#I just can’t. handle it right now

[calilk]

i wish it would all stop

[firephoenix23]

Guys guys guys guys guys do you see who is standing next to Alastor!!!!

It’s Vox!!!!!!! 🤯

[dykedvonte]

I think a big misunderstanding is the power people give Curly to actually change things about the way the pony express operates or could’ve done things on the Tulpar.

We are talking about a company that docks pay for bad synergy despite mandated psych evals that should tell which staff members would work well together, only allots for 5 hours of sleep despite having literally no other tasks to truly do and locks all resources behind the access of one person. The last one is likely to manage resources and make it easier to justify collective punishment and blaming one person for it; someone needs something in “excess” or the captain gives in? It’s all on them your pay is docked. Instant resentment.

It’s insidious how the company works, it’s by design to distract you from coming after them, to force tensions to line their own pockets. With all the restrictions and forced interactions, altercations are bound to happen. 5 hours of sleep a day, limited sources of entertainment, no real tasks… the monotony alone would cause bad cabin fever, mix that with just only one absolute mediator and you get the exact environment that allows shit like in the game to happen.

The idea he could just complain and try to throw his weight around to get them to dig into their pocket for the crews comfort is laughable and misses the predatory and dehumanizing aspect of capitalism the Pony Express represents. Curly was and is still just another asset to them. Being a top show pony doesn’t mean he’s anywhere close to the actual top. He is the top of the working ladder, not whoever’s in corporate, he wouldn’t even be on the bottom step unlike what Jimmy perceives. The resounding recommendations he would get are almost mocking as they throw him out like nothing just like the rest. Being a shitty fucking company, how much do you bet they’d mean anything anyways, especially since he wanted to leave the field all together.

He made a fuss and they didn’t listen, he says he should’ve done more but you can tell he knows it wouldn’t have changed anything. Jobs like this are willing to make a sacrifice if it means even a penny more. Curly makes a bigger fuss they likely would’ve just found an “unrelated” reason to fire him, hired a more pliable guy or, terrifyingly, promoted Jimmy. The company was failing, going to shut down whether anything happened on the ship or not. But knowing that they were shutting down and that everyone, including him, would be out of a job with this being their last paycheck, he had to factor in not destroying the last bit of their financial stabilities combined with every other issue on the vessel and his own. He gets another cryopod or locks and then he has to break to them that they are not only fired but there will be substantial cuts to their paychecks due to the “upgrades” (things that already should’ve been in place on their part) on top of anything else that could be docked along the way.

You can blame him for saying it so early into the trip but then again, if he mentioned it later who’s to say it wouldn’t have been worse? On the capitalism side alone how would people in a galaxy away from home, out of a job and already stir crazy react? Don’t get me started on how Jimmy would have reacted if he realized he only had two days left to fix what would be a very hard to miss “problem” in his head…

I can’t even consider explaining this as devils advocate because it’s just facts of the world we and they live in and factors that heavily affected the situation. People are just so quick to make claims on the ease of the choices when P.E literally makes it hard to choose to do anything but suck it up.

[dukeofdadykes]

I just got baldurs gate 3 a few weeks ago and ITS SO FUN AAA I’m already 100+ hours in and I haven’t even got past act 1 🙈✌️ here are some doodles of the save files I’ve created so far w/ my gf! 😼

[scramratz]

Saw that once scene from Challengers and now I think I’m bisexual

[osddid-i-do-that]

It’s easy for people to criticize protectors for how we react to perceived threats —

Some of us get defensive, some of us get loud, or completely freeze up, or run for safety, or suddenly collapse and can’t move, or become mute, or have extreme fawn reactions … and to the outside, it seems over the top.

Or maybe you think it’s not fair that we saw you as a threat because you got angry and yelled. Maybe you think it’s childish that we sprinted out of the house or scary that we kicked into “fight” mode.

We had to identify threats fast. We had to do what it took to survive. To protect our system and our physical body and mind.

And we can and should learn to react more proportionally. But our instincts aren’t ridiculous or made to victimize you. They made sense in the traumatic environment that created us. They’re the only reason we’re still here now.

We still fall back on that because it worked and we survived.

[scarlettshazam]

I ended up really loving this drawing that I did of the two main POV characters of Only Slightly Dead, which has a preorder link now! (For eBooks, because you can’t preorder paperback or hardcover 🫠)

Because this is tumblr and only like two of you are looking at me please enjoy post-book happy twins who have been through a whole horror book to get to this art. I kept drawing them as sad and angry and they needed to be cut a fuckin break for once

[spork-supremacy]

There’s going to be a live action.

Heheh… I THOUGHT THAT WAS A JOKE FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR NOT ACTUALLY REAL.

Writing quality will be anywhere between hunted or skybound.

Casting as a whole might actually have to be the canon looks for everyone.

Everything within me is screaming about the casting because it can go inline with fandom thinking, or very wrong. And we’ll be stuck with it. We don’t have to justify design headcanons but once that comes out I see potential for more harassment over it because of the canon looks.

[awfullybigwardrobe44]

On a bad OCD/lack of assurance day, I just LOVE when Facebook recommends a post to me from The Chosen and my brain is like “Oh look, Jesus looking lovingly at Matthew. Don’t you wish you could have that 😌 Well. You can’t. Sucks to suck.”

[ezranarium]

Trying so hard to find sfw queer posts and my skin is CRAWLING that even in the SFW Specific Queer Tag (I literally searched “SFW Queer”) nsft posts still pop up. What if I…. Rip my skin off. What if I melt into a puddle and scream and writhe until my body breaks down. I DONT WANT TO BE HORNY PLEASE GOD IM SO SMALL

[roseaesynstylae]

Me at the Republic Commando video game: Love it, 10/10, Delta Squad is magnificent, sucks that we never got a sequel.

Me at the Republic Commando book series:

[willowfey]

starting to think maybe waking up with an anxiety stomachache every single morning and then needing to spend the entire day trying to get rid of said anxiety just to maybe have a few minutes in the evening of feeling relaxed before going to bed is perhaps not normal

[bpdamn]

so it’s not enough for me to struggle mentally i’m also feeling the worst i’ve ever felt physically :)))

[james-p-sullivan]

where’s the love for the writers out there writing your heart out for a fandom of three and a half people i love you

[barley-st-band]

anyone else getting a little tired of the unending horror

[the-grape-entity]

When a bad day at the end of a few bad weeks turns into being terrified you’re getting worse and terrified you’re never getting better