TENDERNESS. *melt*

[schmerica]

Three Buttons For a Fictional Text to Push If Their Goals Is To Freak Pearl-o The Fuck Out

1) Eyes. Oh, god, the eyes. This one is probably the most common, because apparently? The shows I watch are very fond of STICKING NEEDLES INTO PEOPLE'S PUPILS WHAT THE HELL. House, Farscape, and now Supernatural are only the latest instances of me being stuck with images in my head I really never wanted to think about. Dear people of the world, please keep all needles, poky tentacles, knives, red hot pokers, and other such instruments away from the eye sockets of your characters, for my mental health. P.S., the Clockwork Orange thing is not cool either.

2) Sane people trapped in 19th century mental asylums. THIS OCCURS FAR MORE OFTEN THAN YOU MIGHT EXPECT. Although that might partly be a result of my choice of reading material, admittedly.

3) People all alone in the vastness of space. Farscape has renewed this one for me with its frequent device of people floating alone in the hugeness of space with no spaceships anywhere near. This one can still apply even if people are safely in space ships or shuttles or something, though, as long as they are completely alone. When I was little, I could not understand why anyone would want to be an astronaut ever omg. I still don't, really. SPACE IS CREEPY. (I think I read a Christopher Pike or some other trashy novel when I was young that had this captain of a spaceship that was at very-very-close-to-speed-of-light, and she was all alone for like BILLIONS of years in the spaceship while the universe died and renewed itself around her. SO CREEPY.)

People living forever and being alone forever in that way is also creepy, but less so, because it doesn't involve SPACE. *shudder*

In other news, today is Saturday, which means Homework and Cleaning Day! Oh, the fun of it all.

*sigh*

You know what makes everything better? Thinking about Dan/Duck.







...If any of you now go and write a story where Duck or Dan gets their eyes gouged out I WILL NOT BE AMUSED. I'm just saying.

Comments

[lilac-one.livejournal.com]

I'm with you all the way. On all of these. When I was little, the idea of a space walk scared me like woah. I mean, all you have is a little tether and if it snaps, you're dead meat.

But! Duck and Dan make it all better. Thanks for the yummy pictures!

[lady-shain.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on the eyes thing. It was *much* worse before I had contacts, admittedly, but one of the reasons I will *never* have cosmetic surgery? Needles near the eye.

When "the Operation" was airing a few years back I stumbled across them doing an eye lift, or whatever they call it, and there's this doctor, merrily poking a needle in this woman's face, with what appeared to be total disregard for her eyeball - and it squicked me for like a week.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*cringes*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

DUCK. And DAN. *sigh*

[cranberryink.livejournal.com]

I am so with you on #3. I know it probably sounds weird, but I find something about space to be oddly claustraphobic, kind of like being underwater. It's not our native environment, so we can't just run freely around in it with out clunky equipment. And being stuck in the vastness of space? All that blackness is just...*shudders*

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

What's even worse for me than eyes is mouths. Get a sharp object anywhere near someone's tongue and I freak. Big-time.

[fenlings]

Picspam of yay! Pretty. Also I totally own that trashy Christopher Pike novel. Being trapped in slavery/jails/mental asylums is a really bad one for me, too, and *every series* has an episode where this happens. ::cringes::