#don't move to new york

[bluegingham]

My mental health was so much better when I was performing. I was in two regional musical productions back to back from March to May and I think they just gave me more of a sense of purpose than I feel right now. I actually exhausted energy. I talked to people. I left the house more - albeit for rehearsals, but it was still something. Now I'm just working part-time from home looking for a full-time position, which will still never pay the rent here on Long Island. I'm just this big blob of gloom and anxiety and I want to leave.

#small rant #don't move to new york #coming from a new yorker

[autism-swagger]

Local girltwink in her boydyke era

Closeups under cut

#butcher? more butch?? butchlier???? idfk man #RIP Jackie Taylor you would've made such a handsome butch 😔 #also I just realized that the little guy kinda looks like Nat. it's not. it's supposed to be me #but ​you can choose to interpret it as Nat lowkey swooning over Jax if you want to lol #this's part of my au wherein Jackie almost freezes but is brought inside by Nat n Travis #(a lot fewer people die than in canon. it's (relatively) happy) #(they don't hunt each other. a couple of the girls (gn) die from various causes. but not murder. this includes Coach Ben) #she loses several fingers and an ear to frostbite #and Shauna still cuts a chunk outta her arm lol #because let's be real that bitch is crazy (affectionate) #these are of ~19-20 year old Jackie #she moved outta Wiskayok the first chance she got #(to either California or New York. I'm undecided. some major city) #she holds a pretty major grudge against the rest of the survivors for uh. fairly obvious reasons #she's roommates with Nat and Travis (who's relationship is a lot healthier than canon because Javi didn't die) #but she hasn't spoken to any of the others since they were all rescued #it has JackieNat bestie-ism. and maybe more. who knows #(me. I know) #wow this's just turned into me rambling about my au #my art #Yellowjackets tag

[the-physicality]

so fun fact: montreal currently has the highest win percentage at 61.54% [24 points earned / 39 possible points]. however, if you look at total possible points through the end of the season [current points + games remaining x 3] Montreal is also tied at first [ w/minnesota] with 57.

#pwhl montreal #pwhl #the other possible points totals as of 2/24 5:23 p eastern #Toronto 55 #Boston 54 #New York 52 #Ottawa 49 #listen i love sports statistics #and the pwhl website makes them so accessible #unfortunately while the pwhl website updates goals as they are scored #other statistics are only updated after the game #which creates quite a mismatch but i am aware of the problem and actively counteracting it #:) #i would have an excel but i am moving away from screens #so i have paper tables set up or in progress for all the sports im following #really it's so that i don't have to constantly check my phone to know the numbers

[captainjonnitkessler]

Every time I’m forced to listen to a coworker preach about how Jordan Peterson or one of those other grifter assholes “changed his life” and “you have to listen to this podcast, I swear, you’ll never go back” I should get four hours of overtime added to my paycheck

#said coworker is a 3 percenter who once tried to convince me that moving to florida would be financially beneficial #despite the fact that the union payscale there is $10-15 less than ours #because 'they don't have state income tax and the cost of living is so much lower' #a) new york doesn't tax me $10 an hour and b) it's literally not

[stillcominback]

𝚆𝙴𝙻𝙻, 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚅𝙴𝚁𝙳𝙸𝙲𝚃'𝚂 𝙸𝙽: as a lot of you may know by know [ if you've caught any of my previous posts about it ], i'm moving with my parents back to california from texas -- where i've been for about 30 years -- because overall? it'll be good for me. i'm sick of texas for the most part, i literally can't afford to live on my own [ and honestly? i like being near my parents and would just have more security and better quality of life in CA ], and i just think sometimes a change is good!

i've been waiting to see if my job will let me keep my job [ and continue to pay me dirt, even! ] ... all i was asking is that i can live in california and work remote. well, the owner has decided he will not allow me to do that. is there a good reason? in my opinion: no. he's framing it [ in his conservative white man rich business owner brain ] that I'M the one making the choice to move because i could apparently just as easily stay in texas and get my own place etc etc etc. so it's on me! unfortunately, it's just not that simple, but i guess from a guy who runs a family business and has multiple homes, it's just hard to really grasp that concept.

i'm literally so furious and so heartbroken at the same time. i know it's not the best company, and yeah i guess, we can say this is for the best in the end? but that doesn't make it hurt less. i've been there for almost 11 fucking years. my ENTIRE career out of college. through ups and downs, i was always working my ass off and being a great employee ... shining reviews and reputation with literally everyone. it just hurts that that ultimately means nothing when i'm finally asking for something in return. i take the poverty wages, take the working in the office when i hate it for the most part, i've taken having to hear misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, every-phobic thing over the years ... then i ask for ONE thing in 11 years [ that's literally not even a big ask ] and it's a ✨no✨.

i feel so lost. like i don't even know how to be without this job, and as much as people tell me YOU'RE SO TALENTED! YOU'RE SO GREAT! YOU'LL FIND SOMETHING SOOOO MUCH BETTER! i wanna believe it, but my brain just ... doesn't. maybe it's imposter syndrome or just how fucking down on myself i feel right now. i still appreciate it because i literally don't know what i would do without my friends and family's support right now like ... even if i can't see it for myself, it means the literal world to me.

plus sides [ i guess ]: i should be able to keep my laptop [ but i'll lose adobe cc so ... i may need some recs or help on how to at least get photoshop cause idk how i'll carry on without it lmao ]; my manager who is a literal saint and one of the best people i know [ she actually pissed the owner off going to the mat for me lmao "he doesn't like to be questioned" ... insert the biggest eye-roll of my life ] ... but she said she would help me with literally everything from linkedin to my resume to a portfolio, and i know that'll be like everything to me while i just .... try to navigate all of this ON TOP OF trying to move.

ALSO: i think i can work until i leave, if that's what i want to do ... i'm still trying to figure all of this out because honestly? even though it's not much? i need the money. but then i'm also like i don't wanna do the owner any favors by having me work while they maybe start putting out feelers to replace me, yknow? BUT THEN AGAIN, i'm hurting my boss more than him [ and that's the twisted, frustrated thing about all of this ... it hurts us way more than it does anything to him but he still gets to make the choice for us ]. SO! i dunno! i may just use all my PTO and see how far that gets me lmao but i feel like at the end of the day, i have to look out for myself and maybe just trying to pull in as many paychecks as i can [ since we also don't have a hard 'we're moving!' date at the moment ] is the best idea ... even if the idea of going into the office and acting normal like literally makes me so ... 😤 but i dunno! my brain is a mess! afjhksdfda

SO YEAH. i just wanted to update you guys because i do consider you friends. whether we talk a little or a lot, i appreciate all of you so much and just wanted to keep folks in the loop with where my life and my head's at right now. not the best but ... just trying to keep it moving. honestly nooooo clue when writing is gonna happen here again??? i do miss / enjoy the distraction of plotting and talking about all this stuff so don't be shy, i just don't know when i'll have the time or capacity to just write here [ maybe once we move and stuff settles a little bit? ] -- but yeah, in the meantime, please come chat with me, let's plot dynamics and all that shit because it still makes me so happy and lets me take my mind on a little vacation lmao love you all, truly! ❤️

#** reblogging on some of my blogs to pass it around but! applies across the board: you can find most of my blogs in my pinned post here! ** #been on and off crying since like 4PM yesterday so it's been a ride lemme tell ya! #nothing like feeling like you wasted over a decade of your life at a job that never really cared about you #like MY boss does but stupidly she doesn't get to make all the decisions for HER own team #even though the owner is barely present and doesn't really know anything about us or the day to day so ... very cool of him #to make big decisions that can hurt a lot of people (and don't affect him one bit either way) #he just really doesn't seem to give a shit at all that it makes our lives so much harder for NO reason #it's just that he literally doesn't “like” remote working and doesn't want to set some kind of company-wide precedent #even tho i'm like moving isn't THAT easy lmao people aren't all just gonna mass exodus out my guy #(also we have a C-level employee who lives / works from new york but ... apparently that's SUUUUPER different because she lived there when #she was hired ........ *stares into camera*) #anyway!!! i'm just really frustrated and hurt and fucking terrified #and i appreciate literally anyone who bothered to read all this! lmao #i'll be around on mobile as per usual ❤️❤️❤️ #00. // OUT OF AMMO ( OOC POST. )

[dragon-spaghetti]

Oh also have a couple of the concept doodles I made for April way earlier!!

#drag's art #tmnt #tmnt iteration #tmnt april #criticism welcome /gen #these were v quick but don't want to accidentally upset anyone ;^^ #also!! for context #she is a uni student who has moved to New York to study so she's around 18 when the turtles meet her. only recently came over #she's originally from Ireland!! #heading to bed now but yeeeee

[moregraceful]

Heavenly father, can I call you daddy?

#behaving normally abt arkells coming to san francisco!!!!! #i was gonna fly to VANCOUVER last year to see them at rogers arena and then my passport got fucked due to the name change #so i just gave away my ticket for free on twitter lol. they should play ''all roads'' for me specifically for being nice #big conversation in the leafs gc about what to wear. ''i have a hyman leafs jersey and dermott leafs shirsey. which do i wear?'' #''does he even like the leafs anymore? max was a traitor at the asg. dermott shirsey'' #''HYMAN JERSEY!!'' #''too bad i don't have a raptors his jersey'' ''I MEAN THEY FIRED HIS BOYFRIEND THERE TOO'' #''mlse hates max'' #''the fact that his boyfriends were fired in the offseason ;('' #are you normal or do you and your friends have an intricate au in which max from arkells is dating kyle dubas and nick nurse #''intricate au'' it's not an au it's just a fact #the running joke is that is bc nick nurse ended up with the 76ers and kyle is in pitt bro is just moving to pennslyvania #is it a joke....we don't know.... #the amount of kyle dubas/max arkells twt fic i've written should get me put in a home i think. there was more than one #dark days...i think my friends are glad i am off twitter frankly #i'm missing the cuda homeopener which sucks but i see the cuda 500 times a year. this is the first time the arkells have come to sf #in like. SEVERAL years. they never come to the usa west coast they only ever go to new york when they come to the us #biggest band in canada that no one has ever heard of in the usa lol. i'm not missing this shit #posting too much bc i. do not want to edit my fic #beryl gave me their beta edit notes and i melted into a puddle and rolled into the sewer drain and floated out to sea #me: ''this fic SUCKS i need HELP'' beryl: ''here are my beta notes so you can edit'' me: 😨😨😨😨 #fuck around (write a bad fic and send it to your trusted beta for help) find out (receive beta notes and now i have to edit) #(in two days)(help)(it needs so much editing) #they said i could go up tot 12-15k if i needed. small mercies. ''10k limit was so you don't write 30k again'' ok fair!!!! #fresno oilers.txt

[musicalchaos07]

@jancyweek2022 Day 6: Woven/Sweaters or Domestic Bliss

Post-grad they get an apartment in midtown Manhattan. Nancy works for the New York Times and Jonathan freelances for the Village Voice. Nancy insists on Chinese food every Friday and Jonathan insists on taking her picture every day. They dance to David Bowie in the kitchen, spend Sundays in Central Park and annoy all of their friends by being THAT couple. 

#and the six children get left in the Winnebago where they belong #jancyweek2022 #Jancy #nancy x jonathan #nancy wheeler #jonathan byers #stranger things #in my head they go to college in new york the duffer brothers can kiss my ass tbh #also in my head they get married in 1990 and don't have a kid for another 7 years #and they only have one kid and never move to the suburbs #they actively hate staten island new jersey and conneticut for that reason

[jinxed-sinner]

Alright here's my full (possibly hot) take on redesigning Hazbin Hotel characters and making a video showcasing those redesigns while you criticize the official designs.

First and foremost, you are redesigning someone else's OCs. Hazbin Hotel is, in essence, a passion project for Viv. How she talks about it makes that incredibly clear to me. The only difference between Hazbin Hotel and, for example, the story I'm developing surrounding some of my D&D OCs is that Hazbin Hotel got picked up by a streaming service and is significantly more popular than most passsion projects get.

Personally if someone wanted to redesign my D&D OCs, I wouldn't mind it, in fact I'd probably think it was really cool that someone would want to redesign one of my OCs to be closer to their tastes in terms of what they like to draw. I would, however, be made incredibly uncomfortable if someone made a video redesigning them where they also pointed out everything they thought was wrong with the designs. I didn't design these specific D&D characters to be 1-to-1 accurate to their classes in D&D or to look professionally designed. I designed them how I wanted them to look for the story I'm telling because I don't plan to ever play them in a campaign. The main character Avlan is a paladin, and I can acknowledge that his design might not look exactly like a paladin. One of the tabaxi in the story (Ice) is a bard and the other (Spark) is a ranger, and I acknowledge that their classes might not come across well in their designs. The single tiefling I've designed for this story (Tragedy) is a cleric but might not come off as one in their design. But I specifically designed them to be easy for me to draw because I want to be able to tell this story through my art. Having someone say "oh, Avlan's armor isn't paladin enough!" or "Avlan's fur colors and patterns should be closer to a wild rabbit's because harengon shouldn't be based on domestic rabbit colors!" would fucking hurt (especially because I'm so attached to Avlan, but it would hurt just as much if similar comments were made about Ice, Spark, or Tragedy). I am so passionate about these characters and being told their designs are bad or wrong in some way would be like a stab in the heart, and it would still feel like a stab in the heart if this story ever got a massive fandom behind it. Giving Avlan more complex armor because you think it'd look cool or just want to see what it'd look like? Sure, if I could draw more complex armor I'd give him more complex armor too. Giving him more complex armor but also shitting on the armor I decide to draw him with? My motivation to draw him in his armor, potentially draw him period, would be dead for WEEKS.

Why is it suddenly okay just because someone's passion project was picked up by Amazon Prime? Why is it suddenly okay to be "fixing" someone's character designs just because the project has a much bigger budget than most artists get and is on a popular streaming service? It's not. I don't care if you're a professional character designer, or think a specific character would look better with certain traits, or just don't like the character designs.

Hazbin Hotel is still Vivienne Medrano's passion project, and redesigning her characters and making videos talking about everything you think is "wrong" with them is, honestly, disgusting. You can make videos explaining your choices in your redesigns without putting down the designs that already exist, whether you like them or not. Me thinking Lucifer looks better with his tail not restricted to his full demon form doesn't suddenly mean I don't like his official design, because I fucking love it. If you wouldn't do it to an artist whose passion project is just a webcomic here on Tumblr, don't fucking do it to an artist whose passion project got picked up for a cartoon by a big streaming service (or any company for that matter).

#hazbin hotel #vent #kinda #i just think it's a weird double standard #'yeah don't fix people's art! unless theyre working on a project that was picked up by a big company then it's fine to fix their art' #like??? #why is that a mentality that exists?? they're still viv's characters #and you can still redesign them without shitting on the official designs #pretty much all of my redesign notes for hazbin hotel are 'how can i make this character easier and more fun for me to draw' #because i specialize in furry art. i don't usually draw humanoids lol #so giving vox some shark traits for example or making adam more birdlike would make them more fun for me to draw #why can't we redesign them based on that without saying 'i think it's weird that this decision was made for this character's design' #they're still viv's characters. they're still her designs. stop pointing out everything you think is wrong with them for fucks sake #we don't need to talk about hazbin's character designs. we don't need to 'fix' them #just say they aren't for you and move on. there's literally nothing inherently wrong with them #i also feel like not enough people actually do research into the historical contexts of some characters #and i think it'd be really fuckin cool to see people redesign characters more based on headcanons based on that than anything #look into how the mafia operated in new york in the early/mid 1900s for angel. look into radio hosts in the 1920s for alastor. #look into las vegas culture during husk's lifetime for husk. look into the culture surrounding tv hosts in the 1950s for vox. #LOOK INTO THE CULTURE OF THE ELIZABETHAN ERA FOR ZESTIAL. #(i just presented zestial ideas to anyone who wants them on a silver platter. you're welcome) #(also new headcanon that zestial was friends with shakespeare in life because why the fuck not) #(when the tags get wildly out of hand)

[musette22]

Sebastian Stan - BTS for New York Moves Mag in 2014 [X]

#sebastian stan #new york moves #very late to the party I'm sure but I don't think I'd ever seen this video before? #I know the gifs but not the vid #and it's #😍😍😍😍😍 #look at himmmm #gorgeous gorgeous boy #he's so lovely and so cheeky and I adore him #bts

[bunnymajo]

Thinking about how a couple weeks ago I was with my grandparents and the subject of what happened to "grandpa's side of the family" because he had 6 siblings and I only know about two of them but nothing about their kids or anything. I realized I had a whole slew of cousins running around and I don't even know of them.

Anyway we got to one relative who, quote my grandma: "Was a lesbian and moved to San Francisco with her 'friend.'" She gal pal-ed my cousin! She was apparently shunned from the family unfortunately (she would be around my mom's age so like in her 60s)

Anyway, to my old lesbian 2nd cousin who's hopefully still out there, if you're reading this I'm proud of you.

#it could very well be that she moved with a platonic friend. i don't think i'll ever know #but it's even more likely that she had a partner like c'mon grandma #anyway i'm relatively close with the extended family on my dad's side and maternal grandmothers side #but since my grandpa is from new york and i'm here in swamp land i never met any of them #anyway i just think it's neat i have an old gay cousin on both sides of the family now #rambling

[goliadkine]

the siblings - first and last shots 

#you end up how you started up ! but worse ! #new york boy water boy with daddy's shadow over his shoulder #woman... #lonely lonely in a room full of people who do not know you except this time you don't know them either #im devastated #succession #succession spoilers #love that colin is there love that shiv is trapped in this moving car love the close up shot on roman #mine

[medicaldoctordana]

"Metropolis is New York in the daytime; Gotham City is New York at night." -Frank Miller

"Batman's Gotham City is Manhattan below 14th Street at eleven minutes past midnight on the coldest night in November, and Metropolis is Manhattan between 14th and 110th Streets on the brightest, sunniest July day of the year" - Dennis O’Neil

#I’m researching the cities to find their geographical locations #the history and theories about where metropolis is is actually very interesting stuff #anyway I don’t make the rules #metropolis #gotham #Superman #Batman #goth gf #bubblegum gf #house aesthetics #I don't agree that either city is new york #but they are both inspired by new york #metropolis has moved around a bit in canon but is in delaware #gotham is in new jersey #for example in Smallville metropolis is in Kansas #Metropolis was at one point supposed to be in Ohio #metropolis in another canon is the conglomeration of eastern seaboard cities from Boston to DC - all combined together to form metropolis #Metropolis skyline was also inspired by Toronto

[eugeniedanglars]

i genuinely find it so confusing when people on both sides of the discourse aisle go "if will has a crush on mike the only options are for mike to like him back or for will to be sad and alone forever, and since option a isn’t happening what was even the point of having the storyline?! this is bad writing!” like hello there’s an extremely obvious option c here and it’s called “will gets over mike because he’s literally 14 and middle school crushes don’t last forever”

#like i know this fanbase skews young but how many of you are still pining for the person you liked in 9th grade #will's gonna be fine he'll move to new york for college and get a boyfriend and his crush on mike will just be an embarrassing memory #this is also why natalia was right for saying that nancy doesn't need to end up with either jonathan or steve #and why while i adore lumax and think they're the best couple on the show by a mile #i don't necessarily think they'd keep dating into college and adulthood #they'll always be friends just like will and mike will always be friends but the romantic part of their relationship might not last #and that's fine! that's normal! these characters are so so young and their world should not calcify at age 15! #(i have mixed feelings about how this sentiment applies to mike and el because i don't really care about their relationship #but they're so weirdly intense that i'm not sure i could see either of them being with someone else even as adults) #stranger things #st spoilers

[aeide-thea]

the thing about 9/11 is that it got used post facto to justify all sorts of hideous jingoistic shit but also it was a genuine devastating human tragedy and i really pretty deeply resent people's deciding that the—absolutely gross, don't get me wrong—way it's been culturally positioned justifies their making jokes about the event itself.

#like. my mother worked basically next door and watched people fall to horrific deaths and had to make her way home thru the horror #and was quite frankly never the same again #and like. the idea that people can look at that and dehumanize all those who died enough to be comfortable making jokes— #i personally think is deeply fucked up and not in fact any kind of ~social justice~ #like roll yr eyes at the overblown commemorative pomp and circumstance all you want but like. real people died absolutely horrific deaths #and being flippant about it—sucks‚ actually‚ even if they WERE ~complacent americans who supported capitalism~ or whatever #(not to mention like. it was a really wide slice of humanity actually. but god forbid we consider the actual people as people) #anyway i deeply resent that i feel the need to make this post at all #bc quite frankly i would be more than glad to let the event fade out of active memory and think that's probably the best way to move forward #but unfortunately fucking br*nd*nicus is apparently out here making posts abt how the ~anniversary is worthy of derision~ #and it's like. what if we just. let it go without either the weird performative jingoistic bullshit OR being fucking dicks. #anyway whatever i guess i'm not like. appropriately leftist or something #but personally i don't think real people's horrifying deaths are cool to make cracks about. sorry if that makes me a conservative buzzkill. #like i get that it was different outside of new york or washington but like. some of us were IN new york actually. #and yeah to be clear people in the middle east subsequently died similarly horrific deaths because of the way 9/11 got leveraged #and we ought to respect and remember those too #doing THAT on 9/11 would imo be a lot more meaningful than sneering at dead americans but also it would actually take work and sincerity #neither of which most tumblr users are up for

[lucydonato]

As you are the one for all luck based questions what do you think Arielle meant in her recent story about filming being emotional? I’m wondering if it’s either if it was because they thought they weren’t coming back for s7 or if it was about the reaction she got after s5 and the buck of it all

It could be something third though idk, do you have any thoughts about it?😮

I believe she had some personal things going on earlier this year/around the time she would have been filming and I think that's what she's referring to 💕

#she apparently had a messy breakup w/the guy she moved to new york with which she posted about on valentine's day #and then lost her grandfather (I think? i will admit i don't follow her life that closely)