#contrecoup

[sleepingintheflowers]

Back in high school, when I got my first car, The Else was the CD that I always had in my CD drive. This was my favorite song on it. I still feel like this just perfectly captures the feeling of an unrequited high school crush.

[attractthecrows]

Look Everyone It's The Sisters

Shinazugawa Sumi(eyepatch) and Teiko from my fic "Contrecoup"

[mesillusionssousecstasy]

Et chaque petit fait de sa vie inconnue, événements du dehors, drames de l'intérieur, avait de la sorte un contrecoup, longuement commenté.

Émile Zola (Au Bonheur des Dames)

[esperantoauthor]

WIP Wednesday

Thank you @forabeatofadrum for dutifully tagging me in this nearly every week. I *hides* haven't started writing the next chapter of Undiagnosed but it occurred to me this might be a fun opportunity to dust off the bits and pieces of stories that I've written but never finished (well, not yet).

The first one comes from an idea I had about Kurt having been the boy Blaine asked to the Sadie Hawkins dance and Blaine having a concussion from being attacked and not remembering everything that happened. The story would be called Contrecoup. Anyways, here's the beginning:

Objects in motion stay in motion, unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. It is Newton’s first law of motion. A fundamental law of physics. It’s the reason we wear seatbelts in cars. While the car stops when it hits something, your body continues to stay in motion, resulting in flinging your sad sack through the windshield without something to stop you from staying in motion. If you imagine the skull is like a car and your brain is like the driver, then you begin to understand what happens in the event of traumatic brain injury.

The head collides with a stationary object, causing the object in motion to stop quite violently. The brain, a rather squishy fellow, is an object in motion that stays in motion until something stops it. That something is going to be your skull. So the brain moves forward until it collides with the hard skull, bruising the brain tissue involved. This is known as the coup injury. If that weren’t enough, the brain then rebounds in the opposite direction just like the body slams back into the seat after finally stopping it’s forward motion. The brain moves backwards until it collides again, causing further damage. This is known as the countrecoup injury.

Tagging @heartsmadeofbooks, @coffeeorderwrites, and @crissmastrees-and-candyklaines

[mots-pour-maux]

« Je m’enferme dans un monde réduit, une bulle fragile. J’essaie de lutter, sans cette énergie du désespoir des premières semaines. On appelle cela le contrecoup, paraît-il. Comme si le coup ne faisait pas suffisamment mal. Il en faut un autre. Un aller et un retour. Deux gifles. L’une dans un sens, l’autre en contre-sens. À peine le temps de se relever, il faut supporter un deuxième assaut. » - Valerie Trierweiler

[saturnefanfictions]

J’ai reçu une adorable review en Guest sur fanfiction.net pour ma fic Contrecoup, alors j’y réponds ici !

Emyr:C'était tellement bien j'ai pas les mots ! Non seulement tu écris ultra bien (ce talent !) mais en plus ton histoire a presque l'air canon (et ça c'est tellement génial et rare à trouver). Merci pour ce moment de lecture, je me suis régalé !

Merci beaucoup Emyr ! Je suis ravie que la fic t’ait plu ! <3 <3

[disinvited-guest]

[selfcallednowhere]

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I’ve been really hung up on “Contrecoup” for the past couple of days, so here it is from a The Else-themed show they did on 5/31/15. According to the wiki they’ve only played this song live 25 times ever, which is really a shame cos I think it’s the best song on the album.