An Assortment. Like a candy box or something.

Wandering the Old Town with my camera to look for fantastical & whimsical architecture details 🌞🏰

Gown

c. 1770s

Brocaded silk c.1750; lace ruffles added at a later date

but in my experience 95% of my hallucinations are getting spooked by very clearly hearing someone knocking on my door or calling my name from another room or hearing footsteps walking behind me which are "just" my brain recreating the horror of an abusive childhood

(not trying to put you on blast specifically, you're just a good example to jump off of)

media and pop culture hypes up psychosis a lot as The Worst That Can Happen out of sanism, so even when you try and filter that cultural bias out you still assume it's based on something

when, no, psychosis is actually very simple: it's just hyperactive pattern matching. it's your brain's signal-to-noise ratio being off balance, it's seeing images in random static. it's not always this special uniquely big thing, it's in fact quite mundane a lot of the time.

no one is immune to psychosis, it's not purely the realm of the insane. anyone is one bad night of sleep or one bad case of food poisoning or one bad fever away from being just like me on my worst days.

the twisted bud/cursed questline is very memorable—it really got under my skin… it’s really stuck with me… (and other parasite puns) 🌱

Cape Barren Geese (Cereopsis novaehollandiae), family Anatidae, order Anseriformes, Phillip Island, VIC, Australia