Meme, because I didn't have a drunk Purim experience

[attackfish]

Stealing from all kinds of people on the white_lotus members page.

Tell me about stories you think I should write. I mean, if you could sit me down for a day or whatever and say, "Ok, I want you to write this story for me," what would that story be?

I'm not actually promising to *write* any of these, mind you, but it's fun anyway. And who knows if I'll be inspired!

Comments

[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

Huh, I seem to have misremembered Ty Lee's history. Yes, that makes sense; I can see that for Mai and Ty Lee. I still maintain that Aang only displays an acute stress response (which is basically PTSD symptoms that happen immediately and don't last long).

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

See, I was under the impression that the gaang hung around the North Pole for a month or so after the battle for Aang and Katara to learn more waterbending before they journeyed on to the Earth Kingdom. That's why I wasn't as sure about Aang as the other three. How far from the initial event do the symptoms have to continue for it to stop being acute?

Mai, Ty Lee, and Azula are kind of a touchy subject for me, because I see so much of my first stalker in Azula and Mai and Ty Lee act so much like my first stalker's real life victims, that when I first saw the show, I was like "They get it, they get it! Somebody finally gets it!" (Try telling somebody you're in therapy because you were stalked by a ten-year-old girl and see how well that goes over. Seriously. Well, ten to fourteen year old, she kept it up for four years.) And then there are huge swaths of fandom who want to woobify Azula, and are under the impression that if Mai and Ty Lee were just better friends to Azula, she never would have started hallucinating, and would have become magically nice, and it's like NOOOOO! Why fandom, why?

[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

Three months to be diagnosed with PTSD, according to the DSM-IV, but, from what I've seen in real life, ASR shades into PTSD without any particular dividing line. (Then the PTSD can also be acute or chronic, but the dividing line is again arbitrary.) However, what signs of PTSD are you thinking of subsequent to the Siege of the North? I thought we were talking about Aang's nightmare and reaction to the genocide early in the first book. I saw those scenes and thought, "PTSD! Wait, no, that happened yesterday for Aang; of course he's still freaked out and hasn't dealt with it yet."

Ten-year-olds can be monsters. I was never in that dynamic, though, so I didn't recognize it in Azula and her friends. As far as Mai and Ty Lee being at fault for everything,
1. I don't think they could have caused psychosis.
2. I used to blame myself for not having made my "friend" a nicer person. I couldn't have done anything.
3. Even if they could have, why should they have been obliged to take care of Azula while she wrought havoc upon the world?

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Well, a hundred years definitely counts as long term... No, actually, I wasn't even thinking about that dream. I was thinking about the one in "The Avatar State" where he dreams about destroying the Fire Nation fleet as Koizilla. Still pretty safely within the acute zone, I think, but not the day after.

Unfortunately, the whole "If you were just a better friend" thing hits a little too close to what in my darkest moments used to run through my mind. People like Azula and my first stalker convince you to blame yourself and that you're a coward for leaving, and that you're the real bad guy, and then fandom goes with that same logic, and it's like, wow, way to miss the point, folks.

[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

I don't remember that part. Maybe I should rewatch.

If I were you-- and if I were very strong-- I would show that last part through a story about how this has affected Mai and Ty Lee. Of course, it's up to you how you use your energy and sanity.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Children’s Stories is one of the first stories I wrote in A:tLA fandom, Mai after the war thinks about Azula: http://attackfish.livejournal.com/46047.html

Ty Lee and Suki - Sake was written for lalunatique on a meme, Ty Lee in the Kyoshi Warriors hides her scars: http://attackfish.livejournal.com/113196.html?thread=1384492#t1384492

[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

That last one... just, that last one. Wow.

(Would Suki really do that? I'm having a hard time believing the leader of the Kyoshi warriors would do that, especially after having gone off to war.)

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I imagine it's not a habitual thing, more like she misjudged her alcohol tolerance at some kind of annual Kyoshi island equivalent of a Christmas party. *shrug*

[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

That makes sense.