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    I don't know if you were a drama student, but all drama students know that the proper term for that particular tragedy is "Ye Scottish Play." Seriously. My sophomore year in high school, I was in a school play. Opening night fell on the same day my English class started Ye Scottish Play. Two cast members came down with mono and began showing symptoms that night. A few essential props vanished and we had to improvise—though not as much as we did during a scene where an actor was late to his entrance because he was sick in the bathroom. The first act ended with the school power failing, forcing us into a long intermission while we waited for the backup generator to come on. Even then, all we could manage on the generator was the house lights, so we performed the first half of the second act without spotlights or any other stage lights. And lest you believe this was a screwball comedy where we could simply incorporate the mishaps into the humor, it was a very serious tragedy. Called The Survivor. It's about the Holocaust. There is something about that play, and I'm not going to say its name.
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    Link please? My sister adores Hamlet and loves David Tennant.
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    I love Milo and Otis the way Pattern would love the name of this show:
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    No. I took online classes for my Master's, which saved money and time but meant I didn't really meet anyone. All of my extended family lives elsewhere, so there's not really anyone I could move in with. Plus, this is more of a political game than anything else. If I moved in with someone else right now, my parents would suspect something was up. It might end with hurt feelings; it would probably end with them accusing me of being selfish and not remembering any of the good things they did for me. They already know I'm looking for a library job and they approve, so if I find a library job and move out then, they'll see it as me taking the next step in adulthood.
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    Why do you need a hug?
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    Exactly. Take that fear and multiply it by a hundred, especially if he had a very aggressive form of cancer. He wouldn't just avoid the sun and tanning beds; he'd live in fear of them.
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    I don't doubt it. My parents do often look normal and even charming to the outside world. I've only recently begun realizing that all the crazy awful things they did were indeed crazy and awful. But I do have some legitimately good memories with them, so that's something.
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    Not if he beat it before Calamity. He could have feared its return, since that sort of thing happens more often than many of us care to admit.
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    Oh, no. It was meant to be performed, by goofballs who, when playing Pyramus in the play-within-a-play, play with the hair of the girl playing the wall separating him from Thisbe. One high school teacher got it right, at least.
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    It had a pug in it. I couldn't resist.
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    I really hope this is true…though I wouldn't hold a random Tumblr post in high regard as a source of reliable information. I say keep an eye on his website and other sources to see if there's anything official.
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    Seriously, a universe of pug pictures just waiting for you in return for an RP post, and you pick Timeport?
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    We need Timeport to die.
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    And now I'm about to take my brother to the urgent care clinic. Me, who stayed home sick today, in hopes I wouldn't wake up sicker tomorrow. My dad is home, but he's too busy remodeling the bathroom to do it. And it turns out my brother had asked my dad to take him at 3, but Dad didn't even look at his phone until my brother texted me asking me to send Dad upstairs, after which Dad asked if I was feeling well enough to take him. So we get to the clinic two minutes before they closed, which is where I am now. While Dad is at home remodeling the bathroom. And I get that a remodeled bathroom will be important if we put the house on the market, but really? It's more important than taking a guy who is so sick he can't keep any food down to the clinic?
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    I've been applying for library jobs, though I'm not going with anything part-time. They pay decent, but not live-on-your-own-while-working-part-time decent. And between my mom and I right now, things are more peaceful than they were in the past. I just never know what'll set her off, so I want to get out of here before that happens. I've tried looking at online counselors, but they charge way more than I can afford right now.
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    It's not worth it, all right? I've tried everything. Reason doesn't work because when she's angry, she stays angry. Confronting her about what she's done in the past—even the very recent past—doesn't work because she'll deny anything that makes her look bad. I even have to tread carefully when I talk to her about things in the present because you never know what will set her off. I don't even tell her what happened at work anymore because if she thinks I didn't handle a situation well—even if it was exactly the way my boss wanted me to handle it—she'll store it away and trot it out when she needs ammunition. I appreciate your wanting to help, but the only thing I'm confident I can do in this situation is get a real job, get an apartment, and get out.
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    I could write an entire essay on all the fails in that show, beginning with the fact that every post-apocalyptic woman has perfect hair and ending with Charlie. Just…Charlie. I don't mind it when adult shows tackle adult topics, either, but they nearly all tackle them in the same way. Everything is so cynical—with a few exceptions. MLP is far more optimistic, and that's part of what I love about it. I don't know. I just don't know. It could be that she and my mom get ready at different times in the morning, so it's rarely an issue—save for on days like today, when everyone needs to be ready by a certain time. Of course I've heard of it. I can't use it on my mom without earning a lecture covering these topics: I bought you this straightener as a Christmas gift. This is my money and I can use it whenever I want. I gave it to you out of the goodness of my heart. You should let me use it out of pure gratitude. You live in my house. When you're out on your own, you can be as selfish as you want with what you have, but for now, you live with us. We are a family. Family helps each other without complaint, and what would really help me right now is having one thing I can use to get ready without people harping on me about it. I know the answer for my situation seems obvious: Stand up for yourself. Don't let her keep you down like that. But in my house, the cost of standing up for yourself is so high that it just isn't worth it.
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    Where did you get the name Kipper from?
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    Well, I was scrolling through Ye Olde Book of Faces, and this happened.
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    Arsenal's veiled disdain of Vondra's leadership suddenly makes less and more sense at the same time.
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    Anyone can choose the pug life. Including Vondra.
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