#revealing ourselves

[dellawren]

100 Days of Healing and it's day 2! Let's talk about being authentically ourselves and how pain plays into that.

#100daysofhealing #day2 #spirituality #healing #pain #authenticity #truth #revealing ourselves #self development #consciousness #awareness #Youtube

[seungminnnie]

love the dichotomy between felix and seungmin’s lab tests

felix: let’s have him do the things he loves (eating, gaming, hugging) and see how his heart rate changes 💞🥰✨😊🩷☀️

seungmin: let’s strap him to a pain simulator and see how well he can lie

#like hmmm…. what are we revealing about ourselves today boys #stray kids #skz #lee felix #kim seungmin #skz code #ksm #lyb #k speaks

[satans-knitwear]

So much to do ✨

Treat me ~ Tip me

#Not seen as much content from me lately??? Im having some bad health/brain times! But i really hope to change that. #Next week I shall hopefully have a lot more time and energy to dedicate to giving you guys all the attention you deserve ✨ #In the meantime lets look after ourselves and treat eachother deliciously as always ✨ #Satans knitwear #Alt pinup #Pinup girl #Lingerie reveal #Very much enjoy how the skirt almost appears to run into the corset. That was a fun coincidence #Coffee date kinda vibes. But i am just spending the day doing coursework and housework #Holdups #Holdup stockings #Strappy lingerie set #Underbust corset #bi girl #cheeky #wlw #I really wanna do some more stuff for my of as well. I need to write a list.

[chirpsythismorning]

Please do not believe leaks from fans rn y’all like be absolutely serious. I just read something off a notes app that censored milkvan, with this person acting as if they had some secret source.. and fans easily believing it and humoring it… pls do not be this dumb by humoring or spreading literal nonsense. I promise you, no one is getting play by play details and typing it all up in their notes app with fandom lingo 😭

One source online today said they got a spoiler, however they did not share it and have not shared it. They have said stuff in the past and been right about it. That’s it. They are not in the fandom. They have no connection to the fandom. Outside of what that person stated, there has been no other leaks. There’s just been fans in the tag posting shit like they’ve got a source, while laughing and mocking the ppl falling for it.

We don’t know if the original source is even real and that person doesn’t have any intention of sharing the spoiler either.

So please don’t read a notes app screenshot that was clearly written by a fan and give it credence. Otherwise everyday will be WIP Wednesday, except it won’t be, it’ll just be fans trolling each other endlessly 🤣

#byler #what I just saw y’all #and ppl actually believing it… #we need to get our shit together bc we are going to make ourselves look like idiots #on Twitter most of it’s being referred to as tumblr leaks… #like there are no leaks here #cherryperry trolling is not leaks #pls do not be this gullible #the last thing we need is ppl thinking we’re making fake leaks over here #when really we’re just spreading what we’re hearing elsewhere #from people who apparently got it here #the safe thing to do rn would to be to just censor the word leak or leaks honestly 🤣 #for one #last year they actually had a leaker and a discord and stuff laid out and revealed #and that was all stemmed from Reddit #there were some fans from other platforms that got to see those leaks #it just so happened it was very few #so a few fans acted like gods #when all they had was something a bunch of dudebros on Reddit had #most of it was lacking details #most of it was focused on the lab and Henry creel #if and when we do get leaks #it’ll be from the techy people who are on Reddit in the Hawkins AV Club sub #if they start freaking out about leaks #then u can start freaking out #ppl like us that spend our time making shit posts #do not have access to top secret leaker sources…

[llumimoon]

The Talk (page 8)

Doodler AU post || start || previous || next ||

Tehehehe <3 I’ve been waiting to get to this. It makes it SO much easier when Dot can talk for themselves lmao

This comic takes place shortly after the Doodler’s homunculus body was made. Lark and Sparrow try to figure out how they feel about the situation.

Dialogue under the cut!

Doodle: Happiness. Forgiveness. Henry.

Sparrow: …Dad?

Sparrow: He’s- how can you…?

#dndads #dungeons and daddies #dungeons and daddies season 2 #dndads s2 #the doodler #sparrow oak #doodle dot au #cal draws #thetalkcomic #this is where I reveal that my personal hc is that Henry died sometime between s1 and s2 when Normal was ~10 and Hero was ~13 LOL #I’m not gonna directly talk about it in this au though I don’t think #so it’ll be left pretty vague what happened to Henry #though the implication is that Lark and Sparrow don’t have contact w/ him atm #or that they don’t talk that much #I think this is also probably where I actually reveal what Dot said in page 6 #the last line that most of you couldn’t get was like vaguely referencing Henry btw LMAOOO #silver got the closest I think #they said: you can be happy too. we need to learn to forgive ourselves… he can’t bare to see the two of you like this

[rawliverandgoronspice]

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fighting everything cynical and spiteful in me because I still want to love and believe in people regardless of their flaws, but fucking hell I've hardly ever been tried on such a wide scale before. a lot of people, including people I really love, are making it really really hard to not only hold onto hope that there is a better future than this, but to feel like it's even worth it to try.

I had an inkling there would be a war on mental health on top of everything else going on, and thanks everything I am at a place in my life where it's not enough to send me tumbling down the deep end, but the thread remains thin. And it's genuinely super important to refuse to fall apart, it's absolutely necessary to find a way to persevere in the rise of a worldwide technofascist order because fuck them they don't deserve our despair, but. Yeah. I sincerely doubt it's going to get any easier any time soon, and given they're trying to destroy solidarity, to both monetize and punish self-expression and self-identity, mangle the essence of art and creation, force everybody into poverty and precarity, hunt down any indesirable in more and more unhinged ways and gradually restrict the consumption of everything... Yeah it's going to be a fucking nightmare moving forward.

My heart goes to everybody who's worse off than me on any of these topics, and who's already running on limited options and drained-out mental health. I don't know how to circumvent this entire situation we're facing, and specifically all the surgical ways they're trying to blot out hope and shut down solidarity. I just know it's absolutely necessary to find a way regardless.

#personal #cw mental health #cw The State of Things #might delete later but I just #yeah #we need to find a way #and to be honest #the fact that palestine didn't trigger a bigger reaction in the west makes me. so incredibly jaded. #not only the scale and depth of institutional racism has been revealed in a way that I find... suffocating #but also we are all so fucking stupid and we will be splattered against a wall and nobody will bat an eye when we're taken down one by one #and if we don't find a way to stop clinging to ourselves and no one else #and fight back the way capitalism desperately tries to keep us apart in unbreachable little corners #we won't make it #it's just that simple #and I find it WILD that this is considered a radical opinion #by other leftists!!! like what the fuck isn't that supposed to be our whole deal??? #yeah I don't know #I mean I do know #I'm not surprised #I know very very well people can turn out to be far less than what they praise unfortunately #but it's just soul crushing every single time #and this time the scale and the consequences are impossible to even fully grasp #anyway. yeah. I don't know there's not much to say honestly.

[roviniko]

she is the moment

#rovins thoughts #the best part of the livestream is the terri reveal lets not lie to ourselves #nrb #no rolls barred

[vanhelsingapologist]

The Sorority vs the leash I am putting them all on + Leo Dilisnya.

also yes our party is like 1/2 redheads. we used to have more. we thought it was funny.

#curse of strahd art #curse of strahd #curse of strahd pcs #our DM wouldn’t let us call ourselves Fake Out so we opted for the Sorority. #We used to be a party of entirely she/her pronouns with one he/him who we called our weed dealer #then we had a party member die and leave so we now have another guy. but the plot twist is that he’s actually a dealer. #and one of the members came out as nb #also. leo dilisnya. #this does not matter. the sorority is a state of mind #you’re a coward if you think otherwise #CoS: The Sorority #(of shadows) #there was a point where when Ireena was revealed to not be the Tatyana in our game (SAVED!!!) where we were all like #is it me? jesus? #our one off joke became real important #don’t test your DMs with your sillies guys #“Wouldn’t it be funny if we were all redheads?” #it wasn’t.

[turianmailman]

Hey I just wanted to tell you that I’m really uncomfortable with the fact you draw nsfw of duck and fakir, I really wish you wouldn’t cause even though their aged up in the drawings it’s still very icky to think to draw nsfw of those characters when they are minors in the show :( I don’t want to unfollow because your honestly such a huge inspiration to me as an artist so I just hope you’ll take this into consideration

Some things to consider:

It is perfectly understandable, and 100% okay, to be uncomfortable, with ANYTHING I create. How you feel about my art is valid and you should only ever follow me if you are comfortable interacting with what you see on this blog.

To follow up on number 1, I have no problems with you unfollowing my account for ANY reason. This is the internet. You set your boundaries. I would never want you to compromise your personal safety over my blog.

NSFW art will ONLY ever be shared on this account as a link to a locked twitter account that is NOT safe for minors. If the age of an account is not shared, I will assume you are a minor and block you. Any images shared are cropped and safe to share on this blog. I will also always tag these pieces with NSFT (Not Safe For Tumblr) so you can block the tags on these posts and avoid them.

It is also perfectly understandable, and 100% okay, for me to post whatever content I like about whatever I am interested in, regardless of how that makes YOU feel. Number 1 and number 4 CAN and DO coexist and both have validity.

Yes, they are minors in the show. No, the pieces I make are NOT of them during the canon timeline of the show.

"Aging up" a character happens in real life - its called "aging", alternatively, "time passing" which happens, to all of us, regardless of our current age. This is also a show about talking animals. We don't HAVE to obey reality and law, but I choose to in this context.

That out of the way, some personal thoughts:

The way I engage with these two characters, in particular, is very, very personal. I often inject what I did not get (a loving relationship with someone I can trust, the freedom to explore the relationship both romantically and sexually and be safe, fundamental milestones and experiences for first-time relationships) into their dynamics because that's how art works. We put ourselves into everything, stories do not happen in a vacuum. As a queer writer with a difficult-to-admit, traumatic experience with sexuality and romance, I think it would be incredibly cruel to ban both myself, and artists like me, from exploring what was denied us through characters that make us feel safe. Not to mention, for me at least, the media we consume grows WITH us. I was a minor when the show aired, and when I consumed it. They were minors with me. Now, they are consenting adults with me.

I do not share this with you, or anyone else, for pity reasons, but for context. I take character exploration very seriously, and try to help characters grow while honoring where they came from in canon. But even if I didn't, that would not stop me, nor anyone else, from having access to a basic right as an artist.

Tl;Dr -- I want you to feel safe, and I will install measures to make things that make you feel unsafe as optional as possible, above hiding what makes me feel safe. If that results in an unfollow, please honor both our boundaries.

EDIT: I will not answer any more asks expanding on this topic, as I think it’s redundant and I’m not interested in discussing the topic further - I appreciate your thoughts and concerns regardless 🙏🏻

#i hope you have a calm and peaceful day wherever you are #this will also be the ONLY ask I answer that is in this genre of question #as i think this wraps up my feelings on the matter pretty nicely #ive been on the other end of discourse like this but I've come to change my views on how we express ourselves in fandom #if something upsets you; you only have to leave #its that simple #so PLEASE please take care of yourself #people talkin #anon #not art #this is further incentive to get my ass on setting up that patreon LOLL #also umm.....i hate to break it to you..but if you enjoyed my pregnancy comic reveal with them....well..... #perhaps.....read a ..... sex ed book idk LOL #EDIT: I MEANT SAFE NOT UNSAFE GOOD LORD #also an added measure i have for this while not iron clad #is posting late at night in my timezone and avoiding timezone reblogs #so theres that i guess lOL #on the other hand im ..... also really proud that they come across as adults w/o me having to state it cause IM ASSUMING of how theyre draw #its also a little awkward to answer this on the heels of working on a comic about the intersection between this show #my personal experience and the trauma mentioned WOOPS #life is. weird.

[hearts-hunger]

me and my siblings won't go to therapy but we will make moodboards about how we perceive ourselves and how we perceive each other so that probably counts

#my sister and i roped our brother into doing it too kjsjhjbs #it's actually pretty revealing #and comforting to see how we see each other through affectionate and understanding eyes #and reassuring to see that our ideas of ourselves are sort of aligned with the perceptions of others #it's nice :) #maddie.txt

[solange-lol]

i am so scared of mr. beast au

its cj approved i promise its so normal and literally not mr beast at all

#the mr beast title is unexplainable. there are parts of ourselves we cannot reveal #ive just kept the title that way to scare people..... and here we are :3 #dreamy #answered

[a-chilleus]

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#will delete this soon but just momentarily very annoyed #at religious people who see atheists or people from other religions read their holy book or learn more about their religion #and assume that that will lead them to convert #and it's sometimes with good intentions like i just saw someone saying people outside of their faith have good hearts and therefore #when they read this faith's holy texts it'll click with us and we'll naturally convert #and sometimes it's kinda iffy like oh see our revealed knowledge says that people will convert to our religion in multitudes #but either way it misses this massive thing #which is that agreeing with a religion's ethics or finding an aspect of it beautiful #does not mean anything about whether you'll believe it's *true* #i would love to believe in an afterlife #i cannot #i cannot make myself believe in something if i am not personally compelled by the evidence #there are many beautiful things in many religions but appreciating them does not change my fundamental lack of belief #in anything that defies the laws of physics #i don't say that to denigrate religious faith as irrational #if you are compelled by the evidence and have thought about your beliefs and come to the conclusion that eg god(s) are real #that's great! you're not an irrational or stupid person we just see things differently #but please give us atheists the same grace #please respect our lack of belief as something we cannot change about ourselves #just as you won't go 'ohh shit god's not real after all' overnight just because we tell you that's what we believe #idk mutual understanding and an end to proselytizing from ALL parties would go a long way imo

[jamboreeofsurprises]

im really stoked about the new album dont get me wrong i just wish the album art and tracklisting hadnt already been leaked weeks prior to the formal announcement....

#it was one of those things where just talking about it privately amongst ourselves was inevitable #but then people kept plastering it all over twitter despite the fb fangroup receiving requests from the band to take it down #i feel bad for them cuz getting your surprise revealed by someone else is never something that feels good #journal

[trashlie]

FP 202

There’s just a couple last thoughts I’d like to spit out before we move to 203, if I can, and this one in particular is something I didn’t get a chance to get to in my last post, one that I think both embodies the overall theme of ILY and I think hints at things to come yet. 

“Everyone’s got their own struggles. No matter how good you may think they have it. Remember that.” 

Shimhan’s words to Shinae in the hospital are significant because they demonstrate one of, if not the core, message that ILY has been telling us from the start. Even though it looks like some people may appear to have the good lives, are afforded better opportunities than you, even if on the outside everything appears to be well and good, more often than not this is not true. We all have struggles we must deal with, we all have personal burdens that we may not show to others. 

In the case of ILY, some of these are obvious. Shinae and Shimhan’s struggles are very overt and open - but as the timeline progresses, Shimhan attempts to keep it all together and pretend that his struggles are not nearly as bad as they really are. To us as readers, but not immediately to Shinae or even his friends, Nol’s struggles are apparent. Though he does a good job of keeping up a facade and hiding it all away, no one really knew just what goes on under the surface, what all he has endured and suffered through. 

But moreso, we see it true for all of the characters. Kousuke is a shining example: he has a good job, makes good money, he appears to be the favored son (or at least he certainly is by Yui), he is considered a gentleman and a most eligible bachelor. But Kousuke certainly has his own struggles, though he’s not opened himself up to them and Hansuke is one of the only characters to really key in on it. Kousuke has dealt with a lot of emotional neglect that has absolutely impacted his ability to deal with people and read and understand emotions - including his own. He has a nasty habit of repressing things and trying to compartmentalize things, attempting to apply logic to very illogical matters. The kind of neglect he suffered as a child manipulated the man he’s grown up to become, and he’s been so blinded by his quest for Rand’s favor that he’s unable to see what it’s done to him. Kousuke’s troubles are compartmentalized, shoved away in neat little boxes where he can continue to try to ignore them, but that doesn’t mean he lacks them.

Alyssa, too, lives up to this example, and Shinae actually touches on this. I think it’s something we may see more of, whether or not it’s through introspective Shinae in this flashback, or older and maybe just a little wiser current Shinae. To Shinae, Alyssa had everything she wanted: an intact family with a doting mother who spoils hers, a room full of books and portraits and expensive make up and sheet music and instruments, parents who are so involved in her life they border on suffocating, so many educational opportunities, skills Shinae can only dream of. It’s easy to look at the affluent and go “What can possibly suck about your life?” when they have all the things that could make your life easier. For Shinae, who fees lonely and maybe even neglected by how very busy her father is, the idea of parents who are so involved and so-ever present doesn’t seem like a bad thing, but to be the person who is smothered by a family that leaves you no real chances to try things out for yourself, it’s not a dream. In fact, there’s probably an argument to be made that because they seemed to be so involved in her life and she lacked connections with kids her age, this is largely a reason she isn’t good at interpersonal relationships and cannot deal with confrontation or disappointing people. It was probably born of a fear of disappointing her parents (especially when they make such efforts to meet her interests, which then can lead her to feeling guilty if she doesn’t follow through) that grew and expanded until it became what it has. 

But more than that, I think we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Alyssa and the struggles she’s dealing with. The potential of sexuality especially comes into question here, because what a struggle that is to hide and bury deep down, right? But we also have seen enough hints to know that her home life is not as idyllic as it looks and I am willing to bet that, much like Kousuke, the manner of Alyssa’s upbringing has absolutely affected the way she developed emotionally. Though Alyssa is a clever and intelligent girl, it’s kind of like book smarts vs street smarts. She lacks the experience and understanding to know how to deal with interpersonal relationships and very complex feelings, especially laced with deep-set fears. I think something worth remembering about Alyssa is that the kind of fear she feels isn’t just something casual you can brush off. In the same way that Shinae struggled to open up to people because of the number of times she’s been burned and how hard it was to let her trust and rely on others, I think Alyssa’s fears are also deeply ingrained and are something she needs to work heavily through to deal with. I don’t say this to dismiss her actions and behaviors, but just to reinforce that she is merely a product of her environment, and to reiterate that I think this will be a running theme with Alyssa through the story, when we finally learn more about her. Especially now that Alyssa is entering adulthood and has an idol career, I think we will find a lot more about the struggles she’s dealing with, even though to Shinae, it looks like she has everything and that her life is as neat and tidy as Shinae wishes hers was. 

Rand, too, is nothing but struggles. Beyond the obvious Yui vs Rand, we’ve definitely seen it alluded to that Rand has lost a lot of things in life - and many of them seemingly by his own hand. It feels very hinted at that Rand was in love with Nol’s mom, and that his relationship with Yui is much like a prison. We’ve seen moments of him attempting to parent Kousuke, only to be shadowed by Yui who undermined him at every opportunity. I think it was probably Rand’s intention to try to keep Nol safe, but the ways he attempted it were so abhorrently bad he did worse damage than had he maybe sent Nol away. I think in time we’ll find deeper struggles confirmed - that perhaps Rand wanted to be a better parent but it put Nol in danger or something. 

And Yui, too, surely has her own struggles. My personal theory remains that love and romance were never really something Yui wanted. I think she ultimately wants to be powerful and in a society that favors men probably disdains the situation she’s in. I still believe at this time that marriage to Rand was meant to provide her the means to be the shadow ruler she really wants to be - the person who is actually in charge, but unable to be in title and name, and because of this she’s taken it out on others. I imagine, too, if we ever learn more about her own upbringing, we will learn of plenty of struggles. 

It’s such a simple line, but I think it tells us a lot about how we are supposed to interpret the events of ILY - that nothing has ever been simply what it was at face value to us, that there is always another side of the story. Our own personal struggles and journeys affect our interactions, and we will continue to see that play out in ILY. No matter how good someone’s situation seems, never forget everyone has their own struggles, everyone is saddled with their own burdens, and though it may not excuse their behavior, it will at least explain it. 

#ILY #ILY Spoilers #ILY FP #ILY Brainrot #hmmm not quite sure how to tag this one actually lol #it's very rambly about a line that Shimhan says in 202 and what I think is meant to be a lens through which we interpret ILY #essentially nothing is ever what it seems nothing is ever what it is at face value which we already knew but it's nice to see it reinforced #and i think it says a lot about characters whose hands have yet to be revealed - or at least what quimchee wants us to think about them #(if that makes sense) #again i reiterate i don't say these things to try to sway people on characters they don't like lol but just to reinforce the complexity of #all characters and how complexity leads to messiness and people who make mistakes or do the wrong thing or make choices we ourselves wouldnt #what motivates them? what prompts them to behave that way? are they truly bad people or is there a reason that they act the ways they do? #which is why i'm sorry to all alyssa and kousuke haters but yes i continue to talk about them lmao #Shinae Yoo #Shimhan Yoo #Nolan Oliver T. Lochlainn #Alyssa Cho #Kousuke Hirahara #Rand #Yui Hirahara #not sorry but i wanna write more about Alyssa lmaoooooooo she's such a mess and i'm fascinated by her

[tousakamis]

sigh. my mum is talking about how she recognises that both me and my little brother are mentally ill but she's apparently been "protecting us from labels how she wasn't" (because that's "all that society wants to give kids nowadays") and she wants us to just "get on with life and be who we are"

#alina post #alina rant #i have practically begged doctors to diagnose me with the depression ive been recognised to have so i can receive genuine help #my brother and i both have autistic traits and i always wish he could get diagnosed so he could have accomodations and answers #there is undeniable systemic ableism that impacts those with mental health conditions in the uk #and i understand that that is something that could have great detriment to her if her diagnosis was revealed in some circumstances #but why do we need to suffer by ourselves without any help because SHE doesnt like labels #not to mention that a lot of our mental illness is influenced by the generational trauma and general trauma SHE and my dad inflicted upon us #once a teacher even tried to suggest that my brother was autistic and she said it was the school forcing labels for 'funding'?? #the uk is so systemically ableist and most schools would probably rather die than actually accomodate their students beyond the bare minimum #the most he'd get is probably extra time in exams and maybe a card to let him leave overwhelming classrooms #im just so upset #i always knew that she hated the thought of me or my brother ever actually getting diagnoses and help... but 'protecting us'? #my depression has fucked me over so much growing up with bare minimum support. why dont i deserve help.

[soufre-de-paris]

thinking about headless statues of women: icons of the weight of the shape of womanhood as the perfectly unattained and unattainable. thinking about the construct of Femininity, and how the power of ritual is in its zealous participation, and how the death of meaning comes by force.

#fuck spinoza #artists fashioning something which reveals not only their own rebellion but the limitations of the rebellion available to them #we tell on ourselves more than we know #we bring our contexts with us #we are not infinite #but that's okay too