u/DuchessDulcet

Every song on every playlist plays for half a second before skipping! Is anyone else having this issue?!

I wanna hang with you girls! But I don't know of any actually active servers </3

I (14F) have a brother (18M). I love him to pieces, but I'm so incredibly tired of him. In his own words, he doesn't want to get a job or learn how to drive. Paraphrasing a little, he'd rather take it easy and live life his own way. I wouldn't really have an issue with this if I didn't have to listen to him all day.

I, my mother, and my brother all have our computers in the same room. If we're gaming together, it ensures easy communication and the best possible connection, however, it also means I have to listen to him talk to his friends all day. I'm a voice actress and a singer, and it's a nightmare to record because he's always either coughing, talking, or aggressively and annoying spamming controller buttons in the background. So between him, our box fans, my mum cooking, and our bitchy old cat, it's basically impossible. I've lost multiple role opportunities for too much background noise, I bet I wouldn't have lost a good amount of them if it wasn't for him.

But worse still, my brother and I are both Dragon Ball fans, so that means I have to listen to him screaming like a Super Saiyan all day. No, I'm not joking. He dubs over a lot of scenes from the anime and dubs over a lot of scenes from the video games he owns. He owns a lot of Dragon Ball games, so that gets old very, very fast. And towards the end of the day, I thought I would have some sort of peace, but no. He gets on his VR headset and screams even more because he does group roleplays as Goku on VRChat. Even our parents have told him to quiet down, but he just doesn't listen.

I guess are mostly mad not only because I'm tired of hearing him yell all day or slam his fist on his desk when he loses a game, but also because I'm jealous of him. He's an eighteen-year-old man, technically an adult, and he doesn't wanna get a job or drive, or any of that cool stuff. I've been desperate to do that sort of thing since I was ten years old. I guess I'm just mad because even though I'm more mentally mature than him, legally, he has it better, and he doesn't bother/want to do anything with it.

Worse still is that he doesn't see my side of things at all. I tried to approach him being straightforward but stern, if that's the right word. I approached him entirely neutrally, not insulting him or raising my voice like I used to. He used to be so intellectual, never getting angry, but it seems like we've switched. I used to be the angry one who jumped straight to confrontation, but upon me trying my damnedest not to be rude, he started snapping.

My exact words were "I love you, but for the sake of my mental health, please try to be more quiet." He basically said that I was giving him a big "fuck you" in the face, because in a moment of desperation, I told him to try a bit harder. I admit, I shouldn't have said that, but he was still putting words in my mouth and painting me as this bitchy little sister. He's so petulant sometimes, to the point where I feel like I'm an older sister. My mother has actively agreed that I'm more emotionally mature than him, and that I'm easier to have an serious conversations with, because he shuts down most of them.

He acts if it's not physically possible from to volunteer or get a job anywhere, when that's not true. Kroger and other local grocery or fast food chains are hiring, and he acts as if he'll have an aneurysm if he works in retail. His logic is that he wants to have a first job that he'll like, and despite me, my mother and my father trying to drill it into his head that you don't need to like your first job, he just doesn't get it. It's like trying to argue with a brick wall, he just keeps saying it's not as easy as we make it out to be, even though I have it worse than he does.

Quick clarification on "He has it better than I do," the minimum hiring age where we live is sixteen, but most of the places I want to work hire at eighteen, like Hot Topic and Hobby Lobby. To be fair for me, Victoria's Secret, Ulta, and Kroger hire at sixteen. My brother could probably work at Gamestop or any of the other places that he likes, but he just doesn't want to. More clarification on me saying "He acts like he'll have an aneurysm if he works in retail," he acts as if every customer in every retail store ever is an entitled ass who will make his life a living hell. His view of working in retail or working in general is so pedantic, it genuinely repulses me. How he can view an honest job that puts food on the table as such a nuisance is honestly ridiculous to me. It especially pisses me off because our father has an even more boring job! He does numbers stuff, he's basically an accountant.

TL;DR, my brother is a somewhat immature slacker, and doesn't listen to me or my mother when I asked him to please be quiet or act a bit differently. Sorry for this very unorganized post, I just really needed to get my thoughts out.

See, for me? I get typecast as... redheads. No, I'm not joking! Whether it's Jean Gray, Envy Adams, Mary Jane Watson, Kim Pine, or Atom Eve: If there's a redhead, I'm usually it. That's really funny considering I'm a redhead in real life, but whatever. I have gotten cast as Mary Jane Watson more times in my seven years of VA work than I have any other character in my entire life, haha! I sincerely doubt I could play Atom Eve, so I don't know where those people are coming from, but I've been told I could play her times.

Ok, but in all seriousness, I tend to get cast as either cool girl types or "girl next door" types. M.J. Watson, Ashley Graham, and Gwen Stacy for girl next door, and Ramona Flowers and Jessica Jones for cool girls. So, basically, I get typecast as manic pixie dream girls.

My godmother, may God rest her soul, was Panamanian. My godfather, her husband, learned Spanish to talk with her before she learned English. I believe they met in Panama, I think he was doing some sort of medical thing. The two were trying to teach me Spanish before she passed, so now it's him, mi tia AKA su hija, and good old Rosetta Stone.

I've been going Super Saiyan with my studies recently, because my godfather has been thinking about flying us out to Panama to meet her family. While he and tia probably wouldn't have any problems, my family and I would. Even if I'm not blood-related. I still wanna be able to talk to them.

Also, even though they're Panamanian, mi tia hosted a quinceañera for mi prima. I don't know why, she just said she wanted to. Because of growing up speaking a bit of Spanish with my family and friends, since I have a surprising amount of Spanish-speaking friends, I've always felt like a part of Spanish culture, even if my family is Scottish-Irish. It's a beautiful language, and I hope to become fluent someday ❤️

End note, My godmother said I speak with a Castillian accent lol

Started getting this thing where I would sign in, the sign-in prompt would disappear, and the blue intro screen would stay there forever, looping the loading music. My brother said switching the version to the open-beta worked for him, and clearly, it did, but it just doesn't work for me. I've tried every now and again for almost a month, but nothing. Anything, y'all?