Relatable Mage Dad
Jan. 25th, 2019 02:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lonesparkI'm not saying Viren is the most relatable character I've ever seen on TV, but... maybe I am. Consider the very specific relatable events:
a. When you get in an argument with your ex for the tenth time and he expects you to understand his perspective, and you know that logically you should, because you should be able to remember and draw inferences based on social communication clues, but you literally can't, so you say, "I don't understand," and he says, "I know you don't," like it's the most unsurprising yet still disappointing thing ever.
b. When you're super fucking stressed and your neurodivergent daughter has something important to say, but she's not using words, and you don't want to have to think hard to figure out what she means, plus you always feel the pressure to remind her that other people in the world won't understand her if she doesn't.
c. When your ex is super fucking stressed and doesn't want to deal with you, but you have something important to discuss, so you go see him, but you communicate badly and then he's being a prick, and it's theoretically possible that you could find ways to de-escalate the situation to everyone's benefit, but you're hurt and pissed off, so instead you try to be an even bigger asshole and ruin literally everything because that will fucking show him.
Like, all of these things happen to me at least every few months.
Thankfully elf assassins are rare in the greater New England area.
a. When you get in an argument with your ex for the tenth time and he expects you to understand his perspective, and you know that logically you should, because you should be able to remember and draw inferences based on social communication clues, but you literally can't, so you say, "I don't understand," and he says, "I know you don't," like it's the most unsurprising yet still disappointing thing ever.
b. When you're super fucking stressed and your neurodivergent daughter has something important to say, but she's not using words, and you don't want to have to think hard to figure out what she means, plus you always feel the pressure to remind her that other people in the world won't understand her if she doesn't.
c. When your ex is super fucking stressed and doesn't want to deal with you, but you have something important to discuss, so you go see him, but you communicate badly and then he's being a prick, and it's theoretically possible that you could find ways to de-escalate the situation to everyone's benefit, but you're hurt and pissed off, so instead you try to be an even bigger asshole and ruin literally everything because that will fucking show him.
Like, all of these things happen to me at least every few months.
Thankfully elf assassins are rare in the greater New England area.
