What Was My Plan For The Day: A Quick Warmup And Get Some Work Done On A Comic Project

My subspecialty, i guess you could call it, is chronic pain - i did my master's thesis on sleep disorders in patients with chronic pain - so i've got a LOT of thoughts about the concept of 'stealing pain' in teen wolf.

The current definition of pain is

"an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage"

because pain is not purely a physical phenomenon, it's an experience not necessarily tied to any physical damage.

Of course you can delve into the different types of pain and argue that nociceptive and neuropathic pain is due to biochemical triggers (inflammation/tissue damage and nerve damage, respectively) as opposed to nociplastic pain - but even those are heavily modulated by how we perceive them.

In one of my psych classes we were shown a powerful example: In a segment from a local news station a lady had won a competition and as a reward she got a handful of minutes to 'empty out' a kitchen supply store - after all the excitement was done and she was being interviewed post-haul, suddenly a bystander points out that she's standing in a large puddle of blood. She'd dropped a knife into her foot at some point, resulting in a quite large gash. She'd felt nothing until someone pointed it out - endorphins, adrenaline, the works. (She was immediately attended to and recovered completely).

Studies show that pain perception increases dramatically in young, healthy subjects who were sleep-deprived even just for 24 hrs, and in the same vein stress, anxiety and distress also increases pain perception.

So where does that leave the idea of stealing pain in teen wolf? Rather than taking a physical representation of 'pain', maybe it's more stealing the perception of pain, the fear and distress?

Kind of a romantic notion, isn't it?

Happy Valentine's Allison, your boyfriends' bestie has custody of their single shared braincell this weekend

(I discovered OCT's half horse half man yesterday and scott would totally appreciate it for the epic forbidden supernatural romance song that it is)

Other music headcanon posts: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9

I have had this and Skar's cover on repeat for 24 hours, it's a good thing my apartment has good sound isolation (((':

I feel like this drawing possessed me, sat me down and painted itself

The irony in that the primary idea was to focus on the arms and give stiles a tattoo but i couldn't get it to work with the limited colorpalette - altered closeup with the tattoo included under the cut! [find my stuff on Redbubble!]

Used mare.blk's tattoo style because if hand tattoos weren't a no-go in my chosen profession, I would get one by them done in a heartbeat. So stiles gets one instead lol Also used a 3D program to figure out the pose and angles - the canon height difference is there but bc derek's leaning it looks like stiles is taller which i'm not mad about I'll get around to drawing more derek initiating things soon, apparently i have a lot of stiles taking action to get out of my system ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Have a wip shot - it’s been a while since I last went on a render bender so I guess it was due lol

Truly doing this on nightmare difficulty trying to draw a relaxed, happy stiles 😂 he mirin’

Local creepy uncle found dead (again)

Dedicated to @maxxifer who wrote 'I know in my heart Stiles has a crush on Andy Samberg’s two genders: those being 1: a lonely island boy and 2: Jake Peralta' in response to my art of Scott and Stiles blasting Lonely Island 🤝🤝🤝

100% stiles would take any chance at the FBI internship to reference B99 lines lol

People l'd Like to Know Better

tagged by @wolfspurr, ty (◡‿◡✿)

Last song: The, uh, the slur song

Last movie: The 2nd twilight movie courtesy of my friend K lol

Last tv show: Murder Mindfully / Achtsam Morden, huge recommend! pls more people watch it and hit me up with your thoughts, it's so unhinged and whimsy it's incredible

Last thing googled: a very exciting "person leaning on edge of pool stockphoto" for reference purposes

Looking forward to: going to the gym tomorrowwww

no pressure tags, i am shy pls: @renmackree, @isthatbloodonhisshirt

Creating the content i want to see in the world: more sleepy derek hale :] a wolf burrito. worrito. wolfarrito.

we'll workshop it.

Also to further my Stiles' erratic taste in music (other posts: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9) headcanon, he's listening to:

Which is another had-it-on-repeat-for-days kinda song for me, what can I say! it slaps. also recommend Bobby, huge earworm.

More of the boys making goo eyes at each other, because it’s what they deserve 💛

I’m really fond of the way just the lines look so you get those as well:

My friend K when I showed her this drawing: damn the man needs a BRA

Finally sat down and edited the speedpaint of this into something watchable - original file was 10 minutes long bc i have 9 hours logged in the file (':

I always enjoy watching speedpaints myself so i hope you enjoy this as well!