#Bad Experience

[ashayatreldai]

Book Depository can go screw itself

I have just cancelled all my SevenSeas pre-orders through Book Depository.

I have used BD for years, and they've provided good service on the whole. But I got fed up after three pre-orders were cancelled by them.

In each case, I ordered months and months in advance, eagerly anticipating the release of each book. The book's publishing date came - and sure enough, it was listed for sale on the website, but my pre-order was listed as "awaiting publication".

When I asked why the title was listed for sale where my pre-order hadn't been honoured, I was given a bullshitty politician's non-answer.

It smacks to me of dishonesty. I mean, if I pre-order something, I am paying in good faith for something to eventually come to me. By placing a pre-order I am a) handing over money to BD's account where it accrues interest and b) gives them an idea of how many volumes they need to get order the publisher for distribution. For the privilege of this, they charge a greatly reduced sum; the cost of the book when it is listed for sale on the publishing date is often a lot more expensive.

So actually, this whole business of not honouring pre-orders also seems to be a price and money-gouging exercise. I suspect they deliberately don't fill pre-orders in order to force those who have pre-ordered to order the full-priced item.

I'm so disgusted.

Seeking other distributors who will send to my location. (Which also sucks, because it's not mainland USA and is often $$$ to send to.)

WARNING: Don't pre-order your SevenSeas danmei novels through Book Depository. Just don't. Find another distributor.

Feel free to share/reblog this raise awareness.

[vivanightcity]

getting a good reminder of one of the reasons i stopped playing

for some unknown reason - or at least as of yet undiscovered reason - sometimes when running cyberpunk (and only cyberpunk) the fans kick into fucking overdrive, and the screen turns into a damned slideshow.

And laptop ends up feeling cold to the touch because it wasn't struggling, so the fans running at max for a long time weren't needed. And it literally doesn't matter if i lower game quality to potat. IT still does this.

Only on cyberpunk. I can run any other game on fucking ultra. But cyberpunk it does this to.

[audhd-space]

I can never get over same time last year when I went for online therapist. I specified that I needed a therapist who can assess me for ADHD and while she’s not trained for it, she still insisted that I should first explore my trauma with her.

Just say you need to make money instead of helping me then.

[bugbxyjunk]

Opinions on edating? -🩷

well. considering ny first relationship was online, and i dated long distance once more after that, i feel like its dangerous but not something that shouldn't be done

like, make sure you know that person is who they say they are, like my first relationship we were facetiming all the time and constantly sent pictures. if you pkan on meeting up, take someone with you and encourage them to do the same, if they don't like that idea or want to meet alone, red flag. but fr as long as you aren't like dating some random Roblox person you met once in a game i don't really care what you do with your life, just be sensible, smart, and safe.

[callmeonima]

WARNING: THIS IS GONNA BE UNCOMFORTABLE EXPERIENCE WHEN YOU READ THIS

It was winter season and it was becoming night . I have no sweaters left ,so I chose a black hoodie to wear . When I step outside , I noticed how middle aged people are watching me and I felt uncomfortable but I have to go to my private school . I was walking and walking and middle aged people were looking at me like I did something worng . When I reached my classroom . My classmates were looking and laughed at me and the teacher who is also the principal were laughing at me too . I felt like I wanna kill them and make them suffer pain. When I sit down with a girl , she said " what am I wearing inside the hoodie" and my mind went blank like 10 seconds . She asks me that if I am naked inside the hoodie , it makes me wanna slap her and tell her to shut up . The class ended when I was outside the private school gate . My classmates and their moms came to me and said that I should wear a sweater or the males gonna get thrusty over me and makes me feel with anger with rage . I left and reached my home and told my mom what happened today at my classroom and she said that it was my fault and I should wear a sweater and not showing my chest and I feel nothing but shock and disbelief , how could my mom said to me . Tomorrow, I grabbed a sweater and put it . I walking to my private school like usual . The classroom did not laughed at me . The classroom ended and I was outside the gates and my classmates and their moms came to me and said that they are glad that I am wearing a sweater and not my comfortable hoodie and makes me wonder why I have to be unlucky to experience this type of things . I hate how I live country like this . Just to remind I was a little kid and I was in 2nd grade by that experience . Why will middle aged people would looked at my chest and say that my chest is showing like what the FUCK would you say that to a kid. It's letterly covered up plus how is it my fault that my chest is showing like it's not like I can reduce it . I hate my country so much, I hate Bangladesh too much , why do I have to be born into the racist, homophobic, judgemental county . This is why my mental health makes me wanna do my 2nd attempt to suicide myself because I experienced worsted and the memories keeps coming back . I was ONLY a kid . THIS IS NOT MY FAULT, I AM JUST A KID BACK THEN . I am 14 years old and I hate Bangladesh

[hoofpeet]

14 year old artists listen to me right now (gripping you by the shoulders) STOP caring about your "internet presence" right naow. Draw slower and stop trying to boil your art down to an acceptable marketable brand

[chalkrub]

autumnal chill....featuring the girl

[annaberunoyume]

FAIR WARNING: THAT MEME BELOW MIGHT BE A LITTLE CONTROVERSIAL. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. I AM SIMPLY RETELLING SOMETHING AWFUL THAT HAPPENED TO ME. AND I WANT TO HELP BABY GAYS AVOID THE SAME TRAP.

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[thebaddragon]

I still remember in the 10th grade, at the beginning of the school year, being told by Ms. McNamara that I participated too much, so she was going to stop calling on me in class.

Then, during one class where I, in the front row, was raising my hand to answer a question that no one else was raising their hand or interested in participating, she ignored me; even when I was waving my hand like I was gonna learn to fly.

Everyone noticed it; everyone thought it was funny. One child even actively tried to get her to acknowledge me, but speaking out that I clearly had an answer for the question to share.

She still refused to call on me.

I understood that she wanted others to 'get the chance' to participate or answer. But no one in that class even tried to answer before I would then raise my hand. I was capable of recognizing when others wanted to try and was able to delay raising my hand when I didn't know the answer or would have not raised my hand if another child was trying. But they weren't even trying, which was the issue.

But it humiliated me to the point that I started blurting out answers in that class. If she wasn't going to call on me and no one else was trying, I would blurt out my answers.

She tried telling me one time to stop that and raise my hand to ge called.

So, I stopped trying to participate in the class. Did my homework and the assignments, but stopped participating in the class completely.

She had to start calling on people who were not participating since no one else tried.

But I still hold resentment for that teacher.

It's been 20 years.

And I hated English class because of her. I had LOVED the class prior to that experience.

[fishgirl514]

smells wrong in here. like plastic peanut butter

[uncanny-tranny]

Fat people deserve mobility aids, too. No matter if it's connected to their fatness or not, because having a mobility issue that is connected to one's fatness won't change that they're still fat and still have the issue at hand. Fat people don't deserve to "tough it out" because fatness should be this divine punishment doled out to those who "deserve" it. Fat disabled people deserve to have the peace of mind that they can exist in whatever way is most comfortable and accessible to them

[thesingingrevolution]

i dont want to take supplements anymore i want food to be enough

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[ambrosiagourmet]

I think one of the biggest tragedies of Laios & Falin and their relationship is how much his actions impact her life. But like. Specifically how much they WOULDN’T impact her life as much if they weren’t both stuck in such a shitty abusive situation.

This part of the Falin-tries-makeup daydream hour comic is what got me thinking about it again because truly it just... it seems like such a like an offhand comment that I'm sure Laios didn't mean to be cruel or anything. That's just like. A little kid not thinking about what they are saying. ESPECIALLY when the kid in question is Laios.

But man they depended on each other SO much as kids. Too much. It really feels like they didn't have any other source of positive reinforcement, or anyone else to share themselves with. So of course an offhand comment like that has a huge impact on Falin.

Or this little bit from one of the flashbacks:

This tears me apart. Do you think it tears him apart to think about? I think it does. I think Laios holds every small failure to care for Falin against himself.

And then there's the Bigger stuff. The way that him coping with his own trauma ended up impacting her.

Like his interest in monsters. Like him going to find a ghost, and accidentally revealing Falin's magic to the whole village in the process.

Like him needing to leave. And leaving her behind.

He shaped her life so much, and he carries so much guilt for it. And again, there should have been other people there to help. The same things that made Laios need to leave home are the things that made his leaving so hard on Falin. She ate alone after that. She shouldn't have had to eat alone just because Laios wasn't there.

She was 9 when he left for school, and he was 11.

Nine. And Laios feels like he failed her because he didn't stand by her through this better. As an eleven year old.

Both of these kids deserved so much better from the world.

[deanpinterester]

i cannot stress this enough: if your reasoning for clowning on the mcu is "they overwork their cg artists and animators" i 1000% guarantee that a show or movie you have been stanning for years also abused their artists and you just haven't heard about it because the production companies aren't in the spotlight like mcu productions are. that cartoon for kids? that incredibly animated movie? that non-marvel superhero movie? i've seen people declare their hatred for the way the mcu treats their workers and then turn around and gush about a show that i know for a fact was hell for the artists attached

and no this is NOT me saying "this means you should stop hating on the mcu uwu" it's me saying you gotta be aware that this shit is an INDUSTRY WIDE PROBLEM. you CANNOT "fix" it by refusing to watch mcu movies and feeling good about it. you have to be aware that it's EVERYWHERE. why do you think so many animation and vfx productions are sourced in canada? in india and the phillipines? we are not unionized.

i know it's hard to face the idea that your favourite show might have been made unethically especially when you've spent so much time hating the mcu for doing the same thing. you don't have to start hating your favourite show. just like...be aware. don't be smarmy about it. don't claim without research that a beautifully animated movie Must mean the animators were not working 16 hour days and weekends. i do think we can fix this 👍 but we can't fix it if 90% of us don't even realize what the problem really is

[xamag-draws]

[Monster High] so since pink lagoona is a hot topic in the fandom, i though it'd be a fun challenge to try and make some pink lagoonas myself. there's actually a lot of material to work with imo!

these are all essentially looks for a recolored g1 lagoona, only the last one being intended for her g3 personality. i wanted to make more for g3, but didn't quite like them in execution, so maybe another time..

tropical treasure: beautiful, glamorous, colorful, but a bit more of an aquarium decoration than a strange beast. loosely inspired by bettas

ghost ship cruise: etherial haunty lagoona, inspired by jellyfish. light, translucent and probably cold to the touch

coy classic: elegant mermaid pond lagoona, inspired by koi fish. this one is kind of an amalgamation of her g1 dolls that exists in my head tbh

little axolotl: cute and quirky, like the new lagoona. inspired by axolotls and sea slugs :)