#complaint post

[a-what-kind-of-entity]

i think hypergryph should make either chip catalyst a lil easier to obtain or lessen the prices for the red cert shop because wtf man I'm tired of wasting 30 sanity for 21 red certs. AND BURNING ALL MY SANITY ISN'T EVEN ENOUGH TO BUY 1 CHIP CATALYST

[astraeaboann]

The struggles and bias of being out of the Broom Closet

Congratulations! Your out of the Broom Closet, you have told your family/friends/co-workers/flatmates you practice witchcraft. Now what? Now you better get ready for all the issues associated with being open about your practice. It usually goes two ways:

DON'T EVER SAY IT AGAIN GO SAVE YOURSELF TALK TO THE LORD!!! Repentyourselfthedevilistemptingyou!

Cool, can you help me with money/love/success/givemethis&that? Can you teach me how to xyz? ( and they get upset if you don't)

I come from an Italian family where the pagan/folk traditions have perfectly merged with the Catholic beliefs, creating a mix of grandma's remedies, prayers to Saints and Patrons, protection spells and charms against the Evil Eye and kitchen witchery intertwined with green witchery.

BUT NO ONE COULD CALL IT WITCHCRAFT.

When I told my grandma about it, she quickly let me know that I should have stopped sharing this kind of information and keep it to myself. That what the women in our families have always done are just 'tricks and remedies' and nothing to do with magic. I decided to share it with my partner at the time, but despite all the support, there was always that feeling, that weird look, that fear.

Almost as if having by his side an impowered woman was not part of the plan. As if there was something inherently evil with my desire to create potions and spells. (He had a Christian upbringing too)

Without mentioning the amount of times people started preaching and trying to convince me that whatever religion they follow was the right choice for me, quite aggressively I might add.

And then, inevitably, the suggestions, questions, requests started coming my way. The voice spread, people who I haven't talked to in years somehow found out and started reaching out to me, asking for help with this and that, asking for specific questions, almost fetishizing me and the newly found identity associated with being friend of a witch.

And don't get me wrong, if I could I would help everyone and get them to follow me on board, but unfortunately it's not my job to teach you, it's not my job to spend time giving you the shortcuts, spoon-feeding you all the knowledge it took me months, years, to acquire through hard work and trial error. And some people do not seem to understand that.

It's annoying, it's wrong, is tiring and it's a shame. Just leave us the f* alone.

[crazybagelbitch]

as someone with a visual/spatial disability, captchas are a fucking nightmare. like i can feel my brain glitching

[palmtreepalmtree]

My least favorite Android/iPhone incompatibility is that stupid fucking “liked” message function on the iPhone.  I have all these family group texts, and half of the messages are just people liking the previous messages.  And my phone buzzes me every time as if I have a new message.  Fucking hell.

[endearingsalt]

Well my aunts are being predictively evil and I’m reminded once again of how grand it shall be when I’m back at school and not at the epicenter of the “Mom’s Adventures in Her Evil Family” crisis that’s been going strong for a decade (not including The Early Years). 

[hoppyhopbun]

Aghhh i miss my only caregiver

I have two friends as my mama and dada caregiver but both have been gone and not texting me since last year around christmas :((

Pretty much i have no cg and half my friends (except 2 my bestie answers me at least) havent spoken to me on discord :( so i stopped using it as much cuz of that

[wowbright]

As a former anabaptist I am probably a lot less enamored of plain dress anabaptists (Amish, Hutterite, Old order mennonite, German Baptist ...) than the general population and maybe even a little hostile, especially toward the men.

Which is a problem because for the last month, I've been trying to schedule a meeting with a plain dress anabaptist guy for work (because of the business he works for--unrelated to religion except in the sense that everything is related to religion) and he has been a total pain in the ass. Rude, unresponsive, getting mad at me for not responding to an email that I never saw because he sent it to another person (okay there's a giveaway that he's not old order Amish), not answering my repeated questions about whether he needs to have the meeting over the phone or can do it over the internet (which he obviously has but also he lives in the middle of nowhere so they could have pretty shitty internet in which case a zoom meeting doesn't work), sending me emails asking for the meeting to be in 2 hours and then getting mad because I didn't see his email within 2 hours of him sending it so of course we didn't have the meeting ...

When we finally have this meeting I don't know how I'm going to be able to do it politely and constructively. I can hope that he will put on some charm in person, but having dealt with conservative anabaptist men I have a sense that he will be terse and Germanic and talking to him will be like pulling teeth.

Ugh. Please all you anabaptists out there pray for him to be so overwhelmingly kind and helpful during our meeting that I'm tempted to convert back--or at least take back all the nasty things I have thought and said about $@&*ing anabaptists.

[wowbright]

So annoyed at my client. I am leading a project for her that I am working on with another contractor I recommended. She gave us a deadline of May 27th, which happens to be a national holiday in the country that all of us live in. He knew he was going to travel over the weekend so we created a schedule to have the work completed by tomorrow, Thursday.

It never occurred to me that I should tell her he is traveling over the weekend because we will be done with the project before the deadline, and also, it's none of her business because he is not an employee. But as usual, she wants to add another thing on to the project, and now she's annoyed with him because he won't be available on Friday or Monday.

This is his first time working for her, and really want him to be able to work with her in the future so I'm trying to turn her annoyance toward myself. But really, she doesn't have any right to be annoyed in the first place.