Struggling With Inadequacy

Something about splitting wood the old fashioned way was just so, so satisfying. The power of one man was still something to be reckoned with in the early 1800's. It was true that there were machines popping up in the larger cities back east that...

, , , , , , , , , , , ,

Scattered Starlight - Stolas' Farewell

Whatever lie i believed was one of my own making, not yours, and i'll not have you suffer for my many inadequacies. as such, i wish to entrust you with a parting gift: an asmodean crystal.

, , , , , , , ,

Reality

Declarations of insufficiency and inadequacy flitted through the otter's mind. tracts of land vanished. lives ended. reality bent and broke. ctrl-a. del. sigh.

, , ,

Vapor Trails

If they needed proof of their own inadequacy, all the birds needed to do was look at the planes themselves- for generations, it was thought that they and only they would hold the secrets of flight but somebody else who was not a bird found out.

, , , ,

War Paint

This would not have been possible if they did not paint that distrustful and lying mirror, which was hurling the burning arrows of rejection and inadequacy, black. .

, , , , , , ,

Mandrake

It's important to him to acknowledge the full challenge presented by social interaction and not to imply that it's supposed to be easy for people to do, so that repeated failures in the social realm not be taken as implying any more inadequacy than inability

, , ,

Departure (Kreet 35)

Even kreet had to admit to an ingrained sense of inadequacy.

, , , ,

The Avian's Apprentice: Prologue - Eight of Nine

“even he saw his own inadequacy! it was time. he’s looking for a true leader that can do the decisive things necessary. riyew it cannot be!

, , , , , , , , , , ,

He Loves You

I feel like i'm going to suffocate on the tension or simply drop dead out of either embarrassment or my own pure inadequacy. he could never love me. i want to go home and cry into a pillow. i should bail out before its too late.

, , , , ,

Balanced on the Knife Edge Ch. 2

He was a smooth talker, despite his inadequacies, and after failing so miserably in my quest, i was thrilled to have somebody who would listen to me." "and buy you drinks." karme blushed a deep aquamarine but did not deny it.

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Courtship 14: A Night To Remember, Finale

We both had our feelings of inadequacy. we both struggled to keep afloat on our own. i'd seen teri at his darkest, sure. the night he drank himself into a stupor... but i thought he'd just been overwhelmed by his father visiting him.

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,