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Swordtember 2024 by Mukhlis Nur (Sinlaire)

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Art by Jingyu Wen

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Jamie Hewlett - gorillaz

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The Challenge (Agnes Miller Wagner 1934) via enchantedbook

Darth Wednesday via christabelq

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Nag. And Be Well.

I have come understand that some people develop a habit or even a personal preference for quarreling or nagging ― persistently pursuing someone with casual aggression and random, non-constructive criticism. Instead of accepting conflict and resolving it when needed, they come to regularly, actively seek out small-scale, petty conflict without any interest in ending it. Instead of an effort towards solving a problem and conflict management, nagging is a maneuver towards problem making, and conflict perversion.

High-profile arguing and fighting usually happens with a person to be held responsible in a specific situation, for a concrete reason. Low-profile nagging on the other hand creates an opportunity to vent aimless dissatisfaction and unfocused, undigested anger; not on the person responsible for a troublesome circumstance but on a likely, uninvolved target, preferably someone who doesn’t fight back. Regardless of what an argument or a fight might be able to achieve, any kind or amount of nagging doesn’t solve any problem, nor does it even mean to make anything better. It’s just less work than a fight, and far less challenging. And you can get away with it more easily. And it’s a whole lot more convenient.

That said, people nag not only to make it easy on themselves. They also do it to draw gratification from it. That aspect of feeling good, or at least feeling better when they do it, that is one of the core elements of Sadistic behavior. That doesn’t mean that nagging is as bad as other, more severe forms of Sadism. In addition, what makes it especially attractive is the fact that it’s still being tolerated and even supported, at least passively, by mainstream society. 

Nagging at its conceptual core is verbal and emotional abuse rather than physical or sexual abuse. There are also differences in the degree of suffering being caused. Nagging still shares the same roots with other, more severe forms of Sadism. All go back to the same mindset, to the same bad habit and the same antisocial motive. And the fact remains that nagging doesn’t sort any problem, ever, and that the person doing it doesn’t even try to make anything better. They just want to feel better. All they want is to sneak in a short, questionable moment of satisfaction by causing discomfort to someone else.

The hallmark of a Sadist is a preference for a guaranteed victory, an attack without limits, a love for violence without rules. The same goes for habitual naggers. They cherish aggression and excel at the offensive, but they’re bad in the defensive, and they avoid targeting a person they consider an equal or an incalculable risk. Typically they attack only when they can be sure that there is little risk of resistance or backlash. Sadism in general is a predator trait, and predators are after prey. They look for a victim, not for an opponent. Sadists are much like the other predators; they don’t want to fight, or be brave. They want to feed, and be well.

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Jon Foster

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iamheavymeta-lll via ishiganto

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YOU. LOSE. Sorry to break it to you… and Boss: you look like a proper charlie.

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Raptor Times Subnautic

Oh-oh-oh… the tragic unintended comedy. How oh-so-bittersweet an irony! The Great Chelicerate, the extra-buff boss-monster in Subnautica: Below Zero, is shamefully bested by a woman in a comfortable, form-fitting water filtration suit, armed with nothing but a modest multipurpose knife, sitting in a clunky subnautic ATV called a Prawn Suit. How sublimely confident in yourself do you have to be, Great Chelicerate or otherwise, to allow yourself being tempted to eyeball, follow and stalk someone who’s not even thinking of picking trouble with you? How over-trusting in your own abilities do you have to be, to keep coming in reach of a resourceful woman with her hands on two hydraulic Prawn Suit arms, stubby things meant for mining ore, picking up salvage, and moving bulky stuff around?

But hands down, this is the fact we're looking at, and it’s a classic, nay, a truly antique scenario. I keep poking the Great Boss with stubby utility hydraulics for a minimum of one hundred solid times, not because this is inevitable but because the Great Boss keeps giving me a chance to do so. And the Great Boss actually dies in the attempt of having more stub-hydraulic, pokey-womanly backlash abuse. Since ancient times there have been people and creatures that overconfident, that aggressive and that foolish, much like the Great Chelicerate; and i can and will confirm from purrsonal experience that this kind of violent, unintended comedy is not by any means limited to a game like Subnautica: Below Zero.

Q.E.D. — being endgame-oversized, tough, strong and healthy won’t make you invulnerable. Being fast and agile, elegant and ferally handsome won’t make you irresistible. Even your overconfidence, your aggressive bravado and your predatory intelligence will not save you from your own foolishness. All these priceless qualities of yours are worth oh-so-little if you’re incapable of learning from your mistakes, if you can’t move on from things that simply will not go your way, and if you’re unwilling to respect someone who refuses to come around and play by your rules.

It truly is a valuable life lesson for everyone… that is, it could be. Regrettably, specimen the likes of the Great Chelicerate do not care about a life lesson, nor do they recognize it when it presents itself. Even if they do recognize the lesson, they will refuse to learn from it, mostly out of sheer blinkered, grandiosely deluded arrogance. Instead they rely on the false safety of their overblown self-image and their blanket underestimation of others, and they just keep trying to bulldoze-bully their way through their environment, blundering right past everybody’s problems including their own, charging headlong into everything and everyone in their way.

Purrsonally i’m sure that, throughout history of life on Earth this is a scenario that has been repeating itself in moments uncounted, and that it has remained unchanged at its core for hundreds of millions of years by now. As a purrson who feels an intimate connection to the great family of feathered raptors and deinonycheans in world history, i imagine that my dear ancestors must have faced, and braved the same situation as Yours Subnautic Truly in their own apex-pwning times.

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