The holidays are almost here

[giallarhorn]

A week into December, and it finally feels like winter! By which I mean it's hovering around the 40s, which is more seasonal than 60-70s. It might've even flurried last night, if you can believe that

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[ladymercury_10]

Eep! I hope they can get your data back!

[giallarhorn]

Thankfully, it isn't the end of the world if they can't fix it! I don't think, at least. But then again I'm not really entirely sure what I might end up losing if they can't fix it cause I can't remember well what wasn't backed up/was on it that was important, so I could completely wrong.

I have been discovering how many programs don't exist outside of Windows/MacOS platforms, though.

[lackadaisy]

I hope it works out for you with the computer situation. A little over a year ago something happened with my computer that resulted in me losing everything I had. Like all of my writing, all of my LJ stuff (layouts, icons, graphic art I'd made, fanmixes), and all kinds of other important things. Just gone, never again to be had.

Even thinking about it still hurts now and I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

As for Korra and her PTSD/Recovery arc, I agree 100% with what you said. I think something that Zaheer even says is very telling, 'you think your power has limits. I say it's limitless' and 'that poison should have killed you, but here you are'

Like, yeah I tried to kill you but it didn't work.And I really dig that. I appreciate that in all the ways you said how they painted a very realistic picture about trauma and mental illness and recovery. How it affects your family and friends, and that ultimately recovery is a journey one takes alone because no matter how much support you have, it's something inside of you that needs to be

[giallarhorn]

Omph, that's awful. I had a similar incident happen on my perI'm always worried about losing what's on my computer, so I make a habit of trying not to keep any files that I haven't already made a backup copy for somewhere. In this case, it's more I don't have an idea of what's not actually backed up/there's a number of noncritical but convenient things that I never bothered backing up yet.

It isn't that big a mental jump to make, but for Korra (or really anyone) who's trapped by what happened to them, it's encouraging? Reassuring? A word like that, that more or less pushes them towards accepting the reality that they're still there in the present moment which is such a big thing in moving yourself past trauma. Plus, I imagine it's somewhat cathartic. But it's Korra's personal revelation that she has to come to on her own terms, and I'm glad that the show's decided to give her so much space for it.