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Advanced Reuniting and the Psychology of Trust
He picks up the phone.
“Hello, you’ve reached Abed.”
“Abed!” says a very, very familiar voice, and he realizes quite suddenly that maybe when he walked into his apartment he was actually walking into the opening sequence of an entirely new show.
Or a reboot.
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Troy comes home.
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I'm still reading that book of Medieval English poetry and I'm quite tickled by how many of the ones "in praise of Jesus" seem to have been written by gay monks using Jesus as a socially-acceptable stand-in for their attraction to other men. There's been quite a few now calling him "lemman", which has also shown up in love poems as a term of endearment for a lady and has been variously translated by the editor as "sweetheart" and "lover", and I've just passed one titled "A song of love for Jesus" (Richard Rolle, mid 14c) that's barely even trying to disguise it.
My sange es in sihting [sighing], My life es in langinge [love-longing], Till I thee se, my king, So faire in thy shining, So faire in thy fairehede [beauty]. ... Now wax [grow] I pale and wan For love of my lemman [lover]. Jesu, bath [both] God and man... ... Jesu, my dere [dear] and my drewry [beloved, treasure], Delite ert thou to singe. Jesu, my mirth and melody, When will thou com, my king? ... Langing es in me lent [Love-longing has come upon me] That my luve hase me sent: All wa [woe] es fra me went [gone, turned] Sen that [since] my hert es brent [set on fire], In Christe luve so swete, That never I will lete [leave off], Bot ever to luve I hete [promise]... ... Jesu, my love, my sweting, Langing es in me light [Longing has alighted upon me], That bindes me day and night, Till I it have in sight, His face, so faire and bright. ... When will thou rew [have pity] on me, Jesu, that I might with thee be, To luve and lok on thee? My settle [place] ordaine for me, And set thou me tharin, For then mon we never twin [For then shall we never part], And I thy luve shall sing...
Richard, my man. Your metaphor is paper-thin. Just tell the boy you love him.
(All quotes and translations from Medieval English Lyrics, A Critical Anthology, Edited by R.T. Davies, Northwestern University Press, 1964)
I think fanfiction as a medium is different enough from mainstream literature in the tools it offers writers that it's a shame that it's not talked about more often. And it's not me saying "fanfic is better than books xD" because that sort of mindset is a symptom of people who aren't particularly well read in either medium. I'm just speaking of like... The little things you get to do with a fanfic that you genuinely can't really do in an original story.
I had a big fanfic in a previous fandom where one of the big reveals was the involvement of a kind of infamous villain, whose presence was built up to and foreshadowed through the whole fic until his reveal without ever mentioning his name, so that the name drop would be a gut punch. It worked especially well because of who the villain was and his presence in that fandom space specifically (it's very complicated) and if it was an original story this reveal wouldn't work at all the way it was written in the fic. Because if you don't have a predisposition to think about that character and his relationship to the hero in a very specific way, then just seeing their name won't do much to you; the reveal and the recontextualisation it pushes upon you hinges on your previous knowledge of the source material.
I think it's an interesting tool fanfic authors are given. One of my favorite fanfic of all time is partially a re-imagining of its source material's canon, and something it does is introduce antagonists much earlier in the story or deepen npcs' stories. It then works to evoke a tragic irony that again wouldn't work if you didn't know the source material, and it's something the author obviously has a lot of fun with.
You could call it cheap or a crutch and I mean, yeah, sure, it is a little bit: the fanfic relies on previously established emotional bonds and stakes to achieve its goal, and in some cases it saves the author from having to 'properly' build up its stakes. But I think it's INTERESTING that it has that tool at its disposal. I think it's a fun thing to play with and I think these built in expectations and emotional bonds are especially why I find story driven aus in particular to be fascinating in the amount of ways you can play with them. You know??
Their dynamic is one of the best parts of the series tbh can’t wait for the eventually computer vs number one hater reunion
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the shame of making a connection irl and them being like omg can i have your insta??? snapchat????? and having to be like sorry i live in a gap between two tree roots youre just going to have to normal text me like some kind of animal
Also Tripe being low key the most competent one of them is *chefs kiss*
The thing about Elizabeth Goblins (my memory is bad and the website just says Elizabeth so she’s Elizabeth Goblins to me right now) is that she is very stubbornly self assured in her own competence despite literally everyone AND a poltergeist telling her every day she is worthless and should just die already. I find that very interesting and compelling. Looking forward to when she fucking snaps tbh lololol
elisar being bad at comebacks is such a good running joke and it gets me every single time
i'm such a big fan of tripe as a character. on the surface, he seems like a silly comic relief character, but something about him not wanting a wish from the magical fish and also hooper trusting him implicitly sort of made me reconceptualise him in my mind. there's more to this character and i want to dig deeper
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That boy is going places.
"What if we find a way to keep fetuses alive outside the womb" that already exists, it's called the NICU and it took decades of advancements in medical science and technology. it takes an entire team equipped with state of the art technology to keep a fetus alive outside the womb. because it cannot perform basic life-supporting functions like breathing on its own. this isn't an anti-NICU post tbc. I'm actually considering the nicu as an option after going back to school because I really like fetuses and babies, I think they're neat. but the fact remains that it takes an entire team of doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, and more to keep a micropreemie alive. and most abortions occur even before the point that it becomes possible at all. "viable" doesn't mean ready to be born. it means it is possible to keep it alive thanks to medical science developed by the same "abortionists" whose executions you're always calling for.
also, it's not an "after birth abortion" when they "let" micropreemies die, it's fucking hospice care.
absolutely. and to add onto this, i was a nicu baby, and i was a late term abortion. when i was still in the womb i was dying inside my mother, so they had to induce her extremely prematurely to save our lives. there was a very high chance of me dying because they took me outside of the womb before they knew if i could survive on my own, but the chances of me and my mother dying if i stayed inside her were 100%.
the procedure to remove me is medically and legally a late term abortion. i was aborted, and it saved my life. if they hadn’t aborted me, my mother and i would both be dead, my siblings would have been left with a dead mother, and i would have never even gotten a chance to live a single day. and now, people are being denied this procedure and dying because it’s literally an abortion!! mothers and their babies are being killed because their doctors are not allowed to perform life-saving abortions.
on the same note, my sister was recently denied an abortion. which is to say, cleaning out the already dead fetus after she had a miscarriage from a wanted pregnancy. they refused treatment unless the DEAD fetus was actively killing her, because the procedure to remove it is medically and legally an abortion. they basically said to her “come back when you’re dying of an infection or sepsis or something, until then you just have to bleed out.” my sister could have died from this, people HAVE died from being denied abortions after having a miscarriage. if she was one of these people, my sister would have been dead, my mother would have to live the rest of her life without her daughter, and my nephew would have had to live the rest of his life without a mother.
sick and tired of people saying to me “yeah, but that’s different. you can’t really call those procedures an abortion, they’re not really an abortion.” yes it is. it’s an abortion. any removal of a fetus and/or baby from the womb before they’re sure it can survive outside of it is an abortion. if it wasn’t, people wouldn’t be being told that, sorry! we can’t do that! you’ll have to come back when you’re already dead. i was aborted, my mother had an abortion when she was pregnant with me, my sister needed an abortion after she had a miscarriage. all of these things are ABORTIONS! and now mothers and babies are being killed, murdered by these anti-abortionist fuckers and the laws they put in place to “save and protect poor, innocent lives!”
bodies should have crash logs. why the fuck did that just happen.
book antics
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so embarrassing to watch yourself become obsessed with a character that feels tailor made for you specifically to become obsessed with. feels like i fell into a trap made just for me. like damn they got me. those are all the things i like and go crazy for
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I get that the part in ep 6 when James was looking for Cordelia was not shown because it would have broken the tension they were building up with Silas. But I want to know the exact scenario so bad. James coming to Cordelia's door being like Mrs. Holmes, your husband is kinda evil so we need to get you out of here. No, Sherlock is still downstair dealing with him. The gun? No, I don't have it with me. Mrs. Holmes! Wait!
ive been thinking about how some trans spaces and media lack representation of bottom surgery and itd be nice if we could talk about and depict it more. but my attempts to formulate this into a coherent thought lead me to standing in front of the microwave idly thinking "we should normalize men with penises" as if thats a brave new frontier nobody has ever considered.
