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Normal work emergencies: “They need me to come in and fix a system that broke down.”

Dropout work emergencies: “They need me to come in and throw pasta at comedians.”

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So I posted a Sandman fanvid to YouTube yesterday, using the song Devil May Cry by Mako. Because the song was called "Devil May Cry" I used that in the video title: "Devil May Cry - Dream of the Endless / Hob Gadling".

In the first two sentences of the description, I state exactly what the video is: "Another Dreamling fanvid celebrating the relationship between Morpheus aka Dream of the Endless and Hob Gadling from The Sandman. The song is Devil May Cry by Mako."

The line "devil may cry" is one of the lyrics of the song, sung during the video (albeit towards the end of my video).

And yet someone, within 12 hours of the video going up, decided to go into the comments complaining because they presumably expected it to be about the video game Devil May Cry. "How is this Devil May Cry?" Well maybe if you'd listened for a minute longer or looked at the second sentence of the description, which you would have had to scroll past to make your comment, you'd know the answer to that.

I'm not annoyed at this, I'm just baffled that someone would go to the trouble of leaving a comment without bothering to check the description to see if there was an answer to their question already there.

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“Why did you follow this person ? uwu”

I’ve been here for fourteen years, do you think I remember? I don’t know who any of these people are anymore. I don’t know why they’re on my dash. I allow them to stay because they haven’t pissed me off enough to unfollow them yet. “Why did you follow this person?” I’m not sure I ever did. They’re just part of my ecosystem now.

#yet #if they've changed their icon #I probably haven't a clue who they are

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Larkspur, the fae nepo baby. They are the firstborn child and heir of a queen of a fae court. Not one of the major courts, but they have ambition. Larkspur has an astonishing array of colourful and sparkly jackets, to the extent that a friend comments at one point that it would be possible to outfit all of Eurovision with the contents of their wardrobe.

They are constantly changing the colour of their hair to match the jacket of the day, using fae glamours to do so.

In the mundane world, they have a high paying job at a consultancy firm that they definitely were given because of the important and valuable work they do for the company, and not because the company is owned by their mum.

They are the sort of rich person who doesn't blink at paying fifteen quid for a salad for lunch, but they're not mean about it, just ignorant of how other people have to deal with money.

They definitely don't have a crush on the new hire they've been told to babysit. Don't be so ridiculous. They're just being friendly.

tell me about your current favourite oc!

#oc #writeblr

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The Sandman + text posts Part I'm Going Down with This Ship

Text posts meme collection

#dreamling

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I was reading through some documents sent by a new potential client at work. They had a document that outlined their requirements - all perfectly normal and expected. There was a section of the document that outlined the sort of things they would expect to give us (e.g. access to the IT systems we would be expected to work on, etc.). Again, perfectly normal and expected.

But there was one line, buried in the list of expectations, that said that we would be given access to washroom facilities if we're in their offices.

I've never seen "you're allowed to go to the toilet" in a document like this before, and I've never even considered needing to put it into our expectations/assumptions.

I need to know if there's a story here. We have things in our assumptions list because a client did something stupid once and we want to make sure it's in writing in case it happens again, and I really want to know if one of the people writing this document went to a client's office to do some work once and wasn't allowed to use their bathrooms.

#work stuff

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I saw a post in which someone mentioned a reason they didn't like a particular ship, and I'm not going to respond on that post because I'm not trying to pick a fight with that person, and I don't want to make them engage with content about a ship that they've stated they don't like. Besides, arguing about ships on the intranet can get messy. But I did want to talk about the point they brought up. One of the reason that they don't like the Sterek ship is the age difference - which is fair enough. But they said that the characters are aged about 15 and 22, which would be a massive age difference.

Except, the age difference was stated in the show to be about two years. There is one line in the pilot where Stiles says about Derek, "He's only a couple of years older than us." Now he might not have meant exactly two years, but still that would imply a relatively small age gap. I will acknowledge that two years can make a big difference at that sort of age, but it's nothing like seven years would be.

I think most of the people who got into shipping Sterek did so in season one, when the age difference was canonically "a couple of years." I'm probably not alone in having assumed that the characters were maybe 16 and 18. Still an age gap, but nowhere near as egregious.

It was only later that the show runners retconned Derek's age and made him older. The writers made the gap bigger as the show was going on - after the pairing already had a big ship following.

I'm not saying anyone needs to like the ship if they don't, for any reason. But claiming a 7 year age gap between them is not correct - at least according to the actual canon of the early seasons.

#sterek #teen wolf

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When I was a very tiny child my mom was in a local production of The Reluctant Resurrection of Sherlock Holmes, a play where Arthur Conan Doyle is hired to investigate a murder at a haunted house with Sherlock Holmes, a figment of Doyle’s imagination that only he can see and hear. Doyle very sincerely believes that the house is haunted, and Holmes thinks that Doyle is a moron

I was too young to appreciate this concept when I was a child, now that I’m older it’s the best concept for a play I’ve ever heard in my life.

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Diet industry value in the USA:

$71,000,000,000+

Number of studies that show any diet works long term:

0

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I'm picturing a character who wins an altruism test but for all the wrong reasons. Like, there's a set of challenges that characters are asked to do, and they're told that to win they must do X but really there's a secret winning criteria.

So the first test is that everyone must journey to a location and retrieve a special object, and the first to do so is the winner. But along the route, someone is injured and the real winning condition is that the person must give up their chance of coming first in order to help the injured person.

And our protagonist gets to a steep, super-long flight of stairs and they have asthma or something so they're looking at this going, "If I try to run up there, it's going to kill me," and they stop to help the injured person because that gives them an excuse so that they don't have to admit that they gave up/couldn't physically complete the task. They want to pretend to do something heroic because it lets them save face.

Or there's a test where they're given a small amount of food to last for a challenge and to win they have to give their food to a beggar - but it's food that the protagonist can't stand or is allergic to. So they might as well give it to the beggar because they can't eat it anyway.

Or they invite the stranger to share their fire/shelter on a cold night because they want to sleep with them, not for charitable reasons.

They're not a bad person but they're not amazingly altruistic either, but they keep accidentally passing these tests for unrelated reasons and come out looking amazingly selfless.

Even better if they weren't actually trying to win the challenge but were only there because it was expected of them so they didn't actually care about doing well, or they thought they might as well phone it in after the first challenge went so badly that they were sure they were out of the running.

#story idea

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we need more vampire stuff that’s set really really far north on the planet. the potential… we don’t have any sunlight for a couple of months every year so they would literally be able to walk around during the day and no one would know…

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I now want to have a Leverage Redemption episode about someone whose life went to hell and the triggering event was that the company they worked for went bust because the CEO was exposed for some dodgy stuff. To one of the points above about panics evacuating a building, maybe the victim got injured because of an emergency alert that turned out to be fake. The victim is really mad because they have this medical debt now, and they lost their job, and it's all because of some vigilante group and they want that group arrested.

The crew quickly realise that the victim is talking about one of their old cons. What I'm not sure about is whether the victim should know that the Leverage crew are the same people - maybe if the victim talks to Harry and Brianne and doesn't see the others at first, they might not know. They think Harry is a lawyer who can expose criminals the right way.

I do wonder about all the people in Leverage who are secondary to the con but affected by it, like all the people who are sent into a panic in order for them to evacuate a building, especially when they use disease or chemical contamination as the trigger. Or the flight attendant in season 1 who Hardison called and said her cat was in a shelter and couldn't be held long.

#leverage

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There are many annoying things about mobile games, but one that really gets me is when the game pretends something is free that really isn't. A game I play often has short term sales where they offer various deals for buying loot boxes, boost items, in game currency, etc. But you can't just pick the deal you want, you have to go through them in order and you unlock the next deal by buying the previous one - and frequently you can't even see what the later deals are. And in this list, they will throw in some "free" items. So you'll have a list like:

Level boost thing - free

5 in game currency - free

Loot box bundle - £1.99

Level boost thing - free

Bigger loot box bundle £3.99

10 in game currency - free

And so on. The first couple of items usually are free to get people participating, but the items at 4 and 6 aren't free. They're part of what you get by buying the things at 3 and 5. Really, they should be rolled into the bundles that they ask people to pay for, but they do it like this to try and trick people into spending money to get the free prize.

I hate it.

#mobile game #predatory mobile games

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There is a special kind of annoyingness to the moment when the hold music cuts off and I think the call's been answered, only for it to play the "your call is very important to us" automated message.