Reblogging So I Remember. This Seems Super Help For Art. Been Wanting Try My Hand At Battle Pose Art

Reblogging to remember for art purposes. Seems super helpful.

yesterday i reblogged a drawing resource that included how to draw hijabs - and it honestly wasn’t the best advice i’ve seen out there

now, i’m not an artist. but what i saw was a video that included hijab styles most of us don’t really wear and incorrect terminology surrounding niqabs and burqas (yes, there is a difference between the two)

so, i went searching and found a tutorial that i felt was better! these drawing guides and examples come from @/winchestermeg on twitter, and i think they’re really great 💕

this has more relevant examples and correct terminologies, and is drawn by a muslim woman

enjoy, artists of tumblr!

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SPITEFUL DRAGONBORN PALADIN FROM THE MEAN UNCOBBLED STREETS OF THE CITY WHO CAN'T SILENCE THE VOICES

What's your D&D character?

Copy and paste your results:

ARGUMENTATIVE ELF PALADIN FROM A VILLAGE WITHOUT A TAVERN WHO IS WRITING AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Popularity, Totalitarian Regimes & Other Signs of Vampires. Interesting... book title

ingrid sundberg's colour dictionary - writing help

Rebloggung to remember this for character analysis and writing purposes. Excellent break down and structure.

C-PTSD: So what is it, anyway?

original post found on Out of the Fog content warning: discussion of trauma, abuse, personality disorders, depression

DISCLAIMER: if you believe the following description of C-PTSD describes you, seek professional help immediately. C-PTSD, left untreated, is a serious disorder with the potential to cause long-term psychological, physical and interpersonal damage. 

I reposted this information from Out of the Fog, not as a health professional, but as an abuse survivor who wants to empower other survivors.

Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) is a psychological injury that results from prolonged exposure to social or interpersonal trauma, disempowerment, captivity or entrapment, with lack or loss of a viable escape route for the victim… such as in cases of:

domestic emotional, physical or sexual abuse

childhood emotional, physical or sexual abuse

entrapment or kidnapping.

slavery or enforced labor.

long term imprisonment and torture

repeated violations of personal boundaries.

long-term objectification.

exposure to gaslighting & false accusations

long-term exposure to inconsistent, push-pull,splitting or alternating raging & hooveringbehaviors.

long-term taking care of mentally ill or chronically sick family members.

long term exposure to crisis conditions.

When people have been trapped in a situation over which they had little or no control at the beginning, middle or end, they can carry an intense sense of dread even after that situation is removed. This is because they know how bad things can possibly be. And they know that it could possibly happen again. And they know that if it ever does happen again, it might be worse than before.

The degree of C-PTSD trauma cannot be defined purely in terms of the trauma that a person has experienced. It is important to understand that each person is different and has a different tolerance level to trauma. Therefore, what one person may be able to shake off, another person may not. Therefore more or less exposure to trauma does not necessarily make the C-PTSD any more or less severe.

C-PTSD sufferers may “stuff” or suppress their emotional reaction to traumatic events without resolution either because they believe each event by itself doesn’t seem like such a big deal or because they see no satisfactory resolution opportunity available to them. This suppression of “emotional baggage” can continue for a long time either until a “last straw” event occurs, or a safer emotional environment emerges and the damn begins to break.

The “Complex” in Complex Post Traumatic Disorder describes how one layer after another of trauma can interact with one another. Sometimes, it is mistakenly assumed that the most recent traumatic event in a person’s life is the one that brought them to their knees. However, just addressing that single most-recent event may possibly be an invalidating experience for the C-PTSD sufferer. Therefore, it is important to recognize that those who suffer from C-PTSD may be experiencing feelings from all their traumatic exposure, even as they try to address the most recent traumatic event.

This is what differentiates C-PTSD from the classic PTSD diagnosis - which typically describes an emotional response to a single or to a discrete number of traumatic events.

Difference between C-PTSD & PTSD

Although similar, Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) differs slightly from the more commonly understood & diagnosed condition Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in causes and symptoms.

C-PTSD results more from chronic repetitive stress from which there is little chance of escape. PTSD can result from single events, or short term exposure to extreme stress or trauma.

Therefore a soldier returning from intense battle may be likely to show PTSD symptoms, but a kidnapped prisoner of war who was held for several years may show additional symptoms of C-PTSD.

Similarly, a child who witnesses a friend’s death in an accident may exhibit some symptoms of PTSD but a child who grows up in an abusive home may exhibit the additional C-PTSD characteristics shown below.

What it Feels Like:

People who suffer from C-PTSD may feel un-centered and shaky, as if they are likely to have an embarrassing emotional breakdown or burst into tears at any moment. They may feel unloved - or that nothing they can accomplish is ever going to be “good enough” for others.

People who suffer from C-PTSD may feel compelled to get away from others and be by themselves, so that no-one will witness what may come next. They may feel afraid to form close friendships to prevent possible loss should another catastrophe strike.

People who suffer from C-PTSD may feel that everything is just about to go “out the window” and that they will not be able to handle even the simplest task. They may be too distracted by what is going on at home to focus on being successful at school or in the workplace.

Characteristics

How it can manifest in the victim(s) over time:

Rage turned inward: Eating disorders. Depression. Substance Abuse / Alcoholism. Truancy. Dropping out. Promiscuity. Co-dependence. Doormat syndrome (choosing poor partners, trying to please someone who can never be pleased, trying to resolve the primal relationship) Rage turned outward: Theft. Destruction of property. Violence. Becoming a control freak. Other: Learned hyper vigilance. Clouded perception or blinders about others (especially romantic partners) Seeks positions of power and / or control: choosing occupations or recreational outlets which may put oneself in physical danger. Or choosing to become a “fixer” - Therapist, Mediator, etc.

Avoidance - The practice of withdrawing from relationships with other people as a defensive measure to reduce the risk of rejection, accountability, criticism or exposure.

Blaming - The practice of identifying a person or people responsible for creating a problem, rather than identifying ways of dealing with the problem.

Catastrophizing - The habit of automatically assuming a “worst case scenario” and inappropriately characterizing minor or moderate problems or issues as catastrophic events.

“Control-Me” Syndrome - This describes a tendency which some people have to foster relationships with people who have a controlling narcissistic, antisocial or “acting-out” nature.

Denial - Believing or imagining that some painful or traumatic circumstance, event or memory does not exist or did not happen.

Dependency - An inappropriate and chronic reliance by an adult individual on another individual for their health, subsistence, decision making or personal and emotional well-being.

Depression (Non-PD) -Depression is when you feel sadder than your circumstances dictate, for longer than your circumstances last, but still can’t seem to break out of it.

Escape To Fantasy - Taking an imaginary excursion to a happier, more hopeful place.

Fear of Abandonment - An irrational belief that one is imminent danger of being personally rejected, discarded or replaced.

Hyper Vigilance - Maintaining an unhealthy level of interest in the behaviors, comments, thoughts and interests of others.

Identity Disturbance - A psychological term used to describe a distorted or inconsistent self-view

Learned Helplessness- Learned helplessness is when a person begins to believe that they have no control over a situation, even when they do.

Low Self-Esteem - A common name for a negatively-distorted self-view which is inconsistent with reality.

Panic Attacks - Short intense episodes of fear or anxiety, often accompanied by physical symptoms, such as hyperventilating, shaking, sweating and chills.

Perfectionism - The maladaptive practice of holding oneself or others to an unrealistic, unattainable or unsustainable standard of organization, order, or accomplishment in one particular area of living, while sometimes neglecting common standards of organization, order or accomplishment in other areas of living.

Selective Memory and Selective Amnesia - The use of memory, or a lack of memory, which is selective to the point of reinforcing a bias, belief or desired outcome.

Self-Loathing - An extreme hatred of one’s own self, actions or one’s ethnic or demographic background.

Tunnel Vision - A tendency to focus on a single concern, while neglecting or ignoring other important priorities.

Treatment

Little has been done in clinical studies of treatment of C-PTSD. However, in general the following is recommended:

Removal of and protection from the source of the trauma and/or abuse.

Acknowledgement of the trauma as real, important and undeserved.

Acknowledge that the trauma came from something that was stronger than the victim and therefore could not be avoided.

Acknowledgement of the “complex” nature of C-PTSD - that responses to earlier traumas may have led to decisions that brought on additional, undeserved trauma.

Acknowledgement that recovery from the trauma is not trivial and will require significant time and effort.

Separation of residual problems into those that the victim can resolve (such as personal improvement goals) and those that the victim cannot resolve (such as the behavior of a disordered family member)

Mourning for what has been lost and cannot be recovered.

Identification of what has been lost and can be recovered.

Program of recovery with focus on what can be improved in an individual’s life that is under their own control.

Placement in a supportive environment where the victim can discover they are not alone and can receive validation for their successes and support through their struggles.

As necessary, personal therapy to promote self-discovery.

As required, prescription of antidepressant medications.

What to do about C-PTSD if you’ve got it:

Remove yourself from the primary or situation or secondary situations stemming from the primary abuse. Seek therapy. Talk about it. Write about it. Meditation. Medication if needed. Physical Exercise. Rewrite the script of your life. What not to do about it: Stay. Hold it in. Bottle it up. Act out. Isolate. Self-abuse. Perpetuate the cycle.

What to do about it if you know somebody else who has C-PTSD:

Offer sympathy, support, a shoulder to cry on, lend an ear. Speak from experience. Assist with practical resolution when appropriate (guidance towards escape, therapy, etc.) Be patient. What not to do about it if you know somebody else who has it: Do not push your own agenda: proselytize, moralize, speak in absolutes, tell them to “get over it”, or try to force reconciliation with the perpetrator or offer “sure fire” cures.

Links

PTSD Forum Contains a Wiki page and Active Support Forum.

Psych Forums PTSD Forum.

http://healmyptsd.com/ Resources & info about recovery from PTSD & C-PTSD

C-PTSD Page - by Author Sarah Tata

Trauma: Complex PTSD MentalHelp.net C-PTSD Article by Dr. Allan Schwartz

Out of the Storm - Support Group for people who suffer from C-PTSD.

Out of the FOG Support Forum - The Support Forum here at Out of the FOG.

This makes so much sense

I think we need to rework the whole “needing routine as an autistic person” thing because for the majority of allistic people, “routine” looks something like:

-wake up at 6am

-shower at 6:15am

-eat breakfast at 6:30am

-do important outings at 7am

-come home at 3pm

and so on..

And that is nothing like what I and many other autistic people experience (though it is what some experience).

Routine can be more accurately described as needing to do things in order to feel comfortable.

For example, I have no set time I wake up, I have no set time I do anything. But when I do wake up, I need to do my morning tasks in a specific order or I’ll struggle to function.

I get out of bed, turn on my lamp, switch my computer on, go to the bathroom, make my bed, get dressed, and sit down at my desk. That’s what a routine looks like to me.

If I’m cooking, I need to do things in a certain order or the food will be “wrong” (this could possibly be down to ARFID, but that is also comorbid with autism.)

There are other things like this. I guess you could call them mini routines. They aren’t a typical routine you’d see in a neurotypical or even someone who’s allistic.

For the longest time, I thought this was a symptom of autism I did not have at all but I do.

Just because a symptom doesn’t present in a neurotypical way, doesn’t mean it’s not there.

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Take your own advice Shinji, you absolute walnut - Mod Velvet

*this isn’t an edit or a screenshot, it’s 3d fanart*

this is amazing!

A Brief List of Resources for Classical Studies:

TOSC-IN:

A database enabling you to search for keywords in article titles from c.160 Classics related journals. Provides a link to an abstract or full text version if one exists online.

Classical and Medieval History:

Annotated list of Reference Websites

Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World

Online database and resources for studying Women and Gender in the ancient world.

Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World:

“Original electronic project aiming at collecting, recording, documenting, presenting and promoting the historical data that testify to the presence of Hellenic culture throughout time and space.”

Perseus Digital Library:

A showcase of digital and print resources for Classical studies. 

World Archaeology:

Books, Magazines, Blogs, Travel. All Archaeology related.

House of Ptolomy:

Portal website on the Ptolomatic (holla!) Empire. 

Star Myths and Constellation Lore:

Information website about the above. 

Virgil.com:

Basically a portal site and resource for information on all things Virgil. 

Homerica:

Portal and Resource. Link is in French, but you can have the website translated to any language. 

Exploring Ancient World Culture:

“On-line course supplement for students and teachers of the ancient and medieval worlds.”

Subject Centre for History, Classics, and Archaeology:

“The Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology is part of the Higher Education Academy.”

The Iris Project:

“an educational charity introducing the languages and culture of the ancient world to UK state schools in order to enrich the curriculum.”

Roman Law Resources

“ information on Roman law sources and literature, the teaching of Roman law, and the persons who study Roman law.”

Egyptology Resources

“World Wide Web resource for Egyptological information.”

ABZU:

“guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world”.

Stoa:

A consortium for electronic publication in the Humanities, including most notably: Suda-On-Line  English translation of the Suda, a 10th century Byzantine historical encyclopedia. Demos: Classical Athenian Democracy; a practical description of how the various institutions of Athenian democracy actually worked. Metis Bruce Hartzler’s collection of interactive QTVR panoramas for ancient Greek archaeological sites. And Medicina Antiqua A resource for the study of medicine in the Greek and Roman world.

Hellenic History:

From the Stone Age through the Modern Period from The Foundation of the Hellenic World (FHW), a non-profit cultural institution based in Athens, Greece.  

Hellenic Culture: 

Website of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture with sites on the museums, monuments, and archaeological sites of Greece.

Athenian Agora Excavations:

Website of the American School of Classical Studies at Althens’ excavations of the Athenian Agora.

Digital Classicist:

Concise information on projects applying computing technologies to Classical/Ancient Historical research. 

VROMA:

Online scholarly community of teachers and students who share an interest in the ancient Roman world; images, texts, history and many other resources. 

GNOMON Online:  

Recent journal articles and book in the Classics. Type general search term under “Alle Felder” (All Fields) or specific “Autor” (Author) and hit “Suche Starten” (Start search).“

Ancient World Mapping Center:

University of North Carolina. Cartographic resources, including a collection of free digital maps for educational use. 

Ancient Scripts: 

A website by “enthusiasts” rather than scholars but very interesting!

The Beazley Archive Classical Art Research Center:

Databases and study tools.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review: 

Timely open-access, peer-reviewed reviews of current scholarly work in the field of classical studies (including archaeology). This site is the authoritative archive of BMCR’s publication, from 1990 to the present. 

Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama

It investigates the performance of ancient texts in any medium and any period, from Greek tragedy to Roman epic, from stage to screen, from antiquity to the present day. 

The British Library Digitized Manuscripts

Contains digitised versions of a quarter fo the British Museum’s Greek manuscripts. 

The Ancient World Online:

A blog which, much like this, presents a variety of online resources for the Ancient world. 

Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy:

A website which seeks to store virtual Greek and Latin epigraphy of the ancient world, through a federation of multiple archive banks. 

Projekt Dyabola: 

Litterature and Object databases. 

The Digital Sculpture Project:

A website devoted to studying ways in which 3D digital technologies can be applied to the capture, representation and interpretation of sculpture from all periods and cultures. Up to now, 3D technologies have been used in fruitful ways to represent geometrically simple artifacts such as pottery or larger-scale structures such as buildings and entire cities. With some notable exceptions, sculpture has been neglected by digital humanists. 

Animus:

The open access Canadian Journal of Philosophy and Humanities. 

American Philological Association’s Society for Classical Studies:

A “ principal learned society in North America for the study of ancient Greek and Roman languages, literatures, and civilizations.”

The Classical Association of Canada:

Access to a wide variety of resources about Classics in Canada including graduate programs, and the monthly bulletin. 

Corpus Thomisticum:

The works of St. Thomas Aquinas in Latin. 

J. O’Donnell’s commentary on Augustine’s Confessions:

An on-line reprint of Augustine: Confessions, with commentary by James J. O'Donnell. 

LANGUAGE RESOURCES:

UC Berkeley Ancient Greek Resources:

Pronunciation Guide; Accentuation Drills; Vocabulary Drills; and much more.

Akropolis World News:

The news of the world in Ancient Greek- a great way to learn and practice the language.

Logeion:

Quick look-up of Greek and Latin words across all of the Perseus lexica.

Dictionaries [VIA Perseus Project]: LATIN || GREEK

NUMISMATICS [COINAGE]:

American Numismatic Societ’s MANTIS:

Database on more than 600,000 objects. 

 CHRR Online: 

Coin hoards of the Roman Republic Online archive.

Online Coins of the Roman Empire:

Similar to CHRR but coins of the Empire. 

Roman Provincial Coinage Online:

A standard typology of the provincial coinage of the Roman Empire. 

British Museum’s Roman Coinage:

A series of resources on Roman coinage. 

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum:

The Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum is a British AcademyResearch Project, the purpose of which is to publish illustrated catalogues of Greek coins in public and private collections in the British Isles. 

MANUSCRIPTS:

Digitalized Greek Manuscripts:

Princeton’s Modern language translations of Byzantine sources, digitized Greek manuscripts. 

Pinakes:

Pinakes s'ouvre à de nouvelles collaborations institutionnelles et accueille maintenant des projets de recherches sur les manuscrits de divers domaines. On trouvera l'ensemble des partenaires et des financements passés ou actuels sur la page Colophon. 

Greek Codicology/Paleography:

A detailed biliography on Greek codicology. 

Resource Lists by School: All links are to Classics, or Antiquities portals for more resource lists. 

Oxford Libraries

Cambridge Libraries

University of Toronto

Berkeley Classics Department

Library of Congress: Classics and Medieval History

Virginia Tech: Electronic Antiquity

Brock University: Classics Research Guide

Cambridge Ancient History Series

Williams.

University of Texas

Princeton University

Text Databases [Via Oxford]:

Antiquity

American Journal of Archaeology

Archaeology Magazine

Arion

Cambridge Archaeological Journal

Classical Philology

Classical Quarterly

Classical Review

Eranos

Greece & Rome

Journal of Near Eastern Studies

Journal of Field Archaeology

Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies

Journal of Roman Archaeology

Kernos

Phoenix

Pomoerium

Syllecta Classica

Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphie

Gateways:

Argos - search-engine for all major classical resources

Classics Section of the Intute gateway.

Voice of the Shuttle Classics Page from University of California, Santa Barbara

Classical and Biblical Literary Research Tools compiled by Jack Lynch at Penn

Reading Classics Gateway

Kirke Katalog der Internetressourcen für die Klassische Philologie

NOTE: So I compiled a list of some of my favorite classics sites to use. I also put in links to other school’s departments and libraries. Almost all Universities which have Classics departments have resources lists. If you want to add to the list, please do!

All of the schools above have much more extensive lists for you to use! I made this list in little over half an hour, so there is much room to be expanded on. 

NEW ADDITIONS: 

Latin Library at Packard Humanities Institute - http://latin.packhum.org/ (PHI numbers standard way to refer to Latin texts, look at the ones Perseus uses - it’s PHI).

Brepolis - http://www.brepolis.net/ - may need to access this via your institution or its ezproxy (includes the Library of Latin Texts A and B LLT-A and LLT-B and many other interesting resources).

L’Annee Philologique - http://www.annee-philologique.com - another one in which you’ll have to use via your institution’s ezproxy or other online database (we use ebscohost). Many journals you submit articles to expect references to other journals use the abbreviations in APh.

For databases of journals, first start at JSTOR - http://www.jstor.org - again, institutional access is required.

((Via: monumentum))

The Latin Library - A collection of Classical and Medieval texts in Latin, organized by author. 

The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook - A collection of mostly primary source texts translated into English.  Not comprehensive, but covers a broad range of topics.

((Via: hodie-scolastica))

Incredibles 2 & Pillars of Eternity odd combo

Cool

Also how can Arthur Conan Doyle write a character like Irene Adler 1891 and have her 1. Outsmart Sherlock Holmes and get away with it and 2. Be in no way a damsel or love interest to Sherlock.. But every modern retelling not only has her be a sexual /love interest character but she is posed as being very very smart… But never smart enough to just outwit him, get away with it and move on? Women can be smart, sure, but no one is allowed to be smarter than Sherlock.

It’s been over 120 years and Irene is, at her best, never as decently treated as the original.