Tales of the Parodyverse - Perhaps try to remember?

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HH advises being kind to yourself for good mental health

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Subj: Perhaps try to remember?
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 at 11:55:19 am EST (Viewed 3 times)

Reply Subj: I almost forgot what that was this week.
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Sometimes it's satisfying to pit an intellectual bully against someone in his weight class.

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There are two possible roads that can lead there - someone smart, or someone who's just heard so many monologues and rants that they've become meaningless. Lara might be smart, but she's also been doing this superhero thing since she was 16 years old. There aren't many monologues or rants that she hasn't heard already, and her brain just turns off when she hears yet another one. Sometimes she wishes she was a super-speeder so she could go and get a snack and eat it while the evil person is talking.

There are several ways to play this out. The next UT appearance for Lara (assuming the plot plays along as I currently think it will) should be informed by your comment here.

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Given the "destinies" of many of her friends she would need to be especially cautious.

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That's probably the hardest thing about her power - trying to figure out when the best time to change things is. She can't go back and change previous events like the Hood can, so once she misses her window, then sometimes the inevitable is set into motion, and it's too late.

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A good example would be stopping a friend from going to a movie, because she foresees they will be hit by a bus. If she misses that window, and tries to put the bus somewhere else at the last second, then a taxi runs over the friend instead. And after that, a delivery truck. She can't stop all of those from happening, so if she misses stopping them from going to the movie, it's too late.

That's certainly a useful clarification.

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I have the advantage of having known Shep, so when I write Dancer I tend to channel adult-Shep and when I write Kerry I channel teen-Shep from when we first met. Teen Shep is the one who once chased me shouting, "See this stapler? You want to know what this stapler can do to you? DO YOU WANT TO ARGUE WITH THE STAPLER NOW?"

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It's much more satisfying to throw the stapler instead of arguing with it. It makes a satisfying clunk when it hits the floor.

I'm not going to conduct a survey of different ways people can come at me with any kind of office equipment.