#Tale of Woe

[adobe-outdesign]

shoutout to Neopets for having no consistency with how they handle families re: species

like imagine you're Sophie's mom here and you're ready for your first kid to be a kangaroo thing like yourself or a dragon like your husband and instead it's a dog. And you're like "okay the next one will be a kangaroo thing or a dragon" but no it's a wolf. And THEN you're like "okay it's canines. we have this figured out it's always gonna be canines" and then you have another kid and it's a goat

[mochasucculent]

Me n the bestie (my bro who was also hiding in the woods for 10 years and somehow we never ran into each other)

[sharkbyt3drawsstuff]

World has bestowed to me neopets autisim. A hyperfix returns with a vengance.

[largehelicaldevice]

😋 Bruno,My favourite ever...?

[onhirel]

Join Us Now For This Tale of Woe ch. 23

The day after Wednesday's rescue, she and Enid are called into Weems' office for a debrief of sorts. Afterwards, Wednesday and Enid have a talk, one that Wednesday does not find to her liking. As she and Enid are dealing with the fallout from that, Wednesday gets an unexpected visitor...

Found on AO3, 5619 words. Co-written with @ameliamircalla

[rynekins]

An edit of my Sophie the Swamp Witch cosplay for repostober. I think I've worn this cosplay more than any of my others. Rarely does anyone say they recognize the character.

[nimmo-tube-cheese]

[franki-lew-yo]

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My sis and I are in a neopets phase, so here's some artsy fartz I did redesigning the plot-inclusive characters to be more pet-accurate furries (or, just changing their neopet species sometimes).

[otherpeoplescreativity]

Today's WTF Let's say you own a Kia vehicle from the latter half of the 2010s. And you need to replace one of your key fobs, because, Reasons. And you call up, not the local dealership -- they have spent more than 20 years establishing themselves as con artists and predatory incompetents, after all -- but the one in the next county over. It's an hour drive away, but at least they won't destroy a vehicle during regular maintenance.

Here are the steps this Official Kia Dealership wanted me to take:

1. Collect the VIN from my vehicle and the Special Key Code from that little yellow paper they handed the original owner back when they first bought the car.

2. Contact Kia Corporate. By phone.

3. Navigate their phone tree until someone can understand my personal accent enough to appreciate my Tale of Woe.

4. Prove I am me, and give them all this identifying info about my car and its key.

5. Pay them to create a properly-shaped metal key part in a switchblade-style key fob. Brand new. With the little chip and the four buttons, one of which looks like it opens my rear door but in fact does not. You know, typical car key fob.

6. Which they are Not Going To Program.

7. No, they then ship it to the Official Kia Dealership In Question.

8. Do I sincerely believe Official Kia Dealership In Question will contact me when they finally have my fob in their custody? Gosh no. They never have contacted me when they finally got a part in before. Guess I'm going to be calling them up every day to ask if they have it.

9. Rearrange my life so I can get Spouse's Key to my Kia. Clear my schedule for a weekday.

10. Drive an hour through country lanes and interstates and over a moderately wide river. During the Morning Gridlock Commute With Bonus Semi Truck Fleets. In order to join the line at their service bay as close to 7:30 in the morning as I can manage.

11. They do not make appointments at that Official Kia Service Department any more, you see. For anything. It's all "first come, first served".

12. Pay the Official Kia Dealership an additional $75 to do the programming of my freshly shipped key fob that supposedly is pre-shaped to match my factory installed ignition.

13. Boy oh boy, I sure hope it works! Without borking Spouse's Key!

Listen, I'm relieved to have an "automotive locksmith" in my county who is willing to cut AND program a refurbished OEM key fob that I bought online. Automotive Locksmith has plenty of certifications and a variety of mostly positive reviews, going back several years.

But now I gotta navigate the Kia Corporate phone tree specifically so I can ask them what the smurf is going on in Decatur, Alabama. Didn't they used to be functional?

[tgirlarmpits]

should i like their posts too

would they even know that its me

was i just another post to them or something more....

marklikely... what were we in your mind...

[dabblingreturns]

So as my followers and beloved mutuals may have noticed.....I am going through a month.....

In the past two weeks I have

Discovered that my car won't start

Gotten a list of words to discribed my feelings from my therapist.

Had my basement flood

Had a tree fall on my house

Promptly forgot about the list of words

Gotten the tree removed from my house

Got my car jumped.

Discovered that it was dead the next morning. Again.

Got the biggest snow my city has had in about 5 years

Got my car jumped again and took it unto the repair shop.

Paid almost $1000 usd for a new hybrid starter battery, new brakes, am oil change amd a few other small repairs.

Got an even bigger snow fall.

Got food poisoning the night before my next therapy session.

Opened my patient portal to let my therapist know that I would miss our next appointment due to illness

Found the list of feeling words, which probably would have been useful in the last two weeks.

So here is the thing that most of you don't know about me.

I have historically been pretty kickass at vocabulary usage even though my spelling has always been lacking.

In the third grade I once managed to fit ten of my spelling/vocabulary words into two gloriously run on sentences. After that I was Informed that I would only get credit for two vocab worlds in each sentence.....

Anyways....at 6am, in the middle of my wretchedness, and also my blankets, I manged too send a short apology note to my therapist using three of the vocabulary worlds.....

Because "fatigued", "empty", and "embarrassed" are the correct words for what I had experienced.

I'm not telling you this as a sob story but instead a story of triumph. Because some of those skills you learned in school never truly leave you

[starbiology]

i reread the Tale of Woe comic when I came back to Neopets and Sophie is even better than I remembered

[woodpengu]

For years, I've been saying that ADHD is like having ferrets for brains, or being ferret-brained (credit for the metaphor belongs to the ferrets). Anyone who's both, a) observed ferret behavior, and b) been observed as at least potentially having ADHD will know this is simultaneously an insult, a compliment, and a paradox that is more felt somewhere in the vicinity of the spine as a resonating quiver than heard by the ears and understood by the conscious mind.

And if you have not observed the behavior of ferrets, humor your own curiosity at your own risk. Because you will then have the slightest idea of not knowing which is being complimented, insulted, or having a crisis of existentialism: the ferret, the human, the brain that might in fact be made of ferrets, or one of the many numerous deities it was decided might have been responsible for creating them all in the first place.

In all cases... you have my sympathies.

[newtid]

oouuh mygod

[largehelicaldevice]

Can you tell what my favourite Faerie is and what my favourite plot is

[onhirel]

Join Us Now For This Tale of Woe ch. 12

The weird little game of Wednesday asking Enid to marry her only for Enid to defer it until the next day continues, much to Wednesday's frustration. Today's request for the honor of asking again tomorrow came in the form of helping with Enid's homework. At the tail end of that, something happens that shakes Enid to the core.

Found on AO3, 6172 words. Co-written with @ameliamircalla