I have so many feelings about the Buck & Eddie coming out scene but I'm too emotional to articulate them but just know that it was perfect
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Betty Draper decides to pursue her masters in psychology and is promptly diagnosed with terminal cancer and I'm not okay about it.
Betty, whose first experience with the field is a psychiatrist who aided her husband in gaslighting her for a year, shows true excitement at the prospect of learning psychology.
Then the minute she gets started she learns she's going to die. And she keeps going to class! Because she finally found something that brings her joy!
I'm gonna chew glass.
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My guinea pig readers have been sent first drafts of 2/4 sections of the last chapter of Clean Slate, totaling over 3600 words. This chapter is gonna be looonngggggg.
I've got another 1800 words down for the third section, but it's in rewrites (surrpprriisseee). Rewrites won't take too long though and I expect to shorten that a bit. Then I have the final section to write and THEN I think I'm gonna do an epilogue. We'll see. Either way it'll be posted the same time.
All that is to say, good progress is being made! 🥳 I'll do another update when it's about to be sent to beta! 😊
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struck down by the mental image of an android laying down to "sleep" on a mattress shaped charging pad. oof. im experiencing the Emotions. rest well and recharge you dear little electric angel
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Apparently this needs to be said so
Forgetting things is morally neutral! Memory issues are morally neutral!
You're not a bad person if you...
forget things quickly
forget people
can't remember entire stages of your life
can't remember important things
can remember some things very well and forget other things all the time
can't remember things (or anything!) about your interests
forget to eat, sleep, go to the bathroom, etc
forget to reply to texts
remember things and immediately forget them again
can't remember birthdays, events, etc
frequently answer 'I forgot' to questions
can't retain new information
forget things you used to know
only remember things when it's too late
have vague, distorted and/or unreliable memories
depend on others to know how an event you were in played out
have other symptoms that are worsened by memory issues and vice versa
... and anything else I might have missed!
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“When I first heard it, from a dog trainer who knew her behavioral science, it was a stunning moment. I remember where I was standing, what block of Brooklyn’s streets. It was like holding a piece of polished obsidian in the hand, feeling its weight and irreducibility. And its fathomless blackness. Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher. Of course. It fit the science, and it also fit the hidden memories stored in a deeply buried, rusty lockbox inside me. The people who walked down the street arbitrarily compressing their dogs’ tracheas, to which the poor beasts could only submit in uncomprehending misery; the parents who slapped their crying toddlers for the crime of being tired or hungry: These were not aberrantly malevolent villains. They were not doing what they did because they thought it was right, or even because it worked very well. They were simply caught in the same feedback loop in which all behavior is made. Their spasms of delivering small torments relieved their frustration and gave the impression of momentum toward a solution. Most potently, it immediately stopped the behavior. No matter that the effect probably won’t last: the reinforcer—the silence or the cessation of the annoyance—was exquisitely timed. Now. Boy does that feel good.”
— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)
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"The dead one! Yeah I haven't thought about her in a long time!"
A little theory I've had about Winter King's original motives based on his heartless comment about Betty and Ice King's original motives for kidnapping princesses in the first place...... clearly she gave off Bad Ex Vibes…
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