A post which is not hastily manipulated graphics for once. Variety!

[odditycollector]

brown_betty: You probably don't want me to help with emotions, I'm bad at them too!
odditycollector: ...I guess! Where is the lapsed Vulcan support group, I ask you?
Betty: I don't know! Man, that would be a pretty great support group, though.
Betty: You would get a sponsor and you could call them at any time, and be like, "Help, I think I'm having an emotion, what do I do!?"
Karen: "Have you tried repressing it?"
Betty: ahahah. Yeah, that is probably how it'd go.
Karen: "Have you tried focusing on a math problem to distract yourself?"
Karen: And then once a week we could get together and eat spiked chocolates and watch movies about logic and chess games.
Betty: This is a pretty good plan.
Karen: I feel so. So to speak.
Karen: (We could discuss how socially awkward we were recently and congratulate each other for it!)
Karen: ...*has independently invented lj*
Betty: I have a sudden and unwelcome insight into Brad's thoughts, ten years ago.
Karen: And then he ended up with pro-ana groups and hp incest porn. Yeah, I'd have run too.
Betty: Put that way, really not surprising.

Comments

[arekuru.livejournal.com]

"Have you tried focusing on a math problem to distract yourself?"

Actually, I think that technique is reserved for prolonging another, more... intimate, shall we say, emotion.

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

Are we considering that an emotion? I mean, if anything, we are talking about trying not to think of any...emotions... at hand.

[arekuru.livejournal.com]

True, true. I suppose the next question is, what do you do when your Vulcan lover suddenly gets distracted by a fascinating math problem in the middle of coitus?

It has never come up....

[count-fenring.livejournal.com]

...because Vulcans never get distracted.

Alternately, Pon Farr.

[badgerbag.livejournal.com]

*slayed*

hahahahaha! so right on all counts!

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

*ponders the Vulcan equivalent of emo poetry*

Seriously!?

[count-fenring.livejournal.com]

This is the funniest thing I've read on the internet in some time. I almost spewed soda all over my keyboard, and I wasn't even drinking soda.

Re: Seriously!?

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

Did you run to the fridge to get one just for the occasion? Because I think that is a score!

Or. Or wait. Is "gloating" an emotion?

*worries*

....Shit.

Re: Seriously!?

[count-fenring.livejournal.com]

Ah, but smugness is merely the human name for a lack of modesty, which, after all, merely exists to cushion the fragile human ego.

Worriedness and dismay, however, are totally emotions.

Totes.

[katarik.livejournal.com]

This is BRILLIANCE. And I want my lapsed Vulcan support group.

(trufax: my nickname in high school was The Vulcan. And then I had to have the reference explained to me.)

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

Maybe this *is* the support group.

(I mean, this conversation follows me jumping Betty and being like, "Help, I think I'm having an emotion, what do I do!?")

[katarik.livejournal.com]

I feel that that is a perfectly sensible response to an emotion! They are strange and baffling things, which need charting and graphing and *explaining*.