#*distress screaming*

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

Instead of Dick or Tim, Red Hood straight up goes for kidnapping Bruce Wayne and keeping him hostage just to see how desperate the birds get in trying to find him.

It’s a foolproof plan. Batman won’t blow his cover unless absolutely necessary, and “Brucie” would never know how to slip away from a crime lord of Red Hood’s caliber. It’s foolproof. It’s perfect. Jason can keep dropping hints and make threats towards the birds and watch Bruce squirm without consequences if he plays this right.

But then “Brucie” keeps begging him not to hurt his kids…

#Jason miscalculated #seeing Batman frightened is one thing #but without the cowl he’s just Bruce #and Bruce was Jason’s DAD #it’s pretty hard to see him plead like that #and ffs Jason was just suggesting MILD torture with Tim #now stop CRYING Brucie omG #Jason is totally NOT close to tears himself no fucking way #meanwhile dick and Tim: #SCREAMING IN DISTRESS #jason todd #batfamily #batfam #dick grayson #robin #tim drake #bruce wayne #red hood #Nightwing #batdad #prompts #fic #titans tower au does this count? #enemy to caretaker for certain tho #or more like #enemy to son #or enemies to family? #huh #Batman #fanfiction

[foldingfittedsheets]

I worked retail for a long time and people really do treat you like shit sometimes. But between selling sex toys, mattresses, and jewelry I can say definitively I got treated worst selling mattresses.

All three of my jobs were in sales but selling sex toys we were allowed to put people in their place, and in jewelry people didn’t want to misbehave in a fancy setting. But people at the mattress store had no problem yelling at me, hitting on me, or insulting me to my face.

For a while I was managing my own store for the company. I ran a small location and had struggling employees placed with me for rehabilitation. If their numbers improved they could go back to bigger stores. If not, they got fired.

So this meant I was the manager of problem employees. At one point both of my people had a foot out the door. The company was going downhill and changed computer systems and they were fed up. Consequently, they made a ton of mistakes, because they just didn’t care about the job or learning the new systems.

I strolled into work on what was essentially my Monday to a shit show. Deliveries scheduled without product, wrong things on orders, poor expectations of the process, you name it. I spent the entire morning getting yelled at for mistakes that weren’t mine.

The final straw came when a man called furious that his moms bed for her nursing home had a delivery window he couldn’t accommodate. This wasn’t a huge disaster since we still had time to deliver it before she moved. I ran him through the options and he just kept screaming at me. Not for a solution but because I was there and he was frustrated.

My heart filled with malice and a cold fury. A calculating part of my brain had a realization in that moment that I could stay a punching bag or I could strike back.

I quavered my voice delicately, taking in a shaky, warbling breath like I was trying not to cry. “Sir,” I quivered through fake tears, “I don’t know what you want from me! I told you what I can do, I didn’t make this mistake I’m just trying to fix it!” My voice broke pitifully on the last syllables, sounding in all ways like a sweet innocent person being yelled at who’s just trying her best, really!

It was like I’d doused him with cold water. My emotional act was the realization that he was screaming at someone who was just doing their damn job, and he was being an asshole. He hastily made an excuse and hung up.

I had a third employee covering with me from another store that day who heard everything. When I hung up, I looked over to see them watching me with an awed expression. “Did… did you just pretend to cry?”

“I absolutely fucking did,” I said with feeling, “and I’d do it a thousand more times. If that’s what it takes for someone to realize they’re behaving like a fucking prick, they deserve it.” The employee looked at me like I was their hero.

The man called back, apologizing profusely, having magically arranged his schedule to accommodate delivery. He came in later that week with an apology Starbucks gift card. I was gracious in my acceptance.

I pulled it a few more times before leaving the company. I felt no shame in the ruse. If someone behaves so poorly that it’s plausible their behavior would drive someone to tears they deserve to feel absolutely wretched about it.

#ramblies #ffs foibles #story #retail #retail hell #I have had people over the years had qualms with the ruse #one person even told me it was so unprofessional #that I’d pretend to be in more distress was not nice of me. but getting yelled at is not nice and I’m in a position where I can’t yell back #and who would they complain to that I cried? would they go to corporate and say how unprofessional the lady cried when I screamed at her!

[canisalbus]

i did this quick machete art a couple weeks back, but never got around to showing you so - *hands you pale angsty babygorl*

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#the pale angsty babygorl #the many moods of Machete #sullen glower distressed screech and internal organs leaving the body unexpectedly #who among us hasn't had their heart fall out of their mouth in a moment of weakness hmm #sidenote that's a really nice anatomical heart #the angsty scream might be my favorite of these though #that's just his default internal state of mind #these are precious thank you so much! #gift art #caecusdoe #own characters #Machete #answered #poor boy needs a vacation #poor boy needs to be sedated for his own good

[formulapisces]

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#they all say ThIs OnE aCtUaLlY wOrKs #your friends with ocd do NOT appreciate this at all the next time i see one of these posts on my dash i’ll scream #alèssi says things #actually ocd #ocd #‘but you can just block the reblog bait tag’ it doesn’t get rid of shit. #if you’re not actually 7 years old why are you reblogging obvious bait and chainmail? grow up a bit. i’m so sick of it #the people reblogging this with ’reblog if you agree’ etc can also kindly go fuck themselves. #tw repetition #<- sorry i didn’t tag this earlier 🤍 #i hate this so much why so many re logs #and reblogs being like ‘sorry i do this tee hee 🤭’ it’s not funny i’m not joking these posts are distressing!

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

The Devil Bat | 1940

#The Devil Bat #bat #horror #boo #scream #damsel in distress #Suzanne Kaaren #practical effects #monster movie #nightmare #Hammersmith Horror

[shegoesbyjoy]

collecting images of lu guang's smile from this season like they're precious gemstones

#the end of e7 made me scream #was literally shaking from how exciting that lg moment was holy shit #big day for lu guang fans #that shot of him looking down at cxs lives rent free in my head now #his tiny smiles are what's getting me through all the emotional distress that this season is causing me lmao #also the fight choreography in this ep?! actually unreal. so fucking good #i am heartbroken about wang juan tho :((( #link click #link click spoilers #link click s2 #link click season 2 #lu guang #sgdlr #shi guang dai li ren #shiguang daili ren #time agents #時光代理人

[clutchmelon]

#lethal company #northernlion #dumbdog #sinvicta #this might be my favorite lethal comp clip Ever thus far #(rivaled by joel's mr. fart incident. iykyk) #as i expected nl is scared of Everything and pretends he isn't at random intervals #apollo's distressed voice and screaming when he got outside... #i almost passed away laughing

[showinalittlelife]

sry yeah i like my men a lil pathetic distressed and weird try again next yr

#thinking of choso #when he got the fake ass memories #my goodness #i would’ve sucked the distress right outta him if he didn’t look hot #woudlve had him screaming and crying for a whole other reason #lmao on a more serious note i should’ve been asleep an hour ago i’ve got school tmrw goodnight #choso kamo

[blackswnns]

I just find it so cute how Sam's frowning during literally the whooooole movie 🥺 poor baby

#melissa barrera #sam carpenter #scream 6 #scream #scream vi #my girl is in distress

[annikuh]

my sanity is in his clammy, wretched little hands

#clone high #topher bus #I have no distress tolerance lately; i only have this little shmuck and Jax keeping me from screaming til i die #kind of a joke but also kinda really not LMAO

[achillesuwu]

Hope!Hob AU but Dream is still well Dream Of the Endless.

However, Hob think that Dream is a random weird immortal human (he doesn't know his name !?! Like did that guy lived without him for years !?! How does a human even survive without Hope ?!?). He thinks that his stranger is neglected by every endless (living without Death Gift, a life without sleep and dream, even Delirium doesn't seem to give him the grace of going crazy,… even Hope negleted him without knowing it) meanwhile Dream know who Hob is and he says to him " You want to make me happy and hopeful ? lol yeah. Well I will make you bring me doom"

Just Hob & Dream being like : I'm going to prove you wrong >:)

and of course it ends with

Dream : FUCK, YOU MAKE ME HAPPY

Hob : FUCK FUCK FUCK I FELL IN LOVE WITH A HUMAN. I WILL BRING HIM DOOM

*cut scene to D Endless (aka the children of Time and Night) and H Endess (aka the children of Light and Gravity) meetings that Hob avoided for… well forever exept this time because Death managed to drag him there*

Hob : You aren't human.

Dream : nope.

Hob :

Hob *reflect on what Dream told him the first time* : … YOU KNEW, YOU KNEW THAT I DIDN'T KNOW, YOU ASSHOLE.

#dreamling #hope!hob #hob gadling #dream of the endless #the sandman #Hob is definitly running after Dream screaming #SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS. SEVEN HUNDRED YEEAAAAARRRSSS #meanwhile Dream is laughing with his awful laugh that Hob thought was distress cries 10 minutes before #Also : Hob is the kind of endless that doesn't spend a lot of time in his realm #So he didn't notice that the more he fell in love the closer his realm got to the Dreaming #My shit

[elavoria]

tesinktober2023 prompt 6: wizard

Tarhiel, before his untimely demise via Scroll of Icarian Flight.

#tesinktober2023 #multifantober2023 #the elder scrolls #morrowind #tarhiel #bosmer #my art #cue distressed screaming from the sky...

[sullina]

WE ARE SHAKING HANDS. DISTRAUGHT OVER HANAZUKI....

IT WAS SO GOOD

IT WAS A SIMPLE CONCEPT OF "there's a big bad thing. Our heroes have to fight it, using the unconventional method of expressing ones emotions in a healthy way" AND THIS IS SO GOOD

IT'S NOT OVERLY CONVOLUTED

IT'S EASY TO UNDERSTAND

BUT YOU CAN DO SO MUCH WITH IT

DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MANY DIFFERENT THINGS CAN INFLUENCE ONES EMOTIONS???

and even just what we GOT from Hanazuki already speaks of the potential the show had!

there's Hanazuki, obv, who's a healthy moonflower. She can grow treasure trees with little difficulty, and she can grow just about every kind of treasure tree.

Kiazuki, presumably, used to be a lot like Hanazuki, but she was unable to grow even a single treasure tree, so the "big bad" got her moon and all her little guys, except for one, are gone. From what I remember of the show, i can extrapolate, that either the big bad got her too soon, destroying her moon before she was able to grow a treasure tree. And since all "little guys" represent the range of emotions and are, presumably, supposed to help moonflowers grow treasure trees, Kiazukis little guys were probably lost sometime between after she came into existence and before the big bad got her moon. This loss left her depressed and angry and cold, effectively cutting her off from her ability to grow any treasure trees at all. And then Kiazuki meets Hanazuki and she's the villain for a while, but once they become friends, Kiazuki relearns, or rather learns for the first time, how to feel emotions. You don't see this kind of character arc often. We don't know exactly what happened, except for the fact that her moon was destroyed, but it's pretty obvious that it was traumatic for her, but instead of being reduced to the perfect victim, Kiazuki was made cold and angry and a villain. And only when this is acknowledged (by Hanazuki in this case) does she start to heal from it. And just as important is how Hanazuki, instead of getting angry with her and pushing her away indefinitely, instead showed understanding and helped her, even when Kiazuki stole Hanazukis treasure trees. It would've been easy for Hanazuki and the show to just dismiss Kiazuki as a cold hearted villain with evil intentions, but they didn't. And I just love that so much.

Then, in a similar strain to Kiazuki, there's Kiyoshi. He experienced a different kind of trauma to her, where instead of outside forces taking everything away, his own friends betrayed him and pushed him away. it's been a while since i watched it, but didn't they also, like... have him wanted like a criminal? Pretty harsh stuff anyway. So Kiyoshi, alone and betrayed, he still felt one emotion, but that emotion was sheer hopelessness. It's the only emotion he could feel anymore, because what else was he supposed to do? He was on his own and his former friends turned against him, there was nothing he could do.

Maroshi was introduced fairly late, but it's pretty clear that his way is the path of least resistance. If something bad happens, his go to response is "oh well, nothing I can do" and he gives up. According to the wiki, he didn't have any treasures available to protect his moon with in the first place, which does leave me wondering why? Hanazuki recieved her first treasure pretty much right after she was born, and both Kiazuki and Kiyoshi got plenty of treasures, despite one not being able to grow any and the other only being able to grow black trees. Did little dreamer not give him any on purpose? Did he forget about him? Seems unlikely, but it's pretty obvious that Maroshi wasn't born right before the big bad struck his moon, since him, Kiyoshi and Kiazuki had formed the Garlandians.

Miyumi was introduced last, only appearing in one single episode. Her attitude seems to be denial, since she seems to ignore any problem she comes across until Hanazuki could finally make her open her eyes to the fact that her little guys were being kidnapped. I don't have much to write about Miyumi. I mean, she was in one single episode.

But the introduction of the new unknown villain who kidnapped her little guys was so interesting and could've been so big! ESPECIALLY, because Kiazukis little guys were ALSO kidnapped like that!

WHO WAS THIS VILLAIN???

WHY ARE THEY GATHERING LITTLE GUYS FROM THE MOONS???

ARE THEY STRAIGHT UP EVIL OR JUST TRYING TO PROTECT THEMSELVES LIKE KIAZUKI TRIED TO???

AND WHAT

EVEN

IS

THE BIG BAD??????

THIS SHOW WAS CANCELLED BEFORE ITS TIME AND I WILL FOREVER BE DISTRAUGHT ABOUT IT

ESPECIALLY, but not exclusively, BECAUSE IT WAS SUCH AN INNOVATIVE CONCEPT!!!!!!!!!

#SCREAMING CRYING HOWLING IN DISTRESS #IT WAS SO GOOD TOT TOT TOT #Hanazuki #hanazuki full of treasures #kiazuki #kiyoshi #maroshi #miyumi

[dantesmelancholicshitpost]

I was just wondering - in episode 1, when Crowley stormed out after hearing Aziraphale's plan to help Gabriel, saying that angel is "on his own with this one" Aziraphale probably knew he's gonna come back. He always does, Aziraphale is very aware of that. To the point he jokes about it. He is sure of that since 1941, probably even before that, maybe from the very beginning. I just imagine him internally placing bets on when Crowley is going to come back and say that he is actually willing to help him with Gabriel.

#like he knows his bf #he is his damsel in distress #and he damn well knows that Crowley cannot let his kindness be a threat to his own good #screaming crying rolling on the floor #good omens #good omens 2 #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #good omens spoilers

[what-the-floofin]

Today we succeeded something very important and Brom needs a goddamn nap

 Aboleths are the worst creatures in existence

#dnd #dnd art #centaurs #cervitaur #floof in dnd #its ART #do you know how many nat 20s occurred to make this happen #from EVERYONE today #statistically ridiculous and we are screaming #mentor dad was in a very bad way #Thalo was SO distressed #but damn the plays achieved today *chef kiss* immaculate #we absolutely ruined one (1) aberration's day #with an awesome plan and I am proud of my group and DM #Thalo #Brom #Rowan #Aralia #Ilex

[tothepointofinsanity]

[Recently I’ve began to feel unpleasant towards the notion of going outside in any capacity involving public spaces shared by other people. Everything becomes a blur to the point where my view of the world starts to spin and distort. I can’t concentrate on anything when I’m put outside u_u]

#I also don’t feel like going out in general #it’s quite pathetic actually. #I daydream about going out but I almost never go out #I often stay at home submerged in my own activities #to the point I often forget that there is an Outside to begin with #that there is a whole other world out my door #but I hate leaving my own things be #trading one world for another… #it’s probably a zoid thing #people have to drag me kicking and screaming away from me tending to my daydreams and fictional characters #because without me thinking about them they cease to exist in that instant #it causes me distress to have to be away from my own things #ttpoilog