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That was not the audio I was expecting
i have to reblog this everytime i see it, its too good of a video
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i don’t understand why more fantasy worlds don’t have therapists. i mean, they have the fantasy equivalent of a doctor, which is a healer. so why not a therapist?
there’s so much potential to integrate it with the fantasy elements too.
you could do exposure therapy, for example, with the help of illusions. imagine someone is deathly afraid of dragons because of a childhood incident, but they really want to overcome this phobia.
the therapist could conjure up illusions, working from a small abstract dragon to a big realistic one, and help the client progressively become more relaxed around the illusion dragon before they meet a real one.
or imagine a character is grieving a dead loved one, and they never got closure from this person. maybe they wanted to tell this person something and never got the chance to. or maybe the person is not dead, but it’s best to sever that tie instead of trying to talk to them again.
in this scenario, the therapist could shapeshift into the person the client wants to talk to, and give the client a bit of closure.
mind reading could be practiced with the client’s consent, so that the therapist could tap into blocked memories or an incident that the client is too traumatized to talk about.
there’s just so much untapped potential and it’s driving me crazy. maybe some stories have done this, but none that i’ve seen so far. and i want more people to recognize this potential so that we can have more therapists in our favorite tragic fantasy shows.
Just for some recommendations:
Tamora Pierce books, at least the Emelan ones, have the concept of a “mind healer” which does exactly that, though it’s unclear if it’s something like talk therapy or if it’s reaching in your brain and moving stuff around with magic. Her books are aimed at teens, so it’s not really delved into that deeply, it’s just acknowledged as an option (some of her characters have PTSD and need to be told to go to therapy, basically)
Alexandra Rowland/@ariaste’s book A Taste Of Gold And Iron is set in a fictional society where talk therapy is a religious ritual called “unburdening,” though there are gaps in their understanding of mental health (like, there’s no word for or cultural concept of “anxiety attack”). That book does have explicit scenes showing how it works. Honestly 10/10 worldbuilding for both that and everything else (y'all have no idea how hype I get about fictional politics) Note that THAT book is for adults, JSYK.
What immediately jumps to mind is The Liaden Universe novels, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. (Recommended reading order: Agent of Change, Conflict of Honors, Carpe Diem, Plan B, I Dare). They are sci-fi with fantasy elements. The most common type of magic users are empaths, and they are called Healers, because that is explicitly what they are trained to do - help with emotional and mental healing.
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Crying bc the events of Pacific’s Rim are literally happening right now. January 8 was the day Mako and Raleigh fought those kaijus in the Hong Kong double event. January 12 is the triple event where they close the breach. In two days we cancel the apocalypse.
JANUARY 12. ITS HAPPENING TODAY. ITS HAPPENING NOW. TODAY WE CANCEL THE APOCALYPSE!!!!!
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having a freeze response to stress is so funny in the context of normal adult stressors. millions of years of evolution are trying to tell me that the email will not find me if i stay very still and do nothing
oh one source of bad information by robert bly we’re really in it now
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was reminded of that youtube channel that records footage of that bridge that scalps trucks today. one of the fascinating developments that’s happened since i last heard about it is that, in one of their many attempts to stop the trucks from being can-opened, they installed a traffic light that detects when a vehicle that’s over the allowed height is coming and turns red so the driver can stop and hopefully notice the signage all around that’s screaming “YOUR VEHICLE IS OVERHEIGHT TURN AROUND” and avoid an accident. However as a result sometimes drivers see the light turning yellow and IMMEDIATELY start flooring it to avoid having to stop, ensuring that the roof of their truck just gets fucking annihilated instantly. Really beautiful stuff you should check it out
the comments have me in tears
It DOES have a sign. It turns on when it detects something too tall for the bridge. It even flashes. And the traffic lights will go red to get people to stop when it detects an over height vehicle so they read the signs. (note this lovely example where the lights are red, because the truck thought it was better than the lights)
every time I see this post I’ve forgotten how clearly signposted the canopener bridge is, and every time it hits me like a truck (hitting the canopener bridge and getting the top of its trailer ripped asunder)
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I think any marriage needs its running jokes, ones that you can repeat with variations, or make callbacks too.
One of my favorite bits is describing the romcoms I watch to my wife as though I have never heard of a narrative in my life.
“She runs a small plane company, and he’s from a major airline trying to shut her down, so it’s really anyone’s guess what’s going to happen.”
“Get this, he’s a stuffy office dork and she’s a free spirit, and they end up stuck in the same cabin on a cruise. Sounds like a disaster, right?”
“They’ve decided to pair up and be each other’s plus one at a series of weddings to feel less pathetic, but it’s not like they like each other or anything.”
So I told my wife that I hoped she would still enjoy me doing this bit forty years from now, and she smiled and held my hand and said that she’d never liked it, not even the first time.
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