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kiriani

@kiriani / kiriani.tumblr.com

Kirian or Ani丨any pronouns丨30丨Artist丨I'm mostly on Twitter these days @_kiriani丨 Commissions OPEN
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✨ Greaser Spirk ✨ @trinbeee on twitter suggested that butch Spock greaser femme Kirk would be an amazing combo and my brain exploded. I have several ideas pending but this is the one at minimum that made it through the chaos to a final product. A lot of visual inspirations in here obvi Leyendecker but also Hannah Webb.

ID: Image is of Spock as a greaser leaning against Kirk, an arm draped around Kirk's shoulders and neck pulling him so close thier bodies are pressed tight against each other from hip to shoulder. Spock is gazing intensely into Kirk's eyes while Kirk's head is tilted slightly down, looking up at Spock through his eyeslashes. He is tentative, understanding that the Vulcan has a dangerous reputation, but cemented to the spot, transfixed by his dark eyes and handsome sharp features.

“There is one last subject I must address. I have tried on many occasions to write about Jim Kirk. This seems to me an increasingly impossible task. Jim Kirk lies at the very heart of this account; he is present on every page, the ink in which these words have been written… How do you write about someone that you have so deeply loved?”

- Spock, The Autobiography of Mr. Spock

Here’s the thing. Practical self-care, such as showering, feeding yourself, talking a walk, cleaning your space, getting rest, ect. will not solve every problem you have. Especially the big, serious ones. But it will solve a ton of smaller problems that are building up, adding to your stress, and using the energy you need to cope with those big serious problems.

You can feel as awful as you want, just eat a sandwich first.

Those tags are AMAZING. Someone finally identified what felt so hard about this to me. It ISN’T a victim complex. It’s an expression of profound frustration and pain.

The un-fun self care is really no more than this: giving the “soft animal” of your body (thx Mary Oliver) what it needs to survive. To take actions to give it the basics, so the body itself feels a little better. That alleviates enough some days to feel pretty okay.

there is no way to hate myself into becoming a person i like.

there is no way to shame myself into a better life.

i can’t motivate myself to heal in the same ways i encouraged my own destruction.