a form of love, reciting film quotes in mid conversation, understanding boundaries, knowing how to comfort each other, making stupid jokes to cheer them up, late night drives, matching jewellery, funny faces in photo frames, trust, long hugs, hair ruffling during move night.

[seasonal-brotp-prompts]

as a confused alloaro it took me a LONG time to sort through the differences between these three things, so I’m making this post for anyone who feels like I did

touchstarvation (I’ve also seen it called “skin hunger”) is the desire for human touch. it is not sexual or even inherently romantic or platonic in nature. if you correlate it with any love at all I think it’d have to be general love for humankind. it is felt all over the body (not localized to any one area) and is the one that causes ASMR-like shudders just by accidentally brushing hands with a stranger. human contact with anyone will help cure the issue. I recommend going out and getting your hair done or a professional massage (with a masseuse, not a chair). petting animals can help alleviate the feeling somewhat but ultimately you will want human touch.

emotional longing can be easily confused with touchstarvation for a few reasons, and I usually like to throw both in my fics because it’s a fun combination, but they aren’t a package deal. you can long for emotional intimacy without any sort of touch, but a whole lot of humans have physical affection as a love language, or even if they normally don’t, they’ll seek it out when grieving. it is felt in the chest (you know how we say you feel emotions from the “heart” even though that’s not true? I assume this is why) and manifests as a tightness or throbbing. a kind stranger can temporarily help but it’ll probably worsen the longing in the long run; what you really need is a loved one like a close friend to hold you for a while. you don’t need a hug to pull your bodies closer together, you need a hug to pull your souls closer together, and your bodies happen to be in the way.

being horny on main (yeah I’m gonna meme to get through this part) is not the type of thing I usually talk about on this blog, but as an alloaro who sees a lot of aces worried/confused about “what am I feeling,” I’m gonna go ahead and talk about it. it is not inherently linked to romantic or platonic love (although I know that for some, it can be) and is very distracting and annoying. it can be a bit similar to the chest throbbing except that it is most definitely localized to the parts of the body you’d expect (mostly the Lower Regions ™) and also won’t rly be fixed by the remedies for the other two, just like how looking at hot anime girls won’t make you any less lonely. it can be aimed at a person or people, but for the most part (again, I know demisexuals exist), this doesn’t have anything to do with who those people are, just how they look.

there is ofc other stuff like aesthetic appreciation (which is pointing at someone and going “pretty! :D” like you would with a colorful bird), but the three I listed are the ones that it took me years to sort through

[love-me-a-good-prompt]

INTIMATE IDEAS

Sex isn’t the only form of intimacy. Try writing your characters into these intimate scenarios:

Person A placing their hand on Person B’s forehead to check if they have a fever

Person A scratching an itch that Person B can’t reach

Person A wiping away Person B’s tears

Person A rubbing Person B’s stomach when they have a stomachache

Person A giving Person B a foot/hand/neck/back massage

Person A drying off Person B after they’ve had a shower or come in from the rain

Person A gently blowing into Person B’s eye to help them get something out of it

Person A lightly brushing Person B’s hair out of their eyes

Person A whispering into Person B’s ear

Person A and Person B having a deep and vulnerable conversation

[yuhxns]

A: Can you-

B : Can I what?

A: Can you-

B: What? Can I do what?

A: Nothing.

B: OH, SO YOU THINK I CAN’T DO NOTHING? I’LL SHOW YOU.

[snorlaxatives]

What do you think of girls with glasses??

i’m glad they can see

[misscrazyfangirl321]

You’ve heard of “Fake Dating.” Now get ready for

Fake Family

1. “This guy is being a creep and won’t leave me alone. Will you pretend to be my overprotective older brother for five minutes?”

2. “The nurse said only family was allowed back here, so I told her we were siblings. Just go along with it.”

3. “That person asked if I was your S/O. I’m sick of people not believing when I say we’re friends, so I said we were siblings.”

4. “I’m your bodyguard, but the event you’re going to does not allow bodyguards, so I’m now your sibling.”

5. “I was on a date, and the person made me uncomfortable, so I told them my parent was a cop. Only problem: My parents are dead, and you’re the only cop I know. Help?”

6. “We have a very elaborate story of how we’re related that we tell everyone when they meet us. No one has any idea that it isn’t true.” 

7. “I told someone we were siblings, but we look nothing alike, so you said I was adopted. Now they want to have dinner with my family… Are your parents good at lying?”

8. “We always joke that we’re siblings, but someone didn’t realize we were joking, so now we’re seeing how far we can carry this out.”

9. “Our organization is extremely covert, but your friends have caught me at your place a few times picking you up. I just found out that you’ve been telling them I’m your hysterical aunt who calls you every time she has a new heartbreak. Really? You couldn’t come up with a less embarrassing cover?” 

10. “Look, I love you, too, but if you keep telling people you’re my grandchild, I’m going to scream. I’m not that old, you know?”