Chicken Nugget Sugar Daddy

Ok so, first of all, AMAB and I work at the library. Over the last couple months, we've been having some issues with our main building including roof leaks, a pipe burst flood in the teen section, mold being detected, and a second (technically sixth) flood in an alcove where we were storing books affected by the first flood. Needless to say, the main building is closed while the town deals with all the shit they've been kicking down the line; cut enough corners and it'll all come full circle.

Now, while our main building is closed, we have been operating out of the community room in the police station. For the sake of the story let's be reductive and say the only real problem with this is the bathooms; their doors have a tendency to lock themselves if they aren't closed exactly right, and you gotta get a key to fix this.

Be me, looking like this

And needing to take a big shit. The door is locked, so I buzz for the key. There's nobody at the desk, so I get transfered to someone on an intercom line and say "hey, sorry to bother you, but the bathroom door locked itself again" because I'm polite like that. Lady on the other end tells me she'll find someone who has the key.

It might also be worth mentioning that I'm using my Work Voice for this interaction, which i make higher and softer and quieter because, you know, Library Setting.

Cop comes out with the bathroom key, tuff lookin bald dude with a sleeve tattoo who very much is not the voice I spoke with, takes one look at me, then heads right to the door to the women's bathroom. My guess is that whoever I got on the intercom thought I sounded like a lady, and therefore likely said the ladies room was locked. This dude took one look at me, One Look No Words, and said to himself "yep, ladies room, sure"

Naturally, I don't mind this, but it doesn't fix my problem of I Gotta Shit And That's The Wrong Door. All I can think to say is "I dunno if that one's locked, I tried the men's room" and he just gives me One More Look, goes "oh, sorry", and unlocks the men's room without looking at me again.

me, outside at night, the moment our headphones die

And this is going to make a lot of people very angry to hear.

But a lot of y'all on this website are truly deeply genuinely never going to be capable of any kind of real narrative analysis--and I don't mean 'being right all the time' I mean 'meaningfully engaging with the text in any way'--

The match cuts were meticulously designed and put there to communicate something.

The VA's delivery of a line was being directed. Inflection and tone change the meaning of dialogue. This is intentional. There are entire teams of people shaping those choices and deciding which take to use based on what works best for the story.

Information is being revealed in a specific order, on purpose, to craft an emotional arc and guide the audience's understanding.

A character's romantic preferences are only, and SHOULD only be, their primary motivation if the genre is romance. That is why there is a genre called that. Most stories are other genres.

Creators who dislike a character generally give them LESS attention, MORE boring storylines, and LESS screentime.

Sometimes curtains are just blue. But if the shot composition or written narration takes time to HIGHLIGHT, especially more than once, that the curtains are blue, then the blueness of the curtains is by definition narratively important.

"Cite your sources" is not a witch's curse that banishes People With Different Opinions to the shadowrealm of Being Wrong. Someone making points that challenge your perceptions, while including screenshots and explicit examples, cannot be dismissed with "cite your sources" because they are literally doing that. Don't @ me on this one I've seen shit in the wars, y'all.

Failing to understand these things WILL bar you from ever really engaging with or understanding any narrative more complicated than Paw Patrol for the rest of your life.

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