Stranger in this Town

During a job, what’s everyone’s caffeinated beverage of choice? 

Cobb: triple shot of espresso, black, all the sugar so he can stay awake and spiral as much as he wants

Yusuf: tea with just a drop of milk and half a spoonful of sugar. His nerves are already freyed enough, he doesn't need caffeine to make them worse

Saito: proper japanese tea that he prepares himself bc going through the motions settles something in him and makes him think better on which enterprise giant to buy out next

Ariadne: she shoots back energy drinks like there's no tomorrow (you know, the college student on a deadline way)

Arthur: insists he only drinks coffee that's as black and bitter as his soul, but he's a secret fan of all the frivolous monstrosities with the super sweet syrups and the mix of spices

Eames: tea

Also! Stress tolerance is such an important skill that having a learning disability in that area is a major symptom of a whole lot of other disabilities/mental illnesses! Struggling with it is a huge part of life! It sucks!

Am I saying everyone with misophonia needs to listen to chewing noises all day? No. But you need to find ways to tolerate it enough that you don't treat others like shit if they make a mouth noise near you.

No, you don't have to read the fic with your trigger tags. But you do need to be able to handle scrolling past the tags without being upset.

It is hard! But not having it also makes you so so so easy to manipulate. That grandma is racist AF because her mom raised her to be uncomfortable around black people and she never fought that discomfort. Trans people make so many cis people uncomfortable and that discomfort turns into bigotry real fast.

It's not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against "crime" as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.

It's about performing "tough on crime" as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent "crime." They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.