#things beyond our control

[ludoka]

I'm reading posts that talk about a rewrite of G3 to make it look like G1? Honestly... Why? Let the newcomers have fun with G3. Let children and adolescents feel identified with characters that adapt to new generations.

Instead: why don't they demand a continuation of G1? What do I care about the life of a teenager between 14 and 17 years old? GIVE ME EXISTENTIAL CRISIS OF YOUNG ADULTS BETWEEN 20 AND 30!!!!

Give me a Deuce who feels stuck because he doesn't know what to do with his life!!! Give me a Gil who is looking to move out of his parents' house because he can't stand them anymore!! GIVE ME FRANKIE GOING INTO CRISIS BECAUSE SHE KNOWS HOW TO BE AN ADULT!! IT COST HORRORS FOR HER TO BE A TEENAGER, BEING A FUNCTIONAL ADULT IS KILLING HER!!!

Show how Clawdeen strives to be a dressmaker! What the world of modeling is like!! IT'S NOT AS EASY AS IT LOOKED WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER! Show how Jackson and Holt try to balance their lives so that each one fulfills what they dream of! Show how you organize yourself so that Holt has rehearsals and goes to concerts!! While Jackson manages his college study schedule!! Show Cleo struggling to grow up. This girl was a princess from ancient Egypt and probably had a pre-written life. Now that is not possible. She is grateful but horrified in equal parts because she no longer knows how to continue. Damn, show Toralei trying to achieve a better future but with a background that complicates her life!! OH MY GOD!!! SHE WAS IN A JUVENILE PRISON!!! THAT FILE IS BITTING HIS BUTT IN THE WORST WAY!!

I want characters I can identify with too. But I am no longer a child or teenager, I am an adult. I want adult characters that I can empathize with, identify with, and want to hug because I know how hard it is to try to be a functional adult.

Please leave G3 alone and give me a big sequel to G1.

#monster high #monster high g3 #monster high g1 #mh #mh g1 #mh g3 #jackson jekyll #holt hyde #frankie stein #lagoona blue #cleo de nile #deuce gorgon #toralei stripe #clawd wolf #clawdeen wolf #gil webber #Is it too much to ask for something like that? #They could address topics such as friendships that are lost due to things beyond our control. #As work #Or studies #OMG #A SPIN OFF WHERE THEY SHOW US SOME WORK OR MORE CONSTRUCTION IN THE WORLD #Imagine that Jackson is a resident in a monster hospital #And he's something like an alchemical doctor #That treats injuries or illnesses that can be treated with alchemy #Or magic #We could have an “Emergency Room” MH version #Or something along the lines of “The Devil Wears Prada” but with Clawdeen.

[twothpaste]

🔥 porkyy

that boy was not at any point mind controlled, psychologically warped, or rendered "insane" by giygas. giygas didn't have to twist him into something he wasn't. didn't need to put spite, ambition, and ill will into his heart - porky already wore all that on his sleeve. (which is probably why giygas took him on as an ally in the first place.) porky was only "corrupted" insofar as power can corrupt anybody - that's what makes him such a compelling villain.

#ask tag #unpopular opinion ask prompt #it's like. if he was turned evil and “crazy” by an alien overlord then his whole character is reduced to nothing but a limp pity case #all the willful human things he represents become instead the result of cosmic circumstances beyond our control - i don't think it works :( #if he has agency though? he becomes a glorious embodiment of misanthropy and capitalism and childishness at its worst extreme #the fact he Could stop but Chooses not to is so important!! #(imho)

[tillman]

save me 20 year old yuri

#so miserable millia/i-no is not a thing beyond to me violet and this one author from 2003 apparently btu its so fucking real. its so real. #txt #the line. specifically #'She craves control and I give it to her. I desire relief and she hands it to me on a platter. Thats all our 'relationship' amounts to...' #what if i killed myself

[undercoverxs]

#|[.ooc #((thinking about the fucked up nature of es being controlled by [ everyone ] #and I writing them attempting to give them a more solid identity am only perpetuating this in perhaps an even more violent manner #their thoughts aren't allowed to be their own. their thoughts are never allowed to be their own. #they have [ NOTHING ] beyond what is given to them by an imposing public and the opinions they chose to project #They are fictional though. All fictional characters are like this #This is just the nature of it #But maybe everybody is like this? We're all our own main characters. The people around us only serve our narrative as reflections of oursel #People may well be their own thing internally. But from an outside perspective- are we really anything besides what other people decided we #Oops! Tags can only be 140 characters or less! #I feel SO NORMAL about Es Milgram

[shadowed-yet-vibrant]

Wow turns out there's a reason every lawyer I'd ever met told me "don't be a lawyer."

#seven months into practice #most junior attorney at a litigation boutique #I've never felt more incompetent in my life #I felt pretty on top of things until last month #made a few mistakes and they keep coming #fortunately they're all different mistakes - not making the same ones twice #but jesus fucking christ #I spend probably an hour every day just worrying they're going to get rid of me #also it looks like the senior associate is leaving #which our firm structure is weird #but he's basically the only person in a mentorship role #and I feel like if he leaves I'm actually going to cry #because I feel so lost and the partners are all so busy #also my billing is shit because I'm so sad and stressed I keep just having non billable chunks of my day #which is me stressing out and just feeling bad #which isn't productive at all #stereotypical lawyer lmfao #I keep waking up at 3-4am with nightmares about my cases #I dream about work almost every night #usually fucking something up or getting fired or losing something important #I just want things to feel under control again #not spiraling just beyond my grasp #I've heard this is normal which is helpful in a small way #but consider: knowing it's normal doesn't make the actual feeling less shit

[shirawords]

Emails I have experienced today:

Me, yesterday afternoon: here's this document for you to sign attached as a pdf

Response TO THAT EMAIL this morning: are you going to send that document for me to sign?

Third party: what's the status of this case?

Me: my office has been unable to reach Other Party so we're not sure

Other Party: no one has tried to reach us! The only person who's tried to reach us is (coworker, from my office, who has been trying to reach them)

#the judge is pissed about the first one #this other party didn't even review the original document we were supposed to file before the deadline #and now that we're filing this document (past the deadline which has pissed off the judge) the other party apparently cannot read emails? #emails that say 'attached is the document to sign' wherein the document is indeed attached #the second one is just a case of assholes angry at my office for things beyond our control #like I get they don't want us to do this thing #but if we don't do the thing our answer in this case will be inaccurate #and when they complain that our answer is inaccurate we will explain that it is inaccurate because they wouldn't let us do the thing #I'm only really pissed about the first one because I am going to have to deal with the judge being upset #if I don't have the thing signed by the end of the day I'm gonna file something #explaining that the other party hasn't gotten back to me but me and the third party involved have signed the document #(I won't. I'll check with my boss and do what she recommends. but. I am so annoyed) #I spam

[ofvaporex]

It is not hard to search out Ratchet. The ambulance is practically in the same place and posture Rung had left him in: hunched over his desk, slogging through the forms and paperwork necessary to open his school. What is harder, though, is interrupting him to inform him of everything that’s been going on. When Ratchet focuses, he’s focused. Nothing short of orbital bombardment can shake him…

Which, Rung supposes, Jazz’s disappearance counts as.

“Uhm, Ratchet? Sorry, I know you’re busy, but, ah— we need to talk. Preferably right now.”

The datapads lay scattered across the desk. He remains hunched over them, but he's barely touched a one of them, hands folded on the desktop. Dummy rests on his shoulder, chirping faintly, but Rung's appearance gets the little drone to dart up, floating over to donk against Rung's helm in a sign of affection.

That's followed by the old medic straightening and turning, revealing nothing at all in his workspace.

He hasn't been bothering anyone... but he's been pretty bothered.

"It's about Jazz, isn't it? Something felt off. Got that weird message from him, then that even weirder one after... I was trying to trust him to do what he had to, but..."

His shoulders tense and he sighs, giving Rung a distressed look.

"Has it gotten worse? Please don't tell me that we've got the worst news. I don't know if my spark can take that."

#⚕️ ╰ ic • best care anywhere ╯ #⚕️ ╰ asks • due to circumstances beyond our control lunch will be served today ╯ #⚕️ ╰ rung | sparkmender • you have been my friend ; that in itself is a tremendous thing ╯

[tiarnanabhfainni]

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#sorry i do find the current fic being fed into ai thing is getting a bit overblown sorry #like i understand why people are uncomfortable #qnd i would prefer that we all get a bit more control over our online data and how it stored and processed #and there probably should be some talk about consenting to having your writing used or whatever #but it's getting a bit moral panicky now ngl #like i really dont think this is the great issue of our time #also im 90% sure that chatGPT doesn't learn from conversations/submissions #at least not in a straightforward way #it's relying on its own old database not what you give it #anyway my real issue with ai is the issue of content moderation and the exploitation of moderators #which is an issue that goes far beyond just ai and is inherent to all social media #i would much rather scroll through endless posts about that issue than fearmongering abt random teenagers #who use ai to write boring bad endings for fics they like #as if chatGPT will produce anything worth reading anyway

[padfootastic]

Let’s talk about how killing James affects Snape in the war and with his roommates. Regardless of any personal feelings for James, he was still a pureblood and Snape was a half-blood; how do the blood purists on Voldemort’s side react to him killing a pureblood, even if that pureblood was a blood-traitor? Also, he committed the homicide in broad daylight in front of dozens of witnesses, obviously not the smartest decision ever made. We also know that several of Snape’s Housemates and presumably some of his roommates were blood purists, since they go on to join the Death Eaters, so how do they react to their half-blood roommate murdering another pureblood, even if they hated said pureblood? It’s not just how Sirius and James’s family react to James being killed, but this is a fairly good representation of the current conflict in Britain and I feel like at least some of Voldemort’s supporters would use this as evidence for why non-purebloods don’t belong in their society

yES!! this is it!!

i have absolutely no doubt that minorities were scapegoated whenever possible. one person fucks up and suddenly it’s a blood purity issue. and at a time when the war was heating up the way it was? entirely possible that even if effie and flea didn’t want to take it further than individual punishment, the incident gets picked up as a way to propel the movement forward

wonder if sirius would’ve unintentionally spearheaded it bc he’s so caught up in his grief he doesn’t realise the consequences of it until years later and he’s swimming in so much regret and guilt by then—

it’s honestly such a common tactic too like,,,the potters might be blood traitors but their pureblood identity can still be weaponised by either side at any time. and if james is dead and his parents are grieving—there’s no one to stop it from happening either. and snape, i swear. he’s in such a vulnerable positions wrt blood/class, and it’s very likely he might just be put on the chopping block as the root of all problems. i feel like this might also introduce like…identity/loyalty conflict amongst *some* people atleast about what they really value, a halfblood with their ideology or a pureblood against them?

#stuff like ‘this is why they don’t belong in our world! #they don’t know how to control their magic. they’re too volatile. no respect for the old blood etc etc #look at him dabbling in things beyond his reach; making spells psh. as if a halfblood has the capacity to #stuff like that #and more i think about it—more i think snape will be right in the middle of this #like even more than the obvious i. dan #mean* #he’ll be made an example of #crack scenario but imagine voldy calling snape and gifting him a fruit platter lmao #‘u got those neutral pureblood sitting on the fence to my side much more effectively than i ever could #and with one misfired/mistimed spell at that. amazing’ #pen’s asks

[officecyborg]

something something Diverge route not proving Tokiko right about the nature of reality but validating her feeling that a world with senseless loss and tragedy isn’t worth living in. something something Ryuuki losing years to dissociation and also being the one to clip through the wall after her

#she wants her baby back and he wants his brother and both of those things are beyond our control #unfortunately they are kindred spirits #aitsf blogging #aini spoilers

[aidenwaites]

Weird little detail in kr0 that's getting to me is the fact that you can wait out the prompt to accept the drink with relative ease,,,,, it doesn't change his actions but something about the option and the acknowledgement being there of the player not wanting to do it (because you're very much supposed to not want him to do it) is like. Idk man it's so very good

#kr0 #there's a lot of games with moments like that in which you *cant* wait it out #you just eventually have to take control and press the button despite it being The Wrong Decision because its the Only Decision #KR0 isnt a choice-based game apart from the diamogue choices- we as players know by this point that our decisions arent going to change #the trajectory of the store beyond maybe a line of dialogue #there's no choice- Conway takes the drink. but you can try to wait it out. and they in a way acknowledge the player wanting #Conway to make the right choice- even if he wont no matter what #yknow #and the thing is! the really sad thing about that moment! #it doesnt matter either way! take it or leave it he was still going to get roped in #he had as much choice as the player did- he didnt have one at all

[six-of-ravens]

I'm getting pretty sick of my boss's constant complaining, but after this morning's meeting where he ranted for like 15 mins bc our social media people put Too Much effort into their latest post, I'm pretty sure everyone else is sick of him too

#'wah wah why am i always the one finding issues and mistakes' #bc you literally told everyone you would review their work asshole! #and spoiler alert sometimes there are fuckups beyond our control ie. the other dev overwriting one tiny thing i did on this site

[dexaroth]

god the devart thing. my mind is as foggy as it usually is so i cant really express myself properly but its just like, blow after blow. you know how everything is monopolized, you can count the big websites where you can have an actual reach on your hands, and even then it still hits just as hard when theres another big news on how youre just another product being exploited

just like many things, when ai art was on its way to going viral i never thought of how the prompts were feeding their learning or how submitting your images even more so. i had a handful of posts tell me. just like a lot of every other ever-so-common shady internet practice out there. but its always too late until you realize they already got the best out of you

then its just back to the thoughts of wanting to shut yourself off from everything and then reminding yourself that data is practically immortal and that by being raised in a digital era you're very much already archived, bit by bit, on thousands of places, and everyone else around you that - of course - was also raised the same way still form a clear path to identify key information about you anyways.

naturally you get depressed and like hm oh well. im fucked. im gonna do something else and poof heres news about the one little site you still thought was ok, not the best, but that still has the same profit reason any other does and by the time you finish reading the title youre already back down to the dirt again

#couldnt help but cry writing this theres just so much beyond our control and just knwoing theres a way out but also knowing you cant perfor #perform it i just want to destroy everyything at this point #the situation of the current digital age is also almost exactly the same as being disabled #(refer to the 'knowing the solution but cant solve it anyways' paragraph) #its barely an atom away from home now. oh you depend on people financially and physically? wait until you depend on billion dollar companie #its too much to handle i cant do anything but block it out of my memory at this point #being like lol ill move to neocities and be a hermit teehee! while i fucking crumble inside knowing that as long as i depend on a third par #party it can be taken away at any second with no regard to any of the thousands of toothpick pillars (users) that held it up #i tried mastodon when it was still a cool little thing talked about in foss software circles for not being like twitter #and it was just so empty. barely anything enjoyable or anyone to enjoy it anyways #i had a taste of what its like (sorta) staying on the web version of an isolated cave pool and it sucked #*insert the picture that says 'ooh i get it now. the suffering is eternal' here* #dextxt

[brightbluekicks]

the like shitshow ordeal of having a conversation with someone that i was in love with and finding out they have known that i had feelings for them this whole time. lovely.

#IT IS SO EXCRUCIATINGLY PAINFUL #this is making me relive everything i repressed when i first had feelings for him #hes gay and i knew and i just felt so fucking guilty the whole time #for things i couldnt control #and the thing is like. i love him i love him i love him #so much #and i knew that no matter what i do he’ll never love me in that way #so i tried to get over it #and at least finding out today that like even though hes always known he never liked me less because of it #but i still feel so unbearably shitty #i feel like ive hurt him somewhere #and im also just humiliated beyond belief like omfg i cant believe i had to talk about the feelings that i had for you and the fact that #youll never feel them back #i thought we were DONE WITH THIS #also we’re pretty much just school friends and im terrified whatll happen next #is our friendship strong enough to last this summer please tell me it will. please say you still love me #I WROTE DUCKING POETRY ABOUT HIM #i wrote the goddamn line ‘he makes you feel like who you are isnt such a wretched fate’ #and now i have to deal with the knowing that he knows #this hurts more than any rejection ever had

[skipppppy]

No offence but I feel like some people got a little too comfortable with telling people to touch grass and swung all the way round to just straight up shaming anyone who might have a less active social life than them to feel better about themselves. “She should be at the club” was a really funny meme until people started acting like fucking middle school bullies towards people who don’t go out with their friends a lot. All those drinking/drugs/sex milestone polls were fun to engage with until it became a wierd circlejerk making fun of people who haven’t done those things before. People on twitter are once again dogpiling someone for wanting queer social spaces that don’t revolve around alcohol or loud music and telling them it’s their own fault for not having friends.

Like I get that nightclubs and sex have strong ties to queer culture and are often the first targets in the hellscape of respectability politics. It’s important we remember our roots and protect these spaces from conservative scrutiny. I mean that. They are important. But just on a surface level it seems like people are starting to see having an inactive social life as some kind of moral failing which…it’s not. I feel like an insane person for feeling like I have to say this on the fucking queer autism website but like. You aren’t inherently a bad person if you don’t have friends. You aren’t “falling behind” if you haven’t had your first kiss in your 20s or never done drugs. The real world isn’t a movie. And if you see someone who doesn’t go out much and instinctually think “wow what a terminally online loser. I bet their social life sucks because they’re a sheltered creep and not because of systemic barriers beyond their control” you need to have a long hard look at why you feel that way.

There are very real barriers that prevent isolated people from finding community and connection. Do you think you’re superior for being able to breach them? Time, money, sobriety, accessibility, none of those factors were a problem for you, so it shouldn’t be for them, right? Right?

#the wider issue is that there are little to no social spaces that don’t charge you to be there anymore #capitalism has all but eradicated the third space

[ofvaporex]

Send 🙏 to cradle my muse's face.

@gowithplana said: Send 🙏 to cradle my muse's face.

"You're a darling thing, you know that?"

He leans his head further into the touch, optics darkening completely as he lets out a faint sigh, humming softly as he reaches out to pull Optimus close, trying so hard not to dislodge those hands from his face. The old medic's optics go fully dim.

Optimus is such a comfort, and such a delight. How can he not love him? It would be like trying not to breathe.

"I don't know where I'd be without you at this point."

#⚕️ ╰ ic • best care anywhere ╯ #⚕️ ╰ asks • due to circumstances beyond our control lunch will be served today ╯ #⚕️ ╰ meme replies • tonight's midnight movie will be shown at nine o'clock this morning ╯ #⚕️ ╰ optimus | gowithplana • the most beautiful things worth having come wrapped in a crown of thorns ╯