angsty boy is taken in to a boarding house after his village is raided and his family is killed.
kind, pretty boarder (who belongs to @weebtrina) also at boarding house is kind and pretty and angsty boy thinks about hugging him far too much.
after a month of boarding, kind/pretty boarder teaches angsty boy chess. he insists the learning curve is big but angsty boy is prideful and competitive and, unfortunately, a sore loser.
angsty boy asks kind/pretty boarder how he got so good at chess. admittedly, not at the best time.
*slaps brand new OC* this bad boy cannot possibly fit anymore trauma in him because my DM said to me verbatim “your OCs have such sunny/happy origin stories” and I took that as a challenge. But by God, we’ll try.
New home brew campaign we’re dubbing Belladonna set in a fictional Cold War setting.
Viktor Nicholaev lays brick for work and lays pipe for fun!! And he’s 5’7” because we love a short king around here. I think I decided on a neck tattoo :) I think… this is his evolution and I think I am finally happy with his design but idk
I recently had surgery, and at the time I came home, I had both my cat and one of my grandma's cats staying with me.
- Within hours of surgery, I wake up from a nap to my cat gently sniffing at my incisions with great alarm.
- I was not allowed to shower the first day after surgery, and the cats, seeing that The Large Cat is not observing its cleaning ritual, decided I must be gravely disabled and compensated by licking all the exposed skin on my arms, face, and legs.
- I currently have to sleep with a pillow over my abdomen because my cat insists on climbing on top of me and covering my incisions with her body while I sleep (which is very sweet but not exactly comfortable without the pillow). She also lays across me facing my bedroom door, presumably on guard for attackers who may try to harm me while I'm sleeping and injured.
i don't know who needs to hear this, but guilt, self-hatred and shame are not sustainable sources of growth and healing. you can't hate yourself into feeling better, or being better. you can't repeatedly punish yourself for your flawed humanity and expect wholesome results.
was lamenting the fact that my eczema is flaring up when the thought "the itcher" popped into my head fully formed and unprompted and now i can't stop laughing