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Post by arf on Apr 23, 2021 4:27:12 GMT
Tony may have started off by hating Forest Annie on sight, but had clearly come round by the time they got back home.
(or was he trying to lull the imposter into a false sense of security?)
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Post by bedinsis on Apr 23, 2021 5:01:38 GMT
TBH, this is a lot more like the expected response to this situation. All these other characters are so used to weird magic crap happening that they shrug it off, but we're lacking an outsider's perspective on this besides Tony. We've only gotten hints at the fact that most the non-etheric side of the Court doesn't even believe in magic, but I don't think the implications of that have ever been truly investigated. There's probably a significant contingent of students at Gunnerkrigg who have rationalized that Loup's attack was just an earthquake - or at the most outlandish, the result of tree bioengineering gone wrong. I mean, you'd be surprised what people can rationalize away. But then what happens when you're confronted with the hard yet impossible reality of a situation and there's no way to rationalize it? Gunnerkrigg Court: the comic where a catastrophe that tears down buildings can be met with the interpretations "It was divine intervention" and "It was an earthquake" and one of the interpretations is indicative of the person holding onto existing, outdated models of the world in face of new evidence to the contrary, and it is the latter interpretation. |
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Post by blazingstar on Apr 23, 2021 7:40:18 GMT
I don't think Anthony, after everything he's been through, would ever trust a therapist working for the court..... Probably fair, but you don't have to reveal everything to a therapist to get something out of it. Wait, you don't?! Hold on, do you mean secret-agent-shadow-men information, or everything about one's life in general? Because if it's the latter, I've been doing therapy all wrong... |
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Post by peter2 on Apr 23, 2021 11:58:20 GMT
Tony may have started off by hating Forest Annie on sight, but had clearly come round by the time they got back home. (or was he trying to lull the imposter into a false sense of security?) The Antimony who returned from the forest was still the original Annie that I knew from the beginning. The Annie that was living in the court was the “new” Annie. Though not false or an imposter, Court Annie was still the “new” one with new memories and experiences different from the Annie I was familiar with. We saw how forest Annie’s face lit up when she realized that her father who she loved in spite of everything, was suddenly responding to and interacting with her, just as she had always dreamed it could be, as she longed for it to be... When she, the remerged Annie, held up and looked at her hands, realizing she was one person, it was as though she were taking control of a dream. |
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Post by DonDueed on Apr 23, 2021 14:47:53 GMT
Tony may have started off by hating Forest Annie on sight, but had clearly come round by the time they got back home. (or was he trying to lull the imposter into a false sense of security?) The Antimony who returned from the forest was still the original Annie that I knew from the beginning. The Annie that was living in the court was the “new” Annie. Though not false or an imposter, Court Annie was still the “new” one with new memories and experiences different from the Annie I was familiar with. We saw how forest Annie’s face lit up when she realized that her father who she loved in spite of everything, was suddenly responding to and interacting with her, just as she had always dreamed it could be, as she longed for it to be... When she, the remerged Annie, held up and looked at her hands, realizing she was one person, it was as though she were taking control of a dream. So you say it's time we moved in together, And built a family of our own, you and me. Well that's the way I've always heard it should be, You want to marr.......... . Oh wait...
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Post by flowsthead on Apr 24, 2021 2:22:15 GMT
Probably fair, but you don't have to reveal everything to a therapist to get something out of it. Wait, you don't?! Hold on, do you mean secret-agent-shadow-men information, or everything about one's life in general? Because if it's the latter, I've been doing therapy all wrong... I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not. |
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Post by speedwell on Apr 24, 2021 11:47:15 GMT
Probably fair, but you don't have to reveal everything to a therapist to get something out of it. Wait, you don't?! Hold on, do you mean secret-agent-shadow-men information, or everything about one's life in general? Because if it's the latter, I've been doing therapy all wrong... You don't do therapy "wrong" if what you're doing is working. In my case, my most successful therapist did not ask or expect me to tell her everything. She knew that a woman in her mid-forties with plenty of trauma from her earliest memories to the present time was never going to have time to do that anyway. What she did was to give me, an independent, DIY sort, good tools and techniques for dealing with my crap at the exact point when it was most distressing. In effect she taught me things I had never been able to learn before about recognising and managing my own feelings, and in many ways to be my own therapist. |
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Post by todd on Apr 25, 2021 1:45:38 GMT
Depending on how you interpret what Zimmy did, "I've lost two daughters and gained a third" might have been more accurate - but wouldn't have been as dramatic.
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