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Jan. 14th, 2023 01:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alex_antoninWhen we were a kid, we had the ability to look into someone's eyes and read their mind. Back then it was just Fay, we think, and she only used that power to try to figure out people's intentions. But sometimes she saw things in their mind that turned out to be real sore spots for people. In her naivete, she would sometimes say these things thinking they were related to what someone was doing. Like the time a bully was bullying her and she told him that just because his parents hurt him doesn't mean he needed to hurt her. At the time, the idea of an adult hurting a child was a new one to her. Anyway the bully didn't take kindly to that and ripped her stuffed cat plushy's tail off. She stopped using that ability and it eventually faded away.
But man, there are some people -- especially online -- that make me wish that ability would come back with an upgrade to work over the Internet. Look at someone's username and know their deepest secrets. Why? Because some people are so st*pid or so stubborn or both that the only way to get rid of them is to block them or deal them massive psychic damage, and blocking them is sometimes just not good enough. Like I just know they're going to go off and be equally horrible to other people, and it gets under my skin like a splinter, and so I wish I had the ability to know just what to say to them to make sure they never emotionally recovered from it. Or at least enough to ruin their day or week or whatever as much as they've ruined mine. Basically a spell of Deal One Thousand Psychic Damage.
But man, there are some people -- especially online -- that make me wish that ability would come back with an upgrade to work over the Internet. Look at someone's username and know their deepest secrets. Why? Because some people are so st*pid or so stubborn or both that the only way to get rid of them is to block them or deal them massive psychic damage, and blocking them is sometimes just not good enough. Like I just know they're going to go off and be equally horrible to other people, and it gets under my skin like a splinter, and so I wish I had the ability to know just what to say to them to make sure they never emotionally recovered from it. Or at least enough to ruin their day or week or whatever as much as they've ruined mine. Basically a spell of Deal One Thousand Psychic Damage.