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suspendedinbush · 1 year

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hiiihihihihi hiii youuuu simmy my beloved loml you i juuust watched howl's moving castle for the first time tday (ik appalling srry) but the entire tim i was thinkinng abt you my beloved and now i want to know abt yr r/s au <33 as much details as you dont mind saying pls <333 bc i was thinking like it would actually!! work sooo well for them ike r being not that conventionally attractive , and growing old w/a big nose while s still finds him just soooo pretty and also being dramatically vian himself AND swallowing! a STAR! and having a heavy heart that belongs to remus like itys sooooo it fits sooo well, but Also howl being a welshman is making me think it could work either way too! esp w/the turning into a crow thing paralleling werewolf tranforms and sirius instead being the son of a mother who would sell him out like sophie im!!!!!! i also know yr basing the au sorta on the book so im wondering which roles ud see fit instead! but aah im just my brain is so abuzz im so excited for whatever u plan to do however u plan to do it! this got wayy too long srry love u MWAH

LAYLA OMG!! firstly hi hi hi hello love <33 SECOND YOU WATCHED IT!!! ahhh having a little party in celebration also tell me everything what did you think??? (i'm running into your inbox right now just so you know!) and you thought of me…literally handing you my heart on a silver platter!! MWAH yours forever <333

also okay the au… (under the cut because minor spoilers and also this is so fucking long)

it definitely started as like taking direct inspiration from the book with a few nods to the movie (like the walking on air scene because obviously) but it’s evolved a lot in the past months mostly because i felt that my sophie-remus wasn’t remus enough and needed a more remus-like journey and destination in the story (not sure any of this will make sense with absolutely no context about what i’ve actually written), and then adapting the story to fit r/s more in tone (i.e the war, queerness, rejection from society etc) i got carried away and things have expanded a lot. i would still say a lot more book inspiration than movie, stuff like michael's character (rather than markl) and the minor details that the movie brushed over, like sophie’s sisters & fanny & the ben sullivan+prince justin story line, i’ve kept from the book but there are definitely some things that i knew i would change that directly contradict:

firstly and the MOST crucial detail for me, remus isn’t secretly pretty all along!! like this is the thesis of the entire au actually, it’s not an ugly duckling arc! he doesn’t break the curse to be young and beautiful again but with more self-confidence, he’s just not conventionally attractive full stop. he’s plain if not ‘ugly’ and in no way particularly impressive, he’s only 18 and hasn’t even allowed himself the space to start figuring shit out. sirius falls in love with him while he’s old with no knowledge of what remus really looks like because knowing that appearance just wasn’t even a factor in s desiring and falling for him revolutionises remus’s view of himself and his assumptions about who sirius is and also…

sirius as howl is not really that vain! this might be a spoiler, but i'd say one of the big theme’s in the au is that everyone is lying and no-one is who they appear to be and/or especially who they SAY they are and it’s remus’s assumption that sirius cares a lot about looks and would only fall in love with someone equally beautiful. howl’s vanity & concern for his looks makes sense for book howl and that story, but i wanted them to be more r/s than howl and sophie so in the au sirius’s flashy clothes and hours spent in the bathroom are more about self-expression, queerness and non-conformity, the contrast of remus struggling with otherness, not fitting in and his failed masculinity (poor baby is too sickly for the draft :/ ) and sirius being so extravagant, rocking the boat, rejecting expectations for his masculinity and flourishing—as in he literally builds a moving castle and lives on the fringes doing whatever he likes and running from/against authority (also should mention the working title for the au is 'Sirius Black’s Moving Castle for Misfits and Runaway Curse Victims').

in terms of roles i do feel like sirius is the natural howl but i did consider what r as howl would be like, i think there is something to work off with howl’s insecurity and one BIG trait being a slither-outer and a coward…very r if you ask me, but at the end of the day i don't think sirius as sophie works and remus-howl would change his character and role in the story by a lot to make it fit...

like howl’s personality by itself is sort of neither r nor s, there are similar and contradicting traits, the vanity and cowardice being the most un-sirius but (maybe a spoiler here) even in the book it’s up for interpretation how much these traits are really howl or instead a symptom of lacking a heart or even a deliberate front. so it was quite an easy adjustment in terms of sirius doing the same howl actions but with slightly different more sirius-like motivations, whereas for R as howl i don’t think you could get him to act the same way.

not sure that makes sense but i think the howl-sirius parallel works because his role in the story is much much more suited to S, like you could write an R-howl playing up the insecurity and the slither-outer trait but to me there isn’t really a story there, like where would it go…because howl is already very comfortable in his position outside polite society: he breaks convention ostentatiously, relishes in mainstream disapproval for standing out and enjoys and actively encourages his terrible reputation (for heart-eating, draft-dodging and other failings in his character). once you give reason for the apparent vanity and cowardice, howl as the prodigy who couldn’t care less about living up to expectations is perfect for sirius.

the thing about sophie's step-mother is that both dwj and miyazaki refuse to write antagonists without nuance, there isn't a clear villain like you WILL empathise with everybody—and with sophie’s step-mother especially, she’s worse in the book until she’s not! despite sophie being so lonely and unhappy at home, the story is about overcoming her own fatalistic worldview and internal feelings of worthlessness & inadequacy rather than an external battle. her family especially her sisters care a lot about her and do want the best for her even if it’s sometimes misguided but sophie has to learn to stand up for herself and stop putting everyone else first (hello martyr complex). AND there's a lot of repression (which goes to remus like water to a fish), even allowing herself to want things out of life, like it literally takes her being cursed to be an old woman and being so ashamed of her predicament and having no other choice for her to finally leave her suffocating home because she is so afraid of challenging the world head on (which is sort of antithetical to sirius).

so yeah then with sophie-sirius not working… like it’s possible to write her family and the hat shop to imitate the blacks but the problem for me is the characters themselves are basically opposites so you’d have to abandon one entirely and it would either be a completely different story to hmc or a completely different character to sirius… (also talking about the characters i mean book howl and sophie but i honestly can’t remember what’s different/missing in the movie??)

and really remus was ALWAYS the perfect sophie to me like in the wip he’s certain that in failing to be a strong, healthy, beautiful perfect specimen of a young man who can fight for the country, instead being sick, unattractive + the nebulous but undeniable fact of his queerness means there’s some innate monstrosity or wrongness about him, and being rejected by his peers has confirmed it, so he represses, withering away hiding in the dark and it’s a mixture of thinking ‘there is nothing better out there nor am i capable or deserving of any better, this is my lot in life and i’ll make do’ that keeps him there. UNTIL he’s forced to leave and comes across sirius who has made a life for himself on his own terms and on the outside seems to have everything: beauty, talent, confidence, freedom but is very flamboyantly throwing people’s admiration & acceptance (everything that remus covets) back in their faces.

in the story sophie is quite resentful of howl in a similar way remus is of sirius (here and in canon i think) and like sophie, he ‘knows’ that he’s a nobody with no future and just expects to fail. also the hat shop is much more remus’s natural environment, exhibit service worker R: ‘he was little more than a puppet in grey felt—marionette strings binding him tightly to the shop, a little flimsy and worn through in places from dancing around for customers all day long. A walking, talking, hat-fetching piece of furniture.’

sooo those are my thoughts on the casting obviously just my opinion and personal thoughts on r/s. oh and the turning into the crow thing and being corrupted by magic, it wasn’t in the book but i have incorporated it only with a different character…and someone turns into a dog also not sirius...other quick points about the wip: peter has a big part in this might be obvious who as but he’s so fun in this one, petunia is also a sympathetic character, Hope is long dead (as per), Lyall dies in the first few sentences and Andromeda has more lines than James i think. i didn’t use the whole multi-verse plot line from the book, we’re in an approximate uk somewhere between 1910s and 40s but it’s more a vibe than a time period because magic and wizards are well integrated with the culture, politics and technology etc, Market Chipping & The Waste are in the Scottish highlands (so Scottish Remus and Lily), Sirius is not from Wales unfortunately but someone does live there (also if ur interested in the book i would highly recommend listening to the audiobook to get the full of effect of Howl’s accent). and the star swallowing/giving away his heart!! it's a major plot point so i won’t say too much about that but THAT SCENE….the one with howl in the field with the shooting stars!! yeah i’m so so excited about it, it’s sooo fitting for what i have planned and only another reason why sirius just couldn’t NOT be howl!

#so umm not sure if you were expecting an essay there...#did not realise i had sooo much to say but you've basically got all the details now in one long exhaustive post!#and NO WAY any message from you could be too long layla i'm literally a pomegranate-pill devotee!! obsessed with all ur thoughts #and so grateful you want to share yours+hear mine! literally ADORE you for giving me the excuse to rant about hmc like this <33 #and actually a few more things i redesigned the castle to better suit sirius’s backstory…#sooo many floorpans were drawn #and i changed the ages/birthdays a little bit but they were chosen carefully because obviously astrology reasons #so remus is 18 and sirius is just 1 year older than him (instead of 26)#(also the remus birth chart…i did completely forget about it for a few weeks but it's on it's way!!!)#AND #sbmc #<- this is the tag now!#layla tag

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nemofil · 1 year

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i have a LOOOT of hollow knight thoughts because i recently opened up the game and started playing but err. copypasting some analysis(? it's more me rambling and hallucinating a game of connect-the-dots. still fun though)

i also want to mention this post which literally changed my brain chemistry and sort of spurred me to think about lost kin a little bit more. give it a read!

tl;dr: lost kin's inclusion in p4, alongside the general "theme" of the other combatants (the desire to strive/search and attain something, and how it ultimately destroys them, for one) within the pantheon, which strangely seems to coincide with lost kin's own implied themes, makes me think that it's definitely intentional and not just for difficulty's purposes. it's likely that they too, have something to do with this theme of striving/coveting.

(copypasted and edited from my own notebook EJIFSJDF)

i feel like it's interesting that lost kin is in p4, or pantheon of the knight. though, p4 is a mostly "dream bosses" pantheon, it could still hint at something. let's look at its participants (not including lost kin themselves):

enraged guardian

no eyes

traitor lord

white defender

failed champion

watcher knights

soul tyrant

pure vessel

i think they have a connection. an obvious one is how they're all "searching" for something. foraging. trying, but ultimately failing. yeah, that's the one. all of them are striving, reaching for something out of reach. and that is their ultimate downfall.

greed. [enraged guardian is literally described as the god of greed]

the search to avoid the infection, leading to her death.

the search for strength, his downfall, the reason why he became infected.

yearning. waiting, searching for closure. [this one, admittedly, is a bit of a stretch? but... play along shh shh]

the search for power, against his oppressors.

striving to protect their master.

the search for a cure to the infection.

striving to fulfill their purpose, and their father's wishes.

"how does all that play into lost kin being in p4?"

not explicitly- but it could be a hint. i like taking drugs and connecting the dots. a desire/motivation of sorts runs throughout the pantheon, and maybe lost kin has some of their own.

for starters, they are a vessel. so, i think they might share something with pure vessel- the desire to fulfill their purpose, the search to end the infection, turning into a mindless puppet at its hands. waiting for release, for peace- for closure. the downfall of thinkinng you could go toe-to-toe with a furious god, trying, but failing. futility...

regret. anger, resentment, hatred. yearning. i am literally insane. i could be looking too much into it, but i find it interesting how the "participants" of p4 have that theme of striving for a "perfection" of sorts. the perfect, pure vessel, the perfect cure, the perfect immortal life, the perfect life with the now-gone five great knights.

come to think of it, i haven't analyzed p4's flavor text of "seek the pure one". this... could just be referring to pure vessel but i think it could also apply to all the others. seek the pure focus, the pure shell of protection, the pure life with your dear five great knights. but that, i think, is certainly a stretch, even for me, who stretched the shit out of the p4 combatants choices HSHDGDHD

perhaps lost kin too, had their own... ideal to strive for. maybe that's why they're found in ancient basin, a highly obscure area which nobody would go to, unless they had a specific reason to. maybe that's why they also took the time to train to wield their nail semi-efficiently- and also why they died near monarch wings- they were preparing for a battle of sorts.

(side note: the reason this segment existed is because i realized that BV/LK's downward attack move resembles something from their sealed sibling, THK. i think this downward move is just a common nailbearer thing, but if we count lost kin knowing what the dash slash is, we can think that they did train under oro for a short while, and learned this move from him as a sort of "extra curriculum lesson" or something.)

perhaps lost kin was also searching for something. that call from up above, by either their sealed sibling, the light infecting them, or their own will. maybe they too, were beckoned, just like our little ghost.

we can be certain though, that lost kin was waiting for something. they were waiting for peace, to be released from the state you find them in, released from the blinding grasps of the radiance's light.

and maybe, they too, are rooting for you, waiting patiently for your victory against that forsaken god of light. and they help you one last time, giving you a load of dream essence, so you can truly know this kingdom's past, so you can unlock and learn everything you need to know. and then, maybe you can finally beat that damned moth into eternal obscurity.

they wish you luck. they hope you'll accept what little they have to offer.

#.- little lost wisp -.#i wanna try having a charc tag #i think i'm gonna talk more abt them so err. Yeah GSHDHGD #hollow knight #long post #this ended up SOOO MUCH LONGER THAN I WANRED IT TO #HELP...#the insanity got me going

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fireandspiceland · 1 year

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been thinkinng about canhun yeah lets call them that and oh my god i have such a big crush on nyo hungary because .... be real

but office au where matthew just get picked on by all the big bosses but daniel takes matthew under his wings bc he's sick and tired of matt being bullied @ work but I KNOW that dan fucked his slutty brain out in the restroom stall and everybody knows

Dhdhsjsj Matthew being that twink secretary in a company full of dilfs that look like they’re about to eat him at any time of the day. Nyo Hungary being the caring type who wants to keep him safe from the horrors of everyone else in the office 🥺 very sweet idea 💜

#aph canada #nyo hungary #canhun #riva.ask #hetalia #wfsn

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prontaentrega · 4 years

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Hawkeye is about found family... always has been

#thinkinng about how clints narrative always was about #abusive family and getting away from/over them #and finding his own #and eventually being that to other people.....#sir thats my emotional support superhero :(#KATE TOO her last books were too.... weird to really be found family but og young avengers kate was #all about getting away from her family and finding a new one... with cassie and eli and tommy and everyone #Sir those are my emotional support superheroes :(#chizitxt #many thoughts head hawkeye

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pretendinglovechanginglies · 2 years

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17th

Omg it is the 17th post on the 17th. Is that lucky? I'm gonna call it lucky lol.

Right now I'm in bliss. I made a breakfast that I don't usually eat and it was deliciousssss. I made a coffee that was iced and had creamer and it was deliciousssssss. Its really sad to say but was it great because it was a time where I didnt really think about the calorie intake or the fat macros? I just cooked and prepped it for the taste?

So sad to admit it again. Calories, macros and measurements will always follow me even when I don't want them to. But either way, its my 2nd day off and I'm loving it. The fact that I'm journaling right now, that I'm having an easy morning, no alarms, no schedule (because I choose not to, back to work tomorrow).

I've in love with this moment. I'm happy doing nothing and just dong want I want to do - resting and resetting is so important - its crazy because I havent been able to say that for a while. Its a small moment of happiness but it doesnt matter - I'll take it. I keep thinkinng of how it used to be. I miss him..

I know I can be so honest and brutal opening up here and writing all my doubts of us and him. But today is a day of love and appreciation. Despite everything we've been through, I know that we are the real deal. He loves me even when I don't love myself so much. He loves and accepts my flaws and I love him so much it hurts. I still have eyes for him.

Anyway I shall continue with my day, I have to do everything I want to do because I need to sleep early for work tomorrow lol.

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one-abuse-survivor · 3 years

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Um hi sorry to bother you

This might be an odd question, but what’s the difference between normal zoning out and dissociation?

I zone out a LOT. I enjoy daydreaming, and I will admit that sometimes I get too involved in my thoughts. Sometimes “coming back” from my thoughts (either daydream or just thinking) is like being yanked back into my body.

But over the past week, I ended up hanging out with some friends twice, and both times, I was asked if I was okay because of how much I zoned out, and on the second occasion, I was even asked if I was dissociating

But the thing is, especially during the second time, it was different then my normal zoning out. It was like I was stuck in my head, and I felt really panicked but did not know why. We were eating, and my appetite just vanished, and that on its own isn’t odd (I had eaten some cookies beforehand), but the thought of food was just “NO! DONTEATDONTEATDONTEAT!” and I could not stop hearing all my moms comments about my body and my eating habits in my head, and I felt so frantic for lack of a better word. And I just couldn’t stop thinking about my mom (who May or may not be emotionally abusive, not sure) and stuff she’s said in the past, and I was overcome by fear of going home even though I didn’t know why.

Like it was terrifying, even the thought of going home was so scary. I felt like i would explode from it. But I’m not sure if I was really “trapped” in the thoughts of what my mom said in the past, or if I wanted to just be a drama Queen (if I could’ve gotten out if I tried, but just didn’t try). And like, I was scared, but the actual thoughts of what my mom had done was disconnected from that fear?

I just couldn’t stop thinking about it. And I wanted to eat (it had been hours since lunch, and it was my favorite food), but it felt so wrong? And I just heard her saying not to eat, even though she’s never actually told me to not eat, but there was no emotional connection to those thoughts or the thoughts of the past, it’s like there was panic, but the panic was disconnected?

That’s happened only once before, and that was Mother’s Day; I couldn’t stop thinking about things my mom had said and done in the past and I was panicking, but the panic felt disconnected from the thoughts, and I couldn’t sit still because I felt like physically exploding (I ended up pacing for 3 hours until I calmed down). I later referred to it as a three hour thought spiral, but idk what it really was

And both times, there were physical stuff too, like felling shaky and having a hard time breathing, and looking back on the dinner incident (which was today), the whole thing feels so surreal.

Idk this whole thing is just scary, like I was asked 4 times at the dinner if I was ok, and half of those times were by people I didn’t even know (there were nine of us, I knew 3 of them). I was practically rocking back and forth and almost shaking (idk if I actually started shaking but I felt super shaky), and I was almost panting a few times. But I’m scared that I was just being dramatic; like what if I could have gotten out of the thinkinng but just didn’t?

I’m sorry this is so long, I’m really not sure if it’s a vent or an advice ask anymore

On the plus side though I got some hugs from my best friend (who was there) and I’m happy because I got HUGS and I don’t normally get hugs from people who aren’t my parents (and I don’t like hugging my mom). But hugs. Is it weird that I’m so happy to have gotten hugs? Idk.

Idk what any of this is, I’m barely wake as I type this, sorry

Hi! I think that's a very important question to ask.

When talking about dissociation, one thing my therapist told me is that dissociating is something everyone does from time to time. Things like zoning out or walking/driving a familiar road on "autopilot" are forms of dissociation everyone can experience, and they're not pathological or something to worry about. So there's no real difference between zoning out and dissociating. Zoning out is a form of dissociation, so you were dissociating when you were zoning out. See this Wikipedia quote:

Dissociation is commonly displayed on a continuum. In mild cases, dissociation can be regarded as a coping mechanism or defense mechanism in seeking to master, minimize or tolerate stress – including boredom or conflict. At the non-pathological end of the continuum, dissociation describes common events such as daydreaming.

However, dissociation can become a mechanism to cope with many stressful or overwhelming situations, and it can become pathological. I dissociated a lot during my own trauma and abuse, and I also find myself dissociating more than usual when I have bad physical pain days. I know of people who dissociate to cope with (and survive) depression. And I'm sure there are many other reasons it can become a survival strategy or interfere with someone's life.

What you went through sounds really scary to experience, and I'm so glad you got hugs from your friend. And I want you to know that no one deserves to go through something like this without help, nonnie. Zoning out might be a normal and universal experience, and there's nothing wrong with enjoying daydreaming, but it shouldn't be interfering with your life and causing you distress and taking control over your body and thoughts like that, and if it is, then you deserve help with it, regardless of whether or not it's something diagnosable or pathological.

You can't accidentally be a drama queen; you can't "not try enough" to not be affected by something that's already affecting you. There's no such thing as accidentally making up your own emotions, because all emotions become relevant and true to you and capable of affecting you the moment you experience them.

I can't tell you if your dissociation is due to something diagnosable, but I can tell you that struggling is in itself reason enough to seek help and resources that can help you handle it. Diagnoses exist to group common symptoms together and help treat them, but having the symptoms is in itself what makes you need and deserve help; not the diagnosis. So the fact you're feeling shaky, and panicky, and disconnected from your own emotions, and unable to zone back in without effort, and the fact that your thoughts are spiralling like that, and the fact this is getting in the way of you having fun with your friends—all these things already make you deserving of help and of being taken seriously by yourself and others, regardless of if there's a "valid enough" cause to justify it or if you tried your absolute hardest to manage it properly on your own or not.

I don't think it's weird at all to be happy you got hugs! I feel really happy and safe and comforted when I get hugs from people I trust too. Is there any chance you can ask your friend(s) to hug you more often? 😊

Sending a huge virtual hug your way, nonnie ❤️

#Ask #Dissociation #Trauma tw #Panic tw #Ed tw #Eating disorder tw #abusive mother tw #Long post

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xestuck · 3 years

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actually sorry some serious stuff

i originally lef t the server on the 11th cos i thought i was gonna commit suicide on my birthday and i nearly did, but honestly since then i havent felt right abt the server at all, people usin my species for stuff without asking me, drama goin over the top and almost purposeful misunderstanding constanttly

recently ive been getting more into my art for once and really enjoying my art and the act of drawing and making art, and i thought that fs stuff was helping that, but the more i tihnk abt it, its the characterrs i made, not fanspecies

and with so many more followers on this blog than my main or my art blog, i feel like im defining mysellf by homestuck fan content, dont get me wrong i love doing this sprite stuff and making hs fan characters but. i cant get a job with this, i cant get paid with this, at no point did anyone want to pay me for this either

and honestly some of the fanspecies stuff ive made isnt tied to hs at all, other than one or two drawings of them in godtier and the cameo of a troll in the art ive done. i havent thought about siluri or chirufes or brownies in a sburb session or anything connected to actual hs stuff almost ever, and the only reason sphynx are is cos i made them in 2015 specifically for my fansession idea with my fankids

idk im rambling this is going nowhere ive just been thinkinng abt this shit for a while and recent stupid events have been bringing it to light for myself i guess

maybe ill start up my fanventure again, maybe i wont, i have so many other stories of original work that i wanna do instead. especially artmeus. :--) im working on makin the comic blog for it now

#s//u-i ment

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bkwrm523 · 7 years

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I tried to write a fic, but it’s too short. 600-some words. So I’m not gonna title this; call it a drabble. Enjoy!

I love my boobs. Laying on the couch in your shared room with your boyfriend, Leonard McCoy, you tapped the message to him into your PADD. The room was spinning, and you were having trouble focusing on anything.

Backing up. You had the day off, Leonard didn’t. You got a migraine earlier; rather than bothering your boyfriend, you’d decided to grab a bottle of pills you’d acquired… somewhere. They were safe to take, as long as you followed the instructions. And they definitely knocked your headaches out.

Though you doubted your boyfriend would approve of them, if he knew.

The PADD flashed, Leonard’s reply ready in the corner. I love them too. What brought this on?

I dunno, I was just boored and thinkinng about themm. You replied, giggling to yourself.

Are you drinking without me? Leonard’s reply came. You could just see his smile as he’d typed the words.

Noo, it’s too early. I toook theeese awesome pillls tho, and I feeel soo much better! If you hadn’t been high on the painkillers, then you might have rethought that sentence. As it was, it never occurred to you to wonder what Leonard might think of your last message.

He didn’t reply. You frowned at the PADD for a second or two when a reply wasn’t forthcoming, before you realized he’d probably gotten busy. You shrugged, and set the PADD down and returned your attention to the video you’d been half ignoring.

A little under five minutes later, the door whooshed open, and Leonard burst in.

“What did you take?!” Leonard boomed from the doorway. You squirmed around on the couch until you saw him, upside-down, complete with a panicked expression.

“‘S on the counter.” You slurred calmly. There was a moment or two of silence as Leonard lunged for the bottle on the counter and inspected it. “I onlyyy took two.” You volunteered after a moment.

“Jesus, do you know what’s in this?!” Leonard exclaimed.

“Caffeine!” You exclaimed happily. You could practically hear Leonard rolling his eyes.

“This… sugar, this could have killed you. This is powerful stuff.”

“That’s why I followed the directions!” You exclaimed. “You worry too much.”

“What happened, you get a headache?” Leonard asked. He set the bottle down, and made his way over to you.

“Not anymore.” You scooted over on the couch, moving to let him sit down next to you.

“You should have come to me.” Leonard sat, scanning you with his tricorder. He frowned studiously at it for a few moments, before he sighed and tossed it on the side table. You eagerly snuggled into him, but Leonard pulled you into his lap, drawing a startled squeal.

“I found her, Jo.” You heard Len talking into his comm. “She’s fine; thankfully she followed the instructions. Comm me if you need me; I wanna stay with her.”

You mostly tuned out the reply of Len’s head nurse; although you distinctly hear her tell him I told you she’d be fine.

“How’re you feelin’, sweetheart?” Leonard asked you, tossing the comm aside.

“The room’s spinning.” You informed him, craning your head back to look at him. Leonard snorted.

“Next time, come see me when you have a headache. Actually, why didn’t you come see me in the first place?”

“You were busy.”

“I am never too busy for you.”

“Tha pills work fine, an’ I think doing surgery is more important.”

“I wasn’t doing surgery, those pills aren’t good for you, and a migraine isn’t a small concern. Promise me you’ll see me next time?”

“Fine, I promise.”

#drabble #leonard mccoy drabble #adorable grumpy boo

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po1ypear1 · 4 years

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Be a good conversationalist

1. Presen. Don’t be thinkinng of what happened last night, what you want for dinner... Give them this time. Basic.

2. Listen. The average person speaks 250 words a minute, our brains can listen to up to 500 a minute. Your brains fillin in that space, you gotta make the effort to pay attention.

3. Flow. Thoughts, ideas, questions will come into your mind, let them leave your mind. When the person is done, trust you will have something to say. Things flow in, things flow out, and new things flow in.

4. Understand. If you don’t know or understand what sommeone is saying or talking about, ask. If you don’t know, how will you be able to continue a conversation. Talking with people should be about undersatanding them, not giving your reply.

5. Ask W’s. Who, What, When, Where, Why. Responses with open ended questtions, allowing the comversation to continue, about them. Getting them to think, and giving you a chance to understand that person.

6. Don’t repeat yourself.

7. Be breif. Don’t get caught up in the unimportant details. The name of the coffe shop...

8. Learn. What do you have to learn from this person. Everybody knows something you dont. put your opinion asside. and dont make it all about you.

9. Discover. Everyone is unique, find out why.

10. Smile

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Frisk has magical abilities

From the opening to Undertale we are told that humans used magic to seal monsters underground. If we assume that humans could use magic across multiple fields as monsters do, then it’s safe to say that there is a chance that Frisk can use magic as well. I have to say that this idea is different than the ability to save, load, and reset. Those come from Frisk’s determination.

This idea comes from the various items from the other fallen humans left behind giving Frisk higher stats. In what world does a ribbon make you more protected against fatal blows than a bandage? Or how does one become able to kill using ballet shoes or a notebook? It doesn’t make any sense, until you consider that a child would perceive that they might.

Imagine you’re Frisk, a child in an unfamiliar world of monsters. You only have a stick and a bandage along with the clothes on your back. Let’s face it, you’re practically defenseless, but then you find and old ribbon. Picking it up, a thought occurs to you: “if you’re cuter, monsters won’t hit you as hard.”

This line is nonsense realistically. These monsters know that your soul is the last one needed to shatter the barrier. Of course they’re going to do their best to kill you and thus get your soul; why would they ever pass up an opportunity like that? And yet, even with that line of thinkinng, Frisk’s DEF does increase upon equipping the ribbon. Why?

Because Frisk thought that it would.

Frisk has a latent magical ability to protect and heal themselves. If they believe that something will heal them, or defend them, or allow them to defend themselves, it will happen. Look how they survive not one (opening) but two insane falls (Waterfall) and are able to stay alive when Flowey goes in for a killing blow in the first meeting with him. Frisk honestly believed that things would be okay, and they were.

This carries over to each item found by the fallen humans being effective. I could go into detail about each of them, but i only really need to bring up the items of Justice and Chara. The cowboy getup helps Frisk because a child would normally see cowboys as cool, tough guys that the law can’t keep down. The gun is also able to be fired despite literally being called an Empty Gun. This is because Frisk is just imagining a cowboy shooting like in the movies and the bad guy just falling over, dead. Chara’s items are even stronger because Frisk perceives them as special. They were found in the capital, in a place much like Toriel’s home, and were in gift boxes. They have to be special, and so they are in being the strongest equipment in the game.

Frisk’s perception also accounts for various tasty treats allowing them to shrug off mortal wounds. Food is good fornyou, it keeps you alive. The tastier it is, the better for you it must be, right? This is why the Butterscotch Pie is a full heal: it’s the best thing Frisk has ever had.

Now, one could argue that this is just RPG logic, but game mechanics are real things in the Undertale universe. Saving and loading are directly addressed by Flowey, so why not stats and healing? The evidence supports that if Frisk believes things about their items, they will have those properties.

If you’re still unconvinced about Frisk’s magical ability, i want to point you towards the Asriel fight. It is possible to go into this battle with no items and end up surviving everything Asriel throws at you. The Hope action restores some health and resists incoming damage for the turn. The Dream action outright creates healing items for you that act as full heals. This is extra health and defense that is coming from nowhere, and when faced with the idea of their friends remembering and loving them, Frisk is restored to full health. If this is not magic, I don’t know what is.

The evidence supports Frisk being, in classic RPGs, a white mage. Healing, protection, increased ability, these are all the hallmarks of a healer/cleric/white mage in other games. The Pacifist runs just allows Frisk to fully tap into those abilities.

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