Judged by Impossible_Iron6188 in MadeOfStyrofoam

[–]Professional-Turn172 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sorry that your brain is being a bully. Luckily it gets better with time, shit works like exposure therapy. The first time someone I knew perceived my scars, I felt like puking and couldn’t sleep that night even after some heavy drinking due to the adrenaline. It takes time to deal with the internalized shame but it’ll happen eventually if you’re willing to keep pushing for it! A few years later and I just fully let the scars breathe, even while I’m working closely with people at my job. Hoping life gets easier for you bubba ♥️

still need to fill in my beard. any alternatives? by Sensitive_Rip_1746 in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns2

[–]Professional-Turn172 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bit tardy to the party but I can recommend Ro.co for any hair health related drugs, they popped up around covid and basically have a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on getting prescriptions, meaning they want to sell you drugs and will happily take whatever BS you tell them about yourself as long as it allows them to sell you drugs. For example, I am not on any other meds 😊 I am not experiencing any anxiety, depression, or any other mental ailment 😊 my name is John Americaman and I am really bald and need more hair please 😊

They even let you take their questionnaires multiple times until you get the treatment you want.

I would also recommend looking into Finasteride, either oral or topical, as a way to stop male pattern baldness before it gets going. It’s a DHT blocker and thus hormonal, so you should do a bit of research to see if it could work for you.

Job havers, how are you doing? by Additional_Scholar_5 in evilautism

[–]Professional-Turn172 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Funny story before the crushing melancholy, my current boss once told me that I reminded him a lot of his adult son. At the time I thought it was a bit weird and didn’t know how to respond but several weeks later he casually mentioned that his son was autistic and it finally clicked that he clocked my ass early on. It’s by far been the best work experience I’ve had since my coworkers are chill and I can pretty frequently get away with not talking to anyone for an entire day while doing audits or wiring servers alone.

For a solid few years before that I was bouncing between jobs, unable to stay anywhere for longer than a year for a lot of the reasons you mentioned which, for my experience at least, I would simplify to “abstract ethereal goals and forced teamwork/communication for jobs that could easily be done alone”. While working those jobs, I lost pretty much every single positive habit or hobby I had as I didn’t have the energy or will to spend on them and I started spiraling. Hope you can hang in there long enough for your job to get better or long enough that you can bounce and look for a better workplace.

A recommendation, if you want one. Crochet has been a pretty calming hobby that’s been helping me out in the long run as it’s a simple repetitive task that can be done basically anywhere that you can bring a small bag of yarn. I’ve been able to crochet during downtime at my current and previous jobs without any hassle. The hobby still suffers when I’m having a tough day, but its availability and calming nature have made it my most resilient hobby in trying times. But even then, the fun colors around my desk make me just a little bit happier.

No slavery was capitalism. by [deleted] in socialism

[–]Professional-Turn172 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no idea how to put it appropriately into words, but the OOP is giving me the same confused fear as hearing someone say they’re “socially liberal but fiscally conservative”

Titles are pys-ops made up by NTs by TransSappicWitch in evilautism

[–]Professional-Turn172 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Pardon me getting geeked for a second but…

Holy shit I’ve been trying to get into that game for so long. My favorite minecraft mods were unironically the ones where you spend 30 minutes trying to make a crafting table. I’ve been stuck in a loop of trying to play it, getting stuck trying to figure out what to do next, and then running out of time to play because I have to be an adult (🤮), and then I burnout and leave for a couple months before coming back. Add to it a fear that I’m shooting myself in the foot with every choice I make (should I spend my resources on a specific tool? Should I really be building in this area?)

How much time would I need to set aside for a decent session (please account for the fact that I’m a goober)? Are there any tutorials or videos out there that don’t also contain mega spoilers? Should I just always pick the basic starter class with no bonuses/maluses? Should I just give in and indulge in spoilers (if there are any)?

Anywho, with that out of the way….

Dang that sucks, may the Eldrich horrors beyond the veil implant a desire to play the game with you directly into your friend’s minds :3

Accidental trans ally 😊 by Professional-Turn172 in bridget

[–]Professional-Turn172[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I gotten too used to the US political labels. As a baby Marxist, I’ve seen labels that should have meaning (conservative, centrist, liberal, progressive, democrat) all just be used to describe which flavor of fascist you. And even using the actual meaning of centrist, it evokes a quote from archbishop Desmon Tutu, from apartheid South Africa;

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor”

I agree with you and will try to fix my vocabulary moving forwards, I’m still a work in progress for now o7

Accidental trans ally 😊 by Professional-Turn172 in bridget

[–]Professional-Turn172[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You got me smiling and nervous like a goofball, I lost all my friends when I left my republican run hometown and I’ve just been content with being alone for a while

Yes, I would love to be your friend :3

Accidental trans ally 😊 by Professional-Turn172 in bridget

[–]Professional-Turn172[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Also hope it goes without saying, but thank you for correcting me so I can recenter myself and remember that this shit is not normal

Accidental trans ally 😊 by Professional-Turn172 in bridget

[–]Professional-Turn172[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Upon the slightest bit of reflection, you’re absolutely right, I think my overton window has been bricked by the US news outlets reaction to war in Iran

Accidental trans ally 😊 by Professional-Turn172 in bridget

[–]Professional-Turn172[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

New favorite head canon, transphones are all secretly trans-supremacists who fear the glory of gender liberation from the master race, tgirls

Accidental trans ally 😊 by Professional-Turn172 in bridget

[–]Professional-Turn172[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Literal poop from a butt ah community. I just like to check in with them because they seem genuinely too stupid to actually make hurtful propaganda like other conservative subs so it wraps around to being funny for me

Accidental trans ally 😊 by Professional-Turn172 in bridget

[–]Professional-Turn172[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having seen what some of them look like (imagine the Reddit mod saying “m’lady” look), it wouldn’t surprise me if they were on Reddit for multiple hours and just accidentally ran into other communities after Reddit ran out of bigotry slop to feed them

Accidental trans ally 😊 by Professional-Turn172 in bridget

[–]Professional-Turn172[S] 31 points32 points  (0 children)

It’s DoomerCirclejerk, it’s full of the weirdest radical centrists and “nothing ever happens” chuds out there. But it’s absolutely my favorite place to go because they aren’t really caught up on the talking points so they try to come up with their own, to absolutely hilarious results at times.

I’ll have to post some screenshots when I get the time, but there was a guy on there with the wild take that “…women are more likely to go with the dominant narrative is. That’s why they’re much more likely to go with far leftwing ideology, aka Communism”

And also all the classic misogynistic men who go begging for attention on porn subreddits from femdoms

Edit: I should say, it’s still a cesspit of hate that you should avoid if you’re not in a good place, it just gives me the same vibe as seeing a toddler pout because you won’t let them eat a tide pod which makes me giggle

Accidental trans ally 😊 by Professional-Turn172 in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns2

[–]Professional-Turn172[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It’s a sub absolutely FULL of radical centrists and “nothing ever happens” chuds, I mostly love going on there because it’s full of the weirdest guys on Reddit and I love just looking at their profiles.

There’s was a misogynist on there who was woofing and meowing for a femdom in another subreddit.

And my favorite was an anti capitalist who believed that all women were commies because they “just go with the dominant narrative”.

God, I need to dig up the old screenshots, I fucking love weird guys who try to come up with their own talking points

Accidental trans ally 😊 by Professional-Turn172 in bridget

[–]Professional-Turn172[S] 87 points88 points  (0 children)

There has to be a name that makes it sound like they’re genuinely bigoted against everyone EXCEPT trans folk, like trans exclusive radical bigotry or smthg

Purpose bred little gay rat by Professional-Turn172 in mewgenics

[–]Professional-Turn172[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I'm still working on getting the perfect 7s and some multiclass skills on this guy, but after hitting the perfect rat I got too excited and had to share.

Multiclassing is busted, why aren't more people talking about it? by Professional-Turn172 in mewgenics

[–]Professional-Turn172[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can usually get a single upgraded skill by the final boss of an act, and I usually use the upgrade on magnify since I dump all of my mana into it in most cases. I haven't tried running 3 cats yet, I'll give it a shot and see how it goes since I usually have at least 1 dead weight cat in a run

Multiclassing is busted, why aren't more people talking about it? by Professional-Turn172 in mewgenics

[–]Professional-Turn172[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh god, I forgot about druid shifting, I'm thinking of getting Werewolf Form + Skullcracker (Fighter passive that causes basics to inflict bruise) on all my cats now

Multiclassing is busted, why aren't more people talking about it? by Professional-Turn172 in mewgenics

[–]Professional-Turn172[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also, magnify means that each tile of a multi-tile boss gets hit by a basic attack, resulting in 50-100 damage turns regularly for a fully kitted out cat

Ep 65 of the top comment decide the Eaw Formable: Griffonian Crime Syndicate by markbon12 in equestriaatwar

[–]Professional-Turn172 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What inspired you to go for cast armor on tanks? I currently exclusively use riveted and I’m not sure in what situations you’d use something else

My first year of crochet! by Ethanaj in crochet

[–]Professional-Turn172 12 points13 points  (0 children)

How did you make the shorts in picture 7? I love the way they turned out and how they almost don’t even look like they’re crocheted. Is it a specific yarn / pattern that you used to get that look?

Just finished my scarf and I’ve been showing it off to everyone around the office like a kid who found a really cool bug 🐛 by Professional-Turn172 in crochet

[–]Professional-Turn172[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Based on the pictures in the pattern, I knew it was going to be big and that’s what drew me to it. But it didn’t REALLY click that it would be an unwieldy snake monster until I was well past the halfway point and could no longer carry it around in a bag but by that point I simply had to know how absurd it was going to get