@twenty-noine took me to the cutest cafe that is what every coffee shop au aspires to be (and i'm at least 85% sure the baristas thought we were a couple)

i also love @sparklyeyedhimbo said we're the houses meme which is hilarious bc personality wise it's completely flipped

i'm going to miss enya so much when i go home, what do you mean i can't just go hang out at her place for the weekend and drink and talk shit about her dates and pick what weird ass colors to dye our hair???

she's also the first person to call me oat in person and it's been so validating and amazing UGH

Okay so... Not entirely sure what this little tidbit will be. Whether as a prologue to the postseason 5 fic that popped into my head or just background for... Whatever I continue from this... Actually no. New idea that just hit as I'm writing this. I've shown how Faybon is with Marinette and Adrien, how he supports LB and Chat the best he can, touched briefly on his interactions with Alya and Nino. I've also hinted at an uneasy alliance with Felix and I may have said a bit about his thoughts on Chloe. Under the cut? How he managed to deal with Bunnyx.

"Stay out of trouble." That's the last thing Bunnyx ever said to him, of course had Faybon known that would be the last time he'd ever see the time traveller? He may have been a bit kinder to her.

As it stood, all he could do was look around at the destruction Strike Back was causing in the city before turning to glare at the bunny peaking out from her burrow. "Would it have worked?" He had asked instead, holding down the anger that threatened to bubble over.

"Yes. But what it changed sent the timeline careening into disaster." Faybon had left it at that, it had been a long time since he cared enough to ask what damage his need to help caused. He just accepted the fact that future Bunnyx knew best and there was no point worrying otherwise, if he could have made a difference then she wouldnt be stopping him.

So Faybon went home, he ignored the giant sentimonsters as best as he could, shut his eyes and ears to the cries of the Miraculous team as they were being overwhelmed, and instead chose to keep the kids from hurting themselves taking too many big risks. Only when the marks on the back of everyones necks were erased by the magical ladybugs did he actually relax and consider that he should probably apologize to Bunnyx when he next saw her... Then came the announcement of the newly named Monarch.

Watching the swarm of butterflies mock the heroes for failing, the symbols of all the Miraculous surrounding the faux head like some kind of bizarre clock, it filled Faybon with equal parts rage and despair. Shards of ice digging into his heart as fire flooded his veins. This was the preferred outcome? This is what Bunnyx couldn't let him change? He couldn't believe it. Something had to have gone wrong.

Over the next few days he managed to piece together exactly what had happened, starting with learning that their classmate Alix was currently going on a vacation through time to keep Fluff away from Monarch. So, yes, this WAS what Bunnyx wanted to happen and now he had absolutely no way of telling her just how pissed he was at her. Well, other than holding onto it for the years to come that is which, while tempting, only opened him up to getting akumatised.

That just left the question of HOW Monarch got the other Miraculous and, while the lack of the peacock during his little monologue gave Faybon an idea, it wasn't until he heard Adrien talking about it to the rest of the class that he figured out just how deep Felix's betrayal went. Handing over the Miraculous was one thing, but under the guise of being Adrien and helping out Ladybug? Well... Faybon was amazed he hadn't been akumatised at all during that week. Most likely because it was when Monarch went silent for whatever reason.

He was tempted to go to London, kick down the door and beat the prick until he was as blue as Duusu's outfits. In his calmer moments he thought about visiting and proposing some kind of alliance, but the same thing stopped him from doing that as what prevented him from threatening grievous bodily harm on Adrien's lookalike. There was no chance he would manage it. Faybon was an average kid and Felix had a Miraculous and some serious martial arts training if his Wikipedia article was to be believed. Felix had outsmarted Ladybug, bargained with Monarch, and got away scot-free. Faybon wouldn't be able to touch him in a million years.

So that left Faybon with no idea on what to do next. Ever since the future Bunnyx had saved him from Egypt, coincidentally enough TimeTagger had sent him just a few years after Bunnyx had been trapped there with a broken watch, he'd more or less relief on her guidance. If he ever got the idea for some big morale boosting party, or ideas for the heroes to help with patrols and catching HawkMoth, she'd show up and either tell him to stop it or ask for popcorn so she could enjoy it. Maybe it was because he didn't really have a great relationship with present Alix, or because she was the one who brought him to the orphanage to begin with, but he did feel a connection with her at times. She was like the big sister he hadn't seen in years but still treated him like a child. Now that she was gone? He had lost the only person who knew what was going on just as much as he did.

Sure she preached secret identities as much as Ladybug did, and was quick to point out just how many times his actions forced her to actually do overtime trying to fix things. But she still let him into the burrow, sat him in a chair, and showed him some of the crazy scenarios that Marinette and Adrien made up to try and keep their secret. It took hours before he could stop laughing over how embarrassed Ladybug was catching Adrien in the shower. Sure it felt a bit surreal watching his friends like some kind of soap opera, but it was nice not having to be serious for once.

So, with all those thoughts weighing on his mind. As Akuma's got Miraculous powers granted by some strange ability that was like nothing he'd heard the kwamis mention before, as Nino had the beyond ridiculous idea to form a resistance and anger Gabriel? Faybon made his choice. He held up his hands, said no, and stepped back. The whole class was shocked obviously, out of everyone they thought he'd want to help Ladybug and Chat Noir the most and had a hard time accepting that he didn't.

It didn't take long for the heroes themselves to ask about it, wondering if he was okay or if they'd done something to upset him. He'd managed to get them to accept that, with Akumas being more powerful and only two heroes to combat them, the best way he could help was by keeping the emotional children of Tules orphanage as calm as possible. Something that took a lot of work on his best days but now had become so much harder.

They'd left it at that and Faybon had a moment to himself to think back on everything. "Stay out of trouble." She had said it with a laugh, like she knew it wouldn't happen and yet.... Surely she knew that was the last time they'd meet? Maybe ever since there was no guarantee that the Bunnyx who left his class would be the same one who went back to save him. If she'd go through those moments they'd shared or if it was something only he would remember. However it went he knew one thing for sure. Future Bunnyx, the adult version of his classmate Alix, had wanted him to stay safe. So that's what he'd do. He owed he that and so much more.

bunn!kookie *few months after jungkook chose to stay. yn has chose to move her belonging into another room while jungkook kept the master. yn barley starts conversations with him anymore, she doesn’t spend much time with him anymore as she’s thrown herself into work, she’s out of the house before he wakes and only comes home after the sun goes down. safe to say she’s emotionally unavailable anymore. but she’s kept up with her promise. he can do whatever he wants, go wherever, she has completely given up her control in his life.*

jungkook, i’m taking my vacation next week. i’m leaving town but i need to know if you’ll stay home or if you want to go on your own trip somewhere so i can get the money for you out of the bank. but i’m going out tonight, not sure when i’ll be home but i’m skipping dinner here, see you later.

“W-What? Noona you’re going on a vacation? And how long is that going to last? Woah noona you have completely abandoned me. I don’t want to go anywhere don’t worry about me. I’ll just stay here like I have been…. This is wrong. Do whatever you want because you always do whatever the fuck you want.”

New Blog: One Curl Short of a Unicorn

I am one curl short of a unicorn…and no that is not a euphemism for being a card short of a deck! 

It is time to face reality and go back to work.  Vacation has been wonderful, but it is over and now it is time to face reality.  I have had a wonderful week with lots of quiet time, reading time and crocheting time.  I have made a number of animals and I am one curl short of finishing the unicorn and 10% shy of finishing my last book.  Perhaps vacation could be one more day?  

The reading time has been wonderful.  I read some great books starting with two books from B.J. Daniels called Set Up in the City and Cowgirl in Question.  Both were Western Romances and fun to read.  They read quickly and kept me quite entertained!  I also read Janet Dailey’s newest book, Blue Moon Haven, a sweet love story

I read four wonderful novels that were out this week.  One interesting item about the books below… They can be read as stand-alones even though they all are part of a series!  

Deep Tide by Laura Griffin was a wonderful romantic thriller.  You were not sure who did what  and why until toward the end and then you just wanted the heroine to be safe.  I think that Leyla’s not wanting to be involved with a tourist was realistic, but finding out Sean was really an FBI agent too, almost was the death knell for their relationship.  I thought a couple of scenes where Leyla’s brother’s were involved made me snicker.  One of Leyla’s treats would taste good right about now!

Shell Beach by Davis Bunn was a great read, even though it technically was a romantic thriller, but the mood and tone were different from most books in this genre.  The book was a more warm and cozy read with backstories and thoughtfulness.  The main characters, Noah and Jenna, had so many obstacles.  I loved the other characters and how they were not shy in building  a team working together.  Even the bad guys were interesting and CREEPY.

Fatal Betrayal by Barbara Freethy is a thriller with romance.  I term it that because the thriller part made it impossible to put down!  I just had to know!  The two main characters Andi and Cooper had a falling out years ago and were suddenly having to work together to save a  kidnapped baby.  We have car chases, lots of bad guys in ski masks, difficulty finding witnesses and two people who never stopped caring for each other!  What more could you want!

Strawberry Lane by Jodi Thomas is not like the books above, but yet was a great read.  There was romance and there was a bad guy. However the story really rolls around a small town where there are people who are just trying to do the right thing and get by.  The fact that there are obstacles and difficulties just add to the storyline!  The only problem… I haven’t had a chance to finish the book - just like the unicorn’s last curl.

I'm really glad I stumbled on this blog. It's got so many interesting and unique AUs! This is a crack idea, but what if by the Seventh Age of Arda (which would more or less resemble our current world), you have elves from Valinor forming tourist groups to vacation in Arda and enjoy man-inventions such as smartphones, ice cream, or sports cars? Would craftier elves like the Feanorians be inspired to invent an elf-phone?

I'm so glad you enjoy it, @fate-magical-girls!

I do think elves would enjoy some things about the modern world. Particularly sports cars just because there are so many of the Noldor that I think would instantly become addicted to the speed. The races. The spectacular crashes. The need to tinker with their car until it is the best. And I absolutely think that some of them would want to play with the tech to see how they could replicate and/or improve it!

The real question though - which you wouldn't necessarily have to answer in a crack AU but that calls to me irresistibly - is how the elves managed to convince the Valar that sailing west for tourism is a good idea in the first place. Everyone still very much remembers what happened last time.

Maybe they sell it as doomsday prep? Like, they all know the Dagor Dagorath is coming sooner or later, and the humans sure seem convinced that the end is near, maybe they're onto something, we should go check . .

The advantage to this strategy is that there's always some group of humans that think the end is near, although 2012 was a particularly good year for elvish tourism.

(On a more serious note, if you want elves being tourists in the 21st century, I enthusiastically recommend No Glasse of England by bunn (@cycas). It's more bittersweet fluff than crack (heavy on the sweet, light on the bitter), but it's very, very good, and among other things it includes the Noldor reaction to telephones!)

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Swampthing WIP SwampThing Friday the 13 lover. W.I.P. Hitting the water colors tomorrow. I want to talk about my relationship with Swampthing. Doing that book was one of the biggest mistakes of my career and a mistake I’ve repeated multiple times. Firstly my work on the Annual was great and I’m truly proud of those pages. But my work on my full issue was a colossal mistake, taking the gig. Taking a gig for a full issue 20-22 pages with a 2 week or 3 week deadline is just not something I can pull off and it’s hurt my career greatly. I’m of course grateful to Snyder and Lemire and Dc. With those names I jumped on it right away. Such a cool opportunity but when Marco quit and I filled in I thought it would lead to more work for coming in and saving the day over xmas vacation while DC was off. When I read the script I realized it was the climax issue with a giant war and hundreds of figures and knew this was going to be a problem. The book needed 6 weeks at least for me to pull off my best work. My style at the time totally clashed with Yanick’s and I think DC higher ups hated it despite me coming in on deadline when they returned from vacation. I haven’t worked for DC since and that was 2014. It happened with Heavy Metal a few times too particularly with Grant Morrison and Cullen Bunn. Just not workable deadlines for me to do my best. It’s taken me 15 years to understand myself as an artist and taking my time is getting some amazing results. That Morrison script was so good and some of the pages I loved but again it needed 6 weeks for such an amazing piece of writing. Grant is an unreal writer, even in his short story scripts. I am wildly proud of my work with Dan Fogler at Heavy but that piece got the time. I guess what I’m saying is I’m happy to have found myself and just because you get an amazing opportunity with great writers and publishers doesn’t mean you should take it. Saving a deadline book now means run for it for me. Be the first artist picked for a book, not the ringer because if you do save the day the book after will normally go to a contracted artist. Know thyself. KNow how long your best takes. #swampthing #swampthingcomics #dccomics

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lucky number: 28 and 12

what i’m wearing rn: Metallica t-shirt, red jeggins, white converse and a black hoodie 

drink of choice: orange juice, summer fruits juice with barley, hot ribena (blackcurrant juice), jasmine tea (with milk cause I’m nasty like that)

dream vacation: Going to the welsh coast with my family and spending a week or two down in The Gower 

favorite foods: Spicy grilled duck ramen, grilled cheese sandwich, bacon and cheese wrap (pastry), skittles and roast vegetable soup

instruments:Piano and violin 

celebrity crushes: Brandon Flowers 

random fact: I’ve been struck by lighting (SUCK IT GOD) 

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Adult friendship

I have anxiety today. Maybe it’s the coffee or maybe, just maybe, it’s because I know the subject I’m about to delve into. Whenever someone goes through a breakup, I am there at the ready to help them through. There’s an unspoken rulebook, bring ice cream, sappy movies, junk food and get ready to talk trash. Burn a candle, maybe even burn some photos? But what do we do when the breakup isn’t romantic? What about when you break up with a friend? There’s no rulebook in sight. 

We’ve all had friend breakups. I know because every time I bring this up to someone, they nod, clearly relating and offering up a “that sucks”, and that’s where it ends. There’s no clear way to get over them or what to do. There’s always an awkwardness around it like we lack the vocabulary or there's too much shame and embarrassment surrounding friendships gone awry. More so than a romantic relationship. Why? Perhaps because the relationship itself is not as clearly defined, but it’s just as painful when one ends. It’s hard to tell when a friendship has started, when you’ve entered that unspoken contract, because it is just that - unspoken. You don’t sit down to have “the talk” or define what “we” are: the inner circle, the best friend, an acquaintance? Yet it’s alarmingly clear, spoken or not, when it’s ended. 

My first best friend was Katie Bunn. As children, we were inseparable. Once, we locked ourselves in Katie’s bedroom when it was time for me to go home, and our parents had to call a locksmith after hours of trying to coax us into opening the door. We threw our pet mice down the laundry shoot because they “wanted to go on a rollercoaster” and once took a hose and shampoo bottle to her basement because it “needed a cleaning.” We were the closest of friends and developed our senses of humor with each other often sharing a made up language only the two of us could understand. Yet somehow, perhaps inevitably when you meet your twin flame at the age of three, our paths diverged. I can’t put my finger on it, but by high school, we were barely close at all. When I see her once a year at the summer vacation spot both our families still frequent, it’s not the same. There’s the odd feeling being near someone you used to know that rivals that of running into an ex-lover. There’s a deep yearning-like sadness for a time that once was. The thing is with friends, it could still work out, couldn’t it?

Then, there’s April Brawn. We’d known each other since elementary school but became particularly close during high school going to N’SYNC concerts together and begging our parents to drive us to the under 18 club so we could enter the “big booty contest”. What better bonding is there than shaking your ass live on stage with each other while judges vote on whether you have a big booty or not. I did, April did not, but man could she move. She knew everything about me, and I knew everything about her. We spent every weekend together, so when she relayed a rumor about me to the rest of the school instead of coming straight to me and asking the truth, it was the particular kind of hurt that comes from betrayal. We attempted to talk it out. She said her peace, “I was just trying to protect you by getting to the bottom of it”, and I said mine,“you talked about it more behind my back, I wish you had just stuck up for me”, and we tried to smooth things over. But my trust was broken, and we were never the same. We never had a conversation about the state of things after that, we just slowly phased out. I guess I couldn’t get over it. I hear about her occasionally from my parents, but I feel nothing, which makes me feel guilty. 

I suppose an argument could be made that we just grew up and changed. But this happens in adult friendships too. In my late twenties, I had a roommate who became a close friend, in retrospect, because she clung to me; it was clear I’d made the “inner circle” tier. Her brain was wired for conflict whereas mine was wired for solutions - that should’ve been my first clue. She once told me her therapist said it was good for her mental health to hang out with me. That’s not a compliment, by the way, that’s a lot of pressure. So after she moved out and no longer returned my texts or phone calls, I shouldn’t have taken it personally, but I did. It was a weight off my back to not have to calm her down or reason her through life, but it was also a huge blow to my ego. I knew she took ordinary things people had done and made them unacceptable, worthy of trash-talking to other people, and now I was the one who was cut out which could only mean that I’m the bad person! I never heard what she was saying behind my back, but to know she cut me out, it had to have been bad. Was I the bad person all along? Am I toxic?

That’s the heart of all my fears and anxieties, that I am somehow a bad person. And nowhere is that more evident than a friend deeming you so. So recently, when I lost two close friends in the midst of a pandemic, it really struck a chord. I must be bad. Many people are losing friendships during this time, or so I see from pithy Twitter tweets. But mine don’t seem to be specifically pandemic related, it’s all just timing. Maybe all of them worldwide are, but no one is delving any further - maybe it doesn’t fit into 140 characters. One friend, let’s call her Susan, stopped talking to me a month or so before lockdown. It took me a few days to notice because the nature of the relationship was her initiating communication. She texted or called with decent frequency. After a few days of of not hearing from her, I texted something innocuous to feel out the situation. It took her a day to get back to me, highly unusual, so that confirmed it - she was mad at me. “Oh come on,” other friends would say, “nobody is thinking about you but you. It’s never about you, she’s probably busy or going through something,” which is what I would say to anyone in my situation and normally would be true. But I knew her, and I knew this was about me. But why? What had I done? To my knowledge, it was business as usual. When Susan finally responded, she said a lot of things that boiled down to we are not always good for each other and sometimes enable each other. She’d decided she needed to take a break from me. I had known it was coming, on some level, but hearing it as on another plane of pain. Wow, we’re really never going to talk again. She had been such a mainstay over the last few years, so it felt like a world shift the way breakups do. What is even more remarkable is I had no idea what she was talking about. My behavior had not changed, our level of communication had not changed, the only thing that changed is her need not to talk to me. My ego was bruised. I felt shame and embarrassment. Here it is, that old familiar feeling of being a bad person. The more I unpacked it, the more I realized that what hurt was the idea of explaining it to all our mutual friends. 

With romantic breakups, the end is quite clear. There is a decided end, a period to it all and a sensical reason why whether we understand it at the time or not. Unless someone cheats or harms the other person, it’s understood that sometimes these things just don’t work out. But with friendships, it’s much more complicated and harder to understand. There’s usually not one definitive thing to point to that ended it. It doesn’t matter if one of you wants kids and the other doesn’t. It doesn’t matter that you want to raise your kids Jewish or live across the country. Friendship, truly, has no bounds. And that’s what makes it harder to separate from who you are. It’s harder still to separate what is really hurting, me or my ego? 

I would love to get some clarity around why these things happen, or better yet, I would love to have clear vocabulary around why these things feel a unique kind of icks. Until then, if anyone needs a bad rom com, a pint of ice cream or a light-hearted gabfest, I’m your girl. And who knows, maybe it’ll be the start of a beautiful friendship. 

New Blog:  Serendipity

Serendipity is an unplanned fortunate discovery; something that occurs or is discovered by chance in a happy or beneficial way.  

Lately, I crave reading books about beaches and lakes.  Guess I am trying to get to summer faster.  However, I also get lists of free or cheaper books sent to my email.  I chose a book called Miramar Bay, thinking it was going to be about a California beach (and the fact that Tom Cruise went to TOPGUN at Miramar).  The book was a good read (http://marjay.simplesite.com/239538827).  It was a little meatier than a simple beach read - I enjoyed it.  So what was the serendipity - the next book I picked up to read was a book I found on Net Galley - offered by Kensington House Publishing was called The Cottage on Lighthouse Lane (http://marjay.simplesite.com/239538827).  It was by the same author and was a later book in that same series at Miramar Bay.  What are the chances?  I did not even realize the books were connected until I read the first few pages.  What a lovely surprise!  And YES, I found all the books in between the first and the last book and ordered them!  Luckily each of the books can be read as a stand alone.  

Serendipity also plays into this week.  I am now two weeks out from my second vaccine, and it is vacation week!  I am going to visit friends who I have not seen FOREVER!  Well - the last year and a half anyway.  I am not good at writing and keeping up with people on the phone, I am better in person,  I have missed much this year without seeing them.   

I know some people believe that all luck is serendipity and that there is not really luck at all, but paying attention to the details around them.  If that is the case, then getting a warm shower tonight was serendipitous as the hot water system is on the blink here until the plumber comes tomorrow - so knowing that the furnace was just reset to allow for some hot water was paying attention to the details. I think I would call that good planning. 

Meanwhile, all the books I read this week had the ocean on the cover. Two were about the town of Miramare in California. One was about a beach in the south and one was about a harbor in Maine. None of them were traditional “beachy reads”. All had an element of family drama, and three had some seriously interesting dilemmas to resolve. What great reading!

Elise Cooper has sent in a couple of interesting additions to check out. She has interviewed Elizabeth Goddard about her newest book, Present Danger. She also sent in an interesting book review of The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen. 

Meanwhile, I hope there are some unplanned but fortunate discoveries for you this week.

Books Read this Week

Margreete’s Harbor by Eleanor Morse

The Bookstore on the Beach by Brenda Novak

Miramar Bay by Davis Bunn

The Cottage on Lighthouse Lane by Davis Bunn

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And if you find it necessary to buy some accessories for your coffee maker, Bunn can also come to your rescue. On top of that, Bunn goes out of its way to offer some much-needed solutions to certain concerns you might have with your coffee making. That's why they have come up with great and unique features such as vacation mode, programmable timers, dual-purpose coffee makers that can also make teas, and many other features to make your Bunn coffee makers more useful, beneficial, and a better kitchen companion than you could ever want.

Buying Bunn Coffee Machines

If you want to buy Bunn coffee makers, your best bet is to search online, especially if you don't have the time to shop for one. Buying the products online is faster and more convenient. You don't need to scour the shops for Bunn products; search engines can readily point you to great Bunn coffee makers being sold online.

You can also get added benefits of free shipping, fast delivery, door-to-door delivery, and hassle-free online transactions. And you don't have to worry since all Bunn products come with warranties for your assurance and satisfaction. So don't waste time that you could be spending drinking great coffee anymore; go and get yourself a Bunn coffee maker.

Sorry about the very big absences, been a bit of a crazy time these last few days. Weekend super full, plus today I started moving stuff around. For those who don’t know, which would make most of you, since I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned it in this blog, I’m an islander. I spend most of the year in the mainland for college, but at least twice a year (Christmas/New Years and Summer) I go back there to spend my vacation time with my family.

So I store all of my belongings in my uncle’s attic during that period of time I’m out. Which makes it a task to go back and forth for a whole week xD But yeah, my flight’s on Friday and I started the moves today.

On other news, totally finished New 52 Aquaman and that was a true trip. Johns’ run was amazing as always, Parker’s Maelstrom event was awesome, Bunn.... had some good ideas in there, but the only praise I’ll give him is for actually including Poseidon in his arc. The final arc with Abnett, I think, was pretty damn nice and refreshing. I’ve started Rebirth, so you’ll probably be hearing me talk about that.

New story in Politics from Time: Christine Blasey Ford Said She Flew Despite Her Aviation Phobia. She’s Far From Alone

For some conservatives, Christine Blasey Ford’s admission that she frequently travels by airplane despite a professed fear of flying raised questions about her trustworthiness. But one expert on fear of flying said that is not an uncommon practice.

The topic came up as Ford was being questioned by Rachel Mitchell, a prosecutor hired by Senate Republicans to question Ford.

Ford, who alleges that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her while they were both in high school, had earlier sought to delay her testimony ostensibly due to her fear of flying. But she said Thursday that she ended up flying to Washington, D.C., to testify.

She said she had initially hoped the hearings could take place in California, but realized that it was an “unrealistic request.”

“I eventually was able to get up the gumption with the help of some friends and get on the plane,” said Ford. Kavanaugh denies Ford’s allegation against him, as well as those of several other women.

Mitchell then asked about Ford’s other travel history, including trips to far-flung destinations like Hawaii and Costa Rica. Ford said she did travel to such locations by plane, adding that “it’s easier for me to travel going that direction when it’s a vacation.”

It wasn’t long until those who continue to support Kavanaugh jumped on Ford’s testimony about her trips in an attempt to discredit her. Donald Trump Jr., the President’s son, said that “it does seem weird to me that someone could have a selective fear of flying.”

I’m no psychology professor but it does seem weird to me that someone could have a selective fear of flying.

Can’t do it to testify but for vacation, well it’s not a problem at all.

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) September 27, 2018

But flying on an airplane despite having flight anxiety is a common practice, according to Tom Bunn, a former airline captain who’s now a licensed therapist. Bunn, who works with those afraid to fly through a program called SOAR, said that one in three people have a fear of flying. Of that third, half are willing to fly, while half are not. Of the people who come to him for help, very few outright refuse to fly when doing so is clearly necessary, he says.

“Most of the people who contact me to get help with fear of flying still occasionally fly or have to fly for business,” Bunn tells TIME. “It’s only a minority of people who contact me who have quit flying completely.”

Fear of flying, Bunn says, often stems from a perceived lack of control.

“I would imagine she had a tough time on the flight,” he says. “The issue people have with flying is they can’t get out of the plane. They can’t escape.”

Bunn said traumatic episodes often serve as the root of a given person’s fear of flying, and can prevent them from getting on a plane. But when life events arise that necessitate flying — business trips, family reunions, vacations — some people are able to temporarily overcome their phobia through a variety of methods. For others, the panic induced by flying is too much to handle, and they avoid air travel at all costs.

“There are lots of techniques people use,” Bunn says. “Some people take Xanax, Ativan or something like that to fly. Some people feel they’re going to have a panic attack and if they bring someone with them that gives confidence to them — that can help also.”

By Mahita Gajanan on September 27, 2018 at 05:16PM