You Are My King Now, Cariad

Bela | She/her | 20s | free Palestine 🇵🇸 | generally crying about a new book I’ve read every other day | currently: movie actually! Project Hail Mary

[3000s]

sometimes older people get annoyed when i say "no problem" instead of "you're welcome" but the truth is it's literally not a problem

[3000s]

and sometimes you're not welcome

[lurkinglurkerwholurks]

oh no Timothy

oh no your spleen

[emhidesart]

when you already feel guilty but then the whole world keeps reminding you of how you failed that one person <3

[b--1ove]

Prompt: You've found a man who can be your weird secret third thing and your last chance.

[alienatedartt]

two sides of the same sacrificial coin

[eaissilyy]

Relationships Goal : I send you to die and let you haunt me in my mind. I see you in my loneliness, in the peripheral where you no longer exist.

(Kinda gave up mid way I wish I could render it better buttttt do you see the VISION. stratt forever in isolation jail…. only ryland grace as her companion… he’s always there in her peripheral… because she couldn’t imagine him being elsewhere yo)

[jollychoki]

You’re out of touch, I’m out of time.

Eva Stratt I’m sorry for what you had to do 😔

[b--1ove]

K!ll your science lapdog

[your-own-scifi-nerd]

Love how Stratt is always getting people to clap for Grace and his achievements it’s like telling other people to applaud your dog for bringing back the stick in one piece

[rainrimaya]

eva stratt and the fox she had killed

[greykolla-art]

I just suddenly remembered this song by The Antlers, connected it with THEM, and I’ve been on the verge of tears since.❤️‍🩹

[crafteeauthor]

Imagine Eva Stratt years after sending her favorite guy to boss around to space. Getting the logs and recordings and finding out that her guy made first contact with sapient alien life and it IMMEDIATELY started bossing him around too. Like what if you surrendered your dog and it got adopted by an alien instantly. Happened to my girl Eva Stratt

[copepods]

away it goes

[anattmar]

Fly, Mary

[tactiletelekonesis]

one thing i love about the phm fandom is the sheer amount of people who love stratt. like so many other fandoms would overlook her or hate her or reduce her into an evil caricature because shes a woman in a powerful position who did something bad to the white boy protagonist but the phm fandom ADORES her. and theyre right. eva stratt the character ever

[sisaloofafump]

The Shield

Inspired by how Grace is sometimes represented by a fox. And how the axe will still fall on Stratt’s head in the end.

[hellenhighwater]

I was waiting for something and wound up watching part of an episode of the Apprentice UK and discovered a new fun fact about myself: watching people who claim to be good at negotiating fuck up literally the most basic negotiation tactics fills me with a wild animal rage

[hellenhighwater]

Anchoring (in negotiation) is a term for the way that the first number put on the table by a party sets the scale for all the other numbers used. For example, I could start a negotiation by telling you that I sold a painting at a thousand dollars. Your brain will take that number and latch on to it as a benchmark. If I were to then later say that I had a certain painting available for $500, your instinct will be to see that as a great deal. And if I were to then say I have another painting for $2000, your mind is naturally going to come back to the first number I gave you as a price comparison.

What the idiots in this show are doing, constantly, is saying that they're trying to get X amount of money for something, and then that's the first number they put on the table. They're anchoring with the number that is their target point. It's bad strategy. It leaves them nowhere to go but down, which means they're missing the target every time. If they were anchoring at, say, twice what their target price was, they can use that baseline to convince the other party that they're being offered a great deal when they negotiate down to their target price.

[hellenhighwater]

Just as another note, because everyone should know a little about how to negotiate: if you're going to give a number, give the explanation for the number first. As soon as a number is given, the other person is going to be focusing on whether that number works for them, and will likely focus less on any explanation given after.

So you don't do: The painting is a thousand dollars, because it takes months to complete. Instead: This painting is the product of months of work, so I would ask a thousand dollars for it. It's a small thing, but you get less sticker shock when you preface the number with the reason for it.