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[muji]

Fears. Fears suck. And I don't even qualify as 'irrational' fears, because if you're afraid of it, it's rational to some part of you, so...it's fear. Things!

What are you afraid of? What makes you nervous? What makes your pup nervous?

Like, right now, I'm writing an email to the professors in charge of overseeing my comprehensive exam retake and even just writing an email to them is making my palms sweat. Fuck. D: D: D:

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[innerbrat]

Dolls.
Ventriloquist dummies.
Mannequins.
Fursuits.
Puppets.
Total facemasks.
ALL of the above.

Also sending emails, yep.

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Public speaking (I got to face this beast yesterday)
Clown and mimes
Talking toys. (I swear one of my nieces has one that says "I'll swallow your soul)
Dolls
Earwigs

[gammagammahey.livejournal.com]

Talking toys. (I swear one of my nieces has one that says "I'll swallow your soul)

Mwahahahahahaha!

(I'm sorry, but that's hysterical.)

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

It is pretty funny. I'm tempted to make a youtube video to share. And I know it's not just me as my daughter hears the same thing.

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Throw a few more out there:
616 Ben: Folks seeing him as a monster, were wolves (Millicanon), the dark but not space.

Ult Ben: His mother being scared of him. It's why he hasn't visited her yet.

Val: nothingness, being alone, furry caterpillars.

Julie: failure and unworthiness.

Jessica Drew: That deep down she enjoys killing.

Rincewind: Everything but potatoes and ale.

Artemus: Being at the wrong place when his government needs him.

Thalia: Heights, cyclopes, driving, being like her mother.

Frightened/Nervous-making things

[saphyria.livejournal.com]

Me:
Public speaking
Burglars
Spiders in my living space
Confrontation
Pain
Sickness
Death

Sunshine:
Vampires
Some demons
Pain
Alienation
Losing her life as she knows it
Death (not the same as the above)

Yrael:
Losing his friends
Losing his home
Losing himself
Getting wet
His younger brother

Zelgadiss:
Losing Amelia
Not being able to get his human body back

[ceitfianna]

Me-heights, looking for a job, snakes, the weight of the ocean pressing down on me

Will-torture, seeing his family and friends hurt, starving

Moist-death, being caught, the truth

Sameth-Death, failure, disappointing those he loves

William-seeing his family die, starving, debts, no water

Jane-failure

Demeter-losing her family, being powerless, hurting the land

Tumnus-disappointing those he loves, lost time, the quiet cold of winter

The Pirate King-having to be respectable

[needs_fern]

...Thanks ever so for having this be the DE I see while I'm logged into this journal.

Personally, my greatest fear is blindness. I'm perfectly okay with darkness, and with having my glasses off, and even with both in combination. But the idea of knowing that I simply cannot see is terrifying. As far as nervousness goes, just about anything that involves dealing with people can fit. Also, most arthropods. But not public speaking, as long as I have some kind of script.

Felix... I'm not sure he actually fears anything, except maybe the Dullahan. Which is certainly justified. This lack of fear is perhaps somewhat unhealthy, but I've never claimed he was especially perfect.

Fluttershy is, from some perspectives, made of fears. (There are people who try to cast her as a Yellow Lantern, but I think they're looking at it completely wrong.) There are very few episodes in which she has a speaking role but doesn't display some sort of nervousness. But in "Dragonshy" her greatest fear is revealed: dragons. (I would, incidentally, argue that "the dark" is one thing she doesn't fear.)

[needs_fern]

Oh, for Celestia's sake. LJ, why you screen mai comment?

[no_vampires_plz]

Because Fluttershy's not a member of the Back Room, and her comment contained a link, so therefore LJ thinks she's a spammer.

Have I mentioned lately that LJ is kinda stupid?

[gorgonfondness]

Thanks to ServSafe, foodborne illnesses that I can't prevent. I'll spare you the details of what actually happens when you get one and simply advise that knowing how to recognize fresh food will help. Being part of a car sandwich again is also pretty high up there nowadays.

Mia fears the concept that, when her children grow up, they will have to face a war. There's nothing on the horizon but she knows things can always change within the next fifteen years.

Lucas has a lot of fears that will be explored when he's high out of his mind on nightmare mushrooms. Yes, this is actual Mother 3 canon.

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

I'm...kind of neurotic, so lots of things scare me. Authority figures scare me, as does writing. Strangely enough I get a thrill from public speaking. Which is...wierd.

Oh and earthworms.
(really any kind of softbodied invertebrate, but it manifests worse with earth worms)

Raph shares my distaste of squishy, slimy things. This is canon and totally not me just projecting. He also doesn't like insects and magic. Also...canon.

Mike is afraid of the Loompas and drowning. Both of those are millicanon only.

The Loompas fear the return of The Wonka.

Aang is afraid of his Destiny.

Splinter will never admit it, but he's still got that hard-wired fear of predators.

Which leaves us with Ida, who thinks its cute that you think she's afraid of anything.

[ceitfianna]

I love public speaking and performing and that kind of anxiety makes me nervously excited. I'm always the one in groups who volunteers to lead presentations as I can do them.

[minkhollow]

Cata and Sam would be a lot more worried about someone pulling another round of whitewashing, if Mizzamir were still around. But with him out of the picture, no one has the power and/or support to pull it off on the same scale, and the mages who still know the spell are facing a lot more disapproval when they say they can do it.

Claudia's worst fear, per S3 canon, is waking up in the institution only to find that everything that's happened since she started tracking down Artie was all in her head. It's both in a 'losing her home and family' sense and a 'crippling self-doubt' sense - what if she's not really good enough to do what she's doing?

As for me, I can't stand calling people on the phone that I don't already know; I'd much rather meet them in person or email them. I also really can't handle apocalypse movies (if it's already happened, I might be okay, but just the trailers for 2012 made me go DO NOT WANT), nor 'OMG THERE IS A VIRUS KILLING US ALL' things. (The Happening, I'm looking at you. I don't care if it apparently has a really stupid twist ending. I wouldn't make it through the people dreamily offing themselves to laugh at the twist.)

[death_gone_mad]

Well, Amascut has her Ailurophobia most obviously. She also has a bit anxiety about being trapped and further confined than she is now, so she might have mild claustrophobia. Nowhere near a panic inducing level, however.

As for myself, I used to have anxiety about public speaking, then I spent a year teaching. I used to fear dogs, but then I didn't. I dunno, maybe I am growing out of my fears, or maybe I just got frustrated with the idea of not being in control of my life and went into "YAY! ADVENTURE TIME!" mode.

Well, I guess I can thank certain unmentionable websites for my lack of ick as well...
Delicious, delicious ick.
>.>
<.<
^.^

[gammagammahey.livejournal.com]

Me: Snails and slugs. Anything slimy. Crustaceans because I read H.P. Lovecraft and know that one day they will come and abscond with our brains in jars to the planet Pluto.

Death. Car accidents. IRS audits. Sickness. I'm actually a little OCD about handwashing due to the latter.

Shulkie: Losing control of herself in her Shulkie form. She once demolished an entire town while raging out of control. But what Shulkie is scared of the most? Fear itself, because as anger triggers her cousin's lack of rationality and makes him stronger, so fear does for Jen.

Hawkgirl: Losing Carter. Death, because it's different and painful in each life. Hath-Set for being the son of a bitch that kills her in each life.

Lockjaw is fearless. Well, secretly he fears the loss of any of the Inhuman royal family and friends but knows that since he's' there to protect them, that won't happen. Canid logic, my friends.

[shinyhappygoth]

As far as I can tell, I'm not wired to experience fear. Seriously.

On the other hand, I do get nervous/apprehensive over things involving personal responsibility and independence. In particular, anything remotely connected to a job search.

[aisforamy]

Clowns make me Very Uncomfortable. I wouldn't say I'm phobic about them, but...gah!

Also, most things with more than six legs should die in a fire.

Bobby has always been freaked out by the flying monkeys from the Wizard of Oz, the vampiric butterflies from Monster Island and he fears losing his loved ones due to the fact that he's a mutant.

Rapunzel is afraid of a lot of things, but can usually keep it in check and do what she needs to do to face it. Mostly she's afraid of losing Alex in one way or another.

KK isn't afraid of much, though she can be intensely embarrassed, and embarrassment is a mixture of fear and anger, I guess.

[aisforamy]

Oh. I forgot that I'm pretty scared of riding in Ferris Wheels. I can do it, but it's not pretty.

[moofoot.livejournal.com]

Me too! I'm not really a fan of them.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

The only two things that terrify me to the point of insensibility are, something terrible happening to my daughter (must be common amongst parents?), and shipwrecks. I can't even think about a shipwreck without a knot of fear forming. If I happen across one on TV - or watch Titanic (WHY DID I DO THAT TO MYSELF!?) - I go from normal to near-panic-attack in the space of a few seconds. My mother puts it down to this happening (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/6/newsid_2515000/2515923.stm) when I was eight. She may not be wrong.

I'm going to stop writing about that now, as opening that link has just made me feel sick.

Gene would maintain that nothing scares him. He's lying, of course. His worst fear is something happening to one of his team while on the job. He does acknowledge the job scares him sometimes, but it never stops him acting. Whatever else he is, he's truly brave.

Harry, I think - losing one of his friends. Any of them, but particularly Ron, Hermione or Ginny, of course. Any number of things scare him; dying himself, facing Voldemort, but again with the Brave.

[remindmeofthe.livejournal.com]

I broke my bedroom window this week killing a spider, so apparently those scare me even more than I thought they did.

[basic_powers]

me myself? I get freaked out in heights, even in buildings I try not to look out the windows because I start feeling like I'm waving back and forth and get rather sick to my stomach. This oddly enough, doesn't get triggered when i'm in a plane. Buildings and bridges? Oh fuck yeah. I also spaz the fuck ass out over the possibility of anything brushing over me lightly and small noises or noiseless nights.

Tyler: he's more than a little scared of mirrors and if someone says they're going to force superpowers on him he's just going to freeze and turn white, which given canon is entirely reasonable. Calling him powerless is just asking for the kid to snap and hurt you.

Dot: ...it's losing her family all over again. Scratch that tendency to go snarling mad and defend those she cares about, and you'll find beneath that she is terrified of losing people. And she knows she isn't the most powered individual...

Mother: ...oh hell, he's scared of grey aliens with probes, Mothmen with too much time on their claws and whiskey up their proboscis prank calling, and chupacabre mistaking him for a goat and that's just the top of the pile. He's not so much unafraid of the MiB as gone Einsteinian over to the other side of provoking them with fear. Zed only has himself to blame about this.

[mmexlibris]

I am unreasonably afraid of heights. Failure. Things I have no control over, like job stress, hidden agendas, politics, my own nature. Doing something wrong and hurting someone I care about. Yeah, fucking up. All that nonsense.

Sherlock is desperately afraid of being bored. Earl is fearless, when it comes to himself. Fiona is, too. (or at least claims she is.) Vlad is truly fearless. He relishes the game. Olga? She's seen too much to be afraid. No time. River? Afraid to lose the ones she loves. Mills, doesn't get fear. Fear is useless, to him. Fear is a luxury he can not afford. And Alex is afraid of so many things: being alone, losing her daughter, losing her mind, failing as a mother, failing as a DI, never getting home, dying. So many things, she's just had to put them all in a box and swallow them. Fear drives her far more than she'd ever care to admit.

[hey35andholding]

Clementine is generally, except when it comes to personal harm to her body/herself. She's afraid of aging, and of growing old alone.

Dixie's too world-weary to be afraid of much, but having children is her major one.

Juliet doesn't have any stated ones, but I'd count emotional commitment among them.