Horimiya is an absolute adorable marshmallow of a show. Good on you for stepping outside of your usual sphere.
This is where I frantically tell to anyone who listens that even though 95% of all things are shit, that 5% still exists for anime, and if anyone needs a starting point, let me know.
This encapsulates it well. The Sonic fandom is basically a slow-burn of the brony thing that burned fast and hot.
I loved MLP before the fanbase turned me off of it, and I loved Sonic AM, but the fandoms for both are rather inarguably a cut above the standard when it comes to the fervor of their fanbases, both for good and for ill. Both attract lots of creators, and both attract lots of ... creators. A lot of parallels, either way.
SonicAM has a pretty fun concept for a game, but the fandom it would attract would be tricky to manage properly.
Nope. Bisexual and out. She latched on to it as soon as I mentioned that. Super uncomfortable.
I don't like accidentally shit-talking someone to their face and outing the fact that someone I'm seeing is unhappy with their therapist. If I want to blast someone, I will, but I don't like doing it accidentally.
That being said, she should be utterly ashamed of herself. Her only advice for anxiety:
"Have you tried using logic to overcome your panic?"
"Have you tried focusing on your breathing?"
"Eesh, yeah. Sounds like you've hit a brick wall. I don't think talking will help. Probably just see if the medication works."
"I don't think I'll be able to help you. I'm trying to think if anyone can. Yeah, no one's coming to mind."
And that's not even going into her saying, out loud, that attraction to the same gender might be obsessive compulsive anxiety reactions.
Dropped.
Yesterday, I decided to see a new therapist. I wasn't gelling all that well with my previous one, and so I figured now might be as good a time as any. Got off to a good start, laid out some pretty vulnerable stuff - then we started talking about my relationships.
I bemoaned the fact that someone I'm seeing is deeply depressed and isn't getting the help they need, and the help they are getting is woefully inadequate - just someone who's punching in and not asking questions and kicking the ball down the road and 'see you again in two months'.
Talked about my dog a lot, my job a lot. Just ice-breaky stuff.
When we got to the real meat and potatoes though, she didn't seem helpful at all. Didn't interrogate much. Kept kicking the ball down the road. Suggested we see eachother again in two months. Felt utterly dismissed by a lot of the things she said to the point that after the call was over, I had to just sit in my car and cry for awhile.
...
So, I went inside and talked to the person I'm seeing, and GUESS WHO BOTH HAVE THE SAME THERAPIST APPARENTLY.
"...well, she probably didn't put it together. Unless you talked about me, your dog, or something."
"...I did. A lot."
"Oh."
This puts into perspective why she sounded frostier towards the end of the call, and now I am absolutely dying of embarrassment. Fortunately, the fact that she made me cry with how useless she was is more of a sign to switch psychiatrists anyhow. And puts into perspective the complaints I was hearing from the person I'm seeing.
The actual content of how badly she botched this is a smidge too raw to share on MSB, but I just had to share the absolute groan-fest of accidentally grousing about a bad psychiatrist... to the same psychiatrist. Cringing just thinking about it again.
I feel like every single thing I get in life anymore is chronic, and just has doctors shrugging and being like, "Oh well, that's your life now."
Makes it hard not to despair.
@cobalt said in Crafting Thread Part ?:
ermghad, this one is so damned amazing. And the anatomical hearts. aaaauuuugggh.
Eeeee, I love this so much.
