#neg regression

[oberthinkin]

Hi hi I apologize if I sent this already, I don't have a very good memory ☹ but if your requests are open could i request something with regressed DIO and vanilla ice taking care of him? Maybe being called down from a tantrum or something? Thank you if you do :3

Ah I did get it! Sorry, I get distracted easy when small.

This one is a negative regression fic so be careful in case it's sensitive for you

I think Dio neg regresses, and sometimes gets scared after a tantrum from bad memories. He does get comforted though.

+++++++++++

Vanilla hates to see Dio crying. Dio had been put in timeout twenty minutes ago, and it seems that he's already regretting his actions. The little one had been crying and shaking when guided gently to the stool in the corner; No doubt fearing a Victorian-era beating common for misbehaving kids. One that was never going to come from his caregiver.

Cleaning up the shattered vase took Vanilla no time at all, with the help of Cream, but he still had work to do before he could call Dio out of the corner. He had to fetch a warm blanket from the drier, make sure Dio wasn't hiding a knife in his pockets (again), offer a plate of sweets for their eventual talk about what set off the regressor, and something to drink.

But a mumble catches his attention before he leaves to get any of those.

He didn't want to ask the young lord to repeat himself, especially since it could trigger Dio to act out again. But he couldn't just leave the little one, sad and alone when he needed a father to comfort him.

Dio's quiet sobs start again as he waits impatiently, stomping a foot at the perceived slight! How dare father not come when he's clearly needed!

Quickly Dio is wrapped in a warm hug, a large blanket keeping him wrapped up like a nippy cat. The vampire's hissing and fussing stops as he feels Vanilla carry him to the bed, holding him close and rubbing the whole time. "You are... Forgiven..." The vampire mumbles, nuzzling as best he can into his father's shoulder. A gentle jostle from the caregiver keeps him from sleeping, clearly expecting a bit more from Dio. The little one rolls his eyes before pouting, a sleepy mumble: "And I'm sorry, father..."

"Thank you, little prince. It can be hard to feel so strongly. But I won't ever hurt you for acting like a child. And you don't have to act out in fear of being hurt. I'll never let anyone hurt you."

"... Promise?"

"I promise. I will always keep you safe, my prince. My job is to keep my child safe. To make my little prince know how much I care about him, and that I am always on your side."

Dio feels a kiss pressed to his forehead, and something soft wedged into his arms to snuggle for a light nap. Must be a stuffed animal... Something to snuggle other than his father. How silly, to think he, Dio, won't cling to him as he naps!

#my writing :3 #i write when small so i hope you like it :> #cg vanilla ice #regressor dio #neg regression #negative regression #agere jojo #agere jjba

[teeniestjojokitten]

Negative regressors ily. You’re doing great and your regression is no less pure or real or valid than anyone else’s. It’s ok to feel small when you’re upset and sad. I’m sending comforting thoughts your way and hoping you know how cool and special you are.

#wanna cuddle with other neg regressors who are okee with touch #like we wrap ourselves in a blanket burrito n watch a movie til we feel better! #sfw agere #sfw littlespace #sfw little post #sfw little one #negative regression #neg regression

[greensaplinggrace]

Alina didn’t choose to have her powers taken from her and she didn’t intend for them to be lost. You can’t say Alina chose her ending when the ending was deliberately forced on her without her consent, and she is actively upset by this.

It has been said before and I will say it again:

Alina explicitly wants her power in the books. She has conflicting feelings on it, which is normal, but does on multiple occasions admit to herself as well as others that she likes the power, that she wants it, and that she does not wish to lose it.

This is not due to a lack of conceptualizing Alina liking her powers and Alina’s greed for power as separate things. This has nothing to do with Alina’s greed. Outside of Alina’s greed for power, she comes to love this part of herself she neglected all her life because she was raised by people who could not understand her and who taught her to be wary of her own people and culture, so much so that she subconsciously avoided dealing with who she actually was.

Equating Alina’s power with her greed is exactly what those oppressing grisha do in justification for their hate crimes. You are using the same logic as a cast of people set on genocide and oppression. Not to mention the direct connection between grisha being based on jewish persecution and how the thing that defines grisha is equated with greed, which is a highly common antisemitic depiction of jewish people.

Alina is the ethnic jew raised by goyim. She is the repressed queer child of homophobic parents. She is everybody who only got to realize and express themselves after finding and connecting with their community late in life.

A story about a persecuted minority hunted because of what makes them different ending with your main character, who is a part of that minority, losing that piece of themselves and being forced to assimilate, is incredibly problematic. And anybody who makes this criticism about “Alina choosing” forgets that Alina is a character who’s only choices are those made for her by the person who wrote her.

Another thing that people constantly misrepresent is that Alina is not happy to be stripped of her powers at the end, and explicitly expresses sadness, grief, rage, and anger about the loss of her powers. This is separate from her finding happiness despite her grief, but the grief never goes away. Which means that anybody saying she was happy to lose her powers or chose to do so is factually incorrect. Her agency is stripped from her in the end.

She doesn’t get to choose the peaceful life because the peaceful life is chosen for her. This is not a natural ending to a meaningful character arc of self realization. This is the regressive and brutal shafting of a character who’s arc was abused at every turn, and who’s actual development was walked backwards. Not because of her powers but because she is prevented from ever finding peace with her powers by the narrative.

She doesn’t have to fight a war ‘because of her powers’. She has to fight a war because her people are fucking oppressed. Laying the blame on what makes her different instead of the people who have singled her out because she is different indicates a severe lack of understanding in regards to racism, persecution, and oppression.

Her powers didn’t become so corrupt that they failed her in the end. She didn’t see the consequences and choose peace to avoid them because she wasn’t allowed to see anything at all. Her path was decided for her before she could even look down the other.

People focus on Alina and her powers because that is the story. It is a story about realizing something crucial about yourself that has been kept from you and repressed your whole life. It is an incredibly important story to tell. It is a coming of age story about self realization and self actualization and finding agency after a life where you realize you had none.

Blaming Alina being grisha for why she is stripped of her grishaness is fundamentally flawed argument. If the greed for power was what was supposed to be punished, then she would only have lost that which she sought in her greed. And if a balance needed to be reached, then there would be just as many sun summoners as shadow summoners in the world. Because she lost more than that and because of the discordance in thematic symbolism, the message becomes a punishment not for “greed” (which shouldn’t have even been the message in the first place for a plot and setting like this), but for something else. It becomes a punishment for her being grisha and coming to love and accept herself for it. It becomes a punishment of reveling in one’s difference. It becomes a statement about living outside of the boxes society tries to place people in. It becomes a message about oppression and assimilation on the side of oppression and assimilation.

The most important criticism about the ending will always be about the framing of Alina losing her powers. Alina choosing peace and love over power as a message would only have been able to work if Alina had been able to choose it. And to do so she would have had to choose it when she still had her powers. That is the only progression her developmental arc of “choosing peace and love” could have taken if it didn’t want to become regressive and strip her completely of her agency.

#grishaverse #shadow and bone #sab #alina starkov #sab salt #sab critical #ruin and rising #sab negativity #sab meta #myramblings #i need to get this off my chest before i explode #this is a vagueblog yes im sorry i had to put all of this frustration somewhere im sorry #this isn't worded very well but i am at my wits end #hopefully after i make this i can go back to focusing on the positive things that i actually like about sab #i actually dont mind the ending (it isn't as if cheap endings dont exist) #but when people come out and say it was good for alina or that she liked it or that the message was in any way a good one? #when it was actively harmful and entirely regressive? #no #alina's arc is a regressive one #which isn't exactly bad #but when it's framed as GOOD well... then there's some bs going on #fandomcourse #negative #negativity #antisemitism mention tw #genocide mention tw

[clonehub]

The bad batch has some of the shallowest writing I've seen in ages. The wrong character interactions get the attention, while the audience is left with a "tell, don't show" style of narrative storytelling that just leaves people unsatisfied left right and center. Hunter is upset because he feels guilty (a generous read imo) for letting omega get captured while Crosshair was the one to escape with her. Hunter is not mad at Crosshair for his decision to choose the Empire, which led to Tech's death. Hunter is not mad that Crosshair joined the regime that literally mind controlled him into attempting to set them on fire.

Omega afaik never had a solid, positive interaction with Crosshair the way she did with the rest of the bad batch all during seasons one and two. Crosshair tried multiple times to kill her, under influence of the chip. He objectively knew this and still chose the Empire. Omega also objectively knew this and forgives him anyways? And still has faith in him? She was hurt over his decision to stay, but never harbored any fear or resentment. Just pure and total love. And now she's guiding him through dealing with his trauma by meditating on sunset-lit beaches.

Wrecker is still a non-character who doesn't lead and hardly participates in any meaningful way in conversations. I don't recall him having any extensive conversations with any of the other batchers. I remember Tech being snappy with him, and Crosshair saying he has a tiny mind back in season 1. He has cute moments with Omega, but doesn't get developed outside. He doesn't get developed at all, really, besides following the narrow track of the trope set out for him.

The entire emotional arc of the series is dedicated to everyone around Crosshair forgiving him for his choice to join the Empire, but...he's never once thus far actually seemed remorseful. Does he condemn the Empire's violence? Does he look sad or regretful that he got so many of Howzer's men killed on Ryloth? Does he say "I hate what the Empire did to clones, I hate that they used chips on us, I hate that they made me oppress people throughout the galaxy, I hate that the Empire is a violent oppressive regime hurting innocents"? No. He says "The Empire wasn't loyal to me." He doesn't justify what he did, but he definitely doesn't regret it.

(Which is funny because soon afterwards, Rex is able to sow the seeds of doubt into Wolffe's mind that the Empire is bad because they're making him hunt a child.)

And the writers do the laziest thing in the world by having this potentially massive conflict between two characters and using rescue/saving their life as a stand in for a real conversation. Crosshair saves Hunter from the ice worm, they nod, and now they're chill/more chill. They present this as if anything else was a viable option, as if Crosshair would have reasonably or realistically left Hunter to get eaten by the giant ice worm. Then they frame Hunter and Crosshair's mistakes (for the former, I have no idea what) as on par with one another. After their non-argument, Crosshair saves Howzer's life (?), they nod, and that's it. Forgiven.

Halfway through the season and the writing still feels just as unbalanced as it did in season 1. Multiple people keep talking about how they feel like coworkers and roommates with guns rather than brothers. The writers do a better job saying the word loyalty than actually showing it. The majority of the emotional burden is being put on Omega, the only prominent female character in the series and a child. Why is she the emotional support group for a group of grown men? It's just classic misogyny. I'm amazed that type of trope even reared its head again, it's been so long since I've seen it.

Even the writers don't seem to know how to express the batchers' supposed love for one another. No, saving each other's lives is not proof of a deep love or even respect for one another. That's bare minimum. That's SoP. Them leaving each other to die would be the extreme thing, not the other way around. They hardly mention Tech. They had a forced-feeling "hang our heads in silence at the mention of tech's name", and every time after that he's been mentioned as far as his usefulness to the squad. Maybe the second half of the season will have people actually confront Crosshair about Tech. The "Don't have the heavy emotional conversations" thing has been a problem since The Clone Wars, unfortunately. Pretend Teth didn't happen. Pretend Umbara and the Kadavo arc didn't happen. Don't show Rex's reaction to Ahsoka leaving at ALL. Don't show Omega informing Crosshair of Tech's death, which is WILD to me.

Some people claim that the Bad Batch have had six or so months to grieve and mourn, and they're seasoned soldiers who've experienced loss and death before, so they're used to this. The former I can see, but the latter? Who would they have been losing? They're not connected to other clones, rarely worked with them, and never liked them. What losses have they fielded beforehand? They don't even act like 99 or share his values.

I know I'm not alone in this, and at this rate I'm probably beating a dead horse, but it bears repeating: Crosshair hasn't condemned Empire violence, he's only condemned how they treat him in particular. This is a dangerous way to present fascism and why people choose fascist organization/regimes. There's absolutely a personal element to it. Arrogance. Ego. Material or emotional insecurity. But there's an external part as well: desire for control, hierarchy, order, violence. Fascists understand that the ideology is violent. That's why they join the regime. They want and support the subjugation of those they believe deserve it. In real life, this is people of color, women, disabled people, immigrants, the "degenerates" of society, and others. In Star Wars, that's the aliens and the enslaved, the "traitors" and the Rebels. Fascists being "lead astray" or "misguided" by thoughts of loyalty or personal power come secondary to oppressing others.

Maybe they'll address that in the second half of the season. It's a generous read, but I don't want to make any calls til I've seen everything. Unfortunately, every interaction Crosshair has with people has been designed to service their forgiveness of him, all without him actually apologizing for anything. Yes, he must explicitly apologize. He joined a fascist regime after they made him do terrible, heinous things. The text tells us that Crosshair only left because the Empire wasn't loyal to him. Anything other than a clear apology would be bad and frankly dangerous writing.

#ch posts #tbb critical #tbb negative #tbb spoilers #long post #its so like. status quo. generic. regressive in a way? so many words but i feel like im still not being clear #persistent writing issues from s1 #legacy writing issues from tcw #somehow #its so. weird to see. #shallow empty vague show v tell problems racist ableist #goes out of its way to retcon the clones and then doesnt even make the central characters interesting? #like huh #tbb neg #tbb crit

[thelunarsystemwrites]

Lua don't even know why they're sad. ;-;

#Agere #agere community #Luar actually lonely- #Sfw #Always see #The more negative emotions = Darker the cloud hair is #Not really #I just struggled making it ;-; #sfw agere #age regression #age+regression #agere safe space #practice doodle #Lunarsona

[tiny-merkitty]

"impure regression" it's therapy, impurity came free with your xbox

#while there isnt a right or wrong way to experience age regression #i will say it defeats the purpose if youre not allowing yourself to feel negative emotions #youre nurturing a safe space for yourself!!! you can be sad or angry. sob throw a fit be sensitive over meaningless things thats the point #regardless of if its a trauma response or a way to destress #if its involuntary or not #its for you. you should feel comfortable #idk i just despise the phrases pure and impure regression #i think people fail to recognize that most people experience age regression #“healing my inner child by buying a barbie i wanted when i was 8” #“making myself feel content by caring for my children the way i wouldve wanted to be” #“my hair got messed up today and suddenly i was 14 again” #“i drank a coke for the first time in years and felt like i was 23 again” #like age regression is such #a normal thing #whether its utilized as therapy or not #i feel like things like agereblr and ageregram or whatever have like #dilluted what it means? i guess #i dont know im yapping #merkitty babbles #sfw interaction only #age regression #inner child healing #sfw agere #agere #safe agere #sfw #age dreaming #agedre

[nxrseryclouds]

Mr Bear fix my problems, fix my problems please Mr Bear make the bad day go away, please make it stop. Make all the tears and heartache go away.

#Mr Bear is my comfort object #Mr Bear save me #age regression #sfw agere #agere #age regressor #agere vent #plush talks #personal vent #sad baby brain #sad regression #negative regression

[ravenkiddo]

Made a vent/impure regression moodboard for myself

#Raven’s stuff #moodboards #negative #vent #vent regression #impure regression #medical tw #medication tw #age regression #agere #raven’s moodboards

[takeyourcyanide]

Witch Kitty & Lavender Chamomile

I also cannot even cook rice, by the way. Know that user takeyourcyanide cannot cook worth for shit. I have managed to do so before, as in make rice, but I failed miserably tonight, and it came out so sloppy and repulsive. I believe I added too much water into the pot.

#involuntary age regression has me in a chokehold too #can I just write fanfiction in peace #no I cannot #the static brings on the agereee #among other things as well #anyway #takeyourcyanide #takeyourcyanide’s ramblings #sometimes it’s more enjoyable. often times not. sometimes a bit of both. but I hate that I can’t really control it at all. it just happens. #most often it’s triggered by negative things though sometimes positive #sometimes it just happens seemingly out of the blue #I won’t get into it. it gets mad at me when I do. I can’t even mention agere without having to delete the post #waaaaaahhhhhh

[oberthinkin]

I love baikei seals because I too look like this:

Constantly on the verge of tear, and cute

#they are THE negative regression animal #big strong chonkers that look so so so sad and like they're gonna cry #they are usually okay though :> them big eyes help them hunt in a deep lake #neg regression #negative regression #but with a happy ending

[batbaby77]

Little!Shinobu would...

𓆩🦋𓆪 Regresses to about 3-4 ! Baby

𓆩🦋𓆪 Usually gets taken care of by Mitsuri, Giyuu, Obanai or surprisingly Rengoku. Has no set caregiver and totally doesn’t have a favorite (It’s Rengoku). Last resort is Sanemi.

𓆩🦋𓆪 Has limited fine motor skills and get really fussy about it. Her fingers are usually so nimble and precise but when she’s in babyspace she can’t do anything quite right. Gets super frustrated and pouts about it.

𓆩🦋𓆪 Hates footie pajamas !! Too much fabric everywhere. She prefers sweatshirts and shorts, or just a diaper if she’s wearing one.

𓆩🦋𓆪 Loves storms and lightning ! Begs whoever is taking care of her at the moment to let her out to play but they never let her and she throws a tantrum.

𓆩🦋𓆪 Speaking of tantrums .. big temper tantrum thrower ! She bottles up her big feelings so often so she lets it out in babyspace. First she starts wailing, but its not quite screaming, it’s just really loud crying. By then she’s probably being picked up by somebody and she kicks her feet and flails her arms. She tires herself out easily, so the tantrums don’t last that long. Giyuu is best at dealing with her temper tantrums.

𓆩🦋𓆪 Gets really embarassed after throwing a tantrum.. she threw a tantrum at a Hashira meeting and was put in timeout by Rengoku. He had to pick her up like a briefcase. She immediately apologized 15 minutes later once she was out of her babyspace. She wasn’t seen around Butterfly Mansion for a week after that.

𓆩🦋𓆪 Really easily amused ! Set her infront of her fish tank and she’s set for an hour. That’s how Obanai usually gets her to calm down after she has a nasty meltdown or nightmare.

𓆩🦋𓆪 Plays with bugs in the dirt outside.. freaks her babysitters out. She picks them up and makes them kiss. Depending on whose taking care of her at the moment she’ll make direct eye contact with them while doing so.

𓆩🦋𓆪 Total sippy cup as opposed to bottle baby. Bottles make her feel funny in a bad way.

𓆩🦋𓆪 Gets really protective over Kanao. Kanao insists that Shinobu relax and let her be the big sister for once but to no avail..

𓆩🦋𓆪 Hates letting the younger member of the corps see her regressed. Even though she’s only 18 she has this complex about it. It’s complicated. Muichiro is exempt from this because he’s also a Hashira who regresses.

𓆩🦋𓆪 Hates being called “baby”. It feels more demeaning than comforting to her. Prefers to be called “sweetie” or “sweetheart”.

𓆩🦋𓆪 Gets really excited whenever somebody offers to play with her. She never got to play when she was little ! She likes games like hide and seek or tag. Tag especially because she’s always evenly matched when playing with the other Hashira !

𓆩🦋𓆪 Despises being cradled like a baby. She prefers being held on somebodies hip, back or shoulders. She’ll whine and cry if somebodies holding her wrong.

𓆩🦋𓆪 Gets really embarassed asking for comfort or to be picked up. She just stands by them and stares until they get the message. She’s also mostly non verbal during her regression and resorts to squeaks, squeals and whines which makes it harder for them to know what she wants.

#so much negative lolz.. I’ll do more positive sometime #sfw regression #agere #demon slayer agere #kny agere #shinobu kocho #little!shinobu #agere headcanons #age regression #demon slayer #sfw babyspace #kny

[greensaplinggrace]

sometimes i’m normal and sometimes i read your posts about how alina was done dirty and then i go absolutely feral with righteous indignation

you and me both. i get angry on alina's behalf more than is likely wise considering that it's fiction lmfao. but goddamn. i think what actually hits the hardest is that lb herself puts so much weight on alina's story as something significant, so then when it falls short it just hits like a gut punch.

#like alina's regressive arc wouldn't be so upsetting if lb didn't say it was progressive #asks and answers #grishaverse #myramblings #aceofnowhere #shadow and bone #alina starkov #negative #anti sab #shadow and bone critical

[polkadotplayhouse]

hi guys! I know it's been a little bit since I've posted- school's gotten a lil hectic -w-;

#I've been involuntarily regressing a lot - kind of like right now #I figured out that when is voluntary I'm usually younger but I regress to around 4 when it's negatively triggered #how are you all? :D #blushposting

[thelunarsystemwrites]

Negative regression.

Poor little guy, he's overwhelmed right now, okay?

Was inspired by @nightmareishomophobic.

#Negative regression #nightmare sans #By Jokublog #Agere #utmv agere #utmv #age regressor #always sfw

[l1ttl3-l0tus-fl0w3r]

Vent?

tw: impure/negative regression, slipping, public regression/slipping, distress

'm so distressed at school rn that I'm starting to slip, don't really know what to do so 'm tryna stay big until this is over, it almost is

#vent post #impure regression #negative regression

[solianapaeris]

One thing I cannot stand is men negging. It’s such a regressive and stunted trait and it’s always in the guise of getting attention from women who would otherwise not give them the time of day. They simply want attention or a reaction. They’re of the mind that any attention is better than none, so they try to harass, humiliate, or use tired and old PUA tactics that are manipulative simply because they are lame and don’t know how to properly address or approach women, or communicate properly. I always ignore/block them because you won’t get any feminine energy from me. I save that for men who are deserving of it 💕

#personal #quotes #negging #men #self awareness #manipulation #pick up artist #lame #stunted #regressive #growth #healing