YOOOOOOO SALY DADDY JEFF S L A Y

Shane, Ryan, we’re looking at you two.

Two demon hunters jokingly search for, well, demons. Unbeknownst to one, the other person is a demon in plain sight.

What can go wrong? The squad have everything under control!

That toke me so many hours n fixes to complete. It's silly, it's chaotic and maybe not everything makes perfect sense but it's my ultimate bby:3

Luther: GET AWAY FROM MY WIFE AND DAUGHTER! *fucking throws Ralph through a wall*

Ralph: We can be one big happy family!! Alice is our little girl, Kara, you’re the mother, and I’m the father!!

Luther: *deviates*

the old man may be dead BUT HIS COOKIES WILL LIVE ON!!!!!

@.critical_role: We are pleased to announce EXQUISITE EXANDRIA: THE OFFICIAL COOKBOOK OF CRITICAL ROLE!

Coming in August 2023 from @.penguinrandom, this incredible cookbook collects 60 delicious recipes from across Exandria in one legendary culinary tome available for preorder now at criticalrolebooks.com! 🥣🍖🧄🍇

BONUS: In the spirit of this special season and his generosity, a first taste of what's to come is yours with the official recipe for Lord Ariks Eshteross' Maple Ginger Cookies with Turmeric! 🍪

Try it at criticalrolebooks.com/cookies and share your creations with the tag #ExquisiteExandria!

Lae'zel of Crèche K'liir my beloved

HEHEHEHHEHEHHE amazing

Based on the comic by Jon Klassen! He just wants his hat back...

I'd say fuck him, but that's probably what he wants.

I hate Freud. His whole weird theory about penis envy and children being sexually attracted to their parents and secret desires and all that shit actually came straight out of an attempt to ally himself with wealthy and influential rapists and was a direct form of victim blaming.

He had started the research looking into “hysteria” which at the time was really usually referring to women’s symptoms of PTSD. It turned out that the reason so many woman had these symptoms is because so many of them had experienced sexual violence– especially CSA and incest at the hands of their fathers. 

At first he was making real progress, and it was through working with these women that he discovered that talk therapy could be used to treat trauma. The symptoms of PTSD were lessened when women were able to safely speak about their experiences out loud and be believed. 

But it wasn’t the women who paid for the therapy. It was their fathers, husbands, the same men who were perpetuating the violence in the first place. And Freud didn’t want to validate his patients (the women) if it meant making his clients (the men) unhappy.

So he came up with a new idea. These symptoms weren’t from trauma. The memories weren’t real. These women were just sexual beings as children and had penis envy and it made them lust for their fathers and fantasize about the rape that they had reported to him. That’s where the shittiest parts of Freud’s theories emerged. Another part of it besides just the monetary aspect, though, was that there was a feminist movement on the fringes starting up at the time and by publishing work about women’s CSA he would be aligning himself with it and therefore losing support, respect, funding, prestige from his male peers and from the psychological community at large. He literally made that gross victim blaming shit up to keep his own reputation with these fucks and to make sure he still got publication and fame.

By coming up with fake theory about little girls fantasizing about incest he not only fucked over generations of women, the feminist movement that was arising, and the entire psychology field for years to come, but he also completely swept away any progress made in understanding trauma and so we didn’t have any clue why men coming back from war had “hysteria” like women during WWI.

And our research on PTSD and trauma is still lacking to this day, especially because of the stigma that maybe traumatized people deserved it or wanted it or imagined it. People don’t want to believe it’s real. Perpetrators of traumatic violence want everyone to forget about it, not acknowledge it, or trivialize it.

And they have Freud’s cultural legacy to help them.

[ID: a very simply drawn three panel comic. the first panel shows a person approaching a cat that's laying on the floor and reaching down to hug her, saying "gertie." the second panel shows two coins falling from the person's shirt pocket. the third panel shows the coins bouncing off the cat, who doesn't care.]

I know it’s been talked about, “who convinced Arthur he was dumb?” We hear Hosea and Dutch both make jokes/comments about his intelligence, and even if they’re just jokes eventually they add up, and who knows what he heard from his father and other adults he interacted with as a child.

But who convinced him that he was ugly? I know we all think he’s beautiful and I think he’s conventionally attractive, but the comments he makes are persistent. The comments he makes in the mirror, the things he says at the portrait place in Saint Denis, the “no one would have me” comment, and probably a lot of others I’m missing. I’m not sure if any other character in the game calls him ugly, in fact Tommy calls him “pretty boy” and Albert Mason takes a picture of him that he includes in his gallery.

So now I’m just curious who convinced him he was ugly because I definitely don’t think it was Mary Linton and it likely wasn’t Eliza.

A bit from the latest Dimension 20 season, Mentopolis, that I thought would be fun to animate.