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We both know that isn't going to happen.
However, you can take it upon yourself to see that this doesn't become a bigger drama than it already has.
However, you can take it upon yourself to see that this doesn't become a bigger drama than it already has.
You're not my Warden, manchild.
Perhaps I will include you in a story someday. It would be far too easy to do. Perhaps an ode of devotion and lust to your dear mentor!
And where should a copy wind up the minute I dot the last 'i', stroke the last period?
On his desk, of course.
Come for me, and once the last scars heal I'll ruin you, Charlie Prince.
Perhaps I will include you in a story someday. It would be far too easy to do. Perhaps an ode of devotion and lust to your dear mentor!
And where should a copy wind up the minute I dot the last 'i', stroke the last period?
On his desk, of course.
Come for me, and once the last scars heal I'll ruin you, Charlie Prince.
Not if you're dead.
Ain't no dead men who can write.
Ain't no dead men who can write.
I am, by treating the situation as it should be: with me telling an incessant little brat that her tantrums are being ignored.
You've got a point. She really made it known that she was upset.
You've seen how long that lasts here, now haven't you?
She's seventeen; didn't you do anything rash when you were her age?
Ain't seen what happens when someone goes over the edge. You wanna test that out for me?
I was serving in the Seven Years War at the age of seventeen.
Actually, we have.
Recall that a port was visited some months ago. I have no recollection of it because I fell overboard. Were you the same?
That one occurred because someone was pushed overboard. The Barge veers to retrieve.
Recall that a port was visited some months ago. I have no recollection of it because I fell overboard. Were you the same?
That one occurred because someone was pushed overboard. The Barge veers to retrieve.
Well...uh...
But would you say you were as capable of rational thought as you are today? During adolescence, brain connections and signaling mechanisms selectively change over time to meet the needs of the environment. Overall, gray matter volume increases at earlier ages, followed by sustained loss and thinning starting around puberty, which correlates with advancing cognitive abilities. Scientists think this process reflects greater organization of the brain as it prunes redundant connections, and increases in myelin, which enhance transmission of brain messages.
Other parts of the brain also undergo refinement during the teen years. Areas associated with more basic functions, including the motor and sensory areas, mature early. Areas involved in planning and decision-making, including the prefrontal cortex -- the cognitive or reasoning area of the brain important for controlling impulses and emotions -- appear not to have yet reached adult dimension during the early twenties. The brain's reward center, the ventral striatum, also is more active during adolescence than in adulthood, and the adolescent brain still is strengthening connections between its reasoning- and emotion-related regions.
Scientists believe these collective findings may indicate that cognitive control over high-risk behaviors is still maturing during adolescence, making teens more apt to engage in risky behaviors. Also, with the brain's emotion-related areas and connections still maturing, adolescents may be more vulnerable to psychological disorders.
Current research is looking at the manifestations of psychological disorders in adolescents, particularly schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Large imaging studies have shown that brain changes associated with schizophrenia typically begin in adolescence when the brain undergoes the normal pruning sequence of myelination growth spurts and gray matter loss. It appears that a larger and more severe wave of gray matter loss occurs in the brains of adolescents developing schizophrenia, which eventually engulfs much of the cortex after a period of five years-
[OOC: Oh, there is more, but I'll stop him there.]
But would you say you were as capable of rational thought as you are today? During adolescence, brain connections and signaling mechanisms selectively change over time to meet the needs of the environment. Overall, gray matter volume increases at earlier ages, followed by sustained loss and thinning starting around puberty, which correlates with advancing cognitive abilities. Scientists think this process reflects greater organization of the brain as it prunes redundant connections, and increases in myelin, which enhance transmission of brain messages.
Other parts of the brain also undergo refinement during the teen years. Areas associated with more basic functions, including the motor and sensory areas, mature early. Areas involved in planning and decision-making, including the prefrontal cortex -- the cognitive or reasoning area of the brain important for controlling impulses and emotions -- appear not to have yet reached adult dimension during the early twenties. The brain's reward center, the ventral striatum, also is more active during adolescence than in adulthood, and the adolescent brain still is strengthening connections between its reasoning- and emotion-related regions.
Scientists believe these collective findings may indicate that cognitive control over high-risk behaviors is still maturing during adolescence, making teens more apt to engage in risky behaviors. Also, with the brain's emotion-related areas and connections still maturing, adolescents may be more vulnerable to psychological disorders.
Current research is looking at the manifestations of psychological disorders in adolescents, particularly schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Large imaging studies have shown that brain changes associated with schizophrenia typically begin in adolescence when the brain undergoes the normal pruning sequence of myelination growth spurts and gray matter loss. It appears that a larger and more severe wave of gray matter loss occurs in the brains of adolescents developing schizophrenia, which eventually engulfs much of the cortex after a period of five years-
[OOC: Oh, there is more, but I'll stop him there.]
I'm not anyone's Warden. It's not my job to be the rational one.
Guess I'll have to get creative.
Then I suppose I shall have to get started, now shan't I?
I'm aware of that. But I'm asking you if you won't consider taking a higher road. You don't hold any real malice for any of the 'characters', do you?
You really want to die, don't you?
No. The text would have been a good deal more telling if I had. I merely answered a commission.
If she has any problems, she should take it up with the customer.
If she has any problems, she should take it up with the customer.
Keep threatening me; I've the spare parchment to begin right now.
He wants to be a good warden! He really does!
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autistic-genius.livejournal.com
2008-11-30 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Who was the costumer?
As I said to Monsieur Dent, who else would so intimately know the extent of her abilities?
Your name stays off the page so long as you cease these infantile threats. And in the meantime, knowing no story of mine is going to include you, do the intelligent thing the next time one ends up in your room and throw it away.
And what did you get out of this "commission"? I don't get the sense you did it for free. You said you had nothing against any of them.
[Private] He's plotting. He's not gonna say anything else.
i-hate-posses.livejournal.com
2008-11-30 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
What was given me is a matter that is strictly between myself and the one who paid. Nothing dangerous or suggestive of anyone else, I assure you.
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