#I'm also angry at someone

[desi-yearning]

The best way to deal with Big Feelings is to not deal with them at all

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

At your side [End of Season 2]

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[bixels]

tarpit site.

[sysig]

Blind side (Patreon)

[wistfulpoltergeist]

Nothing unusual. Decided to play Divinity 2 with my sis. Created my characters there, found a home for them, decorated it, imagined a story and then went back to Sims 4 to recreate my Sims-Divinity Characters back in Sims :D

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[deoidesign]

drawing my favorite sculpture but it's my guy

(Barberini Faun)

[traumasurvivors]

What I'm actually stressed about and want to vent about is a personal thing in my life, so feel free to scroll on. But I just want to scream about this and how unfair it is, and have some validation that it is unfair.

I haven't been able to work for months because there isn't work for me. And my husband and I are struggling financially.

Well, on months he doesn't hit a certain "survey" goal at his work, his commission pay gets cut "in half." And while he gets some salary, we really rely on his commission pay to make ends meet right now.

This happened last month, and it really stressed me out because we are struggling so much at the moment. This happens sometimes, but like once in a very rare while. Then I found out that they changed the survey percentage he has to hit to move it up by 15%. And he's informed me that he often doesn't hit the new number.

How it works is anything below an 8 out of 10 is a fail, and he gets a zero for that survey. And he needs a monthly average of 80%. It used to be 65% which felt a lot more fair considering anything below 8 was considered a 0 when the math was done.

But what is extra not fair is the question he loses points on the most is 'would you recommend this place to anyone else' and people often put 'no.' And they even tell him that he was wonderful, but it's about something not related to him. And he gets punished for this. No one in the other jobs at his work deals with this, even if they're the person the customer was really upset at.

What extra sucks is he gets a lot of "well, you were great but like nothing is perfect so I can't give you a high number. I want the company to feel like there's always room for improvement."

I am tired. Even when he makes his full pay, we can't pay for everything we need to. And being shorted by this really threw me this month.

It's why I'm so on edge and stressed. And I am so frustrated and just want to blast his business but that would hurt him as well.

I just think it's so beyond fucked up that they can do that.

[barbieaiden]

when you're the main character's little brother and doomed by the narrative because the author decided that the cult trauma wasn't enough. rip aaron

[nevermeanttoknow]

I feel like I need to like. grab some of y'all by the head and explain internet safety to you

[fancy-feathercroak]

Blue Hamble my beloved

[not-poignant]

Hi Pia

Why did Gary growl and cover Efnisien's face/mouth when he said the safeword? Was he angry and trying to stop Efnisien from saying it so he could continue? If yes how did he manage to pull himself back from the brink of doing something unforgivable?

I think Gary was so uncoordinated in that moment, he wasn't thinking 'I need to shut you up' but there was definitely an instinct of: 'How dare someone tell me to stop.'

There was a visceral war with himself when he growls vs. when he places his hand on Efnisien's face, almost like he's trying to feel his breathing and his voice. It's a very quick motion, and while Efnisien assumes it's to shut him up, I actually think Gary was literally very out of it in that moment and was kind of bracing himself to even understand what happened.

Like, this is a guy who didn't respond to a lot of basic language and sentences for three days, or when he did, mostly could only do so in basic sentences or even single words. So while the peak alpha grokked the 'how dare you' pause, I think it was like a 'wait is an alpha trying to stop me from taking what is mine' level of confusion. He places his hands on Efnisien's face, almost like he's trying to find where the words came from, in my mind. Like someone who is blind who is trying to find a fan switch in a new place. They don't quite know where it is, but they know it's important in hot weather.

He then does hear more of Efnisien's voice (in the form of a distressed shriek) and immediately stops.

I really don't think this is as clean as 'he was fully aware, heard something he didn't want to hear, and made a choice to make sure Efnisien couldn't safeword again.' I don't even think he knew at the time what he heard, or how to understand it, only that he heard it and that he had to stop.

If yes how did he manage to pull himself back from the brink of doing something unforgivable?

Tbh Gary has the safeword to literally stop himself from doing the unforgiveable. And he does it with an immense amount of willpower that almost no human will ever really comprehend. Dude was barely even conscious at the time. Just like Efnisien spent many hours in a heavily dissociated receptive headspace, Gary does the same but from a more dominating peak alpha side. Literally just ruled by hormones in a very primitive way.

I'd say he's one of the only peak alphas in the world who can actually listen to a safeword at all in that state. I don't even think Temsen could.

[makorragal-312]

I think that since Chris is gonna be struggling with forgiving Eddie in the finale and Buck will most definitely be involved, it would be a good opportunity if the show did a call back to the conversation Buck and Chris had back in Season 4 after Chris ran away.

Picture this:

Maybe Eddie tells Buck what happened and he asks him to stay with Chris since he isn't talking to him anymore. So Buck goes to see Chris and tries to check on him, asking how he's feeling about everything. And Chris is silent for a little bit but eventually asks:

"Do you remember when I ran to your place after my dad told me about Ana and you thought it was because I was scared of forgetting about Mom? And I had said that I did wish that I could forget her?"

"Yeah. Why?"

And then Chris looks up at Buck with tears in his eyes and an expression of hurt and anger and Buck knows that he's thinking back to that night. And Chris tells him:

"That was why."

[tea-cat-arts]

"Madam Yu would be a Karen/ treat minimum wage employees like shit-" literally the only servant she's shown abusing is Wei Wuxian (and that's because he's the victim of a proxy war between her and Jiang Fengmian around the idea of him being adopted into the family, not because of his class). Madam Yu's two handmaid's love and respect her, and Madam Yu actually defends them when Wang Lingjiao tries being a Karen to them. She also tells Wang Lingjiao to fuck off when she demands the Jiang servants bring her tea.

Also, Karens are unpleasant women, but not all unpleasant women are Karens. That term is about entitlement and being unreasonable (and often times, racist). Madam Yu is mean and unpleasant to talk to, but she keeps most of her interactions brief and probably doesn't have the time or mental energy to be a Karen or hold a grudge that long. If you want an actual example of a Karen in mdzs, Wang Lingjiao is right there

[front-facing-pokemon]

[juliamccartney]

hello i need everybody who doesn't have a disability/incurable condition to stop telling disabled people that "everything's going to be ok", to "be more optimistic" etc. as if that's going to help them 'overcome' their condition please and thank you

[foragergnome]

27 and Archie for the spotify 100 thing,,, also hope you're feeling ok kara beloved!!

I've blown apart my life for you

And bodies hit the floor for you

And break me, shake me, devastate me

Come here, baby, tell me that I'm wrong