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i'm echo! i draw sometimes. 20↑ | current hyperfixations are whatever i reblog/post 🫶

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15 mins break quick doodle

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with papa

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Tips for Writing Trauma!

i love you all and i need you to stop writing trauma as a single breakdown scene in the rain after which the character is Healed and Ready to Love Again. that is NOT trauma :(

⊹ Trauma doesn't announce itself. it shows up as your character suddenly not being able to eat a specific food, or going very quiet in a loud room, or laughing at the wrong moment because their nervous system decided that was the appropriate response. it's mundane and weird and it makes no sense from the outside. the dramatic flashback sequence is the least realistic part. the most realistic part is your character suddenly needing to leave a grocery store for a reason they can't articulate.

⊹ The body keeps score and it keeps it in the strangest places. a particular smell. the quality of light at a certain time of day. a tone of voice that sounds like someone who hurt them. your traumatised character doesn't think "this reminds me of the bad thing." their heart rate spikes and they don't know why. they feel wrong and they can't locate the feeling. they're irritable for three days and only later, if ever, do they make the connection. write the disconnection. it's more honest.

⊹ trauma also does not make people universally sympathetic and wise. it makes some people controlling. some people funny at inappropriate times. some people very good in a crisis and completely unable to handle a normal day. some people are generously kind to strangers and absolutely terrible to people they love. trauma shapes behaviour in contradictory, inconvenient ways that don't resolve into a lesson. your traumatised character can be difficult to like. that's not a flaw in the writing. that's the WRITING.

⊹ Healing is not linear and it is not a destination. your character does not get better and stay better. they have a good month and then something small undoes two years of progress and they have to start again with slightly more tools than before. that's the actual shape of it. the spiral, not the arc. the scene where they finally open up and cry is not the end. it might not even be progress. sometimes it just means they were tired that night.

[artsy-hobbitses]

One of the first major ideas I had for a full-fledged Saiyuki piece was ‘Touched by Gold’ since gold is already thematically important for Sanzo and Goku, and I thought it would be fun to expand that to the whole team. In Hakkai’s case, it’s Hands of Gold as Kanan loved his hands, and these same hands are the ones caring for and potentially holding his friends’ lives in them as Team Healer. However, that the gold drips is a callback to a time where they were coated with blood instead, because I love the killer-healer juxtaposition he embodies.

Between Gojyo’s empathy/inability to leave a crying woman be (enough tears have been shed in his vicinity) and his big brother instinct for children because I imagine he inwardly desires to be the person he needed as a child and the fact that he took the fall for Banri despite knowing full well Banri was going to run again bc he still wanted to protect that bastard, I honestly think he’s the most compassionate member of the team, thus Heart of Gold.

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big brother doesn't approve!!! too bad cz I DO

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rooftop squad my loves...... can't believe they're finally animated ough

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some warm up sketches i found while sorting out old files🫰

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"I'm here too"

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LAST POST FO REALZ I love mic as like a comic book vigilante hero but in a western setting for some reason. ( in my heart he is American ) ( it’s like the most gritty western sci fi horror comic you could image yknow? )

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Aizawa trying to help an English-speaking civilian but the only English he remembers is what he's picked up from Mic: "That villain hit you like a nasty beat drop. Are you rocking or are you not so dope? Let's make some noise. Are you ready?"

The civilian, shaking: "What are you saying to me?"

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Yamada lost Shirakumo too.

[mogamoka]

Happy Halloween. I've recently been back to The Vampire dies in no time fandom.

(please make season 3)

[realueur]

can you, can you find me ?