End-of-Summer Therapy

[bitten_notshy]

Classes start in a week, so, Fandom, how was your summer? Did you get a tan? Fall in love? Are you still hoping to do one or both of those things before Labor Day?

Any lingering summer trauma, including the omg-island-of-vampires kind? Share. We love it when you share.

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[trigons_child]

OMG I am GOTH I do not tan kthnx.

I fell in love, or at least I thought I did, but it was a mistake. I do not think I will be repeating it.

[bitten_notshy]

You'll never be in love again?

Why not?

[bitchprince]

I DON'T EVEN KNOW.

...some parts were harsher than others. Many were excrutiatingly confusing. I would still like to be home.

[bitten_notshy]

Yes, well, a lot of us would rather be home. It's a matter of marking time and making it useful for another nine months until we can.

Were any of the confusing parts almost acceptable?

[puppy_fair]

I seem to have managed, somehow, to continually fail at dating since I got here!

BUT I WILL NOT BE DETERRED.

Plus there is some serious trauma but I hide it well so we ignore that please.

[bitten_notshy]

But you got laid on the island of vampires! Doesn't that count, kind of? Or is that more trauma?

[feline-royalty.livejournal.com]

GINGERS.

[withoutverona]

GO SLEEP WITH YOUR AUNT, CAPULET.

Romeo is vaguely terrified at himself that he felt the need to say this, what with the tendering Tybalt's name as dearly as his own and la.

[endsthegame]

Beyond the part where I turned into a blood-drinking creature of the night and reminded myself of past trauma before killing myself and granting my two closest friends extra trauma?

My sister's here. She's the most beautiful person I've ever known. That makes up for a lot. And there's, at last, work to be done.

[bitten_notshy]

... yes, Ender, besides that first thing, since it's the kind of awful I can't begin to address. (If it helps, I'm sorry.)

Your sister is wonderful. I know you know that, it just needs to be said.

[wantstocheer.livejournal.com]

I've had a pretty trauma free summer, minus those first couple of days when I was shocked by Peter being here, young, alive and involved with a guy.

Then again, I don't know much about what my AU self was up to minus gardening.

[bitten_notshy]

Trauma-free summers might be said to be the best kind.

Would you really like to know what your AU self did, or is ignorance bliss? (I don't know; I ask from academic interest only.)

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

Drugged my whole cabin, corrupted a young girl, got my ass kicked a few times. The usual.

I also started going to church. Which is weird.

And I didn't tan. I wear shirts to the beach.

[bitten_notshy]

Mmmm. I know I don't know you well, but you don't strike me as the church type.

[intraspective]

Gee, I don't know, maybe having my first assassination mission and then coming back and getting to lie to everyone ever that I'm Totally Fine and Nothing Happened.

(Except for Reno. He got the full story. So he's apparently not part of... everyone ever. Something.)

No falling in love. No real progress on any front like that and honestly I don't know if I want any progress on that front right now. I've got enough on my plate.

[raspberryturk]

I ain't everyone ever, so clearly I gotta be someone else!

Makes perfect sense to me, zoto.

[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

My summer was pretty much trauma-free, thanks. I've been surfing a lot, I got to teach a class, and I'm shockingly functional for, well, me. I got a bit weirded out by you people dropping like flies during that whole sleeping-sickness, but that's it.

Although I apparently traumatized other people, but it wasn't even really me, it was the Other-Me somewhere else. Where's the fun in that?

[tyler_gone]

... I still can't really look at you.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

I had a baby!

I think that counts for a busy summer.

And now I cannot waaaaaaaaaait to go back to school! But I'm worried about leaving little miss home with Anakin all day. Not for her sake. I like the fragments of sanity he has left.

[bitten_notshy]

Congratulations! So she'll be fine, but he might not manage? Well, I suppose the only way to find out is to try it.

Also, some other person in my writer's brain wants to say he's still absurdly pleased you named her Juliet even though he knows perfectly well that it was a coincidence. I think he wants a Juliet to have a happy ending.

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

My summer's been...pretty good, actually. I got a real nice tan, and I keep meeting new people and making new friends, and all that. It's like there's no shortage of people who you don't already know!

[bitten_notshy]

I keep finding new people too! And we'll have another boatload of them at the end of the week.

I bet a tan suits you.

[notqueenyet.livejournal.com]

It has been interesting enough, though quiet. Lucy visited, I spent most of my time with the twins and Hwin and Bree, and King Lune's court continues to treat me with all the deference befitting the only lady at court without making me feel strange about it.

And nothing else interesting happened. Nothing at all.

[bitten_notshy]

That sounds like a lovely, restful summer, though your last sentences make me wonder if you've ever heard of protesting too much.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Arranged the murder of a psychopath. Successfully. Finally realized my father has the morals of plankton. Freaked out. Scared the hell out of my friends.

Ran away to Los Angeles to live with Zero and Peter. Am now negotiating her first movie release on DVD and limited-run theaters. Amusing & entertaining.

Still have no idea if I'm going back to Oxford, ever speaking to my father again, or what I'm doing for the rest of my life.

[bitten_notshy]

At least you're keeping yourself busy.

You might spend the rest of your life trying to find out if plankton has morals at all?

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

It's been pretty shiny! I'm sad for the end for a couple reasons but it ain't been bad, overall!

[bitten_notshy]

Shiny means good? I'm sorry you're sad for the end, but I hope the rest of the good makes it up to you.

[magdaofslovenia.livejournal.com]

I miss my friends from Leverage, Inc. terribly, although it helps to have a younger Parker here to keep an eye on. I've made other good friends here too, including one friend-with-benefits, and I can't help being fascinated by this place. I have a lovely new art gallery, a part in the play... and, well. Whatever it is that isn't actually happening with Geoffrey and I.

And possibly some new ideas for fall's activities. Rather well, even with that nasty interlude with vampires and another dimension.

[bitten_notshy]

It sounds like a lovely summer.

What is not really happening with you and Geoffrey, anyhow? I notice you at rehearsals but I can't quite tell.

[longislandiceme]

I burn waaaaay too easily to do much tanning. And most of my trauma was, well, pre-Fandom trauma. I'm actually here as a sort of break and so far it's working out great.

Actually, wait, no, scratch that. People keep trying to date Jean. THAT IS TRAUMATIC.

[bitten_notshy]

Ah. Breaks are pleasant things.

Do you want to date Jean yourself, then?

[icecoldfrost]

I don't tan, I don't love, and if I do either before Labor Day, I shall be most put out.

I'm even mostly untraumatized by the 'omg-island-of-vampires.' If anything, I'm a bit annoyed, because that Other-Emma had an older telepath that understood and helped her, and she could use our powers better than I can. I shall accredit it to better training and desperation making the best motivation, but it still rankles.

Any other trauma I may have is a pre-existing condition, and none of your concern.

[bitten_notshy]

I have faith that someday you'll surpass even other-Emma. You just need to find the right motivation.

And almost everything about you is my concern, thank you very much. Haven't you noticed that yet?

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

I've had a pretty kickin' summer. Sure, there were some bumps along the way (my little sibling who has since left kissing me, for one) but it turned out all right. I told Angela I loved her (and I did it right!), got to see Chuck Bass in a ballpit and got a nice tan.

Oh, I also took a lot of pictures of Angela when she was a red panda. Totally showing those to her dad if he doesn't murder me if he shows up for Parent's Weekend.

[bitten_notshy]

I can tell you that it is a very nice tan.

I hope Angela's dad leaves you alive. Taken or not, you're quite good to look at, and you seem to know it.

[ihavenocodename.livejournal.com]

Everything has been great!

I met some creepers super nice boys here--even if Bobby keeps ruining things oh my god. And even found a dreamy teacher who is my son to help me with my powers!

[bitten_notshy]

I'm glad to hear it! And I'm sorry Bobby keeps ruining things for you; you should tell him to step off.

*glances up*

Have you thought about introducing your teacher to Emma? She seems to want guidance and it would be FUNNY to see their heads explode.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

I dated a couple guys, and wound up with new good friends. Got to fight aliens, 'gators, vampires, and demons, and parts of the actual fighting were difficult, but I'm getting better at handling it. My powers seem to be growing? Or maybe I'm just getting better at controlling them in new ways. Lots of new friends who came in this summer, yay. Hung out a lot with friends I already had, too.

The whole vampire thing was traumatic, but... I think I'm doing pretty okay. I'm just confused now about other stuff because of it.

[bitten_notshy]

It sounds like a pleasant summer. What other stuff is there to be confused about?

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

...what hasn't gone wrong this summer would be the real question.

[bitten_notshy]

Ah, come now. You have two more-than-decent people who love you and powers beyond my reckoning. There are worse fates in this world than to be you.

[not-ironmaiden.livejournal.com]

Perfectly normal for somewhere you can be kidnapped to 19th century Japan and shot with an arrow.

Though I think I'm out of coffee. So, I suppose we could call that traumatic.

[tyler_gone]

Totally normal to have your brain sucked onto an island where you're a vampire, you're having sex with someone you don't even like, and you blow yourself up to get out of there.

That's why neither of us is sleeping -- we're too normal to need sleep.

... which is probably why you're out of coffee.

[weetuskenraider]

. . . I said the L word. I think that means I got past some of my issues?

Some. It's not like I have a shortage.

[bitten_notshy]

If I could say awwwww, I would say awwwww.

Issues are what keep us going!

[chosehumanity]

I came here to escape my life my home in order to avoid the sociopathic blood addicts back home rather than deal with them throw myself into human life again. Since, I've found out that in some version of affairs, things are more peaceful here, my maker can still find me, he's still not gotten over the whole 'plotting to take over the world' thing, and George couldn't ask a girl out if his life depended on it.

Maybe I should matchmake. That last problem's the one I can deal with.

[bitten_notshy]

Well, finding George a girlfriend is an easier problem to tackle on the island than stopping vampires from taking over the world -- if only slightly.

(Also, my player just saw a certain episode of your canon and she wants me to ask if you missed "Interview with a Vampire," whatever that is. I have to agree that child vampires are not good things.)

[momslilassassin]

I killed an alternate version of my girlfriend (but not the version who tortured me this spring) and watched one of my best friends kill himself via sunlight. I also had a different girl sing to me about a crush I so didn't know she had on me. I also turned fifteen, an event my mom (now dead) had promised me a big party for.

But this Tahiri loves me and doesn't seem bent on a path of revenge and random sluttiness.

So I'm fine. Really.

[bitten_notshy]

That's good, because you sound fine. Really.

How did you miss Karla's crush? Will you keep missing Ender's until he sings, too?