#first session questions

[willowfae82]

starting therapy (again) in Feb. it's with a provider i've not worked with.

i think there was a post with a list of 'first appointment/getting to know you' questions to ask to see if the therapist is a good fit.

does anyone have a link to that post/list.

[azraphels]

Inspired by an episode of "The Big Bang Theory" and staying with the theme of my new Thiam-Sterek Fanfic "Fall In Love With A Kiss" coming soon to Ao3

(In my new Thiam there will be no existential, suffering drama of Theo alone where everyone hates him!)

I INTRODUCE YOU....

Lydia has been Theo's best friend since they were seven years old! Ah their discussions about how stupid Stiles was filled their days, along with movie nights (horror movies of course!) and secrets!

Theo met Allison in high school because she started dating Scott. It was really a troubled affair between Scott and Allison, they were on and off for quite some time and Theo didn't know who to listen to! Scott was stupid and just screwed up, and Theo felt sorry for Allison!

Malia met her in junior year when she moved out and started dating Stiles (definitely bad breakup apparently!) but still they hated each other especially because Theo always stays at her house! (Peter's fault of course!)

For Theo, Kira is so innocent that she doesn't know why she is his friend! She was an ex of Scott's but their affair had lasted only a year and then Kira got a crush on Malia but she was still dating Stiles... Luckily, Theo's policy was "Never have romantic relationships with your friends, you always get in trouble!"!!'

Theo has endured too many conversations about his friends' sizes and how they have sex to say with certainty that this rule has actually saved him a lot of trouble! (Theo would never admit it, but he has been head over heels in love with the same person for two years, without having had any other romantic relationships)

"Theo Raeken's ✨Council Of Ladies✨" meets every Thursday night!

A cup of tea, a fancy dress, lots of pastries and a big white cloth and a projector!

Bridgerton awaits them!

(READ THE TAGS!!!)

[minhosimthings]

My top five weird questions to get to know people better! (And what are my answers!)

1: If you had to comfort a friend who lost a person who was an asshole to you, would you do it? - I would and then I would tell them later on that the friend was an asshole to me. Sympathy first Savagery later.

2: If you had to choose one book/movie trope that you could actually experience for an entire week what would it be? - Enemies to Lovers all the way! I am a SIMP for this trope and I would kinda want to live in a book like simulation for a while!

3: If you had to choose a celebrity to binge watch an entire season of a show with, who would you choose and what would be the show? - I'm choosing Han Jisung! And we are gonna watch the entire first season of Hotel Del Luna while eating greasy pizza.

4: A flavour of ice cream you could eat for the rest of your life? - Butterscotch! Don't ask me why.

5: If a song was played every time you walked into a room, what would the song be? - This is HARD for me to answer cause I have a degree in music and my brain can't choose just one song. But if I had to choose, it would be either September by Earth, Wind, Fire or it would be Brooklyn Baby by Lana del Rey!

Im Tagging some people to do this, whom I hope they won't mind me tagging them! @heeliopheelia @astraystayyh @1-800-shedevil @whyyougottadothatbro @soobnny @shoverse @hyunsvngs @forjongseong @jaylaxies @eumpapas @chlorinecake @agi-ppangx @saturnandgold

[tennessoui]

Asfsgdgf Sheari has to put up with so much SHIT from these clowns. I really have to wonder what she thinks about their case as we get further in. Because, like. Anakin's in two relationships. But he only married ONE of them.

"A marriage that demands your loyalty and prioritization" surely can't be too far off when Anakin has clearly prioritized Padme by marrying her... Does Sheari ever suggest that Obi-Wan would feel more secure in their relationship if Anakin married him too? Make it harder for Anakin to leave, give Obi-Wan equal standing, (shut both their brains down by just saying it) -- or would that be outside the boundaries of what's acceptable to address?

such a good question!!!

so the timing needs to be real perfect for this whole leg of the story - Sheari can bring up the marriage before obi-wan and anakin realize she thinks they’re together but she can’t really get into the meat of the marriage issue (aka by asking why anakin married someone else and not obi-wan when it seems to be the root of a lot of obi-wan’s anxieties about future anakin abandonment - anakabdoment if you will) because if she asked them point blank why anakin hasn’t married obi-wan or shown him he loves him in some legal and binding way equal to the marriage he gave Padmé, both anakin and obi-wan are going to be like well. cause we’re not in love,,,,or together,,,, to her face

And that’s not the way the story is going to go!! So before sheari can really ask about the marriage, anakin and obi-wan need to realize that she thinks they’re a couple and then they’re going to need to decide that they’re going to actively lie and pretend to be a couple so that they can keep seeing her because they’ve already been vulnerable with her and they don’t want to start over with someone else

and before that can happen, they need to actually be vulnerable with her over an issue that they would need her to know about but would be very reluctant to tell anyone or talk about

which is gonna be forthcoming in the next few chapters (as soon as they stop storming out of the sessions)

[thelaurenshippen]

Hi there! I started relistening to the bright sessions (as one does) and had a random question come up. When did you know that Mark/Sam wasn't going to be endgame (romantically)? I know in s4 they both fall apart separately and together, but even in Safehouse pt 2 (my absolute beloved) they argue about their coping mechanisms. Did you know then that they weren't going to end up together? How did you come to that conclusion?

hey!! this is a great question - I definitely did start the show thinking they were endgame and that's mostly what I was thinking at the time of safehouse too, despite their issues. I think it was really in writing Season 4 actually, when I realized that I was no longer telling a story about two people in love working through their issues, but was instead telling a story about two people who were in love but realized they shouldn't be together in that way. I started to feel those tension points in Season 3 (I would say the safehouse episodes were a true attempt for them to learn to work through their issues), but it wasn't until planning S4 that I really made the decision.

there are a lot of things that led to this that I'll try to articulate, because the honest, simplest answer as to why the plans changed was "because it felt like they should". but if I were think back and pinpoint a few reasons for that...

there was never supposed to be a love triangle. Mark was always bisexual but he and Damien were never supposed to develop feelings for one another. but the first time we got Andrew and Charlie into a room and read through their first episode together it was like "oh, OH-kay" (which, sidebar: clearly I was writing something between them subtextually because it wasn't like Andrew and Charlie were strangers to each other - I'd watched them act ALL sorts of scenes together in acting class but the romantic chemistry popped OUT with Mark/Damien. pretty much from the second motel episode on, I was writing leaning into that dynamic). that threw a lot of spanners into the works because while I never had plans to put Mark and Damien together, I hadn't anticipated Mark grappling with feelings for someone else.

similarly, I'd underestimated just how flawed Sam was. Sam is not a bad person, but she sometimes doesn't really know how to be a person who cares about other people. when you add that to the dynamics of Damien and Joan kind of, like, hovering over Mark in various unproductive ways (for Damien, it's destructive and invasive; for Joan, she's just a too-involved older sister sometimes), Sam becomes another person who is kind of, like...controlling Mark, or trying to, because she loves him and doesn't know how to (I mean, I'm pretty sure I'm just regurgitating actual lines I wrote lol). this is not to say that her flaws make her unable to be in a relationship (Mark is also deeply flawed!) but just that their flaws clashed against each other in ways I hadn't planned.

finally: Joan and found family. in my mind, there was something grand and romantic about Sam meeting Dr. Bright so that she could be led to Mark - like they were somehow always fated to meet. in actuality, it's not that at all - instead, the bond that Sam and Joan have is just as important as the one she has with Mark, albeit different. I don't believe in soulmates personally, but I've always liked the idea that you have people out there. soulmates in a more general sense - people you click with, have a connection with. it can be romantic, familial, friendship, work or creative partnerships, whatever. I think the Bryant siblings and Sam have that. I think Sam and Mark are meant for each other but in a non-exclusive way and in a...maybe not non-romantic way, but a way that doesn't have romance at the forefront. they love each other deeply and they fit, but a romantic partnership might not be the best way forward for them. and Joan and Sam are the whole heart of the show to me in some senses. as I was writing the finale, I very intentionally ended with the two of them - both because the final appearance of every character is in order of when they first appeared, but in reverse and also because the show starts with both of them in dark, destructive places and while there's broken trust between them throughout, they ultimately help each other get better. I thought Sam's story was about finding love and it was, but that love looked differently than I had planned.

okay, god, this has gotten waaaaaay too long and rambly. I hope this answers your question? one of my favorite things/the thing I miss most about making a show like TBS is being able to shift things based on chemistry/what the actors bring/etc. so often now, I'm writing entire seasons of things and then handing them off to production, in which anything can happen! the flexibility of recording episode by episode in TBS is something I took full advantage of.

thanks for listening and relistening!!

[kit-screams-into-the-future]

Ooo okay for the asks, how about ✒️ and 🎵 and 🎭 ? (you can answer all of them or pick n choose!!)

✒️you are hired to write/draw a new bttf comic, and it can be about whatever you want. what in the bttf universe would you want to expand on?

funny you ask this one bc technically it's already happening hahaha. ive got many drawing ideas and they're quite lengthy is what im sayin

hmmm this is hard. bc there's like so many things i'd like to see! life-threatening adventure stuff, everyday slice of life stuff.... probably something post-canon tho. i think it would be cute to just have doc and marty visit different time periods and get into trouble! so like. sort of the cartoon but if it was actually good.

🎵if you have listened to the musical soundtrack, which song is your favorite and why?

ive really only listened to it front to back once so far (soon to change) and it takes a couple listens for songs to jump out at me when it comes to these things (ex: i used to get stuck looping candy store from heathers until i realized actually the whole entire musical is also a bop haha) but wherever we're going is like. the cutest song ever. the opening number is also pretty catchy, i remember getting jumpscared by the actual theme song as a motif in there! and hello, is anybody home is also really good. bro is going through it </3. honestly might just make a whole separate post to yap about the musical

🎭what bttf cosplay do you want to own?

[doc brown voice] MARTY. MARTYYY. it's simply a classic im sayin. would also really like a doc fit tho. his hawaiian shirt swag is unmatched i fear

[faefrosting]

WHY DID I DREAM ABOUT JOINING A MURDER CULT CAUSE ONE THE GUYS AROUND MY AGE WAS HOT AND WAS WAS THERE SANS THE SKELETON THERE???

Thank the stars I woke up when I did, I was getting paranoid they were gonna kill me, realize that I don't kill people and I'm just really fucking weird (almost everyone was weirded out by me and didn't want to be near me)

The guy I joined the cult to see realized I was there because I am stupid and I was just some weird soft marshmallow of a person

Anyways Sans tried to judge me as a person since joining the cult, I got plus ten yippee points for every person I didn't kill (I killed no one I am a soft marshmallow) tur thing messed up and said I was dead even though the guys watching my score could still see me crawling on this random ah parking lot (I had this tendency to walk around on all fours for some reason)

I miss my dreams when I don't take my meds, so chaotic

[coriander-candlesticks]

Note to self: word prayers better when doing divinatory sessions

I think I've mentioned this before, but I do yes/no stone pulls on Sundays to ask for guidance about maintaining my health re: my commute because it's 2-2.5 hours each way via public transit if everything runs on time. It's rough on me in multiple ways and can lead to even more migraines than usual or being too fatigued to work at all, and it can be difficult to tell whether I'll have the spoons to go in person.

This past Sunday I was exhausted & stressed because of, you know, the horrors, and said my initial prayer a little differently than I usually do. I still invoked Apollo and Hermes as always, as both of them cover divination by lots, Apollo's domain covers health & disease, and he's the one I turn to for divination by default.

Now, the vast majority of the guidance and lessons Apollo has given have had to do with recognizing my physical & mental limits, especially around this issue. The answers I was getting this time around were...odd but not quite in the way they have been with just dud pulls, so I started asking clarifying questions to figure out what was going on. After a few - establishing that there was a reason for the answers but it wasn't a test or punishment or Apollo messing with me (which would have been. odd) - I realized that while I'd invoked Hermes as a god of divination by lots alongside Apollo, I had not explicitly asked him to act as a messenger and aid in communication this time around, nor had I asked Apollo to guide the divination session with the wording I usually use.

I think you can see where I'm going with this.

I re-said the prayer (correctly this time) and confirmed that it was, in fact, Hermes at first while re-doing the initial set of questions (which were much more consistent in the usual way), as well as confirming that the issue was the prayer wording. Lesson learned lol

[artem1sc0re]

Hi do you guys like OCs because I’d like to present mine ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ✩‧₊˚

His name’s Terry He’s an ex SWAT officer turned Radiographer who tinkers with police radios and can help divert the police away from you if you’re getting chased and need a quick getaway (no guarantee it works all the time, just something to buy some time to hide Yknow?)

More doodles down below, mostly from when I was first designing him:

[wantonlywindswept]

any time i start with a new therapist there is a period where i am basically the embodiment of that gina meme from brooklyn 99

[cursezoroark]

I’m not falling for that. You're not getting shit from me.

… a “regretful journey”. I’ve met weird characters, who don’t seem to like me much. I turned out ok, but- Creepy. I still don’t trust Luck, that bastard. I don’t regret meeting him though, otherwise I wouldn't have Beau.

There were moments where it worked out, though. It’s better to laugh now. I was scared then, but it’s alright, nothing to regret there.

Actually, I’ve met good characters by going on this “journey”. They just become my friends because of things I do. That’s how it works. I don’t regret meeting them because I know them, and they know me.

Most of the time.

[bumblingbabooshka]

Odd and Recent Planets

[immortalsins]

oughhhhhhhhhhh

[stairset]

It's been like a year since Tales of the Jedi came out but it's still hilarious to me that when returning to early Clone Wars Ahsoka they took one look at the age inappropriate tube top that's impossible to take seriously and said damn did we really put her in this and just retroactively gave her a better outfit and there was just an unspoken agreement with the audience that we would just roll with it and pretend that that was her outfit the whole time.

[suddenrundown]

having a whole reddit am i the asshole moment

[broke-on-books]

Momm pick me up im scaredddddd

Just checked rate my professor and all my profs for next semester have FATALLY bad reviews. I'm talking like even the very rare ppl rating 5 stars still got a C bad.

Looking at my schedule like all of my other class options for those reqs are full... that or I'd likely be kicking these classes down the line until I'd have to deal with my honors thesis + grad school apps on top of it...

Like its soooo noxious I have to maintain a high semesterly (& overall!) grade too to stay in my programs and like GPA is huge in postgrad education and its so beautiful right now and just!!! I'm scareddddddd hlep

& you never know if the randos on rmp are your type of student so maybe I'll just blow past them easy but like. Esp for this one professor I'm terrifiedddd