(certified internet hag 25+) • unfortunately am a doctor irl the horrors never cease • currently obsessed with heated rivalry and hollanov · i:humieart
According to psychology, the urge to immediately fix a partner’s or friend’s distress instead of just sitting with them in it isn't empathy; it is your own low frustration tolerance. When someone you love is hurting, and you instantly jump into problem-solving mode, offering unsolicited advice or trying to find a silver lining, you are often trying to soothe your own secondary anxiety. You aren't rescuing them from their pain; you are rescuing yourself from the discomfort of witnessing a vulnerability you don't know how to hold.
This is free advice from an expensive psychologist. If you’re an anxious person, do everything for fun. Go to a job interview for fun. Submit documents for fun. Start a blog for fun. Anxiety feeds on importance. Don’t make everything a matter of life and death.
shane: ok so I'm able to live off your cum
Ilya: omg
Shane: leT ME FINISH ILYA
Ilya: oh shit I thought that was it pls continue
Shane: SO . I AM ABLE TO LIVE OFF YOUR CUM and then in approximately 7 years every atom of my body would have been replaced isn't that romantic
i say this with utmost love but some centaurs fics are written exactly how avenger team family fics were written back in the day like clint in the vents thor eating ice cream ect ect and to me that is beautiful
unfortunately, i am now a hockey fan and i can tell this is about to enter a territory of fixation that is utterly ridiculous
i have been teetering on the edge for years and i think ive finally Succumbed
it's not even heated rivalry it's the fucking PLAYOFFS
the most millennial thing about me is I can’t write anything unless I’m sat at my actual laptop, wdym y’all are out here writing fic on the go??? lowkey I can’t even reply to comments on my phone
@minrozanov totally unrelated can my close personal friend jakub dobes who bears no relation to this OC and is a legally distinct person also have this happen to him
give the boy a gun
@tonedeafandh0t i know i'm sorry!!! I JUST. "it was an accident... she accidentally swallowed a bottle of pills"
that first part just ... felt so automatic im like oh he definitely actually believed this at some point
tw for suicide talk
i think ilya actually believed that his mother died accidentally at first. "it was an accident" is what his father told him and he believed and repeated because he was young and still trusted his father, but also because the alternative is impossible to accept
TW talk of Ilya’s mom’s su*cide
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I feel like people dismiss how actually traumatic it must’ve been for Ilya to find his mother’s body and I think part of that is bc of the false assumption that when you OD on pills you just go to sleep and that’s it….. like TW but most of the time that’s not the case your body tries to expel what’s in your stomach…. Not gonna get into details but yeah it’s still a very traumatic death and I’m sure a horrific thing for a child to see it makes me queasy thinking about it :/
anyways all this is to say, Ilya realizing (as a teenager, probably) that his mother committed suicide and didn't just die in a tragic accident and what that is like to cope with and how that additionally complicates his feelings about himself and about his mom
(i have a LOT of thoughts about alexei/andrei's older brother related resentment and it starts with "alexei/andrei always thought ilya would be a failure, what kind of idiot kid actually thinks hockey is a viable career, i'm the one dad's gonna actually be proud of")