Apytele

Apytele, 1 month ago

I mean maybe I try not to use my credit cards all that often but like. You’d think there would be an email or something to let me know. I guess I could mark the date on a calendar but it’s not like they tell you their password turnover expectations at signup. You’d also think the person on the phone could help fix it in less than an hour. I swear that lady had to send me like 20 password reset codes because none of them would work. And you’d also expect that that password would continue working for more than a week. Honestly the experience was so frustrating I literally just canceled the card. I know it’s a credit ding but I have no use for a card I can’t pay off without going on an epic quest.

Apytele, 1 month ago

Could you imagine if someone made a search engine that just filtered mainstream shows by tvtropes tags? AND does the dog die’s content warning database???

Maybe try some fanfiction though. There’s a LOT of fanfiction written to create an ending for a series that never got one. The media will be different (although fanART is a thing too). Even if you’re worried about writing quality (hey, we were all 12 year old aspiring writers at one point) you can find some absolutely gripping stories. Force Over Distance completely fixed Stargate Universe for me. It was also super gay and had a bunch of University level math that may have been complete horseshit for all my dumb ass would know, but other than that was almost disturbingly faithful to the source material.

Those were kinda upsides for me personally but the cool thing about fanfiction is that you do whatever you want over there we’re all just gonna mind our business in-LOL no there’s bitch fights over on tumblr every other fucking hour over shit that’s either completely dumb or wildly terrifying and most of those fights are about which popular media characters are legally/physically able to and/or should hold hands.

Anyway I’m extremely picky (even with smut), but sorting by kudos and only reading the first two or three for a smaller Fandom (more for a bigger one obvs) has never done me dirty when I want a particularly engaging read. This isn’t to dig on other styles or skill levels of writing; there’s many different reasons and ways to write, and many ways that people get better at writing over time. But also I get that feeling of just wanting to smash your way through a 20 book series. The dopamine high is exquisite.

Apytele, 1 month ago

Tbh I wouldn’t mind it if it wasn’t purely combat focused, one of very few paths out of poverty, and if most of that budget wasn’t going straight to Boeing Lockheed and Northrup.

Having an option for young adults to live in a structured environment, maybe learn some trade skills, and most importantly have to learn to deal with other humans would give a lot of people a much needed leg up on their psychosocial development during that early adulthood. I also think it would do it better than the current college experience (especially for little shit rich kids but I’ll get to that).

I say this because I firmly believe a lot of people need a terrible first job as a young adult to finish calibrating their sense of adversity and problem solving. Something that’s not going to injure them or abuse them, but that’s juuust vaguely unpleasant enough to teach some distress tolerance without major physical or psychological trauma.

My first real adult job was awful (unfortunately also extremely unsafe, so not good for these purposes) but it really taught me a LOT about… a lot of things really. Conflict management. Situational awareness. Teamwork. How to lead other people in unsafe/crisis situations. Probably more I’m not thinking of. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone but I can’t deny that the job made me who I am in a lot of ways that I’m actually really proud of. I still just about piss myself when talking to HR but a little wariness there isn’t exactly unwarranted. It also really hammered home how little management types care about your safety. That translated nicely into the teamwork- I learned quickly that admin can’t be trusted any farther than their lazy asses can walk and at 2:30 AM it’s you and your coworkers and that’s it so you better figure out how to get along with them.

The other thing about it is that it’s not really the poor kids who need it! They’ve probably been working some shit job since they were old enough to legally (and maybe a little before that)! I didn’t really grow up “rich” (especially since the wealth my parents enjoy now is due to them being hella stingy) but I definitely grew up sheltered, and that job definitely fixed my stupid ass.