idk man i just live here

As others in the notes said, the hurt of Sam’s trauma numbing his own pain is akin to self harm - although, the intent when he took it on was more of self-sacrifice, self-harm due to his guilt may have been a piece of it even if he didn’t realize that consciously.

Honey!Cas was season 7. If he didn’t see it as self harm then, he knew it by 8*08, because he told Dean he was borderline suicidal over the things he’d done as Godstiel. The show really did not go into this like they should have (but I did here).

So maybe not helped him feel more deeply so much as helped him feel more human again as opposed to feeling like a monster.

As implied in this gifset, at the time - he didn’t want to feel again because that’s where the pain was. In feeling human emotions. He liked having the trauma mental break as a buffer to his guilt.

One of the main things a resident is expected to do is teach interns and students. And Mohan is interestingly pretty bad at this. I just watched the episode where Santos says one awkward thing to a patient. She’s a new intern and she didn’t handle a patient’s overwhelming emotions perfectly. She wasn’t particularly bad, just not ideal. This isn’t surprising. This is a learned skill for many people.

Mohan takes Santos out of the room and dresses her down her in the middle of the hall. She doesn’t invite a conversation where Santos can reflect and learn. Samira speaks over Santos, shames her, and lectures her. She does the same with Whitaker and the sickle cell patient when she shames him in the middle of the hall rather than encourage him to learn from a common mistake. Both times she’s right in pointing out what her trainee did wrong, but she’s so aggressive and condescending that she’s going to alienate her trainees rather than let them reflect and grow from her feedback. Then she lets Santos take the fall for her mistake with the hyponatremia patient, which is quite a choice for a resident to make.

Like part of Merlin's job is supposed to be bringing that dented helmet to like, the fuckin blacksmith and then remembering to pick it up later but Merlin just doesn't know so he's doing it all himself.

And then Arthur is annoyed because hes like, why is my servant never around???

It's because Merlin is, personally, himself, trying to re-sharpen Arthur's entire collection of weapons instead of like, bringing those to the head of the armoury and explaining what Arthur wanted done.

Arthur's like, where have you been??? And Merlin is like, wtf why is he so annoyed with me.

"Fixing your boots! Doing your chores!"

And in Merlin's head this is like, he spent three hours hand stitching Arthur's boots, polishing his armour, and doing his laundry, he's like of course I haven't been around how long does this asshole think it takes to do all those things???

Privileges of Rank by seperis: https://archiveofourown.org/works/21036

Summary: Merlin doesn’t understand the privileges that come with being manservant to the crown prince. Arthur teaches him.

My contribution to the supernaturalartbook 

But like, we totally do know why WW1 happened. We know in excruciating detail, it's just that it can't be neatly summarised in a few sentences.

But an extremely over-simplified version of it is:

-- The aftermath of the Industrial Revolution and the collapse of mercantilism as an economic doctrine ushered in an era of free trade between European nations.

-- This exacerbated rivalries between the major powers of Europe (along with the US and Japan), as they now competed to each establish themselves as the main economic powerhouse by pursuing policies of efficiently mass manufacturing products which could then be sold cheaply to undercut local markets. Britain was initially a clear frontrunner in this, but over time Germany and the US began to erode British hegemony.

-- This economic race required previously incomprehensible amounts of resources and manpower, prompting a new wave of imperialism in which multiple countries (chief among them Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Austria-Hungary, the US, and Japan) embarked on massive and brutal imperialist projects in Africa and Asia, ramping up tensions as each nation tried to carve out more land for itself.

-- This necessitated to some extent alliances between European powers to form blocs. This web of alliances was fairly complex, but the key points are that Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Italy were in a three-way alliance; Russia, France, and Britain in a three-way alliance; Germany in an alliance with the Ottoman Empire; the Ottoman Empire in an alliance with Serbia and Bulgaria, and Serbia and Bulgaria in an alliance with Russia.

-- Overlapping with this, the decline of the Ottoman Empire and rise of the German Empire would destabilise political relations in Europe. In the aftermath of the Russo-Turkish War, a war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire motivated in part by Russia's desire to reclaim territories lost in the Crimean War, Bosnia and Herzegovina would be placed under the administration of Austria-Hungary, while remaining nominally an Ottoman territory.

-- As the Ottoman Empire declined further, however, and began to fracture, Austria-Hungary would officially annex Bosnia and Herzegovina, see earlier point about imperialism and the desire for more resources, manpower, and markets. This would end up, for obvious reasons, causing considerable tensions within Bosnia and Herzegovina.

-- Overlapping with this was the rising popularity of Yugoslavism, the idea of a South Slavic Federation, a union of South Slavic countries, or a singular state of Yugoslavia, which would ostensibly counter the expansionist agendas of Germany and Austria-Hungry. The Serbian government was an active supporter of this political ideology, as a common feature of it was the idea that Serbia would act as the 'leader' of this new country.

-- The joint pressures of Yugoslavism and tensions arising from Austria-Hungary's annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina would eventually culminate in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by a group of Bosnian Serbs who were members of a student revolutionary group. They were backed in this by the Black Hand, a secret society formed by Serbian army officers, and by Serbian military intelligence.

-- Austria-Hungary sought to respond to this with a military strike against Serbia to both demonstrate its strength and to try and dampen support for Yugoslavism. Except Russia was allied with Serbia, so Austria-Hungary sought support from Germany, who agreed on the condition that Austria-Hungary moved quickly before Russia could pull any of its allies in.

-- Austria-Hungary did not move quickly, being unwilling to attack without full mobilisation of its armies. In the intervening time, France and Russia reaffirmed their alliance and pledged to support Serbia.

-- Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.

-- Russia responds, in part because it views this as German pretext for increasing its military capability and reach. Germany is worried over a potential war, but military leaders within Germany urged it to attack Russia and France under the pretext of coming to the aid of its ally, but actually as part of a 'preventative war' plan meant to reduce Russia's military capabilities before the Russian Great Military Program -- oh yeah that's a thing that was happening too -- made it so that Germany could never risk mobilising its military without Russian reprisal.

-- Germany declares war on France, Russia, and Belgium. Britain, allied with France and Russia but more importantly fearing that a German conquest of France could endanger Britain, declares war on Germany.

-- World War I happens.