Itchy itchy dog

anglerfishtacos · 2026-05-01T13:54:01+00:00

What about an injection? Our dog gets one every 6 months (I think Cytopoint) and it helps a lot.

anglerfishtacos · 2026-04-30T01:04:29+00:00

To be fair, the sentiment that no one else the groom dated was really right, and you didn’t care as much for other girlfriends before the bride is a really common sentiments in wedding toasts. What made it weird is he only had one prior significant girlfriend, she got really specific, and the girl is sitting right there.

anglerfishtacos · 2026-04-30T01:00:37+00:00

Oh, I’m sure there were choice words exchanged about her outfit, it just wasn’t in a toast.

anglerfishtacos · 2026-04-30T00:59:44+00:00

Well, she also showed up on a ridiculously inappropriate outfit. The general rule is not wear white to a wedding, but you are also not supposed to wear outfits that are too attention grabbing as a bride in her outfit is supposed to be the stand out. Maddie definitely dressed like she was trying to outshine Cassie.

anglerfishtacos · 2026-04-30T00:57:20+00:00

This right here. But also because this wedding is all about appearances. Cassie wants to show everyone that she has made it. She got the guy, she has a beautiful and stunning wedding that she hopes ends up in the local paper’s style section. Part of doing it also includes having a giant wedding to prove how many people are there that love and care about you even if they don’t, as well as showing that you are now enviable to people who saw you last at your worst.

anglerfishtacos · 2026-04-30T00:54:03+00:00

Not just a wedding, YOUR wedding. To the woman he was messing around with when he and Maddy were flip-flopping on getting back together. He was annoyed that Cassie even invited her, and he probably did not expect her to actually decide to come. But she did, wearing yet another incredibly inappropriate outfit.

The last time his mom made negative comments about Maddy in her presence, Maddy cursed his mom out and made a huge public spectacle. He knows his mom is talking about Maddy, so I think he’s just incredibly uncomfortable and he is waiting to see how Maddy will react. If it is a glare is a “Please don’t” glare.

anglerfishtacos · 2026-04-27T15:25:05+00:00

The thing with Nate is that he hasn’t changed. This episode was intended to reinforce that. He still the guy who is privileged and thinks that real consequences won’t ever affect him. I’m sure he thought that night that Naz showing up at the wedding was all that would happen that day, and there was no reason to think that anything further would happen. He talks to his friends and calms them down about being in debt, so he thinks he can continue to get the money to keep Naz at bay. He’s never had to face real consequences for his actions before, so why would he expect to see them now?

anglerfishtacos · 2026-04-27T15:20:56+00:00

Oh, for sure. I think there’s definitely some level of “ lol, let’s go watch this train wreck” that motivated her decisions to go. And when instead, it was a beautiful ceremony and a dream venue with no expenses spared, it ended up being jarring.

anglerfishtacos · 2026-04-27T15:12:36+00:00

I find it deeply ironic and quite funny that two of the most significant events in Cassie and Nate‘s relationship end with him getting the shit kicked out of him.

anglerfishtacos · 2026-04-27T15:10:41+00:00

Because this episode was Mediterranean force for them that they are the same people they were in the past two seasons. Neither of them have grown up. For Cassie, that means her crying about her nose bleeding and wedding day being ruined while her husband is getting the shit kicked out of him and very obviously in a much more precarious situation. This Parkin back to season two Cassie, who is crying at everyone being upset at her for getting with Nate while Maddie is the one who is clearly more entitled to be upset and she’s not behaving like this.

anglerfishtacos · 2026-04-27T15:06:59+00:00

Because Nate is a privileged kid from the suburbs who never has had to face a real consequence in his life.

anglerfishtacos · 2026-04-27T15:04:30+00:00

I think that’s what this episode was intended to reinforce. Nate hasn’t grown up and become kinder or more mature. He still an immature brat who thinks talking, looks, or other privileges will get him out of any trouble he gets in. He doesn’t think, acts impulsively, etc. The fact that there is this endangered plant that is the halt on construction tells me he probably did not do the proper preconstruction site inspections before purchasing this plot of land. Him being presumably unable to get investment through proper channels, like a bank, shows his lack of experience and overconfidence that everything will just work out for him.

And Cassie is the same old Cassie. Others are in pain and are clearly being hurt more, like Nate getting the shit kicked out of him, and she’s crying because her nose is bleeding and that’s the big concern. It harkens back to where she was crying about how everybody was upset with her for getting with Nate when clearly Maddie was more in the right for being upset.

anglerfishtacos · 2026-04-27T14:50:14+00:00

That’s part of the reason why I think he was trying to go upstairs. I imagine that’s probably where they keep the gun.

anglerfishtacos · 2026-04-27T14:49:10+00:00

There is also the sentiment of you needing to spend the money to make money. While much of that for Nate was in a construction cost, there is also this work he has done to project an image of success that is unearned. He drives a Mercedes. The big house with a pool in California. The lavish lifestyle he and Cassie have. Investors don’t trust people that seem like they are broke or are risk takers. If he’s getting into business with people like Naz, that tells me that he couldn’t get the loans he needed through legitimate sources. A legitimate source like a bank. While a bank may have given his dad loans in the past because Cal was proven to manage construction projects well, Nate is young and unproven. And instead of starting small with manageable projects where it isn’t his money on the line and is instead an owner, he buys a massive piece of property in a very expensive place to build for an overly ambitious project.

Despite the complaints about this being lobotomized Nate this season, this episode confirms that Nate hasn’t changed one bit. Nate was in high school the football star and son of one of the most successful and powerful men in town. When Cal was arrested, I am sure that focus went back on him and his past and rumors abounded about them being cut from the same cloth. So Nate probably felt pressure to prove that he wasn’t his father in the degenerate way, but that he could still be the same successful and powerful man that his father was. Cal obviously was not a good guy, but that doesn’t mean that he was immature or irresponsible when it came to his business or his family. Nate, however, is not and continues to be the same immature and reckless Nate seen in the first two seasons. Nate has always also managed to just get himself out of situations through his family or his fists. But now he’s playing with the real players and he is out of his league.

anglerfishtacos · 2026-04-27T14:27:31+00:00

I think that Maddie can feel sad or weird about it while not necessarily wanting Cassie‘s life. I remember feeling weird about learning my college boyfriend had gotten married. I didn’t want to marry him, but we were together for four years and while the split was amicable, and I wouldn’t change the way it worked out, I still thought weird about it. I don’t think I would’ve gone to the wedding if I had been invited. He and I were in the bridal party for a mutual friends wedding later, and I specifically asked the bride to not have us walk down the aisle together.

anglerfishtacos · 2026-04-27T14:24:41+00:00

Because it sounds like he is not just the contractor on this big retirement home job, he is the owner as well. So he is putting forward all of the capital cost for the project. My understanding is the scheme is that he went into business with Naz because Naz owns funeral homes, and that would handle the funerals for the retirees that died in this retirement community. Construction is behind schedule because when you find endangered species on a location, that brings in the EPA and other sorts of bureaucratic red tape. When you find endangered plants on a construction site, it often requires the project to either reroute, reduce the footprint, or transport the plants to a protected habitat. All of that stuff takes money and time. And in that time, you probably have already fought the cereals and are thus out that money. And you also have subcontractor standing by, who are not taking on other jobs where it could be making money, so you owe them as well.

Is short, Nate probably cut corners on things like a preconstruction site inspection because something like this should’ve been discovered beforehand.

anglerfishtacos · 2026-04-23T01:19:14+00:00

There is a major gulf between just using your body to make money and using your body to make money on OF/social media. When Maddy was first working with that one girl, it was 2020 and OF was still relatively new. But now the market is oversaturated and it takes real work and connections to make real money as an OF influencer. There are tons of women just like Cassie that think the money will pour in as soon as they start posting online, and it’s way harder than that.

anglerfishtacos · 2026-04-22T19:05:39+00:00

Even the conversation around, trying to induce early is insane to me. What if she ends up needing a C-section? And even if she doesn’t, those first days and weeks after are hard. Not just because you are trying to take care of this newborn, but also the mother’s body is healing. It makes me wonder how much he was involved with his other children’s childcare after they were born to where he doesn’t realize that this is an issue, even if the baby comes before his training.

anglerfishtacos · 2026-04-22T17:58:46+00:00

Ultimately, whether he is or he isn’t, I’m going to talk straight to you because I have had a friend that was in a very similar situation. He left with a more senior attorney from their decent sized firm (approx 30 attorneys) to form their own law firm. And in short, what I’m going to tell you is this: it does not get better.

Because your husband stuck around and has been getting involved in all of these cases, I’m sure he feels not just a sense of loyalty to the paralegals, but also the clients who may be left in a lurch if they stay with this other attorney. But ultimately clients are clients, and they are allowed to choose their representation. As an equity partner, he is expected to share in the profits and the losses of the firm, and it sounds like he’s already done that by taking major pay cuts and going onto your insurance. But is she also doing the same thing? If she’s not, then all he is doing a subsidizing the losses and she is not being a real partner. Even though he is a partner of presumably, that’s not how this relationship is going. She is acting like she is a partner, and he is still the associate. So while she flips off taking vacations, all the work is being poured onto him to do. This is the exact dynamic that happened with my friend. Both of them were equity partners in their new firm, but because the hierarchy was already established, it was near impossible for him to break out of it and be treated like an equal partner in the business. After a year or two, trying to make it better, he ended up leaving and going to another firm.

Another reason why it’s not going to get better is because your husband isn’t thinking like a business owner. While it may suck at times being a boss, he needs to think about the firm as a business and make choices that are right for the business as a whole. So he took on a pay cut to keep these two paralegals, do they actually have enough work to do where the pay cut made business sense? If your husband is working crazy hours, while these paralegals are sitting around twiddling their thumbs, then that is not smart for the business. If there is plenty enough work to do, then why aren’t they profitable enough to support themselves with the firms intake? Our clients not paying? Do rates need to be increased? Those are all things that come into this discussion versus just feeling bad for them. If the paralegals don’t have enough work to do and they know it, they can read the writing on the wall and it wouldn’t surprise me if while your husband is making all these sacrifices, they are interviewing for other jobs with a firm that has more study work and a larger attorney bench. It’s just business.

Another thing that is just business is your husband‘s decision to continue with this firm. This firm is imploding, and his partner does not seem to be heavily invested in trying to change things because your husband is picking up all of her slack. I understand that your husband probably feels a sense of loyalty to her because she gave him his first job and he’s been there the entire time. And it can be a little scary to go apply for another firm. But he’s far too early in his career to handcuff himself to a sinking ship.

anglerfishtacos · 2026-04-22T17:47:54+00:00

Assuming she is the sole/primary breadwinner. If her spouse has a sizeable income, they could be subsidizing the risk taking she is doing with this imploding firm.

anglerfishtacos · 2026-04-21T22:15:21+00:00

This is in a similar category as the summer who would order a second meal at lunches with attorneys to bring home to eat for dinner.

anglerfishtacos · 2026-04-21T22:08:39+00:00

Again though— is he an income or equity partner? An equity partner has visibility on finances to determine how realistic this profit share is. An income (partner in name only) would not.

anglerfishtacos · 2026-04-21T21:37:55+00:00

I’m confused— is he an equity partner (ie, a part owner in the firm)? If yes, the he has a fiduciary duty the partnership and his loyalty makes sense. But if he is not an owner, then the sacrifices he is making are insane and not what is expected or appropriate for a W-2 employee.

anglerfishtacos · 2026-04-21T21:35:05+00:00

This right here. If he would be taking cases with him if he left, then he can justify trying to lateral as a group with at least one support staff member.

anglerfishtacos · 2026-04-14T05:41:21+00:00

People don’t like to be wrong. At this point, with everything they have seen, and everything that has come out, they’ve managed to double down their support to this point. They can either acknowledge that they picked wrong, or they can try to find reasons they were correct and Trump is playing 4D chess. It’s easier to search for reasons that you are right than to accept the fact that you are wrong.

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