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The C&C Support Group Meme



Per Wikipedia:

In a support group, members provide each other with various types of help, usually nonprofessional and nonmaterial, for a particular shared, usually burdensome, characteristic. The help may take the form of providing and evaluating relevant information, relating personal experiences, listening to and accepting others' experiences, providing sympathetic understanding and establishing social networks. A support group may also work to inform the public or engage in advocacy.

And now you know. And knowing's half the battle.

- Post with a character.

- Unlike most memes, you'd probably be better off by providing a general theme for people to respond to. You know, have your subject or post read "People who got turned into animals in their respective games" or "Time travelers and keeping the space/time continuum intact."

- Respond to other people and support them through their trials and tribulations.

- NOTE: While you're welcome to post whatever the hell you want, if you delve into triggery whatnot (i.e. abuse, suicide, things which tend to actually evoke real life support groups and therapy) please label your posts with a nice and blatant warning so someone who was looking for Time Travelers Anonymous doesn't accidentally stumble into your suicide thread instead.

- source!!

Comments

[professorlionface]

Of course, it doesn't have as much to do with his self-definition as your compartmentalization, does it? Easier to consider them separate individuals than try to resolve how one became the other.

[insufferablysmug]

Don't try to psychoanalyze me, Doctor McCoy. People don't change.

Emplate is exactly what he always was. A monster who chose his own path.

[professorlionface]

Then why the defensiveness on the topic of his name? Is it the reminder of the familial connection you'd rather didn't exist?

[insufferablysmug]

He is not a member of my family.

[professorlionface]

Ah, but there was a time...

And he wasn't always Emplate, either. Was there ever a time the two of you had a positive relationship?

[insufferablysmug]

Stop it.

[professorlionface]

Examining the emotions which lead to certain strong feelings is the purpose of a support group, is it not?

Could say it's the cost of the coffee.

[insufferablysmug]

Maybe you should talk about your not-quite-brother, then. I can support you.

[professorlionface]

[Oh oops.]

...It's complicated.

[insufferablysmug]

[ yeah ]

Please, do go on.

[professorlionface]

I'm sure you've heard the Ballad of Scott Summers sung throughout mutantkind. Its rousing verses of "I did what must be done," the stoic refrain with "i did not lose sight of my goal," and, ah, that crescendo, "It was not my fault!" But every performance seems to forego the howls of the victims left in his wake, despite their basis in the song's percussion.

[He smiles bitterly.] Because the efforts can't be put forth to save a single mutant when he has the group's entirety to supervise the welfare of. But, with less than two hundred of us left, you would be surprised how quickly those singles add up.

[insufferablysmug]

That was quite a few words to say you think he's an idiot with no idea of the long-term.

I should be sympathetic here.

[professorlionface]

I've never had a particularly fond relationship with brevity, not when I have a better way of expressing myself.