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gifted kid burnout things that no one seems to talk about:

the raw panic of hearing about your potential, positive or negative

a weird brand of imposter syndrome where you genuinely think you’ve fluked your way through every success and you’re gonna be Exposed as a Fraud

never having learned how to study and having no idea where to start now that you need to

reading college level books as a kid but being basically illiterate now

dismissing your struggles as irrelevant because other people have it harder and i should be smart enough to handle this

feeling like you’ve lost all control over your life (maybe manifesting into depression, anxiety and disordered eating in a grasp for control over something)

being unable to decide on a career path because you could have had everything, only to watch those opportunities disappear as you fail to commit

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Dissociating is weird. Its like nothing youre doing is what you want to be doing, because what you want to be doing is fleeing to the netherlands to start a new life as a forest witch.

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Ok you know what I am going to talk about White Collar actually

because for some reason we’re just meant to accept that all romantic relationships on tv have to be toxic to be interesting except Peter and Elizabeth were SO CUTE and while she was the love interest with no narrative impact she was still a fully fleshed character with a personality and life of her own and it was so POSSIBLE to write healthy relationships and women as people and it was an active choice of everyone else not to and. I am bitter.

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I used to think I can't have ADHD because I wasn't hyperactive.

Not everyone can allow themselves to act on their hyperactivity, so we find ways to redirect or hide the understimulation.

(Sneak introduction to the new inattentive Alien! A hommage to a collab I did with René ♥️)

If yo u’d like to support my work, check out my patreon :)

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that ‘pakige?’ post but me, a couple hours after posting a fic, like ‘comints?’

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The Thing About Euthanasia

In light of one of my childhood horses crossing his way over the rainbow bridge

I’ve often heard that the hardest part about being a veterinarian must be having to put animals to sleep. It’s both true and not all at the same time. The hardest part about vet med is watching animals suffer, and not being able to do anything about it, either because the owner won’t let you, or some other reason

But humane euthanasia? It’s a ceasefire of suffering

A veterinarian I very much admire once explained it to me, that, while hard and emotional, it was the final act of kindness an owner could give to an animal they loved. It wasn’t cruel, or unkind, but an ultimate moment of love to say “I don’t want you to suffer. Here is an end to the pain, however much it hurts me. Here is me saying goodbye when you’re ready, and not making you endure any more”

And I cry my eyes out every single time, because it is still goodbye and goodbye still hurts so, so much

I’ll meet you on the other side dear friend, thank you for all you’ve taught me and all the love you gave

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You need motivation to study? Let me introduce you to spiteful studying. When you study a subject to prove someone wrong. When you spend hours writing up notes so that you can get that grade and smile smugly at the teacher who predicted you a lower grade. Find someone to prove wrong, it can be a teacher, a parent, friend or just to prove society that you’re so much more capable then they say you are!

Trust me, it works.

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A turtle hitches a ride across a river

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A DUCK sitting on a Capybara

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gentle reminder: you deserve to live again. stop abandoning yourself. you’ve already gone through enough. you have permission to be kind to yourself and start again as a new person. you deserve love and everything else you think you don’t deserve. don’t hurt yourself any more.

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Cryptozoological posters by French illustrator, Camille Renversade.

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Concept: A witch cat that’s too fat to fly

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MASTERLIST

WIPs and OCs marked with an asterisk don’t yet have any (posted) written content but are there for reference and open for requests.

WIPs:

* Aurelian

Bloody Valentine

Dead Weight

* Gifted

Lost in London

* Masochist’s Lullaby

ORNATE

* Rite of Passage

* Serpentine

* Traditional Values

* ‘Witsec’ [working title]

Volucris

Bad Things Happen Bingo

Prompts

OCs:

Alistair Malcolm [ORNATE]

Avery Henderson [Volucris]

* Auden D’Aosta [Aurelian]

Austin McKinley [Bloody Valentine]

* “B” [Serpentine]

Cameron Hawthorne [Dead Weight]

* Cathal Nadeau [Aurelian]

* Chase Nicholls [ORNATE]

Cherri Martinez [Masochist’s Lullaby]

* Christian Delancey [Dead Weight]

* Emory Shaw

Eve Knight [ORNATE]

* Fern Niabi [Volucris]

Ferris Michael [Lost in London]

* Halden Gallows-Gerwig [Lost in London]

Isaac Alcartez [Lost in London]

* Isak Vaughan

Kay Edwards [Lost in London]

Elliot Pierce [ORNATE]

* Laurent Evangaline [Serpentine]

Lindsay DeMartino [Volucris]

London Friar [Lost in London]

Lennox Silver [ORNATE]

* Nadine Hughes [Dead Weight]

Paris Matthews [Bloody Valentine]

* Pierce Lawson [Dead Weight]

* Reid Langdon [ORNATE]

* Riley Karter [Masochist’s Lullaby]

* Stella Whitaker [Dead Weight]

* Sterling Lauderdale [Dead Weight]

* “Xi” or “Zi”

Zahlia Fox [ORNATE]

Misc (not on OC masterlists):

“Online” (Cherri)

“Burn” (Alec / Mistress)

“Red Light” (Patrick Jane / Teresa Lisbon)

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#throwback thursday of Howard, per anon request

This was fun, thank you for requesting him! He & his brother came from a very bad situation, the worst I’ve ever gotten rats out of, & it was nice to scroll through all my pictures & see what a nice life he ended up having.

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The Good Place Appreciation Week Day 6: Favorite Lesson/s