txmystic: I have this vivid mental image of you slowly donning a pair of sunglasses in between your 2:12 & 2:23 comments. That bloody show has permanently insinuated itself into dramatic pauses…
Umm… Castela IS dangerous. That’s objective fact. Anyone who thinks so is merely paying attention.
Now, dangerous is not the same thing as being an immediate threat. A car is dangerous. If you’re on the road you just want to know that the car isn’t being driven by a homicidal maniac.
Some of the best advice my father ever gave me, was when I was learning to drive. He told me to drive as if every other driver was a homicidal maniac (and blind-drunk as well).
As to “dangerous”, yes, she is, but so are almost all mundane humans. Not to quite so high a degree, it’s true… the usual death toll for a single human running amok is in the single digits… but we’re almost all physically capable of killing.
@txmystic is right… Pickle and Atsali have a lot of trauma in their background. Think of them as war-orphan refugees in human terms. Pickle will certainly be better off in the long run, if she accepts the opportunity to have some counseling support and grows into a healthy perspective towards her memories.
My father couldn’t cope with me after one lesson: he arranged for a professional to teach me. Didn’t appreciate I’d never been behind the wheel of a car before, I think.
We usually called it “defensive driving.” Assume that car is about to come out of that driveway. Assume that guy next to you is about to swerve. Assume that guy ahead of you will make a sudden stop. And so on and so on…
Exactly-
*Channeling Phix* Sweetie, you ARE Dangerous! I’m dangerous! Your friends know it, and they also know YOU. They also know it bothers you. That’s WHY they trust you. Your dangerous. That’s cool! That’s “Friggen Awesome!”(Yes, I heard that.) They know, from YEARS of knowing you, what Luci knows: We’re dangerous. We’re not a Danger. */Phix*
Dangerous? Yes. Planet busting? Quite possibly. But realistically what are the people who are afraid of the facts going to do about? No, it’s not a great way to look at it, but at this point only Titans and Subtitans are the ones Pickle needs to even consider. Everyone else’s opinion is optional. And by titanic standards Pickle is as stable as Iron Fe-56.
No, everyone’s opinion matters, just most aren’t worth bothering with
Everyone is going to have an opinion about you, me, everyone else, all we can do is, as Phix said, show them
Yes, Stela is dangerous, butt she can show them that she doesn’t need to be feared
oh my god. This page. I suffer pretty badly from depression made worse by the loss of my mom recently and this page started me crying. I was ashamed of taking time off of work through a short term disability claim because, its just depression, right? But… This page helps so much for me. I’m crying. The shame isn’t 100% gone, nothing is that easy, but to see an artist I respect put this out there for everyone to see… Amazing.
I like something my therapist told me in a similar situation: You owe your employer a full day’s work for a full day’s pay. If you’re overwhelmed by grief and depression, but you still go to work, you won’t to be able to give your job your full attention. Take the time off, focus on healing, and when you go back, you’ll be able to do a better job than you could today.
In other words, the best way to do a job you can be proud of is to take time off when you need it. Taking the time you need is nothing to be ashamed of. It’s part of being a responsible employee. Your work will be higher quality when you get back than it would be if you never took time off.
There is a fine, but firmly delineated line, between being “dangerous” and being “a threat”.
Unfortunately, those who are afraid of you will often conflate the two meanings.
…Also, those who stand to gain politically or financially from proving you to be the latter. :/
Now will the lil stinkweed take the advise, or will she continue to second guess herself.
Ooh, a little bit of the stammer coming out there.
This is news to me; I didn’t know she had a stammering prob.
It’s been a while since she last stammered, she would occasionally stammer when she was younger, but only when she got excited.
Or nervous slash scared
And this would count for both
<3 Well done, Paul. <3
She and her sister both have had a lot of trauma at a young age…this is no overnight fix
for Phix…
txmystic: I have this vivid mental image of you slowly donning a pair of sunglasses in between your 2:12 & 2:23 comments. That bloody show has permanently insinuated itself into dramatic pauses…
But —
When lightnings are shooting out of your nose when you get a hicup it might be handy for your friends to have a faraday cage at hand.
Umm… Castela IS dangerous. That’s objective fact. Anyone who thinks so is merely paying attention.
Now, dangerous is not the same thing as being an immediate threat. A car is dangerous. If you’re on the road you just want to know that the car isn’t being driven by a homicidal maniac.
Some of the best advice my father ever gave me, was when I was learning to drive. He told me to drive as if every other driver was a homicidal maniac (and blind-drunk as well).
As to “dangerous”, yes, she is, but so are almost all mundane humans. Not to quite so high a degree, it’s true… the usual death toll for a single human running amok is in the single digits… but we’re almost all physically capable of killing.
@txmystic is right… Pickle and Atsali have a lot of trauma in their background. Think of them as war-orphan refugees in human terms. Pickle will certainly be better off in the long run, if she accepts the opportunity to have some counseling support and grows into a healthy perspective towards her memories.
My father couldn’t cope with me after one lesson: he arranged for a professional to teach me. Didn’t appreciate I’d never been behind the wheel of a car before, I think.
We usually called it “defensive driving.” Assume that car is about to come out of that driveway. Assume that guy next to you is about to swerve. Assume that guy ahead of you will make a sudden stop. And so on and so on…
Yes. My number one rule of driving is “Trust no one.”
Exactly-
*Channeling Phix* Sweetie, you ARE Dangerous! I’m dangerous! Your friends know it, and they also know YOU. They also know it bothers you. That’s WHY they trust you. Your dangerous. That’s cool! That’s “Friggen Awesome!”(Yes, I heard that.) They know, from YEARS of knowing you, what Luci knows: We’re dangerous. We’re not a Danger. */Phix*
Well said!
Actually, she’s morphed from obnoxious child to pretty nice teenager.
Dangerous? Yes. Planet busting? Quite possibly. But realistically what are the people who are afraid of the facts going to do about? No, it’s not a great way to look at it, but at this point only Titans and Subtitans are the ones Pickle needs to even consider. Everyone else’s opinion is optional. And by titanic standards Pickle is as stable as Iron Fe-56.
No, everyone’s opinion matters, just most aren’t worth bothering with
Everyone is going to have an opinion about you, me, everyone else, all we can do is, as Phix said, show them
Yes, Stela is dangerous, butt she can show them that she doesn’t need to be feared
oh my god. This page. I suffer pretty badly from depression made worse by the loss of my mom recently and this page started me crying. I was ashamed of taking time off of work through a short term disability claim because, its just depression, right? But… This page helps so much for me. I’m crying. The shame isn’t 100% gone, nothing is that easy, but to see an artist I respect put this out there for everyone to see… Amazing.
Grief and depression are a bad combination.
I like something my therapist told me in a similar situation: You owe your employer a full day’s work for a full day’s pay. If you’re overwhelmed by grief and depression, but you still go to work, you won’t to be able to give your job your full attention. Take the time off, focus on healing, and when you go back, you’ll be able to do a better job than you could today.
In other words, the best way to do a job you can be proud of is to take time off when you need it. Taking the time you need is nothing to be ashamed of. It’s part of being a responsible employee. Your work will be higher quality when you get back than it would be if you never took time off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qoa5qTIc0Wk
That was suppossed to be a reply to Dave’s post… Doh!
Adie sings better than I do or my father did, but the message is the same!
When is Phix going to ask to meet Luci again? And will the former purr when that happens?
After she gets over her cold.
Maybe Luci would like some of Castela’s root beer plus?
Simple, direct, honest… is it any wonder why I love Phix?
Is she though? Phix has carefully turned the conversation away from why she might be so interested in seeing Luci again…
There is a fine, but firmly delineated line, between being “dangerous” and being “a threat”.
Unfortunately, those who are afraid of you will often conflate the two meanings.
…Also, those who stand to gain politically or financially from proving you to be the latter. :/
Ah, Grandmotherly advice
Advice from a grandmother that brutally murders and eats people, and still likes to have people over for tea, and somehow manages to balance the two.