Things that piss you off

[Doormaster]

girlfriend accidentally kneed me in the chest last friday and it still kind of hurts to breathe and move in certain directions

also got a stubborn cold sore that's scabbed over and it's difficult not to pick at

[scebboaliwiw]

I'm really tired of people giving "advice" that tells you to accommodate injustice/evil/just plain being a bitch instead of discouraging it.

[SaintCrazy]

Every time I'm reminded of the work I missed or grades I've made this semester my anxiety just gets worse.

[YCobb]

One of my friends turned into a mostly hateful jackass. Hmmmmm.

I'm giving it a month, max, until I get sick of it enough to cut contact.

[Exeres]

Fantasy novel cliché checklist

I was feeling pretty good, saying no to each entry. Until, of course, I started hitting a few that were just a bit too close for comfort.

"N... NO SHUT UP YOU DON'T FUCKING KNOW ME."

[Riku]

I tried it, but I missed the part where it's about high fantasy until like, 10 questions in, whoops. different set of clichés from my genre.

[Dire]

hey Riku, out of curiosity: What would you consider your genre to be?

[Riku]

Hell if I know. It's just not high fantasy. I'm assuming there's a name for whatever genre contains a more "modern" setting, and the different types of politics and relationships found therein. I'm really not great at placing genres, save for fairly broad categories and a very few specific ones.

[Ersatz]

Urban fantasy?

[SaintCrazy]

Does your story revolve around an ancient prophecy about "The One" who will save the world and everybody and all the forces of good?

Hey, lay off my Skyrim storyline, random person on the internet.

Honestly though some of these things aren't that bad in moderation. There's something to be said for putting your own spin on a cliche story. Some of them are just hilarious though, like the one about puns. Made me think of a friend of mine I would play Munchkin with.

Also I have no idea what a high fantasy story would look like if it had zero of these. Like, can you even call it high fantasy if it isn't highly influenced by LotR?

[Blitz Walrus]

record breaking hi temps today. Everyone's sweaty, nobody's having fun.
Old waterslide decals suck too. New ones are fucking rad, but these old one's must've deteriorated or just be vaguely terrible.

[Ersatz]

My father is dumb so he can't fathom that other people might not need a manual and a 90 hours class in order to accomplish trivial tasks and he thinks that nobody has any consciousness of the outside world so he explains everything to me like I'm a 3 years old who has never been out of his house and when I so much as imply I don't need that level of care he gets all offended and bodaciously calls me a know-it-all.
So I'm supposed to pretend I'm enlightened when he tells me that what is playing on TV is actually an ad and not a program (that is, when he can even tell), or that the person who is being interviewed plays in that series I watch after I start watching the interview (because I tend to stop doing what I'm doing to listen to an interview of someone I don't know and I can't possibly recognize a human face I've seen plenty of times, right?), or that this character in that movie is currently talking, or else I'm a pretentious twat and I think I know everything about everything.
Coming from the man who thought the moon was a planet and had to be convinced that Australia is not actually in Northern Europe.

[Dire]

Was he thinking of Austria?

[Riku]

Yeah, I remember making that mistake when I was 7. Except I did the reverse. I forgot/didn't know Austria in Europe was a thing, and instead called Australia Austria.

[FMAWolf]

So another girl in bakery and I both requested a weekend off in June for a convention. My boss deemed it a sound decision to have us fight it out over who gets what days off because 'I'm not giving both of you those three days off' even though we work in two different departments (I'm in deli) and it wouldn't be a scheduling problem.

This, being the latest in a long list of problems I've been having at this job for about a year (I've been there for two) was what prompted me to give my two weeks notice last Thursday.

My boss is now taking it personally, she won't talk to me at all during my shifts and stays in bakery to avoid me. Hell, she had to call my pass in to get me onto the base and because she forgot and I got there first she had to meet me at the gate, and she wouldn't even look at me she just flashed her pass to the guard and left.

She's treating this like a breakup. I'm the seventh person to quit since she became manager and another girl I know is already close to walking too. Is this normal? It has never happened in other jobs I've had. I'm kind of freaking out and counting down to the seventeenth now.