#therapy rat

[r04ch4ch3]

i'm not sure if i'm incredibly sad and mad at myself and the world around me or if i just need to hold a mouse.

🐁

#mouseblr #mental illness #therapy rat

[cecelovesrats]

world's saddest little burrito who doesn't like taking his meds

#the burrito method didn't work btw he wiggled right out. the only thing that works with him is exposure therapy.... #ratblr #rats #pet rats #fancy rats #my rats #rat #rodent #rat: olly

[genericaces]

boom comics i see your therapized spander and i raise you this

bonus:

#spike dodging therapy like a grease covered rat slipping into a storm drain #xander harris #spike #spander #(sort of) #btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #art

[geminison]

Can you draw like, corvo with rats? Is that weird? I just really like the rats in Dishonored... Also your art is very awesome...

he found some friends. or they found him, depends on who you ask

there's more Corvo than rats but i guess that still counts :)

also, no Corvo with rats is not weird, he canonically has some kind of bond with them

#dishonored #corvo attano #some animal-assisted therapy for local rat man #art tag #i actually don't draw animals that often #thank you for the compliment! #*high pitch squealing*

[notefellow]

#pizza tower #peppino spaghetti #gustavo and brick #THERAPY RAT BRICK LESGOOOOOOO #I want the sopping wet italian to be happy just omce

[honeycombhank]

11/13/23

Tonight with the girls, this is something to feel good and positive feelings about

#my girls #Mama Moony #Billith Bly #Noot #wishing star #rat family #cuddling & snuggling #warm and cozy #new home #rat robe #healing #therapy #honeycombhank #my pets #rats of tumblr #my rats #dumbo rats #cute rats #ratblr #autumn

[multxanna]

making two canonically related people unrelated in your fanfiction just so you can pair them together does not make you any less weird and sick btw

#PSA #y’all mad seek therapy!!!! #y’all need help #fanfiction #fuck proshitters #anti proshitter #proshitters dni #brase #lab rats #chase davenport #lab rats bionic island #leo dooley #adam davenport #bree davenport #lab rats elite force #disney xd #donald davenport #elsanna #encanto

[charmac]

Risk E. Rat: Pizza & Amusement Center + Live Reacts

#iasip #risk e rat #live react #hope you guys don’t mind i made this LOL #but this was a fun one for live messages #you can tell i had to retake some of the screencaps after midnight LOL #edited to add macden therapy dog i forgot it ahhh #oc

[lavnderkiwi]

y'all be really aggressive when telling people why you don't like river and i need y'all to reevaulate why he makes y'all feel so much anger. personally, i do not like judy very much but im not about to start screeching about how much of an ass she is cause news flash mfs ! EVERYONE in night city are assholes. thats how they've learned to survive lmfaooo. but telling people you left him and his nephew (a victim of some horrific ass shit) to die is insanity. y'all need help to figure out why river makes y'all so mad

#cyberpunk 2077 #river ward #this is like when people tell us they love killing wyll all cause he joked about astarion's rat diet #like whoa?? why is your energy so...hostile?? #seek therapy pls

[izzyhandsrightglove]

when i said one of the things on my s2 wishlist was for izzy to laugh that's NOT WHAT I MEANT

#izzy hands #con o'neill #con is an amazingly talented actor who deserves all the awards #but also that rat bastard owes me therapy money #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd #our flag means death

[charlitabutterscotch]

So I recently got into the Malevolent fandom due to a friend and tried sketching out my own design for Johnny boi here. I eventually got attached to the design with the mask and the horns, as shown on the first picture hehe

#malevolent fanart #malevolent podcast #john doe malevolent #after i saw rat!John (by lunali) i just knew I had to draw him too hehe #also John in a hoodie! John in a hoodie!! #i know i said Yellow is a piece of sh!t but i actually love him. pls get him therapy #cat!John and rat!John would fight and both would lose pathetically

[beatcroc]

Would love to hear your thoughts on/interpretation of Brick :)

my actual most pressing thought about brick is im distraught more people don't realize he [and gustavo] are every bit as much a kirby reference as they are a mario reference

look at him!!! look!!! his name is RICK.

you dont know him??? youve forgotten him??? my beloved son??? rick the hamster?? rick was quite literally what got me into the kirby series so i have very strong convictions about him.

aside from that i mean. well. he is a rat. i'm not sure how much there is to "interpret" here fgjjgffgh. i do at least have a minor hc that the Giant Fuckin Rats like that only come from the tower. tower rats just built different. built six feet tall. everywhere else just got regular little rats like in don't make a sound & tower rats are generally not well-known outside of areas immediately around the tower+places it affects/connects to.

gus probably has him registered as a service/therapy animal so he can take him places but brick is definitely not actually Trained for it. i don't think he really Needs training though since he's, like, intelligent enough to smoke and play poker apparently; and he's also generally pretty tolerant, relaxed, and well-behaved otherwise. he does still perform the occasional service duty in the form of "laying down on top of peppino when he is having an Episode" this is usually at gustavo's behest and fake pep will do it too

#anxious old men get squashed under fatass therapy beasts. he hates it but it does help #tbt when my little sister had her rats registered as therapy animals so she could keep them on college campus #bc they didnt allow pets otherwise. based bahaviour #this one is going in the tag solely for rick awareness. look at him #pizza tower #gustavo and brick #did u kno when the kdl2 animal trio got revealed for star allies i actually for real cried #they hadnt been in the series for TWENTY YEARS and theyre finally back...

[ramblesandrambling]

Thank you for not spoiling Burrow’s End , y’all because I’m on episode two and this is VERY UPSETTING and the COOLEST FUCKING THING and Aabria and Rick and the team are FUCKING WIZARDS

I have taken so much psychic damage and I don’t regret anything

#burrow's end #dimension 20 #why did i do this #no why did they do this #dear god #Aabriya iyengar is getting my therapy bills #though dunno maybe I’ll send them to Rick Perry too because Augh #I came in expecting Rats of NIMH/Watership Down #more fool I

[rat-king-they-them]

#rat #meme #rat meme #funny #ratblr #THE RAT IS SMILING #IT IS SO HAPPY TO COMFORT YOU #fuck therapy (:<

[vanhelsingapologist]

//scuttles in

Hey you should totally talk about Kasimir

Kasimir And The Terrible Horrible No-Good Very Bad 400 Years

CW: Sororicide, Child Death, discussion of mental health, discussion on the nature of shame.

This is going to be so, so long. Disclaimer that this is our table's interpretation of Kasimir Velikov. Spoilers for Curse of Strahd and the Dusk Elves abound.

Guilty, Not Remorseful

Kasimir is one of those characters who seems to be very consistent in characterization across tables. I do believe that if you asked DMs to list their Kasimir’s traits, a majority would hit the Trifecta of Misery:

Guilty

Sad

Desperate.

A massive part of our Kasimir’s characterization is how my DM draws the line between regret, guilt, and remorse.

He feels fathomless guilt surrounding killing Patrina, but he never describes himself as feeling remorse. To explain, I’ll divide it like this:

He feels guilty because he knew it would have a repercussion. He did it anyway. Patrina was engaged to Strahd.

He did not expect the repercussions to be all that they were. This was a mistake, but I don’t entirely know whether he sees his decision surrounding killing Patrina as one or not.

He does not feel remorse, because that would require him to regret what he did (killing his sister). Our Kasimir does not feel remorse for killing her, and it makes him guiltier because of everything her death set off, not to mention the love he held for his sister.

He tells himself that he did what he had to do (he did not), and wishes there were another way (there undoubtedly was), which gives way to shame. 

"I had to do it, but I wish I didn't." "... Did I have to? Surely, yes?"

So, he has these interplaying themes connected to the overarching theme of guilt, all of which drive his every action in our campaign. 

He is okay with this.

He is okay with the idea that every day is a punishment. He did what he had to do, he says, and he believes he should pay that price forever. 

The Whole Patrina Thing

In our game, Patrina didn’t seem to be so much in love with Strahd as she was in love with power. My running theory is that she was intending to dethrone Strahd or overpower him once she’d been turned. 

Because (I believe) in our game, he was one of the first vampires, if not The First Vampire, she didn’t quite realize how spawn mechanics worked— and to that end, neither did the dusk elves.

The Story

Kasimir holds to the story he told us. He discovered his sister half-turned, having received two of the three bites required to undergo the bride ceremony. 

I believe he discovered her in the process of trying to feed (a la Lucy Westenra) and came to the conclusion that she had been irrevocably turned into this horrifying, unknowable dead thing. So he gathered the dusk elves and killed her, setting off the chain of events. 

In the years since he’s been confronted with new information regarding vampirization and the process of turning, but he’s also said that if Patrina hadn’t died, she likely would’ve gone through with it anyway. Is this to avoid heaping more guilt onto his shoulders? Maybe. I don't know. Despite his guilt, he still, interestingly, provides a justification.

We have nothing to contradict his word with.

However, he also told us that he’s been experiencing dreams where she tells him how sorry she is, how much she hates him, how much she loves him, and how much she would have changed if he'd let her live.

His foundational beliefs get preyed upon, because what if he was wrong? What if he doomed everyone because he couldn’t compromise his morality for a moment?

Kasimir’s Backstory Is Misery In Case You Were Wondering

In our campaign, Kasimir and Patrina were raised to be the leaders of their communities and witnessed Rahadin’s exile and subsequent alliance with King Barov.

When the Dusk Elves regrouped after a crushing defeat, Kasimir, who is a Druid in our campaign, was voted in to be the head of the remaining families, and Patrina, an Archmage, left for Ravenloft intermittently. 

I think there was an effort for peace being made with a marriage between Strahd and herself, but obviously, the Tatyana Conundrum came in (Kasimir Win!), and then a couple years down the line, the Patrina Conundrum happened (Kasimir Fail!).

By the time he made his big bad decision, he was not only the head of his community but was also the father to a small child and the husband to a man who would die defending their family.

So, as far as he’s concerned, Kasimir is almost directly responsible for the deaths of his entire family.

He’s in a constant internal battle between blaming Ravenloft— perhaps predominantly, Rahadin— for enacting disproportionate revenge and blaming himself for pulling the trigger. Two things can be true. And still, to this day, his remaining people trust him. He still leads them and protects them. Yowch.

Kasimir As The Moral Compass

While traveling with our party, Kasimir was militant about doing what he believed was right. It could’ve been because he might’ve literally snapped in half if he took on any more shame, but probably had more to do with the fact that he was likely projecting heavily onto our party. 

He held his hand on the metaphorical stove for so long that he has nothing but bone left, so when he sees the party tentatively edging towards the fire, he takes action. 

Because he lives in a cesspool of anguish, I think an argument can be made that he wants to ensure his actions aren’t repeated by someone else. That is for HIM.

How It Affects Dynamic

This makes him fun to have in the party, because not only is Sororicide “Hypocrite” Velikov telling us not to do things, but it also provides a good bit of levity to what is otherwise one of the emotionally heaviest characters in our campaign.

Having this ancient elven druid sternly ask if kicking the corpse of enemy #6 made you feel good and having to shamefully tell him ’no’ creates a bond like no other.

It’s also an interesting way to have him trying to semi-atone without explicitly expressing remorse. Because he judges himself so harshly, he judges the party by the same standards.

Kasimir Will Make The Same Mistake Over And Over

The problem is that shame is poison to recovery.

Kasimir does not believe he has a place in a world in which he is not suffering, so whenever he is confronted with redemption, he’ll do what keeps him rotting.

I don’t know how my other players feel about this, but I’m convinced that it’s not that he can’t break the cycle, it’s that he won’t.

In trying to do the right thing, I think he will choose the wrong thing. He will stone her to death again and again and not know why.

There He Goes Again!

It’s why I think these dreams are such a big problem. I think they’re goading him. Whatever’s causing it (the Dark Powers, Strahd, or Patrina herself) knows him well enough that he will make a horrible, horrible decision. As far as theory goes, I think it may really be Patrina, because who would know him better than his sister?

In our campaign, Kasimir is currently acting as a mentor to a half dusk-elven wizard/druid who habitually toes the line between good and evil. He waffles between wanting to save her and wanting to nip the problem in the bud, propelled by his profound shame for wanting to do it.

He knows he shouldn’t have anything to do with it, but whereas Van Richten isolates himself out of necessity, Kasimir creates this wall between them because he sees the cycle starting again and feels helpless to stop it. It’s like he doesn’t realize he’s actively recreating the cycle.

Sound familiar, Strahd?

He and Van Richten are two characters who might have the biggest questions of the nature of redeemability hanging over their head, and both grapple with themes of guilt.

I think they differ because, in our campaign, Van Richten is actively seeking redemption. Kasimir is not.

He can’t imagine atonement even exists.

#asked and answered #this was asked by a player in my campaign #thank you for letting me yammer i've been wanting to talk about this guy for ages. even if this is free notes </3 #curse of strahd character analysis #kasimir velikov #patrina velikovna #curse of strahd spoilers #curse of strahd #We are a party who believes in love as redemption #but we’ve never met a character who so throughly rejects that concept like Kasimir (and maybe Arrigal). #the emilia and kasimir relationship makes me bleed from the eyes. stop looking for your sister in her or you will find your sister in her. #add the rahadin shit in and thatsa one spicy meatball #does kasimir believe good is inherited or cultivated? i think he BELIEVES he thinks it's cultivated. #going 2 put every old man in this module in therapy and then maybe a box #kasimir in general man...... #my DM is very very smart and we're her little rats running around screaming

[honeycombhank]

Apple pie

#honeycombhank #my pets #rats of tumblr #dumbo rats #my rats #cute rats #ratblr #omg rat kisses #apple pie #healing #therapy session #funny animals