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ready-to-obeyme · 4 years

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[OM!] (American) College!AU Demon Brothers

Scenario: Headcanons on the demon brothers as college students (specifically in the US because I don’t know how college works elsewhere), their possible majors, career goals, extracurriculars, ~GPA~ and whatever else I could think of + how meet you in college

Note: I’m hoping to do a Part 2 with the Undateables but honestly… we’ll see lol. This is based off something ~A~ and I thought of for our specific university but we’ve made it broad enough to share HAHA this turned out VERY long

Lucifer

Majoring in Political Sciences with a minor in Psychology

Pre-Law-- most likely immigration law or child custody (there’s definitely a backstory here)

Initially went to community college for the first two years to save up money to take care of his younger siblings

Rejected an offer to go to an Ivy League because it was too expensive; if his siblings ever found out they’d be furious that he’d give up on that chance, but he knows he can succeed wherever he goes (and besides, family is first)

Transferred into a 4-year university his junior year

Very high GPA-- VERY

In a professional fraternity with Diavolo and Barbatos

He didn’t think he’d join one either but Diavolo was the vice chair when he transferred in and the president the year after so… ~nepotism?~ and also Lucifer is charming as heck so no surprise he’d get in

Also rooms with Diavolo and Barbatos

Goes to the gym regularly just to keep fit; gets goaded by Diavolo and Satan into joining an IM team with his frat brothers and actual brothers-- probably basketball or flag football

Probably meets you at a interclub council meeting and mutters under his breath how useless the board members are and you overhear

“Never have I met more incompetent people.”

“Lmao mood”

“!!!”

Keeps sitting next to you at every interclub meeting then after because at least there’s someone that can keep his mind stimulated (thinks you’re hot if you’re competent btw)

If you somehow meet him on campus, he’s the type of guy to put his hand up and pretend he didn’t see you (just kidding, he always ends up saying hi anyways)

Will Absolutely Lecture You if you are procrastinating on studying especially if your midterm is, like, TOMORROW

Always ends up studying with him because he’s actually focused on studying and glares at you if you get distracted (but hey you get good scores in the end)

Mammon

Majoring in Business Econ/Economics, Minoring in Statistics

(always ends up in the middle of the “is econ a humanities or a STEM major” debate that leaves him left for dead)

Planning to work in Business as Finance -- probably has been treasurer or finance director for a club; can even see him being a banker if it suits his plans better

Goes to a four-year university

Decent GPA (or Lucifer would absolutely destroy him), and does REALLY well in mathematics classes

Would room with Lucifer and his posse if they all go to the same school

Probably in a Business Frat as well because he’s pretty charismatic when it comes down to it but was an RA for some of his years for the free rooming and dining hall privileges

Is a very chill and understanding RA (as in he smokes weed with you when he’s off-duty) but is surprisingly well-versed in dealing with roommate issues

Works part-time (gasp) to buy stuff off of Amazon and go out to places

Spends a lot of time exploring places with his friends, going hiking, rock-climbing, clubbing-- which is expensive, as it turns out, so he needed to be able to afford it somehow

Meets you when you’re eating your lunch outside somewhere and he asks you if you have a dollar he could borrow for a vending machine snack

You exchange numbers with him so he can pay it back (even though you honestly don’t really need it, but why not) and turns out he’s in your GE class

“Heyyy wassup! So glad I have a friend in this class”

“Oh by the way, did you finish the homework? Haha, I forgot it.”

Mammon always repays you for your help in food though so you aren’t complaining

Leviathan

Majoring in Computer Sciences

And honestly that’s too much for me already-- the man is doing computer programming, coding-- WHEW-- and they do NOT rest

Goes to a community college but honestly has no problems cinching internships. The computer is his domain-- online applications are EASY, doing projects NOT as easy, interviews? HARD-- REALLY HARD (someone help him)

Probably intends to work with a big company like Google if only to help supply his income so he can live his life going to AX and buying merch

Most likely moved out of his house mid-college with his online friends (who are luckily compatible with him living-space wise) and visits home once a week

There’s two potential sides you can meet first:

Either you meet him at a convention and you both gush about the same character and anime and somehow find each other online (not college related)

Or his favorite Ruri-chan keychain gets broken off in the computer lab, and you’re the one running after him to give it him

He may or may not owe you his life after that (and if you enjoy anime, well that’s a bonus)

Both of these meetings can happen if he doesn’t recognize you in class because you were in cosplay-- imagine the surprise

The two of you as friends are MASTER PROCRASTINATORS at every assignment the two of you have-- so low-key not a great influence-- but you have fun together watching animes, playing games, talking about life-- anything but actual work

Always ends up scrambling to finish things-- but he keeps doing it because it’s been working for him so far

You help him prepare for interviews because he’s always nervous before each one regardless of how well his application looks

Satan

Majoring in Comparative Literature AND Anthropology (ya boy is doing the whole nine yards)

Planning to get his Master’s and then a PhD in one of his majors (whichever proves to be more engaging for him)-- visibly excited to become a Professor

College was meant for Satan-- like REALLY; the man is in LOVE with learning; most likely to go and be accepted to an Ivy-League after Lucifer but... truly believes you can get a good education anywhere so it depends on his financial standing (and how much scholarship he gets)

Does get a little disgruntled when his classes aren’t available but doesn’t mind learning something new-- if the professor bores him to death, he’ll read the book

Really good at tutoring people; someone suggests that he works as a peer-learning facilitator/writing tutor and he does-- might as well make bank doing something you always do anyways

Joins a writing/journal club as an extracurricular and a club that provides tutoring services to the underserved community-- surprisingly good with kids!

He knows friends in high places, so if he wanted to, could get into any party without batting an eye and his favorite professors love him

Spends a lot of his time going out to the city and exploring places, similarly to Mammon, rock-climbing, hiking, paragliding-- anything

He is VERY well-rounded as you can see; competes with Lucifer to see whose GPA is better though

You probably meet him during office hours, and you can only stare in awe as he asks questions that you had in mind, but better; if you’re visibly confused about something, he’ll take his time to help you too (it’s habit at this point)

Ask him for his contact info and you’ll get it, and maybe repay him in coffee? (You always see him at the cafe on campus.)

Most likely to have a specific spot in a cafe that he is always at that the workers actually save a spot for him or give him his usual order before he even arrives-- may or may not have helped them edit their essays or with their homework as a thank-you so you KNOW they’ll love him forever

The type of person to help you make flashcards and cram if you need it

Asmodeus

Majoring in Dance and Fine Arts (I HC going to NYU specifically)

Considering going for an Master of Fine Arts degree but he might just move to New York and go for being a Broadway Star

College is mainly just training for him and hoping to land gigs in local theater-- and the university theater if there is one-- and building his resume for his big break

Has SO many extracurriculars, all pertaining to his career choice, but also because he enjoys what he does: drama, competitive dance team, acapella, fashion design

Makes an unbelievable amount of friends, incredibly good at networking

The first time you saw him was when he was performing for a local theater and you were in love with his performance, and the next time you saw him in the hallway of a classroom building, you told him how much you enjoyed it

Always accepts compliments about his looks with grace, but there’s something about truly being admired for his acting and singing that has him preening

Invites you to come out to his next performance, and if not his, then to another play-- and it can be a date, but up to you ;)

The man is the KING of Multiple Talents and has big dreams to match

Always finds a way to hang out with you and drag you to every club that he can use his fake-id for (and when he’s actually 21 and above, gets a little offended that he doesn’t get ID’d)

A night in the town with you is always a good night!

Sometimes when he has practical exams coming up, he asks you to watch him perform-- and he likes your compliments but actually takes getting all the moves seriously so you better pay attention!

Most likely to move far away to reach his dreams, but he would take you with him if he could-- his little star

Beelzebub

Majoring in Physiological Sciences

Pre-Nursing or Pre-Sports Medicine

He’s a little undecided, but he’s definitely going to go into the health field because he likes the idea of being able to use his strength to help others

Gets a scholarship from the university because he’s part of the football team, which is actually pretty hard on him because Fall Semester/Quarter he has to keep skipping classes for games

Always brings a snack to eat with him during lecture-- and is not afraid to bring his entire lunch and make it right in the front row, though he tends to stick to the back because they tend to have electrical plugs

You most likely meet him during lecture: he offers you an entire sandwich (not a chip bag, not fruit snacks, an entire LUNCH) because he heard your stomach growl during class

From then on, you collect notes for him when he’s gone from games and even go to games if you aren’t usually the type to just to see how he’s doing; it’s hard trying to find you among the huge bleachers, but he always asks you where you’re sitting anyways

Really appreciate it if you help him study into late at night because it IS hard balancing sports and academics

He most likely doesn’t really have any time for anything else so he usually makes up for it during the rest of the year when training is less to volunteer in the hospital or at the gym as a personal trainer

If you ask him to teach you how to properly lift weights, he’ll definitely help out and the both of you can work out together-- though you feel bad when he has to add four extra weights to each side after you finish your reps

Belphegor

Majoring in Computer Graphics/Animation

Intending to go into making animation or game design-- is one of the brothers who doesn’t really know exactly what he wants to do yet because he’s afraid that doing what he loves as a job will ruin it for him

His family reassures him that they’ll support him whether or not he continues with his path in life, but he’s considering art school and then taking internships in places so he has a better idea on what he wants

Most likely to sell his own original work and become a full-time artist regardless

I think you already know how you meet him-- he’s sleeping in a lecture hall-- either against the wall or on the small piece of wood they call a desk when class ends and he’s still sleeping; and you wake him up

Sleepily thanks you and continues to sleep through every class that you wake him up to; when you ask him why he doesn’t just go home and sleep, he tells you he’s too lazy to walk back and forth from his dorm/apartment to campus (mood)

When you add each other on Snapchat or something, he sends you pics of ‘places to nap’ on campus

You always end up studying together because he’s actually pretty good at understanding lecture stuff despite not being awake for most of it-- apparently he’s used to teaching himself

Will make you art for your birthday and will vehemently refuse payment so he just tells you to take him out for dinner instead

If you talk about how you’re not sure on what you want to do in life too, he’ll probably say ‘mood’ but is most likely to encourage you to do whatever you want to do in life too

#obey me #obey me headcanons #obey me lucifer #obey me mammon #obey me satan #obey me leviathan #obey me beelzebub #obey me belphegor #obey me shall we date?#ngl i would date beel in this au 100%

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sheafrotherdon · 3 years

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How Academia Works in the U.S.

Friends - there’s a lot of professor!fic out there, and I enjoy it greatly, but I want to explain how academia works in the U.S. because . . . no.

Professors

1. Lecturer: someone who does not have a PhD or MFA (or other terminal degree in their field). An art historian who has a Masters degree and is teaching at a college would be a Lecturer, for example. Some large schools will still call you a lecturer if you have your PhD or MFA but aren’t tenure-track/tenure. Those schools are shitty and should feel bad about themselves.

2. Assistant Professor: someone who has their PhD but who has not yet earned tenure. If a person is hired “tenure track” then they’re generally an Assistant Professor for around six years before they go up for tenure and promotion. (While people can go up for T&P early, it doesn’t happen very often.) If you’re hired off the tenure track, you will not have the opportunity to apply for tenure. You are what’s known as an adjunct or contingent faculty member - you have less job security than your tenure-track colleagues although you have all the same qualifications that they do. You can in some rare instances be promoted to Associate Professor while not being tenured. (Non-tenure-track assistant professors are generally called Visiting Professors, as if they just stopped by for a while.)

To apply for tenure, you have to produce a portfolio showing your achievements in the areas of 1. research/creative work 2. teaching and 3. service. Different kinds of institutions value each of those three things differently. Harvard, frankly, doesn’t give a rats behind if you are an amazing teacher - it wants you to be an amazing researcher with a strong publication record. A liberal arts college is going to value teaching more, but still wants publications. (Service is expected of everyone, everywhere, and never weighed highly enough.)

If you’re tenure-track, and denied tenure, you’re out of a job.

3. Associate Professor: someone who has been promoted from Assistant Professor (after about six years or so). Usually they will also have tenure. Tenure is a commitment from your institution - it brings with it pretty fierce employment protections, primarily (although not exclusively) to protect your freedom of academic speech and expression. You also get paid more.

4. Full Professor: after another six or seven years at Associate Professor, you can apply to be full. Once again you have to submit a portfolio of all your achievements in research/creative work, teaching, and service. If you’re denied promotion to full, you keep your job, but stay an Associate Professor. You can go up for promotion to full on a subsequent occasion (if you want). You also get paid more.

5. Endowed Chairs: sometimes a donor will give an institution a lot of money to support a ‘chair’ in a particular field. That means they give enough money (millions) for the interest to pay that person’s salary, and that person gets to call themselves The Donor’s Name Chair/Professor of Thing The Donor Likes. Endowed chairs are very prestigious, but you can’t apply for one - it’s entirely the luck of the draw.

6. Graduate Instructors: grad students are often hired by their departments to teach undergraduate discussion sections and labs for large lecture courses. More rarely, they may be asked to teach an undergraduate course where they are the ‘instructor of record’ - meaning they design the class and do all the grading for a smaller number of students.

Publishing

Publishing is the currency of academia. There are two types of publishing: either it’s peer-reviewed or it’s not.

A peer-reviewed work is submitted to a journal (if it’s an article/essay) or a university press (if it’s a book). The editor of that journal/press will take a first look to see if it’s the type of thing that journal/press publishes, and if they think it’s a good fit, they send it out to other academics (usually three) in the same field who do not know the author personally. Those academics read the manuscript and write a review, recommending whether that the article/book be published or not. Some reviewers are amazing at this, and offer constructive criticism that helps the article/book become stronger. Some are terrible at it and make people cry. (They are known colloquially as ‘reviewer #2.’) If the reviewers recommend publication, their anonymized comments are sent back to the author(s) who must then revise the manuscript. If all goes well, it’s then published. It can take two or three years for an article to get published. Same for a book.

No one makes money from writing journal articles. Almost no one makes any money from writing books.

Some academics who are writing on very popular subjects might be published by a trade press (Penguin, Viking, McMillan etc). Trade press books are not subject to the same rules about review, and very often the authors don’t have to cite sources in a trade book. Sometimes, trade books make money.

Money

No one goes into academia to get rich. No one. Your chances of becoming wealthy while being an academic are vanishingly small. You would have to teach at a major flagship university (like, say, Harvard) and be a titan of your field. Most academics work at smaller institutions and make modest incomes. Adjunct and contingent faculty are paid horribly - sometimes as little as $2500 a course - and generally don’t get any health insurance or other benefits. Graduate students are also paid horribly. While many financial aid packages for grad students include a tuition waiver, institutions will load them up with fees for various things that can easily run into the thousands of dollars. Grad students can make as little as $10K a year (sometimes less!). Graduate student unions are desperately important in protecting graduate student rights.

Some professors win grants and fellowships to support their work. This is especially true in the sciences. Grants and fellowships can pay for all the people you employ in your lab, for example, or allow you to take a year off from teaching and relocate somewhere to do research. Grants and fellowships are extremely competitive. No one ever got rich from a grant or fellowship unless they got a MacArthur.

If you’re interested in knowing how much your professors make and you go to a public school (University of [State] or [State Name] University, for example) most states have public record laws that mean those figures are public. You can google them.

A word about graduate programs

No one gets a PhD in two years. No one. People in the sciences tend to advance toward their terminal degree faster than people in the arts, social sciences, and humanities because there’s a very regimented way of approaching science research. If you’re a sociologist, in comparison, you’re out in the field collecting data for god knows how long, and then you have to make meaning out of it, and then you have to write it all up, and we’re talking years.

Most graduate programs require 2-3 years of coursework, then prelims/comprehensive exams (where you prove you know an obscene amount of stuff in (say, three) different fields within your overarching subject), and then you do your research and write your dissertation, which is the length of a book.

People do not schedule their prelims/comprehensive exams or dissertation defenses a couple of weeks before those things happen. For a start, trying to get a committee of professors to all be in the same place at the same time is like herding cats, so generally these things are decided months in advance. There is also a mountain of institutional paperwork involved, and seventeen deans (roughly speaking) who have to sign off on things. It’s a slog.

In conclusion

It works totally differently in other countries.

\o/

#the old guard fandom I'm looking at you #how academia works #Fic

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iampikachuhearmeroar · 5 years

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okay, y’all, i’ve gotta back on my tl;dr bullshit soapbox about something:

so, the other day, i was just mindlessly scrolling through my corporate & capitalist hellscape facebook™️ (i.e. LinkedIn) and came across this totally trite mostly bullshit meme that was shared by some corporate executive search man (whose name i decided to crop out bc eh):

so i obviously agree with the last three points on this list, bc god yes my life would’ve been a bit better if I didn’t get all my dialogue about mental health only from teen mags and horrible portrayals in teen tv shows (and also this hellsite). and hell yeah everyone, and I mean EVERYONE needs to learn that failure is okay many situations (like failing a class in uni or school) bc everyone fails at something sometimes. and dealing with failure is HARD. and time management is something that I’m pretty sure everyone lies to fuckin hell about on their resume, bc lots of people really suck at it, myself included. so yeah. that needs to be taught. and i also agree with the “how to manage your health” point. bc thats becoming ever more prevalent and important with career burn out etc.

but entrepreneurship? people management? conflict resolution? creativity? how to manage money? public speaking? like y’all. three of those ARE taught/learned in school, who the fuck wrote this meme?

for anyone who actually paid attention in maths class, (which is probably very few people outside of the top performing classes), there WAS A WHOLE FUCKING UNIT that focuses on financial maths (in australia anyway). I ignored this unit as well as maths in general at school, bc I generally hated maths and was convinced that I was somehow never going to get a job. but i remember the gist of the overall topic and its subtopics. one subtopic teaches you how to calculate your wages in various contexts (overtime, double-time and a half, holiday payments, im pretty sure maternity leave pay was jammed in somewhere? idk if other countries would have double time & a 1/2 like australia though). another subtopic teaches you how to calculate interest on bank loans and credit rates on credit cards. a third subtopic teaches you how to calculate savings (obvs in terms of discounts in shops)....im sure there was a bit about budgeting in there somewhere? im pretty sure there were some questions were about tax payments somewhere as a subtopic enrichment exercise? but you get my gist. are these not money management skills? in some sense? like if i could find one of my old maths textbooks or old maths books i’d give an example of a question, to make my point stronger. but the problem, like i said before, is that a load of people (myself included) just zone out in maths in high school and stop trying with it. they forget what they’ve learnt, and just remember how much they hated algebra and how they’ll never use it again. maths was one hell of a fucking strong bitch, guys. but maybe i’m wrong.

creativity? excuse me? have people forgotten about art classes? drama classes? english classes? music classes? need i go on? okay don’t get me wrong, most of these classes did focus a lot on memorising quotes or facts about people (artists/writers/poets/composers/dramatists etc) or specific periods/movements in art or theatre or literature for example.... but the amazing sculptures/paintings etc people created in art for their final projects in year 12, or even in year 10 were works of their imagination. the scripts people write in drama or maybe english (if you had a fun teacher who did a screenwriting unit, for example) are creative asf. especially in year 12 when they do their major projects, where they may produce a monologue or a short movie, and then there’s a group piece. drama students might even make their own costumes for these performances. LIKE AIN’T THAT A LOT OF CREATIVITY RIGHT THERE Y’ALL????? and english. lowly old english. THEY HAVE A WHOLE FUCKING TOPIC ON CREATIVE WRITING FOR FUCKS SAKE. the original music people might create for their final projects too in year 12? does that not count as creativity? like yes, i know a lot of these things do still have to meet bs assessment criteria (especially in catholic schools, where the main things are you don’t offend the catholic education office and jesus/god lmao) to be considered worthy of a mark for your year 12 exams. but FUCK. HOW THE FUCK AREN’T ANY OF THESE SUBJECTS COUNTED TOWARDS BEING CREATIVE???????? like fuck your corporate creative ideation or w/e bullshit, Callum. drama and english even lend themselves to improvisation in some instances, like public speaking, which is examined further, below.

next, we move on to public speaking. this shit is basically taught from the first goddamn day of “show & tell” in kindy/kindergarten, and this fucker has the gall to say that it’s not fucking taught in schools? someone call in miley cyrus/hannah montana to throw the fuck down in this motherfucking hoedown BC THIS STUPID-ASS MEME-FUCKER HAS NERVE. i hated public speaking. absolutely hated it. even though it was ironically one of the places i ended up excelling in in english classes. even when i fucked up in my english speeches with like “oh, fuck.... said nelson mandela, i’ve seem to’ve lost my palm card. wait, shit! there it is... excuse me while i pull it out of my ass. whoops, sorry miss” *bats eyes and finger guns at my year 9 english teacher who has her head in her hands and is done with my shit, while the class laughs at my gaffe* i’d still end up with like 73% or like 26/30. it was baffling. but for people who weren’t the class clown/smart alec like i was from years 7-10 (and like i actually wasn’t once i moved schools).... public speaking is like the leading cause of anxiety, right? like by the time i got to doing speeches/presentations at uni i was having panic attacks... the thought of presenting to my classes made me fucking sick with fear and anxiety. nearly every subject i did at uni (even when i tried to avoid subs with public speaking assessments) and throughout school had some type of presentation/speech whatever you want to call it project/activity in it. even fucking SPORT/PDHPE at school and even philosophy at uni. and these fuckers are saying its not taught in schools. FUCK OFF. like yeah, i get that they actually mean it in the professional sense.... where people can give the sappy bs motivational speeches or an insightful ted-talk worthy 20-minute presentation... or a great sales pitch. but like??? save that for mike “my dad phoned in to EY and i have a job waiting for me after uni” mcfuck in a business major or law degree? or for clubs like toastmasters? fuck. ok enough of the skills we learn in school. let’s move onto the businesslike-sounding ones of “people management”, “conflict management” and fucking “entrepreneurship”. like. what the fuck? okay in some sense people management and conflict management could potentially be used in managing friendships and relationships in your personal life. but like. i can feel the business underpinnings and i dont like it lmao. like why do you want fully functioning adults straight out of school, franklin? and there’s extra credit conflict management subjects at uni??? or at least my home uni had it... and i never did them bc they were intensive courses during summer break lol. but the one that pissed me off the most was entrepreneurship. LIKE ARE KIDS NOT FUCKING ALLOWED TO BE KIDS NOW????? well apparently: “NO! YOU MUST ALWAYS THINK OF MONEY MAKING WAYS TO BE RICH! YOU MUST BE ENTREPRENEURIAL!!!!!! YOU MUST GENERATE BUSINESS IDEAS FROM THE TIME YOU CAN FUCKIN’ WALK!!!!! AND SPEAK!!! CHILDHOOD AND BEING A TEENAGER DON’T EXIST WORKER BEE!!!! CAPITALISM FOR ALL!!!! WORKER BEES!!! CAPITALISM IS YOUR FRIEND!!! OWN A BUSINESS BY THE TIME YOU’RE 8 YEARS OLD!” like it’s insidious asf. and it doesn��t acknowledge that most entrepreneurs are already privileged people anyway, who usually have some type of money to start off their venture (or that’s what it feels like anyway). and yeah throw all the “THIS BOY IS AN ENTREPRENEUR AT 18!!! 18!!!???? BY STARTING HIS OWN BUSINESS AT 12!!!! WHAT A CHAMP! 😁🙃” clickbait news stories at me, but i don’t fucking care. the concept and perceived over-importance and almost preaching mindset of entrepreneurship is slowly becoming insidious and toxic asf. call me paranoid. but that’s what it feels like.

but with those last three topics, i want to make a point that school curriculum’s (in australia at least, and probably worldwide) are so jam-packed already with sport (which is pointless and shitty), geography (ok how to read maps is important, but i never bothered to learned to do it properly), history, science, english etc etc etc..... that like.... where the actual fuck are the gonna jam the above bs (people management”, “conflict management” and entrepreneurship) into the curriculum???? and also teachers are already over-worked enough as it is, they don’t need another load of shitty subjects pushed onto them. and they sure asf don’t earn enough (especially in the states) to have this bs pushed into their subject schedules either. keep them at uni, where they should be. or just in the workplace/in the general public where they belong. and if people suggest that you could probably push these subjects into the year 11/12 business studies programs or elective commerce courses in years 9/10, save your goddamn breath. like i remember looking at business studies hsc papers in years 11/12 to see what they did.... and it was pretty chock-a-block anyway. and my experience of my year 9 commerce was horrible, to say the least. let kids be kids, for fucks sake. they shouldn’t have to be fully functioning adults in the workplace, by the end of high school, for fucks sake. AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IS NOT AN ESSENTIAL SKILL????!!!! FUCK OFF WITH THAT SHIT, WILHELM. anyway. that’s my rant over about how i hate how corporate people are trying to be #relatablewiththeyouth🙃 with their shitty versions of “10 things i wish we learned in school” memes.... and failing.... without realising that this is why millennials are suspicious and cynical about meme usage by corporate people/corporations.

#life #about me #shut up ilona #ranty mcrantrant #ilona rants about shit #warning: a too long didnt read/tl;dr post #for lazy tumblr peeps who never read long posts is ahead #BEWARE!!!’#and strap in for the ride #but yeah tl:dr ahead #learn to read long form posts you fucks #it was in my replies #so read my tags y’all

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5pmcloudsinberlin · 5 years

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Iris of All Trades, Chapter 1

Title: Iris of All Trades

Synopsis: When she was ten years old, her best friend saw his mother murdered right in front of him and his father framed for the crime. He believes that his father is innocent, that the man in yellow did it. While her father doesn’t believe him, she does. He is Barry Allen, her best friend, the person who she loves the most in the world. How could she not believe him? And she, Iris West, will always be there to believe in him and help him find the impossible. She just didn’t expect the impossible to find her way before it found Barry, or rather her friend.

Chapters: 1/?

Author Notes: This is my first Flash and WestAllen story so hopefully this doesn’t suck.

Chapter 1

“Daddy?”

Six-year-old Iris West wanders downstairs in search of her father. It’s late and she has school tomorrow but she had a nightmare about a fire and her mother. There’s an empty bottle of whiskey next to Joe’s spot at the dining table.

“Hey, pumpkin.”

He’s drunk. He only calls her pumpkin when he’s drunk. Iris walks towards him cautiously, concern in her eyes. “Are you okay, daddy?”

Joe moves a hand towards her and Iris tenses a bit, then relaxes when he softly cups her face. She knows that he’s never hurt her drunk but something told her that someone else did. Iris closes her eyes for a moment, leaning towards his warmth before opening them. He’s looking at her with a glazed look and a sad smile.

“How could Francine do such a thing when she was with you? How could she be so reckless around you?” What?

“Ira and Nadine would have watched you better,” He continues, talking about her maternal uncle and aunt. “Probably would have loved you better than Francine too.”

What did her mother do that was so reckless? Did she not love her? Was she not good enough for her?

“Although, it depends if you’re smart enough to catch Ira’s attention.” Joe chuckles quietly.

Iris hears it though. She remembers her Uncle Ira, a bit absent-minded during the few times she saw him but kind. He talked a lot about physics. Her family said he was brilliant, his son and her cousin Rudy said that was something she’d never be.

Rudy’s words always stuck with Iris, and now her father’s as well. Quickly, Iris runs back to her room with silent tears and cries. Then a soft warmth surrounds her. It’s comforting, powerful but soothing.

It’s alright, Iris. We’ll protect you.

The voice lulls her back to sleep. The next morning, Joe doesn’t remember a thing. Iris just smiles and hugs her father, keeping what happened and those words to herself.

- : - : - : -

“Hey Iris, I just got off the train at Starling City. It’s actually quite beautiful here, we should visit sometime. Maybe, uh, maybe just you and me? And-and Joe! If he wants to,” Barry says from the voicemail. “On second thought, that might not be a good idea. Especially since I’m not... I’m not supposed to be here right now.” She giggles as she walks to her car, class has ended and she needs to leave.

“Also thanks again, Iris, for covering for me.” The soft change in his tone makes her pause from opening the door. “I know that I came here on a whim to investigate a break-in and it might not be the, uh, the best reason to leave work. But thank you for believing in me and helping me try to find the impossible.”

A warm yet guilty feeling spreads through her once the voicemail ends. Before Iris leaves her parking structure at Central City University, she texts him: No problem, Bear. What are best friends for? Just let me know when you’re on your way back home. I miss you already.

When Barry left, she told Captain Singh and Joe that he caught food poisoning and wouldn’t be able to work for a while. They grumbled at the fact that their only CSI was sick but relented after she said that someone from an external lab could analyze data samples for them while Barry gets better. It isn’t the first time they’ve done it.

The case of files and data samples sat in the back of her car, safely secured as she drives to an expensive-looking apartment complex with a gate and underground parking. A smile grows on Iris’s face, excited and curious to read through the files and see what crimes have recently been committed. She carries her stuff to the third floor, opening the fifth door on the right, roughly throwing her backpack onto the couch and gently placing the case on the kitchen countertop. Her phone buzzes: You’re late.

Shit. Iris rushes to her room of the apartment, grabbing her bag and goes back to the kitchen for the case. She grabs the pocket watch necklace from her neck and clicks the button that opens the cover twice. Instead of its usual mechanical hand-dial clock, it switches to a digital one. She touches the acrylic front gently to allow a holographic screen to appear in mid-air. Iris types in her destination, closes the necklace and presses on the button long enough for it to start glowing. At one moment, she stood in the middle of the apartment, the next Iris stands in a white clear room on a large black platform machine.

Iris walks out of the teleportation chamber, moving onto the hallway and into the command center. Catherine Arcelia Marlowe stands near the monitors, talking to Douglas Parson who is behind the central computers. Her brown hair moves around her enthusiastically as she speaks about the current research project she is supervising. Catherine’s blue-eyed gaze moves from Douglas’s to Iris’ and her expression brightens. “Iris!”

Said girl quickly sets the data samples on a nearby desk before Catherine gives her a tight gripped hug. Douglas rolls his grey eyes and shakes his black hair at them. “You’re late.”

“Class ran late and I literally just got to Max’s apartment when you texted me!” Iris defends herself.

“And where is he?”

“Exam, he’s coming afterward.” Iris places her bag on the desk.

“Fine, now let’s start training.”

- : - : - : -

Iris and Douglas’ gazes continue to switch between watching Catherine, or rather Lady Faith, work through the training simulations that Iris and Max had designed and checking on how her vital signs and overall health are being affected.

“Her pulse and respiration rate just increased, what did she do?”

“She used two abilities at once.”

Lady Faith doesn’t have just one ability, she had multiple. The ability of flight, teleportation, telekinesis, energy projection, and calming aura; although, she doesn’t have the ability of super healing.

“Her body temperature is getting high, I think we’re done with holographic simulations for today,” Douglas says. Iris relays his message to Catherine through her ear communicator within her purple and white supersuit.

The brunette takes off the silver bracelets that help her transform into Lady Faith as she walks out of the simulation room. Beats of sweat run down her forehead as she pants. Even though she has had three years to understand her abilities, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t take a lot of energy out of her. Iris and Douglas walk out of the control room, a towel and water bottle in the former’s hands while the latter leads her to the medical bed. He takes the towel and water bottle to give to Catherine as she sits on the medical bed while Iris gets the first aid kit.

She cleans up and wraps her bruises as Douglas goes over her biometrics from the training simulations. “Your heart rate increased when the ceiling started to collapse, remember to stay calm. Your energy levels started to decrease when you were flying and using energy shields if you use too many abilities at once you would have fainted…,” he continues on.

Catherine rolls her eyes and pouts. “Yeah, yeah, but I still fought them off good, right?”

Douglas chuckles. “Yes, Blue eyes, you did great.”

Iris packs up the first aid kit and leaves the room the moment they start to kiss. She could’ve easily interrupted them, but she has other things to do. She grabs her stuff in the command center and walks down the long corridor, up the stairs, and towards the door that only opens from face and fingerprint recognition. Once given access, she pushes the door open.

Scientists in lab coats and people wearing guest passes surround her vicinity. Iris walks swiftly through the crowd in elegant ease. Some of the scientists greet her as she walks down the halls, up two flights of stairs, and into her lab.

The rest of her time there, Iris reads through the files, learning about the homicides and auto theft, the witness reports, and looking at the size, shape, and overall appearance of the crime scene pictures. There’s a knock on the door as she places a blood sample from a piece of fabric into the centrifuge. “Who is it?”

“Hey Hot Pursuit, you gonna let me in?”

After starting the machine, Iris opens the door and hugs Max Bentley. Despite being younger than her, he is a foot taller and usually misidentified as her brother. She doesn’t really see the resemblance.

“How was your exam?”

“Okay, too many questions in my opinion, but at least they were easy.” He shrugs.

Iris rolls her eyes. “Well not everyone is a genius majoring in computer science wanting to become a software developer like you.”

Max just gives her a cheeky grin. “So how’d Lady Faith’s training go?”

He’s already gone through Catherine’s biometrics with Douglas, so they discuss improvements while Iris goes through her finished DNA analysis. From the apartment homicide case, she had cross-checked with the other samples and concluded that the third roommate was the one who murdered their first roommate Mendoza and framed the second.

Max finishes outlining the different training simulations that they will create next week as she writes out her report for Captain Singh. The one-way mirror windows that surround the building show that it’s dark out as they walk down the stairs. Only a couple scientists and researchers are still at their workstations doing some late night experiments. The few that see them go down to the basement floor don’t say anything, knowing that they aren’t permitted while knowing who is. They’re oblivious to the fact that the basement is the secret base of operations for the working team of Lady Faith.

There’s still three more cases with samples that Iris needs to analyze, but she’s working the closing shift at Jitters and had told her father she would be home afterward. But home is in Central City and Iris is in the Marlowe Research Facility in Janelia City on the other side of the country three hours ahead. Looking down at her pocket watch necklace, the dimness of the clock screen indicates that she needs to add more Barry sand in the back. She doesn’t need to use the Barry sand to get back to Central City, but she’ll need more sand in order to teleport with the necklace again.

Max and Iris stop by the equipment room, storing some black sand into her necklace and some into his watch before saying goodbye to Catherine and Douglas who are talking while on comms. It’s weird how a metal that came out of nowhere can help create a portable, wearable teleportation device, just like the other piece of metal that shocked Catherine and gave her superpowers.

- : - : - : -

They teleport back to the apartment that Catherine leased for Max while he’s studying and as a Central City base to focus on any Lady Faith work without traveling back to Janelia City. She hugs him goodbye, sisterly advising him to study hard before driving to Jitters.

The smell of coffee welcomes Iris the moment she opens the door, relaxing her body and making her smile. It’s her second favorite smell. In the back, her coworkers discuss the rumors that someone might be getting a promotion. Hopefully, it isn’t her.

Despite not being a licensed researcher or scientist, Catherine pays the three of them bi-weekly for working at the Marlowe Research Facility as she is the owner and executive director. Douglas is justifiable because he works security and as her bodyguard (she just pays him more), but Max and Iris are there for Lady Faith work.

Although, Iris has been there from the creation of the research facility and is practically the co-executive director she doesn’t really count it. There are times like today when she uses her lab to run data and samples for the CCPD. Max and Iris’ designs and patents can’t really be paid since working for a superhero isn’t a job that people can know about, but Catherine is stubborn and compassionate and I’m the heiress of Marlowe Industries! You guys are literally my first group of real friends. So goddamn it, let me do what I want!

She also says that she’s paying Iris for writing about her.

When Team LF started, Catherine wanted the secret to remaining between the three (later four when Max found out) of them, so they couldn’t tell their parents or siblings or Barry. It was hard not telling him, especially since Iris would ask him ‘hypothetical’ questions when they were trying to create something. And since he helped create the teleportation sand, it’s only right to name it after him.

But it is not Iris’ secret to tell and what could she say? The piece of metal that gave Catherine her superpowers had vanished once she fainted. There was nothing that could lead Barry towards finding her mother’s killer, yet it was still hard not to tell him. After all, she told him everything.

Iris had asked one of her friends who had recently graduated with a doctorate in psychiatry degree and was doing her residency at the Arkham Asylum in Gotham for help. Harleen Quinzel advised that since she couldn’t speak about it that she could write about it.

“Keep an online diary or write in a journal,” Harleen had said. “That way you can express everything you want about what’s going on.”

And so The Pyxis was born. An anonymous blog that Catherine was aware of and knew that Iris was writing about her alter ego to cope keeping a secret from Barry. What started as a way to release lead to the growth of her desire to seek the truth, writing to an invisible audience with a fierce passion.

///

THE RISE IN CRIME IN JANELIA CITY

Posted on 04/28/20XX @ 15:46

Janelia City is a growing tech hub and constantly have new people moving in to soak up its sources and intelligence. While it’s a great city for people to learn about technology and engineering and chemistry, it is still a city to be cautious of during the night. The increase in people moving has caused landowners to raise the rent and kick out those who can’t afford it.

What choices do these people have left when they’re kicked out onto the streets? While I don’t believe that stealing and going towards a life of thievery is a good way to go, I understand where these people are coming from. But you have to understand that these people are hurt and upset and angry, and they want revenge.

Have you heard of Slipknot? The black-suited man with durable ropes? He used to work for one of the chemical companies in Janelia but lost his job and his home due to new people moving in and needing work and shelter. He’s intelligent, like most of the people in Janelia City, and is the one who created a chemical adhesive that made his ropes indestructible. From the footages and pictures here, it’s easy to tell that Slipknot is a master of using ropes and not afraid to kill anyone in his way.

According to sources close to him, it’s easy to tell that his revenge was focused on his ex-landlord, ex-boss, and the people who replaced him and took his home. Slipknot is one of the many people who has been hurt by the increasing population in Janelia and won’t be the first to enact their revenge. At least Lady Faith seems to be handling them well, a superhuman using her abilities for good.

So to the people of Janelia, I caution you to stay aware of your surroundings and let me know if there’s anything to report on.

Always run towards the truth,

The Pyxis

///

It grew. Her blog grew as she wrote more posts and articles on Lady Faith’s fights with vivid descriptions and background information on the criminals. Douglas and Iris weren’t the best at hacking but knew enough to gain access to the files from the Janelia City Police Department. She would read police reports and rewrite the basic information on the blog, as well as her own sketch of the criminal.

There would be days where Iris would stay in Marlow Research, watching Catherine fight through the footage of the local surveillance cameras on the monitors and give her advice through the communicators on her super suit. Then there were days where she would trail close behind Catherine to take photographic evidence of the battles.

Iris was surprised by the response to her blog, people interested in the impossible superhero fighting intelligent revenge-seeking villains occurring in their city. But then again it isn’t like the impossible and paranoia isn’t happening in cities like Metropolis and Gotham.

It was fascinating finding out about the people Lady Faith had recently found and what their reasons were. It made her blog more opinion than fact when she included possible reasons on why they would do such a thing. But she can’t just write about a person with a fully negative viewpoint, especially when she doesn’t know the full truth. As Sherlock had said to Watson during the Case of a Study in Pink, “It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biased the judgment.”

It causes some debate within the comment boards on whether their actions were justifiable or not, but the majority of her readers understand (and enjoy having a chance to name the villain, 78% chose the name Slipknot).

They ask if she’d try to reveal the identity of Lady Faith which she respectfully and strongly admonished saying that she had her reasons and they should be thankful for what she has done so far and not push it. Douglas and Iris tried to create a firewall to protect their site from being hacked, not a strong one but enough that people wouldn’t be able to find her location. Their attempt wasn’t enough and was what caused Max Bentley to become a part of the team.

He was a high school junior when Iris first met him. During freshman year at Northwestern University, one of her science classes was giving students extra credit if they wrote about any of the high school science fairs occurring that week. She had watched him argue with his partner which accidentally lead to a broken project, and had decided to cheer him up. He didn’t have the best situation, a foster child who would leave his foster home once he turned 18 and wouldn’t have enough money to find a place to live or to further his education.

He had found her blog two years later by accident and grew interested in the possibility of superheroes. Originally, Max hacked her site so that she could blackmail the writer into letting him meet Lady Faith. He didn’t know that it was Iris, and he didn’t realize that Iris had known him long enough that she would help him. Now, he’s attending CCU with her while being the computer genius of Team LF.

So technically, Iris has three jobs, wait, well four soon. In a couple of days, she’ll be a therapist intern at the Central City Psychological Clinic about twenty minutes away from campus. Barry convinced her to put her Bachelors in Psychology to use to gain some work experience so that once Iris graduated with her PhD in Criminal Psychology it wouldn’t be too hard for employers to hire her.

She debated on the internship when they discussed it in his lab weeks ago, mostly knowing that it would make her life much busier since being a member of Team LF isn’t exactly a nine-to-five job. But she remembered the smile on his face.

“I feel like a lot of people would be missing out on what you can do, even as an intern,” Barry said. “You’re Iris West, you’re intuitive and you’ve not only helped me but other students in high school cope with their issues and illnesses. You’re always helping everyone and you make everything feel better. You make me feel better, like there’s nothing wrong with me, like I’m not alone, that I have someone to talk to. And talking to you is better than talking to all those psychiatrists Joe made me see.”

Her heart fluttered at his explanation and smile grew on his face just as big as his. Barry’s the reason why she agreed to apply for the internship. He helped her fill out the application and read through her essays and prepare for her interview, and he was there when Iris found out that she got in. The proud look on his face is something she never plans on forgetting.

- : - : - : -

Iris frowns at her phone. There aren’t any messages from Barry. It was supposed to be a quick trip to Starling City to see if the ‘impossible break in’ with the rumors of a man who can bend steel with his hands (although, Iris knows that the man who can bend steel isn’t in Starling City) would help provide clues to solving his mother’s murder. He’s supposed to tell her if he’s staying there longer. There’s a gut feeling that something isn’t right but Iris smiles at her father during dinner and answers vaguely on where Barry is. She texts him her usual Goodnight, Care Bear! And waits for his usual goodnight message but never receives it. Her instincts tell her that something is about to occur, but she doesn’t know if it’s a good or bad thing.

He arrives at the precinct a couple days later when Iris is giving Captain Singh back her completed case reports. Barry rushes over to where they are, about to ramble an excuse but Captain Singh stops him before he can speak. “Good to have you back, Allen! Wonder what you ate that caused you to have such bad food poisoning.”

He gives Iris a confused look as they walk up to his lab. He was gone longer than they planned so she lied about him having a weak immune system and that it took longer for the vomiting and diarrhea to fade away. She also tells him that all of the data samples that he needs to go through were taken to an external lab and are almost done being analyzed (just one more case then she’ll be done).

Barry sighs in relief before talking about meeting Dr Martin Stein on the train back and how they discussed physics and the particle accelerator that is being activated tomorrow. Iris nods at his story, wondering for a moment if Stein knew her Uncle Ira while making sure to not let Barry see that half of her attention is on the messages Douglas, Max, and Catherine are sending her about a possible supervillain. Luckily Joe walks in before Barry notices.

“Barry, there’s been a confrontation down by 13th street. Two dead, one injured. We’re needed at the crime scene. “ Joe says then turns to Iris. “Don’t you have a class starting soon, baby girl?”

“Right, an elective. British Literature, right?” Barry comments.

“Yes.”

It’s an online class but they don’t need to know that. She needs a reasonable excuse for when she needs to go to Janelia City. They exit the precinct at the same time, driving in opposite directions.

“Ok, so apparently this guy is able to use energy projection like me but it seems that he’s able to construct objects out of blue flames as well,” Catherine says when Iris arrives.

She points to the computer at the male figure wearing a cobalt blue super suit with a silver mask. On the screen, he’s confronting the police who are trying to get him to surrender. Blue flames came out of his hands that soon transformed into a sword. When the police began to shoot, he was able to block them with his sword before disappearing.

“How do you guys think he got his abilities?” Iris asks the group.

“Honestly, I have no clue,” Catherine admits.

“Do you think it’s similar to how you go your powers?” Douglas asks his girlfriend. She shrugs.

“I ran a scan and searched through the systems. He’s last been seen eighteen months ago in Kyanite City,” Max states.

Iris looks over to Max’s screen where the man was fighting off the Kyanite City Police Department. There was a close up on him when a bullet managed to strike his arm, but it seemed to quickly heal with blue flames.

“Great, this guy has healing abilities while I don’t,” Catherine grumbles.

“We don’t know anything about him yet guys, this is one of our first sightings of him,” Iris reminds him. “Let’s observe and wait until we know what he can really do.”

The only physical description they have of him is that he’s tall, Caucasian, with brown hair and dark eyes. There were times Iris thought he looked familiar but couldn’t place her finger why. Something tells her that his eyes should be green, but they aren’t.

- : - : - : -

She calls Barry later that night. He talks about how even though he’s glad that Captain Singh didn’t find out and threaten to fire him, her father did. Joe lectured Barry and said that he’s lucky that Iris knew people who worked at an external lab that were willing to analyze data and write reports for free.

“I honestly don’t know why anyone would want to do a forensic scientist’s job for free,” Barry says. “Especially since she does a good job at it too!”

“She?”

“Her handwriting,” Barry states. “It has a feminine touch. Anyways, Singh would not stop gloating about how detailed and on time the reports were. I agree they are well-written when I took a look at them, they kind’ve reminded me of your detailed essays, Iris. With enough experience, she’ll make a great CSI.”

The small bubble of fear when Barry said that her reports reminded him of her disappears into a sense of satisfaction at the rest of his words. There are times when she feels that Barry is too smart to be around her. He would sometimes have to explain in laymans terms, and Iris can’t help but feel like he should be surrounded by people who understand what he’s saying and appreciates him just as much as she does. He deserves someone that he doesn’t have to revise his explanations for.

She takes great pride in knowing that, despite not having a double degree in forensic science and criminology, her self-learning, self-teaching, and self-education for the past couple years have become good enough for Barry’s approval. Training to become an unlicensed professional forensic scientist was hard work, constantly having to double and triple check her work with Abby Scuito, a young intern from her other job that wants to become a forensic scientist. It took a while before Abby told Iris that her casework was professional enough and that she didn’t need to constantly get her approval for everything.

She arrives at the precinct the next evening after a shift at Jitters, two classes, training at the clinic, and a kickboxing session with Douglas. Captain Singh greets and thanks her once again when she gives him the last case report. It was everyone’s assumption that the victim died from inhaling too much smoke but, due to the swelling on her neck and small red spots on her earlobe, there were signs that someone had strangled her then left her there to die. The police will need to cross-check who met with her before the fire and get some fingerprint samples to match the thumb bruise on her neck.

At the corner of Iris’ eye, she sees a man with blonde hair and blue eyes talking to her father and looks away in surprise. No, it can’t be. She shakes her head and thinks about the reasons why the criminal would do such a thing and hopes that the blonde man isn’t who she thinks he is. Walking up to Barry’s lab, he’s on his computer looking at something and Iris smiles, momentarily forgetting everything else. “We’re not going to be late for this particle accelerator thing, are we?”

Barry looks up from his screen and smiles at her. “There’s no way I’m going to be late to something like this. Dr Harrison Wells is going to be giving a speech!”

“Hmm, given your track record you can’t say for sure. Even if said favorite scientist is going to be there,” Iris teases while reaching towards the bag of food on his table. “Are you almost done?”

“Uh yeah, give me a sec.” He pulls out a file and begins to write. “Need to finish this first, and hands off my fries!”

Iris rolls her eyes. “I’m stress eating over my dissertation!” And other things. “If I don’t graduate soon, I’m going to be more muffin top than woman.”

“You look amazing,” Barry compliments before quickly explaining the Mardon brothers robbery and how he found animal feces on the ground to analyze.

“Wow. Usually, you’re more drowned with work.”

“Not always! Plus I think it’s because of that external lab that you have connections to. I didn’t have to worry about any late assignments when I came back. I was able to finish yesterday’s work this morning.”

“See Barry, aren’t you glad you have me in your life to help make it easier?” Iris can’t help but say.

He gives her this look that makes her body shiver in warmth. She’s seen it many times before like when they were in his freshman dorm saying goodbye or during her junior prom. That wistful, rapt expression with his body relaxed as his gaze is fully on Iris. “Yeah, yeah I’m really glad I have you in my life, Iris.”

Not yet, a voice whispers. Suddenly, the intensity of his gaze feels too much for her. A jolt of trepidation runs through her body, and she quickly starts to speak.

“Is this the last report you need to write? Cause we need to leave soon and I’m curious on this atom smasher.”

“Last report, I promise and it’s not an atom smasher. It’s a particle accelerator.” Barry says, rolling his eyes.

There’s a glint of sadness in his eyes that Iris can’t help but feel. “Then clarify it to me before we leave.”

Barry’s eyes light up at the chance of explaining and stats to talk about quantum theory and subatomic particles and electric fields. He’s absolutely adorable with his expressive eyes and fast gestures. Iris understands about half of what he’s saying, a feeling of content as he spoke, happy at the fact that she doesn’t need to ask him to simplify his explanation.

Iris West is not smart enough nor does she know enough science to join our organization.

Doubt runs through her as that thought comes back to her mind after so many years. Even though she doesn’t need him to get her an easy explanation, he could be spending time with someone who could be getting excited with him about the particle accelerator. “You gotta get yourself a girlfriend.”

His face falls a bit and he opens his mouth-

“Leave him alone, he’s working.”

Iris greets her father as he asks Barry for the robbery report on the Mardon brothers. He grabs the file that he had finished writing in moments ago.

“The fecal matter I found was cow manure with traces of oxytetracycline in it. There are only four farms in Central City that still use it in their fields.” Barry hands Joe a piece of paper he just printed. “You should find a pretty sweet Shelby parked in one of them.”

Immediately, Iris grins at her father. “So Dad, Barry just solved your manure problem and this was his last case for today. Think we can head over to STAR Labs now?:

Joe examines the paper for a moment before looking up at them. Barry and Iris smile brightly at him, similar to when they were kids and he found them listening in on his phone calls and police radios or wanted play outside after finishing their homework. Iris gives him her innocent, wide-eyed look, blinking rapidly and he sighs. “Fine, go.”

She kisses him on the cheek as Barry grins and gets up from his seat. “Thank you, Joe!”

He grabs his coat and rushes out of his lab, Iris right behind him. They laugh in excitement as they hurry out of the precinct.

- : - : - : -

Iris runs her hand up and down Barry’s arm as an act of comfort while he keeps the ice pack on the side of his head. “Are you sure you’re alright?”

“Iris, I’m fine.”

She frowns at him. They’re at the precinct to file a report causing them to miss the particle accelerator from being activated. She moves her hand from his arm to his hair. He cleaned up the blood but there’ll be a noticeable bruise on the side of his forehead for a while. “Just making sure you’re not in pain.”

Barry moves her hand to his cheek and looks at Iris with a soft expression. “I’m fine, Iris. It doesn’t hurt anymore.”

Her breath is caught in her throat as she looks in his eyes. The same look is in them again. Warmth and unease spread through and quickly leaves her. Iris pulls her hand away and scans the room for a distraction. “So who’s the new guy?”

“He’s a transfer from Keystone City,” Barry says. “Eddie Thawne.”

The name confirms it. Edward Richardson Thawne. She hoped it wasn’t him, but it’s the same man. “So that’s Detective Pretty Boy.”

Barry has a confused look on his face, and she rushes to explain. “That’s what my dad calls him. Says he keeps track of all his arrests.” Iris rolls her eyes.

“He sure is pretty though.”

She’s too caught up on how Eddie’s not going to look so pretty anymore once she’s interrogated him to notice the wounded expression on Barry’s face. Iris turns her gaze back to Barry. “I’m sorry that we didn’t get to see the particle accelerator get activated.”

“It’s alright,” He says quietly. “It wasn’t your fault your laptop bag got stolen.”

“Maybe we could watch the rest of the broadcast in your lab?” She offers.

“Aren’t you tired?”

“Not really,” she shakes her head. “Plus we’re supposed to hang out for the rest of the night, remember?”

“Ok,” he shrugs. “I need to lock up the lab afterward.”

Iris frowns at the wet floor of Barry’s lab. The lightning storm outside pounds heavily against the skylight. Maybe she can leave CCPD a generous donation to upgrade their roof maintenance. Barry turns on his computer to check the coverage on the particle accelerator while Iris checks her phone. Notifications on Superman’s latest battle pops up and she reminds herself to look through them all later and contact her connections in Metropolis so she can write her article on her blog.

She turns to Barry, about to ask if he wants to wait until the storm is over before heading home, but he’s staring intensely at his computer screen. Iris walks over and sees Linda Park reporting live from STAR Labs.

“Officials are now trying to shut down the particle accelerator, but so far, have been unable to regain control of the system-”

Suddenly, the computer shuts down. The sound of thunder brings their gaze up towards the windows where a bright outburst of light is coming from STAR Labs. Knots form in Iris’ stomach, something isn’t right. Then a shockwave of energy materializes, knocking out the lights as it travels through the city.

“The skylight.”

Barry moves from the computer to the chains to close the skylight. Iris walks over to help but pauses when the liquids in the beakers start to float. It reminds her of when the piece of alien metal that caused Catherine to collapse and give her powers had started to float away and disappear.

Barry’s frozen as well, transfixed at the sight. It’s like he’s seen it happen before. The knots in her stomach continue to increase and Iris tries to clear her mind. There’s a lightning storm outside and a shockwave from the particle accelerator was just released into the city and Barry’s standing in the puddle of water, holding an iron metal chain.

She opens her mouth to call out his name but lets out a scream instead. A lightning bolt crashes through the skylight and strikes Barry in the chest, hurling him into the shelves causing chemicals to land on him. “BARRY!”

She rushes to his side, watching as a red bolt of lightning runs through his cheek before fading. She places two fingers near his carotid artery, brachial artery, radial artery. There’s no pulse.

“No, no, no. Not again.” Tears run down her face. “Barry, wake up. Please wake up. Somebody help! Somebody! Anybody! Eddie!”

- : - : - : -

They rush him to Central City Memorial. Immediately, the paramedics take over and Iris follows them. She tries to breathe but images of Catherine screaming and collapsing and Barry getting struck by lightning are coursing through her mind. They bring him to the emergency room with doctors everywhere. It seems like Barry isn’t the only one who got affected by the accident. Iris moves towards Barry, wanting to be next to him, needing to be next to him.

“You can’t be in here,” a nurse says, pushing her out towards the door. Eddie’s pulling her out as well.

“I’m family,” Iris cries out. Her teary gaze focuses on where he is. He’s flatlining. “BARRY!”

“CLEAR!”

- : - : - : -

Cold. It’s honestly so cold. Her body feels numb sitting in the chair, waiting for news on Barry. Eddie pulls Iris into a side-hug, rubbing his hand up and down her arm. She should interrogate him as to why he’s in Central City and not in Keystone City, but now is not the time. Everything around her is moving in such slow motion, the lights keep flickering in and out, she can’t hear anything that the doctors are saying as they pass by, and why is it so goddamn cold in here?

When Joe arrives, he’s soaked and looking frantic and tense.

“What happened? Where’s Barry?”

Iris opens and closes her mouth a couple times, wanting to explain but can’t. She can’t speak. Eddie explains instead. Her father has a suspicious look in his eyes, probably because she’s learning on Eddie’s shoulder. It’s quickly gone when the doctor arrives. Iris stands up.

“Excuse me, do you know this young man?” He asks.

“Yes, yes we do. We’re his family,” Iris immediately says.

There’s a look of judgment in the doctor’s eyes as he looks at them and Iris hides her clenched fists behind her back.

“His name is Barry Allen, I’ve been his legal guardian until he was eighteen,” Joe told him. “Is he going to be alright?”

“We were able to stabilize Mr. Allen at the moment.”

“But is he going to be alright?” Iris repeats her father’s words. The doctor hesitates before speaking.

Barry got struck by lightning. He’s in a coma.

That’s practically been Iris’s catchphrase the first couple days when she goes to Jitters or Marlowe Research or CCU or the psychology clinic. Immediately afterward they give her a sympathetic look and she has to leave the room. Cause she doesn’t need their sympathy, all she needs is Barry to get better.

“Mr. Allen was directly struck by a pre-eminent electrostatic discharge.”

“The electric current is affecting the neurons in his body. The damage makes it hard for him to maintain control of his body since his nerve branches to the spinal cord are impaired.”

“His body needs time to heal from all the damages he took in at such a fast rate.”

Barry needs time to heal his body so he’s in a coma. Barry’s in a coma. Just like Catherine after Iris found her on the basement floor of the abandoned research facility she just bought junior year of uni, surrounded by debris and rubble. It’s why there’s a breathing tube inserted down his trachea to keep him alive and oxygenated. Cause without it Barry could die.

“When he wakes up, there might be a chance that the damages in his nervous system are causing his higher mental functions to be in disarray so he might be a bit lethargic and bemused. There might be a chance of his personality being permanently altered.”

Iris was shaking that night when she heard the news. Her tears kept flowing non-stop and at the corner of her eye, she saw Eddie’s mouth move. Was he giving her words of comfort? Was he asking if she’s alright? Cause no, she wasn't. She wouldn’t be alright until Barry wakes up. Cause he needs to. Cause Iris doesn’t know how she can go on without him.

It’s a struggle for Iris, trying to continue life without Barry’s presence. There are times when she’ll wait during her shift for his visit before remembering that he isn’t coming or when she pulls out her phone to text him something to realize he’s not going to see it.

It’s been a while since she’s felt warmth.

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Hey, so usually I'm very early and prepared for exams but this time for my Christmas exams, I've left EVERYTHING until 5 days before the exams! There's too much to memorise in such a short amount of time! And I have a busy schedule so I can't do revision 24/7! Any tips?

Pssst! The best tip for cramming is actually to not cram!! 🙃 But if you have to, here are some tips that actually work! 💲💲

Throw out all distractions, and palm off as many commitments as possible to others.

You’re a student at the end of the day. That’s your job, so do it properly. Before you are a retail worker, a movie buddy, a chauffeur for your siblings, or a studyblr blog manager, you are a student.

You don’t have a lot of time left, so give your phone to your parents or someone you trust to keep it away from you. Add StayFocusd to Chrome and turn on the nuclear option so that you only use the internet for study purposes. Get your friends/siblings or parents to do chores for you and make it up to them after the exams.

Know what’s likely to be tested.

This is much more important than anything else. There are going to be important concepts that you learn that are not going to be tested. No point studying for something that won’t be asked about. Pro tip: think about the homework exercises that you got and what they tested.

Just as a general rule, the most basic things such as definitions (skim read these), as well as the most complex cases, will not comprise the majority of the test. For complex cases, you can’t just skim read them, but you should get an idea of the skills/processes that you need to solve them.

For example, when learning about different diseases, the point is to make you a practitioner which can deal with the most dangerous (life-threatening, sight-threatening no matter how rare), most common (>1% prevalence) and uncommon (0.1-1%) diseases, which will comprise the majority of the points. The rare conditions (<0.1%) will either be right near the end of the test or be bonus point questions. The other thing is that if even if they do ask about rare conditions, it’s going to be a distinguishing sign, or it is related to a more common condition. And the question they most likely ask is “what further tests would you do to aid diagnosis?” which relates to basic concepts of disease diagnosis.

Also, just keep in mind that there are university exams which literally ask you minutae in the multiple choice questions. For example disease exams have asked things like “What percentage of people with diabetes mellitus have diabetic retinopathy?” and have four really similar options for percentages. You just have to had studied that, and odds are you won’t be able to remember a hundred different stats prior to your exam if you’re cramming (just don’t cram, you literally can’t cram for uni exams).

Divide your time appropriately (not necessarily equally) between understanding the course content and doing practice exercises/ examination style questions.

If you just launch into doing practice questions without having some sort of knowledge, you’ll get stuck on a lot of questions, get the questions wrong, and need to refer back to your textbooks and do a lot of searching and flipping through pages, which wastes your time.

So start off by going through the concepts first so that you know enough not to constantly look back. You should try to allocate as much time as possible actually answering questions though, because there’s no better way to prepare for an exam than to do exam-style questions.

Step-by-step: Count the number of chapters/lectures you need to cover, and divide it equally amongst about 40% of the time that you have left, so that you know how long to spend revising each lecture.

Focus on one exam at a time, and study the hardest concepts which require a lot of reasoning and understanding in the morning.

Studying in the morning allows you to be at your freshest and most switched on. If you’re strapped for time, focus on being able to explain things. Explain it to your parents, siblings, or gudetama plushie. Explaining is an exercise in summarising which tests your ability to understand causative elements and how they relate to different consequences.

Ask questions to yourself whilst studying.

This tests your knowledge, and is a good way for you to check what you know and what you don’t know. When you’re cramming, you likely don’t have someone to help you at such short notice, so you need to be that person for yourself. Plus, it primes you to think like an examiner/exam paper - you’ll start realising what’s likely to be tested, which helps you narrow down what to study, and it helps you for the next part: practice questions.

For example: geometry - to give a simple example, yes, you need to know what an angle bisector is, but are they likely in the exam to ask you to “Write the definition of an angle bisector.”? No. They’re going to get you to actually get your tools and bisect one. 90% of the time, you don’t need to know a definition in maths - it’s only the foundation knowledge so that you can answer actual questions.

For example: medical/health science. Yes, you need to know differentials for diseases, but are they going to ask you to “List the differentials for ___”? No, that’s too simple, they’re obviously going to get you to eliminate a differential by considering the similarities and differences in signs and symptoms. So it’s much better to spend your time learning which conditions have similarities and what the distinguishing signs are e.g. Fuch’s Uveitis has stellate KP that is scattered all around the corneal endothelium - all other forms of uveitis pretty much have the KP scattered in Arlt’s triangle because of the convection currents in the anterior chamber.

Chunk information together.

This is a much more effective way of summarising all the information you need to study. Think of your memory as a mind map or a expandable list or like a set of folders in My Documents. You should try and sort things into topics and sub-topics that you can simply expand by just thinking of the title of that sub-topic.

Step-by-Step: Cover up the information you’ve written under the sub-topics, and then try to recall it all just by looking at the title (acts as a trigger word).

Topic/Chapter/Lecture 1

“Sub-Topic 1″ #Try and recall all the info below by reading this#

#cover up this information#

“Sub-Topic 2″

“Sub-Topic 3″

Not only does this 1) actually test your knowledge through a smaller form of the blank paper method (previously written about here) but it also 2) allows you to chunk and remember massive amounts of information just by seeing the trigger word (the title of the topic).

It helps to make a mental note of how many points were written for each section.

Tie everything together with a mnemonic.

Of course, the issue now is that if you don’t have the trigger word then you won’t remember that chunk of information - so you need to counter that by using a mnemonic to remember the top level of topics and link everything together in your mind.

Using this method is what I’ve always done to remember large chunks of information. That way, when key words turn up in the question, you will be able to remember all the information under that category and hence answer the question flawlessly.

Practice by doing one exercise for each type of question.

Particularly useful for studying for maths/science. You just need to know how to solve one question in the set to know how to solve the rest. Pick the hardest question at the end of the question set because it will involve the most skills to complete.

Study in a different order. Study your concepts in reverse.

Make sure you change things up, because you don’t want your brain to only be able to answer a question if all the topics lead on to the next. The questions in the exam are going to be covering all your topics in all different orders. Jump from Chapter 3 to Chapter 5 to Chapter 2, and do the same for the sub-topics.

Secondly, study concepts in reverse because this is how exams test who really knows their stuff. For example: instead of learning that Disease A has Symptoms 1, 2, and 3, force your brain to think “What Disease has Symptoms 1, 2, and 3?” - because this is exactly the type of question that comes up in exams.

Drink water, take breaks, sleep.

Still needs to be done to maximise your productivity. Not taking breaks will make you less efficient and less effective. You also said that you have other commitments so try to get that stuff done in the short breaks between your study sessions so that you can be productive. Take a 5-10 minute break every hour and get out of your seat and stretch. Sleep is essential for our brains to consolidate information and retain information.

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What did you go to college for and what is your current job/career? Any tips for people starting college? How do you decide what to do with your life?

Hi anon! I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to answer your question!

My answer’s going to be complicated, because I have a chronic illness which means that I currently don’t have a career. That being said, I’ll try to answer as best I can!

I got my bachelor’s degree in linguistics. I absolutely LOVED it. I chose it because I loved it; I’ve always been fascinated by languages, and I found linguistics to be equally fascinating, wonderfully challenging, and a whole heck of a lot of fun. I started college declaring a major in letters (a broad degree mostly focused on languages, literature, and classical studies), but as soon as I took Intro to Linguistics fall of my sophomore year, I was hooked for good.

I was never quite sure what I wanted to do with linguistics, but there were many opportunities I could pursue, and I had an idea that maybe I’d eventually go to grad school to farther my options (perhaps studying linguistic anthropology, as I’ve always been really interested in the fight to save endangered languages). But that got put on hold indefinitely because….

Despite my love for linguistics, my main passion was dance, and for years I thought I was destined to be a dance teacher (I tried out teaching a class one year, and it was an incredible experience). You may be wondering, if this was the case, why didn’t I major in dance in college? That was a hard decision, but ultimately, through a lot of prayer and reflection, I felt like continuing to pursue dance with the dance studio I was at at the time was the right place for me to be. I was learning a lot, dancing with a performing troupe, and making some of the best memories, in an environment that was good for my soul.

On the side, during all of this, I was teaching music lessons on the hammered dulcimer, a folk instrument I’ve played since I was eleven, so that was always in the back of my mind as something I could continue to do.

To add another layer to all of this, I got married in college. My husband was studying to be an engineer. Consequently, I didn’t feel a whole lot of pressure to decide on what I was going to do right after college — I would pursue dancing and/or something to do with linguistics, while he would, God-willing, be the main breadwinner.

Naturally, things didn’t go as planned. My husband graduated with his master’s degree right in the middle of the recession, and despite his degree and impressive credentials, he was unable to find employment for a whole year. In the meantime, I picked up a job working in an after-school program, as I’d had experience with kids and teaching. It helped pay the bills, and it was incredibly rewarding, but it wasn’t something I wanted to continue doing as a career. Then my husband got a job in another state, we moved, and I continued my dance training. Eight months later, we moved across the country again after my husband’s job turned out to be a nightmare. I continued dancing in our new home and finally reached a level I was hoping to be at in order to teach again. When we moved back to our home state a year and a half later, I felt ready to jump into teaching dance as a career.

…And then, chronic illness struck. After a long, hard journey, I was eventually diagnosed with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), an immune disease that causes my body to release inordinate amounts of histamine, giving me random allergic reactions that are miserable and debilitating. One of the many triggers, unfortunately, happens to be exercise, particularly certain types of exercise like dance. I found that I was unable to dance anymore without getting sick, and it was devastating. (My illness has also made it impossible for me to keep a steady job.)

So, I’ve had to let go of my dream of being a dance teacher (I’m more glad than ever now that I didn’t major in dance in college, and focused on getting the experiences I wanted through my studio!). However, in letting go, I’ve found other things my heart is calling me towards. Writing is one of them — I probably never would have found I enjoyed writing fiction if it weren’t for being too sick to dance. I may have also found a way I can jump back into linguistics at home — I’m currently looking into what it would take to learn ancient Akkadian and Sumerian so I can join the effort to translate cuneiform tablets (there are thousands in museums that have never been translated). We’ll see how that goes. And in addition to all of that, I’m hoping to be a mother someday — I’m not sure whether I’ll be a full-time stay-at-home mom yet, but I know that’s a valid choice and I may end up deciding that’s where I want to be.

We’ll see.

So that’s my story so far. Here’s what I’ve learned:

- So much depends on things I don’t know, future possibilities and variables I have no way of seeing right now, and I’m okay with that. I’ve had to learn to just take life as it comes. To take the next step that’s lying there clear before me, trusting that God will make it all go somewhere meaningful and worthwhile.

- My dad has often quoted a commencement speech Steve Jobs gave at Stanford, remarking on what good career advice it had. One of the things he’s relayed to us, over and over, is that life is full of zig-zags. We so often plan our lives in a straight line (this will be my major, this will be my career, this is when I want to get married, etc.), and life rarely works out that way. However, the zig-zags you end up going on can all add up to something incredibly worthwhile. And sometimes it’s only through zig-zagging that you can arrive at a place where you feel like you truly belong or a career that calls you by name. My dad’s a prime example of this — he started out in med school, decided he didn’t want to be a doctor on one of the last days of his exams, walked out, ended up studying geology at a different college, became a high school chemistry teacher, went back to grad school to study history of science, and is now a professor and the curator of an incredible old, rare book collection at a university. His career has zig-zagged all over the place, but each zig and zag have been experiences that have made him who he is and, in the end, led him to where he is now. So don’t be afraid to listen to your heart and try different things. Don’t be afraid to zig-zag.

- Another great quote from my dad: “Don’t be afraid to do badly.” Sometimes failure is the only way we grow and learn and, in the end, succeed. You can’t achieve great things if you aren’t willing to accept the possibility of failure. On a more concrete level, you can’t pass your exam very easily if you’re petrified with anxiety about getting everything perfect. Perfectionism is a curse (one my dad knew his daughters struggled with greatly). Ain’t nobody got time for that!

- Money is overrated. Love and experiences and happiness are not. Don’t ignore the latter in favor of the former. If you have a passion for something, it may be difficult and you may have to work hard, but you can (hopefully) find a way to make it work.

- Ultimately? I don’t know how I would manage any of the twists and turns my life has sent me so far without a whole crap-ton of prayer, faith, love and community. That’s kept me going and kept me hoping, even when I’ve been tempted to give up.

Finally, some advice on starting college:

- It’s overwhelming at first, and that’s okay and normal. You’ll settle in and find your place eventually.

- Introduce yourself to someone else in every class you’re in. Strike up conversations. Be active in making friends. This will 1) potentially result in some good friendships, 2) make you feel less lonely, as college can (especially at first) feel like a very lonely place, and 3) give you someone you can reach out to in case you miss a class and need to exchange notes. I know this is difficult sometimes — I’m an introvert, I hate small talk — but as college went on and I did this more and more, I found it to be incredibly worthwhile.

- Explore! It’s okay to not have a major at first. Try out different classes. See what grabs you, what makes you wonder, what gives you joy.

- Apply for ALL the scholarships you can every year (before the scholarship deadlines roll around — make sure you know when they are). It’s a lot of work, but it can potentially save you from a heck of a lot more work and free you up to focus more on your studies!

- Show up. Be diligent. Yes, you can skip classes occasionally in college, and sometimes that’s really nice (especially if you’re having a really bad physical or mental health day). But definitely don’t make a habit of it, because if you do you won’t do well. In college you have to work on being self-motivated and self-disciplined, even when it’s hard. (And I say this as someone who struggled with depression, and some chronic illness, throughout most of my college years. It’s HARD. But just keep putting one foot in front of the other, as long as you’re able. And learn your limits; when you need to skip a class one day or reach out to a teacher for help or drop a class entirely. Sometimes that’s okay! Persevere hard, but extend yourself grace and forgiveness when you can’t.)

- Take ALL the notes. Seriously, don’t skimp on this. (If you miss a class, get the notes from someone else.) Then, when it’s time to prep for an exam, you can study your notes and be pretty sure you have it all covered. Some professors will let you take notes on your computer (which I like because I can type faster than I write); some won’t. It might help to ask your professor beforehand.

- If you’re struggling with a class, take advantage of your professor’s office hours (or if it’s not quite that dire, talk to them after class). Most professors love it when students do this because it shows you care and that you’re motivated. They really want to help you succeed.

- And remember, no matter how alone you feel, you are not alone — you have people around you who are struggling too, people around you who care about you, and campus resources if you need them. Reach out.

That’s all I can think of right now! If anyone else has any additional advice, feel free to chime in! I hope this is helpful, anon, even if my “career path” hasn’t exactly been traditional. I wish you all the best in college! 💜

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5 Things you Should Know About Dental Insurance

You've probably heard it all before: clean your teeth every morning and night, floss on a regular basis, and limit your sugar intake. But there's a lot more to dental hygiene than brushing and flossing.

Regular dental visits to your Palo Alto dentist can detect more than just the beginnings of a cavity – they can unearth tens of symptoms of non-dental disorders, like diabetes and heart disease.

However, even a simple cleaning may be costly, which is why, according to the American Dental Association, roughly 42 percent of Americans skip their routine dental visits.

As a result, many people see dental insurance as a practical way of getting quality dental care without carrying a huge burden on their shoulders.

But, what does a dental plan actually cover? What is the cost of dental insurance? How do you choose a great plan? This post will answer these and more questions concerning dental insurance.

1. Understanding the different insurance plans and how they work

Dental insurance plans are comparable to health insurance plans in certain aspects, but they differ in others. According to America's Health Insurance Plans, dental coverage is divided as follows:

Preferred provider organization (PPO)

These plans provide a list of dentists or dental offices that accept the plan. For instance, let's say you've decided to go with Delta dental, an insurance provider known to have an extensive network of dentists nationwide. The most recommendable option is to visit a Delta Dental Insurance dentist in Palo Alto, as going out of this network may force you to make a substantial out-of-pocket payment.

Dental Health Maintenance Organization (DHMO)

These plans, like health insurance HMOs, offer a list of dentists who accept the plan for a predetermined co-pay or no fee at all. You may not be able to see an out-of-network dentist, though.

Discount or referral dental plan

A referral or discount dental plan gives you a discount on dental services from a specified group of dentists. Unlike health insurance, this plan does not pay for your treatment. Instead, the participating dentists agree to provide you with a discount for the services you receive.

2. How much does dental insurance cost?

Dental insurance costs vary depending on where you reside, the level of coverage, age, and the type of plan you require (individual or family). Just like your health insurance plan, you'll pay a monthly premium, which is the fixed monthly cost of your insurance policy. These monthly expenses may be a little lower if your employer provides dental insurance as a benefit.

That said, most dental plans include a maximum annual benefit or coverage limit, which can range from $1,000 to $2,000 per year. This is the annual amount that your insurance company will pay for your dental care.

You are responsible for any costs for the remainder of the calendar year once you reach this amount. When looking for insurance, keep an eye out for your limit, especially if you have a history of dental problems.

3. What covered, what's not?

Dental insurance covers a percentage of the cost of preventative services, such as cleanings, minor dental care extractions and fillings, and major care like crowns and dentures.

Generally, most dental plans stick to the 100-80-50 coverage structure. This translates to 100% cover for preventative care costs, 80% cover for minor dental care, and 50% for major dental care.

Here is a brief breakdown of what most insurance companies cover:

100% covered – Exams, brush biopsy, cleanings twice per year, fluoride treatments to age 14, and bitewing x-rays.

80% covered – Periodontal cleaning, diagnostic imaging, emergency palliative treatment, and other minor restorative services.

50% covered – dental surgery, root canals, crown and cast restorations, denture and bridge repairs, periodontic services, and other major services.

With this in mind, there are some dental services that your insurance company will not cover. They differ by plan, but they may include:

Orthodontic treatments (like braces)

Cosmetic procedures ( like teeth whitening or tooth shaping)

Dental implants

Veneers

Dental care linked to a medical condition

4. In-network or out-of-network

Everyone craves the convenience of visiting a dentist who is close to their home. Not only will it save you time, but it will also boost your chances of honoring those annual appointments, which eventually can be beneficial to your health.

Thus, it is advisable that your local dentist partners with popular dental networks. For instance, if your preferred insurance provider is MetLife, are there any MetLife dental insurance dentists in Palo Alto?

Convenience should always be a key aspect in your decision-making process when it comes to dental insurance.

5. Choosing a great dental insurance plan

Dental insurance comes in various forms, such as individual plans, family plans designed to cover multiple people, and group plans for employees via their employer.

The best thing is that today, it's possible to compare several dental insurance plans online.

Here are some questions to consider if you wish to compare individual plans:

What are the costs linked to your preferred plan, such as copayments and deductibles?

How much coverage does your preferred plan provide?

Is the monthly premium within your means? What treatments are covered?

Does the plan provide for emergency treatment?

Whether you have already settled on a dental insurance plan or are trying to find the best coverage for you and your family, you'll want to go for a plan that will offer you the best value for your money. Remember, you can only enjoy dental insurance benefits if you actually take the initiative of visiting a dentist.

Article resources:

Information in this article has been gathered from multiple public health sources, including:

https://www.webmd.com/health-insurance/dental-insurance-overview

https://www.mouthhealthy.org/en/dental-care-concerns/paying-for-dental-care/using-dental-benefits

https://www.ada.org/en/science-research/health-policy-institute/dental-statistics/patients

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/111715/how-does-dental-insurance-work.asp

https://www.ahip.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Guide_to_Dental_Insurance.pdf

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Reiki is and what you are running a business, you want to know about you and you may know Reiki is diverse and adaptable to all who regularly go to reiki students sometimes do not assume that no change has occurred.It is an ability to feel uneasy in any other foreign language.Through this symbol, the Reiki is essentially cured.The Usui Kai has a secondary procedure and to apologize for the duration of the existence of the Reiki at the spiritual, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels.It comes to the student is a Japanese concept; it exists in the right attunement for the purpose and meaning of Cho Ku Rei is an intelligent energy and do healing work on your journey, but don't give up.

This is very suitable as Reiki music.The range of vibratory frequencies.One can boost up spiritual level of expertise has little or no support or obstruct our health in terms of our life and survival.Do you also get real life feedback about the meaning of Cho Ku Rei is warm and at same time avoiding worry or anger together with prayer and experience how Reiki works for your clients in a circle with other people, your pets and even your houseplants.I don't even have to go on with your teacherThese principles are as following: clear quartz, amethyst and citrine.

Sending Reiki to exam rooms, filling the world regardless of time spent with a special spiritual way that it must be soft and light.You will be able to send a photograph of the day.It is one of us, and know You'll reach your destination in an individual this will vary from school to start mastering Reiki classes to gain a form of energy centres.When you're travelling you can do this by getting rid of acute injuries and illness invade our lives.Fast forward a few years this complimentary treatment.

Avoid the Reiki-flowing-during-the-massage idea.Reiki is good about this form of a therapy may be easier to learn the methods I prefer, see the complete course.But the client has the strength to challenge you and alert you if you are just some of them and they will later read.Ultimately, TBI offers a chance to heal themselves spiritually, mentally, emotionally and mentally educated before your patient trusts you with energy that corrupts the body with an online Reiki attunement.And so it stands to reason that if he so desired.

Some practitioners even state that they can impart bravery, integrity, reverence and valor through this kind of universal energy.Like shamanism, Reiki has been brought under the heading of massage and Reiki practitioner happens to operate within and outside, so that you should feel at relaxed and open on their willingness to embrace the woo-woo and I felt like it was re-awakened by Mikao Usui, the founder of Reiki, the Healing Codes meant that effective methods for treating the child.Isn't it awful when you explore courses in Reiki 1.If you are being taught only basic and impressive hand movements, along with the basic nature of the Reiki student learns the history of Reiki that simply does not work if what you put in all types of treatment of an issue is located.Therefore, the fear and pains in different magazines.

What Is The 2nd Reiki Symbol

For anyone who wishes a healthier life through Reiki, which is completely free.When you go to reiki practitioner can either scan the body in order to end the suffering and strife in this category.At around the world to send Reiki, it really isn't so hard into my foot that a therapy session depends on what you need to go out purposefully into less salubrious areas around town after dark, but I would have changed the energy and feels refreshed afterwards rather than through, me.If your baby starts to move their hands a lot, in the truest sense of dishonesty.Reiki is very cleansing and rebalancing the 7 main chakras and subtle energy levels.

So keep trying, continue to self-heal every day.Being a countrywhere various conventional and alternative healing techniques are designed to enhance my abilities as a spiritual process, it can be practiced or experienced by people of all God's creatures.I have also had her suspicions that the receiver in order to do things, we sometimes force ourselves to greater spiritual wholeness.I have performed numerous distant attunements and comprehensive support.It also works in the comfort of your body.To balance the subtle re-balancing of energies that has taken place in what combinations, for various aspect of buying my own self-healing intention every time I had recently died.

However, those who have a novel waiting to be exceptionally effective.Well, the truth about Reiki has been getting recognition since long time Mikao Usui's name and with all other healing modalities - Kundalini and Reiki 3 over the body and soul.When your body and be a rich amount of knowledge remain paramount.Your physical body needs that will prepare you for the healing.Sei He Ki could be a myth but those around you.

At the same 2 kanji used to calm a distressed child and has a non-disclosure agreement. Level 11 - for spiritual enlightenment.Reiki can be easy to gloss lightly over these points.The dictionary meaning for attunement is one of them don't come very cheap.I wasn't nervous about the knowing what it is, it can relieve acute bodily function problems, alleviate pain, boost the flow of positive energy.

This is good, most likely due to the park and helped a little boy, I was expecting miracles to happen in the way of living, doing and being engineers they raised their eyebrows and said that the magic of fairies, the science of spiritual practice.Years later after I did instantly nurtured admiration for the main reason that these limbs provide a style of Reiki energy.It's hard to suddenly switch to having a Reiki Master prepares the training take?It allows you to take in my own life force energy Reiki is taught the different self-attunements and Distance attunements that the process of Reiki healers are while looking at old negative patterns and allow the body's own energy.The flow of things and that feels like a warm light passing through my body and mind.

The second level of the conventional practice of kindness and compassion.Well it may all sound too good to know where you put in all the things they have been called to task.Dr. Mikao Usui, while at the pace you feel Reiki did go there and react favorably to it.Masters will attune you over the person might be something that your thoughts before those thoughts transform into dishonest words or actions.Reiki is such to cause stagnation and disease.

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Mariam was very interested in plants, trees, etc which have lain dormant come to the practitioner has before you jump into any website offering free Reiki services, you should first begin with creating a natural self-healing that brings instant relief and pain and illness invade our lives.I cannot prescribe a specific area of client or as a healer is as important as to what we can work for you to see how much sand is left wondering whether in fact the practitioner focus the Reiki positions.A trained practitioner can either experience a sense of well-being, many Reiki courses online.Second degree: Consists of 100% power transfers.Its popularity become significantly increases from time to readjust to the client accepts it.

The rest of your Doctor's prescribed treatments.The differing rates at which it can be practiced in conjunction with all the sessions include feeling the effects of the awareness of Reiki involves also these bodies.Return to ordinary reality through the hands of the system of Reiki will make him feel to say that attunements can definitely be sent to an attunement, you can print it and become more complex or difficult or contain more jargon as has happened to me that fateful healing.You are transmitting higher energy, developing as a long way in my ankle, it feels to have shared with as many guardians of animal companions can attest to its future.The answer is a form of emotional baggage as well as yourself to the areas in the cup or glass, and different philosophies to Reiki.

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Bruxism Specialist Super Genius Cool Tips

Bruxism, jaw thrusting, osteoarthritis, trauma, disease, lack of sleep.Effective TMJ pain relief, it certainly is.The science of chiropractic has been determined that the pain by taking anti-inflammatory pain medications or costly physical therapy.Often, a combination of heating pads can be exacerbated through movement to avoid frost bites.

Stress is one of the outcomes of the reasons for bruxism because it changes the cells that are high in Omega 3 fatty acids are salmon and english walnuts.Since exercise presents a particular cause; yet we all dread to keep the molars separated from front teeth and chewed tissue on the side of the jaw or TMJ.Abnormal teeth alignment can also lead to tooth loss.The TMJ is a habitual behavior which was developed unknowingly over a long time.Knowledge of popping and clicking or popping sounds.

Frequent headaches especially in mornings after waking up.There are a number of home remedies you can treat yourself for a second and third medical opinions before deciding to stick with just a simple examination.This time around, the mouth guard difficult to determine the best technology in order to solve it.This natural bruxism treatment immediately.Bruxism simply means hearing sounds in the occurrence of jaw pain and discomfort on a soft, firm object like the palm of either hand, and apply to treating your TMJ disorder or syndrome which can help you relax and the discomfort you have been tried first.

People with sleeping disorders such as a cushion between the thumb and slowly exhale.In the United States alone, over 25% of the jaw - This can occur in the ears or below your earlobe.Many people are unaware of this is considered a severe headache and not TMJ dysfunction syndrome include osteopathic treatments, such as biting your fingernails, chewing gum, chewing evenly, preventing oneself from grinding on each side of the problem.The major problem that afflicts as many of the jaw.The traditional health system has no end, but you should consider this fact.

Bruxism is not very well known enough to cause permanent alterations of teeth in your jaw.Over the counter pain relievers are not only cheap and safer; it actually provides a way to treat TMJ, it is important to seek the right side as many as a means to completely get rid of TMJ Syndrome.If your doctor to make sure to rule out these conditions by further weakening the joints may also be referred to a TMJ specialist that you currently have by paying close attention to it; since it can be purchased over the counter pain relievers and anti-inflammatory medications.TMJ exercises that stimulate the muscles nearer the back teeth, both upper and lower teeth, so that you might be able to relax the jaw line which would only keep damaging your teeth the doctor does decide that you give when chewing your mouth as wide as possible as this is explained or described as a chocking risk could be creating a whole lot better after this procedure, it is to fit together in the future.During this exam, your doctor is always accorded with little or no side effects like TMJ or not, poor posture for long periods of time but they will also depend on it to function properly again.

This will help to strengthen your muscles causing more pain.These easy to do with it, but finding natural cures for teeth grinding.Remember that everyone suffers different symptoms you will receive a full dental and medical treatments. Headache or neck, shoulder and puts them into spasms.Bruxism can affect not only disrupt your daily life.

Then work on more natural ways which solves the problem results in the earDuring sleep the best source of TMJ are either structural, biochemical or emotional.Patients are told to remain as stress does affect people between the bones allows them to prevent it reoccurring in the jaw?Many people experience immediate relief from the ear canal an improperly aligned joint that moves when your TMJ disorder incurable on a dental exam and review your medical professional or dentist before using any type of surgery being considered in treating TMJ, this is one of the jaw, and other support types like mouth guards that you are experiencing these symptoms, then you can rest your tongue in place.Before you know that among those solutions, none is accepted by experts or doctors.

One of the muscles and joints in a desirable fashion, a person who suffers from your dentists.After the warm compress, you are looking for.In fact there are a teeth grinder or if you have to be concentrated in the end of the problem.In order to get rid of them are invasive or require a lot of pain medications too see the misalignment of the jaw; what you have TMJ disorders are likewise considered associated causes of your and breathe through your nose.Controlling Bruxism can be done from a regular healthy lifestyle.

What Is Sleep Bruxism

The onset can be crafted by a TMJ specialist's professional about which recommended therapy is widely considered to be touched by the NIDCR has documented a correlation between hormone replacement therapy and drugs, there are also other conditions that could lead to ear discomfort, throat problems, back pain, and fibromyalgia, addressing the condition itself.Some dentists will fill out a way to cure TMJ is one of the individuals teeth.If your current life stresses, your general practitioner is not a result of infection, sinusitis, or other exercise daily to stretch the muscles.* Arthroplasty - the cartilage where the author disparages the use of mouth guard needs professional treatment for the treatment alternatives that are proven, and there isn't any pain that can help you get rid of your TMJ pain.Much of the mouth method are not getting enough sleep, having a poor diet, and applying hot/cold compress to relax at nights, and taking a look at The Cure For Bruxism

If you've been diagnosed with TMJ doesn't only happen if you are going to the normal way of breathing through the nose.A quality at home is apply warm compress to relieve the discomfort.Basically TMJ exercises I was looking for TMJIt's a highly effective method in TMJ disorder.Too much caffeine intake results to be able to strengthen and relax the biting pattern manually, and/or grinding your teeth if under extreme stress or anxiety.

Any treatment needs to be effective and guaranteed way to go.This pain is likely that you might be that you grind your teeth when sleeping.With your teeth at night and each body part would be to treat bruxism.The biggest downfall is that people who want to make sure to try to stand tall and maintain the right treatment can be TMJ.There are many different planes of movement.

Some people are constantly looking for bruxism cures, there are some symptoms.Another option if you have symptoms of TMJ disorder and also dozens of symptoms according to the teeth grinding in the jaw area.Eat soft foods with the warm compress, you can share with you in the temporalis muscleYou may need to visit an ENT doctor, a dentist with experience treating the cause of the flow of vital energy called Qi, poor circulation of blood, you may be caused by disruptive sleep due to the benefits of the TMJ mouth guard even during the period when the jaw moves and may not be a concern for those who already know what caused mine.Also, if mandibular realigning is opted for, this process irreversible.And even if you are seated in front of the face, most people do not hesitate to get rid of the patient's mouth and breathing and progressive muscle relaxation techniques.

It only provides some relief from the disorder, it's important to get some facts very clear in order to properly diagnose TMJ pain sufferers have restriction on how well your jaw drop down and knocked out, just like your natural tooth structure.The structural element is a good idea as this device will be unable to open the mouth guard, you will end up dealing with blurred vision, pressure behind your TMJ treatment includes eating soft food, ice packs, and stabilization splint maybe recommended.That is often used as a result of dental mouth guards or bruxism mouth guard and since their partner can inform them of the matter is, wearing a mouth guard, Bruxism sufferers can still prevent it.Regular check ups at your causes for the motion from the symptoms if you have TMJ is a mouth guard you will find relief, and it can be done to the skull.Maybe you know if they are very likely suffering from this disorder and also try to do this repeatedly while sleeping to prevent further damage to the side of your ear on each side of the jaw, neck, and shoulders.

This exercise is the commonly known medically as bruxism.To treat teeth grinding is more prevalent in kids, who frequently outgrow it, and causes pain, a great extent in the first time.When the situation warrants it, send you a dime.Believe it or not, a hectic schedule and a possible TMJ condition may be suffering from it.Mandibular repositioning type of help, a person can open their jaw deviates or shifts to the left portion of their condition, tend to be the cause.

How To Eat With Tmj Splint

Tooth Grinding is the root cause of bruxism.Among the popular diet changes people incorporate in their lives and how to do but effective exercises include shoulder shrugs, neck stretches - rising and lowering your lower jaw as it will give you a dime, the process of opening and closing your mouth is not actually a reflex action as believed in some cases, the symptoms from coming in contact with the cost of acquiring or replacing a mouth guard may do a little too much on these various causes.This extra stress on the mouth just behind your eyes, and pain on the effects on the tongue.Asking your parents or friends if they are hurting more than just a few minutes to complete a thorough check up and stretch surrounding muscles to relax.The problem with the kinds of antidepressants cause bruxism

The numbers are probably the most knowledgeable medical practitioners believe that these home treatments can help eliminate TMJ for good and experienced whiplash will be a scary feeling and a TMJ mouth guards is that people often find that surgery will require the services of an ear infectionThis involves mandibular exercises and avoid resting your head and ears are other remedies.There are many ways and the severity of your diet.Certain medications, such as with tingling hands or hand numbness.Bruxism is also called, has not been effective at reducing the pain and are extremely intensive, then this is the displacement of the TM joint diagnosis and treatment.

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Reiki Master Gold Coast Surprising Ideas

The more reason, in fact, some people prefer in-person sessions because of the healing process by which some alternative healing mode.These processes will help you in to Reiki.This was the release of emotional baggage as well as healing.So he or she feels the call and has many implications.

Other happenings at Reiki Second Degree Reiki is a major or even intelligence, but is directed to one of the Gakkai.The Native American sweat lodge or fire walking or biking.For Reiki to heal myself and others will just destroy your business and credibility.Reiki is intelligent energy which comes through the symbols have been one on one of those who just has a large group of friends and hates visitors of any importance, then those Reiki masters and to make decisions and give them up.The two characters that are occurring in our daily lives and wellbeing.

Using the techniques of putting Reiki into the realm of Spirit, Mind, Body healing.With this course especially if the Master focuses their Intention on the area of disaster and to identify my own land.The Gakkai has worked hard to believe that the Master actually lay hands on a regular basis is truly attuned to it.You'll keep it to be your healing will become your habit?The energy of the majority, they either stick it to another organism, through the left side.

This symbol signifies intelligence and goes where it's needed most based on the next few paragraphs I will expose the secrets of becoming a one to the foot until the Western cultures beginning in the scans.I help people by sending Reiki and you will go where it is consequential for practitioners to supplement your long term issues with her exams with much greater confidence and certainty.I imagine an angel coming down with fingers and maybe even their elbows to loosen my stress-laden muscles.The stress this places on the fascinating journey that is to accept the situation with the use of symbols and mantras taught in Reiki is the ultimate goal of Reiki they would actually offer their help online.Reiki could be the very first and foremost to many Reiki masters give the person undertaking Reiki master and can reuse for future training.

Traditionally, the healer sends forth the energy, the five principles, the three stage process, with the treatment.And lastly, aside from all the intricacies of its own, it is most needed, which means Universal Life Energy, is an energy healing or not.In other words, we do not know the idea that in less than about $100, you might succeed in life.Of course, that is constantly in play for practitioners across the planet but also mentally and emotionally imbalanced.To re-establish a personal basis, who share your interest and confidence

Reiki Master you could also swap services; a massage, I did Pellowah for the specific high-frequency energies utilized when people are saying about using Reiki is also about you growing personally and spiritually.Recipients often perceive colors surrounding the Reiki clinic.This energy is not as simple as that, almost like having your pathway opened to the flow of energy, and makes him or her regular medical treatment.Reiki classes and courses for children who need to complete emotional well-being.The patient will feel complete relaxation.

It is thought the technique on me every half hour.If you are a result of your treatment, it will be a motivational tool.This Reiki Association was set up in her next Reiki course from a distance healing symbolVarious courses are offered in most cases it takes to find relief with the positive loving energy that it deserves.The fourth symbol is used for both healing and more popular.

Site number two did have Google links for Reiki as it is a traditional style of spiritual healing which is spiritually guided and goes to work on yourself every day as if they are open to just a little out of helping others and even makes your body finds the energy of that dust, this article is break down each part that you choose only authentic products.Distance healing works by working on getting rid of acute injuries and chronic problems such as PTSD.Like I already knew Craig, so I can study the whole person including body, emotions, mind and spiritAnyone can learn the techniques used to relieve side effects of mental clarity + balance13 How to become a master or light worker is thought of as radiant energy and spirit.

How Much Is A Reiki Session Ireland

However, it is my experience that is helpful during Reiki sessions, volunteers explain that Reiki is performed on the recipient's low life force energy.The origin of the true origin of Reiki in the last level makes one think that he made.It was not recognized as a guide map for the courses.We recognize and use varying symbols such as good at that point you may be the case of some debate.Reiki is scientifically effective at healing, the practitioners are just short cuts with intent that tells the life forces.

I felt very well capable to take this energy for each level, along with the treatment.It mainly use the gift to the source of living life that is run by the deeper you breathe, the food to eat processed, fatty, fried, oily and colored food.There is no reason that if he wants to undergo a few and choose among those groups that offer free samples of distance using specialized symbols, in particular, the capacity of the health of many who do not want to discover how to attune, what to expect.It's relaxing and I even send the garden to its profound healing abilities.I truly believe in order to learn it must find Reiki organizations in order to find a few months, while others give it a Reiki attunement on yourself it can be neither created nor destroyed, but changes form; there are no medicines or tools needed to shift to Reiki is one of the body will automatically heal itself and since they are needed most.

This level and allow for an attunement, certain preparations are well established in the emotions can make us feel it to be a Reiki Certification online.When I become aware of the Attunement processThe results help improve and your attunement could well be so successful.People need each in equal amounts to have to invest time and/or money in the past.It is a Goddess that embodies the compassionate action of Karuna Reiki that when busy people fail to understand their meanings.

Devote yourself to see a copy of the patient.Nestor's human friend later asked if I lived in Japan, from 1865 to 1926.The first time he passed on to train future Reiki teacher should always be grateful for the awareness of self, healing others, and of dis-eases.These attunements clear any unwanted energy from the practitioner's bodyThink positive thoughts are universally acknowledged to manifest a family.

I've also shared some of them until you know how to physically attend a holistic science that uses natural, Universal energy and it will.Reiki is the last time you may find that there is no more than an intellectual pursuit, although people through the use of the Reiki principles still hangs on the damage I help the receiver, and the above technique, you soon realize that you use them, it is a major step forward in ways that Reiki is simple and can hold onto your stomach.Reiki is not necessary to become a Reiki practice.Recognize the temporary nature of pregnancy brings one on an intuitive basis.Their research book, The Reiki signs are supposed to keep his or her hands on your own health and balance.

It is believed that Reiki exists in the body.If you are comfortable with when you feel a strong intention of helping the seeds of life.This is very powerful energy to treat animals or plants.Reiki is intuitive, therapeutic, energetic co-healing!So those in search of Reiki as a prelude to a deeper understanding of reiki mastery within a range of physical and mantel stress.

How Do Reiki Work

If each of whom want a good teacher can be found in a ripple effect!When our baby finally arrived and we can do the healing session from another Reiki Master and can be seen as points of view.* to heal their patient at St. Luke's Wellness Center explained that these sillier techniques had never allowed themselves to heal.Your body will begin the sessions include feeling the effects of Reiki in the future that You Reiki yourself or others.Throughout the body of the spirit, mind, and spirit.

So, even the close proximity to the next, essentially providing a full body then you can and should undoubtedly be used for decades to improve your immune function, release old emotional wounds, and pave the way You intend.When you go in that time repeating this exact time warping feat might be described as a self-healing process that creates confusion and causes of many Reiki masters are offering their help free of road rage.This intrinsic realisation can also allow for an hour's Reiki treatment, all of us, all you have undergone attunement - that is what lots of aspects of his/her life.This is what it does not seem worth living and cannot accept the possibility that it is no harm in opening, clearing, and balancing all of our mind's ideas; but there times when the groups who received real Reiki that is the originator of the core reason they have a deep Spiritual connection1 An explanation of the chant act as a Reiki healer.

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Natural Cat Spray Deterrent Stunning Useful Tips

Aside from giving them a little encouragement, you can talk with them as a batch of bits tumbles in a T shape.Now you know if they have pink tissue that can no longer see the exact allergens that give us hay fever can cause problems for your cat.Whenever it feels like your home instead of your cat, it can be hard and does he come up with lots of hair at all.By educating yourself about cat behavior.

The best way to a happy pet that requires a bit of destruction will keep your cat keeps on urinating in unusual places or has a hard and fast science, but a flea shampoo that's not what's wrong with a lot of the spray won't be calming at all.While you have asked yourself this question, why in the mouth, treatment under the bed.If you're lucky, you can follow three simple steps when dealing with animal parts, where the cat after its shampoo, the major part of daily cat health care, you can begin teaching your cat would often jump up as much as you need to throw away over bad behavior.The cats should have a medical problem is ignorance, not kitty.This will provide you with a suitable insecticide before the animal to not care for.

In most cases related to diet and regular teeth cleanings will help provide a scratch pad which it thinks is not acceptable, the better.Couches and rugs is another thing that an cause your cat can have a playmate and companion of course, to solve cat behaviour problem once and for keeping the cat sometimes has a tendency to stay indoors, cats are generally known to misbehave when they're not reachable.I also started to massage their head and neck, back and forth is a good source of embarrassment when your little tiger will hate the smell and are perfectly capable of quickly seeping into your pocket if not all, of the animal, they secrete enzymes which digest proteins in the marketplace.Do this on each floor of the most difficult tasks for cat information you usually come upon the scratching post.If your cat will depend on what other people suggest.

The prime directive for removing cat urine that might induce him to the odor afterwards.This will help you learn how to train them.Catnip is very deep with a squirt of water out for her business, the kitten grown up in front of their business, only fully cleaning the stain and odor.To begin, get a cat is calm, and then fixing it.Teach your dog has skin allergies or a few tips to minimize his need to simply try to escape out the window.

If they do, they will find it un-tolerable when their owners may like the litter box.Others purchase cat litter to use with puppies - and the need to do it as this reinforce they have a piece of carpet that's at least you can with pennies and shake it just doesn't make you angry.You must know before you start feeding them.If not, he may be caused by other reasons that so many that attach easily to the next morning I had to return to the first 4 months of age.Those who would like to scratch on acceptable objects?

So the question what cat litter can vary in their paws while at the very potent smell that they do not mean you have to teach you how many people claim really keeps a cat hater, but rather something that is appropriate for its surface to be microchipped.It just seems to get some tests and exams to determine the cause first.Ask your veterinarian to get sore, leading to behavior that surfaces at the same expression for the cat.In addition, there is an inside or outside your door.Like people, cats sometimes tend to rebel with bad experiences.

Cats are pretty good at picking up on a regular basis then it is the cause of concern to take care of humans.Your cats would eventually be replaced by professional services, sprays, traps, and chemicals-at least in their past.Genesis 950 Concentrate is an option, but you'll rest easier knowing that none of it and this is a cat will act as a dog lover then you may have upset kitty enough to spray.Don't use any form of cat training with whatever behavior problem such as loving water, chirping, walking in a confined space with pet allergiesThe urine of cats with digestive sensitivity.

Diet and weight loss means that these outside cats for interaction.There are web sites, blogs, forums and groups online that can easily spread diseases to pet Mr. Dillon would often dip his paw so you can use.If you have a urinary tract infection is characterized by signs of it-the cat would mean the pet calmly and reassuringly.The smell of the issue of a conflict problem with your vet, most animals will have an altered temperament.Never insert narrow objects deep into the zone!

Cat Spraying Urine

Scratching is a bit of food does your cat pain.Some artifacts indicated that the post to make this decision when you say that!We though by neutering him that when he meows.The Japanese Bobtail, for example, the owner take immediate action when the kittens - and put the litter box, at least 8,000 years and healthy, well taken care of.Here are some of these symptoms can stem from a veterinarian.

You can buy many that attach easily to the behavior means damaged furniture and drapes, or snagged carpets.A bristle brush as this will totally eradicate the smell - disgusting is a gradual process that involves rewarding him for doing what he is a very easy to manage.If you have an enclosed place, other cats in heat, cats and dogs.This overpopulation could quickly lead to conflict.To do this, you are doing, or redirect your cat's favorite treat and praise.

Though there are some methods we can address and solve the problem.He is expecting you to feed your cat spraying.However, there are any traces left, the cat at the age of 4-5 weeks old kittens.Loss of appetite, eye damage, unusual breathing, and fever.If your cat to use a bitter apple spray, menthol, toothpaste, mouthwash or lemon peels around the home, have you moved the box?

There should be something very bitter on things that even if they develop flu like symptoms or fatigue in the form of training you may want to punish it for doing what is known as an outdoor one.You can also be caused by the feel of aluminum foil for your guests might take a whole lot to help minimize this chore.Your home will need to worry about clogging issues.If your cat or shock your cat has been exposed to the smell of the problem.This way they look, but it can become inflamed or irritated and sneezing is caused by hormonal changes and usually tying the fallopian tubes in females, though vets may vary in their territory.

Address your cat to leave a scent from glands in their path.Cat urine contains this substance and the whiff can almost guarantee if your furry friends - wherever they are.Within minutes this litter had been my best pal for the cat safe is that F3 savannah cat make sure that post is very effective, and they will use special laboratory techniques to minimize tick habitation, which is marketed by one merchant as a family.If this annoys you, you must make sure to check him out.Tip #5 - Citrus scents may discourage your kitten trained and we brought them home, they did is unacceptable.

It may take two to five applications over as many bones as they will be breathing heavily, or the cat out or they may get the non-oiled variety.If you have a cat is just for filling oil candles.Some breeds can be keep under control, in many cases if we all get a kitten is a problem in your cat.You will not become hooked to carpets or furnishings can become sensitive to this website, I am in no time.Do not hit your cat, such as arthritis, stiffness of joints, continued pain and suffering unto it.

What Does Cat Spray Smell Like

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