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am-i-the-asshole-official · 6 months

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AITAH for telling my wife no?

My wife (35f) and I (38m) have been married for 12 years, dated for 3 before that. We have 3 kids (10m, 7f, and 5f). We both work full time in separate fields, she does some chemistry thing that I don't understand and I am a manager at a computer repair store my friend runs, and also a short story writer when its slow. She is definitely the breadwinner bill payer between the two of us, but I bring in the fun money for our family and would be completely listless if I didn't at least work part time. We also fully own our home because of her job.

Also, my parents watch the kids for us during the week when we are working. It's been this way since our son was born, and they've been doing it less since they are all in school. But it's free childcare, they refuse to accept money unless it's reimbursing for buying food.

Ok, now that all of that backstory is set, here's where the problem begins.

A couple of months ago my wife started pepper into conversations about a possible promotion coming up that would get her out of the lab and into a more "manage the lab team" position, with less dangerous hours for more pay. Ever since the first time she mentioned it I've been hyping her up and telling her she's a shoo in for the promotion, especially since she's been working there since her masters internship and now she has a PhD.

Last night she told me she was getting word today if she got it! After she left for work this morning I called my boss up and told him I couldn't come in today, and then told my parents the kids were saying with me. We spent the day cleaning the house, drawing congratulations cards, and making a congratulations banner. We also made a couple cards that say sorry and we love you for if she didn't get it. I was working on making her favorite dinner (lobster rolls with lobster bisque, because she's a fancy lady) when she got home earlier than normal. Everyone was surprised, because noone is usually home at this time and yet here everyone was. She got tears in her eyes seeing everything we were still working on, got down and hugged our two youngest, and said she got the promotion! Cheering all around! And that's when she dropped the bomb, saying we need to get a realtor in a state three away from us so we can relocate within the next two months.

I was stunned, and just said no, we arent moving for this promotion. In all of her talks she never mentioned that the promotion wasn't for the same location she's been at. All of our family is here, her parents and mine, all of our friends are here, my job is here. She insisted that she's mentioned relocating before but I swear she never did. That set of a completely new argument about never listening to her and only hearing what I want to hear, and how this will make it so I can stay home with the kids and not even need a fun money job. During this I noticed she was typing on her phone, and when I asked why she was multitasking an argument she said she was texting my parents to get the kids so they don't have to see this.

When my parents got here they congratulated her on the promotion and asked how long until we move.

She told my parents the promotion included relocation.

I'm typing this on the couch in the basement, because I can't face her right now. My parents knowing means she probably did say we would need to move if she got it. I don't want to move, I like my job, and our house. I like being near my parents. I know this would practically set us for life but I don't want to. I know I'm being selfish, and I know I must not be listening when she talks, but I still don't think she should accept the promotion. I still think no.

What are these acronyms?

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@nho-jungle Your gift for the @qsmp-secretvalentine event is a small BBH/Foolish ficlet, set in an au where Foolish scavenges the remains of crashed or shot down spaceships and sells what's left, and Bad is the trader he sells it to. In this ficlet, Bad has been commissioned to get his hands on something very specific and so hired Foolish to take him to a wreck likely to have it. Not that they get there in this story - space has many shinies to distract the two men.

I hope you enjoy it <3 It was a delight to write for you.

They are three sectors out from their target when Foolish turns off the autopilot. The ship computer reads off a series of warnings about it, summoning Bad back through from the kitchens.

“Did we get there early?” Bad asks, sitting to strap himself into the co-pilot’s seat.

“Nah,” Foolish confirms. “Spotted something off to port. Might be debris from a fight? I wanna check it out.”

“We’re not getting involved in a spacefight.”

“Nope, don't worry, it's just the debris. But it wasn't there last time, so might still have some good shinies.”

“I’m not paying you extra for this."

Sure, but that is not a no.

“Yeah, well, I’m sure someone else will buy this off me.”

They’re both perfectly well aware that it will be Bad buying the scrap off him, anyway. It will not be at the best price, but if Foolish cared about the money he was receiving, he would have found a new trader years ago.

Really, Bad is more trouble than he’s worth – he’s a trader, not a scavenger, and still demanded personally accompanying Foolish on this trip. He was commissioned by someone with more money than sense to track down some item or another – one likely near the wrecked ship that is their first target – and wants to collect it personally.

Foolish might not care that much about the money, but splitting the earnings 50/50 after repair costs is tasty. And the company is almost nice.

Except for when Bad claims to be a competent copilot and proves to be another big, fat lie.

But then, it’s not his flying skills or his money that Foolish keeps him around for.

So Foolish laughs at his ineptitude, and corrects their flight path, and leads them off on a little side quest for some extra, potentially valuable, scrap.

It will only be an hour or two’s detour; their hire will not even notice.

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“Hey look at this!” Bad holds up a lump of burnt out hull.

Foolish, for his sins, does turn and look. He is confused what is so special about it. He pulls a face at Bad, before remembering that the spacesuit prevents him from actually seeing it.

Annoying but, given they are combing through that debris he spotted, absolutely necessary. Foolish has seen people die to the space vacuum, and it looks a nasty way to go.

“It’s kindaaaaa,” Foolish squints, trying to make out any details. There are plenty of them, but none with sense. A joke, then. “Oh! I know! It looks like Dapper!”

“Foolish!” Bad yells, kicking off of another piece of junk to come closer. “Dapper is far too handsome to be compared to space junk! And if it looks like Dapper it looks like Leo!”

“Hey!” It is Foolish’s turn to be offended on his child’s behalf. It has been a while since he saw her, but at least he knows she is home and safe. “It does NOT look like Leo!”

“Well no!” Bad replies. “It’s a sheep! You know? Baaaa!”

Foolish squints, desperately trying to work out what Bad is talking about even as he plays along, “it is kind of lumpy, I’ll give you that. I didn’t think sheep were actually lumpy though?”

“The textures are just like their fleeces!” And Foolish cannot tell if Bad is excited or bullshitting him. “And here’s it’s face, and here’s it’s little tail…”

Yeah, definitely bullshitting.

Foolish looks around for an appropriate piece of debris for himself. He does not find a perfect one – it will take a lot of imagination to make this work, not that that has ever been Bad’s problem – but he does find something. He grabs it, pointing the lump in Bad’s direction, and kicking himself that way.

“Wroof!!!” he calls as he ‘chases’ Bad’s ‘sheep’ down. “This one’s a sheepdog! And naughty sheep have to get back into the pen.”

Bad cackles as he also kicks himself into motion, heading deeper into the debris. Both of them are careful with their lines as they dance deeper in, dog chasing sheep further and further within.

Near the centre, Bad pauses. Foolish, only half paying attention crashes in to him.

He looks up, and around, looking for whatever Bad saw.

After a few minutes he spots it; in the centre of the torn up bits of ship is a cloud of shattered dust, ice and crystal. Most likely it was not a fight at all, then, but rather a particularly large ship crashing particularly badly into a large asteroid.

It is beautiful, though; unlike the chunks of metal from the ship, the cloud of chips and dust reflects the lights from their helmets back at them, glistening almost. With the quality of their suits it is not especially dangerous, bar how it dazzles and blinds them, so… Foolish pushes himself towards it, and looses himself in the dust.

Bad follows him.

Because of course he does.

It is hard to make each other out, with the light reflecting every which way about them; Foolish feels Bad tug on his rope, following it to find him. At first there is just the beautiful light, and then there is Bad right in his space.

Foolish wants to kiss him.

He cannot, not without taking off his helmet, an act which may as well be suicide, but he wants to.

Bad seems to agree; he taps their helmets together.

Foolish takes his hands.

Their eyes meet.

In the dazzling haze of crystals they stare into one another’s eyes…

“Baa!” Bad calls, and laughs. He pushes against Foolish’s chest, knocking him deeper into the cloud even as he escapes at speed.

“You muffin!” Foolish yells after him.

With nothing to kick off of he tugs himself on his rope, picking up speed. The moment is gone, the beauty shattered just like the asteroid, and they are back to their usual games.

But, perhaps next time, it will happen somewhere they can actually kiss.

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heresathreebee · 2 years

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Kurt Kunkle | Spree (2020) || Nipple Play // Praise Kink

No Murder AU; 2.5k words; NO BETA/ SELF- EDITED, Perverted Behavior (extreme), Swearing, Roleplay (Enemies), Name Calling, Dysfunctional Family, sub!Kurt, Rough Play, Slapping, Humiliation Kink (extreme), Shorter Reader (Kurt/Keery is 5’ 11”), Breast Worship, Ruined Clothes, Fingering (vaginal and anal), No Contraception, Mommy Kink, Breast Humping, Ejaculate On/Near Face, Kissing

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SURPRISE this is a CONTINUATION from DAY 14 KURT KUNKLE LOVE BITES/MARKS

Boredom strikes hard around the late afternoon, since most of the house is clean, empty, or both. Literally no cleaning or packing had been started in Kurt's bedroom aside from his computer shit, but that was tomorrow's problem. For right now, the oven was making a weird noise and had a weird smell that was delaying dinner, and Mr. and Mrs. Kunkle were on the phone trying to fix it.

Kurt's head thunks against a kitchen cabinet. You both stand way too close together for two people who supposedly hate each other as you watch the older adults struggle to connect a simple repair job. Positions mirrored, you lean on the fridge with your arms crossed over your chest and so does Kurt, one foot between each other's wide legged stance.

Kris turned his head around to look at you. "You may wanna head home, dinner's gonna be extra late if we can't get this thing started."

"Or turn the oven on without blowing the whole house up," Angela adds crankily.

"Don't worry about me, guys. If you can't get it fixed, I can go pick something up and bring it back for you."

As soon as his parents' backs were turned, Kurt mouths, 'kiss ass' at you. You respond by quickly glancing at the elder Kunkles to make sure they're still distracted, then kick him in the shin and pantomime deep throating a penis. Kurt gropes himself and mouths, 'suck this one' before you both pretend like nothing had transpired between the two of you.

The whole party listens to three minutes of hold music and makes idle conversation before somebody from customer service picks up and has Kris and Angela's full attention.

You were too busy watching their backs to notice Kurt's sneaky hands.

"Hey!" You whisper yell as he caresses your boobs and scares the shit out of you.

Kurt just shushes you like you're the one who's going to get them caught and continues to play with them, pulling at the cups of your bra and tugging at your shirt. It feels good so you let him continue to play, edging closer so that it's not so obvious that he's feeling you up.

He gives you his jacket (oversized on you) to let you hide yourself, then tucks your shirt up into your armpits. His eyes light up like a kid on Christmas upon seeing your bra and the curve of your breasts. Everything is always treated like it's new to Kurt and it starts a bio feedback loop of excitement in your brain. You bite down on your lip and watch his parents out of the corner of your eye as Kurt slips a finger under the bra's underwire.

You don’t want him to pull it up like your shirt lest you get caught, so you take his hands and help him pull the cups down and tucked underneath your spilling, hardening buds. And poor little virgin Kurt gasps softly upon laying his eyes on your naked chest.

“Kurt,” you whisper, “touch them.”

His eyes darken and he pinches and kneads your flesh like his own personal doughy toy. And his efforts are rewarded with stifled moans that sound like deep breaths, as well as the sight of you squeezing your thighs together in the paint splattered denim shorts you wore today.

It’s getting harder not to just shove his hand into your underwear and demand he take care of you. Kurt’s mouth hangs open and his eyes droop and he looks like a sappy, lovesick pet who wants nothing more than to suck on your tits. He might even purr if he did…

Thankfully, Kurt is paying just slightly more attention to your surroundings than you are, and he pulls your shirt down (without fixing your bra) before leaning back to fake a casual pose as his mom turns around. You wrap the jacket he gave you over your chest to hide and somehow nobody notices it’s traded owners.

“Good news! Linda, the customer service girl, says it’s just some old, burnt food and we can totally heat the pizza!”

You and Kurt fake an enthusiastic cheer. Kris pats his pockets with a cigarette hanging from his mouth and turns to his son.

“You got a light, bud?”

Kurt’s eyes dart to you for help, though you’re not sure why. That is until you reach into the jacket pockets and find a cheap bic lighter in it. You hold it out to Kris and try to stay neutral. “Here.”

“Thanks…” Kris raises an eyebrow but doesn’t actually care enough to ask (it’s probably the hunger making him lose his grip on reality). “You got grease on your leg there, you should wash that off before it stains.”

Bending over you spot a black smudge on your skin just above your knee You suddenly recall touching something dirty in the garage and sigh. Kris walks away and Kurt’s hand snatches your wrist.

“You can use our shower!”

He pulls you behind him and his mother calls after you, “not upstairs! Use the downstairs one!”

“Kurt. Kurt!” You roll your eyes as he shoves you into the tiny bathroom and slams the door in his haste. “Will you calm down? I’m not taking a shower, I don’t have clothes to change into!”

He turns on the showerhead (which is loud as fuck), locks the door, and slams his mouth onto yours. You bite his lip but he doesn’t stop, instead Kurt lifts you into his arms, crushes you against the wall and rolls his hard-on into your hips. You have to turn your head and get free and gulp at the air you were being denied.

“What the hell are you doing, jackass?”

His teeth dig into your neck leaving little indents. “I can’t do this anymore, Y/N. We’ve been playing this fucking game for weeks and still haven’t fucked yet. Please. I will literally do whatever you want later but I need to actually fuck you for real now!”

His pretty, pleading face appears before yours. He looks so pathetic and puppy-like even with his hard (and fat, you’ve seen that shit and you know it’s fucking huge) cock fighting to break free. And he wasn’t alone: not fucking Kurt was driving you crazy, too. It was making you both bolder, reckless, you had been caught more times in the last three days than all the other days combined. It was going to get suspicious and if you get kicked out before actually getting dicked down, you’re going to lose your shit.

But ever the control freak, you propose an addendum. “You can do whatever you want to my body right now, except put your dick in me. Got it?”

Kurt thought about it. Truthfully, he knew he would blow his load the second his cock breached your walls (we are talking two seconds flat, one thrust takes him halfway and he cracks like an egg and passes out FAST). Did he really have the capacity to fuck you without fucking you?

Come on Kurt, get creative.

The curtain of his greasy bangs jerks as he nods once and then he rips your shirt in half. The look of shock on your face is comparable to one seeing a pedestrian get hit by a car. You want to slap him, but then he’s head down, sucking your nipple into his mouth and, well, if you hit him now he’d bite you by accident. It feels good too– a little weird sensation and he does it with a little too much enthusiasm– but the tiny bathroom is filling with steam quickly and making the room hot and muggy. You toss aside the remnants of your shirt (rest in pieces) and work your shorts off. You take your panties with them in the hopes of saving them from the greedy, vicious paws of one Kurt Kunkle.

You yelp when his teeth scrape against your bud and he switches sides, trying to pull as much of your tit as he can into his mouth and swallowing around it. “You fucking dick.”

Kurt manhandles you to the condensation covered tiles and your shorts get tangled around your ankles, trapping your lower half. Your horny idiot jams his finger into your pussy and growls, ignoring the clench of your walls as his inexperience makes him stiff instead of loose to follow the natural curve of your insides. You pull hard on his hair and he groans louder, adding another ramrod straight finger and circling his thumb over your clit.

“Bend, Kurt, it hurts.” He looks at you dumbfounded, and you show him with your own hand and feel him shift. “Almost, almost. Relax your digits, please…”

He slurps your breast back into his mouth and massages your inner walls, finally fingering you correctly and replacing the pain with pleasure. “Yes, yes. Just like that, baby.”

Kurt’s eyes flutter and he uses your bent knee to get some friction on his stiff cock. There’s barely any room for movement at all– it’s literally just a bath/shower combo, 2.5 by 4 feet of white tile floor, and the door which Kurt keeps kicking loudly. His thrusting fingers abandon you on the cusp of a long awaited orgasm, but you feel instantly vindicated when he stuffs his juicy fingers into his mouth only to choke and hack violently. It seems that upon pushing himself up to his knees, he accidentally touched whatever black dry gunk was on your leg and it must taste awful judging the way his eyes tear up.

“Kurt are you in there!? The hell are you doing?” Kris knocks loudly on the door and you freeze upon seeing the knob jiggling.

“I’m fix it!,” he yells back over the rush of the shower. “The temperature’s acting weird again! Go away!”

You kick him in the chest for being rude and he snatches your clothes off your ankle before folding you back like a pretzel and staring down at your bare, slick pussy like a hot meal on display. He stares for a good minute before his eyes dart up to yours. Hair dripping and clothes sticking to his skin, he spreads your legs wider and opens you up more, completely vulnerable to him.

“...can I put just the tip in–”

“No!”

“- come on!” He grinds his teeth and swipes his tongue over you from your asshole to your clitoris, not for your pleasure but for his. He frees one leg and twists you onto your side, hooking your calf around his neck and shoving his fingers into your asshole. “What about this? Can I put my dick here?”

“Were you dropped on your head as a baby?" You shudder feeling the assault of his fingers in such a sensitive place. "What part of ‘no dick in me’ don’t you understand?”

“Yeah, yeah,” he mocks you and keeps fingering your ass until he gets bored again. “Oh!”

He drags you further down the tiles and straddles your chest before realizing he’s still fully clothed and standing up to get naked. And fuck, if he doesn’t look good from down below. Hair up his legs, lots hair on his chest, and a happy trail leading to the nest of curls crowning the base of his thick cock. For a scrawny little git, he becomes twice a man when he ditches the lazy college drop out look.

“What are you doing,” you ask as he sits back over your chest and pushes your boobs together.

“What’s it look like?,” he says with a manic grin. “I’m gonna tit fuck you!”

Fuck, you think as you mourn your abandoned peek. I did say anything, didn’t I?

“Touche.”

It takes him a second to figure out where and how to get situated so his cock gets the best friction– he even makes you cross your arms to help which you oblige begrudgingly. And from the first thrust, when your wet flesh on flesh makes a tiny squeak, you know this is a fucking dream come true for Kurt, the little bastard.

“Asshole,” you grouch as his hairy sack tickles your rib cage with every thrust. You try to look down only to get knocked in the chin with his tip and hear him groan at the unexpected contact. His hands are planted on the slippery floor and he ruts onto you like an animal.

“So good, baby, so so good.” He’s panting and water or sweat drips off of his chin and nose. “Fuck, mommy…”

Oh? “Oh mommy? You picturing Angela under you?”

“Shut up,” he growls. “I didn’t mean it like that.”

But you can’t resist teasing him and laughing. Instantly one of his hands slaps across your cheek, stunning you into silence. The humiliation on his red face doesn’t mean shit because his dick is still very, very hard between your breasts and you smile impishly at him.

“Ok Kurt, I’ll be your mommy. Are you gonna give me a pearl necklace, baby?”

The boy shudders above you and resumes thrusting, this time his eyes are all on you. “Uh-huh. Big one, lots of– ugh– pearls on it.”

You don’t mean a real one and the euphemism is lost on him, but none of that matters as his thrusts start to get sloppy and his pants whinier. The muscles in his belly flex over and over and over in your face until he dead stops and jets of pearly semen squirt into your face. One string shoots across the bow of your nose, another paints your chin and drips down your jaw, and a third spatters over your forehead.

Kurt’s left shaking and limp, barely able to hold himself over you and keep from crushing you.

“Finished? Good. Now get out.”

…

He lets you borrow his clothes for the night (with some lame excuse to his parents that they don’t really care about) and pulls you aside by the arm as you go to grab your purse and keys. “Ask them to stay the night,” he whispers.

“What?”

“Ask my parents if you can stay the night,” he tries again. “We can sleep on the couch together…”

You gently pry your arm free and glance at him sadly. “It’s almost midnight. I can’t. I’m already going to get shit for coming home in someone else’s clothes.”

Kurt bumps his forehead against yours sadly. You reciprocate with an affectionate kiss on the nose and reply, “I’ll ask to stay tomorrow. You’re going to need to go to bed and wait until they’re asleep to come down. OK?”

Instantly, he perks up. “Yeah. Ok. Can I… can I kiss you goodbye?”

You check over his shoulder to make sure you’re alone and nod. Kurt holds your face and kisses you sweetly. He must have practiced on a pillow or gleaned something crucial from the dominating, hungry kisses you’ve taken from him before. He releases you and it takes you some time to actually get up the sense of mind to leave.

Fuck, you always knew he was hopelessly in love with you, but now it seems like you’re in love with him too.

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I dont know what it is about Kurt Kunkle but I want to put his head between my thighs and fucking suffocate him to death

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thesickpanda · 14 days

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Breakdown After Breakdown

So interest rates have gone up, making paying our already HUGE mortgage even more difficult. Partner’s wages aren’t exactly rising. And the cost of food is so high the government is now investigating our two big chain supermarkets for adding to the cost of living stress on the populace.

All this is happening at a time when my partner and I are experiencing major burnout, enduring family drama, and I received some truly terrifying health news (my GI tract is very literally melting from off-the-charts inflammation and I am at high risk for colon cancer, among other things).

We have been saddled with so much bad news and hardship that we feel we’re about to lose our minds, so we go fuck it, we NEED a break, and booked a cheap motel for two nights over Easter near a national park. We had the modest ambition of spending time in nature looking for orchids and birds.

Yeah, we got one day of that before our old second hand car (which we bought for a few thousand dollars from the side of the road last year) decided to break down for the umpteenth time, and we spent 12 hours of the second day of our 2 day vacation just trying to get home (eventually being towed). The SAME DAY my partner got a virus on his ancient laptop and my mobile phone started to fail. We purchased a new, bargain basement phone in town while waiting for the tow truck to arrive, and less than 2 weeks later I dropped it and smashed the camera on it. YAY.

So no break for us. Fine.

But then shit kept hitting the fan. When we got home, MY computer started to sputter out and die. We cannot afford a new computer right now, as we’re paying off a ton of medical expenses for me, so a week later my partner bought parts for it and rebuilt it himself.

And then there’s the car situation.

Since Easter, 3 mechanics have looked at the car, can identify there is a major problem, but cannot FIND it. So it remains broken. My car is also really old and sprung a leak in the boot and got soaked after a storm, so that now it stinks to high heaven from musty mold. But we cannot afford another car, so OH WELL. I have a severe mold allergy and a sensitive nose but we cannot afford to valet it, and partner has sincerely had no time to clean it.

Then: our vacuum cleaner broke and the very next day the lawn mower broke, too. The mower repair shop would not even repair it because “that brand is such a cheap piece of shit it’ll just break on you in a few more days and I don’t wanna be held liable”. Wow.

And then this morning the towel rail broke after I hit my head onto it for the millionth time, and the wheel came off the laundry trolley for the second time before a huge load of towels finished in the washing machine. I am already disabled and currently have an inflamed nerve in my right foot, so the lack of a trolley is REALLY not helpful.

This is the week I have to spend an ungodly amount of money on three separate medical professionals and order a very expensive medical test to maaaaybe find the pathogen destroying my gut.

I recently watched a TLDR Global news video about the fertility crisis in South Korea and the world at large and it rightly points out house prices and cost of living being a deterrent for people to have babies. Under the video was a comment that I feel sums up what it is like to be alive in this 21st century:

“Long working hours. Low wages. High costs. No chance of ever owning a house. 0 work-life balance without a child, let alone with one. Layoffs left right and center. Hard if not impossible to get a job even with experience. Life is stressful as is already. Low standards of life. Nothing is family friendly - work, life, schools etc. A lot of the institutions still have the same mentality of - man works, woman stays at home, and it just doesn't fit how people want to live now.”

We are childless and partially own our own home (and only with assistance from the Bank of Mum And Dad as the boomers love to call it) and WE are struggling. How the HELL is humanity going to keep going like this? I am so worn down by the grind of everything, and relative to fellow millennials, we’re doing WELL. The only freedom is money, which the vast majority of us do not have in amounts that would actually afford us quality of life.

All I can say in the face of all this, is fuck capitalism.

And also fuck Australia, which appears to be its biggest bitch at the moment:

Source: TLDR News Global

#angry rant #fuck capitalism #cost of living crisis #australia #chronic illness #the cost of being ill

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tyranova · 2 years

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A little bit of an explanation, a lot a bit of an apology.

For everyone who cares to see, this is a copy-and-paste of a post over on my Patreon (hyperlink should be to the post itself) that I finally decided to revitalize. This has taken me... Quite a long time to write, but it finally needed to be put out there.

That being said, the whole thing is under the cut, so that people don’t get a hugelarge post across their dashboard. Thank you for your time, thank you for reading, and I hope you have a wonderful day.

So I wanted to start out by saying thank you to the people who supported me when you did, and thank you to the people who wanted to support me, and thank you to the people who still support me. When I received that support, it was at a time of my life when I needed it.

That being said, you might look at this post and wonder "So, Nova, why haven't you touched anything in over four years?" and to that I say... Well, I don't really have an excuse. I've got a couple of reasons, and you can take them or leave them, it is all ultimately up to you. I've been writing this for... Longer than I'd like to admit, wanting to get the words down just right.

Ultimately, there's a couple of very simple reasons for my absence.

Back in 2017, at the end of October, I ran away from home. I was living in an abusive household, and, with the help of a dear friend, I bit the bullet and just... Left. I gave live updates about my journey to what would be my new home, letting people know that I was still alive, and that I'd finally reached my goal: Freedom.

At the beginning of 2018, I moved out and into a shared apartment. I'd recently started up my YouTube channel I'd always wanted to start, and had tons of energy for creating content. I was brimming with ideas (even if I was limited by the resources I had access to), and wanted everything I put out to be the best that my unskilled hands could make it. I was learning as I went, and I kept trying my best, each and every video, to make it as great as I could. I had a job that I worked overnights at, and I felt like I had so much to do, all I had to do was put it into words. I was ambitious, and I felt like I could reach my ambition, and nothing could stop me. I created a Patreon! I had professional-level photo and video-editing software! I was on top of my own little world.

Then... The latter half of 2018 hit. I quit my job to work at a different place, with better conditions (even if it wasn't better pay,) so I could have more time to create. But, in August, a huge storm hit the area I live in, and I live in a basement apartment, so there were a lot of things that got ruined. It caused chaos in my life. I couldn't create any content anymore, because the areas I worked in were being blocked off by things because of my apartment's near mismanagement of repairs. There were constant notices, every week, "Be on the lookout for people coming between X and Y time on [Day when you're off work and can record]" wasn't really something I could work around. My work flow, mostly due to the OCD, required I be able to start on a project, and not stop until it was done. On top of this, I'd also recently been unable to go to therapy anymore, so things slowly started feeling like they were adding up.

By the way, it ended up taking them 10 months to finally fix everything that got damaged by the flooding, in case anyone was curious.

I'd started up a couple of YouTube series before I moved into my apartment. I was doing some indie games, and I had a Fallout 4 Let's Play going, because it's what I had access to. I attempted to do a blind playthrough of DOOM (2016), but the footage got corrupted. (Side note: Loved the game, may still play it for people and do a blind run of DOOM Eternal) I'd had a Minecraft Let's Play going, as well, because I loved the game, but I, simply put, wasn't putting that same love into my content. My last Fallout 4 episode was on July 22nd, 2018, and I hadn't done anything since. This was mostly due to the computer I was using for my basic video editing software ended up dying, and ironically the people who made the software discontinued it shortly around the time it died.

But I couldn't just leave people with... Nothing, that would be hurtful to both myself, and my audience. I attempted to do more livestreams, since it was easier for me to get the energy to stream a couple of hours, rather than record, edit, re-edit, possibly re-record, and output a more polished product than what I'd been doing. The livestreams went relatively well. I did Minecraft, because if and when (and there was a plan for a when) I went back to Fallout, I wanted to make it nice and polished. I'd done Minecraft streams before, what would be the difference?

And it was good. For a while. But ultimately, I lost my creative energy for it, and I felt my own performance getting worse and worse with each passing stream. The burnout was hitting, and it was hitting hard. But I kept trying to push through it, and, in the end, the burnout got the best of me. I just... Stopped it all together.

It was a situation that I'd hope that, if I ignored it, the problem would go away. The problem being: Lack of creative content (or content in general) and lack of energy to do anything. I felt that if I could just... Take some time without thinking about it, the content would come back to me.

The end of 2019 came with a new job, and the start of 2020 came with leaving said job. They apparently were only hiring seasonal work, and were a lot flexible on hours than they said they'd be, so I took the simplest solution and left, telling myself I could find something else quick.

And then the beginning of the pandemic hit.

It was hard to find work. And, due to some fuckery that happened when I quit my first job, I couldn't collect unemployment (which hit extra hard when the pandemic started.) The majority of 2018 I'd had to rely on people to help support me, same thing for 2019, and 2020 was shaping up to be the same. I got a job at the end of 2020 that lasted for a couple of months before an altercation between me and another coworker (that they initiated) led to me leaving (I wasn't asked, I just didn't want to cause any further ruckus.)

By this point, I hadn't had posted any form of content in almost a year, I was quiet on every form of social media, and the burnout, anxiety, and paranoia were extreme. I kept telling myself I just needed to get back on my feet, just needed to stabilize, and I could get back to living my dreams. It's only sensible for people to want to live their best lives, I told myself, and I just needed to be able to get the things (I've had a list on PCPartPicker for years that I've been trying to build to get back into streaming/recording, as well as peripherals on an Amazon wishlist that I've been staring at for ages.)

The majority of 2021 passed by without much. No job offers, no callbacks, not even a rejection letter. Nothing. But in September of 2021, a friend of mine told me that his kitchen was hiring dishwashers, and so I said "Fuck it, it's work, and they're paying decently, let's try it."

And it was honestly one of the best jobs I've had ever. It was good pay, full time, and slowly over time my duties shifted away from dishwashing to doing prep work and cleaning, something I was much more apt to do. I had enough money to pay my bills and do fun stuff every so often, and started saving up a bit of money so I could finally achieve my dreams.

In January of 2022, however, I started feeling under the weather. I'd been sluggish, coughing a lot, and slowly just felt my energy draining harder than it had up until that point. Turns out, at some point, I'd caught Covid. Now, At that point I was fully vaccinated, so it wasn't nearly as bad as it could be, I told myself. And then I was sick for six weeks, and was constantly feeling like death after the second. I do know it would've been a lot worse, with my case, had I not been vaccinated, but it was still unfortunate. I didn't have insurance (because it was still way too much to be taken out of each paycheck by my employer, so I didn't want to risk it,) and I'd actually just spent money right before it hit, so I was flat broke for two weeks. Over the course of those six weeks, however, I received a total of two weeks of payment (when I was told I'd be getting Covid pay for all six weeks), went through constant tests to see if I would make a recovery. My life had fallen apart with regards to income and socially, and ultimately, long Covid would kick my ass. I never was able to really fully recover, and as a result, my hours were cut, and I was ultimately laid off after 11 months of employment there (even if it was only 9 and a half of actual working).

After this last job, however, something just... Felt different. I didn't feel despair as I had from every other job I'd gained and lost over the years. Sure, I've been depressed the last month or so I was unemployed, but it wasn't the same soul-crushing depression that I've been feeling the last few years. I resolved to take care of myself better, at the very least, than I had in each of my depression slumps before, and it's... It's been a lot more manageable than previous years. Still depressed, still unemployed, still (unfortunately) having to ask for favors just to get by, but this time it just... Hits different.

But after my life's story over the last five years has been spilled, with my 24th birthday right around the corner, I just wanted to say... Thank you. Thank you to everyone who did support me when they did, and thank you to everyone who supports me now. I'm truly, truly sorry for (what I feel like, at least) was betraying people's trusts, and I don't know what else to say besides that.

Lately I've been working on actually, officially writing the story I've been wanting to write for years. Actually over 13 years at this point. It's something I've been trying to convince my brain to do, and I've slowly come to realize you can't... Force these things. That's been the big theme of this massive depressive episode, I suppose, is that you can't force anything to happen. I've also got some video ideas I've been writing down and getting things together for them, to try to do, because they're fun, challenging, and I think that people would have fun watching them. I'm not going to say dates for anything, because I don't want to promise people something and ultimately end up not being able to deliver on time. I'm trying, this time around, to not force anything that doesn't want to be made to be made, just need to let the creative process happen when it happens, so I don't get overwhelmed and burnt out again. I want to make sure that if I make something, if it isn't a rough draft, it's as good as I can make it in the moment I make it.

That being said, some keen eyes may have noticed a lot of content went missing from my YouTube channel. Don't worry, the content isn't deleted, it's just... Not up to my standards, so I privated the videos. They're an important part of my journey, even if it's a low point, but I want to try to improve so I can show people how much I've (hopefully) grown. I at least put effort into my Fallout videos, so I kept that together, and a few other fun videos along the way I was personally proud of when they happened. They may not be the best content by any means, but I was at least proud with what I could make when I made it.

Along with this post, there will be the rough draft of the first chapter of the story I'm working on available to anyone and everyone, so they can see it as like a preview of what I've been up to recently. In the meantime, like I said I've also got some videos I'm working on that I've been testing things for that I feel like can turn out to be really fun content, so we'll see about that when the time comes. Hell, I even started a Ko-Fi (that I also have no idea how to use) in case people want to do something over there.

People may also notice that there is now only one tier: The "Pay What You Want" tier, starting at $1. For the time being, this is the one and only tier I have on Patreon. I want to make sure I can consistently put out content for people before committing to more (as well as getting more ideas for more varied content for people for various tiers, though it may only stay with the one tier until I decide to either pull the plug or go harder into Patreon things.) This phase of my life is all about taking things at my own pace so I can make good, quality content (or as good, quality content as I can) for everyone. If that means I can put out multiple videos in a week, then I put out multiple videos in a week. If it takes months, it takes months.

By no means is anyone required to monetarily support me, I know I've given virtually nothing these last few years, but I want to try to change that, and if people decide "Hey, I like your content, can I do anything about it?" then I'm simply going to direct them to here and Ko-Fi until I can get YouTube back on track, and Twitch, as well, and go from there.

One step at a time, we will make it there.

I'm working on cleaning up a lot of things, and for the first time in a very long time, I've felt like I can get things back on track.

Once again, a huge thank you to my friends and people who have helped support me over the years, though I haven't done anything I've felt like deserved it. You've been amazing to me, and I wouldn't be here without you.

And, as always, I'll see you all in the next one!

#tyranova #nova speaks #long post #i promise i'm alive just been... busy

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squadrah · 2 years

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Melone, the squadra sysadmin. what is it like?

Thank you for sending me an ask, Anon! Been hoping for some fun new brain exercises in these trying times.

And good question! Honestly I think it's pretty challenging to be a La Squadra sysadmin, and not even because of the workplace necessarily, but because there are some unique factors Melone (and the others) need to keep in mind for their systems to run smoothly.

First, Risotto is a safety hazard. Sure, he can go near computers despite his magnetism, and I bet Metallica can also come in handy when the hardware needs repairs or reinforcement, but he just feels like the type that upsets electronic equipment in general. Online servers hate him: Naples man tried to send a circular email and the whole system shut down just to spite him. This is a neat little headcanon to explain why Ghiaccio is the one breaking the news about Polpo in the group chat, but also I just find it funny. If Risotto wants to get anything computer-related done, Melone is his go-to.

Second, I want Babyface Laptop to be their home server. On the one hand, the manifestation of Melone's soul has great wifi, and distance is no obstacle so that's a plus; on the other hand, it has a will of its own sometimes, and I want you all to imagine Melone chasing it around the hideout like "Come back, I'm not done reconfiguring yet!" The good news is that Babyface is pretty much immune to your average computer problems since it is intelligent enough to autorun and figure it out for itself.

The humans it shares its life with, however? They are still in the early era of personal computers and the Internet, so I feel like everyone has made their own computers crash at one point or another. Ghiaccio has definitely smashed his in anger; I would not put that past Prosciutto either. Formaggio once shrank his to be portable and then lost it, so even after undoing the effect with Little Feet, they never found his computer. Illuso probably got one of those paranoia-inducing chain emails and everyone was freaking out over it being The Work Of An Enemy Stand, so they sent out ten emails to other members of Passione in the hopes of deflecting the curse. Pesci was tricked online to delete system32, and Gelato and Sorbet contracted computer viruses the likes of which you have never even heard of.

All in all, a never-boring job for Melone.

#la squadra #melone #squadrah headcanons #squadrah original #thanks again for sending something!

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Just about the last thing I needed to have happen whilst I’m in the process of trying to move out/away from where I currently live and into my very own place (and stressing about just how ridiculously expensive that is when you neither have a partner/s.o nor want a roommate to split the bills with) was for my gaming computer to die. And yet that’s exactly what happened when I got home after work last night. After 7 long years of arduous, faithful service she’s finally calling it quits… kinda. It all started with me trying to boot it up & it getting stuck in an endless loop of “Windows is attempting to diagnose/repair your computer” before restarting and doing it all over again. I was absolutely terrified that the hard drive had died/become corrupted because although the GTX1080 is the most valuable part of that computer in a monetary sense, it’s only the hard drive that is completely irreplaceable as it contains damn near a decade of photos & memories that I have no backup of. So imagine my relief when I was able to access the BIOS & confirm via Command Prompt that the hard drive was totally healthy. But then that begged the question… wtf else could possibly be causing it to fail to boot?

I turned off/unplugged everything, opened it up, and began disconnecting & removing everything that wasn’t essential. First the graphics card came out and in its place I used the motherboards onboard graphics card – and then after that the SSD & disc drive was disconnected. Now I only had a motherboard, hard drive, and RAM - which was all I should have needed. But when I plugged the computer back in and turned it on I found, to my dismay, that absolutely nothing was happening. The fans were spinning and the lights came on but there was absolutely nothing being displayed on the screen – not even the BIOS. Great, I thought, you’ve just fried the mother board.

And so I went to bed feeling absolutely defeated.

But when I awoke at 4AM I decided I wasn’t ready to accept defeat just yet and began stripping out even more parts until the only thing I had was the motherboard itself, and from there I began to troubleshoot by plugging components in one at a time & then turning it on to see what would happen – until eventually I once again had the BIOS being displayed on my monitor (it turns out that swapping the RAM chips with one another was the solution… although I have absolutely no idea why) and from there it was just a matter of dicking around in Command Prompt until I was able to force Windows to boot properly by ordering it too repeatedly.

So now I have access to my computer and all its files – minus the SSD, which I’m too afraid to try and reconnect just yet. And I had time before work this morning to slide on over to Walmart real quick & pick myself up an external hard drive which I’m now in the process of backing up all my important things onto. But, sadly, the reality of the situation is that I don’t think this computer has much of a life after this. I might be able to squeeze a couple more rounds of CoD out of it tonight; but I’m hesitant to even try lest I somehow kill the graphics card in the process. This computer has been showing its age in a lot of weird ways lately and I think it’s time for me to stop being in denial about the fact that I need to start looking to replace it. Like, a couple months ago I turned it on and immediately smelt this burnt metallic sort of smell and subsequently discovered that something must have short-circuited because all but 3 of the USB ports were dead - meaning I could no longer play Microsoft Flight Simulator because I can’t plug in the joystick & flight controls that I spent like $700 on. So now that I’ve had this much of a hard time just booting the damn thing so I’m calling it: she’s reached the end of her life.

Which like I said is just about the last thing I need right now.

Because a new gaming computer isn’t cheap, and neither is trying to live on your own. At all. Like, I’m earning more money right now than I ever have at any other point in my life. More than all but 2 of my friends even. And yet it’s still barely enough to be able to afford to live on my own. I already knew there was a housing crisis and everything… but I had no idea just how bad things really are until just last month when I started looking at places - and it flung me into a really horrible depression when I realized that the average rent around here for a 1 bedroom apartment (that isn’t a shithole) is $1,500 – $1,850 a month. Excluding utilities, of course. And if you think that’s bad just wait till you hear that bachelor apartments around here so small that I wouldn’t even be able to fit my computer desk in them are about $1,250 – $1,450 a month. Again excluding utilities (and often without so much as a parking space.) Hell, even renting a room around here and sharing a kitchen, bathroom, etc. with strangers is about $800 a month.

I could get a monthly mortgage payment on a house for the same sort of price (or even cheaper) than it’s going to cost me to live alone… assuming I had like 50k in the bank to give them upfront, of course.

It’s a fucking nightmare. And I’m starting to understand why so many people I know are in relationships they don’t actually want to be in or living with roommates that they can’t stand/don’t get along with. It’s not just about loneliness. It’s because what other option do they have? They need the financial assistance. Especially those working minimum wage because a “living wage” here is about 4 dollars an hour more than what minimum wage is.

I’m fortunate enough to be earning more than that - but at the same time I’m going to be really tight on money if I try and gain true independence rather than some illusionary version of it. Like, after paying for rent, utilities, car insurance, gasoline to get to/from work, and groceries I’m not going to have very much money left to spend on anything frivolous. And I certainly won’t be able to save money the way that I’m able to right now. I’ll essentially be back to living paycheque to paycheque again. And that fucking sucks. Especially now that I’m going to have to get a new computer.

I really don’t know what to do.

Signing a lease and forking over first & last month’s rent is going to practically obliterate my savings – and what’s left over I feel I should hold onto in case of some sort of emergency (like my car breaking down) so my only options are to either save up at such a slow rate that I’ll be able to afford a computer in a year or two… or finance one. But even then… would I be able to afford the monthly payment?

Because computers, like vehicles & rent, have become insanely expensive these days. So much so that even if I maxed my credit card out I wouldn’t be able to purchase one. I mean, hell, even a GTX1080 like the one I have is more expensive now than it was when I bought it back in 2017. So in order to upgrade rather than just replace what I already have (guess I should say had) I’d probably be looking at having to pay about 4k. Or even more. And in order to replace rather than upgrade it would probably be about 2k.

Like I said, I really don't know what to do. And it’s honestly humiliating/embarrassing to even be talking about it all like this because it feels like as a man the solution is simple: make more money. Like, being in this sort of situation is emasculating in a way that I cannot articulate. Hence the reason for that aforementioned depression. Men are supposed to be all about self-reliance and providing for yourself. So I feel like a complete failure in that regard - because despite the fact that I’m doing better at it than almost anyone else I’m friends with, I’m not doing better than them if you consider their income as the combined income of them and their partner/roommate. Like, a teenage couple who are both working full time and receiving minimum wage have a combined income that is slightly higher than my one friend who has a union job. Let that sink in - you’re financially just as well off shacking up with someone as you would be by learning a trade & joining a union. But the even worse part is that there are ways I could be earning even more than I am right now and I know that. There are careers that I’m qualified for & capable of doing - but pursuing them would take me away from the area I currently call home. And I’m not yet ready to do that because, for various reasons, my heart is stuck here. And I can’t bring myself to leave it here. Not yet, at least.

It’s all got me stressed out & depressed as hell. And the worst part is that once I’m off work this evening instead of being able to go home and distract myself by playing CoD with my friends I’ll instead be messing around trying to get that damn computer functioning - all the while worrying about how I’m going to replace it.

Kinda ironic that I’m more stressed about money now then I ever was at any point during my years of minimum wage work.

I miss how much better things were pre-covid.

Evidently living through inflation & and global economic recession is about as fun as I thought it would be 🙃

#rant #thoughts

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