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slocumjoe · 2 days

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danse's romance route has some potholes

so, this post woke me from my slumber, have a ramble

This has always been a weird point for me, but I never got around to really figuring out what it was exactly until just now. I think all of the romantic candidates have out-of-place flirting, at least here and there, but Danse consistently has dialogue options to flirt with him at exactly the wrong fuckin time. The odd thing about Danse is that, most of the time, the normal Good/Yes answer is more romantic or sincerely affectionate than the flirt.

So, the Flirts.

The only Flirt that works is when he talks about his fear of losing people, and Sole says, "I care too much about you to do that to you." It's the first Flirt, and he responds by saying you've given him "something to think about." I've gone on about how Danse has never truly felt cared for. Sole's voice acting also sells this Flirt by being somewhat timid, unsure of saying this, but wanting him to know.

Danse's talks go Kreig > Cutler > Haylen > Help Im A Robot. The first time you can flirt with him is in the Cutler chat, where the "I care about you" line comes up. It's not out of left field from the conversation. It's affectionate, it doesn't overstep, but it pushes the line and makes Danse consider "oh shit, there's a lil something something going on here."

The "Would you hold me?" line is much less subtle.

Danse talks about how he doubts himself after Cambridge and Sole's reference to him hugging Haylen makes it seem like they've just been waiting for him to shut up to use that line on him. It's out of place, it circles back to a topic we've moved on from, and it's so overt it sucker-punches everyone involved, including the player. It's blunt.

The other options of "I'm here whenever you need me" or "I'm glad you feel better" are less flirtatious, but they imply more direct concern and care for Danse. Both lines are about Danse, and Sole being there for him. The actual Flirt is what Danse can do for Sole. This is such a weird nitpick, I know, but it comes off not as romantic, but more like Sole is trying to hook up with him. That would work with someone like Hancock, or maybe Piper, but Danse's romance involves more subtlety and slow-burn elements. It's too forward.

So, in his final talk...

It's literally "Kitten I'll be honest, Daddy's about to kill himself" "haha no don't kill yourself you're soooo sexy"

It comes right after he's having a lot of emotions about his reason for living. This is not the time to put the responsibility of a relationship on someone. Again, this is a flaw of the 4 Affinity Talks system. If you're just going for a platonic relationship with Danse, his talks work great, but his character arc is unfinished anyway. They have to shoehorn romance in there, and it doesn't have the room to develop naturally. It's why Sole has to explicitly say "Would you hold me ;>".

The strangest part is that his neutral/Friendly dialogue options are more affectionate and relationship-building. Again, the other options in the Haylen talk comfort Danse and reassure him.

Honestly, I think the best option, for all romancable companions, is within arms reach. You know how, if you don't romance someone, they'll bring up their last talk again and give you a barn door of an opening to broach the subject of a relationship again? Just. Do that/ It's literally what I did when I romanced Danse; don't romance him as soon as possible. Let it marinate.

The second chance to romance him goes the exact same way, eyebrows to space and all. It just takes place after Danse confesses how close he feels to you and trusts you and not RIGHT AFTER BLIND BETRAYAL.

It's easy to fix the pacing just by not going for the smooch ASAP, but the flirting is awkward. It's worth noting that the line before the Haylen flirt "It's comforting to know that I can speak to you as more than just your commanding officer" has it's own Flirting tag on it. Danse flirts with Sole here, canonically.

A cheap and easy rewrite is Sole echoing the sentiment with something like, "It's comforting to know that you're more than my commanding officer." This leaves room for interpretation. What else is Danse? Sole has an idea, but leaves Danse to wonder about it. It also confirms to Danse "yes, we have a personal bond and this isn't just a work thing."

I think the core of Danse's romance is this dude realizing that he's loved and cared for, truly. Cait has a similar arc, but hers has different complications and contexts than Danse. Danse needs a slow-burn romance full of soft moments and instances of Sole reminding him of his own humanity, even long before the synth thing.

It's worth noting that the "i care too much about you" line is still kinda overshadowed by the "But I wanna be a mutant" joke. That joke makes him laugh, he jokes back without missing a beat, and it's a cute little bonding moment between him and Sole. Romance isn't just overt flirting, it's the little things that make you think the other person is special. How many people do you think can make Danse laugh? Especially about becoming a Super Mutant, right after being told about Cutler? Danse thinks Sole is funny. He thinks it's a cute little joke. He's charmed.

Then Sole sucker-punches him with an explicit ask of physical contact and emotional exploration and the moment is lost. For the Halyen talk, you could have an option where Sole asks, teasingly, if this is going on the report, and Danse laughs and contemplates what Maxson would think. Maybe he even comments about how rumors spread on the Prydwen, implying that he knows there is something between you two for people to gossip about. This would later tie in to The Reveal, where Maxson says the same thing.

#fallout 4 #fo4 #paladin danse #a smaller lazier post but I have Thoughts

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daemon-in-my-head · 2 months

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Sometimes I can sit down and actually get shit done. Sometimes I can attempt that realism bit. And then I get too tired of blending, so whatever the fuck this is happens, and I'll just accept it. Close ups under cut.

#im definitely not just posting this so i stop going back and “breakfixing” things #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #durgetash #bg3 gortash #bg3 durge #gortash x durge #love how gorty makes my oc look even more like a waling corpse #ok well the light doesnt help i suppose #enough tag rambling #pls dont expect me to do this ever again idefk which brushes ive used #it was like all of them and more #anyway im not going back to fix it #call it artistic freedom i want him to glow #yes i just wanted to give that guy a crown #my durge just over here to really contrast stuff #their faces are 100% burned into my sclera now and i can see their wrinkles with my eyes closed

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teastarfall · 4 months

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i have no clue what im going for w/ my artstyle anymore exploding on the spot right now ^_^

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thatrandombystander · 2 years

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Remember how Suzaku and Lelouch were such a power duo that the writers needed to do everything they could to stop them from teaming up, because the moment they did they successfully achieved world domination in like 2 episodes

#sorry not sorry to my mutuals for still hyperfixating on this gosh darn anime #my brain is running a mile a minute right now going what if. WHAT IF suzaku had joined his side #the POWER they would have had #but nooooo instead suzaku decides to go back to teaming up with the guys who were going to execute him as a scapegoat #suzaku. sweetie..... i love you but also......#also thinking about Black Knight Suzaku #and his interactions with everyone else?#or the internal DRAMA of a suzaku who was on their side and KNEW that lelouch was zero #also him and kallen would have been UNSTOPPABLE on the battlefield #continuously sad that i find it so hard to find fanfic i enjoy for this franchise #because there is so much POTENTIAL #also fanfic can uhh fix some of the not as great written parts of the show.#like the fanservice in a show about terrorism asdfghjkl #i should have just made a new post instead of talking in the tags like this #whatever. too late now #code geass #ramblings of a bystander #suzaku kururugi #lelouch lamperouge #lelouch vi britannia #suzalulu

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reploidbuddy · 6 months

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Espio and Silver being an inch away from kissing and Vector or Charmy comes in the room and by turning around all startled Espio’s horn hits Silver’s face

He’s okay and and laughing it off but Espio's a lil horrified

#espio the chameleon #espilver #silver the hedgehog #Espio: omg I'm so sorry what have I done #Silver: [snorts] I'm okay!#((had that thought for a while and figured it was a good time to put it out bc I've been having issues being seen on tags and the dashboard #((hopefully it's fixed now and I can get back out there >:]#rambling

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goldeneclipsee · 18 days

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I’ve become afraid of death. which is actually improvement for someone who was suicidal but also. scary :(

this is all your faults /pos /pos /pos-

#seriously guys. y’all really have just helped everything.#Mostly north and L I love yall #But I’ve kinda felt sad cuz. If I died people would actually be sad??#And gosh I’m scared of how everyone would react if one day I just stop responding to rps. If I stopped messaging them and stopped making ar #You guys have just really fixed everything. I love all of you more than you can imagine xxx #thanks for everything #and also know that it’s right back at ya #If you died I’d care. If you died I’d cry for days #Please. You’ve done all this for me and made me feel valid so I want you guys to feel the same #If you ever need help I’m here #Just know I will always love you #This is a more serious post but uh. The feelings have been very weird lately #And you guys are all I have #And I think I really appreciate that now. I think I’ve realized how much I need you guys #You were here for me. I’m always here for you #love yall sm #anyways it’s a bit of a ramble here in the tags lol #Anyways byee I love you mwah mwah mwah #tw sui attempt #maybe?? I mean I’ve tried to before but #Idk I dont wanna trigger yall-

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finelyageddragons · 4 months

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Currently in love with the relationship between the Grey Wardens and being doomed by the narrative, especially with how the HOF subverts that relationship so here's a 3am rant about it. Enjoy! The wardens are ghosts. They are born by letting go of everything you had before and drinking poison to bind your fate to the darkspawn and promise that your life and perhaps more importantly, your death belongs to them. The whole joining is a terrifying experience, you're drinking the blood of monsters and seeing a corrupt god in your mind and waking up to see those who died around you and being told you'll meet the same fate soon enough you've just been given more time to get there because to sacrifice, to die is a warden's purpose. Even if you survive becoming a warden, your best case scenario is sacrificing yourself to end the blight but it's far more likely you'll die fighting darkspawn or even more likely lose your mind and have to go to the deep roads to be lost and have your death be your last act of defiance in the face of this overwhelming wave of evil waiting to rise again. The best thing that can happen to a warden is to die in a meaningful way because you gave away your life the moment you drank that blood. All you are now is a soldier waiting to die in war and hopefully take the enemy down with you. It is tragic and haunting and noble and so full of grief. Grief for the live you gave behind and for the one you'll never have. Every warden spends every day of their life hoping not for a future or any life for themselves but simply to make their death mean something which is an incredibly interesting mental state and I could go on about how that effects individuals and messes with their values so that corruption is rife but what started this whole thing is Fereldan.

A wonderful post by @sapphim (which I don't know how to cite but I wanna give credit so if there's a way please tell me) discussed how beneficial it was for the wardens that the fifth blight occured in Fereldan and how much they lost by it being solved so soon. To put it simply, they wanted to sacrifice Fereldan as a lost cause and use it as an example of why they wardens shouldn't be neglected. They wanted it to be known of how much of a sacrifice they make an how important their duty by letting the country of Fereldan be an example of what happens when no one is there to do it and that the narrative has doomed everyone, that the world's crimes will be paid for unless someone is willing to be selfless and bear the burden to give the world another chance. Andraste would have been a great warden I'm sure. In the eyes of the warden, Fereldan is tainted just like their blood, it is promised to the darkspawn just like they are, willingly or not it bears the duty that all wardens do and must make the sacrifice they do too. For the greater good. To stop the darkspawn. It's better you having a death that matters than a life that lasts. This is the psychology of the wardens and they are applying those same beliefs to all of Fereldan. Why must they be the only ones doomed by the narrative? There is no surviving this story and there is saving the world there is only killing the darkspawn before it kills you. Thedas is at war with the archdemons and until they're all dead, there is no peace, there is only preparing for the next battle. There is no building a life, no building a country, there is nothing to protect because it is all doomed.

The way duty and sacrifice and the promise of the Grey Wardens must alter their values and perspective on life is fascinating and there is so much to explore here but what's important for this post is that the foundation of their entire order is that they are already dead.

This then brings us to the HOF and cheating death. Duncan is like the grim reaper in Origins the way he comes and snatches your soul at the end of each origin which I honestly love and it ties in so well to the idea that wardens are ghosts given you die in every other version of the story without him but that's the story of all wardens. They all die a symbolic death at the joining so that's okay but then Ostogar happens. Flemeth happens. You should have died. Fereldan should have been lost. Remember, the duty of the wardens is dying not surviving but you did survive, snatched away by a god. Every other warden has died thinking their paying the price for an absent god yet this goddess not only favours you, she changed fate for you. Every other warden throughout history has paid the price but not you. Not Fereldan. You get to cheat the fate while it dooms everyone else. Can you imagine how that must have felt for the other wardens? How much they must hate the hero for stealing the martyr Fereldan was set to be and making all their losses naught but a tragedy when it could have been so much more? Not only did you escape your own death but you stole the value of theirs. You survived which goes against everything the wardens are made for.

Going even further than that, you have the dark ritual where you can actively choose to cheat death again. When every other warden has had to give their life, had to sacrifice and lose and grieve and poison their humanity as they did their bodies, you get to escape it all. Wardens have struggled for decades to have a foothold in Fereldan but you'll go so far as to choose their ruler for them without any consultation. You have been a warden less than a year, ended a battle that they prepared for over hundreds of years and sacrificed more hundreds of years fighting in the past and not only have you defied everything they defined themselves by, you have made them look like fools and decided their fate for them. You have stolen the meaning of the death of every warden, you have stolen their martyrs and the justifications for their actions and by keeping your own life and humanity, by resisting their poison you have made them all look like monsters.

The hero was doomed by the narrative as all wardens are but they rewrote fate, they stole their life back so many times and by surviving, they created a whole new narrative that ruined everything the wardens were built upon. The wardens were made to be ghosts, not heroes. They're meant to die and be remembered nobly so they can be redeemed for they had to do to get there but not you hero. You get to shame us all, don't you?

#I have work in like 5 hours but it is my duty to share my madness with you all #UGH I need to make more warden OCs #I can't fix him but I can become equally corrupt by his side #There are so many ideas in here I can't wait to elaborate on over the next few days/weeks/lifetime #Anyway good night y'all #Also hi Saph it was me thank you for encouraging this #Got a good grade in anon something both normal to want and possible to achieve #GOODNIGHT #dragon age origins #dragon age #ramblings #grey wardens #doomed by the narrative #idk how to tag things but I hope people see this I want to hear ideas #Rubbing my hands together and giggling like a goblin thinking of all the potential warden content #I'M GOING TO BED NOW BYE BYE

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kayzero · 3 months

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in the spaces between not working on zwg and not finishing brother’s burden, i’ve been, uh…

thinking about something new.

#kay original #game development #kay rambles in the tags #Peccatum #Peccatum: Small Town Heroes #name is a work in progress. as most things are.#you can ask me about this project and the ocs i’ve half-imagined if you want to know more about them #but i’m not at the ‘‘ask me about my setting so i can figure stuff out’’ stage yet.#i do know that it’s an rpg. a LONG one too. and it’ll be mission-based kiiinda like FE3H? but not really?#9 party members. each of them have different elemental alignments and each represent a different Game Stat.#everyone has 1 Best stat—2 Great Stats—3 Good Stats—and 2 Poor Stats—and then the ninth stat is a fixed value #i know that two party members are trans. another two members—including the Box Art Protagonist—are disabled #along with the machine party member there is a Dragon who spends most of their time in bipedal form #there is a Fae who spends a large majority of the story hiding the fact that they are in truth a Fae #one of the party members was experimented on as a child and is now part Monster but they repressed the memory so they have no idea #i came up with a shared MP system that has actual story reasons for existing—and it’s gonna be a pain in the ass to code…#i want a relationship system a la Persona except EVERY party member gets a relationship and not just The Protagonist #every party member will have a relationship gauge with every other party member (i guess this is Fire Emblem?)#and then everyone will have a relationship with an NPC that’s unique and exclusive to them #and then they get four relationships with members of the town that you see frequently as you wander around #but it’s a Small Town remember. so the party has to share. there are four categories with three townspeople each so three party members will #have a relationship with each townsperson. but the relationships will be different because the characters aren’t carbon copies of each other #not. not romantic relationships. like friendships and rivalries and sex buddies and apprenticeships and. possibly also romance? mm.#i have to. learn how to code. idk if RPGMaker has a relationship system so i’ll have to figure something else out. maybe RP as a currency...

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newtness532 · 5 months

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okay tomorrow im gonna do some self care starting with a nap the second i get home and then doing the dishes so i can make pasta

#listen if it's eating pasta everyday or not eating im choosing the pasta idc #i can start eating healthier and more diversely at another time #now im just too out of energy to do basic human being things and trying new foods or eating foods that i don't like which means i only eat #just enough to stop being hungry is just not for right now. is this a sentence? i forgot what i was typing in the previous tag #whatever im going to sleep bc im too tired and hungry and im starting to feel weird and i have to wake up in 5.5 hours #i have to fix the sleeping #at least the weekend is near #jo says stuff #personal ramblings

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jils-things · 5 months

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im planning to skip furina and baizhu and then i learned that cyno is coming .... >:]

#my electro units is super poor but i hope he can fix that....#oh cynoooooooo (bats eyelashes) hiiiiiiiiii #genshin hours #<- new tag because im sure im going to talk about it alot now that i have the game #~ rambling #does anyone know about my dumb small crush on cyno because of alejandro saab

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dommecat · 6 months

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I just want sweet snuggles. Kissing you until you can't think, to distract us both. Gently plying you open with my fingers, slow and careful. Taking my mind off myself by making you feel amazing. Fucking into you, slowly adding fingers until you're not sure you can take it, then adding one more anyways. Making you come all over my hand. Please, pet. I just want your gorgeous, gorgeous pleasure.

#sapphic nsft #wlw nsft #domme/pet #for the one who's sometimes mine #size kink.#i guess #fisting.#kind of #overstimulation.#also kind of #this might not fix me right now but i'm pretty sure it would help #take my mind off things #we'll see if i can focus enough to write out the other thing #it's harder sometimes to not be myself to have to analyze all the desires i want to spill #rambling in the tags

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aeyan-arts · 1 month

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Filtering dungeon meshi tags because I don't want to be spoiled, and I'm actually interested in watching it.

Dungeon meshi salesmen, you won.

#dungeon meshi #the void rambles #kinda funny since I got to know from a random meme I saw here #it was something like “I can fix him” you guys look like a construction crew #also the guy? in the photo looked nice and I was interested #gone to the Tumblr tags of dungeon meshi to know what was the anime's name #Tumblr caught on that and keot recommending stuff from dungeon meshi #now it's giving me spoilers #oh no I'm interested in this and wanna watch it #so yeah #uhm #have a nice day

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sableeira · 9 months

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why can’t I be unconditionally happy for once in my goddamn life why do I always have to be cursed with hardware malfunction or data loss a week before any given deadline

#okay always is exaggerated but I had hardware malfunction last year for the final week of group work on a big project #and now the most important files of my bachelor project are damaged #if I don’t see a recent backup on my computer at uni tomorrow I’m gonna strangle my past self #already strangling my past self for being too lazy to set up git for my cleaned up project #this could have been prevented so easily but I continue to be a dumbass #otherwise life is going great!! like literally hadn’t been this happy in a while!!#that’s probably why this happened tho because I’m not allowed to catch a break #sina’s rambling #uni tag #<- for the last time hopefully…#gonna be so happy when I can get back to my wip drawings #been thinking about them way too much lately #also new chapter soon I’m very excited #and tachi’s big day part 2 on wednesday ^_^#delete later #or tomorrow morning I’m going to bed now because there is nothing I can do today to fix this

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piplupod · 2 months

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shoutout to the time i thought juggalos were just a random type of clown in the same way rodeo and pierrot is, and I off-handedly mentioned them in a conversation about clowns to one of my DQ managers when I worked there, and she fucking lost her mind laughing and I was like. damn. I didn't think my joke was THAT funny but okay. and then I never looked up what a juggalo actually was until just last year, like four years after I'd stopped working at that place 🧍

#when u dont have internet access very often u don't use ur small bits of time to look things up #esp when u dont have any unmonitored internet access fjdkdl #i was scared to look things up at school and i couldnt look up very much on the home computer #and my mobile had net nanny installed on it lmfao it was set for like... 12 yr olds #NOW GRANTED. I ACTUALLY DID MANAGE TO BREAK NET NANNY ON MY OWN COMPUTER. u have to move some files around inside the program files #and then u can basically break and un-break it as u please #so i could have it on to keep up the charade that i had it installed and it was monitoring and reporting my good boy usage #but then when i wanted to do stuff like... go on tumblr. or look up slang or whatever fhdkdl i could break the program #until i was done and then fix it so it'd go back to normal #this didnt help v much though bc i couldnt lug my laptop to school v often #and i wasnt allowed internet at home fhfkdl unless I was using my mother's laptop for looking up piano music LOL #eventually i also figured out how to break the program on my phone too but that one was more luck than anything else i think #anyways. all this surveillance made me good with tech stuff but im not Good w tech djdkdl i just know how to look things up #and i learned a bit how the backend of programs work or weird tricks for hidden folders and stuff on laptops #hey why tf am i rambling abt this in the tags fjkdl I've lost the plot #anyways good morning everyone please look up words that u may not know the meaning of before u use them #i do this too often now fhfjld. i have to look up words that i DO 100% know the meaning of just to make sure i dont have it wrong somehow #pippen needs 2nd breakfast

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unforth · 10 months

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"Dissent is patriotic," but like. The AO3 version.

I can adore what AO3 is but still hope to see it better.

AO3 is my country and I stand with my country right or wrong, but man I ain't gonna keep my mouth shut when the wrong is going on.

#unforth rambles #i saw too many peoppe being like AnTiS aRe CoMiNg FoR aO3 aGaIn #its not antis my buds #im allowed to love something with all my heart and still want it to meet certain standards #and its not unreasonable to expect modifications to the site #they never dreamed itd get this big and it shows cause their systems arent robust enougb for these #trees that dont bend will break #help us bend the tree before ao3 breaks im begging uou #cause once its broken it wont get fixed #right now the ship can still be righted #okay thats enough mixed metaphors for one tag rant im done

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catzgam3rz · 1 year

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OKAY HOLD ON why the hell can my physiotherapy office change my appointment to HALF AN HOUR BEFORE SCHEDULED with NO NOTICE THREE HOURS BEFORE I NEED TO BE THERE

BUT STILL SAY CANCELLATIONS WITHIN 24 HOURS WILL HAVE A FEE??????????

#HELLO??? I HAVE TO DRIVE MINIMUM 50 MINUTES TO GET TO THE OFFICE??? IM GETTING OFF AN HOUR EARLY FOR IT BUT NOW I MIGHT BE FYCKING LATE???#WHY CANT I HAVE ONE ATTEMPT AT FIXING MY MEDICAL ISSUES NOT BE A FUCKING ORDEAL OF MY TIME AND MONEY FUCKS SAKE #also dead serious they sent an email like ‘oh sorry it’s changed to 12:30 feel free to click this link and cancel BUT #do know cancellations within 24 hours can still be liable to the cancellation fee’ HELLO????#god I’m so annoyed like thanks office already took half my day off because your concult person is ONLY THERE JNTIL ONE PM #anyways uh my body is a nightmare and so is the healthcare system <3 #rambles #vent #catz medical complaints #glad I made that tag because fuck man lol

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