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They're probably people of the "ALL SPIRIT ANIMALS MUST BE BEAUTIFUL MAJESTIC POWER CREATURES WHAT IS THIS INSECTILE FILTH" stripe. There's a surprising number of people who legitimately, for some reason, don't feel like  "lesser" animals or "icky" creatures could ever represent someone spiritually.E: well that's certainly one way to start a new page.
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Not my fault you trogs can't deal with the majestic beauty of the giant isopod. Your dumb wolf doesn't even have a 2km crush depth.
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Punting posted:They're probably people of the "ALL SPIRIT ANIMALS MUST BE BEAUTIFUL MAJESTIC POWER CREATURES WHAT IS THIS INSECTILE FILTH" stripe. There's a surprising number of people who legitimately, for some reason, don't feel like That and it's obviously a joke which some people can't handle. If you look almost all the animals chosen are apex predators or cute animals people like. Or common pets. Picking an animal that is pretty universally loathed and viewed as a pest is wrong. The specifics aren't all that interesting. Mostly along the lines of "what is wrong with you?" Or getting mad about making fun of something.
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Transformer planet had a war between civilian transformers and warrior transformers. Decepticons were thus all military vehicles and the Autobots were all, well, cars and stuff. Fake edit: oh poo poo, trap sprung!
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Don't bother defending someone who thinks they're an owl or whatever, their head is busted. just quietly sit back and let them own themselves.
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Nov 7, 2016 04:18
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That drat Satyr posted:Excuse me you left out PINK JETS © DICK THE CAT 2016-2016 DO NOT COPY ALTER OR REDISTRIBUTE Oh poo poo! Now anyone can steal it!! It won't be the only pink jet MYLIFEISRUINED. seriously, though, I did gently caress up by not naming it a 'cuckpit' instead of the cockpit.
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Nov 7, 2016 05:28
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CommissarMega posted:Ahahaha, could you get into the specifics of this? How would your spirit animal somehow offend them, even if you were joking?
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Those poor babies.
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Whilst there is the mockery of their belief system that gets otherkins all riled when you say your spirit animal is a dung beetle, or a tick, it is also because you are "doing it wrong". If they truly believed that they were soulbonded, (or whatever), with animals and that other people could be soulbonded with any other animal, then it would be fine. But I reckon that most of the outrage comes because, deep down they know they are just playing pretend, you aren't playing along properly. It's like when you were a kid and playing with your wrestling figures, and some kid from down the block brings a barbie, or a transformer. e.g. "Pow! Whallop! Hulk Hogan just punched you!" "Yeah, well Starscream just shot you in the face with his lasers." It stops being fun if the other kids aren't playing 'right'. And to the furries/otherkin/whatever they're calling themselves, to play 'right' means you have to be a wolf, or a dragon, or an ocelot etc. I'd imagine it would be the same when someone would decide to be biologically correct with the behaviour they were internet chatting/RPing about. Starlightkittenwings34: "*mews and licks her paws sexily*" FelisCatus: "Does a poo poo in your shoe and drags the carcass of a sparrow across the kitchen floor"
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Sometimes a little mockery is necessary to pop the bubble. Otherwise people convince themselves that Final Fantasy 7 is real and they have the souls of Sephiroth and Cloud.
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BrigadierSensible posted:It's like when you were a kid and playing with your wrestling figures, and some kid from down the block brings a barbie, or a transformer. Hogan vs Starscream would be dope as hell.
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Defiance Industries posted:Sometimes a little mockery is necessary to pop the bubble. Otherwise people convince themselves that Final Fantasy 7 is real and they have the souls of Sephiroth and Cloud. Yes. All of the crazy stories in this thread developed because of a deficiency of enough mockery in these people's lives. If they had only been more connected to other people around them, those other people could call them out on the crazy poo poo they were trying to pull/say/believe and prevented it.
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Vorgen posted:Yes. All of the crazy stories in this thread developed because of a deficiency of enough mockery in these people's lives. If they had only been more connected to other people around them, those other people could call them out on the crazy poo poo they were trying to pull/say/believe and prevented it. Or perhaps at least helped prevent other people from getting caught up in it too. A few weeks into my freshman year, my RA came to me to ask just what I knew about some of the people my roommate was hanging out with. She was worried because a couple were known to be all about Crowley, "Magick," etc. and she worried about people being sucked into that. Being able to vouch for my roommate's sanity versus his impressionability really put her mind at ease, and also really cemented my respect for her. (Of course, it also helped that at our school, RAs were "resources," not "cops," and the school treated adult students like adults.)
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Spiritual marriage to Sephiroth on the astral plane is a symptom of abuse/neglect coupled with potential untreated mental diseases (that are probably also symptoms of abuse).
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Vorgen posted:Yes. All of the crazy stories in this thread developed because of a deficiency of enough mockery in these people's lives. Mind blown, someone notify the APA to update the DSM.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Spiritual marriage to Sephiroth on the astral plane is a symptom of abuse/neglect coupled with potential untreated mental diseases (that are probably also symptoms of abuse). 
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Poison Mushroom posted:Better coping mechanism than shooting people. I don't know about that. A whole lot of the stories here seem to prove those types can be emotionally devastating to those around them. Maybe it would be better if they DID shoot someone, so they could be taken off the streets and put somewhere where they could get some help.
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Samizdata posted:Maybe it would be better if they DID shoot someone
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Nov 11, 2016 10:48
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How about NOT partial quoting me, eh?
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Samizdata posted:How about NOT
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Rexides posted:Mind blown, someone notify the APA to update the DSM. are you... are you mocking me? Hmm, I guess I should change my behavior.
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What would I do without my dose of goon humor at it's finest?
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Samizdata posted:humor
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Samizdata posted:at it's finest?
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Spiritual marriage to Sephiroth on the astral plane is a symptom of abuse/neglect coupled with potential untreated mental diseases (that are probably also symptoms of abuse). Aren't a lot of the "spiritual/astral marriage" people just people who are really weird about masturbation normally, but have no problem with masturbating if they can tell themselves it's "astral sex"? Which isn't really from abuse that often.
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super sweet best pal posted:Hogan vs Starscream would be dope as hell. Putting $5 on Hogan.
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ten on hogan
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CommissarMega posted:I'd give my nuts to be a Space Marine etc. Pretty sure that's part of the process, yes.
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Not to give away too much information, I have a 9 year old student who is really, sometimes violently, insistent that TV characters are her real-life family members, or otherwise connected to her in real life somehow. She'll act as though they are present in the room at wildly inappropriate moments, as well as interrupt people to tell elaborate stories about what she and her imaginary friends did. I'm pretty concerned that she's going to end up like the people in this thread. What, if anything, can I do to gently guide her away from that fate? Right now, I (and it turns out other teachers with whom I hadn't talked about this prior) have just been telling her that I don't want to hear about it right now, but if she wants to write about it, I'll gladly read it. I've also been contradicting her when she makes statements about her personal life that I know for sure are patently false.
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VideoTapir posted:Not to give away too much information, I have a 9 year old student who is really, sometimes violently, insistent that TV characters are her real-life family members, or otherwise connected to her in real life somehow. She'll act as though they are present in the room at wildly inappropriate moments, as well as interrupt people to tell elaborate stories about what she and her imaginary friends did. What's her home life like? This reminds me of the Tracey Beaker books where the main character pretends her mum is actually a famous actress shooting on location, because its far better to think that than dealing with the unpleasant reality that your mum is self-absorbed and dumped you into foster care because being a mum was inconvenient.
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Nine years old seems to be the perfect time for making up wild fantasies about yourself. It's after puberty when it starts getting worrying.
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Yeah, my first concern would be the kid's home life, but if that's not an issue, probably just focus on keeping her on task. Nothing you're describing sounds a ton crazier than most 9-year-olds I went to school with, especially if it's just scattershot stories and not a persistent fantasy life.
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9 is definitely old enough to have developed a solid understanding of what's real life and what's pretend. I'd really be concerned about her home life. It could just be nothing, but kids with "overactive imaginations" usually have some emotional difficulty. I know I did, and I definitely know Denise did.
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Yeah, if you are in a school with a counselor or mental health professional, I'd bring it up with them, especially if her behavior seems to be getting worse.
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VideoTapir posted:Not to give away too much information, I have a 9 year old student who is really, sometimes violently, insistent that TV characters are her real-life family members, or otherwise connected to her in real life somehow. She'll act as though they are present in the room at wildly inappropriate moments, as well as interrupt people to tell elaborate stories about what she and her imaginary friends did. Talk to the school counselor/psychologist if you have one.
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The good news: if she's actually nine, she's probably too young for schizophrenia. The bad news is everything else.
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Antivehicular posted:Yeah, my first concern would be the kid's home life, but if that's not an issue, probably just focus on keeping her on task. Nothing you're describing sounds a ton crazier than most 9-year-olds I went to school with, especially if it's just scattershot stories and not a persistent fantasy life. It's persistent. The broad strokes only change when she picks up a new TV show or book series. (And so far it's always been one I'm familiar with, so I can spot it right away.) Her home life is fine so far as I know. But yes, emotional problems. (That's why she's in my class.) I've tried to steer her toward writing. What I'm wondering about, especially since a lot of you folks have been immersed in it, is whether the fan fiction community as a whole would be a good outlet for this kind of thing, or whether it is more likely to make things worse in the long run. edit: I mean she'll probably find it on her own eventually, I mean whether I can steer her in that direction with a clear conscience. VideoTapir fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Nov 26, 2016 |
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I would under no circumstances expose a nine year old to the slippery slope to horror and psychological damage that is the fanfic community. I mean, holy poo poo. EDIT: Okay, to clarify, not all fanfiction and not all of the community is quite that poisonous. But without the ability to monitor and filter the type of fanfic that she's consuming, and the community she's interacting with, I'd be extremely concerned that she'd be exposed to a lot of stuff that no nine year old should encounter. Lemniscate Blue fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Nov 26, 2016 |
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Lemniscate Blue posted:I would under no circumstances expose a nine year old to the slippery slope to horror and psychological damage that is the fanfic community. Her independent entry is not that much of an immediate danger; her reading level isn't quite up to it. Just whether I should remind her that this thing exists, maybe pick out a few suitable stories. (Her current favorite thing is not very popular fanfic wise, and everything I've seen is fine.) I mean if you have a weirdo enter that community, are they more likely to become more weird, or more likely to get it out of their system in a harmless way?
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