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13 years ago @ http://charactertherap... - Four Reasons Why You S... · 1 reply · +1 points

Do you think these kinds of stories are some attempt to rationalize why abusive relationships are still so common, even in this day and age?

13 years ago @ http://charactertherap... - Four Reasons Why You S... · 0 replies · +1 points

Twilight didn't do anything new, including idealizing a dysfunctional relationship. But it does tend to come and go out of "fashion" and Twilight was part of the upswing...

13 years ago @ http://charactertherap... - Four Reasons Why You S... · 4 replies · +1 points

I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the trend toward abusive relationships being idealized as desirable -- to which Twilight was a contributor...

13 years ago @ http://charactertherap... - The \"Dark Passenger\"... · 1 reply · +1 points

For me, writing keeps me out of the pits of depression by letting me shift that dysphoric rumination from ME to THEM (the characters.)

I obsess over the characters, the world-building, the plotting, the scene settings, and I'm writing almost constantly, as my Twitter feed attests. It's why I write fantasy and science fiction, too -- if I used a real-world setting, it would take a lot less work. My brain wouldn't be kept sufficiently busy to keep it from turning on me.

As for LOC, I haven't taken the quiz yet. I know I have a lot of learned helplessness to deal with, but just keeping that rumination chewing on something other than me has loosened the grip of the LH too.

14 years ago @ Phoebe North - Help me choose an auth... · 0 replies · +1 points

Another vote for Spock Eyebrow! ... or #3.

14 years ago @ Phoebe North - Call me single-minded ... · 0 replies · +1 points

>TCAFOYPR

And like a dork, I tried to pronounce that. XD

Congrats!

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