This doesn't actually happen when you're typing

[frameacloud]

Theri There page number 4, originally posted on September 19, 2005.

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Image description:
A person is working at a desktop computer. Narration: "Sometimes when you're typing..."
Narration: "...With phantom claws..." The person is now shown as a gryphon, with their claws punched through the keyboard.
In exasperation, the gryphon struggles to get their claws out of the keyboard.
End description.

I'm not satisfied with this one, since therianthropes' phantom sensations don't work like this! A therianthrope can feel like their claws were passing through a keyboard, but it wouldn't make anything happen like this. I was trying to work with old (1997-ish) slang from the dragon community on alt.fan.dragons. They had a running joke that they'd hired a typist due to their claws, blaming them for typing mistakes. Then they called their human, physical body their "typist."


[Edit October 21, 2023: Added local images, links, and transcript.]

Comments

Re: Another idea belched out of my brain at 5:45 AM

[slupine.livejournal.com]

That emotional thing, do you suppose that could be equated with knowing a panic attack is going to happen that night, early in the afternoon it is going to happen? I used to have that quite a bit, though I'm sure it can be argued that it was the other way round and I was causing myself to have one.

Sorry, I'm rather interested in psychology myself.

Re: Another idea belched out of my brain at 5:45 AM

[kistaro]

It seems to be a different phenomenon to me- it's simple awareness of "I am in this condition right now and have full freedom of choice to act upon it or not", rather than "I will lose control of my responses in X amount of time"...

I'm minoring in Psychology, a bit of a strange combination to my major in Computer Science. It sort of makes sense. I understand computers inside-out; their cold, logical determinism makes perfect sense to me. It's something that's fun for me to learn that I can easily build a career off of- for some vague definition of "easy" that's currently playing hell with my sleep schedule and homework load. People, conversely, make no sense to me and I could use a class or six about them...

Re: Another idea belched out of my brain at 5:45 AM

[slupine.livejournal.com]

"I'm minoring in Psychology, a bit of a strange combination to my major in Computer Science." Hm, makes sense to me. My boyfriend is a CS major survivor. Psychology fits because, by the time you graduate, you'll need mental help. Saves on the therapy. :P