#And deal with emails

[yrsonpurpose]

Please stay gorgeous and strong and unbelievable. I miss you I miss you I miss you I love you. I’m calling you as soon as I send this, but I know you like to have these things written down. A ✿ / ❀

#rwrb #rwrbedit #red white and royal blue #alex x henry #firstprince #userninz #userveronika #chrissiewatts #usernuria #usersteen #userclara #usermegsb #usermaloune #mine* #been wanting to make a full one of these since the movie came out so now... the full (incomplete) list!! #something about this email thread just makes me want to stand in a dark room and scream #the realisation alex has about henry offering alex an out and that it actually Was a big deal to him to say that #if no ones loving me like this then keep it i dont want it #'i know you like to have these things written down' and then it gets leaked 😔😔😔 #alex saying that he cant match henry for prose but coming up with this list anyway #bc henry doesnt need all of the fancy words in the same way he just needs alex. and HIS words. and how he expresses his love in his own way #mhmm.

[psalmsofpsychosis]

You know, i've been thinking about the way Batman keeps danger and weapons so close to his body, so tight to himself, practically tied around his neck, that joker often has no way left but to grab for him if he wants something Batman has. Batman does not want to be left out of Joker's plans, his story, he wants in on Joker's narrative by any means he can make it happen. It's such particular "you take me with you wherever you are, it's your punishment, just as it's my punishment to take you with me wherever i am" statement. Batman actively leaves no choice for Joker but to get very very close to him and claim him as part of his win or his loss. I mean,

he didn't have to. he could've put the key in one of his waist pouches, push it into the back of his left boot, he could've tied it around his bicep, i dont care— he could've done whateverthefuck with it. But he had to put it around his neck, and intentionally invite Joker to "come and get it". Something something classic cliche of the way lovers' bond is signified by a necklace-adjacent item and the way they interact with it; hold unto it, toss it, tie it around their necks, giving it back, not giving it back, necklaces as items of reverance and revenge. Something something a tie around neck being a sign of being claimed and owned,

#this is the first night in 2 months where i got good sleep of course i woke up and had batjokes popping on my brain screen #''99+ unread emails'' style #the whole invitation thing is. certainly something #i mean bro. a ''you will take that wish to the grave with you'' would do just fine or #or ''you will not have it.'' #Bruce wants his fights alright. He's uneasy with being left out of things often but he's particularly uneasy #with being left out of Joker's narrative #and it's far less about him ''being the only one strong enough to deal with him'' than he'd like to admit #batjokes #batjokes meta #Batman #Batman meta

[muffinlance]

Read "Suki, Alone". Liked it in general. But can they please, please hire someone who knows both the show's actual events and how to follow through on a character arc? Because guys. Guys. That comic is not implying about Suki what they meant it to be implying, and all because of literally one line.

So like. From a writer's standpoint:

What they meant to do: show Suki as a community-oriented person who cares for her people, and believes in everyone succeeding together.

As opposed to (spoilers): the thief girl they set her up in contrast with, who's pretty upfront and consistent on primarily looking out for herself. She betrays Suki for one (1) corn chip to improve her own life at the prison, no surprise.

But the problem is: they give Suki an inspirational line to the effect of "we're all working together and we'll all break out together"

You know

The thing she does not do in the show

So if both the show and this comic are canon, then instead of setting up a compare/contrast with the thief girl, they've just set up a comparison. One were Suki is arguably worse, because she's been leading a significant number of prisoners on with her "we'll all fight and win our freedom together!" business, only to straight up cut them out of the escape loop and abandon them, whereas the thief is only leading Suki on in the sense that Suki keeps telling her what it's morally correct to think and confuses snide replies with agreement

My dudes. My fellow writers. You people actually being paid for this. There were so many ways to fix those awful implications against our girl's character, the simplest of which would be to not include that line. Or they could have, you know, made it canon compliant with what actually happens in the show, so that this comic doesn't set Suki up as a betrayer instead of a community builder. Like... just send all her good prison buddies off to other prisons in the wake of the warden finding out they're colluding. Have it timed to be right before the next new prisoners arrive, thus setting it immediately before the Boiling Rock episodes, so Suki didn't have anyone left in the prison she'd want to take with her on a breakout. For bonus points, include a page or two of her and her Kyoshi warriors opening up the cell of one of her prison friends post-war, thus implying she's tracking down and actually fulfilling her promises. Maybe even show her doing the same with thief girl, who was established as being imprisoned on false charges anyway, and also showing that Suki is A) the bigger person, and B) willing to acknowledge her own role in mistakes (because I cannot emphasize enough how much thief girl was not hiding her own priorities, and it was Suki who approached HER with all this, not the girl ever doing anything special to weasel her way in) (this would also open up an opportunity for paralleling Suki's earlier in-comic mistake of not listening to one of her friend's very valid thoughts and feeling, which lead to the girl leaving their island alone pre-canon; a "seeing people as they are, not what you want them to be" moment)

Anyway yeah enjoyable enough for a quick read but another one for the "this can't be canon or the characters are So Much Worse than they were in the actual show" pile

At least Aang didn't promise to murder anyone in this one

#I also have minor critiques like #Why are all the guards drawn as short and noodly-armed as Sokka pretending to be a guard #Why are the guards the only ones allowed to have funny lines #Did anyone consider using a lack of dialogue in some panels to establish mood and let the visuals speak for themselves (no they did not) #Why is Azula villain monologuing for so long at the start #She does like her villain lines but in the show they're short #And generally aimed at fresh opponents #Not last week's old news #I kept wondering why Azula was even there instead of generic lackeys especially since she had to have been dealing with the conquest of #Ba Sing Se around then. big This Could Have Been An Email vibes #Also as a gardener #HOW FAST WERE THOSE PRISON PLANTS GOING TO SEED AND WHERE CAN I GET SOME #Apparently they needed minimal (almost no?) light and tiny cracks of space and were nutritious and tasted good raw and grew so fast they #Could substantially affect the diets of multiple prisoners within a short time span? #I WANT THEM IN MY INDOOR SETUP ASAP #Screw lettuce I want Suki's Magic Beans #avatar the last airbender #atla #Suki #There continue to be no comics in Ba Sing Se but this was a better attempt than some #Suki Alone

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

This saga is cracking me up.

#taylor swift #like what do you expect? #you’re doing something illegal and doing it repeatedly of course they’re going to crack down on you #also they were like I was just about to leak ttpd in the thread #so like by all means take legal action because there’s no intent to stop #they also posted a screen recording of an email they got sent a legit email from a legal branch dealing with copyrighted music

[sharkgirldick]

Emails aren't even that bad, you guys are babies. Watch this.

(You watch as I open my email application, click *mark all as read* and close it out.)

#text post #shark thoughts #this is almost universally how I deal with emails at work. if it's actually important they call me about it later.

[dandunn]

Normal people: so what are you up to man, busy busy huh! Not enough hours in the day. Wake up and grind!

Me, tailoring little suits for my stuffed animals: haha. Yeah. :)

#I know the waistcoat is super big I'm working on it #To be fair I can only deal with so many rejection emails in a week I need a hobby #plushblr #beanie babies

[obiwanobi]

not to add another AU to the list, but... AU where Obi-Wan is a fed-up senator who gets Anakin, Palpatine's adopted son, but more importantly secret Sith apprentice, as his assistant against his will, because Palpatine is trying to teach him about politics, patience and deception.

featuring lots of office shenanigans, Vaderkin dealing with work emails, Obi-Wan wondering why the Chancellor's son looks like he wants to murder him every time he asks him to do the bare minimum and if nepotism will ever end, and Palpatine being surprised that Obi-Wan's corpse hasn't been thrown through a window yet.

#vaderkin having to deal with work emails when he only has murder on his mind is hilarious to me #almost as much as palpatine making him do it #in a surprising twist they would end up getting along #of course #also why do I always picture obi-wan as tired and grumpy in a senator AU #obikin #clem's aus

[tj-crochets]

this poll brought to you by a text I got from one of the other [my job title]'s contractors while I'm covering for him being gone. The contractor texted me "The answer is as always [his name] [his company ID number]" To which I could only say "what was the question?"

#the person behind the yarn #also brought to you by the many many contractors that will request I quote something for them via email #so I send the quote via email #and then they text me 'okay I'll take it' #and it's like great! thanks! Who are you? what are you taking??? #it's not as big a problem when I am only dealing with my contractors #but I am getting a reputation among other [job title]'s contractors when I cover for them #as someone who can fix paperwork problems #which means I get texts from unknown numbers saying things like #why didn't I get paid for the [city name] job?? #and I have to be like WHICH ONE we have done so much work in that city #also who are you #but when they send me the job number I can look it up and find their name so I usually don't even bother asking for their name

[foibles-fables]

a cool lil update—just found out that a poem of mine was accepted for publication (my first ever!) in a print anthology! I’m excited for every small step of this writing journey, and so grateful for the lovely support, enthusiasm, community, and camaraderie you’ve all shared with me so far! 💕

#I’m shy !! #about me #it’s really not a super huge deal but I’m kinda pumped #and was very very surprised to get the email

[squeakadeeks]

moodboard for this past week ❤️

#they should invent a grad school thats not fucking insane #i'm hanging in there but im the most unwell i've been in AWhile #this week was just horrible #there was already the freezer food incident but it also started off with a very severe pain episode thats putting me in constant woe #even mundane motion has been agonizing which is McAwesome bc we had a lab inspection which involved moving hundreds of pounds of equipment #during which we found a blackwidow and rats which we had to deal with and was a whole thing psychologically on top of the physical toll #the new class fiasco is still popping off and i had to respond to at this point over 400 emails in the fleeting moments outside of lab #AND A STUDENT TRIED TO FINANCIALLY BRIBE THEIR WAY INTO THE CLASS ? ?? ?? ????? #then the instructor wanted to use me as a guinea pig and i had to test new circuit boards but I wasnt given any time to do so properly #i had to test them plus get them operational and deal with my incoming students all in a frantic 10 minute window #im in charge of running our meetings too but the instructor was interrupting and having side conversations that made it really hard- #to train the other people on the new equipment in a smooth manner #which meant that a bunch of people had to keep me after to ask questions which made me late for my drs appointment #where i found out i cant get the new covid vaccine bc my heart and blood levels arnt stable enough #and joanns lost an expensive+critical fabric order of mine+i had to give a big presentation this week on my research that was stressful #and my inbox is still blowing up from being needed all over the place between teaching lab and classes and yall i am. so so tired. #im in so much pain and so stressed out #debating the ethics of turning into a pile of lint to escape my responsibilities and mortal frame

[cluster-b-culture-is]

cluster B culture is getting an email from quora about a thread called "cluster b unmasked" and already knowing it's going to be full of ableist crap and questioning why you got an account in the first place

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#cluster b culture is #cluster b #npd #aspd #bpd #hpd #Mod Reef #anonymous #REAL #i got it originally because i was dealing with (what i now know were) delusions but i couldn't tell if they were delusions or dissociation #and google had 0 fucking clue what the hell i was trying to describe #like. seriously. try being a young teenager trying to describe a delusion without knowing it was a delusion but being 90% sure it wasn't-- #--dissociation instead #and on top of that. trying to describe it not to a human being but to a web browser's search algorithm #AND ON TOP OF THAT. trying to describe the specific delusion and not the general thing you were experiencing #anyways. nobody was helpful in the slightest lmao #and then years later i'm seeing cluster B shit from quora and just seeing the most vile things said about pwNPD #and seeing blatant misinformation about ASPD. from people with ASPD. shit like ''if you feel fear at all then you can't have ASPD'' #so yeah i turned off all email notifications from quora. good riddance to be quite honest

[dostoyevsky-official]

a piece of advice to any younger freelancers: always demand part of the payment before finishing the commission, or, better yet, if both you and the client are american, get their name and address. you need this information to file a small claims lawsuit when, inevitably, someone doesn't pay up

#currently dealing with a Client from Hell #if you're in a common law county or the EU look up the equivalent because the law may be on your side #what qualifies as a 'contract' is very generous in US small claims law #an email with terms does the trick

[moregraceful]

i made what was a huge medical decision today that has been received very badly by my family and i feel absolutely nothing but pure freedom and joy about it. the thing i'm really fixated on rn is when should i post this fic i just finished

#i think october 1. for halloween #it was for skelly season but it took such a weird turn in the end that i feel weird about gifting it to someone lol #very short list of people i would subject this particular rarepair agenda to on purpose. maybe just beryl #the medical decision is legitimately life-altering and i should be stressed but i'm just like it's my body. my body horror. and i'm free :) #i'm stressin way more about the fic bro #and like if i don't gift the fic do i then go back and commit to making it even weirder and rarepaired.... #stars future leadership polycule (two guys who are dating and their captain who holds their hand in high stress situations) #what am i even talking about..................... #today my boss was like thank you for your (insane 11 paragraph long) email! i used it as a meeting agenda with my boss :) #i was like oh no now my grandboss knows i use my boss's inbox as my work livejournal #i got to remake my schedule tho now that i'm almost done with my training!! i gave myself a three day weekend... #...so i can go to the therapy i need to deal with this job. was anyone gonna tell me abt secondary trauma or was i #just supposed to find that out on my literal first day of work lol #my therapist was THRILLED she was like oh i have SO many books to recommend we're gonna have SO much fun!! i was like oh no #fridays off and life is good tbh!! except for the fic. i don't know what to do abt the fic #fresno oilers.txt

[dumbanddev1n]

Sometimes, the amount of fandoms I’m in makes me legitimately dizzy

#like #how can my brain support all that???? #it doesn’t seem like it should be possible #I don’t understand lmao #(I had this tagged with a lot of my fandoms but bc of my unreasonable fear of getting reprimanded literally anywhere I took them off) #and I know that getting a nicely worded email that smth I did isn’t cool is not a big deal in the long run. but the idea of it is freaking #me out lmao #I need to stop venting in tags #ok bye

[eroticcannibal]

Idk why im reading slang discourse on esl subreddits but as a native English speaker, it is perfectly acceptable to use informal English in "official" communication (work, education) if whoever is higher up does it. In English culture specifically, *not* mirroring informality can be seen as quite arrogant and standoff-ish, which is worse than appearing a bit unproffesional. This is more true the more north/rural you go.

This might not apply in London, because Londoners arent people. Or in America, because america is weird.

#sorry i know this isnt important #but seeing someone getting very heated and sweary over their opinion which isnt even correct.... #using “wanna” in an email will not ruin your career #word of god #i get the impression from my deep south american friends that you can get away with informality there #idk i guess it just bothers me when ppl are going at esl speakers #being so agressive about language use and making people scared of getting things wrong #like its really not that big a deal #and honestly growing up in very multicultural areas #if ur worried about being looked down on #the casually racist white ppl are a bit more relaxed around ppl who dont speak so formally #gives the impression you are 'one of us' if youre chill with your language yknow?

[infamouslydorky]

I love how people are out here making posts like "bloodied and bruised with clothes torn: 'I sent the email'" posts because that implies I'm actively going to war for the sake of my occupation

#fighting for my life out here at a desk job dealing with the active passive aggression of office email culture #wish me luck #slice of life