The real writer experience is standing in the shower and coming up with the most authentic dialogue with perfect phrasing and raw emotion in your head, then stepping out and drying your hair, putting on some clean pajamas and opening a word document to write down all your perfect ideas only to realize everything has evaporated.
I FEEL CALLED OUT
Never lose a perfect shower line again.*
*Remember to erase promptly if you share a bathroom with anyone.
I’ve used these to outline term papers. nothing like a bath to get your brain to finally kick into gear and figure out your damn thesis
no one asked for my opinion on how the kid’s lunches speak about their personalities, but here it is anyway. and, yes i know the lunches are like 80% chance irrelevant but this was fun to write
we know Chug loves his food (same, little dude), isn’t picky and likes to try different things (since so many of the students dislike the taste, but he enjoys it).
Despite voicing his disgust, Larry has taken a bite out of his sandwich. He is convinced that the bologna is made of goat meat, so maybe he tried some and decided to just not. Now he was pretty vocal about how gross the goat meat seems in the episode, but he still tried it, I think this is because he’s a very laid back person. He has seemed like the ‘dont knock it till you try it’ type of person from the very beginning and this seems to back it up.
Larry does not have an apple, meaning he has not opted for a healthy alternative. Until literally proven wrong, Larry chose to believe that he was cursed and caused all the bad things in his life to happen. He had the option to talk to his mom about these feelings, a healthy option and outlet for his distress, but instead chose to internalize it for years of his life. He would rather take the sandwich, which he is convinced is simply goat meat, because that’s what he knows (or thinks he knows), it’s what is comfortable to him.
What she says: I don’t want a Danny Phantom reboot.
What she means: Within all parameters, in theory, a Danny Phantom reboot would be fantastic. The main issues of the show could be solved if someone else were to take the premise and the characters and create an in-depth story. However, the current majority of people demanding for a reboot are those who have not seen the show since they were children and only want a reboot because they remember it fondly. While this is not bad in theory, this lack of understanding of DP’s flaws clouds many people’s judgement of what would make a good reboot, calling for the original creator to continue or reboot the series when it was in fact the original creator’s show style and lack of ability to create a cohersive narrative that limited the show originally. Even with Butch Hartman gone from Nickelodeon, many call for him to obtain the rights again in order to create more content. Even now, the original creator is twisting the narrative of his own story to better suit what he wanted the show to be rather than what it was. In his hands, the reboot would probably be the writing quality of the worst season of DP, season 3 (which can be inferred because he had the most control over season 3) and the lackluster animation of the Hartman shows crossover aka choppy flash animation. Because the majority of his viewers do not remember the show’s specifics, these lies are perpetuated, especially since said creator is lorded as being ‘your childhood’. With all this in mind, a reboot could be a good idea, but with the current mindset of the majority of fans, it would fall into the hands of someone with no interest in expanding the world and characters of the story he created, feeding the lie he has been creating and destroying all the best parts of his creation for something bland (or simply a reference to Marvel and/or DC). In an age where everything piece of media is criticized for the smallest things, a reboot under Butch Hartman’s gaze would not satisfy the fans and especially not the phandom, which over the years has created a wonderful and expansive narrative that the original show lacked in the first place. In conclusion, Danny Phantom would make for a good reboot in the right hands, but that is highly unlikely due to the lack of general awareness of the show’s faults and the general reverence to the show’s creator.
Your body, believe it or not, remembers everything. Sounds, smells, touches, tastes. But the memory is not held in your mind, locked somewhere in the recesses of your brain. Instead, it’s held in your body, all the way down at the cellular level. Ever notice how, on a stage full of professional dancers, everyone still moves in their own way? That’s because our cells store memories – information – about our experiences, habits, sensations, everything. We are all unique and it’s in our bodies – our skin, muscles, tendons, nerves – which we actively participate through our day to day experiences; good ones and bad.
Sometimes, the memories that our body stores are not always memories that we consciously, as the survivor, remember. You may have been too young to remember. You may have blacked out. For whatever reason, you don’t know what your body knows. As Renee Fredrickson, Ph.D. says in A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse, “The traumatic and the trivial are the two kinds of information your mind represses.”
Yet, your body remembers.
Your body may tense up, protecting you. “I don’t like that,” it says. “I remember that touch, sound, smell…and I don’t want it.” However, for a survivor of sexual abuse that has overcome and healed from the abuse, you may think you’ve done all the work to be done. You’ve healed. You’ve moved on.
Yet, your body remembers.
Respect that. Respect that memory, no matter what form it comes in. The trauma wasn’t just emotional. It was experienced on a cellular level. Respect that. There’s stored memories there. Don’t turn your back on it thinking it’s crazy. Nuts. Healing comes from accepting and being, open, honest. Transparent. There’s a hurt and you need to acknowledge it. Only then, can the healing begin.
Body memories are involuntary.
Body memories can take a long time to heal, most likely because they are the last memories to be addressed. To be respected. To be listened to. I mean, really. My body remembers, at a cellular level? What is this, the Science Fiction channel? “When the body remembers the traumatic incident at a different time from when the mind remembers the incident, it can feel very crazy making,” says Discussing Dissociation’s Kathy Broady, LCSW.
Remember, memories, flashbacks, in all their forms, are our body’s way of getting our attention. If we don’t accept, honor, and deal with them, no matter how crazy they may seem or feel, they will return again and again. Why? Because you need to heal. Your body lived through the same experience. If you are dealing with body memories, your body is telling you, “It’s time we heal this. Together.”
Healing Body Memories.
Think about it this way. Your body and you, although one in the same, are two separate beings with two separate set of memories. Some intertwine, some are exactly the same. After all, you’re you! Yet, there are some areas of grey. Some aspects of your life’s experiences that your body remembers and your mind was too young to understand it, strong emotions deny it or your mind didn’t consciously experience it at all.
Therefore, you’ll have to approach this from an ‘outsider’ perspective – speak to yourself as someone somewhat separate from yourself. Like you, as a counselor or a friend, speaking to you, your body. “Okay, body,” you might say. “We need to talk.”
And you can do this anywhere, of course. You don’t have to be all zenned out, seated on a mountain top with upturned palms. Although, if that works for you, go for it. Wherever you find peace, peace that you can feel within you, that’s where you can open this conversation. You might be out hiking, inside reading a book on the couch, laying out on a beach under the sun. Wherever you find your cool, peaceful, quietness, this is where you can speak to yourself – your body.
Start by reminding yourself – your body – about the most important fact: “We survived. It’s over. It won’t happen again.” You can do this all in your head or you can say it out loud. Either way, the message will be sent. Just visualize who/what you are speaking to. Your body.
After you feel the message of, “we’ve already survived,” being accepted, tell your body, “We want to thrive now. We are in control. We want to live now, free of this trauma.” Keep sending this message to your body, all the while reaffirm that you – all of you – is okay. Only in safety, can we feel free to move on.
Now, what about when you’re actually having a body memory moment? Well, ask yourself this, are you ready to accept it? Honor it? Deal with it? If so, do this visualization-conversation with your body while you are having a body memory.
Note: You’ll have to be more forceful, yet still compassionate, to get your message through. Your body is having a flashback, living through a memory, whatever that may be. It doesn’t consciously know it’s over. That’s where you come in.
You need to talk it through the flashback – the body memory. Tell your body it’s okay. “You’re okay.” Say it out loud. “You’ve already survived this. It’s over. We are in control now. We survived.” Be stern, yet understanding. “We are going to make it. We are going to thrive!”
(found on Pathway to Freedom. Dissociative Identity survival system, facebook.com)
I used to think i didn’t have any triggers. I’m an abuse survivor and i really thought maybe i came out of it just fine with no triggers.
Then a man slammed his hands on the desk beside me in frustration, he wasn’t angry at me he had just messed up something he was doing.
I froze, like literally froze, then tears started streaming and i was shaking.
I was so fucking upset and distraught, all i could manage to get out was “I didn’t like that.”
My body had a really surprising reaction and i guess i’m not as over my abuse as i’d like to think sometimes. I’m making this post to tell others things like this, triggers, they can pop up at any time.
Try to be patient, and understanding when someone has a reaction that you might not understand.
If you’re the person who was triggered, be patient with yourself.
Don’t be like me and blame yourself for overreacting.
Now i realize what it was that happened to me, and i’ll try to be better with myself in the future, and not blame myself immediately after.
It’s also possible to not even understand this are triggers. I used to think I just had “sudden mood swings” without realising the common thread because I was so deep into denying myself as a victim I couldn’t even recognise my own trauma.
They can appear long after trauma, they can be hard to recognise and it isn’t your fault.
another thing to remember is that triggers arent really always like panic attacks. if something deeply disturbs you in your everyday life and they can all be connected to the event or events, thats a trigger.
– Criticized Jewish Europeans for defending themselves against the Holocaust because he insisted that they should have committed public mass suicide in order to “shame” the Germans instead of fighting back. His exact words were, “But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from the cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.”
– Wrote an open letter to the British people in 1940 telling them to surrender to the Axis even if it mean accepting genocide.
– Was very anti-black. I hope you can stomach reading how he treated black people in South Africa. It’s fucking disgusting.
– Refused his wife life-saving medication (for religious reasons), but those religious reasons all of a sudden no longer applied to him when he was in a similar position.
– Refused to have sex with his wife for the last 38 years of their marriage. He felt that in order to test his commitment to celibacy, he would have beautiful young women (including his own great niece) lie next to him naked through the night. His wife, whom he described as looking like a “meek cow” was no longer desirable enough to be a solid test.
– Believed that Indian women who were raped lost their value as a human.
– During his time as a dissident in South Africa, he discovered that a young male was harassing two of his female followers. He responded by cutting the girls’ hair off to ensure the “sinner’s eye” was “sterilized.” He later boasted about the incident in his writings, pushing the message to all Indians that women should carry responsibility for sexual attacks upon them.
– Argued that fathers could be justified in killing daughters who had been sexually assaulted for the sake of family and community honor.
– Believed that menstruation was a manifestation of the distortion of a woman’s soul by her sexuality.
– Waged a war against contraceptives, labeling Indian women who used them as whores.
– Held the attitude that women were simply creatures that could bring either pride or shame to the men who own them.
ok but like when did self-sacrifice become synonymous with death? writers seem to have forgotten that people can make personal sacrifices for the greater good without giving their lives. plots about self-sacrifice and selflessness don’t always have to end in death. suffering doesn’t have to be mourning. you can create drama and emotional depth on your show without killing everyone. learn to explore the meaning of living rather than dying
Death. Is. NOT. The. Only. Way. To. Advance. The. Narrative.
Fun things to sacrifice for your loved ones in your free time that don’t include death and actually set up for a whole new season of high level drama:
– humanity (mostly applicable to sci-fi/supernatural genre) – memories (mostly applicable to sci-fi/supernatural genre) – love for that special someone (mostly applicable to sci-fi/supernatural genre) – emotions (mostly applicable to sci-fi/supernatural genre) – rank/position/ – yourself/your brain/your skills (give yourself over to bad guys and become their brainwashed agent so your loved ones live) – years of bloody ruthless traditions to make way for peace (hi lexa and fuck jroth tbh) – freedom (includes that of speech/mind/will) – your grandpa’s fortune – hell even material possessions have that girl sacrifice her goddamn house so they can pay off her gf’s student loans or whatever juST STOP KILLING CHARACTERS TO FURTHER YOUR PLOT
Other things to sacrifice:
– your most sought-after goal
– a strongly-held belief or conviction
– your own chance at happiness
other fun things to sacrifice:
-a finger -an eye -10-20 years of your life -some of your vitality or dexterity -your ability to magically see in the dark -your proficiency in battle axes -your good looks -your memory of the man who killed your wife -everything but your head
Procrastination Station 