Asexual And Tiefling Or Infernal Bloodline Human (might Of Been Both At Different Stages Of Their Development)

This is fascinating and good to learn. Thanks for this. Reblogging so I remember.

It's just annoying that people don't realize how much of the way Caleb acts is PTSD. It's like you said, it's not just flashback and outbursts. It's everything. Sensory problems, cognition problems, communications problems. It totally wrecks your brain on every level.

PTSD can effect the brain in so many ways. At its most severe it really can have an enormous impact on nearly every aspect of your life.

It can have a huge impact on people’s cognitive abilities, particularly their memory and attention. This is especially true when it comes to situations that are more emotional, especially if those emotions attached are negative, it the situation is stressful, etc. They will have a harder time paying attention to what’s happening around them and their brain will struggle to properly process the memory, which means the memory of the event will be less than reliable. It also impacts the way the brain processes and reacts to the memory of the trauma. When they have a memory of the trauma, they’re unable to pull themselves out of it. Sometimes they can’t remember parts of the traumatic event, and it’s incredibly common for people with PTSD to, even if they remember it, be unable to talk about a part of the trauma, or even the entire trauma. Their brain is unable to process the memory in a way that allows them to put it into words. This is even true of people who have experienced trauma but don’t suffer from PTSD. 

Attention and memory also impact just day to day life, because in general a brain effected by PTSD has a harder time processing information it takes in. There are also significant sensory issues.  People with PTSD and other trauma disorders experience a great deal of difficulty when it comes to sensory filtering, basically filtering out irrelevant stimuli. (This may also be true of people who have suffered trauma but do not have PTSD as well, but a definitive link has not yet been shown.) Basically, the trauma causes a person to be in a state of hyper alertness, wanting to be aware of everything that’s happening around them so they can catch something bad before it happens, so it takes in everything, every sensory stimuli around them, and it stops filtering out the things that don’t matter. 

PTSD can also cause a difficulty in processing the stimuli that is taken in. The combination of not being able to filter stimuli and not properly processing the stimuli that comes in, or even either one on their own, causes a great deal of confusion and frustration. Issues with processing stimuli can make a person incredibly sensitive to relatively minor stimuli. Processing and filtering issues can also have a physical effect, making someone dizzy, nauseous, give them headaches, make their body ache, etc. They can cause significant anxiety and raise their heart rate. People with sensory issues often just shut down when over stimulated, an attempt to basically just shut out ALL stimuli.

I’ve already talked at length about all the ways communication is impaired by PTSD, and Caleb demonstrates a lot of those problems. 

These effects can be far more profound if they happen during or before the parts of the brain that control such things are developed. Since Caleb was still quite young when everything happened, his brain was likely still developing, so the trauma would likely have a major impact on how the neural connections that are formed in those area. Impulse control, emotional regulation, problem solving skills, understanding consequences, judgment, planning, sequencing and organization, reaction to stimuli, and even more are all things that could have been seriously effected by Caleb’s trauma during neural development. 

So much of Caleb’s disposition, his behavior, and his actions check these boxes for trauma disorders. There are things he’s done that demonstrate possible sensory issues, he’s demonstrated communication issues, his story about what happened to him could demonstrate the kind of memory problems that can come with trauma disorders. And he’s certainly demonstrated symptoms that I’ve discussed elsewhere, like his attempts to control situations and his difficulty trusting people. He’s also had at least one flashback, which is probably the best known symptom of PTSD.

This so cool!!

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This is so pretty!! 🤩 I am reblogging this so I can remember to figure out where this from later & so I can go… oooh pretty architecture!

Okay I'm officially in love with the new backgrounds for the new story

Wow, this is an amazing reference sheet...!

To the person who put this together, BLESS YOU

Reblogging for future reference. Very informative.

Injury angst for writing dummies.

Hospitals and injury are always such a staple of angst fics, but 9 times out of 10 the author has clearly never been in an emergency situation and the scenes always come off as over-dramatized and completely unbelievable. So here’s a crash course on hospital life and emergencies for people who want authenticity. By someone who spends 85% of her time in a hospital. 

Emergency Departments/Ambulances.

Lights and sirens are usually reserved for the actively dying. Unless the person is receiving CPR, having a prolonged seizure or has an obstructed airway, the ambulance is not going to have lights and sirens blaring. I have, however, seen an ambulance throw their lights on just so they can get back to the station faster once. Fuckers made me late for work.

Defibrillators don’t do that. You know, that. People don’t go flying off the bed when they get shocked. But we do scream “CLEAR!!” before we shock the patient. Makes it fun.

A broken limb, surprisingly, is not a high priority for emergency personnel. Not unless said break is open and displaced enough that blood isn’t reaching a limb. And usually when it’s that bad, the person will have other injuries to go with it.

Visitors are not generally allowed to visit a patient who is unstable. Not even family. It’s far more likely that the family will be stuck outside settling in for a good long wait until they get the bad news or the marginally better news. Unless it’s a child. But if you’re writing dying children in your fics for the angst factor, I question you sir. 

Unstable means ‘not quite actively dying, but getting there’. A broken limb, again, is not unstable. Someone who came off their motorbike at 40mph and threw themselves across the bitumen is. 

CPR is rarely successful if someone needs it outside of hospital. And it is hard fucking work. Unless someone nearby is certified in advanced life support, someone who needs CPR is probably halfway down the golden tunnel moving towards the light. 

Emergency personnel ask questions. A lot of questions. So many fucking questions. They don’t just take their next victim and rush off behind the big white doors into the unknown with just a vague ‘WHAT HAPPENED? SHE HIT HER HEAD?? DON’T WORRY SIR!!!’ They’re going to get the sir and ask him so many questions about what happened that he’s going to go cross eyed. And then he’s going to have to repeat it to the doctor. And then the ICU consultant. And the police probably. 

In a trauma situation (aka multiple injuries (aka car accident, motorbike accident, falling off a cliff, falling off a horse, having a piano land on their head idfk you get the idea)) there are a lot of people involved. A lot. I can’t be fucked to go through them all, but there’s at least four doctors, the paramedics, five or six nurses, radiographers, surgeons, ICU consultants, students, and any other specialities that might be needed (midwives, neonatal transport, critical retrieval teams etc etc etc). There ain’t gonna be room to breathe almost when it comes to keeping someone alive.

Emergency departments are a life of their own so you should probably do a bit of research into what might happen to your character if they present there with some kind of illness or injury before you go ahead and scribble it down.

Wards

Nurses run them. No seriously. The patient will see the doctor for five minutes in their day. The nurse will do the rest. Unless the patient codes.

There is never a defibrillator just sitting nearby if a patient codes. 

And we don’t defibrillate every single code. 

If the code does need a defibrillator, they need CPR.

And ICU. 

They shouldn’t be on a ward. 

There are other people who work there too. Physiotherapists will always see patients who need rehab after breaking a limb. Usually legs, because they need to be shown how to use crutches properly.

Wards are separated depending on what the patient’s needs are. Hospitals aren’t separated into ICU, ER and Ward. It’s usually orthopaedic, cardiac, neuro, paediatric, maternity, neonatal ICU, gen surg, short stay surg, geriatric, palliative…figure out where your patient is gonna be. The care they get is different depending on where they are.

ICU.

A patient is only in ICU if they’re at risk of active dying. I swear to god if I see one more broken limb going into ICU in a fic to rank up the angst factor I’m gonna shit. It doesn’t happen. Stop being lazy. 

Tubed patients can be awake. True story. They can communicate too. Usually by writing, since having a dirty great tube down the windpipe tends to impede ones ability to talk. 

The nursing care is 1:1 on an intubated patient. Awake or not, the nurse is not gonna leave that room. No, not even to give your stricken lover a chance to say goodbye in private. There is no privacy. Honestly, that nurse has probably seen it all before anyway. 

ICU isn’t just reserved for intubated patients either. Major surgeries sometimes go here post-op to get intensive care before they’re stepped down. And by major I mean like, grandpa joe is getting his bladder removed because it’s full of cancer. 

Palliative patients and patients who are terminal will not go to ICU. Not unless they became terminally ill after hitting ICU. Usually those ones are unexpected deaths. Someone suffering from a long, slow, gradually life draining illness will probably go to a general ward for end of life care. They don’t need the kind of intensive care an ICU provides because…well..they’re not going to get it??

Operations.

No one gets rushed to theatre for a broken limb. Please stop. They can wait for several days before they get surgery on it. 

Honestly? No one gets ‘rushed’ to theatre at all. Not unless they are, again, actively dying, and surgery is needed to stop them from actively dying. 

Except emergency caesarians. Them babies will always get priority over old mate with the broken hip. A kid stuck in a birth canal and at risk of death by pelvis is a tad more urgent than a gall stone. And the midwives will run. I’ve never seen anyone run as fast as a midwife with a labouring woman on the bed heading to theatres for an emergency caesar.

Surgery doesn’t take as long as you think it does. Repairing a broken limb? Two hours, maybe three tops. Including time spent in recovery. Burst appendix? Half an hour on the table max, maybe an hour in recovery. Caesarian? Forty minutes or so. Major surgeries (organs like kidneys, liver and heart transplants, and major bowel surgeries) take longer. 

You’re never going to see the theatre nurses. Ever. They’re like their own little community of fabled myth who get to come to work in their sweatpants and only deal with unconscious people. It’s the ward nurse who does the pick up and drop offs. 

Anyway there’s probably way, way more that I’m forgetting to add but this is getting too long to keep writing shit. The moral of the story is do some research so you don’t look like an idiot when you’re writing your characters getting injured or having to be in hospital. It’s not Greys Anatomy in the real world and the angst isn’t going to be any more intense just because you’re writing shit like it is. 

Peace up.

Hamatora the Animation Episode 7 (Waring: Spoilers)

I really dislike Moral now... He is a good villain, but I hate him.

Why Art? He was my favourite character! Why...? Moral is horrible, he didn't even let Art answer the damn phone! What's with the overkill, and ugh!

Sorry, Im just raging over this... It's so unfair. I knew he die from the comments before I watched the episode but geez... Moral you are getting on my nerves! Which means he's a good villain, but still...

RIP Art...  (If he's dead, I hope his not...)

Also I wonder what Moral said to him before he died... Hmm... I will not be able to go asleep tonight easily... Sigh. 

Best episode so far, despite Art's death. At least Art didn't give in, his determination is admirable. Anyway that's my rant.

This is awesome and hilarious.

I was tweeting with tenfiends about how P5 kid should be Tatsuya and Jun’s son and it got out of hand

(Tatsuya is a detective, leading to hilarious antics as P5 kid conceals his identity from his dad, because his other dad Jun probably knows about it the entire time)

Such a great breakdown & reference for storytelling

Fantasy Guide to Noble Titles & What they Mean

So I get a lot of questions about what nobles actually do or how much they own or why a certain title is higher than another. Understanding the complexities of nobility and their hierarchy can be a bit of a head twister but hopefully this will help you out. Just for the moment we will be focusing on European Titles because I can't fit all the titles into one post. Forgive my shitty doodles. The diagrams mark out where the particular noble would rule.

Archduke/Archduchess

These titles have two meanings. In the latter half of the Austrian Empire, it was used to denote senior members of the Royal family such as children and siblings. It is also a non Royal title given to someone who rules an archduchy, a large portion of land with in the kingdom. They are in charge of the archduchy, ensuring it runs smoothly. They are referred to as Your Grace.

Grand Duke/Grand Duchess

The Grand Duke is probably the trickiest of all these titles as there is a dual meaning. A Grand Duke can rule a state as a sovereign like in Luxembourg or they can rule a Grand Duchy (a large portion of land within a kingdom) like the Grand Dukes of Russia. The Grand Duke was below the Archduke and their lands may be smaller. They are in charge of ruling their Grand Duchy, upholding the monarch's laws in their name. They are referred to as Your Grace.

Duke/Duchess

The Duke is the highest rank in most European nations. The Duke rules a large portion of the kingdom- called a Duchy- which you can think of as a county/state. The Duchies are often awarded by the monarch to their children who are not the heir. The Duke is charge with running that portion of land by order of the monarch, handling the over all business of that piece of the Kingdom. Dukes are referred to as Your Grace. There was only one Duke per Duchy.

Marquess/Marchioness

A Marquess is the next rung down from Dukes. The Marquess is in charge of a portion of land within a Duchy which is called a Marsh which lays near a border. The Marquess is solely responsible for the running of that portion of land. The Marquess is called The Most Honourable (Insert name), the Marquess of XYZ. There could be multiple marquesses in a Duchy if it was near a large border.

Earl/Count/Countess/Compte/Comptesse

An Earl/Count Rules over an Earldom, which is a section of a Duchy but it has less importance than a Marsh ruled by the Marquess. The Earl/Count is the third highest ranking within the Duchy. Often it was the subsidiary title of the heir of the Dukedom, so the eldest son/daughter of the Duke would be the Earl. The Earl/Count of X is addressed as Lord X for example, the Earl of Grantham, is called Lord Grantham. There could be multiple Earls/counts per Duchy.

Viscount/Viscountess/Viscompte/Viscomptess

Viscounts are the Earl/Count's second in command, ruling a portion of land with the Earldom. They handled the judiciary matters of their lands and their barons. Viscounts were addressed as the Right Honourable (insert name) Marquess of XY. Viscounts can also be used as a subsidiary title for the son of a Earl. When Thomas Boleyn was made Earl of Wiltshire, his son George was made Viscount Rochford. There might be multiple Viscounts in a Duchy.

Baron/Baroness

The Baron is the lowest of ranks in the nobility pyramid. Before the mid-medieval period, almost all nobles were labelled as Barons. They ruled over a portion of the land under the Duke, the Earl and Viscount. There were always a huge force of barons with in the Duchy. They handled the minor local disputes of their lands, collecting taxes and monies owed. If they faced a larger issue or crime, they would pass it up to the next ranking noble the Viscount and then it could travel all the way up to the Duke. The Baron of Townville were referred to as as Lord Townville.

I will keep an eye out for this when around friends’ vehicles. There’s a missing cat in my neighbor hood so I hope by reblogging that means more people know to check for this because I don’t want that happening gosh. Suddenly glad I don’t own a car.

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.