you think kyle needs meds for anxiety?? what’s ssri’s??? elaborate 👀
Sure! SSRIs are "selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors" and it's a class of medication commonly used for anxiety and/or depression. Some brand names for SSRIs are Prozac, Lexapro, and Zoloft (or the generic names fluoxetine, escitalopram, and sertraline respectively). there's a bunch of other ones but those I think are the most commonly used at least in the US.
I kind of go back and forth with myself about this, but I can see Kyle as the type of person to develop chronic anxiety/generalized anxiety disorder, especially as he gets older and more stressors are added onto his life: school getting harder, relationships getting more complicated, needing to figure out a future career, etc. In the show, we've seen that he's already pretty neurotic to begin with, and he has a tendency to overthink and worry about things much more than his peers would, especially regarding stuff like morality.
He'd probably be really good at hiding his anxiety though, from others or even himself, and be in denial about it for a long time. In the back of his mind, he'd think "Oh well, I guess it's normal for someone to be stressed out all the fucking time like I am. Seriously, look at the world we live in! How could you not be worried about everything?" — all the while not realizing how bad his mental health has gotten and that the degree to which he's stressed out isn't normal.
It would manifest as worsening irritability, sleep problems, poor concentration, and his performance in school or at his job suffering. I feel like he wouldn't seek out professional help unless he reached a hard breaking point, like having a panic attack in public or failing a class because he couldn't sleep before his final exam. Whatever it is, it serves as a wake up call for him and he finally recognizes he needs to do something about it or else he's basically letting his own brain fuck himself over.
I think Kyle is so goal-oriented that once he does decide to seek help, he'd probably get his shit together pretty quickly all things considered. He gets a therapist, finds meds that work for him, and deals with the problem head-on because jeez man, he's got shit to do. He can't afford to keep feeling like shit all the time.
In the context of kyman, Cartman would of course be supportive because he cares about Kyle more than he'll ever admit. He's an asshole at heart so he does like seeing Kyle suffer to some degree, but not like that. And Cartman wants to be the cause of that suffering, not Kyle's own brain being a little shit and taking all the fun out of it. That's fucking lame. So he makes sure that Kyle takes his meds (albeit in the most obnoxious way possible à la my tags on this post) and talks him down when he's overstressed or overthinking and lets him know that he doesn't have to deal with everything on his own because otherwise that would be a gross violation of the bro code AND the boyfriend code. They're a team, goddammit!! "GOD KAHL, stop being a stubborn fucking dickhead and LET ME HELP YEEWWW!!"
Anyway yeah that's my take on Kyle and his anxiety! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
you’re a combo of uwu and too many thots lolol thot and thot solidarity 🤝
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I thought of where I could fit in best, and too many thots felt like a personal callout so yeah why not haha but uwu? aww thank you! ♥
So... since we're thots... may I interest you in my latest uwu wip I was surely gonna forget about in a few days anyway? It came to me last night during a chat with @dizzydennis 👀👀👀
Prompt goes: Sonic agrees to take Cream out on a small adventure, but Vanilla is completely unaware of that and actually called Amy to come over and take care of Cream while she was out for the day. The end result is Sonic and Amy both fighting over Cream’s care, as Sonic’s proposal might not be as chill as he originally thought.
"He should be here any moment..."
Shortly after their last adventure in Music Plant, Sonic promised to take her out again, this time to a less dangerous yet still adventurous place. The 23rd day after the leaves started falling down was chosen as the date for their next meeting, and Cream waited patiently... until now.
Today's the day Sonic will return, and she's been waiting all day long, leaning on the open window from her bedroom.
"I probably should've told mama about it, don't you think Cheese?"
Her Chao Cheese flew outside and stood in front of her with a concerned look, "chao..."
"Yes, I know... I shouldn't hide things from mama, but I assumed she would be fine with it anyway... maybe I should tell her now, right?"
Cream stepped away from the window, and took a moment to pick up courage to leave her bedroom and talk to her mom. But as she was just about to reach for the door, a voice startled her from downstairs.
"Cream, sweetie, I'm going to be out for a bit." It was Vanilla, ready to go open the front door with one hand, and carrying a bag with the other.
Cream gasped, then opened the door just enough to squeeze her head out the bedroom. "What!? Whe-where are you going, mama?"
"I need to go to the city, buy some things... do you want me to buy you anything in particular?"
Cream hesitated for a second, thinking if she should tell her mom about Sonic right now or not, at the risk of upsetting her or worse... "no... no! I'm fine! Thanks, ha ha!"
"Oookay..." Vanilla opened the door, revealing someone else standing right outside, "oh, by the way, Amy is here to join you while I'm out. Have fun, girls!"
Cream closed the door immediately and held it shut with her body, looking back at Cheese in complete panic, "AMY?!"
Amy entered the house carrying a bag, and slowly walked towards the sofa, "hey Cream! Your mom told me to bring something so I picked up some movies and popcorn for us! I think you're gonna love this!"
Cream didn't say anything, still looking at Cheese, which prompted Amy to leave her things on the couch and come upstairs.
"Hey, you okay?" Amy said, knocking the bedroom door, "something's wrong?"
"Oh, nothing, Ms. Amy!" Cream replied from the other side, refusing to open. "I need to put some things back in place and I'll join you in a bit, don't worry!"
"Fair enough, call me if you need help, though!"
Cream sighed in relief, then jumped right onto her bed, "what are we going to do, Cheese?"
Cheese looked outside the window, confused.
"We got ourselves into this, we need to make up some sort of plan or something, before Mr. Sonic arrives!"
Cheese nodded, and they spent the next 10 minutes thinking about something. Meanwhile, Amy set everything up for the movies, wondering why Cream isn't coming down.
Soon, that feeling of wonder became concern, and Amy went upstairs once again.
"Cream, open this door, please. You're worrying me."
"Okay Cheese, let's hope this goes well..." Cream took a deep breath, then opened the door only to see Amy with her fists on her waist and with a very serious look on her face. "Oh, hey Ms. Amy... I'm so sorry!"
"What was all that about, anyway?"
Cream was clearly uneased by the situation, scratching the back of her head and avoiding eye contact, "Amy, there's something I have to tell you..."
Suddenly, the wind started picking up outside, and Cheese started to fly around the window, weaving arms in panic, "chao! Chao! Chao! Chao! Chao!"
Amy looked extremely confused, but Cream knew exactly what that meant. "Oh, no..."
"Oh no what, Cream? Cream!"
Cream ran downstairs and straight to the front door, Amy chasing after her. A few seconds later, the doorbell rang.
Amy froze in place, "huh? Who's coming now? Cream, stop! Don't open the door to strangers!"
Against her wishes, Cream opened the door, only to reveal a familiar blue hedgehog standing outside.
"Hey Cream, sorry for the delay! There was a bit of traffic, haha." Sonic joked, but noticed Cream was looking down, as if embarrassed by his presence. "Hey, don't tell me you're gonna back out of our plans!"
Cream didn't say a word. Amy, on the other hand, couldn't believe what she was seeing.
"...Sonic?"
"Huh? Amy? Wha-what are you doing here?"
Amy's face suddenly turned to a furious red, "I should be the one asking that question." Then, she grabbed Cream by the shoulder, "CREAMMMMM!"
"Okay, okay!" Cream broke out of Amy's grasp, "Mr. Sonic agreed to take me out today on an adventure, and I... I forgot to tell mama about it!"
Sonic felt a chill running through his spine, "oh, dear..."
Amy facepalmed. "Oh, Cream... why didn't you tell Vanilla that?"
Cream jumped right to hug Amy, tearing up, "I... I was afraid she would say no... I guess I wanted this adventure so so much..."
"It's fine, Cream." Amy comforted her, "but you can't hold things from your mother, you know that... you don't know if she would let you go out or not, but she'll certainly will not let you if you start hiding things from her."
The two stayed hugged for a bit, as Sonic awkwardly stared at them.
"That being said..." Amy broke the silence, "I haven't said no to it yet, and I'm in charge of you today."
Cream's eyes lightened up, "you... you are serious?"
"Yup, I could use some fresh air, and I guess you too. C'mon, go get yourself ready."
Cream stopped hugging Amy, and then happily nodded to her. "Yes! I'll be right back!"
Cream ran back to her bedroom, but Amy stood right where she was, leaning on the door frame with her arms crossed and looking directly at a Sonic sheepishly smiling back.
"So... an adventure, huh?" Amy fired. "You know that can get a bit dangerous out there."
"Well, yes... and no..." Sonic scratched the back of his head, "this adventure... is an amusement park... Adventure Park is its name, off the Golden Bay Zone... should be a pretty chill place."
"A PARK?!" Amy lost her cool for a moment, feeling incredibly upset that Sonic never picked a place for them to go out before.
Sonic took a step back, well, actually, two steps back before Amy calmed down again.
"It's fine, it's fine. I was getting tired of asking you out to the same places anyway."
"Amy..."
Just as the conversation got a lot more awkward, Cream returned from upstairs "Ms. Amy! Mr. Sonic! I'm ready! Uh... Mr. Sonic...? Are you alright? You look a bit pale..."
Sonic shook himself back to his normal cocky self in a super Sonic second.
"Pale? Ha... must be the breeze!" He gestured around, then at a nearby tree... that was completely still. "Alright, you ready for the adventure?"
Sonic turned around and Cream immediately jumped on his back so he can carry her. "Yes! ...hold on, a park?"
"The Adventure... Park." Amy added, still crossing her arms.
"Wait, a park? Mr. Sonic, I wanted to wreck some Eggman robots, you said that's the best thing in the world!"
Sonic raised a finger and gestured negatively, "no no, I told you that was way too dangerous! We're gonna do the second best thing in the world, play some dangerous yet controlled amusement park games!"
Cream let a frustrated sigh out, "okay... but what about Amy? Are you gonna carry her too, Mr. Sonic?"
Sonic turned around nervously, and looked back at Amy then down to his hands, "I... think I can do it."
"I can run there by myself."
Amy closed the door just after Cheese, and so the four of them began their way to Adventure... Park.
The sunny afternoon was the perfect set up for this adventure. The park was spread around the bay coast and offered an amazing view of the entire city from its dedicated looking spot, a massive tower sitting on the westernmost point of the bay.
Down on the ground level, Cream was totally amazed by the park's rollercoasters, bumper cars and many, many green spots surrounded by shops and carts. One cart in particular grabbed her attention.
"Oh, oh!" Cream exclaimed, holding on to Sonic's hand while pointing to a cart with the other, "I want some cotton candy!"
"No, Cream." He said, trying to be a bit more strict than last time they went out together, "Vanilla won't appreciate the fact I allowed you to have sugar before your vegetables!"
"Nah, it's fine. Go grab some, Cream." Amy replied over Sonic, still arms crossed, scanning the place around with her look.
"Yay!"
Cream and Cheese dashed to the cotton candy cart, as Sonic approached Amy a bit upset.
"Excuse me, I think I'm doing a good job taking care of Cream on my own." He pointed out.
"Excuse YOU, I'm the one left in charge by her own mother!"
"Yeah but I'm the one who told Cream about this adventure first!"
"And I already had plans for both of us before you came around, hmph!"
As they argued, Cream came back overjoyed holding her giant cotton candy as Cheese directly jumped into it, overjoyed as well.
"Hee hee, I'm back! Where to, now...? Oh... are you fighting?"
Both Sonic and Amy stood still for a moment, side by side, both with their arms crossed.
"Oh? It's nothing, Cream! Ha ha!" Sonic tried to look for something to talk about, "we're just... discussing what attraction we should head to first... yeah!"
"Aww," Cream lowered her cotton candy, searching for Cheese somewhere inside it, "don't you think they look cute when they fight, Cheese?"
"Chao! Chao!" Cheese gleefully replied.
Suddenly, Sonic and Amy lost their cool at the same time, letting out a big "WHAT?!" before turning away from each other, upset... and blushing.
"Yeah, they do! They look together, hee hee!" Cream continued, before setting her sights on the next attraction, "I wanna go to the bumper cars next!"
They followed Cream and Cheese, but keeping their distance from one another.
"We don't look cute together," they murmured.
Back to latin-dr-sonamy-trash: Okay okay, this is a very rough draft - written exclusively for this post, and not even spell-checked! I feel like there’s still sooooo much more to this one, but I’m already 1800+ words into it and I need some sort of self-control (well, not only that one lol) or else I’ll never post this ask haha
Also, I would not be a too many thots thot if I finished this one right here and now~~
But seriously, I think I have a solid grasp for this one, and I could actually return to it and finish it! There’s still the bumper cars bit, the rollercoaster bit, Eggman actually coming in and storming the place, and Sonic and Amy’s final reflection on the day (and maybe more? 👀), so, yeah, we’re just halfway done with this little SonAmy trash piece where our emotional support hedgehogs are a bit... grumpy at each other? 👀
my first impression of you... I was super impressed by how formally you talked in our old iz discord, I had assumed you were much older and much more put together than I was at the time. When I heard you were writing a loonggg iz fanfic, I was so pumped and I’ve been rooting for you ever since, but I was still very shy and never had to courage to reach out to you. I remember I started making an audiobook of your fic and I wanted to surprise you, but life happened and I could never get past chapter 3 or so. I think the files are on my old computer somewhere. compared to now, I definitely see more of you. idk it’s hard to explain, you’re unapologetically you no matter what, yet I’ve noticed there’s layers to you that you won’t really show others unless they’re “in”. You crack me up with your sarcastic and sharp sense of humor! and You’re still very candid, sweet and funny 😁
Ahhhh, this slipped under my radar and I didn’t even see it until now
Holy shit, this is such a sweet and heartfelt message??? I’ve reread it several times now. Thank you so much, Cel. You’re one of the OGs in this fandom, who’s been around and supporting my fanfiction for almost as long as I can remember. It means so much to me <3
Also, don’t feel bad about the audiobook. Frankly, I’m super amazed and honored you wanted to do it and managed to do a few chapters. That’s an enormous compliment
2, 8, and 15 since you’re very eager to talk abt that one 👀
2. What fandom(s) did you leave?
I don’t really tend to leave fandoms? I cycle through them but I think I always come back- maybe not as strong, but I do come back
8. What quote really sums up how you’re feeling at this point?
Paraphrased because I don’t have the exact quote in front of me, but: “Problems often seem much bigger in our heads than they really are. That’s an important lesson to learn.” -Sasha Nein
15. What are you looking forward to coming out in 2021?
@potatoes-tomatoes said: oh my god.... so op there’s 2 different ongoing Eene adult stories and one of them is actually called Peach Creek and the other is a rap series that has double dee and eddy have a dramatic fallout and there’s a love triangle in it you hit everything on the head 😂😂
omg??? I can’t believe the prophecy is already being fulfilled! I think I saw that rap thing once XD but I don’t recall the love triangle. Peach Creek will have rap in its opening titles. When will cw execs get on this
@avecitos said: Thanks, I hate it, and I can easily see the producers and directors of Riverside and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina making it. The first season is great, but the last part of s2 causes the downfall
You’re welcome ;) The real question is when the producers of those shows will hire me to helm their next bad reboot! I still haven’t forgiven anyone for not letting Salem talk in the chilling adventures of sabrina. Anyway, the world needs a CW grimdark ed edd n eddy to top 2020 off
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last one: globox and confusion :DD
(let’s go with something silly then!)
"Alright, let's go over this again."
Rayman snorted, but composed himself as quickly as he could, smiling at his somewhat incredulous friend.
"How many?"
"I... think about 4, last time I counted." he said, extending his hands. "They sort of blur together after a while."
"You said there was the one from when you were a kid... Nasty Ray?"
"Bad Rayman. Or Dark Rayman. Or Darkman." the limbless chuckled. "That might have actually been too cool of a name though."
"Stop, stop, don't make it worse." Globox groaned. The board behind him was riddled with names and poor imitations of Rayman's face at this point. What started as simple reminiscing about the past had quickly spiraled out of control, once Globox realized his friend's roster of foes was even more diverse than he remembered.
"So there's Badman." he wrote the name 'Dark Rayman' down, once again causing the actual Rayman to chuckle. "How did he get into the Arena?"
"Oh that wasn't him! That was just some guy."
"Some guy he says..."
Nonetheless, it was another name for the board, bearing the dubious moniker of 'Darker Rayman'.
"Then there's that guy we kept running into all the time. Raymesis? Nice laugh, but lousy sense of humor?"
"I think he might actually be Darkman... I'm pretty sure he is."
"But you said that one had a dark aura about him and everything!"
Rayman again extended his hands apologetically.
"Maybe he grew out of it? Now it's just bad color choices."
Globox tilted his head, but nonetheless drew some more lines to connect the dots he had lost a while ago now. "Betilla or Ly could give you an earful about colors, too, you know." he remarked, earning a grimace from his friend. "So who's left?"
"Hmm..." Rayman pondered for a moment. "There's that shadowy thing that followed us around. Shadow Ray, I guess?"
"Wait, wasn't there two of those?"
"Ah, you're right." Rayman grinned, continuing. "Then how about we call him..."
"Don't you dare."
"Dark Rayman?"
The marker fell to the ground as Globox slumped to a sit, covering his face with an exasperated groan. The kind one could only make after several hours of fruitless studying. Rayman patted his back, still trying to restrain his laughter. His friend peeked at him, both tired and unexpectedly serious at this point.
"Sometimes I feel like Murfy isn't just reading that manual."
Hey I just read through your IZ fanfic review posts and your insight is SO thoughtful and I'm blown away by your dedication to the fandom. You're a real one 🙏
"dedication to the fandom"
Oh, you mean my bat-dookie insane obsession and hyperfixation that forces me to write down and share all my thoughts or else I'll explode??
🤣 seriously though!!! I'm so happy! Thank you!! 😊
I do put quite a bit of effort into those reviews (outside of the time it takes me to read the fic itself, it takes me several days to type it all up so that I can get the plot and my thoughts across clearly without major spoilers, which is a bit harder than you'd think lol cause most the time what I really want to do is fangirl and give a play by play recap 😂 then I let it sit for another day or so before rereading and editing out unnecessary parts or grammar/spelling issues).
I know just how much time, effort, and planning goes into writing a fic, and I feel like with how many emotions I get out of reading them, the authors all deserve more than just my simple gushing/rambling comments! Word needs to spread so others can read (and hopefully comment on) all these amazing fics too!
