Fears - Tumblr Posts

You may have good looks, good grades, and a good life

But do you have really bad zoophobia?

Checkmate bitch

im afraid of time, like the future and getting older

I can’t sleep tonight

Having no other adult experience with an actual relationship outside of him, I have fears.

I feel like I’m allowed to be human with her.  I’m comfortable blowing my nose and flossing in her presence.  That doesn’t sound like much, but it’s progress.

More than anything I feel animated, like, alive.  I can laugh loud and silly, and be excited about trivial things; I can take long, windy routes to tell stories, and forget what I was saying mid sentence.  None of this phases her.  I’m not an annoyance.  I’m not wasting her time.

Did I ever feel this way with him?  I must have.  I remember being willing to take a bullet for him.  Does that mean this is all going to fade too? 

I worry I’m going to turn into that hallow, emotionless shell again.  And that it had nothing to do with him always cutting me down, and everything to do with me just being soulless and horrible.

Maybe all this love stuff is short lived and fleeting for me, and my rotten insides will cause me to hurt her as well.

i beg of people PLEASE tag things that have ppls phobias (scopophobia, arachnophobia, emetophobia,, ect) it can be incredibly uncomfortable sometimes and really make someone uncomfortable

How are you guys doing today?

Fears of losing weight:

I'm scared that if I lose a lot of weight, I will have a lot of excess skin.

I'm hoping I don't become self-absorbent and self-centered

I FEAR that if I'm over-satisfied with extreme weight loss, I believe I would like it so much that I'll try harder to be underweight and maybe develop another weight disorder like bulimia or anorexia. 

Why do I ponder such things?

I am scared of growing up.

Not because of losing my youth, and while responsibility is a big part its not the focus

I'm scared of losing more of my intrinsic human value.

If you read a headline saying "Three people passed away in an accident" Versus "Three teenagers passed away in an accident", suddenly the latter seems so much more tragic

I'm scared of losing the value that society puts on young people, to lose the care and the hope for my future

Truly living happens when you wake up and consciously choose to confront your fears, even if you do it shaky and scared. Remember that’s a natural response when taking your leap of faith. You understand that even if we don’t get what we want, we free ourselves from being mental prisoners to the What If’s. We ultimately find what’s MEANT for us when we live authentically and let nothing, not even ourselves get in the way.

🫶🏻✨

~Just because you haven't come to terms with your fears doesn't mean I haven't come to terms with my own. Do not project your fears onto me and expect me to feel them as strongly as you. They belong to you. If you don't want them, sell them to someone who does, but don't give them to me for free when I never asked for them.~

-a poem of a new kind

Ever since I was little I have been deadly afraid of deers and that’s so hilarious if you ask me

How to Deal with Loneliness, Fears, Phobias, Depression, and Anxiety

By Eli Kittim (Psychologist & Biblical Researcher)

Loneliness, fears, phobias, depression, and anxiety are not so much reactions to real life situations as they are negative maladaptive thinking patterns. The cure or *remedy* lies in exposing the *falsehoods* or *false premises* that create them in the first place, thereby being able to change the negative maladaptive thinking patterns and their associated feelings and emotions. The way to apply this technique is through a process that the Buddhists call “mindfulness.” Christian mystics call it “guarding the heart.”

By constantly paying attention to your mind (i.e. being alert), you grant access to certain thoughts while refusing entry to others. Sometimes you’ll need to question the reliability and authenticity behind the premise of a thought before deciding to accept it as true or discard it as false. With practice, however, you will become successful in removing all forms of anxiety from your life by focusing on the false assumptions behind the negative thinking patterns as well as on the positive things that God has in store for you. 2 Corinthians 10.5 (NIV) explains this technique as follows:

We demolish arguments and every

pretension [or falsehood] that sets itself up

against the knowledge of God [or truth], and

we take captive every thought to make it

obedient to Christ.

Dave Jenkins, the Executive Editor of Theology for Life Magazine, and the Host of the Equipping You in Grace Podcast, put thusly the concept of the guarding of the heart:

For Christians to ‘guard their hearts and

minds’ in Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:7)

means for them to be alert, through Christ's

power and protection, to what enters and

dwells in their hearts, because the Bible

teaches that what we say and do, and who

we become is the result of the state of our

hearts.

To this end, Philippians 4.7 promises God’s protection:

And the peace of God, which transcends all

understanding, will guard your hearts and

your minds in Christ Jesus.

In order to stay positive and hopeful——in counteracting loneliness, fear, depression, or any other negativity we might have——Paul insists that we should train our minds to entertain only thoughts that are true and beautiful (Philippians 4.8):

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is

true, whatever is noble, whatever is right,

whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,

whatever is admirable--if anything is

excellent or praiseworthy--think about such

things.

Hiding the hurt, hiding the pain,

Hiding the tears which falls like rain.

Saying I'm fine when I'm anything but.

Loneliness consumes me; it eats away the years

Until my life is swallowed by unending fears.

Waiting for someone to see I wear a mask

And care enough to remove it; is that too much to ask?

Trevor and Neville’s Boggart

I have long advocated that Boggarts are representations as opposed to literal fears - for instance, we don’t believe that Remus was terrified of the moon; he’s terrified of his illness, and what the moon represents.  Similarly, it’s likely that Hermione’s Boggart was a fear of failure and subsequent rejection from the wizarding world due to her background - not that she wouldn’t pass a few exams.

Consequently, I have often suggested that Neville’s Boggart being Snape is not necessarily a deep-seated fear of Snape himself.  Instead, Neville’s worst fear is being a failure as a wizard - he frets that he is not magical enough and is incapable of living up to both the legacy of his parents and his family’s expectations.  

But one thing I hadn’t noticed until @the-great-snape-debate​ posted this passage from PS earlier, is this:

Trevor the toad was purchased for Neville by Great Uncle Algie - the same Great Uncle Algie who dropped him out of an upstairs window and pushed him off Blackpool pier, which had the consequence of Neville almost dying.  It is explicitly made clear that Trevor wasn’t just any familiar, but Trevor was explicitly a reward for Neville finally being deemed sufficiently magical.

Despite being accepted into Hogwarts, Neville’s struggle at school is well documented in both PS and CoS and occurs across a number of classes, and he frets that he is almost a Squib.  

In PoA, in the Potions class immediately before Lupin’s Defence lesson on Boggarts, Neville fails to brew his potion correctly and midway through, Snape laments that Neville doesn’t listen to his instructions:

“Didn’t you hear me say, quite clearly, that only one cat spleen was needed?  Didn’t I state plainly that a dash of leech juice would suffice? What do I have to do to make you understand, Longbottom?”

Snape then threatens Trevor:

“At the end of this lesson we will feed a few drops of this potion to your toad and see what happens.  Perhaps that will encourage you to do it properly.”

Of course, Snape has no way of knowing exactly what Trevor represents to Neville - it is incredibly unlikely that Snape would know Neville’s history with Great Uncle Algie or that the toad was bought as a reward.  

Snape presumably sees the toad as just a familiar and his threat is simply a dark way of motivating Neville to concentrate.  In contrast, Neville sees Trevor as being representative of his success at being a legitimate wizard.

This explains why Neville is so fearful of Snape specifically - a few minutes prior to the Boggart scene, Snape threatened Trevor - both figuratively and literally.  Importantly, Snape doesn’t threaten Trevor because he thinks it’s a funny thing to do or because he understands what Trevor represents - Snape explicitly threatens Trevor because of Neville’s performance in his class.

Incidentally, this also goes some way to explain why the Boggart is pushed into Neville’s grandmother’s clothes - when Neville was accepted into Hogwarts, his grandmother had to concede that she was incorrect and Neville was sufficiently magical.  By forcing Boggart-Snape into those same clothes, Neville is meant to see that this is exactly the same problem he’s already confronted; he is magical enough and this new authority figure will also eventually be proven to be wrong, just as his grandmother was.

TL,DR:  Neville’s worst fear is being a Squib.  Snape, as an authority figure in the school, deemed Neville magically inept and threatened to remove Neville’s reward for being magical enough (Trevor) as a direct consequence of Neville’s own failure.

Prompt 116

Geralt wakes up one stormy night to the scent of his bard's distress. His eyes snap open, and he instinctively reaches for a dagger, but is stopped when he can't move his arms. He glances to the side and sure enough, his bard is clinging to him. Jaskier has his eyes scrunched close, and his mouth is in a pouty frown. Geralt sighs a bit, and curls his free arm over and around Jaskier, cuddling him closer. Perhaps it was a bad dream. Geralt sniffs the air and nods to himself. "It'll rain soon." Jaskier whips his head over to him with horror. "RAIN!? RAIN!? I just did my hair, and this is one of my best doublets, and-" "We'll be inside by then." "Oh thank gods, Geralt." Geralt and Jaskier are traveling a very windy day, clouds begin crowding above them, darkening the sky. Jaskier has been on edge since he woke up to the harsh winds, but Geralt had just assumed he was cold and worried for his hair. But then lightning flashes in the distance, and Jaskier honest-to-gods yelps in fright. That's when Geralt finally figures it out. His bard is afraid of storms.

TW: fire

People who say nothing is impossible scare me because they are actively admitting that my house could spontaneously combust or just set on fire in the middle of the night.

Thank you for confirming one of my worst fears.

Heartattacks.

It's cause of an admittedly very melodramatic comedy skit Filipino show where a character has a heartattack and dies randomly. It's supposed to be a joke cause of how over the top it is, but for some reason I was afraid as a kid of just randomly having chest pain and falling down dead on the streets.

I wasn’t scared of murderers or monsters as a kid but I was very scared of: stairs, encephalitis, meningitis, flesh eating bacteria, mushrooms, and mold. what’s your very specific childhood fear

*BURSTS THROUGH DOOR

SLIPS AND SLIDES BECAUSE I FORGOT GRIPPY SOCKS

CRASHES THROUGH THE WALL*

YO

I JUST FIGURED OUT WHY I'M SO UNEXPECTEDLY ATTRACTED TO VALENTINO

CAUSE HE'S A MOTH

BUT HE LOOKS LIKE A BUTTERFLY

AND NOT ONLY FOR I GET FREAKED OUT BY SHIT THAT ACTS LIKE OTHER SHIT

I'M SCARED OF BUTTERFLIES AS A MIX OF THAT AND THEM BEING PLAIN CREEPY

AND AROUSAL CAN BE A FEAR RESPONSE AND IDK IF I CAN EVER LOOK A BUTTERFLY NORMAL AGAIN

Some creepy 11pm art for you european followers. I couldn’t tell you why i made this.

What Is Sonic The Hedgehog Afraid Of?

Aquaphobia: Fear Of Water

Thantophobia: Fear Of Losing Someone/Death

Philophobia: Fear Of Loving Someone

Cherophobia: Fear Of Sadness

Dystychiphobia: Fear Of Accidents