Still “get this thing right for which we gave you no specific instructions/have increased the difficulty on/will talk to you about what you should have done afterwards while you cannot get away or protest” even without the screaming is enough like childhood it’s not welcome. And discourages my studying.
Drug mention
And if for whatever reason the 4th graded call is brutally terrible; I didn’t have any weed last night and that could help tonight or tomorrow night if they act as i’m worried about.
Okay, gotta remember to try and depersonalize procedure phrased as personal (YOU did) criticisms in the event that it is possible to make these people happy (I’m not telepathic and don’t know for sure whether they’ve decided to fail me, since an asshole doesn’t need to be ntentionally hostile to be an asshole). And as a worst case I wash out and need to find different work, which I kinda want anyway.
Tldr version of what I *think* was up with my mental health yesterday was; although my emotional health has definitely improved a lot, I still have baggage about being set up to fail then being harangued for my mistakes by a superior adult, and the trainers here hit that hard and often enough that I got the tunnel vision and went right into all the associated “scripts” if that makes sense.
The book was full of lackluster monsters… who were shown dark, grimy, dangerous. Even the PCs looked grim in a way TSR’s art didn’t. It just was really something; thanks, wherever you are now.
The Fighting Fantasy books suggested, and if I’d then had access to White Dwarf it would have been clear, how Fiend Folio really blew me away. FF books were great so the pictures stood out less; by comparison Fiend Folio was ENTIRELY about those pictures. Without those illustrations the Dark Creepers, Grell, Crypt Thing and others would have been as memorable as the Gorbel, Jermelaine, or Gorilla Bear.
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