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“No, no, no. Come now. Don’t despair.” “What would you have us do?”

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i hope you all feel sufficiently booped and loved after boop-o-ween <3

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we think the train that goes outside our office hit something (NOT a living something) or that something's wrong on the track because it's been stopped outside the office for almost half an hour and the driver and conductors are looking under it right between the engine and the first car. and [possibly obviously] it's making me think of Susan and just to reiterate how much Susan hates trains and is intensely afraid of being on or around trains. (she says it happens when your entire family is killed suddenly in a violent train crash and you spend days having to look at body parts to identify your entire family.) Susan could never work in my office where there's a train track right outside. would never could never.

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i always feel like [modern verse] sigrid would have been a candle girlie if she wasn't afraid of fire after her house/entire town was burned to the ground. like i feel like she'd like scented candles for the aromatherapy and to add ambiance. except she doesn't in actuality because fire makes her a little anxious and she's super safe about fires. she'll do a fire in the hearth but she definitely has a really solid fire grate (probably a glass one that sparks can't get through) and when she's around outdoor bonfires she doesn't get too close if it's a big one. she doesn't really like the smell of fire/candles/burning, either. so even though without that one defining incident she probably would have been a candle girlie, because it did happen, she is very much not a candle girlie.

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A new bram stoker short story discovered just in time for halloween?? The great pumpkin is good to us this year, linus was right all along.

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i was just getting to the point where i was like 'ok i think i can try to start writing things' and now i have caught a cold. gdi. it had better go away asap though 'cause on friday i'm getting on a plane to see my brother and i don't want to fly sick but i can't cancel because a) those tickets and the hotel were effing expensive, and b) i haven't seen my brother in a year 'cause he lives in a different country.

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ooc: tl;dr I had a death in my extended family. It was very sudden and unexpected. Someone I'm sort of close to but not very, but someone my mother and brother were both extremely close with. And due to some...complicated...dynamics with other people in the extended family it's been enormously stressful and dramatic and I've been dealing with trying to help figure stuff out all week.

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I was thinking about this again tonight 'cause again like as I said she doesn't really do a lot that actively puts herself at risk BUT at the same time she is also active out and about in her kingdom/community in very casual, public ways. And as mentioned she's pretty resistant to having security with her so she's not necessarily protected at all times. Like in canon verses she's frequently out in the city at the houses of healing or the school or the orphanage. And in modern verses she's an emergency room nurse. None of these are really places it's like yeah she better have someone near her at all times. And in some cases having security around would be more of a hindrance (at least in her opinion). And it's not like her patronage/occupation aren't things that are well known or could be easily found out. It probably WOULD be easier than not to grab her if someone was trying to.

i've recently started watching the west wing and there's a scene where the president is telling his daughter about how the worst case scenario isn't something happening to him but something happening to her because he wouldn't be able to not do everything possible to save her regardless of if it was best for the country (scene here if you, like me, hadn't/haven't seen the west wing [x]) and that's such a bard-as-king sentiment. (like granted of all his kids sigrid is the least likely to actively engage in anything risky but still.) and bard as any sort of political/leader figure in modern verses. because he's always been a dad first -- he was a dad way before he was a king/modern-verse-political-figure, his kids have always been his priority. he only even stumbled into being made a king because he was trying to keep his kids safe. it's also not really going very far out on a limb to assume that it's pretty easily assessed knowledge that the best way to get to bard is through his kids. tl;dr it's probably more often than not that sigrid is pretty constantly a potential political target, and while she isn't really the type to be engaging in what could be considered risky, she is fairly resistant to having security around her.

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i've recently started watching the west wing and there's a scene where the president is telling his daughter about how the worst case scenario isn't something happening to him but something happening to her because he wouldn't be able to not do everything possible to save her regardless of if it was best for the country (scene here if you, like me, hadn't/haven't seen the west wing [x]) and that's such a bard-as-king sentiment. (like granted of all his kids sigrid is the least likely to actively engage in anything risky but still.) and bard as any sort of political/leader figure in modern verses. because he's always been a dad first -- he was a dad way before he was a king/modern-verse-political-figure, his kids have always been his priority. he only even stumbled into being made a king because he was trying to keep his kids safe. it's also not really going very far out on a limb to assume that it's pretty easily assessed knowledge that the best way to get to bard is through his kids. tl;dr it's probably more often than not that sigrid is pretty constantly a potential political target, and while she isn't really the type to be engaging in what could be considered risky, she is fairly resistant to having security around her.

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i've been watching the resident and i feel like nic and sigrid would be good friends.

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lily james ✿