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...getting back to this over three years later...
"Steamroll over Megaton's operation, conscript him into their ranks, and try to seize control of everything" is really not how the US military works, at all. It's how the fanfic US military works, when written by writers who do not like the...
This can take a surprising amount of emotional resources, and you will almost certainly have bits that *really* don't want to do it, and you may start realizing things that you didn't want to realize, and it is not a fast process but... well, workign through it bit by bit is better than having...
In my experience, the first and simplest way to process is just to lie down, as comfortable as you can get yourself, in the warm, quiet dark (or as close as you can get) and don't do anything, and just... let your brain think what it thinks. Don't worry about directing it, don't try to be...
If you can figure out what some of the bits are there for, sometimes you can figure out ways to twist them back so they work better for the life you actually have.
Everything in the mind has a reason to be there. Sometime it's broken, or twisted into shapes that are doing more harm than good, or it was evolved for a world much simpler than the one we live in now, but all of the bits are *trying* to help, even if some of them are doing it really, really...
Processing that emotional suck lowers the pressure. That reduces the intrusive thoughts... or, alternately, reduces the pressure on those thoughts to the point that they're not nearly as big a deal.
Process the suck.
In my experience, intrusive thoughts are driven by a great big pile of emotional suck sitting in the back of the mind. The mass generates pressure, and the pressure forces it into the foremind as intrusive thoughts.
I just wanted to say, to whoever it was that brought Rule 8 into being... Thank you. I really, really appreciate the way that QQ is a protected space from all of that stuff, and I can just not have to worry about it in any way while I am here.
The "no kinkshaming" rule is also pretty awesome...
I like the thought, and it'd count as barely-a-clown if we had some other clowns to stabilize the theme, but I feel like he's a bit too powerful for the role.
Like, Harley Quinn would be a shoo-in, except that the skillset she has really isn't applicable to the "support an attack helicopter"...
I'm hoping to do two things here. The first is that I have a need, and I hope you all can help. The second is that I figure that if *I* want this thing, then maybe at some point, other people will also want this thing, so we might as well make a thread for it.
I'm writing one of those...