Indeed. This seems to be the level of functioning where you baby guard the stairs, and lock the medicine cabinet and/or the fridge.
Based on an early sketch I saw, there was mention to a ‘childhood fever’ so serious it stunted the growth of one of her horns? I’ve heard of muggle fevers that effected children’s’ teeth similarly, and their future outlook was… not rosy.
The fever/teeth thing happened to me, hence my teeth have a permanent grey tinge (boo!), but I thought it was the antibiotics that were in vogue for infants at the time…
as succubus, she would be an effective predator.
with THIS level of functionality, her prey would be confused as to what she doing…
… like an impala watching a lioness eat a tree.
I don’t know why a Chevy would stand by and Watch a lioness eat a tree. Also, who makes a car model named a ‘lioness’, what type of car is it, and does it basically turn into an accordion when it eats a tree, same as most modern cars?
Hmm. There IS the “Peugeot” brand, which uses a male lion mascot. Maybe you meant that? Yeah, it’d probably fold like a wet paper towel if it ran into a tree. But the model CALLED a lion is from around the turn of the 20th century, looks pretty solid, and probably couldn’t do much more than 40mph, so probably wouldn’t do much damage to the car or the tree.
Well, I guess this is consistent with Paul’s earlier writing. We’ve already enjoyed the company of Wapsiverse characters who are the personification of primal ideals. Shelly’s mother Bia, for example, is the personification of Force itself.
I get the feeling that Briar is the personification of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Nobody will ever be able to really pin her down.
Wait, she crawled out of a window in the morning because someone mentioned windows while she was at school? Does that mean her confusion went back through time??
Whenever I learn about something like this, I just related it back to something humans don’t generally do well, because we don’t have an instinctive grasp of it, but do anyway, like math above the arithmetic and trig level. Although, when was the last time YOU played with imaginary numbers? Or calculus? I can admit that, for me, it’s been about as long as the last time I took a class that involved either.
i have no ability to relate Ive been lost exactly 2x.
Both at night after Extremely long days when I did not get to eat. Both were in places where there were NO reference points way the fark out in the Middle of know wh ere where ther wasnt even an atmospheric glow from a city to give me a guide (no moon stars or ways to guide me) and i was running out of gas. BOTH were way the hell out in western Maryland LATE as SHIT at night with a pick up truck full of computer parts from a Major bank.. ( I litterally flipped a coin to figure out which direction i should take cause I was so lost and had no land marks I wound up in Frederick MD (the coin sending me in the wrong direction) and said f it Paid 20 bucks to store my truck in a locked storage unit for the night and slept in a motel. I was 75 -miles from home. and 45 miles from my drop off. My blood sugar was in the 60s. and I was severely sleep deprived.
One of the few times ive ever actually panicked. if she lives like that on a daily basis i cant imagine.
The last time I played with calculus was when I pulled up to a stop sign. Or caught a thrown ball. Or packed a box full of randomly-shaped junk and tried to fit as much in as possible.
All of the above involve solving problems intuitively that, rigorously speaking, require calculus. The human brain does calculus intuitively. It just doesn’t realize it’s doing it. (Parenthetically, this is one reason why I advocate the teaching rudimentary calculus far earlier in school than it is normally taught, before, say, the teaching of trigonometry. Knowing how this stuff works is a real life skill even if you don’t know the formulas and equations.)
This may be a clue to what’s going on with Briar. Is there ANYTHING that she does intuitively? That works, I mean.
Really be careful here. It’s easy to turn something like severe dyslexia and ADHD into a stereotype not representation. I’m also confused about the absence of an adult support staff person in the room, while a classmate helper might be dramatically appropriate, in a US school we’d be off to an appeals process and court to get someone other than the teacher in there. What is the kid’s flight plan for goodness sake? The anecdote right there would have had a town school sanctioned by the state for failure to appropriately implement one.
That’s what’s SUPPOSED to happen, but sometimes it doesn’t . . . in one case I knew, the teacher taped a Autism spectrum to a chair, and the school’s response was to legally bar the mother from the school.
RWS: i have similar, not same.. (If i have been there once i can get there again.. with out getting lost.) but my story is math,, failed a grade school math test, cuz did not show work, tho ALL answers were correct.. after class i told her. “i can not show show how i got the answer.!” she asked why. 25 minutes later she said “Stop.” (her words.) “an how in the hell did we get on to echo location in bats.??” (i got a pass..)
..literally , my partner(buddy :)) is reading this. to help me stay focused.. otherwise i cant give long answers..
Whelp, that answers the how she disappeared into the boiler room.
Briar is starting to depress me.
Indeed. This seems to be the level of functioning where you baby guard the stairs, and lock the medicine cabinet and/or the fridge.
Based on an early sketch I saw, there was mention to a ‘childhood fever’ so serious it stunted the growth of one of her horns? I’ve heard of muggle fevers that effected children’s’ teeth similarly, and their future outlook was… not rosy.
That’s why I’m looking forward with dubious pleasure of meeting her sister. I wanna know if this is a family thing or just Briar.
(Or perhaps some other part of Briar operates on a higher-than-normal level, too.)
The fever/teeth thing happened to me, hence my teeth have a permanent grey tinge (boo!), but I thought it was the antibiotics that were in vogue for infants at the time…
Paul, are you sure you haven’t met my mother?
In a world that had demonstrated some para are predators and others are prey. It’s kind of terrifying they ever let her out of the house.
Although she might be a natural at kung fu.
The Drunken Master confounds demons.
as succubus, she would be an effective predator.
with THIS level of functionality, her prey would be confused as to what she doing…
… like an impala watching a lioness eat a tree.
Yup, that is when the other lionesses of her pride take out the confused prey. Nature has allegories about teamwork in nature.
I don’t know why a Chevy would stand by and Watch a lioness eat a tree. Also, who makes a car model named a ‘lioness’, what type of car is it, and does it basically turn into an accordion when it eats a tree, same as most modern cars?
Hmm. There IS the “Peugeot” brand, which uses a male lion mascot. Maybe you meant that? Yeah, it’d probably fold like a wet paper towel if it ran into a tree. But the model CALLED a lion is from around the turn of the 20th century, looks pretty solid, and probably couldn’t do much more than 40mph, so probably wouldn’t do much damage to the car or the tree.
Be careful when talking about lunch. She might end up hoking the mac and cheese.
<<>>
begins to rotate head to see things upside down.
huh?
how can any one function like that?
Well, I guess this is consistent with Paul’s earlier writing. We’ve already enjoyed the company of Wapsiverse characters who are the personification of primal ideals. Shelly’s mother Bia, for example, is the personification of Force itself.
I get the feeling that Briar is the personification of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Nobody will ever be able to really pin her down.
We’re in for an interesting ride!
Wait, she crawled out of a window in the morning because someone mentioned windows while she was at school? Does that mean her confusion went back through time??
It still is the morning
Her forgetting to put a watch on and her crawling through a window are not connected
Read what she said: Shawna mentioned windows, Briar got confused and crawled out a window, that’s how they lost track of her
Whenever I learn about something like this, I just related it back to something humans don’t generally do well, because we don’t have an instinctive grasp of it, but do anyway, like math above the arithmetic and trig level. Although, when was the last time YOU played with imaginary numbers? Or calculus? I can admit that, for me, it’s been about as long as the last time I took a class that involved either.
i have no ability to relate Ive been lost exactly 2x.
Both at night after Extremely long days when I did not get to eat. Both were in places where there were NO reference points way the fark out in the Middle of know wh ere where ther wasnt even an atmospheric glow from a city to give me a guide (no moon stars or ways to guide me) and i was running out of gas. BOTH were way the hell out in western Maryland LATE as SHIT at night with a pick up truck full of computer parts from a Major bank.. ( I litterally flipped a coin to figure out which direction i should take cause I was so lost and had no land marks I wound up in Frederick MD (the coin sending me in the wrong direction) and said f it Paid 20 bucks to store my truck in a locked storage unit for the night and slept in a motel. I was 75 -miles from home. and 45 miles from my drop off. My blood sugar was in the 60s. and I was severely sleep deprived.
One of the few times ive ever actually panicked. if she lives like that on a daily basis i cant imagine.
The last time I played with calculus was when I pulled up to a stop sign. Or caught a thrown ball. Or packed a box full of randomly-shaped junk and tried to fit as much in as possible.
All of the above involve solving problems intuitively that, rigorously speaking, require calculus. The human brain does calculus intuitively. It just doesn’t realize it’s doing it. (Parenthetically, this is one reason why I advocate the teaching rudimentary calculus far earlier in school than it is normally taught, before, say, the teaching of trigonometry. Knowing how this stuff works is a real life skill even if you don’t know the formulas and equations.)
This may be a clue to what’s going on with Briar. Is there ANYTHING that she does intuitively? That works, I mean.
Not hyperdimensional, then.
How disappointing.
Really be careful here. It’s easy to turn something like severe dyslexia and ADHD into a stereotype not representation. I’m also confused about the absence of an adult support staff person in the room, while a classmate helper might be dramatically appropriate, in a US school we’d be off to an appeals process and court to get someone other than the teacher in there. What is the kid’s flight plan for goodness sake? The anecdote right there would have had a town school sanctioned by the state for failure to appropriately implement one.
That’s what’s SUPPOSED to happen, but sometimes it doesn’t . . . in one case I knew, the teacher taped a Autism spectrum to a chair, and the school’s response was to legally bar the mother from the school.
*Autism spectrum student
RWS: i have similar, not same.. (If i have been there once i can get there again.. with out getting lost.) but my story is math,, failed a grade school math test, cuz did not show work, tho ALL answers were correct.. after class i told her. “i can not show show how i got the answer.!” she asked why. 25 minutes later she said “Stop.” (her words.) “an how in the hell did we get on to echo location in bats.??” (i got a pass..)
..literally , my partner(buddy :)) is reading this. to help me stay focused.. otherwise i cant give long answers..
Her train of thought is the Coney Island Cyclone.