It appears that the police have arrived. Josie just said someone was knocking on her door. We are reasonably certain that that person is an emergency responder of some kind. Now, everyone, self-care. Yes, if you are reading this, this means you.
@ emergency responders: don't be useless, pls assist the Josie in not dying eta: (i'm not calling anyone useless except for the leaflet-dispensing university people, fyi)
Okay, everyone did a good job helping out in this situation (thank you, @pixels for pinging me to ping @seebs.) I'm going to need all of you to take care of yourselves now and treat yourselves as though you've just gone through a trauma, because you have. Someone's life being in danger is always traumatizing for that person, but also the people around them. Watching someone's brain try to kill them is scary, and the very last thing we need is cascading brainwrong that builds up to further harm. So please, talk to a trusted person, get whatever comfort you need, and take care of yourselves.
Update: Josie is in the back of a van, presumably currently being transported to hospital. Here are some ocean sounds to listen to.
I made a general purpose happy spam thread since we didn't seem to have one: The Happiness Emporium See also: The Out of Context Quotes Thread The Cuttle Puddle [Edit:] Looks like we already had a happy spam thread I couldn't find with the search feature!
