have the boys ever had to restrain Donnie to keep him from hurting himself?
There’s a lot of days where Donnie is just, half present and he gives in very easily to all those harmful, intrusive thoughts. On those days, the brothers try not to leave Donnie alone, so they can watch him. Most of the time it’s just small scale things—like Donnie picking and scratching too hard. Other days it’s bad. To keep Donnie from hurting himself, the brothers have to use some controlled restraint. They let go the second that he comes back to himself, but most times, Donnie doesn’t mind remaining in the tight holds. They feel secure.
But there are some episodes that come on too quickly and quietly, and they can’t stop Donnie from hurting himself. The family just have to patch him up, and try to once again explain why it’s harmful. Sometimes the talks go well, and sometimes they don’t make any headway. They know Donnie can’t help it, but it hurts them when Donnie just can’t grasp the concept that they don’t want him to be in pain….
Most damage done would be days when he’s in his lab and has ample sharp tools around to really injure himself with. Days when the family thinks he’s fine, and want to give him his space, but Donnie hides how bad off he is. These days don’t happen often, because Donnie is more honest with updating his family than not, but there are times he lets those thoughts cloud his better judgment.
Draxum never cared, and the level of self-harm was much worse when he had less people watching out for him. The goyles tried to keep an eye out, but couldn’t be there all the time—same with Venus. Still, Draxum would at least notice the worst ones, and demand Three properly dress them, so the danger of infection didn’t set in. Three’s immune system is pretty strong though—Draxum designed him that way himself, so sadly he wasn’t ever truly that insistent.
Shockingly underrated thing about Leo is that he’s legitimately charming when he wants to be?
He’s the Faceman! He’s persuasive! That’s not just some random title he gave himself with no backing to it. People will listen to him. Even if they think he’s being annoying or if they’re upset at him, people listen to him anyway! There’s a reason his bros push him out front to talk to people, and when this happens, that talking nearly always works.
Moreover, Leo knows people. He looks at them and takes into account how they act and what they’re like as he makes his way through the conversations. It’s easy to forget this aspect of Leo’s character because he only brings it out when he really needs (read: wants) to, but it really is a notable part of him that always love to see.
And I say charm in particular because he has a knack for not only getting people to pay attention, but for getting people to stay and listen to what he has to say.
tbh my latest biggest theory for why HoO and onwards is such a dramatic drop in quality and consistency is just. Rick stopped making teaching guides.
Like, the Lightning Thief teacher's guide is SUPER in-depth with even stuff like sources about middle grade child psychology and exact specifications of where he's applying that, explaining what different character's goals/motivations are, their dynamics with each other and their environments, etc etc. Even specifying which specific myths certain plot elements are supposed to reference or be about.
That stuff just doesn't exist for later books. There's activity guides and smaller, significantly more simple teacher guides for later books but they don't go into anywhere NEAR the same level of depth. The TLT one is a full lesson plan that breaks down the book at every level and explains what's going on and more or less why Rick did that. The others are all basically just glossaries of terminology and some simple question guides.
And they didn't even use the TLT teacher's guide for the Disney+ show because they clearly aren't adhering to any of what's discussed in that breakdown of the book.
By creating a teaching guide alongside writing the actual book, that's forcing you to document what you're doing, why, your sources, and information about your characters and the story they're in. It's like an even more in-depth version of a series bible. But that's lacking for later books (and etc) and it shows because that level of thought and depth and attention just isn't there anymore.
They regularly ask me to let them in the other's enclosure so they can cuddle. When Sakura thought I was pestering her sister she put herself between me and her; incredibly brave of her as she is still afraid of human hands (but much better than she use to be.)
When Sakura gets frightened she'll run to her sister and often hide her head under her.
Both enjoy exploring and doing their enrichment activities together. Seeing this on a daily basis, and the bond these little ones have with each other (and me) I think more research needs to be done regarding the current belief Hognose snakes are incapable of emotion or bonding, and are completely solitary. While both go to their individual dens after socializing, both seek each other out and cuddle together. (They are only allowed together while I'm there watching as sometimes snakes will eat each other, and they seem to enjoy having their own home space when it isn't play/cuddle time.) Sakura benefits so much being with her sister, just being near her she's exponentially braver and far less jumpy, and will watch her sister with great interest learning from her.
Some people are saying that Buck and Eddie's cheating is the same and I'm just like....
Buck didn't choose to cheat, it was a series of events that someone else initiated and he went with in the moment. He felt bad and yes he lied about it and made some mistakes but he did feel guilty the whole time. He still fucked up but in a different way
Eddie has actively chosen to do this, he flirted, he said he was a single dad (which okay fair if you don't see Marisol as a Co parent maybe just as a babysitter) but he followed up with it's just him and his son (further making a point he's single) he went out of his way to follow this path and yes his feelings with Shannon have complicated it but he's chosen to lie and walk this path and although we've just seen the beginning and we don't know what will happen he seems to be okay with it
Yes both are cheating/have cheated but it's vastly different levels to it.
Good chance he won't come back from this next job.
Time to stop playing with your food and eat it.
f!reader (canonically, though this can be read as gn), rated t. blurple villain au. developing relationship, first kiss, light angst, very soft and fluffy. bvau leo feeling something warm for the first time.