YOU - Why are you doing this? I just want to sleep. I can almost see the dark.
ANCIENT REPTILIAN BRAIN - We're trying to help you. All these processes -- these tortures, voices and tremors -- are all just distractions. Flares and countermeasures. To keep you from the last dream. The worst of them all.
YOU - The… last dream?
LIMBIC SYSTEM - The last dream will be total annihilation. Cinders peeling off the fuselage. We won't be there to help you anymore, Harry. We will be dormant. You will be naked and alone.
Skills version and what came to mind after reading "A Spilled Kaleidoscope" fanfic, what are the consequences of The Pale
YOU - "The pale can damage the mind?"
JOYCE MESSIER- - "Extensively."
YOU - "How?"
JOYCE MESSIER- - "Some say the damage stems from extreme sensory deprivation. Others argue that pale somehow consists of past information, that's degrading. That it's rarefied past, not rarefied matter. They call it the blend-over of the self. The pale does not only suspend the laws of physics, but also the laws of psychology, maybe History, even… The human mind becomes over-radiated by past."
Did a post upset you? Thinking about writing a response? Hold up!
Are you sure you read it correctly?
Are you sure you didn't skip over any words or sentences or even whole paragraphs?
Are you sure you didn't read malicious intentions into it that just weren't there?
Before writing your angry retort, get up, get a drink, walk around a bit, and then read the post again, slowly and carefully.
You will either determine that:
1: The post didn't actually say what you thought it said, and you can leave an innocent person on Tumblr unbothered.
2: The post really did say that - and now you're in a better place to decide whether it's really worth your time to write a reply or not. And if you decide to write a reply, you'll be in a better place to articulate why it's bad.