DE: Minor Phobias

[bjornwilde]

You know what gives me pause every damn time I do it? Grating. There is always a little moment of fear before I laugh at myself and get on with the cheesy goodness (or carrots or ginger). Getting anything out of the garbage disposal does the same thing, though to be honest I do have big hands, so it's realistic to be worried about getting stuck right?

So, what little, but perfectly reasonable, fears do you or your pup have? Do you share any? Have you projected any onto your pup?

Also, the back log of daily entertainment topics is getting a bit thin, anyone have a suggestion? Leave it here!

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[bjornwilde]

Okay, let's start things off here...
Ben still worries about burning himself while cooking, which is why he shown wearing oven mitts so often. A good habit now that he turns human once a year.

Hank worries about plugging in things. He always has to make sure his fingers are nowhere near anything conductive.

Thalia has a healthy respect for kitchen knives which is sort of funny given her mastery of the sword.

Jessica has trouble holding guns. She will use them if needed but in a casual setting, she worries it will go off.

Andrea worries about people who stare at her too long. A healthy fear yes but often times it's just the other person staring off into space.

[death_gone_mad]

I have a minor thing about the insides on my wrists. I am already a bit touch avoidant, but touch me there and I'll hate you forever. Well, not really, but I will be suspicious of you.

Amascut has her major phobia of cats, although there is a reason behind it. A number of the priests and priestesses that betrayed her are still alive after being turned into cats by Amascut and being made immortal by her brother. Many of the cats alive and running around in present canon are those cats' offspring. CAN'T SLEEP, CATS WILL EAT ME. My allergy to cat dander helps when playing with this.

She has a minor fear, but more of a hatred, for shapeshifters. She may be a shapeshifter herself, or just capable of really convincing illusions. The Mahjarrat are the reason behind this one.

[bjornwilde]

I have the same thing about my elbow pits which a coworker back in my teen years discovered and would exploit by sneaking up to me and rubbing ice in them. I hated him for this.

[herr_bookman]

I have so much hate for scorpions. Have I ever been stung? No, and the likelihood is small, but ask me to go barefoot into the dark and I will cut you.

Autor may have a teeny-tiny fear that his belief regarding the rules of his universe is just a massive construction, and that all of his research on the matter might be wrong. This is most likely an unconscious fear, stuffed away, but it likely stems from no one taking him seriously.

[minkhollow]

Regulus would like to note that his fear of Bellatrix is perfectly rational, thank you very much.

[silveraspen]

Hey, garbage-disposal fear! I share that, although for me it's a fear that somehow the thing will spontaneously turn on if I stick my hand in it. Too many horror movies, perhaps.

(I usually use wooden spoons, tongs, whatever, to reach down there if necessary.)

[ceitfianna]

This, I've never had garbage disposals until I moved to Michigan and they scare me.

[death_gone_mad]

There is a garbage disposal in my house but my parents disabled it within a month of moving in. :P

[bjornwilde]

To be honest, I'll usually unplug the unit before my tender digits get anywhere near the grinding teeth of doom.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

The first minor fear I have that I can think of? Biting my tongue due to impact. If I'm riding my bike on a bumpy street or if I'm climbing the stairs for more than a few steps I pretty much automatically remind myself to keep my tongue away from my teeth just in case I hit a really bad bump or trip. I've never actually bitten my tongue in a fall, but why take a chance?

As for characters and their minor, reasonable fears:

Ray always checks his slippers before putting his feet in, even if he's in his usual groggy slow-wake process. He lives with Slimer. There have been... incidents.

Gordon has had a number of minor reasonable fears in the past. The most recently acquired one involves changing Eli's diaper, as dodging has become a little more difficult to gauge with only one eye to work with.

Adrian is twenty-three to twenty-four years-spent-awake old (he's not counting the downtime enforced by the G-Man) and may be his world's Sergeant-Major of the Marine Corps but he still fears that if his mother catches him cussing, either out loud or in print, he'll be marched out to work with her in the beehives the very first chance she gets, just like she used to do when he was a kid.

[bjornwilde]

A hint for Gordon, lay a washcloth or other small cloth over the...uh...targeting system while doing the deed, just be careful not to pin the cloth to the fresh diaper..

And I worry about biting my tongue all the damn time.

[saphyria]

I'm afraid of people touching the backs of my knees/insides of my elbows. Brrrr. A friend of mine once scratched (lightly!) the back of my knee while I was asleep on a couch and I kicked him in the head before I'd fully woken up.

Also slightly afraid of getting in/getting out of elevators. It's that little transition period between solid floor and floor that could move without warning. Eeek.

[alchemistseraph]

Fire escapes, or really any stairs or stair-like structures where there isn't a solid support that I can see. There were a pair of concrete spiral staircases at the Westin last time I went to Dragon*Con; I loathed them.

I don't think I project anything particularly negative onto my characters...but other people might be better judges of that.

[mnt_mike]

Raph doesn't like bugs or creepy crawly things or magic. That's actualfax canon.

Mike has a fear of drowning, which is 100% Milli-canon.

Splinter still has a mild predator phobia that he keeps at bay with large amounts of meditation. There's no real reason why a four foot tall rat should be afraid of a regular sized housecat, but...hey, some instincts are hard to shake.

[mnt_mike]

As for me, I share Raph's phobia of squidgy things. I also live in fear of breaking my teeth should I trip or fall. Personally, I blame three years in orthodontia for that one.

[minkhollow]

As for me: I can handle most bugs/spiders long enough to get to the 'squish it' stage, including roaches. But the thing I did not miss about living in New England: HOUSE CENTIPEDES. Something about all those damn legs freaks me the hell out.

Also, the closest I get to having proper nightmares are about my teeth breaking.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Guh. I didn't know those were a problem up here. Wonder if Shula's going to be up for killing them- he used to murder millipedes pretty happily...

[minkhollow]

From my somewhat limited experience, older buildings and lower floors seem to draw them the most. Saw the most of them when I was on the first floor of a dorm built in the '30s; a few in the basement of a dorm built in the early '60s, but not as many. We're on the second floor here and I've seen exactly one. (Some of that may come down to the management company being a bit more vigilant about pest control than I recall college being.)

[gavin62truck]

AUGH HOUSE CENTIPEDES

KILL THEM WITH FIRE

[wedic]

I have periodic nightmares of things falling on my head and being engaged...

I also have a number of smaller fears such as the London Underground (though that's better than it was).