woosh! Thankfully my countries back to the good old stuff. It was being stable for a bit too long and just wasn't behaving like itself! Glad to see the true venezuelan spirit shinin through! Hating Chavistas and Maduro are a staple of the Venezuelan migrant (refugee according to some sources) lifestyle, so seeing them start tearing down statues makes me so proud of my good ol yellow blue and red! You keep it goin, busters!
(ventish in tags, btw)
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i have a kind-of version of my own Ulixes backstory that is wedged halfway between middle class and working class. this is mostly just abt his family’s economic status and im still workshopping it but here is a summary anyway:
Ulixes' family, in the economic boon of Revachol a few decades prior, became comfortably middle class. They afforded the purchase of a pretty big house in the less-wealthy areas of East Revachol. This was entirely leveraged on the faith that industries the family's working men were established in did not fail. I imagine those business were stuff like architectural planning, plumbing - shit like that. The family had a bunch of kids, the house mortgage was paid off, the Bücher family Own that house now, blah blah blah. Of course, profitable revacholian industries eventually failed spectacularly and everyone went out of business and could barely find work. Their finances slipped from the Middlest of Middle class down to lower middle class at best, then right on the line of working class. No longer able to afford maintenance, parts of the family home slowly fell into a state of disrepair as the older generations aged out of the workforce and the new members just couldn't manage the upkeep of the place on top of struggling with job hunting, etc... I'm thinking Streetcar Named Desire-type backstory here. The family still hasn't sold the house, because it's basically the only thing they properly Own still. As for family dynamics... It's a lot of 'legacy' type bullshit that gets thrown around. Attempting to outdo each other with slightly higher-paying jobs, skipping meals to siphon away little piles of wealth that would barely pay rent in Jamrock for a month. Realistically, no one will ever rekindle the wealth of their families' yesteryear - all they have is an decaying husk of opulence, and a few pieces of jewelry to sell when there's another famine. Ulixes probably works part-time somewhere to afford to bunk outside the family home. Perhaps his father also regretted selling something whose funds he used to put Ulixes into further education. Something like parental expectation, 'sacrifice', and - in their minds - a last-ditch attempt at scrounging a 'respectable' middle class wage for the family, as they age. Something like sacrificing material heirlooms; sacrificing Ulixes to the free market in order to get put into a decent carehome. It's nothing but tragic.
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Does feel like it went from “its alright but you gotta blow off some of the less than savory dust off it” to be interchangable with toxic. Like we had toxic to describe the absolute bullshittery that is sexual predator, abuser, and thereforth. We didn’t need problematic to become toxic. Its even a longer word! Which one of y’all failed reading comprehension and mistook problematic for being equal to toxic. This is probably where people are taking redemption arc villains and absolute abusive asshole villains and equating them to each other.
...wait is this why everyone is up in arms against the Garlean survivors equating them to Zenos, Emet-Selch, and Fandaniel’s bullshit? The survivors are practically a militarized cult who we are deprogramming with tough but needed conversations and bowls of soup around a camp fire!
...Its just the internet trying to get the moral high ground by pretending to be completely, factually, and always pure beings of immaculate opinions who are never in the wrong and never thought any or did anything bad ever and thus everyone else who might attack or object to them must be in very wrong, are very bad, and probably are serial killers wearing the skins of children or something cause WE PURE PIXIES SHALL ARE BEYOND REPROACH, isn’t it?
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i'm sorry to my mutuals who care about this stuff, but i am so fucking sick of cults, of astrology and esoteric nazism, eugenics disguised as magic and a million white supremacist precursor civilizations, of people seeing fairies and giants and elves in the trees and mountains and wires. im fucking sick of the woo woo bullshit man, cant we just live in reality and like, solve problems?
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I came into work today and nothing, I mean nothing was done. Sauce bottles weren't filled, garbage wasn't taken out, the sink was full of old food, nothing was restocked, nothing was clean. It's ridiculous. I've closed by myself before and I've left the restaurant looking better than this. We shouldn't have to come in and set up the whole restaurant from scratch. I'm so tired. I can't keep doing this to myself. I'm going to finish cleaning up their mess so that my shift can function, and then I'm done. I'm going on Indeed and I'm looking for a new job. I dread coming to work because it's always left so bad. Customers suck, the employees suck, everything sucks and I just want to take a nap. I'm killing myself for this goddamn job and I'm getting nothing positive in return.
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