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If you had to commit one crime, with the guarantee that it wouldn't be held against you if it was cool and sexy enough, what crime would you commit?

I would do one of those long-con confidence trickster acts. I read a lot about this kind of thing, people who pretend to be rich entrepreneurs or heirs and live the high life scamming everyone until people get suspicious and they have to move on, and the drama whore in me loves it but ethically I don't sit well with the usual victims, which are often young and/or professional women conned into what they think is a romantic relationshop. I would set myself up as some rich heir (and entrepreneur, why choose!) and then I'd go out there absolutely bullshitting all the tech bros. specifically Elon Musk, because he has a lot of money and very little sense. I would straight up just see how far I could push it, what bullshit I could pass off as legit, how much money I could get out of Mr Musk (and of course redistribute to better causes, especially causes he would hate), and overall I think I could create enough scandal and hilarity that all crime would be forgiven and probably there would be a new highly specific rule on Twitter representing some of the antics. I do think I could pull this off because I am very good at talking pure shite.

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caught this photo of my husband while we were down on the beach photographing an oncoming North Sea storm earlier today. currently we’re under a red weather warning -- the most severe weather warning issued in our country, and only the second time it’s been used. not pictured were the 40-60mph gusts trying to knock our cameras from our hands, and all this before the storm had even made land!

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Yes to Annihilation dialogue.

well there’s one vote :V

there’s actually a fanfic out there that does some fun movieverse-bookverse overlap weirdness, since, you know, parallel universes is literally a theory put forward in the books. dimensional weirdness. and there’s close enough patterns there, and if Area X is about anything, it’s about repeated patterns...

including “Was I you?” potentially lmao

plus, thematically and in details, the movie is of course its own thing, but there are some similar Vibes that make me like to imagine, “well, what if this is [similar to] a previous expedition?” you know, the image of Lowry throwing in not only expedition after expedition, but specifically expeditions with the least significant of variations, such that you might wind up with two very-similar-but-very-not groups. :’)

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#the real Area X was the ghosts that haunted us along the way #you should probably watch the movie and see the scene in question tho tbh :')#vestriis

childhood friends to lovers; mutual pining; that thing where a secondary character ends up being Super Important; fuck-or-die; blood sacrifice

mutual pining No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know | mutual pining is a classic for a REASON, and the reason is that it fucks and is great. i do have a limit though, i can’t read slowburn mutual pining fics because i’m tearing my hair out about it after like 50K words, unless they never get together in which case it’s “oh god you don’t even know”. ....wow it kind of feels weird to type God’s name casually, i guess “mission: change my vocabulary to include less of casually taking the Lord’s name in vain” is starting to work? anyway that’s not the point. the point is that mutual pining is a great trope and “mutual pining where they never get together, they just Keep Pining and then Die” brings it to another level

that thing where a secondary character ends up being Super Important No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know | i like it but it’s definitely context-dependent? tma does this really well, because i was aware pretty early on that a bunch of throwaway names would end up being important; i also really enjoy this with really small casts; but when it’s a big cast and this happens i will sometimes forget who the secondary character......is..... which kind of takes the oomph out of it

fuck-or-die No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know | dubcon/mutual noncon is in general a huge Id-Pleasing Button of mine! i think a lot of people write fuck-or-die in kind of a boring way but ideally they both love each other and then they’re traumatized by each other and they have deeply complicated feelings about that, because they love the other person and don’t want to be triggered by their perfume, or because watching the person they love flinch away from them hurts and makes them feel wrong and broken and evil. or else they have a bunch of complicated feelings but neither of them are traumatized by each other but they’re avoiding each other because they both think the other one is traumatized. also very good: when one or both would rather die than fuck, but it’s not just their own life that they’re gambling with here, and they don’t want the other person to die. or when it’s combined with sex pollen-y stuff that makes one or both of them needy and desperate, that’s got all the goodness of sex pollen (which is also “a lot of people write this boringly but when it’s done well my id LOVES that shit” as a trope), which i will not elaborate on in this post because this is long enough already.

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Did you in any way choose to go by this name because of Ashtree lane?

im definitely going to say this was intentional yes

#also in Clip 4 the writer's name is Relic and my first thought was 'damn good name id use that'#everyone read house of leaves pls #vestriis

vestriis replied to your post “A paper comparing PTSD and dissociation scores of people claiming...”

If these damned people would just stop believing that this is true then they wouldn't be further traumatised >:( /s

God, yeah?

Just, like, god, on its own, that paragraph doesn’t seem that bad -- “Oh, traumatising your patients is bad, right? So maybe don’t do the ‘challeng[ing] of veracity of these memories’ thing” -- but then you see that the rest is just talking about how these are Delusions that must be Challenged at some point, any acceptance should just be “initial” and temporary, and a later paragraph just goes

Initially, non-confrontational inventions like Spiegel’s (1986) could assist the therapist in gaining the patient’s trust, providing a sanctuary from a harsh world which can demand logic in the face of unimaginable confusion and terror, and -- perhaps most important -- these interventions might lead to the patient getting on with life. However, in some cases the therapist may determine that validating approaches could strengthen the delusional system in destructive ways.In this case, the therapist might begin with [...] confronting the trauma, by challenging the origin of it (perhaps abuse was perpetrated by a human).

Basically “Yeah, I just said that a patient might feel traumatised” (and note the ~*feel*~ there) “by this approach, but go ahead and do it anyway if you feel like you need to.” (Kinda reminds me of the ISSTD’s “use whatever terms the patient uses for their system mates. Unless you think it reaffirms personhood too much, in which case nah,” except here the author is even calling it kinda hurtful to be disbelieved like this.)

And like. Feels hypocritical cuz I’m someone who very much doubts abduction narratives lmfao. But like, this need to “challenge the belief system” -- reminds me of voice-hearing therapies that decide, like, the point isn’t to make the hearer feel okay with their voices, it’s to get rid of them, and feeling okay is just a step along the way. It’s, bluh. Just not a great approach to therapy/the role of the therapist in general, huh?

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vestriis replied to your post “*writes, 14k words in, about Jon smiling at something Michael says* Oh...”

I was about to say, "If they even LOOK at each other before 50k then it's too quickly," but then I remembered that. This is not a concern for this story, huh.

Ignoring pre-conversion stuff, I could probably manage that, depending on how long it takes before Michael slides into one of Jon’s dreams! Pacing saved. :)

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