#but it doesn't do a fine ENOUGH job

[airbenderedacted]

IF I WERE WOY CREW I WOULD ALSO FIGHT FOR THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING THE LESBIAN FLAG SOMEWHERE ON OR NEAR DOMINATOR IN JUST ONE WHOLE SCENE IN THE SHOW  SEND TWEET

#(maybe at the end of her character arc to avoid any unsavoriness / unfortunate implications about her feral ass idkidk hmhjujjnfgs) #Wander Over Yonder #Lord Dominator #granted that's in the scenario where say craig is fine with ascending her lesbianism to official canon status #(currenlty it's abt on the same level of canonicity as wander's logevity/immortality. as in they're written as being but it's not OFFICIAL) #but like i feel kinda strongly about um. it's great to leave characters fully open to interpretation so that all takes can be valid #BUT i think that if the crew sees a character as one thing and goes so far as to write them as being that #then it should 100% be made official official canon bc um HEY ahjaghjsdnmds. like atp the collaboration the silent agreement THE CODING #that's!!! a lot!!!! atp it's important to confirm the rep as being meaningful to the show canon and make it official ygm #and when it's like. when it's as tiny a thing irt the overall plot/character development. you don't have to go crazy with that confirm #SLAP A FLAG DOWN & CALL IT A DAY WHO'S WITH ME haha #TOH DID IT OK K.O. DID IT NIMONA DOES IT!!!!!!! DO YOU SEE THE VISIONN #oh but speaking of making canon rep explicit. if dom were to be confirmed i would also push for a super lesbian coded NON-villain #yk just to avoid. a certain disney trope #same with the aro coding like idk if she's meant to be literally aro or not but regardless #i think woy could really use an unequivocably do-gooding good guy character who is as romance repulsed as dominator is #bc i think the show does a fine job of separating her disinterest from her evil - doing evil is evil. not liking romance is neutral #THAT MESSAGE IS THERE IMHO!! #but it doesn't do a fine ENOUGH job #i think the character who is hella unparalleled in her evilness n all that shouldn't be the only character in the show who's No Romo #anyway im getting way too rambly about.. what is literally just the discussion of TINY THINGS YOU CAN DO TO DO GOOD BY LGBT REP BUT AAAA #as much as i have to say about them in practice these would all be very tiny things and i just love how much you can say with a little #if that all makes sense #❤️

[awkward-teabag]

I have to wonder how many people celebrating AI translation also complain about "broken English" and how obvious it is something was Google translated from another language without a fluent English speaker involved to properly clean up the translation/grammar.

Because I bet it's a lot.

I know why execs are all for it—AI is the new buzzword and it lets them cut jobs thus "save" money and not have to worry about pesky labour laws when one employs humans—but everyone else?

There was some outcry when Crunchyroll fired many of their translators in favour of AI translation (with some people to "clean up the AI's work") but I can't help but think that was in part because it was Japanese-to-English and personally affected them. Same when Duolingo fired many of their translators in favour of LLM translation. Meanwhile companies are firing staff when it's English to another language and there's this idea that that's fine or not as big a deal because English is "easy" to translate and/or because people don't think of how it will impact people in non-English countries.

Also it doesn't affect native English speakers so it doesn't get much headway in the news cycle or online anyway because so much of the dominant media is from English-speaking countries and English-speakers dominate social media.

But different languages have different grammar structures that LLMs don't do, and I grew up on "jokes" about people speaking in "broken English" and mocking people who use the wrong word when it was clearly a literal translation but the meaning was obvious long before LLMs were a thing, too. In fact, the specific way a character spoke broken English has been a way to denote their native tongue for decades, usually in a racist way.

Then Google translate came out and "Google-translated English" became an insult for people and criticism of companies because it was clearly wonky to native speakers. Even now, LLMs—which are heavily trained on English compared to other languages—don't have a natural output so native English speakers can clock LLM-generated text if it's longer than a sentence or two.

But, for whatever reason, it's not seen as a problem when it goes the other way because fuck non-English readers or people who want to read in their native tongue I guess.

#and it's not like no people were doing translations so wonky translations were better than nothing #it's actual translators being fired for a subpar replacement #and anyone who keeps their job suddenly being responsible for cleaning up llm output rather than what they trained in #(which can take just as much time or longer than doing the translation by hand from scratch) #(if you want it done right anyway) #hell to this day i hear people complain about written translations of indigenous words and how they 'aren't english enough' #even though they're using the ipa and use a system white english people came up with in the first place #and you can easily look up the proper pronunciation and hear it spoken #but there's such a double-standard where it's expected that other languages cater to english/english speakers #but that grace and accommodation doesn't go the other way #and it's the failing of non-english speakers when an english translation is broken #you see it whenever monolingual english speakers travel to other countries and utterly refuse to learn the language #but if someone doesn't speak in unaccented (to them) english fluently in their home country the person 'isn't trying hard enough' #this is just the new version of that where non-english speakers are supposed to do more work and put up with subpar translations #even as a native english speaker/writer i get a (much) lesser version of this because i write with canadian spelling #and some people get pissed if their internet experience is disrupted by 'ou' instead of 'o' or '-re' instead of '-er' #because dialects and regional phrasing/spelling is a thing #human translators can (or should) be able to account for it but llms are not smart enough to do so #and that's not even getting into slang and how llms don't account for it #or how llms can put slurs into translations because it doesn't do nuance or context and doesn't know the language #if you ever complained about buying something from another country that came with machine-translated instructions #you should be pissed at companies cutting english-to-[language] staff in favour of glorified google translate #because the companies are effectively saying they're fine with non-native speakers getting a wonky/broken version

[gideonisms]

See I think if I'd been born a guy I wouldn't be this pathologically avoidant trying to plan my career because there are plenty of situations you can find as a cis man where you just Do Tasks in awkward silence and you can get to those as a woman but you have to go through the rings of hell socializing first and then besides, a lot of those jobs already have so many men that you stand out when the whole point was you Don't want to do that

#you gotta be god's strongest soldier to survive this shit and i am not! i am god's weakest most pathetic soldier! #i survived five years of customer service crying weekly and getting harassed and being a baby about it #when i got promoted no one would listen to me and it made me constantly anxious and then so tired it took me a year to be able to #think about having a job as something remotely positive and stop crying about it #idk how other women are doing this shit a guy treats me like his sexy servant and i feel BAD and upset for years #and think of what he said 7 years later and they only touched me on the shoulder and made comments other people go through worse! #but i am not strong or determined i just want to go through my life in peace and stop talking to people altogether #it wasn't just guys who treated me badly older women made fun of me and called me lazy and stupid #tutoring was fine but i felt like i was putting on that same performance and at that point it all felt so awful i just. didn't want to #i can see no way out of talking to people for the rest of my life and it gets me down sometimes #i know i get to come home but even then i will probably need people to live with #i basically only like my family and close friends talking to me sometimes even that is hard #sometimes it's way easier to type and feels less awful #i think i have to just keep on keeping on until i can finally get good enough to freelance edit and code that's the only thing i can think #of doing that doesn't make me cry #emails are fine they suck but i don't have to control my face and tone so.

[linguenuvolose]

I do a lot of translation in my job and I've started enjoying it so much more since I started letting myself be a bit more free in my translations. Communicating the message and the vibe is more important than the phrase structure or wording being exactly the same.

#it also improves the quality of the texts because they actually make sense #sometimes these Italians love to put 40000 words that mean nothing and the same thing in a sentence and it's like #girl we don't have to do all that #in the sense that Italian and Swedish text conventions are different and what sounds fine in Italian risks sounding v formal in Swedish #also sometimes I sit there with an Italian origin text that I first have to edit and it's like do I not understand what this says because #1. my Italian isn't good enough in this field #2. this is a complicated field #3. these people don't know how to write #and sometimes when I'm done editing the Italian text and go to do the translation I'm like oh I have no idea what they're trying to say #and think to myself hmm maybe I should've done more editing but oh well eccoci qua #I mean this is like translation 101 but I have done exactly one very bad translation course 5 years ago #that made me go I never want to do this for a job #but my increased freedom now is just I don't care as much about it being exactly the way my boss envisioned #like everything we publish has to go by him first which puts a certain pressure on the text #so when I first arrived at this job I was like uuh the Swedish has to be as similar as possible #but now I'm like man it's more important that it sounds Swedish and not Italian than it being exactly the same #and my boss also doesn't speak Swedish in any case so what does he know #snicksnack #comunque sì queste le riflessioni della serata #domani ho preso il giorno libero perché i miei colleghi mi hanno un po' rotto er cazzo sinceramente so :))

[la-galaxie-langblr]

The epics highs and lows of summer job hunting

#former manager said she can't guarantee i get my job back so fair enough #i've applied for 13 jobs and counting #2 rejections 2 interview invitations one of which was revoked once i told them i'm a student #i'm really hoping the 2nd invitation doesn't get revoked #but at least i'm getting invitations #still #i actually applied for my old job again so if i don't get that it'll be embarrassing #i would prefer something with more hours/better pay though but i'll obviously take what i can get #if i had my own car my options would be much wider but i've had to limit myself to a 10 mile search cus i doubt my parents would drive #further than that #anyways i should get a time for my not-revoked interview by the end of the week pls send good vibes that they'll agree to do it over phone #and also that they'll be fine with me only being there for the summer #ellis exclaims

[featureenvyproductions]

Going to forever keep advertising my shit with tropes because do I have to? No. Am I too "stupid" to do it another way? No, not really. And as you've all seen, I also am perfectly capable of writing real blurbs and do write real blurbs. But I think it's fun to make the pic with the tropes anyway and have that around too. And also it keeps the pretentious people away. The sort who don't understand reading is not always for taking a "discomfort" vitamin because they A) are privileged enough to not have discomfort every day of their life to need to escape from or B) are fresh out of college and haven't discovered the joys of/have been shamed OUT of reading as a fun low pressure thing they can do to escape when they're fucking tired (and they think this sort of thing is new with fanfic and not more or less how "trash" lit like romance novels are marketed), as opposed to reading as some sort of Moral Duty To Be Deep that was instilled in them by a middle aged straight white English professor who thinks one can fulfill this by writing 10 pages about books where people scream at each other, have affairs with young women, or Make Up A Guy to warn people about things that Could Happen (that *cough* already happen to marginalized people *cough*) Anyway it's my version of a scarecrow. Firing shots to keep the rent low. Come take a seat next to me in the dumpster my fellow raccoons.

#Doing this for music of my heart for one day when I cram it all into a delicious tropey collection #God the only thing I hate about this post though is how the length of that sentence reminds me of Charles Dickens I fuckin hate that guy #I love being a shallow gremlin it's part of my brand #I jest but tbh I just am so over that stuff #It's another version of trashing romance novels or pop music or whatever to feel deep #Like if you were really deep #You would conceive of the breadth of humanity - only a fraction of which is inherently graspable by you on a deeper level #You would conceive of the fact that the experiences of the collective of humanity amount to 8 billion inner universes #You would conceive of how the ultimate 'depth' is accepting that you will only ever dip your finger into the surface of the lake #Of human experience #And that nothing hints at the existence of this lake more than someone being able to take joy in or find value #In something which you are fundamentally incapable of inherently ascribing value to - a truth that there's absolutely no fault in #aside from the fault of believing a value is universal because you possess it #This is also sort of like that thing where I talk like a caffienated teenager in a 2003 deviant art forum #But I can whip out the 'correct' grammar and spelling as needed to shut someone up who's being needlessly pretentious #I know this will get no notes and you'll think me a fool shooting myself in the foot but I really don't care #1) I have a day job so I can afford all the attitude I want #And 2) I feel like the people who like my stuff get it....and that's fine with me #if my friends and regulars like things that's good enough for me #Also sorry while we're at it we should probably talk about how thinking fanfic is inherently stupid #Or not a valuable form of reading material #Is deeply linked with homophobia and misogyny #There are a LOT of problems with fanfic but they mostly have to do with people focusing on derivative work at the expense of #Indie creators getting attention for original work that doesn't benefit from a corporations' billions of dollars of marketing

[shikai-the-storyteller]

I'm so burnt out and stressed about a variety of things lately, but a funny / sweet coincidence recently happened that I wanted to share:

Last week, I had a university student reach out to me (via my work email) asking for resources / advice on their research paper because I've written a lot of articles about the thing they're writing about. (I just got back to them today and they were real sweet, I'm excited to see how their paper turns out)

A week or two ago, I had someone reach out to me on RA asking for some specific clip info / date info because they were doing a research paper about Pac, and today I saw that they published their paper and put a special thanks to RA in the notes :')

I just think it's very sweet and a funny coincidence that my work (professional and fandom work) is getting cited in research papers. It made me smile a lot, I genuinely love that.

#i talk #job talk #Seeing RA get MLA cited sure was something #I love that #I have such a hard time sitting down and focusing on things but I want to read their paper #even if I have to TTS it (which is what I'll probably have to do) #but I'm so :') about both things #it's unexpected and sweet and makes me feel proud in different ways #I'm sad about work though but I really do need a new job #I love my job and I love the people (minus one but I never see him and never interact with him so it's fine) #but it just doesn't frickin pay enough and I've been in the red for too long #it makes me so sad but it's just not sustainable and it's stressing me out even more #like money is always a huge stressful thing but it's getting worse #I'm just frustrated because job hunting sucks and even jobs I'm overqualified for never get back to me #The job market is a nightmare but especially for my field. You just gotta KNOW people and I'm not good at that #I'm also sad because I know my team will be sad when I inevitably have to leave #I need to do it sooner rather than later though because we have big projects coming up #and the longer I take the harder it'll be on my team #agh #anyways this got a bit negative in the tags but these two things really did put a much-needed smile on my face #so thank you to those two students #I love college kids. I miss my Japanese college students #sideblog shenanigans #storytime with shikai

[kuiinncedes]

what do u meannnnnnn i'm abt to be post college graduation 🧍🏻‍♀️🧍🏻‍♀️🧍🏻‍♀️

#apparnelty some family friends coming to my graudation #bc ig i'm the first in the generation to graduate or whatever the fuck #and like whatever that's fine but ffs i wish they would've come to my show instead #that i co directed and literally love sos o so oso sosososoososooo much #so so so proud of that #i don't give a shit abt my graduation tbh lmfao TT #so it lowkey doesn't mean much to me that they want to come to my graduation ;-; #it would've meant so fucking much if i knew they would be able to come #and want to see that and i could like suggest hey instead come see this show LMAO #like it probably wouldn't have happened but whatever #also just like i have like no motivation and no interest in stats at this point lmfao #ALSO bc these ppl all gonna be fucking talking abotu and asking abt what i'm doing after #I DON'T KNOWWWWW what i'm fucking doingggggggg #i alr get enough talk from my mom abt how i'm not applying to enough jobs #i dont need family friends to also be asking me and my answer just being ha idk #i'm fucking staying at college tho like on campus bc i'm a fucking loser and don't want to move on #like not rly. i'm kinda trying to see it as like #the alternative would've been me at home being a loser lol #and that would've been so annoying and even if this isn't the 'right' thing to do or most traditional #at least i'm choosing to do it ig #and i get to stay in this club w my bestestestestest friends for another yr #idc if i'm like not moving on when i should LOL too bad for me that's a future problem #and also kinda figure out this weird right after college time period w my friend who i'm rooming with #ok. slay that was. acool turnaround from me lmfao just . yeah ok that's the positive side ig lmao #anyway i also dont give a shit about graduation bc i hate my university rn lmfao :) and the world is burning down #jeanne talks #i am . procrastinating #imagine knowing what the fuck i learned in this class this whole semester #ugh literally two group projects to end on and two of the most boring annoying group project experiences i've had LMAO

[autistic-shaiapouf]

Oh haha yeah I'm definitely feeling better <- he is not talking to people

#i'm not doing it on purpose i just. have so much on my mind and i wish i didn't #god what i would give to see everything slow and stop again. for the world to slow down again. i know it won't #it's like. i feel like i should be doing more. looking for more jobs looking more doing more #getting 5 billion little pieces of paper that say i can type fast or i have excellent diction or whatever #it's like. i can't objectively tell how much i'm doing. i can only feel the subjective part of it and i know that part is super skewed #bc like. raised as a trophy child and all that. i feel like. if was doing better or enough then i wouldn't be so uncomfortable #and it doesn't work like that!! no one has money and everything is expensive and i'm not doing anything uniquely wrong but like. #i could be doing more and is it not foolish of me to do more when the opportunity presents itself? or am i running myself into the ground? #i feel. well i'll be honest i don't feel very good. this has been a rough month for me #at my current rate i'll financially make it through april but it might be a tight squeeze #and i dont even WANT to be worried about money like. getting by is fine and not a mark for or against me #but like. i don't know. tossing these thoughts out here to get them out of my head. #shai speaks

[mantisgodsdomain]

Asks for the Random Character Asks

Marigold: 12, 13, 15

(for this ask game)

12. Crack headcanon

The reason she has so many flowers in her mane is because she fucked up with a transmutation early on and rooted them in there and her mentor Didn't Help At All so now they're just stuck in there as a permanent part of her body.

15. Worst thing they've ever done

As previously mentioned, "worst thing they've ever done" is ridiculously hard to define and extremely subjective at best. For Marigold specifically, it's even harder to define than most. She... doesn't do really things directly, after all.

She's a catalyst, and though she acts to make the situation immediately worse, she generally has little interference beyond that. She's an observer, not a direct actor, she's an alchemist, not a poison-brewer - part of what makes her so difficult to pin down and immune to consequence is that unless it's to gather test subjects for raw field data, she's almost certainly just... not acting directly. There's a medium. An in-between. A client, somewhere along the line, asking for her charms.

Though the "what they would think of when asked the question" question might work under normal circumstances, Marigold is an exception to the rule - as previously mentioned, she would not personally consider any of her actions to be immoral. She's done things that weren't amazing, of course, but it's not like she'd consider herself a bad person - just someone with professional pride. You wouldn't expect her to offer a subpar product to a customer, would you?

Beyond that, there's the issue of pinning down a single individual case. Marigold isn't a... "one and done" kind of villain, she gains the sort of status she has from low-profile but consistent evils. She doesn't do anything obvious, she doesn't do anything that can be pinned on her - people disappear, and monsters turn up after, and if they're especially valuable or they survive the period it takes for the transmutation to settle in their bones, she'll trap them somewhere to harvest for more transmutation-fuelling parts later.

That, of course, could be considered a "worst" - but it's still not one single thing you can point to. It's dozens and dozens of things, spread out over years of activity, people who mysteriously vanish off the streets and never turn up again. There is no single monolith of evil that can be pointed to, because Marigold isn't the kind of evil that does big gestures like that. Just... a slow, steady flow of charms into hands that do harm with them, combined with a slow, steady flow of people who leave their homes and don't come back.

...if we had to choose it would probably be something along the lines of experimenting on prisoners provided via negotiations with criminal factions and then bargaining with the factions those prisoners were taken from to sell them back already transmuted into monstrous forms and entirely incapable of resuming their previous lives. She got paid by both sides for it, both for developing specified new strains of transmutative on the prisoners and for returning them to their original faction. The client didn't specify what to do with them after they'd served their purpose, after all.

13. Dumbest thing they’ve ever done

Well! This one's very nearly a Story.

A fun fact about charms: they're not always perfectly consistent, especially if you're making new ones. That's why you test them before applying them to paying customers. That's why you take a constant flow of people unlikely to be missed for experiments. That's why you do experiments in the first place. If something goes wrong, then you need to know what to fix it, and if an unexpected variable throws the experiment-

Well. It could go very, very wrong, or very, very right. But you never turn your back on the experiment. You never assume you know what will happen next until it's good and tested, you never assume things will work out until you're 100% sure, you never assume that nothing can possible go wrong - Marigold knows this, of course, and she acts accordingly. Lab safety is a priority, not an afterthought. When the things you're working with might kill you if it breaks containment, you never leave things up to chance. It's simple safety precautions. Nothing ever up to chance. Nothing ever allowed to fail. And if anything were to fail - well, you being on-hand gives the best possible chance of getting things back under control.

And then, of course, someone comes calling at the door. You're too early into the experiment to excuse watching it as a delay, of course, and you know they know you're home - you mentioned you'd be home just the other day, after all. Reputation is valuable, and the monitoring built into the cage will work just as well, won't it? It might need a few more trials, but you can't really afford to be rude, and you especially can't afford them coming to find you - these parts of your lab are blocked off to guests for a reason, and you can't simply disappear a guest to your house.

Surely, it won't do any harm to leave it for just a few minutes. Surely, it'll mean nothing to leave the transmutation to finish unattended. You return back downstairs not more than five minutes after you left, ready to finish what you started.

The cage is open.

#asks #ask games #ocs #marigold #we speak #she survived ofc but it was very dumb and she nearly died doing it #debatably you could also say “dealing with known moth traffickers” was her dumbest move #or “dealing with people known to stab people in the back” #or a great deal of her criminal dealings actually #but like. this works better because the rarity of her craft means she actually has a decent protective buffer #simply in the fact that she's the only person who can do the job she's doing and it's impossible to Just Replace Her #and has enough connections that she can afford to be dealing-to-all-parties neutral because killing her would piss off Everyone Else #it pays to be the only supplier of a limited resource and it Especially pays when its an artisan thing and can't be competently reproduced #it takes years of apprenticeship to make a charmsmith and even that won't guarantee the same specialty #marigold herself couldn't make her old mentor's works if she tried simply because inanimate transmutation doesn't click with her #and her former apprentice's area of specialty with medical charmcraft doesn't overlap much with either of them #anyways. very normal moth. she is morally grounded and normal. #every time we say anything about marigold assume it can be summed up with “yea its fucked up” #shes very. fine

[zincbot]

that one line that the brother's dad has abt mario bringing luigi down with his failing business. how did you get into my extremely long mario brothers backstory notesapp

#mario #they didn't touch on it all that much but AAAUAGHA (EXPLODES) #the long and the short of it. mario and luigi's family (mario included) think that luigi has a lot of potential. he's a bit of an egghead #basically #he can make machines and he gets good grades #but! luigi's too afraid to commit to a big leap out of his perceived station in life. and he wants to stick with his brother #he's afraid to tackle the world on his own and he doesn't really believe in himself #on the other side mario wants to protect luigi but also think that luigi can be better than him if he applies himself #mario's a determined guy but he willingly admits that he's not cut out for a smart guy job. that's fine. he can do anything #if he works at it long enough #basically mario let luigi tag along with him in plumbing even though he knew that luigi could do better #luigi just wanted stability #but their family sees it as mario dragging luigi down and even mario himself sometimes sees it that way #especially when their business isn't getting a lot of success #luigi just wants to stick with his brother #mario movie spoilers #technically #that's basically the long and short of the hidden conflict between the brothers that leads into the beginning of their adventures in #the mushroom kingdom #AND ALSO WHENEVER MARIO CALLS HIM LOU. SCREAMING CRYING SOBBING

[the-busy-ghost]

Knowing very little about clothing construction beyond the basics of how to hand sew in a straight(ish) line, combined with machine made fast fashion garments that fall apart easily, means it takes me waaaay longer to fix a button or a ripped pocket than it really should

#Everything's always hidden by something else #I'm not undoing an entire lining just to get at the back of a button so yes this piece of clothing now will never sit right I'll live #Also my dad's stuff is mostly tennis clothing and WHY IS THERE SO MUCH MESH #WHY IS THERE ALWAYS MESH STUFF OVER EVERYTHING THERE DOESN'T NEED TO BE #I can't fix a pocket because there's mesh in front of it #And the pocket was already going to be a bugger because it's that awful stretchy wafer thin sporty material #That rips if you so much as look at it #I don't know enough about clothes for this I just want to salvage a perfectly good coat or pair of shorts #I understand hiding the constituent parts of a piece of clothing if it's good quality but if you haven't sewed the buttons on properly #Why the hell did you even bother covering them up I shouldn't have to do open heart surgery on a cheap jacket #Rule number 1 should really be if it's poorly made it should be easy to access the bits to fix it #But that would be too much #Obviously this is not the machinist's fault they're doing their best at probably shit wages and again they have a machine #Something which I am too scared of to even use let alone buy #But it frustrates me #I have to fix all this by hand it takes time I can't just rip out a lining for a button #Literally the only thing I own that doesn't make me want to rip my own arm off when attempting to fix are denim dungarees #Like the only piece of women's clothing that are easy to repair and even better if I do a shit job it's still fine because they're dungarees #They're sort of supposed to look patchy and worn

[arrowpunk]

Teaching myself audio editing for reasons and I am enjoying it way more than I thought I would. It's like kind of relaxing and meditative tbh...

#ramblings of an arrow #probably good for me to have a hobby that isn't art #sadly it's still like... at a screen.... which.... it's fine #Batty would like for me to get a hobby that doesn't involve a screen and like ok I am WORKING ON IT #simply... hard to do.... #have you considered audacity is free and doesn't make a mess and I don't have to clean anything up #anyways I'm having a great time #being silly goofy with it #have we considered: funniest and best idea ever #big theme of the campaign is the evils of capitalism and corporate monopolies #how fucking funny would it be to have fake ad reads for different fake sci-fi fantasy corporations #in the middle of 'episodes' #personally *I* think it's a great idea #and fuckin' hilarious #anyways this is mostly just for me #littol side skill am teaching myself #and if I get good enough at it perhaps it's something I'll be able to add to a resume #tbh that could be a fun job...... #podcast editor.... #perhaps #it's just kinda relaxing meticulously going through and cutting all the unnecessary pauses #and umms #and unneeded 'likes' and other filler words #and I can cut out my own stutters which is nice #not that there's anything wrong w/ stuttering #simply it's way more listenable if I cut them out #also ok look like not to brag or anything but like #I am not a half-bad amateur voice actor tbh..... #there are parts where I might.... rerecord some of the things I've said and edit better versions in #mostly for practice learning how to use this

[griffsursparker]

i don't understand how i'm supposed to be a functional human in society when i am so so mad at society all the time

#like i don't know how to put aside my belief that the world should be fair long enough to put up with the fact that it isn't #i try my best to be positive and shit but like #how do people just turn off the anger at the world for not being better #how do people work shitty awful jobs knowing they deserve to be treated like human beings and not punch someone #or just. shut down #i tend to shut down not punch people lmao #i just. i don't get it. and i honestly want an answer #because i want to know how to function #but i hate that fucntioning in society means dealing with all the bullshit!! #what if i want to work for people who care about me in a city that's designed for walkability and where i can afford to live #why is that like. an impossible ask #any ONE of those things feels impossible to me #and i know they shouldn't be is the thing #i think if i could just accept that that's how the world is i'd be fine #but i can't accept that because i know it should be better??? #i think in a lot of places outside of north america it IS better? #so the fact that it isn't just makes me so so angry and i don't know how to function because i can't just pretend like it doesn't suck! #i wish i could #i honestly do #because this is miserable #but i don't know how people just turn that off????

[soulemissary]

do these people not realize that they cannot hope and wish their way to a better life. at some point u have to use the hands you were given and do something to improve your circumstances

#wandertext ♡ #i understand that this is not the case for everyone—some people cannot 'fix' or get out of their shit deals #but i am watching this situation unfold and it is simply not that. you can't just wait for a better job to fall in your lap #and making excuses over and over again to keep your job that doesn't make enough to survive off of + constantly asking for help #is frustrating and will not work forever. eventually there is going to be a time where your friends are all in the same bad situation u are #and there is going to be no one to turn to #it's most frustrating bc of how hard i've had to work to make things okay for me and my girlfriend #and even now i know i'm not doing enough! so i am trying to do something about it in the ways that i can. #but when you constantly insist that the world is out to get you and ur hoping for a better break without actually doing anything to get it #it is insulting to the people you live with (who moved across the country in the hopes of a better life for both of us) #who have made constant changes to survive and make you more comfortable #anyways. this is not about anyone on here. i'm simply frustrated #we have a new shot at an apartment in march and i tried to tell my roommate that he can't afford it on his current income #and he just brushed me off. like someone is being very kind and giving you a way out. and we are willing to help make it work. #but you insist that everything will just be fine somehow. that isn't how it works.

[asherinn]

lichrally just want a work from home job for my health issues but all my experience is customer service & receptionist related

#i'm tired #i actually enjoy my current job and would be fine doing it forever but it straight up doesn't pay enough