I was asked a similar question to this in a therapy session today. We were looking for nurturing figures and protective figures; positive figures that I can call on when I'm having a down day and use as resources to get my mood back up. Essentially, my therapist was asking for spirit animals, in a less fannish, more cognitive behavioral type of way ( Read more... )

So the BFF is coming down from San Francisco this weekend, and while I'm ecstatic to see her, I am going to have to be "on" and high energy as a good hostess the whole time she's here, and after a grueling first week of school, I just don't have it in me to be "on" all the time. Usually she understands, because her husband has introverted ( Read more... )

Everyone's doing it, it seems, so snagged from everyone, especially penny_lane_42 and flake_sake, whom I just answered.

List fifteen of your favorite characters from different fandoms, and ask people to spot patterns in your choices, if they're so inclined1. Buffy Summers ( Read more... )