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meo-eiru · 3 days ago

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I like to imagine Elias as an insane and extremely messy concubine from those historical cdramas PFFT. Especially in his “omg you came to see me!” Sketch. Mc would be the emperor of course! Poor guy would die to palace drama for sure.

Elias would so secretly poison another concubine if you decide to visit them at night instead of him.

This AU kinda goes hard actually I'm getting a lot of ideas.

Imagine he's the son of a normal family but was blessed with incredible good looks by the gods. Due to that beauty he was yearned by all sorts of nobles which made his family get a lot of riches as gifts but he kept refusing all of them.

Until one day you, the ruler of the country, came to personally visit him and he fell in love with you at first time, saying he would marry you even before he saw what gifts you brought for him.

It's all amazing, he's prettied up by the helpers you assign for him and you two quickly go back to your palace. He's so happy the whole way there but little did you know it's the quiet before the storm.

Once you arrive there he becomes aware of the fact that he's not your main husband but a concubine. He's distraught and extremely angry, what do you mean he has to share a rank with other man. He's clearly the most beautiful one here. Okay maybe you two don't have a child yet but so what? Are you really going to prioritize tradition before him? Even though he loves you so much? Do you not love him is that it???

After that it's just constant chaos. Your other concubines getting poisoned left and right, some of them straight up getting assassinated, a few of them returning to their village while crying due to continuous bullying. Elias even breaks into the rooms of the concubines you decide to spend the night with while you're there.

You've considered sending him back many times but you just can't bring yourself to. He's like a rare flower, with a lot of nobles keeping their eyes on him. Just his existence brings you political power, and not to mention when you do spend the night with him he's like a dream.

While he might be hurting the others due to his selfishness it's also true that he loves you in a way no other concubine does. As a ruler most of the relationships you have with your concubines are for politics but it's Elias who wraps his arms around you as soon as you enter his room. Engulfing you in the flowery scents he covered himself in and kissing you like you two are soulmates fated to be together. He's the one who looks at you with those loving eyes while his face is completely red and his body is warm under you. He's the one who holds your head in place through the whole night to make you look at him, like a sweet hypnosis he puts you under.

So it doesn't take too long for him to impregnate you with a child, quickly raising to the imperial consorts status before everyone else. It doesn't slow down his terrible behavior outside of the bedroom though. In fact it fuels it more some might say.

He has this air of superiority to him, knowing he has won against the others even while coming from a lowly background. He spends so much gold spoiling himself, buying the prettiest clothes and hair pieces, receiving the best skincare and makeup.

But you can't say no to him right? He's your beautiful rare treasure after all.

#asks #elias #yandere pretty boyfriend #yandere pretty boyfriend x reader #yandere #male yandere #male yandere x reader #yandere x reader #yandere x darling #yandere x you #yandere x y/n #writing #yandere oc #oc #original yandere #yandere original character #original character

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king-of-men · 2 days ago

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So, American labor law has penalties for creating a hostile work environment based on protected categories such as sex.

Yes, as applied it does. Due to an earlier iteration of DIE.

That's not DEI, it's labor law

See, this is the other thing that makes the Right think they're fighting an inexhaustible hydra which cannot be defeated except by purging a Fairly Large Number of people: The constant renamings. This particular bit of labor law is centrally DIE; it's the part of the left's campaign on which all protections for $FAVORED_MINORITY is built. Because the actual goddam law doesn't say a word about "hostile work environments". That phrasing was invented by the courts in the 1970s, and the left has used it as a cudgel ever since.

And anyone who believes that Damore was fired because of a well-founded concern that his essay might Actually make someone feel that Google was a hostile place for them to work, needs to check their meds. Damore became the target of a cancel mob for the sin of mentioning some published psychology papers with results that the left does not like.

Do you believe that Damore's firing was illegal? Under what law?

I observe that there was a lawsuit over it, which was settled on terms we do not know but appear to involve some sort of compromise, hence presumably some compensation for Damore. So as applied, yes, it was indeed illegal. (And before you take this as evidence that "the system works" or "the right won that battle", I invite you to consider the aphorism, which you would understand perfectly well in any other context, "you can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride".) Aside from that, if the existing body of law were applied fairly it would be illegal because it created a hostile work environment for the likes of me, i.e. people who think that biological differences might sometimes have some sort of relevance to differences in employment ratios, with no oppression or discrimination involved, while being male and white. I'm aware that political affiliation is not a protected category; however, I assert that a woman who expressed that view would not risk firing for them, hence it is actually discrimination due to sex, not politics.

Do you think Google employees are now in a position to post a reasoned rebuttal to Damore's manifesto without fear?

Yes? Obviously?

I am basically 100% sure Damore's firing was about the memo, not the fact that he is white.

Damore was fired for being the sort of person that the left dislikes; in particular, he was male and white. A black woman writing that memo would not have been fired.

The thing where they prioritized blacks was rescinded after public outcry within, what was it, six weeks?

Six weeks during the pandemic. Are you really not capable of remembering how urgent it was to get vaccines into arms, at the time? They rescinded it when the damage was done, and not a day earlier. But in any case, wow that's a fast goalpost you've got there. First it was "a single example", and now it's apparently "an example to which they were so ideologically committed that they insisted on it through riot and election, against the united opposition of every part of the electorate except their clients".

I'm remembering why I usually ignore your posts, it's the constant Gish Gallop of new sidetracks that avoid engaging with any points you find difficult to answer. If the next iteration of this exchange doesn't show some evidence of a good-faith effort to avoid that antipattern, I will strive to remember where the block button is.

The DEI backlash started in the 70s.

#american politics #discourse #this style of argument is incredibly exhausting and I'm running out of spoons for it

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oneknightstand-if · 3 days ago

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If Lorelei had to choose between helping the group or prioritizing her own survival, what would her instincts lean toward?

There was a statement here on Tumblr somewhere that mentioned she'd like to die saving someone, if I'm not entirely mistaken. How true does that hold when she's between a group of strangers rather than between friends?

I can't wait to see her reactions to greed MC and their shenanigans, it was about time Adrian had some help keeping that idiot alive.

Love OKS, thank you for everything!

Thanks for the comment!

It doesn't matter who you are; her natural inclination would be to try and save someone in danger. She's already be unconsciously moving even before thinking about it. And to this point, she's never met a challenge that she couldn't handle, so...

... Greed MC may end up getting hogtied in the RV, however.

#oks-asks #oks-Lorelei #oks-MC

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victorluvsalice · 1 year ago

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-->However, speaking of fun, we now we come to the part of the episode that I like to call "Is Fishing Fun?" Because I quickly realized that, if I wanted to put fishcake cans out on my shelves, I would need to have plenty of fish to turn into fishcakes. And currently the gang did not have plenty of fish. So, I decided it was time for Victor to resume the family business and took him off flower duty and put him on fish duty on the dock behind the store! He started out a bit slow, as evidenced by him holding a log there, but slowly started picking up the pace with a betta and a tetra. Meanwhile, Smiler started working on a new apothecary product, Red-Hot Tablets (tablets that make a Sim angry! ...look, all it required was three basil, so Smiler could make them really easily), and Alice --

-->Went upstairs and started watching "College Cram" once she ran out of fishcakes to make. Oi, Alice -- I said no fun until the shelves are filled! So, after a brief bathroom break (during which I realized I could put up those new "facilities" signs that came in one of the recent patch updates -- they do add a little extra something to the bathroom, don't they?), I sent HER out to join Victor fishing. And then I went, "well, if Victor and Alice are out there, might as well send Smiler too," and did just that.

-->And so the great fish-off began! With everyone standing there fishing their little hearts out to get enough fish to make loads and loads of fishcakes. And, I'm pleased to report, everyone did end up having a pretty darn good day out on the old dock --

Victor: Caught a couple of bettas, a tetra, a pair of tunas, an angelfish, a cichlid – and a “Captain Fishbones” Bonefish! Yeah, as you can imagine, THAT one stayed in his inventory to be brought home to live in the aquarium later.

Alice: Caught a tetra, a kissing gorami, a goldfish, a betta, a kitchen upgrade part, and a digitalistic sketchpad! XD Well, I had kind of meant to get her one of those eventually... She also got to Fishing level 4, which should serve her well when I force her to fish again to help fill these shelves. XD

Smiler: Caught a couple of angelfish, a tilapia, a betta, and a kissing gorami -- not the biggest catch, but then they started the latest, so it only made sense they'd catch the least. And hey, that is still a pretty good haul, all things considered. Certainly enough to make lots of fishcakes!

#sims 4 #the lazy save #victor van dort #alice liddell #smiler always #why yes I do watch James Turner's stuff why do you ask XD #if you don't get the joke James was never sure if fishing was fun in some of his earliest videos #I believe mainly the Super Sim ones #ah good old Max Power #the evilest Super Sim around XD #anyway yes basically this episode was mostly me making my Sims fish #because we required fish for fishcakes damn it #at least they have a convenient fishing spot right behind their store!#but as you can see they were out there for a WHILE trying to get some good catches #they got enough in the end but DAMN #I am going to have to rethink some of these products on my shelves #see what gets prioritized and what doesn't #however it was fun to catch the bonefish XD #I was like 'oh yay new friend for Punchy Chewy and Overthe' XD #I don't think I've officially named it yet though #...probably should be 'Jangles' ;)#queued

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serpentface · 4 months ago

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This was going to be a panel of a little comic but I got too invested in drawing minute background details so, here.

#They are having an argument over 1) whether crops can be grown on the moons 2) what - if any - impact does this have on the feasibility #of an afterlife being located on the moons #Brakul is a partial convert to the Imperial Wardi faith but this mostly entails having adopted the seven faced God (and some #other elements of the belief system) into his worldview and participating in expected rites while retaining his central #ancestor veneration practices completely unchanged and mostly prioritized.#This doesn't actually cause much friction in of itself with the big exception being disagreements on the afterlife #Wardi practices surrounding death prioritize proper handling of the corpse and funerary rites in order to get the dead where they #need to be- death is a fraught transition from one state to another. analogous to birth. The role of the living is to get the dead through #this transition (preventing them from being stuck earthbound as earthbound ghosts - which is the Bad afterlife). Once the dead #make it to the moons that's it. They don't really interact with the living. There's plenty of conceptualization of what it's Like #in the lunar lands but the cultural priority is not even slightly on the Logistics of existence there.#Whereas the CORE of religious practice among the Hill Tribes is ancestor veneration - ancestors remain interactive with the living #and require/desire their continual support. They are conceptualized as having earthlike 'lives' where they eat and drink #and grow crops and herd livestock and they need the support of the living (in prayers and offerings) to do so prosperously.#There is a HIGH cultural priority on the logistics of their afterlife and it's self-apparent that the world of the dead needs fertile earth #to support them.#So like bottom line Brakul thinks there's no goddamn way that the moons could support an afterlife (they are described as #barren rock that was flung into the sky during creation and certainly Look that way)#and that the Wardi are just wrong about their afterlife's location. They probably go to the celestial fields (which are located #behind the moons and stars) like everyone else #And Janeys finds this aggravating and doesn't see his fucking point but has developed a nagging concern that Brakul Could be #partly right in that the celestial fields could Maybe exist in addition to the lunar lands.#So like maybe they aren't going to go to the same place when they die?#He's already terrified that he'll be stuck as an earthbound ghost and really doesn't want to be even further separated so #he figures he should make sure he gets himself dead and cremated at the same time as Brakul so they can navigate the #transitional period together.#Brakul is unconcerned because he figures that if Janeys actually does get stuck on those barren ass moons he can just kinda #Go Get Him #Ancestor spirits fly to the earth all the time and the moons would be a much shorter distance. Probably wouldn't be an issue.#Long story short these disagreements and underlying anxieties result in fights over whether you can grow corn on the moons or nah

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mazamba · 1 day ago

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So I actually have a theory, that is loosely supported by a couple weird things in TFA.

The first is that energon is impossibly energy-dense. It simply doesn't make sense and bots in other continuities have been known to go for decades without refueling before side-effects start setting in. Therefore, if Sari's body somehow realizes that she is going to go without fresh energon for a while, it makes sense that it would prioritize her essential systems while running the rest on alternative fuels.

Now, regarding those alternative fuels, we know that Cybertronians can use things like oil and gasoline to run on. My theory is that Sari's technoorganic body could process organic fuel in a similar way. Now, we did see that she had a preference towards fatty and sugary foods, like most kids. However, since she's not human, it's not a huge stretch that she might have also been instinctively seeking fatty foods to supplement energon.

Lastly, aging is not a thing with cybertronians. Ratchet, Arcee, and Prowl are all the same age, but only Ratchet looks and acts like a grouchy old man. Now, Prowl is an athlete that takes good care of himself while Arcee was in a medical facility for millions of years, meaning that Ratchet's "Aging" is actually a symptom of poor personal maintenance and natural wear-and-tear. Furthermore, the newborn cybertronians in TFA seemed to come out with pre-programmed maturity, although that might just be a side-effect of being made from pre-existing machines since we never saw a "natural" newborn cybertronian.

This is where I go off the deep end, so bear with me.

We don't have any proof that Sari ages at all.

Once again, with a normal child we could assume that she does, but since Sari's not entirely human... you get the point. We never see any baby pictures, and she seems to be a relative unknown despite being the only daughter of Isaac Sumdac.

It's perfectly possible that Sari came out as a meter-tall child and didn't age for the first eight years of her life, or even that she's not as old as she thinks she is. Seeing as Isaac went out of his way to keep her true nature a secret from her, it's perfectly possible that he lied to her about her age or kept her in the tower most of her life. Her "age" might have been pre-designed, though this is pure speculation without more information on who built her and why.

Furthermore, human bodies are in a constant state of self-repair, so she might not break down over time the same way a cybertronian would. There's even a chance that her DNA might not break down over time like ours does, or that she might have a back-up of her DNA somewhere in her, but once again, we have no way of knowing this without more information on her builder and purpose.

What I'm saying here, is that there is a very good chance that she is as long-lived as any cybertronian, but she also might be incapable of aging in a human way. If I'm right, then she will look exactly the same on her ten millionth birthday.

A few days ago; I made a post contemplating the effects of Chronic Energon Deficiency (CED) might have on techno-organics such Sari Sumdac. In particular I imagined greatly increased appetite, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Between me making the original post and now @ghanaii-porter reblogged it saying:

And it got me thinking. What if she wasn’t a-ok? CED must have had some effect, so I gave it some more thought, and then it hit me: stunted growth.

Think about it; when Sari absorbed the energy of the Allspark Key, she grew 1.5, maybe 2 feet taller. She went from looking about the right size for her age (8 years old) to looking like she was at least 14. What if that’s her proper height, and the lack of energon slowed her development, keeping her smaller than she should be.

If and probably when she starts drinking energon at least semi-regularly, she’ll likely grow even more because of it. I figure as an adult she’d probs be around 7-8 feet tall and more visibly techno-organic outside of battle mode. (tfwiki calls it her robot mode, but battle mode makes more sense to me)

#sari sumdac

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meowsticmarvels · 1 month ago

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man. contemplating kyle and phi as siblings actually. ive talked a lot about phi and DELTA's dynamic but mannn. kyle. (well i guess he's technically a half sibling since he's a genetic clone of sigma and phi Isn't but you get the gist). i wish it got explored a bit more in canon because while the whole sigma-phi related thing was saved for a ZTD reveal it wouldve been cool (esp if kyle was actually relevant in ztd...) bc like... look at these lines. the hypothetical dynamic could and is insane. some weird connection they cant rly explain. phi actually pushies kyle away for the first one, actually, and saying he can't get attached to her or build a connection without "asking permission" essentially closing herself off from him. theres some version of phi that gets sent back to 2074 after she lives as the rad6 patient zero. how does she interact with him then? would there be some sort of resentment, in a way, that phi got to live a life that kyle never could? not amongst all the shifting, or anything, but in terms of family. idk. its interesting to me i think. they shouldve interacted more perhaps

#zero escape #vlr #virtue's last reward #trevor.txt #kyle klim #zero escape phi #phi vlr #k vlr #vlr spoilers #and some #ztd spoilers #also kyle is technically related to delta too lol #another thing: not a lot is said on phi's relationship with her foster parents but its. hm. she focuses a lot on #finding the truth of her bio parents. and directly calls her bio ones Her Parents indicating she doesnt rly see her foster ones as her real #parents. i imagine in personal hc for 1904 phi and sigma to kind of parallel eachother a bit in parenting style #neither really know what theyre doing. nor are they the nurturing type. phi doesn't know how to talk to kids. both have research that they #prioritize over most other things. they kinda just leave their weird clone child to their own devices esp emotionally #sigma is MUCH MUCH more neglectful ofc but i dont think 1904!phi would be the most emotionally available either knowing 2008!phi's #personality lol #there is the fact that also they both raise clones of themselves (genetic or timewise) which is very interesting to me. augh #anyways you get the idea kyle and phi siblingisms and parallels drive me insane

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nemesis-is-my-middle-name · 1 year ago

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i know i've posted abt this before also but i did not have screenshots to demonstrate just HOW gently passive aggressive ingo is to volo when they talk. i have no idea if they intended it this way but he sounds so "sadly my strict standard of conduct will not let me tell you to fuck off for asking weirdly personal questions just so you can share your theories but with the subtext toolkit available to me i am VERY much shooing you out of the way so i can get back to what i was actually trying to do."

#the nemesis speaks #pla analysis #idk if it really comes across without the context of volo's whole ramble #but he really did just sort of rock up to you while you were TRYING to get through this quarry #just to be like ''hi ingo. hey tell me about your memory loss. great now listen to what I think about the whole thing''#though the exchange does also make me feel like they have had prior conversations to this effect #ingo feigns not recognizing him at first but the way he says ''continue to prioritize'' specifically makes me feel like #this is not the first time they've tread this particular ground #volo also greets ingo pretty familiarly at the start of it imo #these tags are getting long but one other thing that sort of strikes me atm and i'm curious to see if it continues #is like. this is the rudest (by his standards) ingo gets with mmmost everyone in pla #-except melli. who he is actually fairly direct with. and melli in turn doesn't rise to it really at all #for a guy who bitches at literally everyone just saying ''well guess we don't always see eye to eye!'' is like. WILDLY notable #and then ingo asks you to say hi to him later #they're friends i think. thanks for ur time

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cosmicdenro · 3 months ago

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'rhm and wilhelm trying to hang out but their duties getting in the way so much so their relationship deteriorates throughout the months but in a way that makes them prone to jealousy of others getting to spend more time with the other and unable to figure out what the other even enjoys enough anynore as a gift' for tonight sir?

#big thoughts about the 2 of them #you jnow rhm isnt gonna leave reg alone as chief and sees him as priority #much to his dismay thanks to the guilt he feels for realizing he wants to prioritize reg at the cost of #barely seeing wilhelm again #he doesn't regret the duty but sure does wish there couldve been a way to see him more often. yknow.#like cmon him hanging out with wilhelm at the orion lounge.... off duty....#the fact reg knew he's out n about to spend time with friends now that they're in space and (mostly) safe... brahhh #safety = spending more time with other people than it just being rhm and reg all the time #they would be the couple who love the other's company but slowly have to realize that #the other may not always wanna be around since theyve got other people too #only natural ofc but it could get so warped with what rhm's duty and loyalty is focused on heeheeee #main trouble with a personal vow is that you have to sometimes sacrifice another precious thing #even if it means time with ur best friend at the cost of them not communicating much and feelings #getting complicated #WOW BIG LONG THOUGHTS. sorry im ill for them now #it is just so cute to me tbe thought that reg would like to provide more time to rhm eventually so he can get silly with wilhelm #as leaders they sure gotta focus work before relationships and i do love me the fics that showcase that between rhm and reg #and how complicated it can get trying to separate work and love #now for me to think the same-ish with rhm and wilhelm

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msburgundy · 7 months ago

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i really need to just let it go

#i just don't understand my parents at all #they're not even selfish people #it's just like nothing i could ever need warrants helping me if it's an imposition at all #and it's not just me. i highly doubt they've ever helped out my brother either #and the one time they did help my sister it was for something that arguably benefited them too #and it was just kind of a lucky coincidence for her it didn't really put them out at all #but like what the hell why doesn't my health/quality of life matter to them seemingly at all #i often feel guilty for the way i prioritize my close friends over my family but time and time again theyre the ones who come through for m #idk why im making whiny oversharing posts at 2am but whatever #got a reality check today that i apparently needed #i don't know why i can't get this through my head #as if i wasn't literally dying right under their noses and they didn't care then either #that's literally why i left #but being across the country and only seeing them once a year has a way of making you forget i suppose #im mad at myself for expecting anything tbh like it's 100% on me. I've never done it before and there's no reason to start now #i let myself get carried awsy i guess after my mother expressed some sort of concern for the first time in my entire life

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equalperson · 21 days ago

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I fucking hate being traumatized because why am I bawling the hardest I've bawled in god-knows-how-long because someone I didn't even like that much berated Me. gasping wailing trembling and snotting over this for several minutes.

#personal #sanism #abuse mention #child abuse mention #I'm still not entirely done crying really. I'm just trying to stop and calm Myself. not doing well at the moment #because someone on the discord server mentioned trump's inauguration and I basically said 'I don't like trump either #but it's still important to keep pushing for change. who's in office doesn't change that' and he just. immediately escalated the situation #accused Me of not caring about oppression. I explained Myself further but he told Me to go fuck Myself and capped it off with #'you already admitted to being a fucking narcissist so why would i want to be around you' (exact quote BTW)#and I just can't stop sobbing. I don't know if I've cried this much since I was 13. I keep having to pause My typing because I start crying #I didn't hate him but I wasn't attached to him either. it's just that I have so much fucking trauma along these lines #so many instances of My mom putting words in My mouth. getting short-tempered with Me over benign remarks that I didn't understand #because I'm autistic. dismissing My opinions. making Me hide My feelings and issues from her #because she's made it clear that she doesn't trust people like Me #it's made Me have so much trouble handling even friendly social interaction. I've only just learned how to do that #I just can't handle having that same mistreatment forced onto Me by anyone else. especially with so little warning or build-up #and what makes Me break down even worse is the fact that I know I'll have to deal with him again #he wasn't even punished while this was happening. despite the server owner and other mod being online. the owner just said 'stressful day'#and the other mod started talking with a regular user about how it was uncalled for once he had already left the conversation #nobody even checked in on Me. even though I stayed online for a good half-an-hour afterwards. I only just logged off a few minutes ago #because the notifications from unrelated conversations started overstimulating Me #regardless. I don't even want to see him again. I don't want to be in the same server as him I don't want to talk to him I don't want to #but it's not a real formal server. it's a 'friend group.' and they've shown before that they prioritize keeping the peace #over actually punishing hostility. just a week or so ago I told them I wasn't comfortable with them using the R-slur #and someone freaked out over My complaint being 'politically correct' and left. he was brought back just a few days later. and before that #he had already derailed a previous discussion I tried to have about the word by sending gifs featuring it and redirecting the conversation #that sucked but at least it wasn't outright triggering. but I just can't stand the thought of having to be around someone #who treated Me so much like how My abuser has. that's the most I've ever had to relive My trauma because of someone else #that's the most anyone has ever mirrored it to Me. I just can't stand it but I know I'll have to be around him #I don't even know if he's gonna apologize. he's made it clear how little he thinks of Me as a human being. PLUS

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guinevereslancelot · 26 days ago

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not "i can do better" or even "i deserve better" per se, because i can't really believe that, but an inexplicable third reason i won't settle for a relationship where my level of care, effort, and sacrifice isn't reciprocated <3