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fandomhigh2010-04-19 07:56 am
chosehumanity) wrote in fandomhigh2010-04-19 07:56 am
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Horror 101, Monday
"Today is the day of your final," Mitchell intoned, then clapped his hands, grinning. "We'll be starting off with a few written questions. But after that, I've got something else for you."
He dumped a stack of papers on his desk. It, and several other flat surfaces in the area - including some of the students' desks - had acquired a cup of tea.
"We've talked about a great many fears over the past few weeks," he continued, "But the main one, the most quintessentially human one is the fear of death. The fear of being gone from this Earth, from what we are, the whole lot. Most of our fears come down to that: death."
"So to finish up your final," he continued, sitting down, "I've invited a friend in to talk about it. While you're writing, I want you all to come up with one question you'd like to ask about death, and she will answer it." He peered into the room, searching for Chloeif she was there and smiled slightly. "Don't worry, she doesn't bite."
He tapped his pen on the desk. "Now, get started! You've got thirty minutes."
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He dumped a stack of papers on his desk. It, and several other flat surfaces in the area - including some of the students' desks - had acquired a cup of tea.
"We've talked about a great many fears over the past few weeks," he continued, "But the main one, the most quintessentially human one is the fear of death. The fear of being gone from this Earth, from what we are, the whole lot. Most of our fears come down to that: death."
"So to finish up your final," he continued, sitting down, "I've invited a friend in to talk about it. While you're writing, I want you all to come up with one question you'd like to ask about death, and she will answer it." He peered into the room, searching for Chloe
He tapped his pen on the desk. "Now, get started! You've got thirty minutes."
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The Test - Question Two
or
Answer the same for a phobia that interests you most, if you won't talk about yourself.
Re: The Test - Question Two
Finally, he jotted down a few things about having a fear of losing control. He explained that he didn't mean in werewolf terms but more in terms of his life. He didn't want his life to spiral so far out of control that he'd have to depend on someone else to make his decisions.
It seemed like a safer topic than his father or vampires. He added a few more details about seeing movies about that sort of mental illness and not really being affected because he tried to tell himself it wouldn't happen to him.
Re: The Test - Question Two
I would say my largest fear is of being abandoned by people I care about. I don't believe that's listed as a phobia, and I can't think of a film about it offhand. (Though I'd watch one if it existed, and probably come out of it none the worse.) It doesn't particularly limit me, but it does influence how I interact with those around me. There's not a monster, real or imagined, that could possibly be as bad as being left all alone.
Re: The Test - Question Two
Before everything that happened in the last year or so, I would have said that I was afraid of heights or of enclosed spaces. Those are fears and worries, but they're not phobias. If I had to name a phobia that I have, it would be the fear of being buried alive or of dying as a kid. You might think that both of those seem silly for a now sixteen year old girl to have. However, I've come face to face with both of those possibilities and a full scale panic attack was possible for me in both instances. I was hit over the head with a brick, knocked unconscious, tied up and gagged and left in a crawlspace. My panic when I came back to consciousness had a side effect that I'm sure my attacker hadn't figured on -- as neither did I. I don't know what would have happened if my friend hadn't found me and helped me do what needed to be done and get back out of there. Would I have watched a film about someone being buried alive and thinking they were going to die there? I would like to say that I would have been brave and handled it. The honest answer is that I don't know if I could have done that or not. I still have nightmares about it sometimes.
Re: The Test - Question Two
Re: The Test - Question Two
Autophobia... The fear of being alone. Which limits me only so far as I let it, in the end. For as much as being truly alone is frightening, there's a sort of counterpoint comfort in solitude. Though I haven't seen any films specifically about this fear, a good many horror movies do toy with it, in any scene where strength in numbers is something that a victim most certainly has to manage without.