You’ve heard of the manic pixie dream girl, now get ready for
the apathetic goblin delusion woman
me
Yup
okay, storytime. At a group sleepover, there’s this girl, the most innocent thing you’ve ever met, k? She nods off on the couch early on in the night. As everyone’s getting ready to play cards, one of my friends lean back and hears her mumbling in her sleep.
My friend motions for everyone to be quiet. The girl snuggles her blanket, smiles, and in the sweetest voice, says, “Go on, Brandon. You can jump. It’s only 30 stories.”
An old friend of mine sleepwalks, the best moment was when she sat up in the middle of the night and goes “Mommy? I love you mommy.” While she kissed my forehead in her sleep.
During an holiday I heard one of my best friends roar in her sleep.
Apparently I once woke up, hit my boyfriend’s arm and said ‘get that snake away from me’.
Another time, I woke up and said ‘We’ve got to go graverobbing’. (We didn’t go graverobbing.)
get to know me
allerdrake did it so I will do it too, just to pass the time
Rules: tag nine followers you want to get to know better
Name: Sarah (that was an easy one)
Nickname: none
Birthday: April Fool’s Day
Star sign: Aries
Gender: Girl
Height: Short-ish
Sexual orientation: Probably a demisexual biromantic, unless it turns out that neither of those things exist in which case I am not them. (Tumblr’s been giving rather mixed messages recently.)
Favorite color: Blue and green
Hours of sleep: Unacceptable
Lucky number: 5
Last thing I googled: Was attempting to obtain music less than legally, gave up
Happy place: Home
I tag: Anyone who wants to do it!
On being an adult in fandom spaces, John Green etc
These musings actually have very little to do with John Green, I don’t know him, have read exactly one of his books and have no idea about his politics etc – but that post he made and the fallout from it (you’ve already seen it, I’m sure) have got me really worried in a vague sort of way. Sometimes, I sort of already feel like I’m too old for fandom and for tumblr – I know officially tumblr’s main demographic is 30+ or something, but in specifically fandom spaces generally the majority of people there are children. And I write lots of fanfiction for stuff that’s aimed at children – Adventure Time, TAG, Doctor Who to some extent – and I enjoy getting good reviews/kudos/praise for them. So I can’t shake the feeling I’m basically…all up in other group’s space, trying to dominate it, like an grown adult on a bouncy castle or something. Or maybe not. I don’t know. Fandom wasn’t a safe space for children when I first discovered it at twelve, it wasn’t a safe space for teenagers when I was on Livejournal at sixteen, and nothing’s really changed at all. I see that every single day on here. Man.
I still desperately want to be a YA author (TRAJT is actually more than halfway done as of last week) and still be part of wider fandom culture – still making Doctor Who graphics, writing meta about popular movies, responding to fanworks made about my stuff the way almost everyone on here dreams of – but the more I think about it, the more I’m not sure you can do it without there being a colossal power imbalance. And I’d like to have Social Media Power! I could use it to draw attention to all sorts of important issues, raise money for charity, talk about my mental illnesses to spread visibility and awareness etc. But I think the old adage about people who want power being the last ones who should have it is probably true in this case as well.
We didn’t just have adverts… We got sent on a day trip to ‘crucial crew’ (don’t know if anyone else had to suffer through this?) You learned stuff like fire safety, blah blah… Then there were videos of a kid drowning in slurry, one chopping his friend up with a forklift truck, 2 kids playing in a quarry and getting trapped under loads or rubble… And so it goes on. It was the worst day of my life.
When I was in primary school we went to this safety kind of day at a centre in Bristol? It started with really tame stuff like picking up dog poop and gradually got more intense throughout the day. We had to guess how far it would take for a car to slow down at 40mph by standing in the middle of this fake road and they literally walked down pointing out who was dead and who was far enough away to have survived. By the end of the day there was like this one room where you opened the door and the room was supposedly on fire (they had lighting and really warm heaters so opening the door gave the effect) and so we had to ring their emergency services and describe the scene.
We watched a lot of videos and had multiple talks. I don’t know if that’s the same thing you’re describing?
Edit: This is where I went just for clarification.
I had to visit one of those places! I got to go twice, once with the school and once with the Brownies. Everyone got a chance to call the ‘emergency services’ and report an emergency, and I forgot to give the person on the other end my phone number, although I don’t know why we needed to do that anyway.
Also they had a fire simulation and a fake building site and stuff in there? It was called Hazard Alley, it might have been in Aylesbury or Dunstable…