We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.
— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
‘world’
fun fact: trauma victims becoming obsessed/infatuated with what traumatized them (especially if that trauma came from abuse) isn’t creepy or disturbing. That’s literally a symptom of PTSD, and is often uncontrollable, so maybe don’t demonize people who get stuck or overly focused on their intrusive thoughts. We literally can’t control this.
An incel gamer who calls himself a nice guy, decapitated a 17 year old girl “who wouldn’t give him a chance” after she went on a date with another guy.
Aaaaaaaaaaaa I have been hyping over The Song of Achilles lately and decided to make some DRAWINGSSSSSSS depicting some scenes in the book, relatively: The Olympic game, Achilles meets Patroclus in the storeroom, The Lyre lesson, The rose-quartz cave and Achilles on Skyros yasssssss Hope I ̶a̶̶m̶ ̶m̶̶o̶̶t̶̶i̶̶v̶̶a̶̶t̶̶e̶̶d̶ ̶e̶̶n̶̶o̶̶u̶̶g̶̶h̶ to draw moreeeeeeeee
hey fellow trauma blogs, usually I don’t directly reach out like this, but something has been on my mind recently and I wanna know if other people experience this.
do you ever... forget that you’re traumatized? I mean yeah it’s hard to forget the event that traumatized you, I know, but do you forget what you experienced ISNT normal? or maybe not even that, you forget that certain event affected you really badly, and when you notice your strange habits or behavior you link it back to that event and remember “oh yeah! it’s because that traumatized me”. do you ever have moment of thinking you’re normal suddenly come crashing down when you remember how badly you were once victimized?
these are things I experience often, and I feel it could put my heart at ease to know others feel like this. it may even help them a little to know that while it’s upsetting it’s happening to them, they aren’t alone in their experience with trauma.
Forever Lost
friend: tell him you like him!
me, a gay disaster: