#lain speaks

[gayedmundodiaz]

friendly neighborhood social worker therapist that works with CPS here to discuss the logistics of Buck getting Theo*

There's this thing called kinship care. This is when a child is taken into custody by the state, and then a relative or a close non-relative takes either temporary or permanent guardianship of the child. Kinship care is not the same thing as foster care, though many aspects are the same. The biggest difference is that a person taking in a child that is known to them via kinship placement does not have to go through foster licensing. They don't have to do the months of classes or licensing requirements. In fact, a kinship placement could potentially happen within days of a child being taken into state's custody. The only things that happen are the people taking the child have to have a home visit with the state social worker to ensure it's an appropriate space, and they do a federal background check. That's it.

In this instance, all Buck would have had to do is call up Deidra and say "I would like to take custody of Theo" and she would have scheduled him for a home visit (probably within the week) and gotten his info to send off a background check. Following the background check coming back and after she does her home visit, it would be a matter of days that she would be bringing Theo to his home. What he was probably signing there with her is the placement letter, which is the document that gives Buck legal right to make decisions for Theo. The placement letter is supposed to be provided at the time the child comes to the home, but it can sometimes be after.

Anyway I am so going to write a fic about the process and what it looked like for him and alllll the appointments and resources and things that come with being a kinship home.

** this is assuming that there were no other relatives that could have taken Theo

[shreeky]

Inspirational quotes to fuel your Sunday evening! 🙏🏃‍♀️‍➡️🍃

[thewiredone]

Throws cotton at everyone

[laylaroze]

Lain Iwakura

Completely random thoughts about her

Lain can stare at a single spot for twenty, thirty, even forty minutes, then suddenly say something like, "The refrigerator seems to be in a good mood today. That's nice."

If left home alone, she might start talking to the router. She's not crazy, she just thinks it's rude to ignore something that provides internet access, not only for her house but for countless others as well.

She remembers people's faces worse than she remembers serial numbers on electronics. It's easier for her to remember things through words than through visual or any other nonverbal means.

Lain is convinced that some socks don't disappear in the washing machine, they migrate to other dimensions.

She can randomly zone out in the middle of a conversation because she remembered a cat video she watched three years ago, then quietly laugh at it all over again.

Sometimes she answers questions five hours later, or even a day later, but not because she forgot, or something, but because she's been thinking about her answer the entire time. She feels the need to carefully consider everything before responding, even if the question is completely ordinary.

She has a favorite light bulb.

Sometimes, to fight boredom, she does things that are even more boring. For example, counting the patterns on wallpaper. She's the type of person who hears the phrase "watching paint dry" and genuinely goes to watch paint dry.

If someone told her that pigeons were government drones, she wouldn't believe it completely, but she would start investigating just to verify it herself.

Sometimes she wakes up in the middle of the night and can't tell whether she's still in her room or already somewhere else entirely.

She feels guilty whenever she has to turn off her computer.

She walks so quietly that she resembles a ghost and often startles people without meaning to.

She likes the sound of old computer towers. To her, it's almost like a lullaby.

Lain is the kind of person who opens the refrigerator, forgets why she came there, and then stands in front of it for so long that it looks like she's searching for answers to the mysteries of the universe. She's also the type to open the fridge several times in a row, hoping that something new has appeared inside.

If she had a cat, she would regularly ask for its opinion on technical issues.

She sometimes feels like her reflection in the mirror blinks a fraction of a second later than she does.

She doesn't trust printers and, to be honest, printers don't trust her either.

Lain is fully capable of getting lost in her own thoughts while sitting alone in a completely empty room.

When she's bored, she likes to imagine that everyone around her is an NPC with an extremely advanced artificial intelligence.

Lain doesn't believe in horoscopes or any other forms of fortune-telling.

[lainlaps]

Okay I'm just gonna say that mcu Domino makes me sO FUCKING GAY like shit boy I was focused on her the whole movie thanks for coming to my Ted talk

[gayedmundodiaz]

honestly i will never entertain any Theo hate. There is not a single aspect of this storyline that I dislike. It is like a fanfiction plot and it's so good. Theo is adorable, we're getting dad!Buck and the potential for Buddie coparenting next season??? I will accept no nuance on this, Theo is amazing and anyone who thinks otherwise can stay far away from me

[gayedmundodiaz]

So I’m a therapist who works in a high school, so MANY of my clients all know each other. Some of them know that I also see their friend or sibling or ex or whatever, but a lot of them don’t know.

I obviously can’t reveal I know information that a client has told me, so I very often end up hearing stories from multiple sides and have to act like it’s the first time im hearing this info. I also definitely sometimes will fish for information from a client if I know more and am trying to see if they will/want to talk about it.

The fact that everyone on 9-1-1 sees Frank is fucking hilarious because I know that he sits down at the end of a day to do his notes like “if these fucking people would just talk to each other none of them would have to be here”

[gayedmundodiaz]

Do the bts not realize that it is normal and healthy sometimes for people to fight and argue and scream with the people they love? No, not all the time, no not physically, but when someone is backed into a corner, suffocating on their grief, they’re going to lash out, they’re going to get a little mean, they’re going to test the strength of the bonds of their relationships just to make sure it’s still holding and after a rupture there is repair and you come out stronger on the other side what part of this is so fucking hard to understand??