#petty stuff

[skullywullypully]

I realize it's petty. But it was so thrilling to read about Oriana's surprise when she discovered Jude had become the queen of Elfhame. When you consider how Oriana treated Jude in the past, it just adds to the sweetness.

[orlissa]

Don’t you just love when you’re seeking actual info/help on FB and funny people come to your post just to... comment basically totally unrelated and unhelpful thing?

Hey, could maybe someone give me a ride from the airport tonight?

This and this bus go into the city...

Yeah, I know. It’s also half past eleven during the night, I’m tired, have big bags, night buses in the city are not exactly reliable, and, you know, I’m a girl who might feel insecure alone during the night.

Hey, would someone go halfsies with me on a package of comic book bags? I need some, but I’d never use up a full hundred.

Use the remainer as sandwich bags XD

Oh, give me a break...

[ambergrandma]

Petty family stuff

Alright, so I head up to college next month and my family--my family just in this state (consisting my parents, grandparents on maternal side, & my paternal uncle + his girlfriend) wants to come with on move in day. 

I was talking to my dad about how I don’t want a barrage of people coming to school with me, as it would be VERY crowded (it’s a small women’s school), and he got snippy with me about “well your uncle does a lot for you and he wants to see the campus so of course he gets to come up!”. Right away, he had picked up the main point of my words which was: I don’t want my uncle there.

Here’s the thing. 

My uncle on my dad’s side is a pushy, old retiree & staunch Republican/Trump supporter who expects us to go visit him during summers at his beck and call, when we have other shit to do, like international travel & work. Last year, he got so offended when we didn’t take up his visit request, that he deliberately missed Thanksgiving (not only that, he forced his girlfriend to miss it, too). 

Additionally, he does not like my mom. Why? My mom gave me her last name when I was born & my dad’s family (not my dad himself) despised her for it. But here’s the thing; her reasoning behind it was bc 

- A) they [my mom & dad] were not married at the time, 

- B) she is a feminist, and

- C) she was 100% ready to raise me by herself bc she did not trust my dad to be a father yet (he was immature and kinda needed to wake up), so thus having his name would imply that I’m his child first and foremost, which she absolutely loathed.

She does not like my uncle, either. He constantly hounds her about the proper way to raise me and my sister, as if she doesn’t know herself. He constantly talks about what he did with his only son and how he gave him everything he needed to succeed, including securing a place at state university, buying him his first car, all this other rich white stuff. He pretty much grew up with almost everything on a silver platter.

My mom is a Latina who grew up in a cruel household and had to buy/learn to do everything herself AND dealt with rampant sexism in her workplace before she was able to start her own company. She raised both my sister and I to be self-sufficient, earn our own money, & make our own decisions with only a slight nudge from her. My dad is present and has been since I was a baby, but my mom was (and still is) most definitely the head honcho of our house. We were talking one-on-one about her relationship with my uncle once, and she straight-up said “You are MY baby, and I’ll be damned if that gringo tries to tell ME how to raise you.” (it was said with a very proud smile & I had never felt more thankful that she is my mom)

As much as she will allow my sister and I to explore by ourselves, she is fiercely protective of us when it comes to other human beings.

Which brings me to the point this long, roundabout post is really about.

As I said before, my uncle is a staunch Republican who rarely visits us and barely knows anything about our personal lives.

Meanwhile, I only recently became comfortable enough to buy pride merchandise and hang my flag up in my room. On move-in day at college, if he’s there, he’s going to see all of my pride stuff. 

I am fucking terrified of that happening, bc only my immediate family (mom, dad, sister) knows that I have all this stuff. Not even my grandparents (one of whom is Catholic, one of whom is a Republican, both of whom still love & accept me) have seen it.

I told my mom about my fears today & she said she would talk with my dad about it. I hope he doesn’t show up.

tl;dr My mom dislikes my Republican uncle. She will not be told by some pushy gringo how to raise her daughters.

[lightening816]

Forgive me if I sound petty, but...

I haven't been doing that well lately. My left ear has been buzzing on and off, even after using hydrogen peroxide to try to drain my wax, my left cheek has two minor burns on it from my hair straightener, and this morning, I felt as if I was on the verge of tears.

Whoever reads this, could ya'll please pray for me and keep me in your good thoughts? I just want this week to be over.

[aroace-people-are-lgtbq]

Man, rebelb*ze owes aro people a shit-ton of money

[paxdracona]

My truly, TRULY petty thing I'm annoyed about is the lack of creativity in creative hobbies. I know how that sounds lmao.

Under a read more because this is just grumpy venting lmao

So I have a tiny problem in which I have a broad area of interest and the hobbies to match. As such I'm part of lots of craft-specific groups and here comes my point: 80% of the people only adhere strictly to pre-existing patterns/ideas/etc.

(I'm mostly leaving patterns for like, knitting and crochet (maybe sewing) out of this because designing a well working pattern is of the witchcraft variety and not something i expect everyone has the time and energy for. I'm talking about like, colouring pages, drawings, needle-felting and most recently for me, stained glass patterns.)

No own thoughts, only 'how did you make this?? What pen, what materials, the exact shade of color you used, I need this but with this tiny detail altered, what do?? what are the steps??' And look, I get it when you're starting out, you have to gain experience etc. But most of them have been doing the hobby for years and still panic or get mulish when a pattern is unclear or unfamiliar.

Plus you get a boatload of people who rush to make the same pattern when something drops so for days your feed is inundated with the same project from a gazillion people.

Also in my broader craft groups; someone posts something new as a hobby and for the next few weeks dozens of people pick up the same thing and try to sell the inspired-by results to the other members (who are also doing the same hobby at the time so no one buys anything.)

Examples I have seen; hair bows, peg dolls, vinyl-customised tumblrs, the same 10 cutesy phrases burned into wooden plates, more recently these little colored tiles with vinyl smart phrases stuck on, spool-knitted names etc on metal wire, 3d-printing the same trinket or toy, resin-casting the same objects in the same molds as everyone else etc etc. Without fail, all supplies are listed as a full set on buy groups later because they've moved on.

('Selling all my X stuff since ive stopped making X, everything at once'. So much resin molds, plaster molds, hairbow supplies, budget 3d printers, woodburning tools, peg dolls etc etc)

Where's the curiosity, the sense of wanting to learn? Worse yet, it's so transparently obvious when people only jump on something new because they think they can make money from it by imitating something (badly).

(And yes, I realise we all get different things from our hobbies. I need to put my own spin on things or create something new, even if there's a learning curve, and others just want to follow true and tried steps and end up with something they made. I get all this and it's valid. I did say it was petty and you kept reading, so 😌✨️)

[cogimyunkittens]

Am i the only one who gets heated up over petty stuff. "cutecore" "cutegore" ITS JOJIFUKU OR YAMI KAWAII YOU FAKE FANS!!!

[shadokatninjakitty]

Update

*Sigh* Well, it was to be expected. Shortly after all the “yay” of being Retweeted by one of the Executive Producers, I got a Tweet from the runner of an account for the Original Series--I’m really not convinced they even *like* the Reboot, because they only post stuff from the OS--asking “Decided by who?” and tagging a bunch of people, including said EP. (Guess they hadn’t seen the Retweet). I was nice, I pointed out the grammar mistake, answered the question (Said it was a group of fans) and asked if they have a better idea. So far, no response. Not expecting one, really. But, thought you’d like to know. Stay Tuned...