Announcing Hypocognition

[runs]

So me and Armin were poking around Psychic abilities the other day, and we found a way to suppress emotions for a limited amount of time.

It works on all kinds emotions, including uncontrollable or distorted ones. [Like Hinamizawa Syndrome or panic attacks, but that's personal and thus restricted information.] So it can be really good for avoiding doing something you wouldn't want to do when not emotional.

If anyone wants to learn, I can teach it. It helps if you know how to restrict psychic traffic and access.

Comments

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[neverfeltthatway]

I... I like the poetry. [She offers it shyly, never certain around Charlene anymore, and not used to discussing literary things.] Although I think... parts of it can be more literal for a Traveler than the author probably intended.

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[thornsofmalkav]

[That startles a soft laugh out of her.] Yeah, probably not.

I'm glad you like the poetry, though. I know you're not really into fiction, so I wasn't sure if poetry would be the same way--I mean, Min read it for Ling, but never really got it, plus you're not him anymore--but I figured that the Elliot might be a good one to try? Just because we had that Liminal Space that referenced his stuff, so even if it wasn't too your taste you could play Spot The Reference.

Still, there's all kinds of poetry. So if you like this we can figure out where to go next. I kinda think it's good to have some stuff you read for fun and to relax your brain and not just to learn from--although sometimes you end up learning something by accident.

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[neverfeltthatway]

I'd like that. Although, I... I really have no idea how to even start with that. I'm not really sure I've ever read poetry before, except as Min. And like you said, he didn't really get it. Even though he, he read a lot of it, those years they were apart.

I'm not sure there really was any, back home. Definitely none that I ever saw, anyway. [But then, knowledge was suppressed - and Armin could never have afforded any books anyway.]

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[thornsofmalkav]

Mm. Well, what do you like about the T.S. Elliot? That might help me figure out what next to recommend.

And-- even if there wasn't formal literature where you come from, there must have been stories. People always tell stories. It's just how people are. And songs. Maybe there's no orchestras or bands or musical instruments, but people still end up making up marching or working chants.

And in a lot of ways, poetry is song without music.