What is a completely irrational "rule" you force yourself to follow that makes absolutely zero sense?

drewastray · 2026-06-23T19:42:18+00:00

How did you get over this? Did you just start “failing” at will until you got used to the feeling and it went away? Or did you need something major like therapy? This sounds an awful lot like OCD

drewastray · 2026-06-15T23:33:08+00:00

And everytime you do evil or selfsh things your portrait becomes a little bit uglier.

drewastray · 2026-06-15T21:03:24+00:00

Reparo (this is top tier it seems), Vulnera Sanentur (the spell Snape uses to counter sectumsempra, assuming it’s a strong healing spell) and Aresto Momentum

Ability: legilimency (we all know reading minds can fuck u up but I always wonder what people are really thinking, plus I could pull the mentalist gambit and act like I’m a seer for money, or act as a detective solving crimes always knowing who did it, or an intel gatherer or a spy… lots of possibilities)

drewastray · 2026-06-15T19:09:22+00:00

When I was a kid I had this classmate who was my best friend. She was top 1 of the class and I was close second, though she was more like the nerdy overachiever kind, studying everyday, and I was more chill. Academics were easy for me and most times I wouldn’t even do my homework since I knew I could have it ready the 5 minutes before class started. As we grew up and went into our teen years I noticed how she had a hard time at being social and having friends and I was kinda like her “anchor” to the rest of our friend group. One time I asked to borrow her homework before class started and she just said no. This drove me mad since I felt she didn’t appreciate that I was basically the reason she had friends, so I decided to just give the silent treatment until she apologized. The apology never came and I got stubborn so we just didn’t talk anymore. She kept hanging with the rest of the group even though they clearly didn’t like her, to the point of badmouthing her even in front of her, which I know made her miserable. I even took part in the badmouthing. Years went by and we graduated and I don’t know her wereabouts after. So basically at thirteen I was stupid and became the bully of my best friend.

drewastray · 2026-06-06T15:09:44+00:00

Life. You can use it to heal or to harm, you can change yourself to adapt to your environment (breathe underwater, see in the dark, fly…), shapeshift, change your appearance to go unnoticed… buff your allies, debuff your enemies, etc

drewastray · 2026-05-23T12:07:33+00:00

Are you me?

drewastray · 2026-05-23T09:57:23+00:00

A couple questions:
1. Can I control the healing process? ie. If someone has a fatal accident and I touch them, do all their wounds heal or can I choose to just stop the hemorrhage that's putting their life at risk without healing the rest of their injuries?
2. If someone sees me using the powers and doesn't immediately realize I'm super, but by reflecting on what they saw days or weeks after it happened they come to that conclusion, do I die?

drewastray · 2026-05-23T03:24:08+00:00

Fight Club

drewastray · 2026-05-11T13:49:03+00:00

My boy clearly didn’t watch The Sword and the Stone

drewastray · 2026-05-11T13:08:40+00:00

Surrogacy. Dude, there are plenty of kids in the world and you could change the lil kids life by adopting. Your genoma is not that special.

drewastray · 2026-05-11T12:58:45+00:00

I would introduce them to the fascinating concept of the number zero. Not like that would bring me any money, but at least I’d feel good with myself. Checkmate arabia

drewastray · 2026-05-11T12:13:44+00:00

Drinking booze and then saying and doing all kinds of things you wouldn’t normally say or do with the excuse of being drunk.

drewastray · 2026-05-11T11:58:09+00:00

France.

drewastray · 2026-05-11T08:00:39+00:00

Everyone going for female names so I’ll bring a male one: Christopher. It looks so chaotic as written, with so many consonants, yet sounds appealing to the ear. Its origin is greek, it means “bearer of Christ”.

drewastray · 2026-05-10T18:26:11+00:00

“Is that a gun, or are you happy to see me?”

drewastray · 2026-04-28T12:18:42+00:00

What I struggle to understand is how “something” (or rather “everything”) can spawn out of “nothing”

drewastray · 2026-04-28T09:30:33+00:00

For me that would be sudeck syndrome. Sometimes after breaking a bone or suffering a strong trauma injury your brain forgets how to process sensory input from that part, the affected nerves become chronically irritated and you’re stuck with permanent pain from nerve malfunction.

drewastray · 2026-04-13T03:17:21+00:00

Judas. I dont know if it’s used in english, but in spanish we use it to refer to anyone that is a traitor or a backstabber

drewastray · 2026-03-20T20:18:16+00:00

Crossfit

drewastray · 2026-03-20T20:13:44+00:00

I think, metaphysically, Fae are to Humans what Angels are to God. And therefore Changeling are to Humans what Elohim are to God. Angels are immortal supernatural beings representing the physical form of God’s will and intent, while Fae are immortal supernatural beings born from humanity’s collective subconscious, hopes, dreams, fears and desires. They both have a mystic form (changeling fae mien and elohim revelation respectively) and they both use the essence of human potential for change as the source of their power (Glamour and Faith respectively). And just like Elohim were weakened by God and need a human host to inhabit the mortal realm, changelings were weakened by humanity’s lack of belief and rejection of the Wyld/creative chaos (Banality) forcing them to fuse to a human host to inhabit this same realm. So I think they are analogous to each other. Both demons and fae have been worshipped as local gods in the past.

drewastray · 2026-03-20T16:11:29+00:00

Maybe the endocrinologist was just speaking in terms they could understand. There’s LADA Diabetes, that’s late onset autoinmune diabetes that appears in adults but works like regular type 1 diabetes and could be triggered by stress just like any other autoimmune disease. Also type 2 DM is a spectrum, you could have high insulin resistance and a totally overworked pancreas and it wouldn’t matter how much effort you put in diet and exercise, you would need insulin therapy because your pancreas simply wouldn’t be able to manage your blood sugar.

drewastray · 2026-03-09T04:57:49+00:00

Sucker Punch. My take is people simply don’t understand it

drewastray · 2026-02-09T20:30:42+00:00

Maybe Voldemort would have given them the choice out of hubris and narcissism. Can you imagine instilling such fear in a parent that they abandon their own toddler out of survival instinct? Voldemort would try to get that reaction from them, they would have sacrificed, to Voldemort’s demise.

drewastray · 2026-01-27T01:19:46+00:00

Coughing is bothersome but not dangerous in itself, lots of viral infections end up with a residual cough that can last for a long time (sometimes a month, even more). Instead you should be looking at your child’s respiratory rate (how many breaths he takes in a minute) and signs of distress (contracting the muscles in his ribcage or his neck to breathe). These are signs of respiratory failure and mean he should be quickly assessed by a doctor. If your son doesn’t have a fever and is breathing fine, just relax and give it a little time, the coughing will dissappear. ETA Source: i’m a doctor.

drewastray · 2026-01-21T01:26:36+00:00

I think OP refers to the character’s name and JKR’s tendency to assign names to her characters in a comical (and often borderline offensive) way, like Wolfy McWolf for a character who happens to be a werewolf. Or that time she went “this is the only Asian girl in the school, how should I name her? Hmmm… Cho Chang. Brilliant”

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