As a chronic people-pleaser, this is my advice for success.
Offer as little as possible. Be terse. Get rid of all those exclamation marks and tidbits about why you want to take a sick day. State your needs clearly and concisely without reason. Start saying “No, I’m unable.” more often. Say Thank You only when the other party deserves it.
Alright, it looks like the shit’s about to hit the fan. The full names for OTW Board Candidates have been released, and it looks like Audrey Richards recently ran for political office as a Republican. Source: https://ballotpedia.org/Audrey_Richards
Based on what happened last year with Tiffany G, I want to make something clear: This is not a plot by the Republican party to destroy AO3.
Audrey Richards is an OTW volunteer in good standing. She wouldn’t be able to run if she wasn’t.
Also, if the Republican Party wanted to destroy AO3, they’d have Tucker Carlson or whoever put the site on blast and whip up the Conservative hate machine against the site. That hasn’t happened because I don’t believe that the drivers of the Republican Party are aware that the site exists.
What’s happening here is that in the Republican Party, Audrey is small fry enough that affiliation with AO3 hasn’t become a career liability for her. But, seriously, given how fascist the Republican Party is these days, I would not advise anyone who loves the site to be affiliated with the U.S.’s Republican Party. That’s peak Voting for the Leopards Eating Faces Party behavior!
She answers variations of I Don’t Know to a LOT of questions (which none of the other candidates do) and has some definite clunkers of answers. I won’t be voting for her, but that was already the case based upon her answers.
No one asked but I think the secret to making the enemies-to-lovers trip work is respect. They can loath each other, but they have to loath each other as equals. Like “sorry but no one else is allowed to murder this man but me” + “it’s an honor and privilege to despise you.”
