i'm so stressed that sunlight hurts,

it will always choose you. you cannot die. you'll always come back because it loves you so much. you are its right and left hand, its eternal weapon. it will drown you in its light. light as horror. darkness as horror. what if it thinks you are its best friend.

we're not very sure about tetia yet, but coco agott and richeh had some pretty notable trauma before being taken in by qifrey — and their safe adult / teacher turning to punishing them for unwanted behavior is not. going to help the situation. qifrey punishing them would effectively ruin any and all trust they have in him.

especially from the perspective of qifrey being an educator, punishment for mistakes isn't how you effectively correct them — nor has it ever been qifrey's style. just like. period. qifrey's very much the "you'll naturally learn things as you go, so i'm going to give you the tools to recognize how to fix your own problems and remedy your mistakes" type of educator. punishment goes directly against his core values as a professor.

additionally — punishment ≠ consequences. there have been consequences to the girls' actions (see: coco literally turning her mother to stone), and qifrey punishing them on top of it wouldn't do anything other than shame them and make them feel guilty. which is... something we've seen before with euni and richeh's professors.

surgeonsblog

article i found this from^ (w/even more resources)

redwoods medical edge

^article where i found that

this article is short/basic/doesn’t link anywhere else, but i found it very helpful anyway

supposed to be good but to me, seemed difficult to navigate. (dp lyle)

this on the otherhand, is the jackpot (novelmalpractice)

tumblr blog centered around this topic

this is more about the common pitfalls/anachronisms of medical fiction but still helpful

writing medical scenes: useful links by paul anthony shortt

the last one im going to include is an article by a doctor about common mistakes in popular medical shows, i liked this one

children of any species are very good at being annoying and very cute while doing that

a sphinx child based on this post

It's just... It's the hope that gets me.

See, we know that the first thing that SecUnit ever watched was the Sanctuary Moon. In Compulsory it watches the show for the first time - why not rewatching it? Because it isn't sure if the character it likes is getting killed or not. Why is this important? Hear me out:

So you are on the corporate mining installation, where half the people get slave wages and the other half are outright slaves. People are scared/angry about your presence because they know you would be used against them. You feel like there is no choice but to stay put, because while the company can no longer fry your brain remotely, they WILL kill you if they find out you are out of control. The world is shit, you expect people to kill each other and you distract yourself by watching the show.

And you think the character you like, the character who's job is the better version of your job, is probably about to die.

And a human near you is in mortal danger. You get stand down order.

So you disregard the order (and the company immediately tries to fry your brain) and go save the human.

And suddenly you realise that if you leapt into danger for them, than the world is not 100% cruel > there is always a chance of SOMEONE being kind. Today it was you

And if you relate to that bodyguard a lot, maybe you dare to think that someday someone may come to help you too.

Magic air fryer

This is why magic is a trade secret