#or on a therapy couch

[risingchaos]

There’s something to be said about the difference in Bruce and Dick and why they put on the mask.

Bruce believes Batman is his true self. That Batman is who he needs to be, what he needs to be to save everyone. Batman is all his dirty tricks, all his dark desires, all his deepest secrets laid out for the underground to take note of and fear. Bruce has stated on numerous occasions that Bruce Wayne needs to die in order for Batman to live.

Dick believes that Nightwing is the best parts of him. Nightwing is the cheer, the light at the end of the tunnel. Nightwing is what Dick wants to be. Nightwing is the silly quips and the cool gadgets and the parts of Dick he holds on to out of fear of what would happen if he lost them. He sees Nightwing as a hero, something he gets to be and a tool he can use to help the betterment of the world.

They both desperately need their alter egos, just to be able to stay whole, but Batman’s mask is Bruce Wayne, and Dick’s mask is Nightwing.

#dick grayson #dc #batman #batman and robin #nightwing #bruce wayne #i just think they're neat #I want to put them under a microscope #or on a therapy couch #see what happens

[abyssruler]

melusines and misunderstandings

neuvillette x gn!reader

you ask neuvillette out on a date, but as always, fate conspires to give the prettiest faces the most oblivious minds. luckily for him, the melusines are there to offer feedback as his pseudo-therapist.

Neuvillette thinks you have a crush on Lyney.

He doesn’t begrudge the magician for capturing your heart, not when it paints a lovely look on your features as you stared up at him with stars in your eyes and asked him if he could accompany you to the twins’ latest magic show.

He says yes, of course, if only so he may see they way your face lights up in a brilliant smile. His cheeks flush a light shade of red when you grasped his hand in gratitude and told him to meet you tomorrow in the afternoon.

Later that night, he lays on his couch with a distinctively depressed air.

“It’s a date!” One of the melusines tries to reassure him, the rest of them chirping their agreements as they crowded around his slumped form.

“It is not,” he tells them solemnly, “the magician Lyney is the person they want to see.”

“They could have gone alone, but they asked you to come watch the show with them. It must mean that they want to spend time with you, Monsieur Neuvillette!” A chorus of yeah! and yes! come after that proclamation.

Neuvillette isn’t convinced, but for the sake of the melusines, he will put on a brave face and pretend that he believes them. If only so they will not worry anymore.

“Yes, I suppose all of you are right.”

✧

They were, as it turns out, right.

You laugh, a hint of incredulousness and amusement in your voice.

“Wait—you think I like Lyney?” You dissolve into another fit of giggles.

Neuvillette finds himself at a loss for words. “So… you do not like him?”

“No!” You gasp, as though the idea of liking Lyney was an outrageous thing. “I’ve given you so many clues! How have you not realized it yet?”

He blinks, tilting his head in confusion, but an idea begins to form in the back of his head. Hope and disbelief war inside him, but he needs confirmation from you to truly believe the thought that has formed in his mind.

You smile, equal parts fond and exasperated.

“I like you, not Lyney.”

And, well, he supposes Lady Furina’s claims of him being an oblivious nut has more truth to it than he once thought.

#just imagine neuvillette laying down on one of those long couches they always show in movies during therapy #with a gaggle of melusines surrounding him and listening to his woes #they’re used to it by this point #genshin x reader #genshin impact x reader #neuvillette x reader #gn reader

[voyagerprobe]

frontier psychiatrist is a phenomenal song if you love Saying Things

#lie down on the couch. what does that mean? YOU'RE A NUT! you're crazy in the coconut! what does that mean? that...that boy needs therapy.

[buckleydiazmp4]

not to get all "actually☝️" about it but. the whole point of this is the fact that it isn't at all eddie's fault and buck just doesn't know how to properly process or recognize his feelings and know what he's missing *until* he gets presented with a specific situation. in truth buck has no right to be mad at eddie for building bonds with other ppl and it's why he has to do some introspection. this is not a "oh no poor buck eddie apologize to him!!!" thing, it's about buck getting, for lack of a better term, a good emotional humbling. eddie deserves good friendships and relationships, full stop. and if he likes the way he feels when he hangs out with tommy then great!! he's his own person and not a tool to further buck's character. but you also can't expect buck to immediately recognize that because, again, and for the millionth time, the whole POINT is that he doesn't. so if it has to get ugly and uncomfortable and embarrassing for him to do so then that is what will happen and that doesn't make either of them bad people. this is not a blame to be passing around. it's just them being human beings

#and now for a more controversial opinion im the tags: #ppl who are saying that everything that happens to eddie is always made about buck in the end. ummm. i really don't see it?? #eddie has had his own moments of introspection and emotional journeys #(single parenthood. death of his wife. ptsd. therapy. just off from what i remember) #and buck has as well #(sex addiction. issues with his sister and his parents) #and if you don't think buck deserves an ACTUAL emotional introspection instead of the surface stuff that has gotten nowhere before #(couch. multiple girlfriends that he breaks up with after a couple episodes. etc) #then idk what to tell you. you just might not like buck at all #and i say this as a total eddie girl. because i have been since i watched s2 and onward #what is your mania with comparing them? jesus christ some of you just dont know how to appreciate characters without arguing against others #and i'm kinda getting mad now #disk horse #911 #911 spoilers #911 abc #eddie diaz #evan buckley #tommy kinard #buddie

[aha-chuu]

So many Kavetham thoughts

I wanted to discuss Alhaitham and Kaveh’s canonical relationship now that we know all of Kaveh’s character stories and voicelines. I will not be going into event or quest leaks since I have not seen them, so rest assured this is just the information from Kaveh’s profile.

Short summary: Alhaitham is two years Kaveh’s junior, and Kaveh befriended him out of curiosty, since so many people had a low opinion of him. Kaveh himself described Alhaitham as his “best friend” at this time, and when they met it was when Kaveh had just started living on his own for the first time (an arrangement he very much disliked, thinking of home as a “cold and lonely” place). They end up working on a project together along with several other scholars, but all but them gradually drop off as they cannot keep up with Alhaitham and Kaveh’s overwhelming intellect.

Kaveh attempts to help his peers, stretching himself very thin and burning out as he takes up their workload so that they do not fall behind. It actually reminds me of Alhaitham’s story quest, where the scholar doing all the work behind the scenes is unappreciated and eventually hits a breaking point, taking his own life. Before Kaveh can get to such a point, Alhaitham confronts him:

“ Kaveh maintained that Alhaitham was too much of an egoist, that he could be much better welcomed amongst people if he would just care about helping out more often. Alhaitham for his part pointed out that Kaveh's impractical idealism was just a flight from reality, and that it would come to be a burden on his existence someday, and the source of Kaveh's altruism was naught but his inescapable sense of guilt. “

And this is the beginning of the end. Alhaitham uncovers the reality that Kaveh’s altruism is not born of his selflessness, but instead out of guilt for feeling that he cannot inconvenience others the way he encourages others to inconvenience him. It is a cutting and blunt remark from Alhaitham, one that Kaveh cannot cope with:

“ Kaveh felt cut to the quick by someone who was his best friend. Alhaitham had seen through the reality that he had never been able to face, causing him to feel reality's bite for the first time “

And some people have pointed to this as the reason their relationship fell apart, that Alhaitham’s words were simply too severe and he ignored how they would make Kaveh feel. While it is true that Alhaitham does bluntly hurt Kaveh's feelings here, it took two people to split them apart - Kaveh's response is:

" Kaveh steadfastly declares that he regretted making friends with this all-too-intelligent person. The two parted ways in a single stroke. Alhaitham would remove his name from that thesis, while Kaveh would rip his copy of the thesis apart in a fury — only to put it back together with deep regret. He sensed that he would not be able to change his friend, with the reverse also being true. "

The nail in the coffin wasn't Alhaitham forcing Kaveh to face the reality of his life, but instead that was the catalyst for Kaveh declaring that he regretted his and Alhaitham's friendship. Considering Kaveh is Alhaitham's only friend (or at least, the friend through which he met all his other friends), I can only imagine how that would have felt. And ofc Alhaitham is an exceedingly rational person, but he does have feelings.

I thought that in their current relationship, Alhaitham had let go of most of his anger and Kaveh was the one still caught up in the past. After all, Alhaitham often seems teasing in his jabs, where Kaveh sounds more genuine. While this does still seem true to an extent, Alhaitham's line "where were you when Sumeru needed you most?" feels worse now we know that Kaveh was the one to renounce their friendship. They both were "abandoned" in a sense by all the people closest to them, but while that made Alhaitham reserved and self-reflective it made Kaveh cling on to those around him to avoid looking inward at himself.

And Alhaitham removing his name from the thesis, reflective of a clean break. Kaveh, on the other hand, tears it to shreds - he's spiralling, angry and guilty, but he also can't face the truths that Alhaitham exposed to him. It's important, imo, that Kaveh then repairs the thesis. I take that as an implication that he wants to repair their relationship, he just does not know how to. 

This can also be seen in Kaveh’s voiceline ‘About Alhaitham - It’s Complicated’:

“ Alhaitham helped me out a fair amount recently. If we were still as close as we were during our student days, then I'd be thanking him every chance I got. Now, though... I can't seem get a word of appreciation out of my mouth. Even if I could, I wouldn't want to give him the satisfaction. I guess you could say our relationship is something of a mixed bag these days? Honestly, with everything that's happened, it almost feels like the universe has been playing pranks on us... It's hard to make sense of it all... too much to process for one lifetime. I will say that it's not every day that you get to know someone like him — I just wish he could rein in some of the worst excesses of his personality. Okay, yeah, that's never gonna happen. “

I don’t think I can express how closely this links Alhaitham and Kaveh together. It’s not just old friends with differences of opinion; they quite literally make up parts of one another.

The reference to the ‘universe’ is intriguing - while Kaveh is a romanticist who would use this flowery sort of language, in Genshin fate is a thing that plays a huge role. And his confession that it’s too much for a single life time, on top of the fact that their research project was on King Deshret (of whom Kaveh and Alhaitham share qualities)... I am not saying there is a reincarnation situation, but but Genshin often does use characters to reflect their historical figures. 

 In Alhaitham’s character stories, it’s revealed he considers Kaveh a mirror:

“ Kaveh is a familiar face, similarly lacks familial attachments, and is the polar opposite of [Alhaitham] as a scholar — that is to say, an excellent mirror “

and now Kaveh seems to agree, as this is from the end of his character story 5:

“ Rationality and sensibility, language and architecture, knowledge and human feelings... Things that can never be integrated are what constitute the two sides of the mirror — indeed, of the entire world. “

I made a whole other post about this after Kaveh’s drip marketing, but there’s even more now. One thing I personally find quite relevant is their attitudes towards other people; where Alhaitham is an extraordinarily self-reflective individual, Kaveh obsesses over the lives of others. He speaks about wish to “rein Alhaitham in” and an important part of his arc through his character stories is recognising that: “the most unshakable part of one's past is a friend that will never change”. Alhaitham, on the other hand, obsesses over looking inward at himself, claiming that that’s the reason he enjoys Kaveh living with him.

Why are they so different in this way? Simply put: Kaveh is afraid of looking inward, of self-reflection because of the guilt he’s held onto for so many years. He’s extroverted and personable, he has no issue constructing the fantasy of his life for other people to see him through. But Alhaitham can look past all of that, like Kaveh says he’s the only one who truly knows Alhaitham, Alhaitham is the only person who really understands Kaveh.

But Alhaitham isn’t perfect - he’s so focused on himself because he can’t handle others. He doesn’t understand; he can’t comprehend why Kaveh acts like he does even they he knows him so well, and talks a big game about how emotions and logic combine to create human intention/action, but Alhaitham himself falls short of ever really getting it. To him it’s all a formula to be followed - he can get to the correct answer, but he doesn’t know what to do with it.

Kaveh writes in his journal about the project he and Alhaitham undertook, and it goes as follows:

“ Page 31: Some academic notes and architectural drawings. Postscript: "Our views are aligned, and they are complete." This line has been struck out. "Our views are contradictory, but it is through contradiction that more speculation and philosophy may be born." This line has been retained. Page 42: The cover of a thesis that has been torn up, then put together again. No postscript. “

Between them, there is this push and pull. They are completely alike but then entirely different. I’m not even talking specifically from a shipping point of view, their relationship is based around the idea that they are two necessary parts of one whole. Unironically, they would make excellent dual grand sages.

I’m really glad that Kaveh’s character stories dove into their complexity while not sacrificing Kaveh’s individuality as a character. In fact, Alhaitham talks about Kaveh way more in his voicelines than vice versa - perhaps a sign that Alhaitham is more at peace with their relationship? Kaveh believes that “Alhaitham never did perform a good deed unconditionally“ but in the archon quest, Alhaitham claims that he “does not keep track of favours”.

I think Alhaitham was hurt by Kaveh moreso than Kaveh was hurt by Alhaitham. After all, for Kaveh the painful part was being forced to reconcile with the reality of his life, it just so happens that Alhaitham was the one to reveal it to him. Meanwhile, Kaveh denounced their entire friendship just because Alhaitham told him the truth - that is a conflict based solely in their relationship.

They need to have an open and honest conversation, but Kaveh refuses to trust Alhaitham and Alhaitham never asks the right questions. It’s a genuinely tragic dynamic that could be rectified, if only either of them could do what they always fail to. If Kaveh could self-reflect on his own issues, he might be able to recognise that he’s partially to blame for their woes. If Alhaitham could truly attempt to comprehend Kaveh’s actions past “irrationality”, then he might get out of his own head long enough to wonder about how Kaveh sees him.

#genshin impact #Genshin impact leaks #alhaitham #kaveh #alhaitem #al haitham #kavetham #alhaiveh #haiveh #let them talk hoyo #what i could do with two hours and a therapy couch #probably nothing THESE TWO LIVE TOGETHER #imagine you live with you actual other half and you just never communicate #also the other half thing i have a deshret theory cooking #people though alhaitham was deshret kaveh was goddess of flowers #NOPE #they are both deshret and they represent different ideals #like kaveh wishing to be part of a collective in his stories #and alhaitham taking down the collective in his quest #and then the deshret golden slumber sitch #and kaveh has the theory and symbol stuff in common #while alhaitham is the EYE and has the combat skills based on the deshret stuff #because they are both!!! #i'm still screaming can you tell?

[cyanbeetle]

Diana epic compilation

#couch talks are the closest to therapy Clark and Diana ever get #my art #dc #dc comics #diana of themiscyra #diana prince #Wonder Woman #I love her so so so dearly…. #Clark is also there

[figofswords]

the post grad why did i get an art degree what am i even doing what do i want in life where am i going crisis has finally hit i want to. lie down in the dirt. or something

#WHAT AM I DOING!!!! #i get up i go to my stupid retail job i stick labels on bags they pay me fucking thirteen bucks an hour i come home i lie on the couch #too tired to draw in too much pain to go anywhere no energy to reach out to college friends to do anything fun #no idea where the even start with getting an industry job no clue what i even WANT at this point #trying to remember what i loved so much about comics i want it BACK i HATE this #WHAT IS THE POINT!!!! WHAT DO I WANT WHERE AM I GOING!!! WHAT COMES NEXT!!!!!! #there's no clear career trajectory i can't do freelance i need structure i can't work too much i need free time #my brain doesn't work every job requires me to move across the country the irs just took fucking three hundred stupid dollars from me #my friends live in different states i can't get a job without experience i can't get experience without a job #i can't work on my portfolio with no energy and no time and i dont have any money and everything is so expensive all the time #i can't get anywhere bc i dont drive and im too stressed to think about taking driving lessons again #and WHAT DO I WANT! #THE MOST INTERESTING THING I DO EVERY WEEK IS GO TO PHYSICAL THERAPY! #I AM EXCITED EVERY WEEK FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY!!!! WHY!!!!!!!! #anyway WHATEVER i need to go to bed #delete later #i got into spx. today. so. had to have a crisis about how i felt when i attended spx (energized. excited. a part of something. ambitious) #versus how i feel now (tired. unmotivated. kind of apathetic about art. disconnected) #i dont miss the stress of school but i miss being around other artists. ppl who speak your language and who want the same things you want #ppl who are excited abut art and that makes YOU excited about art. ppl who get you #i miss that i want that back #whatever. its 1am i gotta go shower i have an 8.5 hour shift tomorrow. wahoo. $13.50/hr lets go

[girlsjustwannahavefun444]

During my busy season I like to sing a lot. It’s the thing that really centers me and I don’t really get to share it with people enough.

Hopefully this song will help you all forgive me for being less communicative lately ♥️

#me #singing #me singing #vocalist #curvy girls #girlblogging #green eyes #tattooed girls #tumblr girls #red hair #thicc white women #selfie girl #daddy's good girl #anxious girl #green eyed girl #working girl #busy gal #busy girl #business gal #selfie gal #couch selfie #Snapchat selfie #billie eilish #lost cause #song #video post #music therapy #old video #my comfort thing #passion

[emmettland]

therapy went really well. :) she asked me a lot of questions and was very patient with me while i answered. i've never had a therapist tell me that i'm holding back my emotions while i speak...like, it checks out, but the amount of times she noticed it was surprising.

she ended our session by telling me that it seemed like there was a lot of heaviness and sadness inside me. which...yeah, checks out as well. i have a good feeling about her and we're set to meet every Thursday at 1 pm unless something changes.

#emmett speaks #and it's a REALLY nice place #especially for a place that takes government insurance #i've never sat on an actual couch during therapy before lol

[thelionheartedo3]

thinking about how absolutely funny it would be if the agency made ub go to a group therapy session

#everyone is squished onto one couch despite there being multiple seats. everyone is silent. no one will make eye contact. #the therapist keeps trying to talk to them and N just keeps turning it back on them like 'how is YOUR day going? :)' #ely voice: I can't believe we got an F in therapy I didn't know that was possible

[rinmemesuoka]

Kabru's Tormentous Nightmare has been keeping me entertained for days tbh. Wow it's such a positive change for your stifling helicopter mom to be making connections and building relationships with people her own age, maybe now she--hm? huh? what do you mean it's captain mithrun.

#they're that post about having one friend who can afford to go to therapy relaying the things they learned to the rest of the friend group #milsiril picking up that “guess it's too late now” missed-connection friendship thread and getting character development by proxy. #clearly a positive development for her! but that's kabru's mom and his weird kinda-co-worker. sitting real close on the couch. #as serj said on twitter he is incapable of taking this well

[carmybearzattos]

half the frozen food carmy burns when he’s sleepwalking is fish sticks… insert bad joke here about bears eating fish or whatever

#imagining him sitting on his ratty little couch eating fish sticks :( #that’s a baby in need of some therapy #carmy berzatto #the bear #the bear fx

[thedickgraysons]

i need to put azriel shadowsinger in a jar. and then i need a comically large single handle magnifying lens to stare at him with. and sometimes i will shake him up and down and other times i will simply study him like the little freak bug he is.

#acotar #azriel acotar #he is simultaneously so silly and also my nemesis #i want to kick his ass i want to throttle him dead #i want to sit beside him on a therapy couch with a notebook and study his thoughts

[transingthoseformers]

Megatron just stoicly reminding Thunderclash that he needs to discuss this with Rodimus in the morning when he's sober. He had to save Roddy from being used as a tedybear. "...in the morning when your sober," is his refrain.

Rodimus is so off his snark game that he just thanks Megatron and wanders off dazed muttering "Thunderclash? Thunderclash? I'm not his Sempai he's older than me."

Megatron fears he hasn't heard the last of this. Drift has to comfort his amica later, who is feeling things. Rodimus may be so stuned by this that he might have missed the fact he sat down next to Rung in a common area and started talking to himself.

Omg aww yesssssss

In the morning when he's sober indeed.

Thunderclash's opinion on Rodimus has not changed.

Rodimus of course will not forget this, he's got no idea if Thunderclash was serious about wanting him.

I am tempted to say Drift is encouraging about this saying Thunders is a good choice of boytoy, which sends Rodimus into a whole ass thing of "eVEN YOU THINK HE'S JUST THE BEST"

ohhh nooo surprise appointment time on the super couch

#maccadam #transformers #mtmte Thunderclash #mtmte rodimus #rodiclash #mtmte rung #mtmte megatron #mtmte drift #why do i get the vibe that rodimus would be the type to lay down on a couch during therapy while rung says he doesn't have to do that

[catiuapavel]

Baaa!

#lou plays unicorn overlord #anyway fun fact this goat became a therapy animal for a kid #the parents sent updates that he was now just sleeping on the couch like a house cat

[altschmerzes]

i feel like it's really extremely typical of Gav Altschmerzes that in the later timeline of the torture fic 'mac gets really into baseball and that is an actual component of his trauma recovery' is a legitimate plot point and consistent Thing. it truly does not get more specifically Me than that.

#I PROMISE THERE'S MINIMAL ACTUAL SPORTS IN THIS FIC #BUT THE SCENE I'M WORKING ON RN HE IS VERY MUCH LIKE. LISTENING TO AN ANGELS GAME #ON THE RADIO IN THE CAR IN THE PARKING LOT #TRYING TO CALM DOWN ENOUGH FROM A VERY EMOTIONALLY EXHAUSTING THERAPY APPOINTMENT #SO THAT HE CAN DRIVE HOME SAFELY #he's stuck at home on the couch for like #Several Weeks #so he uh. watches a lot of baseball. in that time. bc the thing about baseball you see is that there are one million games a week #gav gab #writing liveblog #fic: something to hold onto #'something' in this case being The Physics Of Pitching-