#admin idiocy

[monoclr]

went to my first fall out boy concert last week and it wasn’t either of the gay ones so im rioting

[fadetoblackhq]

apparently, the ads blog has been private this whole time.. boy do i feel dumb. but also.. we've gotten this far just from what i post on the main? fcking impressive!

[shusha520]

Okey! Here's a little bit of laura on my au, which @sarych drew a comic

Ahem

In modern Macaque, he is the hater who constantly shits, idk, Wukong streamer, but when things got bad in Wukong’s life, he gloated at first, but became the main support. Although quite sarcastic, but he stayed... And sarcastic, but still...

Fuck that asshole, no, wait, don't go! ©Wukong

Macaque, of course, is a schmuck, but he's a good schmuck ©Wukong

***

«Can you see me clearly? You can hear me, right? Wonderful! Welcome, my dear children! Grandpa Sun, or the Beautiful Monkey King Sun Wukong, welcomes you to today's stream! And today we will have a game based on the novel "Journey to the West"! If you remember, the majority voted for her, although I'm not surprised anymore!»

There was a bright smile on the golden-haired monkey's lips. The chat that was hanging on the other screen started to come to life.

"Six-eared Macaque: +15 immortal peaches: naturally, I don't recommend shit, unlike some"

Wukong's smile became strained, and he involuntarily leaned closer to the camera.

«What people! This is our great and clever Six-eared Macaque! Have you finally decided to get out of your hole? Had you already accepted your loss?»

Wukongs_wife_: Oh my God, he's back

_i_love_sun: Oh, this stream is definitely going to be fun

im_not_red_boy: I bet old man Sun will start discussing to him half the time again.

_Shue_fan2: but it's definitely worth it, we need to make popcorn!

im_not_red_boy: _Shue_fan2, I'm with you, it's definitely necessary to do without it

MK_fan1: Oh! MACAQUE! You haven't been here for a long time!

Nenzha_: Hmm, something remains the same

Mei_bf_MK: Dude, we already thought that Wukong found you and killed you.

Six_Ear_Macaque: Huh, I'd like to see that.

"Six-eared Macaque: +15 immortal peaches: I lost the battle, but not the war, peach brain"

Wukong's eye twitched involuntarily, this asshole!

***

"Big_fan_Sun_Wukong: +5 peaches: Wukong, you are my sunshine! Thank you for delighting me with your wonderful streams, you are my outlet in this gray life!"

Mei_bf_MK: Awww, how sweet!

Big_fan_Sun_Wukong: Heh

Big_fan_Sun_Wukong: I wanted to send an immortal peach, but dude, $200 for 1 piece is a lot for my wallet

_sheng_shen: $200 APIECE?!

_STOP_IT_MAC: Wait...

yuanqi_: Macaque once sent 100 peaches, and more than once...

Six_Ear_Macaque: and?

zhuzha_fan: dude, you...

_Shue_fun2: his flirtation is elite, you don't understand, you just remember those poems under those donations

im_not_red_boy: I printed out each of them so that I don't forget when I want to fuck off someone a nice or scold them.

Six_Ear_Macaque:... It's quite unexpected, but it's nice, you can immediately see an educated person.

Gold_koi: Guys, is he really a hater? I'm just newbie and I'm not getting into the gist of it yet...

_Shue_fun2: Welcome Gold_koi to our family! Yes, Six_Ear_Macaque is definitely a hater, well, at least he was, now he's just a sarcastic jerk

Six_Ear_Macaque: nuuhh. I never stopped being one. I'm just showing pity. Also. There are kids here.

_Shue_fan2: come on! We all know!

"Six-eared Macaque: +15 immortal peaches: I thought your idiocy wasn't contagious, but looking at your admin, I have doubts."

"Six-eared Macaque: +15 immortal peaches: Peach Brain, only you could take a team of characters who are useless to this boss because he has immunite to their skills"

- Go to hell Mac, it's not my fault that I ONLY have 7 characters! I'm going to kill the boss anyway!

A few hours later

- Ha! See? I won! PHYSICAL STRENGTH! Hahaha! Damn it, I'm so cool!

Wukong's beaming face looked at him from the monitor screen. A soft grin touched the Macaque's lips

"Six-eared Macaque: +15 golden peaches of immortality: idiot"

_Shue_fan2:... Holy shit.

_Shue_fan2: I take back my words about the sarcastic jerk. HE'S A FUCKING SIMP.

Min_min: simp? Who?

_Shue_fan2: Six-eared! 1 golden peach is worth 50k!!

_jaid_bunny_: I wish I had such a hater

_zhuzha_fan: no one would refuse such a hater

the_Spider_Queen: Six_Ear_Macaque when is the wedding?

Six_Ear_Macaque: I'd rather die than marry this

***

OH, AND THEN THERE'S THE SCENE WHERE WUKONG DID A CO-OP STREAM WITH A MACAQUE.

AND THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME HE SAW MACAQUE LIVE.

Wukong before the start of the stream:

Wukong: Oh, come on, just admit that you're too shy to show yourself!

Macaque: Are you an idiot? I wrote, I'm setting up the camera.

Wukong: yes, yes, of course

Wukong rolled his eyes, occasionally glancing at the nearby chat monitor.

A soft, velvety voice sounded in the headphones: Are you satisfied?

A monkey with dark skin and black fur looked at him from the screen, golden arrows were in the corners of his eyes, and a red butterfly mask framed his face, his lips were stretched in a grin.

Wukong's mouth involuntarily opened. What the hell. Why the hell is this jerk so handsome?! He felt his face heating up.

_Shue_fan2: Whoo, well, Wukong-exe flew off the stratosphere

Mei_bf_MK: Damn it, Mac, you're a handsome man!

MK_fan1: Wow

A soft laugh rang out in the headphones, sending shivers down his spine.

The macaque smiled coquettishly and put his hand on his chest, saying: thank you. So what? Wukong?

Fuck

*The translation was interrupted*

[laundryandtaxes]

It's insane that Columbia bent the knee in terms of cracking down on its own students and faculty for the sake of making peace with the Trump administration. For the purpose of appeasing wealthy donor alumni, it is at least entirely reasonable as a method of self preservation, if still disgusting. For the sake of appeasing an administration that hates academia in general, it's just stupid, for two major reasons. The first is that the executive branch does not control the country's purse strings, and no president has the right to withdraw funds already allocated by Congress, or to rewrite contracts in which both parties are already engaged- this is obviously quite the gamble, but I think it is clear that this Court would give them their money back because it already belonged to them and I suspect that John Roberts is physically itching right now at the chance to have his juridical legacy include preventing America from developing a king. However, it is no bigger gamble to take it to court than it is to simply cross their fingers and hope that the Trump admin backs off after appeasing them once, which leads to the second point of obvious idiocy. Now that Columbia has behaved as though the Trump admin has a legitimate right to withhold already allocated funds from them in exchange for certain concessions, it is entirely reasonable and predictable that the Trump admin could come back with a new set of demands at any time and it would be reasonable for them to expect compliance. What's to stop them from demanding, in 6 months, that Columbia eliminate its women studies courses, for instance, or eliminate certain texts from their syllabi, or even include specific texts the administration wishes to promote?

Obviously, it would have taken time for them to get their money back because the courts are slow, but the notion that they've done anything by buckling other than signal that they're entirely willing to play an entirely illegitimate ballgame for the sake of peace which is not guaranteed to last any amount of time is nonsense. It would have been a tough semester or year or several for Columbia without their allocated funds, but the fundamental problem that the institution relies on federal funds and the federal government changes very regularly will not be solved or ameliorated by simply shrugging and hoping that Trump doesn't ask for further concessions when he now has absolutely no reason not to. They're not going to be able to get around the fact that the executive branch is going to be in the hands of a party that hates them and everything that they stand for for several more years.

[rotzaprachim]

as someone who studies and reads a lot of mid century Yiddish stuff from the former Soviet Union and has been evangelizing about the fact that blanket attacks on the idea of “Zionism” by the ussr and mid century Arab nations and basically any kind of state sanctioned “antizionism” has had a horrific practical impact on irl DIASPORA Jews and people need to be aware of that history …. It’s stunning to see deeply similar forms of idiocy and cowardice with regards to a strikingly similar series of implemented moves by the trump admin over fighting supposed “terrorism” and deporting “terrorists” and if you support the gov taking blanket stances against one word it’s Bad things you’re also going to be fine with people being punished and hurt for nothing in deeply racialised ways

[mariacallous]

A mod for The Sims 4 that removed LGBT and Black nonplayable characters (NPCs) from the game and automatically changed them to “straight” and “white,” respectively, has reappeared in spite of EA's attempts to shut it down. WIRED has found dozens of similar racist, homophobic, and antisemitic mods for other popular games.

The Sims mod, called DEI Remover 1.0.0, was first made available in March last year, but it recently blew up after @DanielleBuilds, a Sims creator with over 300,000 followers, posted a screenshot of it on Facebook and asked people to report it. In addition to removing Black NPCs, the mod was designed to make NPCs “healthy, (not fat),” switched colorful hair types to “natural” hair colors, and changed any LGBT couples sharing a home in the game to siblings. A photo accompanying an overview of the mod shows NPC Celeste Michaelson, who is Black and trans, being changed to a white woman.

An admin on the video game forum RPGHQ said that they received a request from the IP enforcement department of EA to delist the mod. The admin, who goes by the user name “Rusty Shackleford,” described this as an act of targeted censorship, and included screenshots of what they said was correspondence with EA.

”I write on behalf of Electronic Arts Inc. ("EA"). It has come to our attention that you are hosting material that infringes copyrights owned or controlled by EA,” reads the screenshotted email, said to be from EA’s IP senior counsel Lisa Chin. The email identifies the DEI Remover mod as the “infringing material.” EA has not responded to WIRED’s request for comment.

On May 6, the original post moved to a new thread, where the mod was reposted with a copyright disclaimer for “Fair Use” along with instructions for downloading it. Some commenters cheered and jeered the repost, with one saying “cut off one head, two more shall take its place. heil hydra,” and another saying, “Yea I'm sure antagonizing litigious publishers will work out well.”

The Sims has a track record of culture and LGBT representation going back over a decade. In 2023 the franchise featured the Celeste Michaelson NPC in the expansion pack Growing Together, while in 2022 it featured a lesbian couple on the cover of the My Wedding Stories game pack. That same year, The Sims 4 provided a free update to allow users to add gender identity to their game with customizable pronouns, and in April 2025, the game released free downloadable content featuring LGBT-themed clothes and decor. The franchise has also released items to help celebrate holidays in the past, such as Juneteenth-themed clothing, Christmas trees, Hanukkah menorahs, and Kwanzaa kinaras.

Meanwhile sites like Patreon continue to host mods that erase this diversity in The Sims 4. In addition to DEI Remover, RPGHQ hosts dozens of controversial mods for other games, including a mod called “Balduran Salutes Hitler” for Baldur's Gate 3, and “Negro Remover” for Stalker 2. WIRED found one Patreon account from December featuring a mod that switches out inclusive language, such as changing “spouse” to “husband and wife,” and removes the pronouns on premade sims. That Patreon creator explained they created it because the franchise had “fully embraced the pronouns (sic) idiocy.” WIRED has reached out to Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian Studios, and Patreon, and has not received a response.

The modding community is a vital part of the Stalker series, and we deeply value its contributions," says GSC Game World spokesperson Zakhar Bocharov. “However, we firmly oppose mods that promote harmful messaging, such as cultural appropriation, hatred, racism, or any offensive content.”

Video game mods allow users to download third-party add-ons created by other players that affect the gameplay experience. For the PC and Mac versions of The Sims 4, mods have become integral to the Sims community as a whole, giving players free access to custom content like clothing, furniture, and artwork, and in-game capabilities such as functional banks, preschools, and adult content.

Many in the modding Sims communities were up in arms over the DEI Remover mod. One TikTok user said they were inspired to start a new series called “F You, Sims Community.” Comments echoed her frustrations, with one commenter saying, “may everyone who downloads this experience the worst save corruption bugs.”

The quick replacement of the banned Sims 4 mod demonstrates that keeping on top of the issue can be like playing a game of Whac-A-Mole.

While this mod was created last year, President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting DEI initiatives have contributed to a more hostile climate for marginalized Americans.

While modding has been a key element within the franchise for decades, EA’s mod policy states that it has the right to “address any inappropriate Mods, including Mods that infringe the intellectual property or privacy rights of others, contain obscene, objectionable, or harmful content, jeopardize the integrity of The Sims 4 gameplay, or otherwise violate the EA User Agreement.”

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Chris Geidner at Law Dork:

On Monday afternoon, the U.S. Supreme Court’s Republican appointees — with no reasoning — issued an order allowing the Trump administration to provide no notice to people it is deporting to a country with which the person has no connection and where the person could face great danger. Justice Sonia Sotamayor, writing for herself and Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, issued a damning dissent. “In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution. In this case, the Government took the opposite approach,“ Sotomayor wrote, noting people who were wrongly deported to third countries — even in violation of the district court’s injunction in the case before the justices, Department of Homeland Security v. D.V.D. “Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to manage this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention it plainly requires, this Court now intervenes to grant the Government emergency relief from an order it has repeatedly defied. I cannot join so gross an abuse of the Court’s equitable discretion.“ The Supreme Court’s order in D.V.D. is technically issued on the emergency, or shadow, docket as a stay of the district court’s injunction as the litigation proceeds. As such, it is not to be taken as a decision on the merits of the lawsuit — although the “likelihood” of success is supposed to be the key factor in granting a stay.

In practice, however, Monday’s order means the administration can send anyone who is deportable — meaning there is an order of removal in place as to them — anywhere that the government decides it wants to sent them, regardless of the dangers that a person might face if sent there and without any right to challenge that decision. This is a horrifying order that shows a disdain for basic principles of human rights — made all the more unconscionable by the fact that the Republican appointees providing no reasoning in doing so and on the shadow docket without the benefit of argument or full briefing. It also follows a pair of orders from last month on the shadow docket that similarly allowed the Trump administration to carry out anti-immigrant orders during litigation. [...] The “right to be heard” before government action would cause you harm “is a principle basic to our society,“ Sotomayor noted, adding, “Being deprived of the right not to be deported to a country likely to torture or kill you plainly counts. Thus, plaintiffs have a right to be heard.”

More MAGA Majority idiocy: 6 right-wing judicial tyrants on the SCOTUS bench allow the Trump Regime to deport persons to a country with which the person has no connection and where the person could face great danger.

See Also:

AP, via HuffPost: Supreme Court Allows Trump To Restart Swift Deportation Of Migrants Away From Their Home Countries

The Guardian: US supreme court clears way for Trump to deport migrants to countries not their own

[fuck-customers]

You motherfuckers.

A combo is FRIES AND A DRINK.

AND A D R I N K.

It is literally CHEAPER to just get the fries if that is what you want. Quit making me type in then delete then retype your order three dozen times if you do not want a drink.

The amount of times today I’ve done the “slow blink + stare of idiocy” at people…

Posted by admin Rodney.

[imaginary-grandpa]

[The art is sooo good]

"Even if you did return for selfish reasons only, I'm sure Morty likes having a grandpa around."

@your-dead-wife

[Admin: Ahhhhh tyyy!! :DD]

-

"I'm... gonna ignore that you're Diane or a fucking clone of her o-or something." -ahem- "Anyways- I'm only hanging around since the little shit has some potential and it'd be a waste if Jerry's idiocy spreads to the kid."

[takeachance777]

OOC MENTION

Headcanons on Chance:

* Emotionally a moron.

* He used to own a ton of exotic animals, which miraculously, never got him killed.

* Chance knows about his own luck manipulation, but not about the luck he doesn't try to give himself.

* Chance has evaded assassination attempts one after another, without knowing of it.

* Chance used to babysit his baby cousins, who he was an awful influence on.

* Chance did know Mafioso, through his parents' casino. They tried to get him in debt. They failed. Horribly.

* iTrapped was Chance's only friend he thought was actually his friend.

* Chance defaults to flirting because he doesn't know how to bounce back from any kind of negative response, and will falter at rejection, but overall pretend it never happened.

* Chance thinks he's invincible. (He was, but not in forsaken.)

* His luck manipulation was nerfed from full on Looney toons immunity by the spectre, to coin flips and his broken gun.

* He does not understand the concept of discrimination (emotionally stupid), but would genuinely sit there and stare if he ever heard about it. "But... Why? They know better. Right?"

* Chance does not understand how poor people work. He has, on the other hand, lived in shitty conditions, mainly because he ends up in awful areas through his own idiocy.

* Chance is not very smart. He is not, in fact, incredible at everything. His passive luck just makes him very, very prone to success. He could write a random number as a solution to a math problem, and be right. In forsaken, this is left untouched.

* Chance's weakness is actually weakness, (the Spectre is an asshole), in forsaken. So he actually stumbles or flinches as the coin lands on tails if it gets bad enough.

* Once he reaches fifty weakness, there's a decent chance Chance will pass out.

* Chance is still in denial, even though he has very clear memories of iTrapped pulling out a sword and putting it through his chest. He assumes these are just part of some nightmare after he blacked out, or made by the Spectre. Anything to refuse accepting his only friend wasn't his friend.

* Chance is oblivious to any advances, and aroace. He doesn't know this, as he's never actually been able to date anyone. (In the cases iTrapped was dating him, Chance was indifferent to romance, and just glad there was someone there).

* Chance's fedora used to belong to his father, who let Chance run around his casino, and is likely the reason for his gambling addiction.

* Chance doesn't drink often, but has a very low constitution, and typically ends up in a "The Hangover" type situation, but makes it out unscathed.

* Chance had absolutely zero scars, after being betrayed though, he has a line along the center left of his chest, that he has been deliberately pretending he hasn't seen, as part of denying it ever happened.

* Chance's mother is alive, and barely remembers he exists. He thinks she's looking for him.

* Chance had a stuffed animal up until getting forsakened. He thinks everyone has one. And that they're lying that they don't as adults.

* Due to his parents having a key to the balance and being the last line of defense for them, he was raised against hackers and exploiters. But since half of his gambling 'buddies' tried to tell him otherwise, he's really neutral towards admins and exploiters/hackers.

* Chance's favorite colors are blue and pink. He just wears black because it's way cooler.

* Chance has sunglasses to hide his awful poker face. They don't work for this. And his eyebrows are already way too expressive for him to cover it up. He thinks they work.

[lemontrash]

suddenly thinking about this one time in class they made us find out our 'learning type' (which tbh is a bit bogus. yes, you have preferences but most people use most 'types' to learn different things) and my teacher was trying to make me decide if I was visual-verbal or visual-non-verbal, and I could not understand the difference so she said: What if you have to remember a lion?

Would you use words or pictures?

and I just stared at this lovely, frustrated woman (she was a home ec and ex-synchonised swimmer, this shit was beyond her as well but by god we had to tick the box for admin) and I think it says everything you need to know about me as a person because I had questions, starting with:

Do I know the lion? Have we met before?

Is this a to-do list?

Am I trying to learn the concept of lions for the first time?

Will i need to identify the lion to the police later?

Anyway, we gaped at each other like goldfish for a hot minute, stupified by the idiocy of trying to pigeonhole inteligence into neat little edible slices in the void without context and wrote BOTH on the form and let admin go fuck it if it wouldn't input into their system.

[darkmaga-returns]

Corporate media spent the entirety of the Biden administration running interference for the inflation caused by Democrats’ multi-trillion-dollar spending spree. As President-Elect Donald Trump prepares to take back the White House next month, however, the same propaganda press that pretended inflation didn’t exist are gearing up to blame price hikes and underwhelming job reports on the Republican.

The blurb didn’t simply regurgitate President Joe Biden’s statement hailing the latest report as “America’s comeback.” It also conveniently glazed over the fact that the Democrat regime repeatedly took credit for hundreds of thousands of jobs that, after revisions, were determined inexistent.

[laurelglory]

✧ The most annoying thing about idiocy is that you can't explain it to an idiot.

[ single-muse ✧ main: @kaeyluv ]

---------✧ DR. RATIO

as seen in HONKAI: STAR RAIL

RULES / INFO:

✧ Admin is an adult who uses any pronouns. My activity will be flaky. Patience appreciated.

✧ Keep asks non-explicit. Suggestivity is ok; I won't reply to anything that makes me uncomfortable.

✧ Ships are fine, just let me know beforehand. I will only rp ship with adult muns. I'm a screwtio truther but I multiship and don't mind aventio + any other ships.

✧ OCs and crossovers are allowed and appreciated.

✧ I hc Ratio as autistic and npd, and that will show through in my characterization of him.

FORMATTING:

In-character dialogue looks like this.

[Descriptions of scenes, actions, and settings look like this.]

// ooc commentary looks like this.

#tags are always ooc as well.

[henrysglock]

i wish the start of the school year would fix the unending idiocy on this app. unfortunately most of the people causing trouble are 20+ years old and can’t have their devices taken away by admin

[qua-king-with-power]

It’s nice to see someone on this site who can use correct correspondence etiquette.

How are you?

Replied,

Team Sigma Admin Lyn

(@teamsigma)

While I appreciate the statement of support... I must wonder why on this blasted planet are you considering yourself a part of a "Team".

And what year is it you're claiming to be from? I'd almost consider it insulting if I didn't have prior knowledge of separate timelines and the like.

I suppose the direct answer to your question would be "mildly aggravated by idiocy at my expense" and "baffled at just how you're capable of connecting to our timeframe".

[imagineakatsuki]

Hello there! I hope I did it right :) Could you do an image about an akatsuki and a fem s/o and they have to care about a robot baby as a school project? Feel free to choose an akatsuki :) (School AU, if you don‘t do it, it is okay) I hope you could understand me, I am not very good in englisch 😅 Have a good day!

Hey anon! I chose Sasori because I’m a little obsessed with him right now, but just send in another ask if you want a specific character! Who knows, I may or may not make this a series anyway~

Note: for some reason, I missed the s/o part of this ask, so this scenario reads more as a general female reader. Sorry about that!

Admin S

“Sasori and [Name].”

The redhead wasn’t thrilled about the project when the teacher had first announced it, opting to finish a joint of one of his puppet creations instead of paying attention. With a heavy sigh, he turned to his project partner with his usual dead-eyed stare.

“You’re [name], right?”

“Yes, I’m [name]. You must be Sasori?”

“That’s right,” Sasori took the paper with the instructions and skimmed it quickly. It was like one of his puppet creations - except he didn’t make it, and it required actual physical attention beyond just fixing its appearance.

“Frankly, I think this is a ridiculous project and a waste of time,” the boy said, “How unfortunate that it counts for so much of our final grade.”

“Y-yeah,” [Name] replied appeasingly. She had sensed the irritated aura of her partner and didn’t want to push her luck. If the rumors were true, the redhead had very little patience for idiocy. He was a genius, however, so maybe [name] could use that to their advantage. “It might be stupid, but I kinda need to do well on it to get a good grade, so your cooperation would be great.”

“Don’t worry, I’ll pull my weight. It seems fairly simple and straightforward; getting a good grade will be easy.”

[Name] raised an eyebrow. “Oh? You have some childcare experience then?”

The silence was telling.

“No.” Sasori scrunched his nose. “But I take good care of things that I own, and they somewhat resemble this… thing.”

[Name] still wasn’t very confident with that answer, but, hey, it couldn’t be that bad, can it? It’s not like she had a choice anyway. She just hoped that Sasori wouldn’t be this standoffish throughout the entire project or this project would be harder than it had to be.

“So how do you want to do this? I take it one day and then we alternate?” [Name] asked.

Sasori hummed. “That sounds acceptable. It seems that we have similar schedules, though, so it wouldn’t really matter until after school.”

At that, [Name] had to admit she was surprised. Sasori had noticed her?

“You’re in nearly all of my classes.” Whoops. Apparently she had said that out loud. “I may not speak much, but I am still capable of observing.”

“S-sorry. I just wasn’t expecting you to actually recognize me, much less remember me.”

“Then how do you know me?”

“Well, your bright red hair is pretty noticeable… and you’re really smart when you feel like talking,” [Name] shrugged. “The way you eviscerated that teacher in biology class 2 weeks ago was awesome!”

Sasori smirked but didn’t reply. 

Soon after, the bell rang and everyone flew off their seats. Thankfully, the redhead took the decision away from [name] and grabbed the robot baby as he stood up. 

“Uh… I don’t think you hold a baby that way,” the girl giggled as she followed Sasori to their next class. He held the baby by one of its hands, the rest of the body awkwardly dangling at his side. 

“It doesn’t matter how you hold it. The thing can only track how well you attend to its artificial needs,” the boy retorted. He walked to his usual seat in the back of the class which, fortunately, had the seat next to it open. 

The two made it through half the class before the baby decided to unleash its fury on them. They had been hopeful it wouldn’t interrupt them at all, but alas, they had to suffer just as some people in the class already had. 

The entire rest of the morning was plagued with screaming, crying babies. 

<< Later >>

“What a nightmare,” Sasori rubbed his temples as he and [name] made their way out of the school doors. 

Feeling pity for the teen who was likely used to silence, [name] offered to take the robot baby for the night. The boy’s expression barely changed, but after spending the whole day actually interacting with him, [name] could tell there was a glimmer of gratefulness in his eyes when he looked at her.

“That would be great. I can take it tomorrow, but I’ve had enough of babies crying for today.” Without further ado, the redhead handed her the baby and walked away, “I’ll see you tomorrow.”

Later that night, [name] would come to regret that altruistic decision. Just as she was getting in bed, the baby started bawling, forcing her to get up and grudgingly take care of it. 

However, no matter what she did, it just wouldn’t stop crying. [Name] was getting to the end of her rope, close to a meltdown herself, which would put her no better than the baby she was supposed to take care of. Finally, after debating the pros and cons of doing so, she decided to call Sasori and see if he could help fix the problem. If nothing else, he could be moral support.

“[Name]?”

“Sasori! I’m so sorry if I woke you up or anything-“

“You didn’t.”

“But this damn baby just won’t stop crying! I swear I’ve tried everything! I was supposed to be in bed an hour and a half ago… I’m losing my mind!”

“Deep breaths, [name],” the redhead listened for an audible - if shaky - breath before continuing, “Now, I need you to tell me what you’ve done so far. We’ll figure this out by process of elimination.”

“I’ve fed it, I’ve changed it, I’ve burped it, I’ve rocked it - I don’t what else I’m supposed to do.”

The two were on the phone for half an hour before they gave up. “Since nothing has worked so far, I’m going to believe it’s malfunctioning. And it doesn’t surprise me that these companies who mass produce these things are making errors,” Sasori ranted. “Instead of continuing to waste our time, I say we just disable it and tell the teacher tomorrow.”

“Ok, that sounds good. How do I do that though?”

“I’ll walk you through it. Are you ready?”

“Yeah, I’m ready to get this over with. What do you want me to do first?”

Sasori smoothly dictated the steps to disable the doll. Knowing his impatience, [name] did her best to keep her (stupid) questions to a minimum. It didn’t take very long after that before the doll finally stopped crying. As someone who had been hearing it for the past 2 hours, it made [name] feel like crying herself. 

“Thank you, Sasori! You’re a miracle worker! Sorry I kept you awake.”

“It’s no problem. You should go to bed.”

“You don’t have to tell me twice! As soon as I put this phone down, it’s straight to bed for me. Thanks again! And good night!”

“Good night.”

Suffice to say, the teacher heard an earful the next day about the superiority of independent creators over large corporations when it comes to making good products.