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#emotional damage
jennydolfen · 3 days
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I was holding it together until Matt and Liam started crying.
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park-bench-poet · 1 year
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Succession makes me nuts because all of the tragedy is preventable but also it isn't. Usually, in big epics, the tragedy is that fate is inescapable. But in Succession there are a million tiny times where someone could have chosen to treat their siblings better or their spouse better or stuck to their guns or been honest or stopped being an asshole for two minutes, and it would have completely changed the trajectory of events. But also how could they have ever done any of it differently? Who taught them they could?
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thebibliosphere · 5 months
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In case you were wondering how deep down the Batfam fixation hole I am, it's something I've actually been talking about in therapy a lot.
Not like, in a worried way, more just when my therapist asks me what I'm doing in my downtime, my answer always used to be either "sleeping" or "I don't have downtime. I have too much work to do."
Now my answer is "playing my Batman game" or "watching Batman show/reading comics/writing unhinged Batman x Muppet fanfic."
And my therapist is delighted. She's fucking ecstatic. She's like, "You have interests again!" and I'm like !!!! Because here's the thing.
Almost dying in 2019 kinda irrevocably fucked up my brain, like, a lot. Like a lot, a lot. And I've been grieving over that for the last few years as well as recovering from the physical aspects of it. And to cope with it, I threw myself into work even though I wasn't physically or mentally well enough, and that made everything worse, and well, if you've been here, you know.
My brain has not been kind to me for a long time. It still isn't. But I do the work. I do multiple types of therapy a week. I piece myself back together on the daily and try to remember what it means to be human and not just this numb static void that sometimes sounds like shrieking if you listen too closely.
And then randomly, a few months ago a friend bought me Gotham Knights on Steam, and it was like a light turned back on. The engine that'd been refusing to turn over for years suddenly sputtered back to life, and something in my brain went, "Hey, I remember this... this is fun?"
And then I started tentatively searching the tags here on Tumblr, and yeah, actually. I remember this. I remember enjoying this. I can dip my toes into this. This is safe. This is a childhood interest from Before the almost-dying-trauma. And besides, it won't get in the way of my work. This isn't going to consume me. Nothing consumes me like it used to. I'm too broken for that.
Except, haha, jokes on me because, for some fucking reason, Brucie fucking Wayne and his gaggle of chaotic crime-fighting children is what reached into my brain, picked up my trauma, and started shaking it loose like a category 7 earthquake.
I actually laughed about that with my therapist a few weeks ago. Of all characters, of all pieces of media, it's Batman that's helping me process a significant chunk of my emotional trauma in a healthy way.
The most emotionally constipated vigilante in superhero existence, and I'm weeping like a child every time I get an achievement in Gotham Knights, and it says some bullshit like this:
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ID: a purple steam achievement icon that says: He'd Be So Proud Of You. Reach the maximum level as any member of the Batman Family. 6.3% of players have this achievement. /end ID.
(for context, Batman is dead in this game, and you are playing as his emotionally devastated children trying to keep it together. Wailing, gnashing, crying, throwing up etc, etc.)
And my therapist, who has sat with me through EMDR sessions and a multitude of other shit designed to rewire your brain, just shrugs and says, "Sometimes we need to externalize our emotions through safe media. For you, right now, that safety is Batman having a relationship with the Muppets."
And like... okay, yeah. I'll take the win on that one.
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caemidraws · 6 months
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[Memories]
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tiya-minuscule · 5 months
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Anime AU lezgoooo !! If I had infinite time and budget I just wanted to do a quick animation to practice emotions and perspective... So I addapted a scene in the first chapter of my AU when Clark found Hershel losing it ! Hope you like this little sad Clark :)
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the-littlest-laney · 7 months
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sum ruby rocks for ur wednesday
(i’m still playin around w the magic pencil)
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katewritesss · 4 months
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pete "you're on your own, kid. you always have been" mitchell
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artsyco3xist · 7 months
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When The Truth Comes Out
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kaelidascope · 15 days
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Love me through this
(wip)
So how we doin after that chapter fellas :'D
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dizzydrawsstuff · 2 years
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my kink is edward teach being vulnerable and in love oops
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amereslare · 9 months
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I'm unwell. Send help.
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undead-knick-knack · 7 days
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How we doin y'all 😭
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laceymay2630 · 2 years
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Stop. Izzy sitting on the edge of the dinghy so that Ed could stretch out his bad knee 😭
Done.
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miichiyochin · 9 months
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the cursed twin stars.
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jvls666 · 2 months
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daneecastle · 9 months
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Hehe, it's Crowley time.
I was listening to music videos that were made from other fans on YouTube of Good Omens and I hit some gems.
Most of which are about the special event that occurred between Aziraphale and Crowley. So, to satisfy my own storytelling mood and craving for something fun, I made an extra scene after the credits.
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HAHAHAHA. After getting to set this up on here, I can see all my mistakes. Oh well, I'll fix them after I get some sleep. Maybe this will be another project to color after I finish Azi's image. Then I'll do an after credit Azi in elevator reaction. ❤️
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