#inkblots

[inkrats]

>:(

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pull the blinds…

stay quiet |-/

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[jellyblowtorch]

Idk the doodles got outta hand

[aries-the-red05]

Honestly I wish I had a partner system but I struggle to maintain contact unless the other helps. Plus I’d feel stressed trying to balance a relationship with multiple alters. I’d feel so nervous that some alters would dislike me. Plus dating online is dang near impossible, idk how I’d even find a partner system.

[inkmortal-trash389]

WIP Wednesday

As always, tagged by the lovely @blackbirdofasgard, thank you! <3

I should be working on my essays for English (and I am, I promise, I just hate writing essays) but I started a new WIP in the between while I was feeling down!

Have a little nonverbal Nib and the tap communication system (that I lowkey got inspiration for from @/aroace-ryland-grace's deaf!Grace AU and the Eridian sign language)

"Good to see you, sweetheart," Eddie greets, and they let out another soundless hum before waving their free hand a little in response. Volt's thumb rubbed small circles into the back of their hand, and they lean into his back a little more. "Do you want to sit down, live wire?" His free hand pats one thick thigh a little, giving them an idea of what he was suggesting, and they pause for a moment, thinking it over before they tap against his chest twice, leaning up off his back, keeping one hand on his waist as he turns just enough to allow them to climb into his lap. Nib does so, their legs dangling on either side of his hips as they lean into him, burying their face (as best they can, with the Dateviators) into the juncture of his neck, arms curling under his to hold onto him. Volt shrugs out of his jacket, pulling it around his front to rest over Nib's back, and they tap a small pattern into his shoulder in appreciation. It wasn't Morse code, they didn't know Morse code, despite trying to learn (they did know "SOS", but that was one of those things that they thought pretty much everyone knew), but had come up with a few short phrases that could be tapped out.

I've been putting together a small list of phrases that they'd use with the tap system, and so far it consists of "yes", "no", "please", "thank you", and "I love you"! I'm sure more will come up as I continue writing but I figured those would be good for a start, included below for reference:

"yes" - two index

"no" - one index

"thank you" - two thumb, one middle

"please" - one index, two middle

"i love you" - one thumb, one index, one pinky (the fingers involved in ASL "ily")

[countedink]

when a bumblebee checks you out #woninlife

[vefantur]

obsessed with the way that gothic horror is about horror but never directly. it’s not horrific because there’s a haunted house and that’s scary, it’s horrific because the monster inside isn’t a monster, it’s your grief, your loss, your pride, your desire, your fear. the monster skulking in the shadows, the darkness at the edge of the woods, the haunted house that is too broken to be a home—those are manifestations of events that grabbed onto the fabric of time in a fit of abject horror and clamped down so tightly that they couldn’t keep moving forward toward resolution and eventual dissipation like they were supposed to. it’s all about the scared child and the mourning mother and the hunger in your gut and the little emptiness in your chest at the end of the day. those things are all little horrors but you can’t approach them directly to understand them, so gothic horror gives us these little metaphors and says “here play with these for a while and see what you find.” and all of those metaphors need someone to go back to childhood to release them. you have to care, and be curious and clever, and look for a way to heal the hurt. you have to be so achingly human to survive in gothic horror

[murdercide626]

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