#katuen

@allbeendonebefore

Holy-!!! I had a close call with a car earlier in the spring and I remembered how it was surprisingly more scary After the fact when my brain caught up with it, I hope your recovery goes well for both your body and your mind!!

Hhhhhhhhh I wish the car had me missed me. I was literally back from holidays on the first day of my job, and this car accident had to happen. I have absolutely no recollection from the initial impact. I don’t remember seeing the car coming. I was crossing the road at the zebra crossing, because a car stopped to let me cross and I remember reaching the little island in the middle, separating the two roads. Did I pause? Did I keep walking? I know I was looking in the direction of the oncoming traffic, I remember that. But why is the car absent from my memory? The next moment I remember was being on the ground, gasping for breath, completely confused and disoriented.

I’ve mostly recovered since then, but I’m still sleeping a lot. My hematoma on my forehead is stubbornly refusing to leave, so I might need to get that looked at. But beyond that, all other traces of the accident are gone. I’ve been extremely lucky that everything was surface-level, I think I’ll just get away with a forehead scar. Sadly it seems that I will be dealing with a lot of anxiety with roads and cars... the few times I’ve ventured outside, I’m hyper-aware of all cars and all the crossings I have to cross.

Thank you for your well wishes Hapo!

@europa1857

Thank god your not seriously injured. I hope you get better soon.

Thank you! I’m extremely glad for that as well, most scrapes have healed up now. I just have that hematoma on my forehead that needs to go...

@katuen

I'm really glad to hear you'reo kay! Please take it easy and go easy on yourself, that sounds a horrible situation to have to go through

Thank you Kath! It is a horrible experience, and one I would have liked not to have! But what’s done is done, and all I can do is focus on recovery and moving on. I’ve been sleeping a lot these past 2 weeks, more than I thought I could! I’m starting to be able to stay up longer now, so I’m glad for that. I just still need to deal with that mental fatigue!

@enter-the-darkside

Well, that sucks! I hope you have a speedy recovery!

It absolutely does!! Would have preferred to be spared of that experience, I don’t find it very worthwhile. Welp, at least I’m sleeping more. Honestly though, I’m just extremely grateful that I’m not left with any permanent damage or broken bones. At most, I’m getting a forehead scar out of this. Thank you so much!

@noitsmagic

Oh gosh! Wishing you a speedy recovery. I'm glad to hear you are okay though! Make sure to get lots of rest.

“Made for the Mental Health category, with the section of Phobias, specifically arachnophobia, featuring Spy - and his attempts to get help to get rid of the pest.

While Heavy probably came over as teasing, he didn’t mean it, and would probably go out of his way to bat away any spider webs he sees in the future, even if it goes unnoticed. 

Sniper on the other hand would insist the spider is harmless, going as far as poking it and letting it walk over his hands and arms, all the while everyone else nearby has mutually agreed that they wont rush into his camper van any time soon.

Pyro has fixed everything with fire, Spy probably assumed they were going to light only the spider on fire.. He was wrong. 

Demo claims his way is the best and quickest way about it, laughing the moment he turns up in respawn with Spy. Spy doesn’t seem so impressed and just hopes his floor has not changed to more of a black colour after the explosion.

Last Spy heard was that Medic used bird blood in an operation, that time Scout had and actual bird in his chest, and another time with a rat. He decided that it was best to not even ask for his help in the first place.

Scout claims his baseballs are lethal to enemies, so what’s the difference with a spider?  Apparently they are lethal to windows. Not long after had Scout “fled the scene”.

Engineer had been working on some new blueprints so offered Spy the box at the corner of the room while he was busy, saying it was the easiest thing to use. Later on he would turn up to see how it was and spend the next ten minutes trying to understand how Spy constructed the sentry so poorly.

As for Soldier, no one trusts him teleporting anything except for himself, after the incident with creating the bread monster, his suggestion was quickly turned down.

I think I recall another artwork around showing how Spy was scared of spiders (I haven’t been able to find it since) and I’ve been amused with the idea and decided to expand on it.

Amusingly enough I am also scared of spiders and more than once while drawing this did I have my own ominous visitors appear next to me, if I had not of known better I would say they had known what I was drawing”

We believe the artwork you’re referring to is this one by @karuuhnia?  When Ugg saw that, she sent it to Red– because Red is arachnophobic too!  Which is ironic because when Red gets to writing horrific, gory scenes, it makes tough stomachs squeamish.  Also, why does it only seem to be Spy?  Wethinks it might be the idea of inner!Spy screaming high enough only dogs can hear.

The characteristics in this are spot-on!  We cackled like merry witches over every panel.  Poor Spy, he’s surrounded by idiots.  

Red would like to add: I’m totally not arachnophobic, they just have too many legs and too many eyes and asdfghjk;; *twitch*

That said, the panels with Sniper and Medic are my favorites, because you KNOW Medic would end up giving the team spider-powers (or breeding spider-doves) and Sniper would totally name the spider Dingo and keep it in his van and feed it treats.

I just... I find it incredibly discouraging posting stuff on this site. I see art posted before and after me and these posts shoot up into 100s of notes in the same time period where my post just managed to get 4 notes. Some of these blogs aren’t very old so I’m struggling to understand why there is this discrepancy. I’ve run out of reasons to justify it. Is it due to few followers? Am I not posting at the best time possible? Am I using the tags correctly? I don’t know what I could be doing to improve the visibility of my art and I’m tired of trying.  I do feel that I’ve neglected developing headcanons and stories on this blog, so I want to try and get into doing that more.