#unsafety

[loveyourlovelysoul]

As you heal from feeling unsafe, especially if that's how you've been feeling for long in your life (even unconsciously), many events and fearful thoughts (that are very likely not true but caused by your scared mind) will come up to suddenly trigger you. At times you'll find it hard to recognize unsafety (and the fear of not being able to control and save yourself) behind the causes of some of those specifc triggers; and other times, the toughest ones, you may even experience panic attacks of different intensity. For as hard as it seems, always try to remind yourself that this fear is not necessarily a real and actual threat. Try to focus on your breathing and find ways to distract yourself with anything that can make you feel more at ease for the time being. You can come back later to it, if and when you'll feel more at ease to navigate the trigger and its reasons. And ofc, ask for help/support to someone you trust thorugh the whole process (and also to help you ground again) if you need.

#words #healing #important #positivity #thoughts #self love #self healing #positive thinking #healingjourney #self care #triggers #fear #unsafety #self control #self help #self embrace #self support #life #life lessons #panic attack mention

[honourablejester]

Please please please please please PLEASE tell me more about liminal, daytime, and neatness horror. I'm obsessed with the idea of horror that's horrific because it's just- slightly wrong somehow. Like something just feels off. (sending this in again to leave my signature, the seamstress anon. Please put #seamstress in the tags of the answer so I can find it when you answer)

Not going to lie, I’m not one hundred percent sure what you want from me here? The fact that you’re linking those three says you’ve probably already had a browse around those tags on my blog, so I’ll have to try not to repeat myself, and I’m not fully sure what new thing you want.

But, I guess, a linking theme between the three of them, daytime, liminal and neat horror, would be …

They’re not necessarily monster horror, jump-scare horror. They can include them, but the moments we’re talking about, sunshine and incongruous neatness and between places, they’re not about action, being attacked, they’re about dread. Eeriness, unreality, wrongness. They’re about looking around something that looks relatively normal and your brain just going ‘something is wrong’.

We don’t expect horror in the daytime. Horror is a thing of darkness, that’s its natural environment, where we can’t see, where unknown things lurk to leap out at us. To have horror happen in daytime adds a layer of unreality, affront, this doesn’t belong here. This isn’t supposed to be happening. Not now. Why is this happening when it’s bright out? When I’m supposed to be safe?

Neatness evokes the same feeling. There’s a layer of wrongness, of something out of place, of something happening that doesn’t fit with the rest of what’s around it. Neatness, played right, is a step away from reality, from the natural, a layer of artifice and someone’s doing something layered over the world around us.

And liminal spaces, those perpetual in-betweens, the bus stops and hotel corridors and doorways or gates that lead nowhere, they’re always unreal, always in-between, places where no one belongs, places where no one knows you and no one cares. Anything could happen at one of those places, and nobody would care in the morning. You look around them, and your brain knows that they aren’t places to stay, they aren’t places to belong, they aren’t safe.

The feeling, every time, is a sort of subconscious dread, a wariness, an eeriness, the feeling of looking around and feeling that something’s in the wrong place, that you are in the wrong place. It’s not about fear, as such, but about uneasiness, uncertainty, affront.

As humans, we like things to be where they’re supposed to be, doing what they’re supposed to do. We like order, and safety, and things being as we expect. These things, incongruity, transience, emptiness, trespass, they’re not about visceral horror, they’re about the itchy, unsafe feeling in your brain when something isn’t where it’s supposed to be, isn’t doing what it’s supposed to do. You feel unsafe, not because there’s necessarily a visible threat, but because some part of you can’t help but instinctually feel that something is wrong and that means there’s a potential threat. And the thing with potential threats, as opposed to visible threats, is that you can’t deal with them. Not until they materialise. There’s a dread, there’s a paranoia, because the layer of safety and normality around you is stripped away by the feeling that something invisible is wrong, and there’s no undoing that. Daylight doesn’t protect you. Something’s out there, something’s tidying. No one belongs here, no one will notice what they do to you.

This type of horror is about stripping away safety, stripping away expectation, leaving only unease and paranoia and dread underneath. It’s not (at least necessarily) about a single violent threat, it’s about … taking away the safeties. There’s no one around who’ll care. It doesn’t need the dark. Even your own mind isn’t necessarily safe, with the world being arranged this way around it.

There’s an affront to all of these types of horror, and a slow, pervasive dread. It’s wrong, it’s all wrong, but it’s happening anyway, and none of the normal safeties can stop it.

It’s about dread, not fear. Uneasiness, wariness, unreality. The basic feeling that something is wrong, and no one can stop it. Maybe no one but you even sees it. They see the expected thing, and you don’t, and what can you do with that? Who, what, can you trust? Even yourself?

Break down expectations, normality, safety, and see what slow, insidious horrors lurk underneath, behind, through.

I do adore this sort of horror so much. It takes more time, you have to set the tone and the expectations more carefully, before you slowly strip them away, but the effect once accomplished is spectacular. I love the eeriness and the pervasiveness of it.

Um. I hope that’s what you wanted?

#seamstress #horror #daylight horror #liminal horror #the horror of neatness #unreality #dread #eeriness #it's about building a mood #unsafety #take your time and strip away the protections #let people see what lurks unseen but sensed underneath

[lysshome]

#healing #mental health #important #emotions #childhood trauma #emotional abuse #unsafety

[mnts-tr]

Que fácil es crearle inseguridad a una persona y después decirle arréglate sola …

#inseguridad #unsafety #mentiras #corazonroto #love #roto #lie #despedida #decepci��n

[ahmedsebak]

Long life the بلح 😏

#ahmedsebak #workplace #my work #unsafety

[saytrrose]

Odd question, but what do you think is the best calendar? My favorites are the ones that have different nature pictures on them, it makes each month feel more special

This is a interesting questionnn

Definitely the ones with different photos, I prefer the ones with animals or cater to a theme/interest I have.

#the turtle threatens me #it’s eyes are dead and soulless #I look at its face and it invokes a deep sense of dread and unsafety within me #it’s smile is only of malicious intent

[kostektyw]

Dannymay 2022 Day 7: lab safety

#dannymay #danny phantom #danny fenton #dannymay2022 #dannymay 2022 #more like lab UNsafety hahah amirite #this one was made today instead of day early bc it took me a wile to get a tangible idea #like i love the prompt and had many vibes but couldnt really decide how it should actually look if u kno what i mean #my draws #kostek original

[videos-i-didnt-make]

minor_inconvenience.mp4

#workplace unsafety #forklift #video

[trans-cuchulainn]

feeling a lot of bullshit emotions right now and i don't know how to hold any of them

#it's a beautiful day and i wasted it saving my energy for something that's no longer happening #i am safe and i almost feel safe in my body for the first time in several years and also i don't #and also in my safety and my unsafety – in my quiet house and in my being immunocompromised in an unmasked world – #i am so hyperaware of those who are unsafe right now and i feel the weight of guilt for my helplessness #i feel my conviction of my ideals intensifying at the same time as my ability to act on them diminishes #i am trying to imagine a world where i could be a dancer again while daydreaming about the things a wheelchair would let me do #i am on the edge of so many groups of people and i am not meaningfully part of any of them #the potential to be less lonely is there. but I cannot figure out how to achieve it #i am succeeding in certain aspects of my career and i am utrerly convinced of my own failure #i can justify my actions and my inaction. i am a hypocrite. i have my reasons. i'm a coward #i am aware that it is not up to me how others perceive the power relations between us but it hurts to be seen as a risk #even while i appreciate the boundaries that others draw for themselves i can hold within myself the hurt of being on the other side of them #i hate this time of year. i think always of the dead. my hauntings aren't the fun kind

[seductivejellyfish]

Making this post against my better judgement but:

It is 100% true that decolonization does not have to include mass expulsion and/or revenge and those are scare tactics and false flags used by colonizing powers to prevent decolonization actions.

However, it is ignorant, willful or accidentally, to ignore the history of Jews as a group specifically when imagining the future for Jews in the middle east after Palestine is freed.

White people in the US, for example do not have a legitimate reason to fear that they will be expelled from their homes in the event of landback successes. That fear is manufactured and based on nothing.

Jews absolutely have reason to fear that they will be expelled from their homes in most countries in the world. That fear is more or less legitimate in various places due to a variety of factors, but it is not built on nothing, it is built on the history of Jews being expelled from nearly every country in the world, and a current state of the world that is still rife with antisemitism.

The region around Palestine is not on the whole wholly hostile to the state of Israel because of humanitarian support for the people of Palestine. That is absolutely a large part of the motivation for action for many people in the region and around the world, but on the governmental level, many of these countries are also deeply antisemitic and have eliminated the Jewish populations of their own countries.

It is reasonable and logical, not invented, for a Jew to fear expulsion from their home in the middle east without a Jewish state to protect them.

That does not mean that Palestinians want to force Jews out, kill them all, etc. Those are still false flag claims to discredit the movement.

It also does not mean that Jewish safety should ever come at the cost of Palestinian lives and safety. Palestine must be freed, and it is not on the suffering Palestinians to reassure Jews that they won't be 'taking revenge' or anything like that. It also doesn't mean that there shouldn't be any physical returning of home and lands - there absolutely must be.

But it it disingenuous to compare the situation precisely to other decolonization situations in this respect and gets in the way of communication. The Jewish fear of expulsion is not a fear built on nothingness and guilt, though those of course contribute to the fervor of that feeling among settler Israelis. Jews have real historical and current reasons to fear expulsions from governments of the world, even if they do not have immediate reasons to fear mass expulsions from a specifically Palestinian government.

And a second time, for good measure: It also does not mean that Jewish safety should ever come at the cost of Palestinian lives and safety.

#just sort of tired of the 'its not complicated' and 'its just like every other ethnostate' crowd #yes there are absolutely many useful and productive ways to analyze israel by viewing it as a colonial ethnostate like many other #colonial ethnostates #but that doesn't mean that there are not also things that are unique about the situation #just like there are things that are unique about every other situation in the world #it may be 'uncomplicated' to say that you unequivocally #believe in freedom for palestinians and an end to genocide #but that doesn't have to mean that the situation is not complicated #and saying that the situation is unique complicated etc. #does not mean you don't believe in the above! #“you need israel to survive anywhere in the world as a jew” #is absolutely propaganda by the israeli government and is not true #but that doesn't erase the fact that jewish communities are still at risk in many places #and the feeling of unsafety even in relatively safe places is based on actual history not imagination #so critiquing it and arguing against it by comparing it to populations that don't have that history is not going to work

[lcorps-agents]

Ffffffffuck.

[Slumped against a wall in Central.]

#meetings // physical interactions tag #a little chunk of hope // basil tag #unsafety department // safety department pandemonium arc tag

[lauryn-order]

This is not my fucking night.

#first friend breakup #now my bestie and her husband are fighting #and I don’t know what the fuck to do #it’s triggering the fuck out of me #and reminding me of my abusive relationship #and making me feel unsafe #like not that I actually fear for my safety right now #I’m locked in my room upstairs and he wouldn’t come up here with the kids sleeping #but just a general feeling of unsafetiness like I used to in the relationship #and also like he’s gonna retaliate by saying I can’t live here anymore #idk #I’m just v anxious #and I really wish I could be held

[basofy]

everytime i like a new piece of media that talks about poverty (without romantizing it) i end up bawling my eyes out and getting attached

#my best examples are kaiba chainsaw man and lisa a bit #whenever i see chroniko and popo's stories i turn into a fucking baby #also lately ive been super attached to denji and pochita i miss the doggy #denji is so me #lisa is more about situations of unsafety but since poverty is a part of that in this case #i couldnt help relating a bit to that when i played it the first time

[doremi-records]

[Captain sits in front of Doremi, cuffed and in the normal suit. He looks like he'd rather be anywhere else right now.]

So. Why, exactly, am I alive right now?

[He doesn't seem to be processing that he's not in the position to be asking questions right now.]

@armyinwhitenight

[The two of them are sitting in a dark room. A bright light shines onto the table. It's all very stereotypical.]

[Strangely, there is a distinct lack of torture implements.]

[Doremi is, however, smiling.]

tell me about curse.

#[doremi] major third #ask #unsafety // armyinwhitenight #physical interaction #*