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vivzie-zp: “ takin’ a quick break from thesis, been wanting to do updated refs again for characters, even characters I have drawn a million times I feel deserve to be revisited and tweaked a bit, I definitely plan on doing refs for all the...
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takin’ a quick break from thesis, been wanting to do updated refs again for characters, even characters I have drawn a million times I feel deserve to be revisited and tweaked a bit, I definitely plan on doing refs for all the ‘Zoophobia’ characters eventually for artbooks and just -official- reference for colorists and such, in case I hire/enlist colorists for the comic in future -which I very well might-

here is Camilla, cause shes always fun to play around with <3

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The Sun Signs compared to Moon Signs *2 truuu*

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Sun= positive trait

Moon= negative trait

Aries sun: A COMPETITIVE WINNER

Aries moon: CHILDISH

Taurus sun: A ROYAL MATERIALISTIC KING

Taurus moon: CARELESS

Gemini sun: THE MOST ENTERTAINING

Gemini moon: INTERRUPTS YOU

Cancer sun: TRULY CARES ABOUT EVERYONE

Cancer moon: ALL OF THE EMOJIS AT THE SAME TIME

Leo sun: INDEPENDENT AND STRONG

Leo moon: ATTRACTS THE WRONG PEOPLE

Virgo sun: LOGICAL AND A REAL LIFE LIE DETECTOR

Virgo moon: JUDGMENTAL

Libra sun: ALWAYS WILL BE THERE FOR YOU

Libra moon: PSYCHO

Scorpio sun: THE REALEST ONE OF THEM ALL. NOT FAKE AT ALL. TELLS YOU HOW IT IS.

Scorpio moon: DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO EXPRESS FEELINGS

Sagittarius sun: FRIENDLY AND ACCEPTING OF EVERYONE

Sagittarius moon: MOOD SWINGS

Capricorn sun: HARDWORKING COMEDIAN

Capricorn moon: NEGATIVE AND SARCASTIC AND SAD

Aquarius sun: UNIQUE PHILANTHROPIST

Aquarius moon: DETACHED

Pisces sun: ALL OF THE ABOVE

Pisces moon: ALL OF THE ABOVE

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Alternatives for Self-Harm

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Alternatives for when you’re feeling angry or restless:

  • Scribble on photos of people in magazines
  • Viciously stab an orange
  • Throw an apple/pair of socks against the wall
  • Have a pillow fight with the wall
  • Scream very loudly
  • Tear apart newspapers, photos, or magazines
  • Go to the gym, dance, exercise
  • Listen to music and sing along loudly
  • Draw a picture of what is making you angry
  • Beat up a stuffed animal
  • Pop bubble wrap
  • Pop balloons
  • Splatter paint
  • Scribble on a piece of paper until the whole page is black
  • Filling a piece of paper with drawing cross hatches
  • Throw darts at a dartboard
  • Go for a run
  • Write your feelings on paper then rip it up
  • Use stress relievers
  • Build a fort of pillows and then destroy it
  • Throw ice cubes at the bathtub wall, at a tree, etc.
  • Get out a fine tooth comb and vigorously brush the fur of a stuffed animal (but use gentle vigor)
  • Slash an empty plastic soda bottle or a piece of heavy cardboard or an old short or sock
  • Make a soft cloth doll to represent the things you are angry at; cut and tear it instead of yourself
  • Flatten aluminum cans for recycling, seeing how fast you can go
  • On a sketch or photo of yourself, mark in red ink what you want to do. Cut and tear the picture
  • Break sticks
  • Cut up fruits
  • Make yourself as comfortable as possible
  • Stomp around in heavy shoes
  • Play handball or tennis
  • Yell at what you are breaking and tell it why you are angry, hurt, upset, etc.
  • Buy a cheap plate and decorate it with markers, stickers, cut outs from magazines, words, images, what ever that expresses your pain and sadness and when you’re done, smash it. (Please be careful when doing it)

Alternatives that will give you a sensation (other than pain) without harming yourself:

  • Hold ice in your hands, against your arm, or on your mouth
  • Run your hands under freezing cold water
  • Snap a rubber band or hair band against your wrist
  • Drip hot candle wax on your skin (please be careful doing this)
  • Clap your hands until it sting
  • Wax your legs
  • Drink freezing cold water
  • Splash your face with cold water
  • Put PVA/Elmer’s glue on your hands then peel it off
  • Massage where you want to hurt yourself
  • Take a hot shower/bath
  • Draw in red ink lines where you want to self harm
  • Take a hot or cold shower/bath
  • Jump up and down to get some sensation in your feet
  • Write or paint on yourself
  • Arm wrestle with someone
  • Bite into a hot pepper or chew a piece of ginger root
  • Rub liniment under your nose
  • Rub lotion on yourself
  • Put tiger balm on the place(s) you want to cut. (Tiger balm is a muscle relaxant cream that induces a tingly sensation. You can find it in most health food stores and vitamin stores).

Alternatives that will distract you or take up time:

  • Say “I’ll self-harm in fifteen minutes if I still want to” and keep going for periods of fifteen minutes until the urge fades
  • Colour your hair
  • Count up to ten getting louder until you’re screaming
  • Sing on the karaoke machine
  • Complete something you’ve been putting off
  • Take up a new hobby
  • Make a cup of tea
  • Tell and laugh at jokes
  • Play solitaire
  • Count up to 500 or 1000
  • Surf the net
  • Make as many words out of your full name as possible
  • Count ceiling tiles or lights
  • Search ridiculous things on the web
  • Colour coordinate your wardrobe 
  • Play with toys, such as a slinky or play-doh
  • Go to the park and play on the swings or jungle gym
  • Call someone
  • Go “people watching”
  • Carry safe, rather than sharp, things in your pockets
  • Do school work
  • Play a musical instrument 
  • Watch tv or a movie
  • Paint your nails
  • Alphabetize your CDs or books or movies
  • Cook
  • Make origami to occupy your hands
  • Doodle on sheets of people
  • Dress up or try on clothes
  • Play computer games or painting programs, such as photoshop 
  • Write out lyrics to your favourite song
  • Play a sport
  • Read a book/magazine
  • Do a crossword 
  • Draw a comic strip
  • Make a chain link out of paper counting the hours or days you’ve been self-harm free using pretty coloured paper
  • Knit, sew, or make a necklace
  • Make ‘scoobies’ - braid pieces of plastic or lace, to keep your hands busy
  • Buy a plant and take care of it
  • Hunt for things on eBay or Amazon
  • Browse for forums
  • Go shopping
  • Memorize a poem with meaning
  • Learn to swear in another language
  • Look up words in a dictionary
  • Play hide-and-seek
  • Go outside and watch the clouds 
  • Plan a party
  • Find out if any concerts will be in your area
  • Make your own dance routine 
  • Trace your hand on a piece of paper; on your thumb, write something you like to look at; on your index finger, write something you like to touch; on your middle finger, write your favourite scent; on your ring finger, write something you like the taste of; on your pinky finger, write something you like to listen to; on your palm, write something you like about yourself
  • Plan regular activities for your most difficult time of day
  • Finish homework before it’s due 
  • Take a break from mental processing
  • Notice black and white thinking
  • Get out on your own, get away from the stress
  • Go on YouTube 
  • Make a scrapbook
  • Colour in a picture or colouring book
  • Make a phone list of people you can call for support allow yourself to use it
  • Pay attention to your breathing (breathe slowly, in through your nose, and out your mouth)
  • Pay attention to the rhythmic motions of your body (walking, stretching, etc.)
  • Learn HALT signals (hungry, angry, lonely, tired)
  • Choose a random object, like a paper clip, and try to list 30 different uses for it
  • Pick a subject and research it on the web - alternatively, pick something to research and then keep clicking on links, trying to get as far away from the original topic as you can
  • Take a small step towards a goal you have

Alternatives that are completely bizarre, at least you’ll have a laugh:

  • Crawl on all fours and bark like a dog or another animal
  • Run around outside screaming
  • Laugh for no reason whatsoever
  • Make funny faces in a mirror
  • Without turning orange, self-tan
  • Pluck your eyebrows
  • Put faces on apples, oranges, or other sorts of food
  • Go to the zoo and name all of the animals
  • Colour on the walls
  • Blow bubbles
  • Pull weeds in the garden  

Alternatives for when you’re feeling guilty, sad, or lonely: 

  • Congratulate yourself on each minute you go without self-harming 
  • Draw or paint 
  • Look at the sky Instead of punishing yourself by self-harming, punish yourself by not self-harming 
  • Call a friend and ask for company 
  • But a cuddly toy 
  • Give someone a hug with a smile 
  • Put a face mask on 
  • Watch a favourite TV show or movie 
  • Eat something ridiculously sweet 
  • Remember a happy moment and relive it for a while in your head 
  • Treat yourself to some chocolate 
  • Try to imagine the future and plan things you want to do 
  • Look at things that are special to you 
  • Compliment someone else 
  • Make sculptures 
  • Watch fish 
  • Play with a pet 
  • Have or give a massage 
  • Imagine yourself living in a perfect home and describe it in your mind If you’re religious, read the bible or pray 
  • Light a candle and watch the flame (be careful) 
  • Go chat in the chat room 
  • Let yourself to cry; crying is a healthy release of emotion 
  • Accept a gift from a friend 
  • Carry tokens to remind you of peaceful comforting things/people 
  • Take a hot bath with bath oil or bubbles 
  • Curl up under a comforter with hot cocoa and a good book 
  • Make affirmation tapes inside you that are good, kind, gentle (sometimes you can do this by writing down the negative thoughts and then physically re-writing them into positive messages) 
  • Make a tray of special treats and tuck yourself into bed with it and watch tv or read 

 Alternatives for when you’re feeling panicky or scared: 

  • “See, hear, and feel” - 5 things, then 4, then 3, and countdown to one which will make you focus on your surroundings and sill calm you down 
  • Listen to soothing music; have a CD with motivational songs that you can listen to 
  • Meditate or do yoga 
  • Name all your soft toys Hyper focus on something 
  • Do a “reality check list” - write down all the things you can list about where you are now (i.e It is the 9th of November 2015, I’m in a room and everything is going to be alright) With permission, give someone a hug 
  • Drink herbal tea 
  • Crunch ice 
  • Hug a tree 
  • Go for a walk if it’s safe to do so 
  • Feel your pulse to prove you’re alive 
  • Go outside and attempt to catch butterflies or lizards 
  • Put your feet firmly on the floor 
  • Accept where you are in the process. 
  • Beating yourself up only makes it worse 
  • Touch something familiar/safe 
  • Leave the room 4/7/8 breathing - breathe in for 4 seconds, hold for 7 seconds, and breathe out for 8 seconds. 
  • Repeat until you feel calm. 

Alternatives that will hopefully make you think twice about harming yourself: 

  • Think about how you don’t want scars 
  •  Treat yourself nicely 
  • Remember that you don’t have to hurt yourself just because you’re thinking about self-harm 
  • Create a safe place to go 
  • Acknowledge that self-harm is harmful behaviour 
  • Repeat to yourself “I don’t deserve to be hurt” even if you don’t believe it 
  • Remember that you always have the choice not to cut: it’s up to you what to do 
  • Think about how you may feel guilty after self-harming 
  • Remind yourself that the urge to self-harm is impulsive: you will only feel like cutting for short bursts of time 
  • Avoid temptation 
  • Get your friends to make you friendship bracelets; wear them around your wrists to remind you of them when you want to cut 
  • Be with other people 
  • Make your own list of things to do instead of self-harm 
  • Make a list of your positive character traits 
  • Be nice to your family, who in return, will hopefully be nice to you 
  • Put a band-aid on the area where you’d like to self-harm 
  • Recognize and acknowledge the choices you have NOW 
  • Pay attention to the changes needed to make you feel safe 
  •  Notice “choices” vs “dilemmas" 
  • Lose the “should-could-have to” words. Try “what if" 
  • Kiss the places you want to SH or kiss the places you have healing wounds. It can be a reminder that you care about yourself and that you don’t want this 
  • Choose your way of thinking, try to resist following old thinking patterns 
  • The Butterfly project - draw a butterfly on the place(s) that you would self-harm and if the butterfly fades without self-harming, it means it has lived and flown away, giving a sense of achievement. Whereas if you do self-harm with the butterfly there; you will have to wash it off, therefore “killing it”. You can start again by drawing a new one on. You can name the butterfly after someone you love. 
  • Write the name of a loved one [a friend, family member, or anyone else who cares about you] and write their name where you want to self-harm. When you go to self-harm remember how much they care and wouldn’t want you to harm yourself. 
  • Think about what you would say to a friend who was struggling with the same things you are and try to be a good friend to yourself. 
  • Make a bracelet out of duct tape, and put a line on it ever day (or ant period of time) you go without self-harm. When it’s full of lines, take it off and make a chain out of all the bracelets and hang it up somewhere where you can be reminded of your great progress 

Alternatives that give the illusion of seeing something similar to blood:

  • Draw on yourself with a red pen or body paint 
  • Cover yourself with plasters where you want to cut 
  • Give yourself a henna or fake tattoo 
  • Make “wounds” with makeup, like lipstick 
  • Take a small bottle of liquid red food colouring and warm it slightly by dripping it into a cup of hot water for a few minutes. Uncap the bottle and press it’s tip against the place you want to cut. Draw the bottle in a cutting motion while squeezing it slightly to let the food colour trickle out. 
  • Draw on the areas you want to cut using ice that you’ve made my dropping six or seven drops of red food colour into each of the ice cube tray wells 
  • Paint yourself with red tempera paint 
  • ‘Cut’ your skin with nail polish (it feels cold but it’s hard to get off) 

Alternatives to help you sort through your feelings: 

  • Phone a friend and talk to them 
  • Make a collage of how you feel 
  • Negotiate with yourself 
  • Identify what if hurting you do bad that you need to express it in this way Write your feelings in a diary 
  • Free write (write down whatever you’re thinking at the moment, even if it doesn’t make sense) 
  • Make lists of everything, such as blessings, in your life 
  • Make a notebook of song lyrics that you can relate to 
  • Call a hotline 
  • Write a letter to someone telling them how you feel (but don’t send it if you decide not to) 
  • Start a grateful journal where everyday you write down three: good things that happened/things that you accomplished/are grateful for/made you smile. 
  • Make sure the journal is strictly for positive things. Then when you feel down, you can go back and look at it.

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