Brutal Heart

Is making a lot of incredibly shitty, possibly bad or outright horrifying mistakes actually a viable survival strategy in life? Maybe even a wise one?

that's my emotional support bad person

not all your fave blorbos can be masochists some of those fuckers gotta enjoy beating the shit out of someone during sex

the absolute devastating intimacy of a forehead rest. when you are both just so tired from existing in a world that demands you to be a rigid, functional individual, and you finally collapse into each other and just lean your forehead against theirs, or against their shoulder. it’s the physical equivalent of dropping your shields. it’s saying i am entirely heavy right now, and i am trusting you to bear a piece of that weight. and the most beautiful part is that the other person doesn’t even flinch. they just adjust their stance, tuck you a little closer, and absorb the impact. we were designed to divide the burden of being alive.

well then can we at least sexualize the problem

You should think about how being tortured affects how your characters have sex. Do they have to pause due to chronic pain? Do they rely more on toys if their hands don’t work as well due to nerve damage or broken fingers that never quite healed right? Are there things they can’t tolerate anymore? Things they’ve started to enjoy as a way of processing what happened? Tell me about it!

just so you know i know this dynamic is toxic and i'm not romanticizing it :/ i'm actually sexualizing it

the five trauma reactions: fight, flight, freeze, fawn, and mating

id like if we could keep the alliteration going but i dont know if anyone has made an f word for mating

They haven't sorry

thats fucked up