dark souls 2 is good actually

(was vault-trash) | 28 | ready to retire Ig: @frenziedqueen

[cheseely]

i missed drawing him v_v

[halfwayriight]

[monsieurphantom]

Elden Ring (2022) | dev. FromSoftware

[memewhore]

[rocketbirdie]

w

[girlwhodoeskratom]

thinking of the sneaky little faggotses gollum picture

[girlwhodoeskratom]

[dddnnn000lll]

dark souls 2 toxic yaoi

[tifalogy-deactivated20250903]

FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE (2021) dev. Square Enix

[sunwingsunset]

GHOST OF TSUSHIMA ↳ Scenery

[eldritchbauble]

It's wild to me that people treat addiction like it's the addict's fault for having a weak character or something, and on the other side of it we have "addiction is a disease," which is an objectively better model of thinking but it's still treating addiction like it is in and of itself the problem.

Addiction isn't a disease, it's a treatment.

I'm not an addict because I came down sick with a hankering for substances, because they're fun. I was traumatized and then dropped into a society that makes survival extremely hostile. The substances are a pillow and blanket. They're a warm mug and being held tightly by a friend. They're an invitation to a seat by the fire when the storm is raging outside the doorstep.

Addicts aren't sick with addiction, we're sick with so much chronic stress and pain that we're crumbling under the weight. Many of us since we were children with no tools for coping.

It might not be healthy, it might not be safe, and in fact addiction is by definition destructive. But it's also an attempt to keep pressure on the wound. The addiction is treatment for sickness.

[eldritchbauble]

I'm not sorry for wanting to feel alive when everything around me feels like a dying world.

[eldritchbauble]

All of the major models of addiction ignore this. Not just the moral and disease models. Addiction is also not just physical dependency and it's not just drugs r fun and enjoyable. It's extremely annoying how every model in psych still ignores the whole "what if life sucks" thing when explaining "why" we become addicts.

And yes I've been thinking of my beloved experiment, rat park, this whole time.

What Does “Rat Park” Teach Us About Addiction?

How many of us, during clinical encounters with patients, focus on their families, their social communities, their sources of human contact

[transcyberism]

The self-medication hypothesis does address this, although unfortunately the lay population often misunderstands what is meant by the term "self-medication." It's actually a well-accepted theory among researchers, though clinicians as usual are often slow to adopt newer theories. Here's a good article about it:

The Theory of Self-Medication and Addiction

To understand and to feel understood is a powerful antidote to relieve human psychological suffering. Therein lies the heart of the self-med

[bluebeesknees]

To reduce my screen time, I have weaponised my overactive and entirely impractical levels of empathy for inanimate objects. Wym you’re picking it up again? While it was sleeping? You complete and utter monster, let it rest!!

And it works. It works like a CHARM. Silly problems require silly solutions!

[dogwoodbite]

[ID: a phone tucked in very cozy in a perfectly fitting wooden doll-size canopy bed with floral motifs. it has a little dishtowel as a blanket /End ID]

[opera-ghost]

[dailyskeletonreminders]

yeah sorry boss i can't come into work today, yes, ye- yeah. it's the pursuer again, yeah he appeared outside the front gate an- yeah, in a mass of black fog. and he tried to use cursed impale on me so i got back in my car and left

[echoesofasilvercrow]

Eleum Loyce Part three of drawing an area from each Dark Souls 2 dlc

[echoesofasilvercrow]

I have drawn yet another Dark Souls 2 area the Shrine of Amana. I genuinely think a lot of the places in this game look better than Elden Ring (some look a lot worse, but that's beside the point.) I really enjoy making art in this style, it's very relaxing compared to trying to make art of humanoid characters or dragons, since I can be a bit looser and less precise.

[itspapillonnoir]

DARK SOULS III — [ 6/? ]

[saintsylestine]

Lothric knight statue by Elliott Wells