A Green Day fan-fiction story on Quizilla written by xRockandRollx. Contrary to the title, the author's mind does not seem to be broken and the story is well-plotted and well put together.
As of this writing, it has 25 chapters and a banner made by xXGreenDayluvrXx.
The moment had arrived. I didn’t want to tell him about Nick, about why he was the way he was. After all it wasn’t my secret to tell. However, unintentionally, I had involved Billie in this mess, and allowed him to venture deeper than I had ever wished him to.
--part of chapter 25 of "Affairs of a Broken Mind"
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"
FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”