Latest Posts by niavirrivain - Page 5

Well, it's not exactly that, but it's pretty solidly in the something like that range, I'd say.

An Ancient Roman time-traveler would be really confused hearing "lactose-free milk" until they saw how it's spelled.

as an aroace person with limited sexual experience, no interest in watching porn, and poor sex ed as a teen, there IS something simultaneously funny and vaguely tragic about being 28 adult years old and realising how extremely tiny your frame of reference is for genitalia and deciding you should expand this to better understand bodies (yours and others). and then you're just there like "okay so what the fuck do I even google right now, anyway"

I love villainesses isekais because they always open to some shit like "I've reincarnated as Evilla Von Lily, the empire's only princess and I'm destined to die after becoming affianced to Prince Rytius de Citrus?!?!?" and you think ok so just not marry him, right. Cant be that hard? But then chapter 1 in kicks in like " Evilla, sweetie your father and I are sooo glad you're marrying your Highness prince Rytius otherwise all these 56 orphans we tend to would spontaneously combust. Like, immediately. don't ask, we dont know how either. anyways proud of you" and youre like oh shit evilla

NOW MEET THE GANG OF INTERNATIONAL SHITPOSTERS AND GAMERS I CALL MY CHAT

Tumblr Code.

If I ever see any of you in public, the code is horrifying weapon attack

Ah, I see! I suppose that makes sense, if nothing that normally happens with spine growth would mean it has to be replaced. It's a bit variable, but losing out on a good half of one's teenage height gains that way would be a sensible expectation.

Seeing as your saying this is 13-14, I am curious about why you are saying 5'6 as an adult - most calculators I could find use the heights of both mother and father as input, which would require additional citation I'd be curious of, and the one I saw that didn't gave a taller height unless you said 14, almost 15 (14 and 10 or 11 months, for clarity).

PSA: Please don’t ask participants to do grounding/mindful/somatic/etc practices at your events

Grounding exercises should not be an activity in large group settings, especially unsolicited and without warning, especially if you’re not aware of every single person in the space’s mental health conditions, physical health conditions, and personal relationship to their body.

Practices such as mindfulness, grounding, somatic exercises, breathing techniques, body scans, etc. are very helpful therapeutic tools to help manage stress. They can (and do!) help plenty of people– when taught safely and used effectively!

HOWEVER for people with conditions that cause psychosis and/or dissociative conditions such as depersonalization/derealization, these techniques are contraindicated and can make their symptoms significantly worse. They should only be used with guidance from their mental health team and adapted to their needs. For people with conditions like anxiety and PTSD, being aware of breathing can trigger a trauma response or anxiety attacks.

And for people with conditions that cause chronic pain or other uncomfortable bodily sensations, becoming re-centered with their bodies can cause more awareness of the pain they are in, which a level of (ideally functional) dissociation is actually helpful. For people in wheelchairs and powerchairs, touching the ground beneath their feet isn’t always an option. For people with cardiac and pulmonary conditions, deep breathing can be impossible or can trigger asthma attacks. For disabled people in general, doing body scans can be impossible due to paralysis or limb differences. They can bring awareness to things the person wasn’t aware were wrong to begin with (which is helpful in certain spaces, but not a great ice breaker at a retreat!)

And for trans people, binders and other garments can restrict breathing, and taking repeated deep breaths while binding can cause rib damage (which is why you shouldn't bind at night, while coughing from sickness, while exercising, etc). Becoming centered in a body that makes you dysphoric can be deeply distressing, again, a level of functional dissociation helps.

This also goes for plenty of other people in marginalized bodies, such as people of color, people who use substances, queer people, and more. Becoming grounded in your own marginalized body can be a heavy weight to carry, and needs appropriate and individualized care to be a beneficial experience.

As an alternative, I suggest doing a round of gratitudes instead, it allows for people to choose their level of vulnerability in spaces, while not being generally contraindicated for many people. Doing fun (and appropriate to the setting) icebreakers are great. Ask what brings someone to the space. Check-ins about basic needs such as if people need to use the restroom, eat, drink water, are rested, etc. can be more appropriate body check-ins for folks to do.

I don’t recommend doing these exercises even with a warning beforehand. If I'm in the room while someone is leading a breathing exercise, even if I try to ignore it, I (and most people) would automatically become aware of my breathing. The same goes for any other techniques. These techniques can cause real, life-threatening levels of harm for some people, and can even just be deeply uncomfortable or distressing for others. Dissociation is not inherently evil or bad or harmful. It is the way the body and mind naturally respond to adverse experiences (note: it can also cause distress and at higher levels, can be disordered) it is best to allow people to exist as they are in communal spaces. Let people show up as they are.

Most spaces are not equipped or appropriate to respond to emergencies, difficult feelings, and all the varied responses that can come from folks doing mindfulness in group settings.

I personally do some things before large gatherings and events to feel centered on the activity I’ll be doing, and afterward, I decompress. Encourage participants to lean on their natural supports and offer suggestions for it! Be creative in your caring!

This also doesn’t mean to discourage these practices! If you see someone doing deep breathing, check in with them, offer a space for them to decompress, care for them! Worksheets or posters on techniques like square breathing and 5 senses check-ins are great for a quiet room or spaces where participants can decide if they want/are able to engage with those tools. It should be a fully consensual opt-in, rather than being forced to opt-out. Having to leave a room when a group leader says “We’re going to start a mindful breathing meditation, please feel free to leave if you have psychosis, chronic pain, or are trans” is obviously othering and outs people.

Sincerely, someone who has psychotic symptoms, dissociation, chronic pain, is trans and whose body is marginalized in many ways and is really tired from trying to explain this at every event I go to

I have decided I like this video more when I empathize with the dude in the video coming into it. Therefore, I need to get a setup that sends it to me at 6:30 AM every morning, when that is most reliably the case.

"Which one of you", well, omegaverse-anesthesiologist, that winds up sounding kinda sus.

why is ao3 is blocked on the hospital wifi????

I like the example image for PC-98 style best of these, the hair looks shinier.

[ちぷしし / Chipushishi]

Hotel California on Guzheng by Moyun.

Finding the ghosts Very wouldn't help! TBF, from the wiki, it seems the canon ghosts are at least partially being agitated by having of been buried in each other's graves, but I suspect he'd have to spend most of his time preventing them from doing things like killing entire bloodlines. Especially since many of them have stopped the sort of activity that got that to be what's going down in the past two generations or so...

Gotham Academy is super old and like any other prestigious private boarding school, it hosts a lot of skeletons in the closet.

For Danny Fenton, godson of Vlad Masters, who just transferred to the academy after the tragic death of his family, it meant the place had quite some ghosts that were lost or unable to move on. Some reminded him of Pointdexter and Jazz even.

He decided to fight for them, to find justice for their injustice dues, if nothing else.

Now if only a certain Wayne didn't butt his nose into Danny's business, it would be great.

Justice for REcunt Shirt

Tumblr just recommended me the "gay penis" tag (which you know, fair) and I just want to clarify my stance on something: all penis is gay.

He's updated every Tuesday for at least 6 years, then, if I recall things right, with possible interruptions for things like the League of Assassins and the spiders incident. If he's anything like folk expect of AO3 authors for some reason, the author's note probably contains more info than the bat report.

Interviewer: so what is your opinion on real-life fanfiction?

Cass: hmm?

Interviewer: fanfiction centering around real people. Such as yourselves.

Tim, grinning: well I mean I've been writing a self-inseet into the Wayne Family fic since I was ten, (it updates on Tuesdays, by the way) so....

Interviewer: blinks

Duke, delighted: whaaattt???

Tim: were you not made aware? I thought everyone knew, and we just weren't talking about it.

Dick: no, no that's definitely just you, Tim. Somehow it does not surprise me, though.

Tim: huh. Well, it's quite popular

Honestly, someone's got of made him raised by bats at some point, and there's no way he doesn't ecolocate when he wants to. Like, seriously, it's about fear? He was trained by the most *famous* assassins, and probably has a set of their garb he could be using as reference for his costume. He should be doing that if it's about fear.

"The existence of people who've never heard of [insert fandom here] makes me feel old" buddy, there are people who've never heard of just about anything you can think of. On a densely networked site like Tumblr, you're probably at most four or five mutual-of-a-mutual jumps removed from someone who's genuinely never heard of Batman.

Agree that it's bizarre - it's not even very interesting with these characters.

Also have to say - Danny's foes are often towards the upper end of DC's scaling in the first place, so I don't really get what you're going for with that bit? There is a bit of a tendency to downscale his opponents, but going from "reality wrapping" to basically a Lord of Order doesn't do all that much, really.

Danny gets isekai’d into the DC universe. He still is a half ghost but he’s considered a meta whose abilities activated from a trauma now. His powers are even stronger here which is good because the apparent power scaling of villains and heroes is FAR past the fights he had with ghosts in his home town.

Ignoring all of that chaos for the moment, how on earth is he going to explain to this nice older couple whose wheat fields he just crashed into that he means no harm? And why are they acting like they’ve dealt with this situation before?

The fact Hi-Fi Rush has this song already makes it GOTY

I'm pretty sure the Elder Scrolls one is the reason sunlight harms vampires... But that's also just normal.

>fantasy universes where celestial bodies look normal but the lore says they're actually just illusions / magic / otherwise not real

got a good grade in physical therapy because i ordered a sex toy life is fun

reblog to teleport your mutuals to a massive party when jkr dies

I decided to create something that I wish I had when I first got diagnosed with autism - so here’s my comic for ASDComicTakeover! You can find out more about the project here!

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I forgot to share this on the right day but still important anniversary.

"Well, if you lot adopt me, you'll have to adopt my sister too," Danny says.

"Obviously happening. Good children of an Evil Bat is 100% a situation B would want in on." Tim replies, since Danny has implied he knows about the Bat-Wayne situation - having of mentally noted to look into that.

"My clone too, I'm too young to be legally her dad even if we wind up agreeing that way, probably one of my friends since Pamela isn't up to adopting, and also, please set up my other friends' families - one's been working for one of Hood's charities and the other's supposedly working for his gang, though I suspect he and my friend are actually being called security for the charities - and maybe push enough money in the direction of my former nemesis and redeemed evil alternate self that my former nemesis stops overshadowing rouges and gang leaders to steal all of their stuff? He's more of an issue when he's got something that he feels needs doing, rather than just trying to buy the Green Bay Packers." Danny continues rapidly.

Quite rapidly - "O, did you get all of that? Especially the last bit - we might just be able to wrap up a number of our recent cases." Tim asks.

As Oracle affirms is when Dick arrives, proclaiming "Of course! B has plenty of money, and Gotham is Gotham.", coming in fast for a hug, which surprises Danny, disappointing Dick by going intangible.

*Danny and a Batfam member having a friendly chat at a cafe. They've known each other for a few months now*

Batfam member: "You know, you actually kinda look like B with a few minor differences. Prime adoption bait. Hope you're not another secret love child of his." *laughs*

Danny: *Starts sweating bullets because he is in fact, Bruce's kid but from a different dimension where instead of being a himbo billionaire, he's a himbo ghost hunter named Jack who almost killed him before he got here .* "Haha, you don't say?"

Batfam member: *Clocks in on sudden shift in mood* "Please tell me you're not."

Danny: "So do you want the short and funny story, or the long and sad one? Yes, there's a right answer."

Batfam member: *crying because they can never have a normal sibling*

Danny: Also, do you believe in ghosts?

Batfam member: *cries even more*

if you want to actually materially address child abuse, the single most important thing you can do to start is give children the legally enforceable right to leave any situation they no longer want to be in.

church, extracurriculars, summer camps, school classes, their biological family's houses. notably, these are the places that child abuse is enabled by the child's inability to just fucking leave if they need to. they can't walk out of church if their youth pastor touches them inappropriately; they'll get punished for leaving. if they walk out of their house because their dad hits them, the cops pick them up and give them right back to their dad.

children need the legal autonomy to leave abusive situations in order to even begin to usefully materially address child abuse.

original post by qweerhet because it's unrebloggable but very important

It's probably not actually a good thing, just like my whole "that's a muscle? I thought it was a bone" thing isn't good, though probably to a lesser degree.

She's so cool