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bonefall · 1 year

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hi!! long ask incoming bc uh.

i was bored, so tried to translate an entire prophecy i wrote like three years ago into clanmew!

very sure that i made mistakes (i mean it starts with me constructing complicated sentences when there’s only been a guide on simple ones-) but i still wanted to share what i came up with and am hoping for some corrections if that isn’t too much work.

original english prophecy: ‘‘Six cats and their followers will come, with blood of every clan rank. When the reed with its leaves will echo over the moor through the wings of fog, a gathering will come true. The newly reformed clans will be destroyed and quiet will be brought when the shadows leave.’’

my attempt at the literal clanmew to english translation: ‘‘StarClan-says in-service-of entire ranks five-and-one cats and many clanmateness-contains cats they-rogue-walked. What-if stalk it-powerful-object-owns leaf under small cloud it-powerful-object-owns feathered-wing over territory they-powerful-object-fly? StarClan-says bad-battle entire cats they-rogue-fight. What-if shadow they-powerful/dangerous-object-leaves? StarClan-says no bad-battles and no good-battles.’’

clanmew: ‘‘Ssoen pos ul gorrl rarra om owar rriu om pabparra urriuwang-gryyr rriu mwrrspappap. Hassayyr kaskir ssaswrah russ wowareh eeb hai ssaswrah beof wowa upanna pyrrsfbafbab? Ssoen nyyryakorrl ul gorrl mwrrsarrlkatchyam. Hassayyr washa ssasyorru? Ssoen nyar nyyryakorrl om nyar shemyakorrl.’’

gonna give you part of my thought process behind this,, well i don’t know how to construct complicated sentences in clanmew (a shame fr) so i just. guessed on the placing of stuff? e.g. the ‘in-service-of entire rank’ bit. generally i mostly struggled with that first damn sentence bc it’s very hard to make it simple. i hope it’s clear that ‘clanmateness-contains cat’ is described like that in relation to the six other cats, those many cats are followers of the six cats, not the pre-existing clancats. also, i chose the pronouns for rogues and the like because in my story the medic who receives the prophecy frames the prophecy cats as bad/evil on purpose, so it’d only make sense to insult them. then i struggled with fog... because there’s no word for that now. decided to substitude with small cloud. thought about big cloud = storm cloud, (average) cloud = normal cloud, small cloud = fog or something. anyways i purposefully chose the pronouns for powerful objects because those words are describing the cats the prophecies are about, and the prophecy cats are obviously very important. I had to change so much about the last sentence to capture what it means but i believe i did a good job at that. ‘There will be a bad battle between all cats. What if the shadows are defeated? There won’t be any bad battles nor will there be any good ones.’ since there were no words for peace/quiet/anything of the like. again, shadow has the powerful/dangerous pronoun because it’s a metaphor for something bad. i think that’s everything worth noting down? i hope?

well. i spent two hours on translating this prophecy, but it was very fun. i just hope there aren’t too many mistakes, tho to be fair i went for something that’s pretty hard to translate asghjfhf

This is incredibly in-depth and I'm absolutely blown away, @troutfur wrote up a line-by-line commentary on the whole thing, and I made a bunch more conjunctions because of your work.

So here's what he has to say:

"I’m just blown away! Holly cow, it’s such a huge compliment that anyone took the time to translate a passage like that into our conlang! You’re very resourceful with what little information you had to work with. I’m definitely going to be taking notes from here because I think your translation was a nice stress test of the system and it reveals plenty of areas for expansion.

SO! Let’s go line by line!

"Ssoen pos ul gorrl rarra om owar rriu om pabparra urriuwang-gryyr rriu mwrrspappap."

Instead of “pos ul gorrl” I would’ve gone with “ul-gorrl urrwrah nyams” (entire-rank they-clanmate-own kin). “Pos ul gorrl” to me would mean that it’s an action directed towards every rank.

I also am curious as to why you chose to use the past form of “pappap” instead of the future form which is “papp”. I’m assuming it’s because it’s the form in the lexicon.

Bonefall: "We also haven't covered tense yet, which will be coming up in Clanmew 102. Basically though there's a past, present, and future stem for verbs! Generally, a verb is longest in past-tense."

Taking into account the fact you pointed out the meddie giving this prophecy uses mwrrs to express their disdain of these cats I’m curious as to whether StarClan themselves used this pronoun or another. By using “ssoen” they are implying they are quoting directly from StarClan so if they’re tampering with their pronouns this could be a big deal like religiously.

"Hassayyr kaskir ssaswrah russ wowareh eeb hai ssaswrah beof wowa upanna pyrrsfbafbab?"

Grammatically the main thing I’d do here is transpose “wowa upanna” to right after “hassayyr” in order to get the subject and verb closer together. Very creative on adapting the phrase with the limited vocabulary on hand particularly!

While I would go for an if x then y statement to really get the meaning of the English phrase, using hassayyr like you did is a damn good approximation based on what we gave you.

"Ssoen nyyryakorrl ul gorrl mwrrsarrlkatchyam."

Pretty good! Only note would be the tense again but I will explain that in Clanmew 102.

"Hassayyr washa ssasyorru?"

Good good! No notes.

"Ssoen nyar nyyryakorrl om nyar shemyakorrl."

I would tack on a “sarr” at the end to clarify that StarClan isn’t talking about themselves. Or otherwise maybe use the same verb as teh previous answer. “Ssoen nyar nyyryakorrl om nyar shemyakorrl urrsarrlkatch”: No good nor bad battles will be fought.

-----AND BACK TO BONEFALL

Here are some more conjunctions to play with;

So = Irr

Now = Mwah

If = Nyyeb

Then = Pon

Because = Curr

Ergo = Ewa

When = Niferr

Before = Yeferr

As Soon As = Ssirru

After = Yyirru

Until = Nokeyy

As = Koko

Your work was amazing and inspiring and we love it!

#Clanmew #Clanmew submissions

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melforbes · 3 years

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8 & 17?

8: share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it

im sharing multiple because im soooo insecure about my dialogue writing skills well like not insecure but i definitely dont have a knack for it which is why mine tends to be really sparse haha. so we are having an unhumble moment over here

teenage bedelia in the stedelia au has been one of my favorite characters to write pretty much ever. teenage girls in general are absolutely the most fun to write because they are naive and insane and that is SO FUN for characterization. i wish i could make "is massachusetts on the west coast" into a meme. this is not something i should be proud of i realize. oh and i have to explain why im proud of it. oh im proud of it simply because i think it's hilarious. none of my reasoning is going to be deep i assure you

we will not be discussing the embarrassingly long time i spent perfecting "if you die it will be my fault" and we will also not talk about how i personally see that as super deep when it totally isnt. also the mortifying ordeal of these all being from the stedelia au. im proud of this one because i spent hours on it and i think it communicates exactly what i wanted it to communicate. why do i get the eebs describing it that way

this makes me cringe to reread lmao but anyway. anywhomst. this is for a video game and it's really hard to turn video game dialogue into written dialogue because the two dont follow the same rules (video game dialogue can be very tongue in cheek and also follows grammar the way spoken language does so then writing it verbatim just doesnt look right, kind of have to find a happy medium, etc) but this was one of the moments when i felt like i actually got it right. not right right but like close enough. but either way. maybe im just gay but i love romance that goes against the established norm so two people lying in the grass beneath the stars and he's like hey will you marry me and she's like sure but they never actually reach those words even a little...i just like the concept!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! these two are very fun to write. no one who follows me here has read this but either way. i loveeeeeee repressed hets

again. teenage girls are thee most fun to write. i dont understand the appeal of mlf at all beyond the fact that it's long and for a semi rarepair (like slim pickings u feel) but alma is worth stanning. sorry not sorry she is my baby and i love her. ignore everything else its not worth it but alma is a queen

i studied anthropology in college so naturally im completely obsessed with humans finding useless meaning in stuff and also yes i realize when i dont know what to do i have the romantic pairing stare at the stars i do this for free fuck off but anyway. these two are also repressed hets and therefore fun to write. is that like going to be my brand. repressed hets and feral teenage girls. could be worse. anyway. these two are fun to write. im not even like proud of this or something i just think it's funny and i think these two are neat

okay thats enough of that haha

17: do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?

little bit of both but i tend toward linear. im really bad at nonlinear thinking. i usually go out of order when a particular scene or chapter requires extra attention and i haven't figured it out yet but want to put something down anyway. for any ~niche readers~ i wrote the joel/tess breakup aftermath before writing the breakup itself and then tried to piece things back together which is why the radio interlude chapter is shoved in there, to span the awkward gap i'd created. if i'm doing a slow burn i oftentimes will write a kiss scene or something just because im getting slow burn burnout haha. mlf and seaglass blue were almost aggressively linear. i have a tendency to know beginnings and endings more than i know middles so sometimes i end up on those two extremes and have to backtrack. this whole answer contradicts itself alskdgjasldkgjsalgj like. i think at this point like. not to humble brag or something but one thing writing fic over like five years has taught me is how to understand my own writing and work tendencies with output better so i find it really natural to just pick certain things up Wherever and it just works. like for mlf or something i couldn't write a second scene before a first but in other things i can write whole chapters that are six chapters away and it feels natural as well. does that make any sense. just kind of going with the flow. for original work i am also aggressively linear but i have a gut feeling that's not going to last haha

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levonwitherspoon · 3 years

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May 5, 2021

Sleep: 8.0 hours

Food: morning shake, chicken and rice

Day Plan: Attend EEB 186 and CHIN 3 discussion, go to the gym, go to work, return home and study for classes and EMT.

Daily Reflection: Today one of my friends from my original friend group, Ryan, came back home because his Spring semester just ended. I picked him up and we walked around Foster City and got Tpumps, which has become a tradition for me when friends are in town. He is in the national guard and plans on going into mechanical engineering when he leaves, and I wish him well. I had a lot of free time today, and my mood was very uplifted since I am now getting much more sleep. I can hardly remember how deflated I was feeling this past weekend going into Monday.

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incorrectstevesagaquotes · 4 years

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for that post ya made about sending you a character, i will choose (Obviously because i'm obsessed with him) i choose The Evil Elder Blue Steve form steve saga origins -w-

EEBS (The initials of Evil Elder Blue spell “bee” backwards. Coincidence? I think not owo)

favorite thing about them: He broke my feels. I ship Bluebow and seeing him take over Blue Steve just broke my heart qwq He’s my favorite villain from Origins. He put me through so much pain by putting Bluebow and Yellow Steve through so much pain.

least favorite thing about them: While he is my favorite villain, I wish he did more. Not just talk a lot and destroy things off screen.

favorite line: “I’ve gone through enough torture now…I am now going to take over this realm and I will use you to do it.” and “I will NEVER go back, you hear me?! I will make sure that HE reigns supreme over all of these dimensions!” Honestly, I like most of his lines!!

brOTP: EEB and Dark

OTP: BeeFlower (Nightmare x Evil!Elder Blue)

nOTP: EEB/Rainbow and EEB/Blue

random headcanon: Because of my broTP and OTP, I like to interpret that Evil!Elder Blue and Nightmare are lovers and their son is Dark Steve. After escaping the flower, Evil!Elder Blue looked after Dark while Nightmare was off being a villain. He taught Dark everything, like manners. And when Dark Steve was disguised as an Elder Blue to trick the good Steves, Evil!Elder Blue was behind the scenes helping his son by teaching him how an Elder Blue acts so they could fool everyone.

unpopular opinion: …He’s a cooler villain than Nightmare Steve. Literally. He’s an icy boi.

song i associate with them: “Vines” by Shadrow

favorite picture of them:

Here we see a local flower pretending to be an icy chrysalis so he can become an icy butterfly to join his bee husband.

Yes, I am BeeFlower trash. I need more people to gush about this ship with me.

Thank you for the ask!!!

Ask meme: x

#asks #ask meme #evil!elder blue steve #steve saga #not a quote #shipping

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mamagasmo1988-blog · 5 years

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foiririzhi1984-blog · 5 years

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jakefletcher · 6 years

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Fumigation day.

“What in the world is it this time...” - Ela thought to herself as she came near the Inn and saw nearly everything that was at one point inside now piled on the grass just outside the entrance. Dishes, crates, boxes, kegs and barrels, and even furniture, except for beds and bookshelves. Sherman, Daniels and Wental were busy carrying more and more stuff outside, scurrying back and forth. By now Ela was not even surprised anymore by anything that was going on where Jake was concerned and just stepped inside the Inn. Nearly right from the start she was hit with a wall of sickly-sweet stench. Overall it could only be described as a mix of rotten fruit, dead fish, Jake’s dirty socks and vanilla. With a hint of pig’s rump.

Pinching her nose, the woman made her way through the Inn, looking for Jake, sure from the very beginning that all of this naturally had something to do with him.

“Jake? Are you in here?!” - she called out, looking around the Inn and hearing some strange hissing as she came closer to the stairs that lead above to where the rental rooms were.

“Phub ebe, dabe. 'Obkin'! Bob'd bpheaphe in!" - came a muffled responce, followed by more hissing which sounded like there perhaps was a giant and very pissed off reptile somewhere in the building.

Ela searched through the rooms, unable to find him. "What the..?!?!?!" - she muttered, coming in to the far bedroom in the back of the upper floor and stopping dead in her tracks as she finally saw Jake who stood on top of one of the wardrobes in the corner, spraying some vile green fumes into every corner he could get to with a long nozzle that was attached by a flexible hose to some manner of a contraption strapped to his back that consisted of two large canisters filled with greenish thick liquid, a humming metallic box with a multitude of blinking lights and adorned for some reason with a replica of a human skull, valves and switches. In short - nothing that looked safe. When Ela came in, he was spraying the stuffed deer head that hung above the door-way. That done, he shrugged and just stuck the spray-nozzle into the head's ear, pressing the button on the handle of the nozzle. Hissing resumed, greenish mist coming out of the head's other ear, as well as nostrils, mouth and what other holes were in it. Muffled laughter followed.

“Ohhh!! Argh! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!” - Ela choked out, covering her nose and mouth with one hand and stepping farther into the room. Namely as far as she could from Jake and the fumes he was spraying all over.

“Wphab ib 'ook 'ike?” - Jake finally turned around. His face was covered by a sinister-looking mask with thick green lenses and two large filters attached on either side to it - “Phubi'abib', opf phouphe. Abd bob'd bpheaphe ib, i 'eeb 'e'ib' ya!”

“Take that thing off, i can't understand a single thing you’re saying!” - Ela was beginning to lose her patience. To be fair - she was a saint to have been patient so far as is.

Jake sighed and pulled the mask up to uncover his mouth - “I said i'm fumigatin' the place. And don't breathe in too deep. Put a towel over your face or somethin', would ya?“

“I'm getting out of here. Why did you pick TODAY? To do this? I think I heard a snake too. I can't stand snakes. Mice, spiders, frogs, I don't blink, but snakes. Nope. I'm going back outside...where all our stuff is!! Looks like a yard sale or something!” - Ela threw her hands up and started walking to the door.

Jake shrugged, for once deciding not to argue, as time was pressing and he still had to spray the rest of the upstairs. Instead he just pulled the mask back on and sprayed the deer head one last time for a good measure. Having gotten to every spot he could from where he was, he took a small step back, clearly planning to get down. The old wardrobe however seemed to have a different plan for Jake regarding how he was going to get off. There was a loud crack as one of the legs snapped in two, which naturally resulted in Jake making his way down much quicker than he had planned, as he landed heavily on the floor with a loud crash, the canisters hitting the floor-boards. Thankfully the wardrobe at least hit the supporting beam on the wall with one corner, sparing Jake further injury by landing on top of him.

“Jake!” - Ela shouted, rushing towards him and kneeling at his side, looking over him with worried eyes as she tugged on the mask covering his face. Jake mumbled something, though exactly what was hard to understand. Not only his voice was muffled by the mask - suddenly the hissing from somewhere under him intensified. The buckles on the contraption did not make anything easy, the whole thing being of goblin make, which naturally meant literally EVERYTHING about it had to be extra-complicated, including even a simple buckle. Hissing meanwhile became louder and was now accompanied by a loud alarm-like beeping. Ela was now getting rightfully scared as hissing and loud beeping could not possibly mean anything good, while Jake jumped to his feet, frantically tugging at the straps in vain - “Phip, phip, phip!!!”

What happened next ... well, let's just say Ela should have known better than to stand so close to Jake. The canisters suddenly exploded, pushing the woman back, though thankfully there was a mattress in the hallway which Jake took off the bed to spray later. For Jake however it was a whole different story as he was now being thrown all around the room, highly-pressurized liquid escaping the ruptured canisters, making the whole thing into a rocket. Which meant not only being tossed around like a rag-doll - it even knocked Jake into the ceiling as well with loud thuds. The mist now was like a heavy cloud that filled the entire upper floor. Well, at least it would get everything fumigated in one shot this way? Jake laid on the floor, knocked out (hopefully JUST knocked out and not dead), as hissing quieted down. Beeping stopped as well. Either the contraption did not survive another fall or there was simply no longer a need for the alarm to sound.

Ela flew backwards, slamming into the mattress all the while hearing the thuds from the room caused by Jake connecting with the walls and ceiling. She recovered quickly and rushed into the room through the heavy cloud of stench towards Jake who was sprawled on the floor without showing any signs of life. “Jake!” - she shook him by the shoulders, not daring to think the worst, pulling her vest off to put it over her face with one hand at the same time. After few moments Jake apparently decided it was a good time to prove he was, indeed, alive, which he did by letting out a squeaky, somehow sad-sounding fart and which at least would not make matters worse with the fumes that filled the upper floor anyhow. The woman sighed a breath of relief and ran downstairs, grabbing a comm from under the bar, dialing the Emergency Response Unit and speaking into it quickly once someone answered the call, asking the medics to hurry after explaining the situation to the dispatcher.

To their credit, ERU workers who turned out to be none other than a couple whose wedding Jake catered, namely Leah and James Theran, were quick to make their way to Lakeshire, soon coming up the stairs, and covering their faces as well as they walked into the fume cloud, scanning the room quickly and finding Ela crouched over Jake. Working quickly, they unfolded a stretcher, asking Ela to step aside as they worked, putting Jake on it and carrying him out of the Inn with the worried woman following them closely, not taking her eyes off Jake. Once outside, the medics set the stretcher down, looking Jake over and poking his unconscious body to determine the damages. So far there were only a few bruises Leah found, while James was struggling to understand how to take the mask off, finally just taking out a pair of heavy-duty scissors to cut through the straps, then tossing the mask aside. Under the mask Jake was practically blue, his breathing shallow, eyes closed. Clearly the filters were also damaged in all the "being thrown around", and the mask was removed just in time, as he obviously was not getting enough air until now. James put an oxygen mask over Jake’s nose and mouth, as he took a gulping deep breath, though did not regain consciousness yet. Although either having gotten some air in him now or maybe the air just ... flowed through him - whatever the case was, Jake let out another fart. This one just as sad-sounding as the previous one. Once the mask was off, James stifling a chuckle at Jake’s “indication of being alive”, they would also see a shallow but rather nasty-looking gash on the side of Jake’s head which, after a quick inspection, turned out to need stitches, and which Leah set to working on, first of all injecting a numbing agent around the wound. Ela, who was sitting there helplessly this entire time, knowing she wouldn’t be of much help anyway and just clutching her hands to her chest shook her head and whispered to Jake, her voice filled with utmost love - “Jake, if you survive this - i am going to kill you myself.”

Jake let out a weak groan, his eyelids flattering a bit, still knocked out. But at least he was showing further signs of life, other than a fart, so that would be a good sign. Right? Hopefully.

“Do you think he heard me?” - Ela asked, looking at the couple working on fixing Jake up.

Leah nodded as she began stitching up the wound. The numbing agent would have quickly taken affect and he wouldn't feel a thing. "It's possible, it looks like he might be waking up. He's going to have one hell of a headache." - she replied without looking up.

Ela took Jake’s hand in hers and was happy when he gently squeezed her hand in return, his eyelids flattering again, and finally opened one eye. Which was turned towards Dockmaster Baren for some reason at an unnatural angle. "If i don't make it through this... Come up with somethin'... heroic, please."

James watched Leah perform the injection and leaned back slightly to reach into his own medical bag. He pulled out a wide rolled up strip of leather and set it on the ground to unroll it. Within was a collection of vials, needles and syringes. He'd look up to Ela and offer a warm smile. "Looks like he did. He'll have that headache, and he'll likely be quite nauseous. He might have a serious cough and be itchy, but I don't believe his life is in any danger. I'm going to take a blood sample though, just to look and see what was in the poison he was using."

“But ... if i don't... think y' can flash me? One last time...” - Jake mumbled to Ela, either still woozy from all that happened, or actually beginning to come about.

“Oh, yeah, he’ll be fine.” -Ela laughed, hearing what he just said.

James meanwhile got the required materials and took a blood sample. He performed some cursory tests and nodded slightly. "Yeah, nothing that I normally look out for as far as lethal gaseous poisons go. But there are a few side effects you might want to keep an eye on him for." - he nodded, reaching into his medical bag and pulling out a rather heavy looking book, flipping it open and searching through its pages - "Just a moment."

Jake quickly opened his other eye, this one actually looking up at James - “Wait, side effects ...?!”

Flipping through the book, James finally found the page, beginning to read from the long list. "Mild retardation, diarrhea, impotence, random anal leakage, nausea, coughing, bleeding eyes, itchy ears, limp-wrist, alcohol intolerance, projectile vomiting, and possible development of fondness for bad showtunes." - he recited, shutting the book.

“Anal leakage?!” - Jake sat up quickly, though immediately regretting it as everything went black before his eyes for a few moments - “I can’t have anal leakage! I have a business to run!” His eyes blinked rapidly, at least now working in unison as opposed to staring in opposite directions.

“Just take it easy, and drink milk frequently. The side effects I listed shouldn't last for long, if they develop at all.“ - James calmed the man, though whether he was telling how it was or just wanted to reassure Jake, was unclear.

“Oh, and one more thing.” - Leah spoke up, having just finished stitching the wound on Jake’s head up and now bandaging it - “Air out the Inn well.”

“Well, that was the plan...” - Jake nodded, mumbling - “Bad for business if my customers start gettin' anal leakage.” Why he decided anyone but him was going to get that was anyone's guess. Maybe he was still somewhat woozy after all.

Ela looked up at the couple with endless gratitude, thanking them both profusely, to which they both smiled warmly, assuring the woman they were simply doing their job and leaving few last suggestions with her. James, who put his book and kit back in his bag, looked over to Ela. - "Of course, we're just glad that we could help. The rest is up to you, though. Make sure he gets rest and drinks milk when possible. It'll act as a natural cure for the toxins in his system."

Jake mumbled thanks as well, grabbing Ela’s hand to get to his feet and added - “Iffen i shit m’ pants - it ain’t mah fault...” - Now that he was standing up, everyone could see that the back of his shirt and pants were simply blasted off by the exploding canisters, though no actual damage was apparent to Jake himself, his skin just being red as he proudly displayed his bare ass and back to everyone around, blissfully unaware of the fact.

“Come on, let’s get you home.” - Ela smirked, waving goodbye to the medics again and leading Jake towards their home.

@leah-theran @james-theran

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shadow-daughter · 7 years

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A funny and a gross [LONG]

So, I was reminiscing a little about my Evil Ex Boyfriend last night, and remembered two things- on that had me fucking cackling, and another that made me go, “Oh EW.” For context: EEB was nineteen, I was twelve, he was emotionally abusive and manipulated and would threaten suicide to get his way. It was, thank fuck, a long distance relationship and he never learned my home address, or where I lived other than ‘somewhere in Texas’. I met him through a webcomic forum, and later ran a forum that he was a part of- this became our primary form of contact until I broke loose of him. Warnings: Self harm as an abuse tactic, pedophilia, manipulation. If I missed something I should warn for, let me know.

I’ll start with the gross first- you’re gonna want the funny as a palate cleanser after this. This was back when I was first getting to know him- we’d been chatting for a couple of months on a webcomic forum, I was a catgirl obsessed twelve year old who would pretend toe be a catgirl while chatting online because it was fun and I was fucking *twelve*.

Well, this day, he asks me how old I am. He’s never been anything but friendly and appropriate up until this point, and I tell him my age. “Wow, that almost makes me feel guilty for those naughty dreams I was having of you last night.” Excuse me, WHAT?! When you learn that the person who you have been having dirty dreams of is a fucking preteen, you DO NOT TELL THEM that you have been having dirty dreams of them, and you sure as HELL don’t go fishing for them to say that it’s okay! (Which, for the record, he did.) I didn’t realize how messed up this was at the time- I didn’t realize how messed up it was, in fact, until *last night*, that he waited until he knew my age to make advances. Fucking EW.

Palate cleanser now! Because I still am cackling at this one. This incident happened during the stage that I refer to as the ‘beginning of the end’- I had realized, at this point, that the entire relationship was messed up, I wanted out but was terrified that if I told him he would kill himself. I was, at this point, pretending that my private messages weren’t working, and logging onto my own forum in invisible mode to avoid him, with the friends who helped me with the forum backing up any claims I made- resulting in him going through them to get my attention, though this rarely worked.

This particular evening was one of the many where he was temporarily banned from accessing the forum- and thus, accessing me- due to his behavior. (I think, now, that the friends running the forum with me took every chance they got to jump on him for even stepping a toe out of line in hopes that I would ban him permanently. I really should have done so.) I wasn’t online on the *other* website we communicated through- in fact, I was already in bed, though he was unaware of this. However, one of my co-admins was. EEB started messaging him, telling him to unban EEB from my forum because he urgently needed to talk to me and that it was important. When the co-admin- henceforth designated SF- asked what was going on, EEB told him to tell me that he had just cut himself, badly- and reacted poorly when informed that I had *gone to bed* for the evening. He continued messaging SF with updates and demands to get my attention. If a word of it was true, the sequence of events was as follows:

-EEB gets upset about being rightfully temporarily banned for threatening and harassing another user, and deliberately cuts himself.

-EEB attempts to get my attention through SF, gets pissed when informed that I am asleep.

-EEB supposedly realizes that he cut himself deeper than intended and goes to the hospital, continuing to message SF and telling him to get my attention, apparently not believing that I am, in fact, IN FUCKING BED because it’s a school night and as a preteen I still have a fucking bedtime.

-Police arrive at hospital looking for someone else.

-Police mistake EEB for person they are looking for, and arrest him.

-EEB spends night in jail cell.

Now, I doubt that any of this *actually happened* as EEB claimed it did. More likely, he was making everything up as he sent it to SF, hoping that if he made it alarming enough, I would magically become awake and able to answer to his demands, or that SF would feel bad and unban him so he could harass me directly. On the other hand, the thought that all that crap happened to him because of an ill thought out plan to get my attention, if it WAS true, is viciously satisfying. (As is, admittedly, the more likely prospect that he just went to all the effort of making all that shit up for no reward. But it’s funnier if it was true.)

#tw: pedophila mention #self harm #self harm as abuse tactic #manipulation #fucking EW #abusive relationship #seriously ew

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realtalk-princeton · 7 years

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Prefrosh question. I am thinking about Mol bio major. Any general advice on how to fulfill both departmentals and distribution in 4 yrs? And a brief explanation (and personal opinions too, if available) about each course? Just trying to get a general idea of what it will be like and how I should manage things ;D

Response from Nick Carraway:

I’ve been fine taking about 1 distribution requirement per semester. There aren’t too many of them. Make sure you start your language requirement freshman fall if you can’t place out (I would be so annoyed if I was still taking language classes junior/senior year).

For MOL classes, there are definitely some great ones and some really not great ones lol. I’ll go through the departmentals I’ve taken I guess with a brief synopsis of the cool/not cool factor and my experience/opinion. Keep in mind I’m just one kid and am also pretty harsh in judging classes.

MOL 214 – the intro course for MOL. So good! If you’ve taken AP bio, it should be pretty familiar for you. You can also take MOL 215 instead; it’s supposedly more quantitative. Most MOL majors take 214. No complaints in this course. Relatively easy A if you memorize everything for exams.

NEU301/MOL310 – cellular neurobiology. My favorite MOL class. It’s not actually MOL, it’s just cross-listed. I’m also a neuro minor so this is very biased. It’s not being offered this fall, but hopefully it will be offered again in the future. Learning the cellular mechanisms of how neurons work is literally the coolest shit out there.

MOL 340 – cellular immunology. This class was a disaster for me (worst grade I’ve ever gotten at Princeton or in high school….). But it was also very, very cool. I don’t think I’ve ever learned so much in a single course. But the learning is mostly you teaching yourself after the professor rants at you at a fast pace each lecture. It got me into immunology/virology research, so I have no regrets. I just never figured out how to do well on the exams.

MOL 342 – genetics. Everyone complains about this class so much, but I honestly loved it. The professors admittedly could be better, but it’s totally possible to do well if you understand the psets. Also, this is probably the most problem set-heavy MOL class. Grading is literally psets, midterm, and final. Exams are extremely heavily weighted. The course seems to have been made easier since one of the professors that I took it with left Princeton. Also, med schools supposedly like to see a genetics class. Also, it’s one of the 4 required departmentals that every MOL major has to take.

MOL 350 – core lab – literally a horrific class. But the professor I took it with is not teaching in the future (I think he got fired low key?). So I hope for your sake that it gets better :). It’s another of the 4 required departmentals.

MOL 348 – cell and developmental biology. Fine class. The most boring kind of biology I’d say (because the majority of the class is learning about how each of the model organisms develops…). I didn’t like either professor much. Another of the classes that you have to take though. Just suffer through. Some people really liked the class, but it was eh for me.

MOL 345 – biochemistry. Honestly I loved this shit. Memorizing glycolysis and the krebs cycle was so fun. I took it with Hughson, but my PI (Cristea) who is literally the happiest woman in the world teaches it in the spring. Hard to get an A but an A- is very feasible! The last of the core 4 woooo we out.

That’s all the ones I’ve taken I think. Keep in mind that orgo (both semesters) count as MOL departmentals. EEB 300 level departmentals also count as departmentals. You just need the core 4 (indicated above) plus 4 additional departmentals.

Other dope classes that I’ve heard good things about: MOL 459 (viruses; I’m taking it this fall). The MOL class on cancer (not taking sadly). MOL 458 (psychopharmacology, I’m taking this in the spring). And the diseases in children course taught by Professor Notterman (I don’t know the course number but it’s being offered this fall).

Hope this helps. Send any more specific questions. Sorry it’s pretty stream of consciousness.

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