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🎐☁️✦｡･ dreaming in color ✧ art: true north ༉‧₊˚

[cattoonxd]

Never give up without a fight

[pochiikou]

[very-small-giant]

what if we skated infinitely 🍃🌸

[nocturn-alpaca]

"are they lovers?"

worse. it's a sports anime

[questionartbox]

An old set of Joe and Cherry sketches! 🍵🌸 art tumblr | art twt | everything-twt

[arxistarts]

Hey, pass me that sports anime with the autistic-coded blue one and their fiery, redheaded partner. what do you mean ‘which one’

[h4naji]

i'll always wake up so confused, each time i have that dream of you...

[katsurolle]

seaside encounter 🐬🫧

[adriabun]

just made some bulllllshiiiiitttt

[no-129]

『頼むぞ、我が盾！』

『無論た、我が王よ！』

[callileon]

I've missed seeing your dimilix art! I love looking back at your fanart of them it's like my comfort art and it always makes me happy. Don't take this as me begging you to draw them more again, I just wanted to let you know how much I love the art and how excited I was when I saw the small art you posted of them the other day.

genuinely this is so sweet anon thank u, here is a tiny dimilix just for u <3

[dvrtrblhr]

(21) i love you so much/you make me so mad

request was dimilix hugging! a ship i like but rarely draw!

10 days left! i'm surprised i got this far!

[t0bey]

commission for @syneuro ! 💙🩵

[wavezies]

things in phm that really tickled me as a marine biologist:

the concept of star-eating microbes causing a crisis and the solution being the introduction of space wolves to space yellowstone to control the space elk population. i love a good trophic cascade

dr ryland grace immediately pitching "turn the spaceship into a giant centrifuge to generate gravity" and then not balancing his actual centrifuge later on

the entire "life is reason" scene really

grace forgetting to open the mystery alien container in a fume hood AND immediately sticking his nose in it. if we did this in chemistry lab we were executed on the spot

academia drama being one of the cornerstones of grace's character

grace switching through every spectrum setting on the microscope to try to see into the astrophages and not being able to (relatable)

also: the astrophage dying and grace going "ohhh it died..." (very relatable)

grace having his not-scientist buddy Carl to give him frank solutions when he's overthinking. yes, often the solution is just to put the box in another box

copious duct tape usage

just sticking a filter into the path of the petrova line to collect astrophage goop

eva going "so it's alive" when grace tells them the astrophage are moving, and him being like "WELL ok that could be for a lot of reasons" in the tone of someone who doesn't even know where to start explaining why that's a hasty assumption

grace referring to the first new astrophage as his and carl's baby multiple times (HIGHLY relatable)

humanity's greatest hope being a teacher. humanity being saved by grace's ability to find novel ways to communicate well with others -- something that made him excellent as an educator, and enabled him to bond with rocky

[the-elf-draws]

Asking for directions

[bonetrader]

Oh… - zooms in - Ohh…

That puts a whole different spin on it. It’s amazing either way, but now I need a moment.

[eldritchbauble]

You know what else contributes to how traumatic emotional abuse is? The fact that people think it's not real or at least it's not as bad as physical abuse.

[eldritchbauble]

"Emotional abuse may be the most damaging form of maltreatment due to causing damage to a child’s developing brain affecting their emotional and physical health as well as their social and cognitive development." Specifically, emotional abuse causes physical damage to the brain and nervous system. It "causes changes in the brain, specifically in regions associated with understating and controlling emotions and recognizing and responding to the feelings of others. Their study found thinning in the tissue of the brain that helps with self-awareness and emotional regulation, particularly in the prefrontal cortex and medial temporal lobe."

"Neuropathologists have seen overlapping effects of physical and emotional trauma upon the brain. With such an overlap it can be seen that both of these traumas have a detrimental effect upon the Amygdala, the Hippocampus and the Prefrontal cortex of the brain. Meaning that Emotional Trauma... does indeed result in brain injury/damage."

Further "research indicates that the resulting mental health problems are similar regardless of whether the maltreatment is physical, psychological, sexual, emotional, or some combination." Additionally, "psychological child abuse can be particularly devastating for those victimized by their parents."

Researchers who used the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Core Data Set to examine outcomes found that "children who had been psychologically abused suffered from anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, symptoms of post-traumatic stress and suicidality at the same rate and, in some cases, at a greater rate than children who were physically or sexually abused."

Studies show that "emotional abuse (EA) was associated with suicidal ideation and attempts, mainly for serious suicide attempts."

We know that emotional abuse causes (C)PTSD and acts as a compounding factor on other forms of abuse. We know that the symptoms of (C)PTSD have a significant overlap with those of physical TBI (traumatic brain injury).

Studies on grief have provided strong evidence of emotional TBI and that "both physical and emotional TBI have systemic effects due to hormonal and inflammatory mediators, including changes in proinflammatory cytokine levels, immune cell function, and heart rate variability."

[eldritchbauble]

"Oh so mommy yelled at you?"

Emotional abuse is so much more than yelling. It's control, verbal degradation, violating boundaries, gaslighting that destroys a person's ability to trust their own experiences and reality, and putting someone through such convoluted manipulation and mind games that it damages their brain.

But even if it were "just" mommy yelling at you?

"Being frequently yelled at changes the mind, brain and body in a multitude of ways including increasing the activity of the amygdala (the emotional brain), increasing stress hormones in the blood stream, increasing muscular tension and more," and "when fear, for example, is repeatedly triggered by a harsh environment, like one where there is a lot of yelling, automatic physical and emotional reactions occur that cause traumatic stress to a child."

Yelling at children causes low self-esteem, increases anxiety and depression, creates lasting fear responses, contributes to behavioral issues, hinders brain development, and even harms physical health.

"When an individual is subjected to yelling, their body enters a state of heightened stress. The adrenaline and cortisol levels in their system rise, leading to a fight-or-flight response." Once someone has developed PTSD, "Yelling can serve as a powerful trigger for individuals with PTSD, reigniting their traumatic memories and plunging them into a state of overwhelming distress... This triggers a cascade of emotions and physiological responses, further entrenching their symptoms and impeding their ability to cope," so it perpetuates and reinforces through compounding trauma.

[galacticsabc]

Having a Moment