autumn's breeze

Hey! Just a reminder! AO3 does NOT have an app. This garbage was made by theives who steal fan artist’s work and sell it back to you.

“Oh, but it’s free!” There are ads. They are making money off of this. They are stealing from the creators you love and you are hurting those same creators if you use this app or any similar app.

App acts like a browser but paywalls offline reading while reviews state it’s full of intrusive ads and lacks basic functionality such as commenting. Do not use this app. Use the ao3 website. The app uses Gen-AI content for imagery on categories and is essentially forcing people to pay if they want to read your fics offline.

By the way you don’t have to pay anything to read fics offline. You can do it for free using easily accessible resources that don’t cost anything.

You do not need to pay $1 every week, $2 every month, or even $18 a year. It can be done free! By anyone!

If you don't have a PDF reader on your phone, there are any free ones (I personally like ReadEra). Or you download it as HTML.

Rumination is probably the most common type of OCD compulsion, but I rarely see anyone talking about it. I've talked to multiple people diagnosed with OCD who didn't even recognize it as a compulsion.

Basically, if you have OCD you have terrible intrusive thoughts. They can be about anything, but common themes are fear of being a bad person, fear of hurting someone, fear of contamination. etc.

Rumination is when you get stuck in a spiral. Rumination is when you spend hours catastrophizing, overthinking, analyzing, telling yourself it's going to be okay.

I'll say it again:

Rumination is a compulsion.

Rumination is a compulsion, and that means you have to stop doing it.

I did ERP (exposure response prevention) for my OCD with a therapist! For 9 months! And it did help, but the idea didn't really click until I found this website a couple years later.

And Oh My God. It made things make so much more sense, and I was able to pull myself out of an episode even though I wasn't in therapy or on meds at the time.

Genuinely if you have OCD, or even if you suspect you have OCD, I'm begging you to read some of these articles.

Like this was genuinely life changing for me.

Here are some of the ones that were most helpful to me:

Defining Rumination

How to Stop Ruminating

ERP Exercises for Compulsive Rumination

Another TOTK and TADC crossover. Pomni and Jax take a break from their adventures to take a picture of the rare electric rhino beetle to show Kinger.

Below are some random head canons I have for this AU if anyone is interested in reading.

Though Pomni takes the role of Zelda, she was the royal court jester before being adopted by the king (which is Kinger obviously).

No one knows why Kinger chose Jax of all people to be Pomni's appointed knight. Many blame his declining mental state after his wife had passed. Pomni did not like Jax at first, and Jax hated his role, but as time went on, they became closer. Also, unlike the king in TOTK, Kinger is alive and happy in this AU, I don't care how, lol.

Unlike in TOTK, Jax's abstracted arm isn't 'borrowed', but is actually corrupted by this world's version of 'malice' (abstraction), and there's no known cure, so he has to live with it.

Jax's corrupted arm occasionally 'flares up', causing him pain and illness that he constantly has to fight against.

Jax attempted many times to cover the abstracted arm due to the eyes freaking him out. But over time, any fabric covering his arm would rot away and disintegrate.

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