it's just me remembering academia and pouring this poem all over my face tonight https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/rsrc/2019/03/08/i-got-told-what-to-call-this-poem-by-my-male-colleague/
guess who's a hugo award nominee now :^) https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbw9eb/internet-fan-fiction-archive-ao3-hugo-award
@maple only if you eat enough beans
@InspectorCaracal ahh yeah i see now, you've got that detail working for you
well i know it's probably either volts or amps and beyond that i'm clueless i'm afraid LOL
@InspectorCaracal i'm dumb at engineering sciencey type shit but you could always go with the container running dry instead of the units in the container running dry - e.g. batteries are made up of cells, so "even if he drained every last [energy] cell"
that might mean the audience also stays with you a bit better instead of going "wait, volts? do you measure batteries in volts? is that right? i think it's volts..." ......possibly?
@InspectorCaracal unfortunately no :( i can't think of any like.. bad dings that she's encountered, which is what makes it so vexing. especially because this came on gradually. at least she's ok with my text noise blorp and my mom's trying to figure out changing her phone i guess
my dog has become increasingly terrified of ding or chime noises in the last few months, and my parents don't want to change their text message received noises, so every time they get a text my dog gets scared ><
i'm trying to figure out how to train around this but... when she's scared, she also doesn't want to eat treats
@alimcgowen i feel like i finally understand the gameplay of pacman now on some fundamental level, and why its sequel was ms. pacman
personal-, emotional abuse, long
@MrJimmy tbh i would actually suggest looking at resources for domestic violence for support, an idea of what to do next, strategy, etc.
the world is much more comfortable with the idea of a romantic partner gone wrong
but honestly, close friendships can do the same... fucking... thing. if you presented this as a romantic partner, the world would yell "holy shit get away from your abuser". so, honestly... believe that and holy shit gtfo from this person
personal-, emotional abuse, long
@MrJimmy i don't even know the full story and this is me giving you permission that you're like 3-5 incidents past when i would have told anyone else "holy fuck, that is NOT someone who respects your boundaries or you as a person, cut contact, yeet them into the sun, batten down hatches"
30 y/o - token cishet - tumblr refugee. spoonie/15 chronic conditions in a trenchcoat/actual cyborg. just hangin' in there 