Zéta-Elle's Blog o' Randomness

I really do love it when a character gets to safety after some grueling experience they survived and got out of by their own strength and skill and cunning, and... then gets drastically worse very rapidly afterwards. Just utterly collapsing, sick, out of strength, in so much pain, hardly able to get out of bed without help, probably emotionally an utter mess too

Because they've just been pushing their body on and on, to its limits and past, because they had to, because it was up to them to deal with it all, there was no help, no back-up, nothing to rely on but themself. So their mind and body have just burned up all the reserves and endured it all as best as possible, they've held together until they got out of that situation

But now that they're finally safe, their body recognizes it. Now that they're finally safe they no longer need to endure more, they no longer need to keep anything together, to push the pain and exhaustion aside and refuse to feel it in order to go on. They're finally safe to stop all of that. And so- they collapse. All of it catches up with them all at once, and they have no optipn to keep it at bay anymore, they just have to feel it. Have to suffer the consequences of all the injuries, exhaustion, whatever illness they might've picked up, whatever's going on

So this was when Geico was using their new ads with the "Caveman" guy living his life and not being able to escape the impact that acting as the "It's so easy, even a caveman could do it!" Geico commercials has on his life. However, if you've never seen those commercials, the new ones just don't make any sense because they just don't EXPLAIN who he is beyond the one commercial that briefly ran where he explained how his life has been forever changed by his agreement to be the caveman in those commercials.

Cut to me in class giving a student a pep talk about getting on his own insurance, and someone said they don't trust Geico because of all of their dumb commercials. And another student goes "Yeah like who is that weird bearded guy??? I thought the gecko was the mascot."

And I was like. Hang on. Let me explain.

So I proceeded to explain the entire lore of the Geicoverse to them, starting with the Cavemen and then the raccoons and then the support groups, which led to me explaining the Liberty Mutual lore and the guy that says Liberty Bibberty and how he auditioned for the commercials and failed and became a reoccurring character, and how he’s actually a doctor in a soap opera that my grandma watched, etc.