#had multiple teachers who were not at all qualified for the job and a bunch of bullshit assignments and stuff

[wereh0gz]

I was gonna comment this under a youtube short abt a specific stim (tapping your ears) that reminded me of something from my childhood but I realized I was on youtube and decided I won't risk being emotionally open on that hellhole so I'm posting it here instead

Anyways the video reminded me of when i was in elementary school back when i still lived in Puerto Rico. i got so overwhelmed in one of my classes because all the other kids were being deafeningly loud and i couldn't keep up with the notes (had written two whole whiteboards worth of notes and the teacher was erasing one of the boards to write more)(notes were all fully handwritten, no guided notes packets or anything)(was always made to write ALL OF IT, no shorthands) and then the teacher started using a goddamn WHISTLE to get the kids' attention and shut them up (didn't work, just made more noise which made me more overwhelmed). i burst into tears and started tapping my ears almost unconsciously to try and mitigate the noise since just covering them wasn't enough somehow.

I still do it sometimes when there's too much noise but like. In a less noticeable way i guess? Just kinda rub my ear which gets a similar effect to tapping it. Bc i know it's weird and i was already the weird kid by then so like i can't be More Weird. Y'know. So most of the time i just endure loud noise and try not to get super pissed off or cry instead.

Anyways i'm not saying i'm for real neurodivergent but i am saying that my parents should've done something about my very obvious issues way earlier on instead of just chalking it up to me being "shy" or "sensitive" or "a perfectionist" or whatever the fuck. Bc this incident among other things that happened before and after it were literally big flashing signs that i was Not Normal. But noooo instead they had to leave current me with emotional regulation issues constantly wondering what the fuck is wrong with me

[squidproquoclarice]

Why do you say Dutch is running a cult? I don't think I disagree but you explain things in a way people can understand so I wanted to get your thoughts.

OK, so in the interest of having a clearly defined set of criteria identified as often present in cults, I’m going to run the VDL Gang through a Cult Characteristics Checklist from the International Cultic Studies Association. The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader and (whether he is alive or dead) regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as law.‪Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.‪   Extremely and constantly present in Dutch’s dialogue.  Consistent expectations of affirmation of obedience and loyalty rather than “doubters” or “second guessers”, depicting blind faith as strength and dissent as a weakness they can’t afford in this situation.  Demands for things like “Say it, ‘Yes, Dutch.’ “Frequent testing in ways like “I know you doubt me” and “Do you have my back?” Mind-altering practices (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, and debilitating work routines) are used in excess and serve to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).‪   Not as much.  While there are some routines/schedules for guard duty and the like, a lot of it’s pretty loose.  There’s a bit of this in the very theatrical demand and/or praise sessions, like when Dutch gets up on a stump to demand people go earn money (while visibly sitting around himself) or to loudly praise the successful Valentine bank robbery.The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel (for example, members must get permission to date, change jobs, marry, and/or leaders prescribe what types of clothes to wear, where to live, whether or not to have children, how to discipline children, and so forth).‪  Somewhat.  Dictating the movements of the gang in-game despite advice by others, definitely.  I’m guessing he highly dissuaded Arthur from considering leaving for Mary, and then later for Eliza, and helped dictate his marital choices.   The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s) and members (for example, the leader is considered the Messiah, a special being, an avatar and/or the group and/or the leader is on a special mission to save humanity).‪  I’d say they have this one to some degree, albeit less so than in an outright savior/Messianic way.  Dutch paints them as the smart ones who have chosen to fight back against a corrupt social order, who will found a “savage utopia” and live life as it should be.  Rather than admit to being the orphans and outcasts they are considered worthless by society, he encourages them to think of themselves as elite chosen ones with the brains to see the truth.

The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society.‪  Dutch says “us or them” verbatim.  Repeatedly.  And the whole “we reject this rotten society” tension forms most of the conflict in the game.The leader is not accountable to any authorities (unlike, for example, teachers, military commanders or ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream religious denominations).‪  He’s the leader of an outlaw gang who’s proclaimed them subject to no law or order except their own, i.e., his.  I’d say that qualifies handily. The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. This may result in members’ participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the group (for example, lying to family or friends, or collecting money for bogus charities).‪  Very much present in the increasing “whatever it takes” justification growing throughout the gang.  The gang has also evolved from vaguely Robin Hood-esque to self-interest and looking only after their own via increasingly violent means, as remarked upon despondently by multiple gang members.  Hosea’s got a line something like “We don’t even have the pretense anymore of being anything but a bunch of killers.”  I doubt most of them would have considered things they do in-game, and even then, it’s clear they feel doubt, shame, or horror at some of it.The leadership induces feelings of shame and/or guilt in order to influence and/or control members. Often, this is done through peer pressure and subtle forms of persuasion.‪ Extremely present. Demands for affirmation of loyalty and depicting doubt or even questioning as anathema, the thing that will kill them all. Visible praise for others with the implication the rest aren’t pulling their weight, and introducing an element of competition.  We can see very clearly with Arthur how he deftly manipulates Arthur’s lack of confidence with alternating devaluation and praise.   Subservience to the leader or group requires members to cut ties with family and friends, and radically alter the personal goals and activities they had before joining the group.‪ Definitely present. They have the gang, and the gang, its people, and their needs, is their entire world.The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.‪ Given the population explosion between 1894 and 1899, absolutely.  Prior to 1894, it seems the only gang members were Dutch, Hosea, Bessie (deceased at some point), Susan, John, and Arthur.  That’s nobody new since 1885, when John joined, with most of the rest having been there the better part of 10 years even before that since the late 1870s.  Then suddenly in 1894, something changes.  The gang balloons to over two dozen over a mere 5 years.  I suspect this is when it evolved from a family to an increasingly violent cult.The group is preoccupied with making money.‪ Constant “WE NEED MORE MONEY” and demands for members to bring in money.   Nuf said. Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group-related activities.‪ Total devotion to the gang and its people is expected.Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.‪The most loyal members (the “true believers”) feel there can be no life outside the context of the group. They believe there is no other way to be, and often fear reprisals to themselves or others if they leave (or even consider leaving) the group.Arthur demonstrates this pretty clearly.  He missed at least two chances for life outside the gang due to loyalty and fear of the unfamiliar.  His journal and dialogue makes it clear that in his depression, he believes he’s unable to live any other life.  Increasingly in Chapter 6, we see the latter part of this in action.  Arthur demanding Dutch let the women and Jack leave, and Dutch refusing.  People sneaking away in the night rather than risk being caught.  Clearly there’s a fear of consequences.  Dutch expects them to die with the group, rather than survive outside of it.  Their loyalty is worth more than their lives.So all in all, the Van Der Lindes definitely demonstrate the majority of these cult criteria very openly, and virtually all to some degree.

[angeltriestoblog]

On-brand stories from my childhood

I remember this tweet going around a few months ago, soliciting people’s most on-brand stories from their childhood, things they’ve done or words they’ve said as a kid that sum up who they are at present. I wanted to participate so bad when I first saw it on my timeline, but I knew that being the eccentric, one-of-a-kind kid I was, it would take me a long period of reminiscing (and more tweets in a thread than anyone would bother to read) to put down everything worth noting. So, here it is: 10 of the weirdest, Most Angel experiences from my youth, for the lack of a way to put it, accompanied by photos of baby me because let’s face it, they make everything better.

ONE: When I was about four, my parents took me to a building very near our house to have my IQ checked. They had an inkling that I was a gifted child, and wanted to confirm it with a professional. So, I was escorted into an office, and subjected to interrogation to assess my competence in several areas of giftedness - much to my dismay, since all I wanted was to get that interview over and done with so I could read books in the library next door. There was this one part where the person in charge of me was trying to test my kinesthetic abilities by getting me to follow this aerobics routine that she was making me do. “Step step one, step step two,” she was saying while stomping to the right and stomping right back in place. I told her I didn’t want to do it, because I didn’t want to look like a fool.

TWO: I had this knack for correcting teachers. As a kid, I was hyperfixated on learning all the countries in the world and their respective capitals, with the help of this flash cards set that I got from Toy Kingdom. So when there was this time that my Filipino teacher had said that there were only two countries in the world with names that started with the letter Q, five year old Angel was very quick to correct her. “Miss Melissa, there’s only one country that starts with the letter Q! It’s Qatar!” I told her. She replied, “No! Quebec is a country, too!” This argument persisted for a bit until she made us do a seatwork, which gave her the opportunity to leave us to go to the computer room for a bit (since cellphones weren’t given Internet capability back in 2006). She returned and told me, “Angel, tama ka nga. Di pala bansa yung Quebec, hehe.”

THREE: It’s become common knowledge to everyone in my life that I wrote books growing up, but my body of work extended way beyond my very inventive fiction (alternatively called, me putting my own twist on the fairytales I read growing up) and creative non-fiction (me telling everyone how my day, half true-to-life, accurate detail and half-imagination). I remember going through the family laptop one day, and coming across the corporate profile of my uncle’s company, where my dad was working at the time as the technical assistant to the president. Being the child I was who wanted to emulate everything her father was doing, I wanted to make a copy of my own too but I was unfortunately unemployed. Thankfully, I took matters into my own hands and made up a company of my own, which I aptly named Pamper and Pretty. Excuse the fatal grammar error, but I was six and was yet to be familiarized with what parallelism in writing actually was. I drafted a whole corporate profile, complete with the list of my employees along with their corresponding duties and responsibilities, as well as a list of all our products and services.

And of course, how could I forget my professional resume?

FOUR: I even looked far into the future and prepared a spiel for when we’d be looking for new employees, as well as a list of rules and regulations to follow if ever anyone would pass our grueling hiring process. My favorite is rule #26, which goes “Drug pushers are not allowed in the store.”

FIVE: While we’re on the topic of business, I guess it’s worth boasting that I was able to sit in a meeting my mom had back in the day with the rest of the members of the Systems and Methods division, and I was asked to take the minutes for a change. I’m aware I’m making absolutely no sense, but after much inferring, I guess it revolves mainly around IT, monitoring procedures and AARs.

SIX: I was a proponent for self-help at a very young age too, creating a list of five rules to live by, which I referred to as my “straight line project”. For which reason, I have absolutely no clue. One part reads: “Always watch out for a kid bullying some one so you can save the person being fought, then do the same thing that the bully kid did to your friend like for example when they are fighting in a swimming pool that the bully is trying to push your friend, you should save your friend and push the bully kid to the pool.” I advised. Turns out I had an attitude and a knack for retributive justice from the very start.

SEVEN: I also found a couple of letters I addressed to Santa as the Christmas season approached, where I requested everything from “world peace” to the entire Diary of A Wimpy Kid series. Talk about being a versatile queen! My favorite of the bunch was the last one I made, where I included directions and a sketch to get to our new house, because we had moved residences earlier that year. I just didn’t want Santa to get lost, and sneak in my old house only to find out that I was no longer there.

(Fortunately, my mom was able to print out all those files I had saved to the family computer before I promptly infected it with a virus that wiped out its entire memory. The lengths seven year old Angel would go just to download Young Guns by Wham! from Limewire.)

EIGHT: I was elected as class president multiple times in grade school, which you would think would mold me into becoming an active student leader. But, my term was constantly shrouded in controversy. I was always tasked to write down the list of noisy students on the blackboard, I’m not exactly sure if this qualifies as public humiliation but I wasn’t concerned with that at the time and did everything I could to fulfill my duty. A classmate of mine was singing a High School Musical song at the top of her lungs, and I asked her to stop. Usually, that does the trick and sends the noisemaker back to their seat but she ran out of the room and brought her mom upstairs because she got upset.

NINE: I also rode on a classmate’s bag, which resulted in her mom going upstairs (I have no idea why their moms spent the entire day in the waiting room on the first floor too, man) and scolding me, saying that her daughter’s bag is not a pony. I was also accused of calling my classmate stupid because she was only Top 7 out of all the students in class, while I was Top 1, which was false by the way since “stupid” was considered a curse word in our household until I was 10. Perhaps the best scuffle I got myself into was because I had checked my classmate’s homework with red crayon and put several drawings of hearts and stars, as well as reassuring comments along the lines of “Great job!” and “Congratulations!” around his perfect score. His father literally had me sent to the principal’s office. Parents then had way too much time on their hands, I swear to God.

TEN: If we don’t take into consideration the whole fiasco that involved my Teletubbies stuffed toy*, my first brush with “love” happened when I was in kindergarten. I had a crush on one of my classmates named Kevin, who is the scrawny little boy that you see beside me in the pictures below. I don’t remember anything else about him, not even his surname, and I haven’t heard of nor seen him since our pre-school graduation ceremony. All I have to remember him by are these photos, and a video that my mom took of both of us where he was seen flapping his arms around and making weird facial expressions, while I would squirm out of kilig in response. Weird. The worst part of it all? I didn’t even like him because he was cute or funny or nice to me: it’s just because he was named after my favorite Backstreet Boy.

(*In case anyone's curious, up until I was about three years old, my parents and I lived in Malabon with my maternal grandmother, who was tasked with taking care of me while my mom and dad were both at work. She was fond of watching Filipino teleseryes while taking care of me: they often had their fair share of kissing scenes, but I was practically a baby at the time who wasn’t capable of processing or remembering the things she was seeing on TV. Or so they thought. My mom said she had walked on two year old me making out with my cousin’s Teletubbies stuffed toy one time. She then promptly asked my lola if they could keep me as far away from the television as possible once Pangako Sa’Yo came on. Can’t blame her for that, honestly.)

That’s all I can think of right now, but I know there’s plenty more where that came from. Hope everyone is having a fruitful Holy Week celebration. Wishing you nothing but love and light, always always always.

Angel

[justoneday-namjoonii]

Killer Killer. teaser

⌲Genre: SerialKiller!au | Thriller!au | Detective!au  ⌲Pairing: Namjoon x Yoongi x OC ⌲Summary: She’s pulled from her dull assignments as a medical/crime investigator and put on a case with two peculiar fellas. The case gets more and more complicated as they try to unravel it’s mysteries..

a/n: Should I give this oc a name? I was thinking about it...

“Ah ha!” A young child with wonder-filled eyes gasped happily, holding a broken toy dog under the playground slide. Instead of playing duck-duck-goose, the little girl was determined to find out who broke Camila’s toy dog and left it here. She ran to the teacher, presented her evidence and found the culprit. That one day shaped the path of her life as a whole, she wanted to solve murder crimes. Quite the profession for a little girl. But that’s what she did. When she went to college, she had one goal, solve mysteries and crimes.

***

“As you can see,” Medical examiner, Amanda Baker, pointed to the horrific burns on the deceased body, the eager M.E’s to be were watching as she determined this corpses cause of death “he was burned, yes. But that’s not the cause of death. I found traces of a deadly amount of arsenic in his liver, a case like this is one the detectives would love.” She was all suited up so she wasn’t worried about the disease-ridden body she was displaying. With the soft click of your shoes, you peeked into the room to see your colleague giving her students raw training with the less than appealing deceased. 

You swallowed before entering the room, being that you’ve dealt with graphic crime scenes many times before, this shouldn’t phase you. “Excuse me, do you have a minute?” 

“Sure, we were just finishing up. Class, feel free to take notes on the board.” She dismissed the students and went to the sink to wash up and discard the mask.

"What’s up?” 

"There's a case that the corporation has been really hush-hush about and I was wondering if you knew anything about it.” You two walked side by side through the spacious hall on the way to her office.

“I wouldn’t know Y/L/N, I haven’t been out in the field for a while. I’ve been teaching more than anything these days.” She pulled off her coat with an exhausted sigh, idly she took her multiple hairpins out of her ear-length hair. 

You sat in one of her designated relaxation chairs for when she had to work late and you unbuttoned your uncomfortable collar shirt a bit. “Aw...”

“Why are you trying to snoop on someone else's case anyway? You’ve got assignments almost every week.” Baker knew your tenacity, you always looked for the case that would put you on the map.

“Yeah, but those are mostly local cases about break-ins and it’s been slow lately...” You exhaled.

“You should be glad, that means fewer people are getting murdered, less body for me to examine.” She laughed, skimming through her files to make sure she has her to-do list aligned for the next workday.

“I don’t only do murders, sometimes I do missing person cases...I don’t know, I guess I’m feeling like a private in an army full of generals.” You confessed. “Everyone on the 3rd floor are snobs and take all the good cases.” 

Not like you’d really know what went on up there.

“What’s so special about the 3rd floor? We go up there all the time for briefing sessions and it seems pretty normal to me.” She knew that what went on up there was ‘Top Secret’ and people like you, weren’t qualified enough. You thought that was preposterous, not qualified enough? That’s B.S. You knew the reason behind not being allowed in the cases, your supervisor was a butthole and that was the only sensible reason.

“You know they’re lying to us, that's what corporations like this do, they lie to everyone except the inside man. I didn’t go to school to be a reporter but that’s what they have me do!” You got up and buttoned your blouse. “I signed up for this job to be out in the field, with the big league. Not behind a desk, in an uncomfortable chair and conducting research on crime scenes that have already been picked over. I’m a forensic scientist, not Lois Lane.”

“Take it easy, y/n, you’ll get your big break, I’m sure of it.” She put on her jacket, grabbed her bag and keys and began to walk out to the lobby. “Just hang in there, goodnight.” She bid you farewell.

“I’ll see you tomorrow Amanda, goodnight.” You waved goodbye and walked to the elevator with a plan in mind. 

You pressed the dingy arrow button and waited. Most people were headed home since it was around 7 p.m and people had families to get to. Ding. The elevator opened and quickly got in and started pushing the close button in case someone was trying to catch it, you didn’t feel like awkward silence right now. When you stopped at your intended destination you saw that some of your co-workers were still here but just a few. You turned to your right and began walking towards your little office. Just as you were about to enter the room, you heard hushed whispering coming from the office across from yours—of course, you had to eavesdrop a little. Since it was fairly vacant, you got on your hands and knees, put your ear to the side of the door and listened.

“I can’t take it anymore.” You heard a low voice say through presumably clenched teeth.

“The hours are ridiculous, I wasn’t trained for work like that and I don’t work in the field! I won’t do it. Why don’t you ask someone else?” 

That was Amir Perez doing all that whining...

“Because you’re my nephew and I want you to succeed. It’s not every day that we let Unit 2 people in on cases like this.”

You knew he wasn’t here because of his ‘fine set of qualifications’, he’s here because his uncle AKA your boss, is doing the family a favor. It was a bit of an understatement to say that you’re pissed. He’s been giving that guy all the good cases and he doesn’t even want them! 

“I'm sorry, but I’m going home.” He suddenly slung the door open and you stood up in a frenzy to get to your office without being seen, not that they were paying any attention to you.

“Amir, wait!” You watched your boss scramble to follow the unmotivated 21-year-old take the stairs down but when he realized he wasn’t stopping he cursed.

“Damn it, that lazy kid.” He began to massage his temples, what was he going to do? He told the team he’d get someone from this unit, his first pick just walked out the meeting is in 5 minutes. Meanwhile, you stood in your doorway as if to see if he was going out or not. 

“You.” You looked wide-eyed when he pointed directly at you with a hesitant expression, this is my only option.

“Me?” You wanted to make sure he was talking to you.

“Come with me.” 

He started walking and you didn’t hesitate to follow him, this might be what you’ve been waiting for since you started this job. You looked around to see where he was taking you and he went opened the door to a flight of stairs that you’ve never even seen before. He went up to a large white door and pressed his hand to a tablet on the wall. When you saw that you were about to unload a million questions. But when that door opened, your heart fell straight into your stomach. 

“Woah...” You knew the facility was huge but this was massive. It looked like a completely different place in here. There was state of the art computers, file rooms that were being skimmed through by the file organizers, there was even a large vault all the way across the room that you couldn’t even imagine what was in it. You looked around and saw that every office had a stately looking name on it, the more experienced detectives must work up here.

“Sir, what is this place?” You followed him around like a kid in the candy store, eager to find something to get into.

“This is Unit 5, it is not to be disclosed to anyone under Unit 5 clearance, you’re the exception.” He dreaded saying that. “I brought you here because you are now taking Amir’s position in this case.” 

You couldn’t believe it. “Seriously?” You nearly squealed with excitement. “I get to work up here with-”

“Don’t get too excited kid.” He cut you off. 

“Hey,” He went up to some guy working at a desk, “Get her a badge with all Unit clearance.” He left you standing alone after the command and the guy gave him a speedy ‘yes sir.’

“Okay, follow me to that room over there.” The guy got up from behind his computer and followed you to the room. “Stand in front of that background and in five seconds it will automatically take the photo.” He adjusted his glasses and waited for you.

“Okay.” You scurried over to stand in front of the wall and in seconds the picture was taken with a flash.

“Alrighty then, I’ll get this laminated and you just wait at my desk.” You went to his desk and waited for maybe a minute or so and he was back with two badges; one being a card and the other being a lanyard.

“Here you go, Miss.” He handed them to you and you stared at them in awe, this is the moment you’ve been waiting for...

“Thank you.” You put one around your neck and the other in your pocket with an uneasy exhale you went to find your boss. And on your quest to find him you saw a room with a bunch of pictures and evidence and you smiled as if it fed your inner investigator.

“Gather around everyone.” He spoke loudly and people scattered like ants to the middle of the room. You didn’t know where to stand or who to stand with so you tried to stand next to him but got booted out of the way—you settled for the far right of the circle of people you can’t say you’ve seen before. 

“As you all may know, we have a sensitive case that needs the assistance of a Unit 2 member.” He made eye contact with you. “This is Y/F/N, she’ll be working with Min and Kim on this assignment.” 

“Hello...” You gave a tight-lipped grin to those around you but you looked around for the two he called Min and Kim but they were nowhere to be seen.

“As for everyone else, resume what you were doing and have a good night.” He left through the main exit and you stood there excited but slightly lost. You inhaled and exhaled—stay confident, introduce yourself and do what you do best—that’s what your parents would say. You were still a bit confused about who to talk to but at this point, you were just happy to be here.

Some random guy with prominent dimples and a soft face came out of nowhere and extended his hand, “Kim Namjoon.” He smiled. “Nice to meet you, partner.” You returned his gesture with a firm handshake and boy, was he tall and handsome—you checked off your mental career-list, sweet coworker—check.

“Nice to meet you too.” You smiled. “I hope you don’t mind but, could you fill me in on what all of this is? I’ve never seen this place before and to be honest, I don’t know what my job is in all of this.” 

“Unit 5 is the highest level in the corporation, we deal with everything from serial killers to speculated alien abduction, you name it, we’ve done it. For our case, we don’t have all the details yet, but we do know it was across town and we’ll be sent out there bright and early tomorrow morning.” He explained as you followed him to his office, he was wrapping up for the day. “The location is in this file, don’t lose it.” He opened his drawer and handed you the beige folder.

“Alright, sounds good.” You nodded in agreement. “By the way, where is um- Min?” 

“Min Yoongi? He left earlier than normal today, he’ll be at the site in the morning.” He pulled on his jacket and left with a smile. “See you tomorrow.”

“See you.” You waved goodbye as your other hand loosely held the folder. You watched as he walked out of that door and you wanted to scream in excitement, but you kept your cool. There were still some people working on their important cases and some of them glanced up at you curiously—that was your cue to go. Even though he said there wasn’t much on the case, you knew he was being secretive about some of it. So, like the skilled professional you are, you decide to go get a little more information. When you looked around, you saw the file room was unoccupied, so you made your way into the dimly lit room. You opened up the file and saw there was no identified suspect yet, the case explicitly stated that visiting the site was required to finish the case file. It read file 19382, not an actual name, that was test file title so it wasn’t that relevant. He gave you an unofficial file. 

“Of course.” You had a feeling that he was a bit too welcoming. Besides that, you knew how to find an undocumented file. You dug through the drawer that was basically empty, the file in the very front was the most recent. To find the one you’re looking for, you just needed to look a few files from it.

“Bingo.” You made sure no one was watching you before pulling it out to look it over, it was a thin file. It read, Woman reports erratic banging on her door in the middle of the night. She fears she’s being watched. Police have inspected the area and waited to see if the culprit would reveal themselves but that was unsuccessful. 

“Interesting...” You read further, The next day, the woman was sent to the hospital for carbon monoxide poisoning caused by an unknown source. In critical condition. You heard shuffling outside the door so you took that as a sign to beat it. You snapped a quick photo of the file and stuck it back in its rightful home. 

The fire has been ignited in you and this case will consume your life for as long as it takes to solve it. 

[m0rbidtalks-blog]

Sexism in the Workplace

So, today’s entry is about working in a field that is predominantly male-dominated and was by far one of the most difficult jobs I have had. For about 4 years I worked as a consultation agent for Geek Squad, which mainly consisted of troubleshooting computers and asking probing questions to our clientele.  Now before I get more into this, I must tell you all that I'm from Los Angeles. As my French teacher once told me, “Los Angeles is filled with a bunch of free-spirited people.” and it’s easy to say that I definitely fit that description. My life in LA was adventurous and exciting! I enjoyed meeting people and conversations to spark a bond. I’d also like to think that I'm an outgoing person who gets along with everyone. But, moving to Texas was a huge 180 for me and has changed my way of being able to communicate with people. 

It had been a few weeks into my position, and I was enjoying it because of how much I learned each day. With the way technology progresses nowadays, there are always new products and software coming out that are just bigger, better, and faster. Not only did I get to learn new technology, but I also learned how to handle extremely tough situations.

It was early in the morning and the store had only been open for a few minutes when a client comes up to the counter. I walked over to him with a smile, as I would normally do, and asked, “How can I help you today?” Instead of greeting me back, he looked at me and said, “I need to speak with a man, I don’t want to work with you.” Now I hope you guys are thinking the same thing I was when that happened. WHAT THE HECK?! Never in my life had I ever experienced that or had even bear witness to it. Obviously, people like this exist, but you just never expect it to happen to you. At that moment I was in shock, so I walked back and got our tech because I was the only front counter agent there! 

I will never forget that day because it was the best thing that could've happened to me. A few female agents worked before in this department so I was confused as to why this even happened. Were women not capable of having knowledge in this field? I ended up finding out that this situation happens more often than I thought. Every single female agent had gone through the exact same thing and they all told me the same thing “stand your ground.” 

Just that one interaction gave me the courage to stand up to the multiple male clients that made me feel belittled. I had been hired to do this because I COULD do it. I was way more than qualified to assist him and besides all, he was here needing OUR help. After that, I did have run-ins with that same issue, and I was able to turn the situation around so that they could trust me. I ended up with multiple clients requesting to work specifically with me. 

If there was a better way for me to handle that, I would love to hear everyone's opinions!

[isabeau25]

Get To Know Your Author

Tagged by @eastofthemoon!

1. How did you come up with your username and what does it mean?

There’s a book called Dove Isabeau that I loved as a kid, and also I loved the movie Ladyhawk, and Isabeau was one of the main characters.

2. Which fanfic of yours has the most feedback? (bookmarks/subscriptions/hits/kudos).

Room with a View (although Can’t Take the Sky From Me was a very close second  - I had to do actual math to figure it out; I’m impressed I remember how to math.)

3. What is your AO3 profile icon, and why did you choose it?

I don’t have one. I never bothered to upload it. If I did, it would be the same as the one for this account. It’s my cat Nibbs laying on my foot not long after we found him in my parents’ backyard. I use it because he’s cute and fluffy, and because I don’t like pictures of me floating around the internet.

4. Do you have any regular/favourite commenters?

I love all my commenters! It’s always exciting to get the notice that someone took the time to comment and I go back and reread them all all the time.

@maychorian​ has commented on a bunch of my Voltron fics (almost all of them I think), and I’m always super excited when I see her comments because she leaves such excellent and well thought out ones.

5. Is there a fanfic that you keep going back to read again and again?

Hound by story_monger I come back to because it’s so well done. The writing is fantastic, and the sense of suspense is amazing, and I really love the way it dealt with different layers of trauma and wove together the way past trauma continued to impact how present trauma was processed and dealt with. Plus the team was wonderfully tender with Keith, and he got cuddles.

Hyggelig by heyheroics I’ve gone back and reread a couple times. It is an example of the ever rare, non-romantic Keith and Lance center story. Well written and even though it’s not finished, the chapters read as short stories, so I’m not left with cliff hangers. I’m always excited when it updates.

I reread pieces from @maychorian​ all the time, particularly from the Boom Crash series and the Dream Seam series (*whispers* a lot of the time I skip straight to the cuddles. She writes the best cuddles.)

The Raised by Lions series by @eastofthemoon​ I like to go back and reread. Red and her strange furless cub are super fun to read about, and then Shiro comes along and there is even more fluff and cuddles.

Basically there’s a shortage of platonic fluff and cuddles in the Voltron fandom and when I run out, I go back and re-read my favorite cuddles.

6. How many stories are you subscribed to? How many do you have bookmarked?

I have like 12 bookmarked and 4 subscriptions. I always forget that’s a thing you can do on AO3.

7. Which AU do you find yourself writing the most?

.... so many. I’ve been working on The Five Lion Cafe au lately, trying to finish up the next one (almost done *fingers crossed*), and Mermaid Rescue and Rehab Inc. is up next on my list to finish, so I’ve been picking on that. 

I’d like to get back to Babe’s in Space at some point. I have general outlines for lots of short stories in that AU, and there actually is a bigger over arching plot if I ever get to it.

8. How many people are subscribed and bookmarked to you in total? (you can view this on the stats page)

91 subscriptions and 992 bookmarks

9. Is there something you’d like to write about but are afraid of people judging you for it? (Feeling brave? If so, share it!)

Mostly platonic physical intimacy, just because I don’t want to deal with it being labeled as romantic or shippy (I guess that’s not so much a fear of being judged as just not feeling like dealing with other people’s reactions). Once something is posted, you have no control over how it’s received or interpreted. That’s just the nature of publishing something; you have to let it go (or drive yourself crazy trying to force people to see it only the way you want, which is just not worth the time or energy).

Because of that, I sometimes pull back from writing a scene as intimate as I’d like, or I choose a slightly different approach to it, just because I don’t want to deal with seeing it labeled as a ship in the tags and comments.

10. Is there anything you would like to be better at? Writing certain scenes or genres, replying to comments, updating better, etc.

Action sequences and creating suspense. It’s hard to translate the movie-like images in my head into words for action sequences. I watch a lot of youtube videos for reference when I’m trying to write them.

And suspense, when done well, is just a great thing to be able to do. It keeps the reader engaged and makes the piece more exciting.

Also replying to comments! They mean so much to me, and I’m so terrible at replying.

11. Do you write rarepairs or popular ships more often?

Not really? I guess Ronin and Tara from Epic qualify as a rarepair just because the fandom for Epic is so small. I think the idea of Ezor and Kolivan from Voltron being a crack pair (not one that ever would or should show up in canon) is hysterical, but I haven’t written anything for them yet.

I really just don’t ship much in general.

12. How many stories have you posted on AO3 to this day (finished and unfinished)?

As of December 22, 2018, I have 49 stories up on AO3, all of them finished. I never start posting a story unless it’s already done.

13. How many stories do you have saved in/with your writing program?

So, that’s really hard to calculate. For every fandom I have what amounts to a dump document where I write random scenes and stories that I’m not sure will go any where, in addition to that I have:

Epic - 14 docs, most of those are probably single stories

ROTG - 9 docs, but I don’t think I separated out many of the WIPs from my main dump doc, so there’s probably more WIP there.

Voltron - 15 docs, but some of those documents are for series, so there’s might be multiple WIPs in the document.

And that’s just the unfinished stuff. I didn’t include the stories that are done. I usually keep those on my hard drive too because I don’t trust the internet not to suddenly eat my work.

14. Do you write down story ideas, or just keep them in your head?

I keep them in my head way too often, then go back to stories I’ve set down for a couple months (or years) and don’t remember what was going to happen. I’m trying to get better about writing out at least a general outline for stories so that doesn’t happen.

15. Have you ever co-authored a story?

I have co-authored with @eastofthemoon and @ladydouji. I’m kind of a flake about writing though and I’m really bad at keeping deadlines with something I just do for fun, so I don’t team up very often.

16. How did you discover AO3?

Google search for fanfiction because there wasn’t enough decent stuff on ff.net.

17. Do you consider yourself to be a popular or famous author in your fandom(s) on AO3?

I don’t think so? I don’t pay much attention so I don’t have much bases for comparison.

18. Do you have a nickname or fandom name for your readers?

Nope.

19. Was there an author who inspired or encouraged you to write?

I read a lot growing up (not so much now - grad school does a really good job burning you out when it comes to reading). I loved fantasy mostly, and a little bit of sci-fi, although that’s never been a super sharp distinction for me.

Patricia McKillip is my favorite author. I absolutely love the way she writes and the way she crafts stories. I really enjoyed Jane Yolen, and Bruce Coville too.

20. What writing advice would you give to a beginning author?

I really like Neil Gaiman’s 8 Rules of Writing.

The most important thing you can do is write. Get the words on the paper. That’s really the hardest part. I like his last rule best though “Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly and tell it as best you can.”

21. Do you plot out your stories, or do you just figure it out as you go?

I usually know where they’re going (in my head at least, by the time I actually start getting words on the page), but sometimes they end up taking unexpected turns or new scenes show up out of now where while I’m writing. That’s part of what makes writing exciting. 

22. Have you ever gotten a bad comment on a story? If so, what did you do?

Nothing terrible, but a few (at least one of which went over my head until years later because they were being sarcastic).

I find I have an increasingly low reserve of energy, and things like that are not worth spending it on. I just ignore them.

23. Is there a certain type of scene that you have a hard time writing? (action, smut, etc..)

Interpersonal conflict! Why would these two normally rational people who care about each other let a thing escalate to the point of them actually fighting over it, or having it damaging their relationship, or coming to blows over it? And how do I write that in a way that doesn’t sound contrived and is in character to everyone involved.

24. What story(s) are you working on now?

Right now I’m working on finishing up the next Five Lions Cafe story, and also working on the last of the Mermaid Rescue and Rehab series.

I’m also working on a story that is probably going to be called Bad Moon on the Rise, and is focused on Lance and the Red Lion’s bond (and also has quintessence vampires).

25. Do you plan your next project(s) before you finish your current ongoing story(s)?

Yes! My brain never stops planning stories. Never.

26. Do you have a daily writing goal set for yourself?

Not really. Sometimes I’ll got through stretches where I write a lot, and other times my brain just melts and refuses to make words.

27. Do you think you’ve improved as a writer since you first started?

Yes! Even just going back a few years, but I’ve been writing since I was in elementary school, so there has been a great deal of improvement from the epic and fully illustrated “There are dinosaur ghosts living in our playground” that I wrote in first grade (and tried to convince my teacher was true).

28. What is your favorite story that you’ve written?

It’s actually not even up on AO3. It’s the only Narnia fanfic I ever wrote, and it’s called Refuge. One of those things that just felt unfinished and unaddressed in the Prince Caspian movie, and I like how I addressed it.

29. What is your least favorite story that you’ve written?

*Snorts* Thankfully lost to the great ether of individual fan sites that no longer exist, I had some CATS fanfics that were pretty terrible.

There’s also some Ronin Warriors stuff, and I think some stuff from the original Voltron dub, that’s pretty terrible, but I don’t have the heart to take down because people were actually kind enough to leave nice comments on them.

30. Where do you see yourself (as a writer) in 5 years?

The same, but hopefully better at it. I don’t really have any aspirations to be a professional writer. I’m happy just doing it for fun.

31. What is the easiest thing about writing?

The stories!

32. What is the hardest thing about writing?

Putting the words on the page!

33. Why do you write?

Because it’s fun! And challenging! And it gets the things in my head out of my head!

Tagging: anyone who wants to. I think all the people I know on tumblr have already been tagged.

[itstimetowatch]

Like a Virgin

Sleazy Lawyer Guy! His name is Cliff McCormick, and he used to be Abel Koontz’s (Lilly’s confessed killer) lawyer. This is just an avalanche of information, all of a sudden. Apparently a parade of iconic defense lawyers wanted to defend Koontz but he chose Cliff, who is either an ambulance chaser or the public defender, and either way is a pretty terrible lawyer by his own admission. I mean, I really didn’t need any more convincing that this case was shady but okay.

Veronica wants to visit Koontz on death row… apparently. I don’t know what she hopes to gain by this. I mean, if the guy is taking the fall for someone, what makes her think she can flip him?

Remember how I said that someday I would get through at least one episode without recognizing someone from the guest cast? Well, less than three minutes in this episode decides not to be that to be that day. Helpful Cheerleader (haven’t picked up a name yet) is Jo Harville from Supernatural and Sonya from Burn Notice.

Apparently, there’s a debauchery quiz making the rounds at Neptune. I’m sure this will be entirely a minor thing and will have little or no bearing on the story at all… right? Yeah, I didn’t think so. Let’s enjoy as Dick regales us with all the awful, awful things he’s perpetrated upon members of the human race. (I state this in such a way because I don’t think he qualifies as a member.)

So a bunch of 09ers are sitting around talking a bunch of shit about Veronica to Meg the Helpful Cheerleader. If these girls are so gossipy, then shouldn’t all of this already be common knowledge by now? I mean, the bong in Logan’s locker was back in the Pilot. Maybe I’m being nitpicky, here. Anyway, moving along.

Hey! Wallace is back! He went on a date with Georgia and hasn’t been seen since. I was beginning to think she had harvested his organs and sold them on The Black Market, and we just weren’t ever going to see him ever again… which would have been sad.

Wallace’s mom is Erica Gimple from Profiler and, of course, from Fame, and speaking of Fame, she looks damned amazing for being 40+. I guess she really is going to live forever! (That joke is probably WAY too old for Tumblr.) I hope the fact that they are introducing Wallace’s family and their backstory means that Wallace won’t disappear for prolonged periods of time anymore.

Turns out Phase Two of The Purity Test is that you can buy other people’s test answers. Again, I feel certain that this is an entirely minor plot detail that will have little or no bearing on the remainder of the episode. Neptune High will definitely not devolve into chaos in minutes at this development. 

So earlier I was distracted by the all-consuming black hole of awful that is Dick so I managed to fail to comment on how much a wad Meg’s boyfriend seemed like to me. I’m happy to have that suspicion confirmed. I take it that Meg is going to be the center of this week’s mystery.

That was one hell of a long ass opening.

So the computer science teacher knows nothing about computers… fine, I guess… but shouldn’t that be something that Veronica already knows? I mean, she goes to this school; she almost certainly would have had to have taken one or more of his classes. Even 2004 was well past the point of computer classes being optional. 

(Also, for the record, it’s not fine that the computer science teacher knows nothing about computers. This is a town whose economic backbone is an IT company that invented streaming video. Someone like Jake Kane is going to be okay with his kids going to a school with such a poor computer science curriculum? Other parents in the town are okay with their children having a sub-standard CS education when the children’s best chance at a good job in Neptune is at Kane Software?)

“Look for the blue hair,” he says of the girl that has one very small streak of blue in an otherwise dark brown head of hair. That wouldn’t be extremely easy to miss. Apparently this guy either just generally sucks at life, or he knows he’s talking to Veronica Mars, Ace Teen Detective.

Said minority-blue-haired girl is Mac, played by Tina Majorino from Napoleon Dynamite and Big Love.

So this Kimmy girl? Was she cast specifically because she looks like so much like Amanda Seyfried? Or is that just a coincidence? Also, did they forget to give her and Bitchy Brunette (I’ve already forgotten her name) any personality?

So the teachers are just going to sit there and watch while the student body slut shames Meg during her audition? Good to know. No wonder Veronica has so much detective work in this school. 

Get his ass, Wallace! That guy needs a hurting put on him.

Not sure what Wallace’s mom has against the Mars’ though.

I assume that the kid who plays Wallace’s little brother is actually Percy Daggs’ little brother because if those two aren’t related then I suspect some Mini-Me style cloning.

Deputy Pornstache says that The Law can’t do anything about the Fennel’s tenant… this despite the fact that he has trespassed multiple times and now has tried to burn their house down. So this is Deputy Shithead, then, huh?

“Overstepping is your main form of transportation.”

Ah, Mama Fennel works at Kane Software. That goes towards her antipathy with the Mars Family, though I’m not sure why she would believe her co-workers over her own son, who actually knows them personally, but… whatever.

Keith is the king. Later, you fucking deadbeat.

Backup! I see you boy!

So what’s the French word for “Statutory Rate”?

Soooo… Mac gets a pass on setting all of this in motion, then? Like, she meant for more or less all of this to happen. She felt bad that good people got caught up in it, and she was minorly helpful is sussing out who was hacking them but mostly so she could stay close to Veronica to know if she was about to get busted. The massive amount of turmoil that happened this week at school was directly her fault. Veronica’s moral compass is, shall we say, interesting.

I can only assume that this means that Mac is going to be coming back, maybe? Recurring, even? She could be Veronica’s technical consultant. It would be nice if Veronica maybe had multiple friends… they might even be able to appear in the same episodes as one another, eventually.

With everything else going on this episode, I’d completely forgotten the Visiting Death Row thing. 

Abel Koontz is on TURN. 

*Sigh* No, she’s not Jake Kane’s daughter. No matter how much you try to convince me otherwise, I don’t buy it for one second. The “You Look Nothing Like Your Dad, So How Can He Be Your Dad?” reasoning is stupid, if for no other reason than she doesn’t look like Jake Kane either. She looks like her mom.

It’s weird. I had just come up with the thought that it was just something that Celeste Kane told Duncan to break up Duncan and Veronica. After all, Lilly did say Celeste would break them up if she could. It wouldn’t even really matter if Leanne and Jake were still carrying on or not, she could just lie about it if they weren’t. 

But now with Able repeating it… false drama, pointless manipulation.

Good character building/growth this episode. The standalone mystery was kind of weak because the antagonists were basically nothing. Like I sort of assumed Kimmy and Pam(?) were involved because who else was it going to be, and the Frog had to be the one supplying passwords because it’s not like either of them know how to hack. I didn’t work out the connections between them or the motivations because there was really nothing there for me to engage with.

I guess all that great Logan/Weevil stuff last episode necessitated their not appearing here at all.

[braverytaught]

minerva’s life post-dh.

strap in, y’all, it’s meta time, bc this is something i’ve thought about and never quite enumerated. what happens to minerva after the battle of hogwarts? what we know is that she becomes headmistress, lobbies for severus’s portrait to be added to the headmistress’s office, and is still headmistress when the next gen comes around. let’s expand on that.

teaching and student interaction.

the most important thing i’ve decided is that minerva does not stop teaching once she becomes headmistress. not entirely, anyway. dumbledore didn’t teach while headmaster, to my knowledge, but let’s be honest, dumbledore also did a lot of un-headmaster-related things while he was headmaster. even leaving aside the plotting and leading of a rebel organization, he had time to be chief warlock of the wizengamot and supreme mugwump of the international confederation of wizards, which were presumably significant responsibilities. he was away from hogwarts a lot. what i take from this is that the actual duty of being the headmaster/mistress needn’t take up all of one’s time. minerva doesn’t hold any of the positions outside of hogwarts that dumbledore did, so i think it’s perfectly reasonable to assume she would still have time to teach alongside her duties as headmistress.

not in the same capacity as before, of course. she’s no longer the main transfiguration professor; she hires another one after becoming headmistress. but i think that, at least for the first few years after becoming headmistress, she continues to teach the n.e.w.t.-level transfiguration classes, and perhaps later on transitions to teaching more specialized, advanced electives - she’d certainly be qualified to teach sections of ancient runes or arithmancy, though neither appeals to her as much as transfiguration itself. what i find most likely is that she comes up with seminars that go into a deeper level of detail regarding specialized branches of transfiguration (animagi is an obvious example, but there are also certain types of transformations, conjurations, etc that could be explored in depth). she’d probably teach one a term, and it would be a point of pride for talented students to get into headmistress mcgonagall’s seminars. (assuming the next transfiguration professor isn’t an animagus, she also definitely shows up to provide a practical demonstration during the third years’ animagus unit.)

there are a few reasons she keeps teaching. one is simply for my own sake, because i think that one of the reasons i rarely interact with next gen blogs is that it’s hard to find reasons to interact with students on a meaningful level as headmistress, and i don’t want to have a bunch of so how are your studies going? threads that lead nowhere. i mean, how often did dumbledore talk to students who weren’t harry? not often. it was generally a point of surprise in the narrative if dumbledore showed up to talk directly to individual students. so having her remain a teacher, where she has good reason to interact directly with students, is just easier on me.

but also, ic, minerva just wouldn’t be happy not teaching. that’s another reason i’ve shied away from rping a lot of post-canon things - because as much pride as minerva would take in being headmistress, as much as she’d enjoy the position and use it to try and make the school a better place, i just have a hard time imagining what she’d do in the position, what joy she’d take from it, if there isn’t teaching involved. minerva loves teaching, y’all. she loves educating and nurturing the students directly, on a closely involved level. she loves seeing them grow over seven years. removing herself from the actual learning environment and activity of the school - staying holed up in that headmaster’s tower - would defeat the entire purpose of her profession.

so yeah, she absolutely would not give up teaching just because she’s headmistress. and just as important, she doesn’t become a stranger to the students either, or tries hard not to be. she doesn’t just make speeches and sit at the high table for dinners and then return to her office. she tries to spend a lot of her time in the school proper - around the library, in the hallways, where she can see the students, where she can be familiar to them, not an intimidating figure from afar, but someone they know. because the students are the most important part of her job; what’s the point if she doesn’t get to know them?

post-war

after voldemort’s defeat and snape’s death, minerva is appointed acting headmistress. (her official appointment as headmistress doesn’t take effect until the beginning of the next term, but it’s never in doubt that she’ll take over.) as you might expect, she’s one of the chief figures in cleaning up hogwarts after the battle. she meets with parents; she helps reunite muggleborns; she attends ministry hearings and acts as witness at more than one death eater trial; she oversees the school’s reconstruction; she donates rather significantly to a fund to help muggleborns and half-bloods who have lost their homes and possessions during the war. though she spends most of her time and energy at hogwarts, she nevertheless emerges as one of the main figures of authority in the time after the war, and it’s well-known that she corresponds regularly with kingsley shacklebolt, advocating for various legislation and ministry action to help the wizarding community rebuild.

she hurts, of course. she’s tired, of course. she’s grieving, of course. but she deals with grief as she ever has: by throwing herself into her work. and there is so much work to do. 

there is talk amongst the board of governors about keeping hogwarts closed for the next term. the school needs heavy reconstruction before it’s safe to house students, they argue, and families will want to keep their children near to home in the aftermath of the terror.

minerva puts her foot down. her students have already lost a year of instructional time, she says - they were too busy being tortured and terrorized to pay attention to their studies. most of britain’s muggleborns were barred from even entering the school. there are eleven-year-olds who got their hogwarts letter only to be told they weren’t allowed in. what they need, she argues, is their school back, and proof that hogwarts is once more the safe haven it was always supposed to be. 

so she works hard all summer to ensure that the school will be ready for the students’ return. she personally visits the homes of the muggleborns who should have entered hogwarts the year before. she organizes a revised curriculum to take into account the instructional time lost the year before, and sets up a safety net of study groups and extra tutoring for students who have fallen behind. 

her focus isn’t solely on muggleborns, though. when the fall term starts, she takes care to keep an eye on the slytherins. they are a smaller group than usual - some of their parents never sent their children back to a hogwarts they feared would be hostile to them - and many of those that remain have lost parents and siblings, or found themselves the target of distrust and hatred from those students who suffered from the hands of death eaters. she reminds her students and staff that to be slytherin is not to be a death eater, and that children are not responsible for the actions of their parents, and that their goal in the aftermath of war should be peace and respect. 

it doesn’t stop the tension or the bullying. it doesn’t stop the fights that break out between students whose families have been hurt by one another. and often minerva isn’t sure which side to take - the gryffindor’s whose parents were killed, or the slytherins whose parents are in azkaban for the murder? both have suffered. neither are at fault. she tries not to take sides, and quell the fighting when she can. she will always be a gryffindor, but she is no longer head of house. all students are hers to consider and protect.

for her efforts during and after the war, she receives an order of merlin, first class - and, even more unexpectedly, her name on a chocolate frog card. she attends too many funerals after the war is over - but there is an influx of weddings, too, now that there is peace. minerva did not always go to all the weddings she was invited to by students (there were too many, and she never really liked weddings all that much; unless she was quite fond of the pair in question, she often sent a card instead) but now she makes an effort to attend as many as she can, in that first year, and cries at every one of them. (everyone politely pretends not to notice, of course. she has a reputation to maintain.)

next generation.

i’ve seen two schools of thought when it comes to minerva’s interaction with the next gen. there is, of course, the idea that she doesn’t really know the next generation until they come to hogwarts - and that she heavily considers retiring once they do. i’ve also seen the hc that she is very close to the next gen and their families, to the point where they consider her a sort of aunt.

my hc is somewhere in the middle. no, she does not quail at the sight of james sirius potter’s name on the list of attending students. no, she does not consider retiring. she knows the potters and the granger-weasleys. she corresponds with their parents with some regularity, and she has been over for dinner on multiple occasions. but she isn’t super tight with them. she’s good friends with harry, hermione, and ron, but she spends most of her time at hogwarts, and she doesn’t come to visit often enough that she’s considered family. there’s still a respectful distance there; she’s friendly with the next gen but has never presented herself as being closer than their teacher. she knows them before they attend hogwarts, but their time as students is when she really gets to know them.

that’s not to say she doesn’t favor them in her mind, of course - she keeps a close eye on the potters and the weasleys, and has a keen interest in their futures. they’re friendly. she’s not hagrid, though; she doesn’t have them around for tea every friday. but she corresponds with their parents directly about their progress - and shares some amusing stories - and, truth be told, is quite proud whenever one of them gets sorted into gryffindor.

later life and death.

in my main canon - that is, not in any ship verse where minerva’s in a relationship - minerva never remarries or has any desire to. she continues to live at hogwarts, in the headmistress’s quarters, for a very long time. she’s alone there, but she isn’t lonely. she has a school full of children and a staff full of friends, and she gets far too many letters to keep up with, thank you very much.

she has nightmares about the war. they never really go away, though they do diminish as the years pass. she never stops, in her heart, fearing that she will have to live through a third war, though that fear wanes greatly as peace settles in. as she grows older, the most pressing fear she has is that of age itself; brilliant as she has always been, she’s terrified of the thought of losing her faculties and her independence. 

but, of course, she is minerva mcgonagall, and frail simply isn’t in her vocabulary. albus dumbledore lived to be 115 years old, and would have lived longer if allowed to die by natural means. minerva continues teaching until the year 2050, her 115th year, and though she does contend with the struggles of age, her mind never dulls. that fear, at least, she is spared from. in 2050 - just six years shy of teaching a full century at hogwarts - she finally retires; though she would happily continue teaching until the end of her days, she finds the responsibilities of being headmistress to finally become more of a strain than she would like to deal with. besides, she’d like to live to see hogwarts led by headmaster longbottom.

though she rarely entered it after elphinstone’s death, she never did sell the cottage in hogsmeade where they had lived during her three years of marriage. when she retires, she moves back into it, alone but within a close distance of hogwarts, from which she would hate to be very far away. she still visits hogwarts, occasionally giving guest lectures, but spends most of her last few years at home, resting, listening to quidditch matches, editing copies of transfiguration today, and being forever plagued by a gaggle of potters, weasleys, and mcgonagalls. (her nieces and nephews have gone on to have children of their own; her family only grows.) when she dies, at the ripe old age of 121, it is peacefully, in her sleep. she deserves that. she’s been through enough.

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I knew going into my position at work that it would be stressful because self-advocacy can be a very stressful situation; particularly when dealing with outdated attitudes and ideologies across all spectrums(politically and sociological). It’s even more stressful when the person who is doing this position has a disability of their own as well. I have autism and I know all too well what happens when you don’t get the proper diagnosis in a timely fashion as I wasn’t diagnosed until I was a teenager and therefore didn’t get the help I really needed. I also know what it’s like to be royally screwed over on a constant basis by teachers, counselors, administrators, providers, county/state agencies, psychologists, psychiatrists, and the community at large; this has resulted in me nearly dying multiple times while I was in an extremely abusive group home, only to be blamed for said abuse and no one getting in trouble for what happened(not even a written reprimand), having to fight for the right to be my own guardian in 2008-2009, finding out nearly twenty years too late that I have a rather extreme case of PTSD due to incomprehensible amounts of bullying in school, an unstable home life, the group home from the nth gate of hell, the horrible experiences at a sheltered workshop, being sexually abused as a child, and enduring a few domestic abuse relationships and therefore I’m considered to have a chronic form of the condition, and being hepped up on so many medications over the years that it’s a miracle I don’t have liver damage. 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I then had an emergency ultrasound on my abdomen and they looked for everything you could think of because they didn’t want me to have anything life threatening. The ultrasound came back normal with only a couple of things that were considered age related; I have fatty liver and there was some residualization/vascularity in my pancreas. The doctor gave me omeprazole for two weeks and I had to do a bland diet to make sure I didn’t have an ulcer or something related to that. That was grueling because I was so hungry the whole time and things got boring fast. The omeprazole cleared up the heartburn and it was confirmed that it was indeed stress that was causing the issues. When the doctor asked me if I was under stress, I told the doctor everything that was stressing me out and I was told that I need to find another job as he’s afraid that I will have a cardiac issue of the stress gets any worse. I didn’t mention the stress I get from family because there’s nothing I can do about that. To give you an understanding of what is stressing me out so much; I’ll give you a brief overview followed by going into further detail about everything. The stress has nothing to do with my job as a whole because if that was the case, I would’ve stroked out a long time ago. The stress is being caused by two people: the board president and his dad. Normally I would be more than happy than to name them, however, because the board president’s maternal and paternal families come from a decent amount of money and have major respect and reputations throughout North Dakota, I can’t do it because I’ll be kicked out of yet another state in terms of self-advocacy. The board president is in his mid-20s and has cerebral palsy, an extreme case of generalized anxiety disorder, and no intellectual/cognitive issues. He has a baclofen pump due to extreme spasticity and because he has swallowing issues. He also drinks a rather unhealthy amount of water and if it’s really because his phlegm is so extensive, I’m surprised he doesn’t have cystic fibrosis or diabetes. He is a college graduate with a bachelors degree in theology. He may be nice and innocent in public, however, he is manipulative, sets impossible expectations which set people up to fail, and he’s creepy. When I have a meeting at his house because it’s much more accessible than my apartment(plus I’m not lugging his wheelchair up and down a flight of stairs), he dismisses his staff for the evening and then I’m forced to be his CNA/LPN because when he dismisses his staff for the evening, the college age staff people immediately go to the bar and turn off their phones. The head nurse is unable to be reached as she has a dozen other clients in the building and several of them have complex medical issues. I’ve talked to the head nurse, the board president, my supervisors, his provider, and even his family about this and I’m brushed off because even though I’m not qualified to that in any capacity, whatever the board president wants, he gets. He’s done this to me dozens of times and if I try to leave, he’ll call people and I’ll get in trouble because ‘l’m not being a good liaison and I’m not doing my job’. The board president also expects me to get groups going in all cities with at least 50 people and have 100% participation at all times. I don’t have the time, money, and manpower for such a thing. Also, the smallest city in North Dakota is Ruso, which has 4 people in it; how in the hell am I supposed to come up with a minimum of 50 people in that community? When I try to give him a sound reasonable explanation on how that is impossible for me to do; he’ll call his dad and his dad will drive from Belfield to Bismarck and yell and scream at me for hours at end and I’m not allowed to leave because I’ll get reprimanded by my supervisors because they don’t want to have to deal with him or his dad at all. The board president is named after his dad and his dad served two terms as president before the current board president was elected. His dad has a very mild/mild intellectual disability, a rather severe case of stammering, one of the worst cases of generalized anxiety disorder I’ve ever seen, and is a malignant narcissist. He is very tyrannical and is a major dictator on everything and anything. He is extremely manipulative, money hungry, power hungry, and a dirty old man as well. The only person who is glad to see him is the board president; everyone else’s blood pressure goes through the ceiling when he walks in and I’m surprised his wife has managed to not kill him after all these years(the board president’s mom was his first wife and they divorced when the board president was three; she also has an intellectual disability caused by a TBI when she was 2 months old, one of the worst cases of generalized anxiety disorder I’ve ever seen and one of the worst cases of obsessive compulsive disorder I’ve ever seen; I had to ‘babysit’ them once due to a medical emergency that someone in the family was going through and I was heavily debating on how big of a prison sentence I wanted because I was at the breaking point. Thankfully, the second wife is really decent, although, she rarely speaks due to her fear of her husband). His dad is basically using his son as a puppet to further his agenda. The board president has tried on several occasions to hit on me and when he tried to get really close to me the last time I had a meeting with him, I walked out of his apartment because I’d had enough. I talked to my supervisors thinking that they’d understand as they’re women and I’m sure they’ve dealt with this before; it got brushed to the side once again and he still gets to keep his job, I’ve even been told that because of the strategic planning session we had on the 30th(virtually nothing got done), I’ll have to spend more time with him; even though they’re aware of how creepy he is and they know that he and his dad are the source of the stress that is causing physical issues. It’s like they’re trying to see how much I can take before I resign, have a major medical issue, or end up in prison because I couldn’t take it anymore and didn’t care how long of a sentence it’d be. I can totally see why they’ve lost nearly two thirds of their staff in three years and why the places that give us grant money are nervous as hell because this is just a walking disaster and then some(not to mention the shockingly high amount of potential legal issues). I really need to find another job because if I’m forced to have a major medical issue, have the permanent mental breakdown that’s been looming for over 10 years, end up in prison for multiple life sentences, or die in order for this to be looked at; I’m going out in a blaze of glory and I’ll be in ‘nothing to lose’ mode something fierce.