intermitten phobia

[Jenne]

[LMNO]

I'm glad you took that in the spirit in which it was meant, by the way.

[Jenne]

Of course I did, I know how fucked up all that is, anyway.  Admitting it makes it so much less than what it really is, if you want to know the truth.  I think my husband, for all his faults, has really gotten me through the worst of my "living daymare" shit.  What-all he's gone through, it has put way too much in perspective for me.

Plus, he believes in Exposure Therapy^TM.  Not for raping and murder, of course, but the other stuff, yeah, pretty much.

[Telarus]

I have a fear of boredom.

This explains SO much. 

[Doktor Howl]

I have a fear of boredom.

This explains SO much. 

Seriously.  Every time I found myself in jail, or getting beaten by multiple rednecks, or getting banned from the public library/local political events, etc, it was because I got so bored I did something stupid.

[Salty]

On the other side of that same coin, I believe I may have been TOO careful about that kind of thing.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I also have an irrational fear of dolls, especially vintage ones, and much less irrational fear of used stuffed animals.

I deal with my fear of dolls and telephones by collecting them.

[Salty]

Bees, I fear them. And bears. And hooved animals.
But mostly bees. 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Bees, I fear them. And bears. And hooved animals.
But mostly bees. 

You should collect them; I find it helps.

[Shai Hulud]

This sounds like a great idea for the next intermittens.  Let me know if I can be of any assistance, Peleus.

Maybe you could use this Bonejangles special that I did for 23AE recently.

[PeregrineBF]

I have a fear of making telephone calls. No problem receiving them, no problem making them on behalf of someone else, I just hate calling people on my own. To the point that if I have to make a bunch of calls in a row I'll get some heart palpitations and irregular breathing. That is annoying, since I generally have excellent concious control over my heart and breathing rates.

Same thing with spiders. Even pictures thereof. Unlike telephones I tend to burn the spiders. Or flash-freeze them. Or give them an informative lesson on what half a million volts feels like. Which generally leads to burning.

Interestingly I have no problem with centipedes, millipedes, scorpions, jellyfish, or other things in the "too-many-legs/poison/hairy" categories.

[the last yatto]

This sounds like a great idea for the next intermittens.  Let me know if I can be of any assistance, Peleus.

Maybe you could use this Bonejangles special that I did for 23AE recently.

hehe build a bear, yes thats very nicely done
now only if... the pronoia guy would answer my emails about using his artwork,
might have to resort to snail mail or somewhere something a bit more professional

might do something outlandish with all of peedy's fears, writting them in the page margin either in ariel or the illumanti font

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

Since people are posing their fears in this thread, maybe one of us can make a WOMP collage designed to scare the fuck out of everyone on the forum without being remotely frightening to anyone else? Dog-bear-spiders making phonecalls outside of someone's mailbox, or something.

[the last yatto]

dont mind me
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=195&picture=duck-with-ducklings
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=288&picture=pebbles-on-the-beach
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=1041&picture=frog-on-knuckles
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=937&picture=weekly-meeting
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=1819&picture=help-key
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=791&picture=pineapple
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=42&picture=balancing-pebbles
might use these...

while its tempting to buy rights to use some of the $1.50 images,
im not sure they would allow us to reproduce like we would like
other sites...

would it be in bad taste to include some of Lewis's looking glass
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12

[Cramulus]

while its tempting to buy rights to use some of the $1.50 images,
im not sure they would allow us to reproduce like we would like
other sites...

buying "rights" to images? puhhleaze

there's a wealth of great public domain stuff out there lying around waiting for somebody to use it

would it be in bad taste to include some of Lewis's looking glass
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12

bad taste (perhaps) because you're putting really old text in a brand new publication

but not bad taste in the Intellectual Property sense. Lewis Carroll has been dead for a lonnnng time, his corpse does not give a shit if you use his text or not.