#and just permanently use my personal one

[klmwonsik]

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[please-let-this-work-oh-my-god]

One thing I find very interesting, as a learner of German, is Isolde's usage of du when speaking to Kakania. In German, there are three main second person pronouns: du, ihr and Sie. The first two are mainly used in informal and casual settings or when talking to people you're close with (with du being singular and ihr being plural sorta similar to english's y'all) while Sie is used in more formal situations (or situations which require some form of formality) such as talking to strangers, customer service or when you're talking to a doctor/patient. Kakania abides by this and uses Sie when talking to Isolde (such as in her speech at the end of chapter 6) but interestingly, Isolde doesn't reciprocate this and instead uses du when conversing with Kakania in German.

This is super fascinating to me because it implies different levels of closeness within their relationship. Isolde's usage of du implies a level of closeness and intimacy to Kakania as Isolde herself saw Kakania as a close friend (most likely due to the fact that Kakania was once of the few people in Vienna who actually sympathized with her and saw her as a human being) but Kakania's siezen suggests a certain level of estrangement or distance between her and Isolde. Of course. this could just be her maintaining her professionalism as doctors normally use Sie when talking to patients but with how things turned out after chapters 6 and 7, I'd like to think this goes deeper than just formality standards.

[who-is-page]

Life is hard! Consider buying my stuff!

My life isn't quite falling apart, but things have gotten really tricky lately. One housemate (and their super destructive, permanent houseguest) is refusing to pay their share of rent or utilities for the next three months, and another is refusing to pay their full share of rent for that same amount of time and is making us cover around $75 every month, and I'm having to double-up my hours at work while still being a full-time student (and also one of my professors, who we're 99% sure is using ChatGPT to generate her citations because none of them exist and we pointed this out, hates my guts and has been grading me really harshly and forcing me to go full-sail on every assignment to ridiculous degrees in order to pass this required class).

My spouse is working on getting full-time at their job, but it looks like they won't be able to until December, and we also have no idea how much rent is going to increase this year-- my guess is it's going to go up another $500, same as last year, to a total of $3,000, so things are gonna get really fucking bumpy until around January, probably.

So basically, if you like the work I've done, consider throwing me a tip on Ko-Fi or buying my stuff on Itch.io:

(Also I promise we have more stuff lined up that we want to polish and publish, life has just been super-duper fucking busy! There is so much more going on right now than what I've mentioned here, especially in terms of surprise medical bills and other horrible surprises. And we haven't forgotten about Inky Paws issue 2, either, which we're still hoping to have done by December and which will STILL always be entirely 100% free to download, no matter what our living or money situation looks like. That will never ever change, so please don't worry!)

[ssspringroll]

Apartment: 1B Civic Cliffs

Building features: Communal laundry room

Status: VACANT

Make a sim for this space!

An affordable, lived-in 2 bedroom with a lot of charm, if you can find it underneath that layer of grime.

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[penisbilt]

the bittersweet but absolute flood of relief that comes from admitting defeat at living independently, to have to move back in with parents. we tried! we gave it our best shot for almost 3 years! but living like this (being on our own) is just not possible for us at this time of our lives. we've finally proved it to ourselves that we can't do it. it'll be okay to let ourselves rest now

[yellowhollyhock]

i have only two tagging modes:

1) bare bones, minimal description to (hypothetically) be able to find the post later, sometimes less

2) more than half the post is in the tags

[flustersluts]

Booping you telepathically, btw :3

BOOPING YOU BACK

[trans-axolotl]

having a lot of thoughts about eating disorders + how some of us end up developing chronic illnesses directly because of the physical effects of our eating disorders and how Cruel doctors can be about that and just trying to untangle so much shame and blame from that experience rn

[fingertipsmp3]

Took the day off to clean my room and now I have NO clothes

[zahroreadsthings]

With the coast witch...

Check notes for previous instalments

'I want to go with you.'

'Of course you do. Take my bag, I'll tell you what to bring.'

You take one of the many bags down from a stand and pack a small, heavy pouch of what the witch calls water eaters and a case of cold vials no longer than your little finger.

The witch pinches the bridge of her nose and sighs. 'Let's go.'

You arrive at a blue house near the viewing platform you first saw by the maritime museum. She mutters, 'The things I do,' and bangs on the front door.

The coast witch opens the door, already looking bored with the conversation. 'How... nice of you to come by. Would you like some tea?' She leads you to a sitting room much less cluttered than yours.

'This isn't a social call.'

'Then why are you in my house?'

The witch settles in a chair and heaves a long-suffering sigh. 'Pumpkin Bread. We're expecting rain in the next day or so.'

'This could have been a message.'

She looks like she might scream. Lex waves to get your attention from the other side of the room and you follow them into a kitchen. They kick the door closed behind you.

'Good practice to not be around them for over a minute.'

'What's their deal? And what does pumpkin bread have to do with this?'

'Wait.' They disappear for a minute and return carrying a sleeping cat so orange it's almost brown. 'Pumpkin Bread's this little fella. Those two have been married and divorced at least three times and mine took him in the last two divorces.'

You scratch Pumpkin Bread behind the ears. He half opend his eyes, stretches, then settles back to sleep. 'Why did we need to tell you about the rain?'

'First reason is our work's harder in rougher weather, but I don't think your witch cares about that. Second is that Pumpkin Bread needs cuddles when it rains because he gets so scared.' They snort. 'Dumber than a wall of bricks but a real hit with old women.'

'My cat at home was scared of heights.'

'That's kind of perfect, honestly.'

The front door slams hard enough to rattle the glasses to your right. You think you should leave.

[sealovinq]

i need friends /gen (slight rant in tags)

[caffeinatedopossum]

You know sometimes I think being misgendered doesn't bother me much but then someone I KNOW, someone who knows me and knows I'm transgender and even IS TRANS themself sometimes misgenders me and I'm reminded that no matter how accepting or supportive or similar to me they are, no one will see me as a guy until I look and sound like their idea of one.

And idk that bothers me a lot. Like I don't want to have to change just to be seen for who I am because then, is it actually who I really am or is it just a performance ABOUT who I really am?

[yay-depression]

it is so silly when ppl are like “transitioning as an adult should be restricted/illegal because it’s not medically necessary and the results are permanent!” bc like… we do so many things in modern medicine that aren’t strictly necessary & have permanent outcomes and yet… we do them.

my mom went in for a voluntary corrective knee surgery to remove part of her knee. my dad didn’t need to have his stomach removed, he chose to do that. there’s a content creator called footlessjo who chose to have a below the knee amputation. people everywhere ask their doctors for gastric sleeve surgeries, or corrective eye surgery. not to mention almost of these surgeries have a higher regret rate than transitioning.

if we only did medical procedures or treatments when people were dying the quality of life for everyone would go down. if we trust other adults to make permanent decisions regarding things like whether they should keep an organ or a limb, then there’s no reason not to trust trans people who want to medically transition.

[soft-spooks]

ok because i NEED to insert cam into every au i make. pirate au she is my first mate. that would be such a fun dynamic

[vinegar-doppio-official]

job is still going THRU it right now and boss is like "wah wah can the afternoon shift come in earlier?? double shifts have been approved" bitch I AM THE AFTERNOON SHIFT WHO ELSE ARE YOU TALKING TO????? and the answer is go fuck yourself. My shift starts at 2 pm anyway and ur telling me to come in and do a double shift at 11 am? ill get there like at 1 pm. Whats the point. If i had any use for a double shift i would have liked to be let known about it last night at 8 or 9 pm are you insane. Do you know how time works? Also you knew this would happen cause its been happening for a week straight like why are you so goddamn incompetent just hire more people jesus h christ we TOLD you we were understaffed, we TOLD YOU multiple times this would eventually happen if you didnt start taking hiring people seriously and now you wanna cry cause i dont give a shit about staying a single minute overtime or do a double shift? get real

[thethingything]

the sun's started rising around the same time it does in late spring so now I've got that weird nostalgia for when I first showed up in the system and I'm also stuck thinking about when Lucy was like "September is the March of the year" because while that's kind of a ridiculous quote, I do get what they meant with it