The News

[kiya]

Now, speaking as someone who has a lot of complicated baggage around the whole Are You Emotioning In An Approved And Socially Correct Fashion For The Situation just to freaking start with, I find myself rather utterly at a fucking loss for how to respond to the news sometimes. Like, what is even a reasonable and proportionate response to the news. What is normal to feel about this? Damned if I know!

The difference between fiction and reality is fiction has to make sense.

(This thought brought to you by the bit where a certain someone suggested that it should maybe be closer to illegal... to turn state's evidence.)

Comments

[ivy]

I feel like he has no idea how any of this works beyond blustering, and doesn't really seem to care to learn. It's worked out great for him so far! So I'm holding firm at "disgusted, yet determined".

[autumnesquirrel]

Would you like to know how other people are reacting to the news? Or are you just musing?

I mean, you feel how you feel? Expression of feelings are performative but the feelings themselves aren't really?

I'm feeling quite a bit of suppressed terror myself. :(

[graydon]

The current news lacks precedent and has outpaced all notions of decorum.

So, like the Victorian duchess asked to comment on an etiquette manual, "however one is moved to respond is correct".