#DID education

[jordan-is-hot]

OSDD and all its subtypes

It has come to my attention that many people don't know that OSDD is an umbrella term and covers all OSDD subtypes, including OSDD1, OSDD1a, OSDD1b, OSDD2, OSDD3, and OSDD4. if anyone wants to hear about any of these disorders, I've been collecting research and am ready to discuss them. let me know if I should make further posts about this topic!

#osdd 1a #osdd 1b #osdd2 #OSDD3 #OSDD4 #did #DID education #did system #system #d.i.d system #prosecutor #did prosecutor #did osdd #osdd #system stuff #did alter

[faesystem]

Can DID form without ‘trauma’? Technically yes. Can DID be endogenic? No.

Confusing title, I know, but bare with me. I’m just trying to clear up some common misunderstandings I see surrounding trauma and DID.

TLDR: The definition of ‘trauma’ within the field of psychology is constantly being explored to determine the best use of it. There is no singular ‘correct’ definition, and it is important to consider the context in which its being spoken about. Within the context of DID, the idea that DID can be ‘non-traumagenic/endogenic’ is inseparable from the idea that it is not real/not a disorder. Even if someone with DID technically does not have ‘trauma’ by certain definitions, that does not mean that the label of ‘non-traumagenic/endogenic’ is appropriate, and labelling it as that has incredibly harmful connotations and perpetuates ableism against DID systems.

(Before we begin, a quick clarification on 2 things.

This post is about DID. DID and OSDD have a lot of overlap, but all of the scientific literature I have ever read has been about DID specifically. Therefore, I say DID here. If anyone has further information surrounding OSDD and would like to open up that dialogue, please do so.

Plural is an opt-in label for people to describe their personal experiences feeling like multiple people. Not every DID system identifies as plural, and not everyone who’s plural has a CDD. I have so much to say about this term PLEASE ASK but this isn’t the post for discoursing about terms. This is just to clarify how I view the term to avoid confusion.)

First, let’s look at the word trauma. There’s a reason I put it in quotation marks and that’s because I am referring to a very specific definition.

The DSM-5 defines a traumatic event as exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence.

Yeah, so, a very strict and narrow definition of trauma. This definition does not include things like emotional abuse, neglect (that did not lead to/create concern of serious injury), robbery (that did not include serious violence/threats of serious violence). Even physical abuse that did not lead to or create concern of serious injury does not count as traumatic by this definition.

This means that it is possible for someone to develop DID without experiencing certain definitions of trauma. However, that does not mean endogenic DID exists.

(Note, it can exist I suppose in very specific circumstances of DID systems who were plural endogenically prior to having been exposed to the events that lead to the development of DID, but DID cannot develop endogenically.)

What does endogenic mean? Endogenic, in this context, tends to get summarised as ‘any system that forms for any reason aside from just trauma’. Which, when paired with the DSM definition for trauma, seems to encompass a lot of DID systems.

Except it is important to acknowledge that incredibly narrow definition of trauma is not the right definition. In fact, there is no ‘right’ definition of trauma in the same way there’s no ‘right’ definition of anything. However, in order to get as close as we can to right, its important to understand the context of the conversation being had.

When it comes to DID specifically, its important to recognise the context of what trauma means. Specifically the fact that the idea DID can form without trauma is rooted in things like the sociocognitive model of DID. This model is not saying DID is able to form without trauma, it is saying it’s not a real disorder and people are deluding themselves into believing they have it due to psychotherapy and media. It also says that those with DID who remember trauma are actually experiencing false memories caused by psychotherapy and media.

Pretty fucking ableist!

And the ‘natural multiplicities’ movement (the precursor to non-disordered plurality) was the exact same thing. Theorising that DID is actually a non-traumagenic and non-pathological experience, pushing for the demedicalisation of the disorder. You know, despite the fact that studies indicate it is a trauma response disorder and that, you know, it’s a disorder.

This is why people use ‘endogenic/non-traumagenic’ and ‘non-disordered’ interchangeably when speaking about DID, because it means the same thing in the context of DID. To say DID can be endogenic you’re saying DID can be non-disordered. You’re saying DID is not a disorder.

That’s why there’s such drama and discourse surrounding endogenics, because there’s a lot of really horrific ableism surrounding the idea of endogenic DID that a lot of the wider plural community perpetuates. Even just lumping DID in as inherently plural when plural is not inherently disordered pushes this same idea. That DID is not a disorder, that it’s just this natural thing or that people have been manipulated into believing they have it. It’s why people are so mad, because its perpetuating ableism we’re facing.

Do I agree with anti-endos? No! Because they all seem to further conflate DID and plurality which perpetuates ableism, and also a lot of them are jerks.

And like, look. Me? Personally? Not a big fan of the term traumagenic and I don’t use it to describe our DID. Not because our DID is non-traumagenic, but because it a) opens up the idea that non-traumagenic (and therefore non-disordered) DID exists, but also b) it creates this false understanding of how trauma relates to DID. It’s why we see that multigenic DID BS where people believe ANPs are non-traumagenic alters because they didn’t split from trauma.

DID is not traumagenic in the same way PTSD is. It’s a dissociative disorder that formed as a defence mechanism. I think the term adaptive is more useful in explaining it, but honestly there wouldn’t need to be a term if people stopped conflating the idea of being non-traumagenic with DID.

Even ANPs are adaptive, they’re there because they’re a part of the defence mechanism your brain adapted.

And also adaptive puts more emphasis on the fact that the disorder as opposed to the trauma that caused it. For some systems, uncovering blocked trauma memories and figuring out what caused their DID can be useful. For others, its seriously not. Like us, for example. Our psych has confirmed we show no signs of blocked or hidden memories in childhood, and we’ve figured out our DID probably formed primarily due to a lack of structure (or, as she put it, ‘chaos and discord’) in our life. Which was trauma because it seriously impaired our ability to develop as a child and caused us to have a life long complex dissociative disorder, but also is technically not trauma by things like the DSM definition. But regardless of what definition you use, it’s not appropriate to call it non-traumagenic or endogenic because that is synonymous with not-disordered when it comes to DID.

I swear this was meant to be more put-together than it is, but whatever. I hope this has clarified some shit for some people.

#syscourse #discourse #education #educational content #DID #actuallydid #dissociative identity disorder #long post #Oh boy howdy is this long #DID education #Is it crosstagging to put it in the endogenic DID tags? Is that wrong? #I'm not going to just in case

[idontknowwhattoputbuthi]

My counselor said that I have a dissociative disorder she said that she's going look at did critica to see if I might have it

#idk what to tag this as #did education #did community #dissociative identity disorder

[inkskinned]

the thing is that they're so fascinated by sex, they love sex, they can't imagine a world without sex - they need sex to sell things, they need sex to be part of their personality, they need sex to prove their power - but they hate sex. they are disgusted by it.

sex is the only thing that holds their attention, and it is also the thing that can never be discussed directly.

you can't tell a child the normal names for parts of their body, that's sexual in nature, because the body isn't a body, it's a vessel of sex. it doesn't matter that it's been proven in studies (over and over) that kids need to know the names of their genitals; that they internalize sexual shame at a very young age and know it's 'dirty' to have a body; that it overwhelmingly protects children for them to have the correct words to communicate with. what matters is that they're sexual organs. what matters is that it freaks them out to think about kids having body parts - which only exist in the context of sex.

it's gross to talk about a period or how to check for cancer in a testicle or breast. that is nasty, illicit. there will be no pain meds for harsh medical procedures, just because they feature a cervix.

but they will put out an ad of you scantily-clad. you will sell their cars for them, because you have abs, a body. you will drip sex. you will ooze it, like a goo. like you were put on this planet to secrete wealth into their open palms.

they will hit you with that same palm. it will be disgusting that you like leather or leashes, but they will put their movie characters in leather and latex. it will be wrong of you to want sexual freedom, but they will mark their success in the number of people they bed.

they will crow that it's inappropriate for children so there will be no lessons on how to properly apply a condom, even to teens. it's teaching them the wrong things. no lessons on the diversity of sexual organ growth, none on how to obtain consent properly, none on how to recognize when you feel unsafe in your body. if you are a teenager, you have probably already been sexualized at some point in your life. you will have seen someone also-your-age who is splashed across a tv screen or a magazine or married to someone three times your age. you will watch people pull their hair into pigtails so they look like you. so that they can be sexy because of youth. one of the most common pornography searches involves newly-18 young women. girls. the words "barely legal," a hiss of glass sand over your skin.

barely legal. there are bills in place that will not allow people to feel safe in their own bodies. there are people working so hard to punish any person for having sex in a way that isn't god-fearing and submissive. heteronormative. the sex has to be at their feet, on your knees, your eyes wet. when was the first time you saw another person crying in pornography and thought - okay but for real. she looks super unhappy. later, when you are unhappy, you will close your eyes and ignore the feeling and act the role you have been taught to keep playing. they will punish the sex workers, remove the places they can practice their trade safely. they will then make casual jokes about how they sexually harass their nanny.

and they love sex but they hate that you're having sex. you need to have their ornamental, perfunctory, dispassionate sex. so you can't kiss your girlfriend in the bible belt because it is gross to have sex with someone of the same gender. so you can't get your tubes tied in new england because you might change your mind. so you can't admit you were sexually assaulted because real men don't get hurt, you should be grateful. you cannot handle your own body, you cannot handle the risks involved, let other people decide that for you. you aren't ready yet.

but they need you to have sex because you need to have kids. at 15, you are old enough to parent. you are not old enough to hear the word fuck too many times on television.

they are horrified by sex and they never stop talking about it, thinking about it, making everything unnecessarily preverted. the saying - a thief thinks everyone steals. they stand up at their podiums and they look out at the crowd and they sign a bill into place that makes sexwork even more unsafe and they stand up and smile and sign a bill that makes gender-affirming care illegal and they get up and they shrug their shoulders and write don't say gay and they get up, and they make the world about sex, but this horrible, plastic vision of it that they have. this wretched, emotionless thing that holds so much weight it's staggering. they put their whole spine behind it and they push and they say it's normal!

this horrible world they live in. disgusted and also obsessed.

#this shifts gender so much bc it actually affects everyone #yes it's a gendered phenomenon. i have written a LOT about how different genders experience it. that's for a different post. #writeblr #ps my comments about seeing someone cry -- this is not to shame any person #and on this blog we support workers. #at the same time it's a really hard experience to see someone that looks like you. clearly in agony. and have them forced to keep going. #when you're young it doesn't necessarily look like acting. it looks scary. and that's what this is about - the fact that teens #have likely already been exposed to that definition of things. because the internet exists #and without the context of healthy education. THAT is the image burned into their minds about what it looks like. #it's also just one of those personal nuanced biases - #at 19 i thought it was normal to be in pain. to cry. to not-like-it. that it should be perfunctory. #it was what i had seen. #and it didn't help that my religious upbringing was like . 'yeah that's what you get for premarital. but also for the reference #we do think you should never actually enjoy it lol' #so like the point im making is that ppl get exposed to that stuff without the context of something more tender #and assume .... 'oh. so it's fine i am not enjoying myself'. and i know they do because I DID. #he was my first boyfriend. how was i supposed to know any different #i didn't even have the mental wherewithal to realize im a lesbian . like THAT used to suffering.

[nerdpoe]

Danny is about to be kidnapped in Gotham This is not a good time.

He's studying for the SAT, he's already been kidnapped by Vlad like, four times that week and it was a fucking Tuesday, he forgot his wallet at his new apartment, locked himself out of said new apartment (he could phase through the door but that wasn't the point), he's just been informed that the grant he applied for was denied so he needs to ask his mom and dad for college funds when he'd already told them he had it covered, and just...it was shit.

It had been shit. The entire week had been awful and annoying and he was ready to either murder everyone on the planet or go find a corner to cry in for the next three days.

So when the band of wild goons working for whatever villain of the week pulled up and tried to kidnap him, he snapped.

He used them to vent.

Shouted about how terrible his day had been, how terrible his week had been, how he'd already been kidnapped by his creepy godfather who was way too into him, how college funding was shit and the grant system was rigged, and how he'd have to call a locksmith or break down the door to his own apartment if he wanted to go to bed-all of it. He unloaded all of his frustration.

The goons actually backed off.

One of them gave him an awkward side hug and told him it'd get better.

Danny wasn't paying attention to his surrounding. He doesn't realize that the whole thing was livestreamed.

So when he gets home to his apartment later that day, his door is opened for him by the vigilante Spoiler before he can even turn intangible.

She brought over BatBurger and kidnapped Bruce Wayne, Gotham's bumbling Prince, to talk about college grants.

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #phanfic #story prompt #steph watched the livestream and felt GREAT SYMPATHY #so she actually did trick bruce into coming with her and breaking into an apartment as bruce wayne instead of batman #told him it was an important job #he clued in that it wasn't crime related after she told him to stay put so she could get food #sure fuck it he'll give this rando kid a grant #he'll pay for the whole thing education is important #literally no one looks into the whole “i've already been kidnapped four times this week” thing #cuz everyone gets kidnapped in gotham #well almost no one looks into it #jack and maddie fenton do when they see the clip #vlad learns the hard way not to piss off the people who design weapons specifically meant for you

[samglyph]

They gave the stoat a degree

#this stoat got a better college education then I did #burrows end #burrows end spoilers #d20 #dimension 20 fanart #this episode did make me cry as usual so I am coping with the sillies #my art

[7amaspayrollmanager]

Alright let's imagine a scene that is all too normal in palestine. A palestinian business owner finds his building covered in graffiti stars of Davids and Hebrew that says "gas the arabs" and "death to arabs"

Now imagine there's a reporter there and asks the palestinian business owner what happens and they say "the jews attacked my business"

Pause. Now your response might be "uncle no. Say israelis not jews" and then this is when he would look at you like youre stupid because the israelis doing this are jewish. They are not the Christians or the druze or the palestinian ones with Israeli citizenship. They are Jewish israelis who believe in their religious supremacy. When you graffiti stars of david all over a palestinian business, car, or the street you seek that conflation. it sends a message, this is jewish land and you're next.

The problem is that these videos circulate in zionist circles. "Watch this video of children in gaza calling for the death of jews" "watch how they say they want to fight and kill jews" those children are referring to Israeli soldiers that come in night and do their raids with the star of David attached to their uniform or the ones that bomb them. It's easy to watch those videos and assume that palestinians are indoctrinating their children on anti semitism or you can realize that those children's only interaction with jewish ppl is through violence and parents cannot protect their children from this. Doesn't matter context is lost

Abby Martin went to Jerusalem and interviewed israelis for 2 hours and she says every israeli was extremely confident to say that this land is for them and that they should push the Arabs out and when she interviewed palestinians they spoke of freedom from occupation and their dreams. That's reality. Not the soundbites.

And yet we have invasive youtubers and interviewers constantly in the street of ramallah or wherever in palestine asking palestinians "do you hate jews?" And in those videos you hear those palestinians say "no we have no problem with jews we have a problem with occupation and we have a problem with zionism." Bc this is how we are trained to respond to this trope. Palestinians are very aware what the world thinks of us and the reality is that many palestinians have internalized it and we grow up reading books on the Holocaust and train ourselves to recognize anti semitic dog whistles so zionists don't get the soundbites they want.

So we say "anti zionism is not anti semitism" and we say "israeli zionists" and we do not say "jewish supremacy" even thought it exists in palestine but "zionist supremacy" and in these carefully worded speech we water down what is happening to us in an effort to not deter people away from solidarity. But it means nothing. The world categorically blames palestinians for rising anti semitism they blame us for jewish insecurity globally.

[b4kuch1n]

study of this masterwork

#wayneradiotv #rtvs #sonic the hedgehog #after '''''typesetting'''''''' this thing I almost forgot how to spell hedgehog #the caption is fully unironic btw this is for educational purpose. its very fun to draft a comic from an existing ''thumbnail'' it turns ou #but also I just love comics dude. I just love sequential art its so cool to see how anyone arranges things in their own comic #like. wayne's sprite on top of the ''what!!'' speech bubble. really fucking good #little bit sad I couldnt catch the streams live even tho they did run in my timezone... bc Im bad at sleepin #but! Im gonna try and set an alarm this weekend. wanna hang out for a bit #also yeah all dialogue in this is accurate to the original. no use fixing whats perfect as they say #debated printing this out and scuffing the paper with eraser and then re-scan it. for authenticity. but Im tired and dinner soon so #sorry cosme my friend cosme I couldnt commit. I couldnt do it.... #anyways yeah. I dinner now #have a good day lads! what u see truly is what u get

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

*tries to organize my thoughts*

*remembers i'm not in school and therefore beholden to neither heaven nor hell nor any man's grading system*

*joyously shredding & tossing all my carefully arranged 3x5 mental notecards into the air like so much beige confetti. raising my arms in victory, cheering raucously until i accidentally inhale bits of homemade confetti*

(*coughing up itty bits of paper like a cat evicting a hairball with a firm understanding of tenants' rights*) wait wat happens next

#i marie kondoed my thoughts and *i* feel great. but now my stream-of-consciousness has escaped containment #so many innocent bystanders at stake #every time i try to organize my thoughts i run out of plastic bins and have to make a trip to the container store where i get even more dis #racted so. you can't just hand me THIS brain and NO catalogue OR library classification system #and expect me to single-handedly sort through all this nonsense? bad form but fucking form not in my job description #aNYways. formal education sure did a FUCKING NUMBER on us huh #(a number i measure not in gpa or dollars of student debt. #but in the number of therapy sessions & medical debt it will take to recover.) #seriously folks. our education systems are...innately traumatizing for a huge number of students. and we NEED to address this. #the fact that it is culturally common for adults to have anxiety nightmares about school/exams...even decades later? #that is not cute. it is Alarming. #no one--much less entire generations--should be spending their developmental years in an environment of chronic stress & pressure & strain #and yet that is the reality for millions and millions of pre-teen and teenage and young adult students #this isn't healthy and it serves and empowers NO ONE #...except of course the many exploitative educational & financial & debt-collecting institutions thriving from the current balance of power #and of course it's a nefarious and powerful way to sabotage/erase the middle class #which billionaires and the wealth-inequality creators they finance couldn't possibly have any noteworthy interest in whatsoever #it's not like there's an elite group of people with huge financial incentives to drain/steal resources from the masses... #anyways sorry for going all Conspiracy Theory on you. #obviously the billionaires who control the vast majority of our resources and news and political campaign funding #are not tied to every single itty bitty social issue and i'm a silly billy to imply it #please tell elon musk to ignore this tweet i am so subservient and acquiescent #mr musky u r so good at inheriting slavery-built mining fortunes & buying other people's companies #& building rocket ships & fancy cars that do NOT explode/catch fire & also NOT running billion dollar companies into the ground #mr musky u r so talented genius billionaire playboy with 10 kids and ex-wives who find you creepy af babe u r basically iron man

[bananakeiky]

genshin be like trans kid with mommy issues gets a new mommy

#scaramouche #wanderer genshin #genshin #genshin impact #nahida #he's canonically trans to me #wow that angry boy who did not live up to his mother's expectations was thrown out #and caused chaos because he was never accepted by his family and peers?? #doing illegal things to change his physical form and in the end found love and acceptance with a caring individual? #who helped him get a college education and accepting peer group who admires him?? #and found that he could be loved for who he is?? #wow

[ultimateinferno]

In today's Adventuring Party it's mentioned that Fabian's first experience with the other dance bards was basically a sink or swim acceptance of their Thespian Energy™. The only way to survive was to embrace the shameless absurdity of the situation or be destroyed. Fabian succeeded.

As I thought about the Gorgug's talk with Porter , it might be a similar situation, but with Barbarians. Porter outright told Gorgug that he doesn't embrace his own rage, and it's self evident throughout their conversation. No well worded argument as to why Gorgug should multiclass would have ever convinced him, I think. When Porter mishandles Cloaca, Gorgug tries to politely correct him before simply giving up.

In this instance, Porter has made himself a massive wall blocking Gorgug's desires, and is being incredibly unfair to Gorgug. What does Gorgug do? He simply accepts it. Gorgug will rage and put his blood on the line for his friends, but has some issues with standing up for himself. I can think of two, maybe three instances where he has. 1) The first fight with Fabian. 2) When he slams Ragh into the lockers. And 3) when he tries to correct Telemaine on how to pronounce his name and that one was a purely verbal conversation that went nowhere.

In short, I think the correct answer to the conversation was for Gorgug to get mad. To respond to the clear unfairness and go "Hey fuck you!!" To punch through that wall and go "This isn't a fucking question, I'm going to multiclass." In the end, Gorgug still has yet to embrace being a barbarian.

#now is this a good solution for a teacher to be teaching? #probably not! solving solutions with pure aggression is a terrible way to go #and not everyone is educated in the same manner. so for porter to go hard and fast on it is not the way with Gorgug. #but simultaneously gorgug did give up way too easily throughout the conversation. #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #dimension 20 #d20 #i don't think porter is a good teacher #i don't think he's a bad teacher #he's just unfair. #is that on purpose? potentially

[faesystem]

Given I have seen people say DID is not usually caused by trauma, here is a bit of educational content. If you have any sources that you believe disprove these you are absolutely free to share, but I do request you consider if they actually disprove these things.

There is currently no empirical evidence to support the idea that Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) can form naturally without any sort of trauma or adverse experience. DID is believed to be a disorder that results from severe and repeated trauma, rather than a naturally occurring phenomenon (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2013; Nijenhuis, 2014).

Recent studies have provided further support for the trauma model of DID. For example, a study published in 2018 found that individuals with DID reported significantly higher levels of childhood trauma compared to individuals without DID (Brand et al., 2018). Another study published in 2019 found that childhood physical abuse was a significant predictor of the severity of dissociative symptoms in individuals with DID (Borowiecka-Kluza & Domowicz, 2019).

In a recent review of the literature on DID, published in 2020, the authors concluded that "the presence of severe and repeated interpersonal trauma in childhood is the most commonly reported and well-supported etiological factor for DID" (Myrick et al., 2020, p. 114). The authors noted that while some studies have reported cases of DID in the absence of overt trauma, these cases are rare and typically involve some form of neglect or emotional abuse.

In summary, the current scientific evidence supports the trauma model of DID and there is no empirical evidence to suggest that DID can form naturally without any sort of trauma or adverse experience.

References:

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing.

Borowiecka-Kluza, J., & Domowicz, K. (2019). The association between childhood trauma and dissociation in adult patients with dissociative identity disorder. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 20(4), 492-506. doi:10.1080/15299732.2019.1577442

Brand, B. L., Lanius, R. A., Vermetten, E., Loewenstein, R. J., Spiegel, D., McNally, R. J., ... & Middleton, W. (2018). Where are we going? An update on assessment, treatment, and neurobiological research in dissociative disorders as we move toward the DSM-5. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 19(5), 555-573. doi:10.1080/15299732.2018.1464956

Myrick, A. C., Webermann, A. R., Loewenstein, R. J., Lanius, R. A., Putnam, F. W., & Brand, B. L. (2020). Advances in the treatment of dissociative identity disorder: A review of recent research. Current Psychiatry Reports, 22(12), 1-13. doi:10.1007/s11920-020-01177-y

Nijenhuis, E. R. (2014). Dissociation and trauma: An update on the theory. In P. F. Dell & J. A. O'Neil (Eds.), Dissociation and the dissociative disorders: DSM-V and beyond (pp. 107-130). New York, NY: Routledge.

A note of consideration: I used ChatGPT to help me locate the sources and construct the explanation of their contents in an accessible manner. This does not invalidate the actual contents of the study, but I believe it is important for the sake of transparency. You are by all means free to look and see if this summary was a correct portrayal, and I actually encourage you to do so as fact checking is important regardless of the involvement of AI.

#syscourse #discourse #education #DID education #educational content

[idontknowwhattoputbuthi]

My counselor said that I have a dissociative disorder she said that she's going look at did critica to see if I might have it

#idk what to tag this as #did education #did community #dissociative identity disorder

[captainkirkk]

How long was it between when Iroh convinced Zuko to take up the Fire Throne, and Sozin's comet? A day? Less??

AU where Iroh convinces Zuko to be the next Fire Lord MUCH earlier in the series. Zuko, who hasn't been in formal education since was 13yo, understandably panics. He barely remembers his lessons on How To Be the Fire Lord, and they were all focused on how to rule during wartime. Not peace. What does an international peace treaty even LOOK like and how does one go about making it???? How does trade work when you're NOT trying to eradicate every other nation????

Book 3 Zuko spends all of his time teaching Aang firebending, interrogating the other members about their culture's traditions and politics, going on Blue Spirit journeys to raid any passing libraries, and reading everything he can get his hands on. He barely eats. He doesn't sleep. He's info dumping about the DRIEST political texts. The gaang are THIS close to holding an intervention or having Toph sit on him until he sleeps.

#the gaang: morning zuko how did you sleep? #zuko (600 pages into an ancient text on the economic significance of grain farmers in the rural earth kingdom): a... agriculture.... #avatar #atla #atla headcanons #i am obsessed with feral nerd zuko #the kid finished formal education at 13!!! against his will!!! #i know iroh was probably teaching him as much as he could but ngl zuko was NOT gonna sit and listen for long when he had an avatar to find #he's panicking and info dumps about ancient international law the second someone looks at him #hakoda is worried about zuko being nervous around him since he's a Father Figure #but zuko skips straight past the trauma and zeroes in on hakoda being an actual political leader!!! who knows stuff!!! #teach him sifu hakoda!!! #my posts

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy Halloween and Wei Wuxian day!

#better drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #digital art #I'm trying to practice digital art more - initially wasn't going to draw anything for today....I simply couldn't rest until I *did*. #I'm starting to get the hang of it ! #I find traditional *much* easier especially with colouring. It still feels very...off to me. #The noise filter helps retain some of the texture I find digital lacks! More experimentation needed though. #Original draft for their costumes was 'Groom of Hanguang-jun' and 'Bride of The Yiling Lazou'. #Y'know; like those 'bride of Frankenstein' and 'Frankenstein's monster' sort of couple costumes. #Their costumes now are 'Well educated lady with land someone wants (and it's the 1600s)' and 'Werebunny'. #Every costume wwx ever puts on has a full backstory and lore to it. Even if its just a hat and fake mustache. #Okay I'm on break NOW. I will return when my long comic is done.

[reality-detective]

Interesting 👇

{Amethyst}💜💜

Since it’s February, Amethyst considered the birthstone of February. Did you know that Amethyst can be used to radiate into water and the water itself then has the frequency.? Try using amethyst water before going to sleep. 🤔

#pay attention #educate yourselves #educate yourself #knowledge is power #reeducate yourself #reeducate yourselves #think about it #think for yourselves #think for yourself #do your homework #do some research #do your own research #ask yourself questions #question everything #amathyst #self healing #healingfrequency #you decide #did you know #crystals