In Korean "what" is "뭐" and is pronounced kind of like "Mwoh" or "Bwoh." Today my mum's half-poodle mutt was barking at the cars passing on the road and it struck me just how much his bark sounds like him going "What? What? What?"
I came across a quote taken from a Vox article today. And, first of all, the article is an eye-opening read. I highly recommend checking it out (for non-whump reasons).
But, secondly, and more importantly, imagine your Whumper saying this:
If you had to make a rat depressed, how do you think you’d go about it?
So to test your new antidepressant, you need an efficient method of making a lot of rats exhibit anhedonia — that is, making them lose interest in things they used to enjoy, like sugar.
How do you think you’d do that?
It turns out you don’t need to traumatize them. The most reliable protocol is “chronic mild stress.” There are many methods of making the lives of experimental animals mildly but chronically miserable — a cage floor that administers random electric shocks; a deep swimming pool with no way to rest or climb out; a stronger “intruder” introduced into the same cage. One neuroscientist actually nicknamed his apparatus the Pit of Despair.
But they’re all variations on the same theme: remove all predictability and control from the animal’s life. Then take notes as they gradually lose interest in being alive.
that one part in your rigor mortis series (which is so good by the way had me weak with some of the dialogue between the characters) where Miguel was like “what the fuck are you doing?” reminds me of that one video, i think it’s a sound on tiktok called wtf are you doing with this music in the background and I’m like imagining that’s how he saying it 😭😭😭
doffy's laugh sounds exactly like he's just losing it over the most horrendous and unfunny joke he ever made and nobody else is laughing but him but he doesn't give a single fuck