I Exist And That’s Your Problem

While I’m okay with my posts being used as writing prompts, please please please don’t feed any of my posts or works into any kind of ai thing

Edit: This ^ is all still true, you can use my posts for HUMAN works, but an amendment to it would be if you could let me know if you use any of my posts

Just cause I’m nosey

“You think you have it difficult?” [Red] rolled into [Orange]’s office on her computer chair with a haunted expression that looked out of place on the face of someone who was…also spinning…with the chair. “I have to deal with the parents.”

[Red]’s job, technically, was with the kids, but every time there was a situation where the parents needed to be informed, the responsibility fell to her. She was one of the most senior employees, had gained plenty of skills on how to handle conflict from her experience, but really, the reason why no one else was exactly volunteering for that particular job was because, in [Red]’s own words- “They’re the worst!”

“Do you know what I have to deal with? So much of my life has become having meetings with parents of bullies and watching in real time as the meetings do nothing,” she hissed out the last word. “Just, time and time again, seeing concerning behavior in the kids, scheduling meetings with the guardians, explaining to them ‘hey, I’ve been seeing these concerning behaviors’, and what do they do?” She doesn’t wait for an answer. “Make excuses. Rationalize it away. Create their own scenarios and accept it as reality.”

“I’ll have parents be like ‘oh, you know what, the other kid must have just misunderstood what my little Susie said, they probably had earphones in, my darling angel would never,’ and then the behavior continues, I have to do all that again, and also explain that, ‘hey, this is now a pattern of concerning behavior’, and you know what they say to me?”

[Red] pitched her voice again, clearly imitating whichever parent of the week drained her energy dry, “‘Pattern, what do you mean pattern, I thought we decided that last time was just because of the other kid’s earphones?’”

“What do you mean ‘we’? We didn’t decide anything!”

“The kids aren’t even allowed earphones.”

She scooted back towards the doors. “I used to be full of hope for our future generations.” She then kicked herself off into a spinning roll once more, her voice echoing back through the hallway, “But they’re being raised by enablers!”

Like

Yes, we should be mindful of other people and yes we should be trying to cohabitate with people peacefully when we can

You are involved in a plot to kill the king and overthrow the monarchy

You also have no idea who your soulmate is and every lie you tell (which have all been related to this future rebellion recently) is showing up on their skin, and you have no idea who’s privy to their skin and couldn’t potentially put 2 and 2 together and stop this whole thing in its tracks

For the “every lie a person tells it shows up on their soulmate” trope:

Imagine you’re watching a live feed of astronauts answering questions after coming back from visiting a far off planet, and when asked about aliens, one of them says “No, unfortunately we didn’t find any signs of intelligent life out there”