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Marie-Rose | Lesbian | She/They | Early 30s ✨ time is fake ✨

[important-cat-pics]

[pangur-and-grim]

eating sticks on the catio with my son

[eskiworks]

A glorious pastime in my household as well!

[cristalplanetheart]

[3000s]

youre the stupidest guy i ever met and youre stupid

[kroovv]

Please enjoy this snail measuring tape i got at a garadge sale today

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[zitasaurusrex]

unrestrained summer fun

[muttsandmustelidae]

me: *laying on couch while my lunch for tomorrow is heating up*

toaster oven: *goes off*

me: ugh. i don’t wanna get up. (jokingly) Pallando, go get that

Pallando: *gets up*

Pallando: *goes to kitchen*

me: ????????

Pallando: *returns with piggy*

me: jesus christ, man

Pallando: :)🐷

[muttsandmustelidae]

^man who thinks he absolutely nailed the assignment

[charlesoberonn]

Female Dwarves - With or without beards?

With beards

Without beard

Voting ended onJun 9

[charlesoberonn]

Child Dwarves - With or without beards?

With beards

Without beards

Voting ended onJun 9

[charlesoberonn]

Baby Dwarves - With or without beards?

With beards

Without beards

Voting ended onJun 9

[charlesoberonn]

They shed their baby beards to make room for their adult beards. Like with baby teeth.

[kilncreatures]

teacup goose horse small size suitable for apartment living

[mousegirlheart]

um actually there's nothing wrong with letting cats be outdoor pets. your cat is depressed locked inside forever. it's animal abuse. let it outside. more cats should be let outside more often. especially overnight.

[beemovieerotica]

it's like she's some kind of cursed homonculus that stole his eyes

[wholesome-animal-images]

[lonnson]

The feared sting-ray

[bright-cherry-bombzz]

The elusive and mysterious StingRug

[copperbadge]

SNUG RAY

[pocket-deer-belly]

went to a clothing shop while picking up a laptop and they had to audacity to advertise larger sizes *online*. it is explicit policy to exclude me from their public store and relegate my shopping experience to my house. i want to kill

[pocket-deer-belly]

"plus size options available online" is also size discrimination actually. why am i not accommodated in a physical store

[notlayingroses]

Everything I read about recovering from burnout is like “it takes months or even years to fully recover” and it’s like okay…. I have a weekend before I gotta clock in on Monday

[skellulite]

Oops! Looks like another tiny dragon has gotten loose. This one had the misfortune of finding an ink bottle…

[violentoffender]

[redfagdiver]

I wanna be scrubbed I wanna be scrubbed I wanna be scrubbed I wanna be scrubbed I wanna be scrubbed I wanna be scrubbed I wanna b

[astoldbyidiots]

[creekfiend]

although if we ARE talking about passive aggression my technique is generally (and I have had a LOT OF PRACTICE developing it lmao) is to interpret what I think they're implying and then say "are you asking me to (x)?" in a very polite tone with a friendly (sincere! not mocking!) smile. I find that this often 1. ceases the tiresome cycle of ignoring passive aggressive behavior -> behavior escalates -> ignore it -> it escalates, and on and on that you get if you simply ignore it, 2. lets the person know that in the future they can just fucking ask you directly for god's sake, and very importantly 3. although I strive not to sound condescending when I do this, it is inescapably and obviously something that I learned to say when talking to toddlers. the people I use this with the most (mostly older female relatives but not infrequently on men as well) will often catch a hint of that and sort of realize that their method of approaching me was childish, not in a derogatory sense, but in the sense that they don't need to try to get me to do stuff in the way they got used to working in the past. they can do it differently.

obviously how effective this is varies wildly based on the relationship, or lack thereof, that you have with the other person. but I find it effective with people who are In Your Life but don't meaningfully have any control over you. quite often it DOES result in increased directness in the future, especially if it's something I end up doing fairly often. and it's not rude; I'm just politely seeking clarification about what is being communicated. it makes the person have to think about what effect they were expecting their behavior to have on my behavior, and then just... tell me straightforwardly. but without escalating the situation or making the person feel 'called out' most of the time.

its very simple but I so much more often see people say "always ignore passive aggressive communication" and while I think that's absolutely a good approach much of the time, especially especially from strangers. it is not especially EFFECTIVE at helping them change how they're approaching communicating with you in the future. in my experience. so. I prefer to use my method when I determine that it might be effective.