#i'm just so annoyed

[getvalentined]

God I am so fucking tired of the "introverts are quiet and that means they're nice, extroverts are annoying and loud" bullshit. Honestly. This mentality is one of the things that allowed me to spend the better part of two decades believing I was an introvert when I am actually an extrovert with extreme social anxiety.

Introverts generally use energy when interacting with other people.

Extroverts generally gain energy by interacting with other people.

That's it. That's the dichotomy. And it's not even entirely consistent from one person to the next. Extroverts are capable of social exhaustion. Introverts are capable of social excitement. Extroverts are not automatically social butterflies, introverts are not automatically antisocial homebodies. Extroverts may not like making phone calls because it doesn't feel like a "real" social interaction and just leaves them feeling drained, whereas introverts may like phone calls better than in-person interactions because it doesn't feel like a "real" social interaction and doesn't drain their emotional battery.

Introverts are not delicate misanthropes who hate people and never leave their homes. Extroverts are not "emotional sluts" (yes, I've seen this!) who spend all their free time partying or what the fuck ever.

If the thought of going out to interact with other people who you know and enjoy having in your life fills you with dread, guess what? That's not introversion, that's social anxiety. If the thought of not being able to go interact with other people makes you want to break down, guess what? That's not extroversion, that's a symptom of social starvation. Both of these are signs that there is something wrong and you need to talk to a professional, not make quippy posts on the internet about how much extroverts suck because they keep making you go outside or how introverts are so annoying because they never want to spend time with you.

It is not as cut and dry as you have been led to believe, and it never will be.

[thevioletscout]

I want everyone in the Fallen London community to know that I have spent 2, maybe 3 days drawing cards in the opportunity deck as Fae trying to get the damned Burning Shadows card because I want the Trickster profession (gonna work my way up to Crooked Cross).

And I have drawn like every fucking card in the game except the ONE I need. I'm not even getting the Urchins card for an alternative!

What makes it even worse is I've drawn the card several times on Emery's account. Like thanks but wrong character.

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[solacynthus]

HOLY shit the amount of AI slop on pinterest has made it fucking unusable. I keep trying to fight it by hiding ever AI generated image I see but that means half (or more) of the search results get hidden and I'm left with only a handful of human-made images. Everything seems fine for me when I use it normally, but the second I go looking for inspiration for characters or a world I'm building...

I mean why? Why??? I think the most offensive ones are the ones labelled as "inspiration." There is nothing inspiring about an image created with almost no human input, no artistry, no passion - what part of that is supposed to inspire me? It is nothing but a delusion to think you're being helpful by flooding the internet with this garbage, no matter your intentions.

It's getting to a point where I'm struggling to tell what's AI and what isn't, which has not only become a massive nuisance very quickly, but has also quite frankly wounded my pride. I'm just trying to build a board of reference images and inspiration for my fantasy world, I don't want to be doing mental gymnastics with every single image I come across and that looks like what I'm after; there's lots of detail in the background, but those patterns don't line up and everything has a suspicious blur while simultaneously being very sharp, is it an artistic choice or just AI being AI?

I know it's basically unavoidable at this point, but that doesn't mean I have to accept that. I want photographs taken and art made by humans! I want architecture photos and illustrations of what that same placemight have looked like 500 years ago! I refuse to kowtow to the assholes who make the internet an unsafe place for artists like myself, who carry on despite the knowledge that our art (drawings, writing, photography, etc.) is probably being stolen and stuffed into a digital machine that demands more and more of our blood, sweat and tears just to eventually replace us.

The next time you stumble onto an AI generated image and think "hey, that's not so bad, it's kinda pretty actually," remember that that image could not have been created without a hundered pieces of stolen art and a hundered human artists left in its wake.

[awkwardgtace]

I would like real life to stop for like a day so I can go back to writing. Every time I'm like yes i will take a break and work on the alien size shifters story something else fuckin goes wrong and I can't focus

[queer-reader-07]

me when someone hit my car, knocked the front bumper loose, didn't leave a note, and the repair shop doesn't have availability until may during one of my classes so my dad has to take it in for me because i kind of need my car to not be falling apart

[love-too]

The insane urge to just fake-date someone respectable to introduce them to my friends and make them stop their questioning. And then so very slowly make the story fucked up enough that they stop bothering me all together

[maryibgarry102]

Major news sources stop trying to normalize old people working more challenge. Stop trying to make people be happy about the fact that our economy is so dogshit that a ton of old people can't retire and are forced to work due to money/stability issues when really we should be more angry and doing more and making it so that old people can focus on enjoying being alive before they die instead of things like meeting fucking work deadlines and having money to eat FOOD or shit like that. like they deserve better

[94erz]

Nothing quite like spending hours making a gifset and hating literally everything to the point I feel like I've regressed as a gifmaker. I have been working on a Kai gifset for literal hours and I hate it so much, I went back to try and find some new tutorials and as usual nothing I read helps me so now I'm like maybe I'll just quit already.

Dramatic yes but I'm so angry at this stage that it feels like the only option is to like, start from the beginning...but where is the actual question 'cause if the tutorials I'm reading NOW aren't helpful, will I ever find one that is?

[aestatismors]

I literally wasted an hour trying to get a game to work again and I finally said fuck it, if I get a refund, great, if not whatever I bought it on sale

[bandzboy]

like honestly maybe it's time to look for a new version of ps bc mine was buggy and not working well anyways i just didn't expect to have to do this soon 😭

[egophiliac]

still rolling around on the ground over the contrast between Jack and Mal. it's so...🤌🤌🤌

[kittlyns]

The exterminator was supposed to bring traps over today so I could get some peace of mind but they never showed up 😒

[sherurose]

"You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself." Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

[billpottsismygf]

Doctor Who: The Impossible Planet & The Satan Pit / The Legend of Ruby Sunday

[unpretty]

the ubiquity of disposable vapes with fucking screens and bluetooth connectivity and big fucking batteries you can't even charge that all get thrown in the trash is just. it makes me feel like we owe the guys with the big robodick vapes an apology. they were out here figuring out rigs where you only ever have to replace one little metal coil every two weeks, mixing up potions to maximize clouds while carefully monitoring their nicotine dosages, and they got mocked into the stratosphere. and now the bestseller at the gas station is a bootleg elfbar with so much nicotine it's terrifying. where is the justice.