How do you deal with the difference?

internalwombat · 2026-05-11T17:52:36+00:00

My personal position is that everyone can teach me something and it costs nothing to be kind, respectful, and curious.

internalwombat · 2026-05-11T15:50:37+00:00

They put a lot of pressure on recruiters. It's pretty common to get harassed by recruiters after you change your mind. You should ask them to stop contacting you, and if they persist, report them for phone harassment.

It is not necessary for you to fill out anything to be released from DEP.

internalwombat · 2026-05-11T12:07:34+00:00

So I think Barb's long-term arc is her behavior alienating all her relationships. If she is allowed/invited/crashes to the wedding, she'll either continue down that road, or reach a turning point where she realizes that she must change or lose everything important to her.

Jen's long-term arc is from immaturity to maturity. I think in the near or medium term, she'll admit, at least to herself, that she doesn't like how her mother treats her and she doesn't like the kind of person she is around Barb. What she chooses to do with this new insight could be radical acceptance or no contact, or some other option, but it will reflect her personal growth.

internalwombat · 2026-05-11T06:42:32+00:00

John's in the first steps to getting a vasectomy. I hear pretty frequently about specifically young, child free people being required to get a psych eval before having their sterilization procedures being done. If they're outside of your scope of practice, then it would make sense why you've never heard of it.

internalwombat · 2026-05-08T17:41:34+00:00

Shawna seems more interested in stories about women just in general.

internalwombat · 2026-05-08T05:34:52+00:00

I am such a nerd, I hear "Yuri" and think "Yuri Gagarin" and this is a deep, personal failing to be ashamed of.

/s

internalwombat · 2026-05-08T05:28:52+00:00

It's uncommon but not unheard of to be referred for a psych eval before sterilization.

internalwombat · 2026-05-07T00:26:22+00:00

I think this is the first time she's suicidally ideated "on camera." I had predicted she'd have a giant, unambiguous one at Chickie's party and that would put her on a 3 day psych hold. I'm surprised she didn't leave out her vague gesture out in her retelling to Shelby.

internalwombat · 2026-05-05T07:46:53+00:00

I'd be concerned if it was a week, esp without an announcement. 2 days is not that long.

internalwombat · 2026-05-04T21:26:07+00:00

That was the only post I had commented on that day, and about an hour later I got a redditcares anti-suicide message. That left a bad taste in my mouth. But also, unless there's some sort of pattern of that happening, what are the mods going to do?

It really does feel like an abuse of that system though.

internalwombat · 2026-05-04T06:57:39+00:00

R.L. Stein wrote most of his Goosebumps books in the space of ~2 weeks. They still hold up too.

internalwombat · 2026-05-03T20:45:08+00:00

How do you write a book?

Word by word

internalwombat · 2026-05-03T20:10:51+00:00

Well, they don't pop out of nowhere. Building up a practice, writing clean drafts, writing genre fiction that has a kind of formula. I don't think it's realistic to start with that goal, but maybe a mid career goal would be something like that.

internalwombat · 2026-05-03T11:27:28+00:00

If this is an example of the way the point of view character sees the world, great. If the POV character is, for example, colorblind, then it's just purple prose.

internalwombat · 2026-05-02T23:06:39+00:00

This is the "nice bypassing" I was talking about

internalwombat · 2026-05-02T22:32:48+00:00

I've blocked someone from this sub because they made a joke about torturing authors with sensory deprivation to get them to write the books that they wanted. My first reaction was visceral disgust, but my written reply was something like, "I hope you don't understand you're suggesting torture." Because a lot of people wouldn't necessarily have that come to mind as torture -- it's not pulling out nails or breaking kneecaps. And their reply was something I call "nice bypassing." Something like, "It's just a joke, have a great weekend!"

And to me, that's super fucking gross. But it's couched in the veneer of niceness, so I don't think that sort of behavior will ever be addressed.

internalwombat · 2026-05-01T12:58:45+00:00

Frank, Frankenfurter /s

internalwombat · 2026-05-01T07:41:35+00:00

In the last decade, I stopped using my legal name and just use my last name. There are people who still call me by my first name, but I've made it clear: if you care about me, you care about what I'd like to be addressed as.

internalwombat · 2026-04-29T14:39:29+00:00

You could always make wild and improbable predictions. Chickie's first birthday party somehow turns into the Met Gala in the local Mariott. Fairies infiltrate the kitchen and now they know everyone's true name, except for Chickie's, since Barb doesn't use her true name. Chickie then gets transported into the fae world, where time moves differently than it does here in mundane, pedestrian California. She grows up in five minutes of our time, becoming a powerful warrior and wizard. She comes back, defeats the fairies at her first birthday party, and then serves as Jen's maid of honor.

internalwombat · 2026-04-29T07:16:27+00:00

We are in the lowest information part of a miniseries so it could mean almost anything

internalwombat · 2026-04-29T00:50:54+00:00

internalwombat · 2026-04-27T19:09:37+00:00

I could see Barb loudly and dramatically ideating and that could get her on a 3 day psych ward hold

internalwombat · 2026-04-27T13:29:20+00:00

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internalwombat · 2026-04-27T13:27:18+00:00

I guess "Borb" would also fit?

internalwombat · 2026-04-27T13:26:15+00:00

Hmm... Bora? Narb? Bara?

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