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ersatzbutfunny · 16 days
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“You have been making a special effort of late, and it has not gone unnoticed.”
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ersatzbutfunny · 2 months
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Want to learn something new in 2022??
Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)
40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)
Excellent basic crochet video series
Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)
Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)
How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)
Another drawing character faces video
Literally my favorite art pose hack
Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??
Introduction to flying small aircrafts
French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding
Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)
Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)
Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)
Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:
Calculus 1 (full semester class)
Learn basic statistics (free textbook)
Introduction to college physics (free textbook)
Introduction to accounting (free textbook)
Learn a language:
Ancient Greek
Latin
Spanish
German
Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)
French
Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)
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ersatzbutfunny · 2 months
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With Spy x Family anime started to air, the fandom gain more people!! I’m so happy!!
For those want to read fics, we do have lots of awesome fanfics that you can find at AO3.
As for my own works, if you adore TwiYor (LoiYor or Loid x Yor) as much as I do, and want to read them you can go to my AO3 profile. 
Please beware of Manga spoilers if you’re only watching the Anime.
Here are some of my own favorites: 
Steps of Spending The Rest of My Life With You (series)
Tales of Mr. and Mrs. Forger (drabble collections)
Daily Shenanigans of 128 Park Avenue’s Resident (Slice of Life collections)
A Flower Without Scent that Attracts The Birds (Jealous Loid!! love the trope!)
The Greatest Things Happened in My life (An AU where Yor was the one who adopted Anya first)
EDIT: whoah, never expected this post to gain this much attention. Anyway, I put several links to my all time sxf TwiYor favorite fics from my favorite authors (so I will not sound like someone who boast her own writing and have no shame, though I am 😛)
Everything written by Lacrow are amazing. These are my favorites though:
Papa’s ex Girlfriend (Loid had to deal with the sudden reapearance of Karen from chp./ep. one, and keep the Forger family intact)
Forged in Fire (Medieval RPG AU)
Under Your Spell (Witch Yor and Anya, with Knight Loid and Damian AU)
Forger’s first Halloween (series)
Mission Files: Family Forger (one shots collection)
The Wicked Tale of the Thorn Princess (a Fairy Tale AU) by JaMills
Your Sweet lips on My lips (8 kisses to fall in love) by Peachygirlie
Mission Complete (what happen at the end of Operation Strix) by Arthurthegatekeeper
Words, Scars, and Choices (Soulmate AU) by Arthurthegatekeeper
A Little Less Than Superhuman (Loid was sick, and Yor took care of him) by Cellwright
Chance Encounter (Eden AU) by smallestsenpai
May I (Loid and Yor dancing) by smallestsenpai
If Your heart was a House You’d be home (LoiYor hurt comfort) by calmthestorm
Mending what’s Broken (Identity reveal) by LittlestFallenAngel
Of Glass and Smoke (LoiYor hurt comfort/nightmare) by Pokegeek151
Keeping secrets just to keep you (Identity reveal AU) by dancingpineaples
Scared of Loosing something that I finally found (Loid saving his family) by cloesh_scribbles
I want to lean on you in drunkness (drunk Yor, Loid took care of her) by coloredice
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Okay, I’ve read tons more of fic, and this is where you can find my next fic rec
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ersatzbutfunny · 3 months
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Becky x bill watkins ?
Send me ships, and I'll give you fanfic ideas
Ever since the dodgeball game, Becky has been super conscious of Bill Watkins. Her family specializes in creating military equipment, while his family is from a long line of military generals.
Their families ran in the same circles. The social gatherings the Blackbells attended were also attended by the Watkins family, though Becky payed any mind to other attendants at these gatherings, since she never had reason to interact with anyone her age.
After the dodgeball game, Becky attends one of these large gatherings full of people related to the military and she immediately notices Bill Watkins standing next to his dad. When the Watkins approach the Blackbells to greet them, Bill introduces himself to Becky overly formal. And Becky responds as she was taught to do. Haughtily.
When Becky is excused from staying near her parents, she runs into Bill again...
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ersatzbutfunny · 5 months
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Eventually...
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ersatzbutfunny · 5 months
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Crocodad AU Timeline.
An AU where Crocodile is Luffy's other bio dad and raise him as a single father. Timeline will be updated as more art comes.
-Crocodile and baby Luffy.
-Mihawk and Luffy meets.
-Mihawk and Crocodile talks after drinking.
-Crocodile comes out to Luffy.
-Robin joins Baroque Works.
-Bonclay & the Croco family.
-Crocodile stalks his son for an afternoon.
-Mr 0 and Miss All Sunday investigate.
-Sneaking out.
-Old and new gifts.
-Croc loves his little Miss Mini Sorbet.
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ersatzbutfunny · 5 months
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You-You-You-You-You-You-You, You should just let me freak you 🎶
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ersatzbutfunny · 6 months
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Every time Oda has drawn goofy personified weapons/clothing/sideboob in SBS (so far)
Sidenote, I adore these fan designs of Mihawk's swords. justice for Tokaguhi
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ersatzbutfunny · 7 months
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Twiyor's Eden Weekend is here! 🕵️‍♂️🌹📚
Many thanks to @roucaelum-art for allowing us to use your art! Support your content! ☺️
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ersatzbutfunny · 8 months
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🐱🌸
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ersatzbutfunny · 10 months
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hey, doyle, please don’t say watson keeps his stethoscope in his hat like that’s a normal thing, i refuse to believe that’s a normal thing
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ersatzbutfunny · 11 months
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Kono Oto Tomare! Illustration Gallery
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ersatzbutfunny · 1 year
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this was a secret Santa gift for Jade (jade_efflorescemce on AO3) based on this fic of theirs! in case you can’t tell, it’s sickeningly cute 🙏
buy me a coffee
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ersatzbutfunny · 1 year
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¿Todavía no tiene un nombre? , porque en mi cabeza es el agente luna llena "full moon"
This guy is honestly my favorite among Twilight’s colleagues
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“I know it’s got to be tough balancing your mission and parenthood.”
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“What, not gonna do the whole ‘tearful reunion’ thing? With your girl?”
Because he’s the only one who recognizes Twilight as a family man.
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Idk what his name is and he may not be the greatest spy of Westalis but he sports a pretty cool and mean battle-face.
Handler works Twilight to the bone and Fiona has a weird clingy crush on him. He’s the one who truly understands Twilight second to Franky.
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ersatzbutfunny · 1 year
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Some low quality Spy x Family meme redraws that have probably been done already
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ersatzbutfunny · 1 year
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About Loid Forger's therapy in SxF manga chapter 77 (Spoilers ahead)
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There's a Freudian text for everything. Today's all about The Question of Lay Analysis (1926), also known as Wild Analysis.
Endo did what I have been planning to do for a comic of my own: depict Loid actually working as a Psychiatrist. While I'm glad he took this path, sadly I can't say he did a good job on it.
As some of you know, I'm a therapist grounded in Psychoanalitic Theory. Yes, I like Freud and Lacan, and no, Oedipus Complex is not what you heard it is. I did a brief analysis of Psychiatry stuff in SxF in the past, and today I feel compelled to repeat that exercise.
Let's go in order.
1. The importance of being a third party
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What's the reason for which people ask a therapist for help, and not their families or friends? What do we have that they don't?
The answer is pretty simple: neutrality. We don't have a side other than rationality and ethics. A good therapist should be able to listen to his patient without losing objectivity.
When you and your patient have a shared, unique shared experience, it's preferable, even ethical, to refer him to another therapist, in order to preserve the higher interest of the patient. The more neutrality you can muster, the better for the curing process. Otherwise, it's really hard to listen to someone else without being constantly reminded of yourself. It turns into a blind spot.
Now, there are exceptions to this rule, but you must handle them carefully, and always putting the patient at the center. Loid openly talking here about how close he is to the hijacking incident doesn't help much.
In short, you have to ensure that your position in the therapeutic process remains an impartial, neutral Other, and avoid becoming a fellow. It's good to create trust, but not too much, just enough to work.
2. Chronic condition (?)
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The biggest difference between a Psychiatrist and a Psychologist is that the first went to Med School. Hence, chronicity is a term that applies mostly for organic conditions, but it's rare in the field of subjectivity.
In my short experience, I've met cases labeled as "chronic depression" being cured. I, myself, cured a case of "compulsive suicide attempts since 15 years old, chronic depression, started hearing evil voices 2 weeks ago". You might think that I'm a great therapist, but it's not the case; it's just that, in order to tackle subjective problems, you ought to go to the root of the symptoms and deal with the subjectivity you find there. Psychoanalitic therapy has proven to be wonderful to treat many conditions that didn't get a cure in other types of psychotherapy.
Of course, it's not a panacea. There are things that we can't figure out yet. But bear in mind that chronicity, in the field of the mind, is more complex than just the passage of time and only a bunch of mental conditions truly admit it.
Jacques Lacan, the most important psychoanalist after Freud, said that the unconscious's track of time is not chronological, but logical. You don't just jump out of adolescence because you turned 18; other things need to happen for you to finally feel like an adult. It's a logical progression. The same can be said about some "chronic" conditions.
3. Explicit Reason of Consultation vs Latent Reason of Consultation
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A.K.A Everybody lies.
Psychotherapy is a really weird thing to learn and master. In Psychology School they teach you that you must trust what your patient tells you, but at the same time, distrust him enough. How to conceal both things?
Well, everything is easier when you take Dr. House's words to heart.
Everyone states a reason for consultation, but that first reason is never the real reason, no matter how reasonable it might sound. The trick to discern what the latent, real reason for consultation is, is to determine what the subjective conflict hiding in plain sight is. Sometimes there isn't any and therefore, a full psychotherapy is not necessary (maybe just assisting someone with some things, being there just in case, etc), but most cases are built upon a conflict.
I'm glad that Loid here decided to act like a good Psychiatrist and took a mental note on the oddities.
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WELL SAID MY BOY, I'M PROUD OF YOU
I want to remark this, because it's discouraging how many therapists oversee this to simplify their job to an extreme. Believe it or not, there are therapists out there that act upon what their patients tell them first. "Hi doc. I came here today because I got an accident and I think I have PTSD". "Ok, I'll have you practice these mindfulness excercises and you should be ok within a month, see ya". DUDE.
4. The place of truth in the context of Psychotherapy
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Ah, the classic temptation of knowing the 'real' truth. Is this patient in front of me bullshitting his way out? Is he in a delirium? Is she telling the truth, or just embellishing her story to make it more believable?
You don't have this struggle once you are certain of your role as a psychotherapist. And your role is to help your patients to deal with their subjective struggles.
In short: Psychoterapy deals with the patient's truth, not with the 'real' truth.
You know who deals with 'real' truth in the field of Mental Health? Social Workers.
We psychotherapists don't need to ascertain our patient's claims. Confronting them with reality usually proves to be fruitless, just like Loid did here ("But you're a respected educator!"). It's way more useful to open the topic by asking more questions such as "How did you reach that conclussion?" "What made you think that way?", or giving a specular answer ("You speak like someone else said that about you", "You're too hard with yourself. Where does that come from?", "It sounds like you're belittling your fear for what your wife could say", etc etc etc).
Whenever you're with a neurotic patient, their own personal truth is the only truth you need to work with. Leave the 'real' truth for people who actually needs it, like Social Workers, Doctors or Judges. Your role with a patient is to make sure that his personal truth can turn into something less painful. No need to talk with their friends and family for info, unless your patient is a child or a teenager; just ask him and stick to what he says word by word.
There's a huge topic about the place of reality in therapy, specially in the field of Psychoanalysis, but if I start this train of thought I'm afraid I'll go down to Hell. If you're interested, I've reblogged some Lacanian pills on this Tumblr, check them out by searching the tag #lacan.
PS: NO LOID, DON'T DO THAT. DON'T BREAK THE TRUST YOU ACHIEVED WITH MR AUSTIN! CONFIDENTIALITY IS A MUST!!
5. Counceling = Psychotherapy?
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Loid is a (fake) Psychiatrist, not a psychotherapist, so I can't be too hard on him. Also I stan this man. I'm painfully well aware that councelling and coaching is an alternative to psychotherapy in other parts of the world, mostly in the US. But let's not forget one thing:
Psychotherapists DON'T GIVE ADVICES.
At least, not the ones that take this job seriously.
Everyone can give advices. Do you want an advice? Ask your family or friends, or post something in social media, or ask a complete stranger in the street what to do. You'll get plenty of answers and advices. Maybe a bunch of them will be really useful. Good!
The thing with advices is that: -They act like a universal recipe for a problem -There's no universal recipe to sort a problem -They don't tackle the subjective root of a problem -They assume that the problem can be solved by something you can do upon your surroundings, when the real struggle stems from subjective problems Some advices do help with real struggles, but when you have a subjective conflict, they barely help; hell, sometimes they make everything worse.
Like Loid here.
Remember when I mentioned that the unconscious mind's track of time is not chronological, but logical? This is a great example. Mr Austin won't be able to properly talk with his wife just because Loid adviced him to; he must solve other issues before that.
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I'm glad we're on the same page on this one
6. Your therapist is not your friend
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Sad but true.
If your therapist is good enough, you won't know many things about his private life. You won't know about his lover, his hobbies, where does he live, what does he fear.
Why the secretism? Because it's useless for the patient. Also because disclosing personal information has the effect of becoming a model for the patient, who would start to imitate you. And finally, because you need to mantain a semblance of neutrality and not getting emotionally close with the patient more than necessary.
PS: It's kinda cute how aware Loid is about Yor's every movement. Kinda. KISS HER ALREADY, GODDAMNIT
7. Talking cure and (how not to use) the divan
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I talked a bit about divans here.
There, I mentioned that you should NEVER PUT A PSYCHOTIC PATIENT IN A DIVAN. NOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPE. Well, we can amplify this rule a bit and say that you should avoid the divan with any patient that has a risk of getting seriously upset, like in severe trauma.
The divan is not the only thing that could play against you if badly used. There are cases in Psychiatric Hospitals of patients getting upset because their therapists used the same clothes and hairstyle every single day for months. The point here is that, with psychotic patients and fragile psychic structures (like what happens in traumatized people), you can't use methods that require too much projection.
Also, Lottie here is not performing a Talking Cure.
The divan has been used since Freud to facilitate transference through the Free Association Method. You lay down on it and your therapist ask for whatever crosses your mind first. You don't put a content there beforehand.
(On the same line, if you're a therapist, please refrain from decorating your consultation room with motivational phrases. You're putting words in your patient's mouth before he even starts to speak)
So, it's useless to make Mr Austin lay down on a divan, only to ask him to remember a specific memory. I'd advice (Ha! The irony!) against using the divan here.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To finish my Two Cents, I'd like to point some positive aspects of this chapter. It's nice that a troubled person decides to seek for help. There's still a huge stigma about men requiring mental health help, and it's a nice example to settle to portray one actually going to a Psychiatrist. Men usually struggle with their problems alone and they have it rough.
It's also nice that, in the end, Loid could help his patient. I wonder how (How?!), but it probably means that, at some point of the process, he changed his methods for the better.
And yes. Sometimes, helping one single person can change many lives. I'm honored to be able to attest to that :D
As everyone, I'd expect the logical sucession of events that could follow this chapter: Loid realizing he's got a heck of a wife compared to other marriages, appreciating Yor more, and giving us heavy smut cute TwiYor moments. But Endo has proven to be an author that doesn't like to follow logic. So, let's brace for whatever will come in two weeks.
Thank you for reading!
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ersatzbutfunny · 1 year
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Do you like vintage scientific illustrations?
Do you like not spending huge amounts of money on them?
This website has a huge collection of high quality vintage illustrations that you can download FOR FREE
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They got pretty much everything!! Vintage maps, mushrooms, flowers, trees, bugs, birds, corals, fish, palm trees, feathers, tropical fruits, you name it!!
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They even got some works of my dude Ernst Haeckel on there!!!!
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I could go on and on but I suggest you check it out yourself. Personally, I will be covering my entire apartment with these once copyshops are open again. But even if you don’t want to do that, just browsing all these beautiful illustrations is a great way to spend your time. 
Have fun and stay save!
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