Baby Gale & Tara Wip I Love Them Both So Much

Baby Gale & Tara wip 💕💕 I love them both so much 🥺

part 2/2

part 1 here

gale :( this fandom doesn’t understand you but i do

this is golden child burnout while being groomed by someone you idolize

“…. where are your parents?”

someone tell Brandon Sanderson that I want Lift to use this insult against Dalinar just once before it’s all over please.

In other news I’m retiring from posting my stormlight archive fan art because I’ll never top this thanks for listening folks

Murderbot and Trauma Portrayal

I've been thinking about Murderbot and trauma recently. Murderbot is able to shut down memories of the things that traumatised it really well. Especially with the extra stuff that us squishy humans don't have like computerish brains. But despite the ability to shut thoughts down its actual body retains the memory of the trauma and keeps lowering its performance rating even when it is Not Remembering.

Just as somebody who has to deal with trauma flashbacks, its so accurate to what I do. Because one way a mind learns to deal with trauma, is to just shut it down, such as intentional or unintentional forgetting. But that doesn't get rid of the trauma. Because trauma lives in the body, and the body remembers even when the mind does not.

Because you can't escape trauma by running from it, at least not totally. You can do it to survive, but its never going to go away by doing that, it'll always just be lurking, lowering your performance rating.

Narcheska and Sacrifice

if anyone was wondering how my read of the liveship trader series is going… it’s… uh going