#My policy choice..

[nando161mando]

My policy choice..

[michyeosseo]

I want to become stronger sooner to help Master wipe out the miasma from the Immortal Realm to free the people from oppression.

[b-blushes]

thursday quest - no physical therapy today - make and eat lunch sooooo early but i can do it!!!!! - get ready for wedding - attend wedding! yay! (: - decompress well when i get home <3

[starredforlife]

what if trump started campaigning on an anti genocide stance. would that finally convince the dems to fucking say something or would they continue to double down and sink themselves further

[pinkrelish]

hey alyson, i have a question! will the title of the story The Yes Policy be referenced in upcoming chapters, or has it lost relevance and is it just about our reader and eddie learning how to be in a relationship together? i love love loved how at the start of the story the policy seemed a huge part of reader's life, but it seems that it now no longer is? just curious!! i fucking love your writing, keep up the amazing work xox

in part, it's because there's less fun opportunities for her to say yes to things in hawkins as she spends her evenings with robin's parents, versus being surrounded by nightlife and outgoing friends in new york, but i don't feel like it's lost relevancy? though, yes, the weight and intentionality behind the choices she's presented have changed for her narrative as she settles into a routine in a rural town, and falls into a stable relationship. more subtley, her lifestyle is trickled throughout the scenes where she's telling other people about past bad dates, or her improv is brought up for comedic effect, etc, but they're there.

the policy itself will be referenced overtly two more times that i can think of, but eddie still teases her about it just a chapter ago:

or the DND chapter:

so, it's relevant to him, too.

this is a very long story with two (well, three) people at the focus of it. eddie asking her out via the policy was a big moment for him. and without taking away screen time for them to develop a meaningful bond, there's not a lot of "fun" ways to incorporate her saying yes to things without derailing for a subplot that i'm not as excited to write, and would probably involve other characters, not eddie.

after establishing her as a character in the first chapters, it was time to move on and unravel their romance, and leave those funner backstory moments to passing sentences.

maybe the story isn't as entertaining now, but neither is her life. she's slowed down, and is considering her future for once. maybe there are creative ways to bring the excitement from the first few whirlwind chapters back, but those might serve better as oneshots. for now the main storyline hinges on life's bigger questions, and she has bigger choices to make that will impact her (and eddie's and adrie's) future, and she's not making those decisions lightly. (...after these next three lighthearted smutfest chapters).

i will say she was supposed to have (or get) a tattoo at one point, because obviously someone who says yes to everything would have one, but i took that part out since because it felt weird with a reader insert lmao.

[charliextea]

has it ever occurred to anyone that the black and white thinking of anti-/pro- language is a trauma response and we all probably need therapy? and like, life is not actually black and white almost ever??? because human beings are complicated? and forcing yourself to pick a side and draw a line in the sand all the time is probably really bad for our mental health collectively?

[queen-boudicca]

Me when doing my environmental science homework, at every available opportunity:

[look-at-the-stars-tonight]

Called my aunt to wish her a happy birthday and we spent an hour discussing what I was doing with my life 😭

[eternalduos]

Man i hate my job

[arendaes]

I'm not posting anything for WIP Wednesday, but I will say I'm bouncing around between two projects - the next chapter of By Any Other Name, and a super secret one-shot based on these two screenshots because I've definitely been bitten by the FoM bug 🤭

[silicon-based-life]

i don’t think this matters to any of my mutuals but for real i will unfollow anyone who puts “vote blue no matter who” bullshit on my dash. just saw a take about how not voting for Biden is antisemitic because Trump is a Netanyahu supporter. buddy you’re not gonna believe this, but you know who ELSE is a Netanyahu supporter? you know who’s been giving him money and weapons to commit unspeakable atrocities??? yeah it’s the FUCKO in the white house Right Now.

and obviously Netanyahu is horrible and needs to be kicked out but this will not magically happen if Biden gets a second term, as “preserving democracy” is only a value of the US if the countries in question can be exploited. but more importantly, this is more than just a “Netanyahu bad” issue. The Palestinians have been systematically oppressed and marginalized in their own homeland since before the first Nakba (right now being the second one), and the apartheid in Israel is systemic, institutional, and a widespread ideological issue. there is no Israeli political party that isn’t aligned with Israel’s current (and historic) program of violence against the Palestinian people and their right to self determination. Getting rid of Netanyahu will *maybe* make things marginally better in Israeli politics by not having an all out fascist in charge, but there’s no guarantee (especially now) that an even further right PM wouldn’t be his replacement, and even if he was replaced by someone more left wing, that doesn’t mean things will improve for the Palestinians and in fact they probably won’t, because Israel is a state founded on the oppression and erasure of Palestine. Palestinian liberation is not a stance Israeli politicians have.

a vote for Biden is not a vote for getting rid of Netanyahu. a vote for Biden is an acknowledgement of what he has done in this conflict, an acknowledgement of Biden’s dedication to funding Israeli war crimes and the US bombs that have taken the lives of thousands of innocents, and saying that it’s not only okay for Biden to have done it but it’s okay for him to continue. No. Fuck no. I live a very comfortable life in America, a fact for which I am incredibly lucky and grateful, but that comfort is not worth the lives of innocent people in other countries. Joe Biden is not owed my vote, and I’m not going to fucking give it to him if he’s going to continue to aid Israel in a genocide. It truly is that fucking simple.

Palestine will be free in our lifetimes, and it will be because of an international struggle for Palestinian liberation, not because of Joe Biden.

[tj-crochets]

Inexplicably just got two letters from Aetna asking for additional information for prescription drug prior authorization in the state of Florida. Couple of things wrong with that: - the prior authorizations have already been approved - I don’t live in the state of Florida and never have - the information it asks for is information I cannot provide, only my doctor can, and she’s named on the paperwork so they definitely know how to send her the letters - I’m not in Florida???? Why Florida?????

[informatikerin-freyja]

Personally speaking, I'm not looking forward to when the government starts breeding mutants to serve as elite super soldiers to fight in the war against crustaceans. Don't get me wrong, you do you, I am not judging if you are personally brimming with anticipation for watching the first footage of a mutant foot crushing the life out of an innocent crab. But I think it reflects a grievous further degeneration of our already questionably civilized relation to the animal life all around us. Plus, those mutants are probably going to get reused as police offices once the crustacean menace is fully macerated, and I don't want to hear anyone saying they weren't warned. I'm warning you right now. Vote NO to the mutant powered crustacean elimination program. Mutation sciences must be used only towards the benefit of life, not to further the war on the sea!

[starfirebird]

I have many fights with my family but the number one thing I cannot understand is the belief that anything that is illegal is inherently immoral

Things can be morally necessary and also illegal

Things can be morally neutral and also illegal (but we didn’t even get to that)

ALSO “I can’t explain why because it’s classified*” is not a good justification for anything

[supernovaa-remnant]

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[cappurrccino]

my desire to work in a large institution with loads of established policies and where there's always someone higher up to ask questions of increases ten-fold every time I'm the only person here and someone inevitably comes to me with a question I am in no way equipped to answer