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⌈ Secret Post #4908 ⌋

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Comments

Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

Anyone need to vent?

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

My work reopened and 2/3 of the former staff were let go, including yours truly. I will be alright myself but I know others won't. :( I'm sad because I liked my job and will miss the people I worked with, some of whom I'll probably never see again. :( This wasn't much of a vent, was it, lol.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

That sucks a lot, I'm so sorry

Re: Vent thread

[philstar22]

So sorry, nonny. That sucks. Being unemployed sucks. And losing friends sucks. I really hope you can find another job soon and that you are able to stay in contact with some of those people at least.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

That sucks, I’m really sorry. :-(

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

My dad managed to push his newish PC off his desk and now it won't turn on (the space around the power supply is pretty dented so that's probably why, though who knows what else is broken). I do feel bad for him but at the same time... he was doing an online whiskey tasting via webcam and wasn't anywhere near sober anymore and he has been drinking quite a bit lately so this is actually one of the more harmless things that could have happened. But it's not like he'll learn anything from this.
Also, I'm annoyed because I just spent the last week fixing my own PC and now I'll have to continue with his and I hate doing this.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

Do you have to fix it? What would happen if you didn't?

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

the curse of being a computer techie (or even just "that person who knows things about computers") - you end up having to fix them for EVERYBODY, like your uncle's boss and your cousin's girlfriend's sister and GRRRR

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

I feel completely alone and isolated by the current manifestation of leftism. And I get angry when I realize that I'm not alone, but people are just as scared as I am of the raging mob for us to find each other and be alone together and have a voice together. It hurts so bad. I have no one to safely share my thoughts with, especially in fandom. No one.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

Are you more to the right or more to the left than most?

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

What is it exactly about the Left that you hate so much? We just want things to be better for everyone. We're not the monsters that you like to believe we are.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

I feel you, to a degree. I'm pretty darn left, but if I didn't have people in real life to talk to about politics, I'd feel very isolated as well. The kind of all-or-nothing, agree completely with every issue or you're trash attitude of the vocal left on the internet is something I find deeply counterproductive and worrisome. Fortunately, it's very much not what I get from people when I talk to them in real life.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

Er. What raging mob? I went to a BLM/police brutality protest today. Some of my coworkers walked over. A lady in a straw hat and sundress used a megaphone to announce that she had water and snacks and a first aid kit for anyone who needed them. Most everyone wore masks and stayed spaced out except from people they lived with.

My neighbor biked over to keep an eye on his black adopted son since this was his first protest. There were a couple of dads carrying young kids on their shoulders. People driving by honked and waved while we marched. After the protest was over, protestors carrying signs were absolutely everywhere, walking back to their cars or houses. People were discussing which organizations to donate to and when to get tested for COVID. I have seen way worse behavior in my neighborhood, which is right next to the main drag full of bars, on most holiday weekends.

Black people deserve not to live in fear that random white people, or cops that are, on paper, supposed to protect everyone, can kill them with basically no consequences.

I’m white and the most help police have ever been is not killing my parents or dogs when I called to ask for help—they warned me to get my dogs and mom out before they came to check on my schizophrenic dad because otherwise they wouldn’t promise they wouldn’t shoot them during the welfare check.

My boss and coworkers who have gone to protests recently are all white or east Asian and nothing bad happened to them. One of my black coworkers went and got pepper sprayed in the face. A grandma at the same protest spent a week in a medical coma after being hit in the forehead by a “less lethal” projectile. If my grandma almost died at a protest I would’ve burned stuff down too. I can’t imagine being a mom and knowing the cops killed my child.

Re: Vent thread

[meadowphoenix]

well the problem is trying to combine fandom and any type of politics i mean, you're already in a social space prone to the Borg, i don't know what you're expecting.


i find this type of comment in actual political spaces means that either your group doesn't have the praxis for the required topic and so you're all just flinging around talking points, or you're not as left as you think.

idk, maybe you could give an example

Re: Vent thread

[philstar22]

A bit annoyed at my dad. We're working on cleaning out the garage. I'm the one standing and lifting and moving things due to my mom's health and my dad's back. So it got to be obvious that the heat was getting to me. My mom and I are working hard, working through boxes and totes fairly quickly. We want to be out of the heat. Meanwhile, my dad is working through one box of papers, reading each one and taking a meandering trip down nostalgia lane.

Argh. Taking a 15 minute aircon/drink break and then going back out. Hopefully we can convince dad to move faster this time.

The migraine I have and the fact that we have all the garage doors open so the sun is blaring in and making my headache worse is not helping my mood.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

I hate the trend I've seen in lots of online spaces lately that holds that anyone under 26 is an ikkle baby child who should not be held accountable for anything they do and should absolutely never *shocked gasp* DATE! Today I saw someone refer to a 20-year-old as a 'late teen', while saying that a 27-year-old dating a 20-year-old was 'questionable' because of the 'power imbalance'. Like jesus fucking christ, get a grip.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

I would question a 35 year old dating an 18 year old or a 40 year old dating a 20 year old. But 27 and 20? Don't see an inherent power imbalance there. A 20 year old is an adult and capable of making their own choices and mature enough to handle an adult relationship.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

Unfortunately that mindset has gotten to me a bit, where ANY age difference is bad, no matter how old the people involved are. I was reading a book earlier with a 34 year old dating a 42 year old and had a split second thought of "hmm, that's kind of questionable", and then I was like "wait, WHAT?!" and then got super angry at myself for letting those idiots influence me at all, because that's fucking ridiculous.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

You change so much between 18 and 26. I think it kinda curves off then. I think that's why big age gaps involving anyone 18-25 seem a little skeevy.

Re: Vent thread

[meadowphoenix]

there's such a variety of life stages that happen in your 20s that I can def see most 27 year olds having far more requisite romantic and even cultural knowledge that leads to a power imbalance in a relationships with someone in their 20s. always? no. but when you have some knowledge of the difference in experience? yeah, its weird to me.

in general i wish people stopped believing that acknowledging someone's relative lack of experience was the same as calling them a baby.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm, I can see it though. Twenty isn't nearly enough done with college, if that's the path they walked, and technically their brain isn't fully developed yet so it's probably safer for them to mingle with people their age. I get that treating them like a baby is a bit too much, but I do think it's a huge gap in that range, just like I feel a 12 year old dating a 14-15 year old is too much, and a 35 year old dating a 50 year old is probably too much as well.

Of course people see it differently but, personally ; I struggle a lot with it as a 27 year old with "childish" hobbies/fandoms so occasionally I am guilty of treating (4 years+ for instance?) younger people as kids, maybe even to remind myself that's what they are behind the computer screen or outwardly behavior - they're likely struggling with college (or pondering going into it) and part-time job money/allowance and love matters, while I'm struggling with a difficult but rewarding job, wondering whether to begin a masters and trying to get over past relationships and figuring out what I actually want. It's all so different from when I was 20 even if my personality (or even, perhaps, online behavior...) has not changed a lot.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

My mom is driving me nuts. Every time we talk she basically spends the entire conversation complaining about her life, and then she has to go and I never get a chance to vent because I don't want to interrupt. The times I do, she ends up yelling at me that she can't do anything about it, and like...I'm not asking her to, I just want her to listen. That's what I do when she's venting and I don't get mad because I can't do anything about it. I know I can't do anything about it. The world sucks right now and that's just the way it is.

And she complains about my dad driving her nuts, and I'm like "well, then divorce him" and then she's like "noooo, he's wonderful, why would you say that?!" He IS a good guy and I know she wouldn't divorce him, it just gets annoying to listen to her complain. And then she complains that I'm "lucky" because I don't have a husband and like...I don't have a husband because I don't want one. She could not have one if she wanted to, but then when I suggest that she acts like I'm the bad guy for daring to suggest she leave my dad, and well...that's the only way she could not have a husband.

I don't know, I love my mom, and overall I like talking to her/spending time with her (when I was able to) but she does NOT handle stress well at all, and considering current events are pretty much the most stressful thing a lot of people have ever had to deal with, it's just not fun interacting with her at the moment.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

My darling mother expresses low-key homophobia and transphobia, and then is confused about why her queer child doesn't have a close relationship with her.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

Tired of these young 18-20-year-olds acting like the ONLY action right now is revolution, as if we haven't had mass protests this size before. News flash: the protests are similar to the Civil Rights movement around MLK. We didn't do a revolution then. Voting is still fucking important.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. I'm ready. lol.

I've realized I'm pretty clueless when it comes to certain types of fandoms. I'm watching a bunch of twitch streams and I have no clue what some of them are talking about. I kinda wish I could participate in someway, but at the same time I realize it doesn't matter in the long run. I should probably just go back to enjoying the usual games I am familiar with or doing solo activities. Luckily some of my gamer friends are getting involved in other stuff, so I'm looking forward to that once things settle down. But I can't help but feel really dumb when I don't understand the culture or vernacular of another fandom. Plus it's kinda fun to learn about something new.