You mentioned emotional stability, which I get, but it made me think of the meme about ‘how do you not cry when people yell at you’ and I’m wondering both: whether there’s as much yelling in law as in tv, and whether you’ve ever cried while doing law
Nowhere near as much yelling as TV!
The only people I've ever had yell at me are non-attorneys who are representing themselves and who do not understand how this whole system works, and generally speaking...they're not in a position where their yelling is hurtful? Every time it's happened it's been more like a person throwing a tantrum, and I just...can't take that seriously. No one I actually work with (or opposing counsel) has ever managed to yell at me. I have cut off a couple people who were working themselves in that direction and redirected things back to being civil.
Frankly: I will not put up with that shit.
The list of people who are allowed to yell at you in a professional setting is very, very short, and the circumstances where that is appropriate are few and far between. It does happen in some workplaces but that's a question of office culture and individual shitty temper. My boss would never yell at me--it's unprofessional--and if he did he'd have my resignation on his desk by the end of the day. Opposing counsel is not entitled to yell at me; I am their professional peer and I don't have to put up with it outside the courtroom, and if it's inside a courtroom, the judge is likely to shut that down.
We're lawyers. In this profession, it's widely seen that losing your temper is a sign that you have lost your professional regulation and it discredits your argument. That's true in and out of the courtroom.
I have come near tears in court, but mostly because if I hit a certain point of rage I will tear up. Twice, I've had a judge hand down a ruling so wildly unjust and unexpected that it threw me off balance and into immediate fury, but I've always been able to keep it together and carry on without actually crying.
Mostly the practice of law is just not that personal. Even if someone is yelling, it's not at me as an individual. I don't make the laws, I don't decide the facts, I just take these things and lay them out. If someone's mad, it's not usually a personal attack. And you learn to deal with and understand that kind of anger--often frustration--as you go.
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related to the previous post (which is a good and useful post, this is not a criticism):
More than just the general antisemitism on tumblr, i've seen some real vicious hatred towards Israelis specifically that is just... beyond repulsive, and I do wish there was a little more focus in some areas on the fact that it's truly terrible to be awful about Israelis just because they are Israeli. While this behavior is certainly antisemitic, it is also a specific kind of hatred based on nationality that deserves particular acknowledgement.
The structure of Jewish community means that an attack on Israel feels like (and can often be) an attack on Jews broadly, but I think the focus people sometimes put on saying people shouldn't be attacking Jews elsewhere because they've got nothing to do with Israel neglects to really address the fact that it's actually also not okay to go after anyone purely because of their nationality, or more specifically because of what you assume about them based on their nationality?
There are people on this website who would not come after me for being Jewish in America in the same way that they would and do go after Israelis, as if it's justified because their government is terrible or what the fuck ever, regardless of what they as individuals think or believe or have done. Americans do not have a direct phoneline to Biden and we did not have one to Trump, so why the fuck would you expect an individual Israeli to have any more immediate power over their government than we have over ours?
The times i've been overwhelmed enough to cry about antisemitic behavior on the internet over the last several weeks have been pretty much exclusively these times, knowing that my friends in Israel are not only running to bomb shelters (as they have, over and over, their entire lives) and mourning horrific loss in their communities, but facing venom and hatred spit forth by people thousand of miles away who will never have to live even a fraction of what they do, who heard on fucking TikTok about the conflict they have always lived in the middle of and decided they know everything about it --
Knowing that no amount of trying to improve things in the only home they've ever known, no amount of commitment to peace, no amount of protesting and screaming for justice will ever, ever make them human in the eyes of so many people because of the country they live in. Knowing that, as conditional as people's acceptance of us as Jews in the US can be, there is no condition under which many of those same people would see my friends in Israel as being anything but one-dimensional villains.
That's what I have struggled with the most.
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The more I thought about it, the more i was curious about what reader would look like in hell. Honestly because she was thinking of Vox in her last moments and wanting to talk to him in her final moments makes me think of her as such as a loyal person which also made me think she might resemble a dog, so the tails and ears. It broke my heart that in the final moments she was thinking of Vox😭😭 But then also I was like, oh, what would really be funny is if she resembled a fawn— you mentioned that the readers legs were completely demolished in the accident. The saying “legs of a fawn” refers to how wobbly and unstable they are when they’re first born which kinda ties into the readers messed up legs (if it gets carried into hell). Also if she was a fawn it would be funny to see how Vox would behave considering everything with Alastor.
I was actually planning on Reader's sinner form to be kind of deer-coded to mess with Vox because of his obsession with Alastor- so I'm glad you realized where I was going with writing that the accident totally fucked up (Y/N)'s legs lololol- and on regards to her loyalty with Vox, it'll be why this TV man can't hypnotize us when we fall down to hell- it's not anything that big but hey- it still helps XD
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tbh i think i'm gonna start killing people who come to loveless aromantics to say shit like "but you know love doesn't have to be romantic right?". like just fucking think for more than two seconds about which people are probably aware that romance isn't the end-all for anything. i am not asking anymore
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Trigun Stampede | s01e01
He’s like you...
[ID: A gifset of Trigun Stampede episode one. As people run for shelter in Jeneora Rock, Meryl seethes, “That coward!” She starts to rush forward, but Roberto grabs her by the back of her jacket and tosses her behind him into an alleyway. He says, “You've nearly died enough today, newbie.”
She comes up to the outer edge of the alley with him, and people run in the background as Roberto says, “The two of us are just reporters. Not bodyguards, or police, or anything else.” Meryl protests, “Yeah, but--” and Roberto says, “What's more...”
Meryl looks down, abashed, as he says, “It takes a level of experience that you most certainly do not have before you can fling around the word "coward." Understand me?” She says quietly, “... Yes.”
Meryl starts walking back with Roberto, but she turns when a civilian off-screen yells to Vash, “Vash! Get down here! Hurry!” Vash is standing on a cliff, framed by a red sky, and he shouts back, “Tell everybody to take cover!”
Meryl says, “He's trying to keep the townsfolk safe.” Roberto replies, “At this point, bravery is plain stupid.”
Vash’s lenses hide his eyes, making his expression unreadable, but then he looks up with determination as Roberto concludes, “He's like you, not long for this world.”
A slow motion shot shows Vash pulling out his gun and then rapidly aiming it upwards. End ID]
Credit to @princess-of-purple-prose for the image description.
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