#just fully instinctively

[sleepy-devilz]

what if mudwings did an alligator death roll when they caught prey

#wings of fire #wof #mudwings #headcanon #alligator #i just think it would be interesting #like imagine clay just going absolutely ham when one of the DOD caretakers bring cows #just fully instinctively #probably would make the caretakers think he’s a monster even more

[twisting-in-wonderland]

Bye bye Sebek, :]

(he didn’t stand a chance, poor guy :[  )

#twisted wonderland #twst #sebek zigvolt #ace trappola #deuce spade #jack howl #epel felmier #art #ram's art #i am fully aware i am late to actually . noticing the poll- #i wanted to finish this earlier but i was tired :[ #anyways i'm just glad i got this done whilst sebek's birthday is still being celebrated in the game - it's comedic timing #'happy birthday! bye! :]]]]] ' #oh yea i did vote ace btw - the second i made the poll i immediately smashed that button :] #i have a 'bully ace' instinct embedded in my soul what can i say- #also shout out to this being my first time drawing all these characters except for jack- ... which. #now that i think about it i dont think i posted that whole drawing thing.. huh- #welp too late now :']

[disabled-dean]

HOT take but I am rotating a 27-year-old Mary in my mind, who isn't really fit for motherhood and doesn't stick around- but who blows through the bunker every once in a while with a group of rowdy young hunters and shitty gas station souvenirs, cleans her gun at the kitchen table, calls dean "baby", and leaves

#give me 27 year old Mart or give me death #like the dissonance here would have been soooooooo good can you imagine #Mary behaving almost exactly like Dean did back in the day (she's 27 dude) #but sometimes regressing into having a four year old #only her maternal instincts never aged past still illicitly living the life while having a toddler #but now dean is grown up and she doesn't have to take care of him or pretend to know how to cook #she just blows through town with shitty gas station souvenirs and the nostalgia for a life she wasn't equipped for #and is relieved to have gotten out of- one she relives a little heavily and doesn't have the tools to recreate or pantomime #also dean mommy issues winchester having to recon fully with a mother who is 15 years younger than him #spending his whole life yearning for motherhood and getting only a whisper #and having to face that #anyways that's the good supernatural that lives in my head #spn #Supernatural #mary winchester #mary posting

[incorrect-sunflower-sibs]

Lester: I’m such a man who leans in doorways. Relaxes against the counter. Drapes across a couch. Sprawls over an armchair. My spine isnt straight and by god neither am I.

#s: tumblr #I need y’all to reimagine every scene where Lester is sitting and talking to someone #and instead picture him sitting on a counter #or on the armrest of a couch #or seeing a table with two chairs and fully deciding to sit on the table #he complains about Meg but his gay instincts make him just as bad #trials of apollo #incorrect quotes #incorrect riordanverse #lester papadopoulos

[yubnubforhire]

The first half of episode 5 is sooo funny because first you have the hospital scene where Way tries desperately to turn Babe off Charlie by telling him about the brother reveal and being like see 😡 he was lying to you all along 👿 meanwhile Babe is just like 🥺 so he wasn’t cheating on me 🥰 the wedding is back on 🥰 🥰 and Way literally rolls his eyes because fuck that backfired

And then the next scene is Babe acting all petty like ‘oh don’t you need to cook for your bRoThEr you know your BrOtHeR Jeff that BROther’ while his internal monologue is clearly just rail me rail me rail me as evidenced by the fact that he melted after one (1) single whine from Charlie and proceeded to try to fuck him right there on that couch while being like 5 minutes out of the hospital

All the while detective Kim is in the background being the only one with a brain cell since everyone else decided to just lob accusations at Jeff before checking the fucking security footage that apparently everyone and their mother has access to

#pit babe the series #still on my Kim mvp agenda #he was fully within his rights to say fuck this shit I’m out #but he didn’t #because Kim is the best #pavel phoom #pooh krittin #kim minsu #yes I know that way accusing Jeff was just him trying to manipulate things in his favor again #but still the fact that their first instinct was not to CHECK THE FUCKING CCTV #when they were all wondering who fucked with the car #Alan please you’re supposed to be the adult #Gumpa would never do this 😤

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

examining your relationship with your art can be fun

but watch out

#examine too hard and you'll have a crisis #or *another crisis if you're like me #sometimes yeah i think about it too hard and then i get the intense prey instinct #to chuck my tablet into a field and then take off sprinting in the other direction #though i know id just come creeping back like a cautious but curious deer. get a little closer. run away #closer. jump back. poke the tablet and run away. come back and poke it again. #its the 'what am i doing? am i doing what i want to do? am i enjoying this? is it hurting me?' #will admit i have these thoughts every other day #ill have like a good bit of fully enjoying art & what im scribbling #and then suddenly ill wake up the next day and its terrifying and Too Much and huh??? HUH??? #i want to draw but im so so scared <3 but im being sooooo brave about it <3 #anyway i think we should all destroy our electronics and run screaming into the woods #OH MY GOD SOON I CAN DO THAT. #not the electronics - i mean the running into the woods part #oh im so excited. when its all too much i can just walk in nature with no one around #that Will fix me! for sure! #when the Art Fear™️ comes back i can just... go away for a few hours and touch some motherfucking grass #AND MAYBE FORAGE SOME CHICKEN OF THE WOODS. I AM DYING TO HARVEST WILD CHICKEN OF THE WOODS. #LITERALLY HAS BEEN A LIFE GOAL FOR YEARS NOW #when the Art Fear™️ creeps in i can get some big chickeney mushrooms and cook em up. refresh my soul.... #absolutely unprompted #but yeah sometimes i wonder if im drawing for myself or others. like drawing for others is fine but... i think there's a fine line #am i balancing it? am i Indulging enough? am i doing what i want to do enough??? #are my people-pleaser tendencies consuming me again? am i feeling Pressure? hm. yeah its crisis time #am i living how i want. am i enjoying how i want. am i interacting with welcome home the way i want to. #i think im going to go do the dishes....

[volivolition]

suggestion do you have... any wants? like obviously you do but like? suggestion my guy my ourple boy. both the easiest and hardest to write. you need a skill to say something to move conversation along but it doesn't fit any skill in particular? about 80% of the time you can have suggestion say it and it will make sense. but like actually characterizing him... how do i define you dude... what makes your character tick... urgh. i dont get you yet. im trying to understand but you are difficult.

#chemi chats #there are some skills that i just dont understand yet and that just means i have to work on their character study chapter #im reading his bio and i think suggestion is a good manipulator and it's instinctive and he tries not to feel bad about it? #he's clever!! charming!! friends with savvy and drama. planting seeds in the mind and coaxing them to grow towards him like he's the sun. #a crude oil reservoir lying beneath a carefully laid flower bed. taps into the roots. the plants don't know any better than to drink. #he's great at sensing what makes people tick and uses that to his advantage. he needs goals to look forward to so he knows how to best #pull the strings to get them there. otherwise he's a bit aimless. he likes being useful. and since influencing others is helpful #he just keeps doing it? because it's what he's good at. and he tries to convince himself its fun and cool and just cuz hes charming and #it's his role as a skill and manipulation isnt thaaaat bad because it's helpful to them after all... but he does feel bad sometimes. #oh im listening to his voice lines and i just got to ''brother you should have put me in front of a firing squad'' and im sad about him now #but what do you want for short term little guy?? probably for people to like him. he likes chatting with people. i bet he'd like genuine #conversations with no strings attached but there's always some part of him filing information and tidbits away that he can't turn off #subconsciously figuring out things he can hold over them or how he can nudge them into thinking someth-/wait.../ no. no he's just talking. #he's /supposed/ to just be talking stop analyzing them stop falling back into that just have a normal conversation!! but he can't help it.. #hm. this is all really helpful for his chapter. he and empathy are very alike but also different. very interesting... #task: swept up #okay good talk everyone i think i understand him a little better now lmao?? still gotta figure him out some more hes not fully there but ye #also i think he goes by whatever pronoun you think he'd use. just ''oh what do /you/ think i am hm?? what /would/ i use; do you think?? :)' #funny fella. i love you.

[helennorvilles]

it's interesting looking back on dale's apartment (cozy and warm and filled with SO much personality) and then knowing that when they move in together, you don't see much of a change to helen's house. you don't really see any dale in there.

#i'd be interested to see how he fully decks out his new house in season 3 (if we get to see it......) #but anyway my instinct right now is that much like they are professionally #dale just.... defers to helen #of course i love the dom helen sub dale jokes as much as the next gal #and i don't think it's necessarily purposeful from helen #and im sure dale isn't really..... fighting back for lack of a better term to have things be different #it is just..... so rare that we see dale Actually go against helen. we get a little bit in season 2 ofc #i want to see more. they need to be more comfortable doing that complete opposite with each other. #but still..... so much to consider here really #i do want to study helen's home in season 2 for the specific changes though. this is just a general observation still. #my post tag #nia watches the newsreader #the newsreader spoilers #the newsreader

[ragnarokhound]

#sometimes writing be like #i catch myself writing that metaphor in new work too and i have to slap myself #DO SOMETHING ELSE PLEASE I BEG #like. idk its the werewolf lover in me i guess #i just describe jason in animalistic terms on fully feral instinct #my writing #jaytim

[brittlebutch]

it's actually so fascinating to me that Brennan has created a character that maintains a pretty relaxed and mild-mannered demeanor and has said multiple times that the absolute Core of her is "FEAR" and how often we see this Fear manifest specifically in Avoidance; it really nails a relationship to that mentality where your brain fully Stops recognizing the emotion properly out of like, sheer self-defense from the stress of having to carry it all the time

I think this is also perfectly showcased in the way we tend to see Tula swing so suddenly from 'level and steady' to 'snarling Panic' and then back again - Just because your brain has detached itself from the Conscious Recognition of the emotion doesn't mean it can Actually stop itself from experiencing it. So the Fear is always there and always acting as a stressor, but because of that inability to Identify it there's no way to recognize or address it before that final straw hits and your bodymind jumps Straight into Full Meltdown Mode; but then once again, once you drop even a Little bit below that Peak Terror your brain ceases to process the emotion; it's like the most exhausting form of Poor Object Permanence in the world

And even if Tula is aware of this happening to her, that doesn't really make it any easier to deal with / address. Even if you're able to spot the symptoms Around the emotion -- chest pain, irritation, nausea, whatever -- because the Emotion Itself is basically impossible to find, you can't really Successfully Pin Down what the problem is OR a way to cope with it. If you can't figure out That You Are Anxious, then figuring out What Is Making You Anxious is impossible, which makes Find A Way To Make Peace With That incomprehensible. That's where the Avoidance comes in: you can no longer identify what might be a Dangerous Situation, which means that Anything New has a big potential to be Really Bad in a variety of ways (ranging "I don't Feel Good" to "Fully Lashing Out bc you've entered Fight/Flight and can't get out of it" to "Actual Outside Danger This Time") and that means the Only Way you know how to be Safe is to just Avoid Doing Anything New and Only stick to Familiar Situations, because anything unfamiliar is a monster of a gamble you don't know how to prepare for or cope with

#N posts stuff #one could argue ‘we see tula worry a lot tho’ but that’s bc Worry is an Action that can occur Separately from Recognizing Anxiety #now that I know tumblr will put a hard cap on your tags w/o telling you i'm resigning myself to posting rambling meta in post body #but i'm not happy about it; anyway i love how often life is full of Coincidences bc this is something I've Finally identified in myself #like. This Month. like this is brand new articulation for some of the problems i have in life; again knowing this doesn't help lmao #bc even when you know to look Around the shape of the emotion - like 'oh my face is Snarling rn. i'm probably experiencing Something' #like i said bc you don't know What that something is OR What might have caused it then the only solution you Ever get to come up with #is just 'fully retreat and go calm down somewhere else' which INVARIABLY means that you will wind up in that same situation again #and Still have no idea how to handle it bc you never could figure out what caused it so you don't know how to handle it any better than #'fully retreat and go calm down somewhere else'; so 'be somewhere else' is the ONLY way you can ever think to Help it #which usually invariably turns into 'Just Avoid Fucking Everything just in case'; which doesn't work! bc life doesn't let you do that #so then it's just a cycle of falling into the same pitfalls and feeling miserable all the time; gotta love it :) #if you're like me this also gives you Bad Bad Bad Memory bc your brain will Promptly hide evidence of Scary Situation instinctively #like 3 weeks ago this dude ran a red light and almost t-boned me Full Speed & managed to stop like. maybe 3 feet away. #and i like. Startled Laughed and said 'that was scary' and then within 30 seconds i had Fully Forgotten it happened & only remembered #like 2 days ago. Ha! believe it or not this Does Not Help with 'How can I Address the Problem instead of Avoiding It Entirely?' #dimension 20 #d20: stupendous stoats #tula #d20lb

[journey-to-the-attic]

I just had the stupidest Idea for the per zoo AU but hear me out.

Rad exchange program time and when the brothers find out that two humans will be brought down they just immediately go "IK." and so Diavolo obliges (but he tells them smth along the lines that it's a random picking to make it a sort of surprise)

The exchange day comes and Ik suddenly finds herself in a strange room....as a black baby sheep. (inspired by MC BC I feel like it would be so funny for IK to be the animal this time) and the brothers just look confused cause like why is there a sheep here.

AND IK JUST FULL ON STARTS TALKING and they have a very cool reunion (Also Ik is such a small sheep compared to those massive giants,she sits on Mammons head)

oh i love this so much. diavolo's silently SO excited for the big reveal, the brothers can finally stop moping when they think he's not looking, then POOF one of these shows up

lucifer has to restrain his brothers from just swarming her the minute they figure out what's going on, because she is so small that they might actually crush her

as opposed to talking normally though i think she'd still make animal sounds (like the brothers were stuck with), but their bond's strong enough at this point that they can sort of infer what the bleating means - failing that, they might get her a magical equivalent of those buttons that dogs use to 'talk'

they get her a bell so she jingles whenever she goes trotting around. also they still try to treat her like they do as a human, so she still gets her own room with a massive bed and her own seat at the table (though she inevitably ends up on someone's shoulders or something)

#answering asks #anon asks #jtta aus #pet zoo au #pocket-sized sheep who can and will go for your ankles if provoked #i got to hold a lamb in my arms like a baby once... they look up at you with such blind trust #lambs are just so cute in general just their big ol ears and how they never seem fully in tune with their legs #can only imagine the sort of farmer-who-would-die-for-their-flock instincts it triggers in the brothers #(who were already pretty strongly bonded to her to begin with) #although this time the exchange program would have to start a lot earlier #since pet zoo au occurs in a nightbringer situation and if all that time DID pass #ik's generation would be long gone by then

[soldier-poet-king]

i want to learn to dance. i want to learn to fight. i want to do something to truly learn to inhabit my body instead of having an uneasy, hateful truce on the best of days, and utter enmity on other days. perhaps i am a creature of the emotion and the mind. but i am a creature still

#this makes no sense but i saw a piece of art with a dancing couple and nearly burst into tears #not even ROMANTIC. it was just fun. joy. swing-ish #i just want to be alive. maybe that is it #the joyful self abandonment that comes with fully inhabiting the self #i want it. i need it #everything costs money and energy that i lack. alas #not to mention im alone. i dont have anyone to go learn dance WITH. am far too awkward and shy with strangers #i love touch but i am touch averse with strangers. idk why. a feral cat instinct perhaps #anyway. fight might be the option here. but still. i want that joy #its a macrocosm of the feeling when youre home alone and cooking with music on full blast #singing and dancing across the kitchen with a joy that can never be captured or explained #i will never be so happy as in those moments #mutuals move in w me i want a platonic dance partner. this is not a romantic overtone i really DO just want to dance #like old timey ppl had some fucked up social mores and we hate gender roles but dance as a social activity. oh they were so right abt that

[evermoredeluxe]

i know that my mutual knows something personal about me. brain breakdown.

#claire i trust you fully this is not a reflection of you #it’s a reflection of ME because i just don’t. share. #like i only told my best friend when i started failing this year because it was killing me to fail lmfao #my instinct to not share but being talkative at the same time is very extremely contradictory i should shut up #arshia talks

[vickyvicarious]

She is in gay spirits and full of life and cheerfulness. All the morbid reticence seems to have passed from her, and she has just reminded me, as if I needed any reminding, of that night, and that it was here, on this very seat, I found her asleep.

Yesterday, Dracula's boxes were delivered at last to his Carfax estate in London. Presumably, the Count went along with them. That was his plan from the first, after all.

Today, for the first time, Lucy talks about what happened to her. And not in a single thoughtful murmur to herself while possibly in a trance/flashback... she brings it up to Mina. The way she does so seems like she's trying to make light of a very frightening experience, but she's able to give details when asked. She is willing to talk further despite being disturbed by the memories. The morning after Dracula leaves, while sitting over the spot where he once

It's almost as though, with the Count gone, Lucy is released from some kind of magical compulsion to be silent.

#dracula daily #lucy westenra #not one i think she'd be fully aware of as dictated by something other than herself #more like she felt strongly that she couldn't speak about it. couldn't show anyone her neck. etc #like. there are overlapping reasons too of course. fear of scandal. trauma. seeing mina felt guilty. severe blood loss even. #i just feel like dracula is also a reason. one that makes all those others feel stronger bc it is an instinctive need to hide the truth

[disaster-demon]

☾ - tentative uncertainty

#ASTARION COME GET YO MAN BEFORE GALE CHARMS HIS UNDIES OFF FIRST #i didn't plan this i was fully intending to have rowan be with astarion i just #i really like gale ok #and i feel like rowan would be torn between better instincts with gale and harsher instincts with astarion tbh #so let's see how it plays out ig #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #bg3 tav #tav bg3 #bg3 oc #oc bg3 #gale bg3 #gale of waterdeep #bg3 gale #gale dekarios #rowan [oc] #tav x gale #gale x tav

[maeamian]

tbqh it's weird as hell to me that there's this given understanding about fictional aliens that they'd be surprised or confused by adaptability, but like, as far as we know and understand that is a fundamental quality of life itself not life on earth. In order to become a spacefaring species any spacefaring alien would've had to survive whatever space threw at them for billions of years as well as whatever their planet in specific threw at them, even the 'good' planet we know about is pretty fucking hostile to life. It's just implausible to me that like, among all the possible sapient species we'd be unique or interesting for the level to which we have the ability to adapt to situations, something that any biological creature of any origin would also need to survive long enough as a species to figure out how space works.

#I mean I also understand this is a common way to frame the mundane as interesting by stripping the normalcy of it #IDK I think the 'humans as space orcs' meta has gone too far #Like it's fine to examine humanity through that lens I think it's good to examine things like that #But then when you give that lens its own actual life you need to think a bit more for it to stay coherent #In many cases I think it completely ignores that it's making sweeping implications about non-human intelligences #In ways that just don't fucking make any sense #IMO at least #IDK I'm not positive I'm saying this in a way that makes sense but I'm right #What I'm saying is the parts of those posts that're like 'this is a neat thing about humans' are good and cool IMO #but the parts that are like 'and therefore an alien intelligence would find it impossible to comprehend' are weird and bad #Just seems like a really self-satisified way of looking at ourselves #Like you really think that no other alien species might IDK have a few instincts left over from the pre-sapience days? #They all just sprung from the stars fully formed beings of pure reason and science? #Just us we're the only cool ones in the whole fuckin galaxy huh