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Young blood that knows no problems and a human teenager who has a lot of this shit
Why do I always think of young blood and human teenager with problems (be it family, society or psyche)? One extremely arrogant and so sure of himself, which is why he always gets into some shit on the Earth while the second simply: "No, please, nothing good will come of it... * heavy sigh*. Well, that's it! I told you so! And how am I going to sew it back on to you???". Young blood at first openly despises the teenager, and the teenager is just trying to get rid of the arrogant alien, at the same time solve his shit (problems with parents, conflicts with classmates and just cure his own mental injuries), but then these two get closer when they get to know each other better. And soon the young blood begins to somehow try to take care of their man. It will all start with banal questions: "How are you feeling?", "Have you eaten today?", but then it will grow into something more. It will be extremely pleasant for a person, because it will be the only being who openly expresses his love to him. But since these are two teenagers whose hormones are raging, I just imagine how these two quarrel and the person just retreats, because he does not like conflicts, and just raises his hands up with the words: "Great! That's it! I've had enough! Fuck off! Do what you want!", goes to his room to calm down, while Yautja stands confused, like: "What??? He just gave up and left??" Or how these two are trying to get to know each other's physiology better. Young blood is too young to have time to study human anatomy better, and a person simply has not encountered the physiology of aliens. At first, both just look at each other. Yautja, of course, will want to touch a person, but he is too shy or too protective of his personal space due to the fact that his loved ones previously neglected his boundaries. I just imagine young blood pulling a hand that a person just shies away from. Yautja removes his hand, looks apologetically and purrs softly to calm the person, while the person at this time apologizes for overly emotional reaction. After that, they both sit in silence for a few minutes, but then somehow find a way to get to know each other's physiology better. Or how a teenager tries to hide from his parents the presence of an alien in their house. Especially if it's not a rich family with a big cottage or something like that. A one-story house with two or three bedrooms (if a person has brothers or sisters), where young blood simply cannot hide, so he has to spend the night either in a barn or even on the street. Just imagine how a teenager gets up earlier than expected to visit his alien friend early in the morning. Or how yautja watches the windows of the house where their human lives, and sees another quarrel between a teenager and his parents about parental alcoholism or other shit. He sees his man leaving the house all in tears, humiliated and insulted after another verbal humiliation, where one or both of his parents perfectly pressed all his pain points. I don't think young blood has experienced it for himself, so he's a little confused at first. In short, I'm sorry for writing another piece of shit again. I just decided to share my thoughts and apologize in advance for the mistakes. My English is very bad.
I will be glad to hear your opinion on this matter. (and I think this is a pretty hackneyed topic)
Sorry, but this is the first thing I thought about after reading this post...
I don’t think Yautja have money. or like any currency. I can’t imagine a Yautja fumbling at their belt for a sack of coins
they just take what they need or want for whatever, everyone who is not a Hunter/off-season Hunters get a job they have a passion for and provide their services, and more “valuable” items can be traded for. they all do what they do because they want to, take pride in their hobbies, and it all supports their quest for glory
I just think it would be very funny to watch a human explain money and capitalism to a Yautja who goes “oh, ew. we don’t do that” and the human is just flabbergasted at every turn like “how do you afford anything??” “we don’t afford anything because affording is not a thing”
the Yautja would simultaneously be horrified like “our planet is half desert and water is free, yours is 75% water and you have to PAY for it??” “to be fair, we can’t drink most of it and making it drinkable is expensive” “okay but whose fault is that and why put a price on it”
Yautja eventually concludes that money exists because humans hate their lives and love shortcuts
I'm just trying to make everything more anatomical and correct, please don't throw your sneakers at me,OK? I don't know what I can do, I'm trying to get out of the artblock and force myself to draw something. I've been very passive lately...Mostly I just sleep or just lie on the bed. Probably, it is because of the stress at school and with personal inconsistencies. I don't know who it is. I just decided to draw something, to be honest. Probably, there will be another character lost in my collection.
I'm sorry for the bad memes, but I want some humor in my fucking gray life, okay?
I decided to draw my cat in the form of yautja. Let's see what happens next
When you try to draw a more realistic picture of this f@cking male body, but as always, it comes out some bullshit 👍 👍 👍
And yes, I know that the head is too big (I just drew without an initial sketch. On a pair, which is the most strict teacher of the college. So it's either that or death. And I don't really like the second option)
Evolutionary Learning: PTSD and CPTSD Symptoms.
Events that cause us fear, suffering, and threat to our lives leave a strong, everlasting mark. Either consciously or subconsciously, what is recorded plays back over and over again given the correct environment that makes the connection and presses the play button. We have recorded some information, but not all of it is of happy memories.
I was fascinated with the fact that I could record something on a cassette tape when I was little. I found it amazing, and those in my family did not share the same complete astoundment that I felt when I discovered that I was able to record sound, my voice and the voices in my surroundings on a cassette tape.
Now much older, I have decided that there is a recording nature in literally everything, from various crystals to the tiniest atoms, and the main point that I am getting to, our brains.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is the unwanted intrusion of some of the more challenging recordings that we have collected along the way. It isn’t the upsurge of happy memories, but rather the deeply ingrained bad memories and traumas that we might prefer to ignore or forget.
Sometimes in PTSD, emotions become uncontrollable, which is the distinguishing factor that makes it Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. CPTSD makes it even more difficult to navigate the world, let alone face and move on from the memories that keep intruding.
Every episode pops up like a “surprise motherfucker” moment. Choice in shelving it for later on? forget it. PTSD and CPTSD is instant like that, and there is no going back until some sort of retreat and processing can be taken.
I sometimes like to think of PTSD and CPTSD as an overloaded cassette tape. This idea does not work out in rational reality since you cannot overload recordings on a cassette, it just stops each side, but the recording nature of the human brain is different. It certainly has much more capacity than a cassette tape, and in some ways, it may well be infinite, until physicality for the brain ceases to exist at least.
Studies show that predatory induced fear causes PTSD like changes in the brains and behaviour of wild animals. The article goes on to say that:
“Retaining a powerful enduring memory of a life-threatening predator encounter is thus clearly evolutionarily beneficial if it helps the individual avoid such events in the future3,4,8. Contemplating this, in light of the many PTSD-like changes manifest in laboratory rodents in response to predator-induced fear19, has prompted a growing number of biomedical researchers to propose3,5,6,7,9,10,11 that “PTSD is the cost of inheriting an evolutionarily primitive mechanism that considers survival more important than the quality of one’s life”12. In this view, PTSD-like changes in the brain and behaviour are not unnatural or “maladaptive”, but are rather evolutionary adaptations which entail costs, such as “hypervigilance”12,19,20 and the avoidance of trauma-related cues19, that provide the benefit of increasing the probability of survival, by increasing the likelihood of detecting a life-threatening danger (hypervigilance), and reducing the probability of encountering one (avoidance).”
Powerful memories that do not let us forget are the one’s that will help keep us safe in future times. Sometimes PTSD and CPTSD is making a faulty connection, because the situation that we are in can replay events so vividly where there really is no harm to come, but in the event of future run in’s with exceptionally predatory people, of which there are many + more growing with the generational learning created through the use of social media, PTSD and CPTSD serve as an evolutionary stage in learning that will absolutely help me in moving onward in my life at least.
The ability to record things is amazing, in whatever medium. I now have a new understanding of PTSD and CPTSD and how we learn by what we live. There is cost, but I am more than happy to pay for what I need.
Be happy :-)
