#pyromania cw

[shinderaarc]

cinder ‘ phoenix ‘ fall , everyone's favorite solar powered nightstalker & resident pyro.

[maxxdick]

Can you set the curtains on fire? Can you set the people on fire.

@jundoe patiently asks as we play Rusty Lake together. “I systematically set everything on fire,” he informs me, as I turn away to type this down.

[carnivoriisms-blog]

OLIVER’S LOW-LEVEL & SUBCONSCIOUS PYROMANIA.

                    Oliver Lucas was a child who grew up in the countryside and had freedom to roam;  he climbed trees,  made camps in the woods,  and often without his parents’  ( or his Nanny’s )  knowledge,  would carry with him a box of matches.  Lucky enough was he that childish impulses never took a dive into disastrous consequences,  but he would often pile up leaves,  pieces of branch,  scraps of fabric,  and set alight to them in what an eight year old deems a controlled manner.  One autumn he even burned his gloves,  said he’d dropped them in the stream and no one was any the wiser.

OLIVER’S INDIVIDUAL CAUSES  (if one were to venture into diagnosis;  he never has):

Sensation seeking. Some youths are attracted to firesetting out of boredom and a lack of other forms of recreation.

Lack of social skills. Many youths arrested for firesetting are described by others as "loners" and rarely have significant friendships.

Lack of fire-safety skills and ignorance of the dangers associated with firesetting.

OLIVER’S ENVIRONMENTAL CAUSES  (if one were to venture into diagnosis;  he never has):

Poor Lack of supervision on the part of parents and other significant adults.

                    Moving to London at the age of eleven acted as a rather drastic change in the boy’s lifestyle.  For one,  he wasn’t allowed far without someone’s eyes on him,  didn't receive the privacy that the kentish countryside offered him as a lad.  Add to that the fact that the older he got,  the less time he had free,  and any impulses hitherto the move seemingly disappeared.  As an adult,  Oliver only displays one of the significant symptoms for pyromania:

Fascination with,  interest in, curiosity about, or attraction to fire and its situational contexts (e.g., paraphernalia, uses, consequences). 

                    He has not set fire to anything  ( save maybe a few candles and cigarettes when required )  since the age of eleven,  he is not one overwhelmed with an unabated desire to set alight to all he can.  In fact,  it’s not something he thinks about in depth or deems ‘out of the ordinary’,  it goes forgotten.  Still,  however,  one may notice him hold a match for a little longer than necessary,  keep his lighter aflame a few moments after he’s lit his cigarette.  Aesthetically,  a flame is decidedly pleasing,  anything further than that is subconscious and unnoticed,  and that’s as deep as Oliver  ( and anyone else )  has ever ventured into it.

                    To stress:  Oliver does not deliberately set fires in his adult life,  receives no essence of tension or arousal at the sight of fire  and never has  ------  but finds an open flame to be appealing and somewhat comely.  If your hearth’s burning,  if you’ve lit a candle or switched your lighter,  he’ll notice.  Just finds it prepossessing.

[cxmbination]

        " my dad just bought a new bottle of whiskey . . .

                  how do you feel about getting drunk

                      and burning Heather Duke's house down ? "

[intrusivethoughtindri]

[Picture of an indri lemur with a purple and turquoise background. Top text reads: DESPERATELY WISH FOR THOUGHTS ABOUT BURNING DOWN BUILDINGS TO GO AWAY - Bottom text reads: END UP THINKING ABOUT DROWNING SOMEONE INSTEAD]

[voicelesspostalveolarfricat-blog]

Honestly it doesn't matter much that my scented oil is cheapo and doesn't smell very strongly/disperse very well because half the relaxing part of the scented oil burner is the candle.  I like having an excuse to set things on fire in a way that won't get me arrested.