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they want you to make fried rice

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The Cost of Staying

Sometimes it’s not that you didn’t want the job.

It’s that you wanted it too much. And now you're floating down some corporate river. Toward the wrong end of The Waterfall (TM).

You worked too hard. Put up with too much. Got good at things you never thought you’d be good at. Found your rhythm. Found your people. Maybe even started to believe you belonged there.

And then it changed.

Or maybe it didn’t. Maybe it was always like this and you just finally let yourself admit that the cost was too high.

That staying meant watching someone else get away with it. That staying meant shrinking a little bit each day. That staying meant carrying your own silence like it was professionalism. Like it was maturity. Like it was strength.

But here’s the truth no one wants to put on a poster: Sometimes leaving is the only way to protect yourself.

And that doesn’t mean you failed. It doesn’t mean you weren’t strong enough. It means the place wasn’t safe enough.

And maybe that’s not the ending you deserved, but it’s not the end of your story either (the waterfall).

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Darling of Dock Town

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severance is so scary i hope jobs arent real

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There's a lot to lose... Isn't there always?

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She's in her mid to late thirties and experiencing true love for the first time, she simply has the range

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Saw someone say something about a Neve laughing supercut so here! Probably missing a few but this is what I had in my files. Anyways I'm kicking my feet

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neve tops

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shes munching on coffee beans like theyre salted peanuts while working on her cases..

I just know neve drinks room temperature coffee... NEED HER

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Neve: You really missed me. Rook: Every moment.

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I think we caught a wisp.

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I just know neve drinks room temperature coffee... NEED HER

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Lady Montilyet… the woman you are <3

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thinking about romanced neve’s comments on tear stone island…

“just…find a way out. can you do that, Trouble?” is neve gallus choosing to put her faith in rook and how they always seem to claw their way past trouble and danger. it comes out clumsy because she’s not used to doing that. she trusts that rook is rock steady and reliable and has been in the past and can be in the present but in this moment she’s trying to believe that rook will be there in the future.

(how she must have wrestled with herself the whole time. torn between her heart and her head as per usual, neve chooses a compromise. she won’t say “i love you”—not yet. did she tell herself that she would say it after? did she not let herself think it at all?)

neve offers an olive branch here—i want to believe that we can find our way out. tell me we can find our way out. and of course rook delivers. “i can if you can.”

and then bellara is taken by elgar’nan himself.

and then someone dies stopping ghilan’nain.

and then rook disappears.

and then minrathous, her city and home, is taken and blighted.

neve gallus quite literally lost everything in such a short period of time that it’s a wonder she was functional at all in the weeks where rook was missing and so much was just wrong.

but then rook comes back.

and then they find bellara.

and then the blight is killed in minrathous along with elgar’nan.

she’s proven completely right and then completely wrong nearly immediately.

(and even when she only has rook back, she tries again. to believe and let herself feel rather than fighting against it the whole time. because rook makes her feel brave, and rook died, and rook broke out of a prison built to hold gods.)

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